Douglas, of Carshogle, who was apprehended on
suspition,? but set at liberty. ?? Anna Simson, a
famous witch, is reported to have confessed at her
death that a picture of waxe was brought to her
having A. D. written on it, which, as they said to
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY?S HOUSE, FROM BAKEHOUSE CLOSE.
On the same side of the street, opposite to the
archway leading into St. John Street, Jack?s Land,
a lofty stone tenement, formed, in her latter years,
the residence of the beautiful Susannah, Countess
of Eglinton, and there she was frequently visited
thinking of the Earl of Angus, whose name was
Archibald Douglas, and might have been Davidson,
because his father was David) did consecrate or
execrate it after her forms, which, she said, she
would not have done for all the world. . . . .
His body was buried at Abernethy and his heart
in Douglas, by his oune direction. He was the
last Earle of the race of George, Master of Angus,
who was slain at Flowden.? ,
progress of ?the Douglas cause;? and in another
flat thereof resided David Hum, who came thither
from Riddel?s Land in 1753, while engaged on his
? History of England.?
?The Shoemakers? Lands, which stand to the
east of Jack?s Land,? says Wilson, writing in 1847,
?? are equally lofty and more picturesque buildings.
One of them especially, opposite to Moray House,
is a very singular and striking object in the stately
