20 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canangate.
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house of the burgh. It was established by subscription,
and opened for the reception of the poor in
1761, the expense being defrayed by collections at
the church doors and voluntary contributions,
without any assessment whatever ; and in those days
the managers were chosen annually from the public
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at the foot of Monroe?s Close, and bore, till within
the last few years, the appearance of those partly
quadrangular manor-houses so common in Scotland
during the seventeenth century. It became
greatly altered after being brought into juxtaposition
with the prosaic details of the Panmure Iron
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societies of the Canongate. The city plan of 1647
shows but seven houses within the gate, on the
west side of the Wynd, and open gardens on the
other, eastward nearly to the Water Gate.
Panmure Close, the third alley to the eastwxd-
I one with a good entrance, and generally more
I pleasant than most of those narrow old streets-is
so named from its having been the access to Panmure
House, an ancient mansion, which still remains ;
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Foundry, but it formed the town residence of the
Earls of Panmure, the fourth of whom, James, who
distinguished himself as a volunteer at the siege of
Luxemburg, and was Privy Councillor to James
VII., a bitter opponent of the Union, lost his title
and estates aRer the battle of Sheriffmuir, and died,
an exile, in Paris. His nephew, William Maule,
who served in the Scots Guards at Dettingen and
Fontenoy, obtained an Irish peerage in 1743 as Earl
