28 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Canongate.
the days that were no more. ?* No funeral hearse,?
says Lockhart, ?crept more leisurely than did his
landau up the Canongate ; and not a queer, tottering
gable but recalled to him some long-buried
memory of splendour or bloodshed, which, by a few
Most Noble Order of the Thistle, which he had
now [relerected, could not meet in St. Andrews?
church (z.e., the cathedral in Fife}, being demolished
in the Rebellion; and so it was necessary for them
to have this church, and the Provost of Edinburgh
SMOLLETT?S HOUSE, ST. JOHN?S STREET.
words, he set before the hearer in the reality of life.?
The Canongate church, a most unpicturesquelooking
edifice, of nameless style, with a species of
Doric porch, was built in 1688. The Abbey
chwh of Holyrood had hitherto been the parish
church of the Canongate, but in July, 1687, King
James VII. wrote to the Privy Council, that the
church of the Abbey ?? was the chapel belonging to
his palace of Holyrood, and that the knights of the
was ordained to see the keys of it given to them.
After a long silence,? says Fountainhall, ?the
Archbishop of Glasgow told that it was a mansal
and patrimonial church of the bishopric of Edinburgh,
and though the see was vacant, yet it
belonged not to the Provost to deliver the keys.?
Yet the congregation were ordered to seek
accommodation in Lady Yester?s church till other
could be found for them, and the Canongate
