Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV

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THE OLD WORKHOUSE. 325 Bristo Street.] cambrick ? bears the earl?s coronet above his initial R. Three guineas? reward was offered for any one who would return Polly ?to her owner,? either at John?s Coffee House, ?or the Earl of Rosebeme at Denham?s Land, Bristow, and no questions will be asked. She is a London girl, and what they call a Cockney.? There are in the advertisement a great many arguments and inducements used by the earl to induce the fair was a park called Forglens Park, upon part of which the New Bridge is built,? says a writer in 1775, ?and the rest feued out by the magistrates to different persons, upon which there are now many good houses erected This park used to pay AI o yearly.? At midsummer, in 1743, this house was opened for the reception of the poor, who were employed according to their ability, and allowed twopence DARIEN HOUSE, 1750. one to return, and the whole are wound up by the following elegant couplet :- ? My Lord desires Polly Rich, To mind on Lord Roseberrie?s dear little Fish.? (Scottish/ournal, Vol. I.) Westward of Bristo Street, in the large open field described, there was erected in 1743 the Workhouse. It was four storeys in height, very spacious, but plain, massive, and dingy, with a pedimented or gabled centre, whereat hung a huge bell, and in which there were three tall arched windows of the chapel or hall. It stood zoo feet south-west of the Bristo Port, on a part of the ground then denominated the High Riggs, and the expense of the edifice was defrayed by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants ; and for its use, ?among other subjects, out of every shilling they earned. The annual expense of maintaining each person in those days amounted to A4 IOS., and was defrayed by a tax of two per cent. on the valued rents of the city, the dues of the dead, or the passing bell, burial warrants, green turfs, half the profits of the Ladies? Assembly Room, the collections at the church doors, and other voluntary contributions. It was early proposed to establish a permanent poor rate, but this was opposed by the members of the College of Justice, on the plea that they were not liable to local burdens. The number maintained in this now defunct edifice from the 1st of January, 1777, to the 1st of January, 1778, was only 484 adults, of both sexes, of whom 52 died; 180 children, of whom

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