Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV

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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Buccleuch Place. 346 way, and from thence along the Gibbet Street northward, to where it is divided from the burgh of the Canongate, to be the Cross Causeway district. By a subsequent -4ct of George 111. there was added to it all the tract?on the north-east of the road leading from the Wright?s-houses to the Grange Toll-bar, and from thence along the Mayfield Loan to the old Dalkeith Road, and from thence in a straight line eastward to the March Dyke of the King?s Park nearest to the said loan ; and the whole ground west of the dyke to where it joins the Canongate-all to be called the Causeway- side district. VI. From the east end of the Cross Causeway southward to the Gibbet Toll, including the Gibbet Loan, to be called Gibbet Street district VII. From the chapel of ease south to the Grange Toll, including the Sciennes, to be the Causeway-side district. VIII. From the south end of the property of the late Joseph Gavin on the west, and that of John Straiton in Portsburgh on the east of the road leading from the Twopenny Custom southward to the Wright?s-house Toll, to be the Toll Cross district The chapel of ease in Chapel Street, originally a hideous and unpretending structure, was first projected in January, 1754, when the increasing population of the West Kirk parish induced the Session to propose a chapel somewhere on the south side of it. The elders and deacons were furnished with subscription lists, and these, by March, 1755, showed contributions to the amount of A460 ; and in expectation of further sums, ?( a piece of ground at the Wind Mill, or west end of the Cross Causeway, was immediately feued,? and estimates, the lowest of which was about A700, were procured for the erection of a chapel to hold 1,200 perscns. By January, 1756, it was opened for divine service, and a bell which had been used in the West Church was placed in its steeple in 17?3; it weighs nineteen stone, cost L366 Scots, and bears the founder?s name, with the words, ??FOP the Wast Kirk, I 7 00.? In 1866 this edifice was restored and embellished by a new front at the cost of more thzn .42,090, and has in it a beautiful memorial window, erected by the Marquis of Bute to the memory of hi5 ancestress, FloraMacleod of Raasay, who lies in teFed in the small ?and sbmbre cemetery attached to the building. There, too, lie the remains 0. Dr. .Thomas . Blacklock ? the Blind P,oet,? Dr Adam of the Higli, School, Mrs Cockburn tht poetess, and others. -. Bucykuch :Free Church is situated at the junc fion ?f {he Ctoss-causeway acd .Chapel Street, I . i n s built in 1850, and has a fine octagonal spire, erected about five years after, from a design by Hay 3f Liverpool, Lady Dalrymple occupied one of the houses in Chapel Street in 1784 ; Sir William Maxwell,Bart., 3f Springkell, who died in 1804, occupied another; and in the same year Lady Agnew of Lochnaw was resident in the now obscure St. Patrick Street, close by. In this quarter there is an archway at the top of what is now called Gray?s Court, together with an entrance opposite the chapel of ease. These were the avenues to what was called the Southern Market, formed about 1820 for the sale of butchermeat, poultry, fish, and vegetables ; but as shops sprang into existence in the neighbourhood, it came to an end in a few years The Wind Mill-a most unusual kind of mill in Scotland-from which the little street in this quarter takes its name, was formed to raise the water from the Burgh Loch to supply the Brewers of the Society, a company established under James VI. in 1598; andnear it lay a pool or pond, named the Goose Dub, referred to by Scott in the ? Fortunes of NigeL? From this mill the water was conveyed in leaden pipes, on the west side of Bristo Street as far as where Teviot Row is now, and from thence in a line to the Society, where there was a reservoir that supplied some parts of the Cowgate. In 1786, when foundations were dug for the houses from Teviot Row to Charles Street, portions of this pipe were found. It was four-and-a-half inches in diameter and two-eighths of an inch thick. The Goose Dub was drained about 1715? and converted into gardens. In the year 1698 Lord Fountainhall reports a case between the city and Alexander Biggar, brewer, heritor of ?? the houses called Gairnshall, beyond the Wind Mill, and built in that myre commonly called the Goose-dub,? who wished t3 be freed from the duties of watching and warding, declaring his immunity from ?all burghal prestations,? in virtue of his feu-charter from John Gairns, who took the land from the city in 1681, ?(bearing a redhdu of ten merks of feu-dutypru omni aZio onere, which must free him from watching, tRarding, outreiking militia, ?or train bands, &c.? The Lords found that he was not liable to the former duties, but as regarded the militia, ?ordained the parties to be further heard.? In.February, 1708, he reports another case connected with this locality, in which Richard Hoaison, minister at Musselburgh, ? having bought some acres near the Wind-milne of Edinburgh,? took the rights thereof to himself and his wife

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