OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH [The Meadows. 348
damp and melancholy place, even in summer, though
much frequented as a public walk.
The western end obtains still the name of Hope
Park, and a more modern street close by bears the
name of his Fifeshire estate-Bankeillor-now
passed to another family.
Among these Improvers were the Earls of Stair,
Islay, and Hopetoun, the Lords Cathcart and Drummore,
with Dalrymple of Cousland and Cockburn
of Ormiston. Lord Stair was the first to raise turnips
end of the central walk, and a little, but once
famous, cottage and stable, where asses? milk was
sold, long disfigured the upper walk at Teviot Row.
A few old-fashioned villas were on the south side
of the Meadows ; in one of these, in 1784, dwelt
Archibald Cockburn, High Judge Admiral of Scotland
No. 6 Meadow Place was long the residence
of David Irving, LL.D., author of ? The Lives of
the Scottish Poets? and other works, librarian
to the Faculty of Advocates; and in Warrender
THE MEADOWS, ABOUT 1810. (From a Pdntingim fheposscssim of Dr. 7. A. Sidey.)
in the open fields, and so laid the foundation of
the most important branch of the store-husbandry
of modem times.
The Meadows were longa fashionable promenade.
?There has never in my life,? says Lord Cockbum,
? been any single place in or near Edinburgh
which has so distinctly been the resort at once of
our philosophy and our fashion. Under these poor
trees walked, and talked, and meditated, all our
literary and scientific, and many of our legal,
worthies of the last and beginning of the present
century.?
They still form the shooting ground of the Royal
Company of Archers. A species of ornamental
arbour, called ?The Cage,? stoodlong at the south
Lodge, Meadow Place, ?lived and died James
Ballantine, the genial author of ? The Gaberlunzie?s
Wallet and other works of local notoriety, but
more especially a volume of one hundred songs,
with music, many of which are deservedly popular.
Celebrated in his own profession as a glass-stainer,
he was employed by the Royal Commissioners on
the Fine Arts, to execute the stained glass windows
for the House of Lords at Westminster.
Now the once sequestered Meadows, save on
the southern quarter, which is open to Bruntsfield
Links, are well-nigh completely encircled by new
lines of streets and terraces, and are further intersected
by the fine modem drive named from Sir 1 John Melville, who was Lord Provost in 1854-9.
349 Hope Pukl ?THE DOUGLAS CAUSE.?
THE BURGH LOCH.. (Aftw a Plwtagrajh o f t h OnginaZ, bypermission of thc M e m k t Company of Edidu&.l
CHAPTER XLI.
HOPE PARK END.
?The Douglas Cause,? or Story of Lady Jane Douglas-Stewart-Hugh Lord Semplc-? The Chevalier?-The Archers? Hall-Royal Company
of Archers formed-Their Tacobitism-Their Colours-hrlv Parades-Constitution and Admission-Their Hall built-Mwrs. Nelsond
Establishment-Thomas Nelson.
HOPE PARK END is the name of a somewhat humble
cluster of unpretending houses which sprang up at
the east end of the Meadows ; but the actual villa
latterly called Hope Park was built on the south
bank of the former loch, ?immediately eastward of
the Meadow Cage,? as it is described in the prints
of 1822. In character Hope Park End has been
improved by the erection of Hope Park Crescent
and Terrace, with the U. P. church in their
vicinity; but when its only adjuncts were the
Burgh Loch Brewery, the dingy edifices known as
Gifford Park, and an old house of the sixteenth
century, pulled down by the Messrs. Nelson, it was a
somewhat sombre locality. Another old house near
the Archers? Hall showed on the lintel of its round
turnpike stair the date 1704, and the initials AB
-J.L. ; but in which old mansion in this quarter
the celebrated and unfortunate Lady Jane Douglas-
Stewart resided we have no means of ascertaining,
or whether before or after she occupied z garret
in the East Cross Causeway, and only know from
her letters that she lived here during a portion of
the time (1753) when her long vexed case was disputed
in Scotland and in England.
Having referred to this case so often, it is
necessary, even for Edinburgh readers, to say
something of what it was-one in which the famous
toady Boswell, though little inclined to exaggeration,
is reported by Sir Walter Scott to have been so
ardent a partisan that he headed a mob which
smashed the windows of the adverse judges of the
Court of Session, when, ?? For Douglas or Hamilton?
? was the question men asked each other in
the streets, at night, and swords instantly drawn
if opinions were hostile j for ? the Douglas cause,?
as Scott says, ?shook the security of birthright in
Scotland, and was a cause which, had it happened
before the Union, when there was no appeal to a
