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
