Heriot's Hospital.] HERIOT'S WIVES. 565
followed him to London, and transferred his double
business from his Krame by St. Giles's, to somewhere
in Cornhill, opposite the Exchange, where his business
became so great that on one occasion, by
royal proclamation, all the mayors of England, and
in the flower of her days, leaving Xeriot once more
a childless widower. He felt her death keenly,
and a scrap of paper has been preserved, on which
he traced, two months after, the brief, but signi6-
cant sentence, never meant for the public--"shc
justices of the peace, were required to assist him in
procuring workmen at the current rate of wages.
Here, amid his prosperity, his wife died, without
children.
Five years afterwards he married Alison, one of
the nineteen children of James Primrose, who for
forty years was clerk to the Privy Council, and
ancestor of the Earls of Rosebery ; but Alison,
who brought him a dowry of A333, died soon after
cannof be foo mrifch Zimenfed, zdo cuZd not k foo
mufch Zmed" Her death occurred on the 16th
April, 1612.
He nom devoted himself entirely to the prose-
' cution of his greatly extended business, and in devising
plans for the investment of his property at his
decease j and having no relations for whom he felt
any regard, save two natural daughters, and friends
to whom he left legacies, his mind became filled
