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with an extraordinary memory, He went into very
high notiom of lengthened devotions, in which he
continued many hours a day ; he would often pray
in his family two hours at a time, and had an inexhaustible
copiousness that way. What thought
soever struck his fancy during these effusions, he
looked on it as an answer of prayer, and was
wholly determined by it. He looked on the
Covenant as the sitting of Christ on his throne, and
.was so out of measure zealous in it. He had no
The middle of the last century saw Warriston
possessed by a family named Grainger, and afterwards
by another named Mure ; and in 1814 there
died in Warriston House the Hon. W. F. Mackenzie,
the only son of Francis Lord Seaforth, and
representative in Parliament for the county of
Ross; and in the same house there died, on the
28th ot July, 1838, Helen D?Arcy Cranstoun (a
daughter of the Hon. George Cranstoun and the
second wife of Professor Dugald Stewart), a lady
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- regard to raising himself or his family, though he had
- thirteen children, but Presbytery was to him more
than all the world. He had a readiness and vehemence
of speaking that made him very considerable
in public assemblies; and he had a fruitful invention,
: so that he was at all times furnished with expedients.?
. Such is the Bishop?s picture of this eminent lawyer
and Covenanter, but very crooked politician.
Lord Warriston?s son, James Johnston, was appointed
envoy to the Court of Brandenburg, but
- as he was afterwards fortunate enough to be created
by King William one of his principal secretaries
. of state, he was nominated by a warrant from His
Majesty ?? to sit as Lord Secretary in the Parliament
who holds a very high place among the writers -of
Scottish song, and was sister of Countess Purgstall,
the subject of Captain Basil Hall?s ? Schloss
Heinfeld?
Eildon Street and Wamston Crescent, both
running eastward off Inverleith Row, have been
recently built on the estate of Warriston, and due
eastward of the mansion-house lies the spacious and
beautiful cemetery which appropriately takes its
name from the locality.
Wamston Cemetery, with a gentle slope to the
sun and commanding a magnificent view of the
city, is laid out with very considerable taste. It
was opened in 1843, and has one approach by
~ which met in I 693.? I a bridge over the Leith from Canonmills, a sewnd
