ing goods. He accused Edinburgh of an unreasonable
jealousy of its seaport, and invited the inhabitants
of that city ?to descend from their proud
hill into the more fruitful plains (of Leith?) to be
filled with the fa.tness and fulness thereof.?
at the same time the Trained Bands of Leith mustered
in arms to attend the great military funeral of
the Marquis of Montrose.
In 1667 the Englishfleet ofsir Jeremiah Smythe,
a brave admiral who afterwards defeated the Dutch,
to find-if Mr. Tucker?s report be a true one-that
all the shipping in ? the principal port of Scotland?
consisted only of some twelve or fourteen vessels,
?? two or three whereof are of only two or three
hundred tons apiece, the rest small vessels for
carrying salt.?
At the Restoration orders were given to destroy
the citadel ; but these were not put in force, and
Scottish flag. The guns of the Castle, Leith, and
Burntisland, responded. The admiral was in search
of the Dutch fleet under Van Ghendt, which had
been in the Firth a few days before, menacing Edinburgh
and Leith.
In March, 1679, the constables of South and
North Leith, in common with those of the city and
Canongate, ? and who11 suburbs of the good town
