Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V

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I 2 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [University. posts, and make the Grassmarket their headquarters. The City Militia held the High Street, a guard was placed on the college, and the guards at the palace were doubled. Undismayed by all this, the students mustered in the Old High School Yard, with their effigy in pontifical robes, and proceeded without opposition down the High School Wynd, and up Blackfriars Wynd to the lower end of High Street, where, finding there was no time to lose, though unopposed by the militia, they set fire to the figure amid shouts of ?? Pereat Papa f I? but had instantly to fly. Arnot says the burning took place in the Blackfriars Wynd. Grim old Dalyell of Binns came galloping through the Netherbow Port at the head of his linquish their intention, and a few who were English were seized in their beds, and carried by the guard to the Tolbooth. All the forces in Leith and the neighbourhood mere marched into the Canongate, where they remained all night under arms ; and in the morning the Provost allowed the privileges of a fortified city to be violated, it was alleged, by permitting the Foot Guards and Mars Fusiliers (latterly zIst Foot) to enter the gates, seize advantageous of treatment not much more respectful than their own. In the course of this operation the head fell OK,? and was borne in triumph up the Castle Hill by a Dumber of boys. But this trumpery affair did not end here. Seven students were apprehended, and examined before the Privy Council by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, the King?s Advocate, and after being a few days in custody, were liberated. So little were they gratified by this leniency that many street scuffles took place between them and the troops, whom they alleged to be the aggressors. Violent denunciations of revenge against the magistrates were uttered in the streets ; and upon the 11th of January, 1681, the house of Priestfield grey Dragoons; then came the Fusiliers, under the Earl of Mar; and Lord Linlithgowv, with one battalion of the Scots Foot Guards, in such haste that he fell off his horse. The troops were ordered to extinguish the flames and rescue the image. ? This, however, understanding the combustible state of its interior, they were in no haste to do ; keeping at a cautious distance, they merely belaboured his Holiness with the butt end of their musquets, which the students allege was a mode . THE LIBRARY OF THE OLD UNIVERSITY, AS SEEN FROM THE SOUTH-WESTERN CORNER OF THE QUADRANGLE, LOOKING EAST. (From an EngnauiqQ W. H. Lizursofa Drawing& Playfair).

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