ST. MARGARET?S CONVENT. 45 White House Loan.
rare and valuable portraits, including some of the
Stuart family, and one of Cardinal Beaton, on the
Vhite House, was returned as heir to his father,
James Chrystie, of that place, in the parish of St.
Cuthbert?s. But in the early part of the last
century it had passed to a family named Davidson,
as shown by the Valuation Roll in 1726.
In 1767 it was the residence of MacLeod of
MacLeod, when his daughter was married to
Colonel Pringle of Stitchell, M.P.; and in this
mansion it has been said Principal Robertson wrote
his ?History of Charles the Fifth.? Here also,
April, 1820, John Home wrote his
Dr. Blair his ?? Lectures.? ?? We give this interesting
information,? says the editor, ?on the authority of
a very near relation of Dr. Blair, to whom these
particulars were often related by the Doctor with
great interest.?
.the first Catholic convents erected in Scotland
since the Reformation-a house of Ursulines of
Jesus, and dedicated to St. Margaret, Queen of
Scots, having a very fine Saxon chapel, the chef
dEuvre of Gillespie Graham. It was opened in
Jme that year, according to the Edinburgh
Ohme-, a now extinct journal, and the inaugural
Douglas,? and I
On this edifice was engrafted, in 1835, one of?
et Regent du Royaume a?Ecosse, CaPlIilld et Legat
a iaterc, fut massacri pour la foy en 1546.? It
is believed to be a copy by Chambers from the
original at St. Mary?s College, Blairs. The most
of the nuns were at first French, under a Madame
St. Hilaire.
On the same side of the Loan are the gates
to the old mansion of the Warrenders of Lochend,
called Bruntsfield or Warrender House, the an-
I cestral seat of a family which got it as a free gift
from the magistrates, and which has been long
connected with the civil history and municipal
affairs of the city-a massive, ancient, and dark
edifice, with small windows and crowstepped
THE GRANGE CEMETERY.
