Echo Bank.] THE DICK-CUNNINGHAMS. 57
Albany and York, and his having adopted energetic
measures with some of the students of the college,
for their Popery not in 1680, was supposed to
have excited a spirit of retaliation in their companions
; hence a suspicion arose that the fire was
designed and executed by them. The Privy Council
were so far convinced of this being the case, that they
closed the university, and banished the students till
they could find caution for their good behaviour.
Sir James?s house was rebuilt by the Scottish
Corstorphine, in 1699, to the second and younger
sons of his only daughter, Janet, who was married
to Sir William Cunningham, Bart, of Caprington,
by whom he was succeeded at his decease, in
1728.
His son, Sir Alexander Dick (paternally Cunningham),
had attained under the latter name a
high repute in medicine, and became President of
the Royal College at Edinburgh; and he it was
who entertained Dr, Johnson and Boswell for
OLD HOUSES, ECHO BANK.
Treasury as it now exists. When he was coming
from London in 1.682 with the duke, in the
Gloucester mankf-war, she was cast away upon a
sandbank, twelve leagues from Yarmouth, and then
went to pieces. Sir James relates in a letter that
the crew were crowding into a boat set apart for
the royal duke, on which, the Earl of Winton and Sir
George Gordon of Haddo had to drive them back
with drawn swords. Sir James, with the Earls of
Middleton and Perth, and the Laird of Touch,
escaped in another boat; but the Earl of Koxburgh,
the Laid of Hopetoun, and 200 men, were
drowned.
As Sir James Dick died without male issue, he
made an entail of his estates of Prestonfield and
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several days at Prestoniield, where he died, in his:
eighty-second year, in 178s.
The Mayfield Estate, which belongs to Mr..
Duncan McLaren, was laid out for feuing by the.
late Mr. David Cousin; and more? recently the,
adjacent lands of Craigmillar, the property of Mr.
Little Gilmour, and all are now being rapidly
covered with houses.
Proceeding along the old Dalkeith Road, near
Echo Bank, a gate and handsome lodge lead to
Newington Cemetery, with a terrace and line of
vaults. This was the second that was opened
after that of Warriston, and was ready for interments
in 1846. It was laid out by Mr. David
Cousin; but as the designs were open to public
