248 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
This marriage is also referred to by Nisbet in
his Heraldry,? Vol. I., so George Logan would
seem to have been fortunate in out-rivalling the
?? ane-and-forty wooing at her.?
The house was demolished, as stated, in 1840.
ten patients and inmates, and has a revenue of
A300 per annum. ? BLISSIT . BE. GOD . OF . HIS.
GIFTES . 1601.I.K.S.H:? appears in a large square
panel on an old house near the head of the Sheriff
Brae; and nearly the same hvourite motto, with
THE ANCIENT COUNCIL CHAMBER, COAL HILL.
to make way for St. Thomas?s Church with its almshouses
erected by Sir John Gladstone, Bart., of
Fasque. It is clustered with a manse, schoolhouse,
and the asylum, forming the whole into a
handsome range of Gothic edifices, constructed at a
cost off;ro,ooo, from a design by John Henderson,
of Edinburgh.
The asylum is a refuge and hospital for females
afflicted with incurable diseases, and accommodates
the date 1629, and the initials I.H., K.G., appears
on the door lintel of another house, having a,square
staircase in a kind of projecting tower, and a
great chimney corbelled on its street front; but
as to the inmates of either no record remains.
The Leith Hospital, Humane Society, and Casualty
Hospital are all located together now in Mill
Lane, at the head of the Sheriff Brae-spacious
edifices, having a frontage to the former of 150 feet;
