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132 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [West Church.
the 27th October, 1592, by ?(the hail1 elderes, deacones,
and honest men of ye parochin . . . .
quha hes agreit, all in ane voice, that in all tymes
coming, thair be ane preaching everie Thursday,
and that it begin at nyne hours in ye morning, and
ye officer of ye kirk to gang with ye bell at aught
hours betwixt the Bow Fut and the Toun-end.?
This Thursday sermon was kept up until the middle
of the eighteenth century. The ?? toun-end ? is
supposed to mean Fountain Bridge, sometimes of
old called the Causeway-end.
. In 1589 the Kirk Session ordained that none in
the parish should have ?? yair bairnes ? baptised,
admitted to mamage, repentance, or alms, but
those who could repeat the Lord?s Prayer, the
Belief, and the Commandments, and ?gif ane
compt yair of, quhen yai ar examinet, and yis to be
publishit in ye polpete.? In the following year a
copy of the Confession of Faith and the National
Covenant was subscribed by the whole parish.
From the proximity of the church to the castle,
in the frequent sieges sustained by the latter, the
former suffered considerably, particularly after the
invention of artillery. At the Reformation it had
a roof of thatch, probably replacing a former one
of stone. The thatch was renewed in 1590, and
new windows and a loft were introduced; two
parts of the expense were borne by the parish, the
other by Adam, Bishop of Orkney, a taxation
which he vehemently contested. Among other
additions to the church was ?a pillar for adulterers,?
built by John Howieson and John Gaims in August,
1591. The thatch was removedand theroof slated.
In 1594 a manse adjoining the church was built
for Mr. Robert Pont, on the ?site of the present
one, into which is inserted an ancient fragment of
the former, inscribed-
RELIGIOXI ET POSTERIS
IN MINISTERIO.
S.R. P. G. A. 1594
The burying-ground in those days was confined
to the rising slope south-west of the church, and
as ? nolt, horse, and scheipe ? were in the habit
of grazing there, the wall being in ruins, it was
repaired in 1597. The beadle preceded all funerals
with a hand-bell-a practice continued in the
eighteenth century.
-In consequence of the advanced age of Messrs.
Pont and Aird, a third minister, hlr. Richard
Dickson, was appointed to the parish in May, 1600,
and in 1606 communion was given on three successive
Sundays. On the 8th of May that year the
venerable Mr. Pont passed from the scene of his
labours,and is supposed to have been interred within
the church. To his memory a stone was erected,
which, when the present edifice was built, was removed
to the Rev. Mr. Williamson?s tomb on the
high ground, in which position it yet remains.
His colleague, Mr. Aircl, survived hini but a few
months, and their succkssors, Messrs. Dickson and
Arthur, became embroiled with the Assembly in
16 I 9 for celebrating communion to the people
seated at a table, preventing them from kneeling,
as superstitious and idolatrous. Mr. Dickson was
ordered ?to enter his person in ward within the
Castle of Dumbarton,? and .Mr. Arthur to give
communion to the people on their knees ; but he
and the people declined to ??comply with a practice
so nearly allied to popery.? Mr. Dickson was
expelled in 1620, but Mr. Arthur was permitted to
remain. Among those who were sitters in the
church at this time were Williani Napier, of the
Wrytes house, and his more illustrious kinsman,
John Napier, of Merchiston, the inventor of logarithms,
whose ?dasks,? or seats, seem to have
been close together.
The old church, like that of Duddingstone, was
furnished with iron jougs, in which it appears that
Margaret Dalgleish was compelled to figure on the
23rd of April, 1612, for her scandalous behaviour;
and in 1622, John Reid, ?poltriman,? was publicly
rebuked in church for plucking ?geiss upon the
Lord his Sabbath, in tyme of sermon.?
We are told in the ? History of the West Church,?
that ? in 1622 it was deemed proper to have a bell
hung in the stekple, if the old ruinous fabric which
stood between the old and new kirks might be so
called,? for a new church had been added at the
close of the sixteenth century. In 1618 new communion
cups of silver were procured. ?They were
then of a very peculiar shape, being six inches in
height, gilt, and beautifully chased; but the cup
itself, which was plated, was only two inches
deep and twenty-four in circumference, not unlike
a small soupplate affixed to the stalk of a candlestick.
On the bottom was engraved the following
sentence :-I wiz fa& flse COVJ of saZvafimnc and caZ
@one fhe name of fh b ~ d I I 6 PsZm. I 6 I 9 ; and
around the rim of the cup these words :-Fw fire
Vmf Kirk ovfvith EdinhrgAe.?
The year 1650 saw the church again imperilled
by war. Its records bear, on the 28th July in that
year, that ? No sessione was keiped in the monthe
of August, because there lay ane companie at the
church,? the seats of which had been destroyed
and the sessioners dispersed, partly by the army
of Cromwell, which lay on the south side of the
parish, and that of the Scots, which lay on the
north; and on the 13th of that month, after
Cromwell?s retreat to Dunbar, the commission of

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men of rank, another plot to storm it, at a time
when its garrison was the nsth, or old regiment of
Edinburgh, was formed by Lord John Drummond,
son of the Earl of Perth, with eighty men, mostly
Highlanders, and all of resolute courage. All these
-among whom was a Captain McLean, who had
lost a leg at Killiecrankie, and an Ensign Arthur,
late of the Scots Guards-were promised commissions
under King James, and IOO guineas each, if
ROYAL LODGING AND HALF-MOON BATTERY.
when the plot was marred by-a lady !
In the exultation he felt at the approaching
capture, and the hope he had of lighting the beacon
which was to announce to Fife and the far north
that the Castle was won, Ensign Arthur unfolded
the scheme to his brother, a physician in the city,
who volunteered for the enterprise, but most prudently
told his wife of it, and she, alarmed for his
safety, at once gave information to the Lord Justice
the event succeeded ; and at that crisis-when Mar
was about to fight the battle of Sheriffmuir-it
might have put him in possession of all Scotland.
Drummond contrived to suborn four of the garrison
-a sergeant, Ainslie, to whom he promised a
lieutenancy, a corporal, who was to be made an
ensign, and two privates, who got bribes in money.
On the night of the 8th September, when the
troops marched from the city to fight the Earl of
Mar, the attempt was made. The chosen time,
near twelve o'clock, was dark and stormy, and the
ilrodlcs operandi was to be by escalading the western
walls, near the ancient arched postern. A ladder,
equipped with great hooks to fix it to the cope of
the bastion, and calculated to admit four men
Clerk, Sir Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, who instantly
put himself in communication with Colonel
Stuart. Thus, by the time the conspirators were
at the foot of the wall the whole garrison was
under arms, the sentinels were doubled, and the
ramparts patrolled.
The first party of forty men, led by the resolute
Lord Drummond and the wooden-legged McLean,
had reached the foot of the wall unseen ; already
the ladder had been secured by Sergeant Ainslie,
and the escalade was in the act of ascending, with
pistols in their girdles and swords in their teeth,
when a Lieutenant Lindesay passed with his patrol,
and instantly gave an alarm I The ladder and all
on it fell heavily on the rocks below. A sentinel

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High Street.] EDINBURGH IN 1598 AND 1618. I99
is bought by courtiers, gentlemen, and the best
sort of citizens. They drink pure,aines, not with
sugar, as we English, yet at feasts they put comfits
in the wine, after the French manner; but they
had not our vintner?s fraud to mix their wines.
*? I did not see nor hear that they have any public
inns, with signs hanging out ; but the better sort of
? citizens brew ale (which will distemper a stranger?s
body), and then some citizens will entertain passengers
upon acquaintance or entreaty (i.e., introductioh).
Their bedsteads were then like cupboards
in the wall (i.e., box beds), to be opened and shut
at pleasure, so we climbed up to our beds. They
used but one sheet, open at the sides and top, but
close at the feet. When passengers go to bed, their
custom is to present them a sleeping cup of wine
at parting. The country people and merchants
used to drink largely, the gentlemen somewhat
more sparingly; yet the very courtiers, by nightmeetings
and entertaining any strangers, used to
drink healths, not without excess ; and to speak the
truth without offence, the excess of drinking was
far greater among the Scots than the English.
*? Myself being at the Court was invited by some
gentlemen to supper, and being forewarned to fear
this excess, would not promise to sup with them
but upon*condition that my inviter would be my
protection from large drinking. . . . The husbandmen
in Scotland, the servants, and almost all
the country, did wear coarse cloth made at home,
of grey or sky colour, and flat blew caps, very
broad. The merchants in cities were attired in
English or French cloth, of pale colour, or mingled
black and blew. The gentlemen did wear English
cloth or silk, or light stuffs, little or nothing adorned
with silk lace, much less with silver or gold ; and
all followed the French fashion, especially at
Court.
?Gentlewomen married did wear close upper
bodies, after the German manner, with large whalebone
sleeves, after the French manner; short
cloaks like the Germans, French hoods, and large
falling bands about their necks. The unmarried of
all sorts (?) did go bareheaded, and wear short
cloaks, with close linen sleeves on their arms, like
the virgins of Germany. The inferior sort of
citizen?s wives and the women of the country did
wear cloaks ,made of a coarse stuff, of two or three
colours, in checker work, vulgarly called jZodun
(i.e., tartan plaiding).
?To conclude, they would not at this time be
attired after the English fashion in any sort; but
the men, especially at Court, followed the French
fashion ; and the women, both in Court and city,
as well -in cloaks as naked heads and close
sleeves on the arms, and all other garments, follow
the fashion of the women in Germany.?
On the 20th of June, 1610, the Lord Provost of
Edinburgh exhibited to his Council two gowns, one
black, the other red, trimmed with sable, the gift
of King James, as patterns of the robes to be worn
by him and the bailies of the city; and in 1667
Charles 11. gave Sir Alexander Ramsay, Provost in
that year, a letter, stating that the chief magistrate
of Edinburgh should have the same precedence in
Scotland as the Mayor of London has in England,
and that no other provost should have the title of
?I Lord Provost ?-a privilege which has, however,
since been modified.
l h e attention of King James, who never forgot
the interests of his native city, was drawn in 1618
to two abuses in its police. Notwithstanding the
warning given by the fire of 1584, it was still cus
tomary for ?baxters and browsters? (i.e., bakers
and brewers) to keep great stacks of heather, whins,
and peatq in the very heart of the High Street and
other thoroughfares, to the great hazard of all adjacent
buildings, and many who were disposed to
erect houses within the walls were deterred from
doing so by the risks to be run ; while, moreover,
candle-makers and butchers were allowed to pursue
their avocations within the city, to the disgust and
annoeance of civil and honest neighbours, and of
the nobility and country people,? who came in
about their private affairs, and thus a royal procla-
.mation was issued against these abuses. The idea
of a cleaning department.of police never occurred
to the good folks of those days ; hence, in the following
year, the plan adopted was that each inhabitant
should keep clean that part of each street
before his own bounds.
In 1618 Edinburgh was visited by Taylor the
Water Poet, and his description of it is as truthful
as it is amusing :-? So, leaving the castle, as it is
both defensive against any opposition and magnifick
for lodging and receipt, I descended lower to
the city, wherein I observed the fairest and goodliest
street mine eyes ever beheld, for I did
never see or hear of a street of that length (which
is half a mile English from the castle to a fair port,
which they call the Nether Bow); and from that
port the street which they call the Kenny-gate
(Canongate) is one quarter of a mile more, down
to the king?s palace, called Holyrood House ; the
buildings on each side of the way being all of
squared stone, five, six, and seven storeys high, and
many bye-lanes and closes on each side of the way,
wherein are gentlemen?s houses, much fairer than
the buildings in the High Street, fur in the High
Street the merchants and tradesmen. do dwell, but

... Street.] EDINBURGH IN 1598 AND 1618. I99 is bought by courtiers, gentlemen, and the best sort of citizens. ...

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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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I34 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalng.
many instances, relatives and friends. With all
the affected zeal of a peacemaker, this gentleman
(whose house stood in Drury Lane, off the Strand
in London), proposed terms which Huntly deemed
satisfactory ; but the next point to be considered
was, which party should first march off the field.
On this, both parties were absurdly obstinate.
Huntly maintained that Morton, by an aggressive
display, had drawn the Queen?s troops out of the
city ; while Morton, on the other hand, charged the
Highland Earl with various acts of hostility and
insult. Dnuy eventually got both parties to promise
to quit the ground at a given signal, ?and
that signal,? he arranged, ?shall be the throwing
up of my hat.?
This was agreed to, and before Drury was halfway
between the Hawkhill and the ancient quarries,
up went his plumed hat, and away wheeled
Huntly?s forces, marching for the city by the road
that led to the Canongate, without the least suspicion
of the treachery of Drury, or Morton, whose
soldiers had never left their ground, and who cow,
rushing across the open fields with shouts charged
with the utmost fury the queen?s men, ?? who were
retiring with all the imprudent irregularity and confusion
which an imaginary security and exultation
at having escaped a sanguinary conflict were calculated
to produce.?
Thus treacherously attacked, they were put to
flight, and were pursued with cruel and rancorous
slaughter to the very gates of the city. The
whole road was covered with dead and wounded
men, while Lord Home, several gentlemen of high
position, and seventy-two private soldiers, a pair
of colours, several horses, and two pieces of cannon,
were, amid great triumph, marched into Leith in the
afternoon.
This was not the only act of treachery of which
Sir William Drury was guilty. He swore that he
was entirely innocent, and threw the whole blame
on Morton; but though an ambassador, so exas.
perated were the people of Edinburgh against him,
that he had afterwards to quit the city under a
guard to protect him from the infuriated mob.
The Laird of Restalrig was among those who
surrendered with Kirkaldy of Grange, in 1573, when
the Castle of Edinburgh capitulated to Morton;
but he would seem to have been pardoned, as
no record exists of any seventy practised upon him.
In #some criminal proceedings, in I 5 76, the sheet
of water here is designated as Restalrig Loch,
when a woman named Bessie Dunlop was tried
for witchcraft and having certain interviews with
?? ane Tam Reid,? who was killed at the battle of
Pinkie. Having once ridden with her husband to
Leith to bring home meal, ?ganging afield to
tether her horse at Restalrig Loch, there came ane
company of riders by, that made sic a din as if
heaven and earth had gane together; and, incontinent
they rade into the loch, with mony
hideous rumble. Tarn tauld [her] it was the
Gude Wights, that were riding in middle-eard.?
For these and similar confessions, Bessie was
consigned to the flames as a witch.
During the prevalence of the pestilence, in 1585,
James Melville says that on his way to join the
General Assembly at Linlithgow he had to pass
through Edinburgh ; that after dining at Restalrig at
eleven o?clock, he rode through thecity from the Water
Gate to the West Port, ? in all whilk way, we saw
not three persons, sae that I mis-kenned Edinburgh,
and almost forgot that I had ever seen sic a town.?
In 1594 Restalrig was the scene of one of those
stormy raids that the ?mad Earl of Bothwell?
caused so frequently, to the torment of James VI.
The earl, at the head of an armed force, was in
Leith, and broke out in open rebellion, when,
on the 3rd of April, the king, after sermon, summoned
the people of Edinburgh in arms, and moved
towards Leith, from whence Bothwell instantly
issued at the head of 500 mounted men-atms,
and took up a position at the Hawkhill near
Restalrig. Fearing, however, the strength of the
citizens, he made a detour, and galloped through
Duddingstone. Lord Home with his lances followed
him to ?the Woomet,? says Birrel, probably
meaning Woolmet, near Dalkeith, when Bothwell
faced about, and compelled him to retire in turn,
but not without bloodshed.
In February, 1593, at Holyrood, Robert Logan,
of Restalrig, was denounced for not appearing to
answer for his treasonable conspiracy and trafiicking
? with Francis, sum tyme Earl of Bothwell ; ? and
in the June of the following year he was again
denounced as a traitor for failing to appear and
answer for the conduct of two of his vassals, Jockie
Houlden and Peter Craick, who had despoiled
Robert Gray, burgess in Edinburgh of Lg50.
It was in this year that the remarkable indenture
was formed between him and Napier of Merchiston
to search for gold in Fast Castle (the ?Wolf?s Crag?
of the Master of Ravenswood), a fortress which lie
had acquired by his marriage with an heiress of
the Home family, to whom it originally belonged.
Logan joined the Earl of Gowrie in the infamous
and mysterious conspiracy at Perth, in the year
1600. It was proposed to force the king into ir
boat at the bottom of the garden of Gowrie
House, which the river Tay bordered, and from?
thence conduct him by sea to Logan?s inacces

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I74 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ? [Leith.
preachers, who though profound unbelievers in any
kind of consecration, ?? publicly declared that God
would not allow such wickedness and irreverence
to pass unpunished, as it betokened contempt for
the place where men assembled for divine service.?
The troops of the Congregation now imagined that
the vengeance of Heaven impended over them,
ready to burst on the first opportunity, for their
iniquity in using a church as a carpenter?s shop ;
and there was another alarming element in the
ranks, a want of pay, which caused a disinclination
to fight.
Queen Elizabeth had sent the Lords 4,000
crowns of the sun, but these had been abstracted
from the bearer, at the sword?s point, by that
spirit of evil, James, Earl of Bothwell (the future
Duke of Orkney), and now their troops became
disheartened and disorderly. ?? The men of war,?
says Knox, ?who were men without God or
honesty, made a mutiny, because they lacked part
of their wages ; they had done the same in Linlithgow
before, when they made a proclamation
that they would serve any man to suppress the
Congregation, and set up the mass again ! ?
In their desperation the Lords applied to England,
and a meeting was held at Berwick between
the Duke of Norfolk and their delegates, who were
Lord James Stuart (the future Regent Moray), Lord
Ruthven (one of Rizzio?s assassins), James Wishart
of Pittarow, and three others ; and the treaty which
the duke concluded with these Reformers was confirmed
by the Queen of England. The alleged
objects were, ? the defence of the Protestant religion,
of the ancient rights and liberties of Scotland,
against the attempts of France to destroy
them and make a conquest of that free kingdomin
effect, to crush completely the Catholic interest
and the power of the House of Guise.?
The French in Leith cared little for this treaty,
as they were in daily expectation of fresh succours
from France j but their scouting and ravaging detachments
in Fife, under the Count de Martigues,
General d?Oisel, the Swiss leader L?Abast, and
others, were severely cut up by Kirkaldy of Grange,
the Master of Lindsay, and other Protestant
leaders ; disasters followed fast, and before they
could concentrate all their forces in Leith they suffered
considerable loss in skirmishes by the way.
The Lords of the Congregation now ordered a
general muster before the walls of Leith on the
joth of March, 1560, every man to come fully
equipped for battle, with thirty days? provisions ;
and in conformity with the treaty referred to, on
? the 2nd of April there marched into Scotland an
English force, consisting of 1,250 horse and 6,000
infantry, under a brave and experienced leader,
Lord Grey de Wilton, warden of the East and
Middle Marches of England.
Sir James Crofts was his second in command ;
Sir George Howard was general of the men-at-arm%
or heavy cavalry, and Burnley Fitzpatrick was his
lieutenant ; Sir Henry Piercy led the demi-lances,
or light horse ; William Pelham was captain of the
pioneers, Thomas Gower captain of the ordnance ;
the LordScrope was Earl Marshal. Many of these
troops had served at the battle of Pinkie and in
other affairs against Scotland.
Lord Grey?s first halt was at Dunglas, where he
encamped his infantry, while the English cavalry
were peacefully cantoned in the adjacent hamlets.
The second day?s halt was at Haddington. As.
they passed the royal castle of Dunbar the Queen?s.
troops made a sally, an encounter took place, and
some lives were lost. ?The third day?s march,
brought them to Prestonpans, where they met the
Scottish leaders, and had an interview, which is,
perhaps, the more important from the fact that we
now find, for the first time in history, Scottish and
English forces acting together as allies.?
On the first of the same month an English fleet
under Vice-Admiral William Winter, Master of
Elizabeth?s Ordnance, cast anchor in the roads to)
assist in the reduction of Leith. According to
Lediard?s Naval History,? he instantly attacked.
and made himself master of the French ships which
were there at anchor, and blocked up Inchkeith.
It was defended by a French garrison, which was
soon reduced to the last extremity for want of provisions.
All this was done in defiance of the remonstrances.
of M. De Severre, the French ambassad% at the
Regent?s court, who went on board the English
fleet in the roads.
Lord Grey encamped at Restalrig, where he was
joined by the Earls of Argyle, Montrose, and Glencairn
; the Lords Boyd and Ochiltree ; the prior ot
St. Andrews, and the hlaster of Maxwell, with
2,000 men. On this occasion the Town Council of
Edinburgh contributed from the corporation funds
A1,600 Scots, as a month?s pay for 400 men to
assist in the reduction of Leith--?a sum,? says 5
historian, ?which enabled each of these warriors to
live at the rate of twopence-halfpenny a day.?
The Queen Regent, whose dying condition rendered
it impossible for her expose herself to the
hazards of a siege in Leith, retired into the castle of
Edinburgh, where she daily and anxiously watched
the operations of her Scottish enemies and their
English allies The French in Leith were now
reduced to about 5,000 men, whose orders were to

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i.e., the Tolbooth; others were held there in 1449
and 1459. In the latter the Scottish word
?Tolbooth,? meaning a tax-house, occurs for the
first time ; ?Hence,? says Wilson, ? a much older,
and probably larger erection must therefore have
existed on the site of the western portion of the
Tolbooth, the ruinous state of which led to the
royal command for its demolition in 1561-not
a century after the date we are disposed to
assign to the oldest portion of the building that
remained till 1817, and which, though decayed and
time-worn, was so far from being ruinous even then,
that it proved a work of great labour to demolish
its solid masonry.? In the ?Diurnal of Occurrents,?
it is recorded that in 1571 ?the tour of the add
TuZbuyth was tane doun.?
The ornamental north gable of the Tolbooth was
never seen without a human head stuck thereon in
?the good old times,? In 1581. ?the prick on the
highest stone? bore the head of the Regent
Morton, in 1650 the head of the gallant Montrose,
till ten years subsequently it was replaced by that
of his enemy Argyle.
In 1561 the Tolbooth figures in one of those
tulzies or rows so common in the Edinburgh of
those days ; but in this particular instance we see a
distinct foreshadowing of the Porteous mob of the
eighteenth century, by the magistrates forbidding a
I? Robin Hood.? This was the darling May game
of Scotland as well as England, and, under the
pretence offrolic, gave an unusual degree of licence;
but the Scottish Calvinistic clergy, with John Knox
? at their head, and backed by the authority of the
magistrates of Edinburgh, who had of late been
chosen exclusively from that party, found it impossible
to control the rage of the populace when
deprived of the privilege of having a Robin Hood,
with the Abbot of Unreason and the Queen of the
May.( Thus it czme to pass, that in May, 1561,
when a man in Edinburgh was chosen as ? Robin
Hood and Lord of Inobedience,? most probably
because he was a frolicsome, witty, and popular
fellow, and passed through the city with a great
number of followers, noisily, and armed, with a
banner displayed, to the Castle Hill, the magistrates
caught one of his companions, ? a cordiner?s servant,?
named Janies Gillon, whom they condemned
to be hanged on the z ~ s t of July.
On that day, as he was to be conveyed to the
gibbet, it was set up with the ladder against it
in the usual fashion, when the craftsmen rushed
into the streets, clad in their armour, with
spears, axes, and hand-guns. They seized the
Provost by main force of arms, together with
two Bailies, David Symmer and Adam Fullarton,
and thrusting them into Alexander Guthrie?s
writing booth, left them there under a. guard.
The rest marched to the cross, broke the gibbet
to pieces, and beating in the doors of the Tolbooth
with sledge-hammers, under the eyes of
the magistrates, who were warded close by,
they brought forth the prisoner, whom they conveyed
ic~ triumph down the street to the Nether
Bow Port. . Finding the latter closed, they passed
up the street again. By this time the magistrates
had taken shelter in the Tolbooth, from whence
one,of them fired a pistol and wounded one of the
mob. ?That being done,? says the Diurnal of
Occurrents, ? there was naething but tak and day!
that is, the one part shooting forth and casting
stones, the other part shooting hagbuts in again, and
sae the craftsmen?s servants held them (conducted
themselves) continually frae three hours afternoon,
while (till) aucht at even, and never ane man of the
toun steirit to defend their provost and bailies.?
The former, who was Thomas Maccakean, of
Clifton Hall, contrived to open a communication
with the constable of the Castle, who came with
an armed party to act as umpire ; and through that
officer it was arranged ?that the provost and
bailies should discharge all manner of actions
whilk they had against the said crafts-childer in
ony time bygone ;? and this being done and proclaimed,
the armed trades peacefully disbanded,
and the magistrates were permitted to leave the
Tolbooth.
In 1539 the sixth Parliament of James VI. met
there. The Estates rode through the streets;
? the crown was borne before his Majesty by
Archibald Earl of Angus, the sceptre by Colin
Earl of Argyle, Chancellor, and the sword of
honour, by Robert Earl of Lennox.? Moyse adds,
when the Parliament was dissolved, twelve days
after, the king again rode thither in state. In
1581 Morton was tried and convicted in the hall
for the murder of Darnley ; the King?s Advocate
on that occasion was Robert Crichton of Elliock,
father of the ?? Admirable Crichton.?
Caldenvood records some curious instances of
the king?s imbecility among his fierce and turbulent
couttiers. On January 7th, 1590, when he was
coming down the High Street from the Tolbooth,
where he had been administering justice, two of
his attendants, Lodovick Duke of Lennox (hereditary
High Admiral and Great Chamberlain), and
Alexander Lord Home, meeting the Laird of
Logie, with whom they had a quarrel, though he
was valet of the royal chamber, attacked him
sword in hand, to the alarm of James, who retired
into an adjacent close ; and six days after, when he

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INCHKEITH.
PAGE
The Defences of Leith-Inchkeith Forts-%. Serf-The Pest-stricken in 1497-Experiment of James lV.-The Old Fort-Johnson and
Boswell-The New Chanuel -Colonel Moggridge's P l a n j T h e 'I hree New Forts-Magazines and Barracks-The Lighthouse . . 290
CHAPTER XXXV.
NEWHAVEN.
Cobbett on Edinburgh-Jam- IV.'s Dockyard -His Gift of Newhaven to Edinburgh-The GYCQ~ Michapl-Embarkation of Mary of Guise
-Woc.ks at Newhaven in the Sixteenth Century-The Links-Viscount Newhaven-The Feud with Prestonpans-The Sea Fencibles
--Chain Pier-Dr. Fairhirn-The E ishwives-Superstitions . , . . . , . . . . . . . . . 295
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WARDIE, TRINITY, AND GRANTO~.
Wardie Muir-Human Remqins Found-Bangholm Bower and Trinity Lodge-Christ Church, Trinity-Free Church, Granton Road-Pilton
-Royston-Caroline Park-Granton-The Piers and Harhuun-Morton's Patent Slip , . . . . . . , . . 306
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH.
Cramond-Origin of the Name-Cramond of that Ilk-Ancient Charters - Inchmickery-Lord Cramond--Bdrnton -Goer and its Proprietors-
Saughton Hall--Riccarton . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . , . . 3'4
CH AI'TE R XXXVI 11.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (confinzed).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghom -The Pentlands-View from Tqhin-Comiston-Slateford-
Grnysmill-Liberton -The Mill at Nether Liberton-Liberton Tower-The Chiirch-The Balm Well of St. Katherine-Grace
Mount-The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St Katherine's-The Kaime-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little 01 Lihrton . 322
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (continued).
Cnrrie-Origin of the Name-Roman Camps-The Old Church and Temple Lands-Lennox Tower-Curriehill Castle and the Skenes-
Scott of Malleny-James Andelson, LL.D.--"Camp Meg" and her Story . . . . . . . . . . , . 130
CHAPTER XL.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDIXBURGH (coalinued).
The Inch House-The WinramcEdmonstone and the Edmon.;tones of ttat Ilk-Witches-Woolmet-The Stenhouse-Moredun-The
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The Defences of Leith-Inchkeith Forts-%. Serf-The Pest-stricken in 1497-Experiment of James lV.-The Old Fort-Johnson and
Boswell-The New Chanuel -Colonel Moggridge's P l a n j T h e 'I hree New Forts-Magazines and Barracks-The Lighthouse . . 290
CHAPTER XXXV.
NEWHAVEN.
Cobbett on Edinburgh-Jam- IV.'s Dockyard -His Gift of Newhaven to Edinburgh-The GYCQ~ Michapl-Embarkation of Mary of Guise
-Woc.ks at Newhaven in the Sixteenth Century-The Links-Viscount Newhaven-The Feud with Prestonpans-The Sea Fencibles
--Chain Pier-Dr. Fairhirn-The E ishwives-Superstitions . , . . . , . . . . . . . . . 295
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WARDIE, TRINITY, AND GRANTO~.
Wardie Muir-Human Remqins Found-Bangholm Bower and Trinity Lodge-Christ Church, Trinity-Free Church, Granton Road-Pilton
-Royston-Caroline Park-Granton-The Piers and Harhuun-Morton's Patent Slip , . . . . . . , . . 306
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH.
Cramond-Origin of the Name-Cramond of that Ilk-Ancient Charters - Inchmickery-Lord Cramond--Bdrnton -Goer and its Proprietors-
Saughton Hall--Riccarton . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . , . . 3'4
CH AI'TE R XXXVI 11.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (confinzed).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghom -The Pentlands-View from Tqhin-Comiston-Slateford-
Grnysmill-Liberton -The Mill at Nether Liberton-Liberton Tower-The Chiirch-The Balm Well of St. Katherine-Grace
Mount-The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St Katherine's-The Kaime-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little 01 Lihrton . 322
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (continued).
Cnrrie-Origin of the Name-Roman Camps-The Old Church and Temple Lands-Lennox Tower-Curriehill Castle and the Skenes-
Scott of Malleny-James Andelson, LL.D.--"Camp Meg" and her Story . . . . . . . . . . , . 130
CHAPTER XL.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDIXBURGH (coalinued).
The Inch House-The WinramcEdmonstone and the Edmon.;tones of ttat Ilk-Witches-Woolmet-The Stenhouse-Moredun-The
' .338 Stewarts of Goodtrees-The Buckstane-Burdiehoux-Its Limekilns and Fossils . . . . , I . . . , .

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INCHKEITH.
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The Defences of Leith-Inchkeith Forts-%. Serf-The Pest-stricken in 1497-Experiment of James lV.-The Old Fort-Johnson and
Boswell-The New Chanuel -Colonel Moggridge's P l a n j T h e 'I hree New Forts-Magazines and Barracks-The Lighthouse . . 290
CHAPTER XXXV.
NEWHAVEN.
Cobbett on Edinburgh-Jam- IV.'s Dockyard -His Gift of Newhaven to Edinburgh-The GYCQ~ Michapl-Embarkation of Mary of Guise
-Woc.ks at Newhaven in the Sixteenth Century-The Links-Viscount Newhaven-The Feud with Prestonpans-The Sea Fencibles
--Chain Pier-Dr. Fairhirn-The E ishwives-Superstitions . , . . . , . . . . . . . . . 295
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WARDIE, TRINITY, AND GRANTO~.
Wardie Muir-Human Remqins Found-Bangholm Bower and Trinity Lodge-Christ Church, Trinity-Free Church, Granton Road-Pilton
-Royston-Caroline Park-Granton-The Piers and Harhuun-Morton's Patent Slip , . . . . . . , . . 306
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH.
Cramond-Origin of the Name-Cramond of that Ilk-Ancient Charters - Inchmickery-Lord Cramond--Bdrnton -Goer and its Proprietors-
Saughton Hall--Riccarton . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . , . . 3'4
CH AI'TE R XXXVI 11.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (confinzed).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghom -The Pentlands-View from Tqhin-Comiston-Slateford-
Grnysmill-Liberton -The Mill at Nether Liberton-Liberton Tower-The Chiirch-The Balm Well of St. Katherine-Grace
Mount-The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St Katherine's-The Kaime-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little 01 Lihrton . 322
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (continued).
Cnrrie-Origin of the Name-Roman Camps-The Old Church and Temple Lands-Lennox Tower-Curriehill Castle and the Skenes-
Scott of Malleny-James Andelson, LL.D.--"Camp Meg" and her Story . . . . . . . . . . , . 130
CHAPTER XL.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDIXBURGH (coalinued).
The Inch House-The WinramcEdmonstone and the Edmon.;tones of ttat Ilk-Witches-Woolmet-The Stenhouse-Moredun-The
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armed men; at Bilston Burn is Wallace?s camp, in
the form of a half-moon, defended by a broad deep
ditch-a semicircle of eighty-four yards. It is ten
yards wide at the top and five yards at the bottom,
with a depth now of three yards.
The Cast-a rugged path-at Springfield is a
corruption of Via ad cmtra, and is, no doubt, an
old Roman road, though in some places now six
feet below the present surface (?New Statistical
Account?) ; and at Mavisbank is a tumulus, wherein
ROSLIN CHAPEL:-VIEW FROM THE CHANCEL (Affer a PhfopajA 61 G. W. wihon & CO.)
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Lord of the Bedchamber to His Imperial Majesty
Joseph II., Emperor of Germany, Knight of the
Order of Maria ?Theresa, Count of the Holy Roman
Empire, and General of the Imperial, Royal, and
Apostolical Armies. Died at Pisa, in Italy, 6th
February, MDCCXC., in the LXIV. year of his age.?
Captain Philip Lockhart, of the Dryden family,
was one of the prisoners taken at Preston, in England,
in 1715, and for having previously borne a
commission in the British army, was tried by courthave
been found stiZi, f l u h , weapons, bridles, and
Roman surgical instruments ; and at a farm close by
is another, wherein urns full of calcined bones have
been excavated.
The Maiden Castle at Lasswade was situated
some three hundred yards south of the Hewan, in
a spot of exceeding loveliness. Nothing now
remains of it save massive foundations, but by
whom it was founded or to whom it belonged not
even a tradition remains.
Near Mount Marl, and by the high road at
Dryden, in a field, stands the great monument of
one of the former proprietors of the estate, bearing
the following inscription :-
?James Lockhart-Wishart of Lee and Carnwath,
martial ; and by a savage stretch of power was, with
Major Nairne, Ensign Erskine, Captain Shaftoe,
and others, shot for alleged desertion.
Nairne and Lockhart denied that they could be
guilty of desertion, as ?they had no commission
from, nor trust under, the present Government, and
the regiment to which they belonged had been
broken several years ago in Spain,? and that they
regarded their half-pay but as a gratuity for their
past services to Queen Anne. Major Nairne was
the first who perished.
? After he was shot, Captain Lockhart would not
suffer the soldiers to touch his friend?s body, but
with his own hands, with help of the other two
gentlemen, laid him in his coffin j after which he

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the unblemished and useful life which he passed before their eyes, and in their
service, he enjoyed the esteem and reverence of all classes and all denominations
of his fellow-citizens. [He died 11th October 1845, in the 87th year of
his age, and tlhe 63d of his ministry.]
No. CCLXXXIX.
ANDREW M'KINLAY,
TRIED FOR ADMINISTERING UNLAWFUL OATHS.
THE events of the Radical era of 1817-19 must be in the recollections of most
readers ; and we shall only remark, that the subject of this Print was at that
period one of the many suspected to be unfriendly to the Constitution.
ANDREW M'KINLAY was apprehended at Glasgow on Saturday the 23d of
February 181 7, along with other seventeen persons, mostly weavers, who had
assembled at night in a small public house at the head of the Old Wynd,
among whom were William Edgar, teacher, Calton, and James Finlayson,
junior, a writer's clerk. The object of this meeting, as represented by the
prisoners, was simply to '' concert measures for ascertaining the question how
far they were entitled by law to parochial relief." This explanation not having
been deemed satisfactory, M'Kinlay, along with twenty-five others, was committed
on a charge of sedition, and afterwards conveyed to Edinburgh, to be
tried before the High Court of Justiciary.
The first
witness called for the Crown was John Campbell, prisoner in Edinburgh Castle,
who, being sworn, and the usual questions put, if he had received any reward,
or promise of reward for his testimony, answered that he had. He then made
a long declaration, the substance of which was, that after a variety of communings,
he had entered into a written agreement with the Solicitor-General
and Mr. Home Drummond, Depute-Advocate, engaging to become a witness, on
condition that he was to be furnished with means to enable himself and family
to leave the country.' The Court, on account of this statement, refused to
admit Campbell as a witness ; and, after examining several other persons, who
could recollect nothing tending to criminate the prisoner, the jury returned a
verdict of Not Proven. The pannel was dismissed ; and, in consequence of the
result of M'Kinlay's trial, the other prisoners connected with the proceedings
in Glasgow were set at liberty.
M'Kinlay was placed at the bar on the 19th July following.
The witness appears to have been rather more than a match for the Crown Counsel He had
given them to understand that, if he gave hi testimony, neither he nor h i family would be safe
in the quarter where he resided. To obviate his fears, the Counsel inconsiderately promised to
afford him the means of emigrating.
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had nine children.' The demise of this lady took place on the 1 Ith of May
1821, and his lordship, in 1822, married secondly, Miss Elizabeth Barton, but
by her he had no issue.
No. CCCXVII.
A. COLQUHOUN, ESQ., OF KILLERMONT,
LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND,
AND
A. MACONOCHIE, ESQ. (LORD MEADOWBANK),
THEN SOLICITOR-GENERAL.
UCHIBALD CAMPBELL, of Clathick, Esq., who afterwards took the name
of COLQUHOUNup, on succeeding to the estate of Killermont, came to the
Scottish bar in 1768, about the same time with his friends, the Hon. Henry
Erskine and Lord Craig, He was appointed Lord Advocate in 1807, and succeeded
Lord Frederick Campbell, as Lord Clerk Register, in 1816. He represented
the county of Dumbarton in Parliament, and died, after a few days'
illness, at Hartham, the seat of his son-in-law, Walter Long, Esq., on the 8th
of December 1820.
Ey his marriage with Miss Erskine (whose brother became Lord Kinneder),
besides several daughters, he left two sons, the eldest of whom was John
Campbell Colquhoun, of Killermont, member of Parliament for the Kilmarnock
district of burghs.
The mind and talents of the Lord Register were of a superior order, and he
was a good classical scholar. His abilities as a sound lawyer, a judicious and
elegant pleader, were fully acknowledged, and frequently shown in causes of
importance-his independent fortune, and a reserve, to a certain extent, in
manner, inducing him not to court general business so much as some of his
contemporaries. His attention to the duties of Parliament, both when in
attendance there, and, with reference to all public interests falling under the
province of a member and of Lord Advocate, while in the country, was unremitting
and efficient. He was much esteemed by his friends, and died greatly
regretted.
Lord Panmure died in 1852, and wa5 succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon. Fox Made, who
was born at Brechin Castle in 1801. His parliamentary career was commenced as representative for
the county of Perth. He afterwarda held the office of Under Secretary of State for the Home
Department (1835-1841), and Secretary of War (1846-1852, and from 1855-8). On the death of
his cousin, the Marquis of Dalhowie, Governor General of India, he aucceeded to the earldom of
Dalhonsie, and assumed the surname of Ftamsay after that of Made. His Lordship died 6th July
1874.

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240 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith
is in the Gothic style, with a tower 130 feet high,
surmounted by an open crown.
On the east side of this street, and near its
northern end, stood the house in which John
Home, the author of ?( Douglas ? and other tragedies,
was born, on the 13th September, 1724. His
father, Alexander Home, was Town Clerk of Leith,
and his mother was Christian Hay, daughter of a
writer in Edinburgh. He was educated at the
Grammar School in the Kirkgate, and subsequently
succeeded in carrying Thomas Barrow, who had
dislocated his ankle in the descent, to Alloa, where
they were received on board the YuZture, sloopofwar,
commanded by Captain Falconer, who landed
them in his barge at the Queen?s Ferry, from
whence Home rFturned to his father?s house in
Leith.
Subsequently he became the associate and friend
of Drs. Robertson and Blair, David Hume, Adam
Fergusson, Adam Smith, and other eminent Ziterati
ST. JAMES?S CHAPEL, 1820. (Aftcr Stow.)
at the university of the capital. His father was a
son of Home of Flass (says Henry Mackenzie, in
his ? Memoirs ?1, a lineal descendant of Sir James
Home of Cowdenknowes, ancestor of the Earls of
Home. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Edinburgh on the 4th of April, in the memorable
year 1745, and became a volunteer in the corps so
futilely formed to assist in the defence of Edinburgh
against Prince Charles Edward Serving as a
volunteer in the Hanoverian interest, he was taken
prisoner at thevictory of Falkirk, and committed to
the castle of Doune in hlonteith, from whence,
with some others, he effected an escape by forming
ropes of the bedclothes-an adventure which he
details in his own history of the civil strife. They
of whom the Edinburgh of that day could boast ;
and in 1746 he was inducted as minister at Athelstaneford,
his immediate predecessor being Robert
Blair, author of ? The Grab-e," and there he produced
his first drama, founded on the death of
Agis, King of Sparta, which Gamck declined when
offered for representation in I 749.
In 1755 Home set off on horseback to London
from his house in East Lothian, with the
tragedy of ?Ilouglas? in his pocket, says Henry
Mackenzie. ?? His habitual carelessness was strongly
shown by his having thought of no better conveyance
for this MS.-by which he #vas to acquire
all the fame and future success of which his friends
were so confident-than the pocket of the great-
.

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these he gave full play to a natural gaiety of spirit, which rendered his company
quite delightful.
Dr. Hamilton’s habits were active ; he adhered to the good old custom of
early rising, and took part in all the invigorating exercises in vogue. Archery,
golfing, skating, bowling, curling, and even swimming, had then, as now, each
their respective clubs. In several kindred professional associations he acted
as secretary ; and the conviviality of these meetings were mainly kept up by
him and old Dr. Duncan for nearly half-a-century. A well-regulated mind
brought with it the almost never-failing accompaniment of a disposition not only
to enjoy, but to communicate amusement ; and these occasions served to call
forth in Dr. Hamilton what is best known by the name of fu-a faculty which
he possessed in no common degree.’ An instance of this may be given, with
which we shall conclude our sketch. At an early period of his career, he was
condoling with a contemporary (the late Dr. Yule) on the patience which they
were mutually called to exercise in waiting for professional advancement-
“ But you,” says he, “ labour under a peculiar disadvantage.” ‘‘ How so ? ” replies
the astonished Doctor. “0,” rejoins our friend, “ do you not see that every
one will say, a green. Yule makes a f a t kirkyard.”
He latterly, and for many years, resided in
St. Andrew Square, next door to his namesake Dr. James Hamilton junior.
Dr. Hamilton died in 1835.
KO. CXCIX.
MR. ’CVILLIAM MASON,
SECRETARY TO THE GRAND LODGE.
THIS Etching is allowed, by those who recollect the “ Grand Secretary,” to be
a capital caricature. Like his friend the “Grand Clerk,” MR. MASON was a
writer and an assistant extractor in the Court of Session, which situation he
obtained in 1778. His masonic duties he performed with great credit for many
years. It was the province of the Secretary and Clerk to attend the Grand
Master in his visitations to the lodges-a species of service which accorded well
with their social habits ; and, notwithstanding the ridiculous mistake about the
sow,S a warm friendship continued to exist betwixt the portly officials.
The Grand Secretary was a person of quaint humour, and relished a joke.
He was one day on the Castle Hill, where a crowd had assembled to witness an
The genuine kindness of Dr. Hamilton’s disposition is well illustrated by the concluding distich
of an impromptu, which waa sung by an associate at one of their convivial meetings :-
“ ’Twas Andrew the lnerry and Jamie the good,
This anecdote is related in the Sketch of the “ Grand Clerk,” see First Volume.
VOL. 11. M
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appeared his “History of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and
James VI.” The effect this work produced was instantaneous and extraordinary-
congratulatory letters of praise, from the most eminent men of the
time, poured in upon him ; and it is said that the emoluments derived from it
exceeded 2600. Preferment immediately followed, which changed at once
the whole aspect of his fortunes; for in the same year he was appointed
Chaplain to the Garrison of Stirling Castle, in the room of Mr. William Campbell
; next year he was nominated one of his Majesty’s Chaplains for Scotland ;
in the year following (1761), on the death of Principal Goldie, he was elected
Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and translated to the Greyfriars’
Church. Two years afterwards he was appointed by the King Historiographer
for Scotland, with a salary of 3200 a year.
In 1779 Dr. Robertson published, in three volumes quarto, a “History of
the Reign of Charles V.,” which still farther increased the reputation of its
author. For the copyright he received no less than 24500, the largest sum
then known to have been paid for a single work; and which, according to the
calculation of the Rev. Dr Nisbet of Montrose,’ amounted exactly to twopencehalfpenny
for each word in the work.
Dr. Robertson, in 1778, gave to the world his “History of America,” in two
volumes quarto, a work which was well received at the time, and which still
continues to be popular. On this occasion he was elected an honorary member
of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid, who appointed one of their
members to translate the work into Spanish; but after it was considerably
advanced, the Spanish Government interfered and prevented it.
In the year 1781, he was elected one of the Foreign Members of the Academy
of Sciences at Padua, and, in 1783, one of the foreign Members of the
Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh.
In 1791 appeared his last work, also in quarto, entitled, “Historical Disquisitions
concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India, and the Progress
of Trade with that country, prior to the Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope.”
No. XLII.
DR. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.,
IN HIS FULL CLERICAL DRESS.^
THE Doctor’s powerful and persuasive eloquence had gained him an influence
in the General Assembly which intimately and conspicuously associated his
name with the Ecclesiastical affairs of Scotland. He was a long time leader of
the Court party in our Ecclesiastical Parliament, and as a speaker, it is said, he
Some time the Principal of the College of Carlisle in Pennsylvania, and a frequent opponent of
Dr. Robertson in the General Assembly.
It waa remarked that Dr. Robertson always appeared to greatest advantage in this attire.

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doultay?s Hi11.1 THE LYON KING-OF-ARMS. 37= _.
able testimonial, signed and sealed by all the
members of that corporation. When the Civil War
broke out, though a staunch Presbyterian, Sir
James remained loyal to the king, for whose Scots
Under the Lord Lyon were the messengers-atarms,
whose duty is still to execute all summonses
before the Court of Session, to apprehend the
persons of debtors, and generally to perform the
executive parts of the law. By the twelfth Parliament
of James VI. and the second Parliament of
Charles 11. it is defined that the province of the
Lyon-who takes his name from the emblem in the
royal standard-is to adjust matters of precedence,
and marshal public processions ; also to inspect
the coats of arms of the nobility and gentry; to
punish those who assume arms to which they have
no hereditary right ; to bestow coats of arms upon
the deserving ; to grant supporters in certain cases;
and to take cognisance of, and to punish, offences
committed by messengers-at-arms in the course of
their office.
Of old, and before it degenerated into a mere
legal sinecure, the office was one of great dignity,
and the person of the holder was deemed almost
sacred. Thus, Bishop Lesly tells us in his history
that in 1515 the aged Lord Drummond was forfeited
? for striking the Lyon, and narrowly escaped
the loss of his life and dignity.?
In 1530 the office of Lord Lyon was bestowed
by James V. upon Sir David Lindesay of the
Mount, the celebrated poet, moralist, and reformer,
whom, four years after, he sent as an ambassador
to Germany, and in 1548 in a similar capacity to
Denmark. It was an office imposed upon the
Lord Lyon to receive foreign ambassadors, and
Lindesay did this honour to Sir Ralf Sadler, who
came froni England in 1539-40; and in 1568
Sir David Lindesay of Rathuleit was solemnly
crowned King-of-arms, in presence of the Regent
and nobility ; and in 1603, as Balfour tells us, ? Sir
David Lindesay of Mount, Lyone King-of-arms,?
proclaimed at the Cross the accession of James VI.
to the English throne.
On the 15th of June, 1630, Sir Jerome Lyndsay
of Annatland resigned the office in favour of Sir
James Balfour of Denmylne, who was crowned as
Lyon King by George Earl of Kinnoul, Chancellor
of Scotland, acting as royal commissioner, and
in 1633 he was created a baronet. Balfour, an
eminent antiquary and annalist, was well versed
in heraldry, to perfect the study of which, before
his appointment, he proceeded to London and
became acquainted with Sir Robert Cotton, and
Sir William Segar the Garter King, who obtained
for him from the heralds? college a highly honour-
?
?The office of Lord Lyon has of late,? says
Amot, been held as a sinecure. . . , . The
business, therefore, is entirely committed to dewties,
who manage it in such a manner that. in a
Guards he designed colours in 1649 ; but was deprived
of his office by Cromwell, after which be
retired to Fifeshire, and collected many manuscripts
on the science of heraldry and connected with
Scottish history, prior to his death in 1657, and
these are now preserved in the Advocates? Library.
A fine portrait of him is prefixed to his Annales,?
published at Edinburgh in 1824.
The installation of a Lyon King is given fully in
an account of ?The order observed at the coronation
of Sir Alexander Erskirie of Cambo, Baronet,
Lord Lyon King-of-arms, at the royal palace of
Holyrood House, on the 27th day of July, 1681,
his Royal Highness James Duke of Albany and
York being his Majesty?s High Commissioner.?
In the ceremony of installation the Lord Lyon
is duly crowned ; and Sir Alexander was the last
who was thus crowned. His father, Sir Charles
Erskine of Cambo, had previously been Lyon King,
of which office he obtained a ?ratification,? by
Parliament in 1672, with remainder to his son.
In 1703 the chief Scottish work on heraldry
was published by Alexander Nisbet of that ilk, to
whom the Scottish Parliament gave a grant of
Lz48 6s. 8d. to assist him in bringing it forth.
It is related in MacCormick?s ? Life of Principal
Carstairs,? that when the latter was a prisoner in
the Castle of Edinburgh in 1685, an engaging boy
about twelve years of age, son of Erskine of Cambo,
then constable of the fortress, used to come almost
daily to the open grating of his dungeon, and was
wont to sit there for hours, ?lamenting his unhappy
situation, and endeavouring by a thousand innocent
and childish means to divert him. Sonietimes the
boy brought him packages of fruit and provisions
(more delicate than the coarse fare of the prison),
and, what were of more importance, pens, ink, and
paper, and when the prisoner wrote letters carried
them to the post.?
Years elapsed ere the unfortunate Carstairs
could testify his gratitude ; but when the Revolution
came and the hand of misfortune fell heavily
on the Cavalier Erskines of Cambo, the Principal,
then high in favour with William III., remembered
his little friend of the bitter past in the Castle of
Edinburgh; and one of the first favours he asked
the new king was to bestow the office of Lord Lyon
upon the young heir of Cambo. The request was
granted, with the additional favour that it was made
hereditary in the family ; but it was soon after forfeited
by their joining the Earl of Mar in 1715.

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doultay?s Hi11.1 THE LYON KING-OF-ARMS. 37= _.
able testimonial, signed and sealed by all the
members of that corporation. When the Civil War
broke out, though a staunch Presbyterian, Sir
James remained loyal to the king, for whose Scots
Under the Lord Lyon were the messengers-atarms,
whose duty is still to execute all summonses
before the Court of Session, to apprehend the
persons of debtors, and generally to perform the
executive parts of the law. By the twelfth Parliament
of James VI. and the second Parliament of
Charles 11. it is defined that the province of the
Lyon-who takes his name from the emblem in the
royal standard-is to adjust matters of precedence,
and marshal public processions ; also to inspect
the coats of arms of the nobility and gentry; to
punish those who assume arms to which they have
no hereditary right ; to bestow coats of arms upon
the deserving ; to grant supporters in certain cases;
and to take cognisance of, and to punish, offences
committed by messengers-at-arms in the course of
their office.
Of old, and before it degenerated into a mere
legal sinecure, the office was one of great dignity,
and the person of the holder was deemed almost
sacred. Thus, Bishop Lesly tells us in his history
that in 1515 the aged Lord Drummond was forfeited
? for striking the Lyon, and narrowly escaped
the loss of his life and dignity.?
In 1530 the office of Lord Lyon was bestowed
by James V. upon Sir David Lindesay of the
Mount, the celebrated poet, moralist, and reformer,
whom, four years after, he sent as an ambassador
to Germany, and in 1548 in a similar capacity to
Denmark. It was an office imposed upon the
Lord Lyon to receive foreign ambassadors, and
Lindesay did this honour to Sir Ralf Sadler, who
came froni England in 1539-40; and in 1568
Sir David Lindesay of Rathuleit was solemnly
crowned King-of-arms, in presence of the Regent
and nobility ; and in 1603, as Balfour tells us, ? Sir
David Lindesay of Mount, Lyone King-of-arms,?
proclaimed at the Cross the accession of James VI.
to the English throne.
On the 15th of June, 1630, Sir Jerome Lyndsay
of Annatland resigned the office in favour of Sir
James Balfour of Denmylne, who was crowned as
Lyon King by George Earl of Kinnoul, Chancellor
of Scotland, acting as royal commissioner, and
in 1633 he was created a baronet. Balfour, an
eminent antiquary and annalist, was well versed
in heraldry, to perfect the study of which, before
his appointment, he proceeded to London and
became acquainted with Sir Robert Cotton, and
Sir William Segar the Garter King, who obtained
for him from the heralds? college a highly honour-
?
?The office of Lord Lyon has of late,? says
Amot, been held as a sinecure. . . , . The
business, therefore, is entirely committed to dewties,
who manage it in such a manner that. in a
Guards he designed colours in 1649 ; but was deprived
of his office by Cromwell, after which be
retired to Fifeshire, and collected many manuscripts
on the science of heraldry and connected with
Scottish history, prior to his death in 1657, and
these are now preserved in the Advocates? Library.
A fine portrait of him is prefixed to his Annales,?
published at Edinburgh in 1824.
The installation of a Lyon King is given fully in
an account of ?The order observed at the coronation
of Sir Alexander Erskirie of Cambo, Baronet,
Lord Lyon King-of-arms, at the royal palace of
Holyrood House, on the 27th day of July, 1681,
his Royal Highness James Duke of Albany and
York being his Majesty?s High Commissioner.?
In the ceremony of installation the Lord Lyon
is duly crowned ; and Sir Alexander was the last
who was thus crowned. His father, Sir Charles
Erskine of Cambo, had previously been Lyon King,
of which office he obtained a ?ratification,? by
Parliament in 1672, with remainder to his son.
In 1703 the chief Scottish work on heraldry
was published by Alexander Nisbet of that ilk, to
whom the Scottish Parliament gave a grant of
Lz48 6s. 8d. to assist him in bringing it forth.
It is related in MacCormick?s ? Life of Principal
Carstairs,? that when the latter was a prisoner in
the Castle of Edinburgh in 1685, an engaging boy
about twelve years of age, son of Erskine of Cambo,
then constable of the fortress, used to come almost
daily to the open grating of his dungeon, and was
wont to sit there for hours, ?lamenting his unhappy
situation, and endeavouring by a thousand innocent
and childish means to divert him. Sonietimes the
boy brought him packages of fruit and provisions
(more delicate than the coarse fare of the prison),
and, what were of more importance, pens, ink, and
paper, and when the prisoner wrote letters carried
them to the post.?
Years elapsed ere the unfortunate Carstairs
could testify his gratitude ; but when the Revolution
came and the hand of misfortune fell heavily
on the Cavalier Erskines of Cambo, the Principal,
then high in favour with William III., remembered
his little friend of the bitter past in the Castle of
Edinburgh; and one of the first favours he asked
the new king was to bestow the office of Lord Lyon
upon the young heir of Cambo. The request was
granted, with the additional favour that it was made
hereditary in the family ; but it was soon after forfeited
by their joining the Earl of Mar in 1715.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 79
in consequence sent the humorist a challenge : Gordon accepted, but claimed the
privilege of choosing the weapons. He chose any one of the Greek tragedians,
and pledged himself to foil Leslie at his own weapons, adding, ‘‘ Gif ye dinna
beat me 111 tak the tawse to your hurdies !” The encounter never took place.
Gordon was the chief conductor of the comparative trial for the Professorship
of Mathematics in Marischal College when Playfair, Hamilton, and Traill, were
candidates, the latter being successful. He died on the 11th August 1797, at
the advanced age of eighty-three.
No. VIL-Dv. WILLIAM THOM, of Craigston, advocate, and Professor
of Civil Law in King’s College, Aberdeen, who died on the 9th April 1795. He
was much enraged at the alienation of the patronages, and did not hesitate to
declare that the Earl of Fife, by giving so little for them, had most justly
rewarded their rapacity.
No. VII1.-DR. WILLIAM CHALMERS, Professor of Medicine. Of
these‘ last two individuals little is known, save that, like the patriarchs, they
lived and died. They were both worthy men, and far better than many who
have been more extensively and permanently known and extolled.
No. XXXVI.
VINCENT LUNARDI,
IN HIS BASKET, READY TO ASCEND.
THIS celebrated aeronaut visited Scotland in the month of September 1785.
His first ascent took place at Edinburgh, on the 5th of October following, from
Heriot’s Hospital Green. The Print, which is allowed to be an excellent likeness
of Lunardi, represents him as he appeared ready to ascend. His dress was
of scarlet, with blue facings.
Several aerial attempts had been made at Edinburgh, with partial success, in
1784, by Mr. Tytler, but the previous fame of Lunardi created an unparalleled
excitement in Scotland, so that an immense concourse of people of all classes
were assembled to witness what had hitherto been deemed almost an impossibility.
“In the Green of Heriot’s Kospital,” it is said, “the company was
numerous and genteel, and the concourse of people on the different eminences
were immense. It is calculated that above 80,000 spectators assembled on this
occasion, which put a stop to almost all business for a great part of the day,
and most of the shops were shut. At twelve o’clock a flag was displayed from
the Castle, and a gun (which had been brought from Leith Fort) was fired from
the Green when the process of filling the balloon began, At half-past two it
was completely inflated.” All the arrangements being completed, Mr. Lunardi

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214 BI 0 G R AP HI GAL SKETCHES.
No. LXXXIX.
RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD ADL4M GORDON
AND
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE COUNT D’ARTOIS,
AFTERWARDS CHARLES X.
THE most memorable occurrence during LORD ADAM’S command in Scotland
was the arrival of his Royal Highness the Count d‘Artois, in 1796.
“June &-This afternoon, about two o’clock, his Royal Highness Monsieur
Compte d’Artois, etc., landed at Leith from on board his Majesty’s frigate
Jason, Captain C. Stirling. On the frigate’s coming to anchor in the Roads,
his Royal Highness was saluted with twenty-one guns from Leith Fort, and
with the like number on his landing at Leith, where he was received from the
boat by Lord Adam Gordon and a part of his suite, and conducted in his
lordship’s carriage to an apartment in the Palace of Holyrood, fitted up in haste
for his reception; and, as he entered the Palace, his Royal Highness was
saluted with twenty-one guns from the Castle. The Windsor Foresters
and Hopetoun Fencibles were in readiness to line his approach to the Palace ;
but his Royal Highness choosing to land in a private manner, and with as little
ceremony as possible, that was dispensed with. The noblemen in his Royal
Highness’s suite followed in carriages provided for the purpose, and were
conducted from the outer gate of the Palace by the Commander-in-Chief to
their apartments.’’
“Next day his Royal Highness Le Compte d‘drtois held a levee at his
apartments in Holyrood House, at which his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord
Dalkeith, Lord Adam Gordon, and all the officers of the Hopetoun Fencibles,
and of the Staff in North Britain, attended, and were presented; as also the
Sheriff Depute of Mid-Lothian and several other gentlemen. His Royal
Highness, it is understood, means to see company every Monday and Thursday.”’
The royal suite remained for several years at Holyrood House, during which
, On this occasion, the following verses appeared in the “Scots Chronicle” of the 2d March 1796 :-
“ 0 Scotia ! take me to thy arms-
Thy friendly arms 0 stretch to me !
My native land has lost her charms-
From Gallia’s shore I come to thee :
From Gallia’s once dear sprightly shore
I fly to thee, her ancient friend ;
Oh ! ope the hospitable door-
Wilt thou a royal head defend ?
The purple stream and deluged plains,
So late the terror of mine eyes,
My wounded breast the shock retains,
And every throb of pleasure dies.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 55
social nature, consisting chieffy of gentlemen connected with the medical profession.
For their amusement he printed successively various pieces of poetry
under the title of Carminunz Macaronicomm Delectus; and among his other
publications is one containing a collection of Inscriptions on the Tombstones
in the Churchyards of Edinburgh.
The practice of visiting Arthur’s Seat early on the morning of the 1st of
May, is, or rather was, observed with great enthusiasm by the inhabitants of
Edinburgh. Dr. Duncan was one of the most regular in his devotion to the
Queen of May, during the long period of nearly fifty years j and to the very last
he performed his wonted pilgrimage with all the spirit, if not agility, of his
younger years. These visits he not unfrequently celebrated by some poetic production,
which he transmitted to his friends. On the 1st of May 1826, two
years before his death, although agetl eighty-two, he paid his annual visit ; and,
on the summit of the hill, read a few lines of an address to Alexander Duke of
Gordon, then the oldest peer alive. To this the Duke furnished a reply ; and,
as a memorial of the transaction, Dr. Duncan had both effusions lithographed
and circulated among his friends, with this inscription :-‘( Lithographic Facsimile
of the Hand-writing of two Octogenarians.” One page is the production
of the Doctor ; the other of the Duke :-
1st.
An octogenarian physician at Edinburgh, who has been long in the habit of walking to the top
of Arthur’s Seat, at an early hour on the morning of May-day, took his wonted pedestrian exercise
on Monday the 1st May 1826. He read to numerous hearers, on the top of the hill, the following
short poetical address to the oldest Duke in Scotland :-
*
‘ I Once more, good Duke, my duty to fulfil,
I’ve reached the summit of this lofty hill,
To thank my God for all his blessings given,
And by my prayers to aid my way to heaven.
Long may your Grace enjoy the same delight,
Till to a better world we take our flight.”
2d.
“A Pony Race proposed to the top of Arthur’s Seat by the oldest Duke in Scotland to the oldest
Physician in Edinburgh, who walked to the top of Arthur’s Seat on the 1st of this month of May
1826.
‘I I’m eighty-two m well as you,
And sound in lith and limb ;
But dei1 a bit, I am not fit,
Up Arthur’s Seat to climb.
‘I In such a feat I’ll not compete-
I yield in ambulation ;
But mount us baith on Highland shelts,
!Cry first who gains the station.
‘I If such a race should e’er take place,
None l i e it in the nation ;
Nor Sands of Leith, nor Ascot Heath,
Could show more population.
‘I Gordon Castle, May 19, 1826.”

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Merchiston. ? THE WARLOCK NAPIER.? 37
men, and others felL Of the queen?s men, only one
lost his life by a shot from the battlements of
Merchiston.
When peace came the philosopher returned to
his ancestral tower, and resumed his studies with
great ardour, and its battlements became the
observatory of the astrologer. Napier was supposed
by the vulgar of his time to possess
mysterious supernatural powers, and the marvels
attributed to him, with the aid of a devilish familiar,
in the shape of a jet-black cock, are preserved
grain, he ihreatened to poind them, ?? Do so, if
you can catch them,? said his neighbour; and next
morning the fields were alive with reeling and
fluttering pigeons, which were easily captured, from
the effect of an intoxicating feed of saturated peas.
The place called the D:o Park, in front of Merchiston,
took its name from this event.
The warlock of the tower, as he was deemed,
seems to have entertained a perfect faith in the
possession of a power to discover hidden treasure.
Thus, there is still preserved among the Merchis-
GILLESPIE?S HOSPITAL, FROM THE EAST. (From an Engrauing Sy R. &oft in the ?Scots Mugazilrc,? 1805.)
among the traditions of the neighbourhood to the
present day. He impressed all his people that this
terrible chanticleer could detect their most secret
doings.
Having missed some valuables, he ordered his
servants one by one into a dark room of the tower,
where his favourite was confined, declaring that the
cock would crow when stroked by the hand of the
guilty, as each was required to do. The cock
remained silent during this ceremony ; but the
hands of oiie of the servants was found to be
entirely free from the soot with which the feathers
of the mysterious bird had been smeared.
The story of how he bewitched certain pigeons
is still remembered in the vicinity of Merchiston.
Having been annoyed by some that ate up his
ton papers a curious contract, dated July, 1594,
between him and Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig
-a Gowrie conspirator-which sets forth : ? Forasmuch
as there were old reports and appearances
that a sum of money was hid within Logan?s house
of Fast Castle, John Napier should do his utmost
diligence to work and seek out the same.? For
his reward he was to have the third of what was
found-by the use of a divining rod, we presume.
? This singular contract,? says Wilson, ?? acquires a
peculiar interest when we remember the reported
discovery of hidden treasure, with which the
preliminary steps of the Gowrie conspiracy were
effected.?
In 1608 we find the inventor of logarithms
appearing in a new light. In that year it was

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THE PALACE BURNED AND REPAIRED. 73
~
gesse !?? Then the castle fired a salute, while
silver was scattered to the multitude. Three years
afterwards the king and court had departed, and
Holyrood was consigned to silence and gloom.
On James VI. re-visiting Scotland in 1617, the
palace was fitted up for him with considerable
splendour, but his project of putting up statues
of the apostles in the chapel caused great excitement
in the city. Taylor, the Water-poet, who was
at Holyrood in the following year, states that he
~~
the gardens known as Queen Mary?s sundial,
although the cyphers of Charles, his queen, and
eldest son appear upon it. Cromwell quartered
a body of his infantry in the palace, and by accident
they set it on fire, on the 13th November,
1650, when it wzs destroyed, all save the Tower of
James V., with its furniture and decorations.
Of this palace a drawing by Gordon of
Rothiemay has been preserved, which shows the
main entrance to have been where we find it
HOLYROOD PALACE AKD ABBEY CHURCH, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
saw this legend over the royal arms at the gate :
CC4Nobis hec invicta misanf 106 proovi.? I inquired
what the English of it was. It was told me
as followeth, which I thought worthy to be recorded :
-6 106 foreJ&%ws h i e I& this to ux unconpumed..? ?
When Charles I. visited Edinburgh, in 1633,
the magistrates employed the famous Jameson to
paint portraits of the Scottish monarchs, and,
imitative of his master Rubens, he wore his
hat when Charles I. sat to him ; but it is probable
that after the latter?s last visit, in 1641, the palace
must have become somewhat dilapidated, otherwise
Cromwell would have taken up his residence
there. The improvements effected by Charles
were considerable, and among other memorials of
his residence still remaining, is the beautiful dial in
68
now. Round embattled towers flank it, with bow
windows in them, and above the grand gate are
the royal arms of Scotland. On either side is a
large range of buildings having great windows ;
and the now empty panels in the Tower of James V.
appear to have been filled in with armorial bearings,
doubtless destroyed by Cromwell. In his map of
1657 the same artist shows a louyingdn-stone in
the centre of the palace yard.
The palace was rebuilt to a certain extent, by
order of Cromwell, in 1658, but the whole of his
work, at the Restoration, was pulled down by
royal warrant two years after, as the work ? built
by the usurper, and doth darken the court?
Engrafted on the part that survived the conflagration,
and designed, it is said, after the noble

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of Strathearn, the Rosabelle of Scott?s beautiful
ballad, which tells us-
? There are twenty of Roslin?s barons bold,
Lie buried in that proud chapelle,
But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle.
With candle, with book, and with bell ;
The dirge of lovely Rosabelle.?
Each one the holy vault doth hold,
And each St. Clair is buried there,
But the sea caves sung, and the wild waves rung,
In 1264, Sir William, sixth of Roslin, was
Sheriff of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Haddington
( r r Chamberlain Rolls ?7, and it was his son and successor,
Sir Henry, who obtained from Robert I.,
for his good and faithful services, a charter of
Pentland Muir, and to whom (and not to a Sir William)
the well-known tradition of the famous huntingmatch
thereon, which led to the founding of
the chapel of St. Katherine in the Hope, must
refer. With that muir he obtained other lands,
whjch were ?all erected into a free forestry, for
payment of a tenth part of one soldier yearly, in
His son, Sir William, was one of the chosen
companions of the good Sir James Douglas, whom
he accompanied in the mission to convey Bruce?s
1317.?
heart to Jerusalem, and with whom he perished in
battle with the Moors at Teba, in 1331, He left
an infant son, who, in 1350, was ambassador at the
Court of England, whither he repaired with a train
of sixty armed horse. He married Isabella,
daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, and was
succeeded by his son, Sir Henry Sinclair of Roslin,
who was created Earl of Orkney by Haco, King of
Norway, in 1379-a title confirmed by Robert 11.
According to Douglas, he married Florentina, a
daughter of the King of Denmark. Nisbet adds
that he was made Lord of Shetland and Duke of
Oldenburg (which is considered doubtful), and
that he was Knight of the Thistle, Cockle, and
Golden Fleece.
William, third earl, resigned his earldom of
Orkney in favour of King James IIL, and adopted
that of Caithness, which he resigned in 1476 to
his son TVilliam, who became distinguished by the
baronial grandeur of his household, and was the
founder of the chapel. It is of him that Father
Hay writes as ?a prince,? who maintained at the
Castle of Roslin royal state, and was served at his
table in vessels of gold and silver. Lord Dirleton
was the master of his household, Lord Borthwick

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