... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
where he greatly distinguished himself, he was severely wounded, but was soon
enabled ...
Book 9 p. 366
(Score 0.39)
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
and, even in his latter years, when retiring from a hard-fought field in ...
Book 9 p. 200
(Score 0.39)
... 471
St Ninian’s Chapel, North Leith, 307, 365
Calton, 353
Row, 354
Alter, House of the Chaplain of, ...
Book 10 p. 510
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
C
Cable?s Wynd, Leith, XI. 226, 227
Caddies,orstreetmesngers, I. 151,
Cadell and ...
Book 6 p. 372
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![High Street.] THE ROYAL MINT. 267
Fortune?s tavern, removed from Skinner?s Close to
a house at the north-west corner of Nicolson
Square, and latterly at No. 2, St. Andrew Square
(now the London Hotel), where he died, in his
eightieth year, in ISOZ.
In his lordship?s time the office of Commissioner
to the Church, which he held from 1783 to 1801, was
attended with more ?pomp and circumstance?
Treasurer, under date February, 1562-3 :-
? Item, allowit to the carpenter, be payment maid
to Johne Achesoun, Maister Congreave, to Maister
William M?Dowgale, Maister of Werk, for expensis
maide be him vpon the bigging of the Cwnge-house,
within the castell of Edinburgh, and beting of the
qvnge-hous within the Palice of Halierud-house,
fra the xi. day of Februar, 1559, zens, to the
Comniissioner proceeded on foot, escorted by his
guard of honour.
South Gray?s, or the Mint Close, was one of the
stateliest alleys in the old city, and herein stood the
Cunzie flous, as the Scottish Mint was named
(after its removal from near Holyrood in Queen
Mary?s time) till the Union in 1707, and until lately
its sombre and massive tower of finely polished
ashlar projecting into the narrow thoroughfare of
Cowgate, for three hundred and four years formed
one of the leading features of the latter, and to the
last the old edifice retained many traces of the important
operations that once went on within its
walls.
The first Mint House had been originally erected
in the outer court of the palace of Holyrood, somewhere
near the Horse Wynd, fromwhence, for greater
safety, it was removed to the castle, in which a new
Mint House had been built in 1559, as shown by
edifices of the period,? says Wilson, describing
the edifice prior to its removal. ?The whole
building was probably intended, when completed,
to form a quadrangle, surrounded on every side by
the same substantial walls, well suited for defence
against any ordinary assault, while its halls were
lighted from the enclosed court. The small windows
in this part of the building remain in their
original state, being divided by an oaken transom,
and the under part closed by a pair of folding
shutters. The massive ashlar walls are relieved
by ornamental stringcourses, and surmounted by
crowsteps of the earliest form and elegant proportions.
. . . . The internal marks of former
magnificence are more interesting than their external
ones, notwithstanding the humble uses to
which the buildings have latterly been applied ;
in particular some portions of a very fine oak
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... Street.] THE ROYAL MINT. 267
Fortune?s tavern, removed from Skinner?s Close to
a house at the north-west ...
Book 2 p. 267
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... OLD AND NE\V EDINBURGH. [High Street.
to be the same tenement with which he endowed
an altar in the chapel of ...
Book 2 p. 256
(Score 0.39)
... seems peculiarly applicable to the Edinburgh
of Jsmes V., and still more to that of
James 11.
?He ...
Book 1 p. 7
(Score 0.39)
... Gilds Churchyard. THE CHURCHYARD. I49
were a hospital and chapel known by the name
of the ?Maison Dieu.? ?We ...
Book 1 p. 149
(Score 0.39)
... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
own name to the burgh, where he possessed a stronghold presenting such great ...
Book 10 p. 460
(Score 0.39)
... 119
dwelling, naming it Portobello, in commemoration of the bombardment of a
town of that name at ...
Book 11 p. 174
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![Arthur?s Seat.] . ORIGIN OF
battle of Camelon, unsupported tradition has always
alleged that Arthur?s Seat obtained its name ; while
with equal veracity the craigs are said to have
been so entitled from the Earl of Salisbury, who
accompanied Edward 111. in one of his invasions
of Scotland, an idle story told by h o t , and ofter,
repeated since.
Maitland, a much more acute writer, says, ?(that
the idea of the mountain being named from Arthur,
a British or Cimrian king, I cannot give into,? and
305 THE NAME.
?Do thou not thus, brigane, thou sal1 be brynt,
With pik, tar, fire, gunpoldre, and lynt
On Arthuris-Sete, or on a hyar hyll.?
And this is seventy-seven years before the publication
of Camden?s c?Britannia,? in which it is so
named. But this is not the only Arthur?s Seat in
Scotland, as there is one near the top of Loch
Long, and a third near Dunnichen in Forfarshire.
Conceriiing the adjacent craigs, Lord Hailes in a
note to the first volume of his Annals, says of ?? the
THE HOLYROOD DAIKY.* (firm a CarOtypr (5. Dr. Tkmmu Keith.)
[The circular structure in the background to the right waq a temporary Government store.]
adds that he considers (? the appellation of Arthur?s
Seat to be a corruption of the Gaelic Ard-na-Said,
which implies the ? Height of Arrows ; ? than which
nothing can be more probable; for no spot of
ground is fitter for the exercise of archery, either
at butts or rovers, than this; wherefore Ard-na-
Sad, by an easy transition, might well be changed
to Arthur?s Seat.?
Many have asserted the latter to be a name of
yesterday, but it certainly bore it at the date of
WalterKennedy?s poem, his ? flyting,? With Dunbar,
which was published in 1508 :- 1
precipice now called Salisbury Craigs; some of
my readers may wish to be informed of the ongin
of a word so familiar to them. In the Anglo-
Saxon language, saw, sme, means dty, withered,
zcrasfe. The Anglo-Saxon termination of Burgh,
Burh, Barrow, BUY^, Biry, implies a castle, town,
or habitation ; but in a secondary sense only, for it
is admitted that the common original is Beorg a
rock . . . . Hence we may conclude, &m>bury,
Sbisbuv, Salisbury, is the waste or dg hbifafion.
An apt description, when it is remembered that the 1 hills which now pass under the general but corrupted
Dr. J. A. Sidey writes: ?The Holyrood Dairy, which stood at the enhance to St. Aone?s Yard, had no reference to the F?alaoc (from
which it was 19 feet distant) except in =gad to name. It was taken down about 1858. and was kept by R o b McBan, whose sm was afterwards
m e of the ? Keeperr? d the F?ab(as Mr. Andrew Kar tdL me) and Rad the old sign in his porrasion. Mr. K a says the dairy Man@
m the Corpont;on of Path, and was held for charitable purpmq and sold frr the sum of money that wuuld yield the ame amount as the reatal of
the dairy.?
87](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v4p125.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV Page 305")
... Seat.] . ORIGIN OF
battle of Camelon, unsupported tradition has always
alleged that Arthur?s Seat ...
Book 4 p. 305
(Score 0.38)
... B1,OGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The Marquis married, in 1793, MARY TURNER GAVIN, eldest daughter
and co-heiress of ...
Book 9 p. 311
(Score 0.38)
... SKETCHES. 203
NO. LXXXIV.
THE EARL OF ERROL
AND
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD HADDO.
THE first of ...
Book 8 p. 286
(Score 0.38)
... SKETCHES. 151
Prior to his departure, on the 18th of August, the following advertisement
appeared in ...
Book 8 p. 213
(Score 0.38)
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
one of the ministers of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, and Secretary to
the Society ...
Book 8 p. 398
(Score 0.38)
... SKETCHES. 233
personal knowledge possessed by the artist, and rumour has not assigned any
particular ...
Book 9 p. 310
(Score 0.37)
... SKETCHES. 105
descendants are now alive.
the 8th July 1800.
Mr. Dickson died, at his house at ...
Book 8 p. 154
(Score 0.37)
... 0 GRAPH I GAL SKETCH E S. 317
cxxx.
CAPTAIN JAMES JUSTICE OF JUSTICE HALL,
AND
A LADY IN THE COSTUME OF ...
Book 8 p. 446
(Score 0.37)
... OLD AND NEW' EDINBURGH.
'Plague in Leith, The 111. 180,186
Plainstane's close ~ i . ...
Book 6 p. 386
(Score 0.37)
... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
‘approach to our cc Modern Athens” from the neighbouring coast. When, some two ...
Book 10 p. 409
(Score 0.37)
... SKETCHES. 383
No. CLII.
JOHN CAMPBELL, ESQ., OF BLYTHSTVOOD.
LIEUT.-COLONEL OF THE NINTH REGIMENT ...
Book 8 p. 534
(Score 0.37)
... SKETCHES, 101
foot of the Candlemaker Row, He was employed and paid by the fishmongers
to announce ...
Book 9 p. 135
(Score 0.37)
... SKETCHES. 153
having assumed the surname of his mother, in consequence of the Proscriptive
Act ...
Book 8 p. 216
(Score 0.37)
... SKETCHES. 103
Melville Castle, and by her had one son (the succeeding Viscount) and three
daughters. ...
Book 8 p. 150
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