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YAMES IV. TO THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN.
And in Dunbar’s (‘ Droichis part of the Play ; ”I-
“My name is WELTE, thairfor be blyth,
I come heir comfort yow to kyth ;
Supposa that wretcbis wryng and wryth,
All darth I sal1 gar d6 ;
For sekerly, the treuth to tell,
I come amang yow heir to duel1 ;
Fra sound of Sanct Gelis bell,
Nevir think I tu fl6.
‘‘ Quharfor in Scotland come I heir,
With yow to byde and peraeveir,
In Edinburgh, quhar ia meriaat cheir,
Plesans, disport and play ;
Quhilk is the lampe, aod A per se,
Of this regioun, in all de@,
Of welefair, and of hooest8,
Renoune, and riche aray.”
Other local allusions of a similar nature might be selected, but these may suffice as
examples.
In the year 1496, Edinburgh wag visited by the famous Perkin Warbeck,S the
reputed Duke of York, who was murdered in the Tower. He arrived with a rich equipage
and a gallant train of followers, and was received by the King with every token of sincerity,
as the unfortunat,e Richard Plantagenet, son to King Edward IV. It is not easy
now, nor is it our province to decide, how far the King was really imposed on by his
specious tale, or if he was solely actua€ed by reasons of state policy. He undoubtedly
espoused his cause with zeal; involving, as it did, not only a breach with his intended
father-in-law, Henry VII. ; but the immediate prospect of a war with England, an event
seemingly at no time an object of peat dislike to the Scottish nation : and, moreover, testXed
the sincerity of his partizanship, by giving him in marriage his own kinswoman, the
Lady Catherine Gordon, whose beauty long after procured her at the English Court the
name of the White Rose. The peaceful policy of the English Monarch speedily won over
the inclinations of his future son-in-law, and the negotiations were renewed for the mar- .
riage of Jamea with the Princess Margaret; at the same time that, messengers arrived at
Holyrood Palace, bearing, a$ a gift from Pope Julius 11. to the Scottish King, a sword
and diadem wrought ‘with flowers of gold, which had been consecrated by him on Christmas
eve ; ’ the former of which is still preserved among the Scottish regalia, in Edinburgh
Castle.
Fully four years elapsed between the conclusion of the treaty of marriage and its fuElment
; and during that time, the Eing was actively occupied in preparations for the reception
of his bride. Up to this time, the Scottish Kings seem to have resided at the Abbey
of Holyrood, as the abbot’s guests : but he now set earnestly to work, €or the bigging of
a palace beside the Abbay of the Haly Croce,” the only part of which still in existence
is the for-yet ” or vaulted gateway to the Abbey Court, the south wall and other remains
of which may yet be seen in the Court-house of the Abbey, the indications of the arches
of its groined roof being still visible on the outer wall. The Treasurer’s accounts of the
Dunbar’s Poems, vol. ii p. 41.
. 3 Ebwthornden, p. 69.
’ Martial Achieve., voL ii. p. 506. ‘ Liber Cartarurn Sancta3 Cruck, Pref. 58.
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Wynd, and paid up the cloiss which is under the Endmyleis Well.9’ 1 Jvhether this be
the same well is doubtful, as no close lower down appears as a thoroughfare in early or
later maps ; it is evident, however, that the name of the Fountain Close is derived from
some other, and probably much more -mportant, conduit than the plain structure beside
John Knox’s house, which has long borne the same designation.
On the east side of the close, directly opposite the entrance to Bassendyne’s house, an
ancient entrance of a highly ornamental character appears. It consists of two doorways,
&th narrow pilasters on each side supporting the architrave, which is adorned with a
variety of inscriptions, as represented in the accompanying woodcut, and altogether forms
a remarkably neat and elegant design. “his is the mansion of Adam Fullerton, whose
name is carved over the left doorway-an eminent and influential citizen in the reign of
Queen Mary, and an active colleague and coadjutor of Edward Hope in the cause of the
&formation. In 1561, his name appears as one of the bailies of Edinburgh, who, along
with Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie, the provost, laid hold of a poor craftsman who had
been guilty of the enormity of playing Robin Hood, and condemned him to be hangeda
procedure which ended in the mob becoming masters of the town, and compelling the
magistrates to sue for the mediation of the Governor of the Castle, and at length fairly to
succumb to the rioters.’ Only two months after this commotion, Queen Mary landed at
Leith, and was loyally entertained by the town of Edinburgh-Adam Fullerton, doubtless,
taking a prominent part among her civic hosts. In the General Assembly held at
Leith, January 16, 1571, his name occur8 as commissioner of the town of Edinb~rgh.~
On the 23d of June following, during the memorable siege of Edinburgh by the Regent
Mar, in the name of the infant King, the burgesses of the capital who favoured the Regent,
to the number of two hundred men, united themselves into a band, and passing privately
to Leith, which was then held by the Regent’s forces; they there made choice of Adam
Fullerton for their captain.l The consequence of this was his being “ denuncit our souerane
ladiea rebell, and put to the horne ” on the 18th of August following ; and “ vpoun
the tuantie nynt day of the said moneth, James Duke .of Chattellarault, George Erle of
Huntlie, Alexander Lord Home, accumpanyit with diuerse prelatis and barronis, past to
the tolbuith of Edinburgh; and thair sittand in parliament, the thrie estaitts being convenit,
foirfaltit Matho Erle of Lennox, James Erle of Mortoun, John Erle of Mar,” and
many other nobles, knights, and burgesses, of the Parliament, foremost among the latter
of whom ia Adam Fullerton, burgess of Edinburgh, “ and decernit ilk ane of thame to
Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, Supplement, p. 567. Diurnal of Occurrents, p, 283 ; ante, p. 69.
Booke of the Univeraall Kirk, p. 208. ‘ Diurnal of Occurrenta, p. 227. Ibid, p. 239.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 107
attainted Earl of Linlithgow, and who succeeded eventually upon the death of
her aunt to the title of Errol, was naturally desirous of recovering her father’s
possessions, but she only survived the execution of her husband a short time.
Her descendants,’ it was said, entertained a similar anxiety for these estates,
which, when brought to the hammer, were set up at a low price, to favour them.
Forbes, however, did not fail to appear on the spot; and, with his copper
transmuted to gold,” became the purchaser at a remarkably cheap rate :’ so
much so, that he has been frequently afterwards heard jokingly to remark that
even the wood on the estate would have bought the whole.
The
inhabitants of the ancient burgh of Fallrirk, always noted fqr their clannish
feeling, were in a paroxysm. The house of Callendar had ever been identified
with 44 the bairns 0’ Fa’kirk,” and kept up till a late period the old feudal dignity
that had long distinguished it. So late as 1759 the following entries appear
in the household accounts-“ 4th Nov. Shoes to my Lord’s pyper, 2s. ;” “ 3d
Dec. This we presume,
must have been the piper of Kilmarnock.
Mr. Forbes and his brothers experienced the height of insult and abuse
whenever they entered the town. His younger brother, James, in particular,
was a favourite source of amusement to the then unchecked mob. He was not
of the most shrewd intellect, and his simplicity subjected him to much rudeness.
His coat-tails were cut away on one occasion ; and on another, his *queue was
docked, from which he was ever afterwards named Rumpock. It is singular
that the colliers, who had been the hereditary bondsmen of the old family,
were the most devoted to them. One night in autumn, during the militia
riots in 1797, a great band of them, aided by a few of the town’s lads, went
out with a drum, and parading round the house, so alarmed Mr. Forbes and his
brothers that they fled by a back door, and ran up through the wood. Looking
round from among the trees, they beheld the flickering blaze of Carron Works,
and imagining that Callendar House was in flames, proceeded with all speed
by the village of Redding to Lialithgow, from whence they posted to Edinburgh,
where, applying to Lord Adam Gordon, the Commander-in-Chief, they caused
a troop of the Lancashire Dragoons to be sent out to Falkirk, who inflicted
their unwelcome presence on the inhabitants for nearly half-a-year. It is to
this affair the caricature of Copperbottom’s Rctrsat alludes.”
Not long after he became proprietor, numerous disputes occurred between
Mr. Forbes and the tenants of the estate. The Rev. Mr. Bertram of Muiravonside
and he disagreed about the rent of a park attached to Haining Castle.
The neighbourhood was much excited when this result was known.
To my Lord’s pyper, two weeks’ kitchen money, 1s.”
The titles of Lithgow and Callendar were in the person of the hair-male, Livingston of
Westquarter.
s When asked for his security, “I have it in niy pocket,” said he, and instantly tabled the cash
in one of the two largeat bank notes ever issued in Scotland.
Mr. Forbes had a favourite old black horse, with a long tail, only ridden by hia faithful servant
Johnnie Howie (who waa with him for twenty-four years), to which he playfully gave the name,
appropriately enough, of Copperbottom.

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what abrupt, and his language not remarkable for its refinement ; but, after two
or three lessons, the first unfavourable impressions subsided, and the Sergeant
gradually became a favourite. Indeed there was a something so peculiar in his
countenance, and more especially in the most prominent feature of it, where
I‘ One rich carbuncle shone before,
With many a glowing ruby round,”
that it was impossible to be long in bad humour with him.
Among others whose patronage the good conduct and military talents of the
SergeanbMajor secured, was that of the Lord President Hope, then Iieutenant-
Colonel of the regiment. The high opinion entertained of him by his lordship
was manifested in various acts of kindness ; and he promised, on the disembodying
of the regiment in 1814, to lay his head in the grave. This mark of
respect his lordship faithfully performed, on the death of the Sergeant-Major,
which occurred on the 22d September 1815. His remains were interred-all
the officers of the late corps attending the funeral-in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard,
where a stone is erected to his memory.’
From “ Lines Elegiac,” composed on the death of the veteran by a local
poet, we give the following stanzas :-
“ ’Tis but the dross of Gould lies here j
His sterling part claims not a tear ;
Wing’d, 89 we’d hope, where glory gleams
More splendid than the warrior’s dreams I
And soothe the widow’s drooping woe-
Who has no cherub Gould to smile,
Her heavy moments to beguile.”
‘I Hope stay us who are left below,
The figure of an Edinburgh Volunteer, of such ample breadth of back, to
whom the Sergeant-Major is imparting instruction, is a burlesque on the Bellygerents,
as the corps was waggishly denominated by Gould. A gentleman once
put the question-“Pray, Gould, who is that you are drilling in the Print
done by Kay P” The answer was highly characteristic-“ I can’t say, sir, unless
you turn him to the right about face!’la
Our worthy friend Bailie Smellie informs us that on one occasion when he
resided at the Castle Hill, he was astonished to hear Gould calling loudly from a
green behind the house-“ The battalion will advance ! ” The Bailie, unable
to‘comprehend what had brought, as he thought, the Volunteers there, hastened
1 A full-length portrait of Sergeant-Major Gould, with a view of the First Regiment of Volunteers
in the background, by Mr. George Watson, is preserved in the Council Room of the City Chambers.
This painting waa for some time suspended in the lobby leading into the Council Chambers, where it
was subject to the ill usage of every idle lounger. In 1818, when Mr. Smellie, printer, waa in the
magistracy, he made various attempts to have it brought into the Council-Room ; and, among others
to whom he applied was the then Lord Provost (Sir John Marjoribanks), who remarked that it was
utterly absurd to permit the portrait of a Sergeant to he placed in the Council-Room. Mr, Smellie
at last found an argument which proved successful. This was, that the picture was not to be estimated
simply ns affording a Portrait of Sergeant Gould, but ns preserving the recollection of a corps
of loyal citizens, to whom the country was greatly indebted.
a The Egure is intended to represent Mr. James Laing, a saddler in South Bridge Street.

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BATTLE OF FLODDEN TO DEATH OF YAMES l? 39
unconscious of the tumultuous scenes of the neighbouring capital, and seemingly but little
thought of by its turbulent rivals, for his poor tutor wa8 compelled to defray, from his
own purse, the necessary repairs of the royal apartments, then devoted to his use ; while
such was the straitened means of the young King, that he was indebted at one time to
the kindness of his natural sister, the Countess of Morton, for a new doublet and a pair
of hose. Sir David Lindsay has furnished, in hie Complaynt, a lively description of their
pastimes at this period-
Eow as ane chapman beria his pack,
I bure thy Grace upon my back :
And sumtymea, stridlingia, on my nek,
Danaand with mony bend and bek :
The first sillabis that thow did mute,
Was pa, da, lyn, upon the lute ;
Than playit I twentie springia perqueir,
Quhilk was greit pleaour for to heir :
Fra play, thow leit me never reat,
Bot gynkertoun thow luffit ay beat ;
And ay, quhen thow come fra the scule,
Then I behuffit to play the fule
Thow hes maid lordia, schir, be Sauct Geill
Of sum that; hes nocht servit ao weill.'
Though placed within the Castle for safety, the King was not entirely confined to its
straitened bounds ; when not prevented by the disturbed state Qf the town and neighbourhood,
he was not only permitted to ride forth in the intervals of his studies, but occasionally
took up his residence both at Craigmillar and Dalkeith.
Shortly after the period referred to, the Duke of Albany quitted the kingdom for the
last time, and the King, who had been removed to Stirling, to be out of reach of the
Queen's party, was brought to Holyrood, attended by a numerous train of nobles, and at
the mature age of twelve invested with the full powers of royalty, as the only means of
terminating the frightful anarchy that prevailed; and on the 22d of August 1524, '' he
maid his solempnit entree with the lordis in the tolbuytht of Edinbrughe, with sceptour,
croune, and sword of honour." '
Sir DavidLindsay alludes to this in his Complaynt, aud pictures with lively satire the
obsequious courtiers joining in the diversions of the juvenile King.
Pitscottie tells with great naiveth, that " the King and the lordis remained in Edinburgh
and Hallirudhouse the space of ane yeir, with great triumph and merrines, quhil
Imprudently, lyke witles fulis,
Thay tuke the young Prince fra the soulis,
Quhare he, under obedience,
Was leirnand vertew, and science,
And haiately pat in his hand
The governance of all Scotland.
* * *
Schir, sum wald eay, your Majeetie
Sall now gae to your libertie;
Ye call to na man be coarcit,
Nor to the mule na mair subjectit ;
We think thame varrey natural1 fulia,
That lernis over meikle at the ~Uli:s
Sir D. Lindsay's Poems, 1806, vol. i p. 257. * Diurnal of Owurrents, p. 9.

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THE HIGH STREET. 227
melancholy interest, disguised though they are by the changes of modern taste and
manners. The name of the Bishop of Orkney appears at the bond granted by the nobility
to the Earl of Bothwell, immediately before he put in practice his ambitions scheme against
Queen Mary; so that here, in all probability, the rude Earl, and many of the leading
nobles of that eventful period, have met to discuss their daring plans, and to mature the
designs that involved so many in their consequences. Here, too, we may believe both
Mary and James to have been entertained as guests, by father and son, while at the same
board there sat another lovely woman, whose wrongs are so touchingly recorded in the
beautiful old ballad of ‘‘ Lady Ann Bothwell’s Lament.” She was the sister of the first
Lord Holyroodhouse, and is said to have possessed great personal beauty. She was
betrayed into a disgraceful connection with the Honourable
Sir Alexander Erskine, a son of the Earl of Mar,
of whom a portrait still exists by Jamieson. He is
there represented in military dress, with a cuirass and
scarf; but the splendour of his warlike attire is
evidently unnecesary to set off his noble and expressive
countenance. The desertion of the frail beauty by this
gay deceiver was believed by his contemporaries to have
exposed him to the signal vengeance of heaven, on his
being blown up, along with the Earl of Haddington, and
many others of noble birth, in the Castle of Dunglass
in 1640, the powder magazine having been ignited by a
servant boy out of revenge against his master.’ Adam
Bothwell lies buried in the ruined Chapel of Holyrood,
where his monument is still to be seen, attached to the
second pillar from the great east window that once overlooked
the high altar at which Mary gave her hand to
the imbecile Darnley, and not far from the spot-if we
are to believe the contemporary annalist-where she
yielded it to her infamous ravisher.
The fore part of the ancient building in the High Street has been almost entirely
modernised, and faced with a new stone front, but many citizens still living remember
when an ancient timber faqade projected its lofty gables into the street, with tier above
tier, each thrusting out beyond the lower story, while below were the covered piazza and
darkened entrances to the gloomy “laigh shops,’’4 such as may still be seen in the few
examples of old timber lands that have escaped demolition. But this ancient fabric is
associated with another citizen of no less note in his day-“The glorious days of auld,
1 A rude version of this beautiful ballad was printed in 1006, and others have since been given of it by Percy, Jamie-
Scot-
A alight confusion occura in his account, where she is atyled the daughter of Bothwell, Bishop of
The dates seem to leave no doubt that the father waa John, his son, the first who obtained the title of
’ In a Sasine of part of this property, it is styled, “that western laigh booth, or shop, lying within the fore tenemeut . as also that merchant shop entering from the High
son, Kinloch, t c . ; Mr R. Chambers, however, was the first to publish the true hishry of the heroine, in his
tiah Ballads.”
Orkney, tc.
Lord Holyroodhouse.
of Y r Adam Bothwell, under the laigh stair thairof .
Street,” tc.
.
VIoNElTE.-Adam Bothwell’s houae, from the north.

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meanwhile, the deacons of the corporations were summoned to the rescue of the Provost
and Bailies, ‘‘ but they past to their four-hour’s penny, or afternoon’s pint,’’ returning for
answer, that since tiley wilt de magistrates alone, let them rule alone!
The Provost was compelled at last to seek the mediation of the Governor of the
Castle, but the rioters did not disperse, nor permit the magistrates to escape from durance,
until after nine o’clock at night, when a public proclamation was made at the Cross,
engaging that they should not pursue any one for that day’s work.’
On the 19th of August 1561, Queen Mary landed at Leith, where she was received
by the Lord James, her natural brother, and many of the chief nubility; and conveyed
in state to the Abbey of Holyrood House. On the news of her arrival, the nobility and
leaders, without distinction of party, crowded to Edinburgh, to congratulate her on her
return to her native land, and tender their homage and service, while the people
testified their pleasure by bonfires and music, and other popular demonstrations of
rejoicing.
Magnificent entertainments were provided by the town of Edinburgh, as well as by
the chief nobility, and everything waa done on her arrival to assure her of the perfect
loyalty and affection of her subjects ; yet, if we may believe Brantome, an eye-witness, the
Queen could not help contrasting, with a sigh, the inferiority of the national displays on
her arrival, when contrasted with the gorgeous pageants to which she had been accustomed
at the Court of France.’
Contrary to what had been anticipated, the Queen received the Lord James into special
favour, and admitted him to the chief control in all public affairs ; but notwithstanding
the countenance shown to him, and other leaders of the Congregation, the religious
differences speedily led to dissensions between the Queen and the people. All toleration
had been denied to those who still adhered to the old faith, and both priests and laymen
were strictly enjoined by the magistrates of Edinburgh to attend the services of the
Protestant Chrches. Some of them, instead of joining in the worship, had availed
themselves of this compulsory attendance to unsettle the faith of recent converts, on
which account they were ordered by proclamation to depart from the city within
forty-eight hours. The Queen remonstrated without effect, and the proclamation was
renewed with increased rigour; whereupon she addressed a letter to the Council and
community of Edinburgh, commanding them to assemble in the Tolbooth, and
choose other magistrates in their stead. The Council obeyed her commands, without
waiting to learn whom she would recommend for their successors,-a procedure
which excited her indignation little less than the contempt of the magistrates she
had deposed.’
Shortly after this, Knox visited the Queen at Holyrood, and had a long interview
with her, during which he moved her to tears by,the vehemence of his exhortations.
The Lord James and other two courtiers were present, but they withdrew sufficiently
to permit of perfect privacy in this first conference between the Reformer and Queen
Mary. The interview was long, and the Queen s&ciently patient under his very plain
spoken rebukes and exhortations, but they parted in the same mind as they had met;
Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 284,5. Knox’s History of the Reforniation, 4to, p. 253, where the culprit ia styled Balon.
* Brantome, vol. 5. p. 123. Tgtler, vol. vi. Council Register, Oct. 8, 1561. Maitland, p. 21.

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Glasgow did not enter into the scheme with that alacrity which had been anticipated-
the city having previously expended vast sums in deepening the Clyde.
A company was no doubt formed, and the canal ultimately cut as far as Johnstone;
but, for want of funds, it never went farther. Notwithstanding the
lack of that encouragement he had expected, Lord Eglinton continued to prosecute,
single-handed, the herculean task undertaken, although at a much slower
pace than he could have wished. He left no means untried to keep the work
advancing, having not only sold several valuable portions of his estate, but
incurred debt to a large extent ; indeed, it is understood that, previous to his
death, he had expended on the harbour alone upwards of &70,000, without the
satisfaction of having completed what had been so much an object of his solicitude.
The Earl died at an advanced age in 1819, after having for many years
honourably discharged the duties of Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Ayr,
which were somewhat arduous, especially during the three latter years of his
life,’ His lordship was created a Baron of Great Britain and Ireland in 1806,
by the title of Baron Ardrossan of Ardrossan. He was also a Knight of the
order of the Thistle.
The character of the late Earl, like that of all other persons who take a
decided part in public affairs, has been variously represented. Firmly attached
to the Government, and resolute in repelling civil innovation, as well as foreign
aggression, his opinions were of necessity not in unison with those whose
politics were of a less conservative description. In the army he was known to
be a strict disciplinarian ; and, even at the head of his own Fencibles, he sometimes
occasioned excitement by the severity of his punishments.’ Apart from
these considerations, the Earl was deservedly held in estimation. No man
possessed a greater degree of public spirit, or could be more magnificent in his
undertakings. In the case of the canal and harbour of Ardrossan, the result
proved his lordship to have been too sanguine ; and his estates certainly felt
the paralysing effects of such a severe encroachment on his resources ; yet the
speculation employed many hands, and fed many families. In time it is to be
hoped it will produce a portion of the good anticipated from it. As one of the
most steady of the very few resident proprietors of Ayrshire, the Earl of Eglinton
had an undoubted claim to respect. Except when called away by his parliamentary
and other public duties, he remained constantly at home ; and while
he stimulated industry in his own neighbourhood, by his presence and example,
he was on all occasions the patron and active promoter of whatever might tend
to the improvement and prosperity of the country at large. In seasons of com-
So very active and efficient indeed were his lordship’s services in that capacity, that he
obtained the approbation and applause of all parties. In the Justiciary Hall of the County
Buildings, Ayr, there is a painting of the Earl, in the costume of the West Lowland Fencibles,
painted by Sir Henry Raeburn, from the original picture in Eglinton Castle. Thii portrait was
done by subscription, aud placed in the Hall as a tribute of respect to his lordship’s memory.
It ought to be stated, in vindication of the Earl, that he had very bad materials to deal with.
As every one that offered %-as enlisted in the Fencible regiments, they were consequently greatly
mixed, and almost proverbial for the many bad characters to be found in the ranks.

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48 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
found to throw the weight of their influence into the scale of liberty and right, it is only
because the interests of England chanced to tally with such views.
One of the most eminent Scotsmen of this period was the celebrated Cardinal Beaton.
As the head of the Scottish clergy, he was naturally opposed to the entire system of policy
pursued by Henry VIII., and was mainly instrumental in preventing the promised interview
between James V. and the English Monarch at York, and thereby bringing on the
war, the disastrous issue of which is justly considered to have occasioned James’s death.
This sudden event, as it overturned many of the schemes of the Cardinal, set him only
the more zealously to devise others. Immediately thereafter, he produced a will of the late
King, in which he was nominated Regent, with three of the nobility as his assistants, and
which he caused forthwith to be proclaimed at the Cross of Edinburgh.
Historians are generally agreed as to the forgery of this will, yet the Earl of Arran, who,
next to the infant Mary, was heir to the crown, cheerfully acquiesced in its arrangement,
and showed himself willing to co-operate with the Cardinal in his ambitious designs. A
numerous part of the nobility, however, to whom the Cardinal was an object of detestation,
as his projects were altogether incompatible with their own selfish views, soon wrought
upon the imbecile Earl to desert his faction, and while the matter was still in suspense,
the opportune arrival of the liberated prisoners from London, now in the pay of the English
Nonarch, on the 1st of January 1543, completed his overthrow ; and, notwithstanding his
having already assumed the Regency, he was set aside, and the Earl of Arran elected in his
stead.
The grand scheme of the English Monarch at this period, from the failure of which
originated all the enmity he afterwards manifested towards Scotland, was the promotion
of a marriage between hie own son, af’temrds Edward VI., and the young Queen of
Scotland.
On the 8th of March a Parliament assembled at Edinburgh, to which the English
Monarch sent an ambassador with offers of lasting peace should they comply with his
proposed alliance. The Cardinal, who saw in this the certain downfall of the Clurch,
brought the whole influence of the clergy, as well as that of the Queen Dowager, Mary
of Guise, to bear against it, but at the moment without effect. The Cardinal, by a
vote of Parliament, was committed a prisoner to Dalkeith Castle, under the care of
Lord Seton, and everything was forthwith settled with England on the most friendly
terms.
About the Bame time, Marcus Grymanus, patriarch of Aquileia, or, according to Lesly
and others, Contareno, patriarch of Venice, arrived at Edinburgh, as the Papal Legate,
commissioned to use all his influence to prevent the proposed alliance between the Scottish
Queen and Prince Edward of England, and bearing the amplest promises of assistance
from the Pope, in case of a rupture with that crown. ‘‘ After he had been courteously
and splendidly entertained at Edinburgh bp persons of the greatest rank, he departed in
the beginning of March, and was so well pleased with the reception he had met with, that
wherever he went afterwards, he spoke of the magnificent civilities of the Scottish
nation.” Bishop Leslie thus records a costly entertainment furnished to him in the
Scottish capital. ‘‘ The Earle of Murray makand him the banquet in his house, although
Bishop Keith’s History of Scotland, 1845, vol. i. p. 96.

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244 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
dreaded. In this dilemma he had recourse to Will Armstrong, a worthy descendant of the
famous mosstrooper executed by Jamev V.,-who owed to the Earl’s good fiervices his
emape from a halter. Will promptly volunteered to kidnap the President on learning
that he stood in his patron’s way, and watching his opportunity when Lord Durie was
riding out, he entered into conversation with him, and so decoyed him to an unfrequented
spot called the Figgate Whins, near Portobello, when he suddenly pulled him from his
horse, muffled him in his trooper’s cloak, and rode off with the luckless judge trussed up
behind him. Lord Durie was secured in the dungeon of an old castle in Annandale called
the Tower of Graeme, and his horse being found on the beach, it was concluded he had
thrown his rider into the sea. His friends went into mourning, his successor was
appointed, the Earl won his plea, and Will was directed to set his captive at liberty. The
old judge waa accordingly seized in his dark dungeon, mufHed once more in the cloak,
and conveyed with such dexterity to the scene of his capture that he long entertained the
belief he had’ been spirited away by witches. The joy of his friends was probably
surpassed by the blank amazement of his successor, when he appeared to reclaim his old
office and honours. Accident long after led to a discovery of the whole story; but in
those disorderly times it was only laughed at as a fair ruse de gumre.‘ In the ballad the
bold moss-trooper alights at Lord Durie’s door, and beguiles him with a message from “the
fairest lady in Teviotdale.” Sir Walter, however, confesses to such ekeing and patching
of the traditionary fragments of the old ballad, that we must content ourselves with the
fact of the stolen President’s dwelling having stood on the site of the Heriot’s school in the
Assembly Close. Of this there can be no doubt, as it ia referred to in the boundaries of
various early deeds, in most of which the alley is styled Durie’s Close.
The Covenant Close has already been referred to:
with its interesting old land, surmounted with three
crow-stepped gables, forming the most prominent
feature in the range of the High Street as seeu from
the south. The front lands immediately below this
and the adjoining close again direct us to associations
with the olden time, though only as occupying the
site of what once was interesting, for fire and modern
reform together have effected an entire revolution in
this part of the town. Over the doorway immediately
above Bell’s Wynd an escallop shell? cut upon the
modern stone lintel, marks the site of the ‘‘ Clam
Shell Turnpike,” an edifice associated with eminent
characters, and some of the most interesting eras in
Scottish history. Maitland only remarks of it, in
this close there ‘( is an ancient chapel, which is still
plainly to be seen by the manner of its construction, though now converted into a dwelling-
1 Chrktie’s Will, Border Minstrelsy. There is little doubt of the general truth of thia tradition.
Ante, p. 93.
The leading facts,
though without the names, are related in Forbes’s Journal, and Scott tells UE that some old stnnzas of the ballad were
current on the Border in hia youth.
VIGNETTE-CIBIII Shell Turnpike, from Skena Taken down lT91.

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240 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHEd.
Such is a sketch of the first era of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers. They
were not, however, allowed to remain long unembodied. The peace which had
been proclaimed with great ceremony at the cross of Edinburgh on the 4th of
May 1802 lasted something less than a year, when the threatening aspect of
affairs again roused the scarcely tranquil feelings of the country. The great
preparations made by the Emperor Napoleon to invade this country were met
by a corresponding effort on the part of the British Government, which was
supported bp the united energies of the whole people. In few places was the
spirit of the country more signally displayed than in Edinburgh. Upwards of
four thousand volunteers were enrolled ; and notwithstanding the great sacrifice
of time which the proper training to arms required, all men seemed actuated
with one spirit, and cheerfully and without complaint submitted to the tedious
process of military instruction, aware of the importance of order and discipline
against an enemy whose bravery was unquestioned, and who had given so many
proofs of great military skill and enterprise. On the 30th September 1803
the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers resumed their warlike banners. On this
occasion the regiment was augmented to a thousand rank and file; and, in
conformity with the general orders previously issued, their dress was changed
to scarlet with blue facings.
Notwithstanding the " mighty note of preparation," the military operations
which followed this new enrolment were happily not of a more sanguinary nature
than those of the former. With the exception of forming guard occasionally
when a fire occurred in the city, the duties of the Volunteers were confined to
the usual routine of drills, field-days, and reviews-and these they continued to
perform year after year with unabating zeal. In 1806, when new regulations
urere issued limiting the allowance to volunteer corps, the First Regiment stood
unaffected by them. The circumstance seemed rather to stimulate their patriotism.
" I wish to remind you," said their Lieut.-Colonel, addressing them one
day while on parade, " that we did not take up arms to please any minister, or
set of ministers, but to defend our land from foreign and domestic enemies."
One of their great field-days occurred on his Majesty's birth-day, 1807,
when the Lieutenant-Colonel, the Right Honourable Charles Hope (then Lord
Justice Clerk), was presented with a valuable sabre, of superb and exquisite
workmanship, in testimony of their regard for him as an officer and a gentleman.
The sword was presented by Thomas Martin, Esq., sergeant of grenadiers,
in name of the noncommissioned officers and 'privates.
In the year 1820, during the disturbances of the west, the Edinburgh
Volunteers garrisoned the Castle, to enable the regular troops stationed there
to proceed to G1asgow.l It was then, aa many professional gentlemen were
w a ~pr eached by the Rev. Principal Baird (their chaplain), from Isaiah ii. 3, 4. "he Lord Provost
and the Magistratea were present in their robes, and the congregation was very respectahla and
genteeL A liberal collection, amounting to upwards of $111, was made for the industrious poor
and destitute sick."
The c o y volunteered, if necessary, to leave Edinburgh, and co-operate with the regular troops,
and one night remained actually under marching orders.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 51
No. CLXXXIX.
SIR JAMES CAMPBELL, BART., OF . ARDKINGLASS.
THIS veteran soldier, who assumed the name of Campbell on succeeding to
the title and estate of his maternal grandfather, was the son of Sir James Livingstone,
Bart., whose father was the Earl of Callander, and his mother the eldest
daughter of Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglass-an old baronial residence on
the banks of Loch Fine.
SIR JAMELSIV INGSTOCNAEM PBELeLn tered the army early in life ; fought
under the Duke of Cumberland in the Netherlands; and, at the battle of
Lafeldt, commanded the 25th Regiment of Foot. He subsequently served in
America during the Canadian war, and was wounded in the leg, which rendered
him lame for life.
In 1778, when the Western Fencible Regiment was raised by the Duke of
Argyle and the Earl of Eglinton, Sir James was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel,
and he held the commission until the corps was disbanded in 1783. He was
also Governor of Stirling Castle.
Sir James was small in stature, but of a military appearance. He died at
Gargunnock in 1788, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Alexander, on whose
death in 1810, the estate descended to the next heir of entail, Colonel James
Callander; the eldest son of John Callander, Esq., of Craigforth-a Scottish
antiquary of some eminence.
We had occasion to notice this gentleman in a former article. When the succession opened to
him, he waa resident in France ; and, having been detained by Napoleon, he sent a lady, Madame
Lina Talina Sassen, as his commissioner to Scotland. In the instrument by which she was appointed,
she was designed his “beloved wife ; ” and under that character was received in society. But
when the new proprietor of Ardkinglass made his appearance in propria peTsonu, he disclaimed the
marriage, declaring that the instrument had been fmpetrated from him by intimidation. The resnlt
was, a suit at the instance of.the lady, in which, although the Judgea found the marriage not
proven, they awarded her a sum of S300 per annum, as a reparation for the deceit practised by
him, and the damage sustained by her. Sir James appealed to the House of Lords, and the
judgment was reversed; but Madame Sassen, having been admitted to sue in f mpau peris,
raiaed suit upon suit against the deceiver, and continued to keep her opponent in hot water for the
remainder of their respective lives.
, For several years during the sitting of the Court, thia singular person waa either in attendance
in the Outer House, or in one of the galleries of the Inner, where she waa always on the outlook to
see that no advantage was taken in any of her cases ; for she distrusted both agents, counsel, and
judges. She annoyed the former not unfrequently by visiting them half-a-dozen times aa day.
When once she had effected a lodgment, there waa no gettiig rid of her. An eminent barrister,
afterwards a judge, who had the misfortune to be one of her counsel, was besieged by her in hia
bed-Noin for nearly an hour, and at last was obliged tu effect his escape through the window by
mesne of 8 ladder. Though a foreigner, she had acquired a tolerable idea of the Scottish forms of
legal procedure, and not nnfreqnently used to suggest very ingenious views of her cases ; but she
was very obstinate. So much so, that although latterly she had tired her pseudo husband into a

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 91
1808, apparently from a conscientious desire to abandon public life before his
mind should be impaired by the infirmities of age, and was succeeded by the
late President Blair. Upon the 17th September following he had the honour
of a baronetcy conferred upon him Although pretty far advanced in years, he
was still in possession of all his mental faculties ; and was afterwards chosen to
preside over two different commissions appointed to inquire into the state of the
Courts of Laws in Scotland, which he conducted with his accustomed industry
and talent.
After his retirement from the bench, Sir Ilay resided chiefly on his paternal
estate of Garscube, where he lived for many years. “ Until within a few weeks
of his death” (which occurred on the 28th of March 1823, in the eighty-ninth
year of his age) “he was constantly occupied with pursuits of variops kinds.
He took a principal share in the business of the county of Dumbarton, and was
much consulted by the magistracy of the neighbourhood, particularly in the late
perilous times [1817-191. He spent much of his time in reading, and in the
study of general literature ; amused himself with agriculture ; and received the
visits of those numerous persons in England and Scotland with whom he had
been connected in public and private life.
‘‘ In these occupations, and in the exercise of that benevolence which was a
remarkable trait of his character ; possessing, until his last short illness, perfect
good health, and a mind as acute as it had been in the vigour of his manhood ;
loved and respected by everyone, and surrounded by his numerous descendants,
whom he delighted to assemble under his patriarchal roof, he enjoyed a period
of retirement from public life, which, in point of happiness and length of duration,
seldom falls to the lot of public characters, and which was the deserved
reward of those laborious services that will be recollected as long as the law of
Scotland exists. ”
Sir Ilay Campbell was married to Susan-Mary, daughter of Archibald hfurray
of Cringletie, Esq., one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh, by whom he had six
daughters and two sons, one of whom only survived, viz.-Sir Archibald
Campbell of Succoth, Bart., who, after his retirement from t,he bench in 1824,
resided chiefly at Garscube. The eldest daughter was married to John Xlacneill
of Gigha; the second to Sir John Connell; the third to Francis Sitwell of
Barnmoor Castle ; the fourth to Crawford Tait, Esq., W.S., of Harveston;’ and
the youngest to Walter Dalziel Colquhon of Garscadden.
they ought with more eagerness to look for the credit of the whole, than that the authority, the dignity,
the honour, and the independence of the Court should continue to be maintained. If this be their opinion,
they and I are agreed. At the same time, I flatter myself, there is not a nian among them wlo will
not rest assured, that from me, and I trust from all who sit here, they shall ever meet with that countenance
and protection, as professional men, and that civility and attention as gentlemen, which, while
they continue to perform their duty, they have, in my opinion, an uuquestionable right to denland.’
“His lordship then said a few words in compliment to the new Lord Advocate and Solicitor-General.
“Robert Dundas, Esq., and Robert Blair, Esq., were then sworn in as his Majesty’s Advocate
and Solicitor for Scotland, aud took their places accordingly.”
Mr. Tait’s third son, Archibald Campbell, is the present (1977) Archbishop of Canterbury.

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164 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
the most eminent venerators of antiquity, during the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Two small volumes of the Paton Correspondence-now rare and valuable-have been
published, which serve to show the very high estimation in which he was held as a literary
antiquary, and the numerous contributions furnished by him towards the most eminent
works of that class, only a small portion of which has been acknowledged by the recipients.
George Paton was a man of extreme modesty and diffidence,-a bachelor of retiring and
taciturn inclinations ;-yet he was neither illiberal eor unsocial in his habits ; his time, his ,
knowledge, and his library, were all at the service of his friends, and though not only temperate
but abstemious in his tastes, his evenings were generally spent with Herd, and
other kindred spirits, in Johnie Dowie’s Tavern, in Libberton’s Wynd, the well-known
rendezvous of the Scottish literati during that period. He was methodical in all his habits ;
the moment eleven sounded from St Giles’s steeple, his spare figure might be seen
emerging from the wynd head, and the sound of his cane on the pavement of Lady Stair’s
Close, gave the signal to his housekeeper for his admittance. This interesting old Edinburgh
character bears in many respects a resemblance to the more celebrated ‘‘ Elia ” of
the East India House. He obtained a clerkship in the Custom House, the whole emoluments
of which, after an augmentation for many years’ service, never exceeded $80 ; and
yet with this narrow income he contrived to amass a collection of books and manuscripts
to an extent rarely equalled by a single individual; On his death in the year 1807, at the
advanced age of eighty-seven, his valuable library was sold by auction, occupying considerably
more than a month in its disposal ; and its treasures were strenuously contended for
by the chief bibliopolists assembled from distant parts of the kingdom.’
The old mansion in Lady Stair’s Close bears over its entrance this pious inscription,
“ FEARE THE LORD, AND DEPART FRON EVILL,” with the date 1622, and the
arms and initials of its original proprietors, Sir William Gray of Pittendrum,-the
ancestor of the present Lord Gray,-and Geida or Egidia his wife, sister of Sir John
Smith of Grothill, Provost of Edinburgh. Sir William was a man of great influence and
note ; although, by virtue of a new patent, granted by Charles I., the ancient title of Lord
Gray reverted to his family, he devoted himself to commerce, and became one of the most
extensive Scottish merchants of his day, improving and enlarging the foreign trade of his
country, and acquiring great wealth to himself. On the breaking out of civil commotions,
he adhered to the royal party, and shared in its misfortunes j he was fined by the Parliament
100,000 merks, for corresponding with Montrose, and imprisoned first in the Castle
The correspondence between Paton and (Xough-full of matter deeply interesting to the antiquary and topographer
-war4 wme yeara since prepared for publication by Mr Turnbull, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, but owing
to the paucity of subscribera, $,he MS. waa thrown aside, to the great losa of literary students.

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Grassmarket.] THE GREYFRIARS MONASTERY. 233
while behind the noble pile of Heriot?s Hospital thereof, Henry granted to them a charter empowertowers
above them, as a counterpart to the old I ing the latter to trade to any part of England,
Castle that rises majestically over the north side of subject to no other duties than those payable by
the same area Many antique features are dis- the most highly favoured natives of that country,
cernible here. Several of the older houses are in acknowledgment, as he states, of the humane
built with bartizaned roofs and ornamental copings, i and honourable treatment he met with from the
designed to afford their inmates an uninterrupted
view of the magnificent pageants
that were wont of old to defile through
the wide area below, or of the gloomy
tragedies that were so frequently enacted
here between the Restoration and the
Revolution. ?
Towards the south-east end of the market
place stood the ancient monastery of Grey
Friars, opposite where the Bow Foot Well,
erected in 1681, now stands. James I., a
monarch, who by many salutary laws and
the encouragement of learning, endeavoured
to civilise the country, long barbarised
by wars with England, established this
monastery. In obedience to a requisition
made by him to the Vicar-General of the
Order at Cologne, a body of Franciscans
came hither under Comelius of Zurich, a
scholar of great reputation. The house
prepared for their reception proved so
magnificent for the times, says Arnot, that
in the spirit of humility and self-denial
they declined to live in it, and could only
be prevailed upon to do so at the earnest
request of the Archbishop of St. Andrews
; consequently a considerable time
must have elapsed ere they were finally
established in the Grassmarket. There
they taught divinity and philosophy till
the Reformation, when their spacious and
beautiful gardens, that extended up the
slope towards the town wall, were bestowed
on the citizens as a cemetery by Queen
Mary.
That the monastery was a sumptuous
edifice according to the times, is proved
by its being assigned for the temporary
abode of the Princess Mary of Gueldres, who after
her arrival at Leith in June, 1449, rode thither on
a pillion behind the Count de Vere, and was visited
by her future husband, James II., on the following
In 1461, after the battle of Towton, its roof
afforded shelter to the luckless Henry VI. of England
when he fled to Scotland, together with his
heroic Queen Margaret and their son Prince
Edward. The fugitives were so hospitably entertained
by the court and citizens, that in requital
day.
78
EAST END OF THE GRASSMARKET, SHOWING THE WEST BOW,
(FaC-iitRik of an Eichiwg by Jam8 S h of RnbXaw.)
THE GALLOWS, AND OLD CORN MARKET.
Provost and burgesses of Edinburgh. As the
house of Lancaster never regained the English
throne, the charter survives only as an acknowledgment
of Henry?s gratitude. How long the latter
resided in the Grassmarket does not precisely
appear. Balfour states that in 1465, Henry VI.,
? having lurked long under the Scotts King?s wing
as a privat man, resolves in a disgyssed habit to
enter England.? His future fate belongs to English
history, but his flight from Scotland evidently
was the result of a treaty of truce, in Feb., 1464. I

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136 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [West Church,
and by an assessment on the real property within
the parish; the expense for each inmate in those
days was only A4 IS. 6d. On the demolition of
the old church, its pulpit, which was of oak, of a
very ancient form, and covered with carving, was
placed in the hall of the workhouse. The number
of the inmates in the first year was eighty-four.
The edifice, large and unsightly, was removed, with
the Diorama and several other houses, to make
space for the Caledonian railway, and the poor
of St. Cuthbert?s were conveyed to a more airy and
commodious mansion, on the site of the old farmhouse
of Werter.
When the Act of Parliament in 1767 was obenclosed
by a wall, on which a line of tombs is
now erected.
In the eighteenth century the building of note
nearest to the church of St. Cuthbert, on the opposite
side of the way, now named Iathian Road, was
a tall, narrow, three-storeyed country villa, called,
from its situation at the head of the slope, Kirkbraehead
House. There the way parted from the
straight line of the modern road at the kirk-gate,
forming a delta {the upper base of which was the
line of Princes Street), in which were several cottages
and gardens, long since swept away. A row
of cottages lay along the whole line of what is now
Queensferry Street, under the name of Kirkbraehead.
OLD WEST KIRK, AND WALLS OF THE LITTLE KIRK, 1772. (FmVJ alr Engraving of a Drawing fro?# a Moder.)
tained for extending the royalty of the city ol
Edinburgh, clauses were inserted in it disjoining
a great portion of the ground on which the future
new city was to be built, and annexing it to the
parish of St. Giles, under the condition that the
heritors of the lands should continue liable, as
formerly, for tithes, ministers? stipends, and A300
annually of poor?s money. Thus the modern
parishes of St Andrew, St. George, S t Mary, and
St. Stephen-all formed since that period-have
been taken from the great area of the ancient
parish of St Cuthbert
No very material alteration was made in the
burying-ground till April, I 787, when the north
side of it, which was bordered by a marsh 2,000
feet in length (to the foot of the mound) by 350
broad-as shown in the maps of that year-was
drained and partially filled with earth. Then the
walls and gates were repaired. The ground at
the east end was raised a few years after, and
The villa referred to was, towards the close of
the century, occupied by Lieutenant-General John
Lord Elphinstone, who was Lieutenant-Governor
of the Castle, with the moderate stipend of
LISO 10s. yearly, and who died in 1794.
At a subsequent period its occupant was a Mr.
John Butler, who figures amocg ? Kay?s Portraits,?
an eccentric character but skilful workman, who
was king?s carpenter for Scotland; he built Gayfield
House and the house of Sir Lawrence Dundas,
now the Royal Bank in St. Andrew Square. He
was proprietor of several tenements in Carmbber?s
Close, then one of the most fashionable portions of
the old town.
The villa of Kirkbraehead had been built by his
father ere the Lothian Road was formed, and concerning
the latter, the following account is given
by Kay?s editor and others.
This road, which leaves the western extremity of
Princes Street at a right angle, and runs southward

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High Street.] ANDRO HART. 229
caunt-a very common kind of ghost story-we
are told, was related by the minister (of course)
who was in the house on this occasion, to John
Duke of Lauderdale (who died in 1682), in pre-
.sence of many other nobles. After this the house
was again deserted ; yet another attempt was
made to inhabit it - probably rent-free -by .a
courageous and drink-loving old soldier and his
wife; but towards midnight the candle began to
burn blue, and the grisly
old head was seen to
hover in mid-air, on
which the terrified couple
fled, and Mary Kings
Close was finally aban-
.doned to desolation and
.decay. No record of its
,inmates in the flesh has
.ever been handed down,
.and thus the name of the
place is associated with
its goblins alone.
Professor Sinclair, who
wrote the history of
these, was author of
several very learned
works on astronomy,
navigation, mathematics,
and so forth; but he
also favoured the world
with .a strange ?Dis-
.course concerning Coal ?
-a compound of science
.and superstition, containing
an account of the
witches of Glenluce, Sinclair
being, like many
.other learned men of his
time, a firm believer in
the black art.
Passing Writers? Court
.and the Royal Exchange,
both of which have been
Meter,? and other works that issued from his
press. He flourished in the reign of James VI.,
and previous to 1600 he was in the habit of importing
books from the Continent ; but about 1601
he printed, at his own expense, several works in
Holland ; and subsequently commenced business
as a printer in those premises in the High Street
which, two centuries after his death in 1621, became
the residence of the great bibliopole, Pro-
STAMP OFFICE CLOSE
already described, we come to the once famous
alley, Craig?s Close, the lower end of which, like
the rest of such thoroughfares in this quarter,
has been removed to make way for Cockburn
Street.
The old tenement which faces the High Street at
the head of this close occupies the site of the
open booth or shop of Andro Hart, the famous
.old Scottish printer ; and therein was, of course,
exposed for sale his well-known Bible, which has
always been admired for its beautiful typography;
h i s Barbour?s ?Bruce,? his ? Psalms in Scottish
vost Creech, and of that
still greater one, Archibald
Constable.
A little way down the
close on the east side was
the printing - house of
Andro Hart, apicturesque
and substantial stone
tenement, with finely
moulded windows divided
by mullions, and
having the Sinclair arms
on the bed-corbel of the
crow-stepped gable.
Over the old doorway
was the legend and date,
My h i p is in Chrisf, A.
S. M K., 1593,? under a
label moulding. In 1828
there was presented to
the Antiquarian Museum
by Mr. Hutchison, printer, .
a very fine Scottish spear,
which had been preserved
from time immemorial in
the old printing-house of
Andro Hart, and is confidently
believed to have
been his-perhaps the
same weapon with which
he sallied forth to take
part in the great tumult
of 1596, when the king
was besieged in the Tolbooth
; for Caldenvood and others- distinctly tell
us that the old printer was one of the foremost in
the disturbance, and roused so much the indignation
of the king, James VI., that he was sent
prisoner to the Castle in February, 1597, together
with two other booksellers, James and Edward
Cathkin.
In 1759 a dromedary and camel were exhibited
at the head of Craig?s Close, where they seem to
have been deemed two wonder9 of the world, and,
according to the Edinbwgh NMaZd and ChronicZc
for that year, itwas doubted whether there were other

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I 2 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
perienced the same evils formerly resulting from its exposed position. In 1383,’ we find
King Robert IT. holding his court there, and receiving the ambassador of Charles VI. of
France, with whom he renewed the league entered into with his predecessor; and from
this time so constant an intercourse was maintained between the two courts, that both the
manners of the people and the style of building of the Scottish capital were formed on
the French model-traces of which were abundant in the last century, and are not quite
extinct even in the present day.
The
Scots, under the Earls of Douglas and March, having begun the war with great success,
the Duke of Lancaster, at the head of an army almost innumerable,’’ as Walsingham
styles it, passed the border, and marched straight to Edinburgh, which, however, he spared
from the destruction to which it was devoted, in grateful remembrance of his hospitable
entertainment there, while an exile from the English Court-a kindness the Scots showed
little appreciation of, in the reprisala with which they, as usual, followed him immediately
on his retreat to England. In requitance of this, he returned the following year and laid
the town in ashes.
It was in this incursion that the f i s t edifice of St Giles’s was destroyed; at
this time only a parish church, originally in the patronage of the Bishop of Lindisfarn, from
whom it passed into the hands of the Abbot of Dunfermline. Yet, from the remains of
the original church that were preserved almost to our own day, it would seem to have been
a building of great richness and beauty, in the early Norman style. There is a very scarce
engraving, an impression of which is in the Signet Library, exhibiting a view of a very
beautiful Norman doorway, destroyed about the year 1760, in the same reckless manner as
so many other relics of antiquity have been swept away by our local authorities ; and which
was, without doubt, a portion of the original building that had survived the conflagration
in 1385. The ancient church was, doubtless, on a much smaller scale than now, as suited
to the limits of the town ; thus described by Froissart, in his account of the reception of
De Kenne, the admiral of France, who came to the assistance of Robert 11. at this time :
--(‘Edinburgh, though the kynge kepte there his chefe resydence, and that is Parys in
Scotland; yet it is not like Tourney or Vallenciennes, for in all the towne is not foure
thousande houses ; therefore it behoved these lordes and knyghts to be lodged about in the
villages.” The reception they met with was in keeping with their lodging. We are told
the Scots (-( dyde murmure and grudge, and sayde, Who the devyll hath sent for them?
cannot we mayntayne our warre with Englande well ynoughe without their helpe ? They
understand not us, nor we theym; therefore we cannot speke toguyder. They wyll
annone ryffle, and eat up alle that ever we have in this countrey; and doo us more dispytes
and damages than thoughe the Englysshemen shulde fyght with us ; for thoughe the
Englysshe brinne our houses, we care lytell therefore ; we shall make them agayne chepe
ynough ! ”
In the succeeding reign, at the close of 1390, we again find the ambassadors of Charles
VI. at the Scottish Court, where they were honourably entertained, and witnessed, in the
Castle of Edinburgh, the King’s putting his hand and seal to the treaty of mutual aid and
defence against the English, which had been drawn up in the reign of his father. Shortly
Immediately thereafter, in 1384, the town is found in the hands of the English.
r1385.J
Martial Achievemente, vol. ii. p. 185. Lord Ekrners Froiaeart.

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nucleus of one of the very latest foundations of a monastic institution in Scotland prior to
the Reformation ; but we leave the history of the ancient religious and benevolent foundations
of this locality for the next chapter. During the present century, it was destined for
a very different purpose. When the Union Canal was first projected, its plans included the
continuation of it through the bed of the North Loch, where the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway now runs. From thence it was proposed to conduct it to Greenside, in the area
of which an immense harbour was to have been constructed ; and this again being connected
by a broad canaI with the sea, it was expected that by such means the New Town
would be converted into a seaport, and the unhappy traders of Leith compelled either to
abandon their traffic, or remove within the precincts of their jealous rivals; Chimerical as
.this project may now appear, designs were furnished by experienced engineers, a map of
the whole plan was engraved on a large scale, and no doubt our civic reformers rejoiced in
the anticipation of surmounting the disadvantages of an inland position, and seeing the
shipping of the chief ports of Europe crowding into the heart of their uew capital I
OE the memorials of the New Town, properly so called, very few fall legitimately within
the plan of this work; yet even its modern streets possess some interesting associations that
we would not willingly forego. We have already referred to the house which forms the
junction with St Andrew Square and St David Street, as the last residence of the celebrated
philosopher and historian, David Hume ; where that strange death-bed scene
occurred which has been the subject of such varied comments both by the eulogists and
detractors of the great sceptic. Directly opposite to Hume’s house, on the north side of
the square, is the house in which Henry Brougham was born. At that period St Andrew
Square contained the residences of several noblemen, and was deemed the most fashionable
quarter of the rising’ town. The house on the same side at the corner of St Andrew
Street was the mansion of David Steuart, Earl of Buchan, and possesses some claim to our
interest as the place where the Society of Scottish Antiquaries was instituted in 1780, and
where its earliest meetings were held.’ Within the fist eastern division of George Street,
the eye of the modern visitor is attracted by the lofty and magnificent portico of the
Commercial Bank, a building that seems destined to attest for ages the skill and taste, if
not the inventive genius, of our native architects; yet it occupies the site of the
Physicians’ Hall, a chaste Grecian edifice designed by Craig, the foundation-stone of which
was laid by the celebrated Dr Cullen, in 1774, doubtless with the belief that remote ages
might bring to light the memorials which were then buried in its foundations. Nor must
we omit to notice the favourite dwelhg of Sir Walter Scott in North Castle Street- ‘‘ TAe ckar tAirty-nine,” which he left under such mournful circumstances in 1826. The
New Town of Edinburgh has already many such associations with names eminent in
literature and science, some of which, at least, will command the interest of other generations.
Our Me~norials, however, are of the olden time, and ye leave future chroniclers to
record those of the modern city.
Paton’e Correspondence, pp. 170-172.

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L UCKENEOOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 203
Michaell Cranstoun, then a verie fordward minister,” profitably employed the leisure of
the congregation by reading to them “ the Historie of Haman and Mordecai, and such
other places of Scr+ture. . . . In the mean tyme, there ariseth a rumour in the toun,
that the King had givin no good answere to the Kirk ; and in the Tolbuith, that the toun
was in armes, before there was anie suche thing. But it fell furth so immediatelie ; for
a messinger of Satan, suborned by some of the cubicular courteours, came to the kirk
doore, and cried, ‘ Fly ! save yourselves ; ’ and ranne to the streets, crying, ‘ Armour !
armour ! ’ ” The consequences are readily conceivable, friends and enemies rushed
together to the Tolbooth, and EO thoroughly terrified the King, that he speedily after forsook
the capital, and vowed in his wrath that he would erase it from the face of the earth !
a proposition which he really seriously entertained.a
The last Parliament at which royalty presided was held in the same New Tolbooth,
immediately after the coronation of Charles I,, July 1633, and this was in all probability
the latest occasion on which the Scottish Estates assembled in the ancient edifice, as the
more modern Parliament House that still exists was then in course of erection.
From this period the New Tolbooth was used exclusively for the meetings, of the Town
Council, by whom it had been erected, and it was latterly known only by the name of the
Council Chambers. Thither the unfortunate Earl of Argyle was brought from the Castle
preparatory to his execution on the 30th June 1685, and from thence his farewell letter
to his wife is dated. Fountainhall tells us, “ Argile came in coach to the Toune Counsell,
and from that on foot to the scaffold with his hat on, betuixt Mr Annand, Dean of Edinburgh,
on his right hand,-to whom he gave his paper on the scaffold,-and Mr Laurence
Charteris, late Professor of Divinity in the College of Edinburgh. He was somewhat
appaled at the sight of the Maiden,-present death will danton the most resolute courage,
-therfor he caused bind the napkin upon his face ere he approached, and then was led to
it.” Notwithstanding this incident mentioned by Fountainhall, who in all probability
witnessed the execution, it is well known that Argyle exhibited unusual composure and
self-possession on the occasion. The Maiden was erected, according to ancient custom in
cases of treason, at the Cross, so that the Earl would have only a few paces to walk across
the Parliament Close from the Council Chambers, to reach the fatal spot. As a more
recent association with both the earlier and later uses of this building, Mait.land mentions
-in addition to an armoury and wardrobe which it contained-that there also was the
repository wherein were kept the sumptuous robes anciently worn by the City representatives
in Parliament, together with the rich trappings and accoutrements for their horses,
which were used in the pompous cavalcade at the opening of the Scottish Legislature,
styled ‘‘ The riding of Parliament.”
The Parliament Close, which lies to the south of St Giles’s Church, has passed through
a series of stranger and more remarkable vicissitudes than any other portion of the Old
Town. Could an accurate narrative now be given of all the circumstances accompanying
these successive changes, it would s d c e to associate this narrow spot with many of the
most memorable events in Scottish history, till the adjournment of its last Parliament
there on the 22d of April 1707, never again to assemble. While St Giles’s was the
Caldemood’s Hist., vol. v. p. 613.
Fountainhall’s Historical Observes, p. 193.
Ante, p. 88. ’ Maitland, p. 180.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 437
11.-ROBERT BELL, Procurator for the Kirk, was the second son of the
late Benjamin Eell, an eminent surgeon in Edinburgh, of whom a portrait and
memoir has already appeared in this Work. He passed advocate in 1804, and
is known.as the author of a (( Report of a case of Legitimacy under a Putative
Marriage, tried before the Second Division of the Court of Session in February
1811.” Edinburgh, 1825, 8vo.
He was a member of the
Bannatyne, Maitland, and Abbotsford ’Clubs, to the former of which he contributed
“An Account of the Siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in 1689,” printed
from the original manuscript in the library of the Faculty of Advocates. He
married Miss ROSSd, aughter of Colonel Andrew ROSSo, f the 31st Foot, and by
her, who died in 1832, had a son and daughter surviving. The former joined
the Facultyof Advocates; and the latter was married, 12th September 1835, to
James Moncreiff, Esq., advocate,’ eldest son of the late Lord Moncreiff.
Mr. Bell had a great taste for the fine arts.
111.-MATHEW ROSS, of Candie, son of a Deputy-Clerk of Session, was
admitted advocate in 1772, and chosen Dean of Faculty in 1808. He died in
1823 unmarried. He was a good lawyer, and had considerable practice, chiefly
as a chamber counsel.
Mr. Ross was a man of mild and unassuming manners ; and he is believed
to have refused a seat on the bench from diffidence in his ability to discharge
the duties of that office. Naturally of a thoughtful habit, matters of very small
importance frequently provoked the most serious deliberation. Having been
requested on one occasion to add his signature, in his official capacity, to a
circular letter, after writing his name he laid the sheet down on his desk, and
closing his eyes appeared for some time to be engaged in profound meditation,
Mr. Gibb, one of the depute-librarians, at length remarked, that all he had to
do was to add (( D. F.” after his name. ‘( That is the very thing I was thinking
of,” said Mr. ROSS“,w hether to make it D. F. or Dean of Faculty!”
Mr. Ross was very diminutive in size, had a florid countenance, blue eyes,
and was well made. In his advanced years he presented the appearance of a
nice, tidy, little, old “ gentleman.” He left a considerable fortune,
1V.-EDWARD M‘CORMICK, Sheriff-Depute of Ayrshire, was the son of
Samuel MCormick, Esq., General Examiner of Excise in Scotland. He was
born in 1745, and admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1772.
His practice at the bar was respectable, and he was remarkable for the precision
and correctness of his statements. He succeeded Lord Craig as Sheriff of Ayr j
and, for upwards of twenty years that he held that office, gave such satisfaction as
a judge, that, on his death in 1814, the county gave various proofs of the high
of Redcastle, Inveimess-shire, and lately connected with the Sun newspaper; the third, Robert Dundas,
married a Mr. North, an officer in one of the regiments stationed in New South Walea, with whom
Mrs. Burnett and her son sailed for that colony.
For an intareating
account of the late Lord Moncreiff (who died in l85l), George Ckmstoun, and Clerk of El&, see
Cockhrn’a me of JefTey.
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YAMES V. TO ABDICA TION OF QUEEN MAR Y. 55
In the beginning of October, in this same year, the Scottish forces were mustered on
the Borough Muir of Edinburgh, to the number of ten thousand men ; the English having
been-at length fairly starved out of the country, For the pest and hungar was rycht evil1
amangis tham, quha mycht remayne na langer thairin ; ” * and so, having no -enemy to
contend with, they and their allies immediately quarrelled. “ There chanced,” says Bishop
Leslie (who has furnished the most detailed account of the transaction), “ to fall out not
a little piece of trouble in Edinburgh, betwixt the Scotch and Frenchmen, by reason that
a French soldier fell at quarelling with a Scotsman upon the High Street, and after words
they came to blows, so that divers Scotsmen coming to the fray, would have had the
Frenchman to prison; but divers of the French soldiers being also present, would not
suffer them to take him with them ; whereupon the captains being advertised, come with all
speed to the highway. The Laird of Stenhouse (James Hamilton), being the Captain of
the Castle and Provost of the town, comes likewise with a company to put order thereto.
The French soldiers being so furious that they shot their harquebusses indiferently at all
men, wherewith there were sundry slain, both men, weomen, and children ; among the
which the foresaid Provost of Edinburgh was slayn, and Master William Stewart, a gentleman
of good reputation, with sundry others ; whereby the whole people conceived B great
grudge and hatred against the Frenchmen, and for revenge thereof there was many Frenchmen
slain at Edinburgh at sundry times thereafter.” * Calderwood further states, that
the Frenchmen were driven by the citizens from the Cross to Niddry’s Wynd-head, where
they rallied and were joined by a number of their fellow-soldiers ; they were again compelled
to retreat, however, till on their reaching the Nether Bow, the whole body of French
troops encountered the Provost and citizens; and there the Provost, and his son, and
various other citizens, women as well as men, were slain. The French troops kept possession
of the town from five to seven at night, when they retired to the Canongate.* To
appease the matter, the Frenchman, chief beginner of the business, was hanged the same
day at the market place of Edinburgh, where the quarrel first began. A very unpropitious
state of things, as the only alternative seemingly left to the Scots from another English
harrying.
In the month of April 1550, a final peace was concluded with England, the latter
abandoning all those unjustifiable projects of forced alliance, which had been attempted to
he enforced with such relentless barbarity during a nine years’ war.
In the year 1551, the Queen Dowager returned from a visit she had made to the
French Court, and immediately thereafter, on the 29th of May, a Parliament was held at
Edinburgh, and another in the month of February following, at both of which enactments
were passed, which furnish, at once, evidence of the state of the county at the period,
and afford curious insight into the manners of the age. One of these is <‘anent the
annuelles of landes burnt be our auld enemies of England, within the burgh of Edinburgh
and other burghs,”‘ and bears a special reference to Edinburgh, having been
enacted at the suit of the Provost and Bailies thereof, to settle disputed claims by the
clergy.
Others, again, are addressed against many prevailing vioes or extravagances of the age,
* DCiauldrenrawl ooof dO’ac Hcuirsrtoenryts,, vpo.l . 4i8. p. 258. . ’’ S Bcisohtao pA cLtaes, lvieo,l .p .i 2p1 .7 2. 71,

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iv OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. -
CHAPTER VI.
THE VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH.
PAGE
Lady Sinclair of Dunbeath-Bell's Mills-Water of Leith Village-Mill at the Dean-Tolbwth there-Old Houses-The Dean and Poultry
-Lands thereof-The Nisbet Family-A Legend-The Dean Village-Belgrave Crescent-The Parish Church-Stewart's Hospital-
Orphan Hospita-John Watson's Hospital-The Dean Cemetery-Notable Interments there . . . . . . . . . 62
CHAPTER VII.
VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (continued).
The Dean Bridge-Landslips at Stockbridge-Stone Coffins-Floods in the Leith-Population in ~74z-St. Bernard's Estate-Rods Tower-
" Chritopher North " in Aune Street-De Quincey there-St. Bernard's Well-Cave at Randolph Cliff-Veitchs Square-Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in the Locality-Sir Henry Raeburn-Old Deanhaugh House ' 70
CHAPTER VIII.
VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (concluded).
E.niiuent Men connected with Stockbridge-David Robert7. RA.--K Macleay, R.S.A.-James Browne, LL.D.-James Hogg-Sir J. Y.
Simpson, Bart. -Leitch Ritchie-General Mitchell-G. R. Luke-Comely Bank-Fettes Collegc--Craigleith Quarry-Groat Hall-Silver
Mills-St. Stephen's Church-The Brothers Lauder-Jam- Drummond, R.S.A.-Deaf and -Dumb Institution-Dean Bank Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -The Edinburgh Academy -78
CHAPTER IX.
CANONMILLS AND INVERLEITH.
CanonmillgThe Loch-Riots of 1784-The Gymnasium-Tanfield HalL-German Church-Zoological Gardens-Powder Hall-Rosebank
Cemetery-Red BraesThe Crawfords of Jordanhill-Bonnington-Bishop Keith-The Sugar Refinery-Pilrig-The Balfour Family-
Inverleith-Ancient ProprietorsThe Touris-The Rocheids-Old Lady Inverleith-General Crocket-Royal Botanical GardensMr.
JamesMacNab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
CHAPTER X.
THE WESTERN NEW TOWN.
Coltbridge-Roseburn House-Traditions of it-Murrayfield-Lord Henderland-Beechwood-General Leslie-The Dundaxs-Ravelston-
The Foulises and Keiths-Craigcrook-Its fint Proprietors-A Fearful Tragedy-Archibald Constable-Lord Jeffrey-Davidson's
Mains-LauristonCastle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IOZ
CHAPTER XI,
C O R S T O R P H I N E .
ContorphintSupposed Origin of the N a m t T h e Hill-James VI. hunting there-The Cross-The Spa-The Dicks of Braid and con^
phine-" Contorphine Cream '%onvalerent House-A Wraith-The Original Chapel-The Collegiate Church-Its Provosts-Its
Old Tombs-The Castle and Loch of Cohtorphine-The Forrester Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 12
CHAPTER XII.
rHE OLD EDINBURGH CLUBS.
Of Old Clubs, and some Notabilia of Edinburgh Life in the Last Century-The Horn Order-The Union Club-Impious Clubs--Assembly
of Birds-The Sweating Club-The Revolution and certain other Clubs-The Beggars' Benison -The Capillaim Club-The Industrious
Company-The Wig, Exulapian, Boar, Country Dinner, The East India, Cape, Spendthrift, Pious, Antemanurn, Six Feet, and
Shakespeare Clubs-Oyster Cellars-" Frolics "-The "Duke of Edinburgh" . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

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266 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
ME1 DEVS ; and below, the initials G. G. The latter has been mistaken for the date
1616 ; but no one who examined the style of the doorway and inscription could feel any
hesitation in assigning to it a date of fully a century earlier.
Only one other old building remained on the west side of the wynd, bearing the pious
inscription over its entrance :-THE FEIR OF THE LORD IS THE BEWNNMG OF AL VISDOME.
Below this, at the corner of the Cowgate, formerly stood the English Episcopal
Chapel, founded by Lord Chief Baron Smith in 1722. It was a plain edifice, possessing
no external features of an ecclesiastical character, as may be seen in our engraving of
The
building existed exactly a century, having been demolished in 1822, after serving during
that period as the place of worship of all loyal and devout Episcopal High Churchmen,
at a time when Episcopacy and Jacobitism were nearly synonymous in Scotland.
The interest that attaches to it as a feature of the olden time, when such a sight was
deemed the most suitable that could be selected for a chapel, probably attended by a
congregation including a greater array of rank and fashion than any that now assembles
in Edinburgh, is further increased from its having been the place of worship of Dr
Johnson when residing with Boswell, in 1773.
Here also, and not improbably on the same site, was the town mansion of William
St Clair, Earl of Orkney, the founder of Roslin Chapel, who maintained his Court at
Roslin Castle with a magnificence far surpassing what had often sufficed for that of the
Scottish Kings. He was royally served at his own table-if we are to believe the
genealogist-in vessels of gold and silver ; Lord Dirleton being his master of the household,
Lord Borthwick his cup-bearer, and Lord Fleming his carver, with men of ancient
rank and lineage for their deputies. His Princess, Margaret Douglas, was waited on,
according to Father Hay, by seventy-five gentlewomen, whereof Hty - three were
daughters of noblemen, “all cloathd in velvets and silks, with their chains of gold,
and other pertinents ; togither with two hundred rideing gentlemen who accompanied
her in all her journeys. She had carried before her, when she went to
Edinburgh, if it were darke, eighty lighted torches. Her lodgeing was att the foot
of Blackfryer Wynde; so that, in a word, none matched her in all the countrey, save
the Queen’s Majesty.”
Directly opposite to the site of Baron Smith’s Chapel stood one of the palatial edifices
of the old capital, popularly known as Cardinal Beaton’s house-a sdEciently humble
and unpretending structure, which undoubtedly formed an archiepiscopal residence of no
mean character in the sixteenth century. This ancient mansion, however, falls more
correctly to be treated of as one of the most interesting among the older features of the
Cowgate. The vignette at the beginning of the chapter exhibits the richest group of
mottoes to be found on any building in Edinburgh. They formed the decorations on the
architrave of a decayed old stone land on the same side, near the head of the Vnd.
A shield, charged with armorial bearings, was sculptured on the left side of the doorway,
as represented in the woodcut, with the initials E. K., and the date 1619.
above this, at the head of the east side, was one of much more pretension externally,
having a front to the wgnd of polished ashlar, and a range of unusually large windows,
Cardinal Beaton’s House,” where it appears on the further side of the wynd,
The building .
Genealogie of the Sainte Claires of Rosslgn, p. 26.

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