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38 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. The streets of Edinburgh continued to partake largely of the general misrule that prevailed throughout the kingdom during the long minority of James V. The Lord Home had convened a council of the nobility so early as 1515, to devise some remedy for the anarchy that existed, and at his urgent suggestion, John Duke of Albany was invited from France to assume the reins of government. On his arrival the same year, “he wes ressaueit with greit honour, and convoyit to Edinburgh with ane greit cumpany, with greit blythnes and glore, and thair wes constitute and maid governour of this realme; and sone thairefter held ane Parliament, and ressaueit the homage of the lordis and thre estaittis ; quhai’r thair wes mony thingis done for the weill of this cuntrey. Evil1 doaria wes punnesit; amang the quhilkis ane Petir Moffet, ane greit reyer and theif, was heidit, and for exampill of vtheris, his head wes put on the West Port of Edinburgh.”’ The Duke took up his residence at Holyrood, and seems to have immediately proceeded with the enlargement of the Palace, in continuation of the works which the late King had carried on till near the close of his life. Numerous entries in the Treasurer’s accounts, for the year 1515-16, furnish evidence of the building being then in progress. The new governor, after having made a tour of the kingdom and adopted many stringent measures for strengthening his party, returned to Edinburgh, and summoned L convention of the nobility to meet him in the Abbey of Holyrood. But already the Lord Chamberlain had fallen out of favour, and ‘‘ Prior John Hepburn of St Andrews clamb next the Governor, and grew great in the Court, and remembered of old malice and envy betwixt him and the Humes.”’ Lord Home, who had been the sole means of the Duke of Albany’s elevation to the regency, was suddenly arrested by his orders, along with his brother William. An old annalist states, that “ the Ducke of Albany tooke the Lord Houme, the chamberlane, and wardit him in the auld touer of Holyrudhouss, which was foundit by the said Ducke,” ’ an allusion confirming the previous account of the new works in progress at the palace. A series of charges were preferred against the brothers, of which the most remarkable is the accusation by the Earl of Jlurray, the natural son of the late King, that the Lord Chamberlain had caused the death of his father, ‘ L who, by many witnesses, was proved to be alive, and seen to have come from the battle of Flowden.” They were both condemned to be beheaded, and the sentence immediately thereafter put in execution, “and their heads &t on the Tolbooth of Edinburgh,”6 from whence, as we have seen, they were removed by their faithful adherents, and laid in consecrated ground. Throughout the minority of James V. the capital continued to be disturbed by successive outbreaks of turbulence and riot, from the contentions of the nobility and their adherents, and especially from the struggles of the rival Earls of Angus and Arran. In order to suppress this turbulent spirit, the Town Council augmented the salary of the provost, and appointed four attendants armed with halberts, as a perpetual guard to wait upon him, but altogether without effect on the restless spirit of the nobles. During nearly the whole of this time the young monarch resided in the Castle of Edinburgh, pursuing his education under the tuition of Gawin Dunbar, afterwards Archbishop of Glasgow ; and his sports, with the aid of his faithful page, Sir David Lindsay ; Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 5. * Marjoribank’s Annale, Liber Cart. p. lxxi. ’ Hawthornden, p. 85. Crawfurd‘a Lives, vol. i p. 324. Balfour’a Ann. vol. i. p. 245. a Pitscottie, vol. ii. p. 296. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. The streets of Edinburgh continued to partake largely of the general misrule ...

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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 381 others. The pillars are decorated with foliated capitals, elaborately finished with sculptured shields and angels’ heads ; the shafts are fluted according to a regular and beautiful design, and their bases are enriched with foliated sculpture ; while the other pillars of the choir are plain octagons, with their capitals formed by a few simple mouldings. The arching and groining, moreover, of this extended portion of the aisles entirely differs from the western and earlier part ; for whereas the latter are formed of concentric arches springing from four sides and meeting in one keystone, so that the top of the windows can reach no higher than the spring of the arch, the former is constructed on the more nsual plan of a goined roof, running across the aisle, and admitting of the two eastmost windows on each side rising nearly to the top of the arch. No less obvious proofs are discoverable of the addition of the clerestory at the same period. There are flaws remaining in the lower part of its walk, marking distinctly how far the old work has been taken down. A slight inclination outward, in part of the wall immediately above the pillars, shows that the roof of the choir had corresponded in height with the old nave ; and portions of the original groining springing from the capitals of the pillars still remain, only partially chiselled away. The extreme beauty of the clerestory groining, and its remarkably rich variety of bosses, all furnish abdndant evidence of its being the work of a later age than the other parts of the building. On €he centre boss, at the division of the two eastmost compartments of the ceiling, is the monogram fQ$, boldly cut on a large shield; and on the one next to it westward, the following legend is neatly arranged round a carved centre in bold relief :-%be + gCil .. pbl . bnpl + teCU +-an abbreviation evidently of the salutation of the Virgin,-Ave Maria, gratia p Zena, dominus tecum,-though from ita height, and the contractions necessary to bring it within such circumscribed dimensions, it is not easily deciphered. These, it is probable, stood directly over the site of the high altar, which does not appear to have been removed from its original position at the east end of the old choir upon its enlargement and elongation in the fifteenth century, as we find that Walter Bertrame, burgess of Edinburgh, by a charter dated December 20, 1477, founded a chaplainry at ‘‘ the Altar of St fiancia, situate behind the Great Altar,” and endowed it with various annual rents from property in Edinburgh and Leith.l Another striking feature of the additions made to St Giles’s Church in the fifteenth century, is the numerous heraldic devices introduced among the ornaments, which afford striking confirnation as to the period when they were executed., The north-east, or King’s Pillar, as it is generally called, of which we have already given a view; bears on the east and west sides the royal arms of Scotland ; on the north side those of May of Gueldersthe Queen of James 11. and the founder of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinityimpaled with the royal arms ; and on the south side the arms of France. James II. succeeded to the throne, a mere child, in 1438, and was killed by the bursting of a cannon at the siege of Roxburgh Castle in 1460 ; and the remaining armorial bearings afford further proof of the erection of this addition to the church between these two periods. On the opposite pillar there are, on the south side, the arms of the good town ; and on the west those of Bishop Remedy, the cousin of James IL and his able and faithful councillor, who was promoted to the metropolitan see in 1440, and died in 1466. The other arms are those of Nicolson, and Preston of Craigmillar. On the engaged pillar, on the north side of the Maitland, p. 271. Inventar of Pious Donations. MS. Ad. Lib. ’ Ante, p. 24. ... ANTIQUITIES. 381 others. The pillars are decorated with foliated capitals, elaborately finished ...

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Leith.] REPULSE OF THE ENGLISH AND SCOTS. I77 Cornelle, Shelly, Littleton, Southworthe, and nine other officers, with 2,240 men. To keep the. field (i.~., the Reserve), Captain Somerset, and eight other captains, with 2,400 men. ?Item ; it is ordered that the Vyce Admyralle of the Queen?s Majesty?s schippes shall, when a token is given, send Vc. (500) men out of the Navye into the haven of Leythe, to give an assaulte on the side of the towne, at the same instant when the assaulte shal be gevene on the breche.? Captain Vaughan was ordered to assault the town near Mount Pelham, and the Scots on the westward and seaward. The assault was not made until the 7th of May, when it was delivered at seven in the morning on dead they could find, and suspended the corpses along the sloping faces of the ramparts, where they remained for several days. The failure of the attempted storm did not very materially affect the blockade. On the contrary, the besiegers still continued to harass the town by incessant cannonading from the mounds already formed and others they erected One of the former, Mount Falcon, must have been particularly destructive, as its guns swept the most crowded part of Leith called the Shore, along which none could pass but at the greatest hazard of death. Moreover, the English were barbarously and uselessly cruel. Before burning Leith mills they murdered in cold blood every individual found therein. The close siege had now lasted about two months, PROSPECT OF LEITH, 1693. (Reduced Facainrilc aftw Grernvillr Coil us.) four quarters, but, for some reason not given, the fleet failed to act, and by some change in the plans Sir James Crofts was ordered, with what was deemed a sufficient force, to assail the town on the north side, at the place latterly called the Sand Port, where at low water an entrance was deemed easy. For some reason best known to himself Sir James thought proper to remain aloof during the whole uproar of the assault, the ladders provided for which proved too short by half a pike?s length; thus he was loudly accused of treachery-a charge which was deemed sufficiently proved when it was discovered that a few days before he had been seen in conversation with the Queen Regent, who addressed him from the walls of Edinburgh Castle. The whole affair turned out a complete failure, English and Scots were alike repulse2 r%Ah slaughter, ?and singular as it may appear,? says a writer, ? the success of the garrison was not a little aided by the exertionsof certain ladies, whom the French, with their usual gallantry to the fair sex, entertained in their quarters.? To these fair ones Knox applies some pretty rough epithets. The French now made a sally, stripped all the 110 without any prospect of a termination, though Elizabeth continued to send more men and more ships ; but the garrison were reduced to such dire extremities that for food they were compelled to shoot and eat all the horses of the. officers and gens Zurmes. Yet they endured their privations with true French sung froid, vowing never to surrender while a horse was left, <?their officers exhibiting that politeness in the science of gastronomy which is recorded of the Margchal Strozzi, whose maifre de cuisine maintained his master?s table with twelve covers every day, although he had nothing better to set upon it now and then except the quarter of a carrion horse, dressed with the grass and weeds that grew upon the ramparts.? The discovery, a few years ago, of an ancient well filled to its brim with cart-loads of horses? heads, near the head of the Links, was a singular but expressive monument of the resolution with which the town was defended The unfortunate Queen Regent did not live to see the end of these affairs. She was sinking fast. She had contemplated retiring to France, and had a commission executed at Blois by Francis ... REPULSE OF THE ENGLISH AND SCOTS. I77 Cornelle, Shelly, Littleton, Southworthe, and nine other officers, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 275 3d of April following. We shall quote the description of this animating scene :- ‘‘ Upon entering the lobby of C o d s Rooms, the soldiery were so placed as to be seen forming a string of sentries leading to the principctl portico, which, upon entrance, struck the eye with that magical illusion we read of in fairy tales. It was impossible to say which might be considered the head of the room, as much attention as possible being paid to avoid any point of precedence ; each end blazed with hundreds of lamps. The band of the 42d occupied the large orchestra, being more numerous than the 78th. The front bore a very neat transparency of a thistle, surrounded by a motto, Prenez Garde. Festoons of the 42d tartan reached from side to side, on the front of which hung the shields of the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of Huntly, supported by appropriate trophies. On the top were three cuirasses, taken at the late memorable battle ; over the band, figures 42 surrounded by a wreath of laurel ; the whole formed of lamps, had a most brilliant effect. This was surmounted by an illuminated crown. Along the cornice of the room the word WATERLOaOls,o in lamps, supported by wreathed pillars of the bame brilliaut materials, completed the device in compliment to the Xoyal Highlanders. We ought to add that other trophies, formed of musketry, flags, and cuirasses, against the walls, supported the words EGYPT and CORUNNA. “At the other end the band of the 78th Regiment occupied the smaller orchesba, the device in front of which was composed of lamps similar to that of the other regiment, with the shields of Sir Samuel Auchmuty and General Picton ; instead of a crown, a brilliant star topped the number 78. On each side were the words ASSATE and MAIDA. Under this orchestra was a beautiful transparency, representing an old man, with his bonnet, giving a hearty welconie to two soldiers of the 42d and 78th regiments, while a bonnie lassie is peeping out from a cottage door, smiling upon the newly arrived heroes. The background formed a landscape, with Edinburgh Castle in the distance. “ The bands in succession played some most beautiful military airs, while the centre of tlie room, filled with all the beauty and fmhion of Edinburgh, enlivened by the uniforms of the officers of the several regiments, seemed to move in a solid mass to the clash of the cymbals and beat of the hollow drum. About eleven o’clock Gow was called for ; and his corps succeeded that of the 42d. The light fantastic toe ,was soon upon the trip ; and twelve sets were soon made up, which continued the memy dance until after two o’clock. In fact the tout ensern7~Ze was a scene quite enchanting.” Such was the genuine enthusiasm with which the return of the heroes of Waterloo was hailed. The Print prefixed to this sketch was executed at this joyous period. SERGEADNUTF Fw as a gallant soldier-loved his country with all the affection of a true Scot-was humane in disposition-of a free affable manner-and much esteemed by his fellow-soldiers. He had seen a good deal of warfare, and was one of the few instances of individuals rising from the ranks to hold a commission in the British army. His father was a soldier of the Royal Highlanders ; and he may be said to have been born in the corps. He is, however, set down in the books of the regiment as a native of Banffshire, and his enlistment is dated on the 16th of August 1806, he then being only fourteen years of age. Four years afterwards he was promoted to the rank of Corporal, and in 1812 to that of Sergeant. In his capacity of a non-commissioned officer, Sergeant Duff fought on the Pyrenees, at Pampeluna, Neville, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, and was wounded at the storming of Burgos. At Waterloo, the last of the hostile fields, and ... SKETCHES. 275 3d of April following. We shall quote the description of this animating scene ...

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3 34 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. world associations with the knights of St John. Here was the strange old timber-fronted tenement, where rank and beauty held their assemblies in the olden time. Here was the Provost’s lodging where Prince Charles and his elated counsellors were entertained in 1745, and adjoining it there remained till the last a moment0 of his royal ancestor, James 11.’~m assive wall, and of the old Port or Bow whereat the magistrates were wont to present the silver keys, with many a grave and costly ceremonial, to each monarch who entered his Scottish capital in state. Down this steep the confessors of the Covenant were hurried to execution. Here, too, was the old-fashioned fore stair over which the amazed and stuppified youth, who long after sat on the bench under the title of Lord Monboddo, gazed in dreamy horror as the wretched Porteous was dragged to the scene of his crime, on the night of the 7th September 1736, and near by stood the booth at which the rioters paused, and with ostentatious deliberation purchased the rope wherewith he was hung at its foot. Nor must we forget, among its most durable memorabilia, the wizards and ghosts who claimed possessions in its mysterious alleys, maintaining their rights in defiance of t6e march of intellect, and only violently ejected at last when their habitations were tumbled about their ears. This curious zig-zag steep was undoubtedly one of the most ancient streets in the Old Town, and probably existed as a roadway to the Castle, while Edwin’s burgh was comprised in a few mud and straw huts scattered along the higher slope. Enough still remains of it to show how singularly picturesque and varied were the tenements with which it once abounded. At the corner of the Lawnmarket is an antique fabric, reared ere Newton’s law of gravitation wa,s dreamt of, and seeming rather like one of the mansions of Laputa, whose builders had discovered the art of constructing houses from the chimneytops downward! A range of slim wooden posts sustains a pile that at every successive story shoots further into the street until it bears some resemblance to an inverted pyramid. The gables and eaves of its north front, which appear in the engraving of the Weigh-house, are richly carved, and the whole forms a remarknhly striking specimen, the finest that now rhmains, of an ancient tim6er-land. Next come8 a stone-land, with a handsome polished ashlar front and gabled attics of the time of Charles I, Irregular string courses decorate the walls, and a shield on the lowest crowwstep bears the initials of its first proprietors, I. O., I. B., with a curious merchant’s mark between. A little lower down, in one of the numerous supplementary recesses that added to the contortions of this strangely-crooked thoroughfare? a handsomely sculptured doorway meets the view, now greatly dilapidated and time-worn. Though receding from the adjoining building, it forms part of a stone turnpike that projects considerably beyond the tenement to which it belongs : so numerous were once the crooks of the Bow, where every tenement seemed to take up its own independent standing with perfect indifference to the position of its neighbours. On a curiouslr-formed dormer window which surmounts the staircase, the city motto appears to have been cut, but only the first. word now remains legible. Over the doorway below, a large shield in the centre of the lintel bears the Williamson arms, now greatly defaced with this inscription, and date on either side, SOLID. EO. HONO.R E T. GLOBIA, D . W . 1 . 6 . 0. 4 . The initials are those of David Williamson, a wealthy burgese in the time of James VI. But the old stair once possessed-or was believed to possess-strange pro- It is, nevertheless, a fine example of an old burgher dwelling. ... 34 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. world associations with the knights of St John. Here was the strange old ...

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THE HIGH STREET. 23 5 him, and vanished. He arose and proceeded immediately to Edinburgh, to inquire into this strange occurrence, and arriving at the home in Mary King’s Close, found the widow in tears for the death of the husband whose apparition he had seen. This account, we are told, was related by the minister, who was in the house on this occasion, to the Duke of Lauderdale, in the presence of many nobles, and is altogether as credible and mell-authenticated a ghost story as the lovers of the marvellous could desire. The house, after being deserted €or 8 while, was again attempted to be inhabited by a hard-drinking and courageou8 old pensioner and his wife ; but towards midnight the candle began to burn blue, the head again made its appearance, but in much more horrible form, and the terrified couple made a precipitate retreat, resigning their dwelling without dispute- to this prior tenant. Several ancient alleys and a mass of old and mostly ruinouv buildings were demolished in 1753 in preparing the site for the Royal Exchange, ‘various sculptured stones belong-’ ing to which were built into the curious tower erected by Walter ROSS, Esq., at the Dean, and popularly known by the name of ‘‘ ROSS’S Folly.” Several of these were scattered about the garden grounds below the Castle rock, exhibiting considerable variety of carving. Another richly carved stone, consisting of a decorated ogee arch with crocquets and finial, surmounted by shields, was built into a modern erection at the foot of Craig’s Close, and nearly corresponded with one which stood in a more dilapidated state in the Princes Street Gardens, tending to show the important character of the buildings that formerly occupied this site. Among those in the gardens there was a lintel, bearing the Somerville arms, and the date 1658, with an inscription, and the initials I. S ., possibly those of James, tenth Lord Somerville; but this was discovered in clearing out the bed of the North Loch. The old land at the head of Craig’s Close, fronting the main street, claims special notice, as occupying the s’ite of Andrew Hart the famous old printer’s heich buith, lyand within the foir tenement of land upone the north syd of the Hie Streit,”‘ and which, by a curious coincidence, became after the lapse of two centuries the residence of the celebrated bibliopolist, Provost Creech, and the scene of his famed morning levees ; and more recently the dwelling of hIr Archibald Constable, from whose establishment so many of the highest productions of Scottish literature emanated. The printing-house of the old typographer still stands a little way down the close, on the east side. It is a picturesque and substantial stone tenement, with large and neatly moulded windows, retaining traces of the mullions that anciently divided them, and the lower crowstep of the north gable bears a shield adorned with the Sinclair arms. Handsome stone corbels project from the several floors, whereon have formerly rested the antique timber projections referred by Maitland to the reign of James IT. Over an ancient doorway, now built up, is sculptured this motto, 3IY * HOIP * IS - CHRYST - with the initials A * S * and M * K -, a curious device containing the letter S entwined with a cross, and the date 1593. An interesting relic belonging to this land, preserved in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries, is thus described in the list of donations for 1828: ‘(A very perfect ancient Scottish spear, nearly fifteen feet long, which has been preserved from time immemorial, within the old printing office in Craig’s Close, supposed to have been the workshop of the celebrated printer, h d r o Hart.” In, the memorable tumult on Andrew Hart’s will.-Bann, Misc. VOL ii p. 247. ... HIGH STREET. 23 5 him, and vanished. He arose and proceeded immediately to Edinburgh, to inquire into this ...

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L UC‘EN3OOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 2x7 only taken when completely disabled by wounds, and the court was hastily summoned to sit on the following morning, “ that he might not preveen the public execution by his death.” The evidence was found insufticient to convict him of a share in the Rye House Plot, and the king’s advocate proceeded accordingly to lead other accusations of treason against him, among which he charged him as having been one of the masked executioners who beheaded Charles I. He appears to have been a man of most reAolute courage, and a determined republican ; he denied having been the king’s executioner, but readily admitted that he was on guard at the scaffold as one of Cromwell’s troopers, and ‘th<aBt e ihneg ahsakde ds iefr vheed oaws naed litehuet epnreasnetn ti nk ihnigs’ sa ramuyth oarti tyD, uhneb acrr,a vWedo rlceeasvteer ,t oa nbde eDxucnudseede., seeing he need neither offend them nor grate his own conscience.” He was executed the same afternoon, with peculiar barbarity, and his quarters sent to be exposed in some of the chief towns of Scotland, his head being reserved to grace the West Port of Edinburgh. But the day of retribution came at last; the Prince of Orange landed in England, and the feeble representative of the Stuarts was the foremost to desert his own failing cause. From the close of 1688 till March 1689, when a Convention of the Scottish Estates was summoned to meet, Edinburgh was almost left to the government of the rabble. The sack of Holyrood, already described, completely established the superiority of the Presbyterian party, and they signalised their triumph by assaulting the houses of the wealthy Catholics who resided chiefly in the Canongate, which they ‘<ra bbZed,” as the phrase wae, gutting and sometimes setting them on fire. When at length the Convention met, the adherenta of the exiled king crowded to the capital in hopes of yet securing a majority in his favour. Dundee openly marched into the town with a train of sixty horse, while the Whigs with equal promptitude, but secretly, gathered an armed body of the persecuted Presbyterians, whom they concealed in garrets and cellars, ready to sally out at a concerted signal, and turn the scales in favour of their cause. The aumptuous old oaken roof of the Parliament Hall then witnessed as stirring scenes as ever occurred in the turbulent minorities of the Jameses within the more ancient Tolbooth. Dundee arose in his place in the Convention, and demanded that all strangers should be commanded to quit the town, declaring his own life and those of others of the king’s friends to be endangered by the presence of banded assassins. On his demand being rejected, he indignantly left the assembly ; and the Convention, with locked doors and the keys on the table before them, proceeded to judge the government of King James, and to pronounce his crown forfeited and his throne vacant, beneath the same roof where he had so often sat in judgment on the oppressed. Meanwhile Dundee was mustering his dragoons for the rising of the North; the affrighted citizens were beating to arms to pursue him, and the armed Covenanters sallying from their hidingplaces to strike for liberty against the oppressor, on the same streets where they had not openly been seen for years, unless when dragged to torture and execution; while the Convention sternly bent themselves to the great question at issue, expecting every moment that the Duke of Gordon would open a fire on them from the Castle guns, and compel A sort of compromise would seem to have been tacitly entered into with regard to tbb brave “persecutor.” Dalziel and Mackenzie have been delivered up to unmitigated popular infamy, while the same censors still speak of the Bluidy Clavers and the Gallant Dundee, as though they had contrived to divorce hia evil from his good qualities in order innocently to indulge their pride in the hero of Scottish song ! 2E ... UC‘EN3OOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 2x7 only taken when completely disabled by wounds, and the court was hastily ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 83 The reputation of Mr. Baine as a preacher soon spread far beyond the retired scene to which his pulpit ministrations were confined. Being somewhat remarkable for the musical sweetness of his voice, he was honoured by his people with the characteristic epithet of the “Swan of the West.” In 1756 he was presented to the High Church of Paisley, then a new erection. Upon the arduous duties of his important charge he entered in the month of April, with a high degree of popularity ; and throughout the period of his ministration in that town, continued to be greatly esteemed by a large and affectionate congregation, as an eloquent preacher, and an able and sound divine. His personal appearance in the vigour of life was prepossessing-his manner in the pulpit, and his powers of elocution, were peculiarly attractive ; and, though he had the celebrated Dr. Witherspoon for his colleague, who was considered one of the most able clergymen of his day, his church was commonly crowded t,o excess.l When minister of the parish of Killearn, Mr. Baine was intimate with many of the most distinguished clergymen in the Church, and was regarded, particularly by his co-presbyters, as a young man possessed of much personal piety and ministerial zeal and fidelity. 80 early as 1745,‘his name is mentioned with particular honour, as having been warmly engaged amongst his parishioners in From the perusal of a volume of his sermons, which he published in 1777, during the period of his ministry in Edinburgh, we have heen led to consider him, in point of arrangement and composition, superior to many of his contemporaries. In this volume is to be found a judicious discourse on the subject of the Pastoral Care, which he delivered in the Low Church of Paisley at the admission of his colleague, in June 1757. Dr. Witherspoon, the colleague of Mr. Baine, was a man greatly distinguished in his day for his litemry acquirements, and as a preacher and theological writer. He was the son of a clergyman, minister of the parish of Yester, in the Presbytery of Haddmgton ; born in 1721, and educated in the University of Edinburgh. In early life he became a licentiate of the Scottish Establishment, and was soou afterwards presented to the parish of Beith, in Ayrshire. Being a young man of an ardent, enterprising, and patriotic mind, on January 17, 1746, he appeared at the battle of Falkirk with a party of volunteer militia belonging to his parish ; and, on that unfortunate occasion, when the royal army suffered great loss, he was taken prisoner by the rebels. Along with Mr. Home, author of the “Tragedy of Douglas,” and othen, he was confined in the Castle of Doune, near Stirling, from which he and his fellow-prisoners, after having suffered some severe privations, made an adventurous and hairbreadth escape. In June 1757 he was translated from the parish of Beith to the Low Church of Paisley, in which charge he continued eleven years. From an early period of his ministry, Dr. Witherspoon was known to his contemporaries as a clergyman particularly versant in the knowledge of the constitutional polity of the Church of Scotland. Like his colleague Mr. Baine, he was keenly opposed to what he considered the tyrannical measures of the moderate, and at that time the dominant, party of the Church, and became one of their ablest opponents by the publication of his “ Eccldastical Characteristics, or the Arcana of Church Polity,” and the grave “Apology ” he afterwards published for that ingenious performance. Having published in London three volumes of his sermons and essays in 1764, the fame of his talents 89 a theological writer not only spread over Britain, but extended across the Atlantic to the British Colonies. In consequence of the reputation he had acquired, he was repeatedly solicited by the Trustees of Nassau Hall College, Princetown, New Jersey, the Presidency of which had become vacant, to accept of that office. Upon the arrival of Dr. Withenpoon in America he was cordially received by the Trustees, and for a number of years afterwards directed the attention of his sagacious and reflecting mind in originating and maturing various educational improvements in that seminary, over which so many eminent men He waa at last induced to consent, and left his charge in Paisley, May 1768. ... SKETCHES. 83 The reputation of Mr. Baine as a preacher soon spread far beyond the retired scene to ...

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B I 0 G RAP €I I CA L S K ET C H E S. 175 the Crown. This consoling information Was received by Lord Clare in 1769, with a passport from the British Government for me to meet my family in Denmark, and a farther promiseo f procuring me a pardon when there should be a peace with France. 6‘ Lord Clare died between the time of the signature of the preliminaries and that of the definite peace of 1803, and I was left without a Patron. &fr. Thomas Stet&, whose schoo~-fe,ow and fellow-collegian 1 had been, having heard these declarations, was induced by a mutnal friend to adopt my cause, and he followed it UP with a zeal I can nerer forget. When tile French armies were approaching Hamburgh, where I then resided with my family, he procured for me a promise of a pardon, if I would accept of it on the condition of never setting my foot in land without the permission of the Irish Government, which was to be expressed in the body of the pardon, niider a large penalty. I accepted of the terms with thankfulness, and embarked for England. Mr. Steele procured the instrument, to be immediately drawn up alld laid before the Chancellor to receive the great soal. The Chancellor refused to put the seal to such an instrument ; and it was above a year after-during which time it was found that the pardon must be under the great seal of Ireland, where the treason was committed-that he gave as i( reason for his refusal, that it would have put it in my power, on the payment of the pardon sum, to have gone to Ireland whenever I pleased. “ I then petitioned the Irish Government, stating the circumstances of the case, and I received an unconditional pardon. But the same condition of not residing or going to Ireland, without the permission of the Irish Government, was implied. In the summer 1805 I appeared in the Court of King’s Bench here, and pleaded my pardon.’ I returned immediately after to England, according to promise. Shortly after, my father died ; and I applied to Lord Castlereagh to procure me a permission to pass a fern months on my family estate, to regulate my affairs. He was so good as to make the application ; but before Lord Hardwicke’s answer arnved a change of ministry took place ; and I then applied for a permission to reside in Ireland, which was granted; and I have lived here ever since, most sincerely anxious to promote peace, harmony, and submission to the laws and constitution of Britain.” From this period fib. Rowan continued to reside in domestic quiet-enjoying the respect of his fellow-citizens, and the entire confidence of Government. He sat for many years on the bench as a magistrate ; and he and his family were frequently to be met, “in dresses singularly splendid,” at the Castle drawingrooms, “where they were well received by the viceroy, and many of the nobility and gentry.” Mr. Rowan died at his house in Holles Street, Dublin, on the 6th November 1834, in the eighty-fourth year of his age-having outlived his eldest son, Captain Gawin William Hamilton, C.B., so much distinguished as a naval officer, and who expired ‘‘ at Rathcoffey, County Kildare, the seat of his aged father,” on the 17th August previous, in the fiftieth year of his age. hfr. Frederick Hamilton Rowan, a younger son-a midshipman in the navy-was killed at the battle of Palamos in 18 10. The following account of hfr. Hamilton Rowan in his old age, by a gentleman of this city, appeared in the Edinburgh Literary Journal for November 1831 :- I “In the Court of King% Bench, Dublin, on the 1st of July, the outlam against Mr. Hamilton Rowan wa8 reversed ; and, $eading his Majesty’s pardon, he was discharged ; previous to which he made a very handsome speech, in which he expressed his gratitude to his Majesty for his clemency, by which he was enabled Once more to meet his wife and children, who had not only been unmolested, but had been protected and cherished when he was in a foreign He regretted with much sensibility, the of his former life, and the violent meaureS he had pursued, and promised to atone for them to his country and his family, W his future loyal conduet.” -Scots Mugw’n8, 1805. ... I 0 G RAP €I I CA L S K ET C H E S. 175 the Crown. This consoling information Was received by Lord Clare in ...

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364 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Moultray?s Hill. + CHAPTER XLVII. MOULTRAY?S HILL-HER MAJESTY?S GENERAL REGISTER HOUSE. The Moultrays of :hat Ilk-Village of Moultray?s Hill-The Chapel of St. Ninian-St. James?s SquaeBuuker?s Hill-Mr. Dundas-Robert Burns?s House-State of the Scottish Records-Indifference .of the Government in r74c-The Register House built-Its Objects and Sie-Curious Documents prc;erved in this House-lhe Office of Lord Clerk Register-The Secretary?s Register-The Register of Sasines-The Lyon King .f Arms-Sir Dnrid Lindesay-Sir James Balfour-Sir Alexander ErskintNcw Register House-Great and Privy Seals of Scotland-The Wellington Statue. AT the north end of the bridge, and immediately opposite it and the New General Post Office, the ground forming the east end of the main ridge onwhich the New Town is built rises to some elevation, and bore the name of Multrie?s or Moultray?s Hill, which Lord Hailes in his ?Annals ? supposes to be the corruption of two Gaelic words ?signifying the covert or receptacle of the wild boar;? but it would appear rather to have taken its name from the fact of its being the residence of the Moultrays of Seafield, a baronial Fifeshire family of eminence in the time of James IV., whose lonely old tower stands in ruins upon a wave-washed rock near K i n g h o r n. Alexander Stemart of Grenane (ancestor of the Earls of Galloway), who fell: at Flodden, left sixteen daughters, one of whom was married to Moultray of Seafield, and another to Tours of Inverassize,? in a criminal trial, as recorded by Pitcairn. In 1715 Alexander Malloch of Moultray?s Hill quitted this ancient house at Edinburgh, to join the DK. JOHN HOPE. (AferKay.) leith, whose castle in those days would be quite visible from the height where St. James?s Square stands. The name first occurs in Scottish records, in the time of David II., when ? I Henry Multra? had the lands of Greenhill, near Edinburgh, of Henry Braid of that ilk. On the 7th of February, 1549, John Moultray of Seafield signed a charter in the chartulary of Dunfermline. In 1559, the laird being of the Catholic faction, had to furnish the insurgent lords with corn and cattle. They besieged his tower, and took him prisoner, but released him on parole not to assist the queen regent?s French troops. In 1559 Moultray of Seafield m?as chancellor of ?ane Highlanders under Brigadier Macintosh of Borlum, but was shot dead in mistake by them near the village of Jock?s Lodge; and after 1739 the older family, which became extinct, was represented by the Moultrays of Rescobie. From the abode of this old race, then, Moultray?s Hilltook itsname. Gordon of Rothiemay?s map shows a large quadrangular edifice, with gables and dormer windows crowning the apex of the hill, which may be the residence of the family referred to ; but by 1701 quite a suburban village had sprung up in that quarter, the occupants of which, weavers and other tradesmen, had the quarrel, recorded elsewhere, withthe magistrates of Edinburgh, who, to punish them, closed Halkerston?s Wynd Port, and, by the loch sluice, flooded the pathway that led to their houses. In 1765 the village seems to have consisted of at least ten distinct blocks of several houses each, surrounded by gardens and parks, on each side of the extreme east end of the Long Gate (now Princes Street), and from thence Leith Street takes precisely the curve of the old road, on its way to join the Walk. At the eastern foot of this hill, exactly where now stands the western pier of the Regent Bridge, deep down in a narrow hollow, stood the ancient chapel of St. Ninian (or St. Ringan, ?whose fame,? says Nirnmo, ?? has been embalmed in the many churches ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Moultray?s Hill. + CHAPTER XLVII. MOULTRAY?S HILL-HER MAJESTY?S GENERAL REGISTER ...

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High Street.] U?ARRISTON?S CLOSE. 223 the floors as a picture gallery or exhibition, a new leature in the Edinburgh of the seventeenth century, and long before any such idea had been conceived in France, England, or any other country. Some of his best works were in possession of the late Andrew Bell, engraver, the originator of the ?? Encyclopzdia Britannica,? who married his granddaughter. ?For some years after the Revolution,? says Pinkerton, ? he was the only painter in Scotland, and had a very great run of business. This brought him into a hasty and .incorrect manner.? So here, in the Advocates? -* ~ Close, in the dull and anorose Edinburgh of the seventeenth cendury, was the fashionable lounge of the dilettanti, .the resort of rank and beauty-a quarter from which the haut ton of the ,present day would shrink with aversion. He died at Prestonpans in the year 1730, in his eighty-fifth year, after having witnessed as startling a series of political changes as ever occurred in a long lifetime. Taking the ancient .alleys seriatim, Roxburghe Close comes next, numbered as 341, High Street, and. so - -_ -- = --_= -- -+- next we come to in descending the north side of the street, remains only in name, the houses on both sides being entirely new, and its old steep descent broken at intervals by convenient flights of steps; but until r868 it was nearly unchanged froin its ancient state, some relics of which still remain. It had handsome fronts of carefully-polished ashlar, with richly-decorated doorways with pious legends on their lintels, to exclude witches, fairies, and all manner of evil ; there were ornate dormer named, it may COnfi- HOUSE OF LORD ADVOCATE STEWART, AT THE FOOT dently be supposed OF ADVOCATES? CLOSE, w e s ~ SIDE. (though it cannot be proved as a fact) from having contained the town residence of some ancient Earl of Roxburghe. All its ancient features have disappeared, save a door built up with a handsome cut legend in raised Roman letters :-?WHATEVER ME BEFALL I THANK THE LORD OF ALL. J. M., 1586.? This is said to have been the dwelling-place of the Roxburghe family, but by tradition only. If true, it takes the antiquary back to the year in which .Sir Walter Kerr of Cessford (ancestor of the Dukes .of Roxburghe), ? baron of Auld-Roxburghe, the .castle thereof and the lands of Auldtonbum, &c.,? died at a great age, the last survivor, perhaps, of the affray in which Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch gerished at Edinburgh. Warriston?s Close (anciently called Bruce?s), the windows on the roofs with steep crow-stepped gables, black with the smoke and storms of centuries. MIHI . SEMPER. DEUS. 1583,? was the legend which first caught the eye above a door of a tenement on the west ? side, long occupied bj James Murray, Lord Philiphaugh, raised to the bench November Ist, 1689, without having any predecessor, being 0n.e of the set of judges nominated after the Re- , volution. After being chosen member of Parliament for Selkirk in 1681, he had become an object of special jealousy to the Scottish Cavalier Government. He was imprisoned in 1684, and under terror ? QUI . ERrr . ILLE . of being tortured in the iron boots, before the Privy Council in the high Chamber below the Parliament House, he gave evidence against those who were concerned in the Rye House Plot. Lord Philiphaugh had the character of being an upright judge, but the men of his time never forgot or forgave the weakness that made him stoop to save his life, though many of them might no doubt have acted in the same way, the Scottish Privy Council of that time being a species of Star Chamber that did not stand on trifles. Farther down the close was another edifice, the lintel of which like some others that were in the same locality, has been with great good taste rebuilt, as a lintel, into the extensive printing and publishing premises of the Messrs. Chambers, a ... Street.] U?ARRISTON?S CLOSE. 223 the floors as a picture gallery or exhibition, a new leature in the ...

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234 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. for all the world.”1 It was the fate of this old mansion of the Earls of Angus to be linked at its close in the misfortunes of a Douglas. It formed during last century the banking-house of Douglas, Heron, & Company, whose failure spread dismay and suffering through a widely-scattered circle, involving both high and low in its ruin. The Chapel of Ease in New Street, erected in 1794, now partly occupies the site. Several other interesting relics of the olden time were destroyed to make way for this ungainly ecclesiastical edifice. One of these appears from the titles to have been the residence of Henry Kinloch, a wealthy burgess of the Canongate, to whose hospitable care the French ambassador was consigned by Queen Mary in 1565. An old diarist of the period relates, that ‘‘ Vpoun Monunday the ferd day of Februar, the seir of God foirsaid, thair come ane ambassatour out of the realm of France, callit Monsieur Rambollat, with xxxvj horse in tryne, gentilmen, throw Ingland, to Halyrudhous, quhair the King and Queenis Majesties wes for the tyme, accumpanyit with thair nobillis. And incontinent efter his lychting the said ambassatour gat presens of thair graces, and thairefter depairtit to Henrie Kynloches lugeing in the Cannogait besyid Edinburgh.” A few days afterwards, ‘( The Kingis Majestie [Lord Darnley], accumpanyit with his nobillis in Halyrudhous, ressavit the ordour of knychtheid of the cokill fra the said Rambollat, with great magniilcence. And the samin nycht at evin, our soueranis maid ane banket to the ambassatour foirsaid, in the auld chappell of Halyrudhous, quhilk wes reapparrellit with fyne tapestrie, and hung m a p s - centlie, the said lordis maid the maskery efter supper in ane honrable manner. And vpoun the ellevint day of the said moneth, the King and Quene in lyik manner bankettit the samin ambassatour ; and at evin our soueranis maid the maskrie and mumschance, in the quhilk the Queenis grace, and all her maries and ladies wer all cledin men’s apperrell; and everie ane of thame presentit ane quhingar, bravelie and maist artiticiallie made and embroiderit with gold, to the said ambassatour and his gentlemen.” * On the following day the King and Queen were entertained, along with the ambassador and his suite, at a splendid banquet provided for them in the Castle by the Earl of Mar ; and on the second day thereafter, Monsieur Rambollat bade adieu to the Court of Holyrood. It is to be regretted that an accurate description cannot now be obtained of the burgher mansion which was deemed a fitting residence for one whom the Queen delighted to honour, and for whose entertainment such unwonted masquerades were enacted. It was probably quite as homelya dwelling as those of the same period that still remain in the neighbourhood. The sole memorial of it that now remains is the name of the alley running between the two ancient front lands previously described, through which the ambassador and his noble visitors must have passed, and which is still called Kinloch’s Close after their burgher host. New Street, which is itself a comparatively recent feature of the old burgh, is a curious sample of a fashionable modern improvement, prior to the bold scheme of the New Town. It still presents the aristocratic feature of a series of detached and somewhat elegant mansions. Its last century occupants were Lord Kames-whose house is at the head of the street on the east side-Lord Hailes, Sir Philip and Lady Betty Anstruther, and Dr Hume of Godscroft’s History of the Douglases, p. 432. ’ Diurnal of Occurrenta, pp. 86, 87. There appears, indeed (Maitlaud, p. 149), to have been another Kinloch‘s lod,&g near the palace, but the correapondenoe of name and data Beems to prove the above to be the one referred to. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. for all the world.”1 It was the fate of this old mansion of the Earls of Angus to ...

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THE HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. 273 have tint and foirfaltit thair lyvis, lands, and guidis, and ordaynit thair armes to be rifEin, and thair names and armes to be eleidit out of the buikis thairof for euer.” The outlawed burgess’s house in the Fountain Close appears to have been immediately seized by his opponents as a forfeiture to the Queen, in whose name they acted, and to have been converted into a battery and stronghold for assailing the enemy, for which its lofty character and vicinity to the city wall peculiarly fitted it. A contemporary historian relates that ‘‘ the Regent, Johne Erle of Mar, for beseageing of the toun of Edinburgh, cawsit nyne pece of ordonance, great and small, be broght to the Cannogait, to have assailzeit the east port of the toun ; bot that place was not thoght commodious, .wharefore the gunnis war transportit to a fauxburg of the toun, callit Pleasands ; and thairfra they laid to thair batterie aganis the toun walls, whilk began the tent of September, and shot at a platfurme whilk was erectit upon a howheid, perteining to Adame Fullartoun.” Adam Fullarton speedily returned t o his house at the Nether Bow ; and while the English forces under Sir William Durie were casting up trenches and planting cannon for the siege of Edinburgh Castle in the name of the young Eing, he was again chosen a burgess of the Parliament which assembled in the Tolbooth on the 26th of April 1573.’ This date corresponds with that carved on the lintel of the old mansion in the Fountain Close. It may be doubted, however, whether it indicates more than its repair, as it is expressly mentioned by the contemporary already quoted, that (‘ thaj did litill or na skaith to the said hous and platforme.”’ We can hardly doubt that this ancient tenement will be viewed with increasing interest by our local antiquaries, associated as it is with so important a period of national history. The vincit veritas of the brave old burgher acquires a new force when we consider the circumstances that dictated its inscription, and the desperate struggle in which he had borne a leading part, before he returned to carve these pious aphorisms over the threshold that had so recently been held by his enemies. It only remains to be mentioned of the Fountain Close, that it formed, at a very recent period, the only direct access from the High Street to the Cowgate Chapel, while that was the largest and most fashionable Episcopal Chapel in Edinburgh. remains at the foot of it, though long since deserted by its noble occupants. It is mentioned by Defoe among the princely buildings of Edinburgh, ‘( with a plantation of lime trees behind it, the place not allowing room for a large garden.” This, however, must have been afterwards remedied, as its pleasure grounds latterly extended down to the Cowgate. Successive generations of the Tweeddale family have occupied this house, which continued to be their town residence till the general desertion of the Scottish capital by the nobility soon after the Union. The old mansion still retains many traces of former magnificence, notwithstanding the rude changes to which it has been since subjected. Its builder and f i s t occupant was Lady Pester, the pious founder of the church in Edinburgh that bears her name.“ By her it was presented to her grandson, John, second Earl of This desperate and bloody civil war was happily of brief duration. Immediately below this is the Marquis of Tweeddale’s Close, whose large mansion still ‘ Diurn, of Occurrenta, p. 244. Hist. of Jamee the Sext, Bann. Club, p. 94, a Diurn. of OCC.p, . 331. a Dame Margaret Ker, Lady Yester, third daughter of Hark, first Earl of Lothian, WBB born in 1672, the year of John Knox’s death, so that Tweeddale H o w ia a building of the early part of the seventeenth century. Among the ‘ Hist. of James the Sext, p. 251. Defoe’s Tour, vol. iv. p. 86. 2af ... HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. 273 have tint and foirfaltit thair lyvis, lands, and guidis, and ordaynit thair ...

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GENERAL INDEX. Christ?s Church at the Tron, I. 187 Christ?s Church. Castle Hill. I. 82 Chrystie family,?The, 111, 43, 45 Church Hill 111. 38, 71 Church Lad! 11. 1x5, 111. 38 Church offenders, how punished, 11.132 Ci her of Lord Damley and Queen ham. I. ?16 C+Ls?&e,rIII. 307 Circus Place School 111. 81 Circus, The, Leith?Walk, I. 346, Ci:adel Port Leith, 111. 257, 258, 261 ; its irection by Monk, 111. 11. 178 187 256 City ? h l e r y Volunteer Corps, I. 286 City gaol 11. 231 City gates Number of, to be open daily ~ i . 222 city (;Lard, the Edinburgh, I. 5% 274 ment of the, 11. z$ City improvements Commence- City of Glasgow Bant, 11. 162 Civic privileges, Insistauce on by Civil War, First movements of, I. Clam Shell Land I. 239 Clam Shell lurdpike, The, I. 149 Clan regiments, I. 327 Clanranald, I. 334, 11. 35, 111. 146 Clanship, Influence of, I. 134,168 Claremont Park, Leith, 111. 266 Chmont Street Chapel, 111. 75 Claremont Terrace, 111. 88 Clarence Street, 111. 78 83 84 Clarendon Crescent IIi. 7; ? Clarinda,.? 11,327: 328 ; house of, I1 * 32. room in, 11. *333 chic02 CAmrie, 11.159 Clarke Alexander, 11. 242 Clarke: Provost Alexander, I. 193, Clarkson Stanfield. the oainter. 111. the citizens, 11. 280 159; events of the, 111. 184 246, 111. 72 , _ , 78 tions, 11. 250, 111. 75 a descendant of, 11. a07 ?Chudero,? the wit ; his produc- Claverhouse, l?he spectre of, I. 66 ; Clavering, Lady Augwta, 11. 139 Cleanliness in the streets, Necessity ?Cleanse the Causeway,? I. 39, 194, Cleghorn, the physician, 111. 311 ; Clelland?s Gardens, 111.152 Cleriheugh?s Tavern, I. 120, 184, for, 1. 193, 199. 203 258, 263, 11. 251 his nephew, rb. IR, Cl& Sir John, I. 231 232 Clerk? John (Lord Eld$) 11. 186 Clerk?ofEldin. the ~val?tacticim. 111. 359, 3 6 Clerk 01 Penicuick, St George, 111. 359 Clerk of Pennicuick, Sir James, I. 92, 11. 123 ; his wife 11. IZ 124 125,111.192, 193; reiicsof8rinc: Charles, 11. 124, Clerk of Penuicuck, Si John, I. 111 11. 137 111. 63 198 Clerk: David,?physici;n, 11. agg Clerk Street Chapel 111. 51 Clerks, Society of, i. 167 Clermistou, 111. r q Clestram Lady I. 106 Cleuchdidstode 111. 33? Clifton Walter df 11. 50 Clinch? the actor, ?I. 352 Clock&.ker, The first, 11. 263 Clockmaker?s Land, I. 31p. *321 Clockmill House, 11.41, 308 Closes, The old, 11. 241, 242 ?Clouts Castle of? 11. 355 Clyde Lord 11. 3;3 Clydeidale Bank, The, II.148,III. 239 Coaches between Edinburgh and London, I. 55; between Edinburgh and Glasgow I. 201 between Edinburghan?d hith,?IIl. 151, 152 Coal Supposed existence of, near Gkton, 111. 308 ; the Esk coalseams, 111. 358,359 Coal Hill, Leith, 111. 234, 235.246, 247. 250 Coalstoun, Lord, I. 154, 111. 367 ; anecdote of I. 154 Coates, 11.24, zIr, III. 42, gz Coates Crescent, 11. 210, 2x1 Coates Gardens, 11. 214 Coates House 11. 1x1 259 Coates Manoi-house i f haster, 11. Coatfield Gutter, Leith, 111. 194 Coatfield Lane, Leith, 111. ZZO,ZZI Cobbler A clever I. 271 CobouriStreet,L;iyh,III.~5,256; sculptured stone in, 111. *260 Cochrane, Lady Mary, 11.272 Cockburn, Lord, I. 159, 282 265 307, 362, 366, 374. 375, 3& 11: 81, 84, 90, 9 1 ~ 93, 95, 4 I q , 114, 162, ?741 2839 339, 34793488r 111. 62, 68, 78, 86, 95,. 110, his father, 111. 87 ; his residence at Banally, 111. 326, * 328 Cockburn, Sir Adam, I. 68 Cockbum, Alexander, the city Cockburn Archibald, High Judge Cockburn, Henry, the counsel, 11. Cockburn Provost Patrick, 11. 55 Cockburn? Sheriff, I. 172 Cockburn?ofOrmiston, II.348,III. 58 ; Mrs., the poetess, I. gg. 11. Cockburn itreet, I. 229, 237, 283, 286 11. ~ r n ?Codked Hat? Hamilton, 11. 139 Cockfighting II.236,III. a63 263 ; customary:n 1783, 11. 119 Cocklaw Farm, Currie. 111. 331 Cockpen,III.gr8;theLairdof,I.91 Cockpit, The, 11. I 6 Coffee-house, The lrst Edinburgh, Coinage, 1 he Scottish, I. z6g Colchester?s Cuirarrsien, I. 64 Coldingham,Lord Johnof, II.67,72 Coldingham, Prior of, I. 39 Coldstream. Dr. John, 11. 187 Colinton, 111. 35, 125, zr6, 314, *321, 322, 323 324; its local history, 111. 322,? 323 Colinton House 111. 323 Colinton, Lords: 111. 323 Colinton Tower, 111. 333 College The I. 379 11. 255, zsg ; estabkshmgnt of, h. 8 College Kirk cemetery, 111. 15 College of Justice, I. 121, 166, 182, 195, 219, 259, 340, 368, 11. 203, 207, 325. 111. 49. 202, 316, 3% 334,338,359; firstmembersofthe, 1. 167 College ofPhysicians I. 278 11. 146 College ofsurgeons i1.146?111.15 College Street, 11. &I, 326; 111. 3 College Wynd, 11. ?249, 251, 254, Colonsay ?Lord i. 159 11. 127 197 Colquho& of ?KillerAont, dchi- Colquioun ?i?r John 11. 166 Colstoun iady I 282 Coltbridie, I. j36, 111. 102, 103, Coltbridge house and Hall, 111. Coltheart?s, Mr. and Mrs., ghostly Colville, Lord, 11. 335 Colville ofCclross, Alexander Lord, Colville of Easter Wem Combe, George, the pEnologist, Comhe?l Clcse, Leith, 111. 126; ? Comedy Hut, I$ed Edinburgh,? Comely Bank 111. 7 82, 323 Comely Gardks II? 128, ~ 3 5 Comely Green IiI. rz8 Comiston IIL 316; Lairds of I. 97 ; the?battle stone, 111. *3;6 115, 116 hangman, 11. 231 Admirai, 11. 348 =27r 3?5 1.61, 329, 46 1; 174s 178 274, 383 111. 3 8 bald 11. 114, 118, 19 ?03 visitors, I. 228 11. I15 I. 147 1. 384 111. 68 ancient buildin in ib. 1.230 Comiston House, 111. 326 Commendator Kobert of Holyrood. - . 1. 239 Commercial Ehuk, The, I. 175,II. 147 Commercial Street L$h, 111. 258 ?Commodore O B k n 111. 154 Communication betwken the north and south sides of the city, Plan for I. * 296 Comhunion, how celebrated, 11. Comyn, 111. 351 Confession of Faith, The, I. 123 Congalton, Dr. Fraucis, the phy- Biclan, 11. zg8 Congalton of Congalton, 111. 58 Connell, Sir John advocate, 11. 194 Conn?s Close, I. ;go, II. 241 Conservative Club The 11. 125 Constable,Archibaid, th; publisher, I. 157, 210, 229 291,339, 11. 1x8, * I Z I , 142. 15:; the h?din6vmh Rmim, I. ZII ; his customers, I. 210 ; his shop, I. 2x1, 11. raz ; Lockhart?s description ofhim, 11. 122; his bankruptcy, ib.; his portrait, ib. 132 : CUPS, ia. Constable, Thomas, 111. log, 110 Constable?s Tower, The, I. 36, 49 Constables, Appointment of city, I. Constables of the Castle I. 78 ConstitutionStreet. Lei;h, 111. 171, cution oftwopirates, 111.243, a67 Convening Rooms, 11. 104,106 Convenery, The, Leith, 111. aog Convention of Royal Burghs, Cooper Dr. Myles 11. 247 Cooper; of Go&, The family of Coopkrs The, 11.265 Cope, si ohn, I. 322, 325, 326, Cordiners, or shoemakers The, 11. 203 184,239, 243, a44. ~ 8 8 , 289 ; exe- Ancient, I. 186 the 111. 318 327. 333, 11. 281, 111. 132, 263 . . . . 263 Cordiners of thehougate, 11.19 ; Cordiners 0) the Portsburgh, A r m s Corehodse Lord 11. 206, 207 Corn Excbange,?Grassmarket, 11. Corn Exchange, Leith, 111. 239 Corn Market, The, I. 178, 11. 222, Cornwallis Lord iI1. 23 193, 335 Corporal &on DL, I. $5 Corooration of Candlemakers. 11. their king ib. ofthe 11. 224 236 230,231 ; the old 11. *z33 a&, 267 Cor oration privileges, Monopoly CoGoratious, The Ancient, 11. 263 O f 11. I5 . - -267. 111. I< Correction House, The, 11. 323, Corri SFgnor 11.178 179 CorriLhie, Bahe of (& Battles) Corstorphine, I. 254. 323, 324. 111. IIZ-I~I, 3x8, 3?9, 327, 332, 314; its name 111. 112, 113 Corstorphine Castle, 111. 118 Corstorphine Church, III. 115,?116, I m ; its hltory, 111. i15--163 Corstorphine Craigs, 111.113 Corstorphine cream, 111. 114 Corstorphine Cross 111. 113 CorstorphineHill,IkI. xq, 113,118 ; viewof Edinburghfram, II1.*117 Corstorphine Loch, 111. 42, 118 Cotterell, Lieut.-Col., General Assembly expelled by, 11. 223. Cotterill, Right Rev. Henry, Bishop of Edinburgh, 11.212 Coulter. William. Lord Provost. 11. 283 ; his funerd, 111. 39 Council Chamber The ancient cos! Hill, h i d , 111. a46, 247: ? Coull?s Clow, 11. 5, ?7 ? 248 Country Dinner Club, The, 111.125 Couutv Hall. The. I. IZZ Cuupir, Lord 1. ;54 164 111. azz Couper Stm;, Leith: I l i . 258 Courtof Session, 1.166, ?61, 11. a3 ; robable extinction of 1. 174 ? &U* of Sesuon GarlAd,?? I. 1% COUrtS Of 1. 157 courts of w, 11. 245 226, 111. 30, 184, 186, I&, 33,; courage ofthe I 160 161 11.19; transportatiod 0.i th;, IiI. IQ ; execution of the 11. 235111.156 Covenanters? Flag: 1. 54 Covenanters? Prison, Entrance to the, 11. * 381 Coventry, the lecturer 11. 120 Covington, Lord I. :70 272, 338, Cow Palace, 11. 319 cowan Lord 11.207 Cowan: War;?house of Messrs., 11. Cowfeeder Row, 111.94 Cowgate, The. I. % 31, 38, 3% 1x0, 123, IP, 148, 157, 161,162, 179. 181, 2071 217, 219, 245. 253, 255, 263, 266, 267, 268, 278. 2 2, 294, 86, 147. 166, 232-68, a m 273, 358, II. 116 Iii. 135 ; ?hi, pwn, I. 170, 11. :87 171 295, 3731 374, 375, 378,li: 2, 23. 282. 293, 346 111. 23 31 47 6, 53. 63, 125, 126 ;?its early name, the Sou?gate, or Southstreet, 11.239, 249 ; origin of the thoroughfare, 11. 239 ; ancient weapons found therein, 11.240 ; oldhouses in the, 11. * 240, * 244 ; ancient maps of thecowgate 11. *141, *245,?161; excavations kade on the site 11. a45 ; head of Cowgate, P& 21 Cowgate Chapel 11. 194 Cowgate Churcd, 11. 188 Cowgate Head, 11. 168, 241, 267 Cowgate Port, 1.274, 278,298, *pi, 11. 17, 146 ~ 3 9 , 2 1 0 , ~ o 111 156 Cowper, Bishop, t h e g a l k 111: 260 Craftsmen, l?he early, 11. ;63 Craig, Lord, 11. 121, 143, 187, 270, Craig, sir Lewk I. 226 111. 322 Craig of RiccrtrtAn, Sir khomas, I. Craig, James, architect, 11. 105, Craig John the Reformer I1 262 Craiiof Ridcarton, Rob& 11: 123, Craig hnd, The, 11. 103, 111. 186, =a7 Craig Houx, 111.42; its successive owners, I I . 4 2 , 4 3 , * ~ ; itsdiningroom and kitchen, 111. *# Craigantinnie, JamesNisbetof. 111. 63 Cnugantinnie manor-house, 111. Cmgantmnie marbles, The, 111. 138, * 144 Craigcrook,III. 78 107 ; itssuccessive owners, I I ~ . 107 ; a fearful tragedy and remarkable dream, 111.108, r q Craigcrook Castle, 111. 106, * 107, I d 1 9 110 *I12 Craiicrook, d d y , 111. log Craigie-Wallace, Lady, 111. ya Craigingalt, or Craigangilt, The rock 11. 102, 111. 151 Craigkth. III. 94, 107 Craigleith quarry, 111. 82, 83, 111. Craiglockhart 111. 42, 43 C+glc+hart?HiIl, 111. 42 Cmgmllar, 11. 336, 111. 57. 142, 327 226,111.321, 322 117, 118, 146 111.334 136, 138.7 141 23 1 3 7 2399 287, 338 Craigmillar, Henry de, 111. 58 Craigmillar Laird of, 111. 61, 94 Craigmil1ar)CnstIe. I. 1s. 42,77,111. 3, p, 58; views of, 111. *6a Platc 27; its history, I l l . 58- 62; Queen Mary at, 111. 59 Craigmillar Hill 111. 61 Craigmilh pari, III. 51, 58 Craigmillar Road, 111. 58 Craig?s Close I. 179 203 za9. 230 Craig?s plan Af the dew ltreets and Cramond village, 111. 311. 314- 318, Pkte 34; its history, 111. 314, 31s; the ?Twa Brigs,? 111. 31s. old Cramond Brig, 111. squares, 11. XI,, XI8 ... INDEX. Christ?s Church at the Tron, I. 187 Christ?s Church. Castle Hill. I. 82 Chrystie family,?The, ...

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246 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street. OF the house of Provost Nicol Edward (or Udward, to which we have referred) a very elaborate description is given in the work entitled ? Minor Alexander Clark?s house, at the same wynd head.? In after years the lintel of this house was built in to Ross?s Tower, at the Dean. It bore this legend :- ?THE LORD IS MY PROTECTOR, ALEXANDRUS CLARK.? Nicol Edward was Provost of Edinburgh in 1591, and his house was a large and substantial building of quadrangular form and elegant proportions. The Chancellor at this time was Sir John Maitland of Lethington, Lord Thirlestane. Moyses next tells us that on the 7th of February, George Earl of Huntly (the same fiery peer who fought the battle of Glenlivat), ? with his friends, to the number of five or six score horse, passed from his Majesty?s said house in Edinburgh, as intending to pass to a horse-race in Leith ; but after they came, they passed forward to the Queensferry, where they caused to stop the passing of all boats over the water,? and &ossing to Fife, attacked the Castle of Donnibristle, and slew ?? the bonnie Earl of Murray.? From this passage it would seem that if Huntly?s six score horse were not lodged in Nicol Edward?s house, they were probably billeted over all the adjacent wynd, which six years after was the scene of a homicide, that affords a remarkable illustration of the exclusive rule of master over man which then prevailed. On the first day of the sitting of Parliament, the 7th December, 1597, Archibald Jardine, niasterstabler and servitor to the Earl of Angus, was slain, through some negligence, by Andrew Stalker, a ,goldsmith at Niddry?s Wynd head, for which he was put in prison. Then the cry of ??Armour !? went through the streets, and all the young men of Edinburgh rose in arms, under James Williamson, their captain, ?? and desirit grace,? as Birrel records, ?for the young man who had done ane reckless deed. The King?s majesty desirit them to go to my Lord of Angus, the man?s master, and satisfy and carved his arms, with an anagram upon his name thus :- ?* VA @UN VOL h CHRIST ?- pacify his wrath, and he should be contentit to save his life.? James Williamson thereupon went to the Earl of Angus, and offered, in the name of the young men of the city, ? their manreid,? or bond of man-rent, to be ready to serve him in war and feud, upon which he pardoned the said Andrew Stalker, who was immediately released from prison. In December, 1665, Nicoll mentions that a doctor of physic named Joanna Baptista, acting under a warrant from his Majesty Charles II., erected a stage between the head of Niddry?s Wynd and Blackfriars? Wynd, whereon ?he vended his drugs, powder, and medicaments, for the whilk he received a great abundance of money.? In May, 1692, we read that William Livingstone, brother of the Viscount Kilsyth, a cavalier, and husband of the widow of Viscount Dundee, had been a prisoner in the Tolbooth from June, 1689, to November, 1690-seventeen months ; thereafter, that he had lived in a chamber in the city under a guard for a year, and that he was permitted to go forth for a walk daily, but still under the eye of a guard. In consequence of his being thus treated, and his rents being sequestrated by the Revolutionary Government, his fortune was entirely ruined. On his petition, the Privy Council now permitted him ? to go abroad under a sentinel each day.from morning to evening furth of the house of Andrew Smith, periwig-maker, at the head of Niddry?s Wynd,? he finding caution under A;1,500 sterling to remain a prisoner. Under an escort of dragoons he was permitted to leave the periwig-maker?s, and visit Kilsyth, after which he was confined in two royal castles and the Tolbooth till 1693, ?so that, as a writer remarks, ?in the course of the first five years of British liberty, Mr. Livingstone must have acquired a tolerably extensive acquaintance with the various forms and modes of imprisonment, so far as these existed in the northern section of the island.? ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street. OF the house of Provost Nicol Edward (or Udward, to which we have ...

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354 BIOGRAPHICAf, SKETCHES. stated that Downie accompanied Watt to his place at the W-ater-of-Leith, when the order was given for the pikes. William Brown said he made fifteen pikes by Watt’s order, to whom he delivered them ; and that, on a line from Watt, Downie paid him twenty-two shillings and sixpence for the fifteen. Margaret Whitecross, who had been at one time a servant of Mr. Downie, on being shown one of the pikes, “declared that she saw a similar one in Mr. Downie’s house one morning when she was dressing the dining-room : that Mr. Downie had come home late the previous night : that Mr. Downie’s son, Charles, came out of an adjoining closet, where he slept, as soon as he heard her in the room, and took it away ; and at this time he had only part of his clothes on, and did not seem to have any other business in that room: that she remembers hearing Mrs. Downie ask her husband what he had done with the large dividingknije which was found in the dining-room?-to which he answered, that he had locked it by : that she never heard her master speak of having such weapons to defend himself; and when she saw it, she thought she never saw such a dividing- knife before.” A verdict of guilty was returned on both occasions ; and sentence of death passed upon the prisoners. Watt suffered the extreme punishment of the law according to the form usual in treasonable cases.‘ Previous to his execution, he made a confession of the extent and purport of the measures contemplated by the Committees. Downie was pardoned, on condition of banishing himself from the British strength. The play--“ Which is the Man ”-was allowed to go on to the end without interruption. A few minutes of ominous silence followed, when a voice at last called out for I‘ God save the King,” and “ off hats.” A general melee ensued, which put an entire stop to the husiness of the stage, and created the utmost alarm. “ It is difficult to say,” observe3 the Couraiit of that period, “ which party made the first attack ; it was furious beyond exaniple ; each party had prepared for the contest by arming themselves with bludgeons ; and while the affray lasted, the most serious consequences were apprehended, as both parties fought with determined resolution, Many dreadful blows were given, which brought several individuals to the ground; and the wounded were in danger of being trampled to death in the general confnsion. The party, however, who insisted on keeping on their lists, being at length overcome, left the house, and the wounded were carried out. A considerable mob was congregated ont of doors anxiously waiting the result. The execntion of Watt, which took place at the west end of the Luckenbooths, was conducted with much solemnity. He was conveyed from the Castle on a black-painted hurdle, drawn by a white horse, amid a procession of the magistracy, guarded by a strong military force, The prisoner, who wag assisted in his devotions by the Rev. Principal Baird, exhibited a picture of the most abject dejection. He was wrapped in a great-coat, a red nightcap, (which, on the platform, he exchanged for a white one), with a round hat, his stockings hanging loose, and hi3 whole appearance wretched in the extreme. He wax about the age of thirty-six, and was the natural aon of 8 gentleman of fortune and respectability, in the county of ‘Angus, but, as is usiial, took the name of his mother. At about ten years of age he was sent to Perth, where he received a good education ; and at sixteen he engaged himself with a lawyer ; but, from Home religious scrnples, took a disgust at his employment ; and, removing to Edinburgh, was engaged as a clerk to Mr. E. Balfour, bookseller (whose shop was afterwards occupied hy the Journal Office), with whom he lived for mome pears, without any other complaint than the smallness of his salary. Being desirous of becoming a partner of the business, he, by the inflnence of some friends, prevailed on his father to advance money for that purpose ; and then made proposals to his employer ; but his oEer was rejected. Having money in posaession, he entered into the wine and spirit trade, and for some time had tolerable success ; but waa ruined, it was said, on the commencement of the war with France. This seemed to be the signal for attack. The pit was the principal scene of action.” ... BIOGRAPHICAf, SKETCHES. stated that Downie accompanied Watt to his place at the W-ater-of-Leith, when the ...

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Pleasance. ST. LEONARD?S CHAPEL. 383 entirely to act as barbers. In consequence, the council, on the 26th July, 1682, recommended the new corporation to supply the city with a sufficient number of persons qualified ?to shave and cut hair,? and who should continue to be upon it ; but in 1722 it ceased to have all connection with the barbers, save that the latter were obliged to enter all their apprentices in a register kept by the surgeons. By a charter of George III., dated 14th March, 1778, the corporation was erected into ?The Royal College of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh,? a document which established a scheme of provision for the widows and children of members. In the old edifice overlooking the Pleasance the College held all its Castle of Clouts,? in the spirit of that talent which , the Scots have of conferring absurd sobriquets. By the wayside to Duddingstone, south of the Pleasance, a rising piece of ground or slight eniinence is called Mount Hooly, a corruption of Mount Holy, which marks the site of the chapel of St. Leonard and of a hospital dedicated to the same saint. As is the case with most of the ecclesiastical edifices in Edinburgh, nothing is known as to when or by whom either the chapel or hospital was built, and not a vestige remains of either now. The chapel, ere it became a ruin, rva?s the scene of a remarkably traitorous tryst, held by the _. ~ - -- -- - meetings till the erec- ~ ~ ~ --/ - tion of the new hall, to be referred to in its place; but the name of the first establishment still survives in the adjacent Surgeon Square. In it was a theatre for dissection, a museum, in which a mummy was long the chief curiosity, and the hall was hung with portraits Qf surgeons who had grown to eminence after it was built. W i 11 i am S m e 11 i e, F.R.S. and F.A.S., an eminent printer, and DAVIE DEANS? COTTAGE. known as the (FTOIIZ a Vzpette by &oars, #ubZrs/red I- the Fzrsf Edition of Robert author of the ?Philo- Chambers?s ? Tradrho~rso~Ed~irbsrgh,? 1825 ) sophy of Natural His- Douglas faction on the 2nd of February, 1528, having nothing less in view than the assassination of their sovereign, James V., ?the Commons King,? who was the idol of his people. They were to enter the palace of Holyrood by a window near the head of the king?s bed in the night, and under the guidance of Sir James Hamilton, one the monarch loved and trusted much; but the dastardly plot was discovered in time, and by the energetic measures taken to crush the devisers of it, peace of the quaint old houses of the Pleasance in 1740. A quaint three-storeyed edifice, having a large archway, peaked gables, and dormer windows, bearing the date of 1709, stood on the south side of the Pleasance, and was long known as ? Hamilton?s Folly,? from the name of the proprietor, who was deemed unwise in those days to hiild a house so far from the city, and on the way that led to the gibbet on which the bodies of criminals were hung. But the latter would seem to have been in - use till a much later period, as in the Cournnt for December, 1761, there are advertised for sale four tenements, ?lying at the head of the Pleasance, on the east side of the road leading to the gibbet.? Here still stands a goodly house of three storeys, which was built about 1724 bya wealthy tailor, and which in consequence has been denominated ?(the for a period. At St. Leonard?s Loan, which bounded the property of the abbots of Holyrood on the south, separating it on the side from the western flank of the vast Burghmuir, there stood in ancient times a memorial known as Umphraville?s Cross, erected in memory of some man of -rank who perished there in a conflict of which not a memory remains. The cross itself had doubtless been demolished as a relic of idolatry at the Reformation ; but in 1810, its base, a mass of dark whinstone, with a square hole in its centre, wherein the shaft had been fixed, was still remaining on the ancient site, till it was broken up for road metal! In his ? Diary,? Birrel records that on the 2nd April, 1600, ? being the Sabbathday, Robert Achmuty, barber, slew James Wauchope at the com ... ST. LEONARD?S CHAPEL. 383 entirely to act as barbers. In consequence, the council, on the 26th July, ...

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L UCKENBOOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 185 dropped whole and complete into the midst of the pent-up city. west corner of St Giles’s Church, so close to that ancient building as only to leave a narrow footpath beyond its projecting buttresses ; while the tall and gloomy-looking pile extended so far into the main street that a roadway of fourteen feet in breadth was all that intervened between it and the lofty range of buildings on the opposite side. We cannot better describe this interesting building than in the lively narrative of Scott, written about the time of its demolition,-“The prison reared its ancient front in the very middle of the High Street, forming the termination to a huge pile of buildings called the Luckenbooths, which, for some inconceivable reason, our ancestors had jammed into the midst of the principal street of the town, leaving for passage a narrow way on the north; and on the south-into which the prison opens--a crooked lane, winding betwixt the high and sombre walls of the Tolbooth and the adjacent houses on the one side, and the buttresses and projections of the old cathedral upon the other. To give some gaiety to this sombre passage, well known by the name of the Krames, a number of little booths or shops, after the fashion of cobblers’ stalls, were plastered, as it were, against the Gothic projections and abutments, so that it seemed as if the traders had occupied every buttress and coigne of vantage,’ with nests bearing the same proportion to the building as the martlet’s did in Macbeth’s Castle.” The most prominent features in the south front of the Tolbooth,-of which we furnish an engraving,-were two projecting turret staircases. A neatly carved Gothic doorway, surmounted by -a niche, gave entrance to the building at the foot of the eastern tower; and this, on its demolition in 1817, was removed by Sir Walter Scott to Abbotsford, and there converted to,the humble oEce of giving access to his kitchen court.’ Some account has already been given, in our brief sketch of the period of Queen Mary,’ of the mandate issued by her in 1561, requiring the rebuilding of the Tolbooth, and the many difficulties that the city had to encounter in satisfying this royal command. The letter sets forth, that “ The Queiny’s Majestie, understanding that the Tolbuith of the Burgh of Edinburgh is ruinous and abill haistielie to dekay ind fall doun, quhilk will be warrap dampnable and skaythfull to the pepill dwelland thairabout . . . without heistie remeid be providit thairin. Thairfor hir Heines ordinis ane masser to pass alid charge the Provest, Baillies, and Counsale, to caus put workmen to the taking doun of the said Tolbuith, with all possible deligence.” ‘‘ In obedience to the Queen’s command,” says Maitland, It has already been shown, however, in the earlier allusions to the subject, that this is an error. The new building was erected entirely apart from it, adjoining the south-west corner of St Giles’s Church, and the eastern portion of the Old Tolbooth bore incontestible evidence of being the work of a much earlier period than the date of Queen Mary’s mandate. It stood at the north-. the Tolbooth was taken down.” 1 Sir Walter Scott remarks, in a note to the edition of his works issued in 1830,--“Last year, to complete the change, a torn-tit waa pleased to build her nest within the lock of the Tolbooth,--a strong temptation to have committed n sonnet.” The nest we must preaurne to have occupied the place of the lock, the key-hole of which, when deprived of the scuteheon, would readily admit the tom-tit. The original lock and key, which were made immediately after the Porteous mob, were in the possession of Messrs Cormack & Son, Leith Street, and formed the most substantial produc tions of the Locksmith’s art we ever eaw. The lock measured two feet long by one broad ; and the key, which waa a‘oout a foot long, looked more like a huge iron mace. Ante, p. 71. Maitland, p. 21. 2 A ... UCKENBOOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 185 dropped whole and complete into the midst of the pent-up city. west ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 349 '' On Saturday, November 24, Mr, Foote gave us the Minor; that piece of his which has made so much noise. The play for that night waa bespoke by the Lord President of the Court of Session (Robert Dundas of Arniston), in justice to whom, however, it must be observed, that he did not fix on the particular piece that should be acted ; and when it was known to be the Minor, B very proper message waa sent to Mr. Foote, not to exhibit the ludicrous epilogue.' Some of our thoughtless bucks, however, were determined to frustrate the decent and becoming resolution of their superiors ; and, having planted themselves in the pit, they, with much vociferation, roared out for DT. Spuinlum. After a pause, to see if the storm would suhside, Mr. Foote, who was by this time dressed for the character caf Major Sturgeon, came forward and made an apology, putting the audience in mind of the old proverb-De mortuis nil nisi 6onum-which ought never to be violated. A distinguished buck cried, ' That won't satisfy us.' ' Sir,' said a noble peer, ' if you have a heart it should satisfy you.' Nothing, however, would do but Mr. Foote's speaking the epilogue-which he accordingly waa obliged to do. Next day the Rev. Mr. Walker, one of the ministers of the High Church, having had occasion, in the course of his lecturing on the Scriptures, to mention the doctrine of regeneration, he took an opportunity of censuring what he called the gross profanation in the Theatre the preceding evening. He delivered himself with dignity, propriety, and spirit ; and, though we could not go so far as he did in our notions of the stage in general, we could not hut adniire him for speaking his sentiments with an earnest firmness. He happened on that day to lectnre in course on 2 Cor. v. 14-21 ; and when he came to verse 17, before expounding it, he said- '' ' I cannot read this verse without expressing the just indignation I feel upon hearing that last night a profane piece of buffoonery was publicly acted, in which, unless it hath undergone very material alterations, this sacred doctrine, and some others connected with it, are introduced to the stage for no other purpose but to gratify the impiety, and to excite the laughter of thoughtless, miserable, dying sinners. " ' I had occasion some years ago to deliver very fully, from this place, my opinion of theatrical entertainments in general-an opinion then supported by the laws of my country. And aa my sentiments in that matter were not formed upon such fluctuating things as the humours, or maxims, or degrees of man, it is impossible that any variation in these can alter them ; though perhaps I should not have thought it necessary to remind you of them at present had not so gross an outrage upon the very passage that occurs this day in my coume of lecturing challenged me to it. When I say this, I do not mean to make any sort of apology for using my undoubted privilege to walk with perfect freedom in the King's highway-I mean in the highway of the King of Kings. If any jostle me in that mad, they, and not I, must answer for the consequences. I here speak upon oath; I am bound to declare the whole counsel of God ; and WO is to me If men are bold enough to act impiety, surely a minister of Christ may at least be equally bold in reproving it ; he hath a patent for doing so more valid and authoritative than any Theatre can possess, or any power on earth can give,' " Ipreach not the gospel. Such is a specimen of Mr. Walker's pulpit oratory, and of the manly independence of his spirit. The Lords of Session, the Earons of the Exchequer, and the Lord Provost and Magistrates, were present on the occasion. Mr. Walker possessed a sound constitution, and enjoyed almost uninterrupted good health till 1783, when he was seized with apoplexy, He recovered so far, however, in the course of the year, as to resume his ministerial labours. On Friday, the 4th of April 1783, he preached in the forenoon, apparently in his usual health ; but on leaving the pulpit he complained of headache, and no sooner reached his own house, which he did with some difficulty, than he was instantly seized with a stupor, and died in the course of two hours. Funeral sermons were preached on account of his demise by the Rev. Dr. Erskine, and by his own colleague the Rev. Dr. Blab. Mr. Walker resided on the Castle Hill, nearly opposite the Water Reservoir. 1 Under the character 'of DT. SquWum, a severe satire was levelled at the Rev. Mr. Whitfield, who died on the 30th September 1770. ... SKETCHES. 349 '' On Saturday, November 24, Mr, Foote gave us the Minor; that piece of his ...

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tunate creature were chained in '{the good old may be imagined. times " romancists write so glibly of. The origin of all these vaults is lost in antiquity. There prisoners have made many desperate, but in the end always futile, attempts to escape-particularly in 1761 and in 1811. On the former occasion one was dashed to pieces ; on the latter, a captain and forty-nine men got out of the fortress in the night, by cutting a hole in the bottom of the parapet, below the place commonly called the Devil's Elbow, and letting themselves down by a Tope, and more would have got out had not the nearest sentinel fired his musket. One fell and was killed zoo feet below. The rest were all re-captured on the Glasgow Road. In the Grand Parade an octagon tower of considerable height gives access to the strongly vaulted crown room, in whicb the Scottish regalia are shown, and wherein they were so long hidden from the nation, that they were generally believed to have been secretly removed to England and destroyed; and the mysterious room, which was never opened, became a source of wonder to the soldiers, and of superstition to many a Highland sentinel when pacingon his lonely post at night. On the 5th of November, 1794, in prosecuting a search for some lost Parliamentary records, the crown-room was opened by the Lieutenant- Governor and other commissioners. It was dark, being then w.indowless, and filled with foul air. In the grated chimney lay the ashes of the last fire and a cannon ball, which still lies where it had fallen in some past siege ; the dust of eighty-seven years lay on the paved floor, and the place looked grim and desolate. Major Drummond repeatedly shook the oak chest; it returned no sound, was supposed to be empty, and stronger in the hearts of the Scots waxed the belief that the Government, " It was with feelings of no common anxiety that the commissioners, having read their warrant, proceeded to the crown-room, and, having found a11 there in the state in which it had been left in 1794, commanded the king's smith, who was in attendance, to force open the great chest, the keys of which had been sought for in vain. The general impression that the regalia had been secretly removed weighed heavily on the hearts of all while the labour proceeded. The chest seemed to return a hollow and empty sound to the strokes of the hammer; and even those whose expectations had been most sanguine felt at the moment the probability of bitter disappointment, and could not but be sensible that, should the result of the search cmfirnl those forebodings, it would only serve to show that a national affront-an injury had been sustained, for which it might be ditficult, or rather impossible, to obtain redress. The joy was therefore extreme when, the ponderous lid of the chest having been forced open, at the expense of some time and labour, the regalia were discovered lying at the bottom covered with linen cloths, exactly as they had been left in 1707, being I 10 years before, since they had been surrendered by William the ninth Earl Marischal to the custody of the Earl of Glasgow, Treasurer-Deputy of Scotland. The reliques were passed from hand to hand, and greeted with the affectionate reverence which emblems so venerable, restored to public view after the slumber of more than a hundred years, were so peculiarly calculated to excite. The discovery was instantly communicated to the public by the display of the royal standard, and was greeted hy the shouts of the soldiers in garrison, and a vast multitude assembled on the Castle hill ; indeed the rejoicing was so general and sincere as plainly to show that, however altered in other in wicked policy, had destroyed its contents j but ' respects, the people of Scotland had lost norhing of murmurs arose from time to time, as the years went that national enthusiasm which formerly had dison, and a crown, called that of Scotland, was ac- played itself in grief for the loss of those emblematic honours, and now was expressed in joy for their I tually shown in the Tower of London ! of Cardinal York, the Prince Regent, afterwards I Covered with glass and secured in a strong iron, ... creature were chained in '{the good old may be imagined. times " romancists write so glibly of. ...

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LEITH, AND THE NEW TOWN. window forms the chief ornament of this portion of the building, finished with unusually fine Elizabethan work, and surmounted by a coronet and thistle, with the letter C. Behind this a simple square tower rises to a considerable height, finished with a bartizaned roof, apparently designed for commanding an extensive view. Such is the approach to the sole remaining abode of royalty in this ancient burgh. The straitened access, however, conveys a very false idea of the accommodation within. It is a large and elegant mansion, presenting its main front to the east, where an extensive piece of garden ground is enclosed, reaching nearly to the site of the ancient town walls; from whence, it is.probable, there waa formerly an opening to the neighbouring downs. The east front appears to have been considerably modernised. Its most striking feature is a curiously decorated doorway, finished in the ornate style of bastard Gothic, introduced in the reign of James VI. An ogee arch, filled with rich Gothic tracery, gurmounts the square lintel, finished with a lion’s head, which seems to hold the arch suspended in its mouth ; and on either side is a sculptured shield, on one of which a monogram is cut, characterised by the usual inexplicable ingenuity of these quaint riddles, and with the date 1631.l Here, according to early and credible tradition, was the mansion of John, third Lord Balmerinoch, where he received the young King, Charles 11.) on his arrival at Leith on the 29th July 1650, to review the Scottish army, which then lay encamped on the neighbouring links, numbering above forty thousand men. Charles having failed in obtaining the Scottish Crown on his own terms, notwithstanding his being proclaimed Eing at the Cross of Edinburgh on the execution of Charles I., had now agreed to receive it with all devout solemnity on the terms dictated by the Presbyterian royalists, as a covenanted King. He proceeded from Leith on Friday, 2nd August, and rode in state to the capital of his ancestors, amid the noisiest demoustrations of welcome from the fickle populace. From the Castle, where he was received with a royal salute, he walked on foot to the Parliament House, to partake of a banquet provided for him at the expense of the City, and from thence he returned the same evening to my Lord Balm er inoch’ s House at Leith. We have furnished a view of the fine old building at the Coalhill, near the harbour, which is believed to have been ‘(th e handsome and spacious edifice ” erected by the Queen Regent for the meeting of her council. It is a large and stately fabric, and presents numerous evidences of former magnificence in its internal decorations. The tradition is confirmed by further evidence ; as a small and mean-looking little court behind, though abandoned probably for considerably more than a century to the occupation of the very poorest and most squalid of ‘the population, still retains the imposing title of the Parliament Square. The whole of the buildings that enclose this dignified area abound with the dilapidated relics of costly internal adornment; some large and very fine specimens of oak carving were removed from it a few years since, and even a beautifully carved , The arms on the amnd shield do not upp port the tradition, (IS they are neither those of Lord Balmerinoch, nor of his ancestor, James Elphinstone, Lord Coupar, to whom the coroneted C might otherwise have been suppased to refer. The Earla of Crawford are also known to have had a mansion in Leith, but the arm8 in no degree correspond with those borne by any of theae families. They are-quarterly, 1st and 4th the Royal Arms of Scotland ; 2nd and 3rd, a ship with Bails furled ; over all, on B shield of pretence, a Cheveron. AB, however, the house appears by the date to have been built nineteen yeara before the visit of Charles to Leith, and the period waa one when forfeiture and ruin compelled many noble families to abandon their possessions, it is still possihle that the tradition may be truatworthy, which assigne it aa the mansion of Lord Balmerinoch, and the lodging of the Merry Monarch, 22 . ... AND THE NEW TOWN. window forms the chief ornament of this portion of the building, finished with ...

Book 10  p. 397
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3 76 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Xrskine, Lady Elizabeth, 11. 115 3rskine. Mrs. Mary, 11. 272, 362 Erskine Club, 11. 27 2scape of risoners from Edinburgh Ssk, The river, 111. 318, 346, 353, 3% 361, 364; Sskgrove, Lord,\I.d, 120,111.367 Ssplanade, The, I. 79, 83, 86 Esten, Mrs., the actress, I. 346, Castle, &tempted, I. 71 3557 357, 358, 35 the coal seams 171. 358, 359 11. 778 Edinburgh Dock, Leith, 111. 284, Edinburgh Duke of 111. 288 Edinburgh' Dukedok of 111. 126 Edinburghkducational Ihstitution, Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables, Edinburgh IndustrialSchool, I. 264, Edinburgh Institution for Educa- 286, 287 11. 158 111. 55 * 265 tion Edinb Educafion 11. 344 Edinburgh ~teruyInstitute,III.g~ Edinburgh Mechanics' Subscription tion If. 200 Edindlrrgh Kruinv, The, I. 339, 11. 143 191 203 47 111. 43 Edinburih difle b k n t e e r Hall, 11. 326 Edinburgh School of Art, I. 379,380 Edinbureh Theatrical Fund Asso- Gr; ~ ~ a t e ' 2 9 ,gh kolunteer Artillery, I. 286, 323 Edinburgh Volunteers, 11. 76, 82, 188, 219, 371, 372, 373. 374>'"377r Edidurgk We&& jrrumal, 111. 799 82, 89, 143, 754 Edzn6argh WreRly IWagozitre, I. 3331 11. 3 53 111.83, 1:4~ IS?, 744 Edinburgh toung Mens Chnstran Association I. 379 Edmonston 6dge, 1. 43, 111. 338 Edmonstone, Lord, 111. 339 Edmonstone, Colonel, 11. 161 Edmouctone 111. 339 EAmonstone'House, 111. 338, '31; its owners, 111. 338, 33 Edmonstone of Duntreat;, 11. 139, 111. 338 Edmonstones The 111. 338, 339 Edward I., 1.'23, i1. 46,111.41~43, 351 ; captures Edinburgh Castle, 111.39 338 Elcho, Lord, I. 326,327.11.31~318, Elder. Lord Provost. 11. IW. 176. 322, 111. 198, zzz, 366 , -.. . . 17?.'282. 111. 21 Eldii, Li&t.-Col&el, 11. 371 Elder Street, 11. 176 Eldin, Lord, II., 186, 187, 111. 167, 260; hisfondnessforuts, 11. 186' ;cadent at the sale ofhis effects. 11. Eldin:%hn Clerk of, 11. 186, 191 Eldin douse, 111. 359 Electric time-ball, The, 11. 108 Elgin Earl of I. 107, 336 Elibak, PatAck Lord, I. 83, 101, Elizabeth Countess of Ross, I. 246 Elizabeth: Queen, I. 47. 49, 111. 174, 175, 178 : her death, I. zoz Elllock, Lord, 111. 142 Elliot, Sir George, I. 210 11. 27, 166, 351 Elliot Sir Gilbert, 11. 273 Ellio; Sir ohn 111. 340 Elliot: Archaid architect, 11. 188 Klliot of Minto, sir Gilbert, 11. 161 Elliot of Minto, Miss Jeannie, Elliot thepublisher I. 181 111.154 Elm Place Leith, iII. 268 Elm Row Leith Walk, II1.154,158 Elphinstdne, Lord, 11. 103, 352 Elphinstone, James, Lord Balme- Elphidstone, Charles Lord, 11.174 ; Elphinstone, 3owager Lady, 11. authoress, 11. a71 rino 111. 135 his sons, i6. 279 11. 274 '36 Elphinstone, Admiral Sir Charles, Elphinstone, Lieut.-Gen. Lord, 11. Elphmstone, Sir Howard, 11. a83 Elphinstone, Sir James, I. 271, 11. Elphinstone Sir ohn 111. 42 Elphinstone' Sir fohnitone, 111. 91 Elphinstone: Hon. Alexander, 111. 262, 263 Elphinstone Court, I. 271--274, *27z ; distinguished residents in, 203. 111.128 I. 271-274 Elphinstone of Barnton, Lord Bal- Elphinstone, The Master of, 111. merino, 111. 317 182 Elphinstone family, The, 111. azz Elphinstone, Mistress of, I. 257 Elphinetones of Lopie, The, 111. 91 Emery, the actor, I. 348 " Encyclopredia Britannica." The, I. ZII, 223, 339,Il. 126,165, 111. En myhe's Well, 1. 276, 277 English Episcopal Chapel, I. 262 English in Scotland, The, I. 23, 24, II!. 3+, 35: ; driven out, I. 25 English invasion expected, 11. 330 Englishmen captured by Scotsmen, 7$ 247 1. 3' Entablature above the Gateway, Edinburgh Castle I. 51 Environs of Edinbdrgh, The, 111. 314-368 : map of, 111. * 325 EpimplChapel Cowgate 11.247 *q9, 111. 63 ;'its bell, iI. 247 i its ministers, i6. Episcopal ?hapel, Leith, Theearly, 111. 230 Episcopacy in Edinburgh, Attempt to enforce,.I. 51 144 208, 11. 131, a46, 375 ; its sekcei at one time @armed by stealth, 111. 231 Euiscoualian Church. Portobello. -111. i '53 Errol, Earl of, I. 147, 11. 159, 318, 111. 323 ; Countess of, II.59,166, 3x8 Erskine. Tohn. Earl of Mar. I. *37. . ... 44 335- . Ersdine, Lord Chancellor, 11. 111, Erskine, John Lord, 11. zrg, 111. z87, 111. 271 31? 111. 318 Erskme, Sir Alexander, I. 220,371, Erskine of Cynbq Sir Charles, I. 37' Erskine, Sir Harry, 11. 344 Erskine, SirThomas 111. 318 Erskme, Gen. Sir Wham, 11.307 Erskine Sir William I. 63 111.258 Erskingof Alva, Chgles h r d Justice- clerk I. 236 237 Erskineof &a, SiiCharles, 11.243 Erskine of Cardross, I. 282 Erskine of Carnock 11.379 Erskine of Dun II.'67, 68 Enkine of Foikst, Capt. James Erskine of Mar, John Francis, 11. Erskme of Scotscraig, Sir Arthur, Erskine of Torrie, Sir James, 11.89 Enkine, Hon. Andrew. 11.115 Erskine. Hon. Henrv. 1. 115, 15% Francis, 11. 282 249 11. 70 166, G5, II.26,122; 143, 163, rig; Enkme, Hon. James, I. 247 (sec Grange, Erskine, Lord) Erskine, Dr. John, 11. 37 Erskine, Lady Barbara, I?. 319,320 248, 339, 111. 34, 362 Eton Tekace, 111. 74 Ettrick Shepherd, The (see Hogg, Etty, the painter, 11. 89, 91 Evers Lord I. 43 Ewbank, John, the painter, 11. 19, Ewing, Greville, I. 361, 362 Exchange, The I. 176 178 Exchange Buiidings, 'Leith, 111. 1713 244, "245 Exchequer, The, I. 178 Excise Office, The, 1. IIZ, 113, 217, *zm, 11. 23, 110, 191. 259, 260; robberies at the, I. n2--114 Excise Office, Drummond Place, 11. * rgz, 111. '24 Execution of English pirates at Leith, 111. 190, 191 Executions for various offences, I. 83. 84. 867 115, 117, 122, 1 6 2347 281, 332, 11. 228, 230,231, 238 (set &sa Grassmarket) James) 111. 79 F Faed, the painter, 11. 89, 111. 82 Fairbairn, Rev. Dr., 111. 303, *304; Fairfax Admiral d r W. G., 11. 198 Fairho<me Adam 111. 47 Fairholm: Bailie' 111. 47 Fairholme: Jam,;, 111. 46, 47 Fairholme, George, 111. 47 Fairholme Thomas, 111. 47 Fairies' or Ha gis Knowe, 11. 319 Fair Maid of 8alloway, The, I. 31 Fairnielee, Alan of, Provost, 11. 278 Fairy Boy, The, 11. 101 Fairy Halec Newhaven 111. 299 Falcon Had, 111. 39 ; 'its owner, Falconer, hliss, 111. 38 Falconer of Borrowstounnes. Sir his philanthropy 111. 303 111. 38 David, Lord President, II.'379, Falconer Patrick 111. 365 Falconer' Will& author of the Falconer ofHalkertoun.Lord.II.97~ 111. 199, 202, 206 "Shipkreck," I.'216 Falkirk, Battle of (see battl&] "-_ Falkirk Road, 11. 215 False news, Easy circulation of, I. 60 11. &A. *&F. 111. 67 Falshaw, Sir James, Lord Provost, FalshawStreG; 111. Fast Castle, 111. 37, 134, 135 Faucit, Mis Helen, actress, I. 351 Fenton, Viscount, 111. 318 Fentonbams, Lord, I. 207 Fenwick, the ainter, 11. 1% Fergusson Large (Lord Her. mand) i. 170 173 11. 207; hir defenh of the '45pr?lsoners, I. 17c Fergussan, Sir C. Dalrymple, 111. 367 Fergusson, Robert, poet, I. I q , 119, 230, 238, 348, 11. 127. 194, 310, 324, 38, 111. 125, 295, 269 tomb of If. * 30 Fergusso;, Robert, I' the plotter,' I. 66 Fergusson of Pitfour Jams I. 202 Fergusson, Dr. A&, histokm, I. 123,236,11.27,29,191,111.55,24~ Fergussoii, Dr., the friend of H u e , 1. 99 Fergusson, Dr., 11. 153 Ferrier, James, Clerk of Session, 11. 139 Ferrier, Miss Susan, novelist, I. 106, 11. 139, 194; her husband, Ferries of Leith, The ancient, 111. Ferry Rcad, 11.82, I I ~ , 116,111.64 11. 139 211,212 Fettes, Lord Provost Sir William, 11.31. 173,283.111.82, 97 ; Lady, 11. 318 Fettes College, 111. *Eo, 82, 97, 288 Fettes, the painter, 11. 89 Fettes Row, I. 135, 11. 185 Feuds of the Newhaven and her. toil ns fishermen 111. 300 01 Fife, Earl of, I. 350,'II. 86, &86, 146 ; Lady, 111. 265 Figgate Burn. 111. 143, 144, 146, 259, 263 Figgate hluir, 111 142, 143 Figgate Whins 111. 144, 236 Filby, Goldsmih's tailor, 11. a51 Fincaytle Lord 11. 120 Fingzie Glace, Leith, 111. 266 Finlay, Wilson's friend, 11. 199 Fire of 1824, Ruins of the, I. ' 185 Fire, SirW. Scott'ssto ofa, 11.5 6 First Parliament of Tames VIi. Cavalcadeat theopening of, I.%; FirthofForth,The, 11.151.319,III. 164, 165, 166, 169, 180, 181, 188, 191, 192, 1931 198, 201, 202, 209, 2x2, 228, 270. 274, 282, 287, 312, Fishermen, Rigits of the Newhaven, 111. 301 Fisher's Close, I. I I I . 11. 242 Fish-hwks, First mmufacturer of. 314, 3227 326, 66 11. 263 " Fishwives' Causeway," I. 10, 12, Fishwomen ot Musselburgh, 11. 22 F.( sec . also Newhaven) itzsimmons, Rev. Mr., 11. 248 Flaxman the sculptor, 11. 135 Fleming,'Lurd, I. 40, 262, 111.~98, 349; marriage of 11. 306 Flemihg, Sir lame;, I. 196 Fleshers The 11. 265 Flesh Mkket,'The,I. 1gz,21g,II.17 Fleshmarket Close, 1.113, 1~1,138, *232, 236, 338, 11. 77 ; formerly the Provost's office 11. 227 Fletcher Laurence cbmedian, 11.40 Fletche;ofSaltoui, 11.34, 111. go, Flockhart's tavern 11. 333 Flodden Field Ba;Lle of(reeBatt1es) Flodden Wall: The, I. 38, + 40,183, 278, 381, 11. 221, 239, 339 a Flora Macdonald, 11. 87, ~ 1 4 ~ 124 Faod riots 111. 87 Football, k'rohibition of, 111. p Foote, the comedian, I. 342, 343, Fwte, Maria, actresq, I. 350 Forks Lord 11. 194 Forbeid Cuioden, Lord President Duncan 1. 159,161, 166, 330, 11. 83,382;'his fondness for golf, 111. 31, 262 ; his biographer, 111. 43 Forbes Sir John Stuart 11. 151 ~ o r h ' of Pitsligo, sir killiam, I. 142, 143, 188, ?93, 318,'11I. 47: 244, 323 ; his wife, 11. 383 Forks, Prof. Edward, t he naturalist, 111. 68 242, 307 Forbes df Tolquhoun, Sir Alexander, I. 236 Forks-Drummond, Sir JohnJI. 270 Forks The Master of 1. 8 F o r k : Rev. Rokrt: Bisiop of Fordun, John de, I. 297, 11. 53, Fordyce of Aytoun, I. 275 Foreign clothiers. Introduction of, 111. 144, 165 150 111. 163 158, 176, 179-181, 239 11. 120 Caithness, 111. 231 111. 27 Forglen, Lord, I. 235, 236 Forglen's Park, 11. 325 Forres Street 11. Forrest of domiston, Sir James, Lord Provost, 11. 284, 111. 326 Forrest Road, 11. 103, ~ 6 7 ~ 323.326, Forrest's Coffee-house, Edinburgh, Forrester Lord 111. 119 Forrester: Sir kdam, I. 122, 278, Forrester Sir Andrew, 11. 24 Forrester: Sir John, I, 31, Ill. 115, 367 111. 210 . 111. 115, 118, 327 11% 318 Forreater Lords, 111. 119-121 Forreste; family, The, 111. 116, ... 76 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Xrskine, Lady Elizabeth, 11. 115 3rskine. Mrs. Mary, 11. 272, 362 Erskine Club, 11. ...

Book 6  p. 376
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lies directly at the south-eastern base of Arthur's Seat, and has long'been one of the daily postal districts of the city. Overhung by the green slopes and grey rocks ok Arthur's Seat, and shut out by its mountainous mass from every view of the crowded city at its further base in Duddingston, says a statist, writing in 1851, a spectator feels himself sequestered from the busy scenes which he knows to' be in his immediate vicinity, as he hears their distant hum upon the passing breezes by the Willow Brae on the east, or the gorge of the Windy Goule on the south; and he looks southward and west over a glorious panorama of beautiful villas, towering , ' From the style of the church and the structure of its arches, it is supposed to date from the epoch of the introduction of Saxon architecture. A semicircular arch of great beauty divides the choir from the chancel, and a Saxon doorway, with fantastic heads and zig-zag mbuldings, still remains in the southern face of the tower. The entrance-gate to its deep, grassy, and sequestered little buryingground, is still furnished with the antique chain and collar of durance, the terror of evildoers, named the jougs, and a time-worn Zouping-on-stone, for the use of old or obese horsemen. Some interesting tombs are to be found in the burying-ground ; among these are the marble obelisk castles, rich coppice, hill and valley, magnificent in semi-tint, in light and shadow, till the Pentlands, or the 1 on e 1 y Lam m er m u i r ranges, close the distance. The name of this hamlet and parish has been a vexed subject amongst antiquaries, but as a surname it is not unknown in Scotland : thus, among the missing charters of Robert Bruce, there is one to John Dudingstoun of the lands of Pitcorthie, in Fife; and among the gentlemen GATEWAY OF DUDDINGSTON CHURCH, SHOWING TIIE JOUCS AND LOUPING-ON-STONE. slain at Flodden in I 5 I 3 there was Stephen Duddingston of Kildinington, also in Fife. Besides, there is another place of the same name in Linlithgowshire, the patrimony of the Dundases. The ancient church, with a square tower at its western end, occupies a green and rocky peninsula that juts into the clear and calm blue loch. It is an edifice of great antiquity, and belonged of old to the Tyronensian Monks of Kelso, who possessed it, together with the lands of Eastern and Western Duddingston ; the chartulary of that abbey does not say from whom they acquired these possessions, but most probably it was from David I. Herbert, first abbot of Kelso, a man of great learning and talent, chamberiain of the kingdom under Alexander I. and David I., in 1128, granted the lands of Eastern and Western Duddingston to Reginald de Bosco for an annual rent of ten marks, to be paid by him and his heirs for ever. erected to the memory of Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles by his unfortunate grandson, whose fate is also recorded thereon; and that of James Browne, LLD., Advocate, the historian of the Highlands and Highland clans, in the tower of the church. In the register of assignations for the minister's stipends in the year 1574, presented in MS. by Bishop Keith to the Advocates' Library, Duddingston is said to have been a joint dependence with the Castle of Edinburgh upon the Abbey of Holyrood. The old records of the Kirk Session are only of the year 1631, and in the preceding year the lands of Prestonfield were disjoined from the kirk and parish of St. Cuthbert, and annexed to those of Duddingston. On the r8th'of May, 1631, an aisle was added to the church for the use of the Laird of Prestonfield, his tenants and servants. David Malcolme, minister here before I 741, was an eminent linguist in his time, whose writings were commended by Pinkerton, and quoted with respect by Gebelin in his Monde Plillit$ and Bullet in his Mkmoirrs Celtiques; but the church is chiefly famous for the incumbency of the Rev. John Thomson, a highly distinguished landscape painter, who from his early boyhood exhibited a strong predilection for art, and after being a pupil of Alexander Nasmyth, became an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy. He became ... directly at the south-eastern base of Arthur's Seat, and has long'been one of the daily ...

Book 4  p. 314
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 421 When all danger had at last happily passed aw‘ay, Mr. Grant settled in Edinburgh as a Writer to the Signet, and succeeded well in business. He knew not only how to make money, but how to take care of it, and ultimately amassed a very considerable fortune. As illustrative of his character and the general wariness of his habits of business, we quote the following story from the Edinburgh Literary Journal :- “ Mr. Ross of Pitcalnie, representative of the ancient and noble family of Ross,’ h d , like Colquhoun Grant, been out in the forty-five, and consequently lived on terms of intimate friendship with that gentleman. Pitcalnie, however, had rat,her devoted himself to the dissipation than the aequisition of a fortune ; and, while Mr. Grant lived as a wealthy writer, he enjoyed little better than the character of a broken laird. This nnfortunate Jacobite was one day in great distress for want of the sum of forty pounds, which he could not prevail upon any of his friends to lend him, all of them being aware of his execrable character as a debtor. At length he informed some of his companions that he believed he should get what he wanted from Colquhonn Grant ; and he instantly proposed to make the attempt. All who heard him scoffed at the idea of his squeezing a subsidy from so closefisted a man ; and some even offered to lay bets against its possibility. Mr. Ross accepted the bets, and lost no time in applying to his old brother-in-arms, whom he found immured in his chambers, half-a-dozen flights of steps up Gavinloch’s Land, in the Lawnmarket. The conversation commenced with the regular commonplaces ; and for a long time Pitcalnie gave no hint that he was suing in forma pauperis. At length he slightly hinted the necessity under which he lay for a trifle of money, and made bold to ask if Mr. Grant could help him in a professional way. ‘ What a pity, Pitcalnie,’ replied the writer, ‘you did not apply yesterday ! I sent all the loose money I had to the bank just this forenoon. ‘ Oh, no matter,’ said Pitcalnie, and continued the conversation, as if no such request had been preferred. By and by, after some more topics of an ordinary sort had been discussed, he at length introduced the old subject of the forty-five, upon which both were alike well prepared to speak. A thousand delightful recollections then rushed upon the minds of the two friends, and, in the rising tide of ancient feeling, all distinction of borrower or lender was soon lost. Pitcalnie watched the time when Grant was fully mellowed by the conversation, to bring in a few compliments upon his (Grant’s) oxm particular achievements. He expatiated upon the bravery which his friend had shown at Preston, where he was the first man to go up to the cannon ; ou which account he made out that the whole victory, so influential to the Prince’s affairs, was owing to no other than Colquhoun Grant, now Writer to the Signet, Gavinloch’s Land, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. He aho adverted to the boldness Mr. Grant had displayed in chasing a band of recreant draguons from the field of battle up to the very gates of Edinburgh Castle ; and farther, upon the dexterity which he subsequently displayed in making his escape from the town.. ‘Bide a wee,’ said Mr. Grant, at this stage of the conversation, ‘till I gang ben the house.’ He immediately returned with the sum Pitcalnie wanted, which he said he now recollected having left over for some time in the shuttle of his private desk. Pitcalnie took the money, continued the conversation for some time longer, and then took an opportunity of departing. When he came back to his friends, every one eagerly asked-‘ What success 2 ’ ‘Why there’s the money,’ said he. ‘ Where are my bets ! ’ ‘ How, in the name of wonder, did you get it out of him 1 Pitcalnie explained the plan he had taken with his friend, adding, with an expressive wink, ‘ This forty’s made out of the battle of Preston ; but stay a wee, lads ; I’ve Falkirk i’ my pouch yet-by my faith I wadna gie it for auchty.’ ” It is for the present quite beyond redemption.’ ‘ Incredible ! ’ every one exclaimed. Did you cast glamour in his een ?’ Mr. Grant used to pride himself on the purity and facility with which he could read and speak the English language. How far he was justified in so doing may be inferred from the following anecdote :-He had occasion to be in , London as agent in an appeal before the House of Lords ; and an opportunity occurring for the public display of his elocution and correctness of pronunciation, in consequence of a certain paper requiring to be read, Mr. Grant craved and , 1 This assertion seems to be very qnest.ionable. The representation of the Ross famiIy was in the Lords Ross-the last of whom died upon the 19th of August 1754, when the title became extinct. ... SKETCHES. 421 When all danger had at last happily passed aw‘ay, Mr. Grant settled in Edinburgh as ...

Book 8  p. 585
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