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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 3 a genteel annuity upon him. This, however, from his debilitated habit of body, was delayed from time to time, till death put it out of his power. But, to the honour of his heir, he was so sensible of Mr. Ray’s good offices to his father, as well as of his father’s intentions, that he voluntarily made a settlement of $20 per annum for life upon him. After the death of his patron, our author attempted to etch in aquafortis, and having published some of his Prints executed in this way, he met with so much unexpected success, that he at last determined to drop his old profession altogether, which he did accordingly in 1785. (‘ Our Author has drawn himself in this Print, sitting in a thoughtful posture, in an antiquated chair (whereby he means to represent his love of antiquities), with his favourite cat (the largest it is believed in Scotland) sitting upon the back of it ; several pictures hanging behind him ; a bust of Homer with his painting utensils on the table before him, a scroll of paper in his hand, and a volume of his works upon his knee.” Mr. Kay continued from the above period till about the year 1817 to exercise his talents in engraving. For a period of nearly half a century, few persons of any notoriety who figured in the Scottish capital have escaped his notice, and he has occasionally indulged himself in caricaturing such local incidents as might amuse the public. In this wa.y he has formed a collection altogether unique ; and we concur with Mr. Chambers’ in thinking that “it may with safety be affirmed that no city in the empire can boast of so curious a chronicle.” It is right, in addition to this, to mention that his etchings are universally admitted to possess one merit, which of itself stamps them with value, namely that of being exact and faithful likenesses of the parties intended to be represented. The emoluments derived from his engravings and painting miniature likehesses in water colours, together with the annuity from the Dirleton family, regularly paid by Sir Henry Jardine, rendered him tolerably independent. He had a small print-shop on the south side of the Parliament Square, in which he sold his productions, and the windows of which, being always filled with his more recent works, used to be a great attraction to the idlers of the time. It was, with the rest of the old buildings in the square, destroyed by the great fire in November 1824. In his outward appearance he was a slender, straight old man, of middle size, and usually dressed in a garb of antique cut, of simple habits, and quiet unassuming manners. He died at his house, No. 227 High Street, Edinburgh, 21st February 1826, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. His widow survived him upwards of nine years; her death took place in November 1835. The son alluded to by Mr. Kay in his biography predeceased his father. “ Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Scotsmen.” ... SKETCHES. 3 a genteel annuity upon him. This, however, from his debilitated habit of body, was ...

Book 8  p. 3
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 295 Hunter Blair, and the authority of an act of Parliament procured ; but in consequence of other undertakings, and the want of funds, the act was allowed to expire, and the design fell to the ground. It remained for Sir John to effect an object, not less useful than ornamental ; and that the progress of the work might be facilitated, he is understood to have made a serious inroad on his own resources, calculating no doubt on a return which we believe he did not experience. The freedom of the city having been voted to Lord Lynedoch,‘ “ the gallant Graham,” who distinguished himself so much in the Peninsular War, Sir John gave a grand dinner on Saturday, the 12th of August 1815, in honour of the Prince Regent’s birthday, at which were present Lord Lynedoch, the Earl of Morton, Lord Audley, Sir David Dundas, the Lord Chief Baron, the Lord Chief Commissioner, Admiral Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, GeneralLWynyard, Sir James Douglas, Sir Howard Elphinstone, Right Hon. William Dundas, member for the city, Charles Forbes, Esq., M.P., Sir H. H. MDougal, Sir John Dalrymple, Mr. Earle, Mr. Sedgwick, and a party of nearly one hundred of the principal inhabitants of Edinburgh, After the cloth was removed, and the usual series of toasts had been given, the Lord Provost proposed the health of Lord Lynedoch ; and, presenting his lordship with the freedom of the city in a gold box, addressed him as follows :- “Lord Lynedoch-I have the honour, in the name of the Magistrates of Edinburgh, to congratulate your lordship on your safe return to this country, after a series of services rendered to it, which not only reflect the greatest credit on your lordship, but do high honour to your county. “My Lord-In the very commencement of the French Revolution, your lordship, with penetrating discernment, foresaw the imminent danger to which everything dear to man had become exposed, and leaving the distinguished situation to which your birth, talents, and the esteem you were so eminently entitled to hold in this country, you betook yourself to the profession of arms, in which you have rendered the country services which it is out of my power to enumerate. In the war of the Peninsula, which happily turned the fate of Europe, as a Commander- in-Chief, and afterwards as second to the immortal Wellington, one invariable line of victory attended your course ; and if Ireland can proudly claim Wellington as her own, Scotland has the gmtiEcation to feel that ‘ Prmimos illi tamen oecupvit Graham hmww.’ “ My Lord, the Magistrates of Edinburgh sincerely wish-a wish in which I am sure we are joined by the country at large-that your health may be long preserved to enjoy the high esteem and gratitude of your countrymen, and those honours which his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has, in the name of our revered King, so justly conferred upon your lordship.” Lord Lynedoch, with that feeling and diffidence so characteristic of merit, in returning thanks to the Lord Provost and Magistrates, for the honour they had conferred upon him, expressed himself as overpowered by the overrated estimation in which any services he had been able to render to his country had been held, That he had had the particular good fortune to serve under that greatest of all men, the Duke of Wellington; and to have served under his orders, and to have commanded British troops, almost insured success. He must, however, say, that nothing could be more gratifying to his feelings than 1 Sir Thornss Graham, G.C.B., who was elevated k, the peerage in 1814. ... SKETCHES, 295 Hunter Blair, and the authority of an act of Parliament procured ; but in ...

Book 9  p. 393
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478 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 335. KING, QUEEN, and DAUPHIN OF FRANCE.' This well-executed Print of the unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth, and his equally ill-fated Consort and Son, is said by Kay to have been taken from the lid of a French snuff-box. 336. This is rather an ingenious Portrait of the EMPERORN APOLEONI. ; but whether the design be original or a copy has not been stated by Kay. 337. TOUSSAINLTO WERTURGEe,n eral of the black troops of St. Domingo, and Governor of that island. Born a slave, his means of instruction were extremely limited, yet he acquired a tolerable knowledge of the rudiments of education, and conducted himself with the utmost propriety while a bondsman. On the revolt of the blacks he joined his countrymen, and gradually attained the supreme command. During the period of his government, he displayed a capacity for legislation equal to his courage and generalship in the field. When, after a severe struggle for the independence of Hayti, he at length submitted to the overwhelming forces of the French, and had retired to his estate, under the guarantee of protection, he was privately seized, carried on board a French man-of-war, and hurried away to France, where he was thrown into prison, and there expired, after a lingering illness, in the second year of the Consulate (1803). His fate, however, operated with talismanic effect upon his countrymen ; they flew to arms ; and, headed by the brave but cruel Dessaline, completed that independence of which, under the patriotic Louverture, they had shown themselves worthy. He was an extraordinary man. 338. HENRYB ROUGEAMa, fterwards Lord Brougham and Vaux. This Etching of the la.te Lord High Chancellor is from a medal, cast in 1812, to commemorate his exertions in the cause of commerce. The public life of Lord Brougham is too well known to require any comment here. His father, Henry Brougham, of Brougham Hall, in Westmoreland, happening to visit Edinburgh, was recommended to reside with the widow of the Rev. Mr. Syme, sister of Principal Robertson, who occupied the second flat of WLellan's Land, head of the Cowgate. Here he found himself so much at home that he was induced to prolong his stay ; and at length falling in love with Miss Eleanor, daughter of Mrs, Syme, he married her, and settled in Edinburgh. For some time the parties continued to reside with Mrs. Syme, but they afterwards removed to St. Andrew Square, where the subject of the medal was born in 1779. He was the eldest son ; and, as generally known, studied for the Scottish bar, to which he was admitted in 1800, and where he practised for some time prior to A curious volume was printed some time ago, the object of which waa to establish that the Dauphin escaped from the revolutionary murderers-that the Empress Josephine and Napoleon were cognisant of his existence-that he lived for a series of years as a watchmaker in Prnssia-and that, if he were allowed half-an-hour's conversation with the Duchess d'ilngoulbme, he could establish his birth. He set up no claim to the crown of France, but merely demanded restoration of his civil rights as a true-born Frenchman. He commenced legal proceedings to have his status established, but these were stopped by Louis Philippe. He took the title of Duke of Normandy. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 335. KING, QUEEN, and DAUPHIN OF FRANCE.' This well-executed Print of the ...

Book 9  p. 636
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314 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. CCLXXV. HUGH MACPHERSON, SOMETIME CLERK TO THE PERTH CARRIERS. HUGHM ~CPHERSOoNr, “ Wee Hughie,” as he was commonly termed, was born in the district of Badenoch about the year 1770. His father, who lived to a great age, was shepherd on an extensive farm in that quarter; and both his parents were persons of ordinary stature. When Hughie fist ventured forth of his native fastnesses, he made his debdt in the Lowlands, att,ired in the Highland garb-bonnet, kilt, and plaid-with a pair of top-boots in lieu of hose ! For some years after his arrival in Perth, he was employed as a clerk in the George Inn; next in the shop of a grocer; and subsequently with Messrs J. and P. Cameron, carriers betwixt Perth and Edinburgh. The tartans had, long ere this, given way to a coat of dark green, light vest, darkish trousers, and highheeled boots ;’ a dress to which he adhered without alteration for a length of time. Every new suit, to make sure of being fashionably fitted, cost him a visit to Edinburgh. At length, that he might take charge of his employers’ establishment there, he had the peculiar satisfaction of being removed permanently to the capital. Hugh was a well-known kharacter, the oddness of his figure, and his excessive self-conceit, making him the subject of much diversion. While in Perth, some one having drawn a caricature of him, he at once sought reparation by challenging the offender to fight a duel ; but this display of spirit only tended to make matters worse, for, in another picture, the little mountaineer was grotesquely exhibited brandishing a pair of pistols not much shorter than himself. Proud and vindictive, he was easily affronted; and nothing vexed him more than to be underrated, or looked upon in the light of pity, by the fair sex. If insulted in their presence, he became perfectly furious. On one occasion, at a wedding party in Edinburgh, Hugh was dancing with great spirit, and in imagination as big as the tallest in the company, when a waggish participator in the reel, seizing a favourable opportunity, tripped up his heels, sending him headforemost into the ash-pit. Those who were present will not easily forget the miniature hero’s countenance on regaining his feet. Seizing a candlestick, in a His hat, too, it may be remarked, was particularly high and capacious ; thereby, we presume, to add to the height and dignity of his appearance. Hughie was, in his own estimation, a perfect dandy. Hughie invariably wore boats, not shoes, aa represented in the Print. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. CCLXXV. HUGH MACPHERSON, SOMETIME CLERK TO THE PERTH CARRIERS. HUGHM ...

Book 9  p. 417
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118 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. member of the Town Council. He was a warm supporter of Lord Melville. Among other things which distinguished Mr. Ranken’s career as a city ruler, was the construction of a chair for the Convener of the Trades, directly opposite and on a level with the seat of the Lord Provost. In the accomplishment of this most important affair he experienced considerable opposition, on the ground that it was absurd to elevate the Convener (whose only title to pre-eminence is the antiquity of the incorporation of which he is deacon or preses) to a level with the Chief Magistrate. The opponents of the attempt further declared, that it was most ridiculous to have apparently two presidents at the board. Ranken, however, carried his point; and the chair still remains an existing memorial of his perseverance. Mr. Ranken retired from business some years prior to his death, which occurred at his house, Melville Street, on the 15th June 1815. He was twice married, and had children by both unions. No. CCXI. FAITHFUL SERVICE REWARDED. THIS caricature refers to the unsuccessful issue of a bill proposed in 1793 for the “ Augmentation of Ministers’ Stipends ”-a subject which had engaged the attention of the General Assembly for some time prior, In 1788, the “Sket,ch of a Plan,”’ was drawn up and published by the late Sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood, Bart., which met with the general approval of the clergy in so far that, the year following, a committee was appointed to inquire into the matter, and to report at next meeting of the Assembly. In 1790 the Report-founded on the suggestions of Sir Henry-was accordingly presented, recommending the following proposals :-“ That the fund for augmentation shall arise out of the unexhausted teinds of each parish : out of the produce arising from the bishops’ tithes ; out of the vacant stipends of the several parishes in Scotland j and that, in order to the accomplishment of this end, each parish shall remain vacant at least for one year after the death of the last incumbent, Application shall be made to the Crown for the above tithes ; and a bill brought into Parliament to enable the Lords of Session, as Commissioners of Teinds, to appropriate the same in terms of the act: the smallest stipends to be first augmented, and so on in regular order.” After the reading of this Report, a motion was made, and unanimously agreed to, ‘‘ that the Report be re-committed, with instructions to the committee to digest and Sketch of a Plan for Augmenting the Livings of the Ministers of the Established Church of Scotland, by means of the Vacant Stipends. By Sir K. Monmiff Wellwood, Bart., D.D. 4t0, 1s. 6d. Creech. With hbles and Illustrations. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. member of the Town Council. He was a warm supporter of Lord Melville. Among other ...

Book 9  p. 157
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of 6 1 0 each. The benefits of the endowments are still destined to burgesses, their wives or children not married, nor under the age of fifty years.? Ten others have pensions of 6 1 0 each out of the funds I whole area occupied by the church and collegiate buildings of the Holy Trinity was then included in the original termini of the. Edinburgh and Glasgow, the North British, the Edinburgh, Perth, GROUND PLAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE CHURCH, 1814 following succinct account in the Scofs Magazine for 1805:- ?In 1741 Captain Alexander Horn, of thecity of London, by his last will bequeathed &3,500, old and new South Sea Annuities, to be disposed of at the discretion of the Lord Provost, Bailies, Dean of Guild, and Treasurer of the city of Edinburgh, on account of their early appearance and noble stand in the cause of liberty (was this a reference to the Porteous mob ?) as follows :-The interest of &1,5oo on Christmas-day yearly, to such day labourers of Edinburgh as by the inclemency of the weather may be set idle and reduced to want; interest of &I,OOO to day labourers as aforesaid, in the Potter Row, Bristo, and West Port; and I boundary-wall of its garden, in which he shows parterres and three rows of large trees, and also a square lantern and vane above the roof of the large hall; and in Edgar?s map, a hundred years later, the waters of the loch came no farther eastward than the line of the intended North Bridge, between which and the hospital lay the old Physic Gardens. ?Its demolition brought to light many curious evidences of its former state,? says Wilson. .?? A beautiful large Gothic fireplace, with clustered columns and a low, pointed arch, was disclosed in she north gable, and many rich fragments of Gothic ornament were found built into the walls, remains no doubt of the original hospital buildings, used in the enlargement and repair of the college.? The ... 6 1 0 each. The benefits of the endowments are still destined to burgesses, their wives or children not ...

Book 2  p. 308
(Score 1.41)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 373 nature of the accounts rendering it impossible for any one, whose time was limited, to obtain the satisfaction desired. He therefore resumed his former motion, that a clear and succinct statement of the city’s affairs should be produced. On this occasion he was seconded by Deacon Lawrie,’ but opposed as formerly by the Lord Provost, on the ground of inexpediency, as “ he had pledged himself elsewhere [at a meeting of the Merchant Company], that, if he was in office at the usual season of making out the city’s accounts, he would give a full and explicit statement; and [in conclusion] offered every facility to any person wishing information on the subject.” This, however, would not satisfy the uncompromisihg Deacon of the Hammermen, who, though certain of defeat, resolved to press his motion to a division ; but what was his astonishment to find an opponent in the “represen€ativeof the tailors f ” “Deacon ROSS,” says the report of the Council proceedings given in the Scotman, after what the Provost had promised to do, and after what he had said in another place [Merchant Company Meeting], thought the motion unnecessay; and seeing no necessity for it at present, would vote against it. L‘ The vote was then put : twenty-three voted against the motion, and three for it ; the mpposed independent Deacon of the Tailors voting with the majority f ’I At that period reporters ’were not admitted to the Council sittings ; but the Scotsman generally found means to give publicity to the proceedings. The Deacon, conceiving himself to have been misrepresented, sent the following letter to the Editor, which appeared in next publication :- “ TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SCOTSMAN. Sq-In the report given in your paper of Saturday last, of the proceedings of the Town Council of Edinburgh on the Wednesday preceding on the motion of Deacon Paterson, you have not been correctly informed of what I said upon that occasion ; and as it is unpleasant to be misrepresented, I have annexed a copy of what I thought it my duty to state in Council upon that occasion, which, along with this letter,,I request you may insert in Saturday’s SwWn. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, Edis. 12th Nov. 1818.” (‘ W. M, Ross. “ MY LORD,-It certainly would be very satisfactory to have before us a state of the city’s affairs, and to know how they stand ; but from what your lordship has just now said, and from the pledge which you gave in another meeting, namely, the Merchant Company, I have no objection to wait for this state till the usual time. Were it really the caae that the city’s affairs were in a bad state, and the demands upon it not regularly paid, I should think the sooner the motion was gone into the better ; but I suppose this is not the case, as I understand every claim hitherto made against the city has been immediately settled I shall therefore at present vote against the motion.” This vote of Deacon Ross gave great offence to the party to which he waa supposed to be attached, and subjected him to the charge of deserting the popular cause. Hence the caricature of ‘( The Laird of Denholme Breaking his Beast.” Mr. Alexander Lawrie. Deacon of the Bonnetmakers. ... SKETCHES. 373 nature of the accounts rendering it impossible for any one, whose time was limited, to ...

Book 9  p. 497
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B I OGR AP H I C AI, SRE T C H E S. 37 No. CLXXXIV, JAMES ALEXANDER HALDANE, ESQ., MINISTER OF THE TABERNACLE, LEITH WALK. THIS Portrait, taken at the period of his greatest popularity, represents MR. JAMEASL EXANDERH ALDANaE , gentleman who for more than forty years devoted himself gratuitously, and with exemplary assiduity, to the preaching of the gospel ; and whose proceedings, as well as those of his elder brother, Robert Haldane, Esq. of Airthrey, at one time at least, attracted much interest, not only in Edinburgh, but throughout Scotland. Mr. James Haldane was the posthumous son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey, and an immediate descendant of the Haldanes of Gleneagles, in Perthshire, one of the most ancient and highly connected baronial families in Scotland. His mother was the daughter of Alexander Duncan, Esq., of Lundie Castle, near Dundee, and the sister of Admiral Lord Yiscount Duncan. He was born on the 14th July 1768, at Dundee, within one fortnight after the death of his father, who was cut off at the early age of thirty-nine, by a sudden illness, in the bloom of manhood. His widow only survived the death of her husband about six years, when her two sons were left under the guardianship of her brothers, Colonel Duncan of Lundie and the Admiral. Both were educated at the High School and College of Edinburgh, and boarded with Dr. Adam, the well-known Rector. At the age of sixteen Mr. James Haldane entered the service of the East India Company as a midshipman, on board the Duke of Jfontrose. He made four voyages to Bengal, Bombay, and China ; and at the age of twenty-five, the earliest period at which the rules of the service permitted him to command a ship, he was appointed to the command of the MeZvVille Castb, previously commanded by Lord Duncan's brother-in-law, Captain Philip Dundas? His life at sea was distinguished by many of those narrow escapes to which a sailor is often exposed. On one occasion, when ordered to go aloft to reef the sails, the man next him was knocked from the yard and drowned in the sea. At another time he fell out of a boat at night, and was only saved by keeping fast hold of the oar with which he had been steering the boat. On It was on board the MeZviZZe Castle, when lying at Gravesend, that hfr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas had dined on that well-known occasion, when Yr. Fox moved the adjournment of the House, and which gave rise to various satirical lampoons about " Palinurus nodding at the helm ;" and also to the caricature in which Mr. Pitt was made to say, on entering the House of Commons-" I do not aee the Speaker, Harry, do you ?" To which Nr. Dundaa replies-" Not see him, Billy-I see two I" ... I OGR AP H I C AI, SRE T C H E S. 37 No. CLXXXIV, JAMES ALEXANDER HALDANE, ESQ., MINISTER OF THE TABERNACLE, ...

Book 9  p. 50
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THE HIGH STREET. 225 On another part of the building the initials I D ., and K * T *, appear attached to some curiously-formed marks, and are doubtless those of the original owners ; but unfortunately all the early titles are lost, EO that no clue now remains to the history of this singular dwelling. The lower story, which is believed to have formed the black-hole or dungeon of the English t.roopers, is vaulted with stone, and around the massive walls iron rings are affixed, as if for the purpose of securing the prisoners once confined in these vaults. The east wall of the main room above is curiously constructed of eliptic arches, resting on plain circular pillars, and such portions of the outer wall as are not concealed by the wooden appendages of early times, exhibit polished ashlar work, finished with neat mouldings and string courses. Immediately to the north of this ancient mansion, there is a large land eutering from the foot of Sellar’s Close, which has two flat terraced roofs at different elevations, and forms a prominent and Eiomewhat graceful feature of the Old Town as seen from Princes Street. This is known by the name of (( The Cromwell Bartizan,” a and is pointed out, on the same traditional authority, as having been occupied by the General, owing to its vicinity to his guards, and the commanding prospect which its terraced roof afforded of the English fleet at anchor in the Firth. Over a doorway, which divides the upper from the lower part of this close, a carved lintel bears this variation of the common legend :-THE . LORD . BE . BLEIST . FOR . AL. HIS. GIFTIS .3 A building on the west side, finished in the style prevalent about the period of James VI., has the following inscription over a window on the third floor :- @- THE LORDIS TEIE PORTION OB MINE INHERITANCE AND OF MY CUP ; THOU MAINTAINEST MY LOT. PSALX.V I. VERSE 5. In the house which stood opposite, a very large and handsome Gothic lire-place remained, in the same style as those already described in the Guise Palace. In Brown’s Close adjoining this, Arnot informs us that there existed in his time a private oratory,” containing -a ‘( baptismal font,” or sculptured stone niche ; but every relic of antiquity has now disappeared ; and nearly the same may be said of Byres’ Close, though it contained only a few years since the town mansion built by Sir John Byres of Coates, the carved lintel of which was removed by the late Sir Patrick Walker, to Coates House, the ancient mansion of that family, near Edinburgh. It bears the inscription, “ Blissit be God in a1 His giftis,” with the initials I B a, and 31 B ., and the date 1611.4 Dunbar’s, Brown’s, and Sellar‘s closea, mentioned in this chapter, are now obliterated by recent city improvementa. ’ Vide p. 95, some confusion exists in the different attempts‘ to lix the exact house, but these discrepancies tend to confirm the general probability of the tradition; the name BartiZan, however, would seem to determine the building now assigned in the text 8 In that amusing collection “Satan’s Invisible World Discovered,” written for the purpose of confounding atheiste, the following is given as an Eat Lothian grace, ‘‘in the time of ignorance and superstition :” Lord be bless’d for all His gifts, Defy the Devil and all his shifts. Qod send me mair d e r . Amen. . * The front land to the west of Byree’ Close, wan long the residence, Post Office, and miscellaneous establishment of the noted Peter Williamson, who advertised himself as “from the other world I ” and published an ingenioua narrative of his Adventures in America, and Captivity among the Red Indians.--Piale Kq’r Portraits, voL i. p. 137. 2 F ... HIGH STREET. 225 On another part of the building the initials I D ., and K * T *, appear attached to ...

Book 10  p. 245
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231 B1,OGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The Marquis married, in 1793, MARY TURNER GAVIN, eldest daughter and co-heiress of David Gavin,’ Esq., of Langton, by Lady Elizabeth Maitland, daughter of James seventh Earl of Lauderdale. The issue of this union were two daughters and one son. The eldest, Lady Elizabeth Maitland, was married to Sir John Pringle, of Stitchel, Bart., and the youngest, Lady Mary, to the Marquis of Chandos, afterwards second Duke of Buckingham. The Marquis of Breadalbane died at Taymouth Castle, after a short illness, in 1834, aged seventy-two.’ He was succeeded by his son, John Earl of Ormelie, lately M.P. for Perthshire. He married, in 1821, the eldest daughter of George Baillie, Esq. of Jerviswood, then heir-presumptive to the earldom of Haddington, but had no issue. As a substantial proof that the “ sway I’ of the surviving Countess Dowager sat lightly, her ladyship was left one of the richest widows in Scotland. Another instance of peculiar esteem, on the part of the Marquis, was the fact that, a few years before his death, he caused to be erected, at great expense, a Cross of the most elegant architectural design, in honour of the Marchioness, upon which is an inscription highly complimentary to her ladyship. The Cross stands in a delightful and conspicuous situation, at the extreme end of the celebrated “Beech Terrace,” at Taymouth. No. CCXLIX. CAMPBELL OF SONACHAN LAUGHING AT THE PRINT OF ‘( PETTICOAT GOVERNMEKT.” THE shop of the artist, a place of much attraction, was unusually so while the novelty of the above Caricature continued. Mr. Campbell, whose property bordered on that of Breadalbane, was acquainted with the Earl; and happening, as rarely occurred, to be in Edinburgh, he was induced to gratify his curiosity by a peep at Kay’s window, where, little dreaming of the trap laid for him by his friends, he no sooner recognised the burlesque representation Subsequently settling in Scotland, he purchased the beautiful estate of Langton (the ancient seat of the Cockborns), near Dunse, in Berwickshire. -a The whole of the personal estate of the late Marquis, it is said, exceeding 6300,000, had been directed by his will to accumulate for twenty years, at the end of which it was to be laid out on estates, to be added to the entailed property ; but his settlement wm partly set aside by the Marquis of Chandos, in right of his wife, xrho obtained an affirmance, by the House of Peers, of the decisiou of the Court of Session, declaring that the Marchioness and her husband, in her right, were entitled to demand legitim. This gentleman made a fortune in Holland or the Netherlands. ... B1,OGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The Marquis married, in 1793, MARY TURNER GAVIN, eldest daughter and co-heiress of ...

Book 9  p. 311
(Score 1.38)

OUTLINE OF T H E GEOLOGY O F E D I N B U R G H AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. BY PROFESSOR GEIKIE, LLD., F.R.S. FEW parts of the British Islands have been more frequently the subjects of geglogical description than the district of which. Edinburgh forms the centre. From the time when its igneous rocks were studied by Hutton, and made to bear their testimony to the Vulcanist theory of the earth, down to the present day, books, memoirs, and notices have appeared in a continuous stream, until it might be thought that hardly anything more can remain to be said or written on the subject. And yet, as each year passes, new glimpses are opened up into aspects of geology which our fathers never dreamt of, and doubtlqss, after all the living geologists and writers have passed away, succeeding generations will find the rocks and their story still inexhaustible. But though countless points of detail remain to be worked out, the general outline of the geological history of this region can now be'traced with tolerable precision: Such an outline, in language intelligible to the nonscientific reader, is all that can be attempted, or indeed seems desirable,' in these pages. Geological history is at the best confessedly imperfect, even when based upon the evidence drawn from the study of a whole country, or an entire continent, or of the globe itself. Still more fragmentary must it be when it relates only to a limited region. Under the most favourable circumstances it may lack most or all of the introductory chapters; a few scattered pages, as it were, may be all that relate the events of one of the longest and most momentous geological periods ; the narrative will suddenly break off in the middle of an interesting epoch, and when it resumes again we find that it deals with a totally different and far more recent series of events. From the T ... OF T H E GEOLOGY O F E D I N B U R G H AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. BY PROFESSOR GEIKIE, LLD., F.R.S. FEW ...

Book 11  p. 204
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230 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. the Council-room of the Hospital; so that here was the fashionable lounge of the dilettanti of the seventeenth century, and the resort of rank and beauty, careful to preserve unbroken the links of the old line of family portraiture ; though a modern fine lady would be seized with a nervous fit at the very prospect of descending the slippery abyss. Following our course eastward we arrive at Roxburgh Close, which is believed to derive its name from having been the residence of the Earls of Roxburgh. It has, however, suffered a very different fate from the adjoining close. Few of its ancient features have escaped alteration, and only one doorway remains-now built up-f the mansion reputed to have been that in which the ancestors of the noble earls lived in state, We have engraved a fac-simile of the quaint and pious legend that adorns the old lintel. If this account be true (for which, however, there is only the authority of tradition), the date carries us back to the year 1586, in which their ancestor, Sir Walter Ker, of Cessford, died, one of the leaders in the affray already alluded to, in ,which Sir Walter Scott of Buccleugh was slain on the High Street of Edinburgh. Warriston’s Close is another of the ancient alleys of the Old Town which still remains nearly in its pristine state,’ exhibiting the substantial relics of former grandeur, like the faded gentility of a reduced dowager. Handsome and lofty polished ashlar fronts are decorated with richly moulded and sculptured doorways, surmounted by architraves adorned with inscriptions and armorial bearings, still ornamental, though broken and defaced. Timber projections of an early date jut out here and there, and give variety to the irregular architecture, while far up, and almost beyond the point of sight that the straitened thoroughfare admits of, dormer windows of an ornate character rise into the roof, and the gables are finished with crow-steps, and, in one case at least, with armorial bearings. . . . . QUE * ERIT ILLE * MIHI - SEMPER DEUS 1583 The front of this building, facing the High Street, is of polished ashlar work, surmounted with handsome though dilapidated dormer windows, and is further adorned with a curious monogram ; but like most other similar ingenious devices, it is undecipherable without the key. We have failed to trace the builders or occupants at this early period; but the third floor of the old land was occupied in the following century by James Murray, . Over the first doorway on the west side is the inscription and date : of his finest works were possessed by the late Andrew Bell, engraver, the originator of the Encyclopaedia Britannicg who married his granddaughter. Pinkerton remarks of him :-“ For some years after the Revolution he WBB the only painter in Scotland, and had a very great run of business. This brought him into a hasty and incorrect manner.” This is very observable in the portrait of Heriot, copied in 1698, from the original by Paul Vansomer,-now lost. The head is well painted, but the drapery and background are 80 slovenly and harshly executed, that they appear more like the work of an inexperienced pupil. Scougal died at Prestonpana about the year 1730, aged 85, having witneased a series of aa remarkable political changes as ever occurred during a single lifetime. He is named George in the Weekly MaguzinC (vol. xv. p. 66) and elsewhere, but this appears to be an error, aa several of his descendants were named after him, John. Since the First Edition of these “Memorials ” appeared, Warriston’s and other closes in this part of the city have been w much altered as now to present little of their characteristics &4 memorials of the past. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. the Council-room of the Hospital; so that here was the fashionable lounge of the ...

Book 10  p. 250
(Score 1.36)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 233 personal knowledge possessed by the artist, and rumour has not assigned any particular circumstance matrimonial as a foundation for the caricature.’ His lordship was universally known to be a very excellent and patriotic man-goodnatured, though not so to a fault ; and we are not aware that the Countess had a more inordinate desire of domination than is common to most other ladies of spirit. JOHN FIRST MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE, EARL OF ORMELIE, etc., was born in 1762. He was the eldest son of Colin Campbell of Carwhin, by Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Campbell of Stonefield, Sheriff of Argyleshire, and sister to Lord Stonefield, one of the Senators of the College of Justice. He was educated at Westminster School; and afterwards resided for some time at Lausanne, in Switzerland. He succeeded to the earldom and estates of Breadalbane on the death of his cousin (father of the late Countess de Grey) in 1783. In 1784 his lordship was elected one of the sixteen representative Peers of Scotland; and until created a British Peer in 1806, by the title of Baron Breadalbane, was rechosen at all the subsequent elections. In 17 9 3 he raised the Breadalbane Regiment of Fencibles,whichwas afterwards increased to four battalions. One of these was enrolled, as the 11 6th Regiment, in the regular service, and his lordship appointed Colonel of the corps. He subsequently held the rank of a field officer, and was created a Marquis in 1831, at the coronation of William IV. The habits and disposition of the noble lord were not such as to make him ostentatiously forward in public affairs. His attention was chiefly devoted to the improvement of his immense estates, great portions of which, being unfitted for cultivation he laid out in plantations. In 1805 he received the gold medal of the Society of Arts for his success in planting forty-four acres of waste land, in the parish of Kenmore, with Scots and larch firs, a species of rather precarious growth, and adapted only to peculiar soils. In the magnificent improvements at Taymouth his lordship displayed much taste ; and the Park has been frequently described as one of the most extensive and beautiful in the country. Prince Leopold (afterwards King of the Belgians), when on a tour through part of Scotland in 1819, paid a visit to Taymouth, where he was received with all the hospitality characteristic of the olden times. His lordship’s tenantry being summoned to attend in honour of the distinguished guest, about two thousand men assembled in front of the Castle, “ All plaided and plumed in their tartan array,” where they performed a variety of evolutions very much to the gratification of the Prince. 1 It ww said the Print waa suggested by some of the officem of the Fencibles, who, having been refused leave of absence, attributed their want of success to the interference of Lady Breadalbane. VOL 11. 2 H ... SKETCHES. 233 personal knowledge possessed by the artist, and rumour has not assigned any particular ...

Book 9  p. 310
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deed. Some have derived it from Coire, a hollow, stoir, wet steps, and eitherjonn, white, orfein, ?the Fingalians.? (?Old Stat. Account?) The name might thus signify, ? the hollow with the white steps ;a or, the ? Glen of Fingalian steps.? And by some it has been asserted that the original name was Curia StorpAinorum, from a cohort of Roman soldiers called the Storphini having been stationed here. But George Chalmers, with much more probability than any, deduces the name from the ? Cross of Torphin. ? ?Torphin?s Cross, from whence its name is derived,? says Wilson in his 6? Remhiscences,? ?doubtless stood there in some old century to mark the last resting-place of a rough son of Thor.? plain, is 474 feet in height above the level of the sea Its sloping sides are covered with rich arable land, and wooded to the summit with thick and beautiful coppice.. After a gentle ascent of about half a mile, an elevated spot is reached, called ? Rest and be Thankful,? from whence a series of magnificent views can be had of the city and the surrounding scenery, extending from the undulating slopes of the Pentlands on the south, to the Forth with all its isles, Fife with all its hills, woods, and sea-coast towns, and eastward away to the cone of North Berwick and the cliffs of the Bass. But always most beautiful here are the fine effects of evening and sunset- ?? When the curtain of twilight o?ershadows the shore, And deepens the tints on the blue Lammermoor, The hues on Corstorphine have paled in their fire, But sunset still lingers in gold on its spire, When the Rosebery forests are hooded in grey, And night, like his heir, treads impatient on day.? Amid the great concern and grief caused by the murder of ?the bonnie Earl of Moray,? by the Huntly faction, in 1591, we read that the King, 111 James VI., at the crisis, would not restrain his pra pensity for field sports, and was hunting on the north side of Corstorphine Hill on a day in February, when Lord Spynie, hearing that Captain John Gordon (brother of the Laird of Gicht) who had been severely wounded in the brawl at Donnibristle, had been brought to Leith, together with Moray?s dead body, having a warrant to place him in Edinburgh Castle, was anticipated by the Lord Ochiltree.. The latter, at the head of forty men-at-arms, went in search of James VI., whom he found at ? Corstorphine Craigs, where his majesty was taking a drink.? Ochiltree dismounted at the base of the hill, approached the king respectfully form, and the captain was beheadit and his man hanged. The captain condemned the fact, protesting that he was brought ignorantly upon it? (Calderwood, &c) In 1632 and 1650 respectively the Parliament House and Heriot?s Hospital were built from a quarry at Corstorphine. Past the latter, on the 27th of August, 1650, the Scottish army, under Leslie, marched to baffle Cromwell a second time in his attempt to tu15 the Scottish position and enter Edinburgh. An encounter took place near Gogar, on ground still called the Flashes, from the explosion of firearms in the twilight probably, ?I and after a distant cannonade, the English, finding that they could not dislodge the Scots, drew off? towards Braid. Corstorphine must at one time have had a kind of market cross, as in 1764 it is announced in the Edinburgh Advertiser of 14th February, that there are for sale, three tenements ?near the Cross of Corstorphine ; one, a house of three storeys, with fourteen fire-rooms, and stables ; ? the other twD are stated to have ?fixed bedsteads on the floor,? ? ... Some have derived it from Coire, a hollow, stoir, wet steps, and eitherjonn, white, orfein, ...

Book 5  p. 113
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I28 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. . In 1595, the following entry occurs in the records of the Presbytery of Edinburgh:- “Anent the desyre of James Reid, Constable of the Castell of Edinburgh, in effect craving that, seing thair was ane paroche kirk within the said Castell, command wald be given to John Brand to baptese the barnis borne in the Castell. The Presbyterie understanding that the kirk thairof is unreparitt, willis the said Constable to repair the same, and to dedicatt it for na uther use bot for preiching. Thairefter his desyre sal be answerit.” Eight years afterwards, it appears, from the same records, that the question of its being a parish was disputed, and still under discussion, and so it remains even to our own day. When Maitland wrote, the old church was divided by floors, and converted into an armoury and storehouse; and soon after his time, it must have been entirely demolished. We have been the more careful in describing the site and general character of the ancient Church of the Castle, in order to prevent its being confounded with a singularly curious and interesting ecclesiastical ediiice still remaining there, immediately to the west of the garrison chapel, the existence of which seems to have been totally lost sight of. Its external appearance, though little calculated to excite attention, leaves little reason to doubt that the original walls remain. It is still in a tolerably perfect condition, consisting of a very small building, measuring sixteen feet six inches, by ten feet six inches within the nave, probably the smallest, as well as the most ancient chapel in Scotland. At the east end, there is a neatly carved,, double, round arch, separating it from a semicircular chancel, with a plain alcoved ceiling. It is decorated with the usual Norman- zigzag mouldings, and finished on the outer side by a border of lozenge-shaped ornaments, the pattern of which is curiously altered as it approaches the spring of the’ arch. No traces of ornament are now apparent within the chancel, a portion of the building usually BO highly decorated, but the space is so small, that the altar, with its customary appendages, would render any further embellishment immaterial. There have been formerly two pillars on each side, supporting the arch, with plain double cushion capitals, which still remain, as well as two of the bases, but the shafts of all the pillars are now wanting, and the opening of the arch is closed in with a rude brick partition in order to adapt the chancel to its modern use as a powder magazine. The original windows of the chapel have all been built up or enlarged, but sufficient remains can be traced to show that they have been plain, round-headed, and very narrow openinga. The original doorway is also built up, but may still be seen in the north wall, close to the west end, an arrangement not unusual in such small chapels, and nearly similar to that at Craigmillar Castle. This interesting edifice is now abandoned to the same uses as the larger church was in Wodrow &fisc., vul. i. p. 463. \’rGNETm-Mouldioga of the Chancel Arch, from the Chapel in the Castle. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. . In 1595, the following entry occurs in the records of the Presbytery of ...

Book 10  p. 139
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394 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. the Church, were ordered to be converted into great guns for the use of the Town,” a resolution so far departed from, that they were sold the following year for two hundred and twenty pounds.’ Two of the remaining bells were recast at Campvere in Zealand, in 1621 ; ’ and the largest of these having cracked, it was again recast at London in 1846. In 1585, St Giles’s Church obtained some share of its neighbours’ spoils, after having been stripped of all its sacred furniture by the iconoclasts of the sixteenth century. That year the Council purchased the clock belonging to the Abbey Church of Lindores in Fife, and put it up in St Giles’s steeple,s previous to which time the citizens probably regulated time chiefly by the bells for matins and vespers, and the other daily services of the Roman Catholic Church. Such is an attempt to trace, somewhat minutely, the gradual progress of St Giles’s, from the small Parish Church of a rude hamlet, to the wealthy Collegiate Church, with its forty altars, and a still greater number of chaplains and officiating priests ; and from thence to its erection into a cathedral, with the many vicissitudes it has since undergone, until its entire remodelling in 1829. The general’paucity of records enabling us to fix the era of the later stages of. Gothic architecture in Scotland confers on such inquiries some value, as they suffice to show that our northern architects adhered to the early Gothic models longer than those of England, and executed works of great beauty and mechanical skill down to the reign of James V., when political and religious dissensions abruptly closed the history of ecclesiastical architecture in the kingdom. No record preserves to us the names of those who designed the ancient Parish Church of St Giles, or the elaborate additions that gradually extended it to its later intricate series of aisles, adorned with every variety of detail. It will perhaps be as well, on the whole, that the name of the modern architect who undertook the revision of their work should share the same oblivion. Very different, both in its history and architectural features, from the venerable though greatly modernised Church of St Giles, is the beautiful edifice which stood at the foot of Leith Wynd, retaining externally much the same appearance as it assumed nearly 400 years ago, at the behest of the widowed Queen of James II., whose ashes repose beneath its floor. The Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity was founded in 1462, by the Queen Dowager, Mary of Guelders, for a provost, eight prebends, and two singing boys; in addition to which there was attached to the foundation an hospital for thirteen poor bedemen, clad, like the modern pensioners of royalty, in blue gowns, who were bound to pray for the soul of the royal foundress. In the new statutes, it is ordered that (‘ the saidis Beidmen sal1 prepair and mak ilk ane of yame on yair awin expensis, ane Blew-gown, COBform to thefirst Foundation.” The Queen Dowager died on the 16th November 1463, and was buried ‘‘ in the Queen’s College besyde Edinburgh, quhilk sho herself foundit, biggit, and dotit.” ‘ No monument remains to mark the place where the foundress is laid; but her tomb is ienerdly understood to be in the vestry, on the north side of the church. The death of the Queen so soon after the date of the charter of foundation, probably prevented the completion of the church according to the original design. As it now stands it consita of the choir and transepts, with the central tower partially built, and evidently 1 Maitland, p. 273. * Ibid, p. 62. 8 Burgh Register, YOL vii. p. 177. Maitland, p. 273. ‘ haley’s Hkt. p. 36. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. the Church, were ordered to be converted into great guns for the use of the Town,” ...

Book 10  p. 432
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HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 59 situated the Waverfey Bridge and East Princes Street Gardens ; here, from a littIe above the Imperial Hotel, the accompanying view of the North Bridge is taken. The castellated turrets of the Jail tell in relief against the eastern NOKI’H BRIDGE IN la*. sky ; down the slope the Royal High School is diinty seen in the morning haze; in the middle distance rises the North Bridge, with its nngraceful modem parapet, contrasting unfavourably with the original structure. The . . .. . . . . NOHTH BRIDGE IN 177% alterations which have gradually taken pIace here within the last twenty years are very marked. On the site of the old Green Market rises the new spacious station of the North British Railway, on the north side of which is situated - ... AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 59 situated the Waverfey Bridge and East Princes Street Gardens ; here, from a ...

Book 11  p. 94
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342 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Burdiehouse. intelligence to the enemy, which occasioned the imprisonment of his person until the mistake was discovered.? He returned home in 1767, and after obtaining a full pardon in 1771, ?he repaired the mansion of his ancestors, improved his long neglected acres, acd set forward the improvements of the province in which he resided.?? In the year 1772 he published, at the request of the East India Company, a work on the principles of money, as applied to the coin of Bengal ; and in 1773, on the death of Sir Archibald Stewart Denham, he succeeded to the baronetcy of Coltness, and died in 1780. His works, in six volumes, including his correspondence with the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose acquaintance he made at Venice in 1758, were published by his son, Sir James Stewart Denham, who, when he died, was the oldest general in the British army. He was born in 1744 and in 1776 was lieutenant- colonel of the 13th Dragoons (now Hussars), and in his latter years was colonel of the Scots Greys. Towards the close of the last century, Goodtrees, or Moredun, as it is now named, was the property of David Stewart Moncrieff, advocate, one of the Barons of Exchequer, who long resided in a selfcontained house in the Horse Wynd. Sir Thomas MoncrieiT, Bart., of that ilk, was his nephew and nearest heir, but having quarrelled with him, according to the editor of ? Kay?s Portraits,? he bequeathed his estate of Moredun to Lady Elizabeth Ramsay, sister of the Earl of Dalhousie. He was buried on the 17th April, 1790, in the Chapel Royal at Holyrood, where no stone marks his grave. At, the western portion of the Braid Hills (in a quarter of St. Cuthbert?s parish), and under a shoulder thereof 609 feet in height, where of old stood a telegraph-station, lies the famous Buckstane, which gives its name to an adjacent farm. The Clerks, baronets of Penicuick, hold their land by the singular tenure of being bound to sit upon the large rocky fragment here known as the Buckstane, and wind three blasts of a horn when the King of Scotland shall come to hunt on the Burghmuir. Hence the fzmily have adopted as their crest a demi-forester proper winding a horn, with the motto, ? Free for a blast? About midway between this point and St Katherine?s is Morton Hall, a handsome residence surrounded by plantations, and having a famous sycamore, which was planted in 1700, and is fourteen feet in circumference. John Trotter of Morton Hall, founder of this family, was a merchant in Edinburgh, and was born in 1558, during the reign of Mary, A mile westward of Morton Hall are the remains of a large Roman camp, according to Kincaid?s ? Gazetteer? of the county. Burdiehouse, in this quarter, lies three miles and a half south of the city, on the Peebles Road. ? Its genteel name,? according to Parker Lawson?s ?Gazetteer,? ?is Bordeaux, which it is supposed to have received from its being the residence of some of Queen Mary?s French domestics; but it has long lost that designation. Another statement is that the first cottage built here was called Bordeaux.? Most probably, however, it received its name as being the abode of some of the same exiled French silk weavers who founded the now defunct village of Picardie, between the city and Leith. It is chiefly celebrated for its lime-kilns, which manufacture about 15,000 bolls annually. There is an immense deposit of limestone rock here, which has attracted greatly the attention of geologists, in consequence of the fossil remains it contains. In 1833, the bones, teeth, and scales of what was conjectured to be a nameless, but enormous, reptile were discovered here-the scales, strange to say, retaining their lustre, and the bones their porous and laminated appearance. These formed the subject of several communications to the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Dr. Hibbert, who, in his earlier papers, described them as U the remains of reptiles.? In 1834, at the meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh, these wonderful fossils-which by that time had excited the greatest interest among naturalists-were shown to M. Agassiz, who doubted their reptile character, and thought they belonged to fish of the ganoid .order, which he denbminated sauroid, in consequence of their numerous affinities to the saurian reptiles, which have as their living type, or representative, the lepidosteus; but the teeth and scales were not found in connection. A few days afterwards, M. Agassiz, in company with Professor Buckland, visited the Leeds Museum, where he found some great fossils having the same kind of scales and teeth as those discovered at Burdiehouse, conjoined in the same individual. It is now, therefore, no longer a conjecture that they belonged to the same animal. And in these selfsame specimens we have the hyoid and branchiostic apparatus of bones-a series of bones connected with the gills, an indubitable character of fishesand it is, accordingly, almost indisputable that the Burdiehouse fossils are the remains of fishes, and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Burdiehouse. intelligence to the enemy, which occasioned the imprisonment of his ...

Book 6  p. 342
(Score 1.3)

... V l l l INTR 0 DUCT ORY N 0 T ICE. of original Drawings by Kay, and from which I have been strongly urged to take Engravings, I may possibly be induced, at some future period, to publish as a SUPPLEMENT to the present Volumei It may be well here to state that, in accordance with an early formed resolution, I have throughout the Work been most careful to avoid whatever might prove offensive either politically or personally. This,,it will readily be conceived, from the nature of many of the subjects, was a task of no easy performance. I flatter myself, however, that I have so far succeeded in this respect as almost to disarm censure ; while in no instance am I aware of having stated facts without duly weighing the auaority upon which these are given. To have produced a work of similar magnitude, and of a description so diversified, entirely free from error, or beyond the reach of criticism, is what no one will pretend to j and I trust the utmost allowance will be conceded. HUGH PATON. EDINBURGDHe,c ember 1838. ... l l l INTR 0 DUCT ORY N 0 T ICE. of original Drawings by Kay, and from which I have been strongly urged to ...

Book 9  p. vii
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MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. @if go@ @t. Bpn affIeitit be, a9cb pail Bag Cbre$t cbm pain to me. Btuitb ge Map, wafk gotn tbairiti, Cm5rate ge trii rb, altanbobn - The last word, obviously Bin, had been curiously omitted, and a dash substituted for it, as though for a guess or puzzle. In the centre of this roof there was a ring, apparently for the purpose of suspending a lamp, and in one of the walls there was a niche with a trefoil arch very slightly ornamented. The fireplace, which was of very large dimensions, was entirely without ornament, and in no way corresponded with the style of finish otherwise prevailing in the apartment, although its size and massive construction seemed to prove that it must have been a portion of the original fabric. Another ceiling of a similar form, in a room adjoining this, on the west side of Blyth’g Close, was adorned with a variety of emblematic designs, mostly taken from Paradin’s Emblems (the earliest edition of which, as far as we are aware, was published at Lyons in 1557), and from the Traictd des Devises Royales, although some of them are not to be found in either of these works,-such as a hand amid flames, holding up a dagger, with the motto, Agere et pati fortia; 8 branch covered with apples, Ab insomni non custodita dragoni; and two hands out of a cloud, one ho1ding.a sword, and the other a trowel, In utrumque paratus, This species of emblematic device was greatly in vogue in the sixteenth century, and various other works of similar character still exist in the libraries of the curious. Among other devices on this ceiling, may be mentioned an ape crushing her offspring in the fervour of her embrace, with the motto, Cc~cus amr prolis ; a serpent among strawberry plants, Latet unguis in Hr6a ; a porcupine with apples on its spikes, Magnum vectigal parsimonia, &c.l These devices were united by a series of ornamental borders, and must have presented altogether an exceedingly lively and striking appearance when the colours were fresh, and the other decorations of the chamber in consistent harmony therewith.’ Another interesting feature in the decoration of the ceilings of this once magnificent mansion, was the blazonry which distinguished the chief ornaments remaining in some of the rooms. These consisted of the armorial bearings of the Duke of Chatelherault, with his initials, I. H.; those of France, with the initials H. R.; and, lastly, those of Guise, impaled with the Scottish Lion, and having the Queen Regent’s intitials, N. R.3 The first of these occupied the centre of a large entablature in the ceiling of the outer vestibule of the apartment, where the elegant Gothic niche stood, to which we have given the name of l It is much to be regretted that no attempt was made to preserve these interesting specimens of early decorations, which could have been so easily done, as they were all painted on wood. The restoration in one of the apartments of the New College would have formed a pleasing memorial of the building that it superseded. The only fragmente that we know of are now in the collection of C. K. Sharpe, Esq. ’ A few items from “A Collection of Inventories, &c.,” 1815, may afford some idea of the probable furnishing of the walla. “ The Quene Regentis movables, A.D. 1561; Item, ane tapestrie maid of worsett mixt with threid of gold of the hiatone of the judgment of Salamon, the deid barne and the twa wiffis. Item, ane tapestrie of the historie of the Creatioun, contening nyne peces; ane of the King Ruboam, contening foure peces ; ane other of little Salamon,” &a., p. 126. Sex cartis of aundrie cuntreis. Twa paintit brcddis, the ane of the muses, and the uther of crotescque or conceptis. Aucht paintit broddis of the Doctouris of Almaine,” &c.-Ibid, p. 130. “Of Rownd Cfloibbis and Paintrie. Item, twa gloibbis, the ane of the heavin, the uther of the earth. * All now in the posseasion of C. K. Sharpe, Esq. ... OF EDINBURGH. @if go@ @t. Bpn affIeitit be, a9cb pail Bag Cbre$t cbm pain to me. Btuitb ge Map, wafk ...

Book 10  p. 162
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Kirk-of- Field.] THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST DARNLEY. 5 IZ. our lady kirk of field 13. ye kirk of field kirk y i ' I+ ye potterraw .. .. .. The Pot:er Row. 15. ye caich ill gait . . . . The Catchpole Gate. . . Our Lady Kirk-of-Field. . . The Kirk-of-Field kirk y d . EXPLANATION OF THE ORIGINAL I I. ye blak freiris . . . . .. The Black Friars. a. ye priestis chameris . . . . The priest's chambers. 3. ye well .. .. . . .. The well. 4. ye mylk row . . .. . . The Milk Row. 5. our lady stapis . . Our Lady's steos. 6. ye Dukis gaitt ofchattiiieraur 7. ye lu+ att ye king was keipit 8. ye place of ye murthqr . . . . The lace of the murder. 9. ye provost place .. The Duke of Chatelherault's gate. The lodging at which the King eftir his murthur . . . , was kept after his murder, . . .. The Frovast's place. ... Field.] THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST DARNLEY. 5 IZ. our lady kirk of field 13. ye kirk of field kirk y i ...

Book 5  p. 5
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The Old High SchwL] SCHOOL BRAWLS. 289 native of Dundee, after undergoing a full course of study at St Andrews, became head-master, and among his pupils the name of one alone has come down to us, Williani Drummond of Hawthornden, the historian of the Jameses, the poet and Cavalier. ? In those days,? says Steven, ?frequent tumults took place, which seldom or never characterise modern times. The rude behaviour of the boys towards their teachers, particularly manifested inwhat has been termed a barringout, was frequently practised both in England and in Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.? resist the civic authorities as they had already disdainfully rejected the advice and commands of their excellent preceptor.? By order of the provost, William Little, the principal door was battered to pieces, the school entered, and the scholars were overawed, though tire-arms of every description, with swords and halberds, were found in their possession; but in such lawless proceedings the boys? only imitated the conduct of their seniors, who were daily engaged in raids, brawls, and street tulzies. As a teacher Rollock was well supported by his countrymen; and in 1591, by the patronage of Queen Anne, some Danes were entrusted as pupils to his care. Save Greek and Latin, nothing had been tzught as yet at the High School, but in 1593 a teacher of penmanship, named William Murdoch, was appointed; yet no salary was allowed, though the master was authorised to charge ten shillings Scots quarterly for each pupil ?writter.? In 1595 the school was the scene of that famous barringout and tragic tumult in which Bailie MacMorran was shot, and of which a full relation is given in the account of his residence. This fatal event greatly affected the sensitive mind of Rollock, while the expulsion of some scholars, and the withdrawai of others by their parents, thinned his classes, and at the same time he lost the favour of the Town Council, and became involved in a litigation, which made such inroads on his slender funds, that at his death in 1599 he left his family in such poverty that the Council in 1600 made a Principal, and his duties were distinctly defined in a document drawn up in October, 1598. The quarlerly examinations, at which were present the magistrates, ministers, and members of the Bar, took place at Candlemas, , Beltane, Lammas, and Martinmas. By all these officials and the masters ?nothing was left undone to impress on the minds of the young the abhorrence of the tenets of the Roman Catholics,? says Dr. Steven ; ?but publicly to caricature the ecclesiastics of another communion was surely unworthy of Protestant magistrates and teachers. In the summer of 1598 the city treasurer was directed to purchase grey cloth sufficient for five dresses resembling those worn by friars, and likewise coarse red cloth to represent (in burlesque) the official costume,of his Holiness and the college of cardinals The Corporation agreed to this outlay on the distinct , understanding that at the close of this theatrical ... Old High SchwL] SCHOOL BRAWLS. 289 native of Dundee, after undergoing a full course of study at St Andrews, ...

Book 4  p. 289
(Score 1.27)

156 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH, which appears prominently in our view of the Castle Hill, with the inscription LAVS DEO, and the date 1591, curiously wrought in antique iron letters on its front. The most ancient portions of the interior that remain seem quite as early in character as those we have been describing ; and indeed the back part of it, extending into the dose, has apparently been built along with the mansion of the Queen Regent. The earliest titles of this building now existing are two contracts of alienation, bearing date 1590, by which the upper and under portions of the land are severally disposed of to Robert M‘Naught and James Rynd, merchant burgesses. The building, in all probability, at that period was a timberfronted land, similar to those adjoining it, which were taken down in 1845. Immediately thereafter, as appears from the date of the building, the handsome polished ashlar front, which still remains, had been erected at their joint expense. In confirmatiou of this there is sculptured, under the lowest crow-step at the west side of the building, a shield bearing . an open hand, in token of amity, as we presume, with the initials of both proprietors.’ In an apartment on the second floor of this house, an arched ceiling was accidentally discovered some years since, decorated with a series of sacred paintings on wood, of a very curious and interesting character, A large circular compartment in the centre contsins the figure of our Saviour, with a radiauce round His head, and His left hand resting on a royal orb. Within the encircling border are these words, in gilded Roman letters, on a rich blue ground, Ego sum via, veritas, et vita, 14 Johne. The paintings in the larger compartments represent Jacob’s Dream, Christ asleep in the storm, the Baptism of Christ, and the Vision of Death from the Apocalypse, surmounted by the symbols of the Evangelists. The distant landscape of the Lake of Galilee in the second picture presents an amusing, though by no means unusual liberty, taken by the artist with his subject. It consists of a view of Edinburgh from the north, terminating with Salisbury Crags on the left and the old Castle on the right! This pictorial license affords a clue as to the probable period of the work, which, as far as it can be trusted, indicates a later period than the Regency of Mary of Guise. The steeples of the Nether Bow Port and the old Weighhouse are introduced-the first of which was erected in the year 1606, and the latter taken down in 1660. The fifth picture, and the most curious of all, exhibits an allegorical representation, as we conceive, of the Christian life. A ship, of antique form, is seen in full sail, and bearing on its pennon and stern the common symbol, IHS. A crowned figure stands on the deck, looking towards a burning city in the distance, and above him the word VB. On the mainsail is inscribed Curitus, and over the stern, which is in the fashion of an ancient galley, [Salpiencia. Death appears as a skeleton, riding on a dark horse, amid the waves immediately in front of the vessel, armed with a bow and arrow, which he is pointing at the figure in the ship, while a figure, similarly armed, and mounted on a huge dragon, follows in it.s wake, entitled Persecutio, and above it a winged demon, over whom is the word Diaboolus. In the midst of these perils there is seen in the sky a radiance surroundiig the Hebrew word i71iV, and from this symbol of the Deity a hand issues, taking hold of a line attached to the stern of the vessel. The whole series is executed with, great spirit, though now much injured by damp and decay. The broad borders between them are richly decorated with every variety of flowers, fruit, harpies, birds, and fancy 1 This is oue undoubted example of the date on a building being put on at a considerably later period than its erection, an Occurrence which we have fouud reason to auapect in various other instancea. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH, which appears prominently in our view of the Castle Hill, with the inscription ...

Book 10  p. 169
(Score 1.26)

362 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. bank, unable to prove that the money with which he purchased the bills was part of the amount stolen from them in 1811, insisted, as a last resource, that Mackcoull should be subjected to a judiciub examinutim. This not very usual course was opposed ; but at length, finding it impossible to resist the Court, he made a virtue of necessity, and latterly submitted to the proposed examination. On the day appointed-the 4th of March 1819-the Outer House was crowded to excess, the cause having excited great interest. Attended by his counse1,l the pursuer appeared in due time; and throughout the whole of his long examination, which lasted for several days, he conducted himself with the greatest sang fioid-objecting to this and the other question ; and when his replies were occasionally so absurd and improbable as to elicit a laugh, he never failed to join in it. The examination havinz closed on the 11th of the month, without producing anything tending seriously to criminate him, Mackcoull instantly repaired to London, to consult his brother John, who had throughout been a useful adviser, and who was now in more request than ever, to furnish him with one or two fictitious letters, necessary to strengthen his averments in the Court, and which he had been ordered to produce. At the end of every session, Mackcoull repaired regularly to London, and used to be seen almost every night at Elakeman’s, where he sat the whole evening, drinking half and half, smoking his pipe, and entertaining the vulgar company around him with metuphom (as he called his jokes), and caricature descriptions of Scottish judges and lawyers-against all of whom he was violent in his denunciations.’ On his last visit, feeling assured of success, he was in great good-humour, and treated his friends with the utmost liberality. Having arranged matters to his liking, he again returned to Edinburgh : and, perfectly confident of victory, pressed his agent to bring the matter to an issue before the Jury Court. On the other hand, the defenders were as much disconcerted as he was elated. The only way in which they could possibly save themselves, was by recurring to the circnmstances connected with the robbery in 18 11, and producing evidence sufficient to identify Mackcoull as one of the party. This appeared a hopeless task ; yet they were resolved to attempt it. A professional gentleman was desptched to England, to make inquiry on the subject ; but he returned without success. In the meantime, the pursuer, aware of the intentions of his opponents, and knowing the precarious ground on which he stood, became the more importunate in forcing on the trial. This the bank was anxious to delay as long as possible, but at last it was finally fixed for the 20th February 1820. In this dilemma, the bank directors engaged Mr. Denovan (formerly of Leith, One of whom was Sir J. P. Grant, of Rothiemurchus, Knight, who afterwards received this honour on being appointed a Judge in India. In Edinburgh his time was spent much in the same way. He frequented a tavern in East Register Street, where he generally sat from morning till night drinking and smoking. He associated with all who came in his way ; and the subjects of his “metaphors” and denunciations were invariably Scotch bankers, bsilies, or lawyers. In this way he became well known to many ; and by some he wa.. looked upon a3 a person who had been ill used. Defeat appeared almost inevitable. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. bank, unable to prove that the money with which he purchased the bills was part of the ...

Book 9  p. 481
(Score 1.26)

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