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THE LA WNMARKET. I81
On the west side of the County Hall there still exists a part of the “ transs ” of Libberton’s
Wynd, but all other remains have been swept away by the same “ improvement‘
mania,” whose work we have already recorded in the neighbouring closes. This wynd
formed, at one period, one of the principal thoroughfares for pedestrians from the fashionable
district of the Cowgate to the “ High Town.” Its features did not greatly differ from
those of many other of the old closes, with its substantial stone mansions eked out here
and there by irregular timber projections, until the narrow stripe of sky overhead had
well-nigh been blotted out by their overhanging gab1es.l The most interesting feature
in the wynd was Johnie Dowie’s Tavern, already alluded to,-the Mermaid Tavern of
Edinburgh during the last century,-whither the chief wits and men of letters were wont
to resort, in accordance with the habits of society at that period. Here Ferguson the
poet, David Herd, one of the earliest collectors of Scottish songs, “ antiquarian Paton,”
with others of greater note in their own day than now,-lords of session, and leading
advocates, inhabitants of the neighbouring fashionable district,-were wont to congregate.
Martin, a celebrated portrait painter of the last century, instituted a club here, which was
quaintly named after the host, Boway College, and thither his more celebrated pupil, Sir
Henry Raeburn, often accompanied him in his younger days. But, above all, this was the
favourite resort of Robert Burns, where he spent many jovial hours with Willie Nicol, and
Allan Masterton,-the ‘‘ blithe hearts ” of his most popular song,- and with his city
friends of all degrees, during his first visit to Edinburgh. On the death of John Dowie
(a sober and respected city, who amassed a considerable fortune, and left his only son a
Major in the army), the old place of entertainment acquired still greater note under the
name of Burns’s Tavern. The narrow room was visited by strangers as the scene of the
poet’s most frequent resort; and at the period of its demolition in 1834, it had taken a
prominent place among the lions of the Old Town. The house had nothing remarkable
about it as a, building, It bore the date of its erection, 1728, and in the ancient titles,
belonging to a previous building, it is described as bounded on the south by U the King’s
auld wall.” This ancient thoroughfare appears to have retained its original designation,
while closes immediately adjoining were receiving new names with accommodating facility on
every change of occupants, Libberton’s Wynd is mentioned in a charter granted by James
111. in the year 1477; and in later years its name occurred in nearly every capital
sentence of the criminal court, the last permanent place of public execution, after the
demolition of the Old Tolbooth, having been at the head of the wynd. The victims of the
law’s highest penalty, within the brief period alluded to, offer few attractions to the antiquarian
memorialist, unless the pre-eminent infamy of the “ West Port murderers,” Burke
and Hare,-the former of whom was executed on this spot-be regarded as establishing
their claim to rank among the celebrated characters of Edinburgh. The sockets of “ the
fatal tree ” were removed, along with objects of greater interest and d u e , in completing
the approach to the new bridge.
Carthrae’s, Forrester’s, and Beth’s Wynds, all once stood between Libberton’s Wynd
and St Giles’s Church, but every relic of them had been swept awyyears before the latter
work of destruction was projected. Forrester’s Wynd waa evidently a place of note in
earlier times, and frequent allusions to it occur in some of the older diaries ; e.g., ‘‘ Vpoun
A very accurate and characteristic view of this wynd, from the Cowgate, ie given among Geikie’e Etchings.

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406 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
below, on the oak beam of the great doorway. Between the windows an ornamental tablet
of the same date, and decorated in the style of the period, bears the inscription :-BASILICAN
HANG, CARO~VS REX, OPTINVS INSTAVRAVIT, 1633; with the further addition in
English ;-HE SHALL BUILD A H O UF~OR MY NAME, AND I WILL ESTABLISH THE THRONE OF
HIS KINGDOM FOR EVER ; a motto of strange significance, when we consider the events that
so speedily befell its inscriber, and the ruin that overwhelmed the royal race of the Stuarts,
as with the inevitable stroke of destiny. The chief portions of the west front, however,
are in the most beautiful style of early English, which succeeded that of the Norman.
The details on the west front of the tower, in particular, with its elaborately sculptured
arcade, and boldly cut heads between the arches, and the singularly rich variety of ornament
in the great doorway, altogether unite to form a specimen of early ecclesiastical
architecture unsurpassed by any building of similar dimensions in the kingdom. A
beautiful doorway on the north side, in a much later style, is evidently the work of Abbot
Crawfurd, by whom the buttresses of the north side were rebuilt as they now remain, in
the ornate style of the fifteenth century. He succeeded to the abbacy in 1457, and
according to his namesake, in the “Lives of Officers of State,” he rebuilt the Abbey
Cburch from the ground. Abundant evidence still exists in the ruins that remain to
disprove so sweeping a slateruent, but the repetition of his arms on various parts of the
building prove the extensive alterations that were effected under his directions. He was
succeeded by Abbot Ballantyne, equally celebrated as a builder, who appears to have
completed the work which his predecessor had projected. Father Hay records, that “ he
brocht hame the gret bellis, the gret brasin fownt, twintie fowr
capis of gold and silk; he maid ane chalice of fine gold, ane
eucharist, with sindry chalicis of silver ; he theikkit the kirk with
leid; he biggit ane brig of Leith, ane othir ouir Clide; with
mony othir gude workis, qwilkis ware ouir prolixt to schaw.”
The brazen font here mentioned was carried off by Sir Richard
Lee, captain of the English pioneers in the Earl of Hertford’s
army, and presented to the Abbey Church of St Alban’s, with a
gasconading Latin inscription engraved on it, which may be thus
rendered:--“When Leith, a town of some celebrity in Scotland,
and Edinburgh, the chief city of that nation, were on fire,
Sir Richard Lee, Knight of the Garter, snatched me from the
flames, and brought me to England. In gratitude for such kindness,
I who heretofore served only to baptize the children of Kings, now offer the same
service to the meanest of the English nation. Farewell.
A.D. 1543-4. 36 Hen. VIII.” This font a second time experienced the fate of war,
during the commotions of Charles I.’s reign, when the ungrateful Southron, heedless of
its condescending professions, sold it as a lump of useless metal.’ Seacome, in his History
of the House of Stanley, refers to an old but somewhat confused tradition of an
ancestor of the family of Norris of Speke Hall, Lancashire, who commanded a company, as
would appear from other sources, at the Battle of Pinkie, “in token whereof, he brought
Lee, the conqueror, so wills it.
1 Liber Cartsrum, p. xxxii. ’ Camden’a Britannia, by Cfough, vol. i p. 338, where the original Latin inscription ia given.

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JAMES ZV. TO THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN. 23
Tolbooth of Edinburgh, and uuder the influence of the leaders at the Field of Stirling,
enacted, in his name, many harsh and unjust laws, directed against the adherents of the late
King, involving suspension or deprivation to all officers of state, and handing over (‘ all
churchmen taken in armour, to their ordinaries, to be punished according to law.” The first
occurrence that tended to rescue the King from implicit confidence in his father’s enemies,
was the splendid victory obtained by Sir Andrew Wood, over a fleet sent by Henry VII.
of England, to execute reprisals on the murderers of the late King. They had committed
great ravages on the Scottish shipping, and completely blockaded the mouth of the Forth ;
when Sir Andrew Railed against them, and with an inferior force, completely defeated, and
brought the whole armament, consisting of five large ships, into Leith. Shortly after this,
the King concluded a truce with England, and on the 15th day of February 1490, his second
Parliament met at Edinburgh, and again another in the following year, both of which
enacted many salutary laws ; and, at the same time, Andrew Foreman, Protonotary of Pope
Alexander VL, arrived at the Scottish Court with consolatory letters to the King, whose
grief at the share he had taken in the fatal rebellion against his father still manifested itself
in severe penances and mortifications. He was also the bearer of a bull, addressed to the
abbots of Paisley and Jedburgh,’ empowering them to absolve and readmit into the church
all such as had been accessory to the death of King James 111. of famous memory, on
their expressing sincere repentance for the same.* And now the King, drawing towards
manhood, the ominous clouds that had threatened the commencement of his reign disappeared,
and a long and prosperous calm succeeding his early troubles, left him free to
give the rein to his chivalrous tastes, and extend his royal patronage to the many eminent
men that adorned the Scott,ish Court.
During this reign, Edinburgh became celebrated throughout Europe, as the scene of
knightly feats of arms. tournaments are of great antiquity
; they were held. in Edinburgh in the reign of milliam the Lion, and in those of
many of the succeeding Princes. The valley or low ground lying between the wester road
to Leith, and the rock at Lochend, was bestowed by James 11. on the community of Edinburgh,
for the special purpose of holding tournaments and other martial sports.” Here,
most probably, the weaponshaws which were of such constant recurrence at a later period, ‘
as well as such martial parades as were summoned by civic authority, were held, unless in
cases of actual preparation for war, when the Borough Muir seems to have been invariably
the appointed place of rendezvous. The favourite scene of royal tournaments, however,
was a spot of ground near the King’s Stables, just below the Castle wall. Here James
IT., in particular, often assembled his lords and barons, by proclamation, for jousting;
offering such meeds of honour as a spear headed with gold, and the like favours, presented
to the victor by the King’s own hand; so that ‘‘ the fame of hisjusting and turney spread
throw all Europe, quhilk caused many errand knyghtis cum out of vther pairtes to Scotland
to seik justing, becaus they hard of the kinglie fame of the Prince of Scotland. Bot few
or none of thame passed away vnmached, and oftymes overthromne.” ‘
One notable encounter is specially recorded, which took place between Sir John Cockbewis,
a Dutch knight, and Sir Patrick Hamilton. “ Being assembled togidder on great
In this country,” says Arnot,
Hawthornden, p. 68
Arnot, p. i l .
’ Martial Achievements, voL ii. p. 497. ’ Piboottie, vol. E. p. 246.

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328 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Blind ; one of the Committee of Management of the Deaf and Dumb Institution ;
one of the Extraordinary Directors of the House of Refuge; and one of
the Ordinary Managers of the Royal Infirmary, and of the Royal Public
Dispensary.
To the Society of Antiquaries, Sir Henry communicated an interesting
account of the opening of the grave of King Robert the Bruce, which took place
at Dunfermline, in presence of the Barons of Exchequer and other gentlemen,
on the 5th of November 1819.’
i
The other figure with the volunteer cap, immediately in the rear of Sir
Henry, is the late SIR ROBERT DUNDAS of Beechwood, Bart., one of the
Principal Clerks of Session, and Deputy to the Lord Privy Seal of Scotland.
He was born in June 1761, and descended of the Arniston family, whose
common ancestor, Sir James .Dundas, was knighted by Charles I., and
appointed a Senator of the College of Justice by Charles 11. His father, the
Rev. Robert Dundas, brother to the late General Sir David Dundas, K.G.C.B.,
and some years Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty’s Forces, was a clergyman
of the Established Church, and some time minister of the parish of Humbie, in
the county of Haddington. Sir Robert-the subject of our notice-was educated
as a Writer to the Signet, After a few years’ practice, he was made
Deputy Keeper of Sashes; and, in 1820, appointed one of the Principal
Clerks of Session. He succeeded to the baronetage and the estate of Beechw9od
(near Edinburgh) on the death of his uncle, General Sir David Dundas.
He acquired by purc)ase, from, Lord Viscount Melville, the beautiful estate of
Dunira, in Perthshire.
Sir Robert was an original member of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, and
held the commission of Lieutenant in 1794. In 1792, he married Matilda,
daughter of Baron Cockburn, by whom he had eight children. He died on
1 The communication of Sir Henry appeared in the Society’s Tyamactiom, printed in 1823, vol.
ii. part ii., together with a drawing of the coftin, and a facsimile of a plate of copper supposed to
have been attached to it. This relic is stated to have been found by the workmen a few days a f h
the opening of the grave, and is described as “ five and a half inches in length, and four in breadth,
and about one-eighth of an inch in thickness, with holes at each corner for fixing it on the coffin,
bearing this inscription, Robertus Xcotomm Rex; the letters resemble those on the coins of this
King [Bruce]. A cross is placed under the inscription, with a mullet or star in each angle, with the
crown, precisely of the form iu those coins. It was found among the rubbish which had been
removed on the 5th, close to the vault on the east side, and most probably had been adhering to thc
atones of the vault, and had thus escaped our notice at the time.” The plate, so minutely and
gravely described, was forwarded by Provost Wilson of Dunfermline, and duly deposited in the
Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries ; but it afterwards transpired that the “important fragment,”
as it was termed, was nothing more than an ingenious device, the work of a blacksmith, contrived
for the purpose of hoaxing the Antiquariev ! The success of his attempt waa complete ; and but for
his own imprudence, or rather an irresistible desire to enjoy the laugh at the expense of the Society,
the deception might have remained undiscovered.
It may not be unworthy of notice that Sir Henry wiw one of the commissioners appointed, along
with Sir Walter Scott and others, to open the chest which contained the Regalia of Scotland,
deposited in Edinburgh Castle, but which, according to rumour, had been carried to the Tower of
London, and that he had the high gratification of being the first to lay hands upon the Crown, which
he held up to the view of the spectators. It was found on the 4th of February 1818.

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iv OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
CHAPTER VII.
PAGE
EDINBURGH CASTLE (conclzded). .
The Torture of Neville Payne-Jacobite Plots-Entombing the Regalia-Project for Surprising the Foltress-Right of Sanctuary Abolished
-Lord Drummond's Plot-Some Jacobite Prisoners-'' Rebel Ladies"- James Macgregor-The Castle Vaults-Attempts at Escape-
Fears as to the Destruction of the Crown, Sword, and Sceptre-Crown-room opened in 1794-Again in 1817, and the Regalia brought
forth-Mons Megseneml Description of the whole Castle . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
CHAPTER VIII. .
THE CA~STLE HILL.
Doyglas-Castle Hill Promenade-Question as to the Proprietary of the Esplanade and Castle Hill . . . . . . . .
The Esplanade or Castle Hill-The Castle Banks-The Celtic Crosses-The Secret Passage and Well house Tower-The Church on the Castle
Hill-The Reservoir-The House of Allan Ramsay-Executions for Treason, Sorcery, &.-The Master of Forbes-Lady Jane
79
CHAPTER IX.
THE CASTLE HILL (conczuded).
'Dr. Guthrie's O~pinal Ragged School-Old Homes in the Street of the Castle Hill-Duke of Gordon's House, Blair's Close-Webster's Close
-Dr. Alex. Webster-Eoswell s Court-Hyndford House-Assembly Hdl-Houses of the Marquis of Argyle, Sir Andrew Kennedy, the
Earl of Cassillis, the Laud of cockpen--Lord Semple's House-Lord Semple-Fah of Mary of Guise-Its Fate . . . . 87
CHAPTER X.
T H E LAWNMARKET.
The Lawnmarket-RiSjt-The Weigh-houstMajor Somerville and captain Crawford-AndeMn's Pills-Myhe's Court-James's Gourt-Sir
John Lauder-Sir Islay Campbell-David Hume--" Cprsica" Boswell-Dr. Johnso-Dr. Blki-" Gladstone's Land "-A Fire in 1771 94
CHAPTER XI.
THE LAWNMARKET (continued).
Lady Stair's Close-Gray of Pittendrum-"Aunt Margaret's M rror"-The Marshal Earl and Countess of Stair-Miss Feme-Sir Richard
Steel-Martha Countess of Kincardine-Bums's Room in Barfer's C1o.e-The Eridges' Shop ih Bank Stxet-Bailie MacMorran's
Story-Sir Francis Grant of Cullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I02
CHAPTER XII.
THE LAWNMARKET' (continued).
The Story of Deacon Brodie-His Career of Guilt-Hanged on his own Gibbet-Mauchine's Close, Robet? Gourlay's Hoiise and the other
Old Houses therein-The Rank of Scotland, 16~5-Assassination of Sir Gorge hckhart-Taken Red Hand-Punishment of Chiesly I12
CHAPTER XIII.
THE LAWNMARKET (concluded).
Gosford's Close- The Town House of the Abbot of Cambu~kcnncth-Tennant's House-Mansion of the Hays-Liberton's Wynd-Johnnie
Dowie's Tavern-Burns a d His Songs-The Place of Execution-Birthplace of "The Man of Feeling"-The Mirror Club-
Forrester's Wynd-The Heather Stacks in the Houses-Peter Williamn-Beith's Wynd-Habits of the Lawnmarket Woollen
Traders-"Lawnmarket Gazettes "-Melbourne Place-The County Hall-The Signet and Advocates' Libraries . . . . . I I8
CHAPTER XIV.
T H E TOLBOOTH.
Memori-1s of the Heart of Midlothian, or Old Tolbooth-Sir Walter Scott's Description-The Early Tolhth-The "Robin Hod"
Disturbances-Noted Prison-Entries from the Records--Lord Burleigh's Attempts at Escape-The Porteous Mob-The Stories
of Katherine Nairne and of Jam- Hay-The Town Guard-The Royal Bedesmen . . . . . . . . . . . . 12;

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THE STUARTS TO THE DEATH OF YAMES III. I3
after this, Henry IV. of England renewed the oft-confuted claim of superiority over Scotland;
and in pursuance of this, wrote letters to the Scottigh King, and to the nobles and
prelates of Scotland, requiring them to meet him at Edinburgh by the 23d of August, in
order to pay the homage due to him as their superior and direct lord.’ King Henry was
as good as his word, for with a well-ordered and numerous army, he crossed the Borders,
and was at Edinburgh before the day he had appointed ; as appears from a letter written
by him to the King of Scots, dated at Leith, 21st August 1400.* While there, the
Duke of Rothsay, who then held the Castle of Edinburgh, sent him a challenge to meet
him where he pleased, with an hundred nobles on each side, and so to determine the quarrel.
But King Henry was in no humour to forego the advantages he already possessed,
at the head of a more numerous army than Scotland could raise ; and 80 contenting himself
with a verbal equivocation in reply to this knightly challenge, he sat down with his
numerous host before the Castle, till (with the usual consequences of the Scottish reception
of such invaders), cold and rain, and absolute dearth of provisions, compelled him to
raise the inglorious siege and hastily recross the Border, without doing any notable injury
either in his progress or retreat.
During the minority of James I., the royal poet, and his tedious captivity of nineteen
years in England, Edinburgh continued to partake of all the uncertain vicissitudes of the
capital of a kingdom under delegated government, though still prosperous enough to contribute
50,000 merks towards the payment of his ransom. When at length he did return
to enter on the cares of royalty, his politic plans for the control of the Highland clans seem
to have led to the almost constant assembly of the Parliaments, as well as his frequent
residence at Perth. Yet, in 1430, we find him residing in Edinburgh, attended by his Queen
and court, as appears from accounts of the surrender of the Earl of Rosa. At thia time,
the rebellious Earl, having made a vain attempt to hold out against the resolute measures
of the King, wrote to his friends at court to mediate a peace ; but finding their efforts unavailing,
he came privately to Edinburgh: where, having watched a fit opportunity, when
the Ring and Queen were in the church of Holyrood Abbey at divine service, he prostrated
himself on his knees, and holding the point of his sword in his own hand, presented the
hilt to the King, intimating that he put his life at his Majesty’s mercy. At the request of
the Queen, King James granted him his life, but confined him for a time in the castle of
Tantallan. His imprisonment, however, seems to have been brief, and the reconciliation,
on the King’s part at least, sincere and effectual ; for the Queen having shortly after this
given birth to two sons-Alexander, who died 00011 after; and James, afterwards the
second monarch of the name ;-the King not only liberated him, with many other prisoners,
but is said to have selected him to stand sponsor for the royal infants at the font.
The style of building, still prevalent at this period, was of the same rude and fragile
nature as we have already described at an earlier period ; and repeated enactments occur,
intended to avert the dangerous conflagrations to which the citizens were thus liable. In
the third Parliament of this reign, a series of stringent laws were passed, requiring the
magistrates to keep I( siven or aught twenty fute ledders, as well as three or foure sayes to
the comnoun use, and sex or maa cleikes of iron, to draw down timber and d e st hat are
fired.” And, again, ‘I that na fie be fetched fra ane house, til me uther within the town,
Hartial Achievements, vol. ii. p. 200. ’ Ibid, p, 215. * Ibid,p. 289.

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THE LA WNMARKET. 169
acquired by Sir John Clerk of Pennycuik. By him it was sold to Sir Roderick Mackenzie
of Preston Hall, appointed a senator of the College of Justice in 1702, who resided in the
upper part of the house, at the same time that Sir James Mackenzie, Lord Royston, third
aon of the celebrated Earl of Cromarty, one of the wittiest and most gifted men of his
time,” occupied the lower flat. Here, therefore, in all probability, his witty and eccentric
daughter, Anne, was born and brought up. This lady, who married Sir William Dick of
Prestonfield, carried her humorous pranks to an excess scarcely conceivable in our decorous
days ; sallying out occasionally in search of adventures, like some of the maids of honour
of Charles the Second‘s Court,’ dressed in male attire, with her maid for a squire, and out-
Vying them in the extravagance of her proceedings. She seems indeed to have possessed
more wit than discretion. Some of her poetical lampoons have been privately printed by
C. K. Sharpe, Esq., in a rare, though well-known little volume, entitled, (‘A Ballad
Book,” and furnish curioua specimens of the notions of delicacy at the period,
Half a dozen more Provosts, Baronets, and Lords of Session, might be mentioned as
the old occupants of this aristocratic quarter, but it will probably interest the reader more
to learn that “ The laigh tenement of land ” was ‘( sometime possessed by Jean Straiton,
relict of the deceased Mr David Williamson, Minister of the Gospel at the West Kirk,”-
the well-known ‘‘ Daintie Davie ” of Scottish song, who, if tradition has not wronged him,
had (‘ worn out six wives,” ere Jean Straiton, the seventh, contrived to survive him. He.
was one of the ejected ministers in 1665, and was restored, to the great joy of the parishioners,
in 1689, although the Duke of Gordon, then under siege in the Castle, contrived
to keep him out of his church for some months thereafter, and left the ancient fabric wellnigh
reduced to ruins ere he surrendered the fortress.’ His grave is still pointed out in
the churchyard of St Cuthbert’s, though there is no other inscription over it than his
initials on the enclosing wall, to mark the spot where he is laid.
The accompanying engraving renders a detailed description of the ancient court unnecessary.
One feature, however, is worthy of special notice, viz., the antique carved oak
shutters with which the lower half of one of the windows is closed, forming the finest
specimen of this obsolete fashion now remaining in Edinburgh.
To the east of this ancient quadrangle, there stood, till within these few years, the old
town residence of the Buccleuch family, entering from Fisher’s Close, demolished about
1835, to make way for Victoria Terrace; and hmediately beyond this, in Brodie’s
Close, there still remains, in the Roman Eagle Hall, an exceedingly beautiful specimen
of a large and highly decorated ancient saloon. This, however, falls to be treated of in
another chapter; but the same old close-re the besom of modern “ improvement ”
swept over it with indiscriminate destruction-contained various dwellings, pleasingly
associated with the memories of some of Edinburgh’s worthiest citizens in ‘( The Olden
Time. ”
On the east side of an open court, immediately beyond the Roman Eagle Hall, stood
the ancient mansion of the Littles of Craiagmillar, bearing below a large moulded and
deeply recessed stone panel, WILLIAME 1570 * LITIL, and on six shields, underneath
as many crow-stepped gables, were the initials, V. L., boldly cut in various forms.
William Little and his brother, Clement, may justly be considered, along with James
1 Grammout Memoirs. * Hiat. of West Kirk,-pp. 76-84.
Y

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a right to dues to nearly the same amount from the royal revenues at the port of Perth,
the more ancient capital of Scotland; justifying the quaint eulogy of his royal descendant,
that “he was an soir sanct for the crown.’”
By another important grant of this charter, liberty is given to the Canons to erect a burgh
between the Abbey and the town of Edinburgh, over which they are vested with supreme
rule, with right of trial by duel, and by fire and water ordeal. Hence the origin of the
burgh of Canongate, afterwards the seat of royalty, and the residence of the Scottish
nobility, as long as Scotland retained either to herself. In the same charter also, the first
authentic notice of the parish church of St Cuthbert’s, and the chapelries of Corstorphine
and Libberton are found, by which we learn that that of St Cuthbert’s had already, at this
early date, been endowed with very valuable revenues ; while it confirms to its dependency
at Libberton, certain donations which had been made to it by ‘( Macbeth of Libberton,”
in the rei@ of David I., erroneously stated by Arnot a as Macbeth the Usurper.
The well-known legend of the White Hart most probably had its origin in some real
occurrence, magnified by the superstition of a rude and illiterate age. More recent observations
at least suffice to show that it existed at a much earlier date than Lord Hailes
referred it to.’ According to the relation of an ancient service-book of the monastery, in
which it is preserved, King David, in the fourth year of his reign, was residing at the
Castle of Edinburgh, then surrounded with ‘( ane gret forest, full of hartis, hyndis, toddis,
and sic like manner of beistis ; ” and on the Rood Day, after the celebration of mass, he
yielded to the solicitations of the young nobles in his train, and set forth to hunt, notwithstanding
the earnest dissuasions of a holy canon, named Alkwine. “ At last, quhen
he we; cumyn throw the vail that lyis to the eist fra the said Castell, quhare now lyis the
Cannongait, the staill past throw the wod with sic noyis and dyn of bugillis, that all the
bestis wer raisit fra thair dennis.” The King, separated from his train, was thrown from
his horse, and about to be gored by a hart with auful and braid tyndis,” when a cross
slipt into his hands, at sight of which the hart fled away. And the King was thereafter
admonished, in a vision, to build the Abbey on the spot.’ The account is curious, as
affording a glimpse of the city at that early period, contracted within its narrow limits,
and encircled by a wild forest, the abode alone of the fox and the hind, where now for
centuries the busy scenes of a royal burgh have been enacted.
David I. seems to have been the earliest monarch who permanently occupied the Castle
as a royal residence-an example which was followed by his successors, down to the disastrous
period when it was surrendered into the hands of Edward I. ; so that with the reigu
of this monarch, in reality begins the history of Edinburgh, as still indicated to the historian
in the vestiges that survive at the present day. After the death of David I., we find
the Castle successively the royal residence of his immediate successor, Malcolm IT., of
Alexander II., and of William, surnamed the Lion, until after his defeat and capture by
Henry IL of England, when it was surrendered with other principal fortresses of the kingdom,
in ransom for the King’s liberty. Fortunately, however, that which was thus lost
with the fortunes of war, was speedily restored by more peaceful means ; for an alliance
Sir D. Lindsay’s Satyre of the Estaitis.
Vide Liber Cart. Sancts Crucis, pp, 8 and 9.
Ed. 1806, vol. ii. p. 67.
Macbeth the Usurper waa slain 1056.
’ Amot, p. 5. Macbeth of Libberton’s name occurs aa a witness to several royal charters of David I. [1124-53.1
* Annals, David I. Liber Cart. Sancta, Crucis, p. xii.

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373 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
C
Cable?s Wynd, Leith, XI. 226, 227
Caddies,orstreetmesngers, I. 151,
Cadell and Co.. Robert. I. 2x1. 11.
152
. .
171
Caer-almon (Cmmond), 111. IQ
?Cage,? The, 11. 348
Caiiketton Craigs, 111. 324
Cairncross, Robert. the simonist,
111. ir6-
Caithness. Earl of. I. 111. 118. 111. . .-_,
4,63, 348, 350
Calcraft the actor I. 350
Calderwlood, Sir &lliam, 111. 359
Calderwocd, the historian, I. 50,
126, 1432 150, 151, 195, 104, 218,
22 19, 11. 131, 225, 330. 341. IIP~ :,, 61,170! 183, 184, 228,231
Caledontan Distillery, 11. 218
Caledonian Horticultural Society,
Caledonlan InsuranceCompany, XI.
Caledonian Railway, 11. 116, 138
Caledonian Theatre 11. 179
Caledonian United? Service Club,
I. 379.
139.
11. 153
Callender, Colonel James, 11. 162
Calton ancientlya burgh, 11. 103
Calton burying-ground, 11. 101,
103, * ?05, * 108, 111. 78
Calton gaol I. 176, 11. 31, ?105,
228, 28- fI. 243
Calton $11, I. 55. 76, 136, 300, 11.
17, 18, raa--rr+ 161, 182, 191,
296, 306, 111. 82, 128, 151 158,
165, zog ; view of, 11. * 105 :view
from, 11. * I q
Calton Stairs, I. z p
Cambridge Street, 11. 214
Cambuskenneth, Abbots of, I. 1r8,
Camden Lord I. 272
Camera?John he Provost, 11.278
Cameroh, Sir Dincan, 11. 163
Cameron, Bishop Alexander, 11: 179
Camemn Bridge, 111. 58
Cameron, Charter of Thomas, 11.
Camemn clansmen, The, I. 326,330
Cameronbns, The, I. 63, 67, 111. ,? 30, 195-
Camp Meg,? and her story, 111.
159. 253
251
337
Campbell, Lord, the judge, XI. 195
Campbell, Lord Niel, I. a03
Campbell Lord Frederick, 11. 143
Campbell: Sir James, I. 282
Campbell, Lady, 11. 128
Campbell, Lady Charlotte, XI. 192,
3x8
Campbell, Lady Eleanor, I. 103,
104 : her m a k a e to Lord Stair. .. -
I. 103
Black Warch, I. 274
Campbell, Lieut.-Col. John, of the
Campbell of Aberuchill, Sir James,
Campbell of Ardkinglass, Si James,
Campbeli of Baicaldine 111. 162
Campbellof Elythswood, Col. John,
111. 135
1. 239 * Lady 162
III. a7.
Campbell of Bcquhan General
Campbell of Bumbank, I. 67
Campbell of Glenorchy, Duncan,
Campbell of Kevenknock 11. 183
Campbellof Loudon, He;, 111.334
Campbell of Shawfield, House of,
Campbell of Skipness, Archibald, 1.
Campbellof Succoth, Si Archibald,
I1 ?4 > 1873 344
Cam&il of Succoth, Sir Islay, I.
98, 11. 143, 270, 344; house of,
Campbell, Duncan, the lithotomist,
I. 320
Campbell, Mungo, I. 320 ; Earl of
Eglinton murdered by, I. 132,
=34. I[. 307
Campbell, john Hwke, I. 372
Campbell, Precentor, I. 107
Campbell of Mamore, Primrose,
widow of Lord Low, 1. 255.
(Fletcher of Saltoun), iII. go
111. 35
11. 168
84
hmpbell, Thomas, the poet, I. I-
:amp)beli, ;he opponent of Hume,
3amphell the tailor, 11. 271
Jampbell: the historian of Leith,
111. 238 246 258
3ampbe11?5 Niw Buildings, XI. a71
lamus Stone, The, 111. -326
lanaan Lane, 111. 40
Janaan Lodge, 111. 39
:anal Basin, The, 11. 215
Sanal Street 11.
lanch, Majdr, IIP63
Sandlemaker Row, I. 292, 11. 121,
168, 230, 239, 244 242, 259, 260,
~ 6 7 ~ 268, 271, 374, 375, 3% 381,
bndlish, Rev. Dr,, I. 87, 11. 138,
210, 111. 75
Cannon-ball in wall of house in
Castle Hill, I. 88, *rp
Cannye, Sir Thomas, 11. 102
Canongate Church, 11. 28, *29.
111. 91, 158; Ferguswn?s grave,
XI. 34 Dugald Stewart?s grave,
11. 206
79, 90s 97s 1053 I34 ?557 191, 1%
19% 217, 219, 2797 2987 3341 11. 1
-411 1738 23 7 241, 250, 288, 3307
161, 165, 188, 191 ; emnent rwdents
in, I. 282; origin of the
name 11. I ; songsconcerning it,
X I . 2 : records, 11. 2 3; burgh
sealofthe, 11. * 3 ; pahngofthe,
11. 3; burghal seals, 11. za ; becomes
subordinate to Edinburgh,
11. 3; cleansing of the, 11. 15 ;
plans of the 11. ? 5 16, *36 ; its
fashionable? residehts, 11. 17 ;
views of, 11. *37 : anciently a
burgh, 11. ?03; its guard, 11.183
Canongate Cross 111.
Canongate-head ?The ? 375
Canongate The&, ?The, I. 341,
342, 343 11. 2 258, 310; disturbance?
s at tte, XI. 23, 24;
closing of the, 11. 25
Canongate Tolbooth, The, 11. *I,
stocks from the old
Y;d2t?i1. * 31
Canonmills,? II. 47, 115, 181, 184,
191, 278, 111. 70, 71, 78, 83, 86,
87 101, 124
Can&mills and Inverleith, 111.
86-102
Canonmills House, 111. ?93
Canonmills Loch, 111. 86,306
Canonmills Loch and House, 111.
Canonmills Park, 111. 84
Cant Adam 11. 241
Cant: Alexander, 11. 241
Cant, Andrew, Principal of the
University, 111. IT
Cant?sClose, I. 115 253,264,II. 241
Cant?s hostelry, Lehh, 111. 180
Cantore?s Close, Luckenbooths, 11.
Cap-and-Feather Close, I. 238, 337
Cap-and-Feather Club, 111. 123
Cape Club, The, I. 230, 111.125 ;
knights of the, I. 230
Capelaw HiU, 111. 324
Capella John de, Lord of Craigmillat!,
111. 58, 59, 61
Capillaire Club The 111. 124
Carberry, Surrinder Gf Queen Mary
at, 11. 71, 280
Cardonel Commissioner, 11. 26
Cardrod, Laird of, 1. 230
Cargilfield, 111.
Care ill, Donald, t%:r&cher, I I. 231
Caribris, William of, 11. 241
Carlisle Road 11. 346
Carlton Stree;, Stockbridge,II. rgg,
Carlung Place 111. 46
Carlyle of Inviresk, Dr., I. 322,323,
324 11. a6 a7, 111. 31 241. 366
Carlhe, Thdmas 11. &, 337, Ill.
24 79, 323; ;is bequest to the
Uhiversity, 111. 26
Carmelite monastery, Greenside,
XI. I01 102
Carmichael, Sir John, 1. 275
Carnegie, Lady Mary, I. 282
C;mlinePark,II. 11~,11I.302.308, m, 311 ; entrance to, 111. *31a
344 11 -32
I. 156
111. 115
Canongate, The. I. 43. 54, 5s. 78,
346, 354, 117. 6, 12, 59. 86, 13+
= 85
a82
111. 71, 79. 83
Cam, Robin,EarlofSomerset,II.366
Carriages, Nuntberof,in 1783~11.282
Carrick. Earls of, 111. 32, 221, 222
Carmbber?s Close, I. 83, 238, 239,
I. 240; gen+lity In 16.
Cam the painter d.
Camoh, Dr. AglioAb Ess, Rector
of the High Sch0oT:II. III, 296
Carruthers, Bishop Andrew 11.179
Carstares or Carstairs, pllincipal,
I. %, 371, 11. 378, HI. 16; tomb,
Carthne?s Wynd, I. IZI
Cassillis, Earls of, I. 91, 111. 4,298
? Castell of Maydens,? The, 1. 15
Castle, The (reeEdinburgh Castle)
Castle, The, from Princes Street,
G t l e Barns, 11. 215
Castlecom y lhe, I. 78
Castle E s p c d e , 11. 230
Castle farm, The, I. 78
Castle Hill, The, I. XI, 7 9 9 4 , 1 5 4
187, 18% 313, 3 4 3?97 33% 33Ir
338. 11. 157, 2m 2317 ?35 2397
111. 12, 99 181 194 195?view
of the I. * k.8 ; h a c , of Mary of
Guise? I. *
Castle doad %e I. *328
Castle rock,? I. ;94, 295, 11. 131,
215, 224, 267, 111. 108
Castle Street, 11. 99, 118, 119, 162,
11. 136, 241.,.242, 3x0; in,
11. 381
PZate 17
163-165 230 270
Castle Te&ace,?I. 295, 11. 214
Casde Wynd. I. 47. 11. 235, 256
Castlehill; Lord, l l r 1 7
Castrum Puellarum I. 15
Casualty Hospital h t h 111. 248
Cat Nick, The I.?rp, li. 306, 307
Catchpel, The &me of, 11. 39
Cathcart Lord I1 348
Catholic? and ?Apostolic Church
Theold 11.184. the new 11 18;
Catholicdhurch ofour Lad;,L;ith,
111.24)
Catholic Institute The, I. 300;
Causeway-end, The 11. 132
Causeway-side, Th;, I. 326, 111:
doorhead in the,?&
47, 50
Cauvin Louis 11.318 III.131,142
Cauvin?s Hoipital, iI. 318, 111.
131, ?43
243-245
The first, Ill. 191
Cayley, Capt., Tragic story of, 11.
Celeste Madame I. 351 ?
Census)of Edindurgh and Leith,
Centenarians, Two, 11. 221
Chain pier Newhaven 111. 303
I? Chaldee ?Manuscript:? The, 11.
Chalmers,? Sir &&e, I. 106, 11.
179
Chalmers, Dr., 11. 96, 97, 126, 144,
145, 146, 155 204 *. 205,295, Ill.
50, 323; d u e df, 11. 151; his
death 111. 38 148
Chalrneis, theaitiquarian, I. I Z , I ~ ,
111. 113, 164, 215, 218, 230, 357,
Chalmers? Close, I. 240, 261, zrp
Chalmers? Entry 11. 33
Chalmers? HosAtal, I?. 363 ; its
Chalmen ?Memorial Free Church,
Chalmers Territorial Free Church,
140, 156 111. 87 149
363
founder i6.
111.50
XI. 224
Chamher of Commerce and Manu.
facture- I. 123
Chamberlhn Road 111.38
Chambers, Sir W i l i i , the archi-
Zha1116ers?s Edidrwgh Joimral, I.
lhambers Street, I. 381, 11. 256,
2572 2% 2717 272, 274, 2751 276,
Chancery Office, I. 372
Change, The 1. 151 176
Ehantrev. FAncis. i. 15a : statues
224
* q 7 , 284, 111. 23
by I.-& 11. 151 -..
Chakl Lane, Leith, 111. 231, 235
Chapel of Our Lady 11. zz5
Chapel Royal, Ho&rood House
XI. *49;groundplan of,II.*5zf
bell from, 11. 247
chapel of ease, 11. 346
Chapel Wynd 11. 224
Chapman (or? Chepman) Walter,
the printer, I. 142, Id. 214(ree
Chepman)
Chanty Workhouse, The, 11. 19,
r d , 323, *324
Charles I., I. 50-54, 123, 11.2, 127
181, IEz, 14. 219. 211, 60, 301 f
his -sit to Edinburgh, 1. 50, 51,
11. z,p. zzz, 227, ~ $ 3 , 290, 111.
135, aog; proclamation of, 111.
184 : coronation, I. 51, 72,208, XI.
5% 73
Charles 11, 1. 54, 55, 59, 114 166,
227, 11. 74 I11.151,186 208 222,
352 ; birth? of, I. 200 ; &pukric,
of, 11. 74 ; statue or, I. 176, 182,
111. 72
Charles Edward Prince I. 6 234,
PI 953 1% 138, 196 222, 240, 326,
341, 355; popuhrlty of I. 22
326, 327. 11. a3 ; his &rival i;
Edinburgh, I. 322, 11. 133 ; portraits
of, I. 329,,* 333 ; his w.uetary
I. 351. his farewell ring,
11. 87 ; relics?of, 11. 124; alle ed
marriage of his son, 11. 159 ;%is
death 11. 247, 111. 231- Court of, 11: 22 ; statues of, I. I?84, 186,
Chapel Street, 11. 333, 339, 345;
261, 318, 321i334, ii. 74,? 111.
11. 127
Charles X. of France at Holyrocd,
11. 76, 78
Charles Street, I I . 3 3 3 , ~ ~ 344,345,
340
Charles?s Field, 11. 333, 334
Charlotte Lane, Leith, 111. 220
Charlotte Square, II.118,172-1 5,
111. 82; mew of the square, 11.
*173 ; the Albert memorial, 11.
?75 *I7 284
Chariotte &reet 11. 165
CharlotteStreet,?Leith. III.221,243
Charteris, Hon. Francis, I. 178
Charteris, Lady Betty, 11. 27
Charteris, Henry, the patient bookseller
11. 102
Charte;is ofAmisfield, Hon. Francis,
11. 168, 111. 270
Charteris Col. Francis 111. 365,
366 ; his love of gambling, i6.
Charters Mrs. the actress, I. 347
Chartergof Edinburgh, I. 34. 35
Chatelherault, Duke of, I. 47, 277,
305 11. 65 111. 2 3 116 178
Chepkn of EwirLnh, W?alter, I.
Chessel s Buildings, 11. * 25
Chess& Court, I. 113, 2 1 7 , h . 23
Chesterhall, Lord, I. 271, 273
Chevalier dq,la BeautB, The, 1. +z
?Chevalier The 11.351 352
Chief magktrate) of Ednburgh,
Titles of 11. 277
Chiesley, dapt., and Lieut. Moodie,
Qua!rel between, 111. 30
Chieslie Major 11.217
Chieslie: Rachd, Lady Grange, 11.
115
ChiedyofDalry I. 117,248,11.216,
217, 2~3:.tom6of, If. *381; murder
of Sir George Lockhart by,
255, 256
I. 117, 11. I,
Chirurgeons? &:I, 382
Choral Societ 1. a86
Christ Churcl: Morningside. 111.
38, ?41
Christ Church, Trinity, 111. 307
Christie, Sir Robert, ProvostJI. 323
Christison, Sir Robert, the toxicolo-
Christison, ikxander, Professor of
?Christopher North,? I. 7, I?, I1
gist, 11. I 5, 272, 358
Humanity, 11. 295, q4
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note in their day, the moat eminent of whom was the celebrated lawyer, Sir John Lauder,
better known by his judicial title of Lord Fountainhall. This interesting locality is
thus described by the latest biographer of David Hume :-“ Entering one of the doors
opposite the main entrance, the stranger ia sometimes led by a friend, wishing to afford
him an agreeable surprise, down flight after flight of the steps of a stone staircase, and
when he imagines he is descending so far into the bowels of the earth, he emerges on
the edge of a cheerful, crowded thoroughfare, connecting together the Old and New Town ;
the latter of which lies spread before him,-a contrast to the gloom from which he
has emerged. When he looks up to the building containing the upright street through
which he has descended, he sees that vast pile of tall houses standing at t,he head of the
Mound, which creates astonishment in every visitor of Edinburgh. This vast fabric is
built on the declivity of a hill, and thus one entering on the level of the Lawnmarket,
is at the height of several stories from the ground on the side next the New Town. I
have ascertained,” he adds, “ that by ascending the western of the two stairs facing the
entry of James’s Court, to the height of three stories, we arrive at the door of David
Hume’s house, which, of the two doors on that landing-place, is the one towards the left.”
During Hume’s absence in France, this dwelling was occupied by Dr Blair, and on his
leaving it finally for the house he had built for himself in St Andrew Square, at the corner
of St David Street, James Boswell became its tenant. Thither, in August 1773, he
conducted Dr Johnson, from the White Horse Inn, Boyd‘s Close, Canongate, then one of
the chief inns in Edinburgh, where he had found him in a violent passion at the waiter,
for having sweetened his lemonade without the ceremony of a pair of sugar-tongs. The
doctor, in his indignation, threw the lemonade out of the window, and seemed inclined to
send the waiter after it.2
We have often conversed with a gentleman whose mother had been present at a teaparty
in Jamea’s Court, on the occasion of the doctor’s arrival in town, and the impression
produced on her by the society of the illustrious lexicographer was summed up in the very
laconic sentence in which Mrs Boswell had then expressed her opinion of him, that he
was “ a great brute ! ” Margaret, Duchess of Douglas, was one of the party, ‘‘ with all
her diamonds,”-a lady somewhat noted among those of her own rank for her illiteracy,
-but the doctor reserved his attentions during the whole evening almost exclusively for
the Duchess.’ The character thus assigned to him is fully borne out in the lively letters
of Captain Topham, who visited Edinburgh in the following year. He describes the reception
of the doctor, by all classes, as having been of the most flattering kind, and he adds, ‘‘ From all I have been able to learn, he repaid all their attention to him with ill-breeding ;
Burton’s Life of Hume,. vol. ii. p. 136. The western portion of this vast fabric w ad~e stroyed by fire in 1858. On
ita site haa been erected, in the old Scottish style, an equally lofty structure for the Savings Bank and Free Church
offices. ’ Boswell’a Johnson, by Croker, vol. ii. p. 259.
The opinion of Lord Auchmleck about “the Auld Dominie is well known, and the doctor‘s hostess, Xra Boawell,
though assiduous in her attentions to her guest, seems to have coincided in opinion with the wit, who, on hearing him
styled by eome of his admirers a constellation of learning, said, ‘‘ Then he must be the h a Mujor.” Boswell tell4
with his usual naivet4, that his wife exclaimed to him on one occasion, with natural asperity,--“I have seen manya bear
led by a man, but I never before saw a man led by a bear ! ”-Boswell’s Johnson, note, Nov. 27, 1773.
‘‘ An old lady,” BB Dr Johnson describes her, “who tak broaa Scotch with a paralytic voice, and in scarce understood
by her own countrgmen.”-Boswell’s Johnson, by Croker, vol. i p. 209.
X

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412 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
to a vow on his receiving a signal mercy from God.” The hospital was placed under the
control of the Town Council, who drew up a series of most gtringent statutes to secure the
good conduct and above all the perfect isolation of the wretched inmates. A gallows was
erected at the end of the hospital to enforce obedience, and eveu the opening of the gate
between sunset and sunrise was declared punishable with the halter. The grassy vale,
within whose natural amphitheatre the earliest exhibitions of the regular drama were
witnessed by the Court of the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, and where the crowds of the
neighbouring capital were attracted at one time by the pastimes that accompanied a Wupinschaw,
and at another by the terrors of judicial vengeance, retained till near the close of
last century nearly the same features that led to its selection for such displays in the reign
of James 11. Pennant, writing in 1769, remarks :-‘( In my walk this evening I passed
by a deep and wide hollow beneath the Caltoun Hill, the place where those imaginary
criminals, witches, and sorcerers, in less enlightened times, were burnt ; and where at festive
Bemons the gay and gallant held their tilts and tournaments.” l The locality still retains
its ancient name of Greenside; but the grassy slope, fromwhence it derived its name, ia
now one of the most densely-populated districts of the New Town.
Beyond the Monastery of, the Carmelites, on the outskirts of Leith, at the south-west
corner of St Anthony’s Wynd, stood the Preceptory of St Anthony, founded by Sir
Robert Logan of Restalrig in 1435. This was the only establishment of the order in
Scotland. They followed the rule of St Augustine, and appear to have been a sort of
religious knights, though not Knight Templars, as they are erroneously styled by Maitland,
who has been misled in this by a charter of James VI. The “Rentale Buke,”
containing a list of the benefactors to the preceptory, written on vellum, in the year 1526,
with a few additions in a later hand, is preserved in the Advocates’ Library, wherein ‘‘ It
is statuit and ordanit in our Scheptour for sindri resonabil causis that the saulis of thaim
that has gevin zeirlye perpetual1 rent to this Abbay and Hospital1 of Sanct Antonis besyd
Leith, or has augmentit Goddis seruice be fundacion, or ony vther vays has gevyn substanciusly
of thair gudis to the byggyn reperacion and vphaldyng of the forsaid Abbay and
place, that thai be prayit for euerylk sunday till the day of dome.” a The list of benefactors
which follows exhibits a pretty numerous array, though in the majority of cases the
benefactions are of no great value. The obituary closes in 1499, and in little more than
half a century thereafter, the prayers for the dead, which the chapter of the preceptory
had ordained to last till the day of doom, were abruptly brought to a close, and the church
or preceptory reduced nearly to a heap of ruins, during the siege of Leith in 1560.’ No
other Scottish foundation appears to have been dedicated to this saint, notwithstanding
his celebrity by means of the picturesque legends which the Romish calender associates
with his name. The ancient Hermitage and Chapel of St Anthony, which occupies a site
of such singular beauty underneath the overhanging crags of Arthur’s Seat, are believed
to have formed a dependency of the preceptory at Leith, and to have been placed there to
catch the seaman’s eye as he entered the Firth, or departed on some long and perilous
voyage ; when his vows and offerings wouId be most freely made to the patron saint, and
the hermit who ministered at his altar. No record, however, now remains to add to the
1 Pennant’s Tour, voL i. p. 69, Lit of Benefadora, &c. Bann. Misc., vol. i i p. 299. Ante, p. 66.

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LEITH, AND THE NEW TOWN. 369
strangle in its birth the rising haven. They purchased the superiority of it from James V. ;
and the Chapel of St James, which appears to have been a dependency of the Preceptory
of St Anthony at Leith,’ being suppressed at the Reformation, it sunk into the mere
fishing village it still remains. The houses are mostly of a homely and uninteresting
character, though on one near the west end of the village a large sculptured pediment is
decorated with a pair of globes, a quadrant, anchor, &c., surmounted by a war galley of
antique form, and with the inscription and date,-rn THE NEAM OF GOD, 1588.
Notwithstanding the modern title of the New Town of Edinburgh, it is not altogether
destitute of antique and curious associations deserving of notice in these Memorials of the
olden time. It has not yet so completely swallowed np‘the arkient features of the broad
landscape that stretched away of old beyond the sedgy banks of the North Loch, but that
some few mementoes of bygone times may still be gleaned amid its formal crescents and
squares. In preparing the site of the New Town and digging the foundations of the houses,
numerous very curious relics of the aborginal owners of the soil have been brought to light.
In the summer of 1822 an ancient grave was discovered by some workmen when digging the
foundation of a house on the west side of the Royal Circus. It position was due north and
south, which is generally regarded as a proof of high antiquity. It was lined all round with
flat stones, and the form of a skeleton was still discernable when opened, lying with the
head to the south ; but the whole crumbled to dust so soon as it was touched. During the
following year, 1823, several rude stone coffins were disclosed in digging the foundation .
of a house on the north side of Saxe-Coburg Place, near St Bernard‘s Chapel ; one of which
contained two urns of baked day, now preserved in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries.
This was, in all probability, a burial-place of the period when the Romans had
penetrated thus far northward; and the Britons, in imitation of their example, adopted the
practice of cremation, while they adhered to the ancient form of their sepulchres. A
minute account is printed in the Archsologia Scotica2 of the discovery, in 1822, of a number
of stone coffins near the ancient Roman station at Cramond. They were of rude construction,
and laid in regular rows, lying due east and west. A representation is also given
of a key found in one of the coffins, not greatly differing in shape from those now in use.
No mention, however, is made of urns, and it is probable that they belong to a more recent
period, after the introduction of Christianity among the ancient Britons. Other stone
coans were discovered about the same time immediately opposite to St Mary’s Church,
in levelling the ground for the New Road ; and similar evidences of the occupation of the
district by native tribes at a very remote period are frequently met with all round Edinburgh.
Several such were found in 1846, along the coast of Wardie, in excavating for the
foundations of one of the bridges of the Granton Railway. During some earlier operations
for the same railway, on the 2ith September 1844, a silver and copper coin of Philip 11.
of Spain, along with a quantity of human bones mingled with sand and shells, were discovered,
apparently at a former level of the beach ; and which were supposed at the time to
be a memento of some Spanish galleon of the Great Armada. Rude clay urns are also of
frequent occurrence ; several such, filled with decayed and half burned bones, and ashes,
“Rentale Portua Gracie alias ’ hchmlogia Saotica, vol. iii. pv,o 4c0a.t a lie New Havyne.”-MS. Ad. Lib. Analysia of’ C Ibhaidr,t uvlaorl.i eisi,i J p. .( 34. 8D, alyell, Esq.
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obliged to retire again into the house ; Not content
with this, they proceeded to the house of the Lord Advocate (Dundas of Amiston), whose windows
they broke. It then became necessary to bring a party of the military from the Castle to prevent
farther mischief. The Sheriff attended and read the riot act; but the mob not dispersing, after
repeated intimation of the consequences, the military at last fired, when several persona were
wounded, and some mortally.
“On Wednesday, in the evening, the mob assembled in the New Town, with an htenfion of
destroying the house of the Chief Magistrate.a A fire was lighted on the Castle, and two guns were
fired, 89 a signal to the marines of the Bind frigate, stationed at Leith, and the dragoons quartered
about a mile east of the town.
and the mob began to break the windows.
This put a period to the outrages for that night.
On their appearance the mob finally separated.”3
During the prevalence of these riots, Provost Stirling prudently sought shelter
in the Castle. In so doing he a‘cted wisely, as, if the mob had laid hands on
him, there is no saying what might have followed. It was at this time that
“Lang Sandy Wood,” whom the crowd mistook for the Provost, narrowly
escaped being thrown over the North Bridge.
The Magistrates, naturally alarmed at what had occurred, thought it best to
lay the whole facts of the case before their fellow-citizens. With this view, a
public meeting of the inhabitants was called, in the New Church aisle, on the
Thursday forenoon following-the Lord Provost in the chair. Of this meeting
the following account is given in the journals :-
“ The Lord Advocate, Mr. Sheriff Pringle, the Lord-President, Lord Adam Gordon, Commanderin-
Chief, &. Solicitor Blair, and several others, declared their sentiments. The meeting unanimously
expressed their full approbation of the measures pimued by the Magistrates and the Sheriff,
for suppressing the riots ; and publivhed resolutions to that effect.
“A proclamation was issued the same evening, recommending to the people not to assemble in
crowds, or remain longer on the streets than their lawful business required, as the most decisive
measures had been resolved upon for quieting the least appearance of any farther disorder ; and offering
a reward of one hundred guineas for discovery of the ringleaders. Fifty guinens were also offered
by the Merchant Company, who, and all the incorporations, voted thanks to the hfagi8trates for the
measures taken to suppress the riots. It is said that certain attempts to procure a vote of thanks
to the Magistrates for introducing the military into the town,predozls to any riotous act, proved
abortive.”
Perhaps the zeal displayed by Provost Stirling, in support of the existing
administration on this occasion, may have recommended him as a suitable object
for ministerial favour; however this may be, on the 17th of July following,
“the King was pleased to grant the dignity of a Baronet of the kingdom of
Great Britain to the Right Hon. James Stirling, Lord Provost of the city of
Edinburgh, and the heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten.”
The gentlemen who made this hazardous attempt, we have been informed, were the late Lord
Viscount Duncan, then Rear-Admiral of the White, and the late Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre,
then attending the law classes at the University. Duncan, although in his sixty-first year, was a
strong athletic man. Armed with a crutch belonging to old Lady Dundas, which he seized on nwhing
out of the house, he laid about him among the crowd with great vigour ; and even after the head
of the crutch had been demolished, he continued to use the staff, until compelled to retreat by the
overwhelming inequality of numbers.
He then resided at the south-west corner of St. Andrew Square.
a No damage was sustained upon the premises of the Lord Provost. The destruction was limited
to two sentry-boxes placed near the door, it being then deemed an indispensable accessory to the
dignily of Provost, that two of the city-guard should keep station before his house.

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k The ancient North Porch, with h e Norman doorway, demolished about 1760. The room above,
entered by the narrow turnpike stair indicated in the plan, waa the place of coniinement of Sir John
Cordon of Haddo, in 1644. This, and the adjoining chapel to the east, are now entirely removed.
I A modern Doorway into Haddo’s Hold Kirk, now built up.
m Modern North Doorway to the Old Kirk.
a Entrance to the old Belfry Turret, being a passage partitioned off from St Eloi’s Chapel, nearly the
o North Transept and Aisle, used aa the City Clerk’s Chambers.
p Opening under the Belfry.
p Modern North Entrances to the High Kirk, now built up.
7 The Napier Tomb.
s Our Lady’s Niche.
t Modern South Entrance to the High Kirk, now built up,
U Entrance to the Assembly Aisle.
o, Old Kirk Style, or Stinking Style.
w Entrance to the Old Tolbooth, assaulted by the Porteous Mob in 1636, and now rebuilt at Abbotsford.
x Beth’s or Bess Wynd
y Covered Passage from the Tolbooth to Parliament Close, through the New Tolbooth or Council House.
It is not unworthy of notice here that the Town Council Records prove that the different chaplainries of St
Gilea’s Church, were held long after the Reformation had pulled down the altara and abolished their services.
In September 1620, ‘‘ James Lennox is elected chaplain of the Chapelry of the Holy Rood and Holy Crose, in
the Burgh Kirk Yard of Saint Giles.” This, no doubt, refers to the chapel founded and endowed by Walter
Chepman in 1528. Every vestige of the chapel had disappeared half a century before, and it is doubtful if even
the lower churchyard, in which it had stood, was in existence at the date of this election ; though it is probable
that the “ AWmK i~kyard”r emained in use long after the upper yard had been abandoned a1 a place of
sepulture. So late as March 4th, 1629, “John Yair is elected chaplane of St Ninean’s Altar in the College
Kirk of St Giles.”
whole site of which is now occupied with the new Belfry Turret.
c
Sr C~ILES’S CHURCHYARD.-h Edgar’s map of Old Edinburgh there is shown about the middle of Forrester‘s
Wynd, on the east side, a small open court, which retained, till near the close of last century, distinct marks of
having formed the entrance to the lower Churchyard of St Giles. It was pointed out as such early in the
present century to the Rev. John Sime, by Mr Cunningham, the builder of Portobello Tower,-a fabric, wherein
the chief sculptured stones and other relics of the ancient tenements demolished to make way for the South
Bridge, have been preserved. Mr Cunningham descnxed a curious piece of sculpture, emblematic of death,
which appropriately decorated the lintel of the ancient gateway through which our forefathers were wont to be
borne to their last resting-place. It is the same sculptured lintel, we have no doubt, which is thus alluded to
in the Edinburgh Magazine for July 1800,--“ A long stone, on which wm curiously sculptured a group resembling
Hdbein’a Duncc of Death, was some months ago discovered at the head of Forrester‘s Wynd, which, in
former days was the western boundary of St Giles’s High Churchyard. This relic was much defaced, and
broken in two, by being carelessly tossed down by the workmen. It was a curious piece. Amid other
musicians who brought up the rear, was an angel playing on the Highland bagpipe,-a national conceit, which
appears also on the entablature of one of the pillars of the supremely elegant Gothic chapel at Roslin” We look
in vain now for thia sinadar specimen of early Scottish art, where it should have been preserved, in the
Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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enthusiasm, and prosecuted it with untiring energy. Perhaps there was no one
of whom it could more truly be said, that ‘‘ he went about continually doing
good.”l
With the establishment of that benevolent institution-the Blind Asylum
of Edinburgh-the memory of Dr. Johnston is affectionately associated ; and
so deeply and actively did he interest himself in originating and promoting funds
for the undertaking, that he might with justice be designated its founder. So
much were his feelings bound up in t8he success of the institution, that he
regularly devoted a portion of his time to give it his personal superintendence,
and watched over its progress with all the fondness of a parent.’ This
surveillance he continued every day in the week, except Saturday and Sabbath,
walking to and from Edinburgh ; and, at the extreme age of ninety, gave proof of
the wonderful degree of muscular activity for which he had always been remarkable,
by performing the journey as usual. He disdained the modern effeminacy
of the stage-coach ; and, in going up Leith Walk, generally got ahead of it.
Both in person and in features Dr. Johnston was exceedingly handsome j
and in dress and manners he was a thorough gentleman of the last century. He
The only dilemma in which the good old Doctor is known to have been placed with a portion
of his parishioners, occurred when the old church of North Leith-abandoned to secular purposeswas,
in 1817, supplanted by the present building, with its handsome spire, surniounted by a cvoss.
Some of the out-and-out Presbyterians saw in this emblem an alarming approach to Popish darkness ;
and, not unfrequently, when in the course of his visitations, he found himself in the place of the
catechised. On this subject the Doctor held only one opinion; but in reference to the zealous
declamation of two old women whom he one day encountered, and who had fairly borne him down
by strength of lungs, if not by strength of argument, he at last exclaimed-“Well, well, what
would you have me to do in the matter ?” Do I” replied one of them ; “what wad ye do-but
just put up the auld cock again I ”
a The Abbe Hauy pnblished a very curious work on the Education of the Blind, written in French,
and printed and bound by the blind pupils at the Quinae-vingts in Paris-a benevolent institution
which owed its establishment to the late unfortunate Louis XVI. The types of this work, as published
at Paris ninety years ago, were made to impress the paper so strongly as to produce palpable
letters, in such high relief, that blind people, properly inutructed, might read them by means of
their fingers. The late eminent Dr. Blacklock, who was blind froin his infancy, proposed to have
translated and published this curious wor We have seen
one of the chapters of the translation. I k v e an accurate account of the part which described the
typographical labours of the blind pupils, and the ingenious contrivance for enabling themselves and
others in the aame unhappy predicament to enjoy the benefit and delight of solitary reading. About
forty works in different languages have been published in Pans ; and all the inmates of the Institution
there have been taught to read, many of them with great fluency. Within the last ten years,
the art of printing for the blind has been completely revolutionised by Mr. Gall of Edinburgh. By
modifying the alphabet SO as to make each letter differ in shape aa decidedly as possible from every
other, and more especially by the invention of fretted types, he has reduced the books for the blind
to one-tenth of their former prices. The remarkable simplicity of Mr. Gall’s alphabet may be
imagined from the circumstance, that the blind. are able to read the books throngh four, six, and
gometimes eight plies of a handkerchief laid upon them. The size of the types may be so much
reduced as to have the whole New Testament printed for 8s. 6d. per copy ; and it is expected that
an edition may yet be obtained as low as 5s.
A great number of the blind are now able to read in England, Ireland, and Scotland ; and, as the
object has been warmly taken up by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Religious Tract
Society of London, who are publishing books for their use ; and by the Sunday School Union of
England, who are teaching them to read in the Schools; it is hoped that all the blind will very SOOR
enjoy the benefit of Mr. Gall’s valuable labours.
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of the old Scottish Parliaments were not framed to curb the excesses of cobbler kings.
King Crispin and his train grew more extravagant every year. He latterly rode in this
fantastic annual pageant in ermined robes, attended by prince, premier, champion in
armour, and courtiers of all degrees, mounted on horseback, and decked in the most
gaudy costume they could procure, until at length the whole wealth and property of the
corporation were dissipated in this childish foolery, and King Crispin retired to private
life, and the humbler relaxation of cobbling shoes1 Mra Malcolm, an old dame of a
particularly shrewish disposition, who inhabited an attic in the Shoemakers’ Land
towards the close of last century, was long known by the title of the Princess, her
husband having for many years represented the Black Prince, and she his sable c o n s o r t
two essential characters in King Crispin’s pageant. There can be little doubt that this
frivolous sport was a relic of much earlier times, when the Cordiners of the neighbouring
capital, incorporat,ed in the pear 1449, proceeded annually, on the anniversary of their
patron saint, to the altar of St Crispin and St Crispinian, founded and maintained by
them in the collegiate church of St Gi1es.l Nor is it improbable, that in the Princess a
traditional remembrance was preserved of the Queen of the Canongate, mentioned in the
Treasury accounts of James IV.
The Canongate Tolbooth-a view of which heads this chapter-has long been a
favourite subject for the artist’s pencil, as one of the most picturesque edifices of the
Old Town. It formed the court-house and jail of the burgh, erected in the reign of
James VI., soon after the abolition of religious houses had left this ancient dependency
of the Abbey free to govern itself. Even then, however, Adam Bothwell, the Protestant
commendator of Holyrood, retained some portion of the ancient rights of his
mitred predecessors over the burgh. The present structure is the successor of a much
earlier building, probably on the same site. The date on the tower is 1591 ; and preparations
for its erection appear in the Burgh Register seven years before this, where it is
enacted that no remission of fees shall be granted to any one, “unto the tyme the
tolbuith of this burch be edefeit and kggit.”’ Nevertheless, we find by the Burgh
Registers for 1561, “ Curia capitalis burgi vici canonicorum Monasterii Sancte Crucis
prope Edinburgh, tenta in pretorio ejusdem ; ” and frequent references occur to the tolduith,
both as a court-house and prison, in the Registers and in the Treasurer’s accounts, e.g.,
1574, “ To sax pynouris att the bailleis command for taking doun of the lintall
stane of the auld tolbuith windo, iijs. id.” The very next entry is a fee (‘to ane
new pyper,” an official of the Burgh of whom various notices are found at this early
period.
The Hotel de ViZZe of this ancient burgh is surmounted by a tower and spire, flanked
by two turrets in front, from between which a clock of large dimensions projects into the
street. This formerly rested on curiously-carved oaken beams, which appear in Storer’s
views published in 1818, but they have since been replaced by plain cast-iron supports.
The building is otherwise adorned wit,h a variety of mottoes and sculptured devices in the
Maitland, p. 305. The earliest notice we have found of the Cordiners of Canongate occurs in the Burgh Register,
10th June 1574, where “ William Quhite, being electit and choain diacone of the cordonaris be his brethir for this
present yeir, . . . is reseavit in place of umquhill Andro Purves.” From this they appear to have been then an
incorporated body.-Canongate Burgh Register ; Mait. Misc. vol. ii. p. 329. ’ Canongate Burgh Register, 13th October 1584 ; Ibid, p. 353. .

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the builder’s initials, a large ornamental shield bears the device of a pot full of lilies, one
of the most common emblems of the Virgin Mary. John Lowrie’s initials are repeated
in ornamental characters on the eastern crow-step, separated by what appears to be designed
for a baker’s peel, and probably indicating that its owner belonged to the ancient
fraternity of baxters. The burgh of Easter Portsburgh, which is associated with its
western neighbour under the same baron bailie, comprehends the Potterrow and adjoining
district of Bristo, and includes several buildings of considerable interest, though not of
great antiquity. One edifice, however, which appears in our view of the Potterrow, was
a singular specimen of the ancient t i m b lands, and differed in character from any example
of that style of building that now remains. It bore the distinctive title of the Mahogany
Land, an epithet popularly applied to the most ornamental timber erections in different
parts of the town, and had undoubtedly existed at the time when the Collegiate Church
of St Mary stood in the neighbouring fields. Directly opposite to its site is a lofty
building, erected, as appears from its title-deeds, in 1715, and which, we are informed by
its proprietor, formed the lodging of the Earl of Morton. It has evidently been a mansion
of some importance. A broad and handsome archway leads into an enclosed court
behind, where there is cut, in unusually large letters, the inscription-BLIsET . BE. GOD .
FOR. AL . HIS . GIFTIS .-and a monogram, now undecipherable. Robert, twelfth Earl of
Morton, succeeded to the title the same year in which the house was built, and was again
succeeded by his brother George, appointed Vice-Admiral of Scotland in 1733. He died
at Edinburgh in 1738, and was buried in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard. Other associations,
however, far surpassing those of mere rank and ancient lineage, will make this locality
long be regarded as a peculiarly interesting nook of the Scottish metropolis. Nearly at
the point of junction of the Potterrow with Bristo Street-once one of the two great
thoroughfares from the south-there is a little, irregular, and desolate-looking court of
antique buildings, bearing the name of General‘s Entry. The south and east sides of this
little quadrangle are formed by a highly-decorated range of buildings. The crow-stepped
gable at the south-east angle is surmounted by a curious old sun-dial, bearing the quaint
punning moral, We shall die all; aud beyond this a series of sculptured dormer windows
appear, in the highly-decorated style of the seventeenth century. On one of the sculptured
pediments is a shield, bearing the unusual heraldic device of a monkey, with three stars in
chief. It is surrounded by a border of rich Elizabethan scroll work in high relief; and
beyond this, the initials J. D. The adjoining window bears, as its principal ornament, an
ingenious monogram, formed of large ornamental Roman characters. The tradition is one
of old standing, which assigns this mansion as the residence of General Monk, during his
command in Scotland under Oliver Cromwell. This is usually referred to as the origin of
the present name of the locality ; nor is the tradition altogether without some appearance
of probability in support of it. The house, we believe, was erected by Sir James
Dalrymple, afterwards Viscount Stair, justly regarded as the most eminent judge who
ever presided on the Scottish Bench. He ia well known to have been a special favourite
of General Monk, who frequently consulted him on matters of state, ahd recommended
him to Cromwell in 1657 as the fittest person to be appointed a judge. Under these
circumstances, it may be inferred, with little hesitation, that Monk was a frequent visitor,
if not a constant guest, at General’s Entry, when he came into the capital from his head-
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were derivable from it to the Crown is proved by the frequent payments with which it was
burdened by different monarchs, as in the year 1477, when Ring James 111. granted out
of it a perpetual annuity of twelve merks Scots, for support of a chaplain to officiate at the
altar of the upper chapel, in the Collegiate Church of the blessed Virgin Mary which he
had founded at Restalrig. The King’s Work was advantageously placed at the mouth of
the harbour, ao as to serve 8s a defence against any enemy that might approach it by sea.
That it partook of the character of a citadel or fortification, seems to be implied by an
infeftment granted by Queen Mary in 1564 to John Chisholme, who is there designated
comptroller of artillery. The ancient buildings had shared in the general conflagration
which sipalised the departure of the army of Henry VIII. in 1544, and they would appear
to have been re-built by Chisholme in a style of substantial magnificence. The following
are the terms in which the Queen confirms her former grant to the comptroller of artillery
on his completion of the work :-<‘ Efter hir hienes lauchfull age, and revocation made in
parliament, hir majeste sett in feu farme to hir lovite suitoure Johnne Chisholme, his airis
and asignais, all and haille hir landis, callet the King’s Werk in Leith, within the
boundis specifit in the infeftment, maid to him thairupon, quhilkis than war alluterlie
dkcayit, and sensyne are reparit and reedifit be the said Johnne Chisholme, to be policy
and great decoratioun of this realme, in that oppin place and sight of all strangearia and
utheris resortand at the schore of Leith.” The property of the Ring’s Work remained
vested in the Crown, notwithstanding the terms of this royal grant. In 1575, we find it
converted into an hospital for the reception of those who recovered from the plague, and
in 1613 it was bestowed by James VI. on his favourite cAam6er-chieZd, or groom of the
chamber, Bernard Lindsay of Lochill, by a royalgrant which empowered him to keep four
taverns therein. A part of it was then fitted up as a Tennis Court for the favourite
pastime of catchpel, and continued to be used for this purpose till the year 1649, when it
was taken possession of by the Magistrates of Edinburgh, and converted into the Weigh
House of the burgh. The locality retained the name of Bmnard’s Nook, derived from its
occupation by the royal servitor ; and that of Bernard Street, which is now conferred on
the broad thoroughfare that leads eastward from the Shore, still preserves a memorial of
the favourite chamber-chield of Jamee VI. A large stone panel which bore the date
1650-the year immediately succeeding the appropriation of the King’a Work to civic
purposes-appeared on the north gable of the old Weigh-house which till recently
occupied its site, with the curious device of a rainbow carved in bold relief, springing at
either end from a bank of clouds.
The chief thoroughfare which leads in the same direction, and the one we presume
which superseded the Burgess Close as the principal approach to the harbour, is the Tolbooth
Wynd, where the ancient Town Hall stood: a singularly picturesque specimen of
the tolbooth of an old Scottish burgh. Jt was built by the citizens of Leith in the year
1565, though not without the strenuous opposition of their jealous over-lords of the Edinburgh
Council, who threw every impediment in their way; until at length Queen Mary,
after repeated remonstrances, wrote to the Provost and Magistrates :-46 We charge zow
that ee permit oure Inhabitants of oure said toun of Leith, to big and edifie oure said Hous
of Justice, within oure said Toun of Leith, and mak na stop nor impediment to thame to do
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1490 ; and in the following century it was the scene of the assassination of M‘Lellan
of Bombie, who in the year 1525, was waylaid and slain there in open day, with perfect
impunity, by the lairds of Lochinvar and Drumlanrig, during the turbulent sway of
the Douglases, in the minority of James V. Numerous personal encounters occurred
at the same place in early times, consequent on its vicinity to the Parliament House
and courts of law; and even after the fruits of many revolutions had put an end to
such scenes of violence, this dark alley maintained somewhat of its old character, as a
favourite resort of the thief and pickpocket,-degenerate successors of the cateran and
moss-trooper !
The timber
land immediately in front of St Giles’s steeple was only three stories high, and with a very
low-pitched roof, so as to admit of the clock being seen by passers in the High Street;
while the one adjoining it to the west, after rising to the height of five stories and finishing
with two very steep overhanging gables in front, had a sixth reared above these, with
a flat lead roof,-like a crow’s nest stuck between the battlements of some ancient peel
tower.’ The two most easterly lands in the Luckenbooths differed from the rest in being
tall and substantial erections of polished ashlar work. The first of these was surmounted
with stone gables of unequal size, somewhat in the style of “ Gladstone’s land,” at the head
of Lady Stair’s Close, and apparently built not later than the reign of Charles I. The other
building, which presented its main front down the High Street, though evidently a more
recent erection, yielded in interest to none of the private buildings of Edinburgh. ‘( Creech’s
Land,” as it was termed, according to the fashion of the burgh, after one of its latest and
most worthy occupants, formed the peculiar haunt of the muses during the last century.
”hither Allan Ramsay removed in 1725,-immediately after publishing the fist complete
edition of his great pastoral poem,-from the sign of the Mercury’s Head, opposite Niddry’s
Wynd, and there,-on the first floor, which had formerly been the London Coffee House,
*-he substituted for his former celestial sign, the heads of Ben Jonson and Drummond
of Hawthornden, and greatly extended his business with the profits of his successful
devotion to the Muses. It was on his removal to this central locality that he established
his circulating library,-the first institution of the kind known in Scotland, not without
both censure and interference from some of the stricter leaders of society at that period.
“ Profaneness,” says Wodrow, “ is come to a great height ; all the villanous, profane,
and obscene books of plays, printed at London by Curle and others, are got down from
London by Allan Ramsay, and lent out for an easy price to young boys, servant women
of the better sort, and gentlemen; and vice and obscenity dreadfully propagated.”
Ramsay’s fame and fortune progressed with unabating vigour after this period; and
his shop became the daily resort of the leading wits and literati, as well as of every
traveller of note that visited the Scottish capital.
The buildings of the middle row were extremely irregular in character.
Ante, p. 28. ’ Maitland informs us (p. 181) that the Krames were first erected against St cfiles’s Church in 1555. The Boothraw,
or Luckenbooths, however, we have shown (ante, p. 172) was in existence 150 years before that, and probably
much earlier. Maitland derives its latter name from a species of woollen cloth called Luken, brought from the Low
Countries ; but Dr Jamieson assigns the more probable source in the old Scotch word Luckm, closed, or shut up ;
signifying booths closed in, and admitting of being locked, in contradistinction to the open stands, which many still living
can remember to have seen displayed in the Lawnmarket every market day.

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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

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44 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
champions ; and the verity which was found, was, that they dared both to fight in close
arms ! ” -
In the month of June 1538, the new Queen, Mary of Guise, destined to enact so prominent
a part in the future history both of the city and kingdom, was welcomed home
with costly gifts and every show of welcome, and ‘‘ on Sanct Margarete’s day thairafter,
sho maid her entres in Edinburgh, with greit trivmphe, and als with ordour of the hail1
nobillis; hir Grace come in first, at the West Port, and raid doun the hie gait to the
Abbay of Halyrudhous, with greit sportis playit to hir Grace throw all the pairtis of the
toun.” a Pitscottie adds, that the Queine was richlie rewairdit and propyned by the proveist
and tounschip, both with gold and spyces, wynes, and curious playes made to her by
the said tom;”!’ and, indeed, such was the zeal of the good town to testify its gratulations
on the King’s speedy escape from widowhood, that we find, shortly after, “ the city cash
had run so low, as to render it necessary for the council to mortgage the northern vault of
the Nether Bow Port, for the sum of 100 mcrks Scots, to repair the said port or gate
withal.” From this state of exhaustion, they do not seem to have again recovered during
the King’s lifetime, as in 1511, the year before his death, they had to borrow from him
100 merks Scots, to put the park walls of Holyrood in repair,-a duty that seems to have
been somewhat unreasonably imposed on the town.
In the year 1539, Sir David Lindsay’s Sutyre of the Thrie Estaitis, the earliest Scottish
drama, if we except the Religious Mysteries, that we have any account of, was represented
for the first time at Linlithgow, at ‘‘ the feaste of the epiphane,” in presence of the Court.
At a later date, it was “ playit beside Edinburgh, in presence of the Queen Regent, and
ane greit part of the nobilitie, with ane exceiding greit nowmber of pepill; lestand fra
n p e houris afore none, till six houris at euin,”-an extent of patience in the listeners that
implies no slight degree of entertainment.
The extreme freedom with which the Pardoner, and others of the dramatis persow,
treat of the clergy, and the alleged corruptions of the Church, may excite our surprise that
this satire should have obtained, thus early, RO willing an audience. Dr Irving has inferred
from this, that the King was better inclined to a reformation than is generally supposed,’
but the more probable explanation is to be sought for in the favour of the author at Court.
Not long after, Killor, a blackfriar, constructing a drama on the Passion of Christ, which
was performed before the King on Good Friday morniug, and wherein the author indulged
in the same freedom, he was condemned to the flames.
In the seventh Parliament of this reign, held at Edinburgh, in March 1540, a curious
and interesting Act was passed ‘( %itching the bigging of Leith Wynde,” wherein ‘‘ it is
ordained that the Provost, Baillies, and Council of Edinburgh, warne all manner of persones
that hes ony landes, biginges, and waistes, upon the west side of Leith Wynde,
that they within zeir and day, big and repaire, honestlie, their said waistes and ruinous
houses, and gif not, it sal1 be leifful to the saidis Proveste and Baillies to cast down the
said waiste landes, and with the stuffe and stanes thereof, bigge ane honest substantious
wall, fra the Porte of the Nether Bow, to the Trinitie College. And because the easte side
of the saide Wynde perteines to the abbot and convente of Halyrude-house, it is
’ Hawthornden, p. 105. a Diurnal of Occurrent; p. 22. 8 Pitecottie, vol. ii. p. 378. ‘ Disaertation on the early Scottish Drama. Lives of Scot. Poets, vol. i. p. 209.

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INDEX TO VOL . I .
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES .
A
No . Page
Abercromby. Sir Ralph. K . B., giving the
word of command ........................ li 106
Abercromby, General Sir Ralph, K.B.,
viewing the army encamped on the
plains of Egypt ........................... lii 108
Adams. Mr . John, master of the Royal
Riding Menage ........................... clxi 410
Aeronauts, a Group of .................. xxxviii
Arnot, Hugo, Esq . of Balcormo, advocate ... v
86
16
cate ....................................... Viii 25
cate ....................................... lxvi 157
cate .................................... cxxxii 324
X ........................................ lxxxix 215
Beat, Rev . William, Kilrenny, Fifeshire ... cx 271
Bell, Mr. Andrew, engraver .................i.v 13
Bell, Mr . Andrew, engraver ............ lxxxvi 210
Beuuet. Mr . John, surgeon ...............c lix 401
Black, Dr . Joseph ........................... xxu 52
Black, Dr . Joseph, lecturing ............ xxiii 54
Black, Dr . Joseph ........................... xxv 56
Provost ................................. xxviii 62
Blair, Sir James Hunter, Bart ............. xcu 226
Blair, Sir James Hunter, Bart ............. cii 252
Arnot, Hugo, Esq . of Balcormo, advo-
Arnot, Hugo, Esq . of Balcormo, advo-
Arnot, Hugo, Esq . of Balcormo, advo-
Artois, Count D’, afterwards Charles
B
Blair. Sir Jcmes Hunter, Bark, Lord
Blir, Robert, Esq., Solicitor.Genera1,
afterwards Lord President of the
Court of Session ..................... cxxvii 313
Blair. Robert, Esq., Solicitor-General cxxviii 314
Blair, Rev . Hugh, D.D., of the High
Church .................................... lvii 120
Blair, Mr . Thomas, of the Stamp-Office ... cxlii 355
Boruwlaski, Joseph. the Polish Dwarf . cxxxiii 327
Brodie, Deacon William ..................... cv 256
Brodie, Deacon William ..................... cVi 264
and Elliestown ........................ xxxiii 75
58
61
Brown, George, Esq . of Lindsaylands
Brown, Dr . John, author of the “Brunonian
System of Medicine ” ......... xxvi
Brown, Dr . John, in his study ......... xxvii
No . Page
Abwsinian Traveller ..................... lix 128
Bruce. James. Esq . of Kinnaird. the
Buchan. Right Hon . the Earl of ......... cxvi 286
Bucks. Four .................................... cxx 292
Burnett. James. Lord Monboddo ............v 18
Burnett. James. Lord Monboddo ............ vi 21
Buttons. General. an American Officer ... cvii 266
Byrne. Charles. the Irish Giant ............ iv 10
C
Campbell. Major. of the 35th Regiment.xcvii 235
Campbell. John. Esq . of Blythswood.
Lieut.-Colonel of the 9th Regiment
of Foot .................................... clu 383
Byrne. the Irish Giant ..................... clxiv 417
Carlyle. Alexander. D.D., Inveresk ... xxix 65
Chalmers. Dr . John. Principal of King’s
College. Aberdeen ..................... xxxv 78
Chalmers. Dr . William. Professor of
Medicine. King’s College. Aberdeen
....................................... xxxv 79
Charteris. I&., in the character of “Bardolph”
.................................... lxiii 151
City Guard. Three Captains of the ......... xv
Clarkson. Major .............................. clx 409
Cochrane. the Hon . Basil .................. cliii 384
Cock- fighting Match between the
Counties of Lanark and Haddington
.......................................... xliv 96
Congregation. a Sleepy ........................ x 28
Contemplation ............ .......................... 21
Courtship .......................................... Ix 139
Craig. Lord .................................... cxxii 302
Cranstoun. George .............................. xx 50
Cranstoun. Geordie ........................ clxiv 417
Cmwford. Miss. of Jordanhill ............ xlvi 98
Crawford. Miss. of Jordanhill ............ xlvii
Crawford. Captain ........................... xlvii 99
the Awkward Squad ..................... clv 390
Cullen. Dr . William. in his study ......... civ 255
D
Dalzel, Professor .............................. xxx 67
41
99
Crichton. Colonel Patrick. of the Edinburgh
Volunteers. with a view of
Cullen. Dr . William ........................ ciu 253

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242 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
The mansion of the Earl in the Old Stamp Office Close was celebrated at a subsequent
period as Fortune’s tavern, a favourite resort of men of rank and fashion, while yet some of
the nobles of Scotland dwelt in its old capital. At a still later period, it was the scene of
the annual festivities during the Hittings of the General Assembly of the Kirk, towards the
close of last century. The old Zarl of Leven, who was for many years the representative
of majesty at the High Court of the Church, annually took up his abode at this fashionable
tavern, and received in state the courtiers who crowded to his splendid levees.’ Still more
strangely does it contrast with modern notions, to learn that the celebrated Henry Dundas,
first Viscount Melville, began practice as an advocate while residing on the third flat of the
old land a little further down the street, at the head of the Flesh Market Close, and continued
to occupy his exalted dwelling for a considerable time. Below this close, we again
come to works of more modern date. Milne Square, which bears the date 1689, exhibits
one of the Old Town improvements before its contented citizens dreamt of bursting their
ancient fetters, and rearing a new city beyond the banks of the North Loch. To the
east of this, the first step in that great undertaking demolished some of the old lanes
of the High Street, and among the rest the Cap and Feather Close, a short alley which
stood immediately above Halkerston’s Wynd. The lands that formed the east side of this
close still remain in North Bridge Street, presenting doubtless, to the eye of every tasteful
reformer, offensive blemishes in the modern thoroughfare ; yet this unpicturesque locality
has peculiar claims on the interest of every lover of Scottish poetry, for here, on the 5th
of September 1750, the gifted child of genius, Robert Ferpson, was born. The precise
site of his father’s dwelling is unknown, but now that it has been transformed by the indiscriminating
hands of modern improvers, this description may sufice to suggest to some as
they pass along that crowded thoroughfare such thoughts as the dwellers in cities are most
careless to encourage.’
Availing ourselves of the subdivision of the present subject, effected by the improvements
to which we have adverted, we shall retrace our steps, and glance at such associations
with the olden time as may still be gathered from the scene of the desolating fires that
swept away nearly every ancient feature on the south side of the High Street. Within
the last few years, the sole survivor of all the antique buildings that once reared their
picturesque and lofty fronts between the Lawnmarket and Niddry’s Wynd has been demolished,
to make way for the new Police Office. It had strangely withstood the terrible
conflagration that raged around it in 1824, and, with the curious propensity that still prevails
in Edinburgh for inventing suggestive and appropriate names, it was latterly universally
known as “ the Salamander Land.” ’ Through this a large archway led into the Old
Fish Market Close, on the west side of which, previous to the Great Fire, the huge pile
of buildings in the Parliament Close reared its southern front high over all the neigh-
In 1812 an unwonted spectacle waa exhibited at the head of the Old Stamp Office .Close, in the execution of three
young la& there, as the leadera in a riot that took place un New Year’s Day of that year, in which several citizens were
killed and numerous robberies committed. The judges fixed upon this spot, as having been the scene of the chief bloodshed
that had occurred, in order to mark more impressively the detestation of their crimes. A small work was published
by the Rev. W. Innes, entitled “ Notes of Conversations ’’ with the criminals. ’ In Edgar’s map, the close is shown extending no farther than in a line with Milne’s Court, so that the whole of the
east side etill remains, including, it may be, the poet’s birthplace. ’ We have been told that this land was aaid to have been the residence of Defoe while in Edinburgh ; the tradition,
however, ia entirely unaupported by other testimony.

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374
*316,317; view below Cramond
Brig, 111. '317
Cramond Bridge, 11. 63, 111. 1x1
CramondChurch 111. 316 '320
Cramond harbou; 111. 31;
Cramond House i11.317,318, *3a2
Cramond Island: 111.315
Cramond Regis, 111. 107, 316
Cramond, Baroness, 111. 315
Cranston, Mn., 111. 161
Cranston Street 11. 17
Cranstoun, Hdn. George, Lord
Corehouse, 11. 6, m7; his
sister 11. .106 111. IOI
Cranstdun, Thd- of, Provost, 11.
278
Cranstoun Geordie thedwarf 11.19
Crawford,'Earls of: I. 62, 68, mg,
Crawford of Jordanhill, Sir Hew,
Crawford'Sir Gregan I.'za
Crawford'of D ~ m s o i 11.181, 111.
11. 354,'III. 194, 222
111. 90- his daughters i6.
zg. 61, IS$ 34
Crawford S l r f V i l l h , 11. 47
Crawford' Captain, and Major
Crawford, S:r John, 111,. 51, 52, 5
Crawford, Thomas, High S c h d
Crawfoid of Jordanhill. Capt.. 111.
somuvhe I. 95
rector II. qa
. _ .
1 9 Crawfurd of Crad.udland, Howie-
CrZC;; j k e s , Provost, 11. a78
Creichtoun of Felde, Deputy Pm
Creighton, Willivn of 11. 47
~ r e e ~ h , william, bo~ise~~er, I. ' 5 5
139 ; portrait of, I. 156 ; Burns'
poem on, i. 156
Crceclr, Lord Provost, and Mh
Burns 11. 158 159
C-h': Land, i. 153. 156 191
"Creech's Levee," I. 156
Crichton, Lord Chancellor, 11. 54
Crichton, Bamn, I. zg, 30, 053
Crichton Castle, 111. 61
Crichton of Lugton, David, 11. 39
Crichton, h. Andrew, 111. 79
Crichtonb Dr. Archbald, 11. 123,
111. 162
Crichton, George, Bishop of Dun.
keld 1. 149 204 11. rj, 47, 48
Crichrbo, Rdhard: architect, 11.94
Crichton of Elliock, Robert, I. 126
Crichton, Lieut.-Col. Patrick, Ill.
161 ; duelhy, 111.16~ ; hisson, d.
Crichton Street, 11. 329, 334 333,
Cr%c%of Brunstane,The,III.xp
Cringletie, Lord, 11. 174
Crisp, Henry, 1. 343
Crispm, Feasts of St., 11. 104
Cruchalh Club, 1. 235, 239, 11.
Cmckat Lieut -General 111 95
Croft-ad-Righ,'m the Gield'of $
cromarty, Earls of, I. 1x1, 11, zg8,
Crombie's Close, 11. 239, 2~
Cromwell, Oher, I. 4, 54, 55. 56,
353. 367, 371. 11. 31, 73. rgz,2~8,
286, 290. 327,367, 375, 383, 111.
186,187, 193, 21% 222, 230, 2s
318,329,33073431 347 ; p r o p 3
statue of 111.72
ter, 1. 34
vost, 11.279
-157, 166, 176, 212, 229, 11. Im
157, 187, 111. IZZ
King, 11. 41, *#
215, 3x0
299. 3532 356 111- 30. I16 2 x 6
741 75, 159, -# %'B 218,227. 298,
439 99, 103, 1x3, 14% 143. 151,
Cromwelrs'tarracks III. 257
'' Crookbacked Dici" of Glouces
Crookshank the historian, I. 101
Crosby, Andrew, advocate, I. 192,
C-4 the City, I. 50, 60, 98, 1x6,
334 11. 2 62.75, 131,111.1~ 72,
146: 755 191. cruel punishments
ihct&l th&e, 1. 150, 151 ;
k q u e t s at the, I. zm; exccuuons
there, 11.14, III.187,268
zm 231.11. IF
122, 146, 152, 195, +03,227, 298,
C T GusewaY, 11. 334, 341, 3451
346
Cross Ke s Tavern I. 251
Cross of &. John iI. z
Cm~~rig, Lord 1.'161, 162, 11. 246
Crown Hotel, h. 118
OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
Crown-mom, Edinburgh Castle, I.
Cullayne, Capt. James, I. z6a
Cullen, Lord Robert I. 27, 11. 171
Cullen, Dr., I. 156,'171, 271, 11.
Culloden Battle if &te Battles)
Cumberl;nd, Duke of, I. 332. 334,
* 69
146, 302, 111. 23 35
I. 203 11. 281 111. 15
Cunninglham, si will- 11.153,
Cunnineham of Baberton. House
111. 57
of 11; 162
Curkingham Rev.Dr. 1.87 111.51
Cunninghamk, Dr. deorgk, the
Cunzie House. The, Candlemaker
phycian, 11. 298
. .
Row 11 *= .
CunzidNkk, ?he, 11. 267
Curious dream sto 111. rgz 193
currie, III. 321, ?36; its 1-1
history, 111. 39-333; its ancient
military remaim, 111. 331; the
bridge, III.33?,333; the church,
111. 332; heritors roll of the
parish. 111. 334 : longevity of its
inhabitants, 111. 337
Cnrrie's Close, 11. 236
Currie's Tavern, I. 179
Curriehill. Lord. 11. qm
Curriehil~castle, 111: 334
Currichill How, 11. 01 '' Curses," the Union Bong, I. 164
Custom House, Granton, 111. 14
Custom House, The, Leith, 311.
171. I I, 192, 228, 259, *264, z&
CustomhouxQua ,Lath, 111.273
Cuthbert's Lane, 11: 1.38
D
DArcy, Lady Camlime, 11. ~9
?+r Lord I 274
D+y Rmirw The I. 288 2@
Dalelcish. Bot'hwelis accokdia in
Dak Bailie Duff," 11. 255
Dm-le3smurder 1.263 f11. 6 6
Dalgleish, Nicol kinis& of St.
Cuthbert's Chukh, 11.131
Dalgleish'sClose I. z q 252
Dalhousie, Earl bf, I. :s+, 11. 26,
98, 166, 318, 111. 342 ; Countess
of 11. 318
DalLouie Marquis of 111. 88
Dalkeith, hlsof.11. &, 111. d g .
282,.311
Dalkeith, 11.236, 283, zg1,327, 111.
Dalieith House 111. 146
Dalkeith railwa;, I. 384
Dalkeith Road, 11. 346, 355, 111.
Dalmeny Park, 111. III
Dalry burn, 11. 347
Dalry, Uistrict of, 11.213, 216,217,
Dalry manor-house, II.*217,III. 78
Dalry Road 11. 214 216 217 218
Dalrynple, bavid, iard'Wdthall,
Dalrymple, Hugh,LadDNmmore,
Dalrymple, Sir David, I. 17ir 172,
Dalrymple Sir Hew, 111. 262, 340
Dalrympld Sir James, 11. 327
Dalrymple: Sir John, 11. 26, 86,
Dalrymple Sir Robert, 11. 143
DalrympldofCastleton, Sir Robert,
Dalrymple of Cousland, 11. 348
Dalrymple, William, 11. 293
Dalrymple, Ca t Hugh, 11. 231
WIrymple, JoRn of, Provost, II.
Dalymple, John, Provost, 11. 282,
DalrympL of Stair I. 62 111. 323
Dalrymple, Lady, iI. 342
Ilaliymple's Yard I. 219
Dalyell Sir John braham 11. r6a
Dalyell((or Dalrell), Sir Tiomas, I.
12,334; town mansion of, 11. 19
Dancing girl, Sale of a, I. 201
6r 134, 364
51, 57
111. 27, 35, 9a
I. 222
I. 251
11. 243s 366
272, 335
I. 276
278
I1 . 36
a4 161, m, 378, 11: 75, 354, 111.
Dancing school, The first, m Leith,
Danube Street, 111. 72, 79
Darien Company, 111. 190 ; office
Darien &edition, The, 111. 190
Darien House, 11. 323, 324, *325,
Dark ageofEdinburgh, I. 187,111.
Dark Pit The I. 6g
111. 231
of the 11. 322
326
126
116, 168, m.( 107, 276, 11. 18, 27,
Queen Mary and, I. 46 ; murder
of lI.jw,71 III.~--;r,m,23;emd
l m i n g o f i i s w y , 11.71, 111.7
Dasses The 11. 313
David k., 1. ;r, ~ 2 ~ 7 8 . 148,14g, 186:
II.&,III. 86, 26 339, 346,
legendof the d ? ? Z H k , 11.21,
22, 2% 42, 111. 19; charter of
H o l y r d Abbey, 11. 42, 43, 80,
David II., I. &, zk, 11. 3, 47, 53,
9+ '3% 3=5.3=7, 33'. 338, 354
Dand's miraculous cross, King,
11. #
David's Tower, Edinburgh Castle,
1. 26, 33 34, 36,*2# 44? 4% 48,49r
77 a ~i SS
Daad.& 2 Muirhouse 111. 316
Davidson's Close. 11. zi
D-b,'Lord' 1. 45.46. 47, 50, 78,
35, ~ 8 ~ 6 % 67,G% 74,286,III. 59 ;
180 111. 1x5 166 247
. 5 6 58, 278, 3% 111- 35, 41. 421
Davidson's Hook, Ca-tle Hill, I. 55
Davidson's Mains, 111. IIO
Davit: IJeans' Cottage, 1. 383, 384,
11. 310
Dawick, Laud of, I. 1%
Dawney Douglas's Tavern, I. 235 ;
the"CrownRwm,"ib.; lintelof
dqorway is, two views, 1. 235,
236
Dawson the comedian 11.24.
~ean damnia~ family 'of, II. 134
Dean: or Dene, Village of, I. 183,
3591 111- 62,633 642 66, 67, I*
Dean Bank 111.75- theeducaUonaI
institution III. 6
Dean Bridg;, I. 10, 111. 6 3 , y 70,
71, Pkte ZJ ; Roman urn onnd
near, 1,. xo
Dean Bndge Rcad, 111. 82
Dean cemetery, I. 218, IL am, -1
111. 63, 66, 68, '6g
Dean Church 111.67
Dean Farm iII. 67
Dean Haugh I. 366 II.28qIII. 65
Dean manoAhouse: 111. *65, 68;
h a n Orphan H q i t a l , HI. SI
Dean Path 111. 67
Dean Side,'III. 67
Dean Street, 111. 77
Dean Street Church: fh. 75
Dean T e n a a 111. 72,7
Deanhaugh Sireet, Stak%ridge, 11.
Deemster '$he (executioner), 1. ?42
Defencelhss state of the Fifeshire
-3t aftertheunion, III.194,197
DefenceJ of Leith,The, 111. zgc-zg5
De Foe, Daniel I. 216 zp, 11. 79
Degraver, Dr. Pierre, 1. 1x5
Deidchack The I. I 6
Denham, S'u J&es gtewart, 111.
its owners, III.66,67
Ij8, II1. 5, 79
146, 342
Denham, the actor, I. 350
Denham's Land, 11. 324, 325
Dental Hospitaland School, 11. 276
Derby, Countess of, mistress of
Charles II., 11. zr
Desmond Earls of I. 104
Destitute' Childred, Home for, 11.
26
Devil Legend of raising the, 11. 3
nevits Elbow The I. 7'
pwar's Close: 11. 6
Diamond Beetle &se: The j r r
Sesprit of 11. 207
Dick, Sir A l h d e r , 11. 86, 111.57,
1x4
Dick, Sir James, Lord Provost, I.
Dick of Grange, The family of,
Dick fa%,, The, 111. 114
Dick, Lady Anne, Strange habits
111.
of I 254, 111. 114 (rct Royston,
Lbrd)
Dick-Cunningham family 111. 56
Dickens, Charles, in Edinburgh, 11.
Dickison of Winkston. House of
'50
Digges, 3'0 the Zomeddian, I. 34% 343,
11. 23, z4, 111. 241
Dilettanti Socie The I. 108
Dingwall, Lord,?? z62,'III. 62
Dingwall Sir John I. 340
Dingwalis Castle, f. 340, 353
Dirleton Lord, 111. 318, 348
Dirom Colonel 11. 120, 174
Dirtyklub Th; 111. 12
Disruption'of d e Scottist Church,
11. 95, 96, 138, 1441 '45, m.5, 111-
Di%nterr Various sectsof, 111. p
Distress oi the Edinburgh poor UI
Dobdl Sydney 111. 148
Dock gtreet d i t h 111. 255
Dock Place,'Leith,'lII. 259
Doctors of Faculty Club, 111. 123
Dominicanmanasre lI.z50,~8+'
Darnley's body k n d in th;
gardensof 11. 286 288
Don, Sir Aixander,' 11. 159, 111.
1795 11. 283
339
Don, Si William, the actor, I. 351
Don, Lad I1 343, 111. 95
Donacha ha; 1.136
Donaldson'a dospital, I. 318, 11.
Do~ldson's Close. I. 318
Donalds~n, Dr. James, 11. 112, 126
Donaldson, the bookseller, 1. 3x8;
Donaldson. the theatrical author. 1.
214 PMC 10
hw son Jams, 1. 18, 11.214
DOMldSOll, Capt., d. 153
343,. y 5 '
DonnibnstleCastle, I. 246,III.11~
302
Eoo Park, 111. 37
Doubling the Cap," 111. 125
Douglas, Duke of I. 105, 14a, 11.
331, 354 351; buchess of, 11.
351, 111. 124
Douglas, Marquis of, 11. 3x7
Douglas, Earls Of, 2% 30. 31r34r 3%
old mansion ofthr. 11. 257
38. 39. 4 3 43. 258, 111. 133, 338 ;
Douglag Archibald, 'Earl d-Angus,
Douglas,.&hiba?d, Marquis, I I. 350
IJou~Is, Archbald Earl uf, 11.
Provost 11. 27
331,111. 3.2
Douglas, James Marquis of 11. 351
Douglas, James, Earl of harton,
DougL, Sir Archibald, I. 196
Douglas, Sir Archubald and Si
Dounlas. Sir Georee. I. 106
I1 80
Robert, 11. 59
Douglas' Sir am& '11. 283
Douglas' Sir keil, iI. 153
Douglas: Sir Rotprt, the historian.
I. I28,II. 35,37,1I1.11gr 318,348,
301
Douglac of Brackhouse, The family
~odg~as ofcave- I. 271
Douglas ofGlenbervie, Sir Willii,
Douglas of Hawthornden 111. 27
Douglas oCHawthornden,'Sir JoL,
Douglas of Hyvelie William, 111.34
Douglas of Kilspiddie Archibald,
Provost, 11. a79, do; begs the
royal intercession, 11. 280
Douglas of Parkhead, Sir James,
1. 54 I95
Douglas of Parkhead. George, the
murderer of Rizzio, I. 9, 11. 74
235; Provost, 11. 280
Douglas Ladylsabell I 97
Douglas'pcerage, The,?. 98,349--
Douglascs and Hamiltons, Feuds
Dough? of Spott 111. 330
DouglaqofWhitt:nghame, William,
of 111. 193, 315
11. 279, 111. 53
111. 354
35'
between the, 11. 63, 279, 285
1. 259,161

... view below Cramond Brig, 111. '317 Cramond Bridge, 11. 63, 111. 1x1 CramondChurch 111. 316 ...

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