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82 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Loch. whose windows perhaps the accident occurred ?that the fox will not set his foot on the ict after Candlenias, especially in the heat of the sun as this was, at two o?clock; and at any time tht fox is so sagacious as to lay his ear on the icf to see if it be frozen to the bottom, or if he heal the murmuring and current of the water.? In I 7 I 5, when the magistrates took measures foi the defence of the city, the sluice of the loch was completely dammed up to let the water rise, a pre. caution omitted by their successors in 1745. Ir Edgar?s plan, twenty years later, the bed of thc loch is shown as ?? now devised,? measuring 1,70c feet in length, from the foot of Xamsay Garden tc the foot of Halkerston?s Wynd, and 400 feet broad at the foot of the gardens below the Advocate?s Close. From the upper point to the West Church the bed is shown as ?bog or marsh.? ? Yet many in common with myself,? says Chambers, ?must remember the by no means distant time when the remains of this sheet oi water, consisting of a few pools, served as an ex. cellent sliding and skating ground in winter, while their neglected, grass-grown precincts too fre quently formed an arena whereon the high and mighty quarrels of the Old and New Town cowZie3 were brought to lapidarian arbitration j ? and until a very recent period woodcocks, snipe, and waterducks used to frequent the lower part of the West Princes Street Gardens, attracted by the damp oi the locality. ?? The site of the North Loch,? says a writer in the Edinburgh Magazine for 1790, ?is disgusting below as well as above the bridge, and the balus trades of the east side ought to be filled up like those of the west, as they are only meant to show a beautiful stream, not slaughter-houses.? The statute for the improvement of the valley westward of the mound was not passed until 1816 ; but Lord Cockburn describes it as being then an impassable fetid marsh, ?open on all sides, the Teceptacle of many sewers, and seemingly of all the worried cats, drowned dogs, and blackguardism of the city, Its abomination made it so solitary that the volunteers used to practise ball-firing across it. The men stood on its north side, and the targets were set up along the lower edge of the castle hiil, or rock. The only difficulty was in getting across the swamp to place and examine the targets, which could only be done in very dry weather and at one or two places.? In the maps of 1798 a ?new mound? would seem to have been projected across it, at an angle, from South Castle Street to the Ferry Road, by the western base of the castle rock-a design, fortunately, never carried out. One of the greatest mistakes committed as a matter of taste was the erection of the Earthen Mound across the beautiful valley of the loch, from the end of Hanover Street to a point at the west end of Bank Street. It is simply an elongated hill, like a huge railway embankment, a clumsy, enormous, and unreniovzble substitute for a bridge which should have been there, and its creation has been deplored by every topographical writer on Edinburgh. Huge as the mass is, it originated in a very accidental operation. When the bed of the loch was in a state of marsh, a shopkeeper, Mr. George Boyd, clothier, at Gosford?s Close, in the old town, was frequently led from business or curiosity to visit the rising buildings of the new, and accommodated himself with ?? steps ? across this marsh, and he was followed in the construction of this path by other persons similarly situated, who contributed their quota of stone or plank to fill up, widen, and heighten what, in rude compliment to the founder, was becoming known as ?Geordie Boyd?s Mud Brig.? The inconvenience arising from the want of a direct communication between the old town and the new began to be seriously felt about 1781, when the latter had been built as far west as Hanover Street. Hence a number of residents, chiefly near the Lawnmarket, held a meeting in a small publichouse, kept by a man called Robert nunn, and called in burlesque, ?Dunn?s Hotel,? after a lashionable hotel of that name in Princes Street, and subscriptions were opened to effect a communication of some kind ; but few were required, zs Provost Grieve, who resided at the corner of Hanover Street, in order to fill up a quarry before his house, obtained leave to have the rubbish from the foundations of the various new streets laid down there. From that time the progress of the Mound proceeded with iapidity, and from 1781 till 1830 augmentations to its breadth and height were continually made, till it became the mighty mass it is. By the latter date the Mound had bezome levelled and macadamised, its sides sown with grass, and in various ways embellished so as to issume the appearance of being completed. It is ipwards of 800 feet in length, on the north upwards if 60 feet in height, and on the south about IOO feet. [ts breadth is proportionally much greater than its ieight, averaging about 300 feet. It is computed :o contain more than z,ooo,ooo of cartloads of ravelled edrth, and on the moderate supposition :hat each load, if paid for, was worth Gd., must iave cost the large sum of ~ 5 0 , 0 0 0 . It was first enclosed by rough stone walls, and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Loch. whose windows perhaps the accident occurred ?that the fox will not set his ...

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High Street.] ST. MARY?S CHA4PEL. 247 made out by Latinising his name into Nz?choZaus Ea?wfirtus. It occupied the western side of Lockhart?s Court, and was accessible only by a deep archway. In an Act passed in 158r, ?<Anent the Cuinzie,? Alexander Clark of Balbirnie, Provost of Edinburgh, and Nicol Edward, whose houses were both in this wynd, are mentioned with others. The latter appears in 1585 in the Parliament as Commissary for Edinburgh, together with Michael Gilbert; and in 1587 he appears again in an Act of Parliament in favour of the Flemish craftsmen, whom James VI. was desirous of encouraging ; but, !est they should produce inferior work at Scottish prices, his Majesty, with the advice of Council, hes appointit, constitute, and ordainit, ane honest and discreit man, Nicolas Uduart, burgess of Edinburgh, to be visitor and overseer of the said craftsmen?s hail warks, steiks, and pieces . . . the said Nicolas sal have sic dueties as is contenit within the buke, as is commonly usit to be payit therfore in Flanderis, Holland, or Ingland ; I? in virtue of all of which Nicholas was freed froin all watching, warding, and all charges and impositions. In that court dwelt, in 17534761, George Lockhart of Carnwath One of the thirteen roonis in his house contained a mantelpiece of singular magnificence, that reached the lofty ceiling; but the house had a peculiar accessory, in the shape of (? a profound dungeon, which was only accessible by a secret trapdoor, opening through the floor of a small closet, the most remote of a suite of rooms extending along the south and west sides of the court. Perhaps at a time when to be rich was neither so common nor so safe as now, Provost Edward might conceal his hoards in this massy more.? The north side of Lockhart?s Court was long occupied by the family of Bruce of Kinnaird, the celebrated traveller. In Niddry?s Wynd, a little below Provost Edward?s house on the opposite side, stood St. Mary?s Chapel, dedicated to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to Arnot, in 1505. Its foundress was Elizabeth, daughter of James, Lord Livingstone, Great Chamberlain of Scotland, and Countess of Ross-then widow of John Earl of Ross and Lord of the Isles, who, undeterred by the miserable fate of his father, drew on him, by his treasonable practices, the just vengeance of James III., and died in 1498. Colville of Easter U?emyss, and afterwards Richardson of Smeaton, became proprietors and patrons of this religious foundation ; and about the year 1600, James Chaliners, a macer before the Court of Session, acquired a right to the chapel, and in 1618 the Corporations of Wrights and Masons, known by the name of the United Incorporations of Mary?s Chapel, purchased this subject, ?where they still possess, and where they hold meetings,? says Arnot, writing in 1779. In the CaZedonian Mercury for 1736 we read that on St. Andrew?s Day the masters and wardens of forty masonic lodges met in St. Mary?s Chapel, and unanimously elected as their grand-master William Sinclair of Roslin, the representative of an ancient though reduced family, connected for several generations with Scottish freemasonry. For this ancient chapel a modern edifice was substituted, long before the demolition of Niddry?s Wynd; but the masonic lodge of Mary?s Chapel still exists, and we believe holds its meetings there. Religious services were last conducted in the new edifice when Viscountess Glenorchy hired it. She was zealous in the cause of religion, and conceived a plan of having a place of worship in which ministers of every orthodox denomination might preach; and for this purpose she had St. Mary?s Chapel opened on Wednesday, the 7th March, 1770, by the Rev. Mr. Middleton, the minister of a small Episcopal chapel at Dalkeith ; but she failed to secure the ministrations of any clergyman of the Established Church, though in 1779 the Rev. William Logan, of South Leith, a poet of some eminence in his time, gave his course of lectures on the philosophy of history in the chapel, prior to offering himself as a candidate for the chair of civil history in the University. On the east side of Niddry?s Wynd, nearly opp0- site to Lockhart?s Court, was a handsome house, which early in the eighteenth century was inhabited by the Hon. James Erskine, a senator, better known by his legal and territorial appellation of Lord Grange, brother of John Earl of Mar, who led? the great rising in 1715 on behalf of the Stuarts. He was born in 1679, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1705. He took no share in the Jacobite enterprise which led to the forfeiture of his brother, and the loss, ultimately of the last remains of the once great inheritance in the north from which the ancient family took its name. He affected to be a zealous Presbyterian and adherent of the House of Hanover, and as such he figures prominently in the ?? Diary? of the indus . trious \ffodrow, supplying that writer with many shreds of the Court gossip, which he loved so dearly ; but Lord Grange is chiefly remembered for the romantic story of his wife, which has long filled ... Street.] ST. MARY?S CHA4PEL. 247 made out by Latinising his name into Nz?choZaus Ea?wfirtus. It occupied the ...

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34 OJ,D AND NEW EDINBURGH. -. - by a clause in one of the Acts of the North British Railway; and since 1847 it has fortunately become the property of the Free Church of Scotland, by whom it is now used as a training college or nor. mal school, managed by a rector and very efficient staff, On the Same side, but to the eastward, is Milton House, a large and handsome mansion, though heavy and sombre in style, built in what had been originally the garden of Lord Roxburghe?s house, or a portion thereof, during the eighteenth century, by Andrew Fletcher of Milton, raised to the bench in 1724 in succession to the famous Lord Fountainhall, and who remained a senator of the Court of Session till his death. He was the nephew of the noble and patriotic Fletcher of Salton, and was an able coadjutor with his friend Archibald the great Duke of Argyle, during whose administration he exercised a wise control over the usually-abused Government patronage in Scotland. He sternly discouraged all informers, and was greatly esteemed for the mild and gentle manner in which he used his authority when Lord Justice Clerk after the battle of Culloden. From the drawing-room windows on the south a spacious garden extended to the back of the Canongate, and beyond could be seen the hill of St. Leonard and the stupendous craigs. Its walls are still decorated with designs and landscapes, having rich floral borders painted in distemper, and rich stucco ceilings are among the decorations, and ? interspersed amid the ornamental borders there are various grotesque figures, which have the appearance,? says Wilson, ? of being copies, from an illuminated missal of the fourteenth century. They represent a cardinal, a monk, a priest, and other churchmen, painted with great humour and drollery of attitude and expression. They so entirely differ from the general character of the composition, that their insertion may be conjectured to have originated in a whim of Lord Milton?s, which the artist has contrived to execute without sacrificing the harmony of his .design.? Lord Milton was the guardian of the family of Susannah Countess of Eglinton for many years, and took a warm and fatherly interest in her beautiful girls after the death of the earl in 1729 ; and the terms of affectionate intimacy in which he stood with them are amusingly shown in ? The petition of the six vestal virgins of Eglinton,? signed by them all, and addressed ? To the Honourable Lord Milton, at his lodgings, Edinburgh,? in I 735-a curious and witty production, .printed in the ?Eglinton Memorials.? Lord Milton died at his house of Brunstane, [Canangate. - near Musselburgh, on the 13th of December, 1766, aged seventy-four. Four years after that event the Scots Magazine for 1770 gives us a curious account of a remarkable mendicant that had long haunted his gates:--? Edinburgh, Sept. 29th. A gentleman, struck with the uncommon good appearance of an elderly man who generally sits bareheaded under a dead wall in the Canongate, opposite to Lord Milton?s house, requesting alms of those who pass, had the curiosity to inquire into his history, and learned the following melancholy account of him. He is an attainted baronet, named Sif John Mitchell of Pitreavie, and had formerly a very affluent estate, . In the early part of his life he was a captain in the Scots Greys, but was broke for sending a challenge to the Duke of Marlborough, in consequence of some illiberal reflections thrown out by his Grace against the Scottish nation. Queen Anne took so personal a part in his prosecution that he was condemned to transportation for the offence ; and this part of his sentence was, with difficulty, remitted at the particular instance of John Duke of Argyle. Exposed, in the hundredth year of his age, to the inclemencies of the weather, it is hoped the humane and charitable of this city will attend to his distresses, and relieve him from a situation which appears too severe a punishment for what, at worst, can be termed his spirited imprudence. A subscription for his annual support is opened at Balfoufs coffee-house, where those who are disposed to contribute towards it will receive every satisfaction concerning the disposal of their charity and the truth of the foregoing relation.? The aged mendicant referred to may have been a knight, but the name of Mitchell is not to be found in the old list of Scottish baronets, and Pitreavie, belonged to the Wadlaws. In later years Milton House was occupied as a Catholic school, under the care of the Sisters of Charity, who, with their pupils, attracted considerable attention in 1842, on the occasion of the first visit of Queen Victoria to Holyrood, from whence they strewed flowers before her up the ancient street. It was next a school for deaf and dumb, anon 5 temporary maternity hospital, and then the property of an engineering firm. Where Whiteford House stands now, in Edgar?s map ?or 1765 there are shown two blocks of buildings (with a narrow passage between, and a Zarden 150 feet long) marked, ?Ruins of the Earl Df Winton?s house,? a stately edifice, which, no loubt, had fallen into a state of dilapidation from its extreme antiquity and abandonment after the attainder of George, fourth Earl of Winton, who was taken prisoner in the fight at Preston in 1715, ? ... OJ,D AND NEW EDINBURGH. -. - by a clause in one of the Acts of the North British Railway; and since 1847 it ...

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371 Heriot?s Ho.pital.1 THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS. By the Act of Parliament referred to, the governors were empowered to erect from this surplus revenue their elementary schools withiin the city, for educating, free of all expense : rst, the children of all burgesses and freemen in poor circumstances ; znd, the children of burgesses and freemen who were unable to provide for their sup port; 3rd, the children of poor citizens of Eclinburgh, resident within its boundaries. They were also empowered by the same Act, ? to allow to any boys, in the course of their education at such schools, being sons of burgesses and freemen, such uniform fixed sum of money, in lieu and place of maintenance, and such uniform fixed sum for fee as apprentices after their education at the said schools is completed, as shall be determined.? There are now sixteen of these free Heriot schools, in different quarters of Edinburgh, all more or less elegant and ornate in the details of their architecture copied from the parent hospitaL . These schools are attended by upwards of 4,400 boys and girls. There are also nine schools in various parts of the city, open for free instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, French, German, and drawing, attended by about 1,400 young men and women. There are five infant schools maintained from the surplus funds of the same noble and gefierous institution. ? On the report of the Bursary Committee being given in,? at the meeting of governors in Noveniber 1879, ?? Bailie Tawse stated that they had at present eighteea of their young men at college. For the month ending 20th October last, therewere 4,907 pupils on the roll in George Heriot?s schools, and r,075 in connectiori with the Hospital evening classes.? In the old volunteering times, about the last years of the eighteenth century and the first years of the present, the green before the hospital was the favourite place for the musters, parades, and other displays of the civic forces. Here theii colours were presented, from here they were trooped home to the Colonel?s house, when Edinburgh possessed, per cent. of the population, a much greater number of enrolled volunteers than she has now. But other exhibitions took place in Heriot?s Bowling Green, such as when the famous aeronaut, Vincent Lunardi, made his ascent therefiom, on the 5th of October, 1785. On that occasion, we are told, above 80,ooo spectators assembled, and all business in the city was suspended for the greatest portion pf the day. At noon a flag wa: hoisted on the castle, and a cannon, brought from Leith Fort, was discharged in Heriot?s Green, to announce that the process of filling the balloon had begun, and by half-past two it was fully inflated. Lunardi-attired, strange to say, in a scarlet uniform faced with blue, sword, epaulettes, powdered wig, and three-cocked hat-entered the cage, with a Union Jack in his hand, and amid a roaf of acclamation from the startled people, who were but little used to strange sights in that dull time, he ascended at ten minutes to three P.M. He passed over the lofty ridge of the old town, at a vast height, waving his flag as the balloon soared skyward. It took a north-easterly direction near Inch Keith, and came down almost into the Forth; but as he threw out the ballast, it rose higher than ever. The wind bore him over North Berwick, and from there to Leven and Largo, after which a SSW. breeze brought him to where he descended, a mile east from Ceres in Fifeshire, Where the balloon. was at its greatest altitude -three miles-the barometer stood at eighteen inches five tenths, yet Lunardi experienced no difficulty in respiration. He passed through several clouds of snow, which hid from him alike the sea and land. Some reapers in a field near Ceres, when they heard the sound of Lunardi?s trumpet, and saw his balloon, the nature of which was utterly beyond their comprehension, were . filled with dreadful alarm, believing that the end of all things was at hand; and the Rev. Mr. Arnot, the ministet of Ceres, who had been previously aware of Lunardi?s ascent, required some persuasion to convince them that what they beheld was not supernatural. A number of gentlemen who collected at Ceres, set the church bell ringing, and conveyed the bold aeronaut with all honour to the manse, where a crowd awaited him. His next ascent was from Kelso. On the 26th of September, 1794, there mustered on Heriot?s Green, to receive their colours, the Royal Regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers, under Lieutenant-Colonel Elder (the old provost) and Colonel William Maxwell, afterwards a general. The corps consisted of eight companies with thirtytwo officers, fifteen of whom had belonged to the regular army; but all ranks were clothed alike, the sergeants being indicated by their pikes and the officers by their swords. The corps numbered about 785, all told Their uniform was a blue coat, lapelled With black velvet, cut away from below the breast, With broad heavy square skirts, a row of buttons round the cuff, gold epaulettes for all ranks, white cassi. mere vest and breeches, with white cotton stockings, ... Heriot?s Ho.pital.1 THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS. By the Act of Parliament referred to, the governors were ...

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High Street.] CARRUBBER?S CLOSE. 239 the name of ? the Hanoverian usurpers ? from all their devotions. But the humble chapels with which these old Scottish Episcopalians contented themselves in Carrubber?s Close, Skinner?s Close, and elsewhere, present a wonderful contrast? to their St. Paul?s and St. Mary?s in the Edinburgh of to-day. In this close was the house of Robert Ainslie?s master, during Burns?s visit to Edinburgh, Mr. Samuel Mitchelson, a great musical amateur ; and here it was that occurred the famous ?Haggis Scene,?described by Smollett in ?Humphrey Clinker.? At the table of Mitchelson the poet was a frequent guest, while on another floor of the old Clam Shell Land, as it was named, dwelt another friend of Burns?s, the elder Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, prior to his removal to the New Town. On the second floor of an ancient stone land at the head .of the close dwelt Captain Matthew Henderson, a well-known antiquary, a gentleman of agreeable and dignified manners, who was a hero of Minden, and .a member of the Crochallan Club, and dined constactly at Fortune?s tavern. He died in 1789, and Bums wrote a powerful elegy on him as ? a gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from Almighty God.? ? I loved the man much, and have not flattered his memory,? said Burns in a note to the elegy, which contains sixteen verses. The old captain was one whom all men liked. ? In our travelling party,? says Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglas in his (suppressed) Memoirs, ? was Matthew Henderson, then (I 759) and afterwards well known and much esteemed in the town of Edinburgh, at that time an officer in the 25th Regiment of Foot, and, like myself, on his way to join the army; and I may say with truth, that in the course of a long life I have never known a more estimable character than Matthew Henderson.? This close was the scene of the unsuccessful speculation of another poet, for here Allan Ramsay made a bold attempt to establish his theatre, which was roughly closed by the magistrates in 1737, after it had been barely opened, for which he took a poet?s vengeance in rhyme in the GenlZmn?s Magazine. The edifice, which stood at the foot of the close, was quizzically named st. Andrew?s Chapel, and in 1773 was the arena for the debates of a famous speculative club named the Pantheon. Five years subsequently Hind Dr. Moyes, the clever lecturer on natural philosophy, held forth therein to audiences both fashionable and select, on optics, the property?of light, and so forth. It was afterwards occupied by Mr. John Barclay, founder of the Bereans, whose chief tenet was, that the knowledge of the existence of God is derived from revelation and not from Scripture. From him and his followers Ramsay?s luckless theatre passed to the Rev. Mr. Tait and other founders of the Rowites, during whose occupancy the pulpit was frequently filled by the celebrated Edward Irving. The Relief and Secession congregations have also had it in succession; the Catholics have used it as a schoolroom ; and till its demolition to make way for Jeffrey Street, it has been the arena of a strange oZZapodda of per sonages and purposes. In Carrubber?s Close stood the ancient Tailor?s Hall, the meeting-place of a corporation whose charter, granted to them by the Town Council, is dated 20th October, 1531, and with their original one, was further confirmed by charters from James V. and JamesVI. Theyhad analtar in St. Giles?sChurch dedicated to their patron St. Ann, and the date of their seal of cause is 1500. They had also an altar dedicated to St. Ann in the Abbey church, erected in 1554 by permission of Robert Commendator of Holyrood. The fine old hall in the Cowgate has long since been abandoned by the Corporation, which still exists; and in their other place of meeting in Carrubber?s Close an autograph letter of King James VI., which hung framed and glazed over the old fireplace, was long one of its chief features. It was dated in 1594, and ran thus; but afew lines will suffice for a specimen :- ?Dekin and remanent Maisters and Brethren of the Tailyer Craft within oure burgh of Edinburgh, we g e t zow weilL ?Forsaemeikle as, respecting the gude service of AZexander MilZer, in making and working the abulzements of our awn person, minding to continue him in oure service, as ain maist fit and meit persone. We laitlie recommendit him into zow be oure letter of requiest, desiring you to receive and admit him gratis to the libertie and fredom of the said craft, as a thing maist requisite for him, having the a i r of our awin wark, notwithstanding that he was not prenteis amongk zow, according to your ancient liberties and priviliges had in the contraie. M?illing zow at this our requiest to dispense him thereanent, &c, JAMES R.? The king?s request was no doubt granted, and the Alexander Miller to whom it referred died in 1616, a reputable burgess, whose tomb in the Greyfriars? churchyard was inscribed thus by his heirs :- ?AZexundro Milka, Jorobi Mug. Brit. FY&, &c., Regis Sarion; adfiltrni vifre, frinrario, hmedes. F. C. *it annb 57, obiit Principis et Civium iauta decoratus, Anno 1616. Maii 2.?? ... Street.] CARRUBBER?S CLOSE. 239 the name of ? the Hanoverian usurpers ? from all their devotions. But the ...

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78 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith. CHAPTER VIII. VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (concluded). Eminent Men connected with Stockbridge-David Roberts, RA-K. Macleay, RSA.-Jams Browne, LL.D.-James Hogg-Sir J, Y. Simpsan, Bart.-Leitch Ritchie-General Mitchell-G. R. Luke-Comely Bank-Fettes College-Craigleith Quarry-Groat Half-Silver- Mills-St. Stephen?s Church-The Brothers Lauder-James Drummond, R.S.A.-Deaf and Dumb Institution-Dean Bank Institution- The Edinburgh Academy. IN Duncan?s Land, in the old Kirk Loan-a pile built of rubble, removed during the construction of Bank Street, and having an old lintel brought from that quarter, with the legend, I FEAR GOD ONLYE, 1605-was born, on the 24th October, 1796, David Roberts, son of a shoemaker. In the jamb of the kitchen fireplace there remains to this day an indentation made by the old man when sharpening his awl. In his boyhood David Roberts gave indications of his taste for drawing, and made free use of his mother?s whitewashed walls, his materials, we are told, ? being the ends of burnt spunks (matches) and pieces of red keel.? He was apprenticed to Gavin Beugo, a housepainter in West Register Street, whose residence was a house within a garden, where the north-west corner of Clarence Street stands. His fellow-apprentice was David Ramsay Hay, afterwards House Painter to the Queen, and well known for his treatises on decorative art On the expiry of his apprenticeship, Roberts took to scene-painting, his first essay being for a circus in North College Street; and after travelling about in Scotland and England, working alternately as a house and scene painter, he returned to his parents? house in Edinburgh in 1818, and was employed by Jeffrey to decorate with his brush the library at Craigcrook. About this time he was scene-painting for Mr. W. H. Murray, of the Theatre Royal, and began his life-long acquaintance with Clarkson Stanfield. He now took to landscape painting, and his first works- Scottish subjects - appeared in the Edinburgh Exhibition in 1822, when, to his delight and astonishment he found that they had been well hung, and bought at the private view ; two were sold foi to a pictureidealei who never paid for it. After scene-painting at Drury Lane theatre, he became an exhibitor in the Royal Academy of London, and ere long won such fame that he was admitted to the full honours 01 Academician in 1841, and his pictures were riuickly bought at great prices. His most splendid work i: that entitled ?The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia,? published in four large volumes in 1842. Though resident in London, he was not for. gotten in the city of his birth, where, in the? lattei 10s. each, and one for year, he was entertained at a public banquet in the Hopetoun Rooms, when Lord Cockbum presided ; md in 1858 he was feted by the Royal Scottish Academy, Sir John Watson Gordon in the chair; Clarkson Stanfield and Professors J. Y. Simpson md Aytoun were present. David Roberts died suddenly, when engaged on his last work, ? St. Paul?s from Ludgate Hill.?? He had left home in perfect health on the 25th of November, 1864, to walk, but was seized with xpoplexy in Berners Street, and died that evening. He was buried at Norwood. His attachment to EdinbuJgh was strong and deep, and when he returned there he was never weary of wandering imong the scenes of his boyhood. Thus Stockbridge and St. Bernard?s Well received niany a visit. James Ballantine, in his ?Life of Roberts,? quotes a letter of the artist, dated September, 1858, in which he writes of himself and Clarkson Stanfield, who accompanied him :-?.? Yesterday we went to see a fine young fellow, a member of the RSA. His studio is at Canonmills, near to my dear oZd Sfock6~id?e, and we strolled along the old road, aRd crossed the bum I had so often paddled in ; after which, in passing through the village, I pointed out to Stanny an early effort of mine in sign-not scene-painting, done when I was an apprentice boy. We had a long look at the old house where some of my happiest days were spent.? His parents lived to see him in the zenith of his fime. He buried them in the Calton ; and there is something grand and pathetic in the simplicity with which he records their rank in life on the stone designed by his own hand to cover their remains :- ? Sacred to the memory of John Roberts, shoemaker in Stockbridge, who died 27th April, 1840, aged 86 years ; as also his wife, Christian Richie, who died 1st July, 1845, aged 86 years. . . . This stone is erected to their memory by their only surviving son, David Roberts, Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London.? In No. 5 Mary Place dwelt David Scott, R.S.A., whose most important work, ? Vasco de Gama Doubling the Cape of Good Hope,? is now in the Trinity House, and who died in Dalry House in ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith. CHAPTER VIII. VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (concluded). Eminent ...

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B- Sq-I MISS JEANNIE ELLIOT. =7* -was compelled to have recourse to a sedan chair by which he was wont to be carried to Court by .George IV. Bridge. He died in No. 17, in 1846, lsurviving for thirty-one years the death of his favourite and lamented son, Colonel William Miller of the 1st Foot Guards, who fell mortally wounded -at Quatre Bras. No. 3 was the residence, in IS! I, of James Haig, -of Beimerside and that ilk, who is mentioned in the ? Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,? with reference -to the old prophecy said to have been made by ?Thomas the Rhymer, that, ?? Tide tide, whatever betide, There ?U aye be a Haig in Beimerside? ?The family have possessed the estate for many .centuries. ?The grandfather of the present proprietor of Beimerside,? wrote Scott in 1802, ?had twelve daughters before his lady brought him a male heir. The common people trembled ?for their favourite soothsayer. The late Mr, Haig was at length born, and their belief in the prophecy confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt.? No. 14 was the residence of stout and portly ?Sir John Leslie, Bart., K.H., Professor of Natural History in the University, the celebrated mathematician, the successor of playfair, who died in 1832 ; and though mentioned last, not least, this now nearly defunct square held the residence of Miss Jeannie Elliot, authoress, about the middle of -the last century, of the song ?The Flowers of -the Forest,? who is said to have composed it in consequence of a wager with her brother that she .could not write a ballad on the subject of Flodden .as they were driving homeward one evening in the .carriage. ?? Yielding,? says the biographer of the ? Songstresses of Scotland,? ? to the influence of the moment, Jean accepted the challenge. Leaning back in her corner with all the most mournful .stories of the country-side for her inspiration, and two lines of an old ballad which had often rung in her ears and trembled on her lips for a foundation, she planned and constructed the rude framework .of her ?Flowers of the Forest,? in imitation of the older song to the same air.? Miss Elliot of Minto dwelt on the first floor .of a house beside the archway or pend which gave -access to Brown Square from the Candlemaker Row, in the south-west corner, opposite the Greyfriars? Gate. She spent the latter part of her life .chiefly in Edinburgh, where she mingled a good deal in the better sort of society. ?? I have been -told,? says Chambers in his ?? Scottish Songs,? ?? by one who was admitted in youth to the privileges of her conversation, that she was a remarkably agreeable old lady, with a prodigious fund of Scottish anecdote, but did not appear to have been handsome.? Miss Tytler describes her, when advanced in years, to have been a little delicate old woman, in a close cap, ruffle, and ample snowwhite neckerchief; her eyebrows well arched, but having a nose and mouth that belonged to an expressive, rather than a handsome face. She generally went abroad in a sedan. Eastward of this quarter lay Argyle Square (now swept away to make room for Chambers Street), an open area of 150 feet long, by the Same in breadth, including the front gardens of, the houses on the north side. The houses were all massive, convenient, and not inelegant, and in some instances, three storeys in height. The exact date of its being built seems doubtful, tradition takes it back nearly to 1730, and it is said to have been named from the following circumstances :-A tailor named Campbell having got into the graces of his chief, the great John Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, was promised the first favour that peeis acquaintance or interest might throw in his way. Accordingly, on the death of George I., the Duke having early intelligence of the event, let his clans man, the tailor, instantly know it, and the latter, before his brethren in the trade were aware, bought up all the black cloth in the city, and forthwith drove such a trade in supplying the zealous Whigs with mourning suits at his own prices, that he shortly realised a little fortune, wherewith he laid the foundation of a greater. He began to build the first houses of this square, and named it Argyle in hbnour of his patron, and much of it appears to have been finished when Edgar drew his first plan of the city in 11/42. In the plan of 1765 the whole of the south side was still called Campbell?s New Buildings. But prior to any edifice being erected here, a retired bookseller of the Parliament Close, who had once been Lord Provost, built himself a mansion in what he deemed a very rustic and suburban quarter, at the head of Scott?s Close, latterly used as a ministers? hall. Prior to that, and after the Provost?s death, it had been the family mansion of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw. Lord Cullen dwelt here in a flat above what was in 1824 a grocery store; and in the central house, on the north side, lived Dr. Hugh Blau, the eminent divine and sermon writer, one of the greatest ornaments of the Scottish Church and of his native capital ; and in that house (when he was Professor of Rhetoric) died his wife, on the 9th February, 1795 ; she was his cousin Catharine, daughter of the Rev. James Bannatyne, a city minister. ... Sq-I MISS JEANNIE ELLIOT. =7* -was compelled to have recourse to a sedan chair by which he was wont to be ...

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Currie.] DR. JAMES ANDERSON. . 335 were appointed to look after the king?s exchequer, ?properties, and casualties,? were named. (?Moyses? Memoirs.?) In April, 1598, he witnessed at Stirling the contract between James VL, Ludovick Stewart, Duke of Lennox, and Hugh, fifth Earl of Eglinton, for the marriage of the latter and Gabriella, sister of the duke. He is best known in Scottish legal literature by his treatise ?? De Verborum Significatione,? and the edition of the ?? Regiam Majestatem,? but Lord Hailes doubted if his knowledge of Scottish antiquities was equal to his industry. In 1607, with reference to the latter work, Sir James Balfour records in his Annales? that ?? The ancient Lawes of Scotland, collected by s? John Skeene, Clerke of Register, on the Lordes of the Privey Counsall?s recommendation to the King, by their letters of the 4th of Marche this yeire wer ordained to be published and printed, on his Majestie?s charges.? This work, which was printed in folio at Edinburgh in 1609, is entitled ? REGIAM MAJESTATEM SCOTIR;. The auld lawes and constitutions of Scotland, faithfullie collected furth of the Register, and other auld authentick Bukes, from the dayes of King hlalcolme the Second vntill the time of King Jame the First.? It contains the Quoniam Attachianzentq or Baron Laws, the Burgh Laws, the Forest Law: of William the Lion, and many other quaint anc curious statutes. His son, Sir James Skene of Curriehill, succeedec Thomas, Earl of Mehose, as President of thc Court of Session in 1626. At what time he w;1! made a baronet of Nova Scotia is unknown, bui his death as such is thus recorded by Balfour :- ?The 20 of October (1663) deyed s? Jame: Skeine of Curriehill, Knight and Barronet, Presi dent of the Colledge of Justice, at his auen houssc in Edinburghe, and was interred in the Greyfriar: ther.? Re was buried within the church, when his tomb was found a few years ago; and tht house in which he died is that described as bein; ?beside the Grammar School,? within the south east angle of the Flodden wall, and in after years the official residence of the Professor of Divinity. Sir Archibald Johnston (Lord Warriston) wa: a considerable heritor in the parish of Currie Maitland (Lord Ravelrig) we have already referrec to, and also to Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton ?The Scotts of hlalleny, father and son, were like wise eminent lawyers at the same period, and tht latter had a seat on the bench,? says the ?Olc Statistical Account? ; but if so, his name does no1 appear in the list of senators at that time. (? Eglinton Memorials.?) . The late General Thomas Scott of Malleny, who lied at the age of ninety-six, served on the contilent of Europe, and in the American War under .he Marquis of Cornwallis. He entered the army when a boy, and was a :aptain in the 53rd Foot in October, 1777. It is -ecorded of him that he carried some very impor- :ant despatches in the barrel of his spontoon with ucess and dexterity, passing through the American hes in the disguise of aa armed pedler. These services were recognised by Lord Melbourne, who gave him a pension without solkitation. He belonged latterly to the Scots Brigade ; was t major-general of 1808, and a lieutenant-general af 1813. In 1882 his ancient patrimony of Malleny was purchased by the Earl of Rosebery. James Anderson, LLD., a miscellaneous writer of considerable eminence, the son of a farmer, was born at Hermiston, near Currie, in 1739, ?His ancestors had been farmers,? says the Sots Magazine for 1809, ?and had for several generations farmed the same land, which circumstance is supposed to have introduced him to that branch of knowledge which formed the chief occupation of his life.? Among the companions of his youth, born in the same hamlet, was Dr. James Anderson, who in the early years of the present century was Physician- General of the Forces in Madras. They were related, educated together, and maintained a correspondence throughout life. Losing his father at the age of fifteen, he entered upon the management of his ancestral farm, and at the same time attended the chemistry class of Dr. Cullen in the University of Edinburgh, studying also several collateral branches of science. He adopted a number of improvements, one of which, the introduction of a small two-horse plough, was afterwards so common in Scotland. Amid his ? agricultural labours, so great was his thirst for knowledge, and so steady his application, that he contrived to acquire a considerable stock of information; and in 1771, under the nouz de phme of ? Agricola,? he contributed to Ruddiman?s Edinburgh Week4 Xagazine a series of ? Essays on Planting,? which were afterwards published in a volume. In 1773 he furnished the article Monsoon? to the first edition of the EmycZopdia Britannica,. in which, curiously enough, he confidently predicted the failure of?captain Cook?s first expedition in search of a southern polar continent. Previous to ,1777 he had removed from Hermistop to a large uncultivated farm, consisting of ... DR. JAMES ANDERSON. . 335 were appointed to look after the king?s exchequer, ?properties, and ...

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IS2 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith brunt in assis, and all thair moveable guidis to be escheat.? On the 6th of August, 1600, as Birrel tells us in his Diary, there came to Edinburgh tidings of the King?s escape from the Gowrie Conspiracy, upon which the castle guns boomed from battery and tower j the bells clashed, trumpets were sounded and drums beaten; the whole town rose in arms, ?with schutting of muskettis, casting of fyre workes and boynfyirs set furth,? with dancing and such merriness all night, as had never before been seen in Scotland.. The Earl of Montrose, Lord Chancellor, the Master of Elphinstone, Lord Treasurer, with other nobles, gathered the people around the market cross upon their knees, to give thanks to God for the deliverance of the King, who crossed the Firth on the 11th of the month, and was received upon the sands of Leith by the entire male population of the city and suburbs, all in their armour, ?with grate joy, schutting of muskettis, and shaking of pikes.? After hearing Mr. David Lindsay?s ? orisone,? in St. Mary?s Church, he proceeded to the cross of Edinburgh, which was hung with tapestry, and where Mr. Patrick Galloway preached on the 124th Psalm. In 1601 a man was tried at Leith for stealing grain by means of false keys, for which he was sentenced to have his hands tied behind his back and be taken out to the Roads and there drowned. Birrel records that on the 12th July, 1605, the King of France?s Guard mustered in all their bravery on the Links of Leith, where they were sworn in and received their pay ; but this must have referred to some body of recruits for the Ecossuise du Roi, of which ?? Henri Prince d?Ecosse ? was nominally appointed colonel in 1601, and which carried on its standards the motto, In omni modo JdeZis. Exactly twenty years later another muster in the same place was held of the Scots Guards for the King of France, under Lord Gordon (son of the Marquis of Huntly), whose younger brother, Lord Melgum, was his lieutenant, the first gentleman of the company being Sir William Gordon of Pitlurg, son of Gordon of Kindroch. (? Gen. Hist. of the Earls of Sutherland.?) In the April of the year 1606 the Union Jack first made its appearance in the Port of Leith. It would seem that when the King of Scotland added England and Ireland to his dominions, his native subjects-very unlike their descendants-manifested, says Chambers, the utmost jealousy regarding their heraldic ensigns, and some contentions in consequence arose between them and their English neighbours, particularly at sea. Thus, on the 12th April, 1606, ? for composing of some differences between his subjects of North and South Britain travelling by seas, anent the bearing of their flags,? the King issued a proclamation ordaining the ships of both nations to carry on their maintops the flags of St. Andrew and St. George interlaced ; those of North Britain in their stern that of St. Andrew, and those of South Britain that of St. George. In those days, whatever flag was borne, piracy was a thriving trade in Scottish and English waters, where vessels of various countries were often captured by daring marauders, their crews tortured, slaughtered, or thrown ashore upon lonely and desolate isles. Long Island, on the Irish coast, was a regular station for English pirate ships, and from thence in 1609 a robber crew, headed by two captains named Perkins and William Randall, master of a ship called the Gryjhound, sailed for Scottish waters in a great Dutch vessel called the Iron Prize, accompanied by a swift pinnace, and for months they roamed about the Northern seas, doing an incredible deal of mischief, and they even had the hardihood to appear off the Firth of Forth. The Privy Council upon this armed and fitted out three vessels at Leith, from whence they sailed in quest of the pirates, who had gone to Orkney to refit. There the latter had landed near the castle of Kirkwall, in which town they behaved barbarously, were always intoxicated, and indulged ?in all manner of vice and villainy.? Three of them, who had attacked a small vessel lying in shore, belonging to Patrick Earl of Orkney, were captured by his brother, Sir James Stewart (gentle man of the bed-chamber to James VI.), and soon after the three ships from Leith made their appearance, on which many of the pirates fled in the pinnace. A pursuit proving futile, the ships cap tured the Iron Prize, but not without a desperate conflict, in which several were killed and wounded. lhirty English prisoners were taken and brought to Leith, where-after a brief trial on the 26th of July -twenty-seven of them, including the two captains, were hanged at once upon a gibbet at the pier, three of them being reserved in the hope of their giving useful information. The Lord Chancellor, in a letter to James VI., written on the day of the execution, says that these pirates, oddly enough, had a parson ?? for saying of prayers to them twice a day,? who deserted from them in Orkney, but was apprehended in Dundee, where he gave evidence against the rest, and would be reserved for the King?s pleasure. The next excitement in Leith was caused by the explosion of one of the King?s large English ships ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith brunt in assis, and all thair moveable guidis to be escheat.? On the 6th of ...

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274 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Chambers Street. Britannica? In 1763 he was Treasurer of the Navy, and died at Marseilles in 1777. For some years after that period Minto House was the residence of Sir William Nairne of Dun- ? sinnan, a Judge of the Court of SesGon, who removed there from one he had long occupied, before his promotion to the bench, at the head of the Back Stairs, and in which he had lived as Mr. Nairne, at that terrible period of his family history, when his niece, the beautiful Mrs. Ogilvie, was tried and convicted for murder in 1766. He was the last of his line ; and when he died, in 1811, at an advanced age, his baronetcy became extinct, and a nephew, his sister?s son, assumed the name and arms of Nairne of Dunsinnan. The principal entrance to Minto House in those days was from the Horse Wynd, when it was noted chiefly as a remnant of the dull and antiquated grandeur of a former age. It was next divided into a series of small apartments, and let to people in the humblest rank of life. But it was not fated to be devoted long to such uses, for the famous surgeon, Mr. (afterwards Professor) Syme, had it fitted up in 1829 as a surgical hospital for street accidents and other cases, Mr. Syme retained the old name of Minto House, and the surgery and practice acquired a world-wide celebrity, Long the scent of demonstrations and prelections of eminent extramural lecturers, it was swept away in the city improvements, and its?successor is now included in Chambers Street, and has become the 6? New Medical Scliool of Minto House,? so that the later traditions of tbe site ~ l l be perpetuated. Among other edifices demolished in Argyle Square, together with the Gaelic? Church, was the Meeting House of the Scottish Baptists, seated foi 240-one of two sections of that congregation established in I 766. Proceeding westward, from the broad site 01 what was once Adam Square, and the other two squares of which we have just given the history, Chambers Street opens before us, a thousand feet in length, With an average of seventy in breadth, extending from the South Bridge to that of George IV. It was begun in 1871 under the City Improve ment Act, and was worthily named in honour 01 the Lord Provost Chambers, the chief promoter 01 the new city improvement scheme. With the then old squares it includes the sites of North College Street, and parts of sites of the Horse and College Wynds, and is edificed into four largc blocks, three or four storeys high, in ornate example: of the Italian style, with some specimens of the French. Chambers Street was paved with wooden blocks in 1876, at a cost of nearly A6,000, and on that occasion 322,000 blocks were used. On the south side three hundred and sixty feet OF Chambers Street are occupied by the north front. of the University. Over West College Street-of old, the link between the Horse Wynd and. Potterrow-is thrown a glass-covered bridge, connecting the University with the Museum of Science. and Art, which, when completed, will occupy the remaining 400 feet of the north side to where ?? The Society ?-besides one of Heriot?s schools-exists. now in name. This great and noble museum is in the Venetian Renaissance style, from a design by Captain Fowkes of the Royal Engineers. The laying ofthe foundation-stone of this structure, on the 23rd of October, 1861, was the last public act of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. It is founded on plans similar to those of the Interna-- tional Exhibition buildings in London, and, by theyear 1870, contained-a great hall, 105 feet long, seventy wide, and seventy-seven in height ; a hail of natural history, 130 feet long, fifty-seven feet. wide, and seventy-seven in height ; a south hall, seventy feet long, fifty feet wide, and seventy-seven, in height ; and two other great apartments. When completed it will be one of the noblest buildings in Scotland. In 1871-4 the edifice underwent extension, the. great hall being increased to the length of 270 feet,. and other apartments being added, which, when finished, will have a measurement of 400 feet in. length, 200 feet in width, with an average of ninety in height Already it contains vast collections in, natural history, in industrial art, in manufacture, and in matters connected with physical science. The great aim of the architect has been to have every part well-lighted, and for this purpose a glass roof with open timberwork has been adopted, and the details of the whole structure made as light as possible. Externally the front is constructed of red and white sandstone, and internally a more elaborate kind of decoration has been carried out. Altogether the effect of the building is light, rich,. and elegant. .In the evenings, when open, it is lighted up by means of: horizontal iron rods in the roof studded with gas burners, the number of jets. exceeding 5,000. The great hall or saloon is a singularly noble apartment, with two galleries The collection of industrial art here comprises illustrations of nearly all the chief manufactures of the British Isles and foreign countries, and the lafgest collection in the world of the raw products of commerce. It possesses sections for mining and quarrying, for ? ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Chambers Street. Britannica? 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been thrown down to facilitate the act. J?ames Hay had been provided with a key that opened the long-unused gate of the gloomy-domed mausoleum of Sir George Mackenzie, a place still full of terror to boys, as it is supposed to be haunted by the blood-red spirit of the persecutor, and there he .secreted himself, while the following advertisement appeared in the Edinburgh Advertiser of the 24th .November, 1783 :- ?? ESCAPED FROM THE TOLBOOTH OF EDINBURGH, ?James Hay, indicted for highway roblery, ag.ed about IS years, by trade a glazier, 5 feet 10 inches high, slender made, pale complexion, long visage, brown hair cut short, pitted a little in the face with the small-pox, speaks slow with a Ruur in his tone, and has a mole on one of his cheeks. ?The magistrates offer a reward of Tuen& Guimus to any person who will apprehend and secure the said James Hay, to be paid by the City Chamberlain, on the said James Hay being re-committed to the Tolbwth of this city.? But James Hay had been a ?? Herioter,? brought up in the famous hospital which adjoins the ancient .and gloomy burying-ground ; thus, he contrived to make known his circumstances to some of his boy- . ish friends, and besought them to assist him in his .distress, as it was impossible for his father to do . so. A very clannish spirit animated ?the Auld Herioters? of those days, and not to succour one ,of the community, however undeserving he might be of aid, would have been deemed by them as a -crime of the foulest nature ; thus, Hay?s sshoolfellows supplied his wants from their own meals, -conveying him food in his eerie lurking-place, by .scaling the old smoke-blackened and ivied walls, at the risk of severe punishment, and of seeing sights <6 uncanny,? for six weeks, till the hue and cry abated, when he ventured to leave~the tomb in the night, and escaped abroad or to England, beyond reach of the law. ? The principal entrance to the Tolbooth,? to quote one familiar with the old edifice, ? was at the . bottom of the turret next the church. The gateway was of good carved stonework, and occupied by a door of ponderous massiveness and strength, having, besides the lock, a flap padlock, which, however, was generally kept unlocked during the day. In front of the door there always paraded a private of the Town Guard, with his rusty-red clothes and Lochaber axe or musket. The door .adjacent to the principal gateway was in the final days of the Tolbooth ? Michael Kettins? shoe-shop;?? but had formerly been a thiefs hole. After further .describing the tortuous access, the writer continues : A? You then entered the ha& which being free to all prisoners save those in the east end, was usual?ly dlled with a crowd of shabby-looking but very nerry loungers, A small rail here served as an rdditional security, no prisoner being permitted to :ome within its pale. Here, also, a sentinel of the rown Guard was always walking with a bayonet or i ramrod in his hand. The hall being also the chapel 3f the gaol, contained an old pulpit of singula$ fashion-such a pulpit as one could have imagined Knox to have preached from, and which indeed he is traditionally said to have actually done. At the right hand side of the pulpit was a door, leading up the large turnpike (stair) to the apartments occupied by the criminals, one of which was of plate-iron. The door was always shut, except when food was taken up to the prisoners. On the west end of the hall hung a board, whereon was inscribed the following emphatic lines :- ? A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive ; A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for men alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, 5 . Sometimes a place for jades and thieves, And honest men among.? The floor immediately above the hall was occupied by one room for felons, having a bar along part of the floor, to which condemned criminals were chained, and a square box of plate-iron in the centre was called ?the cage? which was said to have been constructed for the purpose of confining some extraordinary culprit who had broken half the jails in the kingdom. Above this room was another of the same size appropriated to felons.? At the western end was the platform where public executions took place. Doomed to destruction, this gloomy and massive edifice, of many stirring memories, was swept away in 1817, and the materials of it were used for the construction of the great sewers and drains in the vicinity of Fettes Row, emphatically styled ? the grave of the old Tolbooth.? The arched doorway, door, and massive lock, Sir Walter Scott engrafted on a part of his mansion at Abbotsford; and in 1829 he found that ??a tom-tit was pleased to build her nest within the lock of the Tolbootha strong temptation,? he adds, in the edition of his works issued in the following year, ? to have committed a sonnet.? The City Guard-house formed long a ? pendicle? -to use a Scottish term-of the old Tolbooth. Scott has described this edifice as ?a long, low, ugly building, which, to a fanciful imagination, might have suggested the idea of a long black snail crawling up the middle of the High Street, and deforming its beautiful esplanade.? It stood in front of the Black Turnpike, and during the ... thrown down to facilitate the act. J?ames Hay had been provided with a key that opened the long-unused gate ...

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George Street.] THE BLACKWOODS. I39 CHAP,TER XIX. GEORGE STREET. Major Andrew Faser-The Father of Miss Femer-Grant of Kilgraston-William Blackwoad and his Magazine-The Mother of Sir Waltn Scott-Sir John Hay, Banker-Colquhoun of Killermont-Mrs. Murray of Henderland-The Houses of Sir J. W. Gomon, Sir Jam- Hall. and Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster-St. Andrew's Church-Scene of the Disruption-Physicians' Hall-Glance at the Histcry of thecollege of Physicians-Sold and Removed-The Commercial Bank-Its Constitution-Assembly Rooms-Rules of 17+Banquet to Black Watch-" The Author of Waverley"-The Music Hall-The New Union Bank-Its Formation, &c.-The Mlasonic Hall-Watsoa'E Pictureof Bums-Statues of George IV., Pitt, and Chalmers. . PREVIOUS to the brilliant streets and squares erected in the northern and western portions of new Edinburgh, George Street was said to have no rival in the world ; and even yet, after having undergone many changes, for combined length, space, uniformity, and magnificence of vista, whether viewed from the east or west, it may well be pronounced unparalleled. Straight as an arrow flies, it is like its sister streets, but is 1x5 feet broad. Here a great fossil tree was found in 1852. A portion of the street on the south side, near the west end, long bore the name of the Tontine, and owing to some legal dispute, which left the houses there mfinished, they were occupied as infantry barracks during the war with France. Nos. 3 and 5 (the latter once the residence of Major Andrew Fraser and cf William Creech the eminent bookseller) forni the office of the Standard Life Assurance Company, in the tympanum of which, over four fine Corinthian pilasters, is a sculptured group from the chisel of Sir John Steel, representing the parable of the Ten Virgins. In George Street are about thirty different insurance offices, or their branches, all more or less ornate in architecture, and several banks. In No. 19, on the same side, is the Caledonian, the oldest Scottish insurance company (having been founded in June, 1805). Previously the office had been in Bank Street. A royal charter was granted to the company in May, 1810, and twenty-three years afterwards the business of life assurance was added to that of fire insurance. No. 25 George Street was the residence (from 1784 till his death, in 18zg), of Mr. James Ferrier, Principal Clerk of Session, and father of Miss Susan Ferrier, the authoress of " Marriage," &c. He was a keen whist player, and every night of his life had a rubber, which occasionally included Lady Augusta Clavering, daughter of his friend and client John, fifth Duke of Argyll, and old Dr. Hamilton, usually designated " Cocked Hat " Hamilton, from the fact of his being one of the last in Edinburgh who bore that head-piece. When victorious, he wcdd snap his fingers and caper about the room, to tbe manifest indignation of Mr. Ferrier, who would express it to his partner in the words, "Lady Augusta, did you ever see such rediculous leevity in an auld man 7 " Robert Burns used also to be a guest at No. 25, and was prescnt on one occasion when some magnificent Gobelins tapestry arrived there for the Duke of Argyll on its way to Inverary Castle. Mrs. Piozzi also, when in Edinburgh, dined there. Next door lived the Misses Edmonstone, of the Duntreath family, and with them pitched battles at whist were of frequent nightly occurrence. These old ladies figure in " Marriage " as Aunts Jacky, Grizzy, and Nicky; they were grandnieces of the fourth Duke of Argyll. The eldest Miss Ferrier was one of the Edinburgh beauties in her day ; and Bums once happening to meet her, while turning the corner of George Street, felt suddenly inspired, and wrote the lines to her enclosed in an elegy on the death of Sir D. H. Hair. Miss Ferrier and Miss Penelope, Macdonald of Clanronald, were rival belles ; the former married General Graham ot Stirling Castle, the latter Lord Belhaven. In No. 32 dwelt Francis Grant of Kilgraston, father of Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal Academy, born in 1803 ; and No. 35, now a shop, was the town house of the Hairs of Balthayock, in Perthshire. No. 45 has long been famous as the establishment of Messrs. Blackwood, the eminent publishers. William Blackwood, the founder of the magazine which stills bears his name, and on the model of which so many high-class periodicals have been started in the sister kingdom, was born at Edinburgh in 1776, and after being apprenticed to the ancient bookselling firni of Bell and Bradfute, and engaging in various connections with other bibliopoles, in 1804 he commenced as a dealer in old books on the South Bridge, in No. 64, but soon after became agent for several London publishing houses. In 1S16 he disposed of his vast stock of classical and antiquarian books, I 5,000 volumes in number, and removing to No. 17 Princes Street, thenceforward devoted his energies to the business of a-general publisher, and No. 17 is to this day a bookseller's shop. ... Street.] THE BLACKWOODS. I39 CHAP,TER XIX. GEORGE STREET. Major Andrew Faser-The Father of Miss ...

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Firinburgh Castle.] THE. REGIMENT OF EDINBURGH. 63 and all loyalists to quit the city. ?At the head of his forlorn band, consisting of sixty cavalier troopers-Guardsmenand Greys mingled-Dundee, the idol of his party, quitted Edinburgh by the Leith Wynd Port; and, through a telescope, the Duke of Gordon watched them as they wound past the venerable church of, the Holy Trinity, among the cottages and gardens of Moutries Hill, and as they rode westward by the Lang Gate, a solitary roadway bordered by fields and farmhouses.? According to Balcarres this was on the 18th of March, 1689, and as Gordon wished to confer with the viscount, the latter, on seeing a red flag waved at the western postern, rode down the Kirk Brae, and, quitting his horse, all heavily accoutred as he was, climbed the steep rock to hold that conference of which so little was ever known. He is said to have advised the?duke to leave the Castle in charge of Winram, on whom they could depend, and seek their fortunes together among the loyal clans in the north. But the duke declined, adding, ?Whither ?Wherever the shade of Montrose may direct me,? was the pensive and poetical reply, and then they parted to meet no more. But the moment Dundee was gone the drums of the Cameroniaas beat to ;urns, and they came swarming out of theix places of concealment, mustering for immediate ackioion, while, in the name of the Estates, the Earl$ of Tweeddale arid Lothian appeared at the gate d the fortress, requesting the duke to surrender ii within four-and-twenty houm, and daringly offering a year?s pay to every soldier who would desert him. ?? My lords,? said he, ?without the express order? of my royal master, James VII., I cannot surrendei this castle.? By the heralds and pursuivants the Duke 01 Gordon was now, as the only alternative, declarec a traitor. He tossed them some guineas to drink the health of James VII., adding, with a laugh, ??I would advise you not to proclaim men traitors whc wear the king?s coat till they have turned it? Under the highest penalties, all persons were non forbidden to correspond with him or his garrison and the Earl of Leven was ordered to blockadethc rock with his Cameronians, to whom were addec 300 Highlanders under Argyle. Out of this bodj there were formed in one day two battalions of thc line, which still exist-the 25th, or old Edinburgt regiment, which bears on its colours the tripk castle, with the motto, ?? Nisi Dominus Frustra,?* go you ? ? - There was a second regiment, called the bth. or Royal Edinburgl Volunteers, raised by Major-General Sir William Erskine. Bart., in 1777 It served rinder Cornwallis in the American War, and wasdibanded ai the close thereof. Its Lieuteoant-Colooel was Dundas of Fingask, wh< died at Guadaoupe and the 26th, or Cameronians, whose appointments bear the five-pointed mullet-the .arms of their first colonel ; while three battalions of the Scots Brigade, from Holland, were on their march, under Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury, to press the siege. Daily matters looked darker and darker for the gallant Gordon, for now seventy-four rank and file demanded their discharges, and were, like their predecessors, stripped and expelled. The gates were then barricaded, and preparations made for resistance to the last; but though Sir James Grant of Dalvey (fomierly King?s Advocate), and Gordon of Edintore, contrived to throw in a supply of provisions, the that he could not hold out beyond the month of June unless relieved. The entire strength of the garrison, including okers and gentlemen- volunteers, was only eighty-six men, who had to work twentv-two Dieces of @j duke wrote King James - (exclusive of FACSIMILE OF THE MEDAL OF THE EDINBURGH REfield- pieces) ranging VOLUTION CLUB. from 42 to I a-pounders. They had no doctor, no engineer, no money, Mnrl in 1688.) (=nick in 1753 in ~ommn~mmtiom a d ~,ztrtu 6,. Wiziiam aw of the recmwy of tkir Rrligwr and only thirty barrels of powder in actual quantity. It was truly a desperate hazard ! By the 18th the entire rock was fully and hopelessly invested by the Earl of Leven, a Brandenburg colonel, who displayed a great want of skill; and on the following night the battlements were blazing with bonfires and tar barrels in honour of King Jam& safe arrival in Ireland, of which tidings had probably been given by Grant of Dalvey. On the 25th came Mackay, with the three battalions of the Scots Brigade, each consisting of twelve companies, all splendidly-trained soldiers, a brigade of guns, and a great quantity of woolpacks with which to form breastworks. A11 within the Castle who had gun-shot wounds suffered greatly from the want of medical attendance, till the duke?s family physician contrived to join him, probably by the postern. On the 13th of March he heavily cannonaded the western entrenchments, and by dint of shot and shell retnded the working parties; but General Mackay now formed a battery of 18-pounders, at the Highnggs, opposed to the royal lodging and the half-moon. On the 3rd of April the Duke discovered that the house of Coates, the ancient ... Castle.] THE. REGIMENT OF EDINBURGH. 63 and all loyalists to quit the city. ?At the head of his ...

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Firinburgh Castle.] THE. REGIMENT OF EDINBURGH. 63 and all loyalists to quit the city. ?At the head of his forlorn band, consisting of sixty cavalier troopers-Guardsmenand Greys mingled-Dundee, the idol of his party, quitted Edinburgh by the Leith Wynd Port; and, through a telescope, the Duke of Gordon watched them as they wound past the venerable church of, the Holy Trinity, among the cottages and gardens of Moutries Hill, and as they rode westward by the Lang Gate, a solitary roadway bordered by fields and farmhouses.? According to Balcarres this was on the 18th of March, 1689, and as Gordon wished to confer with the viscount, the latter, on seeing a red flag waved at the western postern, rode down the Kirk Brae, and, quitting his horse, all heavily accoutred as he was, climbed the steep rock to hold that conference of which so little was ever known. He is said to have advised the?duke to leave the Castle in charge of Winram, on whom they could depend, and seek their fortunes together among the loyal clans in the north. But the duke declined, adding, ?Whither ?Wherever the shade of Montrose may direct me,? was the pensive and poetical reply, and then they parted to meet no more. But the moment Dundee was gone the drums of the Cameroniaas beat to ;urns, and they came swarming out of theix places of concealment, mustering for immediate ackioion, while, in the name of the Estates, the Earl$ of Tweeddale arid Lothian appeared at the gate d the fortress, requesting the duke to surrender ii within four-and-twenty houm, and daringly offering a year?s pay to every soldier who would desert him. ?? My lords,? said he, ?without the express order? of my royal master, James VII., I cannot surrendei this castle.? By the heralds and pursuivants the Duke 01 Gordon was now, as the only alternative, declarec a traitor. He tossed them some guineas to drink the health of James VII., adding, with a laugh, ??I would advise you not to proclaim men traitors whc wear the king?s coat till they have turned it? Under the highest penalties, all persons were non forbidden to correspond with him or his garrison and the Earl of Leven was ordered to blockadethc rock with his Cameronians, to whom were addec 300 Highlanders under Argyle. Out of this bodj there were formed in one day two battalions of thc line, which still exist-the 25th, or old Edinburgt regiment, which bears on its colours the tripk castle, with the motto, ?? Nisi Dominus Frustra,?* go you ? ? - There was a second regiment, called the bth. or Royal Edinburgl Volunteers, raised by Major-General Sir William Erskine. Bart., in 1777 It served rinder Cornwallis in the American War, and wasdibanded ai the close thereof. Its Lieuteoant-Colooel was Dundas of Fingask, wh< died at Guadaoupe and the 26th, or Cameronians, whose appointments bear the five-pointed mullet-the .arms of their first colonel ; while three battalions of the Scots Brigade, from Holland, were on their march, under Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury, to press the siege. Daily matters looked darker and darker for the gallant Gordon, for now seventy-four rank and file demanded their discharges, and were, like their predecessors, stripped and expelled. The gates were then barricaded, and preparations made for resistance to the last; but though Sir James Grant of Dalvey (fomierly King?s Advocate), and Gordon of Edintore, contrived to throw in a supply of provisions, the that he could not hold out beyond the month of June unless relieved. The entire strength of the garrison, including okers and gentlemen- volunteers, was only eighty-six men, who had to work twentv-two Dieces of @j duke wrote King James - (exclusive of FACSIMILE OF THE MEDAL OF THE EDINBURGH REfield- pieces) ranging VOLUTION CLUB. from 42 to I a-pounders. They had no doctor, no engineer, no money, Mnrl in 1688.) (=nick in 1753 in ~ommn~mmtiom a d ~,ztrtu 6,. Wiziiam aw of the recmwy of tkir Rrligwr and only thirty barrels of powder in actual quantity. It was truly a desperate hazard ! By the 18th the entire rock was fully and hopelessly invested by the Earl of Leven, a Brandenburg colonel, who displayed a great want of skill; and on the following night the battlements were blazing with bonfires and tar barrels in honour of King Jam& safe arrival in Ireland, of which tidings had probably been given by Grant of Dalvey. On the 25th came Mackay, with the three battalions of the Scots Brigade, each consisting of twelve companies, all splendidly-trained soldiers, a brigade of guns, and a great quantity of woolpacks with which to form breastworks. A11 within the Castle who had gun-shot wounds suffered greatly from the want of medical attendance, till the duke?s family physician contrived to join him, probably by the postern. On the 13th of March he heavily cannonaded the western entrenchments, and by dint of shot and shell retnded the working parties; but General Mackay now formed a battery of 18-pounders, at the Highnggs, opposed to the royal lodging and the half-moon. On the 3rd of April the Duke discovered that the house of Coates, the ancient ... Castle.] THE. REGIMENT OF EDINBURGH. 63 and all loyalists to quit the city. ?At the head of his ...

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Holyrood.1 THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS. . 75 ? blew gowns, each having got thirty-five shillings in a purse, came up from the abbey to the great church, praying all along for His Majesty. Sermon being ended, His Grace entertained all the nobles and gentlemen with a magnificent feast and open table. After dinner the Lord Provost and Council went to the Cross, where was a green arbour loaded with oranges and lemons, wine running liberally for divers hours at eight conduits, to the great solace of the indigent commons there. Having drunk all the royal healths, which were seconded by great guns from the castle, sound of trumpets and drums, volleys from the Trained Bands, and joyful acclamations from the people, they plenti- ? fully entertained the multitude. After which, my Lord Commissioner, Provost, and Bailies went to the castle, where they were entertained with all sorts of wine and sweatmeats ; and returning, the Provost countenancing all neighbours that had put up bonfires by appearing at their fires, which jovialness continhed, with ringing of bells and shooting of great guns, till 12 o?clock at night.? . In October, 1679, the Duke of Albany and York, with his family, including the future queens, Mary and Anne, took up his residence at Hdyrood, where the gaiety and brilliance of his court gave great satisfaction. The princesses were easy and affable, and the duke left little undone to win the love of the people, but the time was an unpropitious one, for they were at issue with him on matters of fxith ; yet it is clearly admitted by Fountainhall that his birthday was observed more cordially than that of the king. The duke golfed frequently at Leith. ? I remember in my youth,? wrote Mr. William Tytler, ? to have conversed with an old man named Andrew Dickson, a golf-club maker, who said that when a boy he used to carry the duke?s golf-clubs, and run before him to announce where the balls fell.? The sixteen companies of the Trained Bands attended the duke?s amval in the city, and sixty selected men from each company were ordered ? to attend their royal highnesses, apparelled in the best manner,?? and the latter were banqueted in the Parliament House, at the cost of A5231 13s. sterling. The brilliance of the little court wa: long remembered after the royal race were in hopeless exile. One of the most celebrated beauties of its circle was the wife of Preston oi Denbrae, who survived till the middle of the lasl century. In the Cupar burial register this entr) occurs concerning her :-? Buried a I st December, 1757, Lady Denbrae, aged 107 years.? The duke and duchess are said to have beer early warned of the haughty punctilio of thf Scottish noblesse by a speech of General Dalzell of Binns, whom the former had invited to line at the palace, when Nary d?Este, as a laughter of the ducal-prince of Modena, declined to take her place at table with a subject. r?Madam,?? said the grim veteran, ?I have lined at a table, where your father must have stood at my back !? In this instance it is supposed :hat he alluded to the table of the Emperor of Zermany, whom the Duke of Modena, if summoned, must have attended as an officer of the lousehold. The same commander having ordered a guardsman who had been found asleep on his post at the ?alace to be shot, he was forgiven by order of ;he duke. In August, 1681, one of the grandest funerals :ver seen in Scotland left Holyrood-that of the High ChanceIlor, the Duke of Rothes, who died :here on the 26th July. The account of the pro- :ession fills six quarto pages of Amot?s ?? History,? md enumerates among the troops present the Scots Foot Guards, a train of Artillery, the Scots Fusiliers, and Horse Guards of the Scottish army. 1$ April, 1705, John, the great Duke of Argyle, took up his residence at the palace as Commissioner to the Parliament, on which occasion he was received by a double salvo from the castle batteries, by the great guns in the Artillery Park, ? and from 111 the men-of-war, both Dutch and Scottish, then lying in the road of Leith.? the Life and Horse Guards, Horse Grenadier Guards, and the two battalions of the Foot Guards, ceased to do duty at Holyrood, being all removed permanently to London, though a detachment of the last named corps garrisoned the Bass Rock till the middle of the last century. A strange gladiatorial exhibition is recorded as taking place on a stage at the back of the palace on the 23rd of June, 1726, when one of those public combats then so popular at the Bear Garden in London, ensued between a powerful young Inshman named Andrew Bryan (who had sent a drum through the city defying all men) and a veteran of Killiecrankie, named Donald Bane, then in his sixty-second year. They fought with various weapons, in presence of many noblemen, gentlemen, and military officers, for several hours, and Bryan was totally vanquished, after receiving some severe wounds from his unscathed antagonist. The annual ball of the Honourable Company of Hunters at Holyrood, begins to be regularly chronicled in the Edinburgh papers about this In 1711 the Scottish Household troops, viz., - ... THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS. . 75 ? blew gowns, each having got thirty-five shillings in a purse, came up ...

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380 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Hume, Alexander, High School H u e , don. Baron David, I. 121, I66 11.- Hum;, David. historian, I. 97, 98, gg, 101, 107, 110, 123, 231, 236, 273, 3 ~ 4 , 11.9. 27. 107, 160, 161, 194 28% 306 330, 111. 92, 2197 19;; hi grave 11. * I&, 161 ; IIIS nephew, Ii. zq; his biographer, 111. 42 Hume of Marchrnont I. 62 Hume of Polwarth,? Sir PatriFk, 111. 89; his daughter, G m l Hume 111. 8g, Hume $ i of E r t o n , Mansion of I. I19 Hu&ee?s Close 11. a3 Hunter, Dr.. bf the Tmn Church, Master 11. 289 11. I8 - Hunter, Dr. William, 287 Hunter, John, treasurer of the Canongate 11. SI ; lintel of his house 11. ?21 Hmter?Stephen Provost, 11. 7 8 Huntedan Musekn 11.87 Hunter Square, I.?-+, -5, 282, Hunter?s Bog, I. 326, 11. 115, 303, Hunter?s Clox 11. 232 Hunter?s Craii Cramond 111. 315 HFpter?s TaveA, Royal ixchange, 376, 11. 33s 31% 313 11. 3?3 Hunters Tryst, 111. 125, 326 Hunters, Honourable Company of, . . . 11. Huntcgdon, Lady I. 282 Huntly, Earls of, 1: )o, 83,246,298, Huntly, Houd of the Marquis of, 11. 4, * 8, * 9.10. 178 ; daughters of, 11.6 5 ; execution of h i son, 11. I0 Hutcheon, Abduction of Isabel, 111. 42 Hutchison Messrs., and the halfpenny dinage I. 157 Hutchison thesdulptor II.127~130 Huxley, Professor 11. i61 Hymeneal lectures: 1 1 . ~ 4 2 Hyndford Earls of 1. z74 2 5, Hyndford?s Close, L ?273.274, ?75, 11. 58, 1% 111- 4, 7, 29, 351 1331 134, 18Z1 2 K 8 298 11. a ; bunt-; of, I. &a, $1. 272 276, 11. go I Imperial Fire and Life Insurance ny, 11. 50 In%Xuse 111.338 *340 Inchcape Rbck, 111. & Inchcolm priory, 111. 13r. ISO Inchgarvie Castle, 111. 180 Inchkeith, 111. 171, 17a, ~ 7 4 , 175, 160 101 279 286 293-295, 301, p?; hi:tori&l sketch of Incha t h rsland, 111. agq q ~ ; its fortifications, 111. 29-94 ; view of, 111. * q 3 ; the lighthouse I11 2 5 Inchkei;hC&tL, 11. *45,III. 178, I n z i c k e r y island, 111: 315 Inchmnny House, 11.60 Incorporated lrades of Edinburgh, 11. 29; of Leith, 111. 180 Incomration of Tdols Hall 01 the; 111.331 India Place, Stockbridge, 11. *m1, India-rubber factories, 11. 219 Industrial Museum. The Greaf Hall, Natud History Room, 11. 274, 275, 276, Plate 22; site ot the I. 378 InddtriousCompany,The, 111.124 Infirmary, The old Royal, 11. *3m, 301 ; site of the, I. 258, 111. 3 hfirmary Street, 11.251, 284-286, 111. 74,75, 76 Ingi%k?%esident, 11. 127 Inglis Sir John 11. 267 Ioglii?of Cramdnd, Si John, 111. 317, 318 Inglis Captain John, 111. 323 Ing&xry, viscount, I. 275 I M ~ , Alexander, I. 50 Innes, Cardinal, 11. 87 Innes Cosme 11. 192, 111.94 Innes?of Stow, Gilbert, the rmllionairc, I. 97, 251, 11. I o ??Innocent Railway,? *he, I. 384 Insurance Offices, Numerou, 11. 139.168 ; annual revenue of the, 11. 171 Insurrection of 1715, Leith during the, 111. 91 Intermarriages of the Newhaven fishers, Ill. q5, 303 I n v e m n (see Battles) Inverkeithing 111. 279 Inverleith, I.?I~, 11. 234, 111. 71, Inverleith House, 111. 97, 98 Inverleith Mains, 111. 94 Inverleith Place 111. 97 Inverleith R ~ ~ , ? I . 226, III. 9 5 , ~ ~ ~ 98 IOI 102 163, 288 Inve?rleith ~e;ra=, 11.107, III. 95 Irvine. Marder committed al 757 919 94, 1642 3 d ~ Broighton by, 11. 182 Irving David I. 123 11. 348 lrvink Edwah, 1. 249, 11. 184 Irving; Henry comedian, I. 351 Irving Lieut. john III. p Irwin.?Hieh Schooimaster. 11. !:la ?Ea; of 11.348, 378 ? Ivanovitch, Alexander, 111. 40 I$ of M~~?A-,#S I. 230 marriageof, ib. Izett, Mr. Chalmer~, 11. 17 .- - . . 61, 310 343 James ViIl., I. 67 179 11. 243 j!3 III. 222; pr?ocdution oi ;27 ; death of, 11. 247 James Duke of Albany and York, I. & , , l I . 75, 306, 111. 57, 269; accession as James VII., I. 58, 11. 28, 33.58, 59, 74 James Kennedy?sgreatship, 111. xgg Jameron, the painter, I. q 9 , I I . 73, g o 8 382 James Street, Portobello, 111. 149 James?s Court, 1. 97, 98, gg, 100, 101 1- 132 24% 33?rII. 93>95r ?J-ie, Daft?(seeBurke and Hare) Jam!eson, the novelist, 111. 95 Jamieson, Dr. John, 11. 338, 339, Jamieson, Prof. Robert, 111. 27, Jam!;sonofPortobello, Mr., 111.146 Jamieson?s Close 11. 235 Jane, Queen, mdther of James II., 160: 111: 3111 111. 127 149 242 1. 29, 30 246 ; how atoned for, ib. ean Brown, Story of, 11. 31 Jardine Murder of Archibald, I. feffrev and Co.. Messrs.. 31. 174 47 111. 68 78, 19, IIO, 323; ifis?grandfather?s house, I. 240; sipn-buardofhis father anduncle. 1.-zaz enne?r Sir w i l l i 11.123 errold, Douglas, If. 2m erviswoode, Lord, 11. 208, log; Jesuit chdch of the ?Sacred Jeffrey Street, I. 239, 288, ago, p 11. 17 his sisters 11. zog Heart,?? 11. 223 ewe1 House, The, I. 35,36, 45 ewish synagogue, 11. 344 ews? burial-place, The, 11. 107 oanna Baptista, apothecary, I. 246 Joanna. Countess of Stair, 11. 167 Jock?s Lodge, I. 364, 11. 318, 111. Tohn of daunt. h. ~7 f 142, 146 * 148 165, 192 john Knois c?hurcx Edinburgh, 1. 213. at Leith, IiI. 227 John Row?s Coffee-house I. 78 John Touris of Inverleith I?. 222 Johnnie Dowie?s Tavern, 1. 119, John?s Coffee-house, I. 178,179~11. I20,*121 Jor2-n Dr I. 6, 92, IW, 101, 214 : his ;sit to Edmbureh. I. 99,? ?s.2, 262, 299, 11. 66; i43, Macaulay?s description of him, 1. 255, 339, 111. ~7~ 291, 352, 355; 99.1- Johnston, Sir Archibald. I. 226,227, 11. 14, 111. 99 ; his execution, 1. 227, 111. $q ohnston SirJames I 154 111.54 fohnston: Sir W i l l i i , d r d Provost, 11. 284 Johnston Si W. Pulteney I. 231 Johnsto; Messrs. W. and A. K., 11. 167, 168; their priming estab. lishment, 111. 128 Johnston Dr. Robert 111. 27 Johnston;? of Westerhall, Quarrel with, I. 315, 316 Johnstone of Westerhall, Sir James Johnstone, H. E., the Scottish Roscius, I. 347, 348, 11. 179 Johnstone, Chevalier, 11. 115 Johnstone Dr. David, the philanthropic hnister of North Leith, 11. a36 111. 254,3m 306 Johnstode Rev. Mr., fI. 338 Joh!:tCn< the antiquary and artist, 111. 195 111. 84 Johnstone Mrs. authoress 111.79 Johnstoni Terrace, I. 88, i ~ , 295, ohnston?s Tavern 11. 78 Johnstoun of the dciennes, Samuei, Joint-stockunion Bank of Scotland, 11.3? 11. 143 Jonen, Dr. T. S., lonea. the actor. I. qqo ? - I. 161. q61 132 ; at C h e Church 111. 332 ; at other daces. ib. Jordan, Mk, thiactress, 1,343,348 Jordan The 111. 39 Jorda<Hill?III. 151 Junction R A , Leith. 111. 24q Iuniper Green.111 3; ?- Jury :ourt, Tde Scotti& 11. :74 Justicmy, Court of, I. ?167, 172, 317, ~ Z Z , 11. ~91, 227, 268, 111. 179, 2x5, 2439 263, 3% 338 K KaiiHead I 8 Kaimes, Tie,: !It. 330; ancient camp near, d. Kames, Lord, I. 101, 156, 166, 170, VI, 236, 11. 18, 27, 86, 282,367 ; ?two shadows in conversation,? 11. *161 Kantore, The, Leith, 111. 224, 225, a27 Kapple?s (or Cable?s) Wynd, Leith, 111. 226 Katharine Street I. 366 Kay, John, caridturist, I. g, 113, 119, 131, 154, 181, I 1, 255, 3431 345, 346, 347, 363. 17. 19, 31, 76, 78, 792 115,121, 12% 123, 136. 144, 159, 166,170, 188, ?94, 102, 217, 242, 255, 3071 3187 3Z8t 3357 111. 31, YI, 39, 471 go, !397 1469 1595 162, 342,362,366 ; his monument, 11.383 Kean Charles actor I. 351 Kead Edmnnd actdr 1. 343, 349 Keepgr of the Seal, 1.? 72 Keeper of the Signet, 2. 167 Keith, Lord, 11. 255 Keith, Si Alexander, 11. 255, 111. Ke% Sir James, 111. 51 Keith: Sir William, I. 123 Keith, Marshal, 111.91 Keith, Bishop, 11. 22, 314, 111. p Keith kmily The 111. 106 Keith of Ra;elstoA. Alexander, 11. K:?t% of Ravelston, Mrs., 111. 106 Keith Fund, The, 11. 302 Keith Kirk Kellih, 11. I Kelloe, -ltev. xohn, the murderer, 111. 155 Kelstain The 111. * 326 Kemble ?John? I. 108, 348, 349 Kemble: Stepken 1. 646, 11: 178 Kemble, Mr.andhrs. harIe?,l.349 Kemble Miss 111. 158 Kemp, %. MI, architect, 11. 126, Kemp?s Close, Leith, 111. 226 Kennedy ohn Lord, 111. I Kepnedy-: LAndrew, I. 91 Kennedy, Sir Archibald 1.131 Kennedy of Kirkhill, Sir 1 homas, 127, 111. 79 1.378 Kennedy, Silver mace found in the Kennedy, BihopbfDunkeld, I. 240, Kennedy, Walter, the poet, 11. 305 Kennedy, Janet, Lady Bothwell, Kennedy?s Close, I. 91, 245 Kennet Lord 11. 242,3 9 Kenny kate (Canongate2 I. 199 Kerr, Sir Andrew, I. 214,II. 286 Kerr Sir Archibald 11, a98 Kerr? Sir Walter I.?223 Kerr?of Kernland, Memoirs of, I. 67 Kerr, Lady Mary, 11. 350 Keysofthe cityofEdinburgh,I.*k. Kilbirnie, 111. 151 Kilgraston Road, 111. 50 Kilkerran, Lord, 111. 367 Killigrew, Henry, I. 7, 48 Kilrnamock. Earl of. 111. 222 tomb of Bishop 111. 23 241, 11- 54 111. I, 2 Killrig, II1.?351 ? Kilwinning, Lord, 111. 29 Kilwinning Lodge,The Canongate, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Hume, Alexander, High School H u e , don. Baron David, I. 121, I66 11.- Hum;, David. ...

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380 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Hume, Alexander, High School H u e , don. Baron David, I. 121, I66 11.- Hum;, David. historian, I. 97, 98, gg, 101, 107, 110, 123, 231, 236, 273, 3 ~ 4 , 11.9. 27. 107, 160, 161, 194 28% 306 330, 111. 92, 2197 19;; hi grave 11. * I&, 161 ; IIIS nephew, Ii. zq; his biographer, 111. 42 Hume of Marchrnont I. 62 Hume of Polwarth,? Sir PatriFk, 111. 89; his daughter, G m l Hume 111. 8g, Hume $ i of E r t o n , Mansion of I. I19 Hu&ee?s Close 11. a3 Hunter, Dr.. bf the Tmn Church, Master 11. 289 11. I8 - Hunter, Dr. William, 287 Hunter, John, treasurer of the Canongate 11. SI ; lintel of his house 11. ?21 Hmter?Stephen Provost, 11. 7 8 Huntedan Musekn 11.87 Hunter Square, I.?-+, -5, 282, Hunter?s Bog, I. 326, 11. 115, 303, Hunter?s Clox 11. 232 Hunter?s Craii Cramond 111. 315 HFpter?s TaveA, Royal ixchange, 376, 11. 33s 31% 313 11. 3?3 Hunters Tryst, 111. 125, 326 Hunters, Honourable Company of, . . . 11. Huntcgdon, Lady I. 282 Huntly, Earls of, 1: )o, 83,246,298, Huntly, Houd of the Marquis of, 11. 4, * 8, * 9.10. 178 ; daughters of, 11.6 5 ; execution of h i son, 11. I0 Hutcheon, Abduction of Isabel, 111. 42 Hutchison Messrs., and the halfpenny dinage I. 157 Hutchison thesdulptor II.127~130 Huxley, Professor 11. i61 Hymeneal lectures: 1 1 . ~ 4 2 Hyndford Earls of 1. z74 2 5, Hyndford?s Close, L ?273.274, ?75, 11. 58, 1% 111- 4, 7, 29, 351 1331 134, 18Z1 2 K 8 298 11. a ; bunt-; of, I. &a, $1. 272 276, 11. go I Imperial Fire and Life Insurance ny, 11. 50 In%Xuse 111.338 *340 Inchcape Rbck, 111. & Inchcolm priory, 111. 13r. ISO Inchgarvie Castle, 111. 180 Inchkeith, 111. 171, 17a, ~ 7 4 , 175, 160 101 279 286 293-295, 301, p?; hi:tori&l sketch of Incha t h rsland, 111. agq q ~ ; its fortifications, 111. 29-94 ; view of, 111. * q 3 ; the lighthouse I11 2 5 Inchkei;hC&tL, 11. *45,III. 178, I n z i c k e r y island, 111: 315 Inchmnny House, 11.60 Incorporated lrades of Edinburgh, 11. 29; of Leith, 111. 180 Incomration of Tdols Hall 01 the; 111.331 India Place, Stockbridge, 11. *m1, India-rubber factories, 11. 219 Industrial Museum. The Greaf Hall, Natud History Room, 11. 274, 275, 276, Plate 22; site ot the I. 378 InddtriousCompany,The, 111.124 Infirmary, The old Royal, 11. *3m, 301 ; site of the, I. 258, 111. 3 hfirmary Street, 11.251, 284-286, 111. 74,75, 76 Ingi%k?%esident, 11. 127 Inglis Sir John 11. 267 Ioglii?of Cramdnd, Si John, 111. 317, 318 Inglis Captain John, 111. 323 Ing&xry, viscount, I. 275 I M ~ , Alexander, I. 50 Innes, Cardinal, 11. 87 Innes Cosme 11. 192, 111.94 Innes?of Stow, Gilbert, the rmllionairc, I. 97, 251, 11. I o ??Innocent Railway,? *he, I. 384 Insurance Offices, Numerou, 11. 139.168 ; annual revenue of the, 11. 171 Insurrection of 1715, Leith during the, 111. 91 Intermarriages of the Newhaven fishers, Ill. q5, 303 I n v e m n (see Battles) Inverkeithing 111. 279 Inverleith, I.?I~, 11. 234, 111. 71, Inverleith House, 111. 97, 98 Inverleith Mains, 111. 94 Inverleith Place 111. 97 Inverleith R ~ ~ , ? I . 226, III. 9 5 , ~ ~ ~ 98 IOI 102 163, 288 Inve?rleith ~e;ra=, 11.107, III. 95 Irvine. Marder committed al 757 919 94, 1642 3 d ~ Broighton by, 11. 182 Irving David I. 123 11. 348 lrvink Edwah, 1. 249, 11. 184 Irving; Henry comedian, I. 351 Irving Lieut. john III. p Irwin.?Hieh Schooimaster. 11. !:la ?Ea; of 11.348, 378 ? Ivanovitch, Alexander, 111. 40 I$ of M~~?A-,#S I. 230 marriageof, ib. Izett, Mr. Chalmer~, 11. 17 .- - . . 61, 310 343 James ViIl., I. 67 179 11. 243 j!3 III. 222; pr?ocdution oi ;27 ; death of, 11. 247 James Duke of Albany and York, I. & , , l I . 75, 306, 111. 57, 269; accession as James VII., I. 58, 11. 28, 33.58, 59, 74 James Kennedy?sgreatship, 111. xgg Jameron, the painter, I. q 9 , I I . 73, g o 8 382 James Street, Portobello, 111. 149 James?s Court, 1. 97, 98, gg, 100, 101 1- 132 24% 33?rII. 93>95r ?J-ie, Daft?(seeBurke and Hare) Jam!eson, the novelist, 111. 95 Jamieson, Dr. John, 11. 338, 339, Jamieson, Prof. Robert, 111. 27, Jam!;sonofPortobello, Mr., 111.146 Jamieson?s Close 11. 235 Jane, Queen, mdther of James II., 160: 111: 3111 111. 127 149 242 1. 29, 30 246 ; how atoned for, ib. ean Brown, Story of, 11. 31 Jardine Murder of Archibald, I. feffrev and Co.. Messrs.. 31. 174 47 111. 68 78, 19, IIO, 323; ifis?grandfather?s house, I. 240; sipn-buardofhis father anduncle. 1.-zaz enne?r Sir w i l l i 11.123 errold, Douglas, If. 2m erviswoode, Lord, 11. 208, log; Jesuit chdch of the ?Sacred Jeffrey Street, I. 239, 288, ago, p 11. 17 his sisters 11. zog Heart,?? 11. 223 ewe1 House, The, I. 35,36, 45 ewish synagogue, 11. 344 ews? burial-place, The, 11. 107 oanna Baptista, apothecary, I. 246 Joanna. Countess of Stair, 11. 167 Jock?s Lodge, I. 364, 11. 318, 111. Tohn of daunt. h. ~7 f 142, 146 * 148 165, 192 john Knois c?hurcx Edinburgh, 1. 213. at Leith, IiI. 227 John Row?s Coffee-house I. 78 John Touris of Inverleith I?. 222 Johnnie Dowie?s Tavern, 1. 119, John?s Coffee-house, I. 178,179~11. I20,*121 Jor2-n Dr I. 6, 92, IW, 101, 214 : his ;sit to Edmbureh. I. 99,? ?s.2, 262, 299, 11. 66; i43, Macaulay?s description of him, 1. 255, 339, 111. ~7~ 291, 352, 355; 99.1- Johnston, Sir Archibald. I. 226,227, 11. 14, 111. 99 ; his execution, 1. 227, 111. $q ohnston SirJames I 154 111.54 fohnston: Sir W i l l i i , d r d Provost, 11. 284 Johnston Si W. Pulteney I. 231 Johnsto; Messrs. W. and A. K., 11. 167, 168; their priming estab. lishment, 111. 128 Johnston Dr. Robert 111. 27 Johnston;? of Westerhall, Quarrel with, I. 315, 316 Johnstone of Westerhall, Sir James Johnstone, H. E., the Scottish Roscius, I. 347, 348, 11. 179 Johnstone, Chevalier, 11. 115 Johnstone Dr. David, the philanthropic hnister of North Leith, 11. a36 111. 254,3m 306 Johnstode Rev. Mr., fI. 338 Joh!:tCn< the antiquary and artist, 111. 195 111. 84 Johnstone Mrs. authoress 111.79 Johnstoni Terrace, I. 88, i ~ , 295, ohnston?s Tavern 11. 78 Johnstoun of the dciennes, Samuei, Joint-stockunion Bank of Scotland, 11.3? 11. 143 Jonen, Dr. T. S., lonea. the actor. I. qqo ? - I. 161. q61 132 ; at C h e Church 111. 332 ; at other daces. ib. Jordan, Mk, thiactress, 1,343,348 Jordan The 111. 39 Jorda<Hill?III. 151 Junction R A , Leith. 111. 24q Iuniper Green.111 3; ?- Jury :ourt, Tde Scotti& 11. :74 Justicmy, Court of, I. ?167, 172, 317, ~ Z Z , 11. ~91, 227, 268, 111. 179, 2x5, 2439 263, 3% 338 K KaiiHead I 8 Kaimes, Tie,: !It. 330; ancient camp near, d. Kames, Lord, I. 101, 156, 166, 170, VI, 236, 11. 18, 27, 86, 282,367 ; ?two shadows in conversation,? 11. *161 Kantore, The, Leith, 111. 224, 225, a27 Kapple?s (or Cable?s) Wynd, Leith, 111. 226 Katharine Street I. 366 Kay, John, caridturist, I. g, 113, 119, 131, 154, 181, I 1, 255, 3431 345, 346, 347, 363. 17. 19, 31, 76, 78, 792 115,121, 12% 123, 136. 144, 159, 166,170, 188, ?94, 102, 217, 242, 255, 3071 3187 3Z8t 3357 111. 31, YI, 39, 471 go, !397 1469 1595 162, 342,362,366 ; his monument, 11.383 Kean Charles actor I. 351 Kead Edmnnd actdr 1. 343, 349 Keepgr of the Seal, 1.? 72 Keeper of the Signet, 2. 167 Keith, Lord, 11. 255 Keith, Si Alexander, 11. 255, 111. Ke% Sir James, 111. 51 Keith: Sir William, I. 123 Keith, Marshal, 111.91 Keith, Bishop, 11. 22, 314, 111. p Keith kmily The 111. 106 Keith of Ra;elstoA. Alexander, 11. K:?t% of Ravelston, Mrs., 111. 106 Keith Fund, The, 11. 302 Keith Kirk Kellih, 11. I Kelloe, -ltev. xohn, the murderer, 111. 155 Kelstain The 111. * 326 Kemble ?John? I. 108, 348, 349 Kemble: Stepken 1. 646, 11: 178 Kemble, Mr.andhrs. harIe?,l.349 Kemble Miss 111. 158 Kemp, %. MI, architect, 11. 126, Kemp?s Close, Leith, 111. 226 Kennedy ohn Lord, 111. I Kepnedy-: LAndrew, I. 91 Kennedy, Sir Archibald 1.131 Kennedy of Kirkhill, Sir 1 homas, 127, 111. 79 1.378 Kennedy, Silver mace found in the Kennedy, BihopbfDunkeld, I. 240, Kennedy, Walter, the poet, 11. 305 Kennedy, Janet, Lady Bothwell, Kennedy?s Close, I. 91, 245 Kennet Lord 11. 242,3 9 Kenny kate (Canongate2 I. 199 Kerr, Sir Andrew, I. 214,II. 286 Kerr Sir Archibald 11, a98 Kerr? Sir Walter I.?223 Kerr?of Kernland, Memoirs of, I. 67 Kerr, Lady Mary, 11. 350 Keysofthe cityofEdinburgh,I.*k. Kilbirnie, 111. 151 Kilgraston Road, 111. 50 Kilkerran, Lord, 111. 367 Killigrew, Henry, I. 7, 48 Kilrnamock. Earl of. 111. 222 tomb of Bishop 111. 23 241, 11- 54 111. I, 2 Killrig, II1.?351 ? Kilwinning, Lord, 111. 29 Kilwinning Lodge,The Canongate, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Hume, Alexander, High School H u e , don. Baron David, I. 121, I66 11.- Hum;, David. ...

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388 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. 2307 33O7 3447.3501 359s at er, 11. 255; hls fat er house, 11. 340, *PI; his mdkk 11. 142, 340; his various resi dences, 11. 163 -164, 165 111. 359; @~study,'II. 163; las; resi dence in bdtnburgh, 11.210 ; hi! birthplace, 11.251~255 ; his par trait, 11. 254; his arms, 11. *a54 his school Me, 11. 293, 294, 326 111. 8 ; his childhood 11. 30 burial-place ofhisfamil;, 11. 383 hls first love ib.; his son, 11, 294 ; his dauihter 11.165 Scott, Anne (sir &alter Scott'! daughter), 11. 165 Scott of Balcomie, General, 11.191, 201, 269, 111. 42, 307; anecdote of, 11. 191 ; his wife, 111. 124 Scott of Bavelaw 111. 331 Scott of Branxhoim, Sir Water, I. 194 ScottofBuccleuch Sir Waiter,]. zz: Smtt of Cauldhou& 11. 2.9 Scott of Harden, Slr Wllliam, I. Scott'of Kirkstyle I. 210 Scott ofMalleny;i.hefamiIyof, 111. a02 111. 136 . . 334,335 Scott of Scotstanit, Sir John, I. 167, zm, 11. 3, 223, Ill. 135,199, ScottbfThirlstane SirFrancis,I.z71 Scott ofThirlstan;, Patrick, 11. a y Swtt. Lieut.-Col. (Sir Walter'sson), 2903 317. 343, 364 11. 294 Scott, David, the painter, 11. 92, 111. 68, 78, 223 Scott ohn Miracle of, 11. 55, 56 Scottl dicLe1, ?1. Scott: William. Greek professor. 111; 15 . 16~ k t t centenary, The first, 11. 150, scb;'is Close, 11.271 kott's monument, I. *r 11. 126, 127, *12g ; statnetteson'it II. 1z1 Scottlsh Academv of Paint& 11. -. 90s 9' Scottish Antiquar$n Society, 1. Scottlsh Baptist meeting-house, Scottrsh Barrack office 11.42 Scottish Chamber ofA&ulture, I. Scottish currency, Value of the, in 258, 270 +le Square, 11.274 291 1707, 1.270 Scottish Episcopal chapels, I. 278 Scottish Episcopalians, The, I. 239, Scottish Equitable Asurance Sc- Scottish Hentable Security Com- 111. 231 ciety, 11. 170 PanY 11. I53 Scottish Horse Guards The I. 5' Scottish judge+ Emhent, i. 167, Scottish Liberal Club 11. 125 Scottish matrons, S& spirit of, 169-173 Sck?sh Miniitem' Widows' Fund, ScottLhmonarchs, Portraits of the, 11. 378 11. 73, 74,177 Scottish National Fire and Life Scottish Naval anh Militarv Assurance Company 11.168 Academy, 11. 138 Scottish MV~, Formation of a, 111. Sc%h Provident Institution, 11. 168 Scottish Records State of I. 367 11. 119 ; the& removal' to thi Register House, I. 368 Scottish ReformationSocietp I. 294 Scottish Rights Association i1. 150 Scottish Roscius, The, I. ;47 ; his Scottiih School of Design 11. 86 ScottishTemplars, Trialsifthe, 11. ScotkhTreacury Room, The, 1.178 Scottish Union and National Inwife ib. 46 50, 51, 111. 130 surance Company, 11. 170, 171 * 172 Scottish Universities Act, 111.24 Scottish Vulcanite Company, I1 Scotttsk Widows' Fund, 11. 1% Scou&l, John, the painter, I. 22: Sculptured stone, Newhaven, I1 Sea Penctbles The 111. 303 Seafield Cha&ello: I. 163 Seafield' Earl of 11: 33 111. 191 Seafield' Leith ill. 14; 263 266 Seafie1d'Hous;and B a d , Hi. 26c Seafield Toll 111. 286 Sea-fight in k i t h harbour. A. 111 219, 220 168 172 223, 11. 90 299 *3? duel on the site of rb. , . r83,-184 the, 11. 307-310 Seaforth Highlanders, Revolt ( Seaforth, Kenneth Mackenzie. Ea of 11. 307, 3 9 Seaiorth, Franci Lord, 111. IOI Seal of Edinburgh, The Commox his son, i6. 1. *a Se&an'sHospital, Leith, 111.22: Seamen, Wages of the Leith. 111 278 Leith 111. 278 Seamen's Friendly Society, Th Seaton,'Sir Alexander, I. 167 Seceders, 'lhe, 1. 323,325, 333 Secession and Relief Church= Union of the 111. 88 Secret subtenahean pLssages,Edii burgh Castle, I. 82 Secretary's Register The I. 370 Sedan chairs, Use o( in Edinburgl 11. 120, 343 ; number of in 1775 11. 282 ; fracas resulting from th useof, 111. 13 Sederunt, ~ c t s oP I. IW 11.315 Seqave, Sir Johdde, Ilk 351 Selkirk. Earl of, I. 274, 373 11.144 166,205,III. 122; mansion ofthc 1. *273, 274, '276, 11. 246, 249 Selkirk Countess of, 11. 335 Sellars"Ciose, I. 55 Semple, Lords, I. 91,92,11.3oo,35 Semple's Close I. 91 Senate Hall, Edinburgh University 111. 23, 24, 27 Session, Court of, I. 166, 167, 337 11. 174; probable extinction a the, I. 174 Seton, Lord, 11. 35, 52 ; Lady, 111 52, 53. Seton, Sir Alexander, III.49,318 Seton family, The, 111. 53, 54, 24 >ton House I1 35 Seven sist2;s oi Borthwick."The I. 36 %mow Lord Webb 11.347 SbakesGe Club Tie, 111.126 Shakespeare in dinburgh, 11.39 Shakespeare Square, I. 218, 340 343, 336, 47, 3531 11. 176, 336 337 ;new 20, the back of, 1. *34! Shandwick Place, 11. z q , 210 Shank I. 254 Sharp:, James, Archbishop of St Andrews, 1. 215 259; his son': residence, 111. 385 Sharpe of Hoddam Charles Kirk patrick, 11.191, I&, 193, 243,342 111.99, IZO, 131, 230 ; saleofhir curiosities, 11. 193 Sharpe of Hoddam, Mrs., 11. 26 Shearsmith, The first, 11. 26 Sheephead Wynd, Leith, 113 227 Shellycoat, The demon, Ill. 282 Shepherds' Ha' 111. 144 Sheridan, the a&, I. Sheriff Brae, or Shirra &ge, Leith, 111. 247 248 250 ~51,*253,zBs Sheriff Coirt, i. 166 Sheriff Court Buildings, I. 294, 29: Sheriff Hall, 111. 16 , 963 ship Hotel,Theold,fxtth, III.rg5, 245 246. the new 111. 245 246 ;hipduildiAg at LeAh, Newkven, &c. 111.281 jhip&ng, Numberof, in Leith, 111. 188 'go 276 277; lawsrespening'the i11. ;75 jhipmast'ers' Widows' Fund, The, 111. 278 jhoemakers' C!ose, 11. 10, 19 Shoemakers' Lands 11. g 10 Shore, The, Leith,' 111. '177, 184 '94, 1959 207, 209, 21% 227. 22g Short'Sanh The 111. 282 Short's O&rvat&y, I. 87, 91, I1 '05 ShrubHill 111. 155 163 Sibbald- Si Rohert i 123 167 201 304,&, 363,II. ;4;, I I i . r6;,33: Sibbald, James, booksellexand anu quary, I. 181 111. 154 Siddons Mrs.: 1. 108, 343, 344 amusing anecdote of, 111. 24a Siddons, Henry, 1. 348, 11.125~17: Siddons, Mrs. Henry, I. 348, 349 350,351,111. 158,159 ; her grand father, I. 351 Sidey Dr. J. A. 11. 305,347 Signe;, Keeper df the I. 367, $8 librarian of the (sm Ikng, David Silvermills, The, 11. 117, 182, 111 Sd~~nrulls House, 111. Sirnon Master of Lovat, 9.3z57, 251 Simon'square, 11.337 Simond, theFrenchtraveller, 11.18: Simony, Practice of 111. 116 Simple, Robert, the'player, 11. 9 Simpson, Professor Sir Jame '156, &,170,315,362, III.79,xa Simpson the architect, 111. 339 Sinclair 'EVI w i l l i I. 661 ; hi prince& I.&?,III.&7; hisstyb oflivini ib. Sinclair(o; St. clair) family, E ~ I ! history of the, 11. 247,111. 34 Sinclairof Dunbeath, Sir John, If1 63 ; Dame, 111. 62, 63 Siclair, Si John, the agriculturist 11. 17, 120, 126, 144, 172; hi daughter Catherine 11. 126 165 Sinclau, Sir William, k d the kigt School affray of 1595, I. no 111 297. Siucl;ir of Roslin, Sir William, 111 354 Sinclair, Henry first Lord, 11. 251 Sinclair ot Ulbster George 11.30: Sinclair of Murkle: Lady, iI. 188 Sinclair, John, Bishop of Brechin Sinclair, Lady Janet, 11. 17~ IM Sinclair ofstevenaon, Lady, 11. 33: Sinclair, Catherine, 11. 126, 165 Kinclair, Margaret, 11. 165 Sinclair, the actor, I. 350 Sinclair Fountain, The, 11. 126 Kiclair's, Professor, " Satan's In. viribleWorld Discovered."I.~z8. 236 238 245,246, 247, PhtC 31 345 ; $er popularity, 1. 345, 346 8- 84. Young 11. 130. 153, 154, 155 I. 121 Street 11. *r64 Six FeeiClub The 111. 125. 326 jkene, M a j o r h d r a l Robert, 11. 310 jkene of Rubislaw Sir W. Scott's friend 11.98 163'III.86,145,3jq jkenes :f CurAehiil, The, 111.334, Sir Jam- and Sir John, 11.302, 4kinners The 11. 264,111. z jkinner'i Cl&, I. 139, 266, 167, 3aney's Hotel, I. 222 ilnteford, I. 323, 111. 326 jlaughterhousea, The city 11. 218 ilezer, Captain, author ofl" Theatrum Scotire," 11. ,367, 111. 350 heaton's Clore Leith 111. 226 hellie, Williad, thepkter, I. 235, 236,383.11. 87, 1p0 111.31 imellie, the naturalist: 11. 311 imith, Provost Sir John, I. 102, no, 11 " I.II.334, 335 11.247 i%h; Lord Chief Baron, Episcopal chapel founded by I. 262 11.247 imith, Adam, I. 114 156, i36, 273, 11. 17, 21, 161, 194, 111. 240; residence of, 11. 21 ; graye of, with, Alexander, the poet, 111. 102, 30! Nmith George, I. 113 *117; rob- be4 in concern whh Deacon Hrodie, I. 113-115 mith, Sydney, 11. 203 11. 29 Smith, Dr. John, the physician, 11, SZA the banker, Deathof, 11.18, Smollett, Tobu., I.@, 155,239,lI. 26 127, 111. 262. his sister 11. 26'; his wife, ib. f his h o d , 11. -e '" Smythe Sir Jeremiahand theDutch Snuff-taking in church, an offence, fleet, i. 58,111. re8 11. 133 Society Close, I. 213, -14 SocietyofEdiburghGolfers III.31 Society for the PropagaAon of Chrlstian Knowledge, I. 214, 359 Society Port, The, II.231,234,268, 2% 274, 346 Soldiersof EdinburghCastle, Tomb in memoryof 11. 30 Soldiers first iuartered in Leith, III. '931 I94 Solicitors before the Supremecourt, Library of I. 123 Solway, ad of 11.37 Solway, Rout &, 11. 64,65 Sothern the actor, 1. 351 Somers"tavern I. 120 Somerset Dulce of I, 43 Somervilie, Lards,'I. 150, 155,183. 316,II. 161 111. 346 Somervjlle fai!nily, The, 111. 346 Somerville Bartholomew, I. 97, 314 Somerville: Major, and Capt. Crawford Encounter between I. 95 Somerhle mansion The i. 314 Sounding-boards I i 32d South back of ;he Longate, 11. 238, 245 South Blacket Place 111. 55, 56 South Bridge, I. 24;. 373-382, 11. 139,238 251 274 282 2 8, 334, 359, I d . I&; %e ;or8 commenced, I. 374; valueof thesite, ib. South Bridge Street I 374 111.23 South Castle Street '11: 82 '165 South Clerk Street,'III. 5; SouthCollegeStreet 1I.330,111.23 South Foulis' Close,'I. 276 South Frederick Street 11. 92 South Gray's C l m 1. ;673 274 South Leith, 111. r&, 165, 166,188, South Leith, b+dge of, 11. 47 South Leith bunal-ground, 111.171 South Leith Freechurch, 111.1~8, South Leith Poor-house 111.249 South Lach,The, 1. 8, h . 2 7 South Hanover Street, 11. 162, 192 South Niddry Street, 11. 251 South St.Andrew Street II.99,159 South St. David Street.'II. oz. 160 193, 210, 21 266 , ~. -162 Southern Market The, 11. 346 Southfield 111. I& Spalding Pund. The, 11. 92 Spalding Peter 11. 92 Spaldina: the dtorian. 11. 10. 111. . _. . . 211 Spence, Thomas, Bishop of Aber- Spence Willim I. 59 6a Spendthrift Clud, I.he,'III. r z ~ Spjttal, Sir James, 11. 215 Spittal Street, 11. 215, 223 Spattiswc.de, Archbishop, I. 287, 298, 11. 39, 111. 2x9 ; hls house, I. 208 Spottigwoode I. 166 Sputtkwood 'John, Superintendent of Lothid I. 46 208 Spottkwood Road,'I11. 46 Springfield, 111. 356, 360 Springfield Street, 111. 163 Spur, The, Edinburgh Castle, 1.36, Spylaw 111. 34 Spynie'Lord I. mg IIZ. 113 St. Andrew the Apoitle I. 261 St. Asdrew'saltar. Hol;rwd. 11. z8 deen, I. 300, 301 49, 5x1 52, 54, 86, 218 St. Andrew's Chapel, 'Carrubbeis St. Andrew's Church. Geom Close, I. 239.11. 242 Street, 11. 120, 144, *145, 14, 17' ; interior of, 11. 148 9t. Andrew's Hall, 1. 302 St. Andrew's Lane, 11.160 3t. Andrew's Port, I. 366 3. Andrew's Square, I. 2r7, 222, 267, 279, 11. 110, 118, 136, 161, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. 2307 33O7 3447.3501 359s at er, 11. 255; hls fat er house, 11. 340, *PI; his ...

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102 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Galton Hill, thirteenth century, it was not until 1518, when the Provost James, Earl of Arran, and the Bailies of the city, conveyed by tharter, under date 13th April, to John Malcolme, Provipcial of the Carmelites, and his successors, their lands of Greenside, and the chapel or kirk of the Holy Cross there, The latter had been an edifice built at some remote period, of which no record now remains, but it served as the nucleus of this CarmeIite monastery, nearly the last of the religious foundations in Scotland prior to the Reformation. In December, 1520, the Provost (Robert Logan .of Coatfield), the 3ailies and Council, again con- Jerred the ground and place of ? the Greensyde to the Freris Carmelitis, now beand in the Ferry, for their reparation and bigging to be maid,? and Sir Thomas Cannye was constituted chaplain thereof. From this it would appear that the friary had ,been in progress, and that till ready for their Teception the priests were located at the Queens- .ferry, most probably in the Carmelite monastery built there in 1380 by Sir George Dundas of that ilk. . In October, 1525, Sir Thomas, chaplain .of the pkce and kirk of the Rood of Greenside, got seisin ?thairof be the guid town,? .and delivered the keys into the hands of the magistrates in favour of Friar John Malcolmson, .??Jro mareraZZ (sic) of the ordour,? In 1534, two persons, named David Straiton and Norman Gourlay, the latter a priest, were tried for heresy and sentenced to be burned at the stake. On the 27th of August they were d e d to the Rood of Greenside, and there suffered .that terrible death. After the suppression of the -order, the buildings mus, have been tenantless until 1591, when they were converted into a hospital for lepers, founded by John Robertson, a benevolent merchant of the city, ?pursuant to a vow on his receiving a signal mercy from God.? ? At the institution of this hospital,? says Arnot, .?? seven lepers, all of them inhabitants of Edinburgh, were admitted in one day. The seventy of the lregulations which the magistrates appointed to be .observed by those admitted, segregating them from the rest of mankind, and commanding them to remain within its walls day and night, demonstrate the loathsome and infectious nature of the distemper.? A gallows whereon to hang those who violated the rules was erected at one end of the hospital, and even to open its gate between sunset and sunrise ensured the penalty of death. It is a curious circumstance that, though not a stone remains of the once sequestered Carmelite monastery, there is still perpetuated, as in the case of the abbots of Westminster, in the convent of the Carmelites at Rome, an official who bears the title of IZ Padre Priore rii Greenside. (?Lectures on the Antiquities of Edin.,? 184s.) In- the low valley which skirts the north-eastern base of the hill, now occupied by workshops and busy manufactories, was the place for holding tournaments, open-air plays, and revels. In 1456 King James 11. granted under his great seal, in favour of the magistrates and community of the city and their successors for ever, the valley and low ground lying betwixt the rock called Cragingalt on the east, and the common way and passage on the west (now known as Greenside) for performing thereon tournaments, sports, and other warlike deeds, at the pleasure of the king and his successors. This grant was &ted at Edinburgh, 13th of August, in presence of the Bishops of St, Andrews and Brechin, the Lords Erskine, Montgomery, Darnley, Lyle, and others, This place witnessed the earIiest efforts of the dramatic muse in Scotland, for many of those pieces in the Scottish language by Sir David Lindesay, such as his ?? Pleasant Satyre of the Three Estaits,? were acted in the play field there, ?when weather served,? between 1539 and 1544 ; but in consequence of the tendency of these representations to expose the lives of the Scottish clergy, by a council of the Church, held at the Black Friary in March, 1558, Sir David?s books were ordered to be burned by the public executioner. ? The Pleasant Satyre ? was played at Greenside, in 1544, in presence of the Queen Regent, ?as is mentioned,? says Wilson, ?by Henry Charteris, the bookseller, who sat patiently nine hours on the bank to witness the play. It so far surpasses any effort of contemporary English dramatists, that it renders the barrenness of the Scottish muse in . this department afterwards the more apparent.? Ten years subsequent a new place would seem to have been required, as we find in the ?Burgh Records? in 1554, the magistrates ordaining their treasurer, Robert Grahame, to pay ?? the Maister of Werke the soume of xlij Zi xiij s iiij d, makand in hale the soume of IOO merks, and that to complete the play field, now bigging in the Greensid.? This place continued to be used as the scene of feats of arms until the reign of Mary, and there, Pennant relates, Bothwell first attracted her attention, by leaping his horse into the ring, after galioping ?down the dangerous steeps of the the adjacent hill ?-a very apocryphal story. Until the middle-of the last century this place was all unchanged. ? In my walk this evening,? he writes in 1769, ?I passed by a deep and wide hollow ? ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Galton Hill, thirteenth century, it was not until 1518, when the Provost James, Earl ...

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APPENDIX. 45 3 castell towart the said burgh, at quhilk depairting the artailzerie schot vehementlie. And thairefter, quhen sho was rydand down the castellhill, thair met her hienes ane convoy of the zoung mene of the said burgh, to the nomber of fyftie, or thairby, thair bodeis and theis coverit with zeallow tdateis, thair armes and leggs fra the kne doun bair, cullorit with blak, in maner of Moris, vpon thair heiddes blak hattis, and on thair faces blak visouris, in thair mowthis rings, garnesit with intellable precious staneis, about thair neckkis, leg@ and armes infynit of chenis of gold ; togidder with saxtene of the maist honest men of the toun, cled in veluot gownis and veluot bonettis, berand and gangand about the paill wnder the quhilk her hienes raid ; quhilk paill wes of fyne purpour veluet lynit with reid taffateis, freinziet with gold and silk ; and efter thame wes ane car+ with certanc bajrnea, togidder with ane coffer quhairin wes the copburd and propyne quhilk suld be pmpynit to hir hienes ; and quhen hir grace come fordwart to the butter trone of the said burgh, the nobilitie and convoy fohaid precedand, at the quhilk butter trone thair was ane port made of tymber, in maist honourable maner, cullorit with fyne cullouris, hungin with syndrie armes ; vpon the quhilk port wes singand certane barneis in the maist hevinlie wyis ; vnder the quhilk port thair wes ane cloud opynnand with four levis, in the quhilk was put ane bony barne. And quhen the quenes hienes wes cumand throw the said port, the said cloude opynnit, and the barne discendit doun as it had bene ane angell, and deliuerit to her hienes the keyis of the toun, togidder with me bybill and ane psalme buik, coverit with fyne purpourit veluot ; and efter the said barne had spoken some small speitches, he deliuerit alsua to her hienes thre writtingis, the tennour thairof is vncertane. That being done, the barne ascendit in the cloud, and the said clud atekit ; and thairefter the quenis grace come doun to the tolbuith, at the quhilk was twa skaffattis, ane abone and ane vnder that ; vpone the vnder was situat ane fair wirgin, callit Fortoune, vnder the quhilk was thrie fair virgynnis, all cled in mait precious attyrement, callit [Peace] Justice and Policie. And efter ane litell speitche maid thair, the quenis grace come to the croce, quhair thair was standand four fair virgynnis, cled in the maist hevenlie clething, and fra the quhilk croce the wyne ran out at the spouttis in greit abundance ; thair wes the noyiss of pepill casting the glassis with wyne. This being done, our souerane ladie come to the salt trone, quhair thair wes sum spekaris ; and efter ane litell speitche, thaj brunt vpoun the skaffet maid at the said trone, the maner of ane sacrifice ; and swa that being done, sho depairtit to the nether bow, quhair thair wes ane vther skaffet maid, havand ane dragoun in the samyn, with some speiches ; and efter that the dragoun was brynt, and the quenis grace hard ane psalme song, hir hienes past to hir abbay of Halyrudhous with the said convoy and nobilities ; and thair the bairneis quhilk was in the cairt with the propyne maid some speitche concernyng the putting away of the mess, and thairefter sang ane psalme; and this being done, the cart come to Edinburgh, and the said honest men remapnit in her vtter chalmer, and desyred hir grace to ressaue the said copeburd, quhilk wea double ourgilt ; the price thairof wes ijm merkis ; quha ressauit the samyne, and thankit thame theirof. And sua the honest men and convoy come to Edinburgh.” “ And vpoun the nynt day of Februar at e h , the quenis grace and the remanent lordis come up in ane honourabill maner fia the palice of Halyrudhous, to the curdinallis ludging in the Bhk Freir Wynd, quhilk wes preparit and hung maist honourable j and thair hir hienes sowpit and the rest with her ; and efter supper the honest young men in the toun come with ane convoy to hir, and vther sum come with merschance, weill accoutent in masry, and thairefter depairtit to the said palice. And the samyn nycht Thomas Grahame, comptroller to the quenis grace, decessit in the cunsie hous besyid Halyrudhoua” FIRSTCO ACH IN sCOTLAND.--The following incidental notace in the “ bfemorie of the Somedes,” may be inserted here, as bearing on the same period of Queen Mary‘s arrival in Scotland-“About Ten o’clock the Regent [Morton] went to the House, which was the same which is now the Tolbuith Church, in Coach. “her was non with him but the Lord Boyd, and the Lord SomervilL This was the second Coach that came to Scotland. The first being brought by Alexander, Lord Seatone, when Queen Mary came from France.’ BAILIE MACYORRANH’OS USER, IDDLE’SC bosK-If the following notice in Birrel’s Diary refers to the old mansion still standing in Riddle’s Close, Lawnmarket (described on page 168), of which there can scarcely be ... 45 3 castell towart the said burgh, at quhilk depairting the artailzerie schot vehementlie. And ...

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70 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith. of Badajoz is extolled by Napier, and who died fort major of Edinburgh Castle. On the opposite side of the path, a modest stone marks the spot where lies Captain John Grant, the last survivor of the old Peninsula Gordon Highlanders, who covered the retreat at Alba de Tormes, and was the last officer to quit the town. Near it is the grave of Captain Charles Gray of the Royal Marines, the genial author of so many Scottish songs ; and perhaps one of the most interesting interments of recent years was that of Lieutenant John Irving, R.N. (son of John Irving, W.S., the schoolfellow and intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott), one of the officers of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, who died in 1848 or 1849, and whose remains were sent home by Lieutenant Sohwatka, of the United States Navy, and laid in the Dean Cemetery in January, 1881, after a grand naval and military funeral, in accordance with his rank as Lieutenant of the Royal Navy." CHAPTER VII. VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (continlced). The Dean Bridge-Landslips at Stockbridge-Stone Coffins-Floods in the Leith-Population in 174a-St. Bemard's Estate-Ross's Tower -I' Christopher North" in Anne Street-De Quincey there-%. Bernard's Well-Cave at Randolph Cliff-Veitch's Square-Chuiches in. the Localit$-Sir Henry Raebm-Old Deanhiugh-House. ABOUT a hundred yards west by north of Randolph Crescent this deep valley is spanned by a stately bridge, built in 1832, after designs by Telford. This bridge was erected almost solely at the expense of the Lord Provost Learmonth of Dean, to form a direct communication with his property, with a view to the future feuing of the latter. It was when an excavation was made for its northern pier that the Roman urn was found of which an engraving will be seen on page 10 of the first volume of this work. Over the bridge, the roadway passes at the great height of 106 feet above the rocky bed of the stream. The arches are four in number, and each is ninety-six feet in span. The total length is 447 feet, the breadth thirty-nine feet between the parapets, from which a noble view of the old Leith village, with its waterfall, is had to the westward, while on the east the eye travels along the valley to the distant spires of the seaport. That portion of it adjoining Stockbridge is still very beautiful and picturesque, but was far more so in other days, when, instead of the plain back Views of Moray Place and Ainslie Place, the steep green bank was crowned by the stately trees of Drumsheugh Park, and tangled brakes of bramble and sweet-smelling hawthorn overhung the water of the stream, which was then pure, and in some places abounded with trout. Unconfined by stone walls, 'the long extent of the mill-lade here was then conveyed in great wooden ducts, raised upon posts. These ducts were generally leaky, and being patched and mended from time to time, and covered with emerald-green moss and garlands of creepers and water-plants, added to the rural aspect of the glen. Between the bridge and the mineral well, a great saugh tree, shown in one of; Ewbank's views, overhung the lade and footpath,. imparting fresh beauty to the landscape. '' At Stockbridge," says the Edinburgh Advertiser for 1823, '' we cannot but regret that the rage for building is fast destroying the delightful scenery between it and the neighbouring village of the: Water of Leith, which had so long been a prominent ornament in the envGons of our ancient city." At the southern end of the bridge, where Randolph Cliff starts abruptly up, dangerous landslips have more than once occurred ; one notably so in March, 1881, when a mass of rock and earth fell down, and completely choked up the lade which drives the Greenland, Stockbridge, and Canonmills, flour-mills. At the north-westem end of the bridge is the Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1838, from a. design by John Henderson, in the later English style, with nave, aisles, and a square tower. To the north-eastward an elegant suburb extends away down the slope until it joins Stockbridge, comprising crescents, terraces, and streets, built between 1850 and 1877. The following is a detailed explanation of the woodcut on the previous page :-I, View looking along the West Wall, showing, on the right, the monument to Buchanan, founder of the Buchanan Institute, Glasgow, and on the extreme left, the grave of Mr. Ritchie, of Tlu Smlmruz (the pyramid at further end of walk is Lord Rutherford's tomb, and Lord Cockbum's is near to it); z, Sir Archibald Alison's gave (the larger of the Gothic mural tablets in white marble): 3, Grave of George Combe ; 1, Monument to Alexander Russel, Editor >f T/u Scoismm; 5, Tomb, on extreme left, of Lord Rutherford, next to it that of Lord Jeffrey, the Runic Cross in the path is erected to. Lieut. Irving of the Franklin Expedition; 6, Grave of Prof. W%on :obelisk under tree), and of Prof. Aytoun (marble pedestal with crose >U top). ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith. of Badajoz is extolled by Napier, and who died fort major of ...

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Lord Provost?.] THE DUNDAS RIOTS. 281 daughter of the head of the firm. When he took ofice politics ran high, The much-needed reform of the royal burghs had been keenly agitated for some time previous, and a motion on the subject, negatived in the House of Commons by a majority of 26, incensed the Scottish public to a great degree, while Lord Melville, Secretary of State, by his opposition to the question, rendered himself so obnoxious, that in many parts of Scotland he was burned in effigy. In this state of excitement Provost Stirling and others in authority at Edinburgh looked forward to the King?s birthdaythe 4th of June, 1792-with considerable uneasiness, and provoked mischief by inaugurating the festival by sending strong patrols of cavalry through the streets at a quick pace with swords drawn. Instead of having the desired effect, the people became furious at this display, and hissed and hooted the cavalry with mocking cries of ?Johnnie Cope.? In the afternoon, when the provost and magistrates were assembled in the Parliament House to drink the usual loyal toasts, a mob mustered in the square, and amused themselves after a custom long peculiar to Edinburgh on this day, of throwing dead cats at each other, and at the City Guard who were under arms to fire volleys after every toast. Some cavalry officers incautiously appeared at this time, and, on being insulted, brought up their men to clear the streets, and, after considerable stonethrowing, the mob dispersed. Next evening it re-assembled before the house of Mr. Dundas in George Square, with a figure of straw hung from a pole. When about to burn the effigy they were attacked by some of Mr. Dundas?s friends-among others, it is said, by his neighbours, the naval hero of Camperdown, and Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre. These gentlemen retired to Dundas?s house, the windows of which were smashed by the mob, which next attacked the residence of the Lord Advocate, Dundas of Amiston. On this it became necessary to bring down the 53rd Re$- ment from the Castle ; the Riot Act was read, the people were fired on, and many fell wounded, some mortally, who were found dead next day in the Meadows and elsewhere. This put an end to the disturbances for that night ; but on Wednesday evening the mob assembled in the New Town with the intention of destroying the house of Provost Stirling at the south-east corner of St. Andrew Square, where they broke the City Guards? sentry boxes to pieces. But, as an appointed signal, the ancient beacon-fire, was set aflame in the Castle, the Bind frigate sent ashore her marines at Leith, and the cavalry came galloping ih from the eastward, an which the mob separated finally. By this time Provost Stirling had sought shelter In the Castle from the mob, who were on the point Jf throwing Dr. Alexander Wood (known as Lang Sandy) over the North Bridge in mistake for him. For his zeal, however, he was made a baronet of Great Britain. The year 1795 was one of great listress in the city ; Lord Cockbum tells us that 16,000 persons (about an eighth of the population) were fed by charity, and the exact quantity of food each family should consume was specified by public proclamation. In 1793 a penny post was established in Edinburgh, extending to Leith, Musselburgh, Dalkeith, and Prestonpans. Sir James Stirling latterly resided at the west end of Queen Street, and died in February, 1805. Sir William Fettes, Lord Provost in 1800 and 1804, we have elsewhere referred to ; but William Coulter, a wealthy hosier in the High Street, who succeeded to the civic chair in 1808, was chiefly remarkable for dying in office, like Alexander Kina i d thirty years before, and for the magnificence with which his funeral obsequies were celebrated. He died at Morningside Lodge, and the cortkge was preceded by the First R E. Volunteers, and the officers of the three Regiments of Edinburgh local militia, and the body was in a canopied hearse, drawn by six horses, each led by a groom in deep mourning. On it lay the chain of office, and his sword and sash as colonel of the volunteers. A man of great stature, in a peculiar costume, bore the banner of the City. When the body was lowered into the grave, the senior herald broke and threw therein the rod of office, while the volunteers, drawn up in a line near the Greyfriars? Church, fired three funeral volleys. Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost in 1813, was the son of Marjoribanks of Lees, an eminent wine merchant in Bordeaux, and his mother was the daughter of Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of the city in the memorable ?45. Sir John was a partner in the banking-house of Mansfield, Ranisay, and Co., and while in the civic chair was the chief promoter of the Regent Bridge and Calton Gaol, though the former had been projected by Sir James Hunter Blair in 1784 When the freedom of thedty was given to Lord Lynedoch, ?the gallant Graham,? Sir John gave h k a magnificent dinner, on the 12th of August, I815-two months after Waterloo. There were present the Earl of Morton, Lord Audley, Sir David Dundas, the Lord Chief Baron, the Lord Chief Commissioner, Sir James Douglas, Sir Howard Elphinstone, and about a hundred of the most notable men in Edinburgh, the freedom of which was presented to Lord Lynedoch in a box of gold ; and at the conclusion ... Provost?.] THE DUNDAS RIOTS. 281 daughter of the head of the firm. When he took ofice politics ran high, The ...

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226 OLD AKD NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street, Europe or America as a handy yet comprehensive book of ready reference, and of which the learned and ingenious Dr. Andrew Findlater acted as editor. In 1849 William purchased the estate of Glenormiston, and ten years after made a valuable gift to his native town, in the form of a suite of buildings, including a public reading-room, a good library, lecture-hall, museum, and art gallery, designated the ?Chambers Institution ;? and in 1864 he issued his ?History of Peeblesshire,? an able example of local annals. In 1865 he was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and inaugurated the great architectural improvements set afoot in the more ancient parts of the city ; and in 1872 the University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. I In 1860-1 the brothers projected that important work which gave Robert Chambers his death-blow -? The Book of Days : a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar, including Anecdote, Biography, History, Curiosities of Literature, &c., SLc.,? a large work, in two volumes of 840 pages each. Disappointed in promised literary aid, Robert wqs compelled to perform the @eater part of this work alone, and during the winter of 186r-2 ?he might be seen every day in the British Museum, working hard at this fatal book; The mental strain broke him down; domestic bereavements aggravated the effects of ill-health, and with it, though he lived to finish his ?Life of Smollett,? his literary career closed. He died at St. Andrews in the beginning of the year 1870.? Still hale and healthy, and as full of intellectual vigour as when he handled the old printing press in his little shop in Leith Walk, William?s pen was yet busy, and produced, in 1860, ?The Youth?s Companion and Counsellor;? in 1862, ?? Something of Italy: in 1870, ?Wintering at Mentone p in 1871, ?? France, its History and Revolutions f and, in 1872, an affectionate ?Memoir? of his brother Robert, and ?Ailie Gilroy,? a simple and pathetic little story. ? In reviewing the life of this eminent publisher,? says a writer in the Nafiond Forfraif GaZlery, <? one may say that he has so lived as to teach the world how the good old-fashioned commonplace virtues can be exalted into the loftiest range of moral heroism ; that he has left on record a grand and manly example of self-help which time can never obliterate from the admiring memory of succeeding generations. Life has to him been a sacred trust, to be used for helping on the advancement of humanity, and for aiding the diffusion of knowledge. The moral to be drawn from his biography is that, with macly self-trust, with high and noble aims, with fair education, and with diligence, a man may, no matter how poor he be at the outset of his career, struggle upwards and onwards to fill a high social position, and enjoy no ordinary share of earthly honours and possessions.? At the establishment of the Messrs. Chambers fully two hundred hands are constantly employed, and their premises in Warriston Close (which have also an entrance from the High Street) form one of the interesting sights in the city. Lower down the-Close stood a large and handsome house, having a Gothic niche at its entrance, which was covered with armorial bearings and many sorely obliterated inscriptions, of which onlythe fragment of one was traceable-Gracia Dei Thomas 1: This was the town residence of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton, a man of eminent learning and great nobility of character, and who practised as a lawyer for fully forty years, during the stormy reigns of Mary and James VI. In 1564 he was made Justice Depute, and found time to give to the world some very able poems-one on the birth of James, and another on his departure for England, are preserved in the DeZifiG Poefamm Scofurwi. He steadily refused the honour of knighthood, yet was always called Sir Thomas Craig, in conforniity to a royal edict on the subject. He wrote a treatise on the independent sovereignty of Scotland, which was rendered into wretched English by Ridpath, and published in 1675. He was Advocate for the Church, when he died at Edinburgh, on the 26th of February, r608, and was succeeded in the old house, as well as his estate, by his eldest son, Sir Lewis Craig, born in 1569, and called to the bench in 1604, as Lord Wrightslands, while his father was still a pleader at the bar. After his time his house had as occupiers, first Sir George Urquhart of Cromarty, and next Sir Robert Baird, Bart., of Saughton Hall, who died in 1714. But by far the most celebrated residenter in this venerable alley was he who gave it the name it bears, Sir Archibald Johnston Lord Warriston, whose estate, still so named, lies eastward of Inverleith Row. The son of Johnston of Beirholm (once a merchant in Edinburgh), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Craig (above mentioned), this celebrated lawyer, subtle statesman, and somewhat juggling politician, was called to the bar in 1633, and would appear to have purchased from his cousin, Sir Lewis Craig, a house in the close, adjoining his own. In 1637 he began to take a prominent part in the bitter disputes of the period, and Bishop Bur ... OLD AKD NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street, Europe or America as a handy yet comprehensive book of ready reference, ...

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People don't play riddle games with Giants, or get tricked by Faerie Queens. They don't follow Blind Maniacs into Futures, or have their Lives saved by Death. Timothy Hunter in The Books of Faerie 54 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Holymd under his great seal, granted to David, Abbot of Holyrood, a piece of land within the Castle of Edinburgh whereon to erect a house, to which the monks, their servants and families, might repair in time of peace and war. This piece of ground was eighty feet in length and eighty in breadth, wherever the abbot might choose, ?beyond the site of our manor? (the royal lodging?); ?the said abbot and his successors paying therefor to us and to our heirs a silver penny at the said castle on Whitsunday yearly, if asked only, so that the foresaid abbot and his successors and their servants shall be bound to take the oath of fidelity for the due security of the said castle to the keeper thereof, who may be for the time, have free ish and entry to the said castle at accustomed and proper hours.? On the 5th April, 1391, King Robert III., undei his great seal, granted a charter to the Abbey of Holyrood, confirming the charter of David 11. to the abbey, dated 30th December, 1343. It is dated at Edinburgh. When the abbey became a species of palace has never been distinctly ascertained, but Robert 111. appears sometimes to have made Holyrood his residence. James I. occasionally kept his court there; and in the abbey his queen was delivered of twin princes, on the 16th October, 14 I 6-Alexandeq who died, and James, afterwards second of that name. In 1428 a remarkable episode occurred in the abbey church. Alexander, Lord of the Isles, who had been in rebellion against James I., but had been utterly defeated by the royal troops in Lochaber, sent messengers to the king to sue for mercy. But the latter, justly incensed, refused to enter into .my negotiations with an outlawed fugitive. Alexander, driven to despair, and compelled to fly from place to place, was compelled at last to trust to the royal clemency. Travelling secretly to Edinburgh, he suddenly presented himself, upon a solemn festival, before the high altar 01 Holyrood, and holding his?drawn sword by the point, he presented the hilt to the astonished king, in token of his unconditional submission, and falling on his knees, in presence of Queen Jane and the whole court, implored the royal mercy. The ill-fated James granted him his life, at the tender intercession of his royal consort, but sent him a prisoner to the sequestered castle of Tantallon, on its sea-beat Tock, under the charge of his nephew, the Earl of Angus. The island chief eventually received a free pardon, was restored to all his honours, castles, and estates, and stood as sponsor for the twin princes, Alexander and James, at the font . In 1437 the Parliament met at Edinburgh, on the 25th March, after the murder of James I., and adopted immediate measures for the government of the country. Their first act was the coronation of the young prince, in his sixth year, on whose head at Holyrood, as James II., the crown was solemnly placed by James Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews, in presence of a great concourse of the nobles, clergy, and representatives of towns, amid the usual testimonies of devotion and loyalty. On March 27th, 1439, Patrick Abbot of Holyrood and his convent granted a charter to Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, and his heirs, of the ofice of bailie over their lands of St. Leonard?s, in the town of Leith, ?from the end of the great volut of William Logane, on the east part of the common gate that passes to the ford over the water of Leith, beside the waste land near the house of John of Turyng on the west part, and common Venale called St. Leonard?s Wynd, as it extended of old on the south part, and the water of the port OF Leith on the north, and . . . . in the ninth year of the pontificate of our most holy father and lord, Eugenius IV., by Divine Providence Pope.? Chronologically, the next event connected with the abbey was the arrival of Mary of Gueldres in 1449. In company with John Railston, Bishop of Dunkeld, and Nicholas Otterburn, official of Lothian, the Lord Chancellor Crichton went to France to seek among the princesses of that friendly court a suitable bride for young James 11.; but no match being suitable, by the advice of Charles VII. these ambassadors proceeded to Burgundy, and, with the cordial concurrence of Duke Philip the Good, made proposals to his kinswoman, hlary, the only daughter and heiress of Arnold, Duke of Gueldres, and in 1449 the engagement was formally concluded. Philip promised to pay _f60,boo in gold as a dowry, while James, on the other hand, settled IO,OOO crowns upon her, secured on land in Strathearn, Athole, Methven, and East Lothian, while relinquishing all; claim to the Duchy of Gueldres, in the event of an heir male being born to Duke Arnold ; and the Parliament met at Stirling, resolved that the royal nuptials should be conducted on a scale of splendour suited to the occasion. The fleet containing the bride anchored in June in the Forth. She was ?young, beautiful, and of a masculine constitution,? says Hawthornden, and came attended by a splendid train of knights and nobles from France and Burgundy, including tlie Archduke Sigisniund of Austria, the Duke of Brittany, and the Lord of Campvere (the three brothers-in-law of the King of Scotland), togetho ... don't play riddle games with Giants, or get tricked by Faerie Queens. They don't follow Blind ...

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