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96 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Inverleith.
something at once strong and startling in the
consciousness that His Royal Highness the Conimander-
in-Chief, during his recent official visit to
Edinburgh, might have shaken hands with a
veteran who landed with his regiment in Portugal
about the middle of 1808, who took part in
the battle of Vimiera, in the advance into Spain,
in the disastrous retreat upon Corunna, and in the
battle before that town in 1809. It is now (in
1879) seventy years to a day siiice Lieutenanthearts
of half-a-dozen predecessors-their orders
being that twice in every twenty-four hours they
should ascertain by ocular demonstration that the
Emperor was at Longwood.
The latter died while Captain Crokat was
installed in the office, and he was sent home by
Sir Hudson Lowe with the dispatches, announcing
that event j and after serving in India, he retired in
1830, and in spite of war, wounds, and fever, lived
for nearly half a century before he passed away at n
VIEW IN BONNINGTON, 1851. (From a Drawing by WilZiarn Chnnirrg.)
General Crokat, had ‘down with fever’ written
against his name in the medical report, which
told the same tale of about three-fourths of those
soldiers sent to perish at pestilential Walcheren.”
General Crokat had served in Sicily, in 1807,
before he served in Spain, and received the war
medal with four clasps for Vimiera, Corunna,
Vittoria, and the Pyrenees, where he was severely
wounded. When peace came, the 20th Regiment
was ordered to St. Helena, and with it went then
Captain Crokat, to take part in transactions to a
soldier more trying than the bullets of the recent
war, for as orderly officer he had charge of “ the
caged eagle of St. Helena,” the captive Napoleon;
a task which is said to have well-nigh broken the
green old age, in his villa at Inverleith Row, a hale
old relic of other times.
In this street are the entrances to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, on the west side thereof, when
they were first formed in 1822-4, in lieu of a previous
garden on the east side of Leith Walk, from
which establishment the shrubs and herbs were transferred
without the eventual injury to a single plant.
They are connectedwith the University, in so
far as the Professor of Botany is Regius Keeper,
and delivers his lectures in the class-room in the
gardens, which extend to twenty-seven Scottish
acres, and contain an extensive range of greenhouses
and hothouses, with a palmhouse, 96 feet
long, 70 feet high, and 57 feet broad. There is an

... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Inverleith. something at once strong and startling in the consciousness that His Royal ...

Vol. 5 p. 96 (Rel. 2.74)

Douglas, of Carshogle, who was apprehended on
suspition,” but set at liberty. ‘‘ Anna Simson, a
famous witch, is reported to have confessed at her
death that a picture of waxe was brought to her
having A. D. written on it, which, as they said to
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY’S HOUSE, FROM BAKEHOUSE CLOSE.
On the same side of the street, opposite to the
archway leading into St. John Street, Jack‘s Land,
a lofty stone tenement, formed, in her latter years,
the residence of the beautiful Susannah, Countess
of Eglinton, and there she was frequently visited
thinking of the Earl of Angus, whose name was
Archibald Douglas, and might have been Davidson,
because his father was David) did consecrate or
execrate it after her forms, which, she said, she
would not have done for all the world. . . . .
His body was buried at Abernethy and his heart
in Douglas, by his oune direction. He was the
last Earle of the race of George, Master of Angus,
who was slain at Flowden.” ,
progress of “the Douglas cause;” and in another
flat thereof resided David Hum, who came thither
from Riddel’s Land in 1753, while engaged on his
“ History of England.”
“The Shoemakers’ Lands, which stand to the
east of Jack’s Land,” says Wilson, writing in 1847,
‘‘ are equally lofty and more picturesque buildings.
One of them especially, opposite to Moray House,
is a very singular and striking object in the stately

... of Carshogle, who was apprehended on suspition,” but set at liberty. ‘‘ Anna Simson, a famous witch, is ...

Vol. 3 p. 9 (Rel. 2.09)

Douglas, of Carshogle, who was apprehended on
suspition,” but set at liberty. ‘‘ Anna Simson, a
famous witch, is reported to have confessed at her
death that a picture of waxe was brought to her
having A. D. written on it, which, as they said to
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY’S HOUSE, FROM BAKEHOUSE CLOSE.
On the same side of the street, opposite to the
archway leading into St. John Street, Jack‘s Land,
a lofty stone tenement, formed, in her latter years,
the residence of the beautiful Susannah, Countess
of Eglinton, and there she was frequently visited
thinking of the Earl of Angus, whose name was
Archibald Douglas, and might have been Davidson,
because his father was David) did consecrate or
execrate it after her forms, which, she said, she
would not have done for all the world. . . . .
His body was buried at Abernethy and his heart
in Douglas, by his oune direction. He was the
last Earle of the race of George, Master of Angus,
who was slain at Flowden.” ,
progress of “the Douglas cause;” and in another
flat thereof resided David Hum, who came thither
from Riddel’s Land in 1753, while engaged on his
“ History of England.”
“The Shoemakers’ Lands, which stand to the
east of Jack’s Land,” says Wilson, writing in 1847,
‘‘ are equally lofty and more picturesque buildings.
One of them especially, opposite to Moray House,
is a very singular and striking object in the stately

... of Carshogle, who was apprehended on suspition,” but set at liberty. ‘‘ Anna Simson, a famous witch, is ...

Vol. 3 p. 10 (Rel. 2.09)

Foms StRet.1 THOMAS CHALMERS. 205
of high entranced enthusiasm. But the shape of
the forehead is perhaps the most singular part of
the whole visage ; and indeed it presents a mixture
so very singular, that I should have required some
little time to comprehend the meaning of it. . . .
In the forehead of Dr. Chalmers there is an arch
of imagination, carrying out the summit boldly and
roundly, in a style to which the heads of very few
poets present acything comparable-while over
this again there is a grand apex of veneration and
love, such as might have graced the bust of Plato
himself, and such as in living men I had never
beheld equalled in any but the majestic head of
Canova. The whole is edged with a few crisp
locks, which stand boldly forth and afford a fine
relief to the death-like paleness of those massive
temples.”
He died on the 3rst May, 1847, since when
his Memoirs have been given to the world by Dr.
William Hanna, with his life and labours in
long before he took the great part he did in the
storm of the Disruption :-
“At first sight his face is a coarse one-but a
mysterious kind of meaning breathes from every
part of it, that such as have eyes cannot be long
without discovering. It is very pale, and the
large halfclosed eyelids have a certain drooping
melancholy about them, which interested me very
much, I understood not why. The lips, too, are
singularly pensive in their mode of falling down
at the sides, although there is no want of richness
and vigour in their central fulness of curve. The
upper lip from the nose downwards, is separated by
a very deep line, which
travels in North America followed; but the work
by which he is best known-his pleasant ‘ I Fragments
of Voyages and Travels, including Anec
dotes of Naval Life,”in three volumes, he published
at Edinburgh in 1831, during his residence in St.
Colme Street where some of his children were
born. I‘ Patchwork,” a work in three volumes, he
published in England in 1841. He married Margaret,
daughter of Sir John Hunter, Consul-general
in Spain, and died at Portsmouth in 1844, leaving
behind him the reputation of having been a brave
and intelligent officer, a good and benevolent man,
and a faithful friend.
Ainslie Place is an expansion of Great Stuart
Street, midway between Moray Place and Randolph
Crescent. It forms an elegant, spacious. and
symmetrical double crescent, with an ornamental
garden in the centre, and is notable for containing
the houses in which Dugald Stewart and Dean
Ramsay lived and died, namely, Nos. 5 and 23.
Glasgow, his residence in St. Andrews, and his final
removal to Edinburgh, his Visits to England, and
the lively journal he kept of what he saw and did
while in that country.
St. Colme Street, the adjacent continuation of
Albyn Place, is so named from one of the titles of
the Moray family, a member of which was commendator
of Inchcolm in the middle of the 16th
century.
Here No. 8 was the residence of Captain Bad
Hall, R.N., the popular writer on several subjects.
He was the second son of Sir James Hall of Dunglass,
Sart., and Lady Helena Douglas, daughter
af Dunbar, third Earl of

... the second son of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, Sart., and Lady Helena Douglas , daughter af Dunbar, third Earl ...

Vol. 4 p. 205 (Rel. 1.94)

349 Hope Pukl “THE DOUGLAS CAUSE.”
THE BURGH LOCH.. (Aftw a Plwtagrajh o f t h OnginaZ, bypermission of thc M e m k t Company of Edidu&.l
CHAPTER XLI.
HOPE PARK END.
“The Douglas Cause,” or Story of Lady Jane Douglas-Stewart-Hugh Lord Semplc-“ The Chevalier“-The Archers’ Hall-Royal Company
of Archers formed-Their Tacobitism-Their Colours-hrlv Parades-Constitution and Admission-Their Hall built-Mwrs. Nelsond
Establishment-Thomas Nelson.
HOPE PARK END is the name of a somewhat humble
cluster of unpretending houses which sprang up at
the east end of the Meadows ; but the actual villa
latterly called Hope Park was built on the south
bank of the former loch, “immediately eastward of
the Meadow Cage,” as it is described in the prints
of 1822. In character Hope Park End has been
improved by the erection of Hope Park Crescent
and Terrace, with the U. P. church in their
vicinity; but when its only adjuncts were the
Burgh Loch Brewery, the dingy edifices known as
Gifford Park, and an old house of the sixteenth
century, pulled down by the Messrs. Nelson, it was a
somewhat sombre locality. Another old house near
the Archers’ Hall showed on the lintel of its round
turnpike stair the date 1704, and the initials AB
-J.L. ; but in which old mansion in this quarter
the celebrated and unfortunate Lady Jane Douglas-
Stewart resided we have no means of ascertaining,
or whether before or after she occupied z garret
in the East Cross Causeway, and only know from
her letters that she lived here during a portion of
the time (1753) when her long vexed case was disputed
in Scotland and in England.
Having referred to this case so often, it is
necessary, even for Edinburgh readers, to say
something of what it was-one in which the famous
toady Boswell, though little inclined to exaggeration,
is reported by Sir Walter Scott to have been so
ardent a partisan that he headed a mob which
smashed the windows of the adverse judges of the
Court of Session, when, ‘‘ For Douglas or Hamilton?
” was the question men asked each other in
the streets, at night, and swords instantly drawn
if opinions were hostile j for “ the Douglas cause,”
as Scott says, “shook the security of birthright in
Scotland, and was a cause which, had it happened
before the Union, when there was no appeal to a

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Vol. 4 p. 349 (Rel. 1.79)

down the street, reached Holyrood, where he
sought sanctuary in the chapel of St. Augustine;
there his English pursuers found him on his knees
before the altar.
WEST FRONT OF HOLYROOD ABBEY CHUKCH.
ever intent on revenge, joined Sir William Douglas,
the Black Knight of Liddesdale, whose forces lay
in the fastnesses of Pentland Muir.
From there one night he led the Liddesdale men,
tion, violate the sanctuary, they set a guard upon ! the then open and unwalled city, attacked the
the church, resolving to starve him into surrender ; i English, and left 400 of them dead in the streets.
but fortunately for Robert Prendergast, the monks
.of Holyrood were loyal to their king, and thinking
probably an Englishman less in the world mattered
:little from a Scottish point of view, they conveyed
to him provisions every night unseen by the guard,
For twelve days and nights he lurked by the altar
*of St. Augustine, until, disguised in a monk‘s cowl
;and gown, he effected an escape; and more than
Sir William Douglas re-captured the fortress in the
following year.
In 1370 David 11. was interred with every
solemnity before the high altar, the site of which is
now in the Palace Garden. It was inscribed, “UiC
Rex sub Zapide Davici izditus af tumukrfus,” as
given by Fordun.
On the 18th of January, 1384-5, Robert IL,

... the street, reached Holyrood, where he sought sanctuary in the chapel of St. Augustine; there his English ...

Vol. 3 p. 53 (Rel. 1.42)

cyloagate.1 HANNAH ROBERTSON. 21
of stone with a
Panmure of Forth, and was the last who possessed
this house, in which he was resident in the middle
of the last century, and was succeeded in it by the
Countess of Aberdeen.
From 1778 till his death, in 1790, it formed the
residence of Adam Smith, author of “ The Wealth
of Nations,” after he came to Edinburgh as Commissioner
of the Customs, an appointment obtained
by the friendship of the Duke of Buccleuch. A few
days before his death, at Panmure House, he gave
orders to destroy all his mandscripts except some
detached essays, which were afterwards published
by his executors, Drs. Joseph Black and Janies
Hutton, and his library, a valuable one, he left to
his nephew, Lord Reston. From that old mansion
the philosopher was borne to his grave in an obscure
nook of the Canongate churchyard. During
the - last years of his blameless life his bachelor
household had been managed by a female cousin,
Miss Jeanie Douglas, who acquired a great control
‘ had attained her
From her published memoir-which, after its first
appearance in 1792, reached a tenth edition in
1806, and was printed by James Tod in Forrester’s
Wynd-and from other sources, we learn that she
was the widow of Robert Robertson, a merchant
in Perth, and was the daughter of a burgess named
George Swan, son of Charles 11. and Dorothea
Helena, daughter of John Kirkhoven, Dutch baron
of Ruppa, the beautiful Countess of Derby, who had
an intrigue with the king during the protracted
absence of her husband in Holland, Charles, eighth
earl, who died in 1672 without heirs.
According to her narrative, the child was given
to nurse to the wife of Swan, a gunner at Windsor,
a woman whose brother, Bartholomew Gibson, was
the king‘s farrier at Edinburgh; and it would
further appear that the latter obtained on trust for
George Swan, from Charles 11. or his brother the
Duke of York, a grant of lands in New Jersey,
where Gibson’s son died about 1750, as would
over him.
At the end of Panmure Close
was the mansion of John
Hunter, a wealthy burgess, who
was Treasurer of the Canongate
in 1568, and who built it in
1565, when Mary was on the
throne. Wilson refers to it as
the earliest private edifice in
the burgh, and says “it consists,
like other buildings of
the period, of a lower erection
forestair leading to the first floor, and an ornamental
turnpike within, affording access to the
upper chambers. At the top of a very steep
wooden stair, constructed alongside of the latter,
a very rich specimen of carved oak panelling
remains in good preservation, adorned with the
Scottish lion, displayed within a broad wreath and
surrounded by a variety of ornaments. The doorway
of the inner turnpike bears on the sculptured
lintel the initials I. H., a shield charged with a
chevron, and a hunting horn in base, and the
date 1565.” It bore also a comb with six teeth.
It was demolished in August, 1853.
A little lower down are Big and Little Lochend
Closes, which join each other near the bottom and
TU into the north back of the Canongate. In the
former are some good houses, but of no great antiquity.
One of these was occupied by Mr. Gordon
of Carlton in 1784; and in the other, during the
close of the last and first years of the present century,
there resided a remarkable old lady, named
Mrs Hannah Robertson, who was well known in her
time as a reputed grand-daughter of Charles 11.
appear from a notice in the
Lndon ChronicZe for 1771.
Be all this as it may, the old
lady referred to was a great
favourite with all those of
Jacobite proclivities, and at the
dinners of the Jacobite Club
always sat on the right hand of
the president, till her death,
which occurred in Little Lochend
Close in 1808, when she
eighty-fourth year, and a vast - . . .
concourse attended her funeral, which took place
in the Friends’ burial-place at the Pleasance.
Unusually tall in stature, and beautiful even in old
age, her figure, with black velvet capuchin and
cane, was long familiar in the streets of Edinburgh.
From a passage in the “Edinburgh Historical Register”
for 1791-2, she would appear to have been
a futile applicant for a pension to the Lords of the
Treasury, though she had many powerful friends,
including the Duchess of Gordon and the Countess
of Northesk, to whom she dedicated a book named
‘‘ The Lady’s School of Arts.”
One of the most picturesque and interesting
houses in the Canongate is one situated in what
was called Davidson’s Close, the old “White Horse
Hostel,” on a dormer window of which is the date
1603. It was known as the “White Horse” a
century and more before the accession of the
House of Hanover, and is traditionally said to
have taken its name from a favourite white palfrey
when the range of stables that form its basement
had been occupied as the royal mews. The adjacent
Water Gate took its name from a great

... HANNAH ROBERTSON. 21 of stone with a Panmure of Forth, and was the last who possessed this house, in ...

Vol. 3 p. 21 (Rel. 1.39)

cyloagate.1 HANNAH ROBERTSON. 21
of stone with a
Panmure of Forth, and was the last who possessed
this house, in which he was resident in the middle
of the last century, and was succeeded in it by the
Countess of Aberdeen.
From 1778 till his death, in 1790, it formed the
residence of Adam Smith, author of “ The Wealth
of Nations,” after he came to Edinburgh as Commissioner
of the Customs, an appointment obtained
by the friendship of the Duke of Buccleuch. A few
days before his death, at Panmure House, he gave
orders to destroy all his mandscripts except some
detached essays, which were afterwards published
by his executors, Drs. Joseph Black and Janies
Hutton, and his library, a valuable one, he left to
his nephew, Lord Reston. From that old mansion
the philosopher was borne to his grave in an obscure
nook of the Canongate churchyard. During
the - last years of his blameless life his bachelor
household had been managed by a female cousin,
Miss Jeanie Douglas, who acquired a great control
‘ had attained her
From her published memoir-which, after its first
appearance in 1792, reached a tenth edition in
1806, and was printed by James Tod in Forrester’s
Wynd-and from other sources, we learn that she
was the widow of Robert Robertson, a merchant
in Perth, and was the daughter of a burgess named
George Swan, son of Charles 11. and Dorothea
Helena, daughter of John Kirkhoven, Dutch baron
of Ruppa, the beautiful Countess of Derby, who had
an intrigue with the king during the protracted
absence of her husband in Holland, Charles, eighth
earl, who died in 1672 without heirs.
According to her narrative, the child was given
to nurse to the wife of Swan, a gunner at Windsor,
a woman whose brother, Bartholomew Gibson, was
the king‘s farrier at Edinburgh; and it would
further appear that the latter obtained on trust for
George Swan, from Charles 11. or his brother the
Duke of York, a grant of lands in New Jersey,
where Gibson’s son died about 1750, as would
over him.
At the end of Panmure Close
was the mansion of John
Hunter, a wealthy burgess, who
was Treasurer of the Canongate
in 1568, and who built it in
1565, when Mary was on the
throne. Wilson refers to it as
the earliest private edifice in
the burgh, and says “it consists,
like other buildings of
the period, of a lower erection
forestair leading to the first floor, and an ornamental
turnpike within, affording access to the
upper chambers. At the top of a very steep
wooden stair, constructed alongside of the latter,
a very rich specimen of carved oak panelling
remains in good preservation, adorned with the
Scottish lion, displayed within a broad wreath and
surrounded by a variety of ornaments. The doorway
of the inner turnpike bears on the sculptured
lintel the initials I. H., a shield charged with a
chevron, and a hunting horn in base, and the
date 1565.” It bore also a comb with six teeth.
It was demolished in August, 1853.
A little lower down are Big and Little Lochend
Closes, which join each other near the bottom and
TU into the north back of the Canongate. In the
former are some good houses, but of no great antiquity.
One of these was occupied by Mr. Gordon
of Carlton in 1784; and in the other, during the
close of the last and first years of the present century,
there resided a remarkable old lady, named
Mrs Hannah Robertson, who was well known in her
time as a reputed grand-daughter of Charles 11.
appear from a notice in the
Lndon ChronicZe for 1771.
Be all this as it may, the old
lady referred to was a great
favourite with all those of
Jacobite proclivities, and at the
dinners of the Jacobite Club
always sat on the right hand of
the president, till her death,
which occurred in Little Lochend
Close in 1808, when she
eighty-fourth year, and a vast - . . .
concourse attended her funeral, which took place
in the Friends’ burial-place at the Pleasance.
Unusually tall in stature, and beautiful even in old
age, her figure, with black velvet capuchin and
cane, was long familiar in the streets of Edinburgh.
From a passage in the “Edinburgh Historical Register”
for 1791-2, she would appear to have been
a futile applicant for a pension to the Lords of the
Treasury, though she had many powerful friends,
including the Duchess of Gordon and the Countess
of Northesk, to whom she dedicated a book named
‘‘ The Lady’s School of Arts.”
One of the most picturesque and interesting
houses in the Canongate is one situated in what
was called Davidson’s Close, the old “White Horse
Hostel,” on a dormer window of which is the date
1603. It was known as the “White Horse” a
century and more before the accession of the
House of Hanover, and is traditionally said to
have taken its name from a favourite white palfrey
when the range of stables that form its basement
had been occupied as the royal mews. The adjacent
Water Gate took its name from a great

... HANNAH ROBERTSON. 21 of stone with a Panmure of Forth, and was the last who possessed this house, in ...

Vol. 3 p. 22 (Rel. 1.39)

The Lawnmarket.] JAMES BOSWELL. I01
duchess. A daughter of Douglas of Mains, she was
the widow of Archibald Duke of Douglas, who died
in 1761.
While on this visit, Patrick Lord Elibank, a
learned and accomplished noble, addressed a letter
to him, and they afterwards had various conversatkns
on literary subjects, all of which are duly
On one occasion he was in a large party, of
which David Hume was one. A mutual friend
proposed to introduce him to the historian, ‘‘ No,
sir ! ” bellowed the intolerant moralist, and turned
away. Among Boswell’s friends and visitors at
James’s Court were Lords Kames and Hailes, the
annalist of Scotland; Drs. Robertson, Slab, and
recorded in the pages of the sycophantic Boswell.
Johnson was well and hospitably received by all
classes in Edinburgh, where his roughness of
manner and bearing were long proverbiaL ‘‘ From
all I can learn,” says Captain Topham, who visited
the city in the following year, “he repaid all their
attention to him with ill-breeding; and when in
the company of the ablest men in this country
his whole design was to show them how little he
thought of them.”
Beattie, and others, the most eminent of his
countrymen; but his strong predilection for
London induced him to move there with his
family, and in the winter of 1786 he was called to
the English bar. His old house was not immediately
abandoned to the plebeian population, as
his successor in it was Lady Wallace, dowager of
Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, and mother of the
unfortunate Captain William Wallace of the 15th
Hussars, whose involvement in the affairs of the

... Lawnmarket.] JAMES BOSWELL. I01 duchess. A daughter of Douglas of Mains, she was the widow of Archibald Duke ...

Vol. 1 p. 101 (Rel. 1.36)

tioiis to Mr. Clerk as the author of the system, yet
the family of that distinguished admiral, in his
‘ Memoirs,’ maintain that no communication of Mr.
Clerk’s plan was ever made to their relative. Sir
Howard Douglas, too, has come forward in various
publications to claim the merit of the maneuvre
for his father, the late Admiral Sir Charles Douglas.
The origin of the suggestion, however, appears to
rest indisputably with Mr. Clerk, who died May 10,
1812, at an advanced age.”
He was the father of John Clerk, Lord Eldin,
already referred to in earlier portions of this work.
Paper has long been extensively manufactured
at Lasswade.
Springfield, a mile and a half north of the Esk,
is a hamlet, with a population of some hundreds,
who are almost entirely paper-makers. It is situated
in a sylvan dell remarkable for its picturesque beauty.
In 1763 there were only three paper-mills in the
neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and the quantity of
paper made amounted to only 6,400 reams. There
are now more than twenty mills in the county of
Edinburgh, nine of which are on the North Esk,
and nine on the Water of Leith. The first papermill
was built at Lasswade about I 750 ; and by
1794 the labourers at it received and circulated in
the village L3,ooo per annum. “ Mr. Simpson,
the proprietor of two mills in this parish,” says the
“ Statistical Account ” for the latter year, “ has the
merit of being the first manufacturer in this country
who has applied the liquor recommended by Berthollet
in his new method of bleaching for the
purpose of whitening rags.” He erected an apparatus
for the preparation of it, and thus added
greatly to the beauty and quality of the paper he
produced.

... to Mr. Clerk as the author of the system, yet the family of that distinguished admiral, in his ‘ Memoirs,’ ...

Vol. 6 p. 360 (Rel. 1.33)

Hope Park.1 LORD- DOUGLAS. 351
“My dear little ones, Archy and Sholto, are, I
bless God, in very good health. I beg your
prayers for them and me, which I set a high value
on, Mrs. Hewitt (her faithful attendant) sends you
her best compliments and good wishes. My
address is at Hope Park, near Edinburgh, to the
care of Mr. Walter Colville, at his house at the
foot of Niddry’s Wynd.”
She returned to London in the summer of 1753,
leaving the children in the care of their faithful
nurse ; but, notwithstanding all the care of the latter,
Sholto Thomas Stewart, the younger of the twins,
who had always been feeble and sickly, died at
Hope Park, “ near the Meadow.” This child was
said to be the image of his mother. She hurried
to Edinburgh, worn out by ‘hardship, fatigue, starvation,
and, as Dr. Pringle of the Guards alleged,
dying of a broken heart. She expired on the zznd
of November, 1753.
Four hours before her death she desired Archibald,
the future Lord Douglas, to be brought before her,
and laying her hands on the weeping boy’s head,
she said-
“God bless you, my child ! God make you a
good and honest man, for riches I despise.” Then,
as the old Douglas spirit glowed within her, she
added: “Take a sword in your hand, and you may
one day be as great a hero as some of your
ancestors.”
Archibald, though barbarously expelled from the
carriages at his mother’s funeral, found friends, who
educated and supported hiin as befitted his rank ;
and his father having succeeded to the baronetcy
and estates of Grantully, though he married a
daughter of Lord Elibank, executed a bond of provision
in his favour for upwards of Az,500, and
therein acknowledged him as his son by Lady
Jane Douglas. Still the duke, more rancorous
than ever, repudiated him as his nephew, and in
the hopeof having heirs of his own body, in 1758
he married Miss Douglas of Mains, who, to his
increased indignation, became so warm an adherent
of the alleged foundling, that His Grace separated
from her for a considerable time.
In 1761 a fatal illness fell upon tbe duke, and as
death came nigh, he repented of all his conduct to
his dead sister, and as reparation he executed a
deed of entail of his entire estates in favour of the
heirs of his father, James, Marquis of Douglas,
with remainder to Lord Douglas Hamilton, brother
of the Duke of Hamilton, “and supplemented it
by another deed, which set firth that, as in the
event of his death without heirs of his body, Archibald
Douglas, ahas Stewart, a minor, and son of the
deceased Lady Jane Douglas, his sister, would
succeed him, he appointed the Duchess of Douglas,
the Duke of Queensbeny, and certain others whom
he named: the lad‘s tutors and guardians.”
Thus the penniless waif of Hope Park End became
the heir of a peerage and a long yent-roll;
but the house of Hamilton repudiated his claims,
while his guardians resolved to enforce them. It
was suggested by the former that the whole story
of the birth of twins was a fabrication, and all Paris
was ransacked in support of this allegation, and
that the two children had been stolen from their
French parents. The Etz‘kburgir Advertiser for
June, 1764, records the death of Sir John Stewart
of Grantully, at Murthly. Prior to! this, he affirmed
on oath before competent witnesses, “as one slip
ping into eternity, that the defendant (Archibald
Stewart) and his deceased twin-brother were both
born of the body of Lady Jane Douglas, his lawful
spouse, in the year 1748.” In 1767 the case came
before the whole fifteen judges; seven voted for
the claimant, and seven ‘against him. The Lord
President, who had no vote save in such a dilemma,
voted for the Hamilton or illegitimacy side, and
thus deprived Archibald Douglas-Stewart of fortune
and rank; but this decision was reversed in 1769
by the House of Lords, and the son of Lady Jane
succeeded to the princely estate of his uncle, the
Duke of Douglas, whose name he assumed, and was
created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron
Douglas of Douglas Castle, in Lanarkshire, in:^ 790.
He died in 1827. ‘
Another waif of the nobility was resident at
Hope Park End in the early years of this century
-at least, before 1811. This was Hugh, thirteenth
Lord Semple, who had lost his estates and come
signally down in the world in many ways. He was
born in 1758, and succeeded his father in 1782.
He was a lieutenant of the Scots‘ Guards in 1778,
and a captain in 1781, and was said to have been
obliged to leave the regiment through having incurred
the displeasure of George 111. by his political
opinions. He died in very indifferent circumstances
in 1830, in his seventy-second year.
In ‘‘ The Hermit in Edinburgh,” 1S24, a writer,
who sketched with fidelity the real characters of his
own time, tells us of a recluse, or mysterious old
gentleman, who dwelt at Hope Park End, and was
known as ‘‘ the Chevalier.” He was pensive and
sweet in manner, and wore a garb of other years,
with a foreign military order; his locks were white,
but his face was Scottish ; he had the bearing of a
soldier, and, like the Baron of Bradwardine, used
French phrases. He had lost nearly his all in the
French Funds at the Revolution in 1789.
His lodgings cansisted of one room in a flat;

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I44 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [George Street. --
already been made in the account of that institution,
of which he was the distinguished head.
Opposite is a new building occupied as shops and
chambers ; and the vast Elizabethan edifice near it
is the auction rooms of Dowel1 and Co., built
in 1880.
The Mercaitile Bank of India, London, and
China occupies No. 128, formerly the mansion of
Sir James Hall of Dunglass, Bart., a man in his
time eminent for his high attainments in geological
and chemical science, and author of popular but
peculiar works on Gothic architecture. By his
wife, Lady Helena Douglas, daughter of Ddnbar,
Earl of Selkirk, he had three sons and three
daughters-his second son being the well-known
Captain Basil Hall, R.N. While retaining his
house in George Street, Sir James, between 1808
and 1812, represented the Cornish borough of St.
Michael’s in Parliament. He died at Edinburgh,
after a long illness, on the z3rd of June, 1832.
Collaterally with him, another distiiiguished
baronet, Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, was long the
occupant of No. 133, to the print of whom Kay
appends the simple title of “The Scottish Patriot,”
and never was it more appropriately applied. To
attempt even an outline of his long, active, and
most useful life, would go far beyond our limits ;
suffice it to say, that his “ Code of Agriculture”
alone has been translated into nearlyevery European
language. He was born at Thurso in 1754, and so
active had been his mind, so vast the number of
his scientific pursuits and objects, that by 1797 he
began to suffer seriously from the effects of his
over-exertions, and being thus led to consider the
subject of health generally, he published, in 1803,
a quarto pamphlet, entitled “ Hints on Longevity”
-afterwards, in 1807, extended to four volumes
8vo. In 1810 he was made a Privy Councillor,
and in the following year, under the administration
of the unfortunate Mr. Perceval, was appointed
Cashier of Excise for Scotland. On retiring from
Parliament, he was succeeded as member for
Caithness by his son. He resided in Edinburgh
for the last twenty years of his life, and died at
his house in George Street in December, 1835, jn
his eighty-first year, and was interred in the Chapel
Royal at Holyrood.
By his first wife he
had two children j by tbe second, Diana, daughter
of Lord Macdonald, he had thirteen, one of whom,
Julia, became Countess of Glasgow. All these
attained a stature like his own, so great-being
nearly all above six feet-that he was wont playfully
to designate the pavement before No. 133 as
‘‘ The Giants’ Causeway.”
Sir. John was twice married.
St. Andrew’s church stands zoo feet westward
if St. Andrew’s Square; it is a plain building of
ival form, with a handsome portico, having four
;reat Corinthiafi pillars, and built, says Kincaid,
iom a design of Major Fraser, of the Engineers,
whose residence was close by it. It was erected
.n 178s.
It was at first proposed to have a spire of some
iesign, now unknown, between the portico and thc
body of the church, and for a model of this a
young man of the city, named M‘Leish, received a
premium of sixty guineas from the magistrates, with
the freedom of the city j but on consideration, his
design “ was too great in proportion to the space left
for its base.” So the present spire, which is 168 feet
in height, and for its sky-line is one of the most
beautiful in the city, was designed by Major
Andrew Fraser, who declined to accept any
premium, suggesting that it should be awarded to
Mr. Robert Kay, whose designs for a square
church on the spot were most meritorious.
The last stone of the spire was placed thereon
on the 23rd of November, 1787. A chime of bells
was placed in it, 3rd June, 1789, “to be rung in
the English manner.”
The dimensions of this church, as given by
Kincaid, are, within the walls from east to west
eighty-seven feet, and from north to south sixtyfour
feet. “The front, consisting of a staircase
and portico, measures forty-one feet, and projects
twenty-six and a half feet.” The entrance is nine
feet in height by seven feet in breadth.
This parish was separated from St. Cuthbert’s in
1785, and since that date parts of it have been
assigned to other parishes of more recent erection
as the population increased.
The church cost A7,000, and is seated for about
1,053. The charge was collegiate, and is chiefly
remarkable for the General Assembly’s meeting in
1843, at which occurred the great Disruption, or
exodus of the Free Church-one of the most
important events in the modern history of Scotland
or of the United Kingdom.
It originated in a zealous movement of the
Presbyterian Church, mainly promoted by the great
Chalmers, to put an end to the connection between
Church and State. In 1834 the Church had passed
a law of its own, ordaining that thenceforth no
presentee to a parish should be admitted if opposed
by the majority of the male communicants-a law
which struck at the system of patronage restored
after the Union-a system involving importint1
civil rights.
When the Annual Assembly met in St. Andreds
Church, in May, 1843, it was generally understood

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In 1667 the Sands were the scene of that
desperate duel with swords between William Douglas
younger, of M'hittingham, and Sir John Home, of
Eccles, attended by the Master of Ramsay and
Douglas of Spott, who all engaged together. Sir
James was slain, a d William Douglas had his
head stricken from his body at the Cross three
days after.
For many generations the chief place for horseracing
in Scotland was the long stretch of bare
sand at Leith,
LEITH LINKS.
informer for the double thereof, half to him and
half to the poor '' (Glendoick).
In 1620 there were horse-races at Paisley, the
details of which are given in the MaitZand MisceZZany,
in which the temporary prize of the bell
figures prominently; and after the Restoration there
were horse-races every Saturday at Leith, which
are regularly detailed in the little print called the
Mermrills Caledoniu. In the March of 1661 it
states :-" Our accustomed recreations on the
Sands of Leith was (sic) much injured because of
As a popular amusement horse-racing was practised
at an early period in Scotland. In 1552
there was a race annually at Haddhgton, the prize
being a bell, and hence the phrase to "bear away
the bell ; * and during the reign of James VI. races
were held at Peebles and Dumfries-at the latter
place in 1575, between Scots and'English, when
the Regent Morton held his court there; but as
such meetings led to conflicts with deadly weapons,
they were interdicted by the Privy Council in 1608 ;
and by an Act of James VI., passed in his twentythiid
Parliament, any sum won upon a horse-race
above a hundred marks was to be given to the
poot. Magistrates were empowered to pursue '' for
the said surplus gain, or else declared liable to the
a furious storm of wind, accompanied with a thick
snow ; yet we had some noble gamesters that were
so constant in their sport as would not forbear a
designed horse-match. It was a providence the
wind was from the sea, otherwise they had run a
hazard either of drowning or splitting upon Inchkeith.
This tempest was nothing inferior to that
which was lately in Caithness, when a bark of fifty
tons was blown five furlongs into the land, and
would have gone farther if it had not been arrested
by the steepness of a large promontory."
The old races at Leith seem to have been
conducted with all the spirit of the modem Jockey
Club, and a great impetus was given to them by
the occasional presence of the Duke of Albany,

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350 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Hope Park.
British House of Lords, would have left the fortress
of honours and of property in ruins.’’ The decision
of the Court of Session in 1767 led to serious disturbances
and much acrimony; thus the reversal
of it, two years subsequently, was received in Scotland
with the greatest demonstrations of joy.
Archibald, third marquis, and first Duke of
Douglas, created so in 1703, was the representative
of that long and illustrious line of warriors whose
race and family history are second to none in
Europe.
His father, the second marquis, had been twice
married-first to a daughter of the Earl of Mar, by
whom he had the gallant Earl of Angus, who fell
at Steinkirk in 1692 ; and secondly, to Lady Mary
Kerr, of the house of Lothian, by whom he had
Archibald, afterwards Duke of Douglas, his successor,
and Lady Jean, or Jane, celebrated, like
most of the women of her family, for her remarkable
beauty, but still more so for her singularly evil
fate.
In the first flush of her womanhood she was
betrothed to Francis, Earl of Dalkeith, who succeeded
his grandmother in the ducal title of
Buccleuch ; but the marriage was broken off, and
he chose another bride, also a Jane Douglas, cf the
house of Queensberry, and for many years after this,
the heroine of our story persistently refused all
offers that were made for her hand.
At length, in the eventful year 1746, when residing
at Druinsheugh, when she was in her fortyeighth
year, she was secretly married to Colonel
John Stewart, brother of Sir George Stewart, Bart.,
of Grantully, but a somewhat penniless man. Thus
the sole income of the newly-wedded pair consisted
of only A300 per annum, given rather grudgingly
by the Duke of Douglas to his sister. with whom
he was on very indifferent terms.
For economy the couple repaired to France for
-three years, and on returning, brought with them two
boys, of whom they alleged Lady Jane had been
delivered in Paris. Six months before their return
their mamage was only made known, on which the
duke, already referred to in our account of the
Yotterrow, though childless, at once withdrew the
usual allowance, and thus plunged them in the
direst distress; and to add thereto, Colonel Stewart’s
creditors cast him into prison, while his sons were
declared spurious.
With womanly heroism Lady Jane bore up against
her troubles, and addressed the following letter to
hlr. Pelham, the Secretary of State :-‘6 Sir,-If I
meant to importune you, I should ill deserve the
generous compassion which I was .informed, some
months ago, you expressed on being acquainted
with my distress. I take this as the least troublesome
way of thanking you, and desiring you to lay
my application before the king in such ix light as
your own humanity will suggest. I cannot tell my
story without seeming to complain of one of whom
E nmey will complain. I am persuaded my brother
wishes me well, but from a mistaken resentment,
upon a creditor of mine demanding from him a
trifling sum, he has stopped the annuity which he
has always paid me-my father having left me, his
only younger child, in a manner unprovided for.
Till the Duke of Douglas is set right-which I am
confident he will be--I am destifute. Presumptive
heiress to a great estate and family, with two children,
I want bread. Your own nobleness of mind
will make you feel how much it costs me to beg,
though from the king. My birth and the attachment
of my family, I flatter myself, His Majesty is
not unacquainted with. Should he think me an
object of his royal bounty, my heart won’t suffer
any bounds to my gratitude ; and, give me leave to
say, my spirit won’t suffer me to be burdensome to
His Majesty longer than my cruel necessity compels
me. I little thought of ever being reduced to
petition in this way ; your goodness mill therefore
excuse me if I have mistaken the manner or said
anything improper. Though personally unknown
to you, I rely on your intercession. The consciousness
of your own mind in having done so
good and charitable a deed will be a better return
than the thanks of JANE DOUGLAS-STEWART.”
A pension of A300 per annum was the result ot
this application ; but, probably from the accumulation
of past debts, the couple were still in trouble.
The colonel remained in prison, and Lady JBne
had to part with her jewels, and even her clothes,
to supply him with food, lest he might starve in the
King‘s Bench. Meanwhile she resided in a humble
lodging at Chelsea, and the letters which passed
between the pair, many of which were touching in
their tenor, and which were afterwards laid before
the Court of Session, proved that their two children
were never absent from their thoughts, and were
the objects of the warmest affection.
Accompanied by them, Lady Jane came to
Edinburgh, and in the winter of 1752 took up her
residence at Hope Park, in the vicinity of her
brother‘s house. She sought a reconciliation, but
the duke sternly refused to grant her even an interview,
In a letter dated from there 8th December,
1752, to the minister of Douglas, she complains of
the conduct of the Duke of Hamilton in her affairs,
and of some mischief which the Marquis of Lothian
had done to her cause at Douglas Castle, and adds
in a postscript :-

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24 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canongate.
Life below Stairs,” which the fraternity of footmen
bitterly resented, and resolved to stop. On the
second night of its being announced, Mr. Love,
one of the management, came upon the stage and
read a letter containing the most bitter denunciations
of vengeance upon all concerned if the piece
should be performed. It was, nevertheless, proceeded
with, and the gentlemen who were in the
theatre having provided accommodation for their
servants in the gallery, the moment the farce began
“ a prodigious noise was heard from that quarter.”
occurred till the night of the 14th December, 1756,
when, to the dismay of all Scotland, there was
brought out the tragedy of “ Douglas,” written by
the pen of a minister of the kirk !
The original cast was thus :-Douglas, Mr.
Digges; Lord Randolph, Mr. Younger; Glenalvon,
Mr. Love; Norval, Mr. Hayman; Lady Randolph,
Mrs. Ward ; Anna, Mrs Hopkins.
With redoubled zeal the clergy returned to the
assault, and though they could no more crush the
players, they compelled John Home, the author of
” #I
nounce the orders
that had been
tarnished by a
composition so
unwonted and unclerical,”
Ultimately
he became
captain in the Buccleuch
Fencibles,
and lived long
enough to see the
prejudices of many
of his countrymen
pass away; but he
was long viewed
with obloquy.
“To account for
this extraordinary
phen o me n o n,”
says Dr. Carlisle,
‘‘so far down in
theeighteenth cen-
Theatre from the original proprietors for L648 and
Lroo per annum during the lives of the lessees ;
but he failed in his engagement, and James Callender,
a merchant of the city, undertook to conduct
the business, with Mr. Digges as stage manager.
Callender soon after resigned his charge to Mr.
David Beatt, another citizen, who had ventured in
the past time to read Prince Charles’s proclama.
tions at the Cross. Mr. Love also withdrew from the
charge, and was succeeded by Mr. John Dawson
of Newcastle ; but dissensions arose among the
performers themselves. Two parties were formed in
the theatre, which, during a performance of “ Hamlet,”
they utterly wrecked and demolished, and set
on fire in a riot, to the supreme. delight of all
opponents of the drama.
Legal actions and caunter-actions ensued ; the
house was again fitted up, and nothing of interest
a few well-meaning people and all the zealots of
the time were seriously offended with a clergyman
for writing a tragedy, even with a virtuous tendency,
and with his brethren for giving him countenance.
They were joined by others out of mere envy.”
The Presbytery of Edinburgh suspended all
clergymen who had witnessed the representation
of “Douglas,JJ and at the same time “emitted an
admonition and exhortation, levelled against aZZ
who frequented what they supposed to be the
Temple of the Father of Lies, and ordered it to be
read in all the churches within their bounds.”
The personal elegance of Digges and the rare
beauty of Mrs. Bellamy were traditionally remembered
in the beginning of the present century,
and made them even objects of interest to those
by whom their scandalous life was regarded with
just reprehension. They lived in a small countg

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North Bridge.] MRS. SIDDONS. 34s
her first engagement the appearances of Mrs.
Siddons were as follows :-
May zznd, Venice Preserved.
24th, The Gamester.
” 26th, Venice Preserved.
” zfth, The Gamester.
” zgth, Mourning Bride.
June Ist, Douglas.
” 3rd. Isabella.
” Sth, Jane Shore
with a magnificent piece of plate. The Courunt
tells us that during her performance of Lady
Randolph U there was not a dry eye in the whole
house.” During the summer of 1785 she was again ‘.
in Edinburgh, and played on eighteen nights, her
receipts being more than handsome, averaging
about A120 per night, and Azoo for the Gamester.
Never did the old theatre behold such a firorc
1 as Mrs. Siddons excited, and during the time of
VIEW FROM THE BACK OF SHAKESPEARE SQUARE. ( A f t r EdatA.)
June fth, Douglas.
”
” loth, Mourning Bride.
”
gth, Grecian Daughter (her beneht).
11th. Grecian Daughter (for the benefit of the
Charity Workhouse).
Kay gives us an etching of her appearance as
Lady Randolph, in a powdered toupee ; but costume
was not a study then, nor for long after. Indeed,
Donaldson, in his I‘ Recollections of an Actor,”
mentions, “In 1815, in Scotland, I have seen
Macbeth dressed in a red officer’s coat, sash, blue
pants, Hessian boots, and cocked hat !”
On the ~ z t h of June Mrs. ,Siddons departed for
She’had shared A50 for ten nights ; at
her benefit she drew &so, and was presented
I Dublin:
44
her second engagement nothing was thought of or
talked of but her wondrous power as an actress,
and vast crowds gathered not at night, but in the
day, hours before the doors were open, to secure
places. It became necessary to admit then1 at
three in the afternoon ; then the crowds began to
gather at twelve to obtain admittance at three;
and a certain set of gentlemen, by subscribing
&zoo as a guarantee beforehand, considered
themselves very fortunate in securing a private and
early entrance to the pit; and eventually the
General Assembly of the Church, then in session,
were compelled to arrange their meetings with
reference to the appearance of Mrs. Siddons.
“People came from distant places, even from

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Vol. 2 p. 345 (Rel. 1.1)

" Edinburgh Castle, tome and tower,
God grant thou sinke for sinne,
An that even for the black dinner
Earle Douglas got therein."
This affair instead of pacifying the country only
led to ruin and civil strife. The Douglas took arms
under James IV., Duke of Touraine and seventh
Earl of Douglas and Angus, and for a long space the
city and neighbourhood were the scene of contest
and ravage by the opposite factions. The Chancellor
remained secure in the Castle, and, to be revenged
on Sir John Forrester, who had laid waste his lands
at Crichton in 1445, he issued forth with his
troopers and garrison, and gave to fire and sword
all the fertile estates of the Douglases and Forresters
westward of the city, including Blackness,
Abercorn, Strathbroc, aid Corstorphine ; and, with
other pillage, carrying off a famous breed of
Flanders mares, he returned to his eyry.
Douglas, who, to consolidate his power had
espoused his cousin the Fair Maid of Galloway,
adding thus her vast estates to his own, and had now,
as hereditary lieutenant-general of the kingdom,
obtained the custody of the young king, came to
Edinburgh with a vast force composed of the
Crown vassals and his own, and laid siege to the
Castle, which the Chancellor defended for nine
months, nor did he surrender even to a summons
sent in the king's name till he had first seciued
satisfactory terms for himself; whfle of his less
fortunate coadjutors, some only redeemed their
lives with their estates, and the others, including
three members of the Livingstone family, were
beheaded within its walls.
The details of this long siege are unknown, but
to render the investment more secure the Parliament,
which had begun its sittings at Perth, was
removed to Edinburgh on the 15th of July, 1446.
After all this, Earl Douglas visited Italy, and in
his absence during the jubilee at Rome in 1450,
Crichton contrived to regain the favour of James
II., who haviyg now the government in his own
hands, naturally beheld with dread the vast power
of the house of Touraine.
How Douglas perished under the king's dagger
in Stirling in 1452 is a matter of general history.
His rival died at a very old age, three years
afterwards, and was interred among his race in
the present noble church of Crichton, which he
founded.
Beneath the Castle ramparts the rising city was
now fast increasing; and in 1450, after the battle
of Sark, in which Douglas Earl of Ormond de.
feated the English with great slaughter, it was
deemed necessary to enclose the city by walls,
scarcely a trace of which now remains, except the
picturesque old ruin known as the Well-house
Tower, at the base of the Castle rock. They ran
along the southern declivity of the ridge on which
the most ancient parts of the town were built, and
after crossing the West Bow -then deemed the
grand entrance to Edinburgh-ran between the
High Street and the hollow, where the Cowgate
(which exhibited then but a few minor edifices) now
stands; they then crossed the main ridge at the
Nether Bow, and terminated at the east end of
the North Loch, which was then formed as a
defence on the north, and in the construction of
which the Royal Gardens were sacrificed. From
this line of defence the entire esplanade of the
Castle was excluded. " Within these ancient
limits," says Wilson, '' the Scottish capital must
have possessed peculiar means of defence-a city
set on a hill and guarded by the rocky fortress,
there watching high the least alarms; it only
wanted such ramparts, manned by its burgher
watch, to enable it to give protection to its princes
and to repel the' inroads of the southern invader.
'The important position which it now held may be
inferred from the investment in the following year
of Pntrick Cockburn of Newbigging (the Provost
of Edinburgh) in the Chancellor's office as governor
of the Castle, as well as his appointment, along
with other commissioners, after the great defeat of
the English at the battle of Sark, to treat for the
renewal of a truce." It seemed then to be always
'' truce " and never peace !
In the Parliament of 1455 we find Acts passed
for watching the fords of the Tweed, and the
erection of bale-fires to give alarm, by day and
night, of inroads from England, to warn Hume,
Haddington, Dunbar, Dalkeith, Eggerhope, and
Edinburgh Castle, thence to Stirling and the north
-arrangements which would bring all Scotland
under arms in two hours, as the same system did
at the time of the False Alarm in 1803. One
bale-he was a signal that the English were in
motion; two that they were advancing; four in a
row signified that they were in great strength. All
men in arms westward of Edinburgh were ta
muster there ; all eastward at Haddington ; and
every Englishman caught in Scotland was lawfully
the prisoner of whoever took him (Acts, 12th Pal.
James 11.). But the engendered hate and jealousy
of England wopld seem to have nearly reached its
culminating point when the 11th Parliament of
James VI., chap. 104, enacted, ungallantly, "that
no Scotsman marrie an Englishwoman without the
king's license under the Great Seal, under pain of
death and escheat of moveables."

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collected ; the City Guard came promptiy on the
spot, and when the prisoner recovered from his
swoon he was safe in his old quarters, which did
not hold him long, however, as it would appear
from the old folio of Douglas. Peerage that he
escaped in his sister’s clothes. Yet as Lord Burleigh
died in 1713, Douglas in this matter seems
to confound him with his son, the Master.
Of all the thousands who must have been prisoners
there, recorded and unrecorded, on every conceiv-
The malt-tax, the dismissal of the Duke of Roxburgh
from his ofice as Scottish Secretary of State,
and the imposition of an intolerable taxation, the first
result of the Union, and the endeavours of the revenue
officers to repress smuggling, all embittered
the blood of the people. The latter officials were
either all Englishmen, ‘‘ or Scotsmen, chosen, as
was alleged, on account of their treachery to Scottish
interests, and received but little support even
from local authorities. If in their occasional
INTERIOR OF THE SIGNET LIBRARY. (FWUI a Vinujublidud in 1829)
able charge, the stories of none have created more
excitement than those of Captain Porteom, of
Ratharine Nairne, and another prisoner named
Hay; and singular to say, the names of none of
them appear in the mutilated record just quoted.
Porteous has been called the real hero of the
Tolbooth. “The mob that thundered at its
ancient portals on the eventfd night of the 7th of
September, 1736, and dashed through its blazing
embers to drag forth the victim of their indignant
revenge, has cast into shade all former acts of
Lynch h w , for which the Edinburgh populace
were once so notorious.” But the real secret and
mainspring of the whole kagedy was jealousy of
the treatment of Scotland by the ministry in
Lcndon
collisions with smugglers they shed blood, hey
were at once prosecuted, and an outcry was raised
that Englishmen should not be allowed to slaughter
Scotsmen with impunity.” At length these quarrels
led to and culminated in the Porteous mob.
The seaport towns with which the coast of Fife
is so thickly studded were at this time much
infested by Scottish bands of daring smuggiers,
many of whom had been buccaneers in the Antilles
and Gulf of Florida, and thus were constantly at
war with the revenue officials. One of these contrabandistas,
named Wilson, in revenge for various
seizures and fines, determined to rob the collector
of Customs at Pittenweem, and in this, with the aid
of a lad named Robertson and two others, he fully
succeeded They were all apprehended, and tried ;

... ; the City Guard came promptiy on the spot, and when the prisoner recovered from his swoon he was safe ...

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Lord Promsts.] THE DOUGLASES AND HAMILTONS. 279
“James of Creichtoun of Felde,” as a deputy provost
under him ; and the first entry in the Records
under that date is a statute that “ the commoun
pyperis of the towne ” shall be properly feed, for
the honour thereof, and that they get their food,
day about, from all honest persons of substance,
under a penalty of 9d. per day, ‘‘ that is to ilk
pyper iijd at least.”
The fifth provost after this was Sir Thomas Tod,
zznd August, 1491, and again in 1498, with
Richard Lawson of the Highriggs, and Sir John
Murray in the interval during 1492.
From this date to 1513, with a little interval,
Richard Lawson was again provost ; the office was
held by Sir Alexander Lauder of Blythe, who -in
the last named year was also Justice Depute.
He fell in the battle.on the fatal 9th of September,
1513, and the apairs ofthe city, amid the consternation
and grief that ensued, were managed by George
of Tours, who with Robert Bruce, William Lockhart,
William Adamson, and William Clerk, all
bailies, had been, on the 19th of August, chosen
by the provost and community to rule the city
after his departure with the army for England.
The aged Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus
(better known as Archibald Bell-thecat)-whose
two sons, George Master of Angus, and Sir William
Douglas of Glenbervie, with more then zoo
knights and gentlemen of his surname, found their
tomb on Flodden Hill-was elected provost on the
30th of September, twenty-one days after the battle ;
and at the same time his son, Gawain the Poet,
provost of St. Giles’s, was ‘( made burgess, gratis, for
the Common benefit of the town.” It was he of
whom Scott makes th’e grim old Earl say, with
reference to the English knight’s act of forgery,
“ Thanks to St. Bothan, son of mine,
Save Gawain, ne’er could pen a line.”
He was succeeded on the 24th July, 1514, by
Alexander Lord Home, Great Chamberlain 01
Scotland in 1507, and baron of Dunglasand Greenlaw,
under whom preparations for the defence of
the city, in expectation of a counter-invasion, went
on. An Act was passed for the furnishing “01
artailyerie for the resisting of our auld innemies of
Ingland;” a tax was laid upon all-even the
widows of the fallen, so far as their substance permitted
them to pay-and all persons having heidyaird
dykes, “were to build them up within fifteen
days, under pain of six pounds to the Kirk-werk.”
In August of the same year David Melville was
provost, and the pestilence caused the division ol
the city into four quarters, each under a bailie and
quartermaster to attend to the health of the people.
Except the interval, during which Sir Patrick
Hamilton of Kincavil and Archibald Douglas were
Provosts, Melville was in office till 15 17, when James
Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland, took it upon
him, and was designated Lord Provost. In consequence
of the influence it conferred, the office was at
this time an object of ambition among the nobility.
His enemies, the Douglases, taking advantage of
his temporary absence from the city, procured the
election of Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie, the
uncle of the EarLof Angus, in his place ; and when
Arran returned from the castle of Dalkeith, where
the court was then held, he found the gates of Edinburgh
shut against him. His followers attempted
to force an entrance sword in hand, but were repulsed,
and a number were killed and wounded on.
both sides. Similar scenes of violence and bloodshed
were of almost daily occurrence, and between
the rival factions of Hamilton and Douglas the Lowlands
were in a complete state of demoralisation ;
and on the z 1st of February, 15 I 9, in consequence
of the bitter feud and bloody broils between the
houses of Douglas and Hamilton, he was ordered
by the Regent, then absent, to vacate his office, as
it was ordained that no person of either of those
names was eligible as provost, till the “Lord
Governor‘s home coming, and for a year.”
Thus, in 1510, Robert Logan of Coitfield was.
provost, and in October he was granted by the
Council 100 merks of the common good, beside his
ordinary fee, for the sustentation of four armed
men, to carry halberds before him, “because the
warld is brukle and troublous.”
The fourth provost after this was Robert Lord
Maxwell, 18th August, 1524, who was made so by
the Queen-mother, when she (‘ tuik the hail1 government
of the realm and ruele of the king (James
V.) upoun her.” This was evidently an invasion of
the rights of the citizens ; yet on the same day the
Lord Justice Clerk. appeared before the Council,
and declared “ that it was the mind and will ” of the
king, then in his minority, that Mr. Francis Bothwell,
provost, ‘‘ cedit and left his office of provostier
in the town’s hand,” and the said provost protested
that the leaving of his office thus should not be
derogatory to the city, nor injurious to its privileges
Lord Maxwell was afterwards Governor of Lochmaben,
Captain of the Royal Guard, Warden of the
West Marches, and Ambassador to France to
negotiate the king‘s marriage with Mary of Lorraine ;
but long ere all that he had been succeeded as
provost by Allan Stuart.
In 15.26 Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie, Lord
High Treasurer, was provost again. In this year
it was ordained that through the resort to Edin

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Restalrig.] DRURY’S TREACHERY. x3.z
on it now. Here it probably was that the powerful
Archibald Douglas, fifth Earl of Douglas, Lord
of Bothwell, Galloway, and Annandale, Duke of
Touraine aud Marshal of France, resided in 1440,
in which year he died at Restalrig, of a malignant
fever.
In 1444 Sir John Logan of Restalrig was sheriff
of Edinburgh ; and in 1508 James Logan, of the
same place, was Sheriff-deputy.
Twenty-one years before the latter date an
calsay lyand, and the town desolate.” In the
following year, Holinshed records that “ the Lord
Grey, Lieutenant of the Inglis’ armie,” during the
siege of Leith, “ludged in the town of Lestalrike,
in the Dean’s house, and part of the Demi-lances
and other horsemen lay in the same towne.”
A little way north-westward of Restalrig, midway
between the place named Hawkhill and the upper
Quarry Holes, near the Easter Road, there occurred
on the 16th of June, 1571, a disastrous skirmish, de-
~
RESTALRIG CHURCH IN THE PRESENT DAYEnglish
army had encamped at Restalrig, under the
Duke of Gloucester, who spared the city at the
request of the Duke of Albany and on receiving
many rich presents fiom the citizens, while James
III., in the hand of rebel peers, was a species of
captive in the castle of Edinburgh.
In 1559 the then secluded village was the scene
of one of the many skirmishes that took place between
the troops of the Queen Regent and those
of the Lords of the Congregation, in which the
latter were baffled, “driven through the myre at
Restalrig-worried at the Craigingate ” (i.e., the
Calton), and on the 6th of November,’ “ at even
in the nycht,” they departed ‘‘ furth of Edinburgh
to Lynlithgow, and left their artailzerie on the
signated the BZack Saturday, or Drury’s peace,”
as it was sometimes named, through the alleged
treachery of the English ambassador.
Provoked by a bravado on the part of the Earl
of Morton, who held Leith, and who came forth
with horse and foot to the Hawkhill, the Earl of
Huntly, at the head of a body of Queen Mary‘s
followers, with a train of guns, issued out of Edinburgh,
and halted at the Quarry Holes, where he
was visited by Sir William Drury, the ambassador
of Queen Elizabeth, who had been with Morton in
Leith during the preceding night. His proposed
object was an amicable adjustment of differences,
to the end that no loss of life should ensue between
those who were countrymen, and, in too

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Pottemw.] JEAN BROWN. 331
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a thing
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comitzg we2
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an unaristocratic quarter inay be inferred from the
fact that, so lately as 1716, Robert, seventh Earl
of Morton, a man who, Douglas says, “was well
versed in the knowledge of the antiquities of our
country,” had his residence there ; and later still,
in 1760, Archibald, Duke of Douglas, had a stately
mansion, surrounded by extensive grounds, immediately
on the west side of the Potterrow, near
the north end of which was his carriage entrance,
a gate within a recess, overlooked by the city wall.
Lady Houston lived in the Potterrow in 1784.
In the Diary of Lord Grange, we are told of
Jean Brown, a woman in humble life, residing in the
Potterrow in I 7 17, who had somecuriousexperiences,
which, while reminding us of those of St. Teresa,
the Castilian, the foundress of the Barefooted
Carmelites, were not, singular to say, inconsistent
with orthodox Presbyterianism.
Being taken, together with Mr. Logan, the incumbent
of Culross, to see this pious woman, at
Lady Aytoun’s lodging behind the College, he
found her to be between thirty and forty years of
age ; when, having Conrmunion administered to
her at Leith, in the October of that year, she had
striven to dwell deeply on the thought of Christ
and all His sufferings. Then she had a vision of
Him extended on the cross and in His rocky sepulchre,
“ as plainly as if she had been actually present
when these things happened, though there was
not any visible representation thereof made to her
bodily eyes. She also got liberty to speak to
Him, and asked several questions at Him, to
which she got answers, as if one had spoken to her
audibly, though there was no audible voice.”
Lord Grange admits that all this was somewhat
like delusion or enthusiasm, but deemed it far
from him to say it was either. Being once at Communion
in Kirkcaldy, a voice called to her, “.Arise
and eat; for thou hast a journey to make-a
Jordan to pass through.”
The latter proved to be the Firth of Forth, where
she was upset in the water, but floated till rescued
bpa boat. Lord Grange called frequently to see
her at her little shop in the Potterrow, but usually
found it so crowded 6th children buying her
wares that his wishes were frustrated. “Afterwards,”
he states, “I employed her husband (a
shoemaker) to make some little things for me,
mostly to give them business, and that I might
thereby get opportunity now and then to talk with
such as, I hope, are acquainted with the ways of
God.“
Middleton’s Entry, which opened westward off the
Potterrow, was associated with another of Bums’s
heroines, Miss Jean Lorimer, the flaxen-haired

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of Strathearn, the Rosabelle of Scott’s beautiful
ballad, which tells us-
“ There are twenty of Roslin’s barons bold,
Lie buried in that proud chapelle,
But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle.
With candle, with book, and with bell ;
The dirge of lovely Rosabelle.”
Each one the holy vault doth hold,
And each St. Clair is buried there,
But the sea caves sung, and the wild waves rung,
In 1264, Sir William, sixth of Roslin, was
Sheriff of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Haddington
( r r Chamberlain Rolls ’7, and it was his son and successor,
Sir Henry, who obtained from Robert I.,
for his good and faithful services, a charter of
Pentland Muir, and to whom (and not to a Sir William)
the well-known tradition of the famous huntingmatch
thereon, which led to the founding of
the chapel of St. Katherine in the Hope, must
refer. With that muir he obtained other lands,
whjch were “all erected into a free forestry, for
payment of a tenth part of one soldier yearly, in
His son, Sir William, was one of the chosen
companions of the good Sir James Douglas, whom
he accompanied in the mission to convey Bruce’s
1317.”
heart to Jerusalem, and with whom he perished in
battle with the Moors at Teba, in 1331, He left
an infant son, who, in 1350, was ambassador at the
Court of England, whither he repaired with a train
of sixty armed horse. He married Isabella,
daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, and was
succeeded by his son, Sir Henry Sinclair of Roslin,
who was created Earl of Orkney by Haco, King of
Norway, in 1379-a title confirmed by Robert 11.
According to Douglas, he married Florentina, a
daughter of the King of Denmark. Nisbet adds
that he was made Lord of Shetland and Duke of
Oldenburg (which is considered doubtful), and
that he was Knight of the Thistle, Cockle, and
Golden Fleece.
William, third earl, resigned his earldom of
Orkney in favour of King James IIL, and adopted
that of Caithness, which he resigned in 1476 to
his son TVilliam, who became distinguished by the
baronial grandeur of his household, and was the
founder of the chapel. It is of him that Father
Hay writes as “a prince,” who maintained at the
Castle of Roslin royal state, and was served at his
table in vessels of gold and silver. Lord Dirleton
was the master of his household, Lord Borthwick

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Onmond.1 HARBOUR AND ISLAND. 31.5
In the reign of David 11. Roger Greenlaw
obtained a royal charter of the Butterland in the
town of Cramond, “ quhilk‘ William Bartlemow
resigned ;” and Robert 11. granted, at Edinburgh,
in the eighteenth year of his reign, a charter of
certain lands in King’s Cramond to William
Napier, on their resignation by John, son of Simon
Rede, in presence of the Chancellor, John, Bishop
of Dunkeld, and others.
In 1587 Patrick Douglas of Kilspindie became
the south as the Pinnacle. In December, 1769,
a whale, fifty-four feet long, was stranded upon it
by the waves. About a mile northward and east
of it, lies another rocky islet, three or four furlongs
in circumferkhce, named Inchmickery, only remarkable
for a valuable oyster bed on its shore,
and for the rich profusion of sea-weed, mosses,
and lichens, on its beach and surface.
North from the point known as the Hunter’s
Craig or Eagle’s Rock, westward of the harbour,
THE “TWA BRIGS,” CRAMOND.
caution for John Douglas, in Cramond, and his son
Alexander, that they would not molest certain
parishioners there, nor ‘‘ their wives, bairns, or
servants.”
The little harbour of Cramond is specified in the
Exchequer Records as a creek within the port of
Leith. It possesses generally only a few boats,
but in 1791 had seven sloops, measuring 288 tons,
employed by the iron works. Cramond Island, 19
acres in extent, lies 1,440 yards NNE of the
pretty village. It rises high in the centre, with
steep granite cliffs on the east, formerly abounded
with rabbits, and is generally accessible on foot
at low water. It now belongs to Lord Rosebery.
The north point of the isle is known as the Binks;
the stretch known as the Drum Sands extends for
more than a mile.
In 1639, Alexander, sixth Earl of Eglinton, h,$ed
for two days at Cramond with his contingent for
the Scottish army, consisting of zoo horse and
1,800 foot, en route for’Leith.
In the time of Charles I. Cramond gave a title
in the Scottish peerage, when Dame Elizabeth Beaumont,
the wife of Sir Thomas Richardson, Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in England,
was, for some reason now unknown, created
Baroness Cramond for life, with the title of baron
to the Chief Justice’s son and his heirs male; ‘‘in
failure of which, to the heirs male of his father‘s
body”-the first female creation on record in

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Inverleith.] MRS. ROCHEID OF INVERLEITH. s 95
to the estate of‘his maternal grandmother, took
the name of Rocheid. His son, James Rocheid
.of Inverleith, was an eminent agriculturist, on
whose property the villas of Inverleith Row were
built.
He died in 1824 in the house of Inverleith.
He was a man of inordinate vanity and family
pride, and it used to be one of the sights of Stockbridge
to see his portly figure, in a grand old family
carriage covered with heraldic blazons, passing
through, to or from the city; and a well-known
anecdote of how his innate pomposity was humbled,
is well known there still.
On one occasion, when riding in the vicinity, he
took his horse along the footpath, and while doing
so, met a plain-looking old gentleman, who firmly
declined to make way for him; on this Rocheid
ordered him imperiously to stand aside. The
pedestrian declined,saying that the otherhad no right
whatever to ride upon the footpath. “DO you
know whom you are speaking to ?” demanded the
horseman in a high tone. “ I do not,” was the
quiet response. “Then know that I am John
Rocheid, Esquire of Inverleith, and a trustee upon
this road !
“ I am George, Duke of Montagu,” replied the
other, upon which the haughty Mr. Rocheid took
to the main road, after making a very awkward
apology to the duke, who was then on a visit to
his daughter the Duchess of Buccleuch at Dalkeith.
He had a predilection for molesting pedestrians,
and was in the custom of driving his carriage along
a strictly private footpath that led from Broughton
Toll towards Leith, to the great exasperation of
those at whose expense it had been constructed.
It is of his mother that Lord Cockburn gives
us such an amusing sketch in the ‘‘ Memorials of
his own Time,”-thus: ICLacly Don and Mrs.
Rocheid of Inverleith, .two dames of high and
aristocratic breed. They had both shone at first
as hooped beauties in the minuets, and then as
ladies of ceremonies at our stately assemblies ; and
each carried her peculiar qualities and air to the
very edge of the grave, Lady Don’s dignity softened
by gentle sweetness, Mrs. Rocheid’s made more
formidable by cold and severe soleinnity. Except
Mrs. Siddons, in some of her displays of magnificent
royalty, nobody could sit down like the Lady
of Inverleith. She would sail like a ship from
Tarshish, gorgeous in velvet or rustling silk,
done up in all the accompaniment of fans, earrings,
and finger-rings, falling-sleeves, scent-bottle,
embroidered bag, hoop and train, all superb, yet all
in purest taste ; managing all this seemingly heavy
rigging with as much ease as a full-blown swan
Who are you, fellow ? ”
does its plumage. She would take possession of
the centre of a large sofa, and at the same moment,
without the slightest visible exertion, cover the
whole of it with her bravery, the graceful folds
seeming to lay themselves over it, like summer
waves. The descent from her carriage too, where
she sat like a nautilus in its shell, was a display
which no one in these days could accomplish or
even fancy. The mulberry-coloured coach, but
apparently not too large for what it carried, though
she alone was in it-the handsome, jolly coachman
and his splendid hammer-cloth loaded with lacethe
two respectful livened footmen, one on each
side of the richly carpeted step, these were lost
sight of amidst the slow majesty with which the
lady came down and touched the earth. She presided
in this imperial style over her son’s excellent
dinners, with great sense and spirit to the very last
day almost of a prolonged life.”
This stateliness was not unmixed with a certain
motherly kindness and racy homeliness, peculiar to
great Scottish dames of the old school.
In InverleithTerrace, oneof thestreetsbuilt on this
property, Professor Edmonstone Aytounwas resident
about 1850 ; and in No. 5 there resided, prior to his
departure to London, in 1864, John Faed, the eminent
artist, a native of Kirkcudbright, who, so early
as his twelfth year, used to paint little miniatures,
and after whose exhibition in Edinburgh, in 1841,
his pictures began to find a ready sale.
In Warriston Crescent, adjoining, there lived for
many years the witty and eccentric W. R. Jamieson,
W.S., author of a luckless tragedy entitled
“Timoleon,” produced by Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham,
at the old Theatre Royal, and two novels, almost
forgotten now, “ The Curse of Gold,’’ and “ Milverton,
or the Surgeon’s Daughter.” He died in obscurity
in London.
Inverleith Row, which extends north-westwards
nearly three-quarters of a mile from Tanfield Hall,
to a place called Golden Acre, is bordered by a
row of handsome villas and other good residences.
In No. 52, here, there lived long, and died on
6th of November, 1879, a very interesting old
officer, General William Crokat, whose name was
associated with the exile and death of Napoleon
in St. Helena. “So long ago as 1807,” said a
London paper, with particular reference to this
event, “ William Crokat was gazetted as ensign in
the 20th Regiment of Foot, and the first thought
which suggests itself is, that from that date we are
divided by a far wider interval than was Sir Walter
Scott from the insurrection of Prince Charlie, when
in 1814, he gave to his first novel the title of
‘Waverley, or ’Tis Sixty Years Since.’ There is

... MRS. ROCHEID OF INVERLEITH. s 95 to the estate of‘his maternal grandmother, took the name of ...

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310 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Arthur’s L t .
General Robert Skene, the Adjutant-General there,
summoned all the troops they could collect to
attack “ the wild Macraas,” and next day the I Ith
Dragoons, under Colonel Ralph Dundas, zoo of
the Fencible Regiment ofHenry Duke of Buccleuch,
and 400 of the Royal Glasgow Regiment of Volunteers,
or old 83rC Foot, commanded by Colonel
Alexander Fotheringham Ogilvie, all marched into
Edinburgh, and were deemed sufficient to storm
Arthur’s Seat.
On that day the Earl of Dunmore, Duncan Lord
Macdonald and General Oughton, visited the revolters,
who received them with military honours,
while they ceased not to inveigh against their officers,
whom they accused of peculation, and of having
basely sold them to the India Company.
In their ranks at this time there was an unfortunate
fellow named Charles Salmon, who had been
born in Edinburgh about 1745, and had filled a
subordinate position in the Canongate theatre,
after being in the service of Ruddiman the printer.
He was a companion of the poet Fergusson, and
became a local poet of some note himself, He
was laureate of the Jacobite Club, and author of
many Jacobite songs; but his irregular habits
led to his enlistment in the Seaforth Highland
Regiment.
His superior education and address now pointed
him out as a fit person to manage for his comrades
the negotiations which ultimately led to a peaceful
sequel to the dispute ; but after the corps went to
India poor Stmayf Salmon, as he called himself,
was heard of no more. On the 29th of September
this revolt, which promised to have so tragic an
end, was satisfactorily adjusted by the temperate
prudence of the Duke of Buccleuch and others.
The Earl of Dunmore again visited the revolters,
presented them with a bond containing a pardon,
and promise of all arrears of pay. They then
formed in column by sections of threes, and with
the Earl and the pipers at their head,they descended
by the Hunter‘s Bog to the Palace Yard, where they
gave Sir Adolphus Oughton three cheers, and threw
all their bonnets in the air. He then formed them
in hollow square, and addressed them briefly, but
earnestly exhorting them to behave well and
obediently. On that night they all sailed from
Leith to Guernsey, from whence they were soon aftei
despatched toIndia-a fatal voyage to the poor 78th,
for Lord Seaforth died ere St. Helena was in sight,
then a great grief, with the maC du pays, fell upon
his clansmen, and of 1,100 who sailed from Ports.
mouth, 230 perished at sea, and only 390 were able
to any arms, when, in April 1782, they began the
march for Chingleput.
In 1783 an eccentric named Dr. James Graham,
then lecturing in Edinburgh, in Carrubbeis Close
chiefly, the projector of a Temple of Health, and a
man who made some noise in his time as a species
of talented quack, who asserted that our diseases
were chiefly caused by too much heat, and who
wore no woollen clothes, and slept on a bare
mattress with all his windows open, was actually in
terms with the tacksman of the King‘s Park for
liberty to build a huge house on the summit of
Arthur’s Seat, in order to try how far the utmost
degree of cold in the locality of Edinburgh could
be borne ; but, fortunately, he was not permitted
to test his cool regimen to such an extent.
Two localities near Arthur’s Seat, invariably
pointed out to tourists, are Muschat’s Cairn, and
the supposed site of Davie Deans’ cottage, where
an old one answering the description of Scott still
overlooks the deep grassy and long sequestered dell,
where gallants of past times were wont to discuss
points of honour with the sword, and where Butler,
on his way to visit Jeanie, encounters Effie’s lover,
and receives the message to convey to the former
to meet him at Muschat’s Cairn “ when the moon
rises.”
Muschat’s Cairn, a pile of stones adjacent to
the Duke’s Walk, long marked the spot where
Nicol Muschat of Boghall, a surgeon, a debauched
and profligate wretch, murdered his wife in 1720.
On arraignment he pled guilty, and his declaration
is one of the most horrible tissues of crime imaginable.
He mamed his wife, whose name was Hall,
after an acquaintance of three weeks, and, soon
tiring of her, he with three other miscreants, his
aiders and abettors in schemes which we cannot
record, resolved to get rid of her. At one time it
was proposed to murder the hapless young woman
as she was going down Dickson’s Close, for which
the perpetrators were to have twenty guineas.
Through Campbell of Burnbank, then storekeeper
in Edinburgh Castle, one of his profligate friends,
Muschat hoped to free himself of his wife by a
divorce, and an obligation was passed between
them in November, 1719, whereby a claim of
Burnbank, for an old debt of go0 merks, was to be
paid by Muschat, as soon as the former should be
able to furnish evidence to criminate the wife.
This scheme failing, Burnbank then suggested
poison, which James Muschat and his wife, a
couple in poor circumstances undertook to administer,
and several doses were given, but in vain.
The project for criminating the victim was revived
again, but also without effect.
Then it was that James undertook to kill her in
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bat in St. Leonard’s Hill, and upon the 23rd the said
Robert was put in ward in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
In the meantime of his being in ward, he
hung me cloak without the window of the Iron
House, and another within the window there, and
saying that he was sick, and might not see the
light, he had acquafortis continually seething at the
iron window, while (till) at last the iron was eaten
through.” Then, one morning, he desired his apprentice-
boy to watch when the town guard should
be dismissed, and to give him a sign thereof by
waving his handkerchief. This was done, and tying
‘‘ ane tow,” or rope, to the window, he was about
to lower himself into the street; but the guard
“ spied the wave of the handcurch, and sae the said
Robert was disappointit of his intention and
device.” On the 10th of April he was conveyed
down to the Market Cross, and there beheaded on
the scaffold, by the Maiden probably.
In 1650, when Cromwell’s army was repulsed by
the Scottish under Leslie, he made an attempt to
turn the flank of the latter at this point. “Encircling
Arthur’s Seat, a strong column of infantry, a brigade
of cavalry, and two pieces of cannon attempted to
enter the city by the southern road that led from
the Pleasance. On this Campbell of Lawers
brought his regiment of musketeers at dou5le-quick
march up the glen by the base of Salisbury Craigs
to the ruins of St. Leonard’s chapel, and taking
an alignment behind the hedges and walls of
the King’s Park, poured from thence a deadly
fire, which drove back the infantry in disorder.
They threw aside their muskets, pikes, and col
lars of bandoliers, and fled, abandoning their
cannon, which were brought off by the horse
brigade.”
St. Leonard‘s Hill corresponds somewhat in
pdsition, but not in contour, with the locality of
Davie Deans’ story in Sir Walter Scott’s “ Heart 01
Midlothian,” and an ancient cottage is actually
indicated as being his in the Post-office maps.
Eastward of this, the ridge of the hill bears the
name of Kaim Head, indicating that of old a camp
had been there.
St. Leonard’s coal depBt and railway station
have destroyed all the old and picturesque amenities
of the locality. The station was erected here
on the formation of a railway from Edinburgh to
Dalkeith in 1826, but the traffic did not begin until
1831. It is still in existence, but has undergone
great changes. .
To see the train start by successive carriages
for Dalkeith was then one of “the sights” of
Edinburgh. “Towards the close of its ‘horsy’
days,” says Brenlner (in his “ Industries of Scotland
”), ‘‘ when railways worked by locomotives
became common, this railway, with its lumbering
carriages, slow-paced steeds, and noisy officials,
was laughed at as an old-fashioned thing; but
many persons have pleasant recollections of holiday
trips made over the line. Then, as now, people
took advantage of the fast days to spend a few
hours outside the city, and it was no uncommon
thing for the Dalkeith railway to bear away four or
five thousand pleasure-seekers on such occasions.’’
No accident ever having occurred on this line, it
bears the name of the ‘‘ Innocent Railway,” under
which title it appears in one of Robert Chambers’s
pleasant essays.
St. Leonard’s Hill and all its locality are inseparably
connected with the boyhood of the celebrated
philosopher and phrenologist, George Combe,
who spent the summer months of his earlier years
with his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Sinclair, whose husband
was proprietor of a brewery, a garden, and
other ground there.
At the junction of the Pleasance with St.
Leonards, an old street, known as the East Cross
Causeway branches north-westward. Here was to
be found the latest example of the legendary doorhead
so peculiar to Edinburgh :-“ 1701 GOD’S
PROVIDENCE” It was over the door of a house in
which Lady Jane Douglas, wife of Sir John Stewart,
of Grandtully, is said to have resided during some
of the years of her long-contested peerage case
with the Duke of Hamilton ; and where she-the
sister of the last duke of the grand old Douglas
line-was in circumstances so reduced that.she was
compelled to work at the wash-tub while rocking
with her foot the cradle wherein lay her son, who
became Lord Douglas of Douglas in 1790.
In this quarter of the city there was founded
in West Richmond Street, in 1776, the first
public dispensary in Edinburgh, chiefly througb
the exertions of Andrew Duncan, M.D., whose portrait,
painted by Raeburn, now hangs in the hall.
The good doctor lived long enough to see his
generous labours crowned with complete success.
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Hih Street.] THE CROCHALLAN CLUB. 235
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE HIGH STREET (rontinurd).
The Anchor Close-Dawney Douglas’s Tavern-The ‘‘ Crown Room”-The Cmchallan Club-Members-Burns among the Crochallan Fencibles
-Smellie’s Printing Office-Dundas’s House, Fleshmarket Close-Mylne’s Square-Lord Alva’s House-The Conntes of Sutherland and
Lady Glenorchy-Birthplace of Fergusson-Halkerston’s Wynd Port-Kinloch’s Close-Carmbbeh Close-’fie Episcopal Chapel-Clam
Shell Land-Capt. Matthew Henderson-Allan Ramsay’s Theatre-Its later Tenants-The Tailor‘s Hall-Bailie Fyfe’s Close-“ Heave awa,’
lads, I’m no deid yet ”-Chalmers’ Close-Hope’s House-Sandiknd‘s Close-Bishop Kennedy’s House-Grant’s C l o s e - h n Grant’s H o e .
ONE of the most interesting of the many old alleys
of the High Street (continuing still on the north
side thereof) is the Anchor Close.
A few yards down this dark and narrow thoroughfare
bring us to the entrance of a scale-stair,
having the legend, The Lord is 0714~ my svjwt;
adjoining it is another and older door, inscribed
0. Lm’. in . tk . is. a(. my. traist; while an
architrave bears a line‘ from a psalm, Be mmczjX
to me, under which we enter what was of old the
famous festive and hospitable tavern of Daniel, or,
as he was familiarly named by the Hays, Erskines,
Pleydells, and Crosbies, who were his customers,
Dawney Douglas, an establishment second. to none
in its time for convivial meetings, and noted for
suppers of tripe, mince collops, rizzared haddocks,
and fragrant hashes, that never cost more than sixpence
a-head ; yet on charges so moderate Dawney
Douglas and hisgudewife contrived to grow extremely
rich before they died. Who caused the three holy
legends to be carved, as in many other instances,
no man knows, nor can one tell who resided here of
old, except that it was in the seventeenth century
the house of a senator entitled Lord Forglen.
“ The frequenter of Douglas’s,’’ we are told, ‘‘ after
ascending a few steps, found himself in a pretty
large kitchen, through which numerous ineffable
ministers of flame were continually flying about,
while beside the door sat the landlady, a large, fat
woman, in a towering head-dress and large-flowered
silk gown, who bowed to every one passing. Most
likely, on emerging from this igneous region, the
party would fall into the hands of Dawney himself,
and be conducted to an apartment.”
He was a little, thin, weak, quiet, and submissive
man ; in all things a contrast to his wife.
Here met the famous club called the Crochallan
Fencibles, which Bums has celebrated both in
prose and verse, and to which he was introduced
in 1787 by William Smellie, when in the city
superintending the printing of his poems, and
when, according to custom, one of the club was
pitted against him in a contest of wit and humour.
Burns bore the assault with perfect equanimity, and
entered fully into the spirit of the meeting.
Dawney Douglas knew a sweet old Gaelic song,
called Cro Chalien,” or, Colin’s cattle, which he
was wont to sing to his customers, and this led to
.
the establishment of the club, which, with jocular
reference to the many Scottish corps then raising,
was named the Crochallan Fencibles, composed
entirely of men of original character and talent.
Each member took some military title or ludicrous
office. Amongst them was Smellie, the famous
printer, and author of the “ Philosophy of Natural
History.” Individuals committing an alleged fault
were subjected to mock trials, in which those
members who were advocates could display their
wit; and as one member was the depute hngman
cf the club, a little horse-play, with much mirth, at
times prevailed.
The song of “ Cro Chalien” had a legend connected
therewith. Colin’s wife died very young,
but some months after he had buried her she was
occasionally seen in the gloaming, when spirits are
supposed to appear, milking her cows as usual, and
singing the plaintive song to which Bums must often
have listened amid the orgies in the Anchor Close.
In Dawney’s tavern the chief room was rather
elegant and well-sized, having an access by the
second of the doors described, iind was reserved
for large companies or important guests. Pm
exceZZeme, it was named the “ Crown Room,” and
was thus distinguished to guests on their bill tops,
from some foolish and unwarrantable tradition that
Queen Mary had once been there, when the crown
was deposited in a niche in the wall. It was
handsomely panelled, with a decorated fireplace
and two lofty windows that opened to the dose ;
but all this has disappeared now, and new buildings
erected in 1869 have replaced the old.
Here, then, was Bums introduced to the jovial
Crochallans, among whom were such men as
Erskine, Lords Newton and Gillies, by Smellie the
philosopher and printer who contested with Dr.
Walker the chair of natural history in the University;
and of one member, William Dunbar, W.S.,
“ Colonel of the club, a predominant wit, he has
left us a characteristic picture :-
Oh, he held to the fair,
And buy some other ware ;
The saut tear blin’t his ee ;
Ye’re welcome hame to me I
.
“ Oh, rattlin’ roarin’ Willie,
An’ for to sell his fiddle,
But parting wi’ his fiddle,
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Count’s troops, chiefly cavalry, now gave way, but
still fighting with the dogged valour of Walloons.
Part of them that fled by Sk Mary’s Wynd were
nearly cut to pieces by Sir David de Annan, who
led his men battle-axe in hand. The few that
escaped him joined others who had reached the
Castle. There
they slaughtered
their horses, made
a rampart of the
bodies,andfought
behind it with an
energy born of
despair, till hunger
and thirst on
the following day
compelled them
to capitulate, and
the Earl of Moray
suffered them
to depart on giving
oath never
again to beararms
against David 11.
of Scotland.
In 1867 agreat
q u a n t i t y of
bones-the relics
of this conflictwere
discovered
about five feet
below the surface,
on the northern
verge of the
Eurghmuir, where
now Glengyl e
Terrace is built,
and were decently
re-interred by the
authorities.
In 1336 Edward
III., still prosecuting
the cause
of the minion
~~
cunning enemy to whom the secret is unknown.
The entrance is still seen in the side of the deep
draw-well, which served alike to cloak their purpose
and to secure for the concealed a ready
supply of pure water. From this point Ramsay
often extended his ravages into Northumberland.
‘‘ WALLACE’S CRADLE,” EDINBURGH CASTLE.
Baliol against King David, re-fortified the ruin ; and
on the 15th June Sir John de Kingeston was again
appointed its governor ; but he had a hard time of
it ; the whole adjacent country was filled by adventurous
bands of armed Scots. The most resolute
and active of these was the band of Sir Alexander
Ramsay of Dalhousie, whose place of retreat was
in the caves beneath the romantic house of Hawthornden,
then the abode of a traitor named
Abernethy, and which are so ingeniously constructed
as to elude the vigilance of the most
4
Covered with
glory and honour,
the noble King
Robert, the skilful
Randolph, and
the chivalrous Sir
James Douglas,
had all gone
down to the silent
tomb ; but other
heroes succeeded
them, and valiant
deeds were done.
The Scots thought
of nothing but
battle; the plough
was allowed to
rust, and the earth
to take care of
itself. By 1337
the Eoglish were
again almost entirely
driven out
of Scotland, and
the Castle of
Edinburgh was
recaptured from
them through an
ingenious strai%
gem, planned by
William Bullock,
a priest, who had
been captain of
Cupar Castle for
Baliol, “and was
a man very brave
and faithful to the
Scots, and of
great use to them,” according to Buchanan.
Under his directions, Walter Curry, of Dundee,
received into his ship two hundred select Scottish
soldiers, led by William Douglas, Sir Simon Fraser,
Sir John Sandilands, and Bullock also. Anchoring
in Leith Roads, the latter presented himself to the
governor as master of an English ship just arrived
with wines and provisions, which he offered to sell
for the use of the garrison. The bait took all the
more Keadily that the supposed captain had closely
shaven himself in the Anglo-Norman fashion. On

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with whom she took up her abode. After having
effectually lulled all suspicion, she affected to remember
a vow she had made to visit the White
Kirk of Brechin (according to the '' Chronicles of
Pitscottie "), and bade adieu to the Chancellor overnight,
with many tender recommendations of the
young king to his care. She set forth betimes next
morning with her retinue, and baggage borne on
sumpter horses. In one of the arks or chests
:trapped on one of these she had the young king
concealed, with his own consert. He was thus
conveyed to Leith, and from thence by water to
Stirling, where she placed him in the hands of the
Regent Livingstone, while the haughty Douglas
kept aloof, as one who took no interest in the
petty intrigues around the throne. Livingstone
now unfurled the royal standard, levied troops, and
laid siege to the Castle of Edinburgh ; but the wary
Chanceflor, finding that he had been outwitted,
pretended to compromise matters by delivering
the keys of the gates into the hands of the king,
after which they all supped together in the great
hall of the fortress. Crichton was confirmed in his
ofice of Chancellor, and the other as regent and
guardian of the royal person, a state of affairs not
fated to last long.
Livingstone having quarrelled with the queen,
she carried off the young king again, and restored
him to the custody of the Chancellor in the Castle
of Edinburgh. Under the guidance of the Bishops
of Moray and Aberdeen, then resident in the city,
a conference was held in the church of St. Giles,
' making him and his rival joint guardians, which,
from their mutual dread and hatred of the Earl of
Douglas, led to an amicable arrangement, and the
young king chose the Castle as his future place of
residence.
The great house..of. Dauglas,had naw reached
the zenith of its baronial power and pride. The
earl possessed Annabdale, Galloway, and other extensive
dominions in. the southern counties, where
all men bowed to his authority. He had the
dukedom of Touraine and lordship of Longueville
in France. He was allied to the royal family of
Scotland, and had at his back a powerful force of
devoted vassals, trained to arms, led by brave
knights, who were ripe at all times for revolt and
strife.
'' The Regent and the Chancellor are both alike
to me," said he, scornfully ; " 'tis no matter which
may overcome, and if both perish the country
will be the better ; and it is a pleasant sight for
honest men to.see such fencers yoked together."
But soon after the potent Douglas died at
Restalrig-h June, 144o-and was succeeded by
his son William, then in his sixteenth year ; and
now the subtle and unscrupulous old Chancellor
thought that the time had come to destroy with
safety a family he alike feared and detested. In
the flush of his youth and p...12, fired by the
flattery of his dependents, the young earl, in the
retinue and splendour that surrounded him far
surpassed his sovereign. He never rode abroad
with less than two thousand lances under his
banner, well horsed, and sheathed in mail, and
he actually, according to Buchanan, sent as his
ambassadors to the court of France Sir Malcolm
Fleming and Sir John Lauder of the Bass, to
obtain for him a new patent of the duchy of
Touraine, which had been conferred on his grandfather
by Charles VII. Arrogance so unwonted
and grandeur so great alarmed both Crichton and
Livingstone, who could not see where all this was
to end.
Any resort to violence would lead to civil war.
He was therefore, with many flatteries, lured to
partake of a banquet in the Castle of Edinburgh,
accompanied by his brother the little Lord David
and Sir Malcolm Fleming of Cumbernauld. With
every show of welcome they were placed at the
same table with the king, while the portcullis was
suddenly lowered, the gates carefully shut, and
their numerous and suspicious train excluded.
Towards the close of the entertainment a black
bull's head-an ancient Scottish symbol that some
one was doomed to death-was suddenly placed
upon the board. The brave boys sprang up, and
drew their swords; but a band of Crichton's
vassals, 'in complete armour, rushed in from a
chamber called the Tiring-house, and dragged
forth the three guests, despite the tears and entreaties
of the young king.
I They were immediately beheaded-on the 24th
of November, I 440-according to Godscroft, '' in
the back court of the Castle that lyeth to the west"
(where the barracks now stand); in the great
hall, according to Balfour. They were buried in
the fortress, and when, in 1753, some workmen, in
digging a foundation there, found the plate and.
handles of a coffin all of which were pure gold,
they were supposed tp belong to that in which
the Earl of Douglas was placed. Singular to say,
Crichton was never brought to trial for this terrible
outrage. " Venomous viper ! I' exclaims the old
historian of the Douglases, "that could hide so
deadly poyson under so faire showes ! unworthy
tongue, unelesse to be cut oute for example to all
ages ! A lion or tiger for cruelty of heart-a waspe
or spider for spight ! " He also refers to a rude
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354 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Hawthornden.
walls seven feet thick, and the remains of a banqueting-
hall with large windows, and walls five
feet thick.
The more modern house of the seventeenth century,
which has been engrafted on this fortress
(probably destroyed by the English in 1544 or
I 547) measures ninety feet long, with an average
breadth of twenty-three feet, and exhibits the usual
crowstepped gables, massive chimneys, and small
windows of the period.
In the days of the War of Independence the
Castle of Hawthornden belonged to a family called
Abernethy. It was then the stronghold of Sir
Lawrence Abernethy (the second son of Sir William
Abernethy of Saltoun), who, though a gallant
soldier, was one of those infamous traitors who
turned their swords against their own country, and
served the King of England.
He it was who, on the day Bannockburn was
fought and when Douglas was in hot pursuit of the
fugitive Edward II., was met, at the Torwood, with
a body of cavalry hastening to join the enemy, and
who added to the infamy of his conduct by instantly
joining in the pursuit, on learning from Douglas
that the English were utterly defeated and dispersed.
Three-and-twenty years after, the same traitor,
when again in the English interest, had the better
of the Knight of Liddesdale and his forces five in
one day, yet was at last defeated in the end, and
taken prisoner before sunset. All this is recorded
in stone in an inscription on a tablet at the west
end of the house. At this time, 1338, Sir Alexander
Ramsay of Dalhousie, emulating the faith and
valour of Douglas, at the head of a body of knights
and men-at-arms, whom his fame and daring as a
skilful warrior had drawn to his standard, sallied
from his secret stronghold, the vast caves of Hawthornden,
and after sweeping the southern Lowlands,
penetrated with fire and sword into Englaod ;
and, on one occasion, by drawing the English into an
ambush near Wark, made such a slaughter of them
that scarcely one escaped.
For these services he received a crown charter
from David II., in 1369, of Nether Liberton, and
of the lands of Hawthornden in the barony of
Conyrtoun, Edinburghshire, “ quhilk Lawrence
Abernethy foris fecit” for his treasons ; but, nevertheless,
his son would seem to have succeeded.
In after years the estate had changed proprietors,
being sold to the Douglases; and among the slain
at Flodden was Sir John Douglas of Hawthornden,
with his neighbour, Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
By the Douglases Hawthornden was sold to
.the Urummonds of Carnock, with whom it has
since remained ; and the ancient families of Abernethy
and Drummond became, curiously enough,
united by the marriage of Bishop Abernethy and
Barbara Drummond.
The most remarkable member of this race was
William Drummond (more generally known as
“ Hawthornden ”), the historian of the Jameses,
the tender lover and gentle poet, the handsome
cavalier, whom Cornelius Jansen’s pencil has portrayed,
and who died of a broken heart for the
execution of Charles I. .
His history of the Jameses he dedicates, “ To the
Right Honorable my very good Lord and Chiel,
the Earl of Perth,” but it was not published till
after his death.
The repair of the ancient house in its present
form took place in 1638 and 1643, as inscriptions
record.
Few poets have enjoyed a more poetical home
than William Drummond, whose mind was, no
doubt, influenced by the exquisite scenery amid
which he was born (in 1585) and reared. He has
repaid it, says a writer, by adding to this lovely
locality the recollections of himself, and by the
tender, graceful, and pathetic verses he composed
under the roof of his historical home.
He came of a long line of ancestors, among
whom he prized highly, as a member of his family,
Annabella Drummond, queen of King Robert 111.
Early in life he fell in love with a daughter of
Cunninghame of Bames, a girl whose beauty and
accomplishments-rare for that age-he has recorded
in verse.
Their weddingday was fixed, and on its eve she
died. After this fatal event Drummond quitted
Hawthoroden, and for years dwelt on the Continent
as a wanderer; but the winter of 1618 saw
him again in his sequestered home by the Esk,
where he was visited by the famous Ben Jonson,
who, it is said, travelled on foot to Scotland to see
him. At the east end of the ruins that adjoin the
modern mansion is a famous sycamore, called One
of the Four Sisters. It is twenty-two feet in circumference,
and under this tree Drunimond was
sitting when Jonson arrived at Hawthornden. It
would seem that the latter had to fly from England
at this time for having slain a man in a duel.
Reference is made to this in some of Drummond’s
notes, and a corroboration of the story is given by
Mr. Collier, in his ‘‘ Life of AIleyn I’ the actor, and
founder of Dulwich College.
Jonson stayed same weeks at Hawthornden,
where he wrote two of the short pieces included in
his “ Underwoods” and “ My Picture left in
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LddI.1 JOHN
coat in which he rode, Dr. Carlyle turned a little
out of the road to procure from a clergyman of their
acquaintance the loan of a pair of saddlebags,
in which to deposit the MS.”
The latter was also rejected by Garrick, “with
the mortifying declaration that it was totally unfit
for the stage.” Yet it was brought out at Edinburgh
by Digges, on the 14th December, 1756,
and produced that storm of fanaticism to which
we have referred in a former part of this work. It
had a run then unprecedented, and though a rather
dull work, has maintained a certain popularity
almost to the present day.
To escape the censiires of the kirk, he resigned
HOME. 241
his living, and published several other tragedies;
and after the accession of George 111. to the
throne he received a pension of A300 per
annum. In 1763 he obtained the then sinecure
appointment of Conservator of Scottish Privileges
at Campvere (in succession to George Lind, Provost
of Edinburgh)] and also the office of Commissioner
for Sick and Wounded Seamen. In 1779 he removed
to Edinburgh, where he spent the latter
years of his life, and married a lady of his own
name, by whom he had no children.
Home’s ‘‘ Douglas” is now no longer regarded
as the marvel of genius it once was ; but the author
was acknowledged in his lifetime to be vain of it,
ST. JAMES’S EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH, 1882. (Affta a Pho#ogm#h by Nr.1. Clrapman.)

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