this last containing in its _upper floor_ all that the adherents of
Rome had forty years ago as a place of worship in Edinburgh—the
chapel to which, therefore, as a matter of course, the late Charles X.
resorted with his suite, when residing as Comte d’Artois in Holyrood
House. The alley gets its name from having been the access to the
Blackfriars’ Monastery on the opposite slope, and being built on their
land.
[Illustration: BLACKFRIARS’ WYND.