Buchan, Earl of, 108
Buchanan, George, 50, 91, 92-93
Burnet, Miss, 112, 114
Burns, Robert, lodges in Baxter’s Close, 70, 75;
his triumphant reception in Edinburgh, 111-113;
meeting with Scott, 113;
“Clarinda and Sylvander,” 113-114;
_Edina, Scotia’s darling seat_, 114-115
Burton, Dr. John Hill, 151
Byers’ Close, 71-73, and 71 _note_
Byers of Coates, John, 71 _note_
Caledonian Hunt, the, and Burns’s Poems, 112-113
Calton Hill, 46;
the view from, 166
Campbell, Thomas, 137, 149
Candlish, Dr., 150
Canongate, the, 24, 62, 63, 64, 67, 78-82, 100, 101, 105, 106, 124
Cant’s Close, 76
Carberry Hill, battle of, 41, 66
Carey, Sir Robert, 41-42
Carlyle, Dr., of Inveresk, 107
Carlyle, Thomas, 150, 151
Carnegie, Andrew, 154
“Castell of Maydens,” 5
Castle, the, 3-21;
story of Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret, 5-8;
Queen Margaret’s Chapel in, 5, 7, 9, 15, 16;
“Frank’s Escalade,” 10;
besieged by Henry IV. of England, 11;
the “Black Dinner” (1440), 12-13, 17;
story of the Duke of Albany, 13-14;
James VI. born in the Palace of, 15;
Jacobites imprisoned in, 16;
the Great Hall of, 16-18, 155;
the Regalia, 18-20, 140;
“Mons Meg,” 20-21, 144;
mentions of, 23, 24, 26, 69, 86, 120;
the “one-o’clock gun,” 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168
Castle Street, 135, 136, 137 _note_, 138, 139, 142, 143, 145
Cathedral (St. Giles’s). _See_ St. Giles, Church of
St. Mary, 71 _note_, 154
Chalmers, Dr., 150
_Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal_, 149
Chambers, Robert, 19, and _note_, 20, 54, 72, 73, 74, 81, 119-121, 129;
his writings, and his friendship with Scott, 149
Chambers, William, 61, 155
Charles I., 18, 41, 42, 43, 54, 82, 94
Charles II., 19, 43, 58, 65, 95
Charles Edward Stuart (Prince Charlie), 43-44, 99, 130, 131 _note_
Chepman, Walter, earliest Scottish printer, 27, 47, 48, 49 _note_
Chiesley of Dalry, 153
Christison, Sir Robert, 151
“Christopher North.” _See_ Wilson
Church of St. Giles. _See_ St. Giles
“Clarinda” (Mrs. M‘Lehose), 113-114
Claverhouse, Graham of, 126, 138
“Cleanse the Causeway,” 66, 88-89, 127
Clerks of Penicuik, the, 98, 132, 133, 136, 138
Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh, 62-82, 88, 95-96,
99, 100, 105, 106, 108, 109, 120, 129
Coalstoun, Lord, story of, 72-73
Coates House, 71 _note_
Cockburn, Lord, 149, 150
Cockburn, Mrs., 100
Colinton, 156, 157, 158, 160, 162
College Wynd, 106, 120, 129
Combe, George, 151
Comely Bank, 150
Constable, Thomas, 141
Court of Session, 85
Covenanters, the, 59, 96, 160
Cowgate, the, 40, 64, 87, 88, 90, 91, 95, 96, 120, 164
Crabbe, George, 138, 143
Craig, Lord, 113
Craigie, Lord President, 124
Craigmillar, 144 _note_
Craigmillar Quarry, 122
Crail, 35
Cranstoun, George (Lord Corehouse), 134
Cranstoun, Miss, 134, 135
Creech’s Land, 105
“Crochallan Fencibles,” 75, 112
Cromwell, Oliver, banquets in the Hall of the Castle, 18;
stays at Moray House, 79-80;
enters Edinburgh after the battle of Dunbar, 58
Cross, the City, 31, 43, 58, 98, 132, 141
Cullen Professor, 120
Cunningham, Alison, 157
Cunningham, Dr., 150
Cunyie House (the Scottish Mint), 76
Currie, 161
Dalkeith, 30, 144
Dalmeny, the woods of, 166
Darnley, Earl of, 38-39, 39-40, 42, 76
David I., 23-24, 46
David II., and David’s Tower in the Castle, 10
Dawney Douglas’s Tavern, 75, 112
Deacon Brodie. _See_ Brodie’s Close
Defoe, 104-105
“Delta.” _See_ Moir
De Quincey, 150
Dick of Prestonfield, Sir Alexander, 109
Dickens, Charles, 151
Disruption, the, 150-151
Don of Newton, Sir Alexander, 138
Donald Bane, 7
Douglas, Duchess of, 108
Douglas, Duke of, 125
Douglas, Gavin, 27;
account of, 48-50, 87-89, 148
Douglas, Lady Jane, 70
Dowie’s Tavern, 112
Drummond of Hawthornden, 29, 94, 104
Drummond, Lord Provost, 123
Drummond Place, 125, 126, 152
Drummore, Lord, 124-125
Drumsheugh, the ancient forest of, 23, 31, 46
Duddingston, 100
Dunbar, William, 28, 29, 31, 87
Dundas, Sir Laurence, 125
Dundonald, Earl of, 70
Dunfermline, 4, 6, 8, 155
Edgar, second son of Malcolm Canmore, 7
Edinburgh made an Episcopal See (1633), 54
_Edinburgh Courant_, 104
_Edinburgh Review_, 137 and _note_, 149
Edward I. of England, 9, 24, 46, 50
Edward II. of England, 25, 46
Edward “the Confessor,” 5
Eglintoun, Susanna, Countess of, 75, 98-100
Eglintoun, Lord, 98-99
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 42
Elliott of Minto, Miss Jeanie, 122
Erskine, friend of Scott, 134
Erskine, Henry, Advocate, 108
“Ettrick Shepherd,” the. _See_ Hogg
Fairmilehead, 161
Falkland, 11, 35
Fergusson, Professor, 113, 134
Fergusson, Robert, 112
Ferrier, the family of, 112, 114
Ferrier, Miss, 149
Findlay, John Ritchie, 154
Firth of Forth. _See_ Forth
Fleming of Cumbernauld, Sir Malcolm, 12, 13
Flodden, battle of, 31-33, 35, 49 _note_;
the Flodden Wall, 62, 87
Forbes of Pitsligo, Sir William, and Burns, 112
Forbes of Pitsligo, Sir William, and Scott, 133, 145
Forbes, William, first Established Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh (1634), 54
“Fore-stairs,” 65, 66, 76
Forth (river, and Firth of), 3-4, 5, 7, 8,
21, 35, 36, 46, 155, 159, 165, 166, 167
Forth Bridge, the, 4, 155, 164, 165, 166
Fortune’s Tavern, 75-76
Franklin, Benjamin, 107
Gay, John, 81, 105-106
General’s Entry, 113
George I., 16
George III., 98, 99, 126
George IV., 141, 142
George Square, 122, 130, 131
George Street, 135, 139, 150, 157
Glammis, Lady, 14-15, and _note_
Glenlee, Lord, 122
“Golden Charter,” 14
Goldsmith, Oliver, 73, 106
Goodsir, Professor John, 151
“Goose Pie, the,” 98
Gordon, Duchess of, 76-77, 112
Gordon of Haddo, Sir John, 58
Grange, Lord, 74
Granton, 150, 166
Grassmarket, the, 15, 97, 120, 164
Gray of Pittendrum, Lord, and Lady, 68-69, and _note_
Great King Street, 150
Greyfriars’ Church and Churchyard, 51, 96, 133
Gustavus Vasa, Prince, 141
Guthrie, Dr., 150
Haddington, first Earl of (“Tam o’ the Cowgate”), 90-92
“Haddo’s Hole,” in St. Giles’s, 58, 59
Hailes, Lord, 108
Hall, the Rev. Mr., Presbyterian divine (1603), 53
Hamilton, Sir William, 150
Hart, Andro, 94
Hawthornden, 94, 109, 159
Hay, James, story of, 96
“Heart of Midlothian,” 63. _See also_ Tolbooth
Henry III. of England, 9
Henry IV. of England, 11
Henry VII. of England, 30
Henry VIII. of England, 35, 37, 46, 50
Henry, Prince, eldest son of James VI., 41
Heriot, George, 90-91
Heriot Row, 156, 157
High School, the (in Old Edinburgh), 71, 92, 130
High Street, the, 62, 76, 77, 80, 88, 90, 94,
96, 105, 108, 123, 124, 127, 141, 164
“Highland Lady,” the, 153
Hogg, James (the “Ettrick Shepherd”), 136-137, 149, 160
Holbein, his miniature portrait of James IV., 29
Holyrood, 18, 22-44, 47, 53, 62, 63, 64, 65,
70, 76, 84, 91, 109, 120, 144, 167;
legend of the founding of the Abbey, 23;
Abbey burnt by Edward II., 25;
in reign of James IV., 26-33;
in reign of James V., 33-35;
in reign of Queen Mary, 35-41;
Charles I. christened at, 41;
and crowned at, 42;
rebuilt by Charles II., 43;
Abbey Church restored by James VII., 43;
Prince Charlie at, 43-44;
the Abbey desecrated and destroyed, 44
Home, John, 107
Hope, Sir Thomas, King’s Advocate, 34, 95
Homer, Francis, 52
Hume, David, 68, 71, 100-101, 109, 125
Hunter’s Tryst, 160
Huntly, Earl of, 39
Hyndford’s Close, 76, 77
Inchcolm, 165
Inchkeith, 109, 165
Irving, John, 134
Isles, Lord of the, story of, in 1429, 25-26
Jack’s Land, 101
Jacobites imprisoned in the Castle, 16
James I., 11, 12, 22, 26, 84
James II., 17, 26, 85, 86
James III., 14, 26, 68, 85
James IV., 16, 19, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,
33, and _note_, 37, 38, 42, 49 _note_, 66, 87
James V., 14, 18, 33, 35, 85, 87, 88, 89
James VI., 15, 18, 41-42, 43, 52, 53, 71, 85, 90,
91, 92, 93, 94, 102-103, 104, 124
James VII., 43, 95
James’s Court, 68, 70, 101, 108, 125
Jeffrey, Lord, 131-132, 137, and _note_, 138, 149, 150
“Jenny Geddes,” 45, 54-58, 59
“Jock o’ Sklates.” _See_ Mar, Earl of
Jonson, Ben, 104
Johnson, Dr., 68, 82 _note_, 100, 107-109, 110, 111
Kames, Lord, 108
Keith of Ravelston, Mrs., 148
Kemp, architect of the Scott Monument, 154 _note_
Kennedy, Bishop, 85-86
Kennedy, Sir Archibald, 98
Kincaid, Alexander, publisher, 107
Kingsley, Charles, 151
Kirkaldy of Grange, 52
Knox, John, 38, 49 _note_, 50, 51, and _note_, 52, 55, 61;
his house, 65, 77, 90, and _note_;
his grave, 65, 149
Krames, the, 53
Lady Stair’s Close, 68-70, 105
“Laigh Council House,” the, 91
Laing, David, 106, 149
Laing, Malcolm, 134
Lands, the (in Old Edinburgh), 62-82, 85,
87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 95, 99, 100, 101, 103, 105, 107, 108, 112, 113
Lang Dykes (_called also_ Lang Gait), 121, 126
Lasswade, Scott’s cottage at, 136
Laud, Archbishop, his Service-Book, 55, and _note_, 56
Lauder, 48
Lauder of Blyth, Sir Alexander, 49
Lawnmarket, the, 62, 63, 68, 69, 127
Leith, 13, 14, 20, 26, 27, 34, 36, 97, 104, 142, 166
Leslie, Alexander, the Covenanting General, 18
Leven, Earl of, 76
Libberton’s Wynd, 112
Library, Advocates’, 96, 134;
Public, 95, 154;
Signet, 91
Lindores, Abbey Church of, 52
Lindsay, Earl of, 41
Lindsay, Sir David, 34, 89
Linlithgow, 35
Lister, Lord, 151-152
Lockhart of Carnwath, George, 122
Lockhart, John Gibson, 140, 141, 144, 149
“Logy, Maister Leonard,” 33 _note_
Lord of the Isles. _See_ Isles
Lorn, Lord (1650), 80
Loudoun, Earl of, 69
Luckenbooths, the, 105
Macaulay, Lord, 151
M‘Crie, Thomas, 149
M‘Ewan, William, 154
M‘Ewan Hall, the, 154, 167
Mackenzie, Sir George, 76, 95-96
Mackenzie, Henry (“the Man of Feeling”), 149
Maclean, of Torloisk, Mrs., and her daughters, 138
Macmorran, Bailie, 71
Madeleine, first wife of James V., 34, 44, 94
Malcolm Canmore, 4, 5-8, 35, 126, 155
Mansfield, Earl of, 74
Mar, Earl of, 18;
Earl of Mar called “Jock o’ Sklates,” 92
Margaret, Saint, Queen of Scotland, second wife of Malcolm Canmore,
5-8, 9, 15, 16, 24, 126, 155
Margaret, daughter of Henry III. of England, betrothed to Alexander III., 9
Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III., 26
Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV., 30, 35, 37, 50, 66, 87
“Marmion view,” the, 164
Mary of Gueldres, wife of James II., 26, 86
Mary of Lorraine (Mary of Guise), second wife of James V., and Regent
of Scotland, 35, 50, 51, 89-90
Mary, Queen of Scots, 5, 8, 15, 18, 35-41, 50, 52, 66, 76, 84, 143
Maud, daughter of Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret, 126
Maxwell of Monreith, Lady, and her daughters, 76-77
Meadows, the, 122
Melrose, dwelling of the Abbots of, 76, 95
Melville, Andrew, 93
Menzies, William, anecdote concerning Scott and son of, 138
Merchiston Castle, 93, 153
Miller, Hugh, 151
Mint, the Scottish. _See_ Cunyie House
Moir, Dr. (“Delta”), 150
Monboddo, Lord, 112
“Mons Meg,” 20-21, 144
Montrose, Marquis of, 59, 69, 80, and _note_
Moray House, account of, 79-80
Morocco Close, 78
Mound, the, formation of, 127;
and Sir Walter Scott, 137, 139;
view from, 166
Munro, Professor, 120
Murray, Dr. Alexander, 149
Murray of Auchtertyre, Patrick, 134
Murray of Broughton, 131, and _note_
Murray of Henderland, Mrs., 108
Murray, Miss Nicky, 74, 77
Murray of Simprim, Patrick, 134
Murray, manager of the Theatre Royal, 144
Myllar, Andro, 27
Mylne’s Court, 68
Mylne, John, Royal Master Mason, 43
Mylne, Robert, Royal Master Mason, 68
Mylne, Robert, F.R.S., Royal Master Mason, account of, 74-75, and _note_
Nairne, Baroness, 100, 148
Nairne Lodge, 100
Napier of Merchiston, 93
National Portrait Gallery, 154
Neaves, Lord, 150
Nelson, Thomas, 155
Netherbow Port, the, 62, 63
Newark, Lord, Covenanting General, 98
Niddry’s Wynd, 74
Nor’ Loch, 26, 51, 69, 120, 124, 126-127
North Bridge, the, 123, 137
Old Assembly Close, 73
“Old Kirk, the” (in St. Giles’s), 51
Oliphants of Gask, the, 100, 148
“Outer Tolbooth,” the, 49 _note_
Panmure’s Close, 100
Paoli, the Corsican, 68
Parliament House, 65, 72, 81, 85, 134, 142, 144
Paterson, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 82
Pembroke, Earl of (Shakespeare’s friend), 103
Pentlands, the, 156, 159, 161, 166
Philosophical Institution, the, and its first Presidents and Lecturers, 151
Playfair, Lyon (Lord Playfair), 151
Poker Club, the, 75, 76, 120
Pope Innocent IV. (and St. Margaret), 8
Pope Julius II. (and James IV)., 19
Potterrow, 79, 100, 113, 130
Preston Aisle, the (in St. Giles’s), 47
Preston of Gorton, William, 47
Priestfield (now Prestonfield), 27, 109
Primrose, James, Viscount, 69
Princes Street, 124, 125, 126, 132, 142, 153, 154, 157, 163, 164, 166
Printing in Edinburgh in the reign of James IV., 27
Queen Street, 143, 152, 154, 157
Queensberry, Duchess of (“Kitty”), 81, 105
Queensberry House, 79;
tragedy in, 80-81
Queensberry, Marquis of, 81
Queensferry Road, view of Edinburgh from, 165
Raeburn, Sir Henry, 144, 149
Ramsay, Allan (the poet), 74, 97-98, 99, 105-106, 107, 160
Ramsay, Allan (the artist), 98, 108
Ramsay, Dean, 150
Ramsay, General, 98
Randolph of Strathdon, Sir Thomas, 10
Regalia, the Scottish, 18-20, 140, 144
Riccio, David, 15, 38-39
Richard II. of England, 46
Riddle’s Close, 70, 101
Robertson, Principal, 108, 109
Ronsard (the French poet), 34
Rose, Abernethy, Bishop of Edinburgh, 54
Rosebery, the Earl of, 68
Rosehaugh Close, 95-96
Roslin, Boswell takes Dr. Johnson to, 109;
Scott takes Wordsworth to, 136, 164
Ross, the Lords, and Ross House, 122
Rothesay, the Duke of, eldest son of Robert III., 11
Royal Scottish Academy, 142
Royal Scottish Society, 142
Rullion Green, battle of, 59, 160
Ruskin, John, 151
Russel, Alexander, 151
Ruthven, Earl of, 41
St. Andrew’s Church in George Street, 150
St. Andrew Square, 124, 125
St. Cecilia’s Hall, 74-75
St. David Street, 125, 145
St. Giles, Church of, 24, 27, 45-61, 63,
65, 72, 86, 87, 94, 120, 144, 155, 164
St. John Street, 107
Salamander Land, 105
Salisbury Crags, 26, 165
Sandilands’ Close, 85
Scott, Anne, 145
Scott, General, 125-126, 152
Scott, Sir Gilbert, 154
Scott of Harden, Hugh, 135
Scott, Lady, wife of Sir Walter Scott, 135, 137;
death of, 145
Scott, Mr. and Mrs., parents of Sir Walter, 131
Scott, Sophia, 140
Scott, Sir Walter, 11, 20, 65, 69-70, 113, 129-146, 147, 160;
his homes in and near Edinburgh, 135-139, 141, 143, 145;
his later places of residence, 145;
his circle of friends, 148-150;
the Scott Monument, 153-154
Scottish Regalia. _See_ Regalia
Scougall, John, artist, 73
“Seven Sisters of Borthwick,” 20, 27
Simpson, Sir James Y., 151
Shakespeare, 5;
was he in Edinburgh? 103
Shandwick Place, 145
Sharpe, Kirkpatrick, 138, 149
Shoemaker’s Land, 78
Six Feet Club, 160
Skelton, John, 151
Skene of Rubislaw, 135, 145
Skene, W. F., 151
Smith, Adam, 100
Smith, Alexander, 151
Smith, Sydney, 138
Smollett, Tobias, 107
Solway Moss, battle of, 35
South Gray’s Close, 76
Spottiswoode, Archbishop, 56
Stair, the Earl of, 69
Stair, Lady, and Lady Stair’s Close, 68-70
Stamp Office Close, 75-76, 99
Steele, Richard, 105
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 77, 78, 156-162
Stewart, Dugald, 149
Strichen’s Close, 76, 95
Stuart, Sir John (the “Black Knight of Lorn”), 12
Swanston, 156, 159-160, 161
Syme, Professor, 151
Tait, Professor, 151
“Tam o’ the Cowgate.” _See_ Haddington, Earl of
Taylor, “the Water Poet,” 64, 104
Telfer, Mrs., of Scotstoun, 107
Tercentenary of the University, 152
Thackeray, 151
Thomson, Thomas, legal antiquary, 133
Tinwald, Lord Justice Clerk, 124
“Tolbooth Kirk, the” (in St. Giles’s), 51 _note_
Tolbooth, the, 53, 59, 63, 65, 69, 80, 155 _note_
Topham, Captain, 73, 109-111
Trollope, Anthony, 151
Tron Church, the, 132
“Tulzie,” a, 66
Turgot, Bishop, 6, 7, 8
Tweeddale Close, 77
Tytlers of Woodhouselee, the, 136
Union, the (1707), 64, 76;
Treaty of, 80, 81
Union, the Students’ University, 154
United Free Assembly Hall, 90
University, the, 85, 92, 109, 111, 120, 151, 152, 154, 159, 167
Vasa, Prince Gustavus, and the Baron Polier, 141
Victoria, Queen, her first visit to Edinburgh (1842), 147, 150
Volunteers, the Scottish Light Horse, 135
Walker Street, 145
Wallace, Sir William, 9, 24
Warbeck, Perkin, at the Court of James IV., 28
Watt, the Republican, 134
Webber, his attempt on Scott’s life, 139
Weir, Major, and his sister Grisel, 96-97
West Bow, 97
West Port, 92
Whiteford, Sir John, 112
Whiteford, Miss, 114
Whitehorse Close, 54, 81-82, and 82 _note_
Whitehorse Inn. _See_ Boyd’s Close
Wilson, Professor (“Christopher North”), 149
Wishart, Chaplain to Montrose, and afterward Bishop of Edinburgh, 59
Wood, Sir Andrew, 27-28
Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visit Scott in 1803, 136
World’s End Close, 76
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Now St. Saviour’s.
[2] Groom of the Chamber.
[3] She was a sister of the Earl of Angus, and had married, first,
Lord Glammis, and, second, Archibald Campbell of Skipness.
[4] Chambers’s _Walks in Edinburgh_, p. 50.
[5] _Ibid._ p. 49.
[6] Paragon.
[7] Now Prestonfield.
[8] Miss Warrender’s _Walks near Edinburgh_. Edinburgh: David Douglas.
[9] _William Dunbar_, by Oliphant Smeaton, “Famous Scots Series.”
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.
[10] Bergenroth, _Simancas Papus_, vol. i. p. 169. Quoted in _Early
Travellers in Scotland_, edited by Professor Hume Brown. Edinburgh:
David Douglas.
[11] _Ibid._
[12] Scott’s _Tales of a Grandfather_.
[13] W. E. Aytoun, _Lays of the Cavaliers_.
[14] _Burgh Records of Edinburgh_ (1403-1528), p. 144.
[15] In September of that year “Maister Leonard Logy” was pensioned
by James IV. for his “diligent and grate labour” in “bigging of the
palace beside the Abbey of the Holy Croce.”
[16] Sir David Lindsay.
[17] Henry Glassford Bell.
[18] From _Buchanan’s Detection_ (first Scots translation) quoted in
_Mary, Queen of Scots_, by Robert S. Rait, p. 108.
[19] _Diurnal of Occurrents in Scotland_, quoted in _Mary, Queen of
Scots_, by Robert S. Rait, pp. 120-121.
[20] R. S. Mylne’s _The King’s Master Masons_.
[21] Sir Walter Scott.
[22] _History of St. Giles’s, Edinburgh_, by the Very Rev. James
Cameron Lees, D.D. W. and R. Chambers.
[23] Still called “The Albany Aisle.”
[24] Walter Chepman built a chapel of the Crucifixion in the lower
part of the churchyard, endowing its chaplain for the welfare of the
soul of King James and those who were slain with him at Flodden. This
chapel was pulled down during John Knox’s ministry to form the “Outer
Tolbooth” for the Lords of Session.
[25] _Burgh Records of Edinburgh_ (1403-1528), p. 144.
[26] At the end of his life, Knox preached within another division,
designated “The Tolbooth Kirk.”
[27] Laud’s Service-Book.
[28] Gordon, _Hist. of Scots Affairs_ (Spalding Club), i. 7.
[29] _History of Scotland_, Professor Hume Brown, ii. 301.
[30] The stream of people pouring out of a church-door is called “the
church skaling” in Scotland.
[31] _History of St. Giles’s, Edinburgh_, by the Very Rev. Dr. Cameron
Lees. W. and R. Chambers.
[32] “Edinburgh’s Joy,” etc. Quoted in Dr. Hill Burton’s _History_,
vii. 387.
[33] _History of St. Giles’s, Edinburgh_, by the Very Rev. Dr. Cameron
Lees. W. and R. Chambers.
[34] Taylor’s _Pennyless Pilgrimage_.
[35] A “land” is a house of several storeys, usually consisting of
different tenements.
[36] _Melville’s Memoirs_, p. 181.
[37] The initials G. S. for the wife suggest that the formal “Egidia”
was softened, after the homely Scottish fashion, into “Gidy.”
[38] Scandals.
[39] Byers’ Close takes its name from John Byers of Coates, and the
carved lintel, “I.B: M.B: 1611 Blissit be God in al his giftis,” now
on the old family mansion, Coates House, within the grounds of St.
Mary’s Cathedral, was removed from Byers’ Close.
[40] Wilson’s _Memorials_, ii. footnote to p. 12; and Grant’s _Old and
New Edinburgh_, i. 223.
[41] Sir Alexander Boswell.
[42] This Robert Mylne (F.R.S.) was a great-grandson of the Robert
Mylne mentioned on p. 68, and was tenth in the line of Scottish Royal
Master Masons of that name. He afterwards settled in London, where he
built Blackfriars Bridge over the Thames, was the successor of Wren as
Superintendent of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and died in 1811.
[43] Only the entries to these closes have been suffered to remain.
Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, p. 214.
[44] _Heroic Love_, James Graham, Marquis of Montrose.
[45] Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, pp. 354-356.
[46] This inn must not be confused with Whitehorse Inn in Boyd’s
Close (no longer existing), where Dr. Johnson went on his arrival in
Edinburgh in 1773.
[47] Poets.
[48] Wilson’s _Memorials_, ii. 48.
[49] Tells tales.
[50] It is disputed now by some whether this house was really Knox’s.
[51] Professor Masson’s _Edinburgh Sketches and Memories_, p. 86. A.
and C. Black.
[52] From Chambers’s _Collection of Scottish Songs and Ballads_.
Authorship attributed to two young lady visitors to Edinburgh.
[53] See Chapter IV., p. 63.
[54] Grant’s _Old and New Edinburgh_.
[55] Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, p. 13.
[56] Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, p. 16.
[57] _Vide_ Provost Creech, quoted in Chambers’s _Traditions of
Edinburgh_.
[58] Murray of Broughton, Prince Charlie’s secretary, who afterwards
gave evidence against the Cause.
[59] Presently Jeffrey, in his slashing review of _Marmion_ in the
_Edinburgh Review_, was to accuse Scott of want of patriotism. He
dined with Scott that night at Castle Street, and found Scott as
hospitable and kind as ever; but from that moment Scott broke off his
connection with the _Review_.
[60] Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black,
1884.
[61] Dalkeith Palace, the residence of the Dukes of Buccleuch, is held
by them, as Craigmillar used to be held, on the understanding that the
Sovereign may command it as a Royal residence.
[62] “I return no more.”
[63] The architect was Kemp, who, when a poor lad, trudging along the
Selkirk road with his joiner’s tools on his back, had been given “a
lift” by the kindly Sir Walter Scott as he drove by. Shortly after the
erection of the monument Kemp was drowned.
[64] Truro Cathedral, and the great Roman Catholic Cathedral at
Westminster, both built since, are larger.
[65] This is often erroneously called “Old Parliament Hall,” a name
that not only limits the uses to which it was habitually put, and thus
lessens its interest, but also gives the wrong impression that the
Scottish Parliaments were held there, and there only. The Scottish
Parliaments were held wherever the King happened to be. If the King
was in Edinburgh, they were held in Edinburgh, either at this hall in
the Castle, or at the Tolbooth.
[66] Miss Warrender’s _Walks near Edinburgh_, p. 33 (footnote).