Traditions of Edinburgh

by Robert Chambers

In 1607 silver was found in considerable abundance at Hilderstone, in Linlithgowshire, on the property of the gentleman who figures in another part of this volume as Tam o’ the Cowgate. Thirty-eight barrels of ore were sent to the Mint in the Tower of London to be tried, and were found to give about twenty-four ounces of silver for every hundredweight. Expert persons were placed upon the mine, and mills were erected on the Water of Leith for the melting and fining of the ore. The sagacious owner gave the mine the name of God’s Blessing. By-and-by the king heard of it, and thinking it improper that any such fountain of wealth should belong to a private person, purchased God’s Blessing for £5000, that it might be worked upon a larger scale for the benefit of the public. But somehow, from the time it left the hands of the original owner, God’s Blessing ceased to be anything like so fertile as it had been, and in time the king withdrew from the enterprise a great loser. The Silvermills I conceive to have been a part of the abandoned plant.[275]]

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[INDEX.]

• Abbey Chapel, [206].
• Abbey Hill, [10], [316].
• Abbey Zett (Yett, Gate), [257].
• Abbotsford, [25], [83].
• Aberuchil, Lord, [72].
• Acheson House, [313].
• Acheson, Sir Archibald, of Abercairny, [314].
• Actors, Canongate Theatre, [346].
• Adam Street, [187].
• Advertiser, Edinburgh, [5], [49].
• Advocates’ Library, [113].
• Ainslie, Sir Philip, [300].
• Airth, Laird of, [38].
• Aitchinsoune, Thomas (Cunyie House), [260].
• Aldridge, Robert, dancing-master, [151], [153].
• Alesse, Alexander, [240].
• Alison Square, [358], [359].
• Aloetic medicine, an, [27].
• Alston, Tony, [346].
• Alva, Lord Justice-clerk, [204-208].
• Ambrose’s Tavern, [366].
• Amory, Captain, [355].
• Anchor Close, [162].
• Anderson, Samuel, anecdote of, [305].
• Anderson’s pills, [27].
• Angus, Earl of, [241].
• Antemanum Club, [149].
• Arbuthnot, Lord, [307].
• Ardwell, residence of M’Culloch of, [362].
• Argyll, [15], [51], [156], [175], [234], [307], [308], [345].
• Arnot, Hugo, [4], [12], [36], [46], [49], [171].
• Arran, Earl of, [241].
• Arrot, Dr, [10].
• Assemblies, [3], [14], [44], [265].
• Assembly Close, [59].
• Assembly Rooms, [43], [46], [195], [233], [253], [265].
• Assembly, The, a play by Dr Pitcairn, [310].
• Auchans House, Dr Johnson at, [197].
• Auld Reekie, [138], [152].
• Auld Robin Gray, author of, [277].
• Aytoun of Inchdairnie, [123], [270].
• Back Stairs, the, [291].
• Baijen-hole, [112].
• Baillie, Alexander, of Dochfour, [235].
• Baird, Mr, of Newbyth, [20].
• Baird’s Close, Castlehill, [58].
• Baird, Sir David, [20].
• Balcarres, Countess of, [277].
• Balfour, James, accountant (‘Singing Jamie’), [141-143].
• Balfour, Sir James (Lord Lyon), [315], [316].
• Ballantyne, printer, [143].
• Bank Close, Old, [70], [94].
• Bank of Scotland, [70].
• Bankton House, oratory at, [29].
• Bannatyne Club, [73].
• Bannatyne, Sir William Macleod, [10], [129], [317].
• Banquet at Mint House to Danish lords, [260].
• Barnard, Mr, violinist, [253].
• Bassentyne’s house, [257].
• Bearford’s Parks, [366].
• Beatoun, Archbishop, [117].
• Begbie’s murder, [36], [280].
• Beith’s or Bess Wynd, [93], [113].
• Bellamy, Mrs, [347-350].
• Bell, Benjamin, surgeon, [355].
• Bell’s Wynd, [46].
• Bethune, Archbishop, [228], [241].
• Bethune, Cardinal, [228].
• Bickers (street fights of boys), [189], [245].
• Birrel, the chronicler, [38].
• Bishop’s Land, [269].
• Black, Alexander, of Balbirney, [211].
• Blackbird, a Jacobite, [30].
• Blackfriars’ Monastery, [242].
• Blackfriars Wynd, [10], [38], [223], [228], [234], [237], [238], [241], [257].
• Black, Joseph, Professor, [242], [289].
• Black Wigs Club, [155].
• Blair, Dr, [56], [136], [288], [334].
• Blair, Hugh, merchant, [72].
• Blair, Rev. Robert, [307].
• Blair’s Close, [18].
• Blue Blanket, [183].
• Blue-gowns—their annual assembly, [102].
• Bluidy Mackenzie, [224].
• Blyth’s Close, [22].
• Boar Club, [151], [153].
• Boarding-schools of last century, [230].
• Bonnet Lairds’ Club, [155].
• Bonnington, [348].
• Booths, [3], [110].
• Boroughmoor, [271].
• Boswell, James, [16], [55], [60], [172], [197].
• Boswell, James, advocate, [125].
• Boswell, Sir Alexander, [126], [n.], [146], [266].
• Bothwell, Adam, Bishop of Orkney, Commendator of Holyrood, [71], [97].
• Bothwell, Anne, her Lines, [97].
• Bothwell Bridge, [289].
• Bothwell, Earl of, [38], [83], [121], [256].
• Bow, angle of, [46].
• ‘Bowed Joseph,’ a general of mobs, [184-188].
• Bowfoot, [50].
• Bowhead, [27], [41].
• Bowhead Saints, [30].
• Bowling-greens, [247].
• Bow, the West, [26], [53], [133].
• Boyd, James, White Horse Inn, [172].
• Boyd, Lord, [121].
• Breadalbane, Earl of, [180].
• Bridge, North, [269], [283], [360].
• Bridges, the, [53].
• British Linen Company’s Bank, [280].
• Brodie, Deacon, [76], [91].
• Brodie’s Close, [76].
• Broomfield, Andrew, [124].
• Brougham, Lord, [80].
• Broughton, [360].
• Broughton, Baron of, [367].
• Brownhill, James, joiner, [55].
• Brown, James, builder, [5].
• Brown, Mrs, of Coalstoun, [266].
• Brownonian System Club, [156].
• Brown’s Close, [18].
• Brown Square, [5], [248].
• Bruce, Dame Magdalen, of Kinross, [19] [n.]
• Bruce of Kennet, [3].
• Bruce of Kinnaird, [210].
• Bruntsfield Links, [5].
• Bryce, his small shop, [101].
• Buccleuch, Duchess of, [327].
• Buccleuch, Duke of, [328].
• Buchanan, George, [288] [n.]
• Buchan, Earl of, [98].
• Burke, Edward (Ned—a chairman engaged in the escape of Prince Charles), [177].
• Burleigh, Lord, [307].
• Burnett, Miss, of Monboddo, [251].
• Burning, strange tale of a, [298].
• Burns, Robert, [7], [14], [106], [164], [251], [351], [358], [362], [365].
• Burton, Mrs, [58], [60].
• Burt’s Letters, [176].
• Busks, enormous size of, [201].
• Bute, Lord, [10], [316], [317].
• Byres of Coates, [95].
• Byres’s Close, [96].
• Caddies (street messengers), [175].
• Cairnie, Lady, [124].
• Caithness, Earls of, [77].
• Caledonian Club, [155].
• Caledonian Mercury, [15].
• Calton, [149].
• Calton Hill, [83], [297], [360].
• Cambuskenneth, Abbot of, [223].
• Campbell, Alexander, [180], [345].
• Campbell, Lady Eleanor, [64].
• Campbell, Mrs, of Monzie, [205], [208].
• Campbell, Mungo, [90].
• Campbell of Laguine, [134].
• Campbell, Sir James, of Aberuchil, [72].
• Campbell, Thomas, poet, [167], [359].
• Canal, Forth and Clyde, [5].
• Canongate, [3], [8], [11], [65], [295-301].
• Canongate Council House, [71].
• Canongate Theatre, [346].
• Canongate Tolbooth, [248].
• Canonmills, [154].
• Cant’s Close, [221].
• Cape Club, [149].
• Cardross, Lord, [98].
• Carrubber’s Close, [15].
• Carters of Gilmerton, the, [4].
• Castle-hill, [11], [18], [20], [22], [39], [150].
• Castle Street, [8].
• Cathcart, Robert, [39].
• Cat Nick on Salisbury Crags, [91].
• Cats, a lover of, [16].
• Cayley, Squire, or Captain, [291].
• Chairmen, [176].
• Chalmers, Miss (Mrs Pringle), [251].
• Chalmers, Miss, of Pittencrief, [251].
• Chalmers’s Entry, [168].
• Changes of the last hundred years, [1].
• Chapman, Walter, printer, [109].
• Charles I., [64], [170], [301], [306], [321].
• Charles II., [260], [327].
• Charles X., [228].
• Charles, Prince, [27], [28], [48], [72], [175], [177], [181], [219], [235], [236], [269].
• Charlotte Square, [9].
• Charteris, Colonel, [328].
• Chessels’s Court, [27], [91].
• Chiesly of Dairy, [75], [211].
• Circulating Library, [15], [104].
• Citadel of Leith, inhabitants in 1745, [19].
• City Guard, [4], [31], [84], [148], [179], [233], [238], [348].
• Clarinda, [358].
• Clarke, Stephen, musician, [253].
• Clattering of tinsmiths in West Bow, [42].
• Claudero, pamphleteer, [330].
• Claverhouse, [6].
• Cleanse the Causeway, [117], [241], [242].
• Cleghorn, Miss, [251].
• Clerihugh’s Tavern, [162].
• Clerks, drucken, of Sir William Forbes, [138].
• Clerk, Sir John, of Penicuik, [193].
• Clubs, convivial, [149-157].
• Coalstoun, Lord, and his wig, [96].
• Coates, Sir John Byres of, [95].
• Cockburn, Mrs, author of Flowers of the Forest, [58].
• Cock-fights, [236].
• Coffee-house, John’s, [112].
• Coffee-house, Netherbow, [332].
• Coffin, the, [166].
• Coinage, [260].
• Coke, William, bookseller, [167].
• College of King James, [259].
• College Street, North, [242].
• College, the, [3].
• College Wynd, [3], [242].
• Colquhoun, Sir James, [132].
• Commendator Bothwell’s house, [97].
• Commercial Bank, [265].
• Concerts, [249], [251].
• Constable, Archibald, [7].
• Convivial clubs, [149-157].
• Convivialia, [138-157].
• Corelli, musician, [254].
• Corri, Signor and Signora Domenico, [250], [253].
• Court of Session Garland, a burlesque poem, [124], [125].
• Court, the Dirt, [115].
• Covington, Lockhart of, [129].
• Covington, Lord, fate of his gown, [130].
• Cowgate, [72], [223], [240], [244], [257].
• Cowgate Port, [152].
• Craigie, Lord President, [9].
• Craig, James, [7].
• Crawford, Earl of, [311].
• Crawfuird, [39].
• Creech, Provost, bookseller, [9], [103], [339].
• Crighton Street, Potterrow, [59].
• Criminal Trials, by Hugo Arnot, [13].
• Crochallan, a convivial society, [164].
• Cromarty, Earl of, [225].
• Cromwell, Oliver, [99], [122], [193], [307], [360].
• Crosbie, advocate, [153].
• Cross, the, [4], [174], [175];
• taken down, [178] [n.]
• Cullen, Dr, [261].
• Cullen, Lord, [263].
• Cullen, Robert, mimic, [261].
• Culloden, [177].
• Cumming of Lyon Office, [167].
• Cunliffe, Sir Foster, of Acton, [252].
• Cunningham, Rev. Mr, [352].
• Cunyie House (Mint), [257], [260].
• Dalrymple, Miss, New Hailes, [131].
• Dalrymple, President, [123].
• Dalrymple, Sir David (Lord Hailes), [126] [n.], [131], [300].
• Dancing in Edinburgh, [44];
• Allan Ramsay on, [44];
• Goldsmith on, [45].
• Danish lords entertained, [260].
• Darien Expedition, the, [52].
• Darnley, [71], [83], [107], [121], [256].
• David I., [295].
• Davidson’s Close, [170].
• Defensive Band, [152].
• Defoe, [337].
• ‘Deid-chack,’ the, [114].
• De la Cour, artist, [9].
• De Witt’s map, [259].
• Dhu, Sergeant John, [180].
• Dick, Lady Anne, of Corstorphine, her eccentricities and verses, [225].
• Dick, Sir William, &c., [78], [100].
• Dicks of Prestonfield, [78].
• Dickson, Andrew, golf-club maker, [321].
• Dickson, Rev. David, [307].
• Dickson’s Close, [222].
• Dirt Court, the, [115].
• Dirty Club, [155].
• Diurnal, the, of a Scottish judge, [139].
• Doctors of Faculty Club, the, [155].
• Doctor, the Tinklarian, [41].
• Donacha Bhan, a Highland poet, [180].
• Donaldson, Alexander, bookseller, [48].
• Donaldson, James, bookseller, [49].
• Douglas, Archibald, [238].
• Douglas, Duke of, [9], [69].
• Douglas, Gavin, poet, [240].
• Douglas, Jeanie, Adam Smith’s cousin, [319].
• Douglas, Lady Anne, ghost of, [343].
• Douglas, Lady Jane, [69], [238].
• Douglas’s Tavern, [162].
• Douglas, tragedy of, [347].
• Doune, Lord, [307].
• Dowie, Johnnie, [138], [166].
• Dowie’s Tavern, [138], [166].
• Drem, Barony of, [50].
• Dresses, ladies’, of last century, [199].
• Drinking customs, [138], [143].
• Drumlanrig, [336], [339], [340], [343].
• Drummond, Bishop Abernethy, [229].
• Drummond, Pious Club poet, [150].
• Drummond, Provost, [5], [6], [360].
• Drummore, Lord, [9], [125].
• Drumsheugh, [205].
• Dryden, [327], [344].
• Duff, Miss (Countess of Dumfries and Stair), [230].
• Dunbar’s Close, [100].
• Dunbar, Willie, [164].
• Dundas, Robert, of Arniston, Lord President, [127], [132], [140].
• Dundee, Lord, [30], [366].
• Dundonald, Earl of, [69].
• Dunglass Castle, [99].
• Dunkeld, Bishop of, [223], [240].
• Dun, Lady, [124].
• Durie, Abbot of Dunfermline, [273].
• Easter Road, [328], [360].
• Edward or Udward, Nicol, Provost, [210].
• Eglintoune, Countess of, [192-198].
• Eglintoune, Earl of, [90], [162], [192].
• Eglintoune, Miss (Lady Wallace), [276].
• Elcho, Lord, [307].
• Elibank, Lord, [14].
• Elliot, Jeanie, of Minto, [6].
• Elliot, Lady, of Minto, [266].
• Elliot, Sir Gilbert, of Minto, [206].
• Elphingston, Lady Betty, [124].
• Elphinstone, James, [49].
• Errol, Earl of (Constable), [103].
• Erskine, Alexander, the Hon., [98].
• Erskine, Harry, epigram by, on Hugo Arnot, [12].
• Erskine, James, of Cambo, [98].
• Erskine, James, of Grange, [211].
• Euphame, Mrs (Effie Sinclair), [230].
• Excise Office, [91], [244], [247], [248].
• Executioners of Edinburgh, [51].
• Faculty of Doctors’ Club, [155].
• Falconer, William, author of The Shipwreck, [285].
• Female dresses of last century, [199-203].
• Ferguson, Dr, [56].
• Fergusson, Governor, his house in the Luckenbooths, [10].
• Fergusson, Robert, [26], [114] [n.], [148], [149], [162], [180], [233], [271], [349].
• Fergusson, Robert, the Plotter, took refuge in Old Tolbooth, [88].
• Fergusson, Walter, writer, digs for water in James’s Square, [335].
• Fife’s Close, Bailie, [265].
• Findlater, Earl of, [231].
• Fishmarket Close, [140].
• Fives, the game of, [344].
• Flockhart’s, Lucky, Tavern in Potterrow, [168].
• Flowers of the Forest, the author of, [58].
• Foliot, John and Bartoulme, [209].
• Foote, Samuel, anecdotes of, [363-365].
• Forbes, Lord President, [123], [125], [235].
• Forbes, Rev. Robert, Bishop of Orkney, [19] [n.]
• Forbes, Sir William, [115], [138], [199], [251].
• Fore-stairs, [100], [271].
• Forrest, David, [273].
• Forrester, Sir Andrew, [293].
• Forrester’s Wynd, [3].
• Forster of Corsebonny, [214].
• Forth and Clyde Canal, [5].
• Fortune’s Tavern, [143], [161], [192], [251].
• Foulis, William, of Woodhall, [124].
• Fountainhall, Lord, anecdote of, [61].
• Fyvie, Lord, [120].
• Gabriel’s Road, [366].
• Galloway, Earl of, [244].
• Gallow Lee, the, [75], [185], [361].
• Gallows Stone in Grassmarket, [51].
• Gardenstone, Lord, [132].
• Gardiner, Colonel, his oratory, [29].
• Gask family, [10].
• Gay, John, poet, [4], [338], [339].
• Geddes, Jenny, and her stool, [105], [106].
• Ged, Dougal, of Town-guard, [233].
• Ged, Misses, their boarding-school, [232].
• General’s Entry, the residence of Burns’s ‘Clarinda,’ [358].
• George II., [279].
• George III., [16], [197], [275].
• George IV., [269].
• George IV. Bridge, [70], [167], [244].
• George Square, [5], [8], [169], [243].
• George Street, [46], [53].
• Gibson of Durie, [121], [124].
• Gilmerton, carters of, [4].
• Gilmour, Lord President, [122].
• Gilmour, Mr Little, of the Inch, [76].
• Gilson, Mr, singer, [253].
• Giornovicki, violinist, [254].
• Glencairn, [25], [352].
• Glenlee, Lord, [5].
• Glenorchy, Lady, [226], [205], [206].
• Goldsmith, [242], [265].
• Goldsmith, account of a dancing assembly in Edinburgh, [45].
• Goldsmiths in Parliament Square, [111].
• Golfers’ Land, [320].
• Golf, the game of, [52];
• Charles I. plays on Leith Links, [321].
• Goolister, Henry, Captain, [260].
• Gordon, Captain, [181].
• Gordon, Duchess of, [145], [252], [275], [276], [313], [316], [361].
• Gordon family, [18], [316].
• Gordon, Mr, of Ellon, [366].
• Gourlay, Robert, house of, [70], [71].
• Grace, Countess, of Aboyne and Murray, [66].
• Grange, Lady, story of, [211-221].
• Grange, Lord, [15], [211].
• Grassmarket, [18], [26], [50], [51], [171], [260].
• Gray, Sir William, of Pittendrum, [64], [76].
• Green Breeks, a noted fighter, [190].
• Gregory, Dr John, [172].
• Greping-office Tavern, [159].
• Greville, Lord, [262].
• Greyfriars, [93], [95], [109], [224], [288].
• Guard, City or Town, [84], [148], [179], [233], [238], [348].
• Guard-house, [84], [140], [180].
• Guise, Mary of, [22].
• Guthrie, Bishop Henry, [307].
• Guthrie, Rev. James, [307].
• Haddington, Earl of, [99], [244].
• Hailes, Lord (Sir D. Dalrymple), [126], [131], [300].
• Haining, Lord, [125].
• Halkerston’s Wynd, [5], [117], [366].
• Halket, Miss, of Pitferran, [252].
• Halyburton, James, [222].
• Hamilton, ‘Dear Sandie,’ [247].
• Hamilton, Duke of, [172], [308].
• Hamilton, Marie, [295].
• Hamiltons of Pencaitland, [270].
• Hamilton’s Tavern, Mrs, [345].
• Hamiltons, the, [241].
• Hamilton, Thomas (Tam o’ the Cowgate), Lord President, first Earl of Haddington, [244].
• Hammermen of Canongate, [313].
• Hangman’s Craig, [52].
• Hangmen of Edinburgh, [51].
• Ha’s, Jenny, Ale-house, [142], [339].
• Harcarse, Lord, [123].
• Haunted houses, [35].
• Hawley, General, [181].
• Hay, advocate, Lord Newton, [139].
• Hay, a young criminal, singular escape, [92].
• Hay, Miss, of Hayston, [251].
• Heart of Midlothian, [82].
• Heckler, the, a lunatic litigant, [135].
• Hell-fire Club, [153].
• Henderland, Lord, [118].
• Henderson, Alexander, tombstone of, [288].
• Hepburn of Bearford, [366].
• Herd, David, [167], [168].
• Heriot, George, [50], [113-116];
• stock with which he commenced business, [112] [n.];
• a costly fire, [113].
• Heriot’s Hospital, [93], [247], [310].
• ‘He that tholes overcomes,’ [47].
• High Constables, [346].
• High School, [76], [242], [245].
• High School Wynd, [257].
• High Street, [8], [11], [29].
• Hilderstone, [367].
• History of Edinburgh, by Hugo Arnot, [12].
• History of England, by Hume, [56].
• Hogg’s, Daniel, Tavern, [151], [153].
• Holderness, Lord, [323].
• Holstein, Duke of, entertained, [78].
• Holyrood, [11], [28], [206], [209], [228], [248], [256], [260], [295], [321], [344].
• Holyrood, Chapel of, [109].
• Holyroodhouse, Lord, [97].
• Home, Countess of, [306].
• Home-Drummond of Blairdrummond, [252].
• Home, Earl of, [307].
• Home, Miss Betsy, [251].
• Hoop, the, as worn by ladies, [200].
• Hope of Rankeillor, [216], [218].
• Hope’s Close, [70].
• Hope, Sir Thomas, K.C., [70], [72], [73], [74].
• Hope, Sir Thomas, of Kerse, [72].
• Hopetoun, Earl of, [204], [342].
• ‘Horn Order,’ the, [157].
• Horse Wynd, [59], [239], [244].
• Howard, Lady Elizabeth, [316].
• Hume, David, [55-59], [162].
• Hume, Misses, of Linthill, [231].
• Humphrey, Duke, [107].
• Hunter, John, Professor, [133].
• Huntly, Marquis of, [19], [175], [210].
• Hyndford’s Close, [264], [275].
• Inchdairnie, Aytouns of, [270].
• Inch, the, [76].
• Industrious Company Club, [154].
• Infirmary Street, [241].
• Innes, Gilbert, of Stow, [289].
• Innes, Mrs Gilbert, of Stow, [61].
• Inn, White Hart, [2].
• Inn, White Horse, [2].
• Irvine, Robert, [366].
• Irving, General, [27].
• Irving, Mrs, her recollections of the ’45, [27], [28].
• Jack’s Land, [56].
• Jacobite blackbird, a, [30].
• Jail, [3], [83].
• James I., [83], [307].
• James II., [321], [327].
• James III., [183].
• James IV., [272].
• James V., [229].
• James VI., [38], [77], [175], [183], [210], [244], [260], [344].
• James’s Court, [55-62], [172].
• James’s Square, [335].
• Jameson, George, painter, [288].
• Jardine, Miss, [252].
• Jeddart staff possessed by each citizen, [100].
• Jeffrey, Francis, [265].
• ‘Jock o’ Sklates’ (Earl of Mar), [246].
• John’s Coffee-house, [148].
• Johnson, Dr Samuel, [16], [49], [60], [172], [197].
• Johnston, James, of Westerhall, [37].
• Johnston, Miss Lucy, [252].
• Justice in bygone times, [120].
• Kames, Lord, [130];
• scene at the death of, [130];
• his house, [300].
• Kay’s portraits, [181].
• Keith, Bishop, [170].
• Keith, Mrs, [230].
• Keith, Sir Alexander, of Ravelston, [242].
• Keith, Sir Robert, ambassador, [230].
• Kelly, Earl of, [255].
• Kennedy, Sir Archibald, [194].
• Kennedy, Susanna, [192].
• Kerr & Dempster, goldsmiths, [111].
• Kerr, goldsmith, Parliament Square, [3].
• Ketten’s, Michael, shoe-shop, [83].
• Kincaid, Mr (a great dandy), king’s printer, [277].
• King’s Bridge, [18].
• King’s Park, [91].
• King’s Stables, [260].
• Kinloch, Miss, of Gilmerton, [252].
• Kinloch, Sir Francis and Mrs, [124].
• Kinnaird, Miss, having second sight, [210].
• Kirkcudbright, Lord, [265].
• Kirk o’ Field, situation of, [256], [259].
• Knockers, [207].
• Knowles, Admiral, [304].
• Knox, John, [25], [84], [105], [107], [109], [271], [279].
• Krames, [102], [119].
• Ladies and the drinking customs, [143], [147].
• Ladies of Traquair, [286].
• Lady’s Steps, the, payments made at, [103].
• Laigh shops, [145].
• Lally-Tollendal, Count, [252].
• Lament, a, by Anne Bothwell, [97].
• Lang Gait, or Lang Dykes, [6], [366].
• Lauderdale, Duchess of, [307].
• Lauderdale, Duke of, [122].
• Lauder, Sir Andrew, [61].
• Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, [61].
• Lauder, Thomas, Canon of Aberdeen, [240].
• Lawnmarket, [11], [26], [27], [39], [70], [223].
• Lawnmarket Club, [156].
• Leith Links, [320].
• Leith Street, [283].
• Leith Walk, [281], [283], [360].
• Leith Wynd, [149], [258], [281], [284].
• Lennox, Earl of, [107].
• Leslie, General, [39], [193], [360].
• Leslie, Lady Mary, [328].
• Leven, Lord, [124], [311].
• Liberton’s Wynd, [166].
• Lind, Mr, of the ‘Pious Club,’ [150].
• Lindsay, Sir Alexander, of Evelick, [17].
• Linlithgow road, [214].
• List of Notables who lived in Canongate, [296].
• Little, William, of Liberton, [76].
• Lockhart of Carnwath, [209].
• Lockhart of Covington, [129].
• Lockhart, President, murder of, [75].
• Lockhart’s Court, [209].
• Lodge, Canongate Kilwinning, [305].
• Logan, Rev. George, [27].
• Long Way, the, [214].
• Lord’s Day, walking on the, condemned, [11].
• Lorimer, the, a deceased trade, [233].
• Lorne, Lord, [308].
• Lothian, Earl of, [307], [323].
• Lothian Hut, [323].
• Lothian, Marchioness, [323].
• Loudon, Earl of, [64].
• Loudoun, Chancellor, [307].
• Loughborough, Chancellor, his house in the Mint Close, [263].
• Lounger, the, [6].
• Lovat, Lady, [234-239], [286].
• Lovat, Lord, [205], [213], [214], [234], [235].
• Luckenbooths, [10], [95-104], [272], [339].
• Lucky Fykie’s Tavern, [168].
• Lucky Middleman’s Tavern, [145], [146] [n.]
• Lyon Close, Old, [323].
• Macalpine’s, Saunders, sedan-chair, [4].
• M’Crie, Dr, [273].
• M’Culloch, David (Wee Davie), [363].
• M’Culloch of Ardwell, residence of, [362].
• Macdonald, Sir Alexander, of Sleat, [216].
• Macdowalls of Logan, [60].
• Macduff of Ballenloan and his two law pleas, [136].
• Macfarlane, John and Mrs, [291].
• Macfarlane, William, judge, [60].
• Macgill of Rankeillour, [244].
• Macintyre, Duncan (Donacha Bhan), poet, [180].
• Mackenzie, Henry, attorney, [154].
• Mackenzie, Henry (Man of Feeling), [6], [288].
• Mackenzie, Hon. Stuart, [316].
• Mackenzie, Sir George, [93], [103], [223], [224], [225], [288].
• Mackoull, James, Life and Trial of (supposed Murderer of Begbie), [282].
• Maclaurin, John, advocate, [125].
• M’Lehose, Mrs, house of (Clarinda of Burns), [358].
• Maclellans of Galloway, [265].
• Maclennan, Rev. Roderick, St Kilda, [217].
• Macleod, Alexander, of Muiravonside, [177].
• Macleod, John, of Muiravonside, [214].
• Macmoran, Bailie, killed, [76];
• banquets held in house of, [77], [78].
• Macrae, Mr, Marionville, tragical story of, [351].
• Magdalen Chapel, Cowgate, [248] [n.]
• Mahogany Land, [47], [100].
• ‘Maiden,’ the, [71].
• Maitland, History of Edinburgh, [209], [271], [272].
• Mally Lee, a ballad, [202].
• Mansfield, Earl of, [17], [265].
• March, Lady, [103].
• Mar, Countess of, [74], [213], [220].
• Mar, Earl of, [5], [98], [119], [246].
• Marionville, villa of, [323];
• theatricals at, [351].
• Martin’s Wynd, story of, [209].
• Mary King’s Close, [36].
• Mary of Guise, her house in Edinburgh, [22];
• her resistance to the Reformation, [25];
• erection of Free Church Hall on the site of her house, [25].
• Mary, Queen, [71], [83], [109], [163], [257], [260], [271], [287].
• Mary, Regent, [23].
• Maugaret, Braid Ransome, [260].
• Maule, William, [318].
• Maxwell, Lady, of Monreith, her house, [275].
• Maxwell, Sir William, [355], [356].
• Meadows, the, [5].
• Meldrum, George, of Dumbreck, [121].
• Melrose, Abbot of, his ‘lodging’ in Edinburgh, [223].
• Melville, Lord, [127] [n.], [140], [145], [305].
• Merchant Street, [248].
• ‘Meridian,’ a, [147].
• Meuse Lane, St Andrew Street, [13].
• Mickle, William Julius, on Parliament Close, [116].
• Miller, Sir William, of Glenlee, [251].
• Milliners, a story of two, [323], [324].
• Mint Close, [10], [260], [263].
• Minto, Lord, [325].
• Mint, the, [257-259].
• Mirror, magic, story of a, [65].
• Mirror, the, [6].
• Mitchell, William, pamphleteer, [41], [42].
• Mobs of Edinburgh, [183-188].
• Modena, Mary of, [344].
• Monastery, the Blackfriars’, [242].
• Monboddo, Lord, [59], [132], [133], [303].
• Monk, Peter, admiral of Denmark, [260].
• Monmouth, Duchess of, [327].
• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, [69], [220].
• Montgomery, Lady Margaret, [328].
• Montrose, Marquis of, [108], [170], [175], [308].
• Moray, Bonny Earl of, [312].
• Moray, Countess of, [307].
• Moray House, Canongate, [306].
• Moray, Lord, [66] [n.]
• Morocco’s Land, [299].
• Morton, Regent, [25], [71], [120], [260].
• Motte, De la, French ambassador, [71].
• Mound, the, [23], [55].
• Moyses’s memoirs, [71], [210].
• Murder, extraordinary, [366].
• Mure, Baron, [316].
• Murkle, Lord, [124].
• Murray, Hon. Miss Nicky, ball directress, [265-268].
• Murray, Miss, of Lintrose (‘Flower of Strathmore’), [251].
• Murray, Mr, of Henderland, [16], [17].
• Murray, Mrs, of Broughton, [175].
• Murray, Mrs, of Henderland, [15], [239].
• Murray, Regent, [38], [106].
• Murray, Sir John A. (Lord), erects a statue to Allan Ramsay, [18].
• Murray, Sir Peter, of Balmanno, [226].
• Music Hall, [253].
• Musselburgh Links, [355].
• Mutrie’s Hill, [5], [7], [367].
• Mylne, Robert, architect, [252].
• Mylnes, family of, [204].
• Mylne Square, [204].
• Nairne, Katherine, her tale of guilt and escape from justice, [88].
• Nairn’s Close, [22].
• Neale, John (built first house in Princes Street), [7].
• Negligée, the, [199].
• Negro servants, [69] [n.]
• Netherbow Port (fortified gate), [1], [149], [257], [258], [271], [272], [281], [331], [332].
• Newberry, Mr J., his books for the young, [41].
• Newhall, Lord, [124].
• Newhaven, fishwomen of, [4].
• New Street, [8], [16], [131], [284], [300], [347].
• Newton, Lord, [44], [139].
• New Town, first house in, [8];
• Hume’s house in, [58].
• Nichol, Andrew, diarist, [106].
• Nichol, Andrew (‘Muck Andrew’), claimant-at-law of a midden-stead, [136].
• Nicolson Square, [358].
• Niddry Street, [241].
• Niddry’s Wynd, [121], [209], [212], [249].
• Nimmo, Miss, in whose house Burns met Clarinda, [358].
• North Back of Canongate, [170].
• North Bridge, [6], [269], [283], [360].
• North, Christopher, [167].
• Northesk, Earl of, [204].
• North Loch, [8], [23], [64], [117], [118], [366].
• Norton, Baron, [316].
• Odd Fellows Club, [155].
• Ogilvie, Hon. Mrs, her boarding-school, [231].
• Old Bank Close, [70].
• Oliphant, Miss, of Gask, house of, [10].
• Oliver & Boyd, publishers, [280].
• Oratories, a feature in houses of a certain era, [29].
• ‘Order of the Horn,’ the, [156].
• Ormistounes, Laird of, [257].
• Oswald, Mr, of Auchincruive, [252].
• Oyster cellars, [145].
• Paganini, [254].
• Pages, keeping of, [328], [329].
• Palmerston, Lord, a pupil of Dugald Stewart in Edinburgh, [323].
• Panmure, Earl of, [318].
• Panmure House, [318].
• Paoli, General, [172].
• Parliament Close, [109-116], [142], [159], [337].
• Parliament Council, [115].
• Parliament House, [8], [85], [106], [110], [119].
• Parliament House worthies, [134-137].
• Parliament Square, [3], [115], [247].
• Paterson, John, a golfing shoemaker, [320].
• Paterson, Lady Jane, [212].
• Paterson’s Court, [232].
• Paton, George, antiquary, [167].
• Patullo, William, [35].
• Peat or Pate, a, [123].
• Peebles, Peter, [134].
• Peebles Wynd, [39].
• Pettigrew, Rev. Mr, of Govan, [160].
• Picardy Place, [140].
• Pigs, [276].
• Pinners, [201].
• Pious Club, the, [149].
• Pitcairn, Dr, [158], [160], [166], [287], [310], [320], [345].
• Pitcairn, Miss, [345].
• Pitfour, Lord, [129].
• Pitilloch, Mr, advocate, [123].
• Playfair, architect, [50]
• Pleasance, [187].
• Poker Club, the, [3], [162].
• Poole, Miss, singer, [253].
• Population returns, the first in Scotland, [20].
• Porteous, Captain (Porteous Riot), [42], [47], [51], [111], [133], [180], [184].
• Portobello, origin of village of, [332] [n.]
• Post-office Close, [129] [n.]
• Post-office, old arrangement of, [129] [n.]
• Potatoes, earliest trace of, in Scotland, [325].
• Potterrow, [59], [168], [247], [358].
• Prebendaries’ Chamber, [256], [259].
• Prentice, Henry, introducer of the field-culture of potatoes, [325].
• Press, printing, used in the rebel army, [72].
• Prestonfield, [78].
• Primrose, Lady Dorothy, [237].
• Primrose, Lord, [124].
• Primrose, Viscount, a profligate, [64].
• Princes Street, [53], [214], [366].
• Princes Street Gardens, [18].
• Princes Street one hundred years ago, [6].
• Princes Street, the naming of, [7].
• Pringle, Dr and Miss, Newhall, [124].
• Pringle, Mr, of Haining, [251].
• Puppo, Signor, violinist, [253].
• Queen Mary, [71], [83], [109], [163], [257-259], [271], [287].
• Queensberry, Catherine, Duchess of, [339].
• Queensberry House, [142], [320], [336].
• Queensberry, second Duke of, strange story of, [336].
• Queensberry, third Duke of, and poet Gay, [338].
• Queen’s garden, [257].
• Queen Street, [9].
• Raeburn, Sir Henry, portrait-painter, [354].
• Rambler, the, reproduced in Edinburgh, [49].
• Ramsay, Allan, the painter, [16], [17].
• Ramsay, Allan, the poet, [4], [14-18], [44], [104], [161], [248], [288], [295], [339], [346].
• Ramsay, Christian, [16].
• Ramsay Gardens, [16].
• Ramsay, General John, [16].
• Ramsay, Lady, of Bamff, [353].
• Ramsay, Miss, anecdote of, [323].
• Ramsay’s Inn or Tavern, [152], [171], [276].
• Ramsay, Sir Andrew, Provost, [32].
• Ramsay, Sir George, of Bamff, killed in a duel, [353-356].
• Rats, pets of Lady Eglintoune, [197], [198].
• Rats, town, [179], [186].
• Rattray, Clerk, Sheriff, [281].
• Register House, [7], [366].
• Reinagle, Joseph, ’cellist, [253].
• Renton, Eleonora, of Lamerton, [304].
• Restalrig, [323], [326], [351].
• Riddel’s Close, Lawnmarket, [55], [76].
• Risps or tirlin’-pins on doors, [207].
• Rivane, Generall, [40].
• Robertson, Principal, [80], [162], [243], [262], [288].
• Rochester, Earl of, [122].
• Rockville, Lord, [230].
• Rollo, Lord, [270].
• Romieu, Paul, a noted watchmaker, [46].
• Rope for hanging Porteous bought, [47].
• Rose Court, George Street, [7].
• Rose, Dr Alexander, Bishop of Edinburgh, [170].
• Rosehaugh’s Close (Strichen’s), [224].
• Ross House, George Square, [209] [n.]
• Rosslyn, Earl of, [263].
• Rothes, the Duke of, his rough remark, [51].
• Roxburgh Street, [187].
• Royal Bank, [7], [367].
• Royal Bank Close, [154].
• Ruddiman, Thomas, [27].
• Rumple-knot, the, [201].
• Runciman, painter, [149].
• Rutherford, Dr Daniel (Professor), [264], [277], [328].
• Rutherford, Miss, Sir Walter Scott’s mother, [231].
• Ruthven, Mr, [300].
• Rye-House Plot, [88].
• St Andrews, Bishop of, [223].
• St Andrew Square, [6], [8], [58].
• St Cecilia’s Hall, [152], [249].
• St Clair, Lord, [124].
• St David Street, a joke about name of, [58].
• St Giles’s, booths around, [3], [110].
• St Giles’s, characteristics of the High Kirk, [114].
• St Giles’s Church, endowment to chaplain of, [240].
• St Giles’s Churchyard, [109].
• St Giles’s Clock, [8].
• St Giles’s, memoranda of Old Kirk of, [105-108].
• St Giles’s, Old Kirk described, [114].
• St Giles’s, position of, relative to Heart of Midlothian, [82].
• St Giles’s Street, suggested name for Princes Street, [7].
• St Giles, statue of, thrown into North Loch, [118].
• St Giles’s, Tolbooth Church described, [114].
• St James’s Square, [335].
• St John’s Cross, [301].
• St John’s Street, [8], [302].
• St Mary-in-the-Fields (Kirk o’ Fields), situation of, [256].
• St Mary’s Wynd, [171], [258], [276], [287].
• Saints, Bowhead, the, [30].
• Salisbury Crags, [91].
• Sanctuary, [260].
• ‘Saving the ladies,’ [147], [251].
• Schetky, J. G. H., musician, [152], [253].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [6], [24], [31], [38], [87], [134], [140], [143], [147], [181], [182], [190], [231], [242], [243], [264], [277], [293], [298], [327], [328], [365].
• Scott, Walter, W.S., [335].
• Scott, William, Lord Stowell, [172].
• Scoundrels’ Walk, the, [115].
• Seafield, Earl of, [309].
• Selkirk, Earl of, [156], [264].
• Sellar, Mrs, milliner, anecdote of, [324].
• Shakspeare Square, [151].
• Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, [304].
• Ship Tavern, Leith, [284].
• Shows in Leith Walk, [362].
• Shut-up houses in Old Town, [35].
• Siddons, Mrs, [345].
• Silvermills, village of, [367].
• Sinclair, Effie (Mrs Euphame), her boarding-school, [230].
• Sinclair, Sir Robert, of Longformacus, [230].
• Sinclair, Sir William, of Mey, [77].
• Singing Jamie Balfour, [141].
• Sinkum the Cawdy, [130].
• Skull, the, of George Buchanan, [288] [n.]
• Smeaton, Mr, singer, [253].
• Smellie, William, printer of Burns’s Poems, [164].
• Smith, Adam, [57], [318].
• Smith, David, of Methven, [252].
• Smith, ‘General’ Joe, leader of Edinburgh mobs, [184].
• Smollett, a sister of, [303].
• Smollett, Tobias, [56], [303].
• Snuff-taking, prevalence of, [200].
• Somerville, Braid Hugh, a street fight in 1640, [39].
• Somerville family, arms of, [43].
• Somerville, Lord, and his method of litigation, [120].
• Somerville, Major, his combat with Captain Crawford, [39].
• Somerville of Cambusnethan, [120].
• Somerville, Peter and Bartholomew, [43].
• Somervilles, Memorie of the, [37].
• Sommers, Thomas, [149].
• South Back of Canongate, [258].
• South Bridge, [209].
• Speaking House, the, [312].
• Spendthrift Club, the, [150], [345].
• Spottiswoode, John, of Spottiswoode, [119], [269].
• Springfield, [362].
• Stabilini, musician, [254].
• Stair, Countess of, [63-69].
• Stair, Earl of, [63], [67], [123].
• Stamp-office Close, [143], [162], [192].
• Star and Garter Tavern, [162].
• Stays, [199].
• Steell, Sir John, sculptor, [18].
• Steil, John, musician, [161].
• Stewart, Archibald, Provost, [48], [181].
• Stewart, Dugald, Professor, [323].
• Stewart, General, of Garth, [72].
• Stewart, James, [25].
• Stewart, Robert (Rob Uncle), [72].
• Stewart, Sir William, killed in Blackfriars Wynd, [38].
• Stewarts of Bonskeid, [181].
• Stinking Close, [34].
• Stipends of Scotch Church, [20].
• Stomacher, the, [199].
• Strachan, Lord, [124].
• Straiton, Colonel Charles, [293].
• Strichen, Lord, [224], [236].
• Strichen’s Close, [222].
• Sutherland, Countess of, [205].
• Sutherland, Earl of, [205], [288].
• Sweating Club, [154].
• Swift, [314], [315].
• Swine roaming in the streets, [100].
• Swinton, Margaret, [293].
• Syme, Mrs, [80].
• Syme, Robert, W.S., [61].
• Tailors’ Hall, Cowgate, [346].
• Tam o’ the Cowgate (first Earl of Haddington), [244], [367].
• Tappit-hen, [151].
• Taverns of old times, [158-173].
• Taylor, the Water-Poet, [138].
• Tea-parties, fashionable hour for, [286].
• Telfer, Mrs, Smollett’s sister, [303].
• Templars’ Lands in Grassmarket, [50].
• Tenducci, singer, [253], [304], [305].
• Tennis Court, [344], [345].
• Theatre in Canongate, [346].
• Theatre in Carrubber’s Close, [15], [346].
• Theatre Royal, [7].
• Theatres, early, in Edinburgh, [344], [346], [347].
• Theophilus, Nicholaus, [260].
• Thomson, George, his account of music in Edinburgh in last century, [249-254].
• Thomson, poet, [7].
• Thomson’s, Mrs, lodgings, [171].
• Thomson, William, dagger-maker, [39].
• Thrale, Mrs, [60].
• Threipland, Sir Stuart, of Fingask, [269].
• Tinklarian Doctor (William Mitchell), a prating fanatic, [41].
• Tinwald, Lord Justice-Clerk, [9].
• Tirlin’-pins, [207].
• Toddrick’s Wynd, [257].
• Tod’s Close, [22].
• Tolbooth, Canongate, [248], [319].
• Tolbooth Church, [53], [105], [107], [114], [115].
• Tolbooth, Old, [82-94], [179].
• Tolbooth or ‘Towbuith’ Whigs, [21], [115].
• Topham, Major, [49], [176], [267].
• Town-guard, the, [4], [30], [84], [148], [179-182], [233].
• Town Rats, the, [179], [186].
• Town-wall, [258].
• Tradesman, habits of an old Edinburgh, [148].
• Traquair, ladies of, [286].
• Tron Church, [39], [58], [143], [144], [209].
• Tulzies (street fights), [37].
• Tweeddale Court, [280].
• Tweeddale, Marquis of, [225], [279].
• Tytler, Alexander, [289].
• Tytler of Woodhouselee, [152], [321].
• Udward’s house in Niddry’s Wynd, [210].
• Union Club, the, [155].
• Union, the, legends of, [309].
• University, the, [259].
• Urbani, Mr, singer, [253].
• Veronica, Miss, [60].
• Violante, Signora, [346].
• Wallace, Lady, [276], [277].
• Wall, town, [258].
• Ward’s Inn, [355].
• Warriston, [175].
• Water-gate, [150], [170], [308], [344].
• Water of Leith, [367].
• Waterstone, John, [39].
• Watson, George, [50].
• Webster, Dr Alexander, of convivial memory, [20], [115], [162].
• Webster’s Close, [20].
• Weigh-house, the, [27], [39].
• Weir, Grizel, [32].
• Weir, Major, wizard, [26], [31-37].
• Wemyss, Earl of, [111], [305].
• Wemyss, Laird of, [38].
• West Bow, [26-54], [133].
• West Port, [75], [245].
• Whey Club, the, [156].
• Whigs, Tolbooth, [21], [115].
• Whitefield, George, in Edinburgh, [7].
• Whiteford House, [10].
• White Hart Inn, [2], [171].
• White Horse Inn, [2], [170], [172].
• White Horse Stables, [170].
• Whitesmiths of the Bow, [26], [42].
• Wig Club, the, [155].
• Wig, the, of Lord Coalstoun, [96].
• Williamson of Cardrona, [165].
• Williamson, Peter, [114].
• Wilson, Daniel (Memorials of Edinburgh), [222].
• Wilson, James (Claudero), [330].
• Wilson the smuggler, [52], [180].
• Wodrow, historian, [15].
• Wooden-fronted houses, account of, [271].
• Woodhead, [61], [62].
• Woodhouselee, Lord, [130].
• Wood, Lang Sandy, [6].
• Wood’s Farm, [6], [366].
• Woods, Mr, actor, [149].
• Worthies, the, of Parliament House, [134].
• Writers’ Court, [162].
• Young, Alexander, W.S., [59].
• Young Bibles, [277].
• Young, John, [7].
• York, Duke of, [80], [181], [248], [344].

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