[CONTENTS.]

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The Changes of the Last Hundred Years[1]
The Castle-Hill[11]

Hugo Arnot—Allan Ramsay—House of the Gordon Family—SirDavid Baird—Dr Webster—House of Mary de Guise.

The West Bow[26]

The Bowhead—Weigh-house—Anderson’s Pills—Oratories—ColonelGardiner—‘Bowhead Saints’—‘The Seizers’—Story of a JacobiteCanary—Major Weir—Tulzies—The Tinklarian Doctor—Old AssemblyRoom—Paul Romieu—‘He that Tholes Overcomes’—ProvostStewart—Donaldsons the Booksellers—Bowfoot—TheTemplars’ Lands—The Gallows Stone.

James’s Court[55]

David Hume—James Boswell—Lord Fountainhall.

Story of the Countess of Stair[63]
The Old Bank Close[70]

The Regent Morton—The Old Bank—Sir Thomas Hope—Chiesly ofDalry—Rich Merchants of the Sixteenth Century—Sir WilliamDick—The Birth of Lord Brougham.

The Old Tolbooth[82]
Some Memories of the Luckenbooths[95]

Lord Coalstoun and his Wig—Commendator Bothwell’s House—LadyAnne Bothwell—Mahogany Lands and Fore-stairs—The Krames—Creech’s Shop.

Some Memoranda of the Old Kirk of St Giles[105]
The Parliament Close[109]

Ancient Churchyard—Booths attached to the High Church—Goldsmiths—GeorgeHeriot—The Deid-Chack.

Memorials of the Nor’ Loch[117]
The Parliament House[119]

Old Arrangements of the House—Justice in Bygone Times—Courtof Session Garland—Parliament House Worthies.

Convivialia[138]
Taverns of Old Times[158]
The Cross—Caddies[174]
The Town-Guard[179]
Edinburgh Mobs[183]

The Blue Blanket—Mobs of the Seventeenth Century—Bowed Joseph.

Bickers[189]
Susanna, Countess of Eglintoune[192]
Female Dresses of Last Century[199]
The Lord Justice-Clerk Alva[204]

Ladies Sutherland and Glenorchy—The Pin or Risp.

Marlin’s and Niddry’s Wynds[209]

Tradition of Marlin the Pavier—House of Provost Edward—Story ofLady Grange.

Abbot of Melrose’s Lodging[223]

Sir George Mackenzie—Lady Anne Dick.

Blackfriars Wynd[228]

Palace of Archbishop Bethune—Boarding-Schools of the Last Century—TheLast of the Lorimers—Lady Lovat.

The Cowgate[240]

House of Gavin Douglas the Poet—Skirmish of Cleanse-the-Causeway—CollegeWynd—Birthplace of Sir Walter Scott—The Horse Wynd—Tam o’ the Cowgate—Magdalen Chapel.

St Cecilia’s Hall[249]
The Murder of Darnley[256]
Mint Close[260]

The Mint—Robert Cullen—Lord Chancellor Loughborough.

Miss Nicky Murray[265]
The Bishop’s Land[269]
John Knox’s Manse[271]
Hyndford’s Close[275]
House of the Marquises of Tweeddale—The Begbie Tragedy[279]
The Ladies of Traquair[286]
Greyfriars Churchyard[288]

Signing of the Covenant—Henderson’s Monument—Bothwell BridgePrisoners—A Romance.

Story of Mrs Macfarlane[291]
The Canongate[295]

Distinguished Inhabitants in Former Times—Story of a Burning—Morocco’sLand—New Street.

St John Street[302]

Lord Monboddo’s Suppers—The Sister of Smollett—Anecdote ofHenry Dundas.

Moray House[306]
The Speaking House[312]
Panmure House—Adam Smith[318]
John Paterson the Golfer[320]
Lothian Hut[323]
Henry Prentice and Potatoes[325]
The Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth[327]
Claudero[330]
Queensberry House[336]
Tennis Court[344]

Early Theatricals—The Canongate Theatre—Digges and Mrs Bellamy—ATheatrical Riot.

Marionville—Story of Captain Macrae[351]
Alison Square[358]
Leith Walk[360]
Gabriel’s Road[366]
INDEX[369]

[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.]

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An Elegant Modern City[Frontispiece]
Map of Edinburgh, Old and New[xxvi]
A series of towers rising from a palace on the plain to a castle in the airColour Drawing[1]
White Hart Inn, Grassmarket””[2]
Newhaven Fishwife””[4]
Rouping-Wife””[9]
The Castle-Hill””[11]
Duke of Gordon’s House””[18]
The Bowhead””[27]
Grassmarket, from west end of Cowgate””[50]
Edinburgh, from the Calton Hill””[83]
St Giles, West Window””[105]
Heriot’s Hospital, from Greyfriars Churchyard””[113]
A Suggestion of the North Loch and St Cuthbert’s, from Allan Ramsay’s Garden””[117]
The Parliament House””[128]
‘Auld Reekie,’ from Largo””[152]
Upper Baxter’s Close, where Burns first resided in Edinburgh””[164]
White Horse Inn””[170]
Forenoon at the Cross””[174]
The Town-Guard””[179]
The Castle, from Princes Street””[214]
Blackfriars Wynd””[228]
The Cowgate””[240]
Old Houses, College Wynd (near here Sir Walter Scott was born)””[242]
John Knox’s Manse””[274]
Greyfriars Churchyard””[288]
St John’s Close, Entrance to Canongate Kilwinning Mason Lodge””[305]

The objects of interest between the Castle and Holyrood are grouped topographically in the following list, with references to the Map.