[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.