Chapter L: Of Session (4)

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.

THE END.

Edinburgh: Printed by W. & R. Chambers, Limited.

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Transcriber’s note:

The following changes have been made to this text:

Footnote 167: ancedote to anecdote—‘an anecdote is told’.

Page 238: encirling to encircling—‘encircling the head’.

Page 291: where to were—‘what were called the Back Stairs’.

Page 371: Newhailes to New Hailes—‘Dalrymple, Miss, Newhailes’.

Page 372: Fyfie to Fyvie—‘Fyvie, Lord’.
Hardcarse to Harcarse—‘Harcarse, Lord’.

Page 373: Jamieson to Jameson—‘Jameson, George’.

Page 374: Moyse’s to Moyses’s.
North Esk to Northesk.