Traditions of Edinburgh

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Author

Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871

Credits

E-text prepared by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Antiquities

Category

Text

eBook-No.

61314

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61314

Release Date

February 4, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH
2. 2.INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 1868.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION TO PRESENT ISSUE.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — EDINBURGH OLD AND NEW.
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH.
7. 7.THE CHANGES OF THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. [1745-1845.]
8. 8.THE CASTLE-HILL. — HUGO ARNOT. — ALLAN RAMSAY. — HOUSE OF THE GORDON FAMILY. — DR WEBSTER. — HOUSE OF MARY DE GUISE.
9. 9.THE WEST BOW. — THE BOWHEAD. — ANDERSON’S PILLS. — ORATORIES—COLONEL GARDINER. — BOWHEAD SAINTS—SEIZERS—A JACOBITE BLACKBIRD. — MAJOR WEIR. [23] — TULZIES. — THE TINKLARIAN DOCTOR. — OLD ASSEMBLY-ROOM. — PAUL ROMIEU. — ‘HE THAT THOLES OVERCOMES.’ — PROVOST STEWART’S HOUSE—DONALDSONS THE BOOKSELLERS. — TEMPLARS’ LANDS. — THE GALLOWS STONE.
10. 10.JAMES’S COURT. — DAVID HUME. — JAMES BOSWELL. — LORD FOUNTAINHALL.
11. 11.STORY OF THE COUNTESS OF STAIR.
12. 12.THE OLD BANK CLOSE. — OLD BANK CLOSE. — CHIESLY OF DALRY. — RICH MERCHANTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY—SIR WILLIAM DICK. — THE BIRTH OF LORD BROUGHAM.
13. 13.THE OLD TOLBOOTH.
14. 14.SOME MEMORIES OF THE LUCKENBOOTHS. — LORD COALSTOUN AND HIS WIG. — COMMENDATOR BOTHWELL’S HOUSE. — THE KRAMES. — CREECH’S SHOP.
15. 15.SOME MEMORANDA OF THE OLD KIRK OF ST GILES.
16. 16.THE PARLIAMENT CLOSE. — BOOTHS. — GOLDSMITHS. — GEORGE HERIOT.
17. 17.MEMORIALS OF THE NOR’ LOCH.
18. 18.THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE. — JUSTICE IN BYGONE TIMES. — COURT OF SESSION GARLAND. — PART FIRST. — PART SECOND. — LOCKHART OF COVINGTON. [126] — LORD KAMES. — LORD HAILES. — LORD GARDENSTONE. — LORD PRESIDENT DUNDAS. — LORD MONBODDO. — PARLIAMENT HOUSE WORTHIES.
19. 19.CONVIVIALIA.
20. 20.TAVERNS OF OLD TIMES.
21. 21.THE CROSS—CADDIES.
22. 22.THE TOWN-GUARD.
23. 23.EDINBURGH MOBS.
24. 24.BICKERS.
25. 25.SUSANNA, COUNTESS OF EGLINTOUNE.
26. 26.FEMALE DRESSES OF LAST CENTURY.
27. 27.THE LORD JUSTICE-CLERK ALVA. [172]
28. 28.MARLIN’S AND NIDDRY’S WYNDS. — STORY OF LADY GRANGE. [180]
29. 29.ABBOT OF MELROSE’S LODGING.
30. 30.BLACKFRIARS WYND. — PALACE OF ARCHBISHOP BETHUNE [OR BEATON]. — BOARDING-SCHOOLS OF THE LAST CENTURY. — THE LAST OF THE LORIMERS. — LADY LOVAT.
31. 31.THE COWGATE. — HOUSE OF GAVIN DOUGLAS THE POET—SKIRMISH OF CLEANSE-THE-CAUSEWAY. — COLLEGE WYND—BIRTHPLACE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. — THE HORSE WYND. — TAM O’ THE COWGATE.
32. 32.ST CECILIA’S HALL.
33. 33.THE MURDER OF DARNLEY.
34. 34.MINT CLOSE. — ROBERT CULLEN.
35. 35.MISS NICKY MURRAY.
36. 36.[THE BISHOP’S LAND.
37. 37.JOHN KNOX’S MANSE.
38. 38.HYNDFORD’S CLOSE.
39. 39.HOUSE OF THE MARQUISES OF TWEEDDALE—THE BEGBIE TRAGEDY.
40. 40.[THE LADIES OF TRAQUAIR.
41. 41.GREYFRIARS CHURCHYARD. — BOTHWELL BRIDGE PRISONERS.
42. 42.STORY OF MRS MACFARLANE.
43. 43.THE CANONGATE.
44. 44.ST JOHN STREET.
45. 45.MORAY HOUSE.
46. 46.THE SPEAKING HOUSE.
47. 47.PANMURE HOUSE—ADAM SMITH.
48. 48.JOHN PATERSON THE GOLFER.
49. 49.[LOTHIAN HUT.
50. 50.HENRY PRENTICE AND POTATOES.
51. 51.THE DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUCH AND MONMOUTH.
52. 52.CLAUDERO.
53. 53.QUEENSBERRY HOUSE.
54. 54.TENNIS COURT. — CANONGATE THEATRE.
55. 55.MARIONVILLE—STORY OF CAPTAIN MACRAE.
56. 56.ALISON SQUARE.
57. 57.LEITH WALK.
58. 58.[GABRIEL’S ROAD.
59. 59.INDEX.

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