[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. [33] _History of St. Giles’s, Edinburgh_, by the Very Rev. Dr. Cameron Lees. W. and R. Chambers. [34] Taylor’s _Pennyless Pilgrimage_. [35] A “land” is a house of several storeys, usually consisting of different tenements. [36] _Melville’s Memoirs_, p. 181. [37] The initials G. S. for the wife suggest that the formal “Egidia” was softened, after the homely Scottish fashion, into “Gidy.” [38] Scandals. [39] Byers’ Close takes its name from John Byers of Coates, and the carved lintel, “I.B: M.B: 1611 Blissit be God in al his giftis,” now on the old family mansion, Coates House, within the grounds of St. Mary’s Cathedral, was removed from Byers’ Close. [40] Wilson’s _Memorials_, ii. footnote to p. 12; and Grant’s _Old and New Edinburgh_, i. 223. [41] Sir Alexander Boswell. [42] This Robert Mylne (F.R.S.) was a great-grandson of the Robert Mylne mentioned on p. 68, and was tenth in the line of Scottish Royal Master Masons of that name. He afterwards settled in London, where he built Blackfriars Bridge over the Thames, was the successor of Wren as Superintendent of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and died in 1811. [43] Only the entries to these closes have been suffered to remain. Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, p. 214. [44] _Heroic Love_, James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. [45] Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, pp. 354-356. [46] This inn must not be confused with Whitehorse Inn in Boyd’s Close (no longer existing), where Dr. Johnson went on his arrival in Edinburgh in 1773. [47] Poets. [48] Wilson’s _Memorials_, ii. 48. [49] Tells tales. [50] It is disputed now by some whether this house was really Knox’s. [51] Professor Masson’s _Edinburgh Sketches and Memories_, p. 86. A. and C. Black. [52] From Chambers’s _Collection of Scottish Songs and Ballads_. Authorship attributed to two young lady visitors to Edinburgh. [53] See Chapter IV., p. 63. [54] Grant’s _Old and New Edinburgh_. [55] Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, p. 13. [56] Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, p. 16.