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Edinburgh: Painted by John Fulleylove; described by Rosaline Masson
Masson, Rosaline
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Description and travel
[57] _Vide_ Provost Creech, quoted in Chambers’s _Traditions of
Edinburgh_.
[58] Murray of Broughton, Prince Charlie’s secretary, who afterwards
gave evidence against the Cause.
[59] Presently Jeffrey, in his slashing review of _Marmion_ in the
_Edinburgh Review_, was to accuse Scott of want of patriotism. He
dined with Scott that night at Castle Street, and found Scott as
hospitable and kind as ever; but from that moment Scott broke off his
connection with the _Review_.
[60] Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black,
1884.
[61] Dalkeith Palace, the residence of the Dukes of Buccleuch, is held
by them, as Craigmillar used to be held, on the understanding that the
Sovereign may command it as a Royal residence.
[62] “I return no more.”
[63] The architect was Kemp, who, when a poor lad, trudging along the
Selkirk road with his joiner’s tools on his back, had been given “a
lift” by the kindly Sir Walter Scott as he drove by. Shortly after the
erection of the monument Kemp was drowned.
[64] Truro Cathedral, and the great Roman Catholic Cathedral at
Westminster, both built since, are larger.
[65] This is often erroneously called “Old Parliament Hall,” a name
that not only limits the uses to which it was habitually put, and thus
lessens its interest, but also gives the wrong impression that the
Scottish Parliaments were held there, and there only. The Scottish
Parliaments were held wherever the King happened to be. If the King
was in Edinburgh, they were held in Edinburgh, either at this hall in
the Castle, or at the Tolbooth.
[66] Miss Warrender’s _Walks near Edinburgh_, p. 33 (footnote).
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