The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Stone in Morrison Streetbearing the Insignia of the Wrights. Street. It bears the arms of the Weavers Incorporation,already described, and their motto, * Sine me nudus, muchdefaced. Several early eighteenth-century houses with forestairs. 128 SCULPTURED STONES roundels, and gabled fronts still linger in the neighbourhoodof Castle Barns and the Canal Basins. One at No. 78Morrison Street bears a panel with square and compass—the insignia of the Wrights—and on either side of it theinitials G. J., M. L., and the date 1730
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Stone in Morrison Streetbearing the Insignia of the Wrights. Street. It bears the arms of the Weavers Incorporation,already described, and their motto, * Sine me nudus, muchdefaced. Several early eighteenth-century houses with forestairs. 128 SCULPTURED STONES roundels, and gabled fronts still linger in the neighbourhoodof Castle Barns and the Canal Basins. One at No. 78Morrison Street bears a panel with square and compass—the insignia of the Wrights—and on either side of it theinitials G. J., M. L., and the date 1730. The archaic-looking but not very ancient piece of sculpture thatsurmounted the entrance of the Charity Workhouse in Lane, the site of which is covered by the. stone formerly on St. Cuthberts Charity Workhouse. Caledonian Railway, has been removed to the MunicipalMuseum. It bears the date 1759 and the text, from theApocrypha: My Son, defraud not the Poor of his living,and Make not the Needy Eyes to wait Long. Eccl. iv. 1. The panel contains a quaint figure in cocked hat andsquare-tailed coat, depositing alms in the bag of the fatherof a pauper family ; a small child follows the father, succeededby the mother, with a baby on her back. THE WEST-END AND DALRY GROUPS 129 Returning to the immediate neighbourhood of the WestKirk and its churchyard (which is rich in sculptured tomb-stones of old * portioners, burgesses, and indwellers of Ports-burgh and its neighbourhood), note has to be taken of aninteresting inscribed tablet, which is a record of one of theearliest and most distinguished of the ministers of after its erection into a collegiate charge inpost-Reformation times. This is the Rev. Robert Pont,an associate of Knox and memb
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