Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . h Side of ia//fr Start/) ; 5. Grassmarket, looking west {ifier Sttrrtr Mui Sht/^tri^).21 The Cowgate.] LADY GALLOWAY. 257 Although the name of this wynd is as old asthe middle of the seventeeth century, none of thebuildings in it latterly were older than the middle ofthe eighteenth. They had all been removed bythose who were anxious for the benefit of such fineair as its surroundings aftbrded, for in the map of1647 the Viiiis Et/:ini-iiiii is sliown as having totlie westward gardens in plenitude, divide
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . h Side of ia//fr Start/) ; 5. Grassmarket, looking west {ifier Sttrrtr Mui Sht/^tri^).21 The Cowgate.] LADY GALLOWAY. 257 Although the name of this wynd is as old asthe middle of the seventeeth century, none of thebuildings in it latterly were older than the middle ofthe eighteenth. They had all been removed bythose who were anxious for the benefit of such fineair as its surroundings aftbrded, for in the map of1647 the Viiiis Et/:ini-iiiii is sliown as having totlie westward gardens in plenitude, divided by fourlong hedgerows, and closed on the south by the became remarkable for piety, mingled with greatstateliness and pride; and she is thus referred toin the Ridotto of Holyrood, partly written by hersister-in-law. Lady Bruce of Kinloss :-- And there was Bob Murray, though married, alas !Yet still rivalling Johnstone in beauty and there was my laJy, well known by her airs,Who neer goes to revel but after her prayers. The Bob herein referred to was Sir Robert. SVMSON THE PRINTERS HOUSE, 1873. (V « by A. IngUs.) crenelated wall of the cit)-, and it terminated by abend eastward at the Potterrow Port. Respectable members of the bar were alwaysglad to have a flat in some of the tall edifices onthe east side of the wynd. About the middle of it,on the west side, was a distinct mansion calledGalloway House, having a large pediment, andornamented on the top by stone vases. Thisresidence was built by Alexander, sixth Earl ofGalloway, one of the Lords of Police, who died in1773. His countess Catharine, daughter of JohnEarl of Dundonald, colonel of the Scottish HorseGuards, was mother of Ca])tain George Stewart, whofell at Ticonderoga. She had been a beauty in heryouth, and formed the subject of one of Hamiltonof Bangours poetical tributes, and in her old age81 Murray of Clermont. Among all the precisegrand-daiT>es of her time in Edinburgh, LadyGallowa
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