A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . court. WhenGordon of Rothiemay executed hisfamous birds-eye view of Edinburghin 1647, the Seytoun lodging stoodentire, with its open pleasure-grounds to the north, its close, andouter and inner courts. The latter is there shown as a largeenclosed quadrangle, on a scale only equalled by one or twoothers among the civic mansions of the In a charter granted by the Provost and Magistrates ofEdinburgh to Ebenezer MCulloch, one of the
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . court. WhenGordon of Rothiemay executed hisfamous birds-eye view of Edinburghin 1647, the Seytoun lodging stoodentire, with its open pleasure-grounds to the north, its close, andouter and inner courts. The latter is there shown as a largeenclosed quadrangle, on a scale only equalled by one or twoothers among the civic mansions of the In a charter granted by the Provost and Magistrates ofEdinburgh to Ebenezer MCulloch, one of the managers of theBritish Linen Manufactory, in the year 1748, the ground nowpartly occupied by Whitefoord House is described as All andwhole that area and ruins which formerly belonged to the Earlsof Winton, and now to us. From the record of the relativeproceedings by the Town Council, it appears that the dimensionsof the area were as follows : From east to west, fronting to thehigh street of the Canongate, sixty-two feet; and from south tonorth, two hundred and fourteen feet. The ruins appear tohave long since been levelled to the ground; but during some. MISSAL AT DUNS CASTLE. 1 Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh, i. zet fordward ought to be substituted for Semper! which was the later motto of theEarls of Dunfermline. 198 SETONS CLOSE AND LAND comparatively recent excavations a few yards to the south ofWhitefoord House, several underground arches were broughtto light which in all probability formed a portion of the ancientedifice of the On the same side of the Canongate, but much higher up,is Setons Close, now numbered 267. Setons Land ismentioned in a song embraced in a manuscript collection com-piled about 1760, and printed in the second volume of ChamberssTraditions of Edinburgh, where it is stated that there wasanother house in the now extinct Libbertons Wynd, distin-guished by the name of Setons Land. The song celebratesthe charms of a certain Mally Lee, an
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