Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . inthe Greyfriars Kirkyard, boddin in feirofweir, andarrayet in their best armour, to witt, either pikeor speer, and the armour effeirand thairto, or withhakbuts and the armour effeirand thairto, and nochtwith halbarts or Jedburgh staffes. Rolls, and another who was Accountant-General ofthe Court of Chancery ; six Lords President of theSupreme Court of Scotland ; twenty-two senatorsof the College of Justice, and a host of men distin-guished for the splendour of their genius, piety, andworth. Here too lie, in unrecorded t
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . inthe Greyfriars Kirkyard, boddin in feirofweir, andarrayet in their best armour, to witt, either pikeor speer, and the armour effeirand thairto, or withhakbuts and the armour effeirand thairto, and nochtwith halbarts or Jedburgh staffes. Rolls, and another who was Accountant-General ofthe Court of Chancery ; six Lords President of theSupreme Court of Scotland ; twenty-two senatorsof the College of Justice, and a host of men distin-guished for the splendour of their genius, piety, andworth. Here too lie, in unrecorded thousands, citizensof more humble position, dust piled over dust, tillthe soil of the burial-place is now high above thelevel of the adjacent Candlemaker Row—the dustof those who lived and breathed, and walked ourstreets in days gone by, when as yet Edinburgh wasconfined in the narrower limits of the Old Town. The graves are so crowded on each other,says Arnot, writing in 1779, that the sextons fre-quently cannot avoid in opening a ripe grave ; Church 1 TOMBS. IN lHLKlHVA., ThcManyrs Monument :,, ,Monun,e., of Si, f y^^^^^^;^;;::^^:^^:^,:^!::^!^^^^^:^:^^:^^°Si^:rr6rctifs1y^^V: W^^ A.„ucc., .,.8. a-a VViUia-n Kobcuson, m ; >;,,)(, , 1793 Rrformcr,hn Laying, ^,S2 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Greyfriars Church. encroaching on one not fit to be touched ! Thewhole presents a scene equally nauseous and un-wholesome. How soon this spot will be so sur-charged with animal juices and oils, that, becomingone mass of corruption, its steams willburst forth with the prey of a pestilence, we shallnot pretend to determine; but we will venture tosay, the effects of this burying-ground would erenow have been severely felt, were it not that, besidesthe coldness of the climate, they have been checkedby the acidity of the coal smoke and the height ofthe winds, which in the neighbourhood of Edin-burgh blow wit
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