Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . re ordered to seekaccommodation in Lady Testers church till othercould be found for them, and the Canongate Canongate.] THE CANONGATE CHURCH. 29 cliurch was accordingly built for them, at theexpense, says Arnot, of ^2,400 sterling. A portionof this consisted of 20,000 merks, left, in 1649, byThomas Moodie, a citizen, called by some SirThomas Moodie of Sauchtonhall, to re-build thechurch partially erected on the Castle Hill, anddemolished by the English during the siege of ministers were appointed to the Canonga
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . re ordered to seekaccommodation in Lady Testers church till othercould be found for them, and the Canongate Canongate.] THE CANONGATE CHURCH. 29 cliurch was accordingly built for them, at theexpense, says Arnot, of ^2,400 sterling. A portionof this consisted of 20,000 merks, left, in 1649, byThomas Moodie, a citizen, called by some SirThomas Moodie of Sauchtonhall, to re-build thechurch partially erected on the Castle Hill, anddemolished by the English during the siege of ministers were appointed to the Canongatechurch. The well-known Dr. Hugh Blair and the splendid scabbard. This life is full of contrasts ; sowhen tlie magistrates, in ermine and gold, tooktheir seats behind this sword of state in tlie frontgallery, on the right of the minister, and in thegallery, too, were to be seen congregated thehumble paupers from the Canongate poorhouse,now divested of its inmates and turned into ahospital. Our dear old Canongate, too, had iisBaron Bailie and Resident Bailies before the. THE ; ClII. RCII. late Principal Lee have been among the is of a cruciform plan, and has the summit ofits ogee gable ornamented with the crest of theburgh—the stags head and cross of King Davidslegendary adventure—and the arms of ThomasMoodie form a prominent ornament in front of it. In our young days, says a recent writer in a localpai)er, the Incorporated Trades, eight in number,occupied pews in the body of the church, thesehaving the names of the occujjiers painted on them;and in midsummer, when the Town Council visitedit, as is still their wont, the tradesmen placed largebouquets of flowers on their pews, and as oursittings were near tiiis display, we used to glancewith admiration from the flowers up to the greatsword standing erect in tlie front gallery in its Reform Bill in 1832 ruthlessly swept them , or I,ochaber-axe-men, who turned outon all public occasions
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