Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . eist side of the transthereof, quhilk gaif yeirlie to himthe sowm of ten merks of mealallanarlie, &c., but which was thenruinous and about to fill; so thesite was given in feu to MarionCraig, widow of vmquhille JhonFoularton. In 1712, when Mr. Robert Mon-teith, , was preparing thesecond edition of his curiousTheater of Mortality (the firstappeared in 1704)—a grim collec-tion of Scottish sepulchral inscrip-tions which had already cost him eight years sore travel and at sir walter scott. vast charges and expenses—he ^
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . eist side of the transthereof, quhilk gaif yeirlie to himthe sowm of ten merks of mealallanarlie, &c., but which was thenruinous and about to fill; so thesite was given in feu to MarionCraig, widow of vmquhille JhonFoularton. In 1712, when Mr. Robert Mon-teith, , was preparing thesecond edition of his curiousTheater of Mortality (the firstappeared in 1704)—a grim collec-tion of Scottish sepulchral inscrip-tions which had already cost him eight years sore travel and at sir walter scott. vast charges and expenses—he ^^,, ?J ^ • ^1 /^ 11 117- J intheIlhtitrated£ditioitoflVaverley, n ii i .... was resident m the College Wynd, *^^^,.„,w^„/^/„^,.i&.«.^). superfine small hatt whither he, by advertisement in the Cotirant, requested the copies to be sent to him, in the hope that all generous persons will cheerfully submit his proposals in a matter so pious, pleasant, profitable, and national. ( Dom. Ann., III.) The middlesame century.
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