Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . withthe Master of Nairn, in w-hose arms the princeexpired. In the subsequent Ajjril the Episcopal Collegemet at Aberdeen, and unanimously resolved thatthey should submit to the present Government ofthis kingdom as invested in his present INIajestyGeorge III., death having broken the tie wliichbound them to the House of Stuart. Thence-forward the royal family was prayed for in all theirchurches, and the penal statutes, after \ariousmodifications, were repealed in 1792. Eight )earsafterwards the Rev. Archibald Alison (fat
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . withthe Master of Nairn, in w-hose arms the princeexpired. In the subsequent Ajjril the Episcopal Collegemet at Aberdeen, and unanimously resolved thatthey should submit to the present Government ofthis kingdom as invested in his present INIajestyGeorge III., death having broken the tie wliichbound them to the House of Stuart. Thence-forward the royal family was prayed for in all theirchurches, and the penal statutes, after \ariousmodifications, were repealed in 1792. Eight )earsafterwards the Rev. Archibald Alison (father of 248 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. LCowgate. the historian) became senior minister of the Cow-gate chapel. One of his immediate predecessors, the Fitzsimmons, an Englishman, became seriouslyembroiled with the authorities, and was arraigned Two of these four, Vanvelde and Jaffie, hadescaped from the Castle by sawing through theirwindow bars with a sword-blade furnished to themby John Armour, a clerk in the city. The othertwo were on parole. The Hon. Henry Erskine. THE MEM. MARKET, COWGATE. before the High Court of Justiciary in July, 1799,on the charge of aiding the escape of Jean Bap-tiste Vanvelde, Jean Jacques Jaffie, Rene Griffon,and Hypolite Depondt, French prisoners, from theCastle of Edinburgh, by concealing them in hishouse, and taking them in the Newhaven fishingboat, of Neil Dr}sdale to the Isle of Inchkeith,.vi-^-h^e they remained hidden till taken to a cartelship, commanded by Captain Robertson, in LeithRoads. defended Mr. Fitzsimmons, who was sentenced tothree months imprisonment in the Tolbooth. Inthe following September 600 French prisoners (in-cluding the crew of the ) were marchedfrom the Castle, under a guard of the North YorkMilitia, to Leith, where they embarked for Eng-land in care of 150 bayonets of the 71st High-landers. After the erection of St. Pauls Church, in York1 Place, the Cowgate Chapel was purchased by the Cowcate. ] ST.
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