Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . bey of Holyrood, beneath which all that wasgreat and good, and much that was ignoble andbad have passed and repassed in the days that areno more. This edifice, of which views from the cast andwest are still preserved, is supposed to have beenthe work of the good .\bbot Ballantync, whorebuilt the north side of the church in 1490, andto whom we shall have occasion to refer own mansion, or lodging, stood here on thenorth side of the street, and the remains of it,together with the porch, were recklessly destro
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . bey of Holyrood, beneath which all that wasgreat and good, and much that was ignoble andbad have passed and repassed in the days that areno more. This edifice, of which views from the cast andwest are still preserved, is supposed to have beenthe work of the good .\bbot Ballantync, whorebuilt the north side of the church in 1490, andto whom we shall have occasion to refer own mansion, or lodging, stood here on thenorth side of the street, and the remains of it,together with the porch, were recklessly destroyedand removed by the Hereditary Keeper of thePalace in i 753. OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canongate. A little gable-ended house now occupies the dow on the ground floor, a cavity was found insite of the former, and was long known as the the sohd wall, containing the skeleton of a child,dwelling of a very different personage, a Lucky i with some remains of fine linen cloth in which itSpence, of unenviable notoriety, whose Last ! had been wrapped. Our authority, says Wilson,. i NISBET OK S lIuUSi:. Advice figures somewhat coarsely in the poemsof Allan Ramsay. About 1833 a discovery was made, during somealterations in tliis house, which was deemed illus-trative of the desperate character of its seventeenth-century occupant. In breaking out a new win- a worthy shoemaker, who had occupied the housefor forty-eight years, was present when the dis-covery was made, and described very graphicallythe amazement and horror of the workman, whothrew away his crowbar, and was with difficultypersuaded to resume his operations. Canongate 1 MONTROSE. 3
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