Traditions of Edinburgh . , published on theloth December 1785, which, however, would vainly be lookedfor in the reprinted copies, as it was immediately suppressed.] * The house is marked No. 21. Its back windows enjoy a fine view of the Firth of Forthand the Fife hills. The registration of his lordships birth appears as follows : Wednesday,30th September 1778, Henry Brougham, Esq., parish of St Gilles (sic), and EleonoraSyme, his spouse, a son born the igth current, named Henry Peter. Witnesses, MrArchibald Hope, Royal Bank, and Principal Robertson. The parts of the New Townthee built belonge
Traditions of Edinburgh . , published on theloth December 1785, which, however, would vainly be lookedfor in the reprinted copies, as it was immediately suppressed.] * The house is marked No. 21. Its back windows enjoy a fine view of the Firth of Forthand the Fife hills. The registration of his lordships birth appears as follows : Wednesday,30th September 1778, Henry Brougham, Esq., parish of St Gilles (sic), and EleonoraSyme, his spouse, a son born the igth current, named Henry Peter. Witnesses, MrArchibald Hope, Royal Bank, and Principal Robertson. The parts of the New Townthee built belonged to St Giless parish. THE OLD TOLBOOTH. 95 THE OLD TOLBOOTH. The genius of Scott has shed a peculiar interest upon thisancient structure, whose cant name of the Heart of Mid-Lothianhas given a title to one of his happiest novels. It stood in asingular situation, occuppng half the width of the High Street,elbow to elbow, as it were, with St Giless Church, Antique inform, gloomy and haggard in aspect, its black stanchioned.
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