Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . nted bythe council of the latter ;but the real glory of the Canongate may be saidto have departed with the court when James VLsucceeded to the throne of England in 1603, though,as we shall show, it long continued to be afashionable quarter of the metropolis even afterthe time of the Union. In pursuing the general history of the suburbs,we find that in 1609, under fiivour of James VI.,when a number of foreigners were introduced into OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ICanongate. the kingdom to teach the making of cloths ofvarious ki
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . nted bythe council of the latter ;but the real glory of the Canongate may be saidto have departed with the court when James VLsucceeded to the throne of England in 1603, though,as we shall show, it long continued to be afashionable quarter of the metropolis even afterthe time of the Union. In pursuing the general history of the suburbs,we find that in 1609, under fiivour of James VI.,when a number of foreigners were introduced into OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ICanongate. the kingdom to teach the making of cloths ofvarious kinds, a colony of them settled in theCanongate, under John Sutherland, and a Flemingnamed Jacob Van Headen, where they dailyexercised in their art of making, dressing, andlitting of stuffs, giving great light and knowledge Among the inhabitants of the Canongate wasa George Heriot, who died in the followingyear, 1610, aged seventy. He was the fatherof tlie founder of that famous and magnificenthospital, which is perhaps the greatest ornament ofeither Old or New HADDINGTON S ENTRY. of their calling to the country people. Notwith-standing that these industrious and inoffensive menhad royal letters investing them with special privi-leges, they were—as too often happens in thosecases where the enterprise of foreigners appears toclash with the interests of natives—much molestedand harassed by the magistrates of the Canongate,with a view of forcing them to become burgessesand free men in the regular way; but an appealto the Privy Council affirmed their exemption. In 1639, we learn from Spalding that George,second Marquis of Huntly, who in his youth hadcommanded the Scottish Guard of Louis residing at his old family mansion in theCanongate, wherein, about the month of November,two of his daughters were married with greatsolemnities—the I^dy Anne, who was aneprecise Puritan, to the Lord Drummond; and LadyHenrietta, who was a Roman Catholic, to LordSeton, son of
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