. Trinity College and Trinity Hospital; a historical sketch. d, while on the other side of the road stood thebuilding of Saint Pauls Work, which at one time was an institutionof a somewhat similar kind to the Hospital. It is to be afterwardsreferred to, and was situated near to where Macdowall Street recentlystood. Leith Wynd was at that time the chief access from theRoyalty of Edinburgh to the Port of Leith, by way of St NiniansRow and Greenside. In the row, there was in those days, an ancientchapel dedicated to St Ninian. It is recorded that the crypt andother remains of St Ninians Chapel we
. Trinity College and Trinity Hospital; a historical sketch. d, while on the other side of the road stood thebuilding of Saint Pauls Work, which at one time was an institutionof a somewhat similar kind to the Hospital. It is to be afterwardsreferred to, and was situated near to where Macdowall Street recentlystood. Leith Wynd was at that time the chief access from theRoyalty of Edinburgh to the Port of Leith, by way of St NiniansRow and Greenside. In the row, there was in those days, an ancientchapel dedicated to St Ninian. It is recorded that the crypt andother remains of St Ninians Chapel were removed in the year 1814,for the purpose of clearing the site for the Regent Bridge, whichnow spans the valley beneath. The chapel of St Ninian must havehad some connection with the parish of the same name in Stirling; * It would be interesting to know whether Halkerstones Wynd, which still leads fromthe High Street to the site of the Physic Gardens, was built or designed by the JohnHalkerstone above refeiTed to, and was for that reason uamed after a 3 •- :j U ^ c O I?A ^ p. THE FOUNDRESS—POPES BULLS—THE SITE. 19 because up till very recently several houses in the district wereassessed for poor-rates by the Stirling authorities. As in Stirling, soin Edinburgh, the colloquial phrase, being no doubt a corruption ofthe word, was not St Ninians, but St Ringans. St Ninians Eowin later days had the more common appellation of The BeggarsRaw. The situation of the College and Hospital, according to the opinionof the late Sir Daniel Wilson, was not by any means a favourable was placed in a low lying locality, and in a very poor district of thecity. It was situated in what has recently been termed the LowCalton, not very far from the precipitous rock on which the EdinburghJail stands. That rock used to bear the designation of the DhuCraig. In the Diurnal of Occurrents, under date 1571, it is sostyled, wherein it is recorded that a battery was erected on the DowCraig,
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