Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . THE BCRGH SE.\L OV THE ^8^4, THE MARKET CROSS, munity had been swept away by the Reformation ;and by the kings grant a commendator succeededthe last abbot, enjoying the privileges of the latter,while the temporal superiority of the Canongatewas conferred on the future Earlof Roxburgh. Among the older legends of the Canongate is one mentioned by Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit, who tells us that Sir Lewis Eel- lenden, a Lord of Session, Council, and E.\chequer, about the year 1591, dealt with a war
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . THE BCRGH SE.\L OV THE ^8^4, THE MARKET CROSS, munity had been swept away by the Reformation ;and by the kings grant a commendator succeededthe last abbot, enjoying the privileges of the latter,while the temporal superiority of the Canongatewas conferred on the future Earlof Roxburgh. Among the older legends of the Canongate is one mentioned by Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit, who tells us that Sir Lewis Eel- lenden, a Lord of Session, Council, and E.\chequer, about the year 1591, dealt with a warlock, called Richard Graham, to raise the devil, -ivliich he did in the back-yard of his own house in the Canongate, and he was thereby so terrified that he took sickness, and thereof died. And having left his lady, sister to the Lord Livingstone, a great conjunct-fee, the Earl of Orkney married her, and after some years, having moved her to sell her conjunct-fee-lands, and having disposed of all the monies of the same, sent her back to the Canongate, where she lived -s-|-T divers years very miserably, an
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