Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . m might have beenfound engaged on Humphrey Clinker. Moray House, on the south side of the street, was the ancientmansion of the Earls of Moray, and was erected in 1618, or1628, by Mary, Countess of Home, then a widow. OliverCromwell, on his first visit to Edinburgh, in 1648, took up hisresidence here, and established friendly relations with theleaders of the Covenanters. From the balcony in front of thebuilding, the Marquis of Argyle and his family saw the Marquisof Montrose conducted to prison, whence he was shortly after-wards led to execution. In th
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . m might have beenfound engaged on Humphrey Clinker. Moray House, on the south side of the street, was the ancientmansion of the Earls of Moray, and was erected in 1618, or1628, by Mary, Countess of Home, then a widow. OliverCromwell, on his first visit to Edinburgh, in 1648, took up hisresidence here, and established friendly relations with theleaders of the Covenanters. From the balcony in front of thebuilding, the Marquis of Argyle and his family saw the Marquisof Montrose conducted to prison, whence he was shortly after-wards led to execution. In the garden behind, Avhich consistsof a series of terraces, there are an old thorn and some fruittrees, that have doubtless, in bygone times, often cast theirshade over youth and beauty. In the lower part of the gardena small summer-house is pointed out as the place where theTreaty of Union was signed, but this is a mistake, as it wassigned in London.* Moray House is now used as a NormalSchool in connection with the Free Church of Bm OT¥[i I im hwf^k. The Canongate Jailor Tolbooth,on the north side of the street,was erected in the reign of James VI., and bears over an arch-way the inscription— Patri^^ et posteris, 1591. Onanichein the building are painted the arms of the Canongate, consist-ing of a stags head with a cross between the antlers, and themotto— Sic itur ad astra, as if the worthy inhabitants of* See Burtons History of Scotland, vol. i. page
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