Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . sociations-The Winton House—Whiteford House—The Dark Story of Queensbcrry House. The advancing exigencies of the age and the : of the court sulnni), but there still remain somenecessity for increased space and modern sanitary , to whicli belong many historical and literaryimprovements have made strange havoc among the associations of an interesting nature. Scott wasold alleys and mansions of the great central street never weary of lingering among them, and recalling 28 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Caaongate. the days that wer
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . sociations-The Winton House—Whiteford House—The Dark Story of Queensbcrry House. The advancing exigencies of the age and the : of the court sulnni), but there still remain somenecessity for increased space and modern sanitary , to whicli belong many historical and literaryimprovements have made strange havoc among the associations of an interesting nature. Scott wasold alleys and mansions of the great central street never weary of lingering among them, and recalling 28 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Caaongate. the days that were no more. No funeral hearse,says Lockhart, crept more leisurely than did hislandau up the Canongate; and not a queer, totter-ing gable but recalled to him some long-buried Most Noble Order of the Thistle, which he hadnow [rejerected, could not meet in St. Andrewschurch (/. the cathedral in Fife), being demolishedin the RebeUion; and so it was necessary for them memory of splendour or bloodshed, which, by a few I to liave this church, and the Provost of Edinburgh. SMOLLETT S HOUSE, ST. JOHNS srREKI. words, he set before the hearer in the reality of Canongate church, a most unpicturesque-looking edifice, of nameless style, with a species ofDoric porch, was built in 1688. The Abbeychurch of Holyrood had hitherto been the parishchurch of the Canongate, but in July, 1687, KingJames VII. wrote to the Privy Council, that thechurch of the Abbey was the chapel belonging toliis palace of Holyrood, and that the knights of the was ordained to see the keys of it given to a long silence, says Fountainhall, • theArchbishop of Glasgow told that it was a mansaland patrimonial church of the bisliopric of Edin-burgh, and though the see was vacant, yet itbelonged not to the Provost to deliver the keys. Yet the congregation were ordered to seekaccommodation in Lady Testers church till othercould be found for them, and the Canongate Canongate.] THE CANONGATE CHURCH. 29
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