Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . den till taken to a cartelship, commanded by Captain Robertson, in LeithRoads. defended Mr. Fitzsimmons, who was sentenced tothree months imprisonment in the Tolbooth. Inthe following September 600 French prisoners (in-cluding the crew of the ) were marchedfrom the Castle, under a guard of the North YorkMilitia, to Leith, where they embarked for Eng-land in care of 150 bayonets of the 71st High-landers. After the erection of St. Pauls Church, in York1 Place, the Cowgate Chapel was purchased by the Cowcate. ]


Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . den till taken to a cartelship, commanded by Captain Robertson, in LeithRoads. defended Mr. Fitzsimmons, who was sentenced tothree months imprisonment in the Tolbooth. Inthe following September 600 French prisoners (in-cluding the crew of the ) were marchedfrom the Castle, under a guard of the North YorkMilitia, to Leith, where they embarked for Eng-land in care of 150 bayonets of the 71st High-landers. After the erection of St. Pauls Church, in York1 Place, the Cowgate Chapel was purchased by the Cowcate. ] ST. CHAPEL. 249 United Secession congregation. It was then seated Wynd, or street, has been pulled down; also, the for 1,792, with a stipend of ^210 and ^12 allow- east side of the High School Wynd, with all its ance for sacramental purposes. And in 1856, it picturesque and overhanging timber fronts and became, by purchase, the property of the Roman dovecot gables. Catholic body, with whom it still remains. It was I In 1784 Mr. John Francis Erskinc, of the at-. THE EPISCOr.\L CH.\ILL, (After an Engraving in the Scots Magazinf, 1774.) dedicated to St. Patrick, and the then adjacentmansion of the Earls of Selkirk was repaired andrestored with admirable taste by the late Rev. , as a chapel-house ; but it has since beenuselessly and recklessly removed by the Improve-ment Trust, and a hideous edifice substituted in itsplace. Since then, with the exception of the Tweeddalearchway, the whole north side of the street fromthe Blackfriars Wynd to the foot of St. Marys80 tainted house of Mar, who died in 1S25, residedin the Cowgate, but in what part we have nomeans of ascertaining. That the ancient name of this street was theSouthgate is proved by the title-page of a workpresented to the Advocates Library in 1788— Ijcit cnliis il)c maning nnB Bfsport of lEm=prcntit in the Sotithjattt of (fsinbiugf) be CiTlaltcr CTlKprnananil ^ntiiTlu fHiHar tlic


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