Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . of a 364 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Heriots Hospital. banker. On the 28th of May, 158S, he was admit-ted a member of the corporation of Goldsmitlis. The first material notice of George Heriot isconnected with his marriage, when his father fur-nished him with the means of starting in business,by ye setting up of ane buith to him. In all hereceived from his father, and the relations of hiswife—Christian, daughter of Simon Marjoribanks,burgessof Edinburgh—asum of about ^214 i is. , and the buitJi we \xx\t noticed a
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . of a 364 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Heriots Hospital. banker. On the 28th of May, 158S, he was admit-ted a member of the corporation of Goldsmitlis. The first material notice of George Heriot isconnected with his marriage, when his father fur-nished him with the means of starting in business,by ye setting up of ane buith to him. In all hereceived from his father, and the relations of hiswife—Christian, daughter of Simon Marjoribanks,burgessof Edinburgh—asum of about ^214 i is. , and the buitJi we \xx\t noticed already thing for her to pledge the most precious of herjewels with Heriot, and James was often at his witsend to redeem the impledged articles, to enable thequeen to appear in public. On the 4th of April, 1601, Heriot was appointedjeweller to the king, and it has been computed,says Dr. Steven, that during the ten years whichimmediately preceded the accession of James to theCrown of Great Britain, Heriots bills for QueenAnnes jewels alone did not amount to less than. REDUCED FACSIMILE OF .4 VIEW OF HERIOTs HOSPITAL BY OF KOTHIEMAV. as being in the vicinity of St. Giless church. Therehe acquired an extensive connection as a goldsmithand money-lender, and soon recommendedhimself to the notice of his sovereign, by whomhe was constituted, as Birrel records, on the 17thof July, goldsmith to his consort the gay QueenAnne, which was intimat at the crosse, be opinproclamatione and sound of trumpet ; and ane Clic,the Frenchman, dischargit, quha was the QueensGoldsmythe befor. Anne was extravagant, fond of jewellery andsplendour, thus never had tradesman a better cus-tomer. She loved ornaments for the decoration ofher own person, and as presents to others, and whendesirous of procuring money, it was no uncommon ^50,000 sterling—an enormous sum for thosedays. Imitating the extravagance of the Court, thenobles vied with each other in their adornmentwith precious jewels, many o
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