The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. - Vol. 1-35 (1908-1985); N.S. Vol. 1 (1991)- (1909) (14593844570)

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Title: The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. -- Vol. 1-35 (1908-1985) ; N.S. Vol. 1 (1991)-
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Old Edinburgh Club
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Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable for the members of the club, 1908-
Contributing Library: University of Guelph Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Scottish Studies Foundation (Canada)



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.It was simply a rubble wall, but the rough undressed stones—unlike the fragment of the first wall in West Princes StreetGardens—were not cemented with good lime mortar. Theplan, also, of utilising ordinary yard and boundary walls, andof strengthening them by adding to their thickness andheight, although a commendable expedient at the time, couldnever, under any circumstances, have produced satisfactoryresults. Considerable doubt has always existed as to the course ofthe waU between Bristo Port and the northern boundary ofHeriots Hospital. The difficulty had its origin in a vaguestatement in Maitlands History of Edinburgh—a most meritori-ous work—that the waU, after bounding the grounds ofHeriots Hospital on the north, passeth through the Grey-friars Churchyard to Bristo Port ; and in this he was followedby Arnot, Kincaid, and other historians. Kincaid states thatthe wall ran eastwards along the north side of Heriotsgarden, part of which is still remaining, and forms the north
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0 i M H tfi ^^ .-d B H lU p p p 0 0 h? J) N P H 0 THE FLODDEN WALL OF EDINBURGH 75 wall of Heriots garden till it meets the gardeners house,where the entrance to said hospital has obliterated it eastwardof that till we pass the house known by the name of Friar-Shaws, an entrance to which is from the Greyfriars Church-j^ard. Here the traces of the wall begin again, directing itscourse eastwards till you come to the road through thecemetery ground leading to the church, where it is entirelylost, but from or near about this place it is very probable ittook a south-east direction till it came to Bristo Port. Itmay be stated here that the wall to which Kincaid refers, andtraces of which were visible in his day, was not the FloddenWall, but the north boundary wall of the Uppermost Yard belonging to the Grey Friars of Observance, whose friary wassituated at the foot of the graveyard, on a site now partlyoccupied by some of the houses behind the Grassmarket.This yard was utilised by them as p