Cassell's old et new Edinburgh : son histoire, son peuple, et ses lieux . prix du péage, à être tenu pour un mois onbread et de l'eau, et d'être fouettée ensuite hors de la ville à un queue. chariots Le diacre de l'fleshershaving tombé dans le cadre de cette loi, l'artisanat, jugeant l'indignité de leur ordre itan, assemblés en armes,s'ouvrir la prison, et l'a relâché. North Loch.l attaque concertée à l'DEIL SON AIN GATE. 8i pour l'amour ot agrémentent le keptswans les magistrats et les canards sauvages sur le loch, et variousentries à leur conservation se produisent dans leur ac-chefs ; et l'autre adopté en Conseil entre 1

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Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . room ofthe Tolbooth, to be kept therein for a month onbread and water, and to be then whipped out ofthe city at a carts tail. The deacon of the fleshershaving fallen under this law, the crafts, deeming itan indignity to their order, assembled in arms, broke open the prison, and released him. North Loch.l GANGING TO THE DEIL HIS AIN GATE. 8i For the sake ot ornament the magistrates keptswans and wild ducks on the loch, and variousentries for their preservation occur in their ac-counts ; and one passed in Council between 1589- ;94 ordained a boll of oats to be procured forfeeding them. A man was outlawed for shootinga swan in the said loch, and oblited to find another rash act. Hearing the tumult, the father of thelate Lord Henderland threw up his window inJamess Court, and leaning out, cried down thebrae to the people: Whats all the noise about?Cant ye een let the man gang to the deil his aingate ? Whereupon the honest man quietly walkedout of the loch, to the no small amusement of the. THE HOLYROOD FOU.NT.I.. in its place. The loch, says Chambers, seemsto have been a favourite place for boating. Varioushouses in the neighbourhood had servitudes of theuse of a boat upon it, and these, in later times, used to be employed to no little purpose in smuggling whisky into the town It was also the frequent scene of suicide, and on thispoint one or two droll anecdotes are related. Aman was proceeding deliberately to drown himself, when a crowd of the townspeople rushed down tothe water-side, venting cries of horror and alarm att!ie spectacle, yet witiiout actually venturing intothe water to prevent him from accomplishing the59 lately appalled neighbours. There a lady wassaved from suicide by her hoop-petticoat. The loch must have abounded in some kind offish, as the Council Register refers to an eel-arkset therein, at ten merks yearly, for the benefit ofthe Trinity Hos[)ital; and in February, 1655, Nicol

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