This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...that it fifty feet. "Time and modern taste," says Wilson, 1 now attracts the notice of the curious visitor as the "have slowly, but very effectually, modified its an-genuine remains of the ancient High Street of the tique feature?. No timber-fronted gable now. burgh. Some of these relics of former times are thrusts its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...that it fifty feet. "Time and modern taste," says Wilson, 1 now attracts the notice of the curious visitor as the "have slowly, but very effectually, modified its an-genuine remains of the ancient High Street of the tique feature?. No timber-fronted gable now. burgh. Some of these relics of former times are thrusts its picturesque facade with careless grace. well worthy the notice of the antiquary, while memorials of still earlier fabrics here and there meet the eye, and carry back the imagination to those stirring scenes in the history of this locality, when the Queen Regent, with her courtiers and.allies, made it their stronghold and chosen place of abode; or when, amid a more peaceful array, the fair Scottish Queen Mary, or the sumptuous Anne of Denmark, rode gaily through the street on their ivay to Holyrood." It is a street that carries back the mind to the days of Wood and the Bartons, when the port of Leith was in constant communication with Bordeaux and the Garonne, and when the Scots of those days were greater claret drinkers than the English; and when commerce here was as we find it detailed in the ledger of Andrew Haliburton, the merchant of Middelburg and Conservator of Scottish Privileges there, between 1493 and 1505--a Jedger that gives great insight to the imports at Leith and elsewhere in Scotland. Haliburton acted as agent for churchmen as well as laymen, receiving and selling on commission the raw products of the Netherlands, and sending home nearly every kind of manufactured article then in use. He appears often to have visited Edinburgh, settling old accounts and arranging new ventures; and with that piety which in those days formed so much a part of the inner life of the Scottish people, the word Jhesus is inscribed ...
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