Abbotsford,138,141,145Abercromby, George (Lord),134Adamson, Bishop (1584),55Advocates’ Close,72,73Albany, Duke of, brother of James III.,13-14Alexander II.,46Alexander III.,9,17,24Allan, Sir William,138,149Alnwick Castle,6Anchor Close,75, andnoteAngus, Earl of, called “Archibald Bell-the-Cat,”48,49Angus, Earl of, 15note,50,88Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI.,71,102Argyle, Marquis of,15-16,80Arran, Earl of,88,89Arthur’s Seat,23,27,36,38,165Ashestiel,138Assembly Rooms (Old Edinburgh),73,74,75Auchinleck, Lord, his caustic saying concerning Dr. Johnson,110Ayala, Don Pedro de, ambassador from Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to the Court of James IV.,28,29Aytoun, Professor,149Bailie Fyfe’s Close,74,77Baillie, Joanna,138Balcarres, Countess of.SeeHyndford’s CloseBalfour, Dr., grandfather of R. L. Stevenson,157Bannatyne Club, the,142“Banner of Blue,”14Barbauld, Mrs.,134Barnard, Lady Anne (néeLindsay),62,77Bastian, servant of Mary, Queen of Scots,40Baxter’s Close,70Beaton, Cardinal,50,76Beaton, James, Archbishop of Glasgow,88-89Beattie, the poet,108Beaufort, Jane, wife of James I.,11-12,25-26“Begbie murder,” the,77Belches of Invermay, Sir John and Lady Jane, and their daughter, Scott’s first love,133“Bell-the-Cat.”SeeAngusBell’s Wynd,73,74Bernham, David de, Norman Bishop of St. Andrews (1243),46“Bible Close,”78Bishops of Edinburgh (Established Episcopalian),54Bishop’s Palace.SeeWhitehorse CloseBlack, Adam,151Black, Professor,120Blackford Hill,130,159Blackfriars Street, formerly Wynd,40,76,88,109Blackie, Professor,152Blackwood’s Magazine,149Blair, Dr.,108Borthwick, Master Gunner to James IV.,27Boswell, Sir Alexander, his verses on Miss Nicky Murray,73-74,138Boswell, James,68,100,108-109,110Boswell, Mrs.,108-109Bothwell, Adam, Bishop of Orkney,40,71-72Bothwell, Earl of,39,40,41,66,71“Bow-head Saints,” the,96-97Boyd, George.SeeMoundBoyd’s Close, 82note,107-108Braid Hills, the,159Brantôme, Sieur de,36,37Brewster, Sir David,151Bristo Street,113Brodie’s Close,70Brougham, Lord,150,151Brown, George, builder of George Square and Brown Square,122Brown, Dr. John,151Brown, Dr. Thomas,149Brown Square,122Bruce, King Robert the,9,10,18,42,83Bruce, Marjory, daughter of King Robert the Bruce,42Buchan, Earl of,108Buchanan, George,50,91,92-93Burnet, Miss,112,114Burns, Robert, lodges in Baxter’s Close,70,75;his triumphant reception in Edinburgh,111-113;meeting with Scott,113;“Clarinda and Sylvander,”113-114;Edina, Scotia’s darling seat,114-115Burton, Dr. John Hill,151Byers’ Close,71-73, and 71noteByers of Coates, John, 71noteCaledonian Hunt, the, and Burns’s Poems,112-113Calton Hill,46;the view from,166Campbell, Thomas,137,149Candlish, Dr.,150Canongate, the,24,62,63,64,67,78-82,100,101,105,106,124Cant’s Close,76Carberry Hill, battle of,41,66Carey, Sir Robert,41-42Carlyle, Dr., of Inveresk,107Carlyle, Thomas,150,151Carnegie, Andrew,154“Castell of Maydens,”5Castle, the,3-21;story of Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret,5-8;Queen Margaret’s Chapel in,5,7,9,15,16;“Frank’s Escalade,”10;besieged by Henry IV. of England,11;the “Black Dinner” (1440),12-13,17;story of the Duke of Albany,13-14;James VI. born in the Palace of,15;Jacobites imprisoned in,16;the Great Hall of,16-18,155;the Regalia,18-20,140;“Mons Meg,”20-21,144;mentions of,23,24,26,69,86,120;the “one-o’clock gun,”163,164,165,166,167,168Castle Street,135,136, 137note,138,139,142,143,145Cathedral (St. Giles’s).SeeSt. Giles, Church ofSt. Mary, 71note,154Chalmers, Dr.,150Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal,149Chambers, Robert,19, andnote,20,54,72,73,74,81,119-121,129;his writings, and his friendship with Scott,149Chambers, William,61,155Charles I.,18,41,42,43,54,82,94Charles II.,19,43,58,65,95Charles Edward Stuart (Prince Charlie),43-44,99,130, 131noteChepman, Walter, earliest Scottish printer,27,47,48, 49noteChiesley of Dalry,153Christison, Sir Robert,151“Christopher North.”SeeWilsonChurch of St. Giles.SeeSt. Giles“Clarinda” (Mrs. M‘Lehose),113-114Claverhouse, Graham of,126,138“Cleanse the Causeway,”66,88-89,127Clerks of Penicuik, the,98,132,133,136,138Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh,62-82,88,95-96,99,100,105,106,108,109,120,129Coalstoun, Lord, story of,72-73Coates House, 71noteCockburn, Lord,149,150Cockburn, Mrs.,100Colinton,156,157,158,160,162College Wynd,106,120,129Combe, George,151Comely Bank,150Constable, Thomas,141Court of Session,85Covenanters, the,59,96,160Cowgate, the,40,64,87,88,90,91,95,96,120,164Crabbe, George,138,143Craig, Lord,113Craigie, Lord President,124Craigmillar, 144noteCraigmillar Quarry,122Crail,35Cranstoun, George (Lord Corehouse),134Cranstoun, Miss,134,135Creech’s Land,105“Crochallan Fencibles,”75,112Cromwell, Oliver, banquets in the Hall of the Castle,18;stays at Moray House,79-80;enters Edinburgh after the battle of Dunbar,58Cross, the City,31,43,58,98,132,141Cullen Professor,120Cunningham, Alison,157Cunningham, Dr.,150Cunyie House (the Scottish Mint),76Currie,161Dalkeith,30,144Dalmeny, the woods of,166Darnley, Earl of,38-39,39-40,42,76David I.,23-24,46David II., and David’s Tower in the Castle,10Dawney Douglas’s Tavern,75,112Deacon Brodie.SeeBrodie’s CloseDefoe,104-105“Delta.”SeeMoirDe Quincey,150Dick of Prestonfield, Sir Alexander,109Dickens, Charles,151Disruption, the,150-151Don of Newton, Sir Alexander,138Donald Bane,7Douglas, Duchess of,108Douglas, Duke of,125Douglas, Gavin,27;account of,48-50,87-89,148Douglas, Lady Jane,70Dowie’s Tavern,112Drummond of Hawthornden,29,94,104Drummond, Lord Provost,123Drummond Place,125,126,152Drummore, Lord,124-125Drumsheugh, the ancient forest of,23,31,46Duddingston,100Dunbar, William,28,29,31,87Dundas, Sir Laurence,125Dundonald, Earl of,70Dunfermline,4,6,8,155Edgar, second son of Malcolm Canmore,7Edinburgh made an Episcopal See (1633),54Edinburgh Courant,104Edinburgh Review, 137 andnote,149Edward I. of England,9,24,46,50Edward II. of England,25,46Edward “the Confessor,”5Eglintoun, Susanna, Countess of,75,98-100Eglintoun, Lord,98-99Elizabeth, Queen of England,42Elliott of Minto, Miss Jeanie,122Erskine, friend of Scott,134Erskine, Henry, Advocate,108“Ettrick Shepherd,” the.SeeHoggFairmilehead,161Falkland,11,35Fergusson, Professor,113,134Fergusson, Robert,112Ferrier, the family of,112,114Ferrier, Miss,149Findlay, John Ritchie,154Firth of Forth.SeeForthFleming of Cumbernauld, Sir Malcolm,12,13Flodden, battle of,31-33,35, 49note;the Flodden Wall,62,87Forbes of Pitsligo, Sir William, and Burns,112Forbes of Pitsligo, Sir William, and Scott,133,145Forbes, William, first Established Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh (1634),54“Fore-stairs,”65,66,76Forth (river, and Firth of),3-4,5,7,8,21,35,36,46,155,159,165,166,167Forth Bridge, the,4,155,164,165,166Fortune’s Tavern,75-76Franklin, Benjamin,107Gay, John,81,105-106General’s Entry,113George I.,16George III.,98,99,126George IV.,141,142George Square,122,130,131George Street,135,139,150,157Glammis, Lady,14-15, andnoteGlenlee, Lord,122“Golden Charter,”14Goldsmith, Oliver,73,106Goodsir, Professor John,151“Goose Pie, the,”98Gordon, Duchess of,76-77,112Gordon of Haddo, Sir John,58Grange, Lord,74Granton,150,166Grassmarket, the,15,97,120,164Gray of Pittendrum, Lord, and Lady,68-69, andnoteGreat King Street,150Greyfriars’ Church and Churchyard,51,96,133Gustavus Vasa, Prince,141Guthrie, Dr.,150Haddington, first Earl of (“Tam o’ the Cowgate”),90-92“Haddo’s Hole,” in St. Giles’s,58,59Hailes, Lord,108Hall, the Rev. Mr., Presbyterian divine (1603),53Hamilton, Sir William,150Hart, Andro,94Hawthornden,94,109,159Hay, James, story of,96“Heart of Midlothian,”63.See alsoTolboothHenry III. of England,9Henry IV. of England,11Henry VII. of England,30Henry VIII. of England,35,37,46,50Henry, Prince, eldest son of James VI.,41Heriot, George,90-91Heriot Row,156,157High School, the (in Old Edinburgh),71,92,130High Street, the,62,76,77,80,88,90,94,96,105,108,123,124,127,141,164“Highland Lady,” the,153Hogg, James (the “Ettrick Shepherd”),136-137,149,160Holbein, his miniature portrait of James IV.,29Holyrood,18,22-44,47,53,62,63,64,65,70,76,84,91,109,120,144,167;legend of the founding of the Abbey,23;Abbey burnt by Edward II.,25;in reign of James IV.,26-33;in reign of James V.,33-35;in reign of Queen Mary,35-41;Charles I. christened at,41;and crowned at,42;rebuilt by Charles II.,43;Abbey Church restored by James VII.,43;Prince Charlie at,43-44;the Abbey desecrated and destroyed,44