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Traditions of Edinburgh

Robert Chambers

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Contents

  1. TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH
  2. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 1868.
  3. INTRODUCTION TO PRESENT ISSUE.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  6. EDINBURGH OLD AND NEW.
  7. TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH.
  8. THE CHANGES OF THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. [1745-1845.]
  9. THE CASTLE-HILL.
  10. THE WEST BOW.
  11. JAMES’S COURT.
  12. STORY OF THE COUNTESS OF STAIR.
  13. THE OLD BANK CLOSE.
  14. THE OLD TOLBOOTH.
  15. SOME MEMORIES OF THE LUCKENBOOTHS.
  16. SOME MEMORANDA OF THE OLD KIRK OF ST GILES.
  17. THE PARLIAMENT CLOSE.
  18. MEMORIALS OF THE NOR’ LOCH.
  19. THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE.
  20. CONVIVIALIA.
  21. TAVERNS OF OLD TIMES.
  22. THE CROSS—CADDIES.
  23. THE TOWN-GUARD.
  24. EDINBURGH MOBS.
  25. BICKERS.
  26. SUSANNA, COUNTESS OF EGLINTOUNE.
  27. FEMALE DRESSES OF LAST CENTURY.
  28. THE LORD JUSTICE-CLERK ALVA.[172]
  29. MARLIN’S AND NIDDRY’S WYNDS.
  30. ABBOT OF MELROSE’S LODGING.

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