Hugo Arnot—Allan Ramsay—House of the Gordon Family—Sir David Baird—Dr Webster—House of Mary de Guise.

The Bowhead—Weigh-house—Anderson’s Pills—Oratories—Colonel Gardiner—‘Bowhead Saints’—‘The Seizers’—Story of a Jacobite Canary—Major Weir—Tulzies—The Tinklarian Doctor—Old Assembly Room—Paul Romieu—‘He that Tholes Overcomes’—Provost Stewart—Donaldsons the Booksellers—Bowfoot—The Templars’ Lands—The Gallows Stone.

David Hume—James Boswell—Lord Fountainhall.

The Regent Morton—The Old Bank—Sir Thomas Hope—Chiesly of Dalry—Rich Merchants of the Sixteenth Century—Sir William Dick—The Birth of Lord Brougham.

Lord Coalstoun and his Wig—Commendator Bothwell’s House—Lady Anne Bothwell—Mahogany Lands and Fore-stairs—The Krames—Creech’s Shop.

Ancient Churchyard—Booths attached to the High Church—Goldsmiths—George Heriot—The Deid-Chack.

Old Arrangements of the House—Justice in Bygone Times—Court of Session Garland—Parliament House Worthies.

The Blue Blanket—Mobs of the Seventeenth Century—Bowed Joseph.

Ladies Sutherland and Glenorchy—The Pin or Risp.

Tradition of Marlin the Pavier—House of Provost Edward—Story of Lady Grange.

Sir George Mackenzie—Lady Anne Dick.

Palace of Archbishop Bethune—Boarding-Schools of the Last Century—The Last of the Lorimers—Lady Lovat.

House of Gavin Douglas the Poet—Skirmish of Cleanse-the-Causeway—College Wynd—Birthplace of Sir Walter Scott—The Horse Wynd—Tam o’ the Cowgate—Magdalen Chapel.

The Mint—Robert Cullen—Lord Chancellor Loughborough.

Signing of the Covenant—Henderson’s Monument—Bothwell Bridge Prisoners—A Romance.

Distinguished Inhabitants in Former Times—Story of a Burning—Morocco’s Land—New Street.

Lord Monboddo’s Suppers—The Sister of Smollett—Anecdote of Henry Dundas.

Early Theatricals—The Canongate Theatre—Digges and Mrs Bellamy—A Theatrical Riot.