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DIRECTORY.]
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
(Letters for Dalmahoy should be addressed
Dalmahoy, Kirknewton R.S.O.)
Allan Alexander, Beech bank
Bisset Rev. Archibald (Estab,), The Manse
Brown William, Ashley
Bullock Rev. William Greenway B.A. (Epis-
copal), Dalmahoy
Glendinning George R. Easter Hatton,
Kirknewton
Haldane Francis G. The Lodge
Hardie R. S. L. Ashley
Helm Jn. Hunter M.B., CM. Clarence cot
McLaren — , Ratho park
Martin Hugh S.S.C Hillwood house
McKelvie James, Hattou house
Morton Dowager Countess of, Dalmahoy
Taylor George Henry, Craig park
Thomson Misses, Ratho hall
Usher Sir John bark Norton house
COMMERCIAL.
Allan John, market gardener
Bartie Lilias (Miss), confectioner
Binnie John, joiner
P.innie William, joiner
Bowden Lime Co. (William More,manager),
quarry masters, Golden Acre
Borthwick William, butcher
Brown Thomas, boot maker
Bryce Robert, Bridge inn
Bryce Margaret (Mrs.), coal merchant
Burns Andrew, merchant, West Norton &
Hillwood mains
Burt Henry, postmaster & inspector of poor
Eraser William, blacksmith
Galloway Robert, dairyman, Easter Norton
Gibb & Son, bakers
Glendinning George R. factor to the Earl of
Mortm & Lord Lamington,Hatton Mains,
Kirknewton, Mid-Lothian
Helm John Hunter M.B., CM. physician &
surgeon & parochial medical officer for
Ratho, Clarence villa
Hillwood. Co-operative Society Limited (John
R. Bennett, sec. & manager)
Lawrie James, dairyman, Dalmahoy mains
Lawrie William, joiner
Leitch George, tailor
iLeslie Robert, jun. coal merchant
Maxwell Peter, grocer
INieholl Robert, wine & spirit dealer, Nor-
ton quarries
Orr John, joiner
Ritchie James, dairyman, Bonnington
Roxburgh Thomas, quarry master
Samuel John, coach hirer
Samuel John (Mrs.), news agent
Smith David, registrar of births, deaths &
marriages
Steedman Alexander, baker
Stratton J. W. & Co quarry masters, North
Hillwood
Timmins James, carrier
Young & Hutchison, quarry masters. Craig
Park quarry
Young Ann (Mrs.), grocer
FARMERS.
Allison James, Clavlands
Raillie William, Ransfield
Barr James, Ratho Mains
Brown William, Freelands
Buchan Robert & John, Bnnnington Mains
Elder James C. C. Rodding law, Currie
Glendinning George R. Hattou Mains,
Kirknewton
Hamilton James A. Gogar bank
Hamilton Robert, Addiston Mams
Mitchell Gavin, Hillwood
Muir John, Haggs
Muir William, New house
Usher Fred, Norton Mains
EOSEWELL is a village and quoad sacra
parish in the civil parish of Lasswade, and
in Dalkeith small debt court district, 4 miles
south-west from Dalkeith, and about half a
cnile south of Hawthornden station on the
Edinburgh, Dolphinton and Peebles section
•of the North British railway. There are col
Hieries in the neighbourhood, and the manu-
facture of fire-clay goods and mineral oili
is carried on to a considerable extent. Gor-
ton House, overlooking the Esk, was a
favourite residence of Christopher North
it is now the residence of A. Campbell
Eraser esq. D.C.L. The population in 1801
was 1,074, and in 1901, 1,425; the eccle
siastical parish in 1901 had a population of
2,233.
Post, M. 0., T., T. M. O., E. D. & P. P.
0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Rosewell (Sub-
â– Office. Letters should have S.O. Mid-
lothian added) ; James Smith, postmaster.
Deliveries, 8.10 a.m. & 5.15 p.m.; dis-
patches, 10.30 a.m. & 2.55 & 7.50 p.m
Police Station, Alexander Wilson, constable
Established Church, Rev. John Hunter B.D
Roman Catholic Church, served from Pent
cuik
EDINBURGHSHIRE.
Schools : —
Rosewell, David Nelson, master
Roman Catholic, Miss Campbell, mistress
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Fraser A. Campbell D.CL. Gorton house
HamiCton James, Cochrina cottage
Hood James Archibald, Rosedale
Hunter Rev. John B.D. (Estab.), The Manse
Ramsay Col. Robert George Wardlaw,
Whitehill house
COMMERCIAL.
Anderson James, tailor, Saugherie cottage
Hamilton James, manager for the Lothian
Cnal Co. Limited
Hood James Archibald, managing director
for the Lothian Coal Co. Limited
Lamb James, blacksmith
Lothian (The) Coal Co. Limited, coal mas-
ters & brick & tile manufacturers, White-
hill & Polton collier.es; T A "Lothian,
Rosewell;" TN 6 Lasswade
Old William, cashier, Greenbank
Rosewell Co-operative Society Lim. (James
Grant, manager)
Rosewell Hall, Thomas Fisher, sec
Sinclair Peter & Son, boot makers
Smith James, draper, news agent & postmstr
Taifc James, butcher
Wilson Alex, joiner, cartwright & undertkr
FARMERS.
Brock! ey Robert M. Gourlaw
Plenderleith William, Rosewell mains
ROSLIN is a small village and quoadsacra
parish in the civil parish of Lasswade, and
in Dalkeith small debt court district, 7 miles
south from Edinburgh, 2J south-west from
Lasswade and 2 south-west from Loanhead,
with a station on [the Edinburgh to Glen-
corse branch of the North Brit.sh railway,
called Rosslyn Castle and Roslin Lee, on
the Dolphinton and Peebles line of the same
system, but on the other side of the valley.
Rosebank House is the seat of John
Wharton Tod esq. and Woodhouselee of
James William Fraser-Tytler esq. The in-
habitants are chiefly occupied in agricul-
tural pursutits, but there are also gunpowder
mills and extensive carpet works. Rosslyn
chapel, which stands on an eminence at the
east end of the village, overlooking the re-
mains of the castle and the romantic valley
of the Esk, was founded in 1446, by William
St. Clair, or Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney of
that family, as a Collegiate church, and dedi-
cated to St. Matthew the Apostle. It was,
however, left incomplete, and the existing
structure represents only the eastern arm of
the projected building, the nave and tran-
septs of which, uncovered in 1881, were
found to have been carried nearly to the
floor level. At the period of the Revolution,
the chapel was attacked, 11 Dec. 1688, by a
fanatical mob, who. destroyed much of the
external ornament, including the numerous
figures of apostles and martyrs, which
adorned the canopied niches of the exterior :
the fabric is, nevertheless, in a singularly
perfect condition, and the judicious restora-
tions and repairs carried out by the later
Earls of Rosslyn have to a large extent re-
moved the traces of its former maltreatment.
It consists of a lofty choir with clerestory, a
lady chapel beyond, and continuous aisles,
supported by bold pinnacled buttresses;
behind which are tall square pinnacles, ris-
ing from the aisle wall, and carrying the
flying supports of -the choir. Architecturally,
this famous edifice is confessedly unique as
an example of the Gothic style, for it com-
bines the massive character of Norman
work with even more than the elaborate and
profuse ornamentation which distinguishes
that of the Tudor period. The choir and aisles
are divided by arcades' having seven clus-
tered piers on either side ; two others- stand-
ing in the centre at the east end ; the clere-
story has five large windows on either side,
and the lofty roof is divided into as many
compartments by ribs springing from the
arcade below; the lady chapel, only 15 feet
in height, opens by arches to the side aisles,
and has a groined roof of florid design. One
of the most interesting and striking fea-
tures of the interior is the celebrated '* Pren-
tice's pillar," a clustered pier, wreathed
round diagonally with bands of varied and
finely sculptured foliage, and several of the
arches bear inscriptions- or symbolical fig-
ures. Beneath the east end is the lower
chape!, erected by the Lady Elizabeth Doug-
las, wife of John (Stewart), Earl of Buchan ;
it is reached by a descent of 24 steps at the
south-east angle ; it i3 36 feet long, 14 wide,
and has a height of about 15 feet; the
groined vaulting displays the arms of St.
Clair — arg. a crcS3 engrailed, sa.— and at
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the east wall is an altar. In the north aisle
is a monument to George (Sinclair), 4th
Earl of Caithness, and hereditary justiciar
of Caithness, who died at Edinburgh 9 Sept.
1582 ; on the floor of the same aisle is a large
flat stone, incised with the figure of a man
in armour, his feet on a greyhound, and on
each side of his head a small shield, charged
with a rampant lion ; this stone is supposed
to indicate the burial place of Sir William,
St. Clair, of Rosslyn, an ancestor of the
founder, who lived during the early part of
the 14th century; there is also on the north
side a large slab said to cover the entrance
to the vault of the Sinclalrs, lords of Ross-
lyn, ten of whom, previous to 1690, were
here interred, and according <to the ancient;
custom of the family, in convplete armour
audi without any coffin, a traditional prac-
tice alluded to by Sir Walter Scott in his
" Lay of the Last Minstrel." James, 3rd
Earl of Rosslyn in 1861-2, effected a con-
siderable restoration of the chapel, and
Robert, 4th and late Earl, in 1879, erected a
new baptistery with organ loft over, from
designs by Mr. A. Kerr, architect, of Edin-
burgh, enclosing it with screen work and
providing a font; he also renewed a num-
ber of the destroyed figures formerly adorn-
ing the interior, and filled many of the win-
dows with stained glass, including the east
window, a memorial to his sister, Harriet
Elizabeth, wife of George Herbert, Count
Munster of Dernburg. and German ambas-
sador to England; she died at Dernburg,
Hanover, 29 Nov. 1867. In the burial
ground attached to the chapel is a memorial
of various coloured stone, erected in 1893
by his countess, at a cost of £1,000, to
Robert Francis, 4th and late Earl of Ross-
lyn, who died in 1890; the monument, 19
feet in height, includes six figures emblem-
atical of certain Christian virtues, and is
surmounted by a cross. Rosslyn Castle, now
a ruin, stands on a lofty and almost isolated
cliff overhanging the wooded and pictur-
esque glen through which flows the river
Esk. It is believed to have been originally
erected by one of the Norman St. Clairs, an
adherent of the Conqueror in the 12th cen-
tury, but in 1447 was partly destroyed by
tire, and afterwards rebuilt by William St.
Clair, the founder of the intended collegiate
church : in Sept 1544, it was again burnt
by an English force, under the command of
Sir Edward (Seymour), 1st Earl o-f Hert-
ford, but must have been subsequently re-
paired, for in 1650, when Cromwell crossed
the Tweed (22 July) with an army of 11,000
men, it was held for the Royal cause by com-
mission from .Charles II. who had previously
landed in Scotland, June 23rd. After the
battle of Dunb,ir (3 Sept.), in which the
Scots, under Gen. David Leslie, afterwards
Baron Newark, were signally defeated, Gen.
Monk invested Rosslyn Castle, which shortly
surrendered and was plundered by the
Roundheads, and in 1688 it was much in-
jured by the same mob that attacked the
chapel ; the ruins, now inconsiderable, are
reached by a bridge -thrown across a deep
ravine; some fragments of the north side of
the fortress, with walls 9 feet thick, are
standing, and to the south is a mansion of
the Early 17th century, erected) on the site
of part of the ancient structure, which in-
cludes several vaulted chambers ; the dining
room of this has a panelled ceiling, with
ornamental work in plaster, enclosing
shields of arms of the St. Clair family,
and over the principal entrance are the
initials S.W.S. 1622. Near the castle are
the remains of the ancient chapel and
cemetery of the village, close to which
i* a copious spring of excellent water
called St. Matthew's well. Omnibuses ply
during the summer from Edinburgh, and
the walk by the vallev of the Esk to Haw-
thornden is exceedingly picturesque. The
population of the village in 1891 was 730
and ecclesiastical parish 1,630, and in 1901,
ecclesiastical parish, 1,805; village, 1,129.
Post, T., M. O., T. M. O., E. D. & P. P.
0., S. B. & A. & I. O. Roslin (Railway
Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O.
Midlothian added); George Bryce, post-
master. Deliveries, 8 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.;
dispatches, 11 a.m. & 2.15 & 8 p.m
Post Office,Rosslyn Castle (Letters through
Roslin R.S.O.); Frederick Baillie, sub-
postmaster. Letters arrive at 8.30 a.m. ;|
dispatched at 2.50 p.m. Postal Orders
are issued here & paid. The nearest
money order & telegraph office is at
Roslin, 1 mile distant
Police Station, C. Robson, constable
Midlothian & Peebles District Asylum, Ross-
lyn Castle, Richard Blackwell Mitchell
2LD. medical supt.; James P. Stnrrock,