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Bailie’s Court
In Bailie’s Court, in this quarter, lived Robert
Bruce, Lord Kennet, 4th July, 1764, successor on
the bench to Lord Prestongrange, and who died
in 1786. This court—latterly a broker’s yard for
burning bones—and Allison’s Close, which adjoins
it—a damp and inconveniently filthy place, though
but a few years ago one of the most picturesque
alleys in the Cowgate—are decorated at their
entrances with passages from the Psalms, a custom
that superseded the Latin and older legends towards
the end of the seventeenth century.
source-Old and New Edinburgh
