170 Craigmillar and its Environs. 



the surrounding parks have been so extensively inun- 

 dated as to resemble a lake. From a charter granted 

 in the fourteenth century, The Inch appears to have 

 belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood. The oldest 

 date on the house is 161 7, above a doorway, which 

 was the original and only entrance at that period. 

 The date 1634 also appears above a window on 

 the lower part of the house, indicating that it must 

 have been an addition. The initials of Winram, 

 descended from the Winrams of Clydesdale, show 

 that it belonged to that family. Besides The Inch, 

 they were possessors of Nether Liberton and part 

 of Over Liberton. The right of the north aisle in 

 the kirk was ratified to Winrame of Liberton in 

 1621.^ George Winram of Liberton, son of James 

 Winram of Liberton, was admitted advocate on 20th 

 December 1626. He undertook in 1639 the some- 

 what dangerous task of presenting to the king, at 

 London, the Act of the General Assembly which 

 abolished Episcopacy, to which the king replied, 

 " When they have broken my head they will put 

 ^ ' Index to Scottish Acts of Parliament,' p. 779. 



