178 Craigmillar and its Environs. 



bequeathed to Government for this purpose by the 

 late Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, has been de- 

 signed by Mr W. W. Robertson, of H.M.'s Board of 

 Works, and will be one of the finest and most com- 

 plete erections of the kind in the country. 



LiBERTON. — To the south lie Liberton village. 

 Upper Liberton, Liberton House, and Liberton 

 Tower, which were all included in the barony of 

 Over Liberton, and are interesting in their historical 

 associations. We shall take up these parts of the 

 ancient barony in their order ; and first, of the village 

 itself. Seen from afar, on the crown of the hill, is 

 the handsome parish church of Liberton, re-erected 

 in 1815. There are records of Liberton still extant 

 which date back to the days of David I., some of 

 these being witnessed by a Baron of Liberton named 

 Macbeth. In the village stands the old school- 

 master's house, the supposed residence of Reuben 

 Butler in Sir Walter Scott's 'Heart of Mid-Lothian.' 

 Well into the present century, and within the memory 

 of persons still living, on Fastern's-e'en the school at 

 Liberton was for the nonce converted into a cock- 



