1 82 Craigmillar and its Environs. 



and in 1887 the building at Liberton was opened by 

 the present Earl of Hopetoun, when Lord High 

 Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church 

 of Scotland. Not only do the children here receive 

 moral and religious teaching, but when aptitude for 

 any special trade or profession is displayed, it receives 

 the fullest encouragement. An efficient music-teacher 

 and band-master are kept ; and a brass band, and 

 also a band of pipers, are trained in the establishment 

 — their services at public entertainments being in 

 frequent demand, both in England and Scotland. 



Proceeding now to speak shortly of Upper Liber- 

 ton, it would be superfluous to trace all the pro- 

 prietors of the barony, which appears frequently to 

 have changed hands, and goes back to an early 

 date. In the ' Register of the Great Seal ' it is 

 stated that on 8th March 1475 the king concedes 

 to Alexander Dalmahoy the lands of the Barony 

 of Uvir Libertoune. The Dalmahoys of that ilk 

 possessed Upper Liberton as early as the year 

 1453, and continued in possession of it, or at least 

 a part of it, for almost two hundred years. We 



