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Craigmillar and its Environs. 



author of the well-known and valuable ' History of 

 Scotland ' connected with his name. The late pro- 

 prietor, James Stuart Fraser-Tytler, was for a number 

 of 3'ears Professor of Conveyancing 

 in the University of Edinburgh. 



At Woodhouselee is to be seen 

 a gold watch and jewelled soli- 

 taire which belonged to Queen 

 Mary of Scots, and were given by 

 her to Massi, a French attendant 

 who followed her to Scotland. 

 They were treasured by his de- 

 scendants, and were for long the 

 property of the family of Scott, 

 chemists in Edinburgh, by the last of whom, Mrs 

 Robert Scott, they were left to her brother, the Rev. 

 William Torrance, minister of the parish of Glencorse. 

 His son, the Rev. Alexander Torrance, bequeathed 

 them to the late James Stuart Fraser-Tytler. In the 

 year 1767, Lord Cardross, afterwards Earl of Buchan, 

 borrowed them from Dr J. Scott, to take with him 

 to the Conference in Spain. In a letter dated 1804, 



Solitaire. 

 (Worn by Queen Mar3\) 



