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supposed that this laird built the chapel also, dedi- 

 cated to the Virgin Mary in 1389, the revenues 

 of which were attached to Liberton Church at 

 the Reformation. Gilbert Wauchope had a charter 

 of Niddrie from King Robert III., and in 1479 the 

 name of Patrick Wauchope is recorded. Gilbert 

 Wauchope was a member of Parliament in 1560. 

 Robert Wauchope, and Archibald his son, aided and 

 abetted the turbulent Earl of Bothwell in his treason- 

 able and lawless proceedings. On the night of the 

 1 2th May 1589, while Archibald Wauchope was lying 

 in Robert Peacock's house at Bridgend, waiting for 

 the Laird of Edmonstone, he was beset by the latter, 

 and an alarm being raised, all Edinburgh was roused. 

 The king came to the Boroughmoor, and directed a 

 herald to charge Wauchope to surrender, under pain 

 of treason. He obeyed the summons, and was com- 

 mitted prisoner to the Tolbooth in Edinburgh. Next 

 day he was brought to trial for the slaughter of the 

 Laird of Sheriffhall and his brother, John Gifford. 

 The trial was continued till late at night, and 

 Wauchope escaped out of the window of the Tolbooth 



