Photograph of engraving showing view of the Summer House in the garden of Moray House, insc: 'A Summer House in Regent Murray's Garden, where the Union of the two Kingdoms was signed.' Copied from Cha ...

Description Photograph of engraving showing view of the Summer House in the garden of Moray House, insc: 'A Summer House in Regent Murray's Garden, where the Union of the two Kingdoms was signed.' Copied from Charles Brodie Boog Watson "Some Notes on Moray House, Edinburgh", 1915

Catalogue Number SC 435778

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 10490 P

Scope and Content 19th-century drawing of the summerhouse in garden of Moray House, Canongate, Edinburgh Moray House was built for Mary, Dowager Countess of Home in 1618 and given to her daughter, Countess of Moray, in 1643. It was visited by Charles I, and Cromwell lived here on two occasions. It is now a teachers' training college. The summerhouse in a secluded spot in the garden, was where, in 1707, traditionally, the signing of the Treaty of Union was partly carried out. It was completed in a High Street cellar while the cries of the 'exasperated mob rang in the streets'. In 1707 the Lord High Chancellor, the Earl of Seafield, lived at Moray House. He was one of the Commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union in which the Kingdoms of Scotland and England were incorporated in a United Kingdom of Great Britain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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