Copied from Grant's 'Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh Volume 1'
SC 560056
Description Copied from Grant's 'Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh Volume 1'
Catalogue Number SC 560056
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 65338 P
Scope and Content Bailie Fyfe's Close, High Street, Edinburgh Bailie Fyfe's Close, so narrow 'that there is hardly space for fresh air', dates from 1572. Formerly Trotter's Close, it was named after Gilbert Fyfe, merchant and Bailie of the City in the 17th century. The 17th-century heraldic panel inserted above the modern entrance to the Close bears a shield flanked by the initials IP and MH. The shield and the letter P may represent the Paisleys of Craig or the Yorkshire family of Parley. In the 18th century, Francis Jeffrey, advocate and founder of the Edinburgh Review, went to school in Bailie Fyfe's Close, and Nathaniel Gow, son of Niel Gow, taught violin and piano in the Close. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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