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441: 520:. The charter mentions that Lindsay had built a gallery on the Shore, and details some spaces of the older buildings. A mural latrine in the old tower was still in use. Lindsay's brother, Master Robert Lindsay, had occupied the hall of the King's Wark, two rooms above the hall (presumably the lodgings appointed for Anne of Denmark in 1589), two cellars below the hall, and the kitchen, the back "out-set" wing and cellar, and the old tower which had three stories above its basement. There was an entrance way or pend under the wing at the back. An inn or tavern in the complex was described in Latin as a 38: 58: 65: 493:. In 1612 Lindsay planned a stone arched open arcade facing the shore with seating for merchants to be the burse or exchange of Leith. The king granted him a tax on wine imports for the building work. Lindsay built a "fyne gallerye ... reised upoun arches and pilleris of friestone" and paved underneath with "hewne stone". The description of the planned arches resembles the surviving facade of 432:
these people, then leave. Once Anne was lodged in the King's Wark the scaffold would be taken away. The people of Leith were ordered to unload any guns and forbidden to mend ships on the Shore until she left. On the day, James Elphinstone gave his speech in Latin to the king and queen who were seated on thrones inside the hall.
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in 1601, when Wotton was masquerading as an Italian "Octavio Baldi". The Leith property was to be regarded as a free barony. Lindsay was required to reserve a cellar for storing wines for the King's use. Lindsay shipped Scottish coal to supply the royal palaces in London, and in 1608 was compensated
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In 1578 John Dalmahoy obtained the site on the bulwark or pier where the "common closets" or Burse was situated. Edinburgh town council bought the burse site from Dalmahoy. By 1598, some of the other spaces in and around the King's Wark were rented by merchants, including James Cowdane who occupied
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John Dalmahoy occupied a part of the Wark property and garden. In 1550 his lease included a waste unoccupied area and garden to the south of the "Kingis Werk", and between the King's Wark and the lands of John Boyman and the deceased Alexander Lyell, bounded to the west by the lane to the Shore and
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and Turkish carpets. The ceremony of the reception at Leith and the King's Wark had been carefully planned the previous September, when it was thought the queen's arrival was imminent. A special wooden stair was built for her to enter directly into the first-floor hall, beyond which was the queen's
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in French. The directions included the order of entry, seating, and even where people should look. James and Anne would enter the bedchamber, then her Danish ladies in waiting would enter the hall, followed by the Scottish ladies and gentlemen. James would then come out of the bedchamber and greet
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were stored. To the north east of the King's Wark the Shore was extended into the sea by a pier known as the "Bulwark". To the west was the Broad Wynd, and on the south, there was a walled yard. An inn on the site was documented in 1623. The site on the Shore includes a public house and restaurant
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The charter evidence for the tavern at the King's Wark and the separate mention of a wine cellar reserved for the king confused 19th-century antiquarian writers, who debated whether a courtier might be an inn keeper. A tavern was also included in the prestigious Gladstone's Land tenement in this
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The buildings of the King's Wark passed to Bernard Lindsay of Lochhill in 1606 by Act of Parliament. Lindsay had a Leith connection, his father, Thomas Lindsay, had been the searcher-general at Leith, a customs official. His wife Barbara Logan was from a Leith family. As a courtier and chamber
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In 1626 Charles I asked the depute treasurer of Scotland to buy the "King's Houses" from Bernard Lindsay for use as a Customs House. This was not accomplished. In 1632, Lindsay's widow, Barbara Logan, and her son Robert Lindsay transferred the site and tower and other properties to
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the sea beach on the east, and encircled with a stone wall. John Dalmahoy elder and younger had various roles in Leith, and helped at the King's Wark when building supplies and munitions were shipped to the fortress island of
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identified Chisholm as the builder of the "lang stair upon Leith pier". In 1581 Chisholm was involved in making a pageant of an assault on a mock castle on the Water of Leith for the wedding of
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bedchamber. There would be chairs for Anne and James VI on this "scaffold", where they would sit in public and listen to a speech of welcome called an oration or "harangue" made by
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was keeper of the King's Wark. Chisholm shipped cannon and gun carriages from Leith and Dunbar north to Aberdeen and back in October 1562 during operations against the
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with James VI, and stayed five nights in the King's Wark. The path from the ship to their throne room in Chisholm's house was strewn with
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In preparation for James's "salmonlike" return to Scotland in 1617, cannon wheels and stocks were kept at the Wark, and in 1623 the
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In May 1505 two boats belonging to James IV were painted at the King's Wark then hauled back into the water. Wool from the
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was stored in the "foir loft" of the King's Wark in 1537. One of the chaplains, William Turner, was compensated £10
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Lindsay had completed some rebuilding by the time of the visit of James VI and I to Scotland in 1617, and added a
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in great secrecy, carried to the castle at the dead of night "for feir of knowledge thairof." In April 1567,
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Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588-1596',
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Thomas Brochard, 'Cachepell and Tennis in Edinburgh in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries',
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takes its name from Bernard Lindsay, and for a time the vicinity was known as "Bernard's Nook".
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were stored in the King's Wark. The buildings were burnt in May 1544 during the war of the
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In August 1539 cannon and other munitions captured from pirates by the royal ship the
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Now demolished, the tower of the King's Wark was depicted in a drawing by
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as Sheriff of Edinburgh was made to organise transporting the timber to
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in 1434, first mentioned in the Latin accounts as the Palace in Leith, "
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called "The King's Wark" on the corner of the Shore and Bernard Street.
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stored cannon and shot from a Dunkirk ship in Bernard Lindsay's Close.
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for loss of rental income when the building was used at the entries of
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In October 1589, James VI decided to sail to Norway to meet his bride
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were kept and maintained, and where supplies shipped to Leith for the
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in December 1566. The fireworks were made in Leith and shipped to
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Charters of the Hospital of Soltre, of Trinity College, Edinburgh
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The King's Wark, showing an arched pend entry from Bernard Street
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granted rents from the King's Wark for another chaplain in 1512.
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Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 1589-1603
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In 1647 the site was acquired by Edinburgh burgh council from
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visited in August 1612 to refresh himself after crossing from
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founded an associated chaplain's place in the royal chapel at
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for stocking cannon was stored in the King's Wark in 1547.
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confirmed John Chisholm's possession of the King's Wark.
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The Place Names of Edinburgh: Their Origins and History
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Extracts from the Burgh Records of Edinburgh: 1604-1624
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Extracts from the Burgh Records of Edinburgh, 1573–1589
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for the loss of two coal barques or hoys in a storm.
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Brewer, 2022), p. 119. 624:, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1880), pp. cxli, 578, 625 1062:(Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1927), p. 229. 857:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1877), pp. 446-7, 474-5. 1263:Earl of Stirling's Register of Royal Letters 223:, was master of building works at Leith for 957:Papers Relative to the Marriage of James VI 1224:Tales, Traditions and Antiquities of Leith 1037:, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1916), pp. 116, 520. 771:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1892), p. 378 no. 238 1154:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland 783:The History of Mary Stewart by Claude Nau 912:vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1970), pp. 58, 403–9. 439: 1321:. 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King's Wark is located in Scotland
55°58′34″N 3°10′10″W / 55.9761°N 3.1695°W / 55.9761; -3.1695
destroyed May 1544
John Chisholm
Leith
Shore of Leith
Water of Leith
Firth of Forth
royal ships
royal household
James I of Scotland
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle
James II of Scotland
Exchequer Rolls
James III of Scotland
Restalrig
James IV of Scotland
steadings and farms
James V of Scotland
Scots
Madeleine of Valois
Mary of Guise
Rough Wooing
looted by the English army
Salamander
Robert Logan of Restalrig
Tolbooth
Aberdalgie

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