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547:, deserve the highest applause. (...) The state of Edinburgh tolbooth is far otherwise. There the austerity of the law, and the rigour of an unfeeling creditor, may be gratified, in their utmost extent. In the heart of a great city, it is not accommodated with ventilators, with water-pipe, with privy. The filth collected in the jail is thrown into a hole within the house at the foot of a stair, which, it is pretended, communicates with a drain; but, if so, it is so compleatly chocked, as to serve no other purpose but that filling the jail with disagreeable stench. This is the more inexcusable, since, by making a drain to the north, over a very narrow street, such a declivity might be reached, that, with the help of water, of which there is command, the sewer might be kept perfectly clean. When we visited the jail there were confined in it about twenty-nine prisoners, partly debtors, partly delinquents; four or five were women, and there were five boys. Some of these had what is called 551:, that is, not being confined to a single apartment. As these people had the liberty of going up and down stairs, they kept their rooms tolerably clean swept. They had beds belonging to themselves; and in one room, we observed a pot on the fire. But, wherever we found the prisoners confined to one apartment, whether on account of their delinquencies, or that they were unable to pay for a little freedom, the rooms were destitute of all accommodation, and very nasty. All parts of the jail were kept in a slovenly condition; but the eastern quarter of it (although we had fortified ourselves against the stench), was intolerable. This consisted of three apartments, each above the other. In what length of time these rooms, and the stairs leading to them, could have collected the quantity of filth which we saw in them, we cannot determine. The undermost of these apartments was empty. In the second, which is called the 555:, which is destined for those who have received sentence of death, there were three boys: one of them might have been about fourteen, the others about twelve years of age. They had been confined about three weeks for thievish practices. In the corner of the room, we saw; shoved together, a quantity of dust, rags, and straw, the refuse of a long succession of criminals. The straw had been originally put into the room for them to lie upon, but had been suffered to remain till, worn by successive convicts, it was chopped into bits of two inches long. From this, we went to the apartment above, where were two miserable boys, not twelve years of age. But there we had no leisure for observation; for, no sooner was the door opened, than such an insufferable stench assailed us, from the stagnant and putrid air of the room, as, notwithstanding our precautions, utterly to overpower us. 367: 449: 516: 258: 531: 1174: 1048: 42: 358:
that contained a civic bell, the ringing of which was used to regulate the business and civil matters of the burgh. In Edinburgh, the pretorium and belhous appear to have much the same meaning, being the burghal offices. The timberwork of the belfry was renewed in 1555, hauled into place by a team of
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Know ye, that we have given, granted, and by this our present charter have confirmed, to our beloved and faithful, the Burgesses and Community of Edinburgh, and their successors in time to come, 60 feet in length and 30 feet in breadth of land lying in the market place of the said burgh, on the north
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granted Edinburgh a charter which gave the burgh an area of land 60 feet (18 m) by 30 feet (9.1 m) in the market place with licence to develop the site for the ornament and use of the city. The charter, written in Latin, was endorsed "Carta fundi de la Belhous" (English:
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which had been built by the Town Council of Edinburgh at its own expense. The Old Tolbooth remained in use by the Burgh council as a prison. In 1811 the council moved across the street to the north range of the Royal Exchange building which was termed the
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Spikes were also employed to exhibit body parts taken from executed prisoners. The heads of the most notorious were placed on "the prick of the highest stone": a spike on the Old Tolbooth's northern gable facing the High Street. For instance the
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side of the street thereof; giving and granting to them, and their foresaid successors, our special license to construct and erect houses and buildings on the foresaid land, for the ornament of the said burgh, and for their necessary use.
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There is no record of construction on the site but, on 3 October 1403, the earliest burgh record mentions the "Pretorio burgi" – the Pretorium of Edinburgh – for the first time. On 27 November 1438, during the reign of
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was located just a few feet from the north-west corner of St Giles' Cathedral. The construction of the Tolbooth substantially reduced the width of the street at this point. A pattern of
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In 1571, a chronicle reports the tower of the Old Tolbooth was taken down ("the tour of the auld Tolbuyth was tane doun"). In 1632 the new building to the south was demolished.
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in 1736. Scott attended the building's demolition and obtained the iron entrance door to the Old Tolbooth's jail and its key and incorporated the door into his new mansion of
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The tolbooth shown on a town plan drawn in Arnot's time (1784). It stands on the left of the adjoining row of shops known as the
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made its first use of the pretorio burgi of Edinburgh. Parliamentary records of 28 June 1451, by which time records were made in
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were attached to the exterior of the building. These were iron collars for chaining up offenders in public view, like a
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Due to enlargement of the city Edinburgh now encompasses other tolbooths or tolbooth sites. Still in existence are
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where judicial torture was routinely carried out. From 1785 executions, which previously had taken place at the
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The Old Tolbooth continued be used as a prison and place of execution until it was finally demolished in 1817.
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were carried out. In 1817 the buildings, which had been rebuilt and renovated several times, were demolished.
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Michael Pearce, "A French Furniture Maker and the 'Courtly Style' in Sixteenth-Century Scotland",
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The liberality and humanity of the English, in erecting so magnificent a building for a jail as
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for more than 400 years. The medieval structure, which was located at the northwest corner of
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term for a tolbooth) in Edinburgh as early as 1368. Following the burnings of Edinburgh by
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An early 19th-century engraving showing the west gable of the "Heart of Midlothian"
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rather than the Tolbooth. This building had been built 1754–61 to a design by
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H Arnot, The History of Edinburgh (1799), reprinted Edinburgh 1988, pp.173-4
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Door of the tolbooth, built into a side wall of Sir Walter Scott's House at
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burned the town, major rebuilding and improvements were required. In 1386,
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Notices of the Most Remarkable Fires in Edinburgh: From 1385 to 1824
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Church of the Friars Preachers of Blessed Virgin and Saint Dominic
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In 1639, the Parliament of Scotland moved into the new
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currently mark the entrance to the original building.
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of St Giles' Cathedral indicates there was already a
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was on view from 1650 to 1660 until replaced by the
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Old Tolbooth

Municipal building
Scottish Medieval
Edinburgh
Coordinates
55°56′57.95″N 3°11′30.21″W / 55.9494306°N 3.1917250°W / 55.9494306; -3.1917250
Edinburgh
Scotland
St Giles' Cathedral
Luckenbooths
High Street
Old Town
royal charter
Burgh Council
Parliament of Scotland
Court of Session
Tolbooth
jail
physical punishment
torture
public executions

Museum of Edinburgh
The Canongate
chartulary
pretorium
Latin
Edward II of England
Edward III

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