Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig-1398
Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, a man of heartless,
greedy, and rapacious character, began to
contest the citizens’ claim or right of superiority
over Leith, and obliged them to take a concession
of it from him by purchase or charter, dated the-
3ist of May, 1398 ; and to this document we havereferred
in a preceding chapter. Prior to this, says
Maitland, the course of traffic was restricted by
him ” to the use of a narrow and inconvenient lane,
a little beneath the Tolbooth Wynd, now called the
Burgess Close.”
source-Old and New Edinburgh
