Summer House, Moray House
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Summer House, Moray House
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 5 Jun 2009
This unprepossessing building tucked away in the grounds of Moray House College has an unusual claim to fame. It was once a summerhouse that stood in the surrounding garden of the Moray House mansion in the Canongate and is reputedly the place where the Act of Union between England and Scotland was to be signed in 1707. The responsible Commissioners, however, sensing the menace of a gathering anti-Union mob, sneaked out of the garden into the Cowgate and made their way to a cellar in the High Street, opposite the Tron Kirk, where the actual signing took place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyj6c5VPLHQ "In Edinburgh and to northwards especially they cry so bitterly against the Union, cursing those great men of theirs that gave consent to it, that one may see fifty men before one that is for the Union, in South and North." -- Richard Long, English government agent, 1707
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