Tour Scotland 4K travel video clip of Gladstone's Land Tenement house, with Scottish music, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, Britain, United Kingdom. The Land located at at 481 and 483 Lawnmarket was originally built in 1550, but was bought and redeveloped in 1617 by a prosperous Edinburgh merchant and burgess, Thomas Gledstanes, and his wife, Bessie Cunningham. The work was completed in 1620. Its prominent siting on the Royal Mile, between Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyrood, and the extent of its accommodation mark out the affluence of its mercantile owner. Today, the restored building allows an insight into varieties of Edinburgh life of the period. The cramped conditions of the Old Town, and the physical size of the lot, meant that the house could only be extended in depth or in height. As a result, the house is six storeys tall. Gledstanes resided on the upper floors, and let out parts of the building to an assortment of tenants of different social classes, including another merchant John Riddoch, a knight James Crichton of Frendraught, and a guild officer. William Struthers, who lived in the house from 1626 to 1633, was minister of nearby St Giles Cathedral, and was involved in an infamous witch trial. John Riddoch and his wife Margaret Noble kept a shop and tavern in the house. Isobel Johnston was their landlady. Riddoch died aboard ship in November 1632 in sight of Leith and his will lists the kind of goods they sold, including raisins, figs, ginger, sugar, sugar candy, laundry starch and smalt, cinnamon, liquorice, and clay tobacco pipes. Andrew Pringle had the shop after Riddoch, while his servant Alison Hume managed the tavern. By 1636 Gledstanes shared ownership with the merchant and shipowner David Jonkin, and their tenants included two lawyers, Andrew Hay and John Adamson. David Jonkin had been fined for breaking Edinburgh's market regulations in 1624 when it was discovered he was buying imported food in Burntisland to profiteer during a famine. He supported the Scottish Covenant in 1639 by selling firearms to the Earl of Argyll and buying a warship in Holland. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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