Walter Merlioun

The lodging was damaged by a fire in 1855, and rebuilt to designs by Robert Billings, but some original masonry survives.

[5] The original entrance stair in a hexagonal pepperpot turret resembles the great hall at Castle Campbell.

[8] In June he completed the "pending", perhaps the vaulting, of the hall at Dunbar, and the masonry of the "Hannis tower", which was roofed by William Young and Tom Mackachane.

[11] In 1501 John Merlioun and two workmen were sent north to Darnaway Castle where the famous hall had recently been repaired, and James IV set up a household for his mistress Janet Kennedy.

[17] An arrangement of stones near the site of his house at Merlin's or Marlin's wynd was said to represent his coffin, visible before the area was cleared in 1785 for the building of South Bridge.

[19] Walter Merlioun was dead by 1521 and his widow Margaret Robisoun sold her property situated in the Lauder tenement in 1527.

Properties records indicate the building was damaged in May 1544 when an English army burnt Edinburgh, an action in the war known as the Rough Wooing.

The new spaces were cleaned by the "barrow men" and site labourers and the seven chambers were lime plastered by John Malcolm alias Callum, whose craft was known as "perjoning".