Advocate's Close

This guide to Advocate's Close in Edinburgh opens with a merchant's 1590 inscription over a low doorway, then follows the lawyer James Stewart, who gave the close its name after years spent hunted by the Scottish crown for his Presbyterian pamphlets and an accusation of plotting rebellion with the Earl of Argyll. It traces his flight across three countries under false names, and the political reversal that eventually put him in a very different position back in Edinburgh.