Black Turnpike, Edinburgh. House where Mary Queen of Scots was confined 1788Fig 1. View of the house in Edinburgh where Mary Queen of Scots was confined [in 1567. Fig 2. Seal of tin, Arms of Arnot; Fig 3. A white Cornelian stone engraved, subject, two men on horseback, in possession of Lady Rachel Drummond.] After Marys capture, she was kept under house arrest in Edinburgh, at the house of the Lord Provost, Simon Preston. His city residence (demolished to build South Bridge) was known as the Black Turnpike, and stood on the