The Scottish "tolbooth" is cognate with "tollbooth", but it has a distinct meaning. The confessions were extracted by torture in the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh. It was first described as the "Tolbooth" in 1659. There are many events at the Tolbooth and The Albert Halls. The west-most tenement was contiguous with the Belhouse of the Old Tolbooth. Porteous was imprisoned in the Tolbooth. Porteous was later killed by a lynch mob who stormed the Old Tolbooth. The Tolbooth is near the juncture of Tolbooth Wynd and the Marketgate. South Queensferry Tolbooth and the tolbooth in Dean Village. Butler is compelled to join the mob storming the Tolbooth where Porteous is held. Their base is at the Tolbooth in the High Street. A three-storey classical building followed in 1770 as a replacement for the previous tolbooth. The congregation temporarily decamped to the Tolbooth Kirk. He was imprisoned in the Tolbooth at Canongate for 9 months. Confusingly, both were often called the New Tolbooth.