202 Craigmillar and its Environs. 



" 'Mid pennoned spears, a steely grove, 

 Proud Murray's plumage floated high ; 

 Scarce could his trampling charger move, 

 So close the minions crowded nigh. 



From the raised vizor's shade his eye. 

 Dark-rolling, glanced the ranks along ; 

 And his steel truncheon, waved on high, 

 Seemed marshalling the iron throng. 



But yet his saddened brow confessed 

 A passing shade of doubt and awe ; 

 Some fiend was whispering in his breast, 

 ' Beware of injured Bothwellhaugh ! ' 



The death-shot parts — the charger springs — 

 Wild rises tumult's startling roar, 

 And Murray's plumy helmet rings — 

 Rings on the ground, to rise no more." 



The Sheriff-court offices now stand on the site of the 

 house from which the Regent was shot, and a memorial 

 tablet in bronze, designed by Sir Noel Paton, R.S.A., 

 has been inserted into the building to mark the spot. 

 This tablet contains a portrait of the Regent. The car- 

 bine — the barrel of which is of brass, and a small bore — 

 is now in the possession of Lord Hamilton of Dalziel. 

 Several centuries have passed since old Wood- 



