WHITEHOUSE 



MIDLOTHIAN 



|HE modest demesne of Whitehouse abuts 

 upon the high road which, for the best 

 part of a mile, flanks the old royal chace 

 of Cramond Regis, now a country 

 gentleman's spacious park, whereof the 

 name has been altered by an unpoetical generation 

 into Barnton. 



Whitehouse belonged of old to the Knights 

 Templars. On the suppression of the Order in the 

 fourteenth century, the lands were bestowed upon 

 William Earl of Douglas, who, in turn, granted 

 them to James Sandilands, husband of his sister 

 Alianora, a lady who must be credited with extra- 

 ordinary attraction, physical or other, seeing that 

 she married five husbands in succession. From 

 James Sandilands is descended the present Lord 

 Torphichen, twelfth baron in the creation of 1564, 

 who retains the superiority of Whitehouse, the 

 reddendo, or annual feu-duty, being a white rose. 

 After passing through several hands, the property 

 was purchased by Mr. Mackay, the present owner, 



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