SUNDEKLAND HALL 



to Scotland and became the champion of her cause. 

 This was the son of Archibald "the Tineman," who 

 was killed at Halidon Hill in 1333, when young 

 William was made the ward of his godfather, the 

 Knight of Liddesdale, and was sent to France to 

 be educated. Returning in 1351 to take up his 

 lordship (he afterwards became first Earl of Douglas), 

 William found that the Flower of Chivalry had not 

 only annexed a good deal of his ward's property, 

 but had allowed his estates to be overrun by English- 

 men. The Knight avoided meeting his godson ; but 

 one day the young lord found him hunting in Ettrick 

 forest, where he the young lord had sole right of 

 the chase, inherited from his uncle the "good Sir 

 James of Douglas," Brace's right-hand man. No man 

 knoweth what ensued. Certain it is that where two 

 men bearing the name of William Douglas met, only 

 one, and he the younger, rode away, leaving the 

 elder stark in the greenwood. The place where the 

 Knight fell, only a little way from Sunderland Hall, 

 is called Williamhope to this day. 1 



They carried all that remained of the Flower of 

 Chivalry down to Lindean Church, where the body 

 rested that night ; which must serve as an excuse 

 for so much irrelevancy on the part of him who 

 has undertaken to write about gardens. 



Loitering on the station platform, I came upon 

 matter germane to horticulture, for I found the 



x The suffix "hope," so common in this district, is the Norse equivalent of 

 the Gaelic "glen." 



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