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Flodden. 1, George who shared his father's fate; 2, David 

 who succeeded and killed the Count de la Beaute, Warden 

 of the Marches, commonly called Bawtie ; 3, Alex. Home of 

 Manderston; 4, John Home, who married the heiress of Black- 

 adder of that ilk ; 5, Andrew Home, Abbot of Dryburgh ; 6, 

 Patrick Home of Broomhouse ; and 7, John Home, who mar- 

 ried the second daughter of Blackadder of that ilk, and pos- 

 sessed Rowanston. It seems, so far as it can be made out, 

 that Alexander Home of Manderston, the third spear, became 

 owner of Hutton HaU, and his arms appear in a stone over 

 the door. 



Meanwhile Hutton Hall had undergone some rough treat- 

 ment. In 1496, when James the fourth had espoused the 

 cause of Perkin Warbeck, given that pretender the hand of 

 the beautiful Lady Katherine Gordon, and invaded England 

 to place Perkin on the throne, Henry VII. in retaliation sent 

 the Earl of Surrey with an army over the Border; and Surrey, 

 advancing into Berwickshire, took the castle of Ayton, and 

 among other strongholds threw down Hutton Hall. Ford, 

 in his dramatic chronicle of Perkin Warbeck, makes the most 

 of this inroad, as Sir W. Scott remarks in a note to Marmion, 

 when making Surrey say of the Scots — " Can they look on 

 the strength of Cunderstine defac't, the glory of Haydon Hall 

 devastated, that of Edington cast down, the pile of Foulden 

 overthrown, and the strongest of their forts — old Ayton Castle 

 — yielded and demolished and yet not peep abroad." 



It is not exactly known when the estate of Hutton Hall 

 became the seat of the Johnstons of Hilton. However, it 

 appears that the first Johnston of Hilton was Archibald, a 

 cadet of Johnston of Benholm, in Annandale, who was a 

 merchant in Edinburgh about the beginning of the 17th cen- 

 tury, and bought Hilton from Sir Alexander Swinton of 

 Swinton. After intermarrying with the Homes of Polwarth, 

 and the Winrams of Liberton, the Johnstons of Hilton came 

 to be represented by two brothers ; 1st, Joseph Johnston of 

 Hilton, who is said to have been killed by William Home, 

 sheriff of the Merse, at the Hirsel, of whom more hereafter ; 

 2nd, Sir Patrick Johnston Lord Provost of Edinburgh, repre- 

 sentative of that city in the last Scotch parliament. The last 

 of Joseph Johnston's male representatives was Colonel Robert 

 Johnston of Hutton Hall, who died at Ripon, in 1848. The 

 last of the male line was Lieut. Col. Frederick Johnston, who 

 for some years lived at the Albany. 



It does seem strange that in a country where there neces- 

 sarily must have been so many rough encounters, and so 



