346 Mr. Jeffrey on Jedburgh. 



daugliter of the Count of Dreux, in presence of all the Scot- 

 tish and many of the French nohility * The old annalists 

 say the town was selected for the nuptials on account of 

 its lovely situation and the beauty of its woods and river. 

 Although the giants of the forest have nearly ceased to exist, 

 the locality is still full of scenes of surpassing beauty, and 

 will well repay the visit Avhich the club are about to make to 

 it. When Edward I. swept over Scotland like a destroying 

 angel, the members of the corporation of Jedburgh took the 

 oath of fealty to him in 1398.t The seal attached to the 

 Declaration has for the device — azure, an unicorn tripping 

 argent, lingled, maned, and horned. These arms were to be 

 seen on the market cross during the end of the last century, 

 and a few years ago I had the pleasure of discovering the 

 unicorn beneath a heap of rubbish in a cell of the old prison -, 

 but through the carelessness of those in authority, it has 

 been broken, and a few fragments in the museum are all 

 that remain of the arms which surmounted the ancient cross 

 of the burgh. The cross itself was taken down a number of 

 years since, with the view of improving the streets of the 

 town, and portions of the shafts put to the ignoble use of 

 supporting a turnpike gate. One part of it is now to be seen 

 near to Hartrigge, the mansion of Lord Campbell.:}: Who 

 can help lamenting the demolition of the time-worn memorial 

 associated with the history of the burgh from its first erec- 

 tion. Were it only for what took place at it in 1571, it 

 ought to have been held sacred to the community. At that 

 time a pursuivant was sent from the newly-created authority 

 in Edinburgh, to proclaim their letters in Jedburgh, which 

 had always been favourable to the young king. On his 

 arrival, he mounted the cross, and proceeded to read the letters 

 to the multitude congregated in the streets, who although 

 not acknowledging the authority that sent the herald, heard 

 him patiently till he came to that part which bore that the 

 lords assembled in Edinburgh, had found all things done 

 against the queen null, and all men should obey her only ; 



* Fordnn, x. 40. Hollenshead's Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 407. Heywood's 

 Hierarchic of the Blessed Angels, Book viii. 



t Prynne, p. 655. 



j The name of this place was formerly Stewartfield, and was changed by 

 the late Lord Campbell to Hartrigge, on acquiring the estate. It is to be 

 regretted that the name was altered, as there can be no doubt the name of 

 Stewartfield was conferred upon it at a very early period. In all the burghs of 

 the king the Stewart had allotted to him a field and a mansion, and it is 

 probable that this place was the Stewart's field. 



