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The Tomb of Cockhurn of Henderland, and its Vicinity. 

 By James Haedy. Plate YI. 



The Plate representing the tomb of Perys de Cockburn and 

 his wife at Henderland having been proved to be incorrect as 

 noticed at p. 417 of the present vol., I resolved to visit the spot 

 when an opportunity should offer, in order to remedy the defect, 

 and this I accomplished on the 26th of August, 1884, on the day 

 preceding the Club's meeting at Ettrick. With some difficulty, 

 owing to a current of cold wind sifting through the grassy area 

 enclosed by the plantation, in which the tomb stands within the old 

 chapel foundations, I made a rubbing, which has been reduced, 

 and reproduced as a lithograph by the kindly offered aid and 

 skill of Mr William Galloway, architect, Edinburgh, to whom 

 the Club is very much indebted for the correct representation of 

 this old historical monument. The reading as well as the 

 sculpture has been put in proper form. See Plate YI. 



The tomb was in much better condition than I had expected, 

 and I do not suppose it was ever much better in recent times, 

 for when Sir Walter Scott drew attention to it, " it was broken in 

 three parts." These had not been very artistically connected 

 when it was repaired by Mr Murray in 1841. The cleaning it 

 had undergone from Mr Shaw shewed the full design, but the 

 weather had long ago disfigured and wasted the lettering. The 

 Earl of Wemyss has recently caused the erection to be put into 

 better order. 



According to my measurement, the oblong-chapel, built of 

 greywacke, of which only the foundations survive, was 45 by 

 24 feet. The sepulchral slab, a hard red sandstone, is 9 feet 2 

 inches long ; 20 inches broad at the top, and then 19, and 16 

 at the base; its thickness is 4^ to 5^ inches. The sword in 

 length is 34^ inches from the hilt; and the cross 41 inches. 

 The tomb-stone was found in the ruins of the chapel in the 

 midst of the last century, (Pennecuik's Desc. of Tweeddale, pp, 

 248-250). The chapel had neither reader nor exhorter at the 

 Eeformation, (Register of Ministers, 1567). — Origines Parochi- 

 ales, I. p. 223, 



Prosecuting the inquiry into the history of the Cockburn s of 

 Henderland, a few additional particulars were gleaned from the 

 privately printed family record, •' The Scotts of Buccleuch." 



