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imbittered the government against tbe proscribed field preachers.* 

 His banner is or was till lately preserved by a family named 

 Eaeburn, resident near Dunbar, and an account of it was given 

 by Mr James Drummond, "E.S.A., &c., in the " Transactions of 

 the Antiquarian Society of Scotland," for 1859. It is repre- 

 sented in Plate XXYII. of that work. From this paper we 

 learn that Hall's son held the Oameronian opinions of his father ; 

 but one of his grandsons turned a conformist clergyman. 

 Another descendant, Eichard Hall, born at Haughhead in 1763, 

 after some experience as a surgeon in the navy, settled in Lon- 

 don, and became a medical writer of eminence. He was medical 

 oflB.cer to one of the Niger expeditions. He died in 1824.f 



The note of the Sylvia sihilatrix, or Wood Wren, was heard 

 among the tall trees, while some of the party were climbing the 

 bank near an old dove-cot. This stands beneath a barrow-shaped 

 eminence, called the Haughhead Kipp, that appears to be a 

 kaim of sand, like that on which Linton church-yard is situated, 

 and of which there are similar assemblages of re-arranged drift, 

 on the Teviot, not far from Eckford. On this knoll amidst a 

 clump of trees, is the stone commemorating the independent 

 bearing of Hobbie or Eobert Hall of Haughhead, the father it 

 is conjectured of Henry Hall. At the top and bottom it is shown 

 that the monument was "Eepaired and restored by Lady John 

 Scott, 1854." The inscription reads — 



' ' Here Hoby Hall boldly maintained his rigM 



'Gainst reef plain force armed w. lawless might 



For tuenty ploughs harnessed in all their gear 



Could not this valient noble heart make fear 



But w. his sword he cut the formost soam 



In two : hence drove both ploughs and ploughmen home. 

 1622." 

 According to Jeffrey, "Tradition relates that it was Ker of 

 Oessford who wanted to carry away the goods and gear of Hobby 

 Hall. "J On an adjacent knoll surrounded by a wall, is the site 

 of an ancient British grave, which has also been protected by 

 Lady John Scott's interposition. The cist, which was discovered 

 in 1857, consisted of rough sandstone slabs taken from the banks 

 of the Kale ; and was 3 feet 1 inches long, and 2 feet 4 inches 



* Wodrow's Hist, iii., pp. 205-212. 



t Jeffrey's Hist, iv., pp. 367-8 ; Carre's Border Memories, pp. 252-3. 



X Hist, of Koxburghshire, i., p. 343. 



