On A rmorial Bearings-, &c: By Walter Laidlaw. 1 4 L 



In the Abbey Churchyard there are a few inscriptions that 

 may be adverted to. There is a stone on the left hand side 

 about halfway between the road and the rampart, on which are 

 the words, " Sacred to the memory of James Henderson, Writer, 

 1839." He was married to Miss Cruickshanks, the heroine of 

 Burns' poem, beginning : 



" Beauteous rose-bud, young and gay, 

 Blooming on thy early May." 

 Mrs Henderson was also buried there, but the inscription 

 with the exception of the words quoted is completely effaced, 

 which is much to be regretted. 



Close to this is a striking inscription: "The Head Stone of 

 Mungo Thomson, who died Sept. 26, 1735, aged 73 years. 

 " Here lyes a Christian Bold and true, 

 An antipod to Babies Crue, 

 A Friend to truth, to vice a Terrour ; 

 A Lamp of zeal opposing Errour. 

 Who fought the Battles of the Lamb, 

 Of victory now bears the Palm." 

 Near the gate leading to the Abbey is another remarkable 

 inscription with a word of caution, "Here lies, T. Winter, 

 Architect, and late Baillie of Jedburgh, who died 17th of Sep- 

 tember, 1710, aged 61 years, and who himself oi'dered this 

 inscription. Whoever removeth this stone or causeth it to be 

 removed, may he die the last of all his friends." 



The Armorial Bearings of Queen Mary's House are on the 

 front above an arched doorway, now built up. The arms are 

 those of Wigmore impaling Scott, as wife's arms. There is no 

 mention of a daughter of the Buccleuch family having married 

 a Wigmore. She may have been of a younger branch, but not 

 of the Thirlstane or Howspaisly line, who had a difference. As 

 for Wigmore, Mr Burnett made investigation and found that a 

 considerable burgess family of that name flourished in Edin- 

 burgh in the 14th century, and also a Sir Eoger Wigmore,. but 

 found no record of an alliance with Scott or connection witli 

 Roxburghshire. The arms of Wigmore are argent on a bend 

 sable a ribbon dancitty of the field ; Motto "Avis La fin." The 

 Scott arms or on a bend azure, a mullet between two crescents 

 of the field ; Motto " Solum deo confido." . 



Near the foot of the Canongate, on Mr Murray's house, are 

 the arms of William Ainslie of Blackhill, and of his wife Cicely, 

 daughter of Sir John Scott, first baronet of Aucrum. 



