kepovt of Meetings fur 1880. By J. Hardy. 381 



Tweed." But " Teutha's warriors," as the bard had foreseen 

 are "now forgot in their laud; their tombs are not found on 

 the heath. Years come on with their storms. The green mounds 

 are mouldered away. Scarce is the grave of Dimthalnio seen, or 

 the place where he fell by the spear of Ossian." But Tinnies is 

 chiefly notable for the story told of the presumption of one of its 

 lairds — one of the Tweedies of Drummelzier, in the time of 

 James V. Pennicuik partly alludes to him : "Upon the top of 

 a hill above the mansion of Drummelzier, is still to be seen the 

 remains of their (the Tweedies) little, old, but very strong 

 fortalice, called the Tennis Castle, whereby all sorts of passengers 

 that had occasion to travel that way were obliged to stryke sail, 

 salute and pay homage to that haughty baron, or else to return 

 from whence they came, not without some marks of disgrace." 

 The tradition itself I will insert from the pen of Mr Blackwood. 



King James V. hearing of the arbitrary conduct of Tweedie, resolved to 

 visit the place in disguise, but taking care that li is attendants should he 

 within sound of his hunting horn. Pursuing his way up the Tweed, at a 

 place not far distant from the castle of the Geddeses of Rachan, he came 

 across an old cobbler named Bertram herding his cows, and entertaining 

 himself on the bagpipes. It being near night, the king accepted the old 

 man's hospitality for his supper and a bed. Next morning he disclosed to 

 Bertram his rank and design, and requested him to act as his guide to pass 

 Tinnies Castle. They together passed the castle without giving the 

 required homage to Sir James Tweedie. This so roused the wrath of the 

 baron that he and sixteen of his retainers, mounted as was their custom, 

 on white horses, started in pursuit of the pair, and overtook them at 

 Glenwhappen, in the upper reaches of the Tweed, when the king blew his 

 horn, and his followers speedily arrived on the scene ; but Tweedie nothing 

 daunted threatened to inflict punishment on the offenders. King James 

 then cast aside his disguise, and ordered Tweedie to be seized and executed 

 over the walls of his castle. Another tradition does not give such a dis- 

 astrous termination to the affair, but says that Tweedie recognising his 

 sovereign, did homage, and received a gracious pardon.* Bertram was 

 rewarded with a grant of sixteen acres of land adjoining his dwelling, with 

 the right to pasture a mare and foal, a sow and nine pigs, on a piece of land 

 at the foot of Holms water. 



Pennicuik in his History says : " And further down near the Rachan is 

 Deuke-pool, a little small Room, of a long time possessed by the name of 

 Bertram, and still is, who pretend to be the chief of that surname." 

 This I imagine is the same family whose ancestor received the grant of 

 land from James V. ; and I understand that until lately Bertrams still 

 resided at a place called Deuks' pool, and that their property was pur- 

 chased by the late James Tweedie, Esq. of Quarter. 



* For another version of this story, see Sir T. D. Lauder's Scottish Rivers, 

 pp. 43, 44. 



