504 Silver Brooch Jouncl at Hazetton Rig. By J. Hardy. 



consisted of English pennies of Edward I., II., and III., some of Alexander 

 III. of Scotland, of John Balliol, and Robert Bruce, besides a quantity of 

 foreign sterlings, known as ' lushburgs.' From its extent the 'find' could 

 hardly have belonged to a private individual, and was very probably part 

 of a military treasure-chest that had to be suddenly disposed of. About 

 the middle of the 14th century the tide of war constantly swelled and ebbed 

 over Selkirkshire, as now the English, now the Scotch obtained victory. 

 In 135G part of the English army, which, after inflicting the terrible chas- 

 tisement long remembered in Scotland as the ' burnt Candlemas,' (Fordun 

 xiv. c. 13), was retreating in considerable disorder, encountered Lord 

 Douglas as it skirted the bounds of Ettrick Forest, and suffered great loss. 

 It was probably on this occasion that the camp-kettle was hastily hidden, 

 many of the English pennies found in it having been coined just before that 

 date, and none of them belonging to a later issue.'' pp. 364-5. 



It was a strong gratification to the Borderers to decorate their wives as 

 well as themselves with ornaments of value. Bishop Lesley in his " De 

 Origine Moribns et rebus gestis Scotornm,'' Romse, 1578, p. 58, refers to this 

 as one of their leading chai-acteristics. " Si habeant itaque celeres eqnos, 

 et quo se uxoresque snas compte ornant, de reliqua suppellectile nihil 

 sunt solliciti." " If, therefore, they be possessed of nimble horses, and 

 have sufficient wherewith to ornament their own persons, and those of their 

 wives, they are by no means anxious about other pieces of household 

 furniture." Sir Walter Scott takes advantage of this, when he draws the 

 picture of Watt Tinlinn driven by an English invasion from Liddel tower, 

 to take refuge at Branksome. (Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto IV. St. 5.) 

 " He led a small and shaggy nag, 



That through a bog, from hag to hag, 



Could bound like any Billhope stag. 



It bore his wife and children twain ; 



A half-clothed serf was all their train ; 



His wife, stout, ruddy, and dark-brow'd, 



Of silver brooch and bracelet proud, 



Laugh'd to her friends aiuon^- the crowd." 



