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alabaster, erected to the memory of Sir George Home, Lord 

 High Treasurer of Scotland, and restored at the sole cost of 

 the present Marquis of Bute, which formed the occasion of the 

 Club's visit. The statesman whom it commemorates was a 

 favourite of James I,, and created by him Earl of Dunbar and 

 March. He died at Whitehall, and was interred beneath the 

 spot on which the monument was first raised by his family. 

 It bears the inscription — " depted this life 29th January, 

 MDCX," but a numeral has been omitted from the inscribed 

 date, as the Earl died in 1611. Adjoining it, the congregation 

 have recently placed a chaste baptismal font in marble, 

 supported by cherubs, to the memory of Rev. Robert Buchanan, 

 the late minister of the parish (1862-1901). It is the workman- 

 ship of Mr. William Birnie Rhind, A.R.S.A., Edinburgh. 



Conveyances having been requisitioned, the members drove 

 from the Church by way of Lochend and Broom-houses to Spott, 

 having on their left Doon Hill, reminiscent of the disaster that 

 befell the Scottish army under Lesley on 3rd September, 1650. 

 For some time before the battle of Dunbar, Cromwell had taken 

 up his quarters at or near Corstorphine, which being in the 

 Cramond district lay in the centre of the Cleghorn clan, a 



war-like race, who had been much employed by 

 Battle of their superiors in Border raids ; but tlie 



Dunbar. assembling of the Scots near Dunbar required 



his pressing Eastward, and giving battle in a 

 position to his own disadvantage. Events took a favourable 

 turn for him, however, as Lesley, yielding to the entreaty of his 

 followers, quitted his strong camp on Doon Hill, and risked an 

 engagement on a lower level. For a time the fortunes of 

 the day seemed doubtful ; but at length with the aid of 

 his disciplined pikemen, Cromwell inflicted an overwhelming 

 defeat, among the many slaughtered being two ministers of 

 religion, who to all seeming were cut down while leading their 

 men. His admiration of the fighting powers of the Borderers is 

 said to have led to his selection of 1,200 of their number, whom 

 he sent under a strong escort to the Tower of London, where 

 they remained till 1652, when they were deported to the 

 plantations in Philadelphia and Florida. In connection with 

 this notable victory, Mr George Tancred of Weens, whose 



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