Some further Notes concerning Sir Walter Scott and his 

 surroundings. By Miss Russell of Ashiesteel. 



There are some mistakes in the Paper of 1896, on Recent 

 Statements regarding Sir Walter Scott, but the only one 

 of much consequence is, that as has been pointed out by 

 Mr Robert Blair, F.S.A., it was not the twenty-third but the 

 twenty-second Legion, which bore the name of Primigenia. 

 This rectification is of course of importance, as the probability 

 is strong that the fragment of Inscribed Stone at Abbotsford 

 was found in Britain, even if it was not from Newstead ; 

 but that being an important Roman station, particularly rich 

 in inscriptions, seems much the most likely locality. 



It is hardly a thing that would be brought from the Con- 

 tinent, even when the classics were in the highest fashion. 

 While Dr Bruce is no doubt right in saying, at least 

 that is probably what he did say, that it is the only record 

 of the twenty-second Legion having been in Britain. I 

 observe in a notice of the Romans in Lincolnshire (in the short- 

 lived Archaological Review) that as many as nine legions 

 are mentioned as having been sent to Britain, without any 

 number or designation being given, besides the four or 

 five which can be identified. 



Lady Jane Wishart Belshes, the mother of Lady Forbes, 

 belonged to the Leven, not the Rothes family of Leslies. 

 I rather think, without having investigated the point, that 

 the mistake is Jervise's, not mine, for I was not aware that 

 her name was Leslie. As it happens, Douglas's Peerage 

 (2nd ed. J. P. Wood, 1813) gives very full statistics about her 

 and her husband and daughter, as follows : — 



2nd vol., title Leven : — 'David, sixth Earl of Leven, and 

 fifth Earl of Melville . . . married at Edinburgh, 29th 

 July 1747, Willielmina, posthumous daughter and nineteenth 

 child of William Nisbet of Dirleton . . . From early 

 life she was distinguished by the comeliness of her person 

 . The fiftieth anniversary of their wedding was celebrated 

 at Melville House, January 29th 1797 ... ' 



Their third child was ' Lady Jane, married at Melville House, 

 9th November 1775, to Sir John Wisheart Belches Stuart, 

 baronet of Fettercairn. in the shire of Kincardine, M.P. 

 for that county from 1797 to 1806; appointed baron of 

 exchequer, 1807 ; an J had one daughter, Willielmina, married 

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