REPORT OF THE MEETINGS FOR 1898 257 



3. — Head of Redewater, fkom Jedburgh and Woodburn. 

 TWO days. (Plates VIII., IX., and X.) 



The third meeting was at Jedburgh on Thursday, 28th 

 July, and had for its object a visit to the old Roman Station 

 of Bremenium above Rochester in Redesdale, and also to 

 the Catcleugh Waterworks, which, when finished, will pour 

 into Newcastle-on-Tyne, some 45 miles off, a large additional 

 supply of water. 



The start having necessarily to be early, the majority of 

 members from a distance arrived in Jedburgh the previous 

 day, and the Club dined at the Royal Hotel, with the President 

 in the chair. During the afternoon, the members, after visiting 

 the Museum, were conducted to various points of historical 

 interest by Mr Thomas Smail, including the house where Sir 

 David Brewster was born, another where Burns once lodged 

 awhile when he received the freedom of the city, and another 

 where Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lodged on their 

 tour in 1803, and where Sir Walter Scott visited them and 

 read to them a part of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel"; 

 and in particular one known as ' Queen Mary's House,' where 

 Her Scottish Majesty had resided six or seven months, 

 during which period she was ill of a fever, contracted after 

 a ride of 60 miles or more across the hills to and from 

 Hermitage Castle, where she visited Bothwell. 



The most interesting relics in the Museum were two 

 Pennons, which were said to have been taken by 

 the Weavers of Jedburgh — one at Killiecrankie, and the 

 other from the English at the battle of Bannockburn in 

 1314. The latter was displayed on the occasion of the 

 laying of the Foundation Stone of the Wallace Monument 

 at Stirling, and also when Queen Victoria visited Jedburgh 

 on 23rd August 1867. Both Pennons were unfortunately 

 destroyed in the disastrous fire of the 19th October last. 

 Photographs of these have happily been taken by Mr Jack, 

 photographer, Jedburgh. With his permission, they have been 

 reproduced for this part, and have been tinted (see Plate VIII.) 



Of course the Abbey was specially inspected under the 

 able guidance of the custodian, Mr Walter Laidlaw. 



