26 Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



1707 Walter Scott of Raeburn was slain in a duel by Mark 

 Pringle, younger brother of the Laird of Haining. Escaping 

 to Spain, where he became a merchant, Pringle fell into the 

 hands of the Moors, was sold into slavery, and suffered extreme 

 hardships. Eventually he realised a fortune, and bought 

 the Midlothian estate of Crichton. His great-great-grand- 

 daughter, Mrs Pringle Pattison, now possesses Haining. The 

 Laird of Paeburn, only twenty-four when lie fell, left two 

 daughters and one son by his wife, Anne Scott of Gala, whom 

 he married when he was twenty. He was a collateral ancestor 

 of Sir Walter Scott. 



Through a V shaped depression, in a long wooded bank to 

 the right, filed Leslie's troopers, as, hidden by the mist, they 

 proceeded to cross the Ettrick on their memorable flank 

 movement against the Poyalist army, encamped at Philiphaugh 

 in 1645. It is sometimes called "Leslie's," but more frequently 

 "Will's Nick," Will being the name of an old soldier who 

 suggested the strategy, and offered to guide the Eoundheads by 

 the back of Linglee Hill. 



On the left, visible through a bridge under the railway, a 

 ford over the river was pointed out as having been taken by 

 Queen Mary on her visit to Jedburgh, where she lay for days 

 at the point of death, from an illness caused by a rash ride to 

 visit the wounded Bothwell at Hermitage Castle. 



The small farm of Bridgeheugh close by, derives its name 

 from a bridge built over Ettrick by Alexander IT. in 1234. 

 From time to time the Abbots of Kelso, escorted by a j)owerful 

 retinue, travelled to this bridge to bold courts, which, however, 

 were not legally constituted unless the king's sheriff was in 

 attendance. The bridge was on the highway between Kelso 

 and its western priory of Lesmahagow. To botanist members 

 several stunted Fir trees, not less than 45 years old, were 

 pointed out, growing on the top of the high garden wall 

 at side of road. 



A little further on the carriages were stopped to permit 

 inspection of Lindean Churchyard, the ruins of the church 

 having been newly excavated by Mr Scott-Plummer. Measures 

 57 by 17|- feet inside walls, which are 3 feet thick. Appears to 

 have been originally 40 feet in length, and to have had 17 feet 

 added to east end. Its orientation not having been exact, it 

 was known as "the wrang-stannin' kirk." Here in 1353 the 



