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body of Sir William Douglas, "The Flower of Chivalry," lay 

 for a night on its way to Melrose Abbey, after his assassination 

 by the Earl of Douglas while hunting near Philiphaugb. 



The Countess of Douglas out of her bower she came. 



And loudly there she did call — 

 It is for the Lord of Liddesdale 



That I let these tears down fall. 



So the old ballad ; but there was enough in Sir William's 

 aggressive attitude to make the Earl compass his death without 

 imparting to the quarrel the jealousy of an injured husband. 



The recent excavation has laid bare a horizontal tombstone, 

 81 1 by 42^ inches, "to the happie memorie of twa honourabil 

 persoais," Andrew Ker of Lynton, and his spouse Katherine. 

 So far as can be made out, Andrew died in the year 1616. The 

 initials, W.K., above the shield are probably those of William, 

 son of George Ker of Lintoun, presented to the vicarage of 

 Lindean by James VI. in 1569. In 1591 he appeared before 

 the Lords of Council, praying for the erection of a new church 

 at Boldside, that of Lindean being " presentlie decayit and 

 fallen doun." Besides many Kers of Fairnilee, Greenbead, 

 etc., it is believed that John Knox's widow, who in 1574 

 married Ker of Faldonside, one of Rizzio's murderers, was 

 buried here. 



Lindean, reported a vicarage to Rome in 1275, paid tribute 

 of both money and grain to Kelso Abbey, the vicarage being 

 valued at £40 in 1577. Towards the end of the sixteenth 

 century the vicar resided at Galashiels, dividing his services 

 between Lindean and Boldside. Lindean Kirk was abandoned 

 in 1586. 



Of red freestone, and embosomed in green foliage (a 

 combination admired of Mr Ruskin) the Mansion House of 

 Sunderland Hall stands on a high bank between the converging 

 rivers of Tweed and Ettrick. On the same site stood the old 

 house. Granted in 1383 to Peter Cockburn of Henderland, the 

 lands of Sunderland Hall have passed through generations of 

 Douglas, Kerr, Lauder, Cairncross, and Fleming, to Mr Scott 

 Plummer, the present laird, descended of a good old Border 

 stock, in which are blended the once hostile clans of Scott 

 and Kerr. 



Arriving at the Meeting of the Waters, about three miles 



