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they were bravelie repulsed ; and in the cairts that they brous^ht for our 

 cannon, they returned nought bot their own dead bodies." And so the 

 curtain falls on that historic encampment, and the Hill of Duns is left 

 to its old quiet and solitude. 



The traces of Leslie's occupation of the Law are still plainly visible. 

 On the level summit, where most of the cannon were posted, and lying 

 well within the lines of the ancient hill-fort already referred to, are 

 distinct marks of a quadrilateral entrenchment, measuring rather more 

 than 70 yards along each side, with small outworks at the angles. Below 

 this redoubt, on the south, a portion of the ramparts of the old fort 

 appears to have been levelled, as if for a battery. A little to the 

 south-east is a spring, which tradition asserts supplied the army with 

 water ; and the stone — or what relic-mongers have left of it — on which 

 the Standard of the Covenant is said to have been planted, may still be 

 seen on the north-east side of the entrenchment. Mr Bay, to prevent its 

 further mutilation, has caused it to be enclosed with a fence sufficiently 

 substantial to bid defiance to the vandal tourist. 



On the face of Plendernethy Hill, about two miles to the north-west, are 

 some ineqnalities of surface, apparently artificial, which are said to mark the 

 place occupied by one of Leslie's outposts. I cannot conceive, however, 

 what purpose such a detached position could have served, unless the 

 Covenanting leader was apprehensive of an attack by Royalist 

 sympathisers on his rear. 



In 1650, after the battle of Dunbar, Cromwell appears to have placed 

 a garrison in Duns. 



We may now pause, and give a list, as complete as the materials at our 

 disposal will allow, of the proprietors of the Manor and Castle of Duns, 

 to the date at which we have arrived. 



1. — Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray. " He died at Musselburgh, 

 on a march against England, July 20th 1332, and was succeeded by his 

 eldest son, 



2. — Thomas, 2nd Earl of Moray, who enjoyed the title only 23 days, 

 having been killed at the battle of Dupplin, August 12th, 1332. He was 

 succeeded by his brother, 



3. — John, 3rd Earl of Moray, who was killed at the battle of Durham, 

 October I7th, 1346. He was sacceeded by his sister, 



4. — Agnes, wife of Patrick, 9th Earl of Dunbar and March, who 

 assumed, in addition, the title of Earl of Moray, and succeeded, along 

 with numerous other lands, to the baronies of Morthington, Longf ormacus, 

 and Duns, in Berwickshire. The Earl died soon after 1368, and was 

 succeeded by his son, 



5. — George, 10th Earl of Dunbar and March. He inherited from his 

 mother the baronies of Mordington, Longformacus, and Duns, in Berwick- 

 shire. He married Christian, daughter of Sir William Seton of that Ilk, 

 and died 1420, aged 82, and was succeeded by his eldest son, 



6. — George, 11th Earl of Dunbar and March. He was forfeited in 

 the Parliament of Perth 1434-5."— G.H.D.. 



