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and in the navy, at the Scottish bar and on the Scottish bench, 

 in the French Guard, and in the historic feuds and frays of 

 their Borderland. Scott mentions the chief of the Swintons 

 as engaged in the battle of Otterburn — 



" When Swinton laid his lance in rest, 



Which tamed of yore the sparkling crest 



Of Clarence's Plantagenet." 



One could construct an interesting pappr out of the materials 

 contained in this volume. Some of the passages are marked 

 by a certain grim humour. One of the most eccentric of the 

 Swintons, who are commemorated and passed in array in this 

 volume, is one John Swinton of Swinton, who flourished, if he 

 could be said to flourish, during the Commonwealth and the 

 subsequent troubles. A strong, self-willed, and restless man, 

 who fought and did not fight, now with the Covenanters and 

 now with the Royalists ; and at last, as he seemed to agree with 

 neither, compromised matters by becoming a Quaker, and 

 nndergoing many persecutions in consequence. Among other 

 visitations he was attainted as a traitor, but the attainder was 

 recalled in favour of his son. He is said to have been high in 

 the confidence of Cromwell. John Swinton, the father of Mr 

 Campbell Swinton, was descended from the fourth son of this 

 John Swinton of Swinton, named Archibald, who, in his 

 younger years, had repaired to India, and on his return 

 purchased the estate of Kimmerghame, which had belonged 

 to a family of Hume. 



In 1829 the family estate of Swinton was sold, for the first 

 time in 700 years. It was purchased by Mr George Swinton, 

 one of the old family. John Swinton had been intended for the 

 Bar, but he ultimately entered the army, and after his father's 

 death in 1803, the estate of Kimmerghame having been sold 

 by his father shortly before, purchased the estate of Broad- 

 meadows in Berwickshire. This he sold in 1825, and thereafter 

 resided with his family in Edinburgh, in a house No. 16 

 Inverleith Place, which he liad built for himself. He had two 

 sons, of whom the subject of the present memoir was the elder, 

 and several daughters. I remember, as a schoolboy of nine or 

 ten years of age, seeing his mother, Mrs Swinton, in my father's 

 house in Northumberland Street, in Edinburgh, and being 

 singularly impressed with her sweetness and charm of manner. 

 She was a grand-daughter of Mure of Caldwell, and thus the 



