This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... introductory notes A lison rutherford, afterwards Mrs.. Patrick Cockburn, was born at Fairnilee, manor-house of a pleasant Selkirkshire estate on the northern bank of Tweed. The place first emerges into written history as one of the stedes or steadings which passed with the rest of Ettrick Forest from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... introductory notes A lison rutherford, afterwards Mrs.. Patrick Cockburn, was born at Fairnilee, manor-house of a pleasant Selkirkshire estate on the northern bank of Tweed. The place first emerges into written history as one of the stedes or steadings which passed with the rest of Ettrick Forest from the attainted Earl of Douglas to the second Scots King James. When his son, James in., married Margaret of Denmark, she got the whole Forest in her dowry, and for a manor-house the newly-built Tower of Newark, whither Scott led the aged Last Minstrel to recite his Lay. Fairnilee is about half an hour's canter from Newark, and only two miles, as the crow flies, from Ashiestiel, where Sir Walter was living when he wrote Marmion. In his familiar lines upon the aspect of the Forest in winter--No longer Autumn's glowing red Upon our Forest hills is shed... Away hath passed the heather-bell That bloomed so rich on Needpath Fell--Scott painted a bit of Fairnilee visible from his window. Little did Mrs. Cockburn, when she first discerned the genius of the boy, foresee that he would live to make the vale of her nativity as famous as Tempe. The age of the house, now a picturesque ruin, may be guessed from the sculptured coat of arms over the entrance, which is that of Robert Rutherford, who acquired the lands in 1700, and of Alison Ker his wife. It occupies the site, and probably includes part, of an ancient tower that served as shelter for a Jesuit wandering in the dangerous times immediately following the Reformation. In December 1582, Father Holt 'came to Cockburn House in Tividale... tarried at Corbett House about vii dayes... from that was conveyed by the lard of Corbett to the larde lintounnes house of fernileye on twede in Ettrick forest, and...
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