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His eldest son Francis became a trooper in the late war; as for the other brother John, who was Abbot of Coldingham, he also disposed all that estate, and now has nothing, but lives on the charity of his friends. "The Staggering State of the Scots Statesmen for One Hundred Years," by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet. Edinburgh, 1754.
'I ken but what Johnnie Swinton brought me in a letter frae the Abbot of Coldingham, that my father the saints be with him! had been set on and slain by yon accursed Master of Albany would that his thrapple were in my grip! that he had sent you southwards to the King, and that your sister was in St. Abbs. Is it so?
'A friend in England! the words had a sinister sound to the audience, and while Malcolm jealously gathered up the book into his arms, the priest made cold answer, that the book was the property of the Monastery at Coldingham, and had only been lent to Lord Malcolm Stewart by special favour.
There is no doubt that in the monastery there were religious persons of both sexes. Dean Stubbs says "the mixed community was the fashion of the time" and he gives Coldingham, Kildare, and three in Normandy Chelles, Autun Brie, and Fontevrault as examples of similar foundations. In this instance the abbess was the head of all; and this accounts for Bede's calling the house a nunnery.
Abbs, about six miles off, whence she could be summoned at any time to be with her uncle in Coldingham; and Malcolm was to set off at daybreak with the captive knight, whose return to England could no longer be delayed.
But, while such obeyed with alacrity the command of the governor of Fast Castle, to bring provisions to his garrison, there were many others who acquiesced in it reluctantly, and only obeyed from the consciousness that disobedience would be the price of their lives. At this period there dwelt in Coldingham a widow, named Madge Gordon.
Perhaps, both Lilias and old Halbert suggested, some of their people had returned and taken him to the Abbey of Coldingham, and as this was by far the safest lodging and refuge for her and her brother, the horses' heads were at once turned thitherwards.
And he gave way to another paroxysm of grief, while Halbert explained to Sir James Stewart that when Sir Patrick Drummond had gone to embark for France, with the army led to the aid of Charles VI. by the Earl of Buchan, his father and cousins, with a large escort, had accompanied him to Eyemouth; whence, after taking leave of him, they had set out to spend Passion-tide and Easter at Coldingham Abbey, after the frequent fashion of the devoutly inclined among the Scottish nobility, in whose castles there was often little commodity for religious observances.
When my wife had George, it made me as nervous as a cat!" The Squire stopped, then hurriedly added: "But you're so used to it." Mr. Barter frowned. "I was passing Coldingham to-day," he said. "I saw Winlow. He asked after you." "Ah! Winlow! His wife's a very nice woman. They've only the one child, I think?" The Rector winced. "Winlow tells me," he said abruptly, "that George has sold his horse."
With their knowledge of King James and his intentions, well might they have unlimited hopes for the country over which he was about to reign. They turned aside from Coldingham, and made for the sea, and at length the promontory of St.
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