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Updated: June 23, 2025
Grisell Home was the eldest of eighteen children, two of whom died in infancy. She was born at Redbraes Castle now Marchmont on December 25, 1665. There is a belief that Christmas babies always have an extra large share of the nature of Him who was born on Christmas Day; and truly Grisell Home was one of those who never seemed to know the meaning of Self.
Na, he didnae ken where the maister was. Sure's daith he didnae ken. Aye, he left Redbraes mebbes twa hour sin', in the darkening. No amount of hectoring, no quantity of loudly shouted oaths could move the grieve from his tale. "A wuss a did ken whaur he is," he said, "but a dinnae ken."
Nothing loth, the troopers followed him, and were still contentedly testing the quality of the contents of his big case-bottles when a groom galloped off to Redbraes.
His wife and Grizel the only people in the castle who knew of his danger discussed with him the most likely means of escaping detection, and finally it was decided that he should hide in the family vault in Polwarth Church, which stood about a mile and a half from Redbraes Castle. In the middle of the night Grizel and a carpenter named Winter carried bed and bedding to the vault.
There was rejoicing at Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire, in February, 1676, for Sir Patrick Hume had returned home after seventeen months' imprisonment in Stirling Castle. No one was more delighted at his return than his little ten years' old daughter, Grizel, who loved him dearly, and was proud that he had suffered imprisonment for conscience sake.
"Where do you ride to-day?" he asked, when the party came up. "To take Polwarth at Redbraes," they said. "Is it so?" said Home. "Then I'll go with you myself and be your guide. But come your ways into the house and rest you a little, till I get ready for the road."
Grisell was asked to become a maid of honour to the Princess but she preferred to go back to the quiet country life at Redbraes.
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