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Jobson, the factor, who would look to my entertainment in his master's absence. Jobson arrived before luncheon, and the sight of him was the first satisfactory thing about Welgevonden. He was a big, gruff Scot from Roxburghshire, engaged, no doubt, by Lawson as a duty to his Border ancestry. He had short grizzled whiskers, a weatherworn face, and a shrewd, calm blue eye.
I must write to the sheriff of Roxburghshire too, and to an active justice of peace in Cumberland. 'I hope when you come to the country you will make Woodbourne your headquarters? 'Certainly; I was afraid you were going to forbid me. But we must go to breakfast now or I shall be too late.
Their son was John Hughes, Esq., of Oriel College, whose "Itinerary of the Rhone" is mentioned with praise in the introduction to Quentin Durward. See letter to Charles Scott, in Life, vol. vii. p. 275. Mr. Pringle was a Roxburghshire farmer's son who in youth attracted Sir Walter's notice by his poem called The Autumnal Excursion; or, Sketches in Teviotdale.
Poet, s. of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire, studied medicine, which he practised in London. He is remembered as the friend of Thomson, Mallet, and other literary celebrities of the time, and as the author of a poem on The Art of Preserving Health, which appeared in 1744, and in which a somewhat unpromising subject for poetic treatment is gracefully and ingeniously handled.
A body of Englishmen, under Sir Ralph Eure, defeated Arran at Melrose, and desecrated the abbey, the sepulchre of the Douglas family. In revenge, Angus, along with Arran, fell upon the English at Ancrum Moor in Roxburghshire, and inflicted on them a total defeat. He ravaged the borders in merciless fashion.
Scrope has made a painting of Tivoli, which, when mellowed a little by time, will be a fine one. Letters from Lockhart, with news concerning the beautiful mess they are making in London. Henry Scott will be threatened in Roxburghshire. This would be bad policy, as it would drive the young Duke to take up his ground, which, unless pressed, he may be in no hurry to do.
Shooting in September at Chorleywood and Stetchworth the latter first-rate; then to Roxburghshire; afterwards to Raith. To Lord Brougham Relugas, near Forres, August 26th. Your very kind note of the 23rd has followed me here, where I am spending a few days on my way to Sutherland. Towards the latter end of October I shall be returning to England, with Mrs.
Brady , Hesperothen , A Visit to Chili , and The Great War with Russia . He was knighted in 1895, and also received various foreign decorations. Theologian and controversialist, b. at Nisbet, Roxburghshire, ed. at Edin. In 1627 he was settled as minister of Anwoth in Galloway, whence he was banished to Aberdeen for nonconformity.
On the moment that the fleet was perceived, St. Abb's lighted up its fires, throwing a long line of light along the darkening sea, from the black shore to the far horizon: and scarce had the first flame of its alarm-fire waved in the wind, till the Dow Hill repeated the fiery signal; and, in a few minutes, Domilaw, Dumprender, and Arthur's Seat, exhibited tops of fire as the night fell down on them, bearing the tidings, as if lightnings flying on different courses revealed them, through Berwickshire and the Lothians, and enabling Roxburghshire and Fife to read the tale; while Binning's Craig, repeating the telegraphic fire, startled the burghers of Linlithgow on the one hand, and on the other aroused the men of Lanarkshire.
I must write to the sheriff of Roxburghshire too, and to an active justice of peace in Cumberland. 'I hope when you come to the country you will make Woodbourne your headquarters? 'Certainly; I was afraid you were going to forbid me. But we must go to breakfast now or I shall be too late.
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