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CADYOW CASTLE. 535
rint, vel halitu perjiaverunt, ab Us mtiltos post dies omnino abstinuerunt. Ad hoc
tanta audacia hide bovi indita erat, ut non solum irritatus equites furenter pro-
sterneret, sed ne tantillum lacessitus omnes promiscue homines cornibus, ac ungulis
peteret ; ac canum, qui apud nos ferocissimi sunt impetus plane contemneret.
Ejus carries cartilaginosce sed saporis suavissimi. Erat is olim per illam vastissi-
mam Caledonim sylvam frequens, sed humana ingluvie jam assumptus tribus tan-
turn locis est reliquus, Strivilingii CumbernaldicB et KincarnicB. — Leslseus Scotise
Descriptio, p. 13.
Stern Claud replied, loith darkening face,
(Grey Pasley's haughty lord ivas he. J — P. 531, v. 5.
Lord Claud Hamilton, second son of the Duke of Chatellierault, and commenda-
tor of the abbey of Paisley, acted a distinguished part during the troubles of Queen
Mary's reign, and remained unalterably attached to the cause of that unfortunate
princess. He led the van of her army at the fatal battle of Langside, and was one
of the commanders at the Raid of Stirling, which had so nearly given complete suc-
cess to the queen's faction. He was ancestor of the present Marquis of Abercorn.
Few suns have set since Woodhouselee. — P. 531, v. G.
This barony, stretching along the banks of the Esk, near Auchindinny, belonged
to Bothwellhaugh, in right of his wafe. The ruins of the mansion, from whence she
was expelled in the brutal manner which occasioned her death, are still to be seen in
a hollow glen beside the river. Popular report tenants them with the restless ghost
of the Lady Bothwellhaugh ; whom, however, it confounds with Lady Anne Both well,
whose Lament is so popular. This spectre is so tenacious of her rights, that, a part
of the stones of the ancient edifice having been employed in building or repairing
the present Woodhouselee, she has deemed it a part of her privilege to haunt that
house also ; and, even of very late years, has excited considerable disturbance and
terror among the domestics. This is a more remarkable vindication of the rights of
ghosts, as the present Woodhouselee, which gives his title to the Honourable Alex-
ander Eraser Tytler, a senator of the college of justice, is situated on the slope of
the Pentland hills, distant at least four miles from her proper abode. She always
appears in white, and with her child in her arms.
Whose bloody poniard's frantic stroke
Drives to the leap his jaded steed. — P. 532, v. 3.
Birrell informs us, that Bothwellhaugh, being closely pursued, " after that spur
and wand had fail' d him, he drew forth his dagger, and strocke his horse behind,
whilk caused the horse to leap a very brode stanke (J. e. ditch), by whilk means he
escaipit, and gat away from all the rest of the horses." — Birrel's Diary, p. 18.
From the wild Border's humbled side,
In haughty triumph, marched he. — P. 532, v. 8.
Murray's death took place shortly after an expedition to the Borders ; which is
thus commemorated by the author of his elegy :
" So having stablischt all thing in this sort,
To Liddisdaill agane he did resort.
Throw Ewisdail, Eskdail, and all the daills rode he.
And also lay three nights in Cannabie,
Whair na prince lay thir hundred yeiris before.
Nae thief durst stir, tliey did him feir so sair;
And, that they suld na mair thair thift allege,
Threescore and twelf he broclit of them in pledge,
Syne wardit thame, whilk maid the rest keep ordour,
Than niycht the rasch-biis keep ky on the bordour. "
Scottish Poems, I6th Century, p. 232.