Imperial gazeteer of Scotland, or, Dictionary of Scottish topography > Volume 2

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HALF-MORTON.
majority of James IV., and during the reign of James
V., the county, as to its domestic affairs, enjoyed
quiet.
In 1544, the English, on their return, under the
Earl of Somerset, from the siege of Leith, burned
and razed the castle of Seaton, and reduced to ashes
the towns of Haddington and Dunbar. In 1547, the
invading army of the protector Somerset, razed the
castle of Dunglass, captured the castles of Thorn-
ton and Innerwick, stained the soil in their progress
with several skirmishes, and, prelusive to the vic-
tory of Pinkie, defeated a party of the Scottish army
at Fallside brae on the confines of Edinburghshire.
In 154S, Lord Gray advanced from strong positions
in which Somerset, the previous year, had left him
on the border, and took the castle of Yester, forti-
fied and garrisoned the town of Haddington, and
wasted the county by every mode of inveterate
hostility. Till March, 1549-50, when the ancient
limits of the conterminous kingdoms were restored
by a treaty of peace, Haddingtonshire passed under
the power of the English, and became the prey of
their German mercenaries. Except that Seaton and
Dunbar castles afforded a retreat to Mary, the county
was little affected by the turbulencies and distrac-
tions of her reigu; and during the 30 years of civil
broils which followed, it seems to have suffered
more of mortification than of waste. It had its full
share, however, in the devastation and murderous
achievements of Cromwell's invasion in 1653; and
in that year was the theatre of the great conflict by
which he became temporary master of Scotland.
See Dunbar., No further event of note occurs, ex-
cept the battle of Preston, fought in 1745, between
Prince Charles Edward and the royal troops. See
Prestonpans.
HADDO. See Forgue.
HADDO-HOUSE, the seat of the Earl of Aber-
deen, in the parish of Methlick, 6J miles west-
north-west of Ellon, Aberdeenshire. It is a splendid
modern mansion, in the Palladian style, built after
designs by Baxter of Edinburgh. The predecessor
of it was built early in the 1 7th century, and stood
a siege of three days in 1644 by the Covenanting
army under the Marquis of Argyle. The policies
are of great extent and much beauty ; and within
them stands a granite obelisk, erected by the present
Earl to the memory of his brother, Sir Alexander
Gordon, who fell at Waterloo.
IIAFTON. See Dunoon.
HAGENHOPE BURN, a brook flowing south-
westward on the boundary between the parishes of
Newlands and Lyne, and falling into Lyne water,
at a point about 2 miles above Lyne church, in
Peebles-shire.
HAGGS, a village in the south corner of the par-
ish of Denny, 5 miles from Kilsyth, and 6| miles
from Falkirk, Stirlingshire. It stands nearly half-
a-mile north of the Forth and Clyde canal, on the
road between Kilsyth and Falkirk, near the inter-
section of that road by the turnpike between Glas-
gow and Stirling. A kind of continuation of it ex-
tends nearly a mile along the road to Broomage
toll-bar. In 1836, a remarkably neat row of collier
cottages was erected at Haggs, terminating at one
end in a large building intended as a store ; and in
1840, a handsome place of worship, in connexion
with the Established church, and containing about
700 sittings, was erected. This was for some time
ecclesiastically a quoad sacra parish church, but is
now a chapel of ease. In 1841 , the population of
the temporary quoad sacra parish was 1,905 ; and
in 1861, the population of the village of Haggs it-
self was 302, exclusive of the adjoining hamlet of
Dinkier.
HAGGS, Renfrewshire. See Govan.
HAILES, the estate of Sir Thomas G. Carmichael,
Bart., in the parish of Colinton, 4 miles west of Ed-
inburgh. The lands of Hailes anciently belonged
in part to the monks of Dunfermline, and in part tc
the canons of St. Anthony at Leith ; and they con-
stituted parochially a vicarage which bore indiffer-
ently the name of Hailes \nd the name of Colinton.
Some persons say that the present mansion of Hailea
stands on the site of the ancient parish church.
There is on the estate a famous quarry of dark grey
sandstone, of a slaty structure, easily divisible into
flags for pavement and blocks for steps of stairs,
while the smaller portions suit well for rubble work.
During the year 1825, when the building mania was
at its height in Edinburgh, 600 cart-loads of stones
were sent daily thither from this quarry, yielding
the landlord that year about £9,000 ; but after the
mania subsided, the quantity sent daily fell so low
as 60 or 70 cart-loads. Contiguous to the quarry
is a village which takes from it the name of Hailes
Quarry, and has a population of about 160.
HAILES (New), a seat on the west side of the
parish of Inveresk, about J a mile from the frith of
Forth, in the north-east of Edinburghshire. It is
famous for having been the residence of Sir David
Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, one of the most distin-
guished of Scottish historians and antiquaries. The
grounds around it are well-wooded and beautifully
disposed ; and in the vicinity of the mansion is a
column, erected to the memory of the great Earl of
Stair.
HAILES-CASTLE, a fine old ruin, on a rock on
the right bank of the Tyne, in the parish of Pres-
tonkirk, Haddingtonshire. It is noted as having
been anciently the property of the notorious Earl of
Bothwell, the temporary residence of Queen Mary,
and the place to which Bothwell conducted her,
after seizing her near Linlithgow.
HAILES-QUARRY. See Hailes.
HAILSTON- BURN, a brook in the parish of Kil-
syth, Stirlingshire, noted for its containing blocks
of jasper.
HAIRLAW, a locality in the parish of Neilston,
Renfrewshire, where a battle was fought between
Malcolm III. of Scotland, and Donald, Lord of the
Isles, in which the latter was beaten and routed.
Here is now an artificial reservoir, 72 acres in ex-
tent, and 16 feet deep, fed by a stream from Long-
Loch.
HALBEATH, a post-office village on the eastern
border of the parish of Dunfermline, 2J miles east-
north-east of the town of Dunfermline, Fifeshire.
Around it are extensive coal-mines. The village
has a station on the Dunfermline branch of the
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee railway. Population,
56S. See Dunfermline.
HALBORN-HEAD. See Holburn-Head.
HALEN, a quoad sacra parish, comprising the
peninsula of Vaternish, within the quoad civilia
parish of Diminish, in the island of Skye. It was
constituted by the Court of Teinds in July, 1847.
The church is a government one, under the patron-
age of the Crown. Stipend, £120; glebe, £11.
The post- town is Dunvegan.
HALF-DAVOCH. See Edenkili.ie.
HALF-MORTON, a parish, politically on the
south-east border of Annandale, but topographically
ntermediate between Annandaleand Eskdale, Dum-
fries-shire. Its post-town is Canonbie, 5 miles east-
north-east of its church. It is bounded on the
south-east by England, and on other sides by the
parishes of Gretna, Kirkpatrick-Fleming, Middlebie,
Langholm, and Canonbie. Its length south-south-
eastward is about 5 miles ; and its greatest breadth