"Why knock'st thou here? no hostel And, stamping, he struck his gauntlet

*Robert de Quincey, a Northamptonshire baron, acquired the manor of Travernent, (vulgo, Tranent,) which, in the reign of David the First, had been held by Swan, the son of Thor, soon after the accession of William the Lion; and he served for some time as justiciary to that monarch. At the end of the twelfth century he was succeeded in his immense estates by his son, Seyer de Quincey, the hero of the following ballad, who set out for Palestine in 1218, where he died in the year following.

* "Intaminatis fulget honoribus," was the proud motto of the Seton family. The original Seton arms were three crescents with a double tressure, flowered and counterflowered with fleurs-de-lis. A sword supporting a royal crown was afterwards given by Robert the Bruce, for the bravery and loyalty of the family during the succession wars. At a later period, three garbs azure were quartered with the Seton arms, by George the second lord of that name.

"This lord George," saith old Sir Thomas Maitland, "tuk the armes of Buchan, quhilk ar thrè cumming schevis, quarterlie wyth his awin armes, allegeand himself to be air of the said erldome, be ressoun of his gudedame."-Chronicle of the Hous of Seytoun, p. 37.

The crest was a green dragon spouting fire surmounting a ducal coronet, with the words over it," Set On." The supporters were two foxes collared and chained.

Sir Robert Sibbald, in his History of Fife, quotes a charter by the Earl of Winchester to Adame de Seton, 1246, " De Maritagio herædis Alani de Fawside," from which, as well as from some incidental passages in Maitland's "History of the Hous of Seytoun," it is evident that Falside Castle was a heritage of the younger branches of the Seton family. It was first acquired by them from intermarriage with the De Quinceys.

The date of Falsyde Castle is uncertain. It was burned by the English under the Duke of Somerset, 1547, the day following the fatal battle of Pinkie. The strength of the mason-work, however the tower being arched at the top of the building, as well as at the first story-prevented its entire demolition. Paton, in his " Diary," gives a very cool description of the burning to death of its little garrison, and calls it 66 a sorry-looking castle." In 1618, the family of Fawside of that Ilk appear to have removed to a more modern mansion in the immediate vicinity, which has the initials J. F., J. L., above one of its windows. The dovecot of the ancient fortalice still remains; and within it is a curious place of concealment, secured by an antique grated door. There is a similar hole of secrecy in the staircase of the oldest part of the castle.

It is now the property of Sir George Grant Suttie of Prestongrange and Balgone, having descended to him through his maternal ancestors the Setons, Earls of Hyndford. NO. CCCI. VOL. XLVIII.

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The parish of Newbottle rises from its extremities-Fordel House and Newbyres Tower-till it terminates in a ridge of considerable extent, termed the Roman Camp, the elevation of which is 680 feet. The neighbourhood abounding in hares, the Roman Camp is a favourite meeting-place of the Mid-Lothian Coursing Club. From antlers found in the neighbourhood, and even at Inveresk, no doubt can exist, that, at the era of our ballad, the hart and hind were visitants of at least the Morth-thwaite hills.

The building of Roslin Castle is anterior to the dawn of authentic record. origin," says Chalmers, (Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 571,) is laid in fable." According to Adam de Cardonnel, (Picturesque Antiquities,) William de Sancto Claro, son of Waldernus Compte de St Clare, who came to England with William the Conqueror, obtained from King Malcolm Canmore a grant of the lands and barony of Roslin.

Hawthornden and Roslin are associated with many bright names in literature-Drummond, Ben Jonson, Ramsay, Macneil, Scott, Wilson, and Wordsworth.

Chalmers traces back the name "Caerbairin," to the time of the ancient Britons, and instances the modern one " Carberry," to show how English adjuncts have been engrafted on British roots.

Every reader of Scottish history will remember that it was on the rising ground above the fortalice of Carberry, that Mary and Bothwell awaited the approach of the confederate lords; and that there they were parted, never to meet again.

† During the Scoto-Saxon period, the king's highways are often mentioned in chartularies, as local boundaries. In that of Newbottle we find reference made to a regia via, leading from the village of Ford to the Abbey, in a charter of Hugh Riddel, in the time of Alexander III., (chart. 22.) The king's highway from the same Abbey to Edinburgh in 1252, is also there mentioned, (16;) and Gervaise, the abbot, in his charter, (Ib. 163,) alludes to a certain road called Derstrette, near Colden, in the district of Inveresk. Near the same locality there is now a place called D'Arcy, which I have little doubt is a corruption of the ancient appellation.

Newbottle Abbey was beautifully situated on the banks of the South Esk, nearly on the same site as the modern mansion of the Marquis of Lothian, who is a descendant of the last abbot. It was founded by that "sore saint for the crown," King David I., in the year 1140. "The monks," says Bishop Keith, "were brought from Melrose, together with their abbot, Radulphus. Patrick Madort, a learned divine, who is mentioned from the year 1462 until 1470, recovered a great number of original writs and charters belonging to this place, which were transcribed into a chartulary, which is now in the Advocates' Library.”—Religious Houses, p. 417. Ed. 1824.

The only relics of antiquity now about the place, are the remains of the stone inclosure which surrounded the Abbey, still called Monkland Wall-a striking and 'venerable gateway, surmounted by its time worn lions; a solemn line of yew-trees; and a doorway, amid the lawn to the east, said to be the entrance of a subterranean passage to the old Abbey.

Many of the trees in the park are beautiful and majestic, especially some of the planes and elms; and a beech, in the neigbourhood of the house, measures twenty-two feet in circumference, at a yard from the ground. It contains nine hundred cubic feet of wood, and its branches cover a circle of thirty-three feet diameter.

The remains of monastic architecture now seen at Newbottle, are said to have been brought by the late Marquis from the ruins at Mount Teviot. They are beautiful and interesting.

We should also state, in referring to the antiquities of the place, that a little below the Abbey there is a venerable bridge over the Esk, rudely built, and overspread with ivy, which has long survived all accounts of its age and founder.

The present parish of Newbottle consists of the ancient parish of Maisterton, and the Abbey parish. During the Scoto-Saxon period, the patronage of Maisterton was possessed by the lord of the manor. Near the end of the thirteenth century this belonged to Robert de Rossine, knight, whose daughters, Mariot and Ada, resigned it to the monks of Newbottle, with two-thirds of their estates.

So says Sir Walter Scott, (Lay, canto iii. stanza 8,) and, in annotation, quotes from a MS. Account of Parish of Ewes, apud Macfarlane's MSS. :-" At Unthank, two miles north-east from the church, (of Ewes,) there are the ruins of a chapel for Divine service in time of Popery. There is a tradition that friars were wont to come from Melrose or Jedburgh, to baptize and marry in this parish; and, from being in use to carry the mass-book in their bosoms, they were called by the inhabitants" Book abosomes."

† Dalcaeth, in the Celtic, means the narrow dalo.- Vide Richard and Owen's Dictionary, in voce Caeth. Dalkeith, as a parish, does not appear in the ancient Taxatio. Indeed, as such, it did not then exist; but as the manor of Dalkeith, as well as that of Abercorn, was granted by David I. to William de Grahame, it is easily to be sup posed, that, being an opulent family, they had a chapel to their court. "No memorial remains of the Grahames, unless the fading traditions of the place, and two curious but wasted tombstones, which lie within the circuit of the old church. They represent knights in chain armour, lying cross-legged upon their monuments, like those ancient and curious figures on the tombs in the Temple Church, London."-Provincial Antiquities of Scotland. From Robertson's Index, 40-44; and from the Douglas Peerage, 489, we find, that in the reign of David II., John de Grahame of Dalkeith resigned with its pertinents, to William Douglas, the heir of Sir James Douglas of Lothian, in marriage with his daughter Margaret. Dalcaeth is first written Dalkeith in a charter of Robert the Bruce. It is proper to mention, however, that Froissart, who himself visited the Earl of Douglas at his castle of Dalkeith, has the following passage, in mentioning the single combat between the Earl and Sir Henry Percy, at the barriers of Newcastle. The former having, by force of arms, won the banner of the latter, is thus made to say :-" I shall bear this token of your prowess into Scotland, and shall set it high on my castle of Dalkeith, (D'Alquest) that it may be seen afar off." -Froissart, Berners' Reprint, 1812. Vol. ii. p. 393.

the manor,

The monks of Newbottle were of the Cistertian order. "They were called Monachi Albi,” says Cardonnel, “ to distinguish them from the Benedictines, whose