very probable that the Earl may often have been
a guest in that old mansion, and King James himself
in later years. The bishop, who married Margaret
Murray of Touchadam, died in 1593, and
was succeeded in the old mansion by his son John
Bothwell, designed of Auldhamer, who accompanied
King James to England, and was created Lord
Holyroodhouse, in the peerage of Scotland, in 1607.
Here dwelt his sister Anne, a woman of remarkable
beauty, whose wrongs are so touchingly re-
THE EXCISE OFFICE AT THE NETHERBOW. (After a Pkotograplr & A k x d e r A. Ingir.)
?? an English villain,? according to Balfour-a servsnt
boy, out of revenge against his master.
In the Scots Magazine for 1774 we have a
notice of the death of Eleonora Bothwell, daughter
of the deceased Henry, Lord Holyroodhouse.
Alexander, his son, Master of Holyroodhouse,
who died about the middle of the last century,
ended the line of the family, of whom no relic now
remains save the tomb of Bishop Adam, which
still exists in Holyrood chapel On the front of
.corded in the sweet old ballad known as ? Lady
Anne Bothwell?s Lament.? She was betrayed in a
.disgraceful Ziaison by Sir Alexander Erskine (a son
af John, 14th Earl of Mar), of whom a portrait by
Jamieson is still extant, and represents him in the military
dress of his time-a handsome man in a cuirass
.and scarf, with a face full of nobility of expression.
The lady?s name does not appear in the Douglas
peerage ; but her cruel desertion by Sir Alexander
was confidently believed at the time to have justly
exposed him to the vengeance of heaven, for he
perished with the Earl of Haddington and others
in the Castle of Dunglas, which was blown up by
guhpowder in 1640, through the instrumentality of
the third pillar from the east is a tablet with his
arms-a chevron, between three trefoils slipped,
with a crescent, and a very long inscription, the
first six lines of which run thus :-
? Hic reconditus jacet nobilissimus vir
Dominus Adamus Bothuelius, Episcopus,
Orcadum et Zethlandiz : Commendatonus Ifonasteni,
Sancti Crucis ; Senator et Consiliarius
Regius : qui obiit anno ztatis suz 67,
23 die Meosis August4 Anno Domini 1593.?
The ancient edifice is associated with an eminent
citizen, who lived in later but not less troublesome
and warlike times, Sir William Dick, ancestor of
the present baronets of Prestonfield. The south,
