BOnuington.1 GRIZEL HUME. 89
of the Mylnes of Powderhall. The house was
advertised to be let in the Coumnf of 1761, and the
public are informed that ? it will be very convenient
for any who wish to use the St. Leonard well (an
old and now disused mineral spring) being a short
distance from it.? In this house Sir John Gordon
of Earlston, Bart., Kirkcudbright, was married in
1775, to Anne Mylne, ?youngest daughter of the
deceased Thomas Mylne of Powderhall, Esq.?
( Tfiek&yjournaZ). Burke states that the latter was a
1846. It contains many very handsome tombs ; the
grounds are kept in excellent order; its floral embellishments
are carried to great perfection, and the
average number of annual interments exceeds 700.
George Lord Reay was resident in the house of
Rosebank in 1768.
Opposite the cemetery, on the opposite side of
the road, is the old manor-house of Redbraes,
with artificial ponds among its shrubberies and
pretty walks beside the river. In Rose?s ?? Obser-
TANFIELD HALL.
celebrated London engineer. In 1795 the place
passed into the possession of the family of Daniel
Seton, merchant, in Edinburgh (Scottish Register),
and afterwards was the residence and property of
Sir John Hunter Blair, Bart., of Robertland and
Dunskey, who died there in 1800.
On the east side of the road lies the pretty cemetery
of Rosebank, with its handsome Gothic entrance,
porch, and lodge, facing Pilrig Street. It
occupies a beautiful site, that seenis to gather every
ray of sunshine, and though equi-distant between
Edinburgh and Leith, it may be considered as
especially the cemetery of the latter. It was
originated by a company of shareholders, and was
first opened for interments on the 20th September,
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vations on the Historical Works of Mr. Fox,? we
read that Sir Patrick Kume of Polwarth and Mr.
Robert Baillie were intimate friends, and that
about 1688, when the latter was first imprisoned,
?? Sir Patrick sent his daughter from Redbraes to
Edinburgh, with instructions to endeavour to obtain
admittance unsuspectedly into the prison, to deliver
a letter to Mr. Baillie, and to bring back from
him what intelligence she could. She succeeded
in this difficult enterprise, and having at this time
met with Mr. Baillie?s son, the intimacy and friendship
was formed which was afterwards completed
by their marriage.?
This was the famous Grizel Hume, so well known
in Scottish story.
