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when the village was occupied on the 18th August
by ten companies of Monk?s Regiment (now the
Coldstream Guards), of which Captain Gough of
Berwick was lieutenant-colonel, and Captain
Holmes of Newcastle, major, prior to the storming
of the fortalices of Redhall and Colinton, before
the 24th of the same month. (?Records: Cold.
Guards.?) Redhall, in after years, was the patrimony
of Captain John Inglis, of H.M.S. Be&
pueux, who, at the battle of Camperdown, whq
confused by the signals of the admiral, shouted
with impatience to his sailing-master, ?? Hang it,
Jock ! doon wi? the helm, and gang iicht into the
middle o?t ! ? closing his telescope as he spoke.
Old Colinton House was, at the period of the
Protectorate, occupied by the Foulis family (now
represented by that of Woodhall in the same parish)
whose name is alleged to be a corruption of the
Norman, as their arms are azure, their bay leaves
uert, in old Norman called fed&. Be that as it
may, the family is older than is stated by Sir Bernard
Burke, as there were two senators of the College
of Justice, each Lord Colinton respectively-James
Foulis in 1532, and John Foulis in 1541; and
there was a James. Fodlis of Colinton, who lived
in the reigns of Mary and James VI., who married
Apes Heriot of Lumphoy, whose tombstone is yet
preserved in an aisle of Colinton Church, and
bears this inscription :-
HERE. LYES. ANE. HONORABIL. WOMAN. A. HERIOT.
SPOVS. TO . J. FOULIS . OF . COLLINT3VN. VAS. QUHA .
DEID . 8 . AUGUST. 1593.
They had four sons-James, who succeeded to
the estate; George, progenitor of the house of
Ravelston ; David, progenitor of the English family
of Ingleby Manor, Yorkshire ; and John, of ?he
Leadhills, whose granddaughter became ancestress
of the Earls of Hopetoun.
Alexander Foulis, of Colinton, was created a
baronet of Nova Scotia in 1634, and his son Sir
James, whose house was stormed by the troops of
Monk, having attended a convention of the estates
in Angus, was betrayed into the hands of the English,
together with the Earls of Leven, Crawford,
Marischal, the Lord Ogilvy, and many others, who
were surprised by a party of Cromwell?s cavalry,
under Colonel Aldridge, on August, 1651, and
taken as prisoners of war to London. He married
Barbara Ainslie of Dolphinton, but, by a case
reported by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, in 1667,
he would seem to have been in a treaty of marriage
with Dame Margaret Erskine, Lady Tarbet, which
led to a somewhat involved suit before the Lords
of Council and Session. After the Restoration he
was raised to the-Bench as Lord Colinton, and was
succeeded by his son, also a Lord of Session, and
a member of the last Scottish Parliament in 1707,
the year of the Union.
he joined the Duke of Hamilton,
the Earl of Athol, and many others of the nobility
and gentry, in their celebrated protest made by the
Earl of Errol, respecting the most constitutional
defence of the house of legislature, He also
joined in the protest, which declared that an incorpotating
union of the two nations was inconsistent
with the honour of Scotland.?
Further details of this family will be found in
the account of Ravelston (p. 106).
The mansions and villas of many other families
are in this somewhat secluded district ; the principal
one is perhaps the modern seat of the late
Lord Dunfermline, on a beautifully wooded hill
overhanging the village on the south. Colinton
House was built by Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo,
Bart. Near it, the remains of the old edifice, of the
same name, form a kind of decorative ruin.
Dreghorn Castle, a stately modern edifice, with
a conspicuous round tower, is situated on the
northern slope of the Pentlands, at an elevation of
489 feet above the sea. John Maclaurin, son of
Colin Maclaurin, the eminent mathematician, was
called to the bench as Lord Dreghorn. A learned
correspondence, which took place in 17 go, between
him, Lord Monboddo, and M. Le Chevalier, afterwards
secretary to Talleyrand, on the site of Troy,
will be found in the Scots Magazine for 1810.
The name of this locality is very old, as among
the missing crown charters of Robert II., is one
confirming a lease by Alexander Meygners of
Redhall, to Robert, Earl of Fife and Menteith, of
the barony of Redhall in the shire of Edinburgh,
except Dreghorn and Woodhall; and of the barony
of Glendochart in Perthshire, during the said Earl?s
life. In the early part of the eighteenth century
it was the property of a family named Home.
Near Woodhall, in the parish of Colinton, is the
little modern village of Juniper Green, chiefly
celebrated as being the temporary residence of
Thomas Carlyle, some time after his marriage at
Comely Bank, Stockbridge, where, as he tells us in
his ?? Reminiscences ? (edited by Mr. Froude), ?his
first experience in the difficulties of housekeeping
began.? Carlyle?s state of health required perfect
quiet, if not absolute solitude; but at Juniper
Green, as at Comely Bank, their house was much
frequented by the literary society of the day; and,
among others, by Chalmers, Guthrie, and Lord
Jeffrey, whose intimacy with Carlyle .rapidly increased
after the first visit he paid him at Comely
Bank. ?He was much taken with my little
-4fter that
324 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Colinton.
Jeannie, as well he might be?-wrote Carlyle in
1867-?0ne of the brightest and cleverest creatures
in the whole world; full of innocent rustic simplicity
and variety, yet with the gracefullest discernment,
and calmly natural deportment ; instinct
with beauty to the finger-ends ! . , . Jeffrey?s
acquaintanceship seemed, and was, for the . time,
an immense acquisition to me, and everybody regarded
it as my highest good fortune, though in
the end it did not practically amount to much.
from its resemblance to the Chinese petunse or
kaolin, out of which the finest native china is
made, it has obtained the name of Petunsepenibndica.
Boulders of granite, gneiss, and other primitive
rocks, lie on the very summits of the Pentlands,
and jaspers of great beauty are frequently found
there. These summits and glens, though possessing
little wood, are generally verdant, and abound
in beauty and boldness of contour. The fine pas-
DREGHORN CASTLE,
Meantime it was very pleasant, and made us feel
as if no longer cut off and isolated, but fairly
admitted, or like to be admitted, and taken in
tow by the world and its actualities.?
A portion of the beautiful Pentland range rises
in the parish of Colinton. Cairketton Craigs on
the boundary between it and Lasswade, the most
northerly of the mountains, are 1,580 feet in height
above the level of the Firth of Forth ; the Allermuir
Hill and Capelaw Hill rise westward of it,
with Castlelaw to the south, 1,595 feet in height.
Cairketton Craigs are principally composed of
clayey felspar, strongly impregnated with black
oxide of iron. This substance, but for its inipregnation,
would be highly useful to the potter, and
tures sustain numerous flocks of sheep, and exhibit
various landscapes of pleasing pastoral romance,
whiie their general undulating outline alike arrests
and delights the eye.
The view from Torphin, one of the low heads of
the Pentlands, is said to be exactly that of the
vicinity of Athens, as seen from the base of Mount
Anchesimus. ?Close upon the right,? wrote Grecian
Wliams, ?? Brilessus is represented by the hills of
Braid; before us in the dark and abrupt mass of
the Castle rises the Acropolis; the hill of Lycabettus
joined to that of Areopagus, appears in
the Calton; in the Firth of Forth we behold the
agean Sea ; in Inchkeith Bgina ; and the hills
of the Peloponnesus are precisely those of the
