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KCEXT COXTinBUTIONS TO BORDER IIISTOIIY. xxxiii
^roiiswald upon Sir AYilliam Douglas of I[a\\-ick, cWest son of Sir James
Douglas. Tlio secoml grandson of Sir William, Jamos Douglas, N\-as provided
to ]\Ious\vald, and rlic Douglases of ]\IousNvald, as cadets of JJnimlanrig, con-
tinued for upwards of a century, wlien Jlouswald passed into oilier Lauds.'
i;kcext coNTiiir.rTioxs to tjD': iiisTor.y of the Eor.DEES.
jiuriug the present century several important works have been prepared
Leaving on the history of the Scottish Border abbeys, as well as on the noble
;ind baronial families on both sides of the Borders. His Grace the late Duke
of Buccleuch and Qneensberry, K.G., presented, in the year 1837, to the
Bannatyne Club the " Liber de Slailros," in tvv'o volumes quarto. Tbe -work is
illn.^trated with engravings of several of the ancient and beautiful charters,
and al£0 many of the armorial seals still appended to them. The wealth of
illuptration well entitled the work to the style of magnificent. Nine years
later, in 184 6, His Grace the late Duke of Eoxburghe, K.T., presented to the
sauic Club the " Liber de Calcliou," in two volumes cpiarto. That work included
a facsiiuile of the beautiful charter granted by King lUalcolm the Fourth to
the abl)ey, which contains in the initial letter of his Christian name two
portraits in colours, which have reasonably been supposed to be representa-
tioi'.s of the j'outhful JMalcolm and his gi-audfathcr, the venerable. King
' TIr' ]>veseut owner it itouswald is Mrs.
Iloid. Her eldest son, the late Jlr. .J. J.
llcid, Queen's Remembrancer in E.^chequcr,
wrote a paper on the " Barony of Moiis-
"
waiil, and Barons ; a page of I'-urder History
[i'rdcieiliiijis of the Society of Antiquaries of
Si-Mtlaiiil, lS6S-n, vol. xxiii. pp. 2-1-70], It 13
ihiciiy derived from tlie information produced
in tlic Loeaiity of Moffat in li>-i2, as appears
liuMi tl'O numerous references tliroiigh-
out. Ml. ilciiVs own ri'teaulici added to
it rjr.kc his paper a very readable one ;
altho-.igli, from the private Drumlaurig Papers
to w-hieh he seeras to liave had nocesa,
he animadverts too severely on Sir James
Douglas as the guardian of the heiresses,
without making comir.ent on the conduct of
Cockpool. If the poor heiress liad followed
the advieo of her legal guardian, slie might
have had a better fate than that which slie
met with in the home of her unele at C'um-
Iong.ui,