Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

KIXG GEORGE SATISFIED WITH AN.NANDALE, 1715. CCCxix
of Kovcuibei' ; and an account of wliat hap}iencd is given iu the volume of
correspondence. The rebels, finding that the furce al iJuinfiics would stand
their ground, did not make the threatened attack ;* and tlie defeat of the
Jacobite army at Preston, on 12th Xovember 1715, rendered all other
measures of defence on the side of the borders mmecessary. Annandale
received a letter of tliaid:s from the ^^iscoullt of Townshend, then secretary
of state, who informed him that he had laid a letter of Annandale's of
the 3d before the king, who was very well satisfied with the I'jarticular
account his lordship gave of the state of his part of the country, and the zeal
his lordship expressed for his Majesty's service, and stated that his Majesty
approved very mnch of his lordship making the Viscount of Stormont
prisoner. With this commendation from the kiug the connection of Annan-
dale with the active progress of tlie campaign, appears to have terminated.
The mansion-house of Craigiehall, near Edinburgh, being the paternal
inheritance of the marchioness, was a convenient additional residence for
Annandale after her succession to the Craigiehall estates. An old lease of
the gardens at Craigiehall shows the care which she desired to bestow on
their preservation. The lease referred to was entered into by the marchioness,
as having commission from her husband, with JIark Coidter, gardener in
Abbey Hill, by which she let to him for a year the gardens and two rooms
in the house upon the garden wall, for all which Coulter bound himself to
keep the gardens, with the parterre or llower-garden, and the bowling-green,
in as good condition as they were in at his entry."
The health of the marchioness at the date of the lease of her gardens now
referred to,' and indeed for several years previous, was in a precarious state,
and refjuired her residence in England. During the summer of 171G, she
appears to have gone there, but without any improvement. She died on the
13th of December 171C, and was buried in the south cross of the abbey of
' Vol. ii. of tbis work, p. 2CG.
- Original lease, dated 20th Martli 171G, in Anuaudale Ctiartcr-cbest.