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86 L. Corbett 1827 Sir Walter Scott in his Tales of a Grandfather – on Scottish history to 1746 – speaks of his having seen some of the roots of the Wallace Oak. (Howie) 1830 Plan of the Estate of Woodside, property of James Russell Esq of Edinburgh (MS NLS Deposit 240 … Russell and Aitken Papers) … poorly legible … see Forrester’s paper, figures 3 and 4. The plan has many pencilled annotations thought to be by James Aitken who aquired the estate in 1899, and the Asylum in 1869. A different hand added the location of Wallace’s Oak, and the ‘proposed pond’ at Cockmylane, probably that of Anne Stirling of Glenbervie, who was rebuilding Glenbervie House around 1850. Her daughter Mrs Houston of Johnstone claimed to have identified the site of the Oak. (Gibson’s Lands and Lairds of Larbert and Dunipace, 1908 p75; and pers. comm. Patrick Cadell, NLS, to Forrester, 1985) (Howie, Forrester, Cadell ) 1840 Thought by some to be the date of the pencilling ‘Wallace Oak’ on the Woodside Plan possibly by a member of the Blair family. (Mackay) 1841 From the New Statistical Account of Scotland, Stirlingshire volume, are these quotes from the Rev. John Bonar’s reports on his parishes of (a) Larbert and (b) Dunipace – (a) “There was – 50 years ago, a remarkable oak in this neighbourhood on the lands of Blairs, two miles north of Larbert. It was called Wallace’s tree. When I saw it about 1794, there remained only a part of the outer shell and a branch with a few green leaves on it....the capacity of the hollow might be such as to contain a man or two … as the popular story … asserted…” (b) “The forest of Torwood is associated with all that is enobling in patriotism and persoal valour. Here stood Wallace’s Oak, 12 feet in diameter, in the hollow of which he and his companions, it is said, used to meet and concert their plans for wrasting from the grasp of the ambitious Edward. This noble son of the forest disappeared about 30 years ago, after having weathered the storms of a thousand winters.” Might not ‘hollow’ be the enclosed centre of a coppiced tree, since these woods are said to have been coppiced “passed all memory”, as quoted above at 1806, The Beauties of Scotland.........LC 1850 The pencilling of ‘Wallace’s Oak’ on the Woodside estate plan by Ann Stirling of Glenbervie … as in figure 4 of the Forrester paper, as noted above at 1830. (Cadell)
1866 “Captain Stobo MP is to send an elaborate side board, made from the wood of Wallace’s Oak” – quoted in a recently noted report in the Glasgow Herald 1866 27th June p1 col 1, on a ‘Glasgow Museum and Polytechnic Exhibition’ (?Torwood oak) (Donnelly) 1880 R. Gillespie, rewriting Nimmo’s History of Stirlingshire in its 3rd edition, enthuses on the ennobling patriotism and valor culled from various sources, including quotes – “At Torwood … remains of the primaeval Caledonian forest. … Down on top of an ordinary ‘hillock’, north of the present toll house, stood the gigantic oak into whose capacious interior Wallace is said to have retreated when pursued in 1298 … The noble tree was surrounded in former days by a marsh. Not the smallest vestage, however, of the Wallace Oak remains … Even the ‘oldest inhabitant’ can say nothing of it save what he has gathered from tradition … Sir Walter Scott saw some roots 80 years ago … Recently we were shown a treasured morsel of the tree in the Chambers Institute at Peebles … Wallace, undoubtedly, often chose the solitude of Torwood as a place of rest … here he concealed his numbers and his designs, to oppose the tyranny of Edward … to sally out suddenly on the enemy, and retreat as suddenly … While his army lay in these woods, ‘the oak’ was his headquarters … But of one defeated army after another, we find it said that the fugitives found refuge here…” (Mackay and LC) 1882 Wallace Oak … in Poetical Musings, 1882, by Joseph Hutton … sung to tune ‘Bonnie Dundee’ – “We sing of the heather, the broom and the blue bell, “And join in our charms the sweet wimpling rill, “We forget not the thistle, that flower of the free, – “Then why not remember the Wallace Oak Tree! “Let us sing of that oak where our young hero played, “All sportive and joious beneath the green shade; “Then resting in sunshine in yiuth’s happy morn, “Eyr fate bad him feel that the rose had a thorn. Wallace Oak: Supplement 87 “That treasured old oak, by arts magic hand, “In casket or cup a memorial shall stand; “And ages unborn shall sing o’ that name “That engraph’d bonnie Scotland to freedom and fame! (McCutcheon and LC)
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