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Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
Subjects: Church architecture Architecture Castles
Publisher: London, Published by the author
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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till earlier possessor, says, in his autobiography, Robert Scott of Sandy Knowe married,in 1728, Barbara Haliburton, daughter of Thomas Haliburton of Newmains, an ancient andrespectable family in Berwickshire. Among other patrimonial possessions, they enjoyed the partof Dryburgh, now the property of the Earl of Buchan, comprehending tbe ruins of the Abbey.My grand-uncle, Kobert Haliburton, having no male heirs, this estate, as well as the representationof the family, would have devolved upon my father, and, indeed, old Newmains would havesettled it upon bim; but this was prevented by the misfortunes of my grand-uncle, a weak sillyman, who engaged in trade, for which he had neither stock nor talents, and became bankrupt.. . . And thus we have nothing left of Dryburgh, although my fathers maternal inheritance,but the right of stretching our bones where mine may perhaps be laid ere any eye but my ownglances over these pages. j • Lettiir quoted in Mortons Annals, 39. + Memoirs, i. 6, 7.
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