Volume contents
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- 258 - Melrose , Title Page
- 259 - Melrose , Index
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| ABBOTSFORD | Abbotsford Contd. Continued] | 007.03 | Continued [from page 103] Great Minstrel breathed his last on the 21st. of September 1832. Beyond the dining room is a small parlour which Contains the valuable collection of Original drawings, by Blore, Culcott. Turner and others. In the Court Yard close by the porch of the Entrance-hall, is a Marble effigy of Sir Walter's favourite Dog Maiday over its grave, and bearing this inscription "Maidae Marmorea dormis sub imagine, Maida, Ad januam domini; sit tibi terra levis" Translated runs thus. "O Maida, thou liest under the Marble ring of Maida, at thy Master's door, may the earth be light upon thee"! Such is a SKetch of Abbotsford, the residence of the late Sir Walter Scot which stands unequalled in Britain, and which owes the whole of its beauties, to the talent and Genius of its late possessor, having by him transformed to a palace of beauty from its former unpoetic name Clarty Hole It is now the property and occasional residence of J. R. Hope Scott Esq. |
Continued entries/extra info
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Parish of Melrose -- Sheet. 7. 3.
Transcriber's notes
Words lost in fold of page.
Ordnance Survey - Roxburgh county, OS Name Books - Roxburgh county - Volume 28 - Parish of Melrose, OS1/29/28
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Melrose.
Ordnance Survey - Roxburgh county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Roxburgh, which is in the south east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.