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Chapter the Third
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They lighted down on Tweed water
And blew their coals sae het,
And fired the March and Teviotdale,
All in an evening late.
Auld1 Maitland.
The report soon spread through the patrimony2 of Saint Mary’s and its vicinity, that the Mistress of Glendearg had received assurance from the English Captain, and that her cattle were not to be driven off, or her corn burned. Among others who heard this report, it reached the ears of a lady, who, once much higher in rank than Elspeth Glendinning, was now by the same calamity3 reduced to even greater misfortune.
She was the widow of a brave soldier, Walter Avenel, descended4 of a very ancient Border family, who once possessed5 immense estates in Eskdale. These had long since passed from them into other hands, but they still enjoyed an ancient Barony of considerable extent, not very far from the patrimony of Saint Mary’s, and lying upon the same side of the river with the narrow vale of Glendearg, at the head of which was the little tower of the Glendinnings. Here they had lived, bearing a respectable rank amongst the gentry7 of their province, though neither wealthy nor powerful. This general regard had been much augmented8 by the skill, courage, and enterprise which had been displayed by Walter Avenel, the last Baron6.
When Scotland began to recover from the dreadful shock she had sustained after the battle of Pinkie-Cleuch, Avenel was one of the first who, assembling a small force, set an example in those bloody9 and unsparing skirmishes, which showed that a nation, though conquered and overrun by
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