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Prestonpans and Vicinity

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ment as they take this to be upon their property, had it appeared in a short-lived newspaper, especially when published by a certain authority or rather command; but it afflicts us much to see the same usurped title of the forementioned battle find a way into your last September Magazine, which bids fair to perpetuate it.
"May it please you therefore, good sir, if you have occasion hereafter to publish anything concerning said battle, to denominate it from one of your petitioners, or at least to publish this our remonstrance against the encroachment upon our right, and your petitioners, " etc. etc.
(Signed) " FLYING SHOTS. "
Whereupon the editor tells his readers, " to change or not, just as they have a mind. "

CHAPTER XXII.
LORD GRANGE, PRESTON HOUSE, ETC.
Preston House, etc. —Lord Grange-Other Proprietors—Lord Provost of Edinburgh—Dr Oswald—Erskine of Grange—Lord Grange—Lord Lovat—M'Leod of M'Leod, and Lord Grange—Lady Grange carried off—Held in Captivity till Death—Dr Ramsay—Dr Schaw—Schaw's Bequest—Hospital Founded—Names, Trades, and Professions of Inmates—Revisit of Old Scholars—Murray's Bequests—Institution—Matron, Teachers, Inmates, etc.
THIS fine old ivy-clad ruin stands a little to the east of the old Market Cross, directly south of Murray's Institution, and at the extreme east end of the village of Preston.
Preston Tower, as already mentioned, was finally destroyed by fire in 1663, and abandoned by the Hamiltons as a dwelling-place. Sir James de Preston or Hamilton was proprietor at that period, but we do not know that he ever returned to the old village or approached the desolate Tower. In 1685 we find Sir William, his son, fighting under Argyll, and he died some years afterwards. His brother Robert did, or ought to have succeeded him, but his estates (private, apparently, for as yet he had no claim to Preston) had been confiscated for his denunciation of the king and his court, and he had been banished for his covenanting principles. He returned in 1689, before his brother died, but still refused to acknowledge king or court, and never served himself heir to the estate or to the baronetcy. He died at Bo'ness in 1701.
The old Tower and estate at Preston were shortly afterwards transferred to a nephew of the late Sir Robert Hamilton, Dr Oswald, a son of Sir James Os\yald, who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh at that period. But the transference took place under an arrangement that the estate should be redeemed if a covenanted sovereign surmounted the throne. For this new

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