Evening star., 1923-09-17
Abbotsford, Sir Walter SCOTS Home.
Occupied by His eat-Creat-G Grandson

their first presentation. but to which
the debutante was in no wise entitled,
drew he toward Ter and kissed her
on both cheeks. exc'aiming There's
all we have left Of Sir Walter" She
| bore a considerable resem alliance to
her distinguished great-grandfather,
and has the same dropping blue eyeS
looking out from beneath q wide fun
brow. and was go much llkeChantrey's
head OF the novelist that she might
have served as Its model. She was a ,
gifted writer, edited the last and best
edition OF "S:r Waters Diary" was
frequent contributor to Harper's and
other American magazines and the
author of incidents in Scottish His
tory" "The Making of Abbotsford"
and several other popular books.
Gen. Walter Scott, her son, who
is married to daughter of the late
Col Stewart MacDougaH ofaLunga, in
Argyllshire, by whom he has 1T
tie daughter, has only a very remote
chance of succeeding to the ancient
Herrtes peerage, of which his fathers
elder brother was the holder. For
the dignity is a Scotch honor, de-
scending in the female as we'll as in
the male line, and when the late
only a couple of daughters, It passed
to his eldest girl. the present Duchess
OF Norfolk, and when she dies IL will
go TO her only son. the present If
Ceen-SeaT-olu Luxe or NorroLk, pre-
mier peer. Of the realm and sixteenth
duke of his line. If he dies without
issue. the Herries peerage will go to
the eldest of his three sisters, Lady
Rachel Howard Until the Duchess
OF Norfolk became q mother, the ncvt
heir to her barony of Herries was
her only sister, Lady Drummond. Wits
OF Sir Eric Drummond of the foreign
oftice and secretary general of the
league of nations.
~ =
Everingham Park, In Yorkshire, one
hof the many country seats that are
entailed upon the barony of Herre@
has always been the favorite hor1H
of the Duchess of Norfolk, where she
spent her girlhood. 1t is full OF
relics, among them being the original
badge OF the so-called "pilgrimak.s
of grace" which was undertaken by
Sir Robert Constable, ancestor In
the male line of the Duchess of No8
folk, and by other Yorkshire mag
mates when King Henry VIII decided
to suppress all the monasteries, con-
vents and religious houses Tho
badge, which is known as the Ever
ingham relic" symbolizes, in it's
markings. the five wounds of Christ
Thirty thousand Yorkshiremen had
stable, at Everinsham Park.,to defend
the religious houses They, dispersed
because the Duke OF Norfolk OF the
day made copious promises of the
kindly Intentions Of the Bluebeard
monarch. The affair ended with the
i, conviction of Sir Robert Constable on
charge of high treason by pack
ed jury at York, and his Body, after
his death by decapitatlon, was hang
ed in chains at Hull. Sir Marina
Ink fat LII
king in the battle of Flodden Field
Another of the ancestors of Gen.
Walter Scott of Abbottsfofd. and also
of the Duchess of Norfolk was that
Earl of Nithsdale. ninth, Lord Her
ries, who, on the eve Of the date sen
for his execution as q Jacobite, in I7f5y
was rescued from the Tower of London
by his devoted wife, who exchanged
garments with him and remained be-
hind In his cell to face tn. music
while he escaped in her cfn:hes. The
cloak and the dress which he wore
on this occasion have always been pre-
served as cherished relics at Evenings
Sir walter Scott drew freely uuon
the annals of the Lords of, Herries
In his novels. Indeed, the family
plays conspicuous part in the pages
of Red Gauntlet" Rad 9Gauntlet
himself, the type of undyfng loyalty
to the Stuart cause, is. throughout
, the novel. more generally known by
his mothers name of Herries, and
when young Allen FaIrford, In tho
story, observes to his father thac
their guest has the air sof a man
of high rank" the Old lawyer re-
marked: HE is well entitled thereto"
representing, as he did, the great
and powerful family of Hsrries, the
elder branch thereof merged In that
of the Earls of NithsdaIe in 1867. Tho
earldom of Nithsdale has remained
attainted ever since l715, but the
/ barony of Herries. far Older honor,
! still survives in the person of tho
! Duchess of Norfolk.
Let me add, IN conclusion, that
/ Gen. Walter Scott the new master
4 of Abbottsford. who has no male
! issue to succeed to his title. has a
younger brother of the name of Her
| bert, who has, for a considerable time
past made his home in British Co
| Ium bia. An uncle of the general, the
| Hon. Bernard Constable MAXWELL,
married the daughter of the late Al
fred Du Pont Jessup of Philadelphia,
while his son. Capt. Gerald Constable
Maxwell of the Lovat Scouts has as
wife daughter of George Garden
OF New York.