Ambassador at the Court of Denmark, Alexander Marchmont, 83
Anecdotes of the Family of Marchmont, 129
Back Lea, 120
Baillie, Death of Lady Grisell, 78
Baillie, heroism of Lady Grisell, 32
Baillie, Lady Grisell, daughter of Sir Patrick Hume, eighth Baron of Polwarth, 28
Bills of Fare, Countess of Marchmont's, 183
Binning, Death of Lord, 77
Black Well, the, 4
Bolingbroke, Letter from Lord, on the birth of a son and heir, 98
Bonnie Jean 0' the Hirsel, 62
Building of new house, 99
Careers of the twin brothers, 91
Carolina settlement, the projected, 30
Caroline Princess of Wales, Letter from, to the King of Prussia, 190
Caroline Princess of Wales, Letter from, to the Queen of Prussia, 191
Cessnock, Alexander Marchmont's accession to the Scottish Bench as Lord, 81
Confiscation of the Polwarth estates, 36
Congress of Cambray, Alexander Marchmont appointed First Ambassador to the, 84
Countess of Marchmont's Bills of Fare, 183
Craw's Entry, 120
Crompton, Elizabeth, Marchmont, Earl Hugh's second marriage to, 97
Deadrigs Cross, 104
Death and character of Alexander, second Earl of Marchmont, 87
Death of Alexander, Lord Polwarth, Baron Hume of Berwick, 101
Derivation of Polwarth 3
Devoted conduct of Marchmont's daughter, Lady Grisell, 71
Downfall of Alexander, second Earl of Marchmont, 85
Eccles House, 103
End of Lord Marchmont's parliamentary life, 58
Family fortunes, Change in the, 56
Fightening bell, the, 13
Flyting betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart, 16
Foul Fords, 121
George I, Letter from. to Queen of Prussia, 190
Greenlaw, its erection into a barony, 47
Greenlaw, Sketch of the history of 44
Greenlaw, The ancient Castle of, 48
Greenlaw, The church of, 49
Hervey, Lady 68
Holland revisited, 77
Holland, Sir Patrick Hume flees to, 35
Holyrood, Marchmont apartments at, 51
Home, Lady Jane, 62
Home, the family of, 12
Honours conferred on Alexander Marchmont by the House of Hanover, 82
Hule Moss, 120
Hume, Sir Patrick, eighth Baron of Polwarth, 27
Imprisonment in the Tolbooth of Sir Patrick Hume, eighth Baron of Polwarth,
Intimacy of Hugh, the elder, Lord Polwarth, with Alexander Pope, 92
Jedburgh, the barony of, 25
Kingly favours showered on the family. 41
Kyles Hill, 120
Letter from Caroline Princess of Wales to the King of Prussia, 190
Letter from Caroline Princess of Wales to the Queen of Prussia, 191
Letter from George I to Queen of Prussia, 190
Maclaurin, Colin, tutor to the Master of Polwarth, 72
Marchmont family, Continued prosperity of the, 51
Marchmont made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, 96
Marchmont, Alexander, second Earl of, 80
Marchmont, Alexander, second Earl of, becomes Lord Polwarth, 82
Marchmont, Death of Lady, 59
Marchmont, Death of Lord, 112
Marchmont, Earl Hugh's first wife, Anne Western, 96
Marchmont, Earl Hugh's second marriage to Elizabeth Crompton, 97
Marchmont, Family portraits at, 54
| Marchmont, Final settlement of estates, 112
Marchmont, Latter years and death of Patrick, Lord, 73
Marchmont, Patrick, first Earl of, appointed King's High Commissioner, 51
Marchmont, The library at, 114
Marchmont's attachment to the house of Hanover, 71
Marchmont's latter years at Hemel Hempstead, 108
Marchmont's relations, 108
Margaret, Lady Polwarth, Death of, 84
Marlborough, Hugh, Lord Polwarth, becomes executor to Sarah, Duchess of, 93
Marriage of Alexander, Lord Polwarth, to Lady Amabel Yorke, 101
Marriage of Alexander, second Earl of Marchmont, 81
Marriage of Lady Anne to Sir John Paterson of Eccles, 102
Marriage of Lady Diana to Walter Scott of Harden, 106
Mar's rising, Alexander Marchmont aids in the suppression of Lord, 82
Modern version of "Polwarth on the Green", 5
Murray, Lady, death, 69
Murray, Mrs, her friendship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and with Lady Hervey, 68
Murray, Mrs, marriage of Grisell Baillie, 65
Murray, Mrs, residence in England, 67
Murray, Mrs, Unhappy issue of the marriage, 66
Orange Lane, 105
Paterson, Sir John, 102
Pedigree of the Humes of Polwarth, 179
Perplexing resemblance between the two, 89
Polwarth church and churchyard, 7
Polwarth Common, 120
Polwarth family in exile, 37
Polwarth thorn tree, 4
Polwarth village, Description of the country round, 119
Polwarth, Alexander, Lord, at Copenhagen, 72
Polwarth, Death of Lord, 64
Polwarth, Hugh, Lord, becomes executor to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 93
Polwarth, Hugh, Lord, his triumphs in the House of Commons, 93
Polwarth, Hugh, Lord, succeeds to title of Lord Marchmont,
Polwarth, Intimacy of Hugh, Lord, with Alexander Pope, 92
Polwarth, Lord, second marriage, 61
Polwarth, The barony of 118
Polwarths, the early, 14
Purves, Lady Anne and her anecdotes of the Marchmont family, 110, 129
Purves, Succession of Sir William, 113
Recollections by Sir Walter Scott of Lady Diana Scott, 117
Redbraes, The Castle of, 52
Restoration of the old parish church by the Marchmont family, 11
Restoration of the Polwarth estates, 40
Revolution of 1688, Their return of the Polwarth family at the, 39
Rose, Mr George, 111
Ryehouse Plot, 31
Scott of Harden, Walter, marriage of Lady Diana to, 106
Scott, Lady Diana, Sir Walter Scott's recollections of, 117
Scott, Mr Hugh, return of as member for the county, 107
Site of the struggle, 125
Situation of Polwarth parish, 1
Songs of Lady Grisell Baillie, 187
St Mungo's Fair, 3
Takes his seat in the Upper House, 96
Tragic occurrence at the Foul Fords, 121
Treaty of Union, 57
Twin sons of Alexander, second Earl of Marchmont, 88
Utrecht, studies at, 80
Verses to the Earl of Marchmont on the death of his father, 192
Vicissitudes of the old parish church, 8
Village of Polwarth-on-the-Green, 2
Western, Anne, Marchmont, Earl Hugh's first wife, 96
William III, Death of King, 56
Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary 68
Yorke, Lady Amabel, Marriage of Alexander, Lord Polwarth, to 101
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