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	Robert Baillie of Jerviswood
		Kirkton was the brother-in-law of Mr Baillie of Jerviswood, by his marriage to the sister of that gentleman, and he is eminent in Scottish literary history for the memoir of the church during his own times, which was of great service in manuscript to the historian Wodrow, and was at length published in 1817.
		Mr Baillie was therefore released at the end of four months, in consideration of payment of one half of his fine to the creature Carstairs.
		While thus engaged, Mr Baillie was induced, along with several of his friends, to enter into correspondence and counsel with the heads of the Puritan party in England, who were now forming an extensive plan of insurrection, for the purpose of obtaining a change of measures in the government, though with no ulterior view.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/baillie_robert1.htm (2196 words)

	Robert Baillie (Conspirator) - LoveToKnow 1911
		1684), Scottish conspirator, known as Baillie Of JERVISwooD, was the son of George Baillie of St. John's Kirk, Lanarkshire.
		He incurred the resentment of the Scottish government by rescuing, in June 1676, his brother-in-law Kirkton, a Presbyterian minister who had illegally been seized and confined in a house by Carstairs, an informer.
		The same year Baillie, with some of his friends, went to London and entered into communication with Monmouth, Russell and their party in order to obtain redress; and on the discovery of the Rye House Plot he was arrested.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Baillie_(Conspirator) (337 words)

	Celtic Papers LLC
		Branches of Clan Baillie: Baillie of Dochfour, Baille of Dunain, Baille of Jerviswood, Baille of Lamington, Baille of Polkemmet
		The William de Bailli is believed to be “Baillie of Hoperig”, ancestor of the Baillies of Lamington, who was granted the lands of Lamington by David II, with whom he fought at the Battle of Durham.
		The Baillies of Dochfour and Dunain in the Inverness area are descended from a son of the laird of Lamington who fought at the Battle of Brechin in 1452.
	www.celticpapers.com /name_any.php?name=baillie&nation=S (494 words)

	Baillie of Jerviswood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Baillie (known as Baillie of Jerviswood; c.1634 – December 24, 1684) was a Scottish conspirator implicated in the Rye House Plot against King Charles II.
		Robert Baillie was the son of George Baillie of St John's Kirk, Lanarkshire, who had bought the estate of Jerviswood in 1636 and of Mellerstain in 1643, under Charles I.
		The same year, Baillie, with some of his friends, went to London and entered into communication with the Duke of Monmouth, Lord Russell, and their party to conspire to bring Monmouth to the throne; and on the discovery of the Rye House Plot, Baillie was arrested.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baillie_of_Jerviswood (434 words)

	MyClan.com : Armigerous Clan Baillie Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		William Baillie of Hoprig was knighted by David II in 1357 and received a royal charter to the barony of Lamington in 1368.
		Alexander Baillie, a younger son of Lamington, fought at the Battle of Brechin in 1452 and was rewarded by the Earl of Huntly with the lands of Dunain and Dochfour near Inverness.
		The Reverend Robert Baillie, descended from the house of Jerviston, was a renowned Protestant minister and chaplain to the Covenanter armies in 1639.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Baillie_150/default.php (818 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		Known as Baillie of Jerviswood, the Scottish religious leader became associated with James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Lord William Russell, both heavily involved in attempts to free Scottish Presbyterianism from domination by the Anglican Church of England, championed by the King.
		Baillie was hanged, drawn and quartered in Edinburgh as an example to his ever-rebellious countrymen.
		Baillie was an important member of the Glasgow Assembly in 1638 when the Church of Scotland broke away permanently from English Episcopacy.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/b1.html#balliol (2931 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Lady Grisell Baillie
		Lady Grisell Baillie is remembered for her familial, public, and at times political, actions of valour, loyalty and charity as well as for her published household notebooks and verse.
		At the age of twelve, she was dispatched by her father to take a letter to the imprisoned Robert Baillie of Jerviswood and was expected to collect intelligence while inside the prison.
		Baillie's son, the intimacy and friendship was formed which was afterwards completed by their marriage.” Grisell was effectively functioning as a spy for the Calvinist Scotch anti-Jacobites and it was in this capacity that she met her future husband, George Baillie.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4890 (566 words)

	Baillie Tartan
		A younger brother, Alexander Baillie was appointed constable of Inverness Castle by the Earl of Huntly.
		In 1636, George Baillie of St. John's Kirk (a branch of the Lamington Ballies) bought the lands of Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, and the estate of Mellerstain, Berwickshire, in 1643.
		Robert's son, George Baillie of Jerviswood and Mellerstain (1664-1738), married Lady Grisell Hume (1665-1746) in 1691.
	www.tartaninteriors.com /designertartanclothing/baillietartan.php (288 words)

	Women of Covenanting Times
		Robert Baillie of Jerviswood; Sir Patrick’s eldest daughter is the subject of this story.
		Baillie of Jerviswood, was in prison in Edinburgh on account of his opinions.
		Baillie read the letter I brought, and smiled on me and said: ‘You are but young, Mistress Grizel, to come visiting a poor prisoner.’ He called his son George, and Master George smiled on me too, so I liked them both very well.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/women/covenanting.htm (3287 words)

	homesgreenlaw
		Baillie, who was as eminent for his abilities and learning as for his fidelity to his religious principles, had shared in the councils of the English patriots, and it was of the utmost importance that intelligence should be communicated to him respecting the state of affairs since his imprisonment.
		Baillie, a youth about her own age, had at this time been recalled from Holland, where he was educated, to attend his father's trial.
		Baillie's destruction, [p.396] arraigned the venerable patriot, though he was in a dying condition, before the High Court of Justiciary.
	www.justice101us.com /greenlaw/homesgreenlaw.htm (4942 words)

	Accessing Scotland's Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1642, the lands of Mellerstain were granted by King Charles I to an Edinburgh burgess, George Baillie of Jerviswood.
		It was during their lifetimes that the initial work on Mellerstain House was undertaken, with William Adam being commissioned to design both the house itself and the surrounding policies.
		The estate passed, in 1759, via the marriage of George Baillie's second daughter, Rachel, to George, Lord Binning, second son of the Earl of Haddington.
	www.rcahms.gov.uk /asp/mellerstain1.html (286 words)

	Wallace's Descendants
		David II granted a charter of Lamington to Sir William Baillie of Hoprig in 1368.
		His grandson, Sir William Baillie of Lamington, married Marian, dtr of Sir John Seton of that Ilk, and from that union sprang the lines of Dunain and Innisbargie, and subsequently of Dochfour.
		The heirs to Sir John Lockhart-Ross appear to have been in right of the undifferenced Baillie of Lamington quarter, but their male line is now extinct and no heir general has yet claimed the right to its matriculation.
	www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-01/wallace7.html (603 words)

	3rd Stanhope Baronet
		Sir Alexander Murray of Stanhope, the third Baronet, was M.P. for Peeblesshire in 1710, and was placed by his father in possession of the baronies of Stanhope and Broughton on the occasion of his marriage in that year to Grisell BAILLIE, the eldest daughter of George BAILLIE of Jerviswood.
		Grisell BAILLIE, the daughter of George BAILLIE of Jerviswood, was born 26 October 1692 at Rebraes.
		Sir Alexander MURRAY and Grissell BAILLIE had no children and after his death on 18 May 1743, he was succeeded by Sir David MURRAY, the son of Sir Alexander's brother, David MURRAY, Wine Merchant in Leith.
	www.murrayofstanhope.com /3rd_baronet.htm (463 words)

	Mellerstain House. The Earl & Countess welcome you to Mellerstain.
		The Civil War was in progress when George Baillie died in 1646, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Robert, who came into conflict with the authorities.
		It was while he was incarcerated in the Edinburgh Tolbooth that Sir Patrick Hume, afterwards Earl of Marchmont, wishing to communicate with him, entrusted the dangerous mission to his eldest daughter Grisell, then a child of twelve.
		Robert Baillie, as a staunch Covenanter, was strongly opposed to the policy of the Government, and in 1684 he was arrested for high treason and condemned to death.
	www.mellerstain.com /history (326 words)

	Mellerstain House. The Earl & Countess welcome you to Mellerstain.
		The Civil War was in progress when George Baillie died in 1646, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Robert, who came into conflict with the authorities.
		It was while he was incarcerated in the Edinburgh Tolbooth that Sir Patrick Hume, afterwards Earl of Marchmont, wishing to communicate with him, entrusted the dangerous mission to his eldest daughter Grisell, then a child of twelve.
		Robert Baillie, as a staunch Covenanter, was strongly opposed to the policy of the Government, and in 1684 he was arrested for high treason and condemned to death.
	www.mellerstain.eu /history/index.html (326 words)

	Leechman, William, 1706-1785, Principal, University of Glasgow, Scotland
		William Leechman (1706-1785), was born in 1706, the son of a farmer of Dolphinton, Lanarkshire, and was educated at the parish school.
		His father had taken down the quarters of Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, which had been exposed after his execution on the tolbooth of Lanark.
		In gratitude for this service the Baillie family helped young Leechman to go to the University of Edinburgh to study divinity, where he graduated 16 April 1724.
	www.gashe.ac.uk:443 /public_docs/isaar/P0346.html (527 words)

	Celtic Studio-Clan Baillie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There are a number of prominent families of the name, notably those of Lamington, Polkemmet, Jerviswood and Dochfour.
		The Baillies of Dunain are believed to have been founded by a younger son of the house of Lamingron.
		Through the marriage of Colonel James Baillie, Member of Parliament for Inverness, and Nellie Lisa Bass in 1894, the title of Baron Burton came into the Dochfour family.
	www.celticstudio.com /celticstudio/database/clans/004.htm (80 words)

	Semicolon
		As her mother’s health was frail, the care of her brothers and sisters fell on young Grisell’s shoulders and throughout her life she exhibited a strong sense of duty and responsibility.
		At the age of twelve, she was dispatched by her father to take a letter to the imprisoned Robert Baillie of Jerviswood and was expected to collect intelligence while inside the prison.
		According to the biographical article I read here, Grizell’s father later had to go into hiding in his own familly’s burial vault because he was suspected of being part of a plot to assassinate Charles II and his brother James.
	www.semicolonblog.com /?p=446 (319 words)

	Barony History of Cowdenknowes, Scotland
		During his lifetime he had filled a number of prominent positions such as Warden of the East March, Baillie of the Earldom of the March, and Privy Councillor.
		In 1717 Lord Binning married Rachel the younger daughter of George Baillie of Jerviswood, the proprietor of Mellarstain, one of the Great Houses of Scotland.
		His heir was his son known as George Baillie of Jerviswood, and he was succeeded by his son also George Baillie of Jerviswood.
	www.houseofharden.com /cowdenknowes/history.htm (1357 words)

	Clan Baillie
		In Latin, a baiulus was a steward and when the word passed to Old French as bailli, this translates as ballif.
		It seems that the Baillies were Border lairds for hundreds of years and the name has been more prominent in the south.
		Colonel James Baillie, who was the Member of Parliament for Inverness, married Nellie Lisa Bass in 1894 and the title of Baron Burton came to the Dochfour family.
	www.clansearch.co.uk /clans/Baillie.htm (376 words)

	The Belgravia Dispatch: December 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is illustrated by the case of Robert Baillie of Jerviswood whose trial took place in Edinburgh in December 1684.
		Baillie in his turn was arrested in England and taken to Scotland, where he was put on trial before a jury in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh.
		Baillie was convicted the next day, and the sentence of death that was passed on him was executed that afternoon.
	www.belgraviadispatch.com /2005/12 (14946 words)

	Mellerstain House
		Mellerstain, one of Scotland's great Georgian Houses was begun in 1725 by William Adam and completed several years later by his famous son, Robert.
		First mentioned in 1451, the estate was granted by Royal Charter to George Baillie of Jerviswood in 1642.
		His descendant George Baillie and his wife Griselle Baillie commissioned the design of the present house.
	www.activitypoint.co.uk /en/e00/00021.htm (183 words)

	HONORABLE CAPT
		The tune is probably named for the grandson (and namesake) of George Baillie of Jerviswood (d.
		This George Baillie resumed work on Mellerstain, and commissioned the famous architect Robert Adam, to complete the construction of Mellerstain which his father William began, which he did between 1770 and 1778.
		The (Hon.) George Baillie’s name appears among those in a “List of the Nobility and Gentry Who appeared at the Balls at Kelso Races, October 1783,” a broadside published sheet of the period (National Library of Scotland).
	www.ibiblio.org /fiddlers/HONOR_HOW.htm (1651 words)

	temp05
		BP1934 (Baillie), which covers the Baronets of Polkemmet, identifies that family as a cadet of the Baillies of Jervistowne "who were descended from the Baillies of Carphin, who were cadets of the Baillies of Lamington" (see Baillie1).
		He is reported to have been the son of a prosperous Edinburgh burgess (merchant) and to have been descended from the Baillies of Lamington.
		The estates of Jerviswood and Mellerstain passed to their second son who changed his name to Baillie-Hamilton and was ancestor of the 10th and later Earls of Haddington.
	www.stirnet.com /HTML/genie/british/zworking/temp05.htm (656 words)

	Mellerstain House. The Earl & Countess welcome you to Mellerstain.
		William Adam had been commissioned by George Baillie of Jerviswood to design a new house in 1725.
		In 1759 another George Baillie, grandson of the previous, inherited the estate.
		As a young man in 1745 he had set off on the "Grand Tour" and had apparently come back to Scotland imbued with enthusiasm for and knowledge of current architectural taste.
	www.mellerstain.eu /history/adam-architecture.html (456 words)

	A beautifully preserved family seat : Scotland Magazine Issue 28
		Mellerstain House is the home of the 13th Earl of Haddington and his family, the estate having been acquired in 1642 by his ancestor George Baillie of Jerviswood, the son of a flourishing merchant.
		Through marriage, the property then passed to two earls of Haddington who in 1725 employed first William Adam to build the two wings, then his son Robert Adam, to design the central block and subsequently supervise the magnificent interior decoration.
		Aged 12, she was called upon to visit her father’s friend and fellow Covenanter, George Baillie, who had been imprisoned in the Tolbooth accused of treason.
	www.scotlandmag.com /magazine/issue28/12007303.html (346 words)

	Jedburgh - Day Excursions
		Mellerstain, one of Scotland's great Georgian houses was begun in 1725 by William Adam and completed several years later by his famous son, Robert.
		First mentioned in 1451, the estate was granted by Royal Charter to George Baillie of Jerviswood in 1642.
		His descendant, George Baillie and his wife lady Grisell Baillie commissioned the design of the present house.
	www.jedburgh-online.org.uk /dayexcursions.asp?offset=10 (744 words)

	A Guide to Lanimer Day and the Lanimer Celebrations
		This dispute centred on the terms of a new charter granted to George Baillie of Jerviswood by the Burgh.
		The crowd was accused of damaging upwards of 300 young birch trees in a plantation and the Laird maintained that the people of Lanark should not trespass on his land.
		The Council thereafter maintained the annual tradition of walking round the march stones and birks were carried to illustrate that they had exercised their rights to traverse the lands of Jerviswood.
	www.lanarklanimers.co.uk /guide_to_lanimers.asp (2976 words)

	Robert Baillie (of Jerviswood) Biography (1634–84) Online Encyclopedia Article About Robert Baillie (of Jerviswood) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Robert Baillie (of Jerviswood) Biography (1634–84) Online Encyclopedia Article About Robert Baillie (of Jerviswood) Biography (1634–84)
		He was tried at Edinburgh, condemned to death on flimsy evidence, and hanged.
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/035/Robert-Baillie-of-Jerviswood.html (124 words)

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