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Rulewater And Its People
An Account of the Valley of the Rule and its Inhabitants
by George Tancred of Weens
1907

 

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COVER Cover and Introduction   Intro.
CHAPTER I General Subjects Connected With Rulewater 1 - 17 Chapter 1
CHAPTER II Hallrule 18 - 55 Chapter 2
CHAPTER III Harwood or Harrot 56 - 78 Chapter 3
CHAPTER IV Wolfelee 79 - 125 Chapter 4
CHAPTER V Wauchope 126 - 152 Chapter 5
CHAPTER VI Stonedge 153 - 174 Chapter 6
CHAPTER VII Abbotrule 175 - 197 Chapter 7
CHAPTER VIII Wells, Bedrule, and Spittal-on-Rule 198 - 235 Chapter 8
CHAPTER IX Turnbulls: Olivers: Border Shepherds 236 - 296 Chapter 9
CHAPTER X Hobkirk Ministers, Schools and Schoolmasters etc. 297 - 326 Chapter 10
CHAPTER XI Miscellaneous 327 - 345 Chapter 11
CHAPTER XII Weens and General Subjects 346 - 411 Chapter 12
  The Valley of the Rule, by Frances Madeline Cleghorn 413  
  Index 414 Index

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George Tancred Intro.
Carved Capitals of Norman Design from Hobkirk 10F
Sir William F. A. Eliott, Bart. 18F
George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield 36F
Daniel Mather, Hallrule 44F
William Claude Elliot of Harwood 56F
Harwood House, 1906 62F
Robert Elliot and Henry Young 70F
Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee, K.C.S.I. 90F
Wolfelee House 96F
Major E. H. M. Elliot of Wolfelee 104F
The Old House of Wauchope 126F
Walter Macmillan Scott of Wauchope 140F
Wauchope House 150F
Greenriver House 166F
Abbotrule 178F
John Usher, Tenant of Gatehousecote 190F
Old Wells House, 1790 198F
Wells House, 1905 206F
Sir John Usher, Bart. 212F
William Oliver of Langraw 268F
Rev. John Ewen, of Hobkirk 296F
Hobkirk William Sibbald 308F
The William Laidlaw Memorial Hall 326F
The Author and Walter Deans 334F
Tom Scott Anderson and his Hounds 340F
East Drylaw House 384F
Weens House, 1906 394F

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Hobkirk (built 1693) 3
Medal for Siege of Gibraltar 24
The Key of Gibraltar 25
Door Lintal, Old Harwood House 67
Stone from the old vaulted House of Woollee 89
The Old Teind Barn, Spittal-on-Rule 227
Fulton Tower, Bedrule 235
The Old Graveyard of the Ollivers of Jedforest 266
The Last Remnant of Dykeraw Tower 275
Wolfelee Free Manse 326
Old Weensmuir House 332
Weens Old Doorway 348
Weens House in 1804 356
Fenton Tower in 1842 387