| OCR Text |
Show Queen Mary's House for Sale. From time to time most interesting historical relics come before the public pub-lic through the medium of the auctioneer. auction-eer. The latest example of this is Queen Mary's house in Jedburgh and some old tapestry which it contained. Jedburgh, according to Mr. James Tate had a strong castle at the highest part of the town, and some of the mansions man-sions were in the form of bastile houses, the defensive character being requisite as a protection against English En-glish invaders. Of these houses the most interesting specimens now remaining re-maining is one in which Queen Mary lay sick for some time after her ride of fifty miles over moor and moss to visit Bo'thwell at -Hermitage Castle, where he had been wounded by the banditti of- Liddesdale. It is this house for which offers are being invited. The bed occupied by the queen at the time of her illness is now at Abbots-ford, Abbots-ford, having been presented to Sir Walter Scott. The tapestry which covered cov-ered the walls of the room is said to have been worked by the court ladies while they waited for the secretary of their sovereign. |
