Crossword-Solution: MIDLOTHIAN 10 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Stevensons of Hirdmanshiels, in Midlothian, rode in the Bishops’ Raid of Aberlady, served as jurors, stood bail for neighbours—Hunter of Polwood, for instance—and became extinct about the same period, or possibly earlier.

This was the site of the Tolbooth, the Heart of Midlothian, a place old in story and namefather to a noble book.

One gravestone was erected by Scott (at a cost, I learn, of £70) to the poor woman who served him as heroine in the _Heart of Midlothian_, and the inscription in its stiff, Jedediah Cleishbotham fashion is not without something touching.

Ronan’s Well_, _Kenilworth_, and _The Heart of Midlothian_ have gone up in the scale; perhaps _Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein_ have gone a trifle down; Diana Vernon has been added to my admirations in that enchanted world of _Rob Roy_; I think more of the letters in _Redgauntlet_, and Peter Peebles, that dreadful piece of realism, I can now read about with equanimity, interest, and I had almost said pleasure, while to the childish critic he often caused unmixed distress.

Lady Mary, who appears as a lively child in _The Heart of Midlothian_, 'had a taste for loo, gossip, and gardening, but the greatest of these is gossip.' The best part of the book is Lady Louisa Stuart's inimitable introduction.