Crossword-Solution: HERIOT 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Here, in the last century, an old Heriot’s Hospital boy once harboured from the pursuit of the police.

The Braemar address we cannot learn; it looks as if ‘Braemar’ were all that was necessary; if particular, you can address 17 Heriot Row.

The so called feudal incidents, the claims of marriage, wardship, and the like, on the part of the lord, the ancient _heriot_ developed into the later _relief_, all these things were in the germ under William, as they had been in the germ long before him.

Born in 1506, at the Moss, in Killearn--where an obelisk to his memory, so one reads, has been erected in this century--of a family "rather ancient than rich," his father dead in the prime of manhood, his grandfather a spendthrift, he and his seven brothers and sisters were brought up by a widowed mother, Agnes Heriot--of whom one wishes to know more; for the rule that great sons have great mothers probably holds good in her case.

And Lionel had a merry spirit, and Hugh great courage and daring, and Heriot had beauty past any man's share, and Ambrose had a wise mind; but Hobb had nothing at all for the world's praise, for he only had a loving heart, which he spent upon his brothers and his garden.