Note 3 — NOTES TO SAINT BALDRED. PART II.

An old woman in Dunbar has a flag, which is said to have been borne by the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge. Its texture is light-blue silk. The inscription on one side, in gilt letters, “For Christ and his truth,” and on the reverse, in red, “No quarter for ye active enemies of the Covenant.” The motto is surmounted by a Hebrew inscription, in gilt letters, signifying, “For the covenant of Jehovah.” This flag belonged to Henry Hall of Haughead, who took an active part in the transactions at that time, and held a command in the army from the skirmish at Drumclog to their defeat at Bothwell Bridge. On his death the flag of course fell to his son. Young Hall, on his death-bed, bequeathed it to James Cochran, shoemaker in Greenlaw, a noted Cameronian, who presented it to Michael Naismyth, Edinburgh. It was destined to return to Cochran’s family again; for, at Naismyth’s death he bequeathed it to James Raeburn, late cabinet-maker in Dunbar, the son-in-law of Cochran, and it is now held most sacred by his widow.