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The house, first opened to the public in 1952, has not been bought or sold since 1491 and few documents were removed or discarded; it is crammed with evocative memories.
After a series of victories against Covenanting forces the king’s general in Scotland,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Marquis of Montrose headed to the Borders unaware that forces led by General David Leslie were also heading south to meet him. The ensuing battle of Philliphaugh (1645) has gone down in history as one of needless savagery with many of the Royalist camp women and children being slaughtered by the victorious Covenanters.
With the dawning of the 16th century, James Stuart the first Stuart laird prepared plans for enlarging the house but died in the bloodbath that was Flodden Field before the work started. He was succeeded by a son and four grandsons who gradually extended the house.
In the Museum Room among the treasures are a fading mural painting dated about 1530 which was discovered under the wallpaper and a rosary and crucifix belonging to Mary Queen of Scots which catches the sunlight on a ledge by the window.
The young queen visited the house in 1566 with her husband Lord Darnley and her baby son James. Her state bed, now in the King’s Room on the first floor of the house, is covered by a hand-stitched quilt said to have been worked by Mary and her ladies in waiting. At the foot of the bed sits a cradle used by the future king.
There are I’m sure many other ‘gems’ waiting to be discovered by an archivist who works with today’s custodian of this historic building, the twenty-first lady laird Catherine Maxwell Stuart.
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The defeated Marquis fled from the battlefield and in the words of John Buchan, “Did not draw rein until he reached the old house of Traquair, whose grey and haunted walls still stand among the meadows where the Quair burn flows to the Tweed.”
With the support of Charles I, John Stuart the seventh laird became Lord High Treasurer of Scotland and later Commissioner of Scotland and in 1628, he became the First Earl of Traquair. A number of `holograph letters written by the king and found in the charter chest at the house show the confidence he had in Traquair. One scribed at Whitehall and dated 20 November 1637 said, “I have commended Roxborough (Lord Roxburgh) not only to show you the manie secrets of my thoughts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but to have your judgement as well as your industrie concur in my service…”
Traquair House sits in the beautiful Tweed Valley (south of Edinburgh) in an ancient landscape of forests and woodland. It is the oldest inhabited house in Scotland,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this year celebrating its 900th birthday
Prince Charles Edward Stuart was a visitor to the old house in 1745 and as he left through the ‘Bear Gates’ heading for his final defeat at Culloden the fifth earl promised the gates would remain locked until a Stuart once again sat on the throne of Scotland. The gates guarded by two ‘sullen’ bears remain firmly closed to this day and visitors to the house enter the grounds by a side gate.
One of 26 royal visitors who have stayed at Traquair was William I (the lion) who arrived in 1176. It was from there that he signed the charter that authorised Joceline,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bishop of Glasgow to found a Bishop’s Burgh on the banks of the Molendinar Burn bestowing all the privileges that the king’s burghs were entitled. This burgh grew to be the city of Glasgow.
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