a small village of Scotland, situated on the south side of the Frith of Forth, and distant about five miles from Edinburgh, at the conflux of the Forth and Almond. It is only worthy of notice from having been a Roman station; and on the opposite bank of the creek of the Almond, on a craggy eminence, this people had a fortification. The iron-works of Cramond constitute the chief support of the place. The bridge of Cramond is famous in the traditionary history of Scotland as the place where James IV., when wandering in disguise over his dominions under the title of the "Gudeman of Ballengreich," was attacked by three robbers, and only saved perhaps from death by the intervention of a farm-servant who was thrashing corn in an adjoining barn. Hearing the noise of a scuffle, he rushed out; and seeing one man attacked by three, he joined the weaker side, and with his flail assisted the king in putting his assailants to flight. The king rewarded his deliverer by presenting him with the lands on which he had

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1 Tytler's Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Thomas Craig, p. 294. Edinb. 1823, 12mo. 2 Nicolson's Scottish Historical Library, p. 15. Lond. 1702, 8vo. 3 This learned prelate, who was successively bishop of Carlisle and Derry, and archbishop of Cashel, has frequently mentioned Craig in terms of high commendation. "I do still profess myself," he elsewhere remarks, "to have an extraordinary veneration and esteem for the memory of that excellent writer, and can therefore very readily allow Mr Atwood to call him a favourite author. Such, I do acknowledge, he is with me; and 'tis not impossible but I may, in the warmth of my affection, have express'd a more kind opinion of his performances than my nicer adversary thinks he deserves." (Leges Mordeanorum, or Border Laws, pref. Lond. 1703, 8vo.) 4 Cassendi Vita Tychonis Brahei, p. 154, 153. Paris, 1654, 4to. See likewise Dr Ward's Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, p. 129. Lond. 1740, fol. Cramponee formerly wrought as a labourer, on condition that whenever a member of the royal family passed that way he should bring him a basin of water for him to wash his hands.

When George IV visited Scotland in 1822, the descendant of the farm-servant in question awaited His Majesty at Cra- mond Bridge as he passed that way, and held up a silver basin in which the royal visitor performed his ablutions.