Rutherfurd's border hand-book : being a guide to the remarkable places, picturesque scenery, and antiquities of the border ; illustrated with numerous engravings on steel, and a map of the district . he west is Bonjedward House,the seat of the Honourable Mr Talbot. The view of Jedburgh onentering from the west has often been the theme of admirationto the traveller, but that from the east is also of a very pleasingcharacter. Turning the curve of the road beyond Bonjedwardwood, the smoke of the old burgh comes on the view, while theold abbey towers above the roofs, a mass of sombre ruin, givingt
Rutherfurd's border hand-book : being a guide to the remarkable places, picturesque scenery, and antiquities of the border ; illustrated with numerous engravings on steel, and a map of the district . he west is Bonjedward House,the seat of the Honourable Mr Talbot. The view of Jedburgh onentering from the west has often been the theme of admirationto the traveller, but that from the east is also of a very pleasingcharacter. Turning the curve of the road beyond Bonjedwardwood, the smoke of the old burgh comes on the view, while theold abbey towers above the roofs, a mass of sombre ruin, givingthe scene, in connection with the uplands which surround it, ahighly picturesque appearance. JEDBURGH, although not possessing any remarkable feature, is a place thatwill always be interesting. In the months of summer, when theorchards are in the full blow of leaf and blossom, few places aremore pleasant. The surrounding banks screen it in, and giveit a retired sequestered aspect. Of the origin or history ofJedburgh, little can be said that merits reliance. It is un-doubtedly a place of great antiquity, its royal castle being men-tioned in the earliest Scottish annals; and in 1523, the Earl of. pq * PQ .3 ^ 3 o I W J JEDBURGH. 77 Surrey describes it as well builded, with many honest andfair houses in garrison, and six good towers therein. Duringthe time of the Border wars, it was repeatedly assaulted or de-stroyed, and the inhabitants exposed to the pillage and ven-geance of their English foes. Previous to the union, Jedburghcontinued to be a place of considerable importance. After thatperiod its trade was in a great measure destroyed: it has now,however, considerably revived. The town consists of fourprincipal streets which cross at right angles, and meet in themarket-place, where is situated the Town-Hall, a spacious edifice,containing the Justiciary and Sheriff-court rooms. Jedburgh isthe county town of Roxburghshire, the seat of the Circuit Courtof Justiciary, and of a Presb
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