Who is Lady Grisel Baillie

Lady Grizel Baillie, née Hume, (25 December 1665 – 6 December 1746) was a Scottish gentlewoman and songwriter. Her accounting ledgers, in which she kept details about her household for more than 50 years, provide information about social life in Scotland in the eighteenth century.BiographyBorn at Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire, Grizel Hume was the eldest daughter of Grisell Ker and Sir Patrick Hume (later Earl of Marchmont). When she was twelve years old, she carried letters from her father to a Scottish conspirator in the Rye House Plot, Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, who was then in prison. Hume's sympathy for Baillie made him a suspected man and the king's troops occupied Redbraes Castle. He remained in hiding for some time in the crypt of Polwarth Church, where his daughter smuggled f...
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Lady Grisel Baillie Poems

• Werena My Heart's Licht I Wad Dee
  There ance was a may, and she lo'ed na men;
  She biggit her bonnie bow'r doun in yon glen;
  But now she cries, Dool and a well-a-day!
  Come doun the green gait and come here away!...

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• Davytolmie: 25th december 1665 saw the birthof songwriter a nd poet lady grizell baillie. lady grizel, also spelled grisel at times, was born at redbraes castle in berwickshire, the eldest daughter of covenanter sir patrick hume of polwarth. at age 12,...
• Restalrig: back-painting prints, making & painting artificial fruit, japanning, with soap making recipes in a different hand, c.1720. the author of the soap receipts is identified by her note on fol.25r as the daughter of lady julian billingham, and niece of lady grisel baillie.
• Restalrig: lady julian billingham's daughter married into the family of grisel baillie of manderston.

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