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Rutherfords of Jedburgh, who were famous five
hundred years before the reviewer in question was
ever heard of. They are mentioned, you will no
doubt remember, in Barbour's Epic of the Bruce.

My information comes from conversation with
my mother who was a Rutherford and who must
have had it from her father and mother. This
was that a female cousin of my grandfather
Rutherford possessed several very personal relics
of Sir Walter, including particularly his "black
watch". I think it is hardly likely that this
lady would have had such closely personal belongings
of Sir Walter unless she had been nearly related
to him. My mother often said that this old lady
ought to have left these things to my grandfather
but they had quarrelled, or at least there was a coolness
between them, so that at her death, the things were
all sold - and I presume have now passed into
some collection.

My grandfather, though he lived
in England, used occasionally to visit Jedburgh
which was his native place. I have a miniature of his
grandfather - my own great-great-great-grandfather
who was "William, third son of Sir John
Rutherford of that ilk".

I wish that I had more details that I could
give you, but my grandfather has been dead
more than fifty years and my mother more than