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Baillie, Grizel

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Baillie, Grizel (1665–1746)

Scottish poet. Her songs include ‘And werena my heart licht I wad dee’.

She was the daughter of the Covenanter Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont. In 1684 she supplied her father with food while he hid in the vault of Polwarth church, and she accompanied him when he fled abroad 1686–88. In 1692 she married the son of Robert Baillie of Jerviswood.

Memoirs were written by her daughter Lady Grizel Murray of Stanhope (1693–1759). Her household books were published by the Scottish History Society 1911.



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