Warrender, formerly De Warende of Picardy, 12.
---- Sir George, first Baronet, acquired Bruntisfield 1695, 12.
---- Hugh, last of younger branch, died 1820, 13.
---- Right Honourable Sir George, M.P., discovered secret room, 14.
Warriston House, 146.
Warriston, Lady, murdered her husband, 146.
---- ---- her execution, 147, 148.
Wauchope of Niddrie, 90-96.
---- Archibald, young Niddrie, 91, 92.
---- their loyalty to the Jacobite cause, 93, 94.
---- list given by William Wauchope of ancient families
already extinct in 1700, 20, _note_.
Wauchope of Edmonstone, 89.
---- John, his christening, 89.
Whitehouse, now St. Margaret's Convent, 17, 18.
Whitehouse Loan, 18, 43.
Weir, accomplice in the murder of the Laird of Warriston,
broken on the wheel, 146-148.
Well of St. Anthony, 110.
---- St. Catherine, 52, 53.
---- St. David, now St. Margaret's, 110.
---- Green Ladye's, at Caroline Park, 151.
Wells o' Wearie, 103.
---- ballads on, 104, 106, _note_.
Williamson of Lawers, Mrs., 40, 41.
Windygoul, 103.
Winram of the Inch, 71, 72.
Woolmet, 62, 90.
Wryteshouses, 16, 40-42.
---- ghost story of, 40, 41.
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