Born 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 food to him; but on hearing of the execution of Baillie (1684), he fled to the
United Provinces, where his family joined him soon after. They returned to Scotland after the
Glorious Revolution. In 1692, Lady Grizel married
George Baillie, son of Robert. and insisted to her parents on marrying Baillie over a more advantageous match. The couple had two daughters:
Grizel (1692–1759), who married British Army officer Sir Alexander Murray of
Stanhope in 1710; and Rachel (1696–1773), who married
Charles Lord Binning in 1717 (and whose son Thomas became the
seventh Earl of Haddington). ==Works==