Melrose, a small town in Roxburghshire, at the foot of the Eildons, on the S. bank of the Tweed, famed for its abbey, founded by David I. in 1136; it is celebrated by Sir Walter Scott in his “Lay of the Last Minstrel.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Melpomenë * Melton-Mowbray