Editing Lady Grizel Baillie (section)

==Works==

===Songs===
Her elder daughter, Lady Grizel Murray of Stanhope, had in her possession a manuscript in prose and verse of her mother's songs. Some of them had been printed in [[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]]'s, ''Tea-Table Miscellany''. The most famous of Lady Grizel's [[Scots language|Scots]] songs, "And werena my heart light I wad dee", originally appeared in [[William Thomson (musicologist)|William Thomson]]'s ''Orpheus Caledonius, or a Collection of the Best Scotch Songs'' (1725).<ref name="eb1911"/>

===Household books===
Lady Grizel Baillie's [[account book]]s, meticulously kept from 1692 to 1746, reveal information about social life in Scotland in the eighteenth century. Her entries begin late into her first year of marriage and end just before her death. They consist of more than a thousand pages of entries. In 1911 the [[Scottish Historical Society]] published a 400-page scholarly edition of Lady Grizel Baillie's accounts, edited by Robert Scott-Moncrieff. This edition focused mainly on the entries from 1692 to 1718, which give extensive details about the early years of the Baillies’ marriage, the births and upbringing of their children, and the marriages of their daughters.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/householdbookofl01bail ''House Book of Lady Grisell Baillie''] at Archive.org</ref> Historians have cited these accounts to demonstrate cost of goods and to provide evidence for the caloric intake of servants during this period.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zgp1JjQU78EC&pg=PA235 |title=Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550-1780 |last=Gibson |first=A. J. S. |last2=Smout |first2=T. C. |year=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-34656-6 |pages=235–36}}</ref>