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SCOTTISH 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



VOL VIII. 



June 1894, to Mav 1895 



ABERDEEN 
D. WYLLIE & SON, 247 UNION STREET 

1895 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens - - - - - to face page 2 

Copper Medal found at Aberdeen - - - - - - I7 

Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens - - - - - - -42 

Do. do. . - . - - . - 55 

Do. do. ------- 67 

Carved Stone found at Towie - - - - - - -91 

Plan of Old Stalls in King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen - - - 97 

Tablet of the Association of Porters, Leith - - - - - 125 

Postage Stamps of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, 1865-89- - 129 

Views of King's College, Old Aberdeen, 1660-1860 - - - - 145 

Carved Powder Horn - - - - - - - -171 

Portrait of Professor the Rev. John Forbes, LL.D., D.D. - - - 183 



388208 



W. JOLI.Y AND SONS, 

PRINTERS AND LITHOGRArHERS, 

Al«ANY BUILDINGS, 23 BRIDGE STREET, 

ABERDEEN. 



« * 



INDEX. 



INDEX TO EIGHTH VOLUME. 



Aberdeen Graduates signing the Declaration, 127 

Aberdeen Joint Me<lical School, 174 

Aberdeen Journal \Ti 1746, The, 30, 175 

Aberdeen, Mortification "Broads" in, 191 

Aberdeenshire, Antiquarian Find in, 45 

Aberdeenshire as a Factor in Scottish Life and 
Thought, 3, 19, 36 

Aberdeenshire, Notable Men and Women of, 56, 73, 
88, 102, 123, 139, 164, 188 

Aberdeenshire Romance (An), 100 

[Aberdeen] University Library, 27 

Abell, John, 56 

Abercrombie, John, M.D., 56 

Absque Melu on Dalmahoy of that ilk, 30 

on Home of Renton, 158 

Adams, Andrew Smith, M.I)., (Prof.), 75 

Adams, Francis, M.D., 57 

Adams, John (Rev.) A.M., 57 

Adam, Robert (Rev.) B.A., 57 

Aitken, W. S., 57 

A. J. on Godfathers and Godmothers, 13 

Alexander, Alexander, (Professor), 58 

Alexander, Cosmo, 57 

Alexander, Cosmo John, 57 

Alexander, John, 57 

Alexander, William, LL.D., 57 

Allan, William, minor poet, 58 

Allardyce, Alexander, 58 

Allardyce, Alexander, M.P., 58 

Aldermen in Scotland, 126, 144, 158, 191 

Alpha, on Thraip, 174 

Amo on Old Rhyme, 158 

on Burlaw in Scotland, 174 

on "Badger Moon," 190 

on Author of Clan Book wanted, 190 

on Huguenot Refugees in the North of Scot- 
land, 109 

on Robin Adair, 109 

on Aldermen in Scotland, 126 

on Highland Regiments and New Year's Day, 158 

on British Farmer's Magazine, 158 

Anderson, Adam, 58 

Anderson, Alexander (Professor), 58 

Anderson, Alexander (Sir), 58 

Anderson, Arthur, M.D., C.B., 73 

Anderson, David, (of Finzeauch) 73 

Anderson, David, minor poet, 73 

Anderson, Duncan, M.A., (Rev.), 73 

Anderson, James, D.D., 73 

Anderson, James, D.D., minor poet, 73 

Anderson, Jessie Ann, minor poet, 73 

Anderson, John (Sir), C.E., LL.D., F. R.S.E., 73 

Anderson, John Henry, (Wizard of the North), 73 



Anderson, Joseph, minor poet, 73 
Anderson, Pe ter, pioneer in opening up the High- 
lands, T^ 
Anderson, P. J., on Heraldic Emblazonments of John 

Row, 151 
on Bibliography of Aberdeen Periodical Publi- 
cations, 173 

on Rev. John Bisset's Diary, 175 

on Aberdeen Joint Medical School, 174 

on Writings of Professor Martin, 175 

on Marischal College Veterans, 182 

on Mortification Broads in Aberdeen, 191 

on Literature of the Robertson Smith Case, 10, 

190 
on George Ronmey and the University of Aber- 
deen, 13, 47 

on [Aberdeen] University Library, 27 

on The Aberdeen Journal in 1746, 30, 175 

on Picture of the Shipwrecked St. Andrews* 

Students, 1 7 10, 30 

on Lord Rectors' Addresses, 30 

on Tames Mitchell's Eminent Men of Aberdeen- 
shire, 44 

on Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical Pub 

lications, 46 

on Murray I^ectures at King's College, 47, 175 

on History of the Arbuthnot Family, no 

on John Farquhar of Fonthill, 1 10 

on Dr. John Hill Burton on Dr. James Melvin, 

127 
on Aberdeen Graduates Signing the Declara- 
tion, 127 

on Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow 

Postage Stamps, 129 

on Views of King's College, Old Aberdeen, 145 

on The Old Stalls in King's College, 98 

Anderson, Robert, on Bibliography oif Al^rdeen 

Publications, 1894 — 166, 184 
Anderson, Thos. Gordon Torry (Rev.), Minor Poet, 74 
Anderson, William, LL.D. (Rev.), 74 
Anderson, William, Minor Poet, 74 
Anderson, William (Rev.), (Baptist Tutor and Author), 

Anderson, William, Journalist, 74 

Andrew, Christian, 74 

Andrew, James (Rev.), LL.D., 74 

Andrew, William Patrick (Sir), C.J.E.R.B., 74 

Ane Crown of Sone, 92 

Annand, James, 74 

Annand, Robert Cumming, 74 

Angus, William, LL.D., 74 

Arbuthnot Family, History of the, 47, 1 10 

Ardes, Malcolmus, 75 

Ass's Hair a Charm, 61 

Australian on Foreigners connected with Aberdeen, 191 

Author of Clan Book wanted, 190 



Vill 



INDEX. 



Author of Collection of Hymns Wanted, 30, 47, 62, 
Ayrshire Folk-lore, Notes on, 38, 51, 68, 83 



B 



(I 



Badger Moon," 190 
Bain, Alexander, LL.D. (Professor), 88 
Baird, William, 88 
Baird, Sir John, Lord Newbylh, 88 
Banchory Teman, 62, 79 
Banffshire, Notable Men and Women of, 34 
Bannerman (Sir) Alexander, Kt., 88 
Bannerman (Sir) Alexander Burnett, Bart., 88 
Bannerman, James, M.D., (Prof.)i 88 
Baptisms, a Private Register of, 180 
Barbour, John (Archdeacon), Poet, 88 
Barclay, James William, M.P., 88 
Barclay, John, M.A. (Rev.), 88 
Barclay (Sir) Robert, K.C.B., 89 
Barclay, William, M.D. (Prof.), 89 
Barker, A. C, Minor Poet, 89 
Baron, Robert, 14 
Baxter, Andrew, 89 
Baxter, William, 89 
Bearsden on Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots, 

62, no 
Beattie, Alexander, 89 
Beattie, James Hay, 89 
Beattie, William, 89 

Berwick-upon-Tweed Epitaphs, 121, 157 
Berry, Dr., 89, 126 

Beverly, Alexander, LL.D. (Rev.), 102 
B., H., on Sir David Wilkie, 192 
Bibliography of Aberdeen Periodical Literature, 128, 

.173 
Bibliography of Aberdeen Publications, 1894 — 166, 

184 

Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical Publications, 46 

Bibliography, Local, 113, 133, 138, 152, 157, 169, 185 

Bibliography, Mr. Robertson's, 10 

Birnie, Archil )ald, 14 

Birse, 1736, Name of the Minister of, 14 

Bisset's Diary (Rev. John), 174 

Bissett, George, M.A., 102 

Bissett, James, D.D., 102 

Bissett, John (Rev.), 102 

Black, Alexander, D.D. (Prof.), 102 

B., L. M., on Burnet of Seton, 158 

Black ; Isobel, Mrs. David Gill, 102 

Blackie, Gregory Watt, 102 

Blackwell, Alexander, M.D., 102 

Blackwell, Elizabeth, 102 

Blackwell, Thomas (Rev. Principal), 103 

Blaikie (William G.), D.D., LL.D. (Prof.), 103 

Blair, Rev. Dr., Edinburgh, 157 

Bonar, William, 103 

Bondager, 190 

Book Title and Author Wanted, 13 

Booth, Jane, Mrs. Ferrier, 139 

Booth, William, 103 

Bower, Thomas, Dr., 103 

Brechin, George, 103 

Bremner, George St. J., on The Tournament, 12 



on Society of Ancient Scots, 14 



British Farmers' Magazine, 158 

Brodie, Rol^ert A. M. (Rev.), 103 

" Broken Men " from the Highlands, 140 

Brown, Archibald (Rev.), 103 

Brown, Charles Tohn, D.D., 103 

Brown (David), D.D., Principal, 103 

Brown, George, LL.D. (Rev.), 123 

Brown, James, 123 

Brown, John, on Berwick-upon-Tweed Epitaphs, 157 

on Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots, 159 

Brown, Robert Borthwick (Rev.), 123 

Brown, William, 123 

Bruce, James, 123 

Bruce, John, F.S.A., 123 

Bruce, Robert, D.D., 123 

Bryce, James, D.D., 123 

Buchan, Patrick, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., 124 

Buchan, Peter, 124 

Buchan, Thomas, 124 

Bulloch, John, 123 

Bulloch, John Malcolm, 124 

Burnett, Alexander, 124 

Burnett, George, 124 

Burnett, George, LL.D., 124 

Burnett, John, 124 

Burnet, John, 124 

Burnett, Thomas, 139 

Burnet of Seton, 158 

Burr, James, 139 

Burlaw in Scotland, 174, 192 

Burnes Arm?, The, 18 

Burns's Direct Descendants, 173 

Burns, a Phrase concerning, 93 

Sonnet by Prof. Blackie to, 173 

Burton, John Hill, 139 

Burton, Dr. John Hill, on Dr. James Melvin, 127 

Byres, James, 139 



C. on Church Music in 1761, 34 

on History of the Arbuthnot Family, 47 

on Garden's Map of Kincardineshire, 76 

on The Curse of Scotland, 77 

on Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots, 78 

on Ancient Farm House at Lumphanan, 78 

on The Peel Ring, 78 

on Banchory Teman, 79 

on The Tippling Philosophers, 93 

on Gathering of the Clan Grant, 78 

C, A., on Rubislaw Toll Bars, 47 

Cadenhead, William, 139 

Calder, John, D.D., 139 

Calvert, Henry Talbot, 140 

Cameron, A. C, on Notes on the Place Names of 

Leochel Cushnie, 70 
Cameron, Alexander (Rev.), 140 
Cameron, William (Rev.), 140 
Campbell, Colin, 140 
Campbell, George, D.D. (Prof.), 140 
Campbell of Greenyards, 62 
Cant, Andrew, Rev., 140 
Cant, Principal, 1 c\. i \ ( .\\ . A i 



INDEX, 



IX 



Canterbury Tales, The, 25, 58, 75, 89, 106 

Cargill, Thomas, 164 

Cargill, James, M.D., 164 

Carnie, William, 164 

Carved Horn, 171 

Carved Stone, 91 

Cassie, James, R.S.A., 164 

Chalmers, Alexander, 164 

Chalmer or Chalmers, David (Lord Ormond), 164 

Chalmers, Adam, 164 

Chalmers or Chambers, David, 165 

Chalmers, Charles D., 164 

Chalmers, George, D.D. (Rev.), 165 

Chalmers, James, 165 

Chalmers, Dr., 166 

Chamlierlain, David, M.D., 165 

Chaucer, The Proverbs of, 6, 22, 104, 149 

Cheyne, George, M.D., F.R.S., 165, 189 

Cheyne, James (Prof.), 165 

Oheyne, llenry (Bishop), 165 

Cheyne, or le Chein, Sir Reginald, 165 

Children's Rhymes, 14, 29, 46 

Christie, M.A., Very Rev. Wm., 188 

Christ's Kirk on the Green, 15 

Church Music in 1761, 34 

Clark, M.D., F.R.S., Sir Andrew, 188 

Chrystal, LL.D„ Prof. George, 188 

Clark, George, 189 

Clay, Rev. John, 189 

Clerihew, Francis, 189 

Coat of Arms — name wanted, 12 

Cognomen on The Granite City, 175 

Cockburn, Patrick, 189 

Comyn, Alexander, Earl of Buchan, 189 

Comyn, John, The Black Earl of Buchan, 189 

Con or Cone, Very Rev. George, 189 

Contractions in Old Deeds, 143 

Cook, Rev. Robert, 189 

Cordiner on Marykin Maker, 92 

Cordiner, Rev. James, 14, 30 

Corklit, a Dye, 142, 159. 175 

Counting Out Rhymes, 77, 93, 108, 125 

Cramond, W., on Macpherson's Execution, 31 

Cullen of Buchan and Auldhaven, Castle of, 76 

Cumberland, the Duke of, in Banchor)'-Devenick, 126 

Curse of Scotland (the), 61, 77 

C, W., on Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism, 13 

on Children's Rhymes, 29 

on Ear- Piercing by Jewellers, 109 

Cuthbert of Inverness, 62 

D 

Dalgarno, J., on Author of Collection of Hymns 

Wanted, 30 
Dalmahoy of that Ilk, 30 
Darnley's Death and Queen Mary's Marriage, Date 

of, 14, 30 
Davis, Susan, on Ear-Piercing by Jewellers, 1 10 
Deil o' Baldarroch, Story of, 175 
Deskford, Find of Old Coin at, 76 
D., J. W., on Counting Out Rhymes, 125 
Drum, The, 94 
Dumfriesshire Smugglers, 156 
Dunston, F., on Stevenson Family, 109 



Ear-Piercing by Jewellers, 109 

Ed. on George Jamesone, the Scottish Vandyck, 8 

on Burlaw in Scotland, 174 

on Story of Deil o' Baldarroch, 175 

on Death of Mr. Robert Grant, 156 

Edin. on Sir David Wilkie, 175 
Edinburgh Corporation, New Halberts for the, ii 
Edinburgh Forged MSS., 47, 131, 161, 177 
Edinburgh Pen and Pencil Club, 190 
Edinburgh Like a Turtle, 108 
Edinburgh Sir Weaker Scott Club, The, 45, 109 
Elmslie, 142 

English Dialect Dictionary, The, 105 
English Presbyterian Sacramental Tokens, 60 
Erinn, Ancient Custom in, 109 
Epigram on a Scottish Ship, 92 
Epitaphs 60 
Exile on Old Rhyme, 93 
Eye on Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1 1 
on New Halberts for the Edinburgh Corpora- 
tion, II 
on Children's Rhymes, 46 



Farquhar, John, of Fonthill, no 

Fife, the Kingdom of, 109 

Foreigners connected with Aberdeen, 191 

Forfar, The Seal or Coat of Arms of the Burgh of, i 

Free Public Library, Aberdeen, 47 

Funeral Feasts, 174 

Futt Rollit, The phrase, 92 

Fyvie, The Weird Stones of, 92 



Gammack, James, on The Curse of Scotland, 61 

on Saint Palladius, 122 

on Broken Men from the Highlands, 140 

on Tirling, 190 

Gilchrist, James, A Clever Scot, ii 
Glasgow Protocol Books, 91 
Godfathers and Godmothers, 12 
(iordon, James, on Children's Rhymes, 14 

on Author of Collection of Hymns Wanted, 62 

on Old Rhyme, 78 

Gordon, Robert, 109 

Granite City, The, 175 

Grant, Death of Mr. Rol^ert, 156 

Grant, Gathering of the Clan, 61, 78 

Gray's Bequest, Late Mr. J. M., 108 

Gregson, John, on Berwick-on-Tweed Epitaphs, 121 

Greek Book, The First, Printed in Alierdeen, 61 

H 

Hamilton's Catechism, Archbishop, 13, 62 
Henderson, John A., on The Duke of Cumberland in 
Banchory-Devenick, 126 

on Suicide of an Old Minister of Newhills, 171 

Highland Regiments and New Year's Day, 157 



X 



INDEX. 



Heraldic Emblazonments by John Row, 151 

Historical Castles recently in the Market, 60 

Home of Renton, 158 

Horn Books, 92 

Hooper, R. P., on Gathering of the Clan Grant, 78 

H., R. P., on Name Wanted, 30 

Huguenot Refugees in the North of Scotland, 109 

Hutcheson, A., on Book Title and Author Wanted, 13 

on Ancient Sundials, 33 

Hutchison, Thomas, on Bibliography of Local Public- 
ations, 157 

I 

I on Find of Scott's Letters, 109 

on The Kingdom of Fife, 109 

on R. L. Stevenson's W^orks, 142, 174 

on Scott MSS., 47 

on Hugh Miller, 67 

on Mr J. M. Gray's Bequest, 108 

on The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 45 

on The Edinburgh Forged MSS., 47 

I ; J. on Thomas George Stevenson, 1 1 
Investigator on Saint Palladius, 72 



J. on Ancient Farm House at Lumphanan, 62 

on The Peel Ring, 62 

on Burns's Direct Descendants, 173 

Jamesone, George, The Scottish Vandyck, 8 

J., J. F. K., on The Vernon Medal found in Aber- 

' deen, 53 
J., K , on Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens, 2, 42, 55, 
67, 70 

on Towie's Hawks, 13 

on Shoudie Poudie, 13 

on Rev. James Cordiner, 14 

on Robert Baron, 14 

on Christ's Kirk on the Green, 15 

on Tragedy of Douglas, 15 

on An Aberdeenshire Romance, loi 

on Local Bibliography, 113, 133, 152, 169 

on A Northern City Cold, 172 

on Archibald Birnie, 14 

Johnnie Cope, Parody of Song, 142, 159 

J., W., on Charles Leslie, Jacobite Ballad Singer, 159 

K 

'Kirkgate Find, Another, 17 
Kincardine O'Neil, ^d 
Kincardineshire ; Garden's Map of, 76 
Kingdom of Fife, The, 109 
King's College, Old Aberdeen ; Views of, 145 
King's College Chapel and their Occupants ; The 
Old Stalls in, 98 



L. on Ane Crown of Sone, 92 

on Leslie, Charles, Jacobite Ballad Singer, 142 



Laing, James, on The Tannery Coy. of Aberdeen, 47 

on Charles Leslie, Jacobite Singer, 159 

Leighton, J. E., on Kincardine O'Neil, 76 

on Peel Bog, 78 

Leochel-Cushnie, Notes on the Place Names of, 35, 

49, 69, 81 
Leslie, Charles, Jacobite Ballad Singer, 142, 159, 175 
Literary Notes, 15 
Literature — The Milnes of Banff and Neigh lx)urhood, 

by W. Cramond, LL. D., 16 
Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 

by Geo. King, CLE., &c., 16 

Poems and Songs, by John Usher, 31 

A Bundle of Old Stories, by an Aberdeenshire 

Lady, 32 
The Commonty of Perwinnes, by Alexander 

Walker, 47 

The Old Skipper, by W. Cadenhead, 47 

Sketch and Check List of the Flora of Kaffraria, 

by Thos. R. Sim, 48 

Narratives and Extracts from the Records of the 

Shakspere: FiinfVorlesungen ausdem Nachlass. 

Von Bernhard Ten Brink, 63 
on Stra'finla Tap, by W. Cramond, 64 

Presbytery of Ellon, by Thos. Mair, 79, 127 

The Cairngorm Club Journal, 79, 144 

The American Historical Register, 80 

Reminiscences of a Voyage to Shetland, Orkney 

and Scotland in 1839, by Christian Ployen, 94 

Scardinavian Antiquarian Catalogue, in 

Reminiscences of Yarrow, l)y the late James 

Russell, III 
The Annals of Fordoun, by Wm. Cramond, 

LL. D., Ill 

Lowther's Diary, 127 

New Lights of Old Edinburgh, by John Reid, 175 

L., H. F., on "To go to the Stones," no 

Local Scraps, VHL, 46, 61 

Lochfyne, 43 

Longniddry, Find of Cists at, 76 

Lord Rectors' Addresses, 30 

Lowson, Alexander, on Ihe Coat of Arms of the 

Burgh of Forfar, i 

on The Pipers o' Buchan, 175 

Lumphanan, Ancient Farm House at, 62, 78 



M 



Maberly's Bank, 14 

M. A. C. on the Proverbs of Chaucer, 6, 22, 104, 149 

Macdonald, Flora, 163 

Mackinlay ; J. M., on The Weird Stones of Fyvie, 92 

on Funeral Feasts, 174 

on To go to the Stones, no 

MacLeod, W., on Literature of the Robertson Smith 

Case, 10 
Macpherson's Execution, 31 
MacRobert on Vernon Medal, 107 
McR. ; J., on the Gathering of the Clan Grant, 61 
Martin's (Professor) Writings, 175 
*• Marykin Maker" and Marikine Shooes, 92, 191 
Mary Queen of Scots ; Latin Poem by, 62, 78, 94, 

no, 127, 159 



INDEX. 



XI 



Marischal College Veterans, 182 
Merlin; Michael, on Old Rhyme, 62 

on Edinburgh like a Turtle, 108 

on Skinie, 126 

on Corklit, a Dye, 142 

on Parody of Song Johnnie Cope, 142 

on Rutherford or Rutherfurd, 158 

on Scott as a Presbyterian Elder, 174 

Meston of Aberdeen ; family of, 127 

Miller ; Hugh, 67 

Mitchell ; Alexander, an American Speculator, 6 

Mitchell's '* Eminent Natives of Aberdeenshire;" 

James, 44 
M ; A. M., Coat of Arms— name wanted, 12 
Muir, F.S.A. Scot. ; John, on The Burnes Arms, 18 

on Ayrshire Folk-lore, 38, 51, 68, 83 

on Ancient Sun Dials, 65 

on Old Scotch Song, 93 

Monro, Primus ; Dr. Alexander, 14, 30 

Munro ; Alex. M., on Extracts from the council 

records of Old Aberdeen, 53, 71, 85, 98, 147 
on Epitaphs and Inscriptions in St. Nicholas 

Churchyard, 86, 98, 119, 147 

on Poems in Aberdeen Sasine Register, 118 

on A Private Register of Baptisms, 180 

Murray Lectures at King's College, 47, 175 

M. ; O. F., on Banchory-Ternan, 79 

M. : W., on Date of Darnley's death and Queen 

Mary's marriage, 14 
on Dr. Alexander Monro, Primus, 14 

N 

Name Wanted, 30 

Neil, James, on Dr. George Cheyne, 189 
Newhills, Suicide of an Old Minister of, 171 
Northern City Cold (A), 172 

o 

Old Aberdeen. Extracts from the Council Records of, 

53» 71, 85 
Olden Trade Names, 159 
Old Rhyme, 62, 78, 93, 158 
Old Scotch Song, 77, 93 



Paul, Robert, on Vernon's Medal, 92 

Peel Ring (The), 62, 78 

Picture of the Shipwrecked St. Andrew's Students, 

1710—30 
»* Pindar of Wakefield," The, 29 
Pipers o' Buchan (the). 175 
P., R., on Robert Gordon, 109 

on Rutherford or Rutherfurd, 175 

Poems in Aberdeen Sasine Register, 118 

Portraits, Collection of, 113 

Postage Stamps of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh 

and Glasgow, 1865-1869 — 130 



R., on Latin poem by Mary Queen of Scots, 127 

Rhoda ; Gulielma, on An Ancient Custom in Erinn, 109 

R. ; G., on Alexander Mitchell an American Specu- 
lator, 6 

R. ; J., on Old Scotch Song, 77 

Robertson Clan Charm-Stone, 172 

Robertson ; A. W., on Author of Collection of 
Hymns, 47 

on Local Scraps, 46, 61 

on Local Bibliography, 138 

kobin Adair, 109 

Rolland, 30 

Roman Coins found at Dufftown, 60 

Romney and the University of Aberdeen ; George, 

13,47 
Ross ; J. Calder, on An Epigram on St. Triduana, 76 

on **To go to the Stones," 92, 144 

on Bondager, 190 

Row, Principal of King's College ; Diary of, 24 

Rubislaw Toll Bars, 47 

Russell ; Mr. John, Death of, 107 

Rutherford or Rutherfurd, 158, 175 

Rutherford's ; Samuel, Prison, 141 

Ruthorn of Dundee, 62 



R., on Alick Skene, 76 



Saint Palladius, 72, 121 

St. Giles on Battle of Waterloo, 13 

St. Triduana, An Epigram on, 76 

St. Nicholas Churchyard, Epitaphs and Inscriptions 

in, 86, 98, 119, 147 
Salt in Scotland, 143 
Scotch Thistle on Banchory-Ternan, 62 
Scotch Books for the Month, 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 

112, 128, 144, 160, 176, 192 
Scottish Good Templars, 172 
Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens, 2, 42, 5$, 67 
Scottish Universities (Selling Degrees in), 126 
Scottish University Libraries, 47 
Scott's Letters, Find of, 109 
Scott's Edinburgh House, Sir Walter, 1 1 
Scott as a Presbyterian Elder, 174 
Scott MSS., 47 
Scott's Fasti, 142 
Scott, James W., on Alex. Watson, author of Kail- 

brosc, 143 

on Salt in Scotland, 143 

on Contractions in Old Deeds, 143 

on Olden Trade Names, 159 

on Marykin Maker and Marikine Shooes, 191 

on Ass's Hair, a Charm, 61 

on Epigram on a Scottish Ship, 92 

on A Phrase Concerning Burns, 93 

on Selling Degrees in Scottish Universities, 126 

Scott-Moncrieff, W. G., on Parody of Song Johnnie 

Cope, 158 
Seton, The History of the Family of, 166 
Shoudie Poudie, 13 
Simpson, H. F. Morland, on The Edinburgh MSS. 

Forgeries, 131, 161, 177 
Skene, Alick, 76 
Skinie, 126 
Smith Case, Literature of the Robertson, 10, 190 



Xll 



INDEX, 



Smith of Iluntly, Family of, ii8 

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1 1 

Society of Ancient Scots, 14 

Southern Cross on Scott's Fasti, 142 

on Elmslie, 142 

Spernit Humum on Cuthbert of Inverness, 62 

on Ruthorn of Dundee, 62 

on Campbell of Greenyards, 62 

on Dr Alex. Monro, 30 

Spence; R. M.. on Latin Poem by Mary Queen of 
Scots, 94 

Stables, K. N.— W. Gordon on Mr Robertson's Bib- 
liography, 10 

Steele ; A. B., on Corklit, a dye, 159 

Stevenson, George, 142, 175 

Stevenson ; In Memoriam, Thomas (ieorge, 11 

Stevenson's Works (the late R. L.), 142, I74 

Stevenson Family, 109 

Stuart, Mrs. A., on RoUand, 30 

Sundials, Ancient, 33, 65 



Tannery Company of Al>erdeen, The, 47 

Thraip, 174 

Thomson ; Wm., on Children's Rhymes, 14 

on Maberly's Bank, 14 

on Archbishop's Hamilton's Catechism and 

Godly Exhortation, 62 
T. ; K., on The First Greek Book printed in Al)er- 

deen, 61 
Tippling Philosophers (The), 93 
Tirling, 190 

**To go to the Stones," 92, no, 144 
Tournament ; The, 12 
Towie's Hawks, 13 
T. ; W., on Name of the Minister of Birse, 1736, 14 

V 

Vernon Medal found in Al>erdeen (The), 17, 53, 92, 107 



W 

W. on The Phrase *' Futt RoUit," 92 

on Counting Out Rhyme, 93 

on Old Rhymes, 93 

W. ; A., on Another 'Kirkgate Find, 17 

on Sir Robert Waliwle, 52 

Walpole ; Sir Rol)ert, 52 

Waterloo ; Battle of, 13 

Watson ; Alexan<ler, Author of *' Kail Brose," 143 

Wilkie ; Sir David, 175, 192 

Williams, (ieorge, on Literature of the Robertson 

Smith Case, 10 
on Notes on the place names of I.,eochel-Cushnie, 

35, 49, 69, 81 
Wolf's Crag, 92 

Wyllie ; Death of Mr. Charles D., 61 
W. ; W. B. R., on Al)erdeenshire as a Factor in 

Scottish Life and Thought, 3, 19, 36 

on Rev. James Cordiner, 30 

on Date of Darnley's death and Queen Mary's 

marriage, 30 
on Notable men and women of Aberdeenshire, 

56, 73, 88, 102, 123, 139, 164, 188 

on Castles of Cullen of Buchan and Auldhaven, 76 

on Author of Collection of Hymns, 77 

on Curse of Scotland, 77 

on Counting Out Rhyme, 77, 108 

on The Drum, 94 

on Aldermen in Scotland, 144, 158 

on Corklit, a Dye, 175 

on George Stevenson, 175 

on Charles Leslie, Jacobite Ballad Singer, 175 

on Aldermen in Scotland, 191 

on Burlaw in Scotland, 192 



Ythan ; Ix)dge, 61 

Young ; Death of Mr. Edward, 46 



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CONTENTS. 

Notes :— Page 

The Seal or Coat of Arms of the Royal Burgh of Forfar 

Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens, x 

Aberdeenshire as a Factor in Scottish Life and 

Thought, 3 

The Proverb of Chaucer, with Illustrations from Other 

Sources, 6 

George Jamesone, " the Scottish Vandyck," 8 

Literature of the Robertson Smith Case, 10 

Minor Notes : — 

Mr. Robertson's Bibliography and Dr. Gordon Stables, 10 

Alexander Mitchell, an American Speculator, 6 

A Clever Scot— James Gilchnst, 11 

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, xi 

New Halberts for the Edinburgh Corporation, i x 

Sir Walter Scott's Bldinburgh House, ix 

In Memoriam, Thomas George Stevenson, x i 

Godfathers and Godmothers, 13 

Queries: — 

Coat of Arms, Name Wanted— The Tournament- 
George Romney and the University of Aberdeen — 
Battle of Waterloo — Archibald Hamilton's Catechism 
— Towie's Hawks — Shoudie Poudie — Rev. James Cor- 
diner — Robert Baron — Aichihald Birnie — Date of 
Damley's Death and Queen Mary's Marriage 12 

Answers : — 

Society of Ancient Scots — Dr. Alex. Monro, Primus — 
Name of the Minister of Birse — Children's Rhymes- 
Maberly's Bank — Christ's Kirk on the Green — Tragedy 
of Douglas 14 

Literature, x6 

Scotch Books for the Month, x6 



ABERDEEN, JUNE, 1894. 



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THE SEAL OR COAT OF ARMS OF THE 

ROYAL BURGH OF FORFAR. 

Like the seal of many another burgh in Scot- 
land very little is known about the origin or 
history of the Seal or Coat of Arms of the Royal 
Burgh of Forfar, or if it had a history. Mr. 
MacGeorge, in his Old Places in Glasgow, truly 
remarks, that at one time "the designing of 
Arms was left very much to the caprice of stone- 
masons and seal engravers." We have con- 
clusive proof that such had been the case, for 
C. T. Davidson, Esq., of Edinburgh, informs me 
that he has collected the seals and arms of 
nearly 140 burghs in Scotland, only 26 of which 
are matriculated in the Lyon office. 

All the books where one might expect some 
record on the subject of the Seal of the Burgh of 
Forfar, are silent. In none of Warden's 5 large 
vols, of the History of Forfarshire is the subject 
even noticed. We find no mention of it in 
Dr. Marshall's Historic Scenes of Forfarshire, 



Andrew Jervise, in his Memorials of Angus and 
Mearns, when speaking about the Castles of 
Forfar, at page 45, says, ** of the" size or appear- 
ance ol either of the old castles mentioned in 
De Quinc/s Charter, or of the Modern one 
which King Robert the Bruce destroyed, it were 
idle to conjecture. It is true that the armorial 
bearings of the town, and also the ornament 
which formed the top of the cross of the burgh, 
erected in 1684, are said to be representations 
of one or other of these strongholds." 

Dr. Jamieson, in his Royal Palaces of Scotland^ 
also speaking of the destruction of the Castle, 
tells us that, '^According to Archdeacon Barbour, 
the castle was taken by Philip the Forester of 
Plantane, who, if not by the King's express 
orders, according to his established plan of 
preventing the invaders from re-occupying the 
places of strength which had been taken from 
them, completely destroyed it." 

In Barbour's^rw^^, VI., v. 831, we find : — 

The castell af Forfayr wes then 
Stuffyt all with Inglis men. 
Bet Philip the Foraster off Platane 
Has off his freyndis with him tane, 
And with leddrys all priuely 
Till the castell he gan him fly, 
And wp our the wall off stane 
And swagate has the castell tane, 
Throw faute of wach, with littel payne. 
And syne all that he fand has slayne ; 
Syne yauld the castell to the King. 
That maid him rycht gud rewarding, 
And syne (he) gert brek doun the wall, 
And fordyd well, and castell all. 

The castell of Forfar 

And all the towris tumblyt war 
Doun till the erd. 

And then Dr. Jamieson goes on to tell us that 
" The general tradition is, that this castle was 
never rebuilt, and that there is no historical 
evidence to the contrary. Its ancient honours," 
he adds, " however, cannot well be forgotten, for 
a figure of it, with projecting turrets, constitutes 
the armorial bearings of the burgh." 

In an old book on Heraldry, written in 1780, 
Forfar's Seal or Arms are thus spoken of: — 

Forfar Arms. — Az, a square castle embattled 
alx)ve the gate and at the top, triple-towered, the 
centre tower larger than the dexter and sinister ; on 
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tower, which are, with the three towers pyramidically 

roofed, all ar, masoned sa, the portcullis and windows 

gu, the middle tower ensigned with a staff and banner 

charged with the Royal Arms of Scotland. 

A Complete Body of Heraldry. 

By Joseph Edmondson, Esq., F.S.A. 

Mowbray Herald Extraordinary. 

London, 

1780. 

[2 Vols., folio.] 

Vol. I. 

( inter alia). 

The Royal Burghs in Scotland ranked according to 

their precedency on the Rolls of Parliament ; together 

with the Blazon of the Arms of such of them as are 

matriculated in the Registers of the Lyon-Office. 

From my researches I am convinced that the 
two men-archers on the present seal, standing 
on each side of the shield, are of comparatively 
recent addition. There can be no doubt that 
the old seal was as described by all the above 
mentioned authorities. I have seen it in this 
form attached to many ancient deeds. In fact, 
the seal of the burgh of Forfar, 1 50 years ago, 
was an ^^z€i facsimile of the " Forfar Beggar's 
Badge," given as a supplement to 5. N. &* Q. 
some months ago (VII.) 

Alexander Lowson. 

Forfar, 1 2th May, 1894. 

[.Copy Letter. '\ 
Bute to James Taylor, Town Clerk, P'orfar. 



Sir, 



Mount Stewart House, 
Rothesay. 



I have had for some time in contemplation a 
Heraldic Work dealing with the Municipal Arms of 
the Burghs of Scotland, and I should be extremely 
obliged if you would do me the favour of helping me 
by referring me to some work which will give me the 
origin and history of the Arms of your Burgh, or, fail- 
ing the existence of such work, if you would have 
the goodness to give me some information on the sub- 
ject, including a representation or impression of the 
Town Seal or Seals, a representation or description of 
any other form in which th^ Arms may occur, such 
as a stone carving upon the Municipal or other build- 
ings in the Burgh, especially specifying the colours, 
if ascertainable, any carved wooden or painted panels 
in the Parish Church, or elsewhere ; engravings on 
Municipal plate ; representations on stained windows, 
or impressed on seals attached to old deeds relating to 
the town, or illustrations in books. 

Perhaps, also, you could indicate to me any facts 
throwing a light on the origin, or first assumption of 
the arms, such as customs, trades, connections with 
local families, or ecclesiastical dedications. 

Should you see your way to aflTord me the desired 
information, and I be enabled to accomplish the pub- 
lication of the work, it will give me much pleasure to 
acknowledge my sense of obligation to you by pre- 
senting a copy of the book to the Town Library, and 



in the meanwhile I may add that I shall be glad to 
meet any expenses which you may incur in compli- 
ance with my request. 

I have the honour to remain. 
Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

Bute. 
••» 

SCOTTISH TRADESMEN'S TOKENS. 
(Continued from VI 1.^ I47') 
We now reach the long list of Tokens issued by 
tradesmen in the Scottish Metropolis, but con- 
sidering how well the picturesqueness of the 
city and its numerous public buildings were 
adapted for medallic illustration, the record is 
intensely disappointing. We miss the Castle 
and Palace, the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the 
old Town Guard, the Kirks, Heriot's Hospital 
and many other interesting objects ; and when 
we note that the best coins of the series were 
designed by Mr. James Wright, Jun., to whose 
taste and enthusiasm Dundee owes its handsome 
series, we cannot help regretting that he did not 
carry on business in old Edinburgh (Vide our 
Illustration). 

EDINBURGH HALFPENCE. 

No. 19. 
Obv. St. Andrew and Cross between thistles. 

Legend. "Nemomeimpunelacessit." Ex, "1790." 
Rev. The Arms and Crest of the City of Edinburgh 
between thistles. 

Legend. "Edinburgh Halfpenny." 
Edge. ** Payable at the Warehouse of Thos. & Alex. 
Ilutchison." 

No. 20. 
Slightly different design; date 1791. 

No. 21. 
Similar design ; date 1792. 
Note. — Ten tons of these tokens were struck, and they 
are very common. The three following are 
probably imitations or counterfeits of the above 
put in circulation by other shopkeepers. 

No. 22. 
Olw. Similar to No. 19, but smaller ; spelling * lacesseU' 
Rev. Similar to No. 19; date 1791. 
Edge. * * Payable at Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dumfries. " 

No. 23. 
Obv. and Rev. Similar to the last. 
Edge. ** Payable in London, Bristol and Lancaster." 

No. 24. 
Obv. Similar to No. 20. 

Rev. Full rigged ship sailing ; laurel branches beneath. 
Edge. Milled. 

No. 25. 
Obv. Similar to No. 19 ; date 1796. 
Rev. Similar to No. 19. 
Edge. * * Payable at the Warehouse of Thomas Clarke. " 

No. 26. 
Obv. Profile bust of a turbaned Turk; ** James" 
beneath. 

Legend. ** Payable at Campbell's SnuflF Shop." 
Rev. Snuff Jar, bearing the figures **79." 
Legend. * * Saint Andrew's Street, Edinburgh, 1 795. " 



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No. 27. 
Obv. Similar to No. 26, but the Turk is now smoking 

a pipe. 
Rev, Snuff Jar bearing the 6gures " 37," surmounted 
by two tobacco pipes crossed, and standing between 
two thistles. 

Legend, * * Saint Andrew's Street, Edinburgh, 1 796. " 

Na 28. 
Obv. The cipher H. H. in ornamental script. No 

l^end. 
Rev, The crest of the City of Edinburgh. 

Legend. "H. Harrison, St Leonard's, Edin., 1796." 
Note. — This is a poorly executed coin, but very scarce. 
The business carried on by Harrison was that of 
Buckle maker. There is a variety of the token 
in which all the N*s of the legend are turned the 
wrong way. 

No. 29. 
Obv, Arms, Crest and Motto ** D'itat servata fides " of 
the Scottish &mily of Archibald. 
Legend. "Jos. .Archibald, Seedsman, Eidin., 1796." 
Rev. Legend in continuation of obverse * * Sells Garden, 
Grass and Flower Seeds, Fruit Trees, &c., &c., &c." 
Edge, Milled. 

No. 30. 
Obv. Crest of the Archibald family (a Palm branch), 
and Motto as in No. 29. 
Legend. As in No. 29. 
Rev. and Edge, Similar to No. 29. 
Note, — These rare tokens are but indifterently executeu. 
No. 29 is found with the date 1797 ; there is a 
variety of No. 30 with a plain edge ; and both 
pieces are found with the edge inscribed "Payable 
at the shop of Joseph Archil>ald." 

No. 31. 
Obv, View of the Register House. 
Legend, ** Edinburgh Halfpenny, 1796." 
Ex. "Raster Office, founded 1774." "Wright 
Des." 
Rev. Seated figure of Britannia with spear and shield ; 
part of a ship. Legend. "Britannia." 

No. 32. 
Obv. A ram statant in the field. 

Legend. "John Wright, High Street, Edinburgh." 

Rev. Legend in continuation of obverse " Sells all 

sorts of woollen and linen cloths, Breeches stuffs, 

Fancy Vests, Hats, Stockings, Gloves, &c. , cheap. " 

No. 33. 
Obv. Male figure in a Nursery Garden, holding a 
shrub in left hand, and resting with the right hand 
upon a spade. 

Legend "Nen segnes jaceant terroe etiam monies 
conserere juvat." 
Rev, A large building ; " Wright Des" beneath. 
Legend " Edinburgh Halfpenny, 1797, payable by 
Anderson Leslie & Co." Ex. " University of 
Edinburgh." 

No. 34. 
Obv, Similar to No. 33. 
Rev. The same building as in No. 33. 
Legend. "Edinburgh Halfpenny, 1797, payable by 
Anderson Leslie & Co. " Ex. * * New University. 
Note, — The issuers of these beautiful tokens were 
Nurserymen and Seedsmen. The rev. die of 



No. 33 broke when only twelve impressions had 
been struck, and No. 34 was therefore substituted. 

No. 35. 
Obv. Rose and Thistle underneath a royal Crown. 
Legends. " R. Sanderson & Co., No. 17 South 
Bridge, Edinburgh." 
Rev. Legend in continuation of obverse "Sells all 
kinds of Woollen & Linnen Drapery Goods, Haber- 
dashery Buttons, Watches, &c., cheap." 

No. 36. 
Obv. An eagle on a rock with a serpent in its talons. 

Legend. Similar to No. 35. 
Rev. Similar to No. 35. 

No. 37. 
Obv. Similar to No. 36. 

Rev. " Sell all kinds of Woollen and Linen Draixiry 
Goods, Haberdashery, Buttons, Watches, v^c, 
cheap." 
Note. — The three last mentioned tokens are struck 
in brass and are very rare. 

No. 38. 
Obv. A flower and leaves upon a shield. 

Legend. "Britannia Rules the Waves." 
Rev. Crest — A stag's head. 

Legend. "Let Britain Flourish, 1 796." 

No. 39. 
Obv. A shield suspended from u lied riblnju belwtTn 
two thistles crossed uiulerncuth, and displayiit)* u 
bunch of grapes. 

m Water filter in a large frame. 
Legend. " For purifying water." Ex. " I70C»." 
Note. — The two foregoinj» tokens woio prolmMy 
manufactured as well as issued in Fdiul»\iruh, and 
are rather weak in both design anil execution* 

KniNBURGIl FARTIIINlJS. 
No. 40. 
Obv. St. Andrew and Cross between thistles. 

Legend, ' * Nemo me impune lacessit. '* Ex. ' ' 1 7oo» ' 
Rev. Arms and Crest of Edinl)urgh between thistles. 

Legend. ' ' Ed inburgh 1 lal f- 1 lalfpenny. " 
Edge. Milled. 

Note. — This coin is also found with the dales 1791 
and 1792. K. J. 

ABERDEENSHIRE AS A FACTOR IN 

SCOTTISH LIFE AND THOUGHT. 

(Continued from p. i8j.) 

In regard to the Agriculturists whose names 
appear on my lists, I am rather ashamed of the 
inadequacy of my researches into this depart- 
ment of Aberdeenshire enterprise ; for I am sure 
that there must be many more than seven native 
Aberdonians who should obtain a place of honour 
here, were I only better acquainted with the 
agricultural history of the country. I am led to 
entertain this view by the strong language used 
by that shrewd observer the late Lord Cockbum, 
when speaking of the agriculture of Aberdeen- 
shire, " I am more and more astonished," wrote 
that distinguished judge, "at the industry and 
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and drying the horrible surface of their soil. It 
is the greatest triumph of man over nature, of 
obstinacy over moss and stones. Talk not of 
deserts, or swamps or forests, to these people. It 
is the fashion to abuse Aberdeenshire, but our 
drive here to-day through its large, reclaimed, 
well cultured and well walled fields, was very 
pleasing. It is the beauty of utility, the rejoicing 
of the desert. There is more of the blossoming 
of the rose in Strathmore ; but then they have 
a far better soil and climate. Theirs is the rose 
of nature. In Aberdeenshire it is the Rose of 
Art." Considering, then, the high character thus 
given by this excellent witness to the skill dis- 
played by the people of this shire in this very 
matter of agriculture, I lament the incomplete- 
ness of my statistics in this particular direction ; 
and, indeed, I am the more thoroughly convinced, 
that were I properly informed, the number of 
names on my Hsts who have gained distinction 
by their eminence in this art, would be ten- 
fold increased, when I recall the nobly success- 
ful way in which the farmers of this shire, headed 
by the late Wm. McCombie and others, grappled 
successfully with that terrible scourge of our 
herds, known as the Rinderpest. For when 
agriculturists everywhere else seemed to be 
paralysed by the ravages which that deadly 
plague was making all over the land, it was the 
resolute farmers of this northern shire, who 
bracing themselves up to deal effectively with 
the plague that threatened their ruin, success- 
fully developed what was known as " the Stam- 
ping out system," and by thus teaching the true 
method of eradicating the mischief, performed 
an inestimiable service to the agriculture of the 
country. 

Passing from this point I must next allude to 
the significance of the fact that my list contains 
the names of only 6 persons who have dis- 
tinguished themselves as mechanical inventors ; 
while of these no name is of the highest rank. 
The only Aberdeenshire name indeed, of any 
importance in this connection, if we except per- 
haps that of Alexander Forsyth, the Aberden- 
shire parson who invented percussion caps for 
use in war, is one to which we have already 
alluded ; that, namely of Sir John Anderson, 
long the head of the Government Gun factory in 
Woolwich, and a man who is alleged to have 
possessed marvellous mechanical ingenuity. 
" One swallow," however as the proverb says, 
" does not make a summer." I conclude, there- 
fore, if my statistics are correct, that the Aber- 
donian intellect, powerful as it is, has not sought 
or, at least, has not found as yet, free vent for 
itself in this direction of mechanical contrivance. 
But this, as far as I know, is almost the only 
region in which the Aberdonians have not 



succeeded in keeping themselves well abreast of 
all their rivals, and that even in this region the 
Aberdeenshire intellect may yet be destined to 
win its fairest laurels, may perhaps be inferred 
from the fact, that the name of James Watt, 
Scotland's greatest inventor, though not that of 
a native of Aberdeenshire, has yet a very close 
connection with that county, as his grandfather 
was born and brought up in it before emigrating 
to the West. 

The question may perhaps be put to me here, 
" What the direction is in which I think that the 
Aberdonian intellect has hitherto revealed itself 
most powerfully and successfully?" Well, in 
answering that question my reply would un- 
hesitatingly be, it is in the direction of pro- 
fessional scholarship and literary activity. It 
seems to me, moreover, that it is in the acquisi- 
tive, expository, and didactic faculties that the 
men of Aberdeenshire are strongest ; but that 
they show themselves weak as compared with 
the men of some other Scottish counties, in what 
I regard as the higher faculties of intuition, moral 
emotion, and spiritual passion. It is to this cause 
I ascribe the fact that while Aberdeenshire has 
played a large part in all departments of Scottish 
Life, she has as yet played the largest part in 
none. Hence it is, too, that keen and strong as 
has been the intellect of her sons, none of Scot- 
land's greatest men have been born within her 
borders. Not hers for example, the patriot 
names of Bruce and Wallace, or even of Douglas 
and Graham. Not hers the martyr glories of 
Wishart and Hamilton, Guthrie and Baillie, 
Cameron and Ren wick ; nor hers, either, the high 
renown appertaining to such spiritual heroes as 
Knox and Melville, Henderson and Rutherford, 
the Erskines and Gillespie, and Chalmers, 
Cunningham and Candlish. Nor hers even, tht 
more dubious glory of Scotland's greatest ecc- 
lesiastical leaders such as Carstairs, Robertson, 
and Rainy, while in literature and the scholar- 
ship of the professions themselves, which as I 
have said are Aberdeen's strong points, she has 
only the names of Barbour and Johnstone, 
Forbes, Dalgarno and Baxter, Fordyce, Og^Ivie 
and Skinner, Thom, and Burton, Masson and 
Smith, MacDonald, Alexander and Minto, to set 
against the far more illustrious names of Dunbar, 
Dojglas and Lindsay, Buchanan and Melville, 
Ramsay and Ferguson, Burns and Scott, Wilson 
and Carlyle, Lang and Black, Stevenson and 
Barrie. It is true that in philosophy and science 
Aberdeenshires record is better, for here against 
such names as those of Napier and Watt, Hutton 
and Lyall, Adam Smith and Hume, Stewart and 
Hamilton, Brown, Ferrier, and the Cairds, she 
can set the lesser but no doubt still illustrious 
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Baxter, Abercrombie and Spalding, Bain, 
Robertson and Minto. 

There are, however, two departments of Scot- 
land's intellectual activity in which Aberdeenshire 
may, I think, justly claim the premier place. 
These are Journalism, and the scholastic or 
teaching profession. Of eminent editors and 
journalists hailing from Aberdeenshire, my lists 
contain at least 44 names. Some of these are 
of the most distinguished merit, as will be evident 
when I mention that among these are suc'i 
names as those of Professor Masson, long 
Editor of Macmillan's Magazine, of John Douglas 
Cook, Editor and Founder of the Saturday 
Review, of the late Dr. William Alexander, 
Editor of the Free Press, of James Macdonell, 
Leader-writer to the Times, as well as of his 
Biographer, Dr. Robertson Nicoll, Editor of the 
British Weekly, and many others whom we 
cannot sta> to enumerate. It would, indeed, be 
probably not far from the truth, were we to say, 
that no Scottish County at the present day has 
sent out proportionately as large a number of 
able and influential gentlemen of the Press as 
Aberdeen has done. 

The distinguished scholars, professors, and 
teachers on my lists are of course much more 
numerous even than the journalists. Their 
names indeed reach the high total of 132, of 
whom 109 at least were successfully engaged in 
the practical work of tuition. One thing, beyond 
almost anything else, has impressed itself on my 
mind, or I have studied chronologically the 
manner in which Aberdonian intellect has 
developed itself since at least the i6th century. 
And that is the unusual extent to which, as 
compared with many other Scottish counties, 
Aberdonian students have crowded into the 
different learned professions, as well as the 
distinguished success of their work, and the high 
position they have won for themselves there. 
This explains the extraordinary number of 
Professors that Aberdeenshire has given in all 
departments of learning to the Universities both 
at home and abroad, as well as the remarkably 
large number of successful teachers who have 
emanated from that northern shire. 

One of the professions into which Aberdonians 
have pressed in very large numbers, and where 
for centuries they have attained the very highest 
distinction, is the profession of Medicine. Thus 
of notable medical men connected with this 
county, my lists contain no fewer than 82 names : 
and some of these as will be readily admitted 
by any medical readers I may be fortunate 
enough to have, hold a place in respect to their 
contributions to medical science of a very high 
order. This will be evident when I mention 
that among others it contains the names of such 



eminent medical writers as Duncan Liddell, 
John Barclay and Gilbert Jack in the i6th 
century ; of Doctors Robert & Thomas Morrison 
and Sir Patrick Dun, the Founder and first 
President of the College of Physicians, Dublin, 
in the 17th century ; and in the i8th of such 
famous names as those of Charles Maitland, who 
was the first to introduce inoculation into 
England, and George Cheyne, whose writings 
on physiology are still readable. I n this century, 
too, must be reckoned as of Aberdeenshire birth 
the numerous names of the Gregories, a family 
which has probably filled more medical chairs 
with distinction than any other in Scottish 
history. Dr. Fordyce also, as well as the other 
famous London physicians. Sir Walter Farquhar, 
Bart., and Wm. Saunders, must be mentioned as 
swelling the list of distinguished Aberdeen 
doctors born during last century. While coming 
down to the present century, among other names 
of lesser note, there fall to be recorded the 
names of Doctors Abercrombie and Farquharson, 
as well as Doctor Matthew Duncan, Doctor 
Keith and Doctor Angus MacDonald, all leading 
practitioners in Edinburgh. To these names 
must be added those of Professor John Gordon 
Smith of London Univ., a distinguished medical 
writer, of Sir Jas. McGregor, Bart., for 30 years 
Head of the Medical Department of the British 
Army, of Sir David Dumbreck, also Inspector 
General of the Army Medical Department, as 
well as of Sir Andrew Clark, Bart., the late 
famous London physician, popularly known as 
Mr. Gladstone's doctor, of Professor Forbes 
Watson, too, the famous anatomist, and Professor 
David Ferrier the distinguished physiologist. 
Many other names might be added ; but let 
these suffice. Before passing from this point, 
however, I may be allowed to remark that 
Aberdeenshire has been almost as much noted 
for the number of great quacks it has produced 
as for its fertility in distinguished members of 
the legitimate profession. Thus, without in- 
cluding Adam Donald, the famous Witch 
Doctor and Prophet of Bethelnie who flourished 
in Aberdeenshire in the 18th century, it is a 
significant fact that even in our own century 
that county has been very successful in raising 
notable quacks. For perhaps the most success- 
ful quack of the century, James Morison, the 
notorious " hygeist " as he called himself, whose 
pills had a run that few patent medicines have 
ever had, was of Aberdeenshire birth, and hailed 
from the parish of Forgue ; while Francis Coutts, 
the inventor of what is known as the acid cure, 
was also an Aberdonian bred and born. 

But to turn now from those departments pf 
enterprise in which the practical and utilitariaji : 
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[June, 1894. 



;, to those other spheres of effort in which 
il may be presumed, that the spiritual or idealist 
aide of that genius will find freest scope for its 
development, 1 remark that of the 735 names 
which represent my roll of Aberdeenshire talent, 
no fewer than 169 belong to eminent clergymen, 
evangelists and divines of all denominalinns of 
Christians, and if to these be added the names 
of II distinguished missionaries, and 17 noted 
philanthropists and enthusiasts, and lay leaders 
of religious thought and hfe, we have, as the 
number of Aberdonians influentially engaged in 
promoting the religious development of Scotland, 
the large total of 197 names. Out of this grand 
total it is very signi^cant to lind that there are 
no fewer than 33 who have been bishops or 
archbishops either at home or abroad, while 34 
have been professors of Divinity, Biblical Criti- 
cism, or some cognate subject, and a very large 
number have been moderators either of the 
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, or 
of one or other of the Free Churches. All this 
seems to indicate as (he special type of the 
religious life of Aberdeenshire, a peculiar 
moderation of temper and aptness to teach or 
rule, rather than the fiery evangelistic fervour 
and mystic enthusiasm that characterise the 
great preachers bred in the West of Scotland, or 
issuing from the Highlands. No doubt in these 
latter days, partly as the result of Free Church 
influences, several powerful evangelists and a 
number of successful missionaries have issued 
from Aberdeenshire, such for instance as the 
late Duncan Matheson, and the present Alex- 
ander Scroggie, the well-known evangelists, as 
wellas Dr. James Legge, the Chinese Missionary, 
Dr, John Hay the Indian Missionary, Dr. Laws 
the great African Missionary, and Alexander 
Mackay, the Hero of the Uganda Mission, not 
to refer to any others almost equally worthy of 
notice. Bui, m spite of these exceptions, the 
evidence supplied by the names of the leading 
Scottish spiritual teachers, belonging to all 
denominations, that are of Aberdeenshire birth, 
tends to suggest that the preponderating bias of 
the Aberdeenshire rehgious mind is to a mode- 
rate, rationalised and institutional theology and 
worship, rather than to an intense and emotional 
piety, a mystic individualism in creed, or a 
Plymoulhist rejection of an orderly church 
government, and suggests, at the same lime, that 
it is also a tendency of thai mind to seek after 
a fixed and reverent cultus or mode of public 
worship, and prefer it to the freer forms of relig- 
ious worship popular in the West of Scotland. It 
was probably either as the cause or the consequ- 
, ence of this pecuharity of the Aberdeenshire 
- religious mind, that the Episcopalian form of 
Christianity early gained so predominant an 



nfluence in that county, and, indeed, still retains 

,0 strong a hold there. W. B. R. W 

(To de conHnueil.) 



., AN American Sfecu- 

iJtTOR"(VII., iSi), — I think thifi a rather unfortunate 
designation. Applied generally, it usually conveys a 
sinister meaning, anil especially among Americans 
IhemH'lves. I do not suppose thai W. B. R W. had 
any such meaning in view, hut I may be permitted to 
say that Mr. Mitchell attained hign eminence at a 
Banker m the Western Stales of America, and that hia 
sound anit conservative iudgmeiil, his sagacity, hit 
shieivdness and Scotch thriti, were recognized and 
appreciated in wide business circles. He was Chair- 
man also of one of, if not the laigtst. Railways in the 
Uni:etl Slales, which from a small beginning of 300 
miles atlnineil its present length of nearly 6000 miles 
under hi« fostering care. While his life was principally 
engrossed in these enterpriies, he served two lenns ia 
Congress, being first elected in t87o. In 1879 he woj 
numinaled for Governor of his Slate, but refused to 
become a Candiiiale. 
Wandsworih. G. R. 



THE PROVERBS OF CHAUCER, WITH 

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM 

OTHER SOURCES. 

VII. 

WISDOM AND FOLi.Y (continued). 

92. But solb is seyd, gon sllhen many yeres, 

Thai feeld halh eyeii, and the wode hath eres. 
fiiiighls T., 1. 663. 

Veld baueth hege, and wude hauelh heare, i.e. 

Field hnfh eyes, and wood hath ears. 
Cam pus habet lumen, el hahetnemusauris acumen. 
" This old proverb, with Latin version," says 
Skeat, "occurs in MS., Trin. Coll., Cam., O., 
2.45, and is quoted by Mr. T, Wright in his 
Essays on England in Ike Miildle Ages, vol. I,, 
p. 168. Cf. Cotgrave's Fr. Diet., s.v. OeiUet." 
Further illustrations are : 

Fields have eyes and woodsbave e3.Ti.—Hazlitt. 
lit boLsa oreilles,el le champ desyeuK.—Z^AVajr, 
Bois onl oreilles, cl champs oeillets.^^ay. 
Bois a orelles, et plain a eus. 

2flfA?r(0ld French Proverbs), 
Some hear and see bim whom he hearelh and 

For fields have eyes, and woods have years, ye 
wot. Heyaiood. 

Hazlittsays: In a MS., r 5th Cent., ap. .ff^/r. 
Rev., 3rd S., ii. 309, there is this preferable 

Feld halh eye, wood hath ere. 
Compare also : 

Walls have ears. Sazlili. 



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93. For out of old feldes, as men saith, 
Cometh al this newe com fro yeer to yere, 
And out of old bokes, in good feith 
Cometh al this newe science that men lere. 

PafUment of FouleSf 1. 22. 

Compare : 

That which hath been is that which shall be ; 
and that which hath been done is that which 
shall be done : and there is no new thing 
under the sun. Is there a thing whereof 
men say. See this is new? it hath been already, 
in the ages which were before us. 

Ecclestastes I., 9-10. 

Tatianus the Assyrian, showing the Grecians 
how all the arts which they valued them- 
selves upon owed their original to those 
nations which they counted l^rbarous, thus 
reasons with them: **For shame, do not 
call those things eO/nJcrets — inventions, which 
are but fdfirjaeis — imitations. 

Matthew Henry in loc. 

Cauld Kail het again. Scotch Proverb. 

In Krumbacher's "Middle-Greek Proverbs," 
he translates one in language strikingly like this 
Scotch proverb : 

Was Du mir erzahlst, ist alter Kohl (59). 

94. Therfor I wol seye a proverbe, 
That he that fully knoweth therbe 
May saufly leye hit to his ye. 

I.e, : He that fully knows the herb may safely 
lay it to his eye. House of Fame, 1. 290. 

Compare : 

L'herbe qu' on cognoist, on la doit Her k son 
doigt ; Prov. Those, or that, which a man knows 
best, he must use most. 

Cotgrave*s Did , s.v. Herbe. 
Her be congneue soit bien venue. — Le Roux, 
L'erbe que I'en conoit doit Ten lier a sun oil. — 
Zacher. Altfranzosische Spriehworter. 

95. Men seyn thus, send the wyse, and sey no thing. 

Millet's Tale, 1. 412. 

Compare : 

Send a wise man of an errand, and say nothing 

to him. Hazlitt. 

Accenna al savio e lascia far a lui. 

Italian Pro., Ray. 

96a. Youre fader is in sleighte as Argus eyed. 

TroyL JV,, 1. 1431. 
06b. Lo, Argus, which that had an hundred eyen. 

March Tale^ 1. 867. 
96c. Though thou praydest Argus with his hundrid 
yen. 
To be my wardecorps, as he can best. 
In faith he schulde not kepe me but if me lest. 

Bathe ProL, 1. 358. 

Compare : 

Mieulx voyant que Argus. — Le Roux. 
De super intentans oculatus prospicit Argus. — 
Peretz, Altprovenzalische Spriehworter. 



97. Therfore cesseth her jangling and her wonder. 
As sore wondren somme on cause of thonder. 

Squire's Tale, 1. 258. 

Compare : 

What is the cause of thunder ? 

King Lear, TIL, 4, 1. 160. 
Mirantur taciti et dubio pro fiilmine pendent. 

Statius, 

98. Unhardy is unsely, as men seith. 

Rieves Tale, 1. 289. 

The more modern form of this proverb, as 
Bell remarks, is "Nothing venture, nothing 
have." 

Compare : 

Nought venture nought have. — Hazlitt. 
Chi non s' arrischia non guadagna. — Italian. 
Qui ne s' aventure n'a cheval ny mule. — French, 
Quien no se aventura, no ha ventura. — Spanish, 
Quid enim ten tare nocebil ? 
Conando Graeci Troja potiti sunt. 

These five examples are given by Ray. Haz- 
litt also quotes the proverb as in Chaucer. 

99. But as a blind man stert an hare. 

House of Fame, 1. 681. 

"As a blind man," says Skeat, "should 
accidentally frighten a hare, without in the least 
intending it." 

Compare : 

The hare starts when a man least expects it. 

Hazlitt,^ 
The blind man sometimes hits a crow. — Do. 

100. Of harmes two, the lesse is for to cheese. 

Troyl. II., 1. 470. 

Compare : 

Better bear those ills we have than fly to others 
that we know not of. — Shakespear's Hamlet, 
Of two ills choose the least. Hazlitt. 

Del mal el menos. Spanish. Ray. 

De deux maux prend-on le plus petit. — Le Roux. 
L'en doit prendre de deus maus le menor. 

Zacher. 

This proverbs occurs in several collections. 

loi. A proverb that saith this same word, 
Wei bette is roten appul out of hord 
Than that it rote al the remenaunt. 

Cokes Tale, 1. 41. 

Compare : 

The rotten apple injures its neighbours. — Hazlitt, 
Ae rotten apple spoils its neighbours. — Henderson, 

Henderson has also among his "Scottish 
Proverbs," 

Ae scabbit sheep will smit a hail hirsell, 

and it is interesting to find this proverb word 
for word in a collection of Cretan proverbs, thus : 
*^vojf u>^6 tj/ojpidpiKO yj/tafK&^ei t6 KavpdSi : 
One scabbit sheep infects the whole herd. 

feannar. 



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Compare also : 

One ill weed mars a whole pot of pottage. 

Hazlitt, 
II en vant mieux perdre un que le remenant. 

Kadkr, 
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 

I Cor. XV., 33. 

The idea contained in this proverb is one that 
is frequently insisted on by the moralist. 
Seneca is fond of dwelling on it, as for example 
in De Ira^ iii., 8 ; De Tranq. ; Antm, c, 7, and 
Ep. vii., 6. Many other illustrations might be 
added from ancient and modern writers, but the 
following from Plutarch must suffice here : " For 
there is a proverb, not at all unsuitable, which 
expresses the idea — " If thou livest with the halt, 
thou wilt learn to halt." (Kol 5t irapoifua^6fier)oi Si 
<l>aaiVf o^K dirb rpbirov XiyovreSt 'dri'dv x^^w TrafXKKrjir j, 
xfTToaKd^cLv /mdiiffri. —De Educat. Pueror, c. , 6. 

102. The yerde is bet that bowen wole and wynde 
Than that that brest. Troyl. /., 1. 257. 

Compare : 

Better to bow than to break. — Hazlitt. 

Oaks may fall when reeds brave the storm. — Do. 

Better bow than break. — Henderson. 

II vant mieux plier que rompre. — French. 

E meglio piegar che scavezzar. — Italian. 

Melhor he dobrar que quebrar. — Poruguese. 

In opposition to this the Latin proverb says, 
Meluis frangi quam flecti. On certain occasions 
it is better to yield than to persist in ruinous 
obstinacy. — Ray. 

Mieux vaut ployer que rompre. — Le Roux. 
Mesure dure : Mieiz vaut tirer que rumpre. 

Zacher. 
Jouk and let the jaw gae by. — Henderson. 
Das alle Wort, das Wort erschallt : 
Gehorche willig der Gewalt ! 

Goethe Faust, ii., V. 
The proverb old still runs its course : 
Bend willingly to greater force. 

Bayard Taylor's Translation. 

103. They that han been brent, 

Alias ! can thei nat flee the fyres hete ? 

Chanouns Yem. Tal., 1. 1408. 
Compare : 

Brent child of fier hath mych drede. 

Rofn. Rose, 1. 1820. 

The corresponding French text is : 
Eschaud^s doit iaue donter. 
Brunt bairns dread the fire. Ramsay. 

Brend child fur dreadeth, quoth Hendyng. 

Proverbs of Hendyng. 
A burnt child fearelh the fire, and a beaten 
dogge escheweth the whippe. 

Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique. 

Children brent still after drede the fire. 

Barclay's Eglogs. 
(these are quoted by Hazlitt). 

Ray says : " Almost all languages aflford us \ 



sayings and proverbs to this purpose ; such are — 

•KQ.Bij>v 5c re I'l/irtos 'iyvta. — Hesiod. 
'VexO^v hk T€ yi^vios iyvta. — Homer. 

Piscator ictus sapit ; struck by the scorpion fish 
or pastinaca, whose prides are esteemed 
venomous." 

Eschandez chaude yaue crient. — Le Roux. 

Ein gebranntes Kind furchtet das Feuer. 

Diiringsfeld. 

104. For sely child wol alday sone lere. 

Prioresses Tale, 1. 1702. 
Compare : 

Sely chyld is sone ylered, quoth Hendyng. 

Proverbs of Hendyng. 
Quick child is soon taught. — Hazlitt. 
Silly bairns are eith to Tear. — Hislop. 

105. Theschewing is the only remedye. 

Parlement of Foules, 1. 

" This is only another form of a proverb," says 
Skeat, "which also occurs as 'Well fights he 
who well flies.' " 

Compare : 

The first eschue is remedy alone. 

Sir Thomas Wyat. 

He fights well that fleeth well, quoth Hendyng. 

Prov. of Hendyng, 

It is suggested that Chaucer took it from the 
Roman de la Rose, I. 168 18, where it appears in 
the form — 

Sol foir en est medicine. (O. F. foir = Lat. 
fugere) Skeat. 

Compare also : 

Discretion is the best part of valour. 

Beaumont and Fletcher. 

And the famous lines, the authorship of which 
is unknown (they appear first in Ray's History 
of the Rebellion, 1758) : 

He that fights and runs away 
May turn and fight another day ; 
But he that is in battle slain 
Will never rise to fight again. 

106. Alias ! he nadde holde him by his ladel ! 
(Alas ! he did not stick to his ladle). 

MauncipUs Prol., !• 51. 
Compare : 

Ne sutor ultra crepidam. Latin Proverb. 

Souters shouldna be sailors, wha can neither 
steer nor row. Henderson. 



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GEORGE JAMESONE, "THE SCOTTISH 

VANDYCK." 

It is with peculiar satisfaction that we publish 
the following correspondence in the Scotsman 
on this subject : — 

Edinburgh, March 6, 1894. 
Sir, — George Jamesone, "The Scottish Van- 
dyck.** Mr Bulloch, in his life of tijis eminent 
and very deserving Scottish artist, after quoting 



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SL remark of Allan Cunningham, the poet, in his 
" Eminent British Painters," to the effect that 
of George Jamesone much less is known than 
we could wish, goes on to add one of his own, 
that this was specially applicable to the decade 
of his life from 1608 to 16 18. 1 am happy to 
have it in my power to lift the veil of obscurity 
that attaches to Jamesone and his doings during 
the period referred to by communicating through 
the medium of your columns a piece of informa- 
tion hitherto unknown, which, while it will 
doubtless interest his admirers, will at the same 
time add to the reputation of the Scottish capital 
as an early school of art. When consulting the 
Guildry registers of the city of Edinburgh in the 
Council Chambers some time ago 1 came upon 
an entry relating to Jamesone*s being appren- 
ticed to an Edinburgh pamter, which I give vef- 
batim et literatim^ as follows : — " 161 2, May 27 
— George Jamesone, son to Andro Jamesone, 
burges in Aberdein, enteris prenteis to John 
Andersone, paynter, for aucht yeiris, conforme 
to thair indentouris schawen, and payit of entre 
silver xiijs. iiijd." In the margin of the register 
is, " Jamesone, paynter." 

Mr Kennedy, in his " Annals of Aberdeen," in 
giving an account of the portrait painter who 
had reflected so much credit on his native city, 
hazards the assertion that Jamesone, after pass- 
ing through the usual course of education at the 
schools and the College of Aberdeen, went 
abroad and studied at Antwerp, being fellow- 
student with Vandyck, under the celebrated Peter 
Paul Rubens, and afterward returned to Aber- 
deen circa 1620. This is directly in the teeth of 
the extract given ante; and, unless Jamesone 
did not serve the period of his apprenticeship, 
which, in the absence of direct evidence, is not 
to be assumed, must be held to be erroneous, 
and nothing better than mere conjecture on the 
part of Mr Kennedy. On the other hand, the 
entry in the Guildry Register seems to counte- 
nance somewhat Mr Cunningham's statement 
to the effect that in the year 1623 Jamesone was 
pursuing his profession in Scotland, and was 
thirty years old before he visited the Nether- 
lands. 

Can any of your readers give any information 
concerning Andersone, Jamesone's master ? The 
presumption is against his having been a mere 
house painter. 

Mr Bulloch seems to have accepted the pater- 
nity of Jamesone, not as verified by documentary 
evidence before him, but because it was the one 
that had generally, if not always, been assigned 
to him. The entry in the Guildry Register has 
the merit of filiating the painter beyond dispute. 
— I am, &c., 

James Ronaldson Lyell. 



P.S. — Is there any direct evidence that Jame- 
sone ever did more than copy from Vandyck 
and Rubens ? — J. R. L. 

Alloa, April 7, 1894. 

Sir, — "Joannes Andersone, pictor burgensis'* 
of Aberdeen, was brother to David Andersone 
of Finzeauch, known as " Davie do a' things." 
John was alive April 20, 1631, when he was ap- 
pointed tutor to his nephew Mr David Anderson, 
" in compos mentis^ furiosus^fatuus, et prodigus^^ 
see Inquis. de Tutela, (No. 472.) — I am, &c., 

A. W. Cornelius Hallen. 

13 Osborne Place, Aberdeen, April 1 1, 1894, 
Sir, — It was with no ordinary pleasure that I 
read the valuable discovery of Mr. Lyell, re- 
corded in his letter of the 7th inst., that Jamesone 
served, or at least began, his art apprenticeship 
in Edinburgh. It is almost humiliating to think 
that such an interesting item of information 
should have remained undiscovered till now, but 
the fact is that burgess books and guildry 
registers have not hitherto yielded such results 
as they might, if carefully collated. I recollect 
conversing as far back as 1865 with Dr John 
Hill Burton on the Jamesone data, and that he, 
at least, did not suspect any such revelation may 
safely be gathered from his insistance that it was 
Antwerp that must be looked to for information 
to fill the hiatus as to Jamesone's training in his 
art. 

Already Mr Hallen promptly identifies the 
prentice master Joannes Andersone, pictor, 
burgensis of Aberdeen, as none other than 
George Jamesone's uncle. 

Permit me to suggest another interesting link 
in this connection. About five years ago my 
late lamented friend Mr. John M. Gray apprised 
me that a portrait by George Jamesone, re- 
presenting his uncle, David Anderson (Davy do 
a' thing) had come into the possession of the 
Scottish National Portrait Gallery. I sent Mr 
Gray for comparison a sketch from an authentic 
portrait of that worthy in the possession of Lady 
Katherine Bannerman. But neither then nor 
subsequently was Mr. Gray disposed to think 
that any error had occurred in the name of the 
Gallery portrait. I have my sketches of both 
portraits before me now, and I am bound to say 
that they do not bear the slightest resemblance 
to each other. Each bears a scroll or drawing 
in his right hand, but the one, the authenticated 
portrait, is a black-haired, low-browed man, 
whilst the other is fair and open-faced. The 
Gallery picture is inscribed " Ano. 1627" over a 
compass, and JE. 50 between a square and 
plummet. The history of this picture should 
now be carefully investigated, and if it clearly 
points to an Anderson connection, I am disposed 
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other than Joannes Andersone, pictor, and not 
David Anderson, as I think it is catalogued. 

If Mr Lyell will consult my work on George 
Jamesone he will see that his paternity is amply 
verified by documentary evidence. — I am, &c., 

John Bulloch. 

The conjectural area of this period of Jame- 
sone's life is narrowed by Mr. Lyell's happy 
discovery, but it would probably be a mistake to 
suppose that John Anderson was an artist, or 
one who could have given Jamesone any special 
training as such. His name as an artist is un- 
known, and he is totally unrepresented by any 
works. The eight years' apprenticeship of 
Jamesone points more clearly to the artizan than 
to the artist. But whilst the primary object of 
it may have been to qualify for a tradesman's 
position, the secondary result of a development 
towards art, pure and simple, most natural to 
one with artistic instincts. That Jamesone was 
a painter first, in the humbler sense, finds some 
confirmation in the tradition that he painted his 
/«j/-house with " his own hand." Ed. 



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LITERATURE OF THE ROBERTSON 
SMITH CASE (V., 141, 159; VII., 184.) 

An interesting item omitted by me last month 
is : — 

39. The Sergeant in the Hielans whan he went doun 

wi' Mr. Lyell in the Dunara Castle to testify to 
the Hielanmen against Robertson Smith. By 
^Andrew Lyell, LL.D., (John Skelton]. Edin- 
burgh : William Blackwood & Sons. 1881. 
8vo ; pp. 46. P. J. Anderson. 

I have been able to add these eight pamphlets 
to the University Collection : — 

40. What History teaches us to seek in the Bible. By 

W. Robertson Smith. Edinburgh : Edmon- 
ston and Douglas. 1870. 8vo ; pp. 30. 

41. Sermon preached in St. George's Free Church, 

Edinburgh. By the Rev. William Robertson 
Smith. Edinburgh : Maclaren & Macniven. 

1877. 8vo ; pp. 24. 

42. The authority of Scripture independent of criti- 

cism. By [ames S. Candlish, D.D. Edinburgh : 
A. & C. Black. 1877. 8vo ; pp. 29. 

43. Case of Professor Smith ; Professor Smith's 

Answer ; Form of Libel ; Minutes of Presbytery 
and Synod of Aberdeen. [Assembly papers : 
30th April, 1878]. 8vo ; pp. 162. 

44. Bon-Accord Rhymes and Ballads. No. 2. The 

Heresy Hunters and the Heretic Hunters' Song. 
Aberdeen : George Middleton. 1878. l2mo ; 
pp. 8. 

45. The speeches of the dissentients on the second 

amended charge of the Free Presbytery of 
Aberdeen, on 12th, 24th, 26th September, 

1878. With appendix. Edinburgh : Maclaren 
and Macniven. 1879. 8vo ; pp. 48. 



46. The proposed reconstruction of the Old Testament 

history. By William Binnie, D. D. , Professor 
of Church History and Pastoral Theology, 
Free Church College, Aberdeen. Edinburgh : 
Andrew Elliot. j88o. 8vo ; pp. 43. 

47. Report of the speeches delivered at a meeting of 

Free Church office-bearers who disapproved of 
the action of the Commission in the case of 
Prof. W. Robertson Smith. Glasgow : W. G. 
Blackie & Co. 1881. 8vo ; pp. 32. 
Thornhill. George Williams. 

The following titles have to be added to 
Mr. Anderson's list — 

48. A plain view of the case of Prof. W. R. Smith. 

By Rev. William Miller, M.A. Edinburgh : 
Maclaren and Macniven. 1877. 8vo ; pp. 24. 

49. Principal Rainy's speech at the Commission of 

Free Assembly on Prof. Smith's case. By 
John Robertson, Pulteney Town, Wick. Edin- 
burgh : Duncan Grant & Co. 1877. 8vo ; 

PP- 15- 

50. Deuteronomy written by Moses ; proved from the 

book itself. By James Kennedy, M.A. Edin- 
burgh : James Thin. 1878. 8vo ; pp. 40. 

51. Professor Smith and his Apologists : a few words 

concerning [No. 48.] By a Minister of the 
Free Church. Edinburgh : James Gemmell. 
1878. 8vo ; pp. 61. 

52. Why I still believe that Moses wrote Deuteronomy, 

etc. By George C. M. Douglas, D.D., Prin- 
cipal and Professor of Hebrew in the Free 
Church College, Glasgow. Edinburgh : Mac- 
laren and Macniven. 1878. 8vo ; pp. 113, 
Edinburgh. W. MacLeod. 



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MR. ROBERTSON'S BIBLIOGRAPHY and 
DR. GORDON STABLES (VII., 188). 

You may add, it you care to, 

54. Friends in fun. ... ... ... Lond. 

Cycling, a cure for chronic ailments. Lond. 

Diseases of dogs. ... ... ... Lond. 

Diseases of cage birds. ... ... Lond. 

The domestic cat. ... ... ... Lond., 1882. 

Rota vitae Lond., 1 887. 

The cruise of the Wander^a. ... Lond., 1888. 

(This is different from The cruise of the Wanderer). 

Sickness or health. ... ... .. Lond., 1889. 

289 R : the story of a double life Lond., 1890. 

The Rose of Allandale. ... ... Lond., 1892. 

For money or for love. ... ... Lond., 1 893. 

The wife's guide to health and happi- 
ness. ... ... ... ... Lond., i893> 

Sable and white : the autobiography 

ofa show dog. ... ... ... Lond., 1893. 

Facing fearful odds ... ... Lond. , 1893. 

Westward with Columbus ... Lond., 1893. 

As we sweep through the deep. ... Lond., 189'^. 

Just like Jack. ... ... . . Lond., 1893. 

A man in a million. ... .. ... Lond., 1 893. 

The mother'sguide and family referee. Lond., 1894. 

Sybil and Sidney. ... .. ... Lond., 1894. 

Tab and her friends : the autobio- 
graphy of a show cat Lend., 1894. 



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Crossing Ihe Pole Limd., 1894. 

Bnlannia needs no bulwaiks. ... Lond., :S94. 
77. From plough-shate lo pulpil ; a 

story of Aberdeen University life. 

(Dedicated to Principal Sir W. D. 

Geddes) Lond., 1894, 

Twylord. W. GO^OOA' STABLES, R.N. 



A Clever Scot— James Gilchrist.— 
There has passed nway in Glasgow (says a 
special correspondent of the Glasgow Herald), 
after a brief iliness, at the age of 62, Mr. James 
Gilchrist, the facile princips of modern violin 
makers. Mr. Gikhnst was a native of Rothesay, 
and began his career in lilasgow as an excep- 
tionally promising worker in metals, the hardest 
of which were to a great extent plastic in his 
hands. He was a skilled worker in woods as 
well as metals, and constructed the most ex- 
quisite models, many of them designed by him- 
self. He made all kinds of philosophical 
instruments. He taught mechanics in Allan 
Glen's School, and wrote excellent prose and 
pioetry. He constructed on novel lines a loco- 
motive engine and circular railway for a High- 
land estate, which was highly successful. He 
built small screw and paddle steamers, one of 
which he sailed in Rothesay Bay. He fitted 
with gas and electric tight some of the largest 
halls, saloons, and theatres, and supplied them 
with improved entrance lamps of his own design. 
He contrived and patented an ingenious arrange- 
ment for ship latnp lights, by which paraffin 
wax was kept in solution by the light acting on 
an arched band of copper which communicated 
with the wax. As far back as 1869, he assisted 
Professor J. Bell Pettiegrew in his elaborate and 
difficult experiments in animal locomotion. 
Gilchrist took to violin-making only in 1 890, but 
he acquired a position at once, and rapidly 
eclipsed his compeers in this art. He made in 
all 86 very high-class instruments (violins, violas, 
violoncellos, and cellettos). Violm-making be- 
came latterly the passion of his life. He worked 
at his fine instruments with child-like enthu- 
siasm, and no hand but his own was permitted 
to touch them. He earned for himself in this 
way the tide of the Scottish Stradivarius. Mr, 
Gilchrist's work is characterised by great vigour 
and boldness of curve (especially observable in 
his/holes), by extreme accuracy and neatness, 
and high finish. His tone is round, bold, and 
remarkably rich. The celebrated violinist 
Joachim lately inspected and tried several of his 
mstruments, and gave it as his opinion that they 
only required to be played upon to achieve the 
highest results. Joachim especially admired the 
exquisite workmanship, the delicate purfling and 
lovely amber varnish. Mr. Gilchrist got latterly 



35 guineas each for his violins, and 150 guineas 
for his quartettes of violins; but these prices, 
large as they were for new instruments, barely 
paid him when the lime and great care bestowed 
on their construction were taken ii 



SOCIETV OK ANTIQUARtES OF SCOTLAND.— 

At the concluding meeting of the present session 
of the above society, the following important 
papers were read. The first paper was by 
Bishop Dowden on the manuscript, the Gospel- 
Book of St. Margaret of Scotland, Queen of 
Malcolm Canmore, which is in the Bodleian 
Library. Ur, James Macdonald in a paper 
discussed the so-called Roman roads in Dum- 
frieshire. Mr. A. J. S. Brook's paper, on the 
archery medals of the University of St. Andrews 
and the Aberdeen Grammar School, was illus- 
trated and a collection of these medals, 
numbering over a hundred. Mr. Alexander 
Gray's subject was the discovery of a cinerary 
urn of the bronie age, at Dularuan, Campbel- 
town ; and the buried site of an ancient flint- 
work encampment. EVE. 



New Hai.berts for the Edinburgh 
Corporation.— Dr. Rowand Anderson has pre- 
sented to the Edinburgh Town Council a set of 
four halberts which he has had specially made, 
after visiting the Royal Amiouries of Madrid, 
Turin, Berlin, and London. The new halberts 
will now be carried before the Lord Provost, 
Magistrates, and Council on stale and muni- 
cipal ceremonials ; the old four dated from the 
last century, but were not a complete set. In 
shape the new haibert is much like the Scottish 
Lochaber axe ; the blades are of steel, the shafts 
of ash, covered with black velvet and white 
silk, ornamented with tassel and studded with 
silver nails. The blades are beautifully orna- 
mented with engraving. Eye. 



Sir Walter Scott's Edinburgh House.- 
Sometime ago, as previously mentioned, an 
anonymous donor presented to the Edinburgh 
Pen and Pencil Club a sum of ^ie» for the 
purpose of placing memorial tablets on historical 
houses in the city. The first of the tablets has 
just been completed on the front of 39 Castle 
Street, and bears the following words; — "In 
this house Sir Walter Scott lived from 179810 
1826." 



IN MEMORIAM, 
THOMAS GEORGE STEVENSON. 
The death of Thomas George Stever 
Antiquarian bookseller and publisher, rem 
one of the few remaining links between the 
present, and Edinburgh in its high day of 



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literature. When Sir Walter Scott and his 
circle were producing those books, which now 
form a goodly portion of our standard literature, 
Mr. Stevenson's father, who, like the late Mr. 
Stillie, had served under the Ballantynes, started 
in business in 182 1, under the distinguished 
patronage of Sir Walter Scott, Archibald 
Constable, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and 
other famous book collectors. By Sir Walter 
Scott he was from old acquaintance familiarly 
addressed as "True Jock,^ in contrast to 
" Leeing Johnnie," a prominent publisher of 
their day. To this business, Thomas succeeded, 
in 1 83 1, on the decease of his father, and 
successfully carried it on until his death, a few 
days ago. He was thus in business for over a 
period of 63 years. To the bookhunter his 
catalogues were a treat always to be relied on, 
and contained much original information. 
From his catalogue of Bannatyne Club publica- 
tions we take these two notes of recommendation. 
First from Chambers's " Illustrations of the 
Author of Waverley." " Whose shop is well 
known, or ought to be so, by all true lovers of 
curious old smoke-dried volumes.' The other 
from Dr. Dibdin's "Tour thro' Scotland." This 
Shop is now, I believe, the only existing " Cask " 
in this City which preserves the true ancient 
Wykyn de Worde * odour'." He edited various 
works in his day, the most important of which 
are, " Edmburgh in Olden Time, displayed in a 
series of 63 original drawings, letterpress by 
Thomas George Stevenson, 17 17- 1829; 1880 
"The Sempills Ballates, 1567-1583"; and "Sin- 
clair's Satan's Invisible World Discovered, 
1685." He was one of the earliest members of 
the Edinburgh Merchant Company, having been 
admitted in the year 1847, was appointed 
auditor 1856, and in i860 was elected to an 
assistantship. For the company he prepared a 
catalogue of the portraits and other mteresting 
objects in the Company's Hall. He was also 
Clerk of the incorporation of Guildry of his City, 
of which Guild he published a list containing all 
the Deans from 1403 to 1890, with notes on the 
" Origin of the Gilde." As late as last month 
he contributed a note to the pages of S. N. &r^ Q., 
and was always willing to supply information on 
subjects on which he was an authority. He will 
be long remembered as one of the great school 
of " Mighty Bookmen." J. I. 

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Godfathers and Godmothers (VII., 175). 
As regards the office of sponsor at baptisms, 
the rule in the Romish Church was, that the 
number for each infant should not exceed two, 
and these of a different sex. The same practice 
seems to have been continued in Scotland for 
some time after the Reformation. There 



does not appear to have been any fixed rules 
regarding sponsors laid down by the Kirk, 
although the practice was sanctioned by it. 
They were called, indiscriminately, god-fathers 
and god-mothers, gossips and cummers, and 
sometimes simply witnesses. In course of time 
the numbers which were appointed became so 
excessive, and the immoderate feasting and 
drinking at baptisms so great, that the Kirk- 
sessions and the Magistrates (in some parts of 
Scotland at all events) had to interfere, in order 
to stop these abuses. 

In an edict by the Kirk-session of Aberdeen, 
in 1622, it was stated that "in former tymes the 
custom wes to invite onlie tua god-fatheris at 
the maist, while now, everie base servile man in 
the toun invites tuelf or sexteen personis to be 
his gossopis and god-fathers to his bairn," and 
that in future it shall not be lawful to invite 
more than two, or four at the most. And in 
1624, the Town Council of Aberdeen issued one 
on the same subject, ordaining that in future no 
one, " of whatever degree, shall invite more than 
four gossopis and four cummers to baptisms." 

J. A. 

Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrences in Scotlaiui, — 
Maitland Club. 

Extracts Jrom the Records of the Kirk-Session of St, 
Andrews^ printed by the Scottish Hist. See. 

Acts and Proceedings of the Assemblies of the Uni- 
versal Kirk of Scotland. — Ban. Club, iii. 1124. 

Ecclesiastical Record of Aberdeen Spalding Cluby p. 
109. 

Register of the Town Council of Aberdeen, — Sp. Club, 
p. 309. 

Travels in Scotland by Sir Wm. Mereton^ 1635. — 
Printed by the Chatham Soc, Vol. I. 

A Modem Account of Scotland by an English Gentle- 
man^ 1670. 

892. Coat of Arms — Name wanted. — During 
the i6th or 17th centuries who had the following arms : 
— On a fess between a mullet in chief and a boar's 
head erased in base, three cocks. The charge on the 
fess is indistinct, and might be martlets or some other 
kind of bird. A. M. M. 

893. The Tournament.— On a recent visit to my 
native country, while taking a ramble among my 
boyhood's haunts, I was curiously impressed with the 
name of one of them, "The Tournament." This is 
a small knoll, level on top, evidently of artificial 
formation, in the farm of Little Colp, about half-a-mile 
from Turriff. The sides are covered with stunted 
trees, and round the bottom are the remains of a dry 
stone dyke. I inquired of several old people who had 
lived in the vicinity all their days why the place was 
called "Tournament." None knew — it had been so 
called ever since they could remember. Surely it 
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The place looks as if it might have been laid out for a 
jousting field, in the days when knights used to tilt in 
the lists, and try to unhorse each other in Tournaments. 
Can any one say if there is any tradition or information 
relating to such contests taking place there ? or why 
the place was so named ? 

Grorge St. J. Bremner. 
San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A. 

894. George Romney and the University of 
Aberdeen. — In John Romney's Life of George 
Romney (Lond., 1830), p. 234, it is stated that "In 
the year 1794 he [G. R.] painted a large whole length 
of the Right Hon. Henry Dundas for the University." 
I cannot trace any reference to this in the University 
records. What was the occasion of this portrait being 
painted, and what has become of the picture? 

P. J. Anderson. 

895. I have lately seen an interesting little theolo- 
gical work, belonging to a gentleman in Broughty- 
Ferry. Unfortunately it wants the title-page as well 
as several other leaves at the beginning and end. It, 
however, consists of two parts, and from the first leaf 
of the second part, as well as from the headings of the 
pages throughout, it may be guessed that the title was 
Jacobus Voiu or MatHs Felicity and Duty. It appears 

from internal evidence to have been printed in 1685. 
It is anti-papistical, and is characterised by well- 
reasoned and devout argument. Several interesting 
references occur to current events of the lime ; and 
several books are mentioned. Amongst these are the 
following : ^^ Ens^lish Manual of Prayers, printed at 
Edinburgh, 1685, though it bears the name of Paris." 
Do any of the readers of S. N. <5r* Q. know anything 
of this Manual, or of the author oi Jacob's Vow ? 
Broughty- Ferry. A. Hutch eson. 

896. Battle of Waterloo. — I will feel obliged 
if any will say by whom the news of the result of the 
Battle of Waterloo was transmitted from London to 
Edinburgh ; and by whom it was received ? I think 
that an incident of such Historic interest should be 
placed on record in the pages of S. N. df Q. 

Edinburgh. St. Giles. 

897. Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism. — 
Archbishop Hamilton of St. Andrews published in 
1 55 1, with the sanction of the Provincial Council, 
The Catechisme — that is to say, "ane commone and 
Catholick instruction of the Christin people in Materis 
of our Catholic faith and religioun, quhilk na gud 
Christin man or woman saul misknaw." Of this book 
five copies are known to be in existence, viz., one at 
each of the following I^ibraries : Blairs College, 
Aberdeen ; St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort-Augustus ; 
St. Andrews University : W. S., Edinburgh ; and the 
late Mr. David Laing had a copy which was sold 
shortly after his death for the sum of ;£'i48. I mention 
this in order to say that in 1559 the Archbishop 
published a booklet of only four pages in Black Letter, 
and known as the "Twa penny Fayth," which Mr. 
Laing says has often been confounded with " Hamil- 
ton's Catechisme." Hill Burton in his History 0/ 
Scotland, vol. iii., page 335, says, "no copy is known 
to be preserved." My desire is to say that if this 
should meet the eye of Mr. Law, or Mr. Clark, 



Librarians, Edinburgh, or Mr. Ingram, Glasgow, or 
other Librarians, if they could be the means of dis- 
covering such a curiosity bound up with other similar 
Tracts, it would be a most interesting find, and to- 
wards this object their attention is directed. 

St. Andrews. W. C. 

898. Towie's Hawks.— In Roliert Forbes' /oumal 
from London to Portsmonth^' (Ruddiman's edition, 

1785* P' 8), he employs the expression, "they micht 
eat ither as Towie's hawks did." Can any contributor 
supply the tradition on which the proverbial expression 
is founded, and say if it is alluded to by any other 
author ? It appears to be an Aberdeenshire parallel to 
the famous Kilkenny cat tale. K. J. 

899. Shoudie Poudie. — William Anderson's 
** Rhymes, Reveries, and Reminiscences, Abdn., 
1851," a book whose only faults are that there is too 
little of it, and that it has no index, contains a ** Local 
Nursery Rhyme," with the refrain familiar to bairns 
of Bon-Accord : — 

** Shoudie-poudie, pair o' new sheen, 
Up the Gallowgate, doun the Green." 
A note by the author informs us that ** the substance 
of the following Nursery Song, which I but faintly 
recollect, used to be sung to me by an old aunt, and 
it would seem, from the mention of Montrose's name 
in it, to be of local antiquity." The special allusion 
is to the fourth of its nine stanzas, wherein the 
*' littlan " is thus interrogated : — 

** Has he seen that terrible fellow Montrose, 
Wha has iron teeth, wi' a nail on his nose. 
An' into his wallet wee laddies he throws? 
Shoudie-poudie, &c." 

In the sixth stanza Anderson has introduced an ancient 
rhyme common to the whole of Lowland Scotland, 
about the *'way the doggies gang doun to the mill." 
*' Gallowgate" and "Green" are ancient local 
names alike in Glasgow and Aberdeen, and I have a 
lingering impression that from some book, of which I 
have long lost trace, I gathered that the rhyme is 
claimed by the western city. The word "sheen" 
probably makes the claim untenable. But I should 
like to know something more about the rhyme than 
Anderson has told us, and whether any other version 
than his is in existence. The North East of Scotland 
was almost terra incognita to the late Dr. Robert 
Chambers, and we look in vain to his collection for 
information. The usually well informed author of the 
"Bards of Bon-Accord," in his splendid chapter on 
" William Anderson," makes no allusion to the rhyme, 
and from his complete neglect of our local Nursery 
and Child Songs, 1 have been driven to the conclusion 
that " he hizna ony bairns o's ain, an' never wiz very 
muckle o' a bairn himsel'." But " W. C", Champion 
of Corbie and Firhill, whose Tarnty Street Lyric and 
other epistles adorn Andersim's volume, "is still to 
the fore," and it may be that he or some other surviving 
contemporary can inform us how much we owe to the 
nameless purveyor of Nursery- Rhymes of the seven- 
teenth century, and how much to the poetical Lieu- 
tenant of Police of the nineteenth. The song itself, 
with its quaint see-saw refrain, is an excellent medley 
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child life, and no city in the kingdom can boast its 
equal in local and dialectic interest. K. J. 

900. Rev. James Cordiner.— An engraved port- 
rait, 4to, india proof before letters, in my possession is 
marked in pencil **The Rev<l. James Cordiner, 
painted by Arch*^. Birnie. Published i Aug''., 1819, 
by Arch**. Birnie, Aberdeen." Certain characteristics 
induce me to believe the endorsement to be in the 
handwriting of the Artist -publisher. Where can I 
obtain any biographical particulars of the Rev. James, 
who was, I presume, the writer of several works on 
India, and related to the correspondent of Pennant. 

K. J. 

901. Robert Baron. — ^Was Robert Baron, Poet, 
whose portrait, setat. suae, 19, was engraved by 
Marshall in 1647, and republished by Richardson in 
1796, related to the Aberdeen family of the same name 
and period ? K. J. 

902. Archibald Birnie. — I should be glad to 
know something of this Artist and his work. Did he 
publish any portraits besides Cordiner's ? Was he the 
engraver as well as painter and publisher? Where 
was his place of business ? K. J. 

903. Date of Darnley's Death and Queen 
Mary's Marriage.— What was the exact date of 
Darnley's death and the exact date of Queen Mary's 
marriage with the Earl of Both well ? Give authorities. 

W. M. 

Hnswers* 



868. Society of Ancient Scots (VII., 173).— 
An account of this Society and its publication of the 
** Lives of Eminent Scotsmen (Poets)," will be found 
in Vol. II., pages 92 and 93, of S. N, &^ Q. I sent 
the above mentioned account in answer to a similar 
inquiry, in the hope that some reader might know 
whether the remaining classes of Memoirs, Historians, 
Philosophers, &c., had ever been published. Evid- 
ently they have not. Perhaps the Manuscrips are 
still lying neglected and forgotten in the archives of 
some Scottish Society in London. What an interesting 
** find " they would make. 

George St. J. Bremner. 

San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A. 

888. Dr. Alexander Monro, Primus (VII., 
189). — Sir Alexander Monro of Bearcrofts married 
Anna, daughter of John Forbes, Second of Culloden. 
Their younger son was John Monro, surgeon in the 
army in time of William III. He joined the Royal 
College of Surgeons in 1712 and 1713. He married 
Jean, daughter of Duncan Forbes, Third of Culloden. 
Their son was Alexander Monro, first of that name 
who was Professor of Anatomy in the Edinburgh 
University. The above is taken chiefly from a 
pedigree compiled by a friend of Alexander Monro, 
tertius, 

Edinburgh. W. M. 

864. Name of the Minister of Birse, 1736 
(VI L, 173).— Allow me to supplement W. B. R. W.'s 
reply in reference to this subject. In one of the 
Spalding Club Books, viz. : ** Illustrations of the 



Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen 
and Banff," 2nd Vol., 7T^ I find that Dr. Alexander 
Garden (born 1729 and died 1791), late of Charleston, 
South Carolina, eminent for his skill as a physician, 
caused a Monument, with an inscription in Latin, to 
be erected in front of the church there, in memory of 
Mr. Alexander Garden his father, who was upwajrds 
of fifty years minister of this parish. There is no 
doubt Roger is quite wrong with his name. W. 1 . 

Children's Rhymes (VII., 192).— In 1888 Mr. 
Elliot Stock of London published a quarto volume 
with the title, "The Counting-out Rhymes of Children, 
their Antiquity, origin, and wide distribution. A 
Study in Folk-Lore. By Henry Carrington Bolton." 
From page 63 to the end of the volume 877 ** Rhymes 
and Doggerels for Counting-out " are given, of which 
464 are English. On the last page Eye will find 
something very like the example he gives — 
** Genity, feenity, fickety feg, 
El, del, dolmen eg, 
Irky, birky, story, rock, 
An, tan, toosh, Jock." 

Tames Gordon. 

Children's Rhymes (VII., 192). — Your corres- 
pondent, referring to this subject, says, ** As several 
versions of this counting out rhymes are still in exist- 
ence, now is the time to preserve these before they 
are pushed out of existence by the growing taste for 
the music hall songs," and further, "Gentle reader, 
when the summer evenings come, get within hearing 
of a group of happy children at play, note well their 
rhymes, and let us have the result. " This is, I think, 
unnecessary, as the Rev. Dr. Gregor, Pitsligo, has 
exhausted the subject in his paper of *' Counting out 
Rhymes of Children," read before the Buchan Field 
Club, 1st May, 1889. To show your readers how 
thoroughly Dr. Gregor has gone into the matter, allow 
me give you particulars of how he treats his subject : 
I. Use of Counting-Out Rhymes. 
II. What they mean. 

III. Origin. 

IV. Form of the Rhymes. 
V. Classification. 

The Dr. gives the Rhymes under 23 different groups. 
On turning to Group III. he gives illustrations of 
Rhymes applicable to 23 different places of that 
Rhyme given by your correspondent, Glasgow is one. 
As the Dr's. version is slightly different in spelling, I 
give you his rendering : 

Inerty, finerty, fleckerty, faig. 

Ell, dell, domin aig, 

Irky, birky, story, rock. 

An, tan, toos, Jock. Glasgow. 

The Dr's. paper is most interesting, and I am sure 
your readers would be delighted if it were placed 
before them in S, N. <5r» Q. 

Leith. William Thomson. 

394. Maberly's Bank (III., 28).— I have not 
observed any answer to this query. To make the 
following reply intelligent, I consider it necessary at 
this period of time to give query 294 as it appears in 
Vol. III., page 28. *'Can any of your readers give 
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the Bank, cause of closing it in 1842? J. R. K." 
The following from Aberdeen: Its Traditions and 
History ^ by Robbie, page 361, gives the information 
required. While the extract is long, it will, I trust, 
interest your readers, and show how banking was, in 
a certain extent, conducted 60 years ago. 

Early in the century, Messrs. Scott, Brown & Co. 
feued a large portion of ground at Broadford for 
manufacturing purposes. About the year 18 10 this 
became the property of John Maberly, and under his 
ownership the works were carried on with much 
success. Maberly wiis a man of much energy and 
foresight. Among Aberdonians he has, quite unde- 
servedly, got a bad reputation, because a Bank and 
Paper Currency started by him in 1818 failed in 1832. 
The name of the bank was "The Aberdeen, Montrose, 
Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Exchange and 
Deposit Bank of John Maberly & Co." The customers 
of the bank were mainly small depositors, who lost the 
bulk of their savings by the failure, and that is why 
the gallant Englishman's memory is not much honoured 
among us. 

In Maberly's time, a draft in L#ondon could not be 
cashed in less than sixty days, and to a London 
merchant in receipt of large remittances from Scotland, 
this was bound to be a serious inconvenience. It was 
with the object of removing this that the Exchange 
and Deposit Bank was started ; but the wealthy and 
conservative Scotch banks objected, and refused to 
co-operate, nay, more, they even attempted to 
thwart his efforts to reduce the period of Exchange by 
insisting on his taking gold instead of London paper 
for their notes that had passed through his bank. 
This put him to the expense of a long and tedious 
journey to London with Gold. Small wonder, then, 
that after fourteen years fighting, Maberly had to give 
in. With this we might close so far as the query is 
concerned, but what follows will really be interesting 
to your readers. 

Specimens of the Maberly note may still be seen in 
the possession of Aberdeen folk who have a fancy for 
these things. On some of the early issues there was 
printed a small note that will sound curious to modern 
ears:— N.B. Any person presenting Notes on this 
House at the above stations to the Amount of /"lo 
and upwards, may receive (paying for the stamps) 
Bills in London for the same at Twenty days after 
date, or Bills at one day's sight deducting twenty days 
interest. It is hoped that these accommodations will 
be found extremely beneficial to persons taking this 
paper. " 

The date in the query from personal recollection 
should be 1832 instead of 1842. 

In 1835 the Broadford Works were sold to Messrs. 
Richards & Co., the present owners. 

Leith. William Thomson. 

865. Christ's Kirk on the Green (VII., 173). — 
The authorship of this ancient poem is exhaustively 
discussed by George Chalmers in his " Poetic Remains 
of some of the Scottish Kings," Lond., 1824. His 
opinions that the poem was written by James V., and 
that its scene and events refer to a locality in the 
parish of Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, are generally 
accepted by later authorities. Some of the more 



recent commentators ascribe ** Peblis to the Play" to 
the same royal author. K. J. 

866. Tragedy of Douglas (VII., 173). — Home's 
once famous tragedy was first performed in the old 
Canongate Theatre at Edinburgh, then under the 
management of West Digges, on Tuesday, 14th Dec- 
ember, 1756. The following was the cast upon the 
occasion : — 

Douglas y - - - - Mr. Digges. 

Lord Randolph, - - - Mr. Younger. 

Glenalvony - - - - Mr. Love. 

Norval, . . - . Mr. Heyman. 

Lady Randolph , - • - Mrs. Ward. 

Anna, ... - Mrs. Hopkins. 
The play had been completed for the stage in Feb., 
I755i *n^ its reverend author made a special journey 
to London to submit it to Garrick for production at 
Drury Lane. At the outset of the journey he was 
convoyed by "six or seven Merse ministers, and by 
his fi'iend Dr. Carlyle of Inveresk, whose amusing 
account of the ride over the border, and of the 
ecclesiastical persecutions which followed the produc- 
tior^of the tragedy, occupy the greater part of chaps, 
vii. and viii. of his Autobiography (edited by Dr. John 
Hill Burton, Edin., i860). Garrick pronounced the 
tragedy unfit for the stage, but shortly after its triumph 
in Edinburgh, it had a successful run at Covent 
Garden. 

In Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, 1842, p. 65, it is 
stated apparently on the authority of a writer in the 
Edinburgh Evening Post of 31st Jan., 1829, that a 
private rehearsal of the play took place in Mrs. Ward's 
lodgings in the Canongate, at which the part of Old 
Norval was taken by the Rev. Alex. Carlyle, D. D. ; 
Lord Randolph by the Rev. Wm. Robertson, D.D. : 
Glenalvon by David Hume the Historian ; Anna by 
the Rev. Hugh Blair, D.D. ; and Lady Randolph by 
the Rev. John Home ! 

Refer also to Dibdin's "Annals of the Edinburgh 
Stage," chap. vi. of which is entirely devoted to the 
subject, and to MacKenzie's "Life of the Rev. John 
Home. K. J. 



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LITERARY NOTES. 

"Romantic Stories of our Scottish Towns" 
is the title of a new work, by W. H. Davenport 
Adams, which will be shortly issued by Messrs. 
Morison Brothers. 

The May issue of the Letsufe Hour contains 
a biographical sketch of the late Dr. William 
Alexander, written by Mrs. Fyvie Mayo, with 
illustrations and portrait. 

The Editor of the AthencBum, in a foot-note 
to a letter on Thos. Gray the Poet, informs his 
readers that this letter from the late Mr. J. M. 
Gray, F.S.A. Scot., was written just before his 
fatal illness, and he did not live to correct the 
proof. " Scottish Arms and Tartans," in the 
new Scottish Review; and "The Authentic 
Portraits of Burns/' in the May number of the 
Magazine of Art ^ are both by our late lamented 
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Xitcratute. 

The Millies of Banff and Neighbourhood. By 
Wm. Cramond, LL.D., F.S.A. Scot. 1894. 
[Pamphlet, 10 pp.] 
Founding on a MS., the combined and ex- 
haustive labours of several hands, Dr. Cramond 
gives an excellent rejww/of this subject. Along 
with a good deal of pure genealogy, there 
appears to be a good deal of characteristic 
material, throwing much interesting light on 
family peculiarities and manners and customs in 
byegone days, out of which may we yet hope for 
a larger published result ? ED, 

Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 
Vol. iV.—Tke Anonaceie of British India, 
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COPPER HBDAL FOUND IN THE FOUNDATION OF AN OLD HOUSE IN UFPBRKIRKQATB, 
ABERDEEN, 6TH JuNE, 1894. 



July, 1894.] 



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Alexander Bumes, C.B., and Lieutenant Charles 
Bumes, out of a mural crown per pale vert and 
gules, the rim inscribed "Cabool, in letters argent, 
a demi-eagle displayed or transfixed by a javelin in 
bend sinister proper, and second, upon the sinister, 
that hitherto borne, vizt., Issuant from an Eastern 
crown or, an oak-tree shivered, renewing its foliage, 
proper, and in an escroll below the shield this 
Motto, "Ob Patriam vulnera passi." Appended to 
the above the Petitioner bears the personal Decoration 
of the Guelphic Order. 

Matriculated of New the Fourteenth day of May, 
185 1. (Signed) James Lorimer, Jr. 

Interim Lyon Clerk. 

The following extract from the correspondence 
of Bums will explain the allusions to his "device" 
in the above excerpts. 

in. 

Extract of a letter from Burns to Mr. Alexander 
Cunningham, dated March 3, 1794: — 

There is one commission that I must trouble you 
with. I lately lost a valuable seal, a present from a 
departed friend, which vexes me much. I have gotten 
one of your Highland pebbles, which I fancy would 
make a very decent one, and I want to cut my armorial 
bearings on it ; will you be so obliging as enquire 
what will be the expense of such a business ? I do 
nut know that my name is matriculated, as the heralds 
call it, at all ; but I have invented one for myself, so 
you know I will be chief of the name, and, by courtesy 
of Scotland, ^ill likewise be entitled to supporters. 
These, however, I do not intend having on my seal. 
I am a bit of a herald, and shall give you, secundum 
artem, my arms. On a field azure a holly-bush, 
seeded, proper, in base ; a shepherd's pipe and crook, 
saltier-wise, also proper, in chief ; on a wreath of the 
colours, a wood -lark perching on a sprig of bay-tree, 
proper, for crest. Two mottoes : round the top of 
the crest, ** Wood Notes Wild ; " at the lx)ttom of the 
shield, in the usual place. ** Better a Wee Bush than 
nae Bield ; " by the shepherd's pipe and cnx)k I do 
not mean the nonsense of painters in Arcadia, but a 
Mtock and Horn^ and a Club^ such as you see at the 
head of Allan Ramsay, in Allan's quarto edition of 
the "Gentle Shepherd." 

Glasgow. John Muir, F.S.A. Scot. 



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ABERDEENSHIRE AS A FACTOR IN 
SCOTTISH LIFE AND THOUGHT. 

(Continued from p. 6.) 
It has sometimes been said that it was due to 
the influence of Bishop Patrick Forbes and his 
followers that Aberdeen became, and continued 
to be, not only a centre of northern academic 
learning, but a little stronghold of loyalty and 
episcopacy — the marked seat of high cavalier 
politics, and anti-puritan sentiments of religion 
and church government. But, while not seeking 
to minimize the influence which a few great lead- 
ing minds may have exerted on the religious 
thought and habits of the people of Aberdeen, I 



suspect that there may have been something in 
the original temper of the people that prepared 
and almost predestinated them to yield to that 
influence whenever it came to be exerted upon 
them. I find e.^. that the Rev. George Greig, in 
describing the character of the Buchan people for 
Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland 
in 1 79 1, makes the following comment: "Their 
character seems to differ considerably from that 
of the inhabitants of other counties. They have 
not the same liveliness of imagination, nor warmth 
of feeling. They seem to occupy a place in the 
scale of national character nearer the phlegm of 
Dutchmen than theother inhabitants of Scotland." 
This observation, the writer adds, forcibly struck 
him when he first settled in the parish of Long- 
side, and its truth, he declares, was confirmed to 
him by all his subsequent experience. Now the 
Buchan district in general, and the parish of 
Longside in particular, was long, and, indeed, I 
believe, still is a stronghold of Episcopacy. It 
would be to build too large an induction, no 
doubt, upon an inadequate basis of fact, were I 
to find, in the stolid and unemotional character 
which the worthy minister of Longside has thus 
attributed to his Buchan friends and neighbours, 
an explanation of the preference which so many 
of them exhibited for the ordered liturgy and 
institutional method of church government and 
public worship, that still are, and always have 
been, peculiarly characteristic of the episcopalian 
form of Christianity. But, at all events, I think 
it an interesting and noteworthy circumstance, 
that Episcopacy should admittedly have obtained 
so firm a lodgment in the affection of a people 
described by a far more prejudiced witness, as 
more like Dutchmen in their phlegm than Scots- 
men in their fervour. Possibly, however, Mr. 
Greig in disparaging, as he does in the passage 
above quoted, the emotional capacity of the 
Buchan people among whom he lived, may have 
been misled by the undemonstrative character 
of their manners into the belief that they were 
colder in their affections, and less passionate in 
their attachments than was really the case. 
Some one in describing the late Earl of Aber- 
deen, who himself, it may be observed, had a 
close connection with Buchan, made use of the 
following suggestive phrase : — "He possessed a 
heart of fire in a form of ice." And that 
account, I suspect, comes a great deal nearer the 
truth as a characterisation of the natives of that 
region, than the representation I have quoted 
from Mr. Greig, who would have us look upon 
the typical Aberdonian as all ice and no fire. 
A representation this, which despite a super- 
ficial appearance of verisimilitude, may be 
confidently set aside as utterly misleading. For 
assuredly however much ice there may be in 



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[July, 1894. 



the manner and outward bearing of the Aber- 
donian, there is no lack of a central fire beneath 
the chill exterior which he alone presents to a 
casual observer. 

I have sometimes wondered what occasions 
the coating of ice which covers the warm hearts 
of most Aberdonians, and have even asked my- 
self, whether it is not possible that it might have 
been otherwise with them, if during the heroic 
age of Scottish History, which was also the 
formative age of Scottish national character, the 
people of this county had been absolutely 
homogeneous and united in their support of 
Bruce and the other Scottish patriots. This, we 
know, was to a large extent the case in the West 
of Scotland, where at least in Lanark, Renfrew 
and Ayr, the people were practically united in 
the maintenance of the cause of Scottish Inde- 
pendence. In Aberdeen, however, particularly 
m the district of Buchan, this was unhappily not 
the case. That district, as is well-known, was 
the centre of the patrimonial possessions of 
Comyn, Bruce's great rival ; and of course was 
the centre also of the opposition to that hero's 
patriotic struggle on behalf of the independent 
national life of Scotland. Hence we find that 
when Bruce overthrew Comyn, his faction 
devastated his rival's possessions. Thus Dr. 
Skelton, referring to this event in Aberdeenshire 
history, says, " In the country of Buchan, which, 
before the English war, was densely wooded, no 
tree will grow, a change supposed to be due to 
the harrying of the district by Robert or Edward 
Bruce. The Earl of Comyn complains to 
Edward I. of the losses he had sustained, from 
which it appears that he had been attacked, and 
his district harried, before the final defeat on 
Aiky Brae sent him an exile to the English 
court." Of course, after the 'final overthrow of 
the Comyn family at Inverury, the devastation 
previously begun was carried further, for Bruce, 
we are told, pursued his adversary to Fyvie and 
burned his estates, which, at a later period (1320) 
were divided among Bruce's followers and 
supporters. Now, whether or not we are 
warranted in drawing any conclusion from the 
foregoing facts, at all events I cannot but think 
it is a somewhat suggestive coincidence, that 
Lanark, Ayr, and Renfrew, which went solid for 
Bruce and Wallace, have always, as districts, 
exhibited a warmer and intenser passion in 
regard to religious and other questions, and in 
particular have shown a predilection for Puritan- 
ism and Presbyterian ism in religion which has 
not been found to the same extent in any other 
part of Scotland, and least of all, perhaps, in 
Aberdeenshire. 

Moreover, the very part of Aberdeenshire, 
which was identified with resistance to the 



national cause, that is to say the Buchan 
district, was characteristically the seat of Epis- 
copalianism in the 17th and i8th centuries. It 
is well-known, for instance, that when the 
Presbyterian and Puritan Revolution of the 17th 
century reached its critical period at the Glasgow 
Assembly of 1638, the chief strength of those 
who were opposed to that movement lay in 
Aberdeenshire. And it is not without signifi- 
cance in view of that fact, that, at the outset of 
their proceedings, when the Assembly went 
forward to choose a clerk, Mr. James Sandilands 
was decisively rejected, *' because," as Baillie 
suggestively mentions in one of his letters, " he 
came from that unsanctified place Aberdeen." 
This attachment to Episcopacy long continued 
true of a large part of this county's inhabitants, 
even after the final triumph of Presbytery in 
1688. And this was especially true of the whole 
Buchan district. It was found, in fact, very 
difficult to establish Presbytery there at all. 
Mr. Pratt, in his admirable little monograph on 
Buchan, says, " The people attached to the old 
faith stood out against the innovation for nearly 
a quarter of a century after the Revolution, and 
even then, in many instances, yielded only to 
force." The " rabbling of Deer," as it was 
termed, which occurred as late as 171 1, is no 
bad illustration of this hostile spirit in the people. 
For even then, upwards of 20 years after the 
Revolution that overthrew the Episcopalian 
establishment, the people of Deer parish actually 
strove by violence to prevent the ordination of 
a young man, otherwise acceptable, simply 
because he came as a presbyterian among them. 
And it is a circumstance very suggestive of the 
intimate way in which events far distant in time 
are nevertheless most closely related, that this 
"rabble of Deer," due to the preponderating 
Episcopal predilections of the people of that 
parish, was the proximate cause of the passing 
of the Patronage Act by the English Parliament 
of 171 1, which, in its turn, has again been- the 
cause of so many, both political and ecclesiastical, 
changes in Scotland — changes, the last of which 
has not yet been seen, and the ultimate scope 
and direction of which it would be difficult to 
estimate. When one considers attentively a 
series of facts like these, one begins to realise 
how large and important a part in producing 
great and lasting political events, may be played 
by the persistent operation of certain peculiar 
mental tendencies or predilections, characteristic 
either of a whole race, or only of the natives of 
a particular district. For Scotland, assuredly, 
would not be what it is to-day, either politically 
or ecclesiastically, if the people of Aberdeenshire 
had shown a less tenacious attachment to the 
Episcopal worship of their fathers. 



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It may be interesting, therefore, to contemplate 
for a moment what one of themselves says 
concerning the character of his fellow Episco- 
palians among the rustics of Aberdeenshire, 
especially as there can be no doubt, that every- 
thing indigenously Episcopalian in Scotland 
long bore, and indeed to some extent still bears 
the Aberdeen Mark. It is thus, then, that Wm. 
Meston describes the rural population of his 
native shire in the early part of the i8th century. 

The people who this land possesses 
Live quietly and pay their cesses ; 
They fear the Lord and till the ground, 
And love a creed that*s short and sound ; 
*Tis true their speech is not so pointed,^ 
Nor with screwed looks their face disjointed. 
Tf scant of Theory, their Pracdce 
Supplies that want, which mast exact is. 
They are not fond of innovations, 
Nor covet much new reformations : 
They are not for new paths, but rather 
Each one jogs after his old father. 

The conservative character thus emphatically 
attributed to the Aberdonians by one of them- 
selves, sounds almost grotesque in these days 
when the men of that county are the very 
pioneers of progress, both political and eccles- 
iastical. But there can be little doubt that for 
a long time in Scottish History the representation 
of Professor Meston might be regarded as 
strictly exact. In particular, there can be no 
doubt, that during the i6th and 17th centuries 
Aberdeenshire was by no means active in 
stirring the religious life or guiding the religious 
development of the Scottish people. In the 
latter half of the i8th century, and more espe- 
cially in the 19th century, however, this state of 
matters can no longer be said to prevail. Thus, 
during the i8th century, perhaps the best defence 
made in Scotland against the subtle scepticism 
of Hume was of Aberdonian origin. And 
Principal Campbell's reply to the celebrated 
argument against miracles published by the 
Edinburgh philosopher was admitted by the 
arch-sceptic himself to be marked by a penetrating 
and subtle logic. While Professor Reid, whose 
philosophy was produced to meet the Humian 
Metaphysic, was, as every one knows, trained 
in Aberdeen, and for a time a minister in the 
neighbourhood. In our own century the 
Established Church of Scotland has again found 
some of her most trusted leaders and preachers 
among the men of Aberdeen, as will appear, 
when I mention that it is to that county she 
owes such valued guides and defenders as the 
late Doctors M earns, Bisset, Robertson, Pirie, 
and Cumming. It is to the Free Church, how- 
ever, as might naturally be expected, from what 

1 i.t. careful not to offend the proprieties. 



we have said in regard to the enthusiasm with 
which the cause of that church was embraced 
in many parts of this county, that Aberdeenshire 
has contributed the largest number of illustrious 
names. It is to that county e.g. that among 
other names of note, that church owes such men 
as Dr. Keith, the well-known interpreter of the 
prophetic Scriptures, the much loved Rabbi, 
Professor Duncan of Edinburgh, Andrew Gray 
of Perth too, and Dr. Dyce Davidson of Aber- 
deen, the two Browns also of that city, the two 
Smiths, Dr. Walter of Edinburgh, the recent 
Moderator of the Free Assembly, and the late 
Professor Robertson Smith of Oxford, as well as 
the genial and cultured Dr. Nicoll, now Editor 
of the Expositor, and the late Professor Elmslie, 
and others scarcely less notable, whom we can- 
not stay to enumerate. 

My own church, moreover, although by no 
means strong in the north, remembers with 
gratitude that she owes to that county perhaps 
the best systematic theologian she has ever 
produced. I refer to the late Professor Dick, a 
writer whose system of Divinity is still occa- 
sionally read with admiration after the lapse of 
60 years from its publication. And that other 
Christian churches have been also greatly 
indebted during the last two centuries to the 
genius and piety of Aberdeen is manifest, when 
it is remembered that it was from Aberdeenshire 
the Episcopal Church obtained the services of 
such men as the Skinners, that gracious and 
cultivated family, who for upwards of a century 
have represented the best side of Prelacy in the 
north. Bishops Tony and Walker, too, belong 
to this county, those types of a saintly and 
primitive piety that would almost make a presby- 
terian himself fall in love with the prelacy whose 
genius they illustrated and adorned, the genial 
Dean Ramsay also, as well as that saintly spirit 
and suggestive thinker the late Bishop Ewing of 
Argyle, and many others whom we cannot stay 
to mention. 

Nor is it Scotland alone that has benefited by 
the sacred talent of Aberdeenshire. For in 
England the Methodist New Connexion owes 
its origin to an Aberdonian evangelist the Rev. 
Wm. Thom ; and the Congregational Church has 
been enriched by men of such consecrated genius 
and piety as Professor Wm. Lorimer of Hoxton, 
Theological Seminary, who flourished in the 
early part of the 18th century, the late Dr. John 
Morrison of London too, long Editor of the 
Evangelical Magazine, as well as the eloquent 
Dr. John Hunter now of Glasgow, and many 
others. The Baptist Church, too, can reckon up 
its tale of distinguished Aberdeenshire names. 
While of notable Roman Catholic Aberdonians 
the name is legion, and we decline in the mean. 



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[July, 1894. 



time to make a selection among so many almost 
equally illustrious. Furthermore, and finally 
here, I remark that in Missionary interprise, 
both at home and abroad, Aberdonian energy 
has also been largely and successfully employed. 
Thus Dr. William Milne, one of the earliest, as 
well as Dr. Legge, now of Oxford University, 
one of the most learned of Chinese Missionaries, 
are both natives of this county, and the same 
may be said of Dr. Murray Mitchell of Bombay, 
of Dr. John Hay, the translator of the Bible into 
Telugu, of Mackay of Uganda, Laws of Living- 
stonia, and many others whom we cannot 
notice. W. B. R. W. 

(To be continued.) 



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THE PROVERBS OF CHAUCER, WITH 

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM 

OTHER SOURCES. 

VIIL 

FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE. 

The number of proverbs found in Chaucer 
falling to be classed under this heading is un- 
usually large. The fickleness of fortune is a 
byword, and will remain so while man is a child 
of circumstances. It would be easy to moralize 
here, were this the place : We proceed to give 
examples : — 

107. Fortune is chaungeable. — Kni};htes Tale^ 1. 384. 

Compare : 

Fortune est chanjable. — Le Roux. 

The same proverb is found in most collections 
in several languages. The next proverbs to be 
quoted are analogous in sentiment, and to these 
we shall add some illustrations. 

108. Thanked be Fortune and hire false wheel 
That now eslat assureth to ben weel. 

Knightes Tale^ 1. 67. 

109. Certynly, when fortune lust to flee 

Ther may no man the cours of hir whiel holde. 

Monkes Tale, 1. 5. 

110. Lo! who may truste on fortune any throwe? 

Do.y I. 146. 

111. Ay fortune hath in hir honey galle. 

Do., 1, 357. 

112. Thus can fortune hir wheel gouerne and gye, 
And out of joye bring men to sorwe, 

Do,, 1. 407. 

113. Alas ! fortune ! and weylaway ! 

Thy false wheel my wo al may I wyte. 

Do., 1. 453. 

1 14. Thy sys [six] fortune hath turned into as [ace]. 

Do,, I. 595. 

115. For wele fynde I that fortune is my fo : 
Ne alle the men that ryden konne or go 

May of hire cruel wheel the harme withstonde, 
For, as hire luste, she playeth with fre and bonde. 

Troyl /., 1. 837. 

116. (Fortune) semeth trewest when she wol begyle. 

Do., Ill,, 1. 1774. 



117. When a wight is from hire whiel ithrowe, 

Then laugheth she, and maketh hyra the mowe. 

Do., III., 1. 1777. 
All the above proverbs show the fickleness of 
fortune and the uncertainty of her favours. A 
few illustrations may now be given. 
Compare : 

Fortune is variant, ever turning her wheel ; 
He is wise that bewares before he can feel. 

Hazliit, 
Fortune and futurity are not to be guessed at. 
Ilenderson^s Scottish Proverbs, 
Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered. 

Cymbeline, iv, j. 
Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he 
who was yesterday at the top lies to-dny at 
the bottom. — Spanish Proverb, 
Gliick und Glas, Wie bald bricht das. 

Diiringsfeld, 
Fate views the world 
A scene of mutual and perpetual struggle, 
And sports with life as if it were a wheel 
That draws the limpid water from the well. 
For some are raised to affluence^ some depressed 
In want, and some are borne awhile aloft, 
And some hurled down to wretchedness and woe. 

Mrichichati (Hindoo Drama). 
For solhe it is, that, on her tolter quhele, 
Every wight cleverith in his stage. 
And failyng foting oft quhen her lest rele, 
Sum up, sum down, is non estate nor age 
Ensured more the Pry nee than the page ; 
So uncouthly her wurdes she divideth. 
Namely in youth, that seildum ought provideth. 

Kings Quhair, 
" Fate makes footballs of men ; kicks some up- 
stairs and some down ; some are advanced 
without honour, others suppressed without 
infamy ; some are raised without merit, some 
crushed without crime ; and no man knows 
by the beginning of things whether his course 
shall issue in a peerage or a pillory." 

Defoe (in a letter to Lord Haversham). 
Hebt mich das GlUck, so bin ich froh, 

Und sing in dulci jubilo ; 
Sinkt sich das Rad und quetscht mich nietler, 
So denk' ich : nun, es hebt sich wieder. 

Goethe. 
1 1 8a. Hap helpeth hardy man alday. 

Legend V., 1. 94. 
1 1 8b. Think ek, fortune, as wel thiselven wooste, 
Helpeth hardy man unto his emprise. 

Troyl, IV,, 1. 372. 
Compare : 

Fortune helps the hardy. — Donald, 

Fortune gives her hand to a hold man, — Hazlitt, 

Luck will always favour the brave. — Wahl, 

Fortune secort les hardiz. — Le Roux, 

On dit communement qui Fortune aide au hardi. 

Le Roux, 
Andantes fortuna juvat. — Virgil (^nid x., 284). 
Andantes deus ipse juvat. — Ovid (Met. x., 586). 
119a, Joye after wo, and wo after gladnesse. 

Knightes Tale, 1. 1983. 



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1 19b. But after wo I rede us to be merye. 

Do.^ 1. 2210. 

120. For evere the latter end of joye is wo. 

N. Preestes 71, 1. 384. 

121. Joye of this world, for time wol not abyde : 
Fro day to nyght it changeth as the tyde. 

Man of Lawes T.. 1. 1 1 33. 

122. Now Jesu Crist, that of his might may sende 
Joy after wo, goveme us in his grace. 

Do. J 1. 1 161. 

123. The glade nyght is worthe an hevy morowe. 

Comp. of Mars y 1. 12. 

124. And next the derke nyght the glade morwe, 
And also joye is next the fyn of sorwe. 

TroyLy 1. 948. 

Compare with above proverbs the following : 

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh 

in the morning. — Psalms xxx. 5. 
After drought cometh rain. 
After pleasure cometh pain ; 
But yet it continueth not so ; 
For after rain 
Cometh drought again, 
And joy after pain and woe. 

Pe/ij^. Antiq. (quoted by Hazlitt). 
Of sufferance cometh ease. — Hislop. 

Sadness and gladness succeed each other. 

Henderson's Scottish Proverbs, 

Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy. — Do, 
After joy comes annoy. — Donald, 
They that laugh in the morning may greet ere 

night. — Allan Ramsay's Scots Proverbs, 
Toute joye fault en tristesse. — Le Roux, 
Apres plor, ai 01 canter. — Kadler. 
Freud' muss Leid, Leid muss Freude haben. 

Goethe (Faust). 

Bayard Taylor translates the line : 

Joy follows woe, woe after joy comes flying. 
O^K krl Traaly a iipdreva* dyadols, 
Act 5^ <T€ xtt^P^f Kal XvTreiffdou' 
Qvrfrds ybip ((pvs. kSlv /jlt] aif OiXySf 
Td, d€u>v oih-b) Pov\6fi€v* i^arax, 

Euripides, Iphig. in Aul.^ 31. 

Act 5^ a€ xcw'p^t'' KoX XuTctcr^ctt' 

QvriTbs ykp i<pvs. Do. , Aj'ax, 29. 

MiJ yvy e^\e 
Amreiv (reavrby, ii8u)s Ort 
rioXXdKts t6 Xmrovy tarepoy x^P^^ A7"> 
KaX rb KaKby dyaOov yiyyercu Trapairioy. 

Do., Fr, Antig, 

Ita dls placitum, voluptatem moeror comes con- 
sequatur. — Plautus, Arnphit. II. ^ 2, 5. 

125. After greet heet cometh cold. —Proverbs, I. 3. 

This is one of the proverbs given in the two 
verse poem of proverbs which we quoted in full 
in our introductory paper. Its opposite is found 
in the following : 

126. Efter wynter folweth grene. — Troyl.y\. ill. 1013. 
Compare : 

Sequiter ver hyemen. — Wander, 



* * Post nvbila Phcebvs ! Auf Regen folgt Sonnen- 
schein, sagt nicht bloss der Lateiner ; auch 
bei uns traf es zu." Frederick Foerster, the 
Historian, in a letter to his sister, 20th 
April, 1813. 

127. Now in the croppe, now doun in the breres, 
Now up now doun, as boket in a welle. 

Knightes Tale, 1. 674, 

1 28. Now it shyneth, now it reyneth faste. — Do. , 1. 676. 
Morris (following Bell) paraphrases the first 

line of 112 as : 

*' Now in the top {^i.e. elevated, in high spirits), 
now down in the briars {i,e, depressed, in 
low spirits)," 
and quotes from Occleve (De ^^%. Princip.) : 
Alas ! where in this world es stabilnesse ? 
Here up, here doune ; here honour, here repreef ; 
Now hale, now sike ; now bounte, now myscheef. 

As an illustration of the second line the fol- 
lowing is from Shakespeare : 

** Now is this golden crown like a deep well, 
That owes two buckets filling one another ; 
The emptier ever dancing in the air, 
The other down, unseen, and full of water, 
That bucket down, and full of tears, and I 
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high. 

King Richard II., i v. i. 
Compare also : 

Like so many buckets in a well ; as one riseth 
another falleth, one's empty, another's full. 

Burton's Anat, of Mel, 
Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency. 
Its hopes go up a'nd down like a bucket in a 
drawwell. 

J. M. Barrie, Better Dead, chap. III. 
As an Illustration to 1 13, and indeed to all this 
group of proverbs, compare the following from 
Scott : 

Like April morning clouds that pass 
With varying shadow o'er the grass. 
And imitate on field and fiirrow 
Life's chequered scene of joy and sorrow. 

Marmion (Introd. to Canto III.) 

129. I have seyn of a ful mysty morwe, 
Follwen ful oft a merye someres day. 

Troyl, III,, 1. lOli. 
Compare : 

A misty morning may have a fine day. — Hazlitt, 
A misty morning may be a clear day. — Hislop, 
An evening red and a morning grey 
Doth betoken a bonnie day. — Henderson, 
Pluose matinee ne tot jorn^e. — Le Roux. 

130. Er thunder stynte ther cometh rayn. 
Compare : Bathe Prol,, 1. 732. 

Quand il a tonne et encore toune. 

La playe approcheet monlre la come. — La Roux, 

Tant tonne qu' il pleust. — Do, 

131. In oure wil ther stiketh ever a nayl. 

To have an hoor heed and a greene tayl. 
Compare : Prol, of Reeve, 1. 23. 

Che il porro habbi il capo bianchi, che la coda 
sia verde. — Boccaccio, Decam, Intro,, 1. 4. 

M. A. C 



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scon IS ff NOTES AND QUERIES. 



(July, 1894. 



DIARY OF JOHN ROW, 
PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, &c., 

1661 — 1672 — 1790. 
X. 

July 7, 1724. My sister Margaret brought 
forth a son called John. 

June 3, 1724. My brothei Mr. William had 
his first child bom and was baptised by me June 
8, named Margaret. 

May 20, 1725. This morning at seven aclock 
my wife brought forth a daughter who in the 
afternoon was baptised by Mr. Udny foresaid 
and named Agnes. 

August 8, 1725, at eleven at night dyed the 
Lady Bumbrae a good woman. 

Nov^ 10, 1725, at 5 afternoon died Isobel 
Mairtain my wife's aunt and relict to Henry 
Caddel. 

Janry. 16, 1726, at 3 afternoon, Sabbath, my 
brother Mr. William had his second child born 
who was baptised the 17 by me named Hugh. 

Aprile 26, 1726. Isobel Panton daughter to 
my sister Lillias was married w' Robert Simson 
mert in Old Meldrum, and y' by me. 

January 5, 1731. My son John entered to the 
College in Mr. Black wells class. 

May 14, 1733, my aunt Isobel Mercer died at 
New Deer. 

July 2, 1733, my sister Margaret died. 

March 27, 1735. My daughter Elizabeth was 
married by Mr. Udny min"" at Strichen to Mr. 
James Wilson min"^ at Gamerie. 

Oct^ 30, 1735, about half an hour after two in 
the afternoon my brother Mr. William had a 
daughter brought forth whom I baptised that 
evening, named Isobel. 

Janry. 30, 1736. About half an hour after six 
at night my daughter Elizabeth brought forth a 
son whom I baptised that evening and was 
called John. 

August 2, 1737. About half an hour after one 
in the morning my daughter Elizabeth brought 
forth her 2nd child viz. a son whom I baptised 
and was named George. 

Nov'. 15, 1737. My son Thomas entered to 
the King's College in Mr. Bradfut's class. 

Septr. 19, 1738. This morning about 5 my 
daughter Elizabeth brought forth a daughter 
whom I baptised that evening and is named 
Isobel. 

Janry. 8, 1738. This morning about one 
o'clock my Grand-child was removed by death 
at my house. I mean John Wilson. 

June 10, 1740. This evening my daughter 
Elizabeth brought forth a daughter whom I 
baptised next day named Barbara. 

Aprile i, 1741. My son Thomas was graduate 
in King's College. 

Octr. 15, 1 74 1. My son Thomas went f™ 



Tyrie for Castle Lachlan and arrived at that place 
the 30 in order to teach McLachlan of that ilk 
his son. 

Jan'y. 2, 1742. Twixt 3 and 4 afternoon my 
daughter Elizabeth brought futh a son whom I 
baptised next day and is named Alexander. 

Nov*". 21, 1743. Twixt 5 and 6 in the morn- 
ing my daughter Elizabeth brought futh a son, 
whom I baptised next day, and is named Thomas. 

Feb. 2, 1744, my sister Lilias was removed by 
death. 

April 24, 1745, twixt one and two afternoon my 
daughter Bell died of a fever, w*^ had continued 
19 days, buried the 27. 

Feb. 23, 1748, twixt i and 2 afternoon my 
daughter Elizabeth brought forth a son whom I 
baptised the 24, named Hugh. 

Aprile 5, 1748, my son John was married to 
Sofia Henderson daughter to Richard Henderson 
in Shivado. 

My daughter Elizabeth brought forth a son 
Dec'". 9, 1745, named James. 

August 17, 1748, my son Thomas was licensed 
to preach the Gospel. May it be for the glory 
of God and good of souls. 

May 10, 1750. This morning about 7 my 
daughter Elizabeth brought forth a daughter and 
was baptised by me upon the 11, named Agnes, 
she died in July that same year. 

Octr. 8, 1750. About 7 in the morning Sophia 
Henderson brought forth a daughter and was 
baptised the 9 named Jean. 

Septr. 4, 1750, my daughter Agnes was married 
to Alex^ Wilson farmer in Cardno. 

June 16, 175 1, my daughter Agnes brought 
forth a son about 12 o'clock and was baptised 
the 17, named John. 

Nov^ 12, 1 75 1, my daughter Elizabeth brought 
forth a son about 8 in the morning and was 
baptised the 14 named William, he died Janry. 
29, 1752. 

August 31, 1752, Christian Reid my father's 
widow died in Abd. 

Janry. 15, 1753, twixt i and 2 in the morning 
Sophia Henderson brought forth a daughter, 
baptised the 16 named Elizabeth. 

May 9, 1753, my daughter Elizabeth brought 
forth a daughter twixt i and 2 afternoon baptised 
the 10 named Elizabeth. 

July 3, 1753, my daughter Agnes brought forth 
a son, baptised the 5 named Thomas. 

July 4, 1754, my son Thomas died in my house 
buried July 6. 

April 29, 1755, Agnes Mercer my daughter 
brought forth a son who was baptised on the 
30th by me and his name is George. 

January 27th, 1756, my daughter in law 
Sophia Henderson brought forth a son whom I 
baptised the next day and is named John. 



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SCOniSH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Octr 71)1, 175s, mf daughter Elizabeth brought 
forth a daughter and was baptised the ncKt day 
by me and is named Anne, 

May 25th 1757, N.S. This morning my 
daughter Agnes brought forth a son whom 1 
baptised the nest day and is named William. 

January 17th, 1758, N.S., about 3 in the afler- 
hoon my daughter EUzabeth brought forth a 
daughter, baptised the 23 named Margaret. 

February 6th N.S. 1759, my daughter Agnes 
before six in the morning brought forth a son, 
wbo was baptised by me on the 9lh and is named 

Nov'. 13th, 1759, my grand daughter Isobel 
Wilson was married to John Sangster ship- 
master in Gardenstown. 

What follows is insert by John Mercer, Farmer 
in Kirktowntyrie. 

My father died 31 day of March 17G1 about 

12 at night after eleven weeks illness aged 74. 
Aprile 3, 1761, my sister El izbeth was delivered 

of dead son. 

March 31 died in the 74 year of his age and 
37 of his ministry Mr. John Mercer my father, 
be was a pious solid and judicious preacher, and 
in every statioun of life he behaved with the 
decency and dignity suitable to his profession, 
so that as he lived in the highest esteem of all 
who knew him he died justly esteemed by all 
especially his parishioners by whom in a part- 
icular manner he had endeared himself by a 
conscientious discharge of the duties of his 
pastorall office, this the character the news gives 

July 17, 1762, my wife was delivered of a son 
andwas baptised the 18th by Mr, Will. Cummine, 
Minister at Tyrie, named William. 

March 21, 1765, my mother died at Tyrie and 
was buried in my sisters grave in the churchyard 
of Tyrie, aged fig. 

July 2, 1769, my sister Agnes had a daughter 
bom and was baptised the 5 day by Mr. Farquer 
min'. at Rathen, named Agnes. ■ 

Alex', McGow farmer at Tyrie died the 10 of 
July about 4 in the morning and was buried the 

13 of said month and said year 1769, 
Richard Henderson my father in law died 

Janry. 13 in the year 1778 and was buried at 
New Deer the 16, aged about 89. 

Jean Fraser spouse to Richard Henderson was 
removed by death the 30 day of Aprile, N.S., 
aged 88, and was buried at New Deer May the 

Anne Wilson my sisters daughter was married 
Dec. 16th, 1779, to Mr. William Fraser, Minister 
at Tyrie. 

Septr. agth, i7lio, Mr. Fraser mm', had a 
daughter bom Sophia, another daughter bom 
Nov'. 2, 1784, named Elizabeth. 



Aprile 19, i78[, my sister Elizabeth spouse to 
the Reverend Mr. [ames Wilson minister at 
Gamery died and was buried the 22 of said 
month aged 63. Married 46 years. 

Aprile 30, 1789, my wife Sophia Henderson 
was removed by death and was buried May the 
third in the church of Tyrie in my fathers grave 
aged 58, 33 years married. 

My sister Agnes was removed by death on 
Tuesday the 23rd of Septr., 1788, about 8 o'clock 
at night and was buried on the 26th said month 
aged 63 years and 4 months. 

September 5th, 1788, Mr. Fraser minister of 
Tyrie had a son born, vii, Alexander, baptised 
by Mr. Thos. Wilson min'. at Gamery his uncle. 

May 3,1789. Mr. Alex'. Wilson min'. of the 
Scots church in Campveere Holland, and son to 
Mr. Wilson Min'. of Gamery died at Campveere. 
He was married in to Sara French daugh- 

ter to Mr. French late Advocate Aberdeen, and 
sister to Doctor French Physician there. They 
have one daughter named Sarah Christina bom. 

1789. Eli;i°. Mercer daughter to lohn Mercer 
in Kirktown was married to Wm. Anderson 
farmer in Old Mill of Strichen, 

John Mercer in Kirktown Tyrie son to Mr. 
John Mercer Minister of Tyrie died on Sabbath 
the iQth of January 1790 and was buried in his 
mother's grave in the churchyard of Tyrie. Aged 
73 years 9 months. 

(To be conllmieii.) 



THE CANTERBURY TALES. 

PROLOGUE — Continued. 

A Physic Doctor there also. 
His like the world could never show. 
In physic deep, in surgery high ; 
For grounded in astronomy. 
He kept his patient wonder well 
In hours by magic natural. 
Full well he fortuned the ascendant 
Of sign or image for his patient 
He knew of every malady, 
Were't cold, or hot, or moist, or dry, 
And where engendered, of what humour : 
A very perfect skilled praclis6ur. 
The cause thus known, and root of aihng, 
He gave the sick man help unfailing. 
Full ready his apothecaries 
To send him drugs, electuaries ; 
For each did make the other win ; 
Their friendship had not to begin. 
He knew old Esculapius, 
Eke Ruf'js, Dioscorides, 
Hippocras, Kali, Gailien, 
Serapion, Razis, Avicen, 
Averroes, Dam'scene, Constantyn, 
And Bernard, Gat's den, Gilbertyn. 



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[July, 1894. 



His diet moderate seemed to be, 
Of no great superfluity. 
But nourishing, and digestible ; 
His study, — little of the Bible. 
In sanguine persian clad o'erall, 
The lining taflfata, and sendalle. 
He yet was easy in expense, 
He laid by since the pestilence. 
For gold in physic is a cordial. 
Therefore loved he gold in special. 

A good wife too was there, of Bathe, 
But somewhat deaf, and that was scathe. 
In making cloth she had a haunt 
Surpassing Ipres, likewise Gaunt. 
In all the parish wife was none 
To th' offering 'for her durst have gone ; 
And if there did, so wroth was she. 
That soon she lost all charity. 
Her kerchiefs were full fine of ground, 
I dare swear that they weighed ten pound. 
Which Sunday saw upon her head. 
Her hosen of fine scarlet red 
Full straitly tied ; shoes moist and new ; 
Her face bold, fair, and red of hue. 
A worthy woman all her life, 
Husbands at church door she had five. 
Not reckoning youthful company ; 
For thereof needs no speech to be. 
Thrice had she seen Jerusalem, 
And passed o'er many a strange stream. 
At Rome she'd been, and at Boulogne, 
St. James in Galice, and Cologne. 
Knew much of wandering by the way. 
Gat toothed was she, the truth to say. 
Upon an ambler easy sat, 
Well wimpled ; on her head a hat 
Broad as a buckler or a targe ; 
Footmantle round her hips so large ; 
And on her feet were spurs full sharp. 
In fellowship could laugh and carp ; 
Love remedies she knew perchance. 
And eke of all that art the dance. 

A man there whom the Church did own, 
The humble Parson of a town ; 
But rich in holy thought and work, 
A learned man eke was he, a clerk 
That Christ's own gospel truly preached. 
His parishens devoutly teached. 
Benign, and wonder diligent. 
In adverse things full patient. 
For he was proved such, often since. 
Full loth to threaten for his tenths, 
He'd give far rather out of doubt 
To his poor parishens about, 
Of his own offering and his substance ; 
He could in small things have suffisance. 
His parish wide, homes far asunder. 
Yet left not off for rain or thunder, 
In sickness and mishap to wait 



Upon the farthest, early — late ; 

Still on his feet with staff in hand, 

A noble sample to the land. 

Which first he wrought, and after taught. 

The words he from the gospel caught. 

This figure added he thereto, 

" If gold rust, what shall iron do? 

If priests be foul on whom we trust. 

No wonder then do laymen rust ; 

Shame ! if a priest a charge will keep, 

To see foul shepherd and clean sheep ; 

Well ought a priest ensample give 

By cleanness, how his sheep should live." 

His benefice set he not to hire, 

And leave sheep cumbered in the mire ; 

Nor ran to London to St. Paul's, 

Seeking rich chariteries for poor souls ; 

Or with a Brotherhood to hold. 

But dwelt at home and kept his fold ; 

No wolf could make it e'er miscarry, 

A shepherd he, — no mercenary. 

Though holy and most virtuous. 

To sinners not dispiteous ; 

His speech not stingy or indignant ; 

In teaching was discreet, benignant. 

To draw folk heavenward by fairness 

And good ensample, was his business. 

Were any person obstinate. 

Whether of high or low estate. 

Him snubbed he sharply on the spot : 

A better priest I trow was not. 

No pomp he waited on, or reverence. 

Nor made himself a fine spiced conscience ; 

But Christ's love, and Apostles' twelve 

He taught, first following it himselve. 

With him a Plowman, his own brother. 
Who'd laid of dung fell many a fother. 
A worker true and good was he. 
Living in peace and charity. 
He loved God much with all his heart, 
At all times, were it gain or smart, 
And then his neighbour as himselve. 
For he would thresh, and dyke, and delve, 
For sake ofChrist, to each poor wight 
Withouten hire, if in his might. 
His tithes he paid full honestly, 
Both of his kine and industry ; 
In tabard clad he rode a mare. 

Also a Reeve and Miller there, 
A Sompnour and a Pardoner so, 
A Manciple, myself; no moe. 

The Miller hardy for the nonce. 
Full big of brawn and eke of bones ; 
Well proved, for all he overcame ; 
At wrestling aye he won the game. 
Short shouldered, broad, a thickish knave, 
No door he could not heave off bar. 
Or running, break it with his head. 
His beard like sow or fox was red, 



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And broad as though it were a spade. 

On top of nose a wart he had, 

And thereon stood a tuft of hairs, 

Red as the bristles of sows* ears. 

His nostrils eke were black and wide. 

A sword and buckler by his side. 

His mouth wide like some great furnace. 

A jangler, and a goly?irdeys 

In harlotry and every vice. 

Com he would steal, and take toll thrice ; 

Yet seemed a " thumb of gold " to be. 

A white coat and blue hood wore he. 

A bagpipe well could blow and play, 

Therewith he brought us on our way. 

A Temple Manciple was there. 
To whom purveyors might repair. 
To learn the buying of vitaille. 
Whether paid down, or ta'en by taille. 
By looking after what he bought. 
To good estate his means he'd brought. 
Now is not that of God*s good grace. 
That such a plain man's wit should pace 
That of a heap of learned book-men ? 
His masters more than three times ten. 
In law expert and curious ; 
There were a dozen in that house 
Apt stewards for both rent and land 
To any lord in all England ; 
To make him live on what he had, 
In honour debtless ; if as mad. 
To live as mean as he'd desire ; 
Well able they to help a shire 
In any case might fall or hap ; 
And yet this man set all their cap. 

The Reeve a slender choleric man. 
With beard shaved close as e'er he can. 
His hair round by his ears was shorn ; 
His top docked like a priest beforne ; 
Full long his legs were and full lean. 
All like a staff, no calf was seen. 
His garner kept so, and his binn. 
No auditor could o'er him win. 
He wist well by the drought and rain. 
The yielding of his seed and grain. 
His master's sheep, his neat, his dairy. 
His swine, his horse, his store and poultry. 
Were all in this Reeve's governing. 
Who gave by covenant, reckoning ; 
Ay since his lord saw twenty years ; 
None e'er could make him in arrears. 
No bailiff, herd, or other wight, 
Could know his covyne or his sleight ; 
They stood in dread as of their death. 
His dwelling fair upon a heath, 
With green trees shaded was the place. 
Could better than his lord purchase. 
Full richly stored, and privily ; 
His lord he pleased full subtilly ; 
Would give and lend him his own goods, 



Have thanks, and get both coats and hoods. 
In youth he learned, as I did hear, 
The mystery of a carpentere. 
Upon a right good steed he sat. 
That was a dappled grey called Scot. 
Long persian surcoat on him had. 
And by his side a rusty blade. 
Of Norfolk, he of whom I tell. 
Beside a town called Bardeswell. 
Tucked like a friar all about. 
He aye rode hindmost of the route. 
(To be continued.) 



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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (VII., 153, 172). 

The notes on the University Library, which 
appeared in S. N. ^ Q. for March and April 
last, have fortunately been the means of bringmg 
to it several most welcome gifts of books, chiefly 
of a local character. The collection of Aber- 
deen University pamphlet literature is, however, 
lamentably defective, and it has been suggested 
to me that, if the titles of some of the most 
striking wants were indicated, the possessors of 
pamphlets, of little value except as units in a 
collection, might be willing to help to fill the 
gaps. I note a few in chronological order. The 
list has a general interest, as indicating the 
scarcer academic literature of the district. The 
place of publication is Aberdeen, when not 
otherwise stated. 

1616-1730. Theses for M.A. degree propugned at 
Marischal College, 1616 (printed at Edin. ); James 
Sibbald, 1625 and 1626 (Bodleian libr. ) ; John Seton, 
1627, 1630, 1634 and 1637 (Bodl.); 1642, 1645, ^^S^ 
and 1666 (Burgh accts.); And. Cant, 1654 (Bodl.); 
Rob. Forbes, 1656 (Bodl.); Alex. Whyte, 1657 
(Bodl.); Pat. Strachan, 1665 (Album i); Thomas 
Burnet, 1686 (Lee) ; Rob. Keith, 1687 (Bodl.) ; Geo. 
Peacock, 1689, 1693 and 1714 (Bodl.), 1697 (Glasg. 
Univ.); Alex. More, 1699 (Bodl.); Wm. Smith, 1712 
(Glasg.); Dav. Verner, 1721 (Chalmers) and 1730 
(Glasg.) [The Aberdeen University possesses only 
the Theses of 1623, 1631, 1643, 1658, 1659, 1660, 
1669, 1673, 1700, 1704, 1708, 1726 and 1732. Those 
for unnamed years, 16 17 to 1731, have yet to be 
discovered]. 

1623. Lachrymae Academiae Marischallanae sub 
obitum Georgii Comitis Marischalli. (Signet Libr.) 

1623. Oratio de illustribus Scotiae scriptoribus. 
Principal Gilbert Gray. (Knight's Collections). Re- 
printed in Mackenzie's Scottish Writers. 

1626- 1 71 1. Theses for M.A. degree propugned at 
King's College. John Lundie, 1626 and 1627 (Laing) ; 
And. Strachan, 1629 (Brit. Mus.); Dav. Leech, 1634, 
1635, 1636, 1638 (Laing) ; Patrick Gordon, 1643 
(Laing) ; Alex. Middleton, 1649 (Jos. Robertson) ; 
John Strachan, 1659 (Orem) ; Pat. Sandilands, 1660 
(Bodl.); Hen. Scougal, 1674 (Edin. Univ.); Geo. 
Middleton, 1675 (Edin.); Rob. Forbes, 1680 (A. W. 
Robertson), 1684 (Album E); John Buchan, 1681 
(Edin.); Geo. Eraser, 1683 (Album E), 1691 (Con- 



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[July, 1894. 



stable), 1706 (E. of Erroll) ; Wm. Black, 1686 (E. of 
Crawford), 1694 (Album E), 1705 (Glasg.), 171 1 
(Erroll); Geo. Skene, 1688 (Laing), 1700 and 1701 
(Album E) ; Alex. Eraser, 1693 (Constable), 1697 
(Album E). [The Aberdeen University Library pos- 
sesses only the Theses of 1622, 1623, 1624, 1625, 1631, 
1633, 1695, 1710]. 

1627. Theses for B.D. degree at King's Coll. 
William Leslie (Brit. Mus.) ; James Sibbald (Brit. 
Mus.) 

1628-1714. Theses for D.D. degree at King's Coll. 
James Sibbald, 1628 (Laing) ; Alex. Scrogie, 1629 
(? Laing); Rob. Baron, 1630 (? Laing); John Lundie, 
1631 (Laing); Henry Scougal, 1674 (Brit. Mus.); 
James Garden, 1681 (Edin. Univ.) ; David Anderson, 
171 1 (Edin.); John Sharp, 17 14 (Edin.) [TheAberd. 
Univ. Library has the Divinity Theses of John Forbes, 
1620 (printed in Edin.) ; Robert Baron, 1627 ; Alex. 
Scroggie, 1627 ; Andrew Strachan, 1634 ; John Gor- 
don, 1635 ; George Anderson, 1704]. 

1635. Lachrymae Academiae Mareschallanae in 
obitum Comitis Mareschalli Wilhelmi. (Signet Libr.) 

1637. Querela philosophiae . . . habita in 
auditorio maximo Coll. Reg. Aberd. Dav. Leech. 
(Brit. Mus.) 

1637- 1 707. Thesis for M.D. degree at King's Coll. 
William Broad, 1637 (Glasg. Univ.); James Urquhart, 
1707 (E. of Erroll). 

1660. Oratio panegyrica. Prof. William Douglas. 
(Gordon's Collections). 

1660. Address to Charles IL from King's Coll. 
(Bodl.) 

1661. Natalis Domini relucet in Acad. Marischall. 
Principal James Leslie. (F. C. Coll., Aberd.) 

1689. The account of the Pope's procession by the 
students of Marischal College (F. C. Coll.) 

1704. Vindication of M. Duncan Liddell, professor 
of the Mathematicks. Edin. , [?]. (Adv. Libr. ) 

1 715. Address to Pretender from Marischal 
College [?] 

1 739. An amazing instance of fraud and oppression, 
being the case of Mr. William Duff, professor of 
philosophy in the Marischal College, showing the 
barbarous treatment of an honest family. Lond. 
(Brit. Mus. See ^. N. &" Q,, L 164). 

1744. Alexis, a pastoral to the memory of Alex- 
ander Innes, professor of philosophy in Marischal Coll. 

1770. Alexander Gerards Gedanken von der 
Ordnung der philosophischen Wissenschaften in dem 
Marschalls Collegio. Riga. 

1779. Scotticisms. Professor James Beattie. 
(Privately printed for the use of his students. See Sir 
Wm. Forbes* Life^ IL, 16, 42. The revised edition 
— Edin., 1787 — is well known). 

1787. Collection of papers relating to the union of 
the colleges. Sm. qto ; published by Chalmers. 
(Knight's Collections. The Mar. Coll. edition pub- 
lished by Leighton, and the King's Coll. edition pub- 
lished by Evans, are well known). 

17 ? Supplement to the collection of papers, etc. 
Uniform with the King's Coll. edition. (F. C. Coll.) 

181 1. Catalogue of Theological library, Mar. Coll. 
Appendices printed in 181 6 and 1828. 

1825. Things in General. Robert Mudie. 



1826. Murray Lecture. By ? (1825-26). (See 
^. N. ^ Q., v., 9). 

1826. Account of proceedings of Committee of 
graduates of Mar. Coll. (Knight's Collections). 

1827. Evidence taken at King's College by Uni- 
versities Commissioners. 

1827. Evidence taken at Marischal College by do. 

(These two items were reprinted in 1837 in the well 
known four volumes of Evidence taken by the Com- 
missioners at the five Scottish Universities). 

1827-53. Murray Lectures. Geo. G. McLean 
(1826-27); Geo. Tulloch (1829-30); Alex. Taylor 
(1833-34 and 1838-39) ; Don. Macdonald (1837-38 
and 1838-39) ; Adam Mitchell (1839-43, 1840-41, and 
1843-44); Peter Clerihew (1843-44) ; John Falconer 
(1845-46) ; John Abel (1848-49) ; James Fraser (1849- 
50); Geo. G. Milne (1852-53). (See S. N. vSr* ^., 
I-, 135. 155; III., 44; v., 9). 

1 83 1. Aberdeen lancet. 3 Nos. 

1833. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for May, p. 182 : 
**The two great Northern Universities." Edin. 

1833. Pair of spectacles to view state of medical 
school : by an eminent individual. 

1834. Dioscope or return for the Spectacles : by a 
citizen. 

1834. Catalogue of Natural Philosophy class 
library. (Knight's Collections). 

1835. Aberdeen University Annual. 

1835. Letter to the Students of Marischal College. 

1836. Abstract of the general report of the Uni- 
versities Commissioners of 1826. Edin. 

1838. Aberdeen Universities Magazine. No. I. 
November. 

1839. Reply by Marischal Coll. to King's Coll. 
Analysis and Review of the first report of the 1836-37 
Commissioners. (Knight's Collections). 

1 839. Catalogue of Library of Mechanics Institution. 
[Professor] Alexander Bain. (His first printed book). 
1846-47. King's College Miscellany. 8 Nos. 

1848. Rectorial Address at Mar. Coll. Patrick 
Robertson. 

1849. Address by Mr. Sheriff Gordon at opening 
of the session. 

1854-55. Aberdeen Magazine. 4 Nos. 

1857. Rectorial Address at King's Coll. John 
Inglis. Edin. 

i860. Speeches of Counsel (9th April) against 
Ordinances of 12th March, 1859, 9th and loth Jan., 
i860. Edin. (G. ICing's pamphlet collection. See 
S. N. 6^ ^., II. , 2. The Aberdeen print of 1859 : 
Speeches of Counsel, 4th July, against Ordinance of 
I2th March, is not uncommon). 

i860. Notes on the bursary ordinances. Professor 
W. D. Geddes. 

i860. Murray Lecture : Labour. Charles Mac- 
donald (1859-60). See S. N. ^ Q., VI., 157. 

1861. Records of Bageant Class, 1848-49. James 
W. Barclay. 

1 86 1. Rectorial Address. E. F. Maitland. Edin. 

1 86 1. Outline Chart of English Grammar. Prof. 
Alexander Bain. 

1861. English Extracts : Prose and Poetry. Prof. 
Alexander Bain. Also 1870, Prose; and 1878, Poetry. 

1862. Extracts collected from newspapers on the 



July, 1894.J 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



'9 



liuFsary orilinnnces. Earl of Seafield. {See Gen. 
Repair! of 1858 Commissioners, p. 257). 

1S67. Rectorial Addresa. M. E. Grant [hiff. Edin. 

1871. Memoir of Rev. Patrick Copland, Reclor 
elect oflhefirsiprojecl&iCnll^ein the Uniled Staler 
New York. (See S. N. &- Q., V., i ; VII., 107). 

1874. Local aspects of the fine arts. Professor 
W. D. Geddes. 

1S76, 1877, 1S80, 1887. I'fi^rammes of the Isl, 
and, 51I1 and iiLh C.mcerls of the University Choral 
Socieiy, P. ]. Anderson. 



"THE PINDAR OF WAKEFIELD," 
We copy the following interesting note from a 
London contemporary of 6th ult. : — 

" Since the cab strike commenced consider- 
able discussion has taken place, not only among 
the siritcers but in suburban discussion forums, 
respecting the derivation of the curious name — 
The Pindar of Wakefield — borne by the hostelry 
in Gray's I nn-road which serves as headquarters 
of the employers. Some argue that Wakefield 
was the birthplace of Pindar, the poet, who, 
through a translation of his poems, has been 
erroneously claimed by the Greeks as one of 
their own celebrities. This, of course, is erron- 
eous. Others maintain that Pindar is a fancy 
word, which means nothing at all out of Gray's 
Inn-road. That is wrong also. A Pinnar, or 
Poundar, or Pindar was the old title given to an 
official who afterwards became known as the 
village constable, and whose duty it was to 
seize all waifs and straya^man and beast — and 
secure them in the communal " pound " or lock- 
up until the decision of the proper authorities 
respecting them was made known. But the 
Pindar of Wakefield became celebrated over 
all others through the exploits of George & 
Greene, as narrated in a drama by the ilnlucky 
and unfortunate Robert Greene, a contempo- 
rary of Shakespeare. It was written towards 
the end of the 16th century, and is called "The 
Pinner of Wakefield." A rebellious nobleman, 
in one of the early wars, sent an emissary to the 
town named with a sealed communication de- 
manding provisions on pain of sack. The 
Pinner of Wakefield stood up for his rightful 
King, Edward tore up the coin municat ion, com- 
pelled the messenger to swallow his master's 
seals, and said ; 

Now let him tell his lord that he hath E^puken 

With George k Greene, 

Ilinht I'inner of Merti- Wakefield town ; 

Thai halh physic for a fool. 

Pills for a irailor that dulh wrong his sovereign ; 

Ate you content with [his that I have done? 
The inhabitants answered unanimously : 

Aye, content, George ; 

For highly hast thou honoured Wakefield Town. 



For a long time afterwards " The Pindar of 
Wakefield' became a favourite sign for popular 
hosielries, and one at least still remains in 
Gray's Inn-road. Greene was entitled to the 
honour of having public-houses named afler his 
drama, for he was a great patron of them, and 
died of a surfeit of wine and pickled herrings. 

CHILDREN'S RHYMES. 
As i in a manner am appealed to in query 899, 
in your June number, let me say that in my 
opinion the refrain of Wilham Anderson's 
" Shoudie Poudie " is only old, and that we owe 
the other verses to the poet. Perhaps he also 
puts into verse the allusion to Montrose, which 
may have been a bogey story in Aberdeen, 
although I never heard it, such, as according to 
Scott, the Enghsh border mothers were in the 
way of using in regard to the " Black Douglas." 
William Miller's "Willie Winkle" is an adapt- 
ation somewhat on the lines of Anderson's 
Shoudie- poudie, and let me humbly say that I 
adopt the same plan in "Johnny Norie," and 
"Heat a Wimble" (Flights of Fancy, pp. 249, 
251). Although other towns have their Gallow- 
gate and Green, I am inclined with K. J. to claim 
the refrain in question for Aberdeen, and also 
the following, although not very flattering ; 

As I cam doon the Gallowgale. 
And through the Narrow Wyn' 

Four and twenty weavers 
Were hanging in a Iwine ; 

The low gae a jerk 

And the weavers gae a gim , 

" O ! lat me doon 
And I'll never steal anither pirn " ; 
and hkewise, 

Leerie, leerie, licht the lamps, 

Ijing legs and crooket shanks, 

Tak a stick and hrak his bach. 

And chase him up itie Galtowgate. 
This last, however, cannot date very far back, 
for Wilson tells us that the number of public 
lamps in Aberdeen in 1742 amounted only to 49. 
K. J. should endeavour to obtain the 2nd edition 
of William Anderson's book (1867), when he 
will have to complain neither so much as to the 
small number of local pieces, nor of the want of 
an index. W. C. 

Bishop Dowden has just published, through 
the Christian Knowledge Society, a new work 
entitled, "The Celtic Church in Scotland"; 
being an introduction to the history of the 
Christian Church in Scotland, down to the 
death of St. Margaret. 

The late Mr. Edmund Yates, of the " World," 
was born at Edinburgh, on July 3rd, 1831. 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July, 1894. 



(l!.uertee. 

904. Thr Aherhekn Journal in 1746.— In the 
historical sketch of the A/ienleeH Journal, eiven in 
Ihat jiaper's issue for list May, it is asseiied that of 
the hiiit number, which appealed in April, 1746, " no 
copy is now known toeiist" The Blalemeiu ihat (he 
number in question contained an aceounl of the Battle 
of Culloden is found in Kennedy's Aniiah, Grant's 
History of the Newspaper Press, and elsewheie. 1 las 
any contempoiary description of (he numlKT been 
preserved? P. J, Anckrson. 

pus. Picture of the SniPWRECKEn St. 
Aniirews Students, 1710. — Kennedy, in his 
Annals, vol. t, p. 389, tells the slorj- 01 the seven 
St. Andrews students who, in Aogust, 1710, were 
shipwrecked near the Earn-heugh, four miles snulh of 
Aberdeen, and of the " painting of the scene eieealed 
by an at list, which was afterwards handsomely 
engraved on copper plate. A copy of ihe engraving, 
neatly glared and framed, was presented to the 
magistrates, with a request Ihat it nii^ht he hung up 
ID the lownhall In memory of the event. ... It 
hung in the council room till within these few years, 
when it was removed, by order of the baillies, to give 
place 10 a catchpenny engraving of one of the heroes 
in the late war." Professor Knight, in his MS. 
Collections, speaks ofa copy of the engraving preserved 
in the Library of Mariscbal College. I have been 
unable to trace cither of these prints. Is anything 
known of iheni, or of the original painting? 

P. J. Anderson. 

906. RoLLAND. — Is there any record of the marriage 
ofa Miss Rolland (Christian name and place of resid- 
ence unknown) with Geoi^e Haig, bom at Alloa in 
171Z? He went to South Carolina and married 
Eliiabelh Watson of St. John's Parish there in 174?. 

Please address direct to Mrs. A. Stuart, 19 Regent 
Terrace, Edinburgh. 

907. Author ofCollf.ctionofHvmns Wanted. 
— The following is the title page of a book in my 
possession. Twenty-seven pag^s contain the names 
of [S22 subscribers, chiefly belonging to Buchan. 
Who was this James Fordyce ? 

"A Collection of 



PUBLISHED BY JAMES FORDYCE. 

Who reads with candour, nol 10 criiEciH, 
Y« ihows me friendly where aii error lies : 
Hjid u an honest ^thful friend I'll love, 



Primed by A. Leightoi 



for the Publisher. 
J. Dalgarno. 



Hnswcrs. 

892. Name Wanted {VIII., 12).— The name 
wanted must be Kuderfurd. Arms are Az. on a fesa 
between a mullet in chief and a Tiger's [not Boar's) 
head erased in base, three martlets az. R. P. H. 

8SS. Dr. Alex. Momko, PurMUS (VIL. 189).— 
Your correspondent W, M. states that Sir Alex. Monro 
of Bearcrofts married Anna, daughter of John Forbes, 

II. of Culloden, and Ihal their son, surgeon John 
Monro, married Jean, daughter of Duncan Forbes, IIL 
of Cuiloden. I am sorry [o question the accuracy of 
these statements, but they are at variance with the 
best authorities on the Forbes £imily, including 
Duncan Forbes, III. of Culloden himself. According 
tn these, John Forbes, 11. of Culloden, had two 
daughters— Jean, married to Sir Robert Munro of 
Fonlis, and Naomy, married to Robert Dunbar ot 
Burgie ; and Jean, eldest daughter of Duncan Forbes, 

III. of Culloden, was married to Sir Harry Innes of 
that Ilk. My information is that snrgeon John Monro 

mHiried his cousin. Miss Forties, tiiece of Mr. 

Forbes cf Culloden. Would she nut be the daughter 
of CapL-iin Jainps Forl«~; nf C:iithness (youriger 
brother of John Forbes, II. of Culloden), who married, 
circa 1650, Agnes Monro, daughter of Geoi^ Monro 
of Pitlundte, elder brother of Sir Alex. Monro of 
Bearcrofts ? I sliall be glad if any reader can remove 
the doubt on this point. If W. M. likes to com- 
municate with me direct, Editor has my address. 

Edinburgh. "Spernit Humum." 

843. Dalmahov of that Ilk (VII., 141).— 
Reference to the "Martin Genealwisl MS.'s," sug- 
gested by J. B. P., proves that William Datmahoy of 
Ravelrig married Ilelen Martin, 2nd daughter of 
Geotge Martin (2ntl son of Dr. George Martin of 
St. Silvator's College, St. Andrews), and Barbara 
Gladslanes (daughter of Dr. Alex. Gladstancs, Arch 
Deacon of Sc. .Andrews) his wife. William Dalmahoy 
of Carnbee, Pittenweem, is therefore proved to have 
been William Datmahoy II. of Ravelrtg, Midlothian. 
Edinbuigh. " Absijue M etu." 

900. Rev. James Cordinf.r (VIIL, 14),— A brief 
notice of the author named is given in S. N. Gf Q., 
VI., 104, also in iJict. Nat. Bio^aphy sub voce, and 
in Dr. Cramond's Banff. ' W. B. R. W. 

903. Date of Darnlev's Death and Queen 
Mary's Marriage (VIIL, 14).— Tytler, in his 
History of Scotland (III., ^38), says, the murder of 
the king was committed about two in [he morning of 
Monday, loth Feb. ([566-7}. The same writer states 
that Mary's marriage with Bothwell took place at four 
in [he morning of the i5(h May followii^, in the 

Eresence chamber at Holymod. She was married in 
er mourning weeds. Next morning a paper with [his 
ominous verse was found fixed to the palace gates — 
Mense malas Mais nubere Vulgus ait. W.B.R.W. 
27, Lord Rectors' Addresses (I., 59, 77 ; II., 
27; VL, 61).— Add:— Address deliver&l by Mr. 
Sheriff Gordon, the Lord Rec[or of Marischal College 
and Universi[y, at the opening of the session, Thurs- 
day, 8lh November, 1849. Aberdeen ; Wyllie. 1849. 
This is not the Rectorial Address, which was de- 
livered on Friday, 23rd March, and duly printed. 
P. J. Anderson. 



July, 1894.] 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, 



31 



Macpherson's Execution. — Dr. (iammack has 
recently pointed out a singular discrepancy in the 
sentence passed on Macpherson, viz., that he he 
executed on "Friday, the i6th Noveml)er, 1700, 
being a public weekly market day." It cannot be 
explained otherwise than as a clerical error, for the 
l6lh was a Saturday, and the weekly market was then 
held on Friday. The error no doubt occurred from 
the jury having given their verdict on the 8lh Novem- 
ber, and the judge not delivering his sentence till ihe 
9ih. What effect the error might have had on the 
freebooter's fate had the error been discovered before 
his execution I cannot pretend to say, but there can 
be no doubt Nicolas Dunbar's antecedents prove him 
to have lieen quite competent to find a ready solution 
of any such difficulty. There is another slip on the 
part of the clerk of court, where the deposition of 
Patrick Grant is signed ** Pa. Bairdy As is well 
known, the record of the trial has disapi^eared from 
the Sheriff Court Books of Banff, but a copy thereof 
was printed in 1846, in Vol. III. of Miscellany of the 
Spalding Club, "from the original in the possession 
of the Club," under the editorship of Dr . Stuart. The 
said original, it appears, is also now lost. I have 
before me a careful copy of the whole " Process 
against the Egyptians," taken in iSiQfrom the original 
which supplies the verdict of the jury— the only 
portion awanting in the Miscellany^ where it should 
appear at p. 189. This copy also supplies the 
missing word ** Recletich " after one of the witnesses, 

•* Rol)ert Campbell of ." If I am not mistaken, 

the original copy of that verdict is among Dr. Stuart's 
papers in a box in the Advocates' Library, AlKjrdeen. 
In spite of the musical fame that has attached to 
Macpherson, it is curious to ol^erve that it is to Peter 
Brown only the witnesses refer as *' playing on the 
wiol." It may also be remarked that the sentence 
shows clearly, contrary to the popular notion, that it 
was at the Cross of Banff, where the Biggar fountain 
now stands, that Macpherson and Cordon were 
executed. They were hanged a week after the passing 
of their sentence. It was on the Gallow Hill that 
Peter and Donald Brown were executed, as in all 
likelihood they were. This was on 2nd April, 1701, 
sentence having been passed upon them on 21st 
February preceding. Subjoined is the verdict of the 
assize, which, with the account given in ihe Miscellany, 
now completes the process. 

** In the Court of the Shereffdom of Bamff, holden 
by Nicolas Dunbar of Castlefield, Shereff deput of the 
said shyre, and George Leslie his clerk, and John 
Geills his fiscal and . . . dempster, upon the eight 
day of November, on thousand and seven hundred 
years. The whilk day Petter Ikoun, Donald Broun, 
James McPherson, and James Gordon, being entered 
upon pannell, delated, accused, and pursued be virtue 
of ane indytement raised at the instance of the said 
John Geills, procurator fiscall forsaid, and James 
Fraser, writer in Elgin, his assessor, who compiered 
personalie and pursued them for the crymes contained 
in the said indytement as in the samen more fullie is 
contained, after reading of the whilk indytement and 
of the whole alleadgeances proponed by the said 
pannels and John Cuthbert of Brakenhills their 



procurator that the said matter should not pass to the 
knowledge of ane assyse and of the answers made 
thereto by the said procurator phiscall and his assessor. 
The said Shereff Deput found the dittay relevant, and 
did put the same to knowledge of ane assayse of us 
persons following, viz. [see p. 182 Miscellany of 
Spalding Club, III.], and we the saids persons of 
assyse being chosen, sworn, and admitted, and the 
saids Peter and Donald Brouns, James Macpherson 
and James Gordone being accused of the crymes 
contained in the said indytement, we did enclose 
ourselves within the assyse house, wher we unani- 
mouslie voted and elected James Gordon of Ardmellie 
chancellor, and the said Alexander Grant of Boginduie, 
on of our number, clerk ; reasoned and voated upon 
the poynts of the forsaid indytement, and being weil 
and ryply adwysed therewith, tc^ther with the de- 
positions of the witnesses taken be said Shereff Deput 
in our presence for the werification thereof, we unani- 
mouslie, by the mouth of our said chancellor, find, 
pronounce and dejlair the saids Peter and Donald 
Brounes, James McPherson, and James Gordon to be 
fylled, culjmble, and convict of the crymes of Bangstrie 
and oppression of his majesties leidges, and that in an 
hostile maner, and that they frequent mercats in 
companies armed, and that they are holden, known 
and reput Egyptians and wagabonds ; and the said 
Peter Broun is habit and reput captain of the said 
band, and that they are all reput theives and receptors 
of theft, and \\\;.eyfi\.ys pessima fama ; and referrs them 
to the said judge : and this our unanimous werdict is 
sul>scril>ed by our chancellor in name of the rest. 
(Signed) Ja. Gordon, Chancellor. 
„ Al. Grant, Clerk." 



Cullen. 



W. Cramond, LL.D. 



Xiterature* 



Poems and Songs. By John Usher. Kelso : 

J. & J. H. Rutherfurd. 1894. 
There is one special reason why this volume 
should be noticed in a Magazine that deals 
chiefly with the past. The venerable author, 
Mr. Usher, late of Stodrig, is probably the only 
man living who knew Sir Walter Scott Mr. 
Usher as a boy sat on Sir Walter's knee and 
received from the worthy "Shirra" the gift of a 
pony for singing him a song. This interesting 
fact is full of significance in Mr. Usher's life, for 
the early love of song and liking for horseflesh 
thus displayed has been carried on to old age. 
As a gentleman-rider Mr. Usher has for a 
generation been famed on the border, while as a 
maker as well as a singer of songs, he has been 
even more widely known. This collection of 
" Poems and Songs," composed from boyhood 
to old age, will be greatly prized by the numerous 
friends of the kind and genial old gentleman. 
The poems range over a great variety of subject, 
but love is the prevailing theme. It is pleasant 
to see the bracing healthy views of life to which 
he gave expression in youth are retained to old 



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[July, 1894. 



age, when the strains are sweet and strong and 
mellow. We shall not attempt a erititism of the 
poems here, but it may he said that Mr. Usher 
seems most successful in his poems addressed 
to persons. Some of the "Songs" have been 
set to music by their gifted author. His "Songs 
from Scotch Proverbs" are admirable, but are 
too few in number. The book is produced in 
Messrs. Rutherfurd's liest style, which means 
that it is beautifully printed, and chaste and 
elegant in binding, with a highly finished 
photographic portrait of the author, excellent as 
a likeness, and a credit to Messrs. MacKintosh, 
the celebrated Kelso photographers. 
A Bundle of Old Stories, ■with Illustrations. 
By AN Aberdeenshire Ladv. Aberdeen, 
D. WyUie&Son, 1894. [111 pp., 5 by 3>i]. 
Observant, possessed of humour, and of the 
power of expression, the author has produced a 
very attractive little book. One is always 
thankful for a faithful, realistic rescript of life, 
and manners, and habits, especiallyof these likely 
ere long to be designated ancient history. At 
the present time, following Mr. Barrie's leading, 
the delineations of Scottish Life and character 
are both numerous and efficient, although mostly 
grafted on a stem of fiction. Here the slories 
and observations are from the i5uick, and after 
the manner of Dean Ramsay's work, and it is no 
little compliment to sai^ that one is often re- 
minded of it when reading the pleasant pages 
before us. 



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AUGUST, 1894. 



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CONTENTS. 

Notes :— Page 

Ancient Sundials, 33 

Church Music in 2761 34 

Notes of a Lecture on the Place Names of Leochel- 

Cushnie, 35 

Aberdeen^ire as a Factor in Scottish Life and 

Thought, 36 

Notes on Ayrshire Folk-Lore, 38 

Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens 43 

Lochfyne, 43 

James Mitchell's "Eminent Natives of Aberdeen- 
shire," 44 

Minor Notes: — 

Notable Men and Women of Banffshire, 34 

The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 45 

Antiquarian " Find " in Aberdeenshire, 45 

Death of Mr. Ekl ward Young, 46 

Letter to the Editor, 46 

Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical Publications, . . 46 

The Proverbs of Chaucer, 46 

Children's Rhymes, 46 

Scottish Universities Libraries, 47 

Scott Manuscripts 47 

' The Edinburgh Forged Manuscripts, 47 

Queries:— 

History of the Arbuthnot Family — The Tannery 

Company, Aberdeen — Rubislaw Toll Bars, 47 

Answers : — 

George Romney and the University of Aberdeen — 
Murray Lectures at King's College — Author of Collec- 
tion of Hymns Wanted, 47 

Literature, 47 

Scotch Books for the Month, 48 

ABERDEEN, AUGUST, 1894. 
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ANCIENT SUNDIALS. 

Every contribution to our knowledge on the 
subject of ancient sundials is deserving of 
welcome. 

The illustration you gave of the Robroyston 
sundial in the April number of S. N, &> Q. is 
valuable and instructive, but I am afraid the age 
claimed for the dial by your correspondent can- 
not be maintained. The dial is said in the note 
to have had "the figures 1016 carved out on 
stone at the foundation," and it is added by your 
correspondent that " this was probably the date 
of its first erection, as sundials of this design 
became obsolete about the twelfth century." 

The figures carved on the base, if really 1016, 
must have been cut by a modern hand, as no 
date of that age in modem figures is known to 
exist. If the figures were arranged — as I have 
seen in other examples — one figure at each 
angle of a square base, then the date might be 
read 1610, which would be more likely to be 



correct. Nor does the design of 
although interesting, indicate such an 
as Mr. Muir claims for it. So far fror 
of this design having become obsolei 
the twelfth century," there is, so far a 
no evidence that sundials of this d^ 
so far as Scotch examples are concen 
than the 17th century. 

Mr. Thomas Ross, Architect, Edinb 
has described and classified all tl: 
Scotch varieties, says, " he has not see 
in Scotland which can, in his opinion, 
earlier than about the year 1500, and tl 
dated dial belonging to the sixteentl 
known'' — that is in Scotland. (See Am 
dials of Scotland, in Proceedings of I 
Antiquaries, 1890.) 

Mrs. Gatty in her valuable work, Th 
Sundials (London, 1890, 3rd editio 
similar testimony. Writing of a dial 
dale, Lancashire, bearing the date ] 
says, " this is the oldest dated dial of 
know " (p. 440). Leavmg out one or t' 
have been ascribed to the Romans, tl 
dials in Britain are of Anglo-Saxon 01 
dates for these are largely matter for cc 
The earliest of these were simply insc 
the face of a stone, either originally f 
part of, or inserted in the wall of £ 
They consisted mostly of a circle, or 
circle, divided by a few radii, common 
octaval system, which divided the 24 
the day into eight parts, with occasior 
divisions into sixteen and thirty-two par 
mode of division probably had its ori^ 
early subdivision of the day into fo 
morning, mid-day, evening, midnigh 
Gatty bays (p. 18), "This the Chalde 
divided by three, the four in their hand 
twelve ; in those of the Egyptians, Gr< 
Romans, twenty-four." But the north r 
they alone, for the same practice has be 
to exist in part of Hindustan and in E 
held to the four great divisions of time, 
and subdividing them as follows : — 

Morning, 4J a.m., to 'j\ a.m. = 1 t; 
English.) 

Day, 7| a. m., to 4^ p.m. = 3 tides : 
Evening, 4^ p.m., to ']\ p.m. = i tide 
Night, 7^ p.m., to 4^ a.m. = 3 tides. 



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This gives for the whole twenty-four hours 
eight -" tides " or divisions used by the Anglo- 
Saxons. It seems probable that the octaval 
mode of division was used on dials in England 
as late as the twelfth century ; but precise 
information is much wanted on this question. 
Some of these early examples may be of still 
earlier origin than the churches m which they are 
found, and may have done service in older 
structures. A. Hutch ESON. 

Broughty-Ferry. 



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CHURCH MUSIC IN 1761. 

The following rules from a contemporary 
document give a more favourable idea of church 
music at the period referred to than might be 
expected to obtain in a rural parish of Banffshire. 
They were drawn up by the Rev. Mr. Abel, who 
was minister of Rothiemay from 1752 to 1764, at 
which latter date he was translated to EchL He 
was a native of Mar, studied at Edinburgh 
University, and became tutor to the son of 
William, Lord Braco : — 

(i) It will be necessary that Peter Ord attend 
punctually every Sunday at the church by eleven 
o^clock for practising the singing, and practising 
will be of little use if the three parts are not 
practised separately, and with the strictest 
attention. It would be best they practised with 
the notes, and for this purpose they should bring 
their books. All the tunes are to be practised 
in the way successively, and as many every 
Sunday as possible. If this is neglected the 
musick instead of improving must be still grow- 
ing worse. 

(2) If any attend at foresaid time to learn 
Bass, they must always get a lesson, and all 
possible pains be used with them. It would be 
fit to recommend to P. Ord to be at some pains 
to prevail w* any who have bass voices to apply 
themselves to learn it. 

(3) He must constantly inculcate upon them 
and habituate them by practice to sing the Tenor 
and Treble more softly in all, but more especially 
in the 4 flat Tunes — Rugby, Hartfield, Bangor 
and Dundee, and likewise to sing all the parts 
in true time, which will require that they be all 
sung quicker, altho' less change in this respect 
will be necessary in the two grandest tunes, 
Colchester and Kintore, and the four flat ones. 

(4) As he must lay himself out as much as 
possible to strengthen the Bass, he is likewise 
to teach Tenor to those who have proper voices ; 
but must at no rate teach any more Treble, nor 
allow any women to have seats in the loft but 
those who are possessed of seats already. 



(5) All the notes to be sung perfectly plain, 
and no quavering or gracing the notes to be ever 
suffered in any of the parts. This would soon 
reduce the church musick to its former wretched 
state. P. Ord must take care to give them good 
example in this point, otherwise the evil will be 
unavoidable. 

(6) He is to take care that they end every 
measure all at once, and not run too fast from' 
one measure to another, and likewise to make a 
somewhat longer pause at the end of the tune. 

(7) It would be for the beauty and perfection 
of the musick if the singers were taught to sing 
some of the grandest tunes Forte and Piano. 

(8) No Contra-Tenor is to be ever sung, but 
only in French, Dundee and Colchester, and 
that too as softly as possible. 

(9) P. Ord is punctually to attend every Sun- 
day, unless the Earl of Fife allow him to be 
absent at the Sacrament in a neighbouring 
congregation, or to go to Grange this winter 
once a month or once in six weeks. Peter Ord's 
absence only to be allowed upon application 
from time to time to the Earl, or Mr. Abel in his 
Lordship's absence. 

(10) In time of worship he is always to be in 
the Loft and never in the Latron, but only during 
the table service at the Sacrament 

Mr. William Camie, writing of the above 
"quaintly interesting extract," says :— "Two of 
the tunes — * Rugby ' and * Kintore ' — Peter Ogg 
the Precentor was ordered to ^habituate' his 
pupils to practice — are unknown to me, though 
very probably they may have place in a now 
much sought after small collection published in 
I755> by James Chalmers of the Aberdeen 
Journal (his son was precentor of the West 
Church in 1774). The said Peter seems to have 
had very hard task masters, for whatever he did 
in the * leading' way, he could have but small 
voice in the guiding of his choir business." C. 



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Notable Men and Women of Banff- 
shire.— In Vol. VI., p. 170, occurs a slight error, 
which, however, it may be well to note. In the 
paragraph giving the biographical sketch of 
Principal Sir William D. Geddes, the statement 
appears that his birthplace. East Bodglair, " is, 
I believe, in the Banffshire portion of the parish 
of Glass." It happens not to be so, but is in the 
Aberdeenshire portion, and hence the ground 
for his inclusion among Banffshire worthies at 
all is taken away. The error, however, is a 
venial one, as East Bodglair is within a few 
hundred yards of the Banffshire line of march, 
and his mother belonged entirely to Banffshire. 



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NOTES ON THE PLACE NAMES OF 
LEOCHEL-CUSHNIE. 

The name of this upland parish, as well as 
most of the place names in it, may be traced to 
its hilly character. There are two views as to the 
meaning of Leochel, and Cushnie is doubtful. 

LeocheL — Lochel, on old tokens, Lochale, 
1457, and Loychel, 1199, leamh choil), the elm- 
wood ; cf. Laughil, Loghill, Loughill, &c., in 
Ireland. Skene gives Al as a pre-Celtic river- 
name (Islay, Ulie, Allan, Elwan, &c.). On this 
theory of the meaning, an adjective leoch (?) 
with Al would give Leochel. Dorseil, further 
down the stream, "the Water Al,*' and the 
adjoining parish, the " Al-ford.'' 

Cushnie, — Dr. Taylor gave cois (cas, a foot) 
as the root of Cushnie j cf. similar names in 
Ireland. The terminal syllable nie, being unac- 
cented, is not a qualifying word. It may mean 
"the foot of the hill." There is a Cushnie in 
Auchterless and another in Auchindoir. 

The Hill of Cushnie is hardly known m the 
parish as the Sockaugh, They call it "the 
Glen," because when they went to the hill for 
peats, they said they were going to the Glen. 
Hence the hill is usually called " the Glen of 
Cushnie." Its distinctive name, Sockaugh 
(ordnance survey map), is a disguised form of 
socach, the adjective formed from soc, "a 
snout" The Socach means "the snouty hill." 
The Socach Bum flowing through Towie, and 
the Tochie Bum, preserve the proper name of 
the hill. Allt an t* Socach, " the bum of the 
Sockaugh " ; hence, perhaps, Tochie, s being 
silent in this connection. 

Mr. Macdonald, Huntly, suggests that Tochie 
may be Allt tocha, " the bum of the thigh *' or 
hough of the hill ; cf. Millhochie in Tullynessle. 

The O. S. map marks four tops on the hill — 
The Topy known as "the Muckle Tap," or "the 
Tap of Pittendirach," the most elevated point at 
the great cairn, Craiglea and Scar. In an old 
document, written by one of the lairds of Cushnie, 
it is stated that the laird of Cushnie exacts a 
certain quantity of here from Cromar for liberty 
of peats " in our mosses in the Glen of Cushnie 
and moss of Craigleach." This is the Craiglea 
of the map — craig and leathad, a hillside. Scar, 
sgor, a skur, sharp rock. There is another Scar 
near Wester Coull. 

The ridge extending from Balnakelly to the 
Ley was a little miall, meallain, hence Culniellie, 
"the back of the little hilP — the Gaelic diminu- 
tive in ain becoming the English diminutive 
in ie. This meaning is borne out by the fact 
that " the backside of the hill " has a distinct 
meaning on the Bum of Cushnie. 

Monadh, a hill, gives Minmore, "the big 
moor." Minmore is Mormond, tail foremost. 



Barr, a point, gives Callievar, coille bharr, 
"the woody hill -top," and Craigievar, creagan 
bharr, " the rock's point." 

Cairn-Cat, "the wild-cat's caim,** is the wooded 
height south of the Milltown of Cushnie. 

Caimcoullie (camcullecht, in 1598), cam cul- 
laich, "the boar's cairn." 

Cnoc appears in Knockandoh and Knockriach. 
Knockdndoh — if it were Knockand6h, would 
mean "the black hill," but it is never so pro- 
nounced. Mr. Macdonald has suggested cnoc 
cheannachd as the meaning, " the market hilL" 
An old fair was held near the church, but in 
more ancient times a hill was a common market 
stance when the fair was not held in the church- 
yard or near it. 

Knockriach, " the grey hill," riabhach ; hence 
the Wark, Wark, " a building," would not be 
applied to a farm-steading. In 1600 this farm 
was called " the Newton of Knockreauche, alicu 
Wrak." Wrak looks like a contraction and 
con-uption of reache. The meaningless Wrak 
would soon be changed into the more intelligible 
Wark, with the definite article to emphasize the 
change. " The Greens of Knocknach " was 
called Setonmuir after the union of the Seton 
and Lumsden families. Warkbrae and West- 
side were once outlying portions of Wester 
Leochel. The former received its name from 
Wark in the adjacent estate, at the time the two 
lairds came to an agreement anent the glebe of 
the united parishes. Cushnie handed over part 
of Wark to Craigievar. Hence Warkbraes. 

Knockriach, or rather the ridge of which it 
forms the western part, was called a druim — 
druim riabhach, " the grey ridge," now familiar 
to us as Dumrock, The south side of this druim, 
druim-leth, whence we detect Rumblie. Dum- 
rock has lost its r, and Rumblie, like Drumfour 
occasionally, has lost its d. The bum rising in 
the Confunderland Moss, was the bum of 
[D]rumblie, the vale was the Howe of Rumblie, 
with Holmhead at the head of it, Howehead, 
written Ha'head, and now Hallhead ond Un^a- 
mend at the lang-holm's end. This derivation 
of Rumblie would account for the Rumblie 
briggie near the Smithy of Cushnie. 

Druim, a ridge, gives Drumfotty, Drumfatty, 
1696, and Drumquhat, 1532, meaning "the cats' 
ridge." Drumfour, four=Pictish pawr= pasture 
— Stokes — " the ridge pasture.' Drumfour 
occasionally drops its initial d. Drumdarg as 
pronounced Drumdaig might be druim dealg, 
"the thorn ridge," but, in 1696, it was Drum- 
darge, which suggests druim dearg, ** the ridge 
of red land." 

Tullach, a knoll, Sc knowe. Tullach and 
Tully are generally Tilly in this district. 

Tilly skuk, or, sometimes, Skukiej cf. Tilly- 



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skyuche in Strathdon (?) Skeoch in Stirling, 
&c., tulach sgitheach, " the hawthorn knowe." 

Tillycroy might be tulach craobhe, "the 
knowe of the tree" ; but Mr. Johnstone, Falkirk, 
on the suggestion of loyce in Irish place names, 
derives Croy from crois, a cross. This would be 
an appropriate meaning in Corse (Cross) and 
near Terry Chapel. 

Tillyom, tulach ordan, seems to have been 
translated in the old name, Knoweheadj but the 
old rhyme, "Tillyorn grows the com ; Waster 
Corse, the straw, Blackbank, the blaewort blae ; 
CaPham, naething ava," tempts one to offer 
tulach eoma, ** the barley knowe," as an alter- 
native derivation of Tillyorn. 

Ard, high, gives Ardidacker and Blairordens. 
When cattle or goods were stolen, the deoraid, 
with his ecclesiastical relics, was called in. In 
later times this function was called " dackering." 
Is Ardidacker the dackerer's or the dyker's, 
digear, height ? Blairordens^ the hillocky space, 
or "buncarty" field. Similar irregularities of 
ground surface may have given us Dunsdykes^ 
dhunie dhec, "the turf dykes." Plough and 
harrows have long ago changed the aspect of 
things in this neighbourhood. Blairordens is a 
fair example of the tear and wear of every-day 
use. It is Blairdens in the Valuation Roll, and 
daily usage has turned it into Blordns. 

In a charter of 1457, Bandeen is written 
Ballendene ; " the town of the dun or fort,'' 
rather, perhaps, than "the Deans-town," although 
much of Leochel was anciently Church property. 

The first of the Railhead Gordons in this 
parish married a daughter of the laird of Craigie- 
lie, and, on her death, a daughter of Mortimer 
of Craigievar. The Cushnie MS. says, "Pytin- 
taggard" (the priest's holding) "commonly 
called the Mains of Cushnie, and Craigielea^ 
commonly called the Ley of Cushnie, holden of 
the parson of Cushnie," &c. This gives us the 
older and fuller name of the Ley and Craigmill. 
The former has lost the beginning, and the latter 
the termination of the estate name. 

Crai^iesteps is a Scotch name, arising from 
the steep descent on the road going to Tarland. 

Reekie^ Cushnie, and Alford, might be creagan 
or creagach. If our lazy habits let the c slip 
out, reagie would soon become Reekie under the 
influence of Scotch. Tillygray^ Graystones^ and 
Whitestones near Reekie may be traced to the 
rocky nature of the ground in that neighbour- 
hood. 

Leathad, a hillside, whence Leadhlich^ leathad 
leac, "the hillside of flagstones" — peasiewhins 
quarried there. Langgadley was, in 1600 
Ledgadley. Mr. Macdonald suggests the deri- 
vation from gad, a wand, the slop whence 
materials for baskets and ancient carts were 



obtained. Lynturk, as now written, might be 
lyn tuirc, " the boar's pool," but Ledynturk, 1407, 
compells us to make it "the boar's braeside." 
The badger, Sc. brock, has given us Brux, 
Pitprone^ whose tenant is familiarly known as 
" Pronie," was anciently Petberne and Petbren. 
Pet, a croft, and bruinne, " the breast or front." 
Almost no town in the parish answers to its 
name so correctly, situated as it is on the breast 
of the brae as one crosses over to Donside. 
Thornhill, Stirling. GEO. Williams. 

(To be continued,) 



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ABERDEENSHIRE AS A FACTOR IN 
SCOTTISH LIFE AND THOUGHT. 

(Continued from p, 22.) 

Turning now to consider the next class of 
thinkers and actors whom I am wont to include 
among the specifically idealist section of my 
notables, viz., the class of philosophers, savants, 
naturalists, &c., I remark, that under this 
head I have the names of 40 creditable represent- 
ations, 10 of these being metaphysicians and 
philosophers strictly so called, and 30 savants, 
naturalists and scientists of various descriptions. 
The work of Aberdeenshire in this department, 
though not of a preeminent character, is at all 
events not contemptible, and indicates a fair 
capacity among the natives of this district for 
the higher forms of scientific work. No further 
proof of this need be given than to rehearse the 
names of Gregory, Copland, Foibes, Watson, 
and Ferrier among savants, and Dalgamo, 
Campbell, Croom Robertson, and Bain among 
Metaphysicians. 

But to come now to the consideration of 
Aberdeenshire's contribution to Scottish art, 1 
observe confidently that, though it may be a 
surprise to some of my readers, it is nevertheless 
a fact, that in this department of Scottish 
achievement Aberdeenshire has long held, and 
still holds, a distinguished place. I find e,g, that 
in the dramatic art, Aberdeen took a great 
interest at a very early period in its history. 
Thus the city of Aberdeen is spoken of 
as having been at quite a remote period famed 
for theatrical exhibitions. And, indeed, the 
earliest recorded instance of a dramatic exhibition 
in Scotland, that of a play called **Holy blude," 
is said to have been given there in 1440 on the 
Windmill hill. Aberdeenshire's list of distin- 
guished actors is indeed, it must be admitted, 
very meagre. But including as it does such 
names as that of John Abell, the famous vocalist 
of the Restoration stage, and that of the late 
Henry Talbot or (Calvert) the distinguished 
tragedian, recently dead, it is by no means to be 



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despised. It is in the department of art strictly 
so called, however, that the achievements of 
Aberdeenshire have been most remarkable. 
In this department the excellence of the work 
performed by the natives of this region is quite 
as noteworthy as is the number of the individuals 
who have shown a predilection to, and a capacity 
for that work. Thus it is a significant fact, that 
the very earliest, and one of the greatest of our 
Scottish painters, the well-known George Jame- 
sone, sometimes called the Vandyke of Scotland, 
was bom in the city of Aberdeen upwards of 3 
centuries ago. And it is at least equally 
suggestive that never since his time to the 
present day has that city been long without some 
more or less notable artist to illustrate the 
genius of its people in that direction. To 
rehearse all the names of these students of art 
is unnecessary. But a few of the more illustrious 
may be mentioned, as e.g. John Campbell and 
James Gibbs, the famous architects who gained 
renown in England in the 17th and i8th 
centuries, John Alexander, too, the grandson of 
Jamesone, James Wales of Peterhead, Andrew 
Robertson of Aberdeen, famousfor his miniatures, 
Sir John Steel, the great Edinburgh Sculptor, as 
well as William Dyce and John Phillip, both 
distinguished artists in London, and members 
of the Royal Academy there, James Cassie, 
Norman Macbeth, and Sir George Reid, all 
members of the Royal Scottish Academy, and 
the last of whom is the present accomplished 
President of that institution. 

I have now, as far as I have been able, in the 
limited space at my disposal, reviewed the whole 
field of intellectual activity occupied by the 
people of Aberdeenshire, with the exception of 
that portion of it associated with the literature 
of imagination, as represented by the Novelists 
and Poets. I have reserved this subject to be 
treated last of all, because I believe that there 
is a popular but unfounded prejudice to the 
effect that in this region the efforts of the 
Aberdonian intellect have been meagre and 
poor. It is true, possibly, that the novelists of 
Aberdeenshire may as yet constitute no great 
host, but when one thinks of the excellence of 
the work in that department which has been 
done by Dr. George MacDonald and the late 
Dr. William Alexander, to allude to no other 
names, one sees that this north eastern Scottish 
county has at all events held its own with its 
rivals in this form of literature. In regard to 
poetry, on the other hand, though Aberdeenshire 
has contributed few of the greatest names to 
Scottish poetic literature, she has at any rate 
yielded more than her due share of second and 
third rate names. This will be evident when I 
mention that my own list of Aberdeenshire poets. 



although far as yet from being complete, 
contains no fewer than 172 names, and among 
these not only such venerable names as that of 
the illustrous morning-star of Scottish poetry, 
the patriotic Archdeacon of Aberdeen, John 
Barbour, author of " The Bruce," but the names 
also of such graphic vernacular song-writers as 
George Halket, Alexander Ross, John Skinner, 
William Beattie, WiUiam Thom, William 
Forsyth, William Camie, John Fullerton and 
hosts of others : while in addition to these lesser 
lights of Scottish song, Aberdeenshire can also 
boast that it has produced in our own generation, 
men of the mental grasp, imaginative force and 
spiritual insight exhibited by Dr. Walter Smith 
and George MacDonald, the two authors who 
are probably at the present moment, the best 
living representatives of Scottish poetry. 

Aberdeenshire, therefore, I believe, has no 
reason to be ashamed of her achievements, even 
in the highest and most, difficult department of 
literature. And she can well afford to treat with 
contempt, if not to hurl back with scorn the 
insinuation which is sometimes thrown out 
against her, that her sons are too absorbed in 
the coarse realities of life, or too devoted to 
devising schemes or practising arts of self- 
advancement, to be readily accessible to the 
finer moods of thought and the more passionate 
tides of feeling, out of which alone any true and 
valuable poetic literature can ever take its birth. 
It may be true, I believe it is true, that a hard, 
stern, and somewhat utilitarian spirit is a more 
marked feature of the Aberdonian mind, than it 
is of the mind of some of the other parts of 
Scotland ; but, at the same time, no one who is 
at all acquainted with the many tenderly pathetic 
or strongly humorous songs of Aberdeenshire, 
or even with its strangely weird ballads, but 
must acknowledge that there is also another 
side to the Aberdonian character, and that 
faculties exist there, which, when stirred from 
their slumber, are capable of the highest poetic 
expression. James Beattie, himself one of the 
most illustrious of Aberdeen bards, has well and 
successfully enforced his claim to have a place 
on the Scottish Parnassus conceded to the poets 
of the North, equal, at least, to anything that 
might be granted to the poets of the South, in 
lines which, homely and vigorous though they 
are, certainly do not go beyond the truth in the 
claim they make. 

The Southland chiels, indeed, hae mettle, 
And brawly at a sang can ettle. 
Yet we right couthily might settle 

O' this side Forth ; 
The Devil pay them wi' a pettle 

That slight the North. 
Our countrie leed is far frae barren : 



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It's even right pithy and auld farren : 
Oursells are neiperlike, I warran, 

For sense and smergh. 
In kittle times, when faes are yarring 

We're no' thought ergh. 
Oh ! bonny are our greensward hows 
Where through the glen the burnie rows, 
Where the bee bums, and the ox lows, 

And soft win's rustle ; 
And shepherd lads on sunny knowes 

Blaw the blithe whistle. 

The truth is, that songs so good and so 
varied in expression as Halket's " Logie o' 
Buchan," or "Mill o' Tiftie's Annie," or Skinner^s 
" Tullochgorum," a song which Burns called 
"the best Scotch song Scotland ever saw," or 
better still that most touching and thrilling 
lyric, " O, an I were where Gadie rins," clearly 
prove that whatever utilitarian hardness there 
may be in the Aberdonian mind, is not incompat- 
ible with a delicate tenderness of sentiment that 
lends a tone of plaintive sweetness and beauty to 
the finer lyrical efforts of the poets of the county. 
To adopt a fine image of the late Hill Burton, 
himself one of the greatest and most loyal of 
Aberdonians, there runs a deep vein of gentle- 
ness and beauty through the rugged nature of 
the men of Aberdeenshire, something like the 
lovely agates which nestle in the black trap 
rocks of their native county, or the purple 
amethysts that sparkle in her granite corries. 

I have thus endeavoured, at somewhat 
wearisome length, I fear, to illustrate the share 
which the men of Aberdeenshire have taken in 
the great and glorious course of Scottish 
developement. My task is done, though I am 
far enough from having fulfilled the ideal which 
was in my own mind when I undertook it. 
Meanwhile I shall not have lost my labour upon 
it, if I have conveyed, as I trust I may have 
conveyed to some minds a clearer conviction at 
once of the thoroughness and the earnestness, 
as well as of the energy and the variety that 
have marked the course of Scottish development 
It is true we have been concentrating our 
attention only on a very small portion indeed of 
that glorious land which we all claim as our 
native soil, that noble land which has been 
consecrated as no other land on earth has ever 
been by the sacrifices and toils, the prayers and 
tears of an apostolic succession of saints and 
heroes, of patriot statesmen, passionate poets, 
and earnest thinkers, many of whom were afire 
with the noblest spiritual enthusiasm. But I 
trust the limitation of view necessitated by the 
subject, has served not to weaken, but to 
enhance our conception of the honourable 
position which our country may justly claim 
among the other countries of the earth, as a land 
equally illustrious for its genius and its piety. 



But if I leave, and hope I may leave in all my 
readers' minds the conviction that as Scotsman 
we belong to a race of high faculty and rare 
achievement, — if proud of our lineage we are 
inclined to say, " Truly the lines have fallen to 
us in pleasant places. Yea, we have a goodly 
heritage," — it surely becomes all the more need- 
ful for us ever to bear in mind how base a thing 
it must be for the inheritor of such grand 
traditions to degenerate from the high virtues 
exhibited by his ancestors, or to do anything 
either by sloth or cowardice, covetous gree^ 
sensual self-indulgence, or defiant ungodliness 
to sully the fair fame which we have received as 
a priceless inheritance from our fathers. 

W. B. R. W. 

FINIS. 



♦•»■ 



NOTES ON AYRSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 

The present articles, with illustrations drawn 
from Dr. Chambers's work on The Popular 
Rhymes of Scotland^ is intended as a supplement 
to that excellent collection of national folk-lore. 
The pieces here given are mostly noted down 
from the writer's memory, corrected and supple- 
mented by extensive enquiries among the old 
and young people of his acquaintance ; and are 
here presented in the hope that they may yield 
some entertainment to the reader who can so 
far upon occasion undo his mature man, as to 
enter again into the almost meaningless frolics 
of children. I have thought, too, that the pub- 
lication of these fast-perishing relics of folk-lore 
might be the means of suggesting to those who 
are able and willing to supplement my list, the 
desirability of giving what assistance they can 
to garner these homely rhymes, and quaint 
proverbial sayings, which are fast becoming 
matter for the antiquary, and ceasing to form a 
part of the colloquial language of the people. 

I may also explain, to prevent being misunder- 
stood by those familiar with the subject of folk- 
lore, that I have used this term in order to ab- 
breviate the title of my notes, to save needless 
repetitions and explanations, in the enlarged 
sense of the word as defined by the London 
Folk- Lore Society, and approved in every 
European country where the science of folk-lore 
is approached in the historic spirit, and treated 
on scientific methods. The word "Ayrshire,** 
I need hardly say, is meant to localise the 
"Lore,'' as pertaining to, and as having been 
collected among, the "Folk" of that interesting 
county, although not necessarily, as we shall see 
from the illustrations, solely confined to that 
part of Scotland ; so that, with us, under the 
general term "Ayrshire Folk- Lore," will be 
included Folk Tales, Hero Tales, Traditional 



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Ballads and Songs, Place Legends and Tradi- 
tions, Goblindom, Witchcraft, Leechcraft, Super- 
stitions connected with material things, Local 
Customs, Festival Customs, Ceremonial Cus- 
toms, Games, Jingles, Nursery Rhymes, Riddles, 
Proverbs, Old Laws, rhymed and unrhymed, 
Nick-names, Place Rhymes and Sayings, Folk 
Etymology, etc, etc That is to say, we will 
include all the fragments we can gather from 
oral and library sources, of that vast body of 
curious beliefs, customs, rhymes, proverbs, etc, 
which have been handed down from generation 
to generation, the origin of which is lost in the 
mists of antiquity. 

With these necessary explanations, I will give 
the following, chanted by children on the evening 
of 31st October, when they gathered in a ring 
with their lanterns, which they would swing like 
censors, while they sung in chorus : — 

HaU'een! HaU'een ! 

This nicht at e*en, 

Three witches on the green — 

Ane black, ane green, 

Ane playing the tamhourine. 

Chambers quotes the following as said by 
boys in Edinburgh, in anticipation of this, the 
most endeared festival of the year to children — 

Haly on a cabbage-stock, haly on a bean, 

Ilaly on a cabbage-stock, the mom's Halloween ! 

He also gives two verses very closely resem- 
bling the ^wt. lines used by the Ayrshire bairns 
as given above : — 

Halloween, ae nicht at een, 
I heard an unco squeaking ; 

Dolefu Dumps has gotten a wife, 
They ca' her Jenny Aitken. 

Hey, ho, for Halloween ! 
When a' the witches to be seen, 
Some black and some green — 
Hey, ho, for Halloween ! 

To complete the subject, the following passage, 
in a burlesque poem of the sixteenth century, 
Montgomery 5 Flyting against Polwart, jingles 
strangely in harmony with these rhymes : — 

In the hinder end of harvest, on All-Halloween, 
When our good neighbours do ride, if I read right. 

Some buckled on a bunwand, and some on a l)ean, 
Aye trottand in troups from the twilight. 

The phrase good neighljours, meaning the 
fairies, was the name by which it was prudent 
to address these little folk, who were most 
sensitive on that point, and resented the indig- 
nity or opprobium which they fancied attached 
to the word witch or fairy. 

Before quitting the rhymes appropriate to 
certain seasons of the year, I shall give one 



which I have never heard outside Ayrshire. It 
refers to the custom of children visiting their 
friends and neighbours on the eve of the New 
Year for the purpose of getting a piece, bun, or 
other delicacy, to hansel in the opening year : — 

As I gaed bye my Granny's door 

I fand the smell o' rum ; 
If she disna gie's my H(^manay, 

I'll blaw her up the lum ! ! 

Another rhyme appropriate to the morning of 
Hogmanay, given by Chambers, is also widely- 
known in Ayrshire : — 

Get up, Guidwife, and shake your feathers, 
And dinna think that we are beggars ; 
We're only bairns come out to play. 
Rise up and gie's our Hc^^anay ! 

Another rhyme may be quoted as having been 
fertile in dispute to Scotch antiquaries, as the 
reader will find by an inspection oif the Archaeo- 
logia Scotticay and the late Professor Robison's 
contributions to the subject : — 

Hogmanay, 
Trollolay, 
Give us of your white bread, and none of your gray ! 

The mysterious word Hogmanay, and the still 
more inexplicable trollolay, have never yet been 
satisfactorily explained. 

The following variant is of a moralising char- 
acter, though a good deal of a truism : — 

Get up, goodwife, and binna sweir. 
And deal your bread to them that's here ; 
For the time will come when ye'll be dead, 
And then ye'll neither need ale nor bread. 

On winter nights, when the children see the 
village lamplighter going his rounds, they join 
him, and each time he stops to light a lamp 
gather round the foot of the lamp-post, and, 
looking up at the operation, shout : — 

Leery, Leery, licht the lamps, 
Lang legs and crookit shanks ; 
Kill a louse, kill a flae, 
Ding Leery o'er the brae. 

This rhyme is perhaps local, and certainly not 
more than a century old. It may, however, be 
an old fragment touched up and modernised a 
little. In last issue of S. N. &^ g., page 29, a 
correspondent quotes four lines closely resembling 
the above, recited in Aberdeen. 

It was customary for youngsters at school to 
scribble their name on their books in the follow- 
ing rhyme, which I quote from one of my school- 
books : — 

[John Smith] Is my name, 

Scotland is my nation ; 
[Glasgow] is my dwelling-place, 

A pleasant habitation. 



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When I am dead and in my grave, 

And all my bones are rotten, 
This little book will tell my name, 

When I am quite forgotten. 

This book is mine : if stolen away, 
Remember at the Latter Day, 

When our Lord shall come and say. 
Where is the book you stole away ? 

Chambers does not give the second verse of 
the above, but he has recorded the first and 
third verses, remarking on the one of the very 
awful import, that it was copied from the blank 
page of a manuscript book of accounts, which 
belonged to Hew Love, portioner of John's Hill, 
Renfrewshire, between 1661-1665. 

On cold winter mornings, when waiting outside 
the school, on the door being opened, the children 
give vent to their impatience of Domine Ferule's 
delay in this rhyme : — 

Master, master, let me in. 
My feet's cauld, my shin's din ; 
If ye dinna let me in 
I'll be frozen tae the skin. 

A couplet somewhat resembling the above, 
but much smarter, more laconic, and more to 
the point than the foregoing, has been preserved 
by Chambers : — 

My feet's cauld, my shin's thin, 
Gie's my cakes and let me rin ! 

Said by children after receiving the customary 
bawbee on Saturday evening : — 

This is silver Saturday, 

The morn's Cockelro ; 
We'll rise on Monday morning 

To set the mill a-go. 

In the Popular Rhymes we find the following : 

This is siller Saturday, 

The morn's the resting-day, 

Monday up and till't again. 
And Tyesday push away. 

Two rhymes used as recitatives to regulate 
children's games may be given. The first one 
runs : — 

I'm on Toddy-pee — 
Toddy canna catch me. 

The game was this — Half-a-dozen or more 
boys or girls fixed on one of their number to act 
as Toddy, whose duty it was to prevent any of 
the others from getting on the footpath. Toddy 
stationed himself on the footpath, the others 
being on the street proper, and the game was 
to run on to the footpath repeating the above ; 
on hearing which. Toddy made an effort to catch 
or tig the party who did so ; but as he could not, 
according to the rules of the game, leave the 



curbstone, the gamsters were pretty safe from 
being caught, unless Toddy turned round sud- 
denly on the children shouting at him. 

Another glorious game was the " King o* the 
Castle." A boy standing upon a hillock or 
other eminence, from which he defies the efforts 
of his companions to dislodge him, exclaims, 
by way of challenge : — , 

I'm the King o' the Castle, 
And you're the dirty rascal. 

Chambers has this variation : — 

I, Willie Wastle, 

Stand on my castle ; 

And a' the dogs o' your toon 

Will no drive Willie Wastle doon. 

It is said that when Oliver Cromwell lay at 
Haddington he sent to require the governor of 
Home Castle, in Berwickshire, to surrender. 
There is an unvarying tradition that the governor 
replied in the above quatrain of juvenile cele- 
brity, but was soon conu)elled to change his 
tune by the victor of Dunoar. 

Said to a fretful child : — 

Girny Gibbie, 
The cat's aunty ! 

Chambers mentions that the following is said 
to peevish children in Annandale : — 

Girnago Gibbie, 

The cat's guid-minny ! 

I have been able to trace Master Gibbie's 
descent as far back as the sixteenth century ; 
and the probability is that Gibbie was a 
mediaeval John Grumlie, whose peevishness, 
resembling the mewing of auld poussie Baud- 
rons, gave rise to this homely couplet. In the 
old song alluded to, which gives a most humor- 
ous description of ** The Blythsome Bridal'' to 
which our hero and his spouse were invited, we 
find them mentioned in the list of the guests 
to be : — 

And there'll be Girnagain Gibbie, 
And his glaikit wife Jeannie Bell. 

If Mistress Jean is correctly described as 
glaikit, was Gibbie not justified in giming a 
little? 

A contemptuous answer to unsolicited advice : 

Speak when ye're spoken to, 
Drink when ye're dry ; 
Eat when ye're hungry, 
And sleep when ye lie. 

The following has been recorded by Cham- 
bers : — 

Speak when ye're spoken to. 
Drink when ye're drucken to ; 
Gang to the Kirk when the bell rings, 
And ye'll aye be sure o' a seat I 



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Said QB. fioicfing anytMng a compamcm ba»i | 
losty to pt c neaL octes from: daimm^ a part : — I 

Them t&at loses greets r i 

ThenxtiBtt &Ddskee|]& 

The aothor from whose work our iUustractoos 
arc tafam glares a rfeyme used oa the same ^e otO^Scvtti^hWr^: 
occasion, bet difl fet mg from, the above : — 

Nmc bmchfTSy nor bat^refs^ 

The following is said when anxious to ^ 
more of some delicacy^ snchL as comftts,. which 
a compankxt may chance to have r^ — 

Ane'^s naiKy 

Twa's s>j«iKy 
Thfee'"s a ptckle» 

Foar^s a potuKl^ 
Fhre's dainty. 

Six is plenty. 
And se^ren''s a hofse^s meat 

Chambers gives a rh^me varying slightly from 
the above, and completing the ^mciful enumera- 
tion of the numerals : — 



Wbt^ pat Ihsc ii^ .^ 
Wh\> pu\t h<^i v^t > 

kset>tng ^ y^^utt^ cbiW ia tuiH^ uhkH Uti»j«^i l>3l 



Take the Na^v hy th^ h^wt, jjmkI >fci\h >vm 
donst tH)|^ b«^ift by u^akia^ h^tW v.uvH|& \Mik hia 
pahuk whichi of cour$t(^ will ikkhr hu^, immA 
repeat the$e hi^e* : — 

i,"5ttch « wt^? ^w«^^Mti*^ 

then lift the filler. aiK^ :ittH>|>*^-wi*iK >wwk ^^ 
his aru\ uviikic^ a rutUi ^ hu^ ai«^x |Mtv KK^ilbf 
shvHitiix^ 

Up J* bit J «p 1* bit ! J 



Ane's nane, 

T¥ra*s some, 
Three's a pickle. 

Four's a cum. 
Five's a horse's lade, 

Six'll gar his back bow, 
Seven'll vex his breath, 

Aught'U bear him to the grun, 
And nine'll be his death. 

Cum and fnckle are two of several words in 
Scotland used to express a small quantity. 
Lade is load in the above sense ; but it also 
means a certain weight. 

Sung by boys to their bobby-horse, or to 
walking-canes exalted to an equestrian capacity : 

I had a little pony, 

His name was Dapple-Grey, 
I lent him to a lady 

To ride a mile away ; 
She whipped him, lashed him, 

She threw him in the clay — 
I widna lend my pony more 

Tho' a* the laidies pray. 

Chambers gives four lines of the above, 
slightly varied : — 

I had a little hobby-horse. 

His mane was dapple-grey, 
His head was made o' pease-strae. 

His tail was made o' hay. 

The editor of the Popular Rhymes docs not 
seem to have been acquainted with the folUiW- 
ing:— 

Ding, dong dell, 
Ponme's to the well : 



Another «\i>*l suvx^^^ful uunb vxf i^H'^lK^Xiil ihf^ 
subtle \s> an inf<^utine ^v^ vh^Uviri^nl with (Msi^ 
and delileil with tt^ars^ i^i to li^ht a »tWki I^Hvt 
n^ake it wave rapiUly tv^ and fv^\ s^o at tv^ impvhJwm^ 
a semiciKle of it^i firt> \^iK^\K> \\k» chiUlV ♦y^JK 
at the same time r«Hntii\^ tht^ t'oUv^wiu^j ; 

Kiivj;y» rij\^;y ruMy^ 

(\ippy» cwi>py JihtjUi 
The dofi^s aw« to I Umillou to buy ^ uww Ih>U • 
If you don't tttk* it V\\ t«k' it u\y*vl 

The following ia prea©vvt)il by ('hau\bor)i ; 

Ulnjle, dinjjie do\\>iy, 

The cat** ttt \\\k^ whU i 
The d(Hl*« ftwtt to M\»»4>nj|burMh 

Tt> buy ihi^ Imirn w bull, 
tirect, gret^l, Imirnlu, 

And yo'll ^t^t n bull i 
And if ye (linnu ^x^^^^\ fM^lur, 

I'll keep ll to utytttil. 

Said by chihlren on oliHeiviny a bint ; 

Wee chuckid binllu, bill, |n||, lull, 
Laid an ttg^ on lltu windnw utill ) 
The window boll begond Ihu crHck, 
Wtte chuckia birdltt nmrud iiiwl %\^\ 1 1 

Hut I fancy tionie of niy ru^duiH, who nmy w\\\ 
be intereHle(l in tliette rliyniob, will ^JHilly 01 lio 
the following ; 

H</ttii:iltifi|{ WMnf 
Sleep, mt:iii, or b^tur i^m\\m\\}i, 

I al«o quote the foMowing smm\S. tivm 
Chamber« ;— 

Thtra Ih a rUyiiUi well k>M/wi» m Ayrkhtttt 
where it i» ut^ 4> a rKijuutvn tn **4dfif4U$" 



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accompaniment to the Polka dance, which latter, 
on account of its simplicity, and the abandon it 
allows the dancers, is very popular with the 
lower classes. Finding the services of a fiddler, 
the following little rhyme is used in the manner 
indicated above. 

My wee man's 

Awa tae France, 
For to learn 

Th* Polka dance : 
First the heel 

Then the toes, 
That's the way 

The Polka goes. 

The reader will observe that each line consists 
of three syllables, corresponding to the three 
steps which constitute euch movement of the 
dance. 

The following puerile rhymes were written on 
Valentines by very young persons. I have 
never seen them in print, nevertheless they 
smack of the printer's room, and, if traditional, 
have altogether lost the antique flavour that 
distinguishes versicles of the pure folk-lore 
type : — 

The rose is red, 

The violet's blue, 
The honey sweet, 

And so are you ; 
And so are they that sent you this, 
And when we meet we'll have a kiss ; 
And when we part we'll have another : 
That's the way to love each other, 

Galston. John Muir, F.S.A. Scot. 



SCOTTISH TRADESMEN'S TOKENS. 
(Continued from p, j, with Illustration.) 

Edinburgh Farthings. 

No. 41. 

Obv, St. Andrew and Cross between thistles. 

Legend, "Nemo me impune lacessit." Ex, 1792. 

Rev, Arms and Crest of Edinburgh between thistles. 
Legetui. "Edinburgh Farthing." 

Edge. Milled. 

Note, Issued by Messrs. Hutchison, the design being 
a reduction of that of their halfpence. This 
token is very rare, only 6 lb. weight having 
been struck, but counterfeits with variations 
are common enough. 

No. 42. 
Olw, Similar to No. 41. 
Rev, Legend — "Farthing, youngest son of Fortune." 

Ex. A fleur de lis. 
Edge, Milled. 

No. 43. 
Obv, Similar to No. 41. 

Rev, Crest of the City of Edinburgh, with plenty of 
rope attached. 



Legend, " Hopeful Farthing." 

Edge. Milled. 

Note, The last two farthings are well designed and 
executed. As only a few lbs. weight of each 
were struck, they are somewhat rare. 

No. 44. 
Obv. Irradiated Crown above a thistle. ** 1795-" 
Rev. Inscription. " Edinburgh Farthing." 

No. 45. 
Obv, Male figure seated,* holding a harp. 

Legend. "Picken, Fish Tacksman." Ex, ** 1793." 
^«;. Arms. "^ 

Legend. " Farthing payable at Edinburgh." 

No. 46. 
Obv. A Tea Canister. 

Legend. ** A. Hendrie's Tea and Spirit Shop." 
Rev. Inscription. "A. Hendrie, Grocer, Exiinburgh." 
A star at top and bottom. 

No. 47. 
Obv. Three Sugar Loaves. ** Steuart, Grocer." 
Rev. Legend. " Steuart's Warehouse, Edinbui^h." 
Star at top and bottom. 

No. 48. 
Obv. A Celestial Crown over seven rows of diamond- 
shaped ornaments within a floral decoration ; 
two sceptres in saltire beneath. 
No legend. The cipher H. H. in exei^e. 
Note. Issued by Henry Harrison of St. Leonards, 
and like his half-penny (No. 28) the design 
and execution are alike poor. 

No. 49. 
Obv. A coronet above two sceptres, an ornament at 
top, and wreaths of leaves at sides. 
No l^end. 
Rev, A bunch of flowers ; ornament at top and 

bottom. 
Note. This token bears a close resemblance to Harri- 
son's farthing. 

No. 50. 
Obv. A ship sailing. " Thomson's Warehouse, Edin." 
Rev. A crown. "Thomson's Warehouse, Edin." 
Note. Executed in brass. 

Forfar. 

No. 51. 
Obv. Perspective \'iew of the town of Forfar, the loch 
in front with two small boats ; background of 
distant hills. 
Legend. "Halfpenny." Ex. "Forfar, 1797." 
Rev. The Arms of Forfar. 
Legend. " Payable on demand by John Steele." 
Ex. "Wright, Des." 
Edge. Engrailed. 

Note. This is the most beautiful coin of the Scottish 
series. There is a variety with a slightly 
different reverse. A few proofs exist in silver. 
Sharp specimens of the token are extremely 
scarce. 

Gatehouse-on-Flert. 

No. 52. 
Obv. Crest, a Griffin ; and Motto, " Impero." 
Legend, "Gatehouse Halfpenny." 



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Rev. Front elevation of a large building. 
Legend. ** Payable at the house of Thomas Scott & 



Co." 



Ex. ** 1793." 



Glasgow. 
No. 53. 

Size. Halfpenny. 

Obv. Figure of a river god reclining on a bank, his 
legs partly in the stream, the right arm resting 
upon an urn bearing the word ** Clyde," from 
which water flows ; the left hand grasping an 
ancient helm charged with a St. Andrew Cross. 
Legend. " Nunquam arescere." Ex. " mdccxci." 
Initials beneath, " R. D." 

Rev. Arms of Glasgow and Motto, **Lejt Glasgow 
Flourish." 

Edge. " Payable at the f louse of Gilbert Shearer & 
Co." 

Note. This is an exceedingly fine token, and is com- 
mon, several tons having been struck. Proofs 
exist in brass, bronze, and silver. It was 
much counterfeited, and is found with the 
following variations, among others, of the 
edge inscription : — " Payable at Edinburgh, 
Glasgow, and Dumfries ; " ** Cambridge, 
Bedford, and Huntingdon;" "Payable in 
Lancaster, Ix)ndon or Bristol." 

No. 54. 
Size Halfpenny. 
Obv. A head in profile. 

Legend. "John Ploward, F.R.S., Philanthropist." 
Rev. Arms and Motto of the City of Glasgow. 
Edge. Milled. 

No. 55. 
Obv. Arms and Motto of the City of Glasgow. 
Rev. Figure of Britannia seated with spear and shield. 

Legend. " Rule Britannia." Ex. " 1 795." 
Edge. Milled. 

No. 56. 
Size. Farthing. 
Obv. A Sugar Loaf. 

Legend. "James Angus, a Farthing." 
Rev. Legends, *• A Shift, 1780." " Tea Shop, Glas- 
gow." 

No. 57. 
Obv. Arms of the City of Glasgow. 

Legend. " Glasgow Farthing, payable at " 
Rev. St Andrew and Cross. 

Legend (in continuation of the obverse). "Alex. 
Hamilton's Snuff Shop." Ex. " 1791." 
Note. The issuer kept a shop in Stockwell Street. 
The token is fairly well designed and executed, 
and specimens are somewhat rare. 
No. 58. 
Obv. A roll of tobacco surmounted by a jar labelled 
"Scots," between two other jars marked 
respectively "Black Rags" and "Brown 
Rags." 
Legend. " Farthing payable at George Randolph 
& Co." 
Rev. A nude negro standing on the seashore holding 
a leaf, a ship in the distance. 
Legend. " Tobacconists, King Street, Glasgow. 
Ex. "1799." 
Edge. Milled. K. J. 



LOCHFYNE. 

LocHFYNE, according to eiDinent Gaelic scholars 
(says a correspondent) naeans a boundary line, 
the word fyne being §tipp<^l9M to be the old 
Gaelic vtordijiun, meariin'g'a boundary or ^rr'^^A. 
It is allied to the Latin word Jims, the end. 
Lochfyne almost cuts the county in two, and it 
would naturally form a boundary between the 
residents of the sections on each side of the loch. 
Others again assert that it has been named after 
the Fingalian hero Fionn, while others aver 
that it has been called after the Fionmchy or 
red-haired Scandinavians, who settled in Argyll- 
shire in the days of the Northmen ; but the 
most popular belief along its shores is that the 
loch has received its name through our former 
intercourse with France. It is averred that 
boats wine-laden came regularly from France to 
barter their wines for salted herrings, and that 
through the intercourse of years the loch came 
to be known as Lochjion—fion being the Celtic 
word for wine. This belief, we think, must have 
had its origin at a comparatively late date, for 
the French certainly came with wines in kegs 
and skins, and at a later date fished in the 
waters. These fishers were principally from the 
Breton coast, and their nets were composed of 
silk. They cured their own fish, and besides 
sending off large quantities to France, they 
despatched the herring to other countries as 
well. About one of their last consignments of 
a " parcel ^ of fish was sent to Belfast. Various 
causes induced them to leave the loch — one of 
them being the great destruction of their netting 
in the narrow waters, but the primary one that 
made them forever forsake Lochfyne was the 
breaking out of hostilities in our last war with 
France. The Dutch are said to have been the 
first to recognise the importance of the fisheries 
in the loch. According to one writer, they were 
in it as early as 1163. Sir Walter Raleigh 
speaks of the Dutch selling in 1603 Scotch 
herrings that amounted in value to a million and 
a-half of money, and which were caught princi- 
pally in Lochfyne. The herrings were cured in 
bulk, and as pirates in those days swarmed upon 
the seas, and the capture of a herring-laden 
vessel was looked upon as a special prize, men- 
of-war had frequently to escort the fishing fleet 
home. 

In the Robber's Den, at Ardrishaig, a beauti- 
ful glen behind the village, which is much 
frequented by visitors, we have a reminder of 
the old Scandinavian rovers. A descendant of 
the Vikings, named M'lvor, lived in it. Ivor 
was one of three brothers who arrived in Ireland 
from Scandinavia in 853, with a large follow- 
ing. According to early historians they are 
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has frequently been disturbed since then. All 
the inhabitants were completely subdued by 
them, and they became the kings of Ireland. 
Not content with the subjugation of Hibernia, 
they set sail for the "fatal" shores of Lochfyne. 
Fatal, indeed, did they prove to the M*Ivors. 
In the 9th century they endeavoured to effect a 
landing, but they met with a severe check, and 
very little is heard about them up till the 12th 
century, when we find them embroiled in all the 
internecine struggles of the times. Their fort 
was erected in the neighbourhood of Ardrishaig, 
one of their characteristics being that they never 
went into battle without being accompanied by 
a witch. 

Speaking of witches, we may mention par- 
enthetically that a long stretch of sand at Otter 
Ferry, Lochfyne, is said by tradition to have 
been formed by one of their witches. On one 
occasion one of them applied to a ferry-man, 
requiesting to be taken across Lochfyne, but as 
the man knew her reputed character he refused 
to do so. She said she would not be deterred 
as she would soon make a way for herself, and 
suiting the action to the word, she procured a 
spade and began to throw sand into the loch. 
At the second spadeful the sand appeared where 
the perch now stands, and she was in the act of 
flinging the third, which would have completely 
bridged the loch, when the ferry-man, seeing 
that his occupation would be gone, earnestly be- 
sought her to stop and he would take her across, 
and so the old witch was ferried across Loch 
Fyne. — Glasgow Herald. 



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JAMES MITCHELL'S "EMINENT 
NATIVES OF ABERDEENSHIRE'* 

(HI., 72.) 

In connection with the papers on "Eminent 
Men of Aberdeenshire'' now appearing in 
S* N. &» Q.J it may be well to call attention to 
the MS. volume on that subject compiled by 

tames Mitchell, LL.D., and bequeathed by 
im to the library of University and King's 
College. 

Dr. Mitchell prefixes to his book an appro- 
priate quotation from Virgil : 

Hie maniis, ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi : 
Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat 
Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti : 
Invertas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes : 
Quique sui-memores alios fecere merenda. 

The "Preface," written apparently about 
1824, is in the following terms : — 

** A love to the place of our nativity is a passion 
which strongly actuates the human breast ; and is the 
usual motive for writing such a work as the present. 



This passion may be expected to be strongest when 
many persons have arisen whose lives have been such 
as to do honour to their country. That this has been 
the case with Aberdeenshire will appear from the 
perusal of the work. There will be found in it the 
lives of the following persons, viz. : 

** Warriors : Patrick Gordon, General of the Czar 

Peter the Great. 
Colonel Patrick Ferguson. 
Field-Marshall James Keith. 
Sir James Leith. 
^* Statesmen : First Earl of Aberdeen. 
First Lord Glenl>ervie. 
Fifth Earl Marischal. 
Tenth Earl Marischal. 
** Oriental Scholar : Alexander Nicol. 
** Theologians : Gilbert Burnet. 

George Campbell. 

Alexander Cruden. 

John Forbes. 

Patrick Forbes. 

James Fordyce. 

Alexander Gerard. 

Gilbert Gerard. 

William Milne. 
" Physicians : George Cheyne. 

Sir Walter Farquhar. 

George Fordyce. 

Sir William Fordyce. 

James Gregor}'. 

John Gregory. 

Charles Maitland. 
** Philosophers and Mathematicians : 

Alexander Anderson. 

Andrew Baxter. 

George Dalgarno. 

Walter Donaldson. 

David Fordyce. 

Andrew Gordon. 

Sir Robert Gordon. 

David Gregory. 

James Gregory. 

Duncan Liddell. 

Alexander Ross. 
** Men of General Learning : 

William Barclay. 

James Hay Beattie. 

Charles Cordiner. 

Thomas Dempster. 

Sir William Forbes. 

Lord Gardenston. 

David Henry. 

James Perry. 
^^Historians'. Patrick Abercrombie. 

Thomas Black well. 

John Skinner. 
^^ Botanists : William Forsyth. 

Francis Masson. 

Robert Morrison. 
** Architect : James Gibbs. 
* * Painter : George Jamesone. 
** Poets: John Barbour. 

Arthur Johnston. 

James Mercer. 



August, 1894.] 



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William Meston. 

John Ogilvie. 

Alexander Ross. 
" Philanthropists: Patrick Dun. 

Robert Gordon. 

William Guild. 

Earl Marischal. 

William Johnston. 

James Ramsay. 
"During the periods when eminence was sought 
in a different manner from that of the present day, 
there were men who obtained a distinction suitable to 
the age in which they lived, and acquired the honours 
of saintship. Such men, we may reasonably expect, 
would have been eminent in more enlightened periods, 
when other objects were these sought by human 
ambition. 

** An account is also given in this work of several 
persons who perhaps are not particularly meritorious 
or distinguished, yet nevertheless have had circum- 
stances connected with their lives which may afford 
pleasure to the reader. Of these, Peter Garden and 
Peter Williamson are examples." 

The lives included in the volume number 1 14 
in all ; 41 portraits are inserted. 

P. J. Anderson. 



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THE EDINBURGH SIR WALTER 
SCOTT CLUB. 

A LARGE number of gentlemen responded to 
the suggestion to establish a Sir Walter Scott 
Club in his native city, by attending the public 
meeting held in Dowell's Rooms. Sheriff 
Jamieson, who was called to the chair, spoke as 
to the desirability of such a club being formed. 
"He thought it right that there should be a 
gathering now and again of his countrymen, at 
which they should commemorate his genius, 
gratefully recall the great services which he had 
rendered to his country, and celebrate the 
illustrious place he had taken in the ranks of the 
literary immortals of all ages and all times. 
That was the idea which had given rise to this 
meeting, and he hoped that this club, in how- 
ever humble and small a way, would help to 
keep green the memory of Sir Walter Scott, and 
encourage the study of his works to a greater 
extent than even now held among the public of 
Scotland." After these remarks the chairman 
proposed, "that an ^Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott 
Club' be now formed." The motion was adopted 
amid great applause. Mr. Charles S. Cooper 
accepted the Presidency. The following gentle- 
men also accepted office : Mr. Kenneth Sander- 
son, W.S., 15 York Place, honorary secretary, 
Mr. Elliot R. Smail, treasurer. To the last- 
mentioned gentleman the club owes its primary 
existence. The terms of subscription are, for 
life membership two guineas, or annual member- 
ship five shillings. I. 



ANTIQUARIAN "FIND" IN ABER- 
DEENSHIRE. 

From an article under this heading in the 
Aberdeen Free Press of 20th ult., we glean the 
following particulars. In a field on the farm of 
Caimhill, Monquhitter parish, the tenant Mr 
Norrie resolved to clear a circular space of 30 
or 40 yards in diameter, covered by boulder 
stones. In February last operations were begun, 
but in reaching the lower strata the stones were 
found to be laid with a method, and not 
fortuitously heaped together. This suggested a 
very careful removal of the stones, and an 
excavation of the underlying soil, where at the 
depth of 4 or 5 feet, " there was laid bare cj^^uite 
a number of graves, containing all the familiar 
accompaniments of primitive places of interment 
in the shape of black ashes, fragments of burnt 
bones and other charred matter." In each of 
two of the graves were found a stone cist about 
18 inches long, containing in one burned bones, 
and in the other what appeared to be personal 
ornaments to the number of about 60. These 
consisted of antique materials, including agates, 
Scotch pebbles, (water worn) fossils of the chalk 
formation, some quartz crystals, flints, artificially 
wrought serpentme pebbles ; but the most 
important of all was an oval intaglio or glass 
impression of a gem. It is about the size of a 
penny with sharp clear lines of artistic beauty, 
and bears the form of a Greek Satyr, the half 
human half bestial creature of classic lore. This 
has naturally formed the crux of the collection, 
for on its antiquity largely turns that of this 
interesting place as memorials of sepulture. 
Dr. Milne of King-Edward was of opinion that 
the gem is one- of Tassie's imitations . from the 
antique, dating from about the middle of last 
century. Tassie was a Scotchman who about 
that period executed a large number of copies of 
the best Greek gems. The authorities in Editi- 
burgh, who claimed the articles for the Queen's 
Remembrancer, pronounce the gem to be a cast 
from a real Greek gem of the fourth century, 
and is of very great archaeological interest. The 
immemorial existence of the cairn lends support 
to this latter view. It is reasonable to believe 
that the grave where these personal remains were 
found was probably that of some distinguished 
lady interred there many centuries ago^ 



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"Tales and Traditions of the Western High- 
lands,*' by the late Rev. J. G. Carnpbell of Tiree, 
which forms Vol. 5 of the series "Waifs and 
Strays of Celtic Tradition,'' is to be issued by 
subscription. The subscription price before 
publication is exceptionally low, the figure being 
3/6 nett. 



SCOITISH NOTES AND QUERIES, 



[August, 1894. 



DEATH OF MR. EDWARD YOUNG. 
It is with much regret that we have to record 
the death of this gentleman, who, as senior 
partner of Messrs. D. Wyllie & Son, Booksellers 
to I he Queen, Aberdeen, has been tloaely 
associated with us in the publication o^S.N.&'Q. 
Very early in the year Mr. Young's heahh gave 
way, and in March he was ordered a voyage to 
the Cape. There he seemed to rally somewhat, 
but on the homeward trip he died (on the fj<.h 
June,) within two days of its termination. 
In this way Mr. Young's lamented death had an 
added sense of loss to his family and friends. 
Mr. Young has been from his earliest years in 
his firm's service, and as a business man was 
held in high respecL He was quiet and court- 
eous, shrewd, and particularly well informed on 
the subject of books and literature. He loved 
his business— was no mere bookseller, but a 
thorough book -man. Nothing pleased him 
better than to be able to fulfil a commission for 
" some quaint and curious volume of forgotten 
lore." The book was scarce, indeed, that finally 
eluded his search. Amongst authors and book- 
lovers Mr. Young's knowledge and advice had 
come to be greatly appreciated, and his death 
at the comparatively early age of 48, is much 
deplored. Mr. Young's firm has for several 
years taken a leading hand in publishing 
many important works having issued with 
Iheir impnnt 



To THE. Editor of 5. N. *■ Q. 
Dear Sir, 

I wish you would exert your editorial 
prerogative and invoke the aid of the readers of 
S. JV. &• Q. in an enterprise which 1 have long 
meditated, and am now trying to accomplish. 
This is to get together for the Public Library a 
collection of newspaper and other cuttings 
dealing with exceptional local incidents, local 
personages and places or buildings. We all 
Know how much of a curious and interesting 
character relating to these and embodying much 
local history finds its way into the columns of 
the daily newspaper, to be straightway buried 
there and forgotten, or at the best to linger as a 
tantalising memory in the minds of a few. To 
be sure here and there are some, among whom 
doubtless are readers of S. A". &• Q., on whom 
these waifs of a late or bygone history have a 
value and a charm, so that Ihey even tut them 
out, and are resolved some day to have them 
duly preserved. But, alas, to most that day 
never comes, and too often the overburdened 
collector or his thoughtless egaiee bundles the 
whole into the wastepape basket. Now, my 



object is to prevent this lamentable disaster, 
and at the same time to accumulate what in lime 
will become a perfect mine of wealth for all who 
have an interest in the topography, the habits 
and the vicissitudes of the district Do what 
you can then to persuade all who are able to aid 
in this undertaking. Their contributions will be 
thankfully received and indexed, so that not only 
the original possessors but others shall be able 
at all limes to refer to them. 

Yours faithfully, 
T6th July 1894. A. W. Robertson. 

[The recognition of the fact on which Mr. 
Robertson advances his claim was a prouiinent 
feature in the first editorial note of this magazine. 
Indeed it was accepted as one of the pleas for 
its very existence as a means of secunng in a 
presumably more permanent form than that of 
the daily paper, much that deserved a better iaie 
than falls to it. Should the Librarian's well put 
plea stir the interest of our readers as it quick- 
ened the consciences to help in such a good 
cause, it will result in a public benefit. Such 
work takes time and taste and intelligence, but 
it is its own reward. Probably Mr. Robertson 
will find it serviceable to issue something in the 
shape of suggestions or instructions as to the 
form and manner in which it is most desirable 
to carry out this object,] 



OF Edinburgh Periodical 
Publications (VI., 74).— Two University 
magazines that have escaped Mr. Scott's ob- 



1825. TAt Catligc Mirror. See Thi SludaU'i 
Pilgrimage, by David Cuthtierlson, p. 
(Edin.,n. d.) 

[S28. Tht CoIUst Obscn-er. See Tlu Sludeni, 
Vol. VI., pp. 212, 30a (Edin., 1892.) A 
copy in Eilinbu^h University Libriuy, 
P. J. Anderson. 



The Proverbs of Chaucer (VIL, 59).— 
Mr. A. P. Skene wishes it to he known that his 
note on the above subject was written before the 
appearance of Mr. T. Skene's communication 
(VI., i05). 

Children's Rhymes (VII., 192).— I desire 
thank Mr. WiUiam Thomson for his reply to 
my query. As 1 am still in ignorance as to the 
Rev. Dr. Gregor's work on the subject, 1 should 
be greatly obliged if your correspondent could 
nform me where it can be procured. I am 
Iready aware of Mrs. Gomme's great work on 
the subject. " Eye." 



August, 1894.] 



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47 



Scottish University Libraries.— A draft 
ordinance dealing with the libraries of the 
Universities has been issued by the Scottish 
Universities Commission. Its most important 

Provision is that it shall be in the power of the 
.ibrary Committee from time to time to grant 
the use of the library to such extent and on such 
conditions as they shall think expedient to per- 
sons who may not be members of the University, 
for purposes of literary research, and the names 
of those privileged readers shall be reported 
annually to the University Court 



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Scott Manuscripts. — The following prices 
were realized at a London auction sale, for 
autograph manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott 
Manuscript of " Anne of Geierstein," ;£30o, and a 
volume containing portions of " Waverley " and 
"Ivanhoe," ;£2I5. A contemporary informs us 
that the manuscript volumes of Scot^s Napoleon, 
which recently came under the hammer, were 
bought by Mr. William Brown, Edinburgh, and 
resold to Mr. Bryce of that city. Mr. Bryce's 
collection of manuscripts contains many rare 
gems, not the least precious being the original 
of Allan Ramsay's " Gentle Shepherd." I. 



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The Edinburgh Forged Manuscripts.— 
Mr. Carfrae, of Edinburgh, has prepared, for 
presentation to the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, 
an album containing the series of articles, pub- 
lished in the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch^ 
which brought to light the forgeries of " Antique 
Smith.*' The volume also contains some sixty 
examples of the forged documents, among which 
are spurious Scott, Bums, Hogg, and Tannahill. 

I. 

908. History of the Arbuthnot Family. — 
Principal Arbuthnot left in MS. an account of the 
Arbuthnot family entitled ** Originis et incrementi 
Arbuthnoticse familise descriptio historica." Where 
is this MS. now? Rev. G. Morrison, Benholm, is 
said to have translated it, and Rev. Alex. Arbuthnot 
to have continued it. Where are said translation and 
continuation? A recent writer in the Aberdeen 
Journal on "the Arbuthnotts of that ilk," seems to 
have had access to the MS. C. 

909. The Tannery Company, Aberdeen. — 
Information is desired r^arding the Tannery Com- 
pany which carried on business in that part of George 
Street, known previous to 1830 as Tannery Street. 
Kennedy Is the only local historian who mentions this 
industry, but his information is of the most meagre 
kind. The works seem to have been extensive, as 
pits have been found on both sides of the street and 
also in Loch Street. When the Company ceased 



operations the yard was broken up into several 
smaller ones. The ^Titer's grandfather occujxed 
different portions from 1836 until 1866, but beyond 
saying that the Ramages (of telescope fame) had 
something to do with it, he had no further inform- 
ation. James Laing. 

910. Rubislaw Toll Bars. — Information is 
requested as to when the first toll was removed from 
the Toll-house which stood athwart the point where 
Garden Place and Albyn Place meet, co the site further 
west. Also, how long it is since the toll was abolished 
altogether. Aberdeenshire abolished the tolls a few 
years in advance of the rest of Scotland. A. C. 



answers* 



894. George Romney and the University op 
Aberdeen (VII., 13). — This query loses its point 
through the accidental omission of the words " of 
Aberdeen" after ** University" in the quotation from 
the Life of Romney. P. J. Anderson. 

322. Murray Lectures at King's College 
(I., i35» 155; HL, 44. 45; v., 9; VL, 157; VIL, 
28). — Add the following : — 

1825-26. The duty of hallowing the name of God 
explained and recommended ; On the extent of Chrisfs 
spiritual kingdom^ considered as the subject of the 
Christianas prayer^ and the object of his active exertion. 
By William Paul. Aberdeen : D. Chalmers and Co. 
1826. P. J. Anderson. 

907. Author of Collection of Hymns Wanted 
(VIII., 30).— The Edinburgh edition (1789) of "Col- 
lection of Hymns and Sacred Poems " is attributed in 
the British Museum Catalc^e to Dr. James Fordyce, 
a member of a well known Aberdeen Family, and 
author of several well known works. A full account 
of him is given in the Dictionary of National Biography , 
and in Anderson's Scottish Nation, 

A. W. Robertson. 

Xiterature* 

The Commonty of Perwinnes^ called also Scots- 
town Moory an inheritance still worth caring 
for, Aberdeen, D. Wyllie & Son. 1894. 
[32 pp., 4to]. 
This is a second edition of the work noticed on 
its appearance last year. It is sumptuously got 
up, and will doubtless become a prized item of 
local interest with collectors. It is fitly illus- 
trated, although it is to be regretted that Mr. 
Alexander Walker, the author, has omitted the 
bird's-eye view of the former edition from the 
present one. 
The Old Skipper, By W. C[adenhead]. 

June, 1894. 
For a long half century the author of this poem 
has been poetizing. The present effort is in 12 
verses, pnnted on six 8vo oblong leaves, each of 
which is illustrated copiously by Messrs. Thom- 



48 



SCOniSff NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[August, 1894. 



son & Duncan, Lithographers. We will not say 
that Mr. Cadenhead has never written better 
poetry, but certainly he has never been so 
beautifully illustrated, and so daintily got up 
before. The souvenir would have been more 
complete had the modesty of the author con- 
sented to place his own portrait en face with 
that of the old skipper. 

Sketch and Check- List of the Flora of Kaffraria, 
By Thomas R. Sim, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., author 
of the Ferns of South Africa, &c. Cape Town, 
Argus Publishing Co. 1894. ['9 x IZ pp. 
8vo.] 
The Sketch was delivered as a lecture to the 
King William's Town Natural History Society, 
of which place the author is, or rather was, the 
Curator of the Botanic Garden, for he has now 
had the good fortune to be recently appointed 
to the Government Department of South African 
Forests. Considering the wealth of floral beauty 
in that region of the world, it is a wonder that 
research has been almost exclusively confined to 
private efforts. These, although conducted with 
much enthusiasm, have not overtaken all the 
work. The whole Flora of S. Africa is estimated 
at 10,000 species, yet our author's Check-List, 
which is up to day, presents only 2449 species 
as belonging to Kaffraria. He appears to be 
highly sensible as to the importance of the 
economic aspects of the subject. Mr. Sim having 
very efficiently broken ground with the Ferns, it 
is to be hoped may be able to address himself 
to the larger task of the compilation of a com- 
plete Flora of S. Africa. Behind him Mr. Sim 
has had all the advantages of the training of 
Chiswick, Kew, and Harvard, and before him 
we trust " a length of happy days," and favourable 
opportunities for pursuing his investigations. 

Ed. 

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Vol. VIII.] No. 4. SEPTEMBER, 1894. 



Registered. {P-<=|J^. 



CONTENTS. 

Notes : — Page 

Notes on the Place Names of Leochel-Cushnie, 49 

Notes on Ayrshire Folk-Lore, 51 

Sir Robert Walpole, 52 

The Vernon Medal found in Upperkirkgate, 53 

Extracts from the Council Records of Old Aberdeen,.. 53 

Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens, 55 & 64 

Notable Men and Women of Aberdeenshire 56 

The Canterbury Tales, 58 

Death ofMr. Cfharles D. Wyllie,. 61 

Minor Notes : — 

Roman Coins found ht Dufftown, 60 

Epitaphs, 60 

Historical Castles recently in the Market, 60 

English Presbyterial Sacramental Tokens, 60 

The First Greek Book Printed in Aberdeen, 6x 

Local Scraps, 61 

Queries: — 

The Curse of Scotland— Ythan Lodge — Gathering of 
the Clan Grant— Ass's Hair a Charm — Old Rhyme — 
Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots — Ancient Farm 
House at Lumphanan — The Peel Ring — Banchory 
Ternan — Cuthbert of Inverness — Ruthorn of Dundee — 

Campbell of Greenyards, 61 

Answers : — 

Author of Collection of Hymns Wanted — Archbishop 

Hamilton's Catechism and Godly Exhortations, 62 

Literature, 63 

Scotch Books for the Month, 64 



ABERDEEN, SEPTEMBER, 1894, 

NOTES ON THE PLACE NAMES OF 
LEOCHEL-CUSHNIE. 

(Continued from VIII., j6.) 

Hill has given the Hillock of Leochel and the 
Blackhills of Hallhead. Cushnie has its White- 
hill and Elfhillock, Elf hillock or Eiphin, as 
the name implies, is haunted by fairies. 
Though a small knoll, a noise, however loud, 
made on the one side, could not be heard on 
the other side ; and a cry, however shrill, uttered 
at the foot, could not be heard at the top. The 
writer made the experiment twenty or thirty 
years ago, and was disgusted to find that the 
hillock had lost its virtue. About the beginning 
of the century, a young man pulled "a birn" of 
heather on the Elfhillock, and carried it to his 
aunt's at Hillockhead. The women were baking, 
and under ordinary circumstances his services 
would have been appreciated ; but, on telling 
them where he got the heather, he was straight- 
way ordered to go and replace it carefully, that 
his foolhardy conduct might not enrage the 
elves that kept court there. 



A man spent " a year and a day " there, 
thought it was only an hour or two at 
utmost. 

The Stane of Bennacloig is near Elfhilk 
This seems to indicate an old tenement ir 
locality, baile an cloich, "the town of the stc 
cf. Bennakelly for Balnakelly. 

Brae furnishes the farm of Brae, Drybi 
Braeside and Braehead, the last of which 
taken its name from the brae of Blackbau 
of Bogfem. It is mentioned in the Lis 
Pollable Persons. From glac, "a narrow gl 
we have the Clocks of Culmellie ; and f 
slochd, " a pit or hollow," we derive the sloe 
Tillylodge — (further south Slog of Dess). A 
damp ground is called a " slochter." 

There was a croft called the Knap near 
old Manse of Leochel, marked by a tree. 

Corbanchory is doubtful, "fair or white holU 
with doubful prefix, cor. Others refer it t( 
ancient religious institution, a view which m 
be supported by the Chapel Well, near the f; 
house. 

Bog is a frequent element in place nar 
Greenbog, Bog of Cairncoullie, Broculbog, t 
feedles or Bogfield of Hallhead, &c. 
undrained ground at Bogfem would be 
favourite soil for am or alder bushes, hence \ 
fearnan, and Fernybrae may have derived 
name from the same shrub. 

Bogshalloch, saileach, " the saugh bog." 

Bogfruskie ; cf. Tillyfruskie in Birse, ** 
bog of the crossing," chroskie, accounted for 
"the high Court gate" passing through it fr 
Donside to Cromar. By this road Gene 
Mackay and their Majesties' troops marcl 
from Strathbogie to Aboyne in July, 1689 \ a 
as a reason why Mr. Orem should not 
translated from Cushnie to Forbes by 
Presbytery, it was pleaded, " Cushnie lies 01 
public road from the North to the South i 
quented by persons of all ranks." 

It is hard to find firm footing in respect 
Bogsowie, Bog sobhaidhe, "the bog of the fo 
den ;" bog soithich, " the bog of the vessel," a 
bog samhadh, "the sourock bog," have be 
offered, but it is difficult to see how any of th< 
would apply. An old spelling might conduct 
to terra firma ; with a leap in the dark — b 
suidhe, " the bog of the seat," say the site of t 



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old laird of Balnakell/s house (?) Greenesk^ 
near Bogsowie —does esk mean a boggy place ? 
Bogside and Bogend^ in 1696, included the 
whole brae face between the Manse and Wester 
Fowlis. 

Part of the Manse farm was known as Blinks- 
fuird^ blinks being a sort of water chickweed. 

The damp nature of the ground here is further 
indicated in Wetlands. 

Swellend is the end of the swail or bog at the 
foot of the Oldtown moss, much of which used 
to be carried to Cromar. 

The ditcher's spade has altered the aspect of 
things, yet the old names remain. The Rough 
Mossie will remain so in the midst of a wood, 
and the Muirton of 15 10, though no longer a 
moor town, is the Muirton still ; so also Muir- 
head of the now almost entirely cultivated Muir 
of Fowlis. 

Coille, a wood, gives Balnakelly, the wood 
town, with the Brunt Widdie near it. "The 
buss of Wood " is mentioned in an old retour of 
Lynturk. As elms may have suggested Leochel; 
alders, Bogfern and hawthorns sgitheog, 
Tillyskuk and, perhaps, Skatebrae, so the fir 
has given the Guise to the neighbouring parish. 
Woodcoie and Woodside are modern, and readily 
explained by their situation. 

Bad and badan mean a clump or cluster. 
There are several of them in the parish : — 
Badenston; BadensJielddX Tillyskuk ; Badychark^ 
bad an chirce, the muirhen's clump ; Badenarib, 
marked by a well and tree, the roe deer's clump. 
Badybuller, a name preserved in its burn, is bad 
an mhuillear, the miller's plantin' — the v sound 
would readily become b — a probable meaning on 
the ootfeedles of the mill-town. Trades and 
occupations have enriched our momenclature 
with a Badythrochar^ which we should now call 
"the Rogue's Widdie," bad an chrochadhair, 
but in ancient society the hangman, chrochad- 
hair was a gentleman, if not a nobleman, of 
sufficient standing to give his name to the place 
which he owned. 

Is Tillychrad, like Tillychardoch, the smith's 
knowe, Ininteer, in 1457 Innyteire, eudan a' t' 
saor ; cf. Macintyre, the carpenter's braeside. 
Another useful man in a community was the 
mugger, or capper. H e lived at Muggarthaugh; 
the / intruded between mugger and haugh is 
similar to the / in millert (miller). Rhynie has 
a Homershaugh from a similarly humble 
craftsman. 

Calfward and Wardend near the Kirkton of 
Cushnie derive their names from some enclosed 
"werdie," where calves were kept. In olden 
times, when fields were not enclosed, such 
designations would be an exact and matter of 
fact description. There was a croft called 



Caldhame near Calfward, a name preserved by 
the name of a field on the farm. 

The Sheil erected on the hills for shelter gives 
the Sheal^ which in 1629 was Scheilfield; 
Shealagreen near Minmore, the sheiling on the 
green, and although it is hardly " laigh " land up 
there, Lachlansheals seems to be the laigh land 
sheiling, implying that there was nothing further 
up the glen. 

Budfield^ Buffield^ may be buidhe, yellow ; but 
an old spelling might settle the question. 

Iverton, Evertoun^ Overtoun or Ufperton of 
Leochel, Minmore and Fowlis indicate high 
situation. The town below would be nethxx^QisX^ 
accordingly we have the Netherton or Nether 
Minmore^ and a Nether Fowlis. The Loanhead 
of the Netherton and the Loanhead of Corse 
take their names from loans leading to Netherton 
and Corse. 

Norham seems to be the north home. 

Windsey (?) another in Cromar, occupied a 
windy situation before 1820, when the hill of 
Norham was planted. Foggieley indicates bad 
husbandry. Blackbauk and Blackfield now no 
blacker than their neighbours. Gyteheads the 
older name of land whose tenant may have to 
" gyte " his crop in harvest almost any year — i.e. 
set each sheaf on end to win. 

The Ordnance Survey Map g^ves Bawhinto. 
In 1542 it. was Balhinte and Balchinnie — baile 
of Kenneth or Kenny ; cf. Tibberchindy, Glen- 
kindy, &c. Balchimmie is probably the baile of 
Kimmy, Kemmy or Combie ; cf. Richimmy in 
Abercairney estate. There was once quite a 
village here, and not so long ago it was divided 
into an East and a West Balchimmy. 

Confunderlandy in 1640 Corquhinderland, 1696 
Corfunderland, though in 1 5 1 1 it seems to have 
been Conquhonderland. Isitcathramp-pheighin- 
tir land, the land paying a quarter penny of 
feu-duty ? 

A quarter penny seems a small tax, but, the 
ground annual of Balnakelly was "a penny 
yearly at the Feast of Pentecost" in the fifteenth 
century. The estate of Hallhead, of which 
Confunderland was in 1622 the principal farm, 
is yet known in the parish as, per excellence, 
"the Ground." If the above derivation be 
correct, we may dismiss the story of the gentle- 
man that married the heiress of Confunderland, 
and who after examination of her dowry, ex- 
claimed, " Confound her land.*' 

On account of a considerable pastoral industry 
in the parish, one is tempted to make Balweariey 
baile bhearraidh, the sheep shearing house. 
Adam of Futty, Rector of Cushnie, and James 
Mowat (of Fowlis) were allowed 12/- by the 
Parliament of 1357 for collecting the customs on 
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Forbes, Cusseny, Invercanny and Alford. But 
the wee sound forbids this derivation. Mr. 
Johnston, in his " Place Names," makes it baile 
larach, " the western house." This meaning 
will hardly suit here, and what of Dalwearie near 
Kintore, Blaw Weary and Castle Weary in 
Galloway, and the Wells of Wearie near Edin- 
burgh ! It is better to own our ignorance. We 
have a Bervie in the parish, "but,^ writes 
Mr. Macdonald, "neither in Leochel, Skene, 
nor Kincardineshire, nor elsewhere, can I or 
anyone else explain the name. It is humbling, 
but a fact all the same that an old wife in Pictish 
times could have given us more and correcter 
information in a forenight's crack than our best 
scholars can now do after years of study." 

Thomhill. Stirling. Geo. Williams. 



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NOTES ON AYRSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 

IL 
In the parish of Galston I found traces of a 
number of local customs and superstitions, some 
of which existed down to withm the period of 
my. own recollection ; the practice of the last 
surviving custom, that known as creeling, be- 
coming obsolete about twenty years ago. The 
custom of creeling, as practised among the 
miners of this district in the present century, 
is a survival, entirely changed so to retain only 
the name of the custom followed in Galston, 
and generally throughout Scotland, during a 
less enlightened period of our national history 
than the present is allowed to be. 

The practice of the old form of the custom of 
creeling may be described thus : When a young 
man wished to pay his addresses to his sweet- 
heart, instead of going to her father's house and 
professing his passion, he went to a public-house 
(of which there were only about half-a-dozen 
then — happy Galston) ; and, having let the 
landlady into the secret of his attachment, the 
object of his wishes is immediately sent for, who 
almost never refuses to come. She is enter- 
tained with ale and brandy ; and the marriage 
is concluded on. The second day after the 
happy event the creeling takes place. The 
young wedded pair, with their friends, assembled 
in a convenient spot. A small creel or basket 
was prepared for the occasion, into which they 
put some stones : the young men carried it 
alternately, and allowed themselves to be caught 
by the maidens, who had a kiss when they were 

successful. After a great deal of innocent mirth, 
the creel falls at length to the young husband's 

share, who is obliged to carry it generally for a 
long time, none of the young women having 
compassion on him. At last the fair partner 
of his joys and sorrows kindly relieves him from 



his burden ; and her complaisance, in this 
particular, is considered as a proof of her satis- 
faction with the choice she has made. The creel 
goes round again, more merriment succeeds, 
and all the company dine together and talk over 
the feats of the field. This was the custom of 
creeling the gudeman as it existed in the 
eighteenth century. Dr. Smith conjectures 
that it may be a variant of a similar custom 
among the French. — Adieu panniers^ vandanges 
sontfaites. 

The modern version of this custom, as I 
remember seeing it practised for the last time in 
the village, is this : If a miner enters the 
matrimonial state^ the first morning thereafter 
on which he makes his appearance on the pit- 
head, he is requested by a deputation of his 
fellow workmen to celebrate the event by 
"standing a treat." The treat means the 
disbursment of several shillings to be expended 
on liquor, for the consumption and proper 
enjoyment of which the miners take a holiday. 
If Benedict complies with the request he is 
permitted to resume work with no further 
molestation than the good-natured banter 
customary on such occasions. If, on the other 
hand, he refuses to meet the demands of the 
case, he is seized by his companions, who 
place him in a hutch drawn by one of the pit 
horses, rudely decorated in honour of the event, 
and paraded through the principal streets of the 
town, followed by a grand compulsory cold 
bath in the Irvine, on the left bank of which the 
town is built at the point where it is intersected 
by the Burn Ann. After this he is allowed to 
go home. 

At Bruntwood Loch, in the same parish, 
towards the end of last century, a bird, which 
the people called a better blutter (perhaps the 
bittern, as it is reported to have made a loud, 
roaring noise), built its nest on the ait in the 
loch ; but some superstitions people suggested 
that its loud and uncommon cries foreboded no 
good, and thereupon either destroyed or banished 
it. This loch, together with its ominous winged 
inhabitants, have disappeared before the 
advancing march of agriculture. 

Of the Holy Well at Galston it may be said, 
that all the information relating to it that has 
come down to us is embodied in the name by 
which it is designated, and by which it has been 
known in the locality from time immemorial. 
The epithet holy indicates that it belongs to 
that numerous class of Wells throughout 
Scotland, dedicated to particular saints, or 
bearing the general appellation of Saints' Wells, 
Holy Wells, etc. Obviously it belongs to that 
class of springs which cannot, with any degree 
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ecclesiastical connection whatever. It is not 
mentioned in either of the Statistical Accounts, 
the Ordnance Gazetteer, nor in the works of 
Mr. John Macintosh, a local author of more 
than local fame, whose indefatigeable researches 
have not been successful in expiscating the 
slightest information. On a recent visit to a 
Glasgow Library, the attendant put into my 
hands a work that aroused my interest, and one 
that promised to flatter my local patriotism by 
giving an account of this Holy Well. The work 
to which I refer is Folklore of Scottish Lochs 
and Springs, by James M. Mackinlay, M.A., 
F.S.A. Scot, Glasgow, 1893, recently reviewed 
in these columns, the only work with which I 
am acquainted giving anything like a compre- 
hensive account of well-worship in Scotland. 
Mr. Mackinlay, however, does not so much as 
mention it ; but, of course, his work, as he states, 
makes no pretention to have exhausted the 
subject, or even to contain a list of all the known 
wells. I have been able, however, from facts 
collected from many sources, including Mr. 
Mackinlay's book, to place before the reader a 
few interesting particulars, and 1 gladly avail 
myself of the opportunity of acknowledging such 
assistance ; and I hope that if Mr. Mackinlay's 
work arrives at a second edition, as it well de- 
serves to do, he will not omit the Holy Well at 
Galston. 

There can be no doubt, I think, that this Well 
figures in the unwritten annals of hagiology, as 
a spring connected with some saint or holy 
person. The spring may have been dedicated 
to St. Peter, the patron saint of the parish. 
There are more than a dozen wells in Scotland 
dedicated to that apostle, including St. Peter's 
Well at Houston in Renfrewshire ; but most of 
these are to be found in counties in the south- 
west and in the north-east. In the latter district 
there is a well at Mamoch, in Banffshire, called 
Petrie's Well ; and at Rait, in Perthshire, is 
St. Peter's Wishing Well. There is also a 
Wishing Well in West Kilbride Parish, in the 
same shire as that in which the Holy Well at 
Galston is situated. 

A very brief examination of the topographical 
nomenclature of the district may here be referred 
to as probably throwing a side-light on the 
subject. One of the principal streams in the 
parish, which runs at right angles to the river 
Irvine at the point where it joins that river and 
intersects the town, is variously called Burn Awn, 
Burn Ann, sometimes spelt with a final e, and 
frequently the noun following the adjective, with 
the same variations of spelling. Until a better 
etymology is forthcoming, to account for the 
origin of the word Ann, we may venture to 
suggest that its name was originally St. Anne's 



Bum. It is well known that St Anne is the 
reputed mother of the Virgin ; it is a little 
curious therefore, and, from our point of view, 
most appropriate, that a little stream flowing 
into the Anne Burn at the southern end of the 
town, should be called St. Mary's Burn ; that is, 
in honour of the Virgin, to whom a chapel in 
Cessnock Castle, or, as it was then called, the 
Towre of Galliestoune, was also dedicated. 

Galston. JOHN MuiR, F.S.A. Scot 



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SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 

The medal found the other day, in the founda- 
tion of an Upperkirkgate house, is one of a long 
series, issued during the reign of that states- 
man. From the capture of Porto Bello, in 1739, 
Admiral Vernon, Commodore Brown, and Sir 
Robert Walpole had their greatness proclaimed 
to the world, in gold, in silver, and in bronze. 
The errant medal, in copper, to which we the 
other month alluded, is one of these. By the 
kindness of a friend in Edinburgh, who has 
brought me these two most valuable volumes, 
entitled, " Medallic Illustrations on the History 
of Great Britain and Ireland," I am enabled to 
learn all that can be known. 

At the date of the taking of Porto Bello, the 
Statesman, the Admiral, and the Commodore 
were popular. No fewer than forty medallic 
evidences of this are in existence, all struck in 

1739. 
In 1 74 1, a medal was issued, hostile to Sir 

Robert Walpole, and meant to be helpful to 
the interests of His Grace of Argyle. On the 
reverse of that medal, we have for the first time, 
the die diabolic, which figures on three different 
1 74 1 medals. 

The reverse of the Duke of Argyle's medal, 
is the first display of a desire to find accommo- 
dation for Sir Robert Walpole, in another place. 
The Duke has beneath his own portrait, the 
words declarative of his being, " No Pentioner** 
of Sir Robert. Like enough, like enough ; yet 
it is said, the statesman used his influence with 
the King, and thus the Duke was made " No 
Pentioner" in quite another than his medallic 
meaning meant. In reading the descriptions 
given of the other two medals of 1 741, in which 
the accommodation scene is depicted, one can- 
not but be struck by the frequency with which 
this method of annoyance was used. Coarse 
leaden medals for the streets. Copper and 
bronze, silver and gold, were materials on which 
the effects of many an artistic die were thrown, 
and as in these days we handle and examine 
them, we feel how very good much of the work is. 

A. W. 

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THE \te:rnon medal found in 

UPPERKIRKGATE. 

The medal figured and described by A. W. 
(VIII. 49) in your issue of July is one of a series ' 
of no fewer than 130 different medals struck in , 
London in 1740 in honour of the achievements j 
of Admiral Vernon and his Commodore against 
the Spaniards in the pre\nous year. When, in 
March, 1740, the news was received in London 
that Vernon had stormed and taken Portobello 
on 22nd Nov., 1739, the popular enthusiasm 
knew no bounds, and then, as now, tradesmen 
of all kinds were not slow to take advantage of 
it. Thus it is not surprising that your corres- 
pondent, misled by the incongruities which the 
medal presents, has described its obverse as its 
reverse, and altogether lost sight of its occasion 
and object It is a bastard medal ; the obverse 
die of an already old medal struck in derision 
of a popular political defeat having been utilised 
for its reverse by the medallist, whose only ob- 
ject was to multiply varieties, and sell as many 
as he could while the fame of the victorious 
Admiral divided the talk of the to^n with the 
continued unpopularity of the great WTiig minis- 
ter. The same Vernon obverse was used with 
several other reverse designs, while the Walpole 
reverse is used with other obverse designs cele- 
brating the naval victory. 1 have examined 
most of the 130 varieties, and have several in 
my own collection, but I have never seen one 
which deserves to be described as of " rare 
artistic goodness." The majority of them are 
exceedingly poor in design, thin and deficient in 
weight, and execrably executed in a low quality 
of metaL When found in such circumstances 
as described by your correspondent, they are 
usually quite black under a thin coating of pale 
verdigris. Indeed, it would be difficult to point 
to a single example of a British medal of the 
same period which can fairly be considered 
creditable to medallic art 

The coarsely satirical design, forming the re- 
verse, was struck in the summer of 1733, when 
Walpole found that his proposal to extend the 
Excise Duties to wine and tobacco was so un- 
popular that he was compelled to relinquish it 
In 1740 his unpopularity was still very great, 
and his political opponents, in view of the 
General Election to take place early in 1741, 
adopted every possible means to increase it 

Admiral Vernon became the candidate for 
Westminster, but having in the meantime failed 
in his attack upon Carthagena, he was also de- 
feated in his attempt to enter Parliament. 

The medal is undoubtedly curious, and as an 
instance of the mistakes made in connection 
with the series, I may mention that in Decem- 



ber last I obser\ed one of them described in 
the catalogue of a curiosity dealer as a Naval 
Reward Sfedal^ and priced at £7 7s, At my 
request it was sent for my inspection, when I 
found it a very ordinary specimen, of which I 
possessed a duplicate in much better state. Its 
true value was less than seven shillings. The 
specimen described by A. W. is more rare, and 
therefore of greater value, apart from any worth 
that may attach to it on account of the queer 
place where it was found. J. F. K. J. 



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EXTRACTS FROM THE COUNCIL 
RECORDS OF OLD ABERDEEN. 



12 November, 1634. 

The said day it is institut and ordainit be the 
bailzies with consent of the Inhabitantes of Auld 
Aberdeine that quhosoeiur within the said toune 
receptes any beggeris sturdie beggeris or strain- 
geris or guies them ludging or hospitalitie with- 
in the said toune fra this day foorthe shall pay 
the onlaw of Ten pundes toties quoties and 
quhateuir he beis that reveiles on his neighbour 
and proues the recept of beggeris shall haue the 
quarter of the onlaw. 

15 December, 1634. 

The said day the baillies decerns Agnes 
Morieson to pa> the onlaw aboue writtin for 
the recept of strong beggers to be payed within 
terme of law under the paine of poynding. 

The said day it is statute and ordainit that no 
man within the Towne shall by mair meill nor 
semes his awin house being freman under the 
paine of Ten poundes toties quoties. 

13 May, 1635. 

The said the baillies foirsaides hes set the 
loch of Auld Aberdeine to George King Gilbert 
Bauerlay Robert George and Johne Forsythe 
for the space of ane yeir for the quhilk they 
bind and obleges thame to pay the soume of 
sex pundes money at Witsonday nixt to the 
thesaurer thairof. 

16 May, 1636. 

The said day wer elected threttie persones of 
the most honest and aged persones of the Toune 
as ane double assyses to pass upoun the inquest 
of such thinges as they should be requyred and 
giue thair aith de fidelitate quhairof the names 
followes viz Williame Troup in Spittell, Andrew 
Youngsone, wobster, Johne Andersone tailzeour, 
James Innes, Thomas Merser, Robert Law, 
And row Adame, Andro Hendersone, George 
King, David Abell, Johne Forbes, William Hay, 
skinner, Alexander Tellie, Williame KnoUes, 
Alexander Schand, George Chalmer, flescher, 



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Robert Andersone, cordiner, Andro Barker, 
smythe, Johne Andersone, cordiner, James Tail- 
zeour, George Moir, smythe, Thomas Angus, 
wobster, Andro Torrie, Robert George, smythe, 
Donald Wrquhart, George Andersone, Thomas 
Cuming, WiUiame Burnet, Mr Thomas Lillie, 
and Alexander MoutrayTo pas upoun the inquest 
of ane assyss of all infamous persones all ydleris, 
and those that hes no certaine calling to liue be 
and wer not provyded of kaill and fewall and 
other necessaries of. good neighbourheid and 
upoun recepteris of begeris ydleris and vaga- 
boundes or strangeris without licence as also to 
cognosce quhat number of brousteris may serue 
the whole boundes of the Auldtoun Spittell, and 
Chanrie, and to set downe their names and the 
said assyss being first solemnelie suorne to delait 
no persone for malice nor for to conceill any 
through favour or to reveall any speeches of thair 
officiales that past upoun the said inquest and 
being removed from the consistorie to Dumbares 
yll efter conference thair amonges themselves 
about ane hour returned the subscrivit declara- 
tioun following viz The haill inquest be the mouthe 
of Thomas Merser chancellur ordaines — 

Thomas Elmslie to be amerciat for recept 
and to find cautioun in tyme cuming Cristiane 
Cruikshanke and hir dochter to be banished 
with the haill companie within the house, Creple 
Forbes and his wyff to be banished, Beatrix 
Cheilles hes nothing to liue on to be banislied 
or else set cautioun, Alexander Couttes with his 
wyif to be banished, Beatrix Torrie to remoue, 
Issobell Gray to go to seruice, set cautioun or els 
remoue, Elspet Gierke, Thomas Turner his wyff 
and bairnes to remoue, Janet Heruie to set cau- 
tioun for recept of beggeris, Johne Ritchie with 
his wyff and bairnes to be removed, Johne Gari- 
oche and his wyff to be banished, Janet Cruick- 
shanke and her dochtir to remoue or els set 
cautioun in Mr Alexander Irwinges hous, the 
haill houshold within the chancel laris clois to be 
removed, Alexander Gordoun and his wyff to 
remoue sic as he hes in his hous and set cau- 
tioun in tyme cuming to that effect, Williame 
Gibsone to pay the former onlaw for transgres- 
sioun of the former actes and set cautioun in 
tyme cuming, and if the said Williame findis it 
not expedient to do the samen the said Williame 
to be absolutlie banished with his whole familie, 
Williame Maxuell to set cautioun for his wyff, 
Issobell Carnecorse, Margaret Couper with her 
dochter all three to be banished, Robert Ros to 
find cautioun both for himselfe and his wyff 
under the pain of baneschment, Mariorie Carle 
and Williame Hutcheone, Helene Thomsone 
and Elspet Norie all to be removed, Johne 
Irwing to go to seruice or els to remove, George 
Haldan to be amerciat conforme to Thomas 



Elmslie for recept of Thomas Bamett couper. 
Ordaines Thomas Gumming to pay ane onlaw 
according as the baillies shall modifie and set 
down for recept of beggeris and that for bygones, 
and the said Thomas to remove his sone aff of 
the towne, set cautioun or than put him to ser- 
uice. 

Lykwayes the haill inquest be the mouth of 
thair said chancellor referris the brousteris the 
number thairof and quha sail brew to the baillies 
thamselves to judge thairin. 

The said day the preceiding actes concerning 
the recept of beggares and vagabondes wer 
ratified and all the foimamit persones convict 
and declairit to be infamous be the judgment of 
the assyss wer ordainit by the authoritie of the 
baillies to red and remoue themselues aff of the 
Towne under the paines following, that is to 
say eftir the publict proclamatioun of thir pre- 
sent actes at the mercat croce if any of the 
saides persones be found within the Toune for the 
first fault to be put in the stockes or joges all 
the foimoone and imprisoned efter till they set 
sufficient cautioun for removall. And if they 
be found the second tyme to lay ane bume 
yron on thair cheik or shoulder and both the 
tymes to be punished in their goodes according 
to the judges discretioune and quha ewer in- 
duelleris in the Toune beis found to recept 
thame or giue thame harbour efter the said pro- 
clamatioun to be amerciat and pay the onlaw of 
four pundis toties quoties, thairof tuentie shil- 
ling es to be giwen to the delaitteris of the names 
of the saides recepteris to the baillies. 

Item the same day it was ordainit that hence- 
forth no fewares in this Towne or landes lordis 
set any persones for thair sub-tennentes in any 
of thair housses till first they bring ane testi- 
monial! from the minister of the parioche quhair 
they remained last and thair maister they 
served and then till thei be brought to the bail- 
lies and tryed quhat calling thay ar of and how 
they may liue and lastlie till thair landes lord 
become cautioner for thame to liue honestlie 
and if they be found thaireftir in any m^nes 
skaith their landes lord or thair cautioner to 
pay ten pundes toties quoties and thamselues to 
be punished according to the qualitie of thair 
fault and the judges discretione. And if so be 
that any fewar or friehalder in the said boundes 
beis found in thift or declaired infamous to be 
delaitted to the Bishope thair superior and to 
lose thair fewes according to the lawes of this 
kingdome and besyid that to be punished at the 
judges arbitriment. Alex. M. Munro. 



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" Music hath channs " is the title of Miss E. 
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SCOTTISH TRADESMEN'S TOKENS. 

(Continued from p, 43^ with Illustration,) 

Inverness. 
No. 59. 
Obv. Thistle and Rose united by riband. 

Legend, ** Inverness Halfpenny." 
Rev, Arms and Motto of Inverness — (Cornucopia and 
" Concordia et Fidelitas.") — On a stone at 
bottom " 1793." 
Edge, " Payable at Mackintosh, Inglis, & Wilson's." 

No. 60. 
Obv, Thistle and Rose united. 

Legend, ** Inverness Halfpenny, 1794." 
Rev, Arms and Motto of Inverness. On a stone at 

bottom "Clach-na-cudden." 
Edge, Similar to No. 59. 

No. 61. 
Similar in design and execution to No. 60, but with 
the date ** 1795. 

No. 62. 
Similar to No. 60, but dated " 1796." 
Note, These handsome tokens are a credit to the 
Highland capital, and rank among the best of 
the Scottish series for design and execution. 
They are rather scarce. The issuers were 
Linen Manu£cicturers at Inverness. 

L E I T H. 
No. 63. 
Size, Halfpenny, 

Obv, Ship sailing into a harbour, behind a small boat 
with two men ; pier with lighthouse and flag- 
staff with flag displayed. 
Legend, ** Success to the Port of Leith, 1796." 
Rev, Female figure holding a pair of scales in one 
hand and a clothes prop in the other, seated 
upon a bale ; in front of her a chest marked 
" Tea " and two casks, one of which is marked 
" Gin " ; behind her a huge thistle in full 
bloom. 
Legend, "Payable at the House of John Whyte, 
Kirkgate, Leith." 

No. 64. 
Similar in design, but only one cask shewn in the 
reverse, and with other slight differences ; the 
legends as in No. 63. 

No. 65. 
Obv, A Barque sailing ; two laurel branches crossed 
beneath. 
Legend, ** Leith Halfpenny." 
Rtv, Figure of Britannia holding an olive branch in 
her right hand and a spear in her left. 
Legend. " Leith Halfpenny." 
Edge, ** Payable in Leith, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. 

No. 66. 
Similar to No. 65 in obverse and reverse. 
Edge, ** Payable at the shop of Joseph Archibald." 
Note, The Leith Tokens are rude in design and ex- 
ecution. White's are rather scarce. He was 
a Grocer, Spirit Merchant, and Ship Chand- 
ler. Joseph Archibald was no doubt the same 
individual who issued Nos. 29 and 30 in 
Edinburgh. 



Montrose. 
No. 67. 
Obv, Perspective view of Montrose and shipping, the 
estuary of the Esk and old Wooden bridge 
appearing prominently in front. 
Legend, " Mare Ditat." £'jf. " Montrose." 
Rev, Female Figure seated at a Spinning Wheel. 
Legend, ** Sure are the rewards of Industry." Ex, 
" 1796." 
Edge, " Payable by I. Bisset & Son, Montrose." 

No. 68. 
Obv, Similar to No. 67, but larger design. 
Rev, Same as No. 67. 
Edge, Same as No. 67. 

No. 69. 
Similar to No. 68, but with the edge milled. 
Obv, Similar to No. 68, but in exergue ** 1797." 
Rev, Similar to No. 68, but in exergue ** Montrose." 
Edge^ " London, Liverpool, or Montrose." 

No. 71. 
Obv, Arms of the Duke of Montrose, and Motto, 
"NeOublie." 
Legend, "Montrose Halfpenny, 1799." 
Rev, Front elevation of a building. 
Legend, "Montrose Lunatic Asylum, Erected by 
Subscription. " ^:t. " 1 78 1 . " 
Edge, Payable by Alexander Nicol, Tobacconist. 
Note, The Montrose tokens are well designed and 
finely executed, and are rather scarce. Only 
a few impressions of No. 67 were struck, and 
they were worth 12/. each at the end of last 
century. Messrs James Bisset and Son were 
Linen Manufacturers. 

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Perth. 
No. 72. 
Obv, Man hauling salmon net, fish on the ground at 
his feet, and a boat on the river bank. 
Legend, " Rete trahito fauste." Wright, Jun. Des." 
Rev, A bridge with hills in the background. The 
Arms and Motto (" Pro Rege, Lege, et 
Grege ") of the city of Perth, within a sunk 
circle in exergue. 
Legend, "Perth Halfpenny, 1797." Ex, "Tay 
Bridge finished, 1770." 
Edge, " Payable on Demand by John Ferrier." 

No. 73. 
The same design but without date. Specimens are 
occasionally found with a plain edge. 
No. 74. 
Obv, View of side elevation of a church ; the Arms 
and Motto of Perth within a sunk circle in 
exergue. 
Legend. "Perth Halfpenny, 1797." Ex, "St. 
John's Church." 
Rev, View of a Watermill and Trees. 

Legend, " 46 Watermills for Bleaching, Printing, 
Cotton Works, Com, &c., within 4 miles of 
Perth." Ex, Wright Des. 
Edge^ Same as No. 72. 

No. 75. 
Obv, The Arms and Motto of Perth. 
Rev. A hank of yarn over a package of dressed flax. 

Legend, "Perth Halfpenny, 1797." 
Edge, " Payable at the house of Patk, Maxwell." 



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No. 76. 
The same design struck from different dies ; the 
figures and inscriptions smaller. 

No. 77. 
The same design but undated. 

No. 78. 
Obv. The Amis of Perth ; the Motto on a riband 
with sprigs of thistle at each end. 
Legend. " Perth Halfpenny." Ex. •* 1797." 
Rev. Distilling Apparatus, Cask and Liquid Measure. 
Legend. •* Payable at David Peters, Wine and 
Spirit Shop. 
Edge. Milled. 

No. 79. 
Obv. A conical tower with flagstaff and flag flying, 
beside a quay at which three small ships are 
moored ; trees on either side. 

Legend. ** Perth Farthing, 1798.*' Ex. "Monks 
Tower." 
Rev. Female Figure watering cloth in the process of 
blea':hing, a large tub, and some trees. 

Legend, ** In our vicinity are the finest streams and 
fields for bleaching in Britain." 

Ex. T. Menzies, Des. 
Note. The Perth tokens for design and execution 
rival those of Dundee, and are chiefly in- 
debted for their beauty to the taste and skill 
of the same Author, Mr. James Wright, Jun. 
Specimens are now very scarce, especially 
Nos. 74 and 79. Proofs exist in silver. The 
issuers were John Ferrier, Draper and Hosier, 
Patrick Maxwell, Grocer, and David Peters, 
Spirit Merchant. 
Obv. Bust of Dr. Adam Smith in profile. 

Legend. "The Penny of Scotland (i oz.), 1797," 

Ex. "Adam Smith, LL.D., F.R.S., born at 

Kirkcaldy. 

Rev, A forge, an anvil, two hammers, a horse-shoe, 

plough and harrow, spinning wheel, shuttle, 

cask, and a bale lying on a quay ; ships at sea. 

Legend, " Wealth of Nations. " 

Ex. " Boog, Junr. , des. " Between thistles. "P. 
Kempson fecit." 

No. 81. 
Obv. Ruined Castle with trees on an island. 
Legends. " Loch Leven Penny, 1797." "Q.Mary 
imprisoned in the isle and Castle, a.d. 1567." 
Ex, "P.K. fecit." 
Rev,* A woman with clothes kilted treading in a tub 
placed between thistles ; the artist's initials 
"T. W." beneath. 
Legends. "Ancient Scottish Washing.** " Honi 
soit qui mal y pense." 

No. 82. 
Obv, The arms of Paisley within a sunken oval ; " P 
K. sculpsit — R. Boog, Jun. Des." 
Legend. " Paisley Penny, Arms 1 798." 
Rev. View of a ruined church. 
Legend. " Abbey Church." Ex. founded (circiter) 
1 160." 

No. 83. 
Obv, Similar to No. 82. 
Rev, Interior view of Church. 



Legend. " Interior of the Abbey Church as repaired 
in its original stile a.d. 1788." Ex, "Aus- 
picis R.B." 

No. 84. 
Obv. Bust of Lord Duncan in Naval uniform. 
Legends. "Dundee Penny, 1798." Adml. Ld. 
Duncan, born here 1 731, defeated the Dutch 
Fleet 1797." Artist's name " Wyon " and 
"P. K., fecit." 
Rev. Figures representing Adam and Eve under a 
tree round the trunk of which a serpent is 
coiled ; the female with an apple in her hand. 
Legend, " 23,000 inhabitants in Dundee, vid. Statis- 
tical Account of R. Small, D.D. 
Ex. " Be fruitful and multiply, Gen. I. 28." "J. 
W. L, Des." K. J. 



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NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF ABERDEEN- 
SHIRE. 

1. Abellyjohn, Vocalist and Musician, said to have 
been born m Aberdeen about 1640. He became a 
gentleman of the Chapel Royal in the reign of Charles 
II. , and was celebrated for his fine counter-tenor voice, 
and for his skill on the lute. He was a Roman 
Catholic, and at the accession of William III. lost his 
place, and went to reside on the continent, where he 
maintained himself sometimes in great luxury, and 
sometimes with difficulty, by his singing and playing. 
He was a careless free liver, little solicitous how he 
obtained money, or how he spent it. During the 
reign of Queen Anne, he was at Cambridge with his 
lute ; but his power of attraction seems to have ceased, 
and he died in poverty at an advanced age. Two of 
his songs will l)e found in the Pills to purge Melancholy. 
In 1 701 he published a Collection of Songs. 

2. Abercrombie, John, M,D, : The most eminent 
Scottish physician of his time, and a considerable 
author on religious and philosophic themes. The son 
of a parish minister, who was himself of Abcrdonian 
origin, he was born in the Manse of the East Church, 
Aberdeen, 12th October, 1780. He studied medicine 
in Edinburgh, taking his degree in 1803, and thence- 
forth devoted himself to the practice of his profession 
in the Scottish capital. At an early age he acquired 
a great reputation; and after the death, in 1821, of 
the celebrated Dr. Gregory, he was recognised as the 
first consulting physician in Scotland. His principal 
professional writings were treatises on the pathology 
of the brain, and on diseases of the stomach. But he 
is best known by his works on The InteUectucU 
Powers, 1830, and The Moral Feelings ^ 1833. These 
works have no pretensions to originality or depth of 
thought, but were in their day amazingly popular, 
attaining, respectively, the honour of an i8th and 14th 
edition. Dr. Al>ercrombie was held in the highest 
estimation by his contemporaries as a man as well as 
a physician. Active beneficence, guided by uncommon 
sagacity, prudence, earnestness and Christian zeal, 
was his distinguishing characteristic. He was, there- 
fore, as universally beloved as he was highly honoured. 
The following are among the honours he received in 
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appoinli^ Bs Physician lo the King far Scolland, and 
in 1837 was named first Physician to the Queen in 
ihat country. In 1834 the University of Oxford 
conferred on him the honorary degree of M.D., and 
Ibe following year he was cnosen Lord Rector of 
Maiischal College in his native city. He was also 
Fellow of the Royal Collie of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Edinbargh, and a Vice-President of the 
Royal Sticiety in that city. Dr. Abercrombie died 
with great suddenness in 1844. 

3. Adam, Roiert, tht Rev., B.A., Episcopalian 
Divine and Author. Bom in Udny parish aliouC 177a, 
after graduating at Aberdeen, Mr, Adam was sent \ej 
some persons interested in his veilare to ^t. Edmund 
Hall, Oxford. After taking his B.A. degree, he was 
ordained priest and deacon by Bishop Porteous of 
London. About iSoi, he was appointed Assistant 
lo Dr. Drummond of Hawthornden, titular Bishop of 
Glasgow, whom he succeededas minister of Blackfnars 
Wynd Chapel, Edinbui^h. In 1809 he published an 
clnhorale work in three volumes, called ' The ReligioHS 
World Displayed,' or a view of the four grand systems 
of Religion, Judaism, Paj^nism, Oinstianity, and 
Mohammedanism, and of the Various Denominations, 
Sects, and Parties in the Christian World, to which is 
lubjoineda view of Deism and Atheism. Subsequently 
settled in the West Indies, he died in Tobago, 182G. 

4. Adaiia, Franiis, At.D.: Cla3.sical Scholar and 
Author. Bom in 1797 in Lumphanan, he gradualei! 
at King's College, Alierdeen. Having adopted the 
medical profession, he settled at Banchory, where he 
spent a long and useful life as country doctor. 
Retaining, however, his love for the classics, he 
published several tranilatiuns of the least known of 
these works. Among which are an English Version 
of Musiieus, also Arundines Devae ; er Poetical 
Translations on a nev/ prittdpli, 1853. Having 
devoted a portion of his spare time to a study of the 
works of the Greek physicians, he published, first of 
all, a transialion of the writings of Paulus A<^neta. 
A translation of Hippocrates followed, ami was 
succeeded Uyone of Aretaeus. He died in iSGi ; but 
is remembered still in Alierdcensbire with pride on 
account of his unselfish devotion to rare and abstruse 
scholarly study. 

J. Adams, JakH, Ike Rev,, A.M.: Divine and 
Historian. Born in Aberdeen about 1750, he 
graduated in the University there. Having established 
an Academy at Putney, he pubtished in connection 
with it several educational works. He was als<] 
minister of a Chapel in Cross Street, Hattnn Garden, 
London, and died 1S14. Among his other works are 
A View of Universal History from the Creation to Ike 
present time, in 3 vols, 1795. He also published z 
vols, of Original Anecdotes, and one volume of his 
Sermons. 

6. Ailken, W. S.: Minor Poet. Said to l>e a 
native of Alierdeenshire. He published a volume of 
venx in 1SS3, entitled Star Dust. 

7. Alexander, Cosmo: Artist. Perhaps the son of 
No. 8 J or it may be the same person. He isdescrihed 
by one compiler as a portrait painter pracltsinc in 
Edinburgh, 1750. In 1766 he was a member of the 



Incorporated Society of Artists, London. Gibbs, the 
Architect, who was an Aberdonian, left him his house, 
pictures, &c. He went to America when between 50 
and 60, and in 1772 was painting portraits in Rhode 
Island. He returned to Scotland and died in Edin- 

8. Alexander, Cosmo John: Artist. A descendant 
of Ceoi^e Jamejone, said to lie a grand-nephew. We 
may, therefore, claim him for Aberdeenshire, though 
neither the place nor the date of his birth has lieen 
recorded. He studied his art chiefly at Florence, On 
his return Lo Scotland in 1720 he resided for some 
time at Gordon CasLle, having found a libeml patron 
in ihe then Duchess, a daughter of the Earl of Peter- 
borough, tie painted poetical, allegorical and 
ornamental piec^ ; also portraits and historical land- 
scapes. Many of the paintings of Queen Mary are by 
Alexander. He had be^n, il is staled, a picture of 
Mary's escape from Lochleven Castle, which he did 
not lire to finish. In his early years he is said lo 
have executed at Rome, about the beginning of the 
iSth century, sketches from the paintings of Raphael, 
Mr. Bulloch, editor of this journal, in his monograph 
on George Jarr.esone, says that Aleianoei's pictures 
are scattered aliout the mansions of the North of 
Scotland, )>ut posfiess no special metit. They are 
said to !« mailer of fact in style, and wholly destitute 
of the delicate handling of Jamesone. He is alleged 
to have joined the Pretender and carried arms on his 
behalf. 

9. Alexander, John, Engraver, described as grand- 
son of George Jamesone by his daughter Marjory. 
Mr. Bulloch, in his monograph on thai artist, says he 
became a picture engraver, and alleges that it is to his 
burin Ihal we owe Ihe well-known engraving of the 
Jamesone family group. 

10. Aiexaruier, William, J.L.D.: Novelist, 
Journalist, Essayist, and Poet. This notable son of 
Aberdeenshire was bom in June, i8z6, at Rescivat, 
Chapel of Garioch. An acci<lent in early youth, by 
whi,:h he was disabled from manual labour, proved 
the turning-point in his career. For, giving himself to 
study, his literary ambition was stirred. He began to 
write Stones, Verses, and Essays. Coming to Aber- 
deen in 185a, he joined the Slaif of the North of 
Stolland Gaselte, for which he acted as reporter and 
sub-edilur. In the fallowing year that paper was 
merged in the Free Press, and with that organ of 
puiillc opinion his name and litmc were suhscnuently 
identified. In process of time he became its Editor, 
and enriched its pages from lime to time with sketches 
of the social life of the north, as well as with other 
Essays of high literary ability. Il was thus that the 
papular and realistic slory ai Johnny Gihb of Cushet- 
neuk was produced in 1 S7 1 , as well as Life Among 
My Ain Folks, 1875, and Northern Rural Life in the 
Eighteenth Ceiilnry, 1877. As a token of the esteem 
in which he was held in literary circles in the North, 
the University of Aberdeen conferred on him the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Dr. Alexander 



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the Free Church. In particular he inleresleii himself 
greally in the contros-eisy thnt originated over the 
wtilings of Professor Robeitson Smith, and was a 

Prominent .'supporter of the distinfpiishud piofcssor. 
lis deoth, which occutted early Ihls year, was widely 
regretted. 

II. Allan, IVilliam: Minor Puel. Born Fooldee, 
Aberdeen, in 1844. Nuliced liy Edwardir in Motlera 
Scaltis/i Polls. He writes much occasional verse. 

IS. Allaniyct, Altxandtr, M.P. : Alierdeen Public 
Man. He was Ihe eldest son of James Allnrdyce, 
turgess of Aberdeen, and Jean Jopp, sister of Provosl 
Jopp, and was bom in the year 1743. Ife was chosen 
M, P. for the Aberdeen disijict of bui^hs in 1 792, and 
continued to represent that constituency till his 
dealh in iSoi. 

13. Allardyce, AUxandtr: Novelist, Journalist, &.c. 
A native of Aberdeenshire, and educated at the 
University there. Mi. Allardyce is a frequent 
contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other high 
class periodicals. He is also IheaUlhcT of Ihe popntar 
novels. The City of Suiiskitu, Earls Court, Balmoral, 
&C. Said to be a native of Rhynie. 

14. AndersBa, Adam: Aalhur of tbe well-known 
History of Commerce. Biirn in Aberdeen in 1692, or 
according lo another authority in 1695. Mr. Ander- 
son, when about 30 jcars of age, obtained a situation 
in the South Sea House, where he afterwanls rose to 
Le chief cleik of the Slock and new Annuities. Here 



whidi few books in the English Language alTord 
internal evidence of patient anil lal)ori(ius research. 
Adam Smith calls him "a sober and judidous writer." 
He was elected as one of the trustees for estnbbshing 
the colony of Geot^a in 1732, and was also a member 
of the Scots Corporation, London. lie died in 1765. 

15. Anderson, Atexaiuier { Profesmr ) : Malbe- 
matidan. Bom Alierdeen, 15S2, he settled early in 
the 17th century in Paris as Professor of Mathematics 
Dr. Morgan calls him an "excellent geometer," and 
says his writings display great aculeness. A list of 
these writings is given by Dr. Moi^n in his account 
of this geometer in The Biographical Diclionaty II. 
il 577 (1843). The last of bis published works is 
dated 1619 ; but the year of his death is unknown. 

16. Anderson, Alexander (Sir): Provost of Aber- 
deen. Son of the Minister of Stiichen, and born in 
(he Manse there in 1S02. He was educated at 
Marischal College, Aberdeen, entered the legal pro- 
fession, became a most successful business man, and 
in 1863 was knighted by her Majesty on the inaugur- 
ation of a statue lo the Prince Consort during his 
provostshiii. He died in 1SB7. 

W. B. R. W. 

The cotnfilete Catalogue of the " Old Glas- 
gow" Exhibition is now ready. The work is a 
Sulky volume of over 41)0 pages, anti will prove 
a perfect mine of useful informalion for future 
chroniclers of Glasgow. 



THE CANTERBURY TALES. 

PROLOGUE— Continued 
A Sompnour eke in that same place, 

With iire-red cherubinic face, 

And pimpled too ; his eyen narrow ; 

As hot and amorous as a sparrow. 

With scniled brows black, and scraggy beard ; 

His visage made the bairns afeard. 

Quicksilver, litharge, or brimstone, 

UoraK, ceruse, oil tartar — none. 

No ointment that would cleanse or bite. 

Could help him of his blotches white. 

Nor of the knobs upon his cheeks. 

Well liked he onions, garlick, leeks ; 

And drink strong wine as red as blood. 

He then would speak, and cry like wutj. 

And when the wine had been well drunken, 

Then would he speak no word but Latin. 

He knew some lertns, say two or three. 

That he had learned of some decree ; 

No wonder, hearing"! all the day : 

And eke ye know that any jay 

Can clepe Watt well as can the Pope. 

But him in other things to grope. 

When spent his whole philosophy ; 

Queslio quid juris ? ay he'd cry. 

A well-bred rake was he, and kind ; 

A better fellow none could find. 

He'd suffer, for a quart of wine, 

A friend to have his concubine 

A twelvemonth long, excusing full ; 

Vet privily a finch would pull. 

And if a hearty soul he found. 

Would teach him there was little ground 

For awe in the Archdeacon's curse, 

Unless one's soul were in his purse ; 

He there indeed would punished be; 

" Purse is the Archdeacon's hell," quoth he. 

But well I wot he lied indeed ; 

Cursing, each guilty man should dread ; 

Curse slayeth, as assoiling saveth ; 

'Ware too of his Significavit 

He had in danger at his guise. 

The youngsters of the diocise. 

Their counsel knew, and was their rede, 

A garland had he set on's head, 

As great as 'twere for some ale-stake ; 

His buckler, too, made like a cake. 
With him a gentle Pardonere 

Of Rounceval, friend and eke compeer, 

That straight had come from court of Rome. 

Full loud he sung, " Love, hither come,'' 

The Sompnour did a stiff bass bear ; 

Had never trump so loud an air. 

The Pardoner's hair in hue like wax. 

Hung smoothly like a hank of flax. 

His locks by ounces from his head 

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Thin laid by culpons one by one ; 
But hood for jollity wore he none ; 
Trussed up in wallet safe it lay : 
He deemed himself the gayest gay. 
Dishevelled, save his cap, all bare ; 
With glaring eyen like to a hare. 
A vemicle sewed upon his cap ; 
His wallet 'fore him on his lap 
With pardons packed, from Rome all hot. 
Small voice he had, like any goat. 
No beard, nor one should ever have, 
But smooth as if one newly shaved ; 
I trow, a gelding, or a mare. 
For trade ! from Berwick unto Ware, 
Was no such other Pardonere. 
His budget had a pillowbere 
Was said to be Our Lady's veil. 
He had a gobbet of the sail 
St Peter had, when in his boat 
Upon the sea till Christ him caught. 
A cross of latten full of stones, 
And in a glass he had pig's bones. 
When, with these reliques in his hand. 
He found some parson far inland, 
In one day did he get more gain 
Than the poor parson in months twain. 
Thus he with flatteiy fain, and japes, 
Made parson and the flock his apes. 
In truth, to tell you at the last. 
In church a noble ecclesiast. 
He redde a lesson well or story. 
But best he sang an offertory ; 
For well he wist when that was sung. 
That preach he must, and smooth his tongue, 
Silver to win, as well he could ; 
He sang the merrier, and more loud. 
I've told now, shortly, in a clause, 
Th' estate, th' array, the number, cause 
Assembled why this company 
In South wark's gentle hostelry. 
The Tabard named, fast by the Bell. 
Now is the time, to you I'll tell 
How we did bear us that same night, 
When in that hostelry alight ; 
To tell our journey, I engage, 
And remnant of our pilgrimage. 
But first I pray your courteousness 
To deem it not as churlishness, 
Though in this matter I speak clear. 
And tell you of their words and cheer, 
Or of their sayings properly. 
For this ye know as well as I, 
Whoso repeats from any man, 
He must rehearse as nigh as can 
Each word that is within his charge. 
Though ere so rudely and so large ; 
Or else must tell his tale untrue. 
Or feign things, or find words quite new. 
He may not spare, though 'twere his brother ; 



As well say one word as another. 

Christ spake full broad in Holy Writ, 

And well ye wot no harm was it. 

Eke Plato, whoso him can read, 

" Words must be cousin to the deed." 

Also I pray, forgive it me 

If folks be not in their degree 

Here in this tale, as they should stand ; 

My wit is short, so understand. 

Great cheer our host did make each one. 
To supper set he us anon. 
And served with victuals of the best ; 
The wine was strong, to drink we pressed. 
A seemly man was he withal 
To've been a marshal in a hall. 
A large man he, with eyen steep, 
A fairer burgess not in Cheap. 
Bold of his speech, wise, eke well taught, 
Of manhood true he lacked for nought. 
And eke he was a merry man. 
For supper done, he plain began, 
And spake of mirth 'mongst other things. 
When we had made our reckonings ; 
And said he thus, " Now, Lordings, ye 
Are welcome all right heartily. 
For by my troth, I do not lie, 
I've seen this year no company 
Within this house, as there is now. 
I'd give you mirth, an' I wist how. 
Of such I am right now bethought. 
To do you good and cost you nought. 
Ye go as pilgrims, God you speed ! 
The blissful saint requite your meed ! 
And well I wot, when by the way 
Ye turn yourselves to talk and play ; 
For comfort, wanting mirth, there's none 
To ride along dumb as a stone ; 
And therefore would I make disport. 
As said before, and some comfort. 
And if you like, by one assent, 
To stand all now by my judgment. 
And work as I to you shall say ; 
To-morrow, riding by the way. 
Now, by my father's soul that's dead, 
Be ye not merry ! smite my head ; 
Hold up your hands ! no more I speak. 

Our counsel was not long to seek ; 
'Twas not worth whi^e to ponder twice, 
But granted without more advice, 
To say his verdict and behest. 
" Lordings," quoth he, ** now for the best ; 
But take it not into disdain ; 
This is the point both short and plain. 
That each, to shorten on our way 
The journey, shall tell stories tway 
To Canterbury as his due ; 
And homeward shall tell other two 
Of ventures that did once befall. 
And who doth bear him best of all, 



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That is, who telleth in this case, 
Best tales of sentence and solace, 
Shall supper at the common cost 
In this place, sitting by this post. 
When come again from Canterbury. 
And for to make you still more merry, 
Myself will gladly with you ride 
At mine own cost, and be your guide ; 
And who my judgment will withsay, 
Shall pay for all spent by the way. 
If ye vouchsafe that it be so, 
Tell me anon without words moe. 
And soon I'll shape myself therefore. 

'Twas granted, and our oaths we swore 
With full glad heart, and prayed also 
" That he'd vouchsafe to do thus so ; 
That he would be our chief director. 
Our judge of tales, and eke reporter ; 
And supper set at certain price. 
And we'd be ruled at his device 
In high and low." Thus one assent 
Accorded all to his judgment. 
And then the wine was fetched anon. 
We drank ; to rest went every one 
Withouten longer tarrying. 

By morn, when day began to spring, 
Uprose our Host who was our cock. 
And gathered all into a flock. 
We rode no faster than a pace. 
Till nigh St. Thomas' watering place 
Our Host did there his horse arrest, 
And said, *' Lords, hearken if you list ; 
Ye wot your word which I record. 
If eve and morrow song accord. 
See now who first shall tell a tale. 
As I may e'er drink wine or ale. 
Whoso rebels 'gainst my judgment. 
Pays all that by the way is spent ; 
Draw cuts ere that we further win. 
Who hath the shortest shall begin. 
Sir Knight, my master and my lord. 
Draw cuts, for that is mine accord. 
Come near my Lady I^rioress ; 
Sir Clerk, let be your shamefacedness ; 
Pause not, lay hands to, every man." 

Anon, to draw each wight began ; 
To tell you how it was in short. 
By case, adventure, or by sort ; 
In sooth, the cut feU to the Knight : 
Full glad and blythe was every wight ; 
He must his tale tell as in reason. 
By promise, and by composition 
As ye have heard ; what need words moe 1 
When this good man saw that 'twas so ; 
As he was wise, obedient 
To keep his word by free assent. 
He said ; "Since I begin this game ; 
Welcome thou cut in God's good name ; 
Ride on, and hark to what I say." 



With that, forth rode we on our way, 
And he began with merry cheer 
His tale anon, as ye shall hear. 

( End of Prologue. ) 



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Roman Coins Found at Dufftown.— 
While workmen were making the new approach 
to the mansion-house of Pittyvaich, Dufftown, 
they discovered two small copper coins. The 
one was a Marcus Aurelius, A.D. 160-180, struck 
at Rome, having on the obverse the head of the 
Emperor, and on the reverse three trophies. The 
other was struck at Alexandria, in the middle of 
the third century, and bears on the reverse the 
figure of Peace. 



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Epitaphs. — It may be as well to note the 
fact, that during the dull season a goodly collec- 
tion of epitaphs, from many contributors, have 
appeared in the G/asj^ow Herald. Many of 
these are familiar enough, having appeared in 
printed collections ; a not inconsiderable num- 
ber, however, apparently appear for the first 
time. The letters relating to these quaint in- 
scrptions began to appear about the end of 
July, and were extended into the following 
month. 



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Historical Castles recently in the 
Market.- -Besides Ford in Northumberland, 
St. Briavels in Monmouth, and Greystoke in 
Cumberland— all castles celebrated in the an- 
nals of history — Brochel Castle, in the island of 
Rassay, near Portree, is also in the market for 
letting. Close by Brochel is the cavern in which 
Prince Charles lay for a time concealed. Bro- 
chel Castle, which is situated near the north 
end of the east of Raasay, was until recently a 
dilapidated suite of old buildings, last occupied 
by "John the Athletic," in the reign of King 
James VI. : perched one above the other on ter- 
raced cliffs, and so strongly situated as to be ac- 
cessible only up one steep ascent, with the aid 
of the hands. 



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English Presbyterian Sacramental 
Tokens.— Mr Edward F. Herdman, of Sed- 
bergh, Yorks, is engaged in the compilation of 
a small work, which, besides its antiquarian and 
numismatic interest, will have some value for 
students of English Presbyterianism. It will be 
an illustrated descriptive account of ihe "Sac- 
ramental Tokens" used in the Presbyterian 
Churches in England. Of course, tokens had 
gone out of fashion before the majority of exist- 
ing Presbyterian congregations came into ex- 
istence. Mr Herdman's book is to be published 
by subscription. 



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DEATH OF MR. CHARLES D. WYLLIE. 

It is with deep pain that we record the death, 
on the 28th ult., of this amiable gentleman, the 
representative in the third generation of his 
firm's name — the old established bookselling 
business of Messrs. D. Wyllie & Son, publishers 
of this periodical. What makes the present sad 
event the more significant is its occurrence 
within so short a period — two months — of the 
death of his partner, Mr. Edward Young. Mr. 
Wyllie was 37 years of age, and a year or two 
ago suffered an attack of Influenza, to the 
sequelae of which he has rapidly succumbed. 
In business Mr. Wyllie's kindly and obliging 
disposition was highly appreciated. Mr. Wyllie's 
other interests lay mainly in the direction of 
Church life, and in the religious education of the 
young,in which he took a practical and prominent 
part, his efforts being highly esteemed. Mr. 
Wyllie was unmarried, but his relatives receive 
a widespread sympathy for their loss. 



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The First Greek Book printed in 
Aberden. — In the Guide to the Exhibition of 
MSS. Printed Books, &c., at the British Assoc- 
iation Meeting of 1885, a small work issued from 
the press of Francis Douglas, (Epictetus. — 
Enchiridion. Graec. et Lat. 32mo, 1760, lent by 
James Chalmers, Esq.) is described as the first 
Greek Book printed in Aberdeen. But I have 
found an earlier one from the same press, which, 
like the Epictetus, is printed partly in Greek 
and partly in Latin. The Title page is as 
follows :— " Delectus ex Aeliano, Polyaeno, 
Aliisque. In usum JuvENTUTis Academicae 
Literarum Graecamm studiosae. Abredoniae : 
Apud Franciscum Douglas. M.DCc.Lvin." 
i2mo. Title one leaf; Greek Text, Prose pp. 1.39. 
Poetry pp. 40-46 ; Latin Text, pp. 1-40. The 
pagination is separate, and the Latin version 
does not include any translation of the extracts 
from Anacreon and other Greek poets. It will 
be obser\'ed that the title page is entirely in 
Roman type and that the worthy printer's 
fount was deficient in diphthongs. K. T. 



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Gabriel Setoun (Thos. N. Hepburn) has just 
finished a new volume. It is after the same 
style as " Barncraig," which was exceptional 
work for a first book. 

" Ebb Tide,'' by R. L. Stevenson, which re- 
cently passed through the pages of "To-Day,'' 
is to be published in book form in the beginning 
of this month. The issue of the new illustrated 
edition of "Suicide Club," and the "Rajah's 
Diamond," by the same author, has been de- 
layed till next month. The illustrations will be 
by Mr. W. J. Hennessy. 



Local Scraps (VI 1 1., 46).— Referring to my 
letter on this subject and the editorial note 
appended to it, I wish to explain, for the benefit 
of enquirers, that any cuttings of the nature 
before indicated, whether mounted or not^ will 
be welcome. My intention is to assort and 
mount in special scrapbooks all that I receive 
that will admit of this treatment ; but where 
collectors have already been at the trouble to 
mount and range their gatherings for themselves, 
I should be disposed as far as possible to retain 
them in the form supplied, only seeing that 
their contents are entered in the general index. 

A. W. Robertson. 

(Slueries. 

911. The Curse of Scotland. — I see suggested 
in the Scotsman that the nine of diamonds is the 
Corse of Scotland, that is, the Cross of Scotland or 
St. Andrew's Cross. It is well to find a reasonable 
explanation proposed, and not an ugly manufactured 
article which satisfied nobody. In Scotland the 
Corse is often met with, as in Kincardineshire the 
Cryne-corse and the Corse-bit ; Aberdeenshire the 
Corse o' Jackston, the Corse o' Monellie, and Shand's 
Corse. The old local rhyme contains the same : 

Cheese ye, chose ye, at the corse o' Tora, 
Will ye gang to Aberdeen or Elgin o' Mora? 

Is there any opposing evidence to the line of identi- 
fication Curse^ Corse, Cross. 

James Gammack, LL.D. 
Plymouth, Conn., U.S.A. 

912. Ythan Lodge. — Can anyone tell me if there 
are any local traditions concerning the death of Miss 
Catherine Dalyell, who was drowned in the Yythan 
while bathing previous to 1790. She was on a visit 
to the then occupants of Ythan Lodge. Replies to 
Mr. Leshe of Balquhain, Fetternear House, Kemnay. 

913. Gathering of the Clan Grant. — Many 
years ago, I happened on a humorous descriptive 
Gathering of the Clan Grant. The following are the 
only lines of it which I remember : — 

** Come the Grants o' TuUochgorum, 

VVi' their pipers a' afore 'em ; 
Prood the miihers are that bore 'em : 

Fee, fiddle, fa fum. 

** Come the Grants o' Ruthiemurchus, 

Ilka ane his sword an' durk has 
Ilka ane's as prood 's a Turk is 
Fee, fiddle fa, fum," 
I have little doubt the poem has been printed 
somewhere but I have never come across another copy 
of it. If any of your readers can inform me, through 
your columns, where a copy may be found, I will es- 
teem it a great favour. J. McR. 
Glasgow. 

914. Ass's Hair a Charm. — A friend who has 
recently been "doing" the English lake disCrict, in- 
forms me that he met a young country woman wearing 
what to all appearance was a charm against disease, 



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or other evil visitation suspended round her throat. 
On putting a question, it appeared that his surmise 
was correct ; the girl telling him that the amulet con- 
tained "Cuddy's hair"! This superstition probably 
arose from the tradition that the dark stripe nmning 
down the back of the ass, crossed by another at the 
shoulders, was communicated to the animal when our 
Lord rode on the back of an ass, in his triumphant 
entry into Jerusalem. Is the efficacy of "cuddy's 
hair" a wide spread superstition ? 

J AS. W. Scott. 

915. Old Rhyme. — I have several times heard 
aged Border men recite a verse of an old song or ballad 
only two lines of which I can recall ; some of our 
readers " up " in such matters may be able to give all 
the verses. The lines I remember are : 

** Bread and cheese at my door cheek, 
And pancakes on the riggin' o't." 
At the Lanark Common Riding it is still the custom 
to throw cakes among the crowd from the roof, or one 
of the upper windows, of a house, probably the pro- 
vost's. The rhyme doubtless refers to this old custom. 

Michael Merlin. 

916. Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots. — 
In Dr. Konigsfields " Lateinische Hymnen und 
Gesange" Vol. i. the Latin poem here appended 
appears, and in a note the author says; "The un- 
fortunate Queen Mary of Scotland is said to have 
written this poem in her prayer book a few hours 
before her execution." Is there any authority for this 
statement? The poem also appears in Dr. Schaffs 
" Hymns of Immanuel selected from all ages," and is 
attributed to Queen Mary, although Dr. Schaffputs a 
point of interrogation after his statement. I have 
made a translation of the poem, but I should like to 
know if it has been already translated into English. 
If so, it might be of interest to reproduce it in these 
columns. Here is the original. 

O Domine Deus ! 

Speravi in Te ! 

O care me Jesu ! 

Nunc libera me : 

In dura catena, 

In misera poena, 

Desidero Te ; 

Languendo, gemendo, 

Et genuflectendo 

Adoro, imploro, 

Ut liberes me ! Eearsden. 

917. Ancient Farm House at Lumphanan. — 
Lumphanan, although an upland parish, and a good 
distance from the sea, seems to be rich in historical 
associations. There in a clump of trees, in a field, 
is shown the place where Macbeth is said to have met 
his death. About a mile from that, in a southerly 
direction, not far from the parish church, is a low 
thatched cottage, where one of the Kings of Scotland, 
(James IV. it is said) passed a night. Could any of 
your readers give any account of this circumstance ? I 
carefully read Dr. Macintosh's delightfully descriptive 
papers in the Weekly Free Press, but must have missed 
the one about Lumphanan, as I do not remember 
reading it. J. 



918. The Peel Ring.— Close to the Deeside 
Railway, a short distance from the Parish Church of 
Lumphanan, is an enclosed piece of ground called the 
" Peel Ring." It has the appearance as if a fortified 
place had once existed there in the midst of a bog. 
Could any of your readers give any account of the 
family whose stronghold it may have been, or any 
account of this interesting parish ? Such would, I am 
sure, please many of your readers. J. 

919. Banchory Ternan. —Why was Upper Ban- 
chory, in Kincardineshire, called Banchory Ternan; 
Was it after St. Eman, who died in the 7th century ? 
Also, why is a village in the same county called Kin- 
cardine &Neil? Was it named this firom the power- 
ful race of O'Nialls in the 6th century? Any informa- 
tion relative to the above, and any references to the 
history of such, will much oblige. 

Scotch Thistle. 

920. Cuthbert of Inverness. — Where can I 
find information about this family ? Jean Cuthbert, 
d. of David Cuthbert, Inverness, married (circa 1690) 
Thomas Forbes (3rd son of John Forbes of CuUoden), 
and is slated to have lived " in Raits" (Nairn?) I 
shall be obliged if any reader can give me her issue. 
Was Cuthbert of Tillery, near Culloden, who mar- 
ried a sister of Sir John Gordon, 1st Bart, of Park, 
Z)fl2;/^ Cuthbert? Spernit Humum. 

928. RuTHORN OF Dundee.— Who was Patrick 
Ruthorn of Dundee? His daughter Isobel married 
(circa 1650) Captain Duncan Forbes of Assynt (3rd 
son of Duncan Forbes of Culloden). What was her 
issue? Spernit Humum. 

922. Campbell of Greenyards. — To what 
branch of the Campbells did Daniel Campbell of 
Greenyards belong? and where can I find particulars 
of his family ? His younger daughter, Doriel, married 
(circa 1740) Sir James Hay, Bt. of Hayston. 

Spernit Humum. 



Hnswers. 



907. Author of Collection of Hymns Wanted 
(VIII., 30, 47). — I was informed many years ago that 
James Fordyce, the compiler of this collection, was a 
schoolmaster in the parish of Aberdour, Aberdeen- 
shire. At the end of the preface he dates firom Pen- 
nan, which is in that parish. I regret I made no note 
of the name of my authority, not anticipating that the 
Rev. James Fordyce, D. D. , was to have the compila- 
tion attributed to him, and I think the authorities of 
the British Museum are mistaken in attributing it to 
him. In 1786 Cadell, Publisher, London, published 
a volume of Poems by James Fordyce, D.D. (not 
noticed by Mr. Walker in his " Bards of Bon- 
Accord,") and it seems incredible that he would pub- 
lish in the following year, by subscription^ a collection 
of hymns, 140 of which he is the author, and suppress 
his degree of D.D. James Gordon. 

897. Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism and 
Godly Exhortation (VIII., 13). — This is an in- 
teresting subject. Your correspondent, W. C, has 
la^iven particulars of five copies of this book which he 



September, 1894.] SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



in God, Johne, Arch 
primal of the hail K! 



has informed your rendfets ore known to be in ciist- 
encc. Will you allow me lo supplement this with 
such othei information as I have gathereil while in- 
vestngaling thi? sulijecl ? In addition lo the five men- 
tioned by W. C, there are the following copies: — 
British Museum, Advocates', and tlie University 
Library, Eclinbm^h ; the Earl of Ctawfotil and Bal- 
carres. Walsh, in his "History of the Catholic 
Church in Scotland," published in 1874, p. 278, 
says — ■" I have a copy of it in my possession, which 
incieafieE the number to ten copies. The Calechism 
narrates that it was " Prentit at Sanct Androus be ihe 
nand and eicpensis of the maist reverend father 
ohne, Archliischop o( Sanct Androus, and 
~~"-k of Scotland, the Kxix day of 
Angost, the yeir of our Lord MDLII." The printer's 
name was John Scott, and is supposed to have been 
the first hook printed in St, Andrews. In i88z Prof, 
Mitchell, of St. Andrews University, edited, with an 
introductory notice, a fac simile, beautifully printed 
in black letter line for line with the original. The 
impression was limited to 150 copies, ftblished by 
Willinm Patersoti, Kdinburi;h. In 1884 Mr. Laiv, 
Librarian of the Signet Library, Edinburgh, editeil an 
edition, wilb introduction, glossary, and preface by 
the Right Hon. W. E, Gladstone. I hope these par- 
icularsmny be of some utility lo readers of .S. N. &'Q. 
i query, 
As he said. Mr. 
Hill Burton, in his "Historyof Scotland," published 
in 1S76, says, " Mr. Laing says it has often lieen 
confounded with Hamilton's Calechism and that of 
the ' Twa Penny Faith,' printed in 1559. No copy 
is known to be preserved." It is, I think, a mailer 
of surprise that Mr, Hill Burton iionld have placed 
on record such a statement as that in his history. 
The Rev. J. F. S. Gordon, minister of St. Andrews, 
Glasgow, edited bis " Scot ichron icon," and which was 
published in 1867. I think I cannot do better than 



I now refer to your cortesponden 
namely : " The Tvra Penny Faith." 



termed 'The Twa Penny Failh' (from ad. Scots, 
equal to the sixth part of a fjenny sterling, which the 
pedlars charged for its sale, or, probably, called so in 
derision), printed in 1558, when a Provincial Coancil 
was held. Not a copy of this ' Twa Penny Fayth ' 
was known lo exist until the discovery of it by the 
late George A. Griffin, R.C. clergymnn, Dumfries, 
in a volame of miscellaneous tracts which belonged to 
his predecessor, Rev. Henry Small He allowed Dr. 
David LainR to reprint it in /lU simile in the Banna- 
tyne Miscellany, Vol. III., p. 313, and also supplied 
the deficiencies by the words in brackets. It is a 
tract of only four pages, in hlaclt letter, from the press 
of John Scott, printer in St. Andrews and Edinburgh. 
Besides the difference of six years in the date, the 
absurdity of supposing that the former bulky volame 
could have been sold fur such a price sufficiently 
points out the confusion among historians, I wrote 
to Dr. Laing for the loan of his types, but they are 
lost or demolished, so that I harl lo get new ones 
specially cast for the representation given in the next 
four pages (295-98)." I may further state that Prof. 
Mitchell reproduced ''The Twa Penny Faith" along 



with Ihe "Catechism " line for line as in the 01 
My impression is that he found the liooklet 
library of the Chupel- house, Dumfries, and, 
with other pamphlets, liound them for preser 
I am further confirmeil in my opinion from wl 
Du'iifrifs Cirurier sayi recording Father Smal 
death : "Taking an active anti most useful 
the management of the charities of the town, .' 
the Infirmary and the Parochial Board, and sf 
his limited leisure in antiquarian and literal 
suits." This volume of Miscellaneous Tracts 
in the library of Blaits Collie, Aberdeen. 

WiLt.lAM Thom 
7 Madeira Place, Leilh, 



Xtteratiire. 

Shaksperc: Fiinf Vorlesun_^cn rats dem 
lass. Von Bernhard TEN Brinic. ; 
burg ; J. Triibner. Glasgow : F. 

These five lectures were delivered in 1 
Frankfort, Goethe's birthplace, by Profess 
Brink, and have now been published 
friend and successor in office. It is si 
two years since their gifted author passed 
before he had attained the age of his fa' 
poet, Shakespeare. His loss to early F 
literature is very great, as all who are acqi 
with the two volumes of his Geschickit de 
lischen Litteratur, and his Studies in C 
and Beowulf will readily testify. The h 
before tis were addressed to mined aud 
and are popular in style. They display, 
Iheless, the author's fine critical insight : 
quisite grace of utterance. The charade; 
lectures may be generally indicated by 1 
rating the respective subjects: — L Thi 
and the Man. II, The Chronological O 
Shakespeaie's Works. III. Shakespeai 
Dramatist. IV. Shakespeare as a Hui 
Poet. V. Shakespeare as a Tragic Poet 
book is followed by an index of the p: 
quoted, and preceded by a Gdeitivort fn 
Editor, and a finely engraved portrait 
Atjthor. No better handbook, or com] 
to Shakespeare's works could be had, 
condensed information of the poet's life, ; 
different aspects of his genius; for the 
yet ever sane, criticism of the great drar 
know nothing so good in the same co 
Ten Brink glances at, but gives no count 
to, the " Bacon theory," on which a coun 
of his has recently issued a big volume, t 
the same publishers. Nor, in his interpt 
of "Julius Cffisar," does he agree with Pr 
Dowden that the true hero is Brutus, a 
the title of this tragedy is a misnomer 
hope Ten Brink's lectures on our great 
tist will soon find an English translator, 



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On Strdfinla Tap : A Guide to the Auchinblae 
and Fordoun District, by William Cramond, 
A.M., LL.D., F.S.A. Scot. Dundee: John 
Leng & Co. 1894. 

The necessity for such District Guides in these 
days of much travelling, becomes more and 
more apparent. There is not a glen in our land 
of brown heath, nor a fishing village on our pic- 
turesque coast, that is not invaded and explored 
by summer visitors in ever-increasing numbers. 
Each separate locality has its own special attrac- 
tions and history. To have these reliably pointed 
out, even in such brevity as he that runs may 
read, will be esteemed a grateful boon to the 
intelligent traveller. Mr Cramond, as already 
proved, makes an excellent cicerone. In this 
little book of 35 pages his large resources are 
amply shown, and while much information is 
given, there is also imparted a stimulus to seek 
for more. That the ground traversed is of such 
important historical interest as it is, is not so 
well known as it deserves. There are many 
doubtful points of history about it still occupying 
the ingenuity and research of the student, and 
on which Mr Cramond does not descant. Wisely 
he ** boldly looks them in the face and passes 



on. 



I) 



Ed. 



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LITERARY NOTES. 

" Mad Sir Ughtred of the Hills" is the new 
work by S. R. Crockett. " The Lilac Sun Bon- 
net," by the same author, will be issued in the 
autumn. 

Mr. John Murray announces a manual on 
" Comparative Religion," by Professor Allan 
Menzies of St. Andrews. 

" The History and Antiquities of the Parish of 
Mid-Calder," by Mr. Hardy Bertram McGall, is 
to be issued in complete form in October. 
Parts I and 2 have already been issued. 

The subscription edition of Mr. Robert Louis 
Stevenson's collected works is being well taken 
up. 

A new volume by W. G. Stevenson, author of 
" Wee Johnnie Patterson,'' will shortly be an- 
nounced. 

The subscription list for the new Edition de 
Luxe of "Reminiscences of Yarrow" is now 
closed, and the book will be ready shortly. 

The 123rd Anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's 
Birthday was celebrated in Glasgow by over 
ten thousand people attending a musical service 
in George Square. The monument of Sir 
Walter was tastefully decorated with flowers, 
which were presented by admirers. The cele- 
bration was organized by the Glasgow Scott 
Club. 

The Literary World informs us that the suc- 
cessful novel, " Mona Maclean," is from the pen 
of Miss Todd. This novel, strange to say, 
failed to catch on at first. 

"The Scottish Songsters" is the title of a 
new life of Caroline, Baroness Naime, which is 
announced by Messrs. Oliphant. The work is 
from the pen of Mrs. A. R. Simpson. 

The " Magazine of Art " contains a continua- 
tion of Mr. Robert Walker's splendid article on 
"The Private Picture Collections in Glasgow 
and West of Scotland." 

" A Highland Freebooter," by Mr, J. Gordon 
Phillips, will be published this month by Mr. 
Alex. Gardner. I. 



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SCOTTISH TRADESMEN'S TOKENS 

(p. 55)- 
This month's article (with accompanying 
Illustrations) completes the list of coins issued 
by Scottish tradesmen to supplement the 
inedquate regal coinage. There remains, how- 
ever, a class of Tokens relating to Scotland, 
which was manufactured at the period for 
private circulation or for sale to collectors, 
and these we hope to describe in an early issue. 



SCOTTISH 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



Vol. VIII.] No. 5. OCTOBER, 1894. 



Registered. {g;;^|^g-35^j^ 



CONTENTS. 

Notes : — Page 

Ancient Sundials, 65 

Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens, 67 

Notes on Ayrshire Folk-Lore, 68 

Notes on the Place Names of Leochel-Cushnie, 69 

Extracts from the Council Records of Old Aberdeen,.. 71 

Saint Palladius 72 

Notable Men and Women of Aberdeenshire, 73 

The Canterbury Tales, 75 

Minor Notes : — 

An Epigram on St. Tridnana, 76 

Find of Cists at Longniddry, 76 

Find of Old Coin at Deskford, 76 

Kincardine O'Neil, 76 

Queries: — 

Castle of Cnllen of Buchan and Anldhaven — Garden's 
Map of Kincardineshire — Alick Skene — Old Scotch 
Song — Connting Out Rhyme, 76 

Answers : — 

Author of Collection of Hymns Wanted— The Cur^e 
of Scotland — Gathering of the Clan Grant — Old 
Rhjrme — Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots — 
Ancient Farm House at Lumphanan — The Peel Ring 
— Banchory Teman, 77 

Literature, 79 

Scotch Books for the Month, 80 



ABERDEEN, OCTOBER, 1894. 



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ANCIENT SUNDIALS. 

Mr. A. Hutcheson's article in the August issue 
of S. N. &^ Q. is very interesting, and I have 
read it with great pleasure, notwithstanding that 
he questions some of the statements in my note 
in the April number. I held the same views as 
himself with reference to the age of Scottish 
sundials ; but I made the statements to which 
he refers in deference to the opinion of a gentle- 
man whom I considered to be better informed 
on the subject than myself In this I was mis- 
taken ; and to show that I reverted to my 
original way of thinking before Mr. Hutcheson 
pointed out the error, I give the following 
article which I contributed to the Glasgow Even- 
ing Times for July 23, 1894. I have slightly 
revised it : — 

ROBROYSTON SUNDIAL. 

A quaint and picturesque relic of historic 
times, not generally known or visited by the 
public, is the curious sundial at the front of 
Robroyston House, an old family mansion 
situated about three miles north-east of Glasgow. 
The sundial is about four feet high, octagonal 
in shape. The eight sides are marked with 



figures and lines, varjnng on each as the rules of 
dialling required. It has this advantage over 
sundials of the usual form, that the local time 
could be noted not only on the flat top, but on 
three of its sides as well. The late tenant of 
Robroyston Farm, when digging some time ago 
round the base, observed the figures 1016 carved 
on the stone forming the foundation. But these 
figures must not be taken as recording the date 
of its erection ; and the suggestion made by 
certain individuals that sundials of this design 
became obsolete about the twelfth century is a 
purely gratuitous assumption. As a matter of 
fact, the earliest sundial in Scotland is that on 
the face of one of the buttresses of the chapel at 
King's College, Aberdeen, founded in 1494. Mr. 
Ross, in a paper read before the Society of Anti- 
quarians of Scotland (" Proceedings,'' vol. 24, pp. 
161-273), ^^ which he gives illustrations of 68 sun- 
dials, ranging in dates from 1623 to 1840, states 
that he has not seen any dial in Scotland which 
can in his opinion be placed earlier than about 
1 500, adding that there is no dated dial belong- 
ing to the sixteenth century known. The figures 
1679, which are cut on the face of the Robroyston 
dial in bold incisions, doubtless form the correct 
date. The sundial is a most interesting relic in 
itself, and it is strange that it should have 
escaped the attention of most visitors to Robroy- 
ston, a place of great historic interest, as being 
within a stone-throw of the spot where, until the 
early part of the present century, an old bam 
stood,- in which the Scottish patriot. Sir William 
Wallace, was betrayed by his "fause** friend 
Monteith. For this reason, and on account of 
its proximity to the city, Robroyston is visited 
by large numbers of pedestrians and antiquari- 
ans. Hugh Macdonald visited it in 1853, as 
recorded in his *' Rambles round Glasgow." He, 
however, does not mention the sundial, probably 
because he did not see it, having, according to 
his own account, traversed the road running 
past the end of the mansion-hou:c and leading 
through the garden, at the exit from which it 
joins the main road leading to Chryston, Mac- 
donald's destination on the occasion referred to. 
On that visit he was accompanied by two friends, 
one of whom, the sole survivor, has furnished 
us with a few notes on the subject. One of the 
two friends was Professor Hennedy, the then 



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[October, 1894. 



occupant of the Chair of Botany in the Anderson- 
ian University, a memoir of whom, by Mr. Wm. 
Simpson, F.R.G.S., &c., will be found in the 
"Clydesdale Flora." Mr. Simpson, the third 
member of the party, is the celebrated war artist, 
and a worthy son of St. Mungo. Although in 
his seventieth year, he is happily still with us. 
He recollects the visit to Robroyston with Mac- 
donald and Hennedy, but he does not remember 
seeing the sundial, a sketch of which, done by 
Mr. Robert McClure, Buchanan St., Glasgow, 
was given as a supplement with the April 
number of 8. N. 6^ Q. Before leaving the 
subject of the sundial for a brief glance at the 
historical interest centered in the place, we may 
add the interesting information not generally 
known, that almost all the illustrations in that 
very scarce work, "Views and Notices of 
Glasgow in Former Times," were the early work 
of Mr. Simpson. The book is usually credited 
to Mr. Robert Stuart, but that gentleman's 
interest in the work was confined to the writing 
of the letterpress notices which accompany the 
illustrations. 

Robroyston forms the apex of a right angle 
triangle, the base of which is suggested by two 
steadings, which constitute Robroyston farm. 
The building which forms the right angle of the 
mathematical figure we have used, is on one side 
of the road opposite the place where was 
formerly situated the barn-like edifice which has 
made the name of Robroyston familiar to every 
Scotsman. The house seems to us a modem 
building, or, more properly, a recent structure 
of which the oldest portion of the mansion forms 
the nucleus. Two additions at least have been 
made to the original structure — by a wing and 
an enlargement at the back of the house, on the 
roof of which, at right-angles to the building, 
there is an old crow-stepped gable jutting out 
from the more ancient part of the building. The 
house, which is now inhabited by two families of 
working folks, was surrounded by a profusion 
of trees, many of which have succumbed to old 
age and the storms of many years. The garden 
is wild and uncultivated, and the walls are over- 
run with green coverings of moss. The interest 
of a historical character which attaches to Rob- 
royston is, as we said, 

THE BETRAYAL OF WALLACE. 

This shameful deed took place on the night of 
the 5th August 1305. According to Blind Harry 
(our only, but by no means entirely satisfactory 
authority) Sir Aymer de VaUance, who at that 
period held Both well Castle for Edward the 
usurper, invited Sir John Monteith, the pro- 
fessed friend of Wallace, to a conference at 
Rutherglen Kirk. The meeting took place at 
the time and place appointed, when the English 



emissary succeeded in bribing the "fause" 
Monteith to betray Wallace, who was then lurk- 
ing in the vicinity of Glasgow. Monteith, who 
had a nephew in his service, easily discovered 
his hiding place, which was Robroyston, or 
Robrastoun, as the ancient minstrel {lVa//ace, 
Buke Eleuenth, v. 995) calls the locality : — 

Wallace past furlh quhar at the tryst was set, 
A spy thai made, and folowed him but let 
Till Robrastoun, was ner be the way syd 
And lx)t a howss quhar Wallace oysyt to bid. 

Having obtained intelligence through his spies 
that the hero was to sleep at this place, Monteith, 
with 60 of his kinsmen, marched in the darkness 
and surrounded the bam. The treacherous 
nephew of a still more treacherous uncle was set 
to watch by the confiding and unsuspecting 
Wallace, while he and his trusty servant Keirly 
slept. After he was overpowered, and before 
his hands were bound, it is said that Wallace 

THREW HIS SWORD INTO ROBROYSTON LOCH, 

an inspection of which, after its waters had been 
drained, did not result in a confirmation of this 
tradition. After his capture, Wallace was con- 
veyed to Dumbarton, then in the hands of the 
invaders, and from thence he was carried to 
London, arraigned at Westminster Hall as a 
traitor, and executed with all the barbarity of the 
time. On hearing that the house in which 
Wallace was betrayed was about to be removed, 
Joseph Train, the Galloway antiquary, and friend 
of Sir Walter Scott, secured a portion of the 
rafters of the structure. These he got manu- 
factured into a handsome arm-chair, which he 
presented to the great novelist, who received the 
gift with great pleasure. 

I think the above will place the subject in a 
proper light ; and, although it has been in print 
before, may be worthy of preservation in these 
pages. 

Glasgow. John Muir. 



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The book of the month is "Under Lochna^r," 
the Crathie Church Bazaar Book ; the edition 
de luxe was entirely sold before the opening 
of the Bazaar. 

Mr. Wallace Bruce writes the following to the 
" Scotsman." " I am desirious of making 
complete my list of all Scottish- American 
soldiers of our Civil War, buried anywhere in 
Scotland, in order that their names may fully 
appear upon the monument to their memory 
dedicated at Edinburgh last summer. If you 
or your readers know of any, and will kindly 
send their names and the regiments to which 
they belonged, I will be very much pleased.** 
Mr. Bruce's address is 724 Temple Court, New 
York. 



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SCOniSH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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SCOTTISH TRADESMEN'S TOKENS. 
( Continued from p. jd, with Illustration.) 

No. 85. 
Obv, Ruins of a fortress. 
Legend^ ** P, S. Kidmore, Medal Maker, Coppice 
Row, Clerkenwell, London." 
Edge, ** I promise to pay on demand the bearer one 

penny." No. 86. 

Obv, View of a Castle. 

Legend. "Argyle House, Scotland." -fi'jf. "Jacobs." 
Rev. The cipher T. G. between palm branches. 
Legend ** British Penny, 1797. 
Edge, **I promise to pay on Demand the bearer 
One Penny." 

No. 87. 
Obv. View of a Castle. 

Legend. " Inveraray Castle," Ex, "Jacobs." 
Rev, and Edge, Similar to No. 86. 

No. 88. 
Size, Halfpenny. 
Obv. Armoured bust in profile. 
Legend, " Gulielmus Vallas." 
Rev, Female figure representing Scotia, seated, sup- 
porting an oval shield bearing St. Andrew 
and Cross, holding a laurel wreath in the 
right hand ; and a thistle behind the figure. 
Milton the artist's initial " M " upon the ex- 
ergue line. 
Legend. " Scotia Rediviva." Ex. Monogram **T. 

c. 1797." 

No. 89. 
Size. Halfpenny. 

Obv. Bust of Dr. Adam Smith in profile. No legend. 
Rev. Female figure, shields, battleaxe, and spears. 

Ex. **I. Milton F." 
Spenc^s Halfpence, 

No. 90. 
Obv. A full dressed Highlander ; a thistle. 

Legend. ** The Gallant Garb of Scotland." 
Rev. A Barque sailing. 

Legefid, ** Coaly Tyne." Ex. "1795." ' 
Edge. **Spence, Dealer in Coins, London." 

No. 91. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 
Rev. Figure of a fawning dog. 

Legend. ** Much Gratitude brings Servitude. 
Edge. As in No. 90. 

No. 92. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 
Rev. View of Dudley Castle. 

Legend, "Dudley Token." Ex. "James." 
Edge. As in No. 90. 

No. 93. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 

Rev. Two faces united, one weeping, the other 
laughing (portraits of Pitt and Fox. ) 
Legend. "Odd Fellows, Quis rides." 
Edge, As in No. 90. 

No. 94. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 
Rev. A Sailor. 
Legend. "J. Spence, Slop Seller, Newcastle." 
Ex, "James." 
Edge, As in No. 90 — sometimes plain. 



No. 95. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 
Rev. A bust in profile. 
Legend. " T. Spence, 7 months imprisoned for high 
Treason, 1794." 
Edge. As in No. 90. 

No. 96. 
Oirv. Similar to No. 90. 

Rev, Four men dancing round a pole with a head at 
top, between Cornucopise and branches. 
Legend. * * Tree of liberty. " 
Edge. As in No. 90. 

No. 97. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 

Rev. A laureated bust in profile, a radiated star at 
top. 
Legend. " United Token." 
Edge, As in No. 90. 

No. 98. 
Ol>v. Similar to No. 90. 

Rev. View of a deserted Village and distant Church. 
Legend. " One only Master grasps the whole Do- 
main, 1795." 
Edge, As in No. 90. 

No. 99. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 

Rev. Figure of a boy. Legend, "A Blue Coat Boy." 
Edge, As in No. 90. 

No. 100. 
Obv. Similar to No. 90. 
Rev. A Coining Press. 
Legend, "Coining Press." Inscribed to Collectors 
of Medals, 1796." 
Edge. As in No. 90. 

Note. Nos. 88 and 89 were issued privately by Col. 
Fullarton, twice M.P. for the County of Ayr. 
The remainder of this series were issued by 
Kenyson and Jacobs of Birmingham and 
Jeremiah Spence of London, Manufacturers 
and Dealers in Medals, and were merely sold 
to Collectors in the ordinary course or their 
business. The inscriptions on the "Dundee 
Penny " are most amusing when associated 
with the recent census returns. 

K. J. 



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" Caledonia, a monthly magazine of Literature, 
Antiquity and Tradition," is the title of a new 
illustrated monthly which starts its career in 
January first. It promises several new features. 
It will be edited by Mr. Alexander Lowson, and 
published by W. Jolly & Sons, Aberdeen. 

The Highland estate of Glencoe was a few 
days ago sold for ;^ 15,900. 



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Hugh Miller.— At Cromarty the other day, 
a dial which had been made by Hugh Miller, 
the geologist, came under the auctioneer's 
hammer. It was purchased by Provost John- 
stone of that town, who intends placing it in 
his garden. I. 



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NOTES ON AYRSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 

in. 

Previous to the cultivation of the higher lands 
of the parish of Galston, Druidical remains, or 
a Caledonian stone circle, could be seen on the 
summit of Molmont Hill. It is said to have 
measured originally sixty feet or thereby in 
diameter. It is now entirely demolished. The 
obsolete custom of kindling bon-fires, or Baal- 
fires, on the neighbouring heights around 
Galston, on the night preceeding the fair of 
St. Peter, may have been a relic of the festival 
celebrated by the Druids at Beltane tide. On 
these occasions it was customary for young men 
and maidens to assemble round the Baal-fires 
and indulge in games and dances, the presence 
of a fiddler being a necessary adjunct to the full 
enjoyment of the uncouth entertainment. 

In the Highlands the Beltane festival is 
celebrated in the morning of ist May. Sir 
Walter Scott says, in Glenfinlas : 

But o'er his hills, in festal day, 
How blazed Lord Ronald's Baltane-tree, 

While youths and maids the light strathespey 
So nimbly danced with Highland glee ! 

Motherwell, in his fine song, Jeanie Morrison^ 
refers to the Beltane festival : 

The fire that's l)lawn on Beltane e'en, 
May weel be black gin Yule ; 
But blacker far awaits the heart 
When first fond love grows cule. 

Old John Pinkerton, in his song Bothwell 
Bank^ with the true spirit of the antiquary, drags 
the Druidical festival into the first verse of his 
lyric : 

On the blyth Beltane, as I went 
Be mysel attour the green bent, 
Wharly the crystal waves of Clyde, 
Throch saughs and hanging hazels glyde. 

In more recent times Beltane was celebrated 
chiefly by cow-herds, who assembled in great 
numbers on a hill top near the village, and, 
having kindled a fire, cooked for themselves a 
repast of boiled eggs and milk. Those dishes 
were served with a species of cake baked for the 
occasion. The cake might possibly be an 
oflfering to some deity in the days of Druidism. 

On the side of the water, some 300 yards below 
Cairnhill, on the borders of the same parish, is 
to be seen an old British Fort. Three of its 
sides are well defended by nature, on the other 
it is artificially defended. This mound in later 
times in all likelihood was a place of trial ; it is 
still known in the neighbourhood as the 
"Justice Seat." 

The district around is known as the Haining 
Ross Barony. Haining Place, two miles further 
down the stream, was once the seat of the Dukes 
of Albany. The old folks used to tell how once 



upon a time the glen was the abode of Gaint 
Hogtenboy and his wife Katherine. He was 
the terror of the countryside ; could swing a 
cow by the tail over his shoulder and make 
leisurely for his cave. The Laird of Haining 
had often attempted to rid the district of this 
scourge, but had as often failed. One fine after- 
noon the gaint was lying in the holm beneath 
the highest crags, sunning himself and stroking 
his shaggy breast, saying all the while to himself, 
"A fine shot for the Laird of Haining." His 
enemy was watching meanwhile, and having 
before learned that he was proof against lead, 
thought he would try if the proverbial silver 
button could not break the spell. He fired ; the 
giant received a mortal wound. He rose to his 
feet lamenting how one could not say a thing in 
jest but it had to be taken in earnest ; then fell 
to the ground to rise no more. 

In the Romish calendar the 29th of June is 
a festival in honour of St. Peter the apostle. It 
is familiarly known that St. Peter, the son of 
Jonas and brother of Andrew, obtained the 
name signifying a rock from the Saviour in 
place of his original name of Simon, on becom- 
mg an apostle. For that reason Galston June 
Fair is called after St. Peter, and is held on the 
Thursday nearest to the date of St. Peter^s day. 
The parish church was dedicated to that saint, 
having been founded by the monks of Fail, and, 
in Catholic times, it was occupied by a vicar who 
was in connection with Fail Abbey. 

In pre- Reformation times the villagers might 
have been seen wending their way to the church 
with their Denarius St. Petri, or Peter's pence, 
which, in the middle ages, was a payment of one 
penny from every family to the Pope ; paid on 
the Feast of St. Peter. 

We are not told whether the clergy of St. 
Peter's were as jolly as their brethren over at 
Failford. We suspect they were, for a part of 
the village once belonging to the church still 
retains the name of Brewlands. The monks of 
Fail never relished the following fragment of 
a ballad which still lingers in the locality ; and 
we do not wonder at their lack of appreciation 
— of the ballad, we mean, not of the viands 
enumerated therein : 

The Friars of Fail 

Gat never owre hard eggs or ower thin kale ; 

For they made their eggs thin wi' butter 

And their kale thick wi' bread ; 

And the Friars of Fail, they made gude kale 

On Fridays when they fasted ; 

And they never wanted gear enough 

As long as their neighbours' lasted. 

The Friars of Fail drank berry-brown ale, 
The best that ever was tasted ; 
The Monks of Fail, they made gude kale 
On Fridays when they fasted. 



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In the parish church session records, under 
date 1724, a farmer named John Craig of Mil- 
lands is accused of consulting a wizard for the 
purpose of recovering stolen property. John, 
with commendable Scotch caution and an 
euphemism which does him great credit, admits 
that he consulted a woman in Glasgow on the 
subject. He can see nothing wrong in so doing, 
despite the attempt of the minister to show him 
the sinfulness of such action. He is rebuked for 
his conduct Public intimation of this is to be 
made to the congregation, and the congregation 
warned against such wicked practices. 

In the same records, under 1746, a doctrix 
was consulted about the recovery of a sick child. 
She attributed the child's illness to a neighbour 
who "had a bad eye." This neighbour was 
summoned before the session, and commanded 
to say, " God bless the child," and to surrender 
some of her hair to be used as a charm, which 
she did, truly thankful that, living in a more 
enlightened age, she was not doomed to die the 
barbarous death of some of her less fortunate 
predecessors who were burned as witches. 

In the same village it was formerly the custom 
for women to attend funerals dressed in black or 
red cloaks. The cortege was headed by the 
sexton who rung the morte-bell when a change 
of bearers were wanted. This curious instru- 
ment is preserved in the parish church session 
house, and bears date 1722. The church bell 
used to be rung at funerals, presumably to call 
the people to attend, or as a sign of mourning. 
This custom is still followed at Hawick. In 1762 
the sexton was allowed to charge two pence per 
mile going, in ringing the small bell — never to 
ring the small bell under two pence ; and 
allowed two pence each burial for ringing the 
big bell, that is, the large bell in the belfry. 

There was a Presbyterian prejudice against 
burying in churches, and the blatne of kirk 
burial had not only been a subject for the 
pamphleteer, but the legislature, and was prob- 
ably a reaction of popular feeling against the 
Romish custom of burying notable persons 
within the precincts of holy places. Neverthe- 
less, John Schaw of Sombeg, a barony in the 
parish of Galston, on the death of his wife, 
resolved to inhume her corpse in the parish 
kirk in spite of all the minister and session could 
say or do to the contrary. Accompanied by his 
brother and his bailie, and attended by a 
numerous party, "all bodin in feir of weir,'' he 
came to the church, broke up the door with 
forehammers, and dug a grave in which he 
deposited the remains of his spouse. It is some 
satisfaction to learn that he was afterwards glad 
to niake public repentance for this act and pay 
twenty pounds to the box-master of the kirk, 



besides which the Privy Council, from whose 
records the above is quoted by Dr. Chambers, 
ordered him to appear again as a penitent, and 
solemnly promise never again to attempt to 
bury any corpse within the church. 

This same local potentate, as we learn from 
an entry in the records of the kirk-session, gave 
that demure body no end of trouble. Doubtless 
their interference in the above case rankled in 
his aristocratic blood. But in those da>*s even 
a local grandee and a principal heritor had to 
bow to the ruling of the session. In a second 
rencontre the result was equally mortifying : 
" December 24th, 1676. The which day the 
minister, according as he was appointed, did, 
openly from the pulpit, before the whole con- 
gregation, declare John Shaw of Sombeg a 
contumacious, disobedient to church disciplme, 
and scandalous person." This was hardly to be 
expected of a son whose father, with four 
other parochial notabilities, the minister, and 
a large number of others, had signed the 
National Covenant. 

Twenty years ago the chief industry in 
Galston was handloom weaving. The following 
lines were often sung by the apprentices to the 
rolling strain of the well-known sacred tune 
called Desert: 

The weaver said unto his son, 

The day that he was born, 
My blessings on your curly pow, 

You'll rin wi' pirns the morn I 

Galston. John Muir, F.S.A. Scot. 



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NOTES ON THE PLACE NAMES OF 
LEOCHEL-CUSHNIE. 

(Continued from VIII., ^i,) 

Allt, a burn, gives Old Culmellie, Altders;, the 
red burn or glen, from the colour of the sand, 
and Oldiown, The Oldtown of Hallhead 
would be the town of the burn before the 
cultivation of Blackhills. The Oldtowns have 
given birth to a race of Newtons, The Place of 
Corse and Cushnie, the proprietor's residence. 
The residence of the Lumsdens of Cushnie 
before the erection of the Auld Place in 1707 
was further up the burn, and is traditionally 
known as the Tower. The walk between 
Hallhead House and the road at Whiteknowes 
furnishes Walkend. Mains and Manse are 
rubbed down forms of mansion— the one being 
the residence of the laird, the other of the 
minister. Mills have furnished a considerable 
number of the place names of Leochcl-Cushnie. 
Mill of Brux, Milton of Cairncoullie, Mill of 
Ininteer, Craigmill, Mill of Fowlis, Lady Mill, 
presumably so called from the grandmother of 
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situation, Miltonbank^ the bank at the burnside 
of Milton of Corse, Waukmill, Waukintoun in 
1696. The PoUable List mentions some two 
dozen Waukmills, the Mill of Cushnie, dated 
1707, with arms above the door — Cheveron 
between two wolves' heads couped in chief and 
an escallop in base, for Lumsden, impaled with 
cheveron between three fusils for Leith. The 
Mill of Railhead was at Blairordens, but a 
former erection, traditionally known as the Mill 
of Thoom Raips, "where the meal fell on a 
divot," of which the stone was recently found 
at Bogfern, is marked by the Damfauld field 
there. There was a mill in Lynturk in 1640, as 
well as Claymill, which, like many other houses 
at that time, may have been erected of heather 
and dub. The name is the only evidence that 
there was a mill at Oldmill. 

Querns have been found in the bed of the 
lade at Cushnie. 

Coming to the names of the streams, Socach 
gives Towie its Socach Burn, and perhaps the 
Alt Tochie is allt an t' Socach, the Socaugh 
Bum, though Mr. Macdonald favours Allt Tocha, 
the bum of the thigh or hough of the hill, cf. 
Millhochie in Tullynessle. The Lynns of the 
Kachel are at the source of the Bum of Cushnie 
— Caoch allt, the blind bum, with the Blir^ Bum 
in the neighbourhood ; the Thiefi Burn or 
Thiei'ei Burn whence the ketterin made their 
inroads on Cushnie and Corse in the time of 
Gilderoy and Dhugair ; the Bogfruskie Burn, 
crossed by the Court Road ; the Badythrochar 
Burn, dividing Hallhead from Cushnie, is joined 
by the Alt Thronach, chronnach (?) the burn of 
mourning, which rises in " My Lord's Well " — 
was "My Lord" slain here, hence Allt Thronach ? 
The united streams are known as the Pu7npfold 
Bum — an ancient pumpfold near it accountmg 
for the name. The Badybuller Burn gives 
Cushnie its Burnside. There are several Burn- 
sides in the parish. The Bumend of Cairn- 
coullie is mentioned in a retour of 1602. 
Droichsburn, the bum of the Bridge, drochid, 
where there might be a bridge over the Leochel. 
In 1680 there was a place called Scuttriefoord. 
Scaribh, a ford, hence Pitscurry — suppose this 
place to have been called Scurry — the round 
stones in the bed of the stream giving uncertain 
footing to man or beast crossing would cause a 
passenger to say that's nae Scurry but Scuttery 
— it's a rael scutter o' a fuird " — hence Scuttery- 
foord and Mill of Scuttery, The bridge over 
the Cushnie Bum gives a name to Brigton or 
Bridgeton. Bfidgend of Knockandoh is in the 
Poll List. There are two Cowfuirds in the 
parish. Brigs was near Wester Leochel and 
also Dubsward. The Thundery Burn appears 
to have been cut out by some terrific thunder 



spate, so small a stream could hardly otherwise 
have formed such a ravine. 

The Langbum on Langgadley divides the 
parish from Alford. The Lad/s Moss is at the 
top of it. The Shealbum and Burn of Rumblie 
are explained by farms near them. The Black 
Burn in Lynturk joins the Leochel Bum below 
the United Presbyterian Church. There is a 
Drakis Nest in this neighbourhood. The Bum 
of Leochel rises in the " flauchter spade " like 
marsh called the Poisons. We may work out 
Poisons from buaile, a cattle fold — pi. buailtean 
{b becoming/ and te becoming s) brings us fair 
and square to Poisons. The lerrochs of these 
folds are still apparent above Burnside, The 
name remains though the folds have long 
disappeared. 

Thomhill, Stirling. Geo. WILLIAMS. 



Sir, — Refering to Mr. Williams' excellent 
notes in your last issue on Place Names in 
Leochel and Cushnie, he ingenuously owns 
ignorance as to the etymon of Balwearie and 
the other wearies to be met with in Scotland. 
Without a personal observation of places (which 
in this instance I have not had), it is not safe to 
venture upon the origin of their names, but 
Dalwearie in Kintore is Dal a field, and wearie 
may mean uir-amph (Celtice) mole-earth, or 
taken together, the mole-earth field. In all 
fertile fields moles abounded long before they 
were occupied and named by man. 

And next as to * Bervie,' he states, " We have 
a Bervie in the parish, but," writes Mr. Mac- 
donald, "neither in Leochel, Skene, nor Kin- 
cardineshire, nor elsewhere, can I or anyone 
else explain the name." Well, one explanation 
to be found is that of the late Rev. Dr. Clerk of 
Kilmallie, as Celtic editor of Jack's Ordnance 
Gazetteer, who ventures, I think correctly 
(although, on names of many places not seen 
by him, very incorrectly), that Bervie is Bior— 
water, and ^«/V3%^= pleasant or grateful. The 
river gives name to the royal burgh at its mouth, 
and is properly named Inverbervie. The etymon 
I prefer is Borbhain (Celtice) = the purling of a 
stream, or the big swelling stream, the chief 
river of the Mearns, which, like all mountain 
streams not impeded at their source by lakes 
and marshes, run down fast in flood. But the 
true meaning can be best arrived at by compar- 
ing what applies to others of the same name. 

Fettercairn. A. C. Cameron, LL.D. 



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" A Little Scottish World," being a history of 
the parish of Monkton and Prestwick, Ayrshire. 
By Rev. Kirk wood Hewat, will be published this 
month by Brown, Kilmamock. 



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EXTRACTS FROM THE COUNCIL 

RECORDS OF OLD ABERDEEN. 

{Continued from page 54), 



16 May 1636. 

Item concerning the poore that ar allowed be 
the sessioun to remain within the Toune and 
thair names giwen up to the baillie that naine 
be acknowledged to be of that number but those 
that caries the tounes marke on thair breastes 
to wit ane floure de luce in leid. And that all 
those shall come preceislie and get almes at the 
zetis of honest men on such dayes allanerlie as 
thay have or shall appoint for dealling thair 
almes and shall not molest thair zetes nor 
housses upoun wther dayes under the pain of 
chastisment and removall aff of the toune. And 
concerning the poore of the parioche thay shall 
have thair awin marke viz. ane star in lead and 
sail have hbertie to cum in to the toune allanerlie 
on Sunday to heir the preiching and with this 
provisioun that thai cum in to the kirke befoir 
the reading of the text and byd thair the tyme 
of the sermon, and if thay be found on any 
weeke dayes in the Toune in that caice to be 
punished as stranger beggares and chaised away 
be the scurger. 

Item the said day Archbald Bischope was 
ordainit to he scurger and gave his aith of 
fidelitie and thair was aucht shelinges weeklie 
appointed to be collected for him according as 
the fyfteine assesores shall stent the Toune and 
in executing of his office if he fall upoun any 
strong beggeris that will not be commanded be 
him in that caice he shall requyre two of the 
neirest neighbours to that place quhair the 
sturdie beggar is found to assist him. And in 
caice they refiiis their helps he shall take mntnes 
thairon and the saides refuiseris ar ordainit to 
pay for thair penaltie thrie weekes wages toties 
quoties. And on the contrarie if any man resist 
or imped him in the executioun of his office to 
be put in ward and pay four pundis for thair 
offence. 

Item the said day it was statute and ordainit 
quhatsumeuir persones receptes thair neigh- 
boures servantes and selles thame drink or 
allures thame thairto by thair maisteris know- 
ledge or againe his will thei shall pay fyw pundes 
toties quoties they ar found in that fault 

Item the said day the grass of the loch being 
rouped it was adjudged to Thomas Simsone 
untill the tyme of haining the nixt yeir and the 
said Thomas became oblegit to pay to the saides 
baillies for the said grasse Ten pundes 6s. 8d. 
betuixt this and midsummer nixt 1636 yeirs. 
And for his better injoying of the said grase it 
was ordainit that quhaeuir putes in thair hors 



goodes without his leive shall pay thretteine 
shillinges four pennies toties quoties. 

13 June 1636. 

The said day compeirit Williame Hay, Visitor 
of the Hemermen craft, David Abell, visitor of 
the wobster craft, Jhone Andersone, visitor of the 
tailzeour craft, Androw Adame, \nsitor of the 
Cordoner craft, and George Chalmer, \nsitor of 
the flescher craft, and became actit and obleist 
of thair awin consentis i^nth express consentis 
and assent of the remanent brethren of the saidis 
craftis to pay and delyuer ilk ane of thair awin 
pairt is to the saidis baillies for thair relieff at 
the hand is of Maister Gilbert Ross maister of 
the musick scoole ilk ane of the saidis visitouris 
to pay to the saidis baillies as efter folio wes viz. 
the said David Abell band and obleist him and 
his successores to pay to the saidis baillies the 
soume of Ten merkis Scotis money the first day 
of November nixt in this instant zeir of God M. 
sex hundreth threttie sex yeires and ilk ane of 
the saidis visitoures ilk ane for thair auin pairtes 
band and obleist thame to pay the saidis baillies 
the soum of fyw merkis money foirsaid at the 
said day and the saidis baillies bindis and 
obleisses thame to pay the merkis money foir- 
said quhilk makis in the haill the soume of 
fourtie merkis Quhilk soum of fourtie merkis the 
saidis baillies bmdis and obleisses thame and 
thair successores to pay to the said Mr. Gilbert 
Ross upon the feist and terme of Mertimes ewin 
nixt to cum in the said yeir of God and siclyk 
yeirlie upon Mertimes ewin during the said 
Mr. Gilbert is remaining ^ith the said Schooll 
and reiderschip and the visitoures for the tyme 
and thair successoures to be bund and obleist 
to pay as said is yeirlie at the dayis foirsaid 
upon the quhilkis premises the said Mr. Gilbert 
askit and tuik act of court and instnmient in the 
handis of me notar publict and clerk of court. 

The said day the haill deakenes of the craftes 
conteined in the foirsaid instrument viz. David 
Abell deiken of the wobsteris, George Chalmer 
deakin of the fleshers, Andrew Adam deacon of 
the cordonaris, John Andersone deikin of the 
tailzeouris, and William Hay dekin of the 
Hammermen, being all first solemnelie suome 
to be faithful in thair owin callingis and craftis 
and then to choose among themselfis a dekin 
convener they all in one voice nominal and 
choosed the said Williame Hay deikin of the 
Hammermen to be deiken convener of the haill 
craftis. 

The said day Mr. Gilbert Ros is found to have 
securitie for his old stipend and likewise for the 
40 merkis conditioned him by the bailzies and 
deikenis of the toun as is at moir lenth conteined 
in the foirsaid instrument lykewayes the said 
Mr. Gilbert his scholleris thair stipendis are 



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appoynted as followis viz. thoiss that readis and 
wreittis onlie a merke everie quarter thoiss that 
are learneing to sing tuentie shillint( the singeris 
and the tothers both tuentie sex shillingis aucht 
pennies, and in this regard the said Mr. Gilbert 
IS ordayned to keipe the ordinarie houres of 
attendance at the kirk and schoole according to 
the forme of New Aberdein, viz. to read the 
prayeris at the chope of sewin in the morning 
efter the prayer bell hes rung halfe an houre, 
and eftemoon the bell to ring betuixt halff houre 
to five and five choped at quhich tyme immed- 
iatelie he sail begin to read the prayeris in 
summer and in winter ane houre sooner at nicht 
and ane houre laitter in the morning and for his 
schoole to frequent it betuixt sex and nyne in 
the morning, ten and tuelf in the fornoone and 
tuo efternoone and sex houres at nicht. 

18 July 1636. 

The quhilk day it wes statute and ordained 
that the haill feueris and tenementis of Old 
Aberdein sail cumpeir within the consistore place 
the 26 day of Julij at ten houres and pay thair 
taxatioune and such as peyed nocht according 
to the stent roll at that hour shall pey the double 
within aucht and fourtie houres therefter. 

9 August 1636. 

The said day it is statute and ordained that 
no man shall lay muck in the wyndis of Old 
Aberdein or upon such pairtis of the Calsie that 
may devigour the toun or impede the free passage 
of horse and men and sick muck as lyes in 
thoise pairtis alreadie to be removed be the 
owneris within aucht and fourtie houres under 
pain of confiscatioun and in tyme cumming if 
they lay onie moir thair it shall be leasome to 
anie man efter aucht and fourtie houres lying to 
transport away and apply it to his oune uses but 
onie deed of violence or wrong to be incurred be 
him thairby. 

The said day concerning the reparatione of 
the calsies it wes found that maine actis were 
made abefore under penalties and not put to 
executioun and thairfor for the hie calsie that 
wes appoynted so oft to be repaired it is statute 
that the calsiersall be sett to work before ewerie 
manes doore quho sail be obleidged to furnish 
sand and stones and the calsier to work at the 
common pryce of fourtie shillingis the rood 
proportionallie and if the saids inhabitants pey 
not befor the calsier goe from the dore to be 
poynded instantlie according to the raitt of the 
former actis. And because the north entrie of 
the toune and Loch Wynd makis the access to 
the toune in winter so difficult that men and 
horse are both in danger. Therfor it wes thocht 
guid be the haill toune that theise tuo pairtis 
should be calsied befor winter ane with uniforme 



consent of the haill induelleris of the Spittell 
chanrie and middell toun it wes statute and 
ordained that thoise that hade horse sould send 
thair horse gratis and willinglie as it fell them 
in order to bring four draucht of sand or stones 
to the saidis places as also all the rest of the 
inhabitantis that had not horse sould send at 
leist a sufficient servant with barrowis tulis 
skullis and such like instrumentis to carie sand 
as it fell them in thair ordour under paine of 
poynding the absentis or disobedientis. 

Alex. M. Munro. 



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SAINT PALLADIUS. 

As some doubts have been expressed as to the 
date (452 A.D.) of the Church of Saint Palladius 
at Fordoun, some investigation I have made 
confirms it as correct. Buchanan tells us that 
he was sent to Scotland during the reign of 
Eugenius, by Celestine the Roman pontiff, and 
under his instructions many persons sprung up, 
illustrious alike for the purity of their doctrine, 
and the sanctity of their lives, in particular, Saint 
Patrick, Servanus, Ninian, and Kentigem. It 
is believed that Palladius first created bishops m 
Scotland, for until that time the churches were 
governed by monks, without bishops, with less 
splendour indeed and external pomp, but with 
much greater simplicity and holiness. Fordun, 
in his chronicle, commonly called Scoiichronicon, 
speaking of the mission of Palladius to the Scots 
of Britain, says — "That Eugenius gave him and 
his companions a place of residence where he 
asked it." In the MS. of Coupar, there is this 
entry, ^^ Apud Fordun in lie M earns ^ i.e. at 
Fordun in the Mearns." This entry perfectly 
coincides with the modern account. "The 
parish of Fordun is remarkable for having been 
for some time the residence and probably the 
burial place of St. Palladius, who was sent by 
Pope Celestine into Scotland, some time in the 
fifth century, to oppose the Pelagian heresy." 
That Palladius resided, and was probably buried 
here, appears from several circumstances. There 
is a house which still remains in the churchyard, 
called St. Palladius' Chapel, wherb it is said the 
image of the Saint was kept, and to which 
pilgrimages were performed from the most dis- 
tant parts of Scotland. There is a well at the 
corner of the minister's garden, which goes by 
the name of "Paddy's Well." {Stat. Acct., vol. 
iv., page 499). To this it may be added that the 
present market, held at Auchinblae, is at the 
present time vulgarly pronounced Paddy Fair. 
This is in itself a strong presumption that a 
church had been dedicated to St. Palladius there, 
as it is a well known fact that at the Reformation, 
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which used to succeed the festivals, and were 
named from them, were retained ; hence the 
very name, from the Latin word Feriae^ Holidays. 
Camerarius asserts, on the authority of Polydore 
Virgil, that the precious relics of this Saint 
Palladius were formerly worshipped at Fordun, 
and that the shrines containing these, adorned 
with silver, gold, and jewels, had been repaired 
by William Scheves, of St. Andrews. 

In the Breviary of Aberdeen, it is stated that 
Palladius died at Longforgand in Mernis, 
evidently a mistake for Fordun in Mernis. 
According to Higebert, Palladius was sent to the 
Scots A.D. 432. See Jamieson's Historical 
Account of Ancient Culdecs pp. 10- 11. 

Investigator. 



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NOTABLE MEN AND WOMEN OF 
ABERDEENSHIRE. 

17. Anderson, Arthur, M.D., C.B., Inspector 
General of Army Hospitals. Son of A. Anderson of 
Deebank, Aberdeenshire, he was born in 1814, and 
graduated M.A. of Aberdeen University, and M.D. of 
Edinburgh, 1835. Having entered the Medical 
Department of the Army, he rose through the various 
grades of the service till he became Inspector General, 
1862. He served with distinction in the Crimea, as 
also in China, and has medals for both. He was 
created C.B. in 1867. 

18. Anderson, David, of Finzeauch, Mechanical 
Genius. Known in his native town as " Davie do 
a'thing." He was maternal uncle to Jamesone the 
painter, and was born in 1568. A sketch of his life, 
and of his many services to Aberdeen, is given in Mr 
Bulloch's George Jan^esone, fi"om which it appears that 
he was a most remarkable man. He is described, 
indeed, as '* the most skilful mechanic that lived in 
Scotland." He died in 1629. 

19. Anderson, David, Minor Poet. Born at Kin- 
tore, Inverurie, in 1783. He published in 1821 The 
Martial Achievements of Sir William Wallace, an 
historical play in five acts. He also published Poems, 
chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which reached a second 
edition in 1826. He died in 185 1. 

20. Anderson, Duncan, M.A. (Rev.): Minor Poet. 
A native of Rayne parish, and born in 1828. Mr 
Anderson graduated at King's College, Aberdeen. 
After leaving College he held successively the appoint- 
ments of Rector of the Grammar School of Banchory- 
Ternan, and Parish Schoolmaster of Monymusk. 
Having contemporaneously prosecuted his Divinity 
course, he was licensed to preach the Gospel by Ga- 
rioch Presbytery in 1853, and almost immediately 
proceeded to Canada. There he has remained ever 
since, and has attained a good report, as a preacher, a 
poet, and an -ornithologist. He has published a vo- 
lume of verse, Lays of Canada, and other Poems. 

21. Anderson, Jafnes, D.D. : London Divine and 
Antiquary. Bom m Aberdeen, and brother to No. 14, 
he became Minister of Swallow Street Presbyterian 
Church, London, and also Chaplain to a Lodge of 



Freemasons. This led to his publishing, in 1 723, a 
book called The Constitution of Freemasons, His 
genealogical works, which are the result of some la- 
bour, but display little judgment, are — Royal Genea- 
logies : and a Genealogical History of the House of 
Yvery. He died in 1 739. His birth-date has not been 
ascertained, but probably occurred before 1670. 

22. Anderson, James, D.D.: English Presbyterian 
Divine and Minor Poet. Born in St Fergus parish, 
of which he was subsequently parish minister for 21 
years, he graduated at Aberdeen in 1 8 14, and alter 
being licensed in 1819, was ordained to the ministry 
in his native parish in 1821. Having come out at the 
Disruption in 1843, he was admitted to the English 
Presbyterian Church, Morpeth, 1845, ^"^ continued 
there till his death in 1882. He received the degree 
of D.D. in i860, and was chosen Moderator of the 
English Presbyterian Synod. Author of hymns and 
other verses as well as of various sermons, &c. 

23. Anderson, Jessie Ann : Minor Poet. A native 
of Ellon, born in 1861. She is noticed by Edwards 
in his Modern Scottish Poets. 

24. A nderson,John ( Sir) C.E.,LL.D.,F.R. S. E. : 
Mechanical Inventor, &c. Born at Woodside, near 
Aberdeen, in 1814, Mr Anderson, after considerable 
experience in the chief engineer works in the Kingdom, 
was appointed in 1842 to take charge of the Brass Gun 
Manufacture under the War Department. He soon 
showed his great mechanical ability, and was the 
means of effecting numberless improvements on the 
various forms of manufacturing guns, rifles, and other 
war material. Though tempting offers were often 
made to him to leave England for other countries, he 
continued all his life in the service of the British 
Government. His inventions were the means of 
effecting enormous savings to the country. He 
received numerous honours, both home and foreign. 
Shortly before his death, which occurred in 1886, he 
presented his native village with a free library, costing 
;^6ooo. 

25. Anderson, John Henry: *' Wizard of the North," 
noted prestidigiteur. Son of a cottar in Kincardine 
O'Neil, and born in 1814, young Anderson commenced 
life as a herd boy, and for some time wielded the fore- 
hammer in a country blacksmith's shop, where he 
picked up some knowledge of mechanics, which was 
afterwards of considerable use to him when he took to 
professing *' black art." He commenced his sleight- 
of-hand career as a man of all work to a humble 
showman of the name of Scott, in Aberdeen, from 
whom he learned the well-known "gun trick," and 
afterwards carried on his conjuring tricks for nearly 
40 years, to audiences of all ranks and countries, 
from rustics to the greatest living rulers upon earth. 
He died at Darlington in 1874. 

26. Anderson, Joseph: Minor Poet. Said to have 
been born in Peterhead alx)ut 1790, he published in 
18 1 8 a volume of verse entitled The Artless Muse. 
Date of death not ascertained. 

27. Anderson, Peter: pioneer in opening up of the 
Highlands. Son of John Anderson and Margaret 
Rayne. Bom 8th September, 1768, at Lentush, 
Rayne, in which parish his ancestors had for several 



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genenilions been tenanis of Ihe hna of Broamhillock. 
Knlered Aberdeen University, EaJning a hursary al 
ihe competilion in [7S4. AFler leavinj^ G>llege acieil 
for sometime as a private tutor, anJ in 1796 was 
odmilted a procuralor in Inverness, where lie spent 
Ihe retnainder of his life taking a deeji interest in Ihe 
prosperity B.nd advancement of the Highlands, lie 
slatted more than one Ihclory, for native industries, in 
Inverness, and thto' his enterprise the Krst puhllc 
coach, the " Caledonian," b^an to nin between ibat 
town and Perth, in 2^ days, in 1S06. Died 4lh 
November, 1823. His eldest son, John, a writer to 
the Signet, was Ihe author of an Essay on Iht Slate 
ef Sodely and KmniiUd^i in the HiMauds (Edin., 
1827), and B HUtory of the Family of Fraier (Edin., 
l325). His younger sons, George and Peter, were 
the compilers of the well-known series of Guides la 
the Highlands (S. N. &' Q., V., 95). The only son 
of Ihe last is Lit>rnrian to the University of Aberdeen, 
and Secretary of the New Spalding Club. 

a8. Anderson, Tkos. Gordon Tony {Rev.}: Minor 
Poet. See Torty. 

ag. Anderson. William, LL.D. (Kn.): Minor 
Foet and Free Church Divine. Born at Peterhead in 
the beginning of the (snlury, and educated for the 
ministry, Mr Anderson was ordained tniniiiter of 
Banchory-Teman parish in 1829. Having joined the 
Free Church in 1843, he was declared no lun^r a 
minister of the Church of Scotland. He assisted 
Cosmo Innes, the antiquary, in arranging Originei 
Parorhiales Scotia, vol. I. ; when, his health giving 
way, he was obliged to leave the country, and became 
Professor of History and Morals in the Government 
College, Agra. He received the degree of LL.D from 
Edinbuigh Univeisily in 1855. On retnining from 
India he resided partly in London and partly in Edin- 
burgh, where he died in 1870. He published The 
family of Tana, with other poems, in 1850. 

30. Anderson, Wiiliam: Minor Poet. Bom Aber- 
deen, 1802, d. 1S67. 

31. Anderson, iVilliam ( Hev. i : Baptist Tutor and 
Author. A native of Dumo in Chapel Garioch, and 
born i8ih October, 1784, Mr Anderson, after 
embracing Baptist views, proceeded in 1S04 to 
London, and in the following year entered Bristol 
Baptist College, where be continued to the close of 
1808. After leaving Bristol he preached for sometime 
■I Devonport, then at Kis!ingliury near Narthampton, 
and in 1809 settled at Dunstable, where he conlmued 
16 years till his removal to Bristol io 1S25. While at 
Dunstable, in addition to bis pastoral duties, he con- 
tributed to the Eclectic /{eviev; wrote a History ef 
Ihe Jiinsian Empire, and republished with notes 
and a second pan, an extioct from Jeremy Taylor's 
Liberty of Prophesying, under the title uf Thi Baptists 
fiislijiid. Durinc the years after 1825, Mr Anderson 
became the intimate friend of Rev. John Foster, who, 
after the death of his friend, speaks in 'he highest 
terms of Anderson's piety, and of the success of his 
labours as Tutor in the Baptist seminary there. 
Anderson died in 1833. 

32. Anderson, William ; Journalist. Author of 
The ffmot d Bucian. Bom probably in Peterhead 



in 1843, he became in 1863 connected with the 
Peterhead Sen/ine/, which he conducted till his death 
in 1S66. 

33. Andrew. Jamesf Rev.) I.L.B.: Mathematician, 
Teacher and Author. Born at Aberdeen in 1774, he 
graduated at the University there, and seems to have 
studied for the ministry. He gave himself, however, 
to teaching, and when the E. I. Co. determined upon 
eilucating Ihe youths intended for Iheir enpneer and 
artillery service separately from the King^s cadets, 
they made choice for this purpose of Dr. Andrew and 
a private instilulion then kept by him. Soon after- 
wards they purchased Addiscombe House, and 
appointed Dr. Andrew Headmaster or Principal, and 
Professor of Mathematics. He continued to preside 
over the establishment with great success for 15 years, 
and retired in 1S23 to Edinburgh, where he died in 
1833. His works are, Astronomical luid Nautical 
Tables, iSlO; Institutes of Grammar as aff livable to 
the English Ijtnguc^e, 1817 ; Key to Sa-iplure 
Chronology, 1S33. He is also said to be Author of a 
Hebrew Grammar an'l Dictionary. 

34. Andrew, Christian : Centenarian. Born 
Commonty, New Deer, 17S5, d. 1889. 

35. Andrew, iVilliam Patrick (Sir) CJ.E.R.B. : 
Writer on Indiaji Subjects. Said to have been born 
in Aberdeenshire in 1806, he was educated at Edin- 
buigh and Oxford. Having proceeded to India in 
early life, he gave great attention to the subject of 
Indian Exploitation and Defence, and submitted to 
the Government plans to advance both objects which 
met with approval and support both in this country 
and in India. He was the Founder and Chairman of 
the Scinde, Puniaub and Delhi Railway ; and was the 
Chief Agent in obtaining in i856lheAclorPBrii3ment 
establishing the Indian Telegraph System. He was 
an advocate of Ihe Euphrates Valley Railway, and 
wrote many works on Indian subjects. One of the 
most impnitant of these, published in 1878, is entitled 
India and her Neighbours. Knighted in 188a, he 
died in 18S7. 



graduated there. After which he devoted himself Ic 

the teaching profession, in which he rose to the highest 

ition in Ihe city of Gla^jow. Among his works 

An English Spelling and Pronouncing Vocabalary, 

&. A Ifrw System of English Grammar, 1S12 j 

this work reached a (iftb edition in 1819, and an 

abridgement of the same wntk attained a sixth edition 



bred a blacksmith, Mr Annand 
early forsook the forge for a journalist's career. He 
commenced his work in that line on The Biuhan 
Observer, which he edited from lE6j to 1S76. Since 
then he has occupied several influential journalistic 
positions in the North of England, and is at present 
Editor of Newcastle Lernler. He was Lilieral Can- 
didale for Tynemouth at last election- 

Rabert Camming: Inventor ami 
Engineer. Brother of No. 36, bc^n 1B47. After 3 



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J eslablishmi 



erhead, Mr 



Annand setlled at Middlraborough in Englanil, whi 
he became acquainted with the engines at use in 
Newspipet offices. Returning lo Peterhead he became 
proprietor of The Biahan Oherver from 187s lo 1882. 
RelurnJr^ lo Sonlb Shields, be established the 
Engineeiing business he now conducts. Ne'-vspaper 
Machinery is his E|jccialily, for which he has many 

39- AnUs, Atalcetiniis : Friar and Author. Bom 
in Anchtcrleis in the 13th century, he is reputed tu 
have written in elegant Latin a small volume Di Bella 
ad Faaikirt, 1324, and another Dt Siolia Libir/Ua. 

40. Adanis, Andrew SmUh, M.D. (Proj.): Natu- 
ralist, &C. 'Saa o( No. 4. Born Banchoiy, gazetted 
to 66th Foot, served in Peshawur campaign, and in 
the Crhnea, on retiring he became Deputy Surgeon 
General. An excellent naturalist, he published 
WantUrings (fa Naluralist in India, and olhet works 
of a ^milar kind, also Tht RtcndlinF Qiuslien from 
Medical and Military Points of Vieiti, and. The 
Physical Re^uiranents of the Soldier, He became 
Professor of Natural History in the Collie of Science, 
Ireland, and then in Queen's University, died 1882. 
W. B. R. W. 



THE CANTERBURY TALES. 

THE knight's tale, 

\. 

Once on a time, as old talcs tell us, 
There was a duke called Theseus, 
Of Athens lord and governor ; 
And in his lime a conqueror ; 
No greater was beneath the sun ; 
Many rich countries he had won. 
What with his skill and bravery, 
He won ihe realm of Feminie, 
In olden times called Scythia, 
Wed Ihe fair queen Ipolita, 
Home brought her lo his own couni 
With glory and great soiemn'ly ; 
Eke her young sister Emilie. 
Wilh victory thus and melody. 
Let this great duke to Athens ride. 
With all his arm'd host him beside. 
Now, were it not too long lo tell, 
I would rehearse you how it fell 
That overcome was Feminie 
By Theseus and his chivalry ; 
Of Ihe great battle for the nonce, 
'Twixt Athens and the Amazons ; 
How captived was Ipolita, 
Fair, hardy queen of Scythia ; 
Of the great feast held at her wedding. 
And of the tempest while home 
But all this 1 must now forbear, 
We have a spacious field to ear 
Weak are the oxen in my plow, 
My tale indeed is long enow ; 
Eke none I'll hinder of this roui 



ing. 



Let each one tell his tale about ; 
See now who shall the supper win j 
There, where 1 left I will begin. 

This duke, of whom you've somewhat known. 
When almost come unto the town, 
In all his weal and greatest pride. 
Was 'ware, when cast his eye aside. 
There kneeling in the broad highway 
A groups of ladies, tway and tway. 
Each after other, clothed in black. 
But such a cry and wail they make, 
That in this world no creature hving 
Heard ever such sad waimenting. 
And of their cry would never stint, 
Till ihey his bridle reins had henl. 

"What folks be ye at my home coming 
That mar my joy with such sad crying ? " 
Quoth Theseus, " Have ye such envy 
Of me you thus complain and cry ? 
Who hath you injured or offended ? 
Do tell me, if it may be mended? 
And why ye be thus clothed in black?" 

The eldest of them all then spake, 
Nigh swooning, with a death-like cheer 
Most sorrowful to see and hear ; 
" Great Lord, let Fortune ever give 
Thee victory ; as a conqueror live ; 
We grieve not at your fame or honour ; 
We beg your mercy and your succour. 
Look on our woe and sore distress ; 
Some pity, through thy gentillesse 
On wretched women now let fall. 
For, certes. Sire, we one and all 
Were either duchess, or a queen ; 
Now captives, plainly to be seen. 
Fortune beChanked and her false wheel. 
That no estate ensuieth weal ; 
And certes, waiting for your presence 
In temple of the goddess Clemence 
Have we been all this fourteennight : 
Now help us since 'tis in thy might." 

" I, wretch that weeping, waileth thus, 
Was wife to King Capaneus 
Who starved at Thebes, cursed be that day : 
And we, who are in this array, 
And make our lamentable moan. 
Lost all our husbands at that town 
While that the siege about there lay. 
But now old Creon, walaway, 
Who now is lord of Thebes citSe, 
Filled full of ire, — iniquity ; 
He, in despite and tyranny, 
Doth wreak on dead men villany ; 
And our dear lords who there were slain, 
In heaps are left, — a ghastly train ; 
As yet he will not give assent 
That they be buried, or be brenl ; 
Foul dogs devour them through his spite." 

And with that word, sans all respite, 



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They fall down crying piteously, 

" Oh ! wretched we ! mercy ! mercy ! 

Oh ! let our grief sink in thine heart." 

The duke down from his horse did start, 
All piteous, thus to hear them speak. 
He thought his very heart would break 
At their distresses now so great, 
That whilom were in high estate. 
Then in his arms he them up hent, 
And comforted with kind intent, 
And swore an oath, " as worthy knight 
He would put forth his utmost might 
'Gainst Creon ; vengeance so would wreak. 
That all the folks of Greece should speak 
How Creon was by Theseus served, 
As one whose death was well deserved." 

Then turning back from his abode, 
Displayed his banner, forth he rode 
Thebesward, and all his host beside ; 
No nearer Athens would he ride. 
Nor take his ease for half a day. 
Onward anon he urged his way : 
Sending Ipolita his queen. 
And Emilie her sister sheen 
To Athens, there meanwhile to dwell : 
And forth he rode ; there's more to tell. 

( To be continued. ) 



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An Epigram on St. Triduana (cf 
5. N. &* 2., VI., i). — In his Historia Eccles- 
iastica Gentis Scotorum (Bannatyne Club) 
Dempster {s.v. S. Triduana) has the following, 
which he calls "lepidum epigramma Petri 
Tausiani Bastidaei Galli '* (who is he ?) : — 

Ut Triduanae oculos sine crimine vidit ademptos, 

Attonitus potuit dicere jure procus, 
Heu ! quo jure oculi, virgo fortissima, poenam 

Quam meruere mei, sustinuere tui? 

The epigram seems to me not only to be 
"neat and witty," but also to put the story of 
St. Triduana, or Tredwell, as Sir David Lindsay 
calls her, so well, that I have ventured to give it 
an English rendering : — 

When Nectan sees fair Tredwell's blameless eyes 
Plucked ruthless out, the woe-struck lover cries — 
' What right, brave maid, permits to eyes that pain 
Which mine deserve, but yours, alas, sustain ? ' 

J. Calder Ross. 
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Find of Old Coin at Deskford — An old 
coin was found a few days ago by the grave- 
digger here when digging a grave. It was 
indentified by Dr. Cramond as a billon plack of 
James III. (1460- 1488). It bears on the obverse 
JACOBYS : DEI ; GRA : REX : SCOTO, and the 
lion of Scotland within a tressure, and on the 
reverse villa edinbyrg. 



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A small bronze spear-head has been found in 
the Teviot, near Weensland, Hawick. 



Find of Cists at Longniddry~Two cists, 
in remarkably good preservation, have been un- 
earthed at Longniddry during some building 
operations there. In one of the cists was found 
a fine specimen of the clay urn, ^yi inches in 
height and 7 inches in diameter at the bulge. 
The vessel is of an exceedingly regular and 
graceful shape, having evidently been turned on 
a wheel and moderately baked. It is ornamented 
with lines of triangular and dotted markings, and 
there is reason to believe that it had contained 
ashes. The bones found were those of adults, 
one of them being a remarkabiy tall man. The 
cists lay due east and west. No weapons or 
ornaments were found. The urn is in the 
possession of Mr. Edmond, postmaster. 



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Kincardine O'Neil.— In Smith's New 
History of Aberdeenshire^ the name Kincardine 
is stated to be derived from the Gaelic Ceam-na- 
ceam, which signifies either "the head of the 
hill," or the head of the quarter, region or 
district. O'Neil is said to have been derived 
from the Barony of Oneil, viz., the lands of 
Coule, Kincragy and le Corss, which in 1234 
belonged to Colin Durward, Lord of Oneil, and 
that Kincarden, as the name is uniformly written 
in old deeds, was appointed to be "the head 
place of the district of Onele, in all time coming.'* 

Edinburgh. J. E. LeightON. 

923. Castle of Cullen of Buchan, and Auld- 
haven. — In Pratt's Buchan^ p. 197, it is said that a 
noted scholar, named William Barclay, was bom in 
this old Castle. A quotation is given from the intro- 
duction to the works of Tacitus, published by the said 
scholar to the following effect. " Nam Collonia (sic 
Caslrum vocatur in quo primum terram tetigi) sita est 
in littore quod tam vasto atque aperto mari pulsatur. 
Quo loco, at obiter dicam, non panea sunt vestigia 
veterum bellorum, cum Anglis praesertim. Est in 
eodem littore, in territoris gentis Barclayanae, portus 
quidam, qui nostra lingua, Auldhaven appellatur." 
Is there any harbour still called Auldhaven in 
Aberdeenshire? And in what Buchan parish is the 
Casile of Cullen situated ? W. B. R. W. 

924. Garden's Map of Kincardineshire. — 
Where can a copy of Garden's Map of Kincardine- 
shire (1774) be seen? 

Cullen. C. 

925. Ai.iCK Skene. — In announcing the death of 
the late Captain Charles Skene, the Weekly Free 
Press mentions a "heroic incident which occurred to 
the youngest brother Alick," during the Cawnpore 
Massacre, — ** preferring death to torlure, outrage and 
mutilation, he first shot his wife and then himself, 
dead." Christina G. Rossetti, in her poem on ** the 
Round Tower at Jhansi," details the incident, but 



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adds, in a note (edition 1S92), " I retain this little 
pnetn, not iis historically accurate, but as written and 

Sublisbcd before I heard the supposed tacts contra- 
icted." Can any of your leaders give tbe authority 
of the facts 01 of the contiadiction." 

Wandsworth. R. 

9>6. Old Scotch Song. — Refrain : — 

These lines form the refrain of several verses. Can 
any of your readers supply them? and oblige J. R. 

927. Counting Out Rhyme.— Has Mr. Muirof 
Galslon, or any other of your correspondents, ever 
heard the folloiving rhyme, which was frequently in use 
in Irvine in my boyhood ? And can any render of 
5. N. b' Q, surest any possible tneaning of the ; 
what nonsensiiSl gibberish the lines make when 
together? 

Zeeny, Meeny, 
Feg, lae, feg, 
Deil's din 
Dimmy-neg. 



e when read 



Zan- 






-locV, 



Zan-pan 

The object of repealing the rhyme was to determine 
which of a gang of boys was to be chosen to begin a 
particular game. As the reciter went over this rhyme, 
apportioning to each boy 3 several word, tbe boy 10 
whom the word loosh fell was set aside from the rest, 
and pronounced out And then the reciter began 
again, and went urer the lines antil only one boy was 
left in, and he was responsible for starting the game. 
Dollar. W. B. R. W. 



Hnawers. 

907. AuTiiOHOF Collection ofHvm.nsWantbd 
(VIII,, 30, 47, 62).—! find it staled in the life of 
Dr. James Fordyce (hat, after a chequered ministry in 
a Dissenting Chapel in Monkwell Street, London, 
that gentleman retireil in 1783 to Hampshire, and 
finally to Bath, where he continued to reside till his 
death in 1796. In these circumstances I think it 
perfectly incredible that the author of the Collection 
of Hymns, published by subscription in Aberdeen in 
17S7, can have l>een the retired minister of Monkwell 
Street Chapel. I feel sure with Mr. Gordon that the 
British Museum Catalogue is here in error. 

W. B. R. W. 

911. THR CtJBiiB OF SCOTLANIl (VIII., 6l).-I 

agree with Dr. Gammack that the most rational ex- 
planation of the ' Curse of Scotland ' is the ' Cross of 
Scotland,' or St. Andrew's Cross, the word Cross 
being often pronounced Corse, but many do not 
admit this as a sufficient explanation. It is interest- 
ing therefore to note briefly these other explanations, 
some of them ingenious and plausible indeed — 
(t.) In Queen Mary's reign, George Campbell stole 
('tis said) nine diamonds from the crown of 
Scotland. The tax imposed to replace them 
m^nated the name. It is taid the cud waa 



often called George Campbell in the West of 
Scotland some 40 years ago. 

{2,) Tbe Master of Stair signed the mandate for the 
Glencoe massacre. This family has nine 
diamonds in the shield of their coat-of-arms. 

(3.) The Duke of Cumberland wrote the first 
account of Culloden on the back of this card. 

(4.) Colonel Packer, who ruled in Scotland with 
harshness in the time of the Commonwealth, 
had as his arms nine diamonds or lozenges 
conjuined 

(S-1 A gambling game called comet, introduced into 
Scotland by the Duke of York, had the nine 
of diamonds as an important card. 

(6.) Many Scotch Eimilies, ruined by Comctte, in- 
troduced by the French attendants of Mary of 
Lorraine, Queen of James V. This is the 
great winning card. 

(7. ) The explanation supplied by the game of Pope 

(8.) The Duke of Cumberland, after Culloden, 
wrote on the back of this card a cruel order for 
the destruction of the rebels. 
(9.) The Ear! of Stair promoted the Union very 
actively. See (2). 
(10.) Tbe nine of diamonds is the Pope in the game 
of Pope Joan. The Pope called in Scotland 
the Corse of Scotland. 
(11.) Nine of diamonds, so called because every 
ninth monarch of Scotland was bad. 
It is objected to the explanation Curse = Corse = 
Cross that the nine is less like a St. Andrew's Cross 
than the hve in a pack of cards, and moreover the 
nine of any other suit would be equally applicable. 
C. 
911. In Dr. Murray's New English Dictionary, 
sui face Curse, that philologist says curs appears in 
late old English, and is of unknown origion. No 
word of similar form and sense is known in Teutonic, 
Romanic, or Celtic He then adds. " of connection 
with Cross which has been su^ested, there is no 
trace." In connection with the phrase " The Curie of 
Scolland," the earliest quotation given in Dr. Murtay'i 
Dictionary is under the date 1715-47, and is taken 
from J. Houston's Memoirs, page ga, where Lord 
Justice Clerk Ormiston is said to have t>een called Ike 
Curst of Seollanily so that, " « hen the ladies were at 
Cfltd-playing, the nine of diamonds (commonly called 
Me Curse of Scolland), they called it the Just ice- Clerk." 



burn, Lord Ormiston, was Lord Justice Clerk, the 
phrase, Curse of Scotland, was in common use (o 
dcsig;nale the nine of diamonds. But was it in use 
with that connotation before that period ? No 
evidence that I have seen proves it to have been so. 
And since we have all seen how, in our own day, a 
phrase like Boycott, or like Crank, has suddenly come 
into universal vogue, is it not possible, if not highly 
probable, that the 9 loienges on a sallite, which con- 
stitute the armorial bearings of the Stair &tmily, 
suggested to the Jacobite party the nickname given 
to the card which bears such a close resemblance to 
the armorial bearings of that Scottish fiimily, especially 



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[October, 1894. 



as Lord Stair was held largely responsible, not only 
for the Glencoe Massacre, but for the Union with 
England, which latter measure was long looked on by 
many Scotch patriots as the ruin of the country? Lord 
Ormiston also was associated with the Scottish Union, 
and was a prominent Whig. W. B. R. W. 

913. Gathering OF THE Clan Grant (VIIL, 61). 
— I cannot recall any more of the Gathering of the 
Grants than the verses J. McR. has given, but I think 
I read the entire Ballad in a small volume I obtained 
from Milne's lending library in Union Street, Aber- 
deen, some years ago. It was either the Life of, or 
Reminiscences of, or a Bic^raphy of, Professor Aytoun. 
And if J. McR. can find, and give me the correct 
title of the book, I shall be obliged. 

31 Cambridge Road, Brighton. R. P. Hooper. 

913* "J* McR." is in precisely the same position 
as every one else. He would naturally expect more 
verses, but none have ever been forthcoming, at 
least if they emerge from any obscure source, the 
author. Sir Alexander Boswell, has a distinct grievance, 
for more do not appear in the Gazetteer of Scotland^ 
the Scottish Nation^ and numerous other likely 
sources. C. 

915. Old Rhyme (VIIL, 62).— These lines will 
be found in an old song, given in Reliques of Robert 
Bums, by R. IL Cromek, 1808, p. 267. The note 
by Burns is **the first half of the stanza is old, the 
rest is Ramsay's. The old words are — 

O this is no mine ain house, 

Mjr ain house, my ain house ; 
This is no mine ain house, 

I ken by the biggin' o't. 
There's bread and cheese are my door cheeks, 

Are my door cheeks, are my door cheeks ; 
There's bread and cheese are my door cheeks, 

And pan-cakes the riggin' o't. 
This is no my ain wean, 

My^ ain wean, my ain wean ; 
This is no my ain wean, 

I ken by the greetie o't. 
I'll tak' the curchie aff my head, 

Aff my head, aff my head ; 
I'll take the curchie aff my head, 

And row't about the fcetie o't. 

The tune is an old Highland air called Shuan truish 
willighan, " 

The song is a nursery one, and, I think, has no 
reference to the Lanark Common Riding custom of 
throwing cakes. James Gordon. 

916. Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots 
(VIIL, 62). — In reference to the Latin poem attributed 
to Queen Mary on the morning of her execution, it is 
well to view with extreme distrust the statement of 
the cutting of all such gems in such exceptional 
circumstances. It would be contrary to almost all 
experience, and would require for credit the very 
strongest evidence. Till such is forthcoming the 
statement may safely be discarded. ** Bearsden " says 
he has made a translation of the poem, but he will 
probably not be called upon to produce it in view of 
the following, which is the common translation : — 

O Lord and my God, I have hoped in Thee, 

Jesus beloved, now liberate me 1 

In this hard galling chain, in this harassing pain. 

My desire is to Thee, 

In languishing, groaning, and bending the knee, 

1 pray, I implore Thee to liberate me. C 



917. Ancient Farm House at Lumphanan 
(VIIL, 62). — The **low thatched cottage in Lum- 
phanan, where one of the Kings of Scotland (James IV. 
it is said) passed a night," is a pure myth. C. 

918. The Peel Ring (VIIL, 62).— **J" may be 
referred to the Neiv Statistical Account of Lumphanan, 
by the late Dr. McCombie, and to Hill Burton's 
History of Scotland, He need trust no information as 
to what family occupied the fort on the Peel bog, but 
these sources of information, together with the O.S. A. 
will inform him as to the parish. He may also con- 
sult Smith's History of Aberdeenshire, Dr. McCombie 
says * * that the Peel Bog, a name which is of Saxon 
origin, was erected in the beginning of the 13th 
century, when the Saxon language was probably 
introduced into Scotland ; that a wooden castle, 
erected on the artificial mound, was a residence of the 
Durwards, who then possessed a wide domain in 
Aberdeenshire, stretching from Skene to the western 
boundary of Cromar, and that this ancient structure, 
guarded by a moat, and surrounded by that * wode 
of Lunfanan,' into which Macbeth, according to 
Wyntown, had been chased, was, during that century, 
a strong place of defence against warlike and predatory 
attacks, — these are conjectures which the writer of 
this article is disposed to make respecting this fortress." 
Dr. McCombie also gives interesting particulars 
regarding buildings said to have stood on the Peel. 
He also quotes in a designation of lands, of date 1790, 
"all and haill the lands of Halton with the Peill and 
manour-place thereof, houses, biggings, yards and 
orchards of the said lands of Halton." 

**Near the middle of the Peel Bog stands a fort 
built chiefly of earth from the moat around it, 
not perpendicular, but contracting as it rises ; it 
appears round, but is really oval. The height is 
12 yards. It measures 86^2 yards in circumference 
at the top, and the area may grow 6 or 7 pecks of 
oats. The most (?moat) at the base is 23 yards wide. 
Without lies another ring 350 yards round. It is un- 
certain who built this fort ; some ascribe the work to 
Longueville who came over from France in Wallace's 
time ; some to Wallace himself, and call it Gargun- 
nock. Others give it a much earlier date. Before 
the invention of gunpowder it has been a place of 
strength, and it often excites the curiosity of strangers." 
(O.S A., 1793). C. 

918. The following, taken from Dr. Mackintosh's 
paper contributed to the Weekly Free Press, designat- 
ed "Valley of the Dee," may supply some of the 
information which J. is in quest of: — 

**xiv. Lumphanan,— Macbeth, — Traces of 
Early Structures. 

Turning to traces of ancient structures, the Peel 
Bog lies in a marshy hollow near the church. It is a 
circular earthen mound, forty-six yards in diameter, 
eleven feet above the level of the bog, and surrounded 
by a moat. The Burn of Lumphanan supplied the 
water for the moat. It is conjectured that a wooden 
fort was erected on the mound at an early period. 
This structure seems to have been succeeded by a 
stone building, erected in the fifteenth century. The 
ruins of the stone structure existed on the top of the 
mound in the latter part of the last century ; at that 



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lime the walls and southern gable, though decayed 
and defaced, were quite visible, und it wits then called 
Ilaalon House. Ahonl a century agni, the ienanl (if 
the form of Bogloch taied the cruniliiing slruclure lo 
Ihe foundation, and used the stones fur building pur- 
poses in the neighbourhood. 

The Houffis about a mile from Ihe Peel Bug, and 
it seems lo have l>een a place of defence in early 
times ; some traces of the structure are titill visible. 
At a later period, according lo tradition, it became 
the buria.1 ground of the Duguid family." 

Dr. Mackintosh also gives details of the movements 
of Malcolm and Macbeth, leading up to the buttle in 
which the latler was slain. Thut is stated to have 
been probably at the hill known as Perkhill. He 
then adds. " On the estate of Glemmllan there were 
once a number of sepulchral cairns, in one of which 
two bronie rings were discovered. There are still a 
number of cairns on Perkhill, though many have been 
removed ; and stone axes and other object; of the 
pre-historic age have been found in their vicinity. 
Macbelh's Cairn stood on this hill, but Ihe stones 
have been removed, and Ibe site planted and en- 

Di. Mackintosh makes no mention of the ancient 
farmhouse lo which your correspondent refers. 

In Smith's New History of Aheideenshire it is 
said that "The fort of the Peel Bog was no doubt 
occupied by the Dutwards, who possessed extensive 
estates to the east and west of Lumphanan in the 
banning of Ihe I3lh century; and here, either for 
strategical or other purposes, they occupied this 
structure, guarded by Ihe moat, and suiiounded by 
Ihe 'wode of Lumpanan,' into which Macbeth, 
according to Wynloo, had been chased, in the middle 
of the nth century, and which was used as a p'ace of 
defence against warlike attacks." Also, that "The 
course by which the water was conveyed from the 
Bum of Lumphannn may still be traced, and the 
situation of the drawbridge is still discernible. The 
sluice by which the water issued from the moat was 
laid bare by the fluoil of 1S29 ; and the circumvalla- 
tion liy which the water was coniined may still be 

Edinbui^h. J. E. I.eighton. 

919. Banchohy Ternan (VHL, 6z). — Upper 
Bajichory Id Kincardineshire is named after "St. 
Teinanus, who, according to Fordun, the Breviary of 
Aljerdeen, and other nulhorilies, flourished about A. 11. 
440, and was regarded, after Ninian, as the apostle 
and archbishop of the soiiibem I'icts. Usher, how- 
ever, places his era subsequent lo A.D. 684, anil 
supposes him to hav^ been among the last of their 
native prelates" (N.S.A.) Kincardine O'Neil is nnl, 
as "Scotch Thistle" imagines, in the same county. 
Il is in Aberdeenshire. " In old registers Ihe name 
is unifijrmly written Kincatden O'Neal. Kincardine 
is said to be derived from Gaelic words signifying 
'the head of the hill.'" A rivulet named Neal or 
Neil, tunning by the village, gives, it is supposed, the 
addition of O'NcU to Kincardine" (N. S. Accl.) 
" O'Neil is said lo have been derived Irom the barony 
of O'Neil viz. the lands of Coule, Kincragy and le 
Corss, which in 1234 belonged to Colin Durward, 



Lord of O'Neil, and that Kincarden, as the name is 
uniformly written in old deeds, was appointed lo be 
' Ihe head place of the district of O'Nele. in all time 
coming'" (Smith's Aberditnshire). C. 

919. Tbisparishisvarioaslynamed UpperBanchory, 
Banchory Trinity, and Banchory Ternan, which is 
short for Banchory SaiM Ternan, (not Ernan). The 
old Statistical Account (1793) says that, "The laller 
part of the name of this parish is that of its patron 
sainL Hence one or two annual fairs, held near by, 
are called Saint Taman's Market ; and a small fountain 
not far distant is called Saint Taman's Well. St. 
Ternan is said to have been a Culdee, bied in Culross, 
the companion of St. I'alladitis, by whom he was 
consecrated in 440. 

With respect to the second fiart of the query, I 
quote a remark of Mr. Bulloch from his Historic Saim 
in Aberdaashin, as to Ihe name Kincardine O'Neil. 
He Bays it ''signifies the head of Ike hill, with the dis- 
tinguishing affix, derived either from the rivulet of that 
name which passes by the village .... or from the 
extinct barony of O'Neil." Wynloun's Chronicle 
(Book ix. — 1050) speaks of il as Kyncnrdyne in Nele. 
O. F. M. 



Xtterature. 

Narratives and Extracts from the Records of 
ihe Presbytery of Ellon. Part I., 1597 to 1607. 
By Thomas MAlRiZllon. Peterhead: David 
Scott, Sentintl Office, 1894. [59 pp., sm. 4to]. 
Given a volume of " 286 pages, 12x6 inches, 
closely written," how to make the best of it was 
the editor's problem. And we think the 
principle on which he has proceeded is so 
sound and sensible as to commend it to his 
readers. It has been that of selection, along 
with explanations, between which one gels the 
gist without ihe verbiiige and formalism of ihe 
original tome, which by the way has evidently 
given Mr. Mair considerable trouble to read on 
account of the decayed and imperfect condition 
of many of the leaves. This last has let the 
editor into a few pardonable misprints, yet, as 
a whole, the work is well done, and full of 
interest. There is one suggestion we would 
make with regard to future issues of this work, 
and that is whether the author cannot make 
some typographic distinction between the 
exactly quoted extracts, and his own comment 
or explanations of the text ? The work has 
evidently been a labour of love to the editor, 
and, we think, will be the same to the reader of 
il. ED. 

The Cairngorm Club Journal, No. 3. Published 
by the Cairngorm Club, per U. Wyllte & Son, 
Aberdeen. July, 1894. 
Tke part before us maintains the high standard 
of its predecessors, and has gone further afield. 
The Club has taken Norway under it wing, "A 



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Hill Walk" there being described in a sprightly 
manner by Mr. John Geddie. Perhaps the gem 
of this number is Dr. Gordon's "An Arctic 
SumraEr Day on Cairn Toul." Here a very 
liappy alliance of the scientist and poet has 
produced an article of high literary merit. 
Apropos of poetry, Mr. W. A. MacKenzie con- 
tnbuies "■ .\ Rough-shod Rhyme of Desire," 
entitled "For the Hiils," suggestive of the 
breeziness of high altitudes. 
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LITERARY NOTES. 

Number 247 of the "Speaker" contains an 
article on the " Older and the Newer Scotland," 
it is a pleasant r^sum^ of our modern literature 
descriptive of Scotch peasant life, which is so ably 
described in the works of Mr. Barrie, "Gabriel 
Seton," Mr. Crockett, and "Ian Maclaren." 

Mr. Balfour Paul, Lyon King of Arms, is 
preparing a memorial volume on the recently 
deceased Mr. J. M. Gray, Curator of the 
National Portrait Gallery. 

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Cheyne Row, Chelsea, be purchased, and 
retained as a memorial. Those who are willing 
to support the scheme will please communicate 
with Mr. A. C. Miller, 61 Cecil Street, G teen - 
heys, Manchester. 

"St. Ives," and "Weir of Hermiston ; or the 
Lord Justice Clerk," are the titles of two Scottish 
romances, which Mr. R. L. Stevenson has on 
the stocks. 

Mr. J. G. Hyde, of the Edinburgh G.P.O., has 
completed another volume descriptive of the 
'Royal Mail.' It is titled "The Post in Grant 
and Farm." 

The new edition of "Tammas Bodkin" by 
W. D. Latto is to be issued from a London 
House. We are informed that of the former 
editions of-lbis work, which were published in 
Cupar-Fife, not less than 30,000 copies have 
been sold. _ 

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weekly which will shortly be issued from an 
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Vol. VIII.] No. 6. 



NOVEMBER, 1894. 



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CONTENTS. 

Notes:— , Page 

Notes on the Place Names of Leochel-Cushnie, 8i 

Notes on Ayrshire Folk-Lore, 83 

Extracts from the Council Records of Old Aberdeen,.. 85 

Epitaphs and Inscriptions in St. Nicholas Churchyard, 86 

Notable Men and Women of Aberdeenshire, 88 

The Canterbury Tales, 89 

Minor Notes : — 

Carved Stone, 91 

Glasgow Protocol Books, 91 

Horn-Books, 92 

Wolfs Crag, 92 

Another Vernon Medal, 92 

Queries: — 

Epigram on a Scottish Ship — " Marykin Maker," and 
"Marikine Shooes"— The Phrase " Futt Rollit"— 
Ane Crown of Sone— The Weird Stones of Fyvie— The 
" To go to the Stones"— Tippling Philosophers 92 

Answers : — 

A Phrase Concerning Burns— Old Rhyme — Refrain of 
Old Scotch Song— Counting Out Rhyme — Old Rhymes 
—The Drum- Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots. . 93 

Literature, 94 

Scotch Books for the Month, 95 



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NOTES ON THE PLACE NAMES OF 
LEOCHEL-CUSHNIE. 

(Continued from VI I L, yo,) 

Of well names we have in Leochel-Cushnie 
the farm of Well/old; Brideswell, near the 
Church of Cushnie, so called from St. Bride's 
Well to whom the Church was dedicated ; 
Carden's Well, near Cardenstown, seems to 
have been a holy well, connected with Saint 
Carden — there is a Cardensbrae in Keig, a 
Carden's Howe and Carden Place in Aberdeen, 
while Kilmaly Church, Golspie, is dedicated to 
Carden. The Muscova Well and Muscova 
Brae, near Cushnie House, might be mo uisge 
bheatha, my healing water, the my implying 
reverence and endearment. This might have 
been one of the healing wells so commonly 
resoited to in former times. Visits to holy and 
health giving wells would become an excuse for 
mirthful meetings among neighbours, and at 
such merry makings the presence of a piper 
would not be amiss — hence, perhaps, our 
PiperwelL 

Ronalds Well is near Oldtown of Hallhead. 
There is a Ronald's Well .in Gi€ncuie. The 
well and wood of Munroe are near Reekie— 



moine ruadh, red moss. Tradition tells of a 
man deputed to fix the marches between Hall- 
head and Corse. It was suggested to him that 
he might go to the Well of Munroe and follow 
the stream. He yielded so far, but his thoughts 
within him were vexed, and his conscience 
would let him proceed no further than the march 
between Bogfern and Wester Corse. As a 
consequence, the laird of Hallhead lost Wester 
Corse. My Lord's Well is at the Hole of 
Badychark. The Cock Well, cf. Cock Bridge 
and Alt a Choilich in CorgarfF, the well of the 
Black Cock or Grouse Cock, is the source of the 
Alt Tochie. 

The Bilebrok Well falls into the Tochie from 
the Mid Glen. In the wood near Mains of 
Hallhead is a strong spring of cold and hard 
water known as the Lady's Well, probably from 
some connection with Lady Henrietta, daughter 
of the second Earl of Aberdeen, and great great 
grandmother of the present laird. In the Glacks 
of Culmelhe is the Blackstone Well. At Tilly- 
sheras there is a well "good for the hooping 
cough — a waucht o't an' ye kink nae main" 
Does it owe its virtue to the fact that it springs 
from a spot between two lairds' lands? 

The Lousie Well, lusach, weedy (?) is at 
Roadside, Cushnie. The better known Lousie 
Wall is between Cromar and Towie. 

The Four and twenty puddock well is at 
Kirk-hill, and the CauP Wall between Cushnie 
House and Milltown. On the south side of the 
road to Towie is the Wood of Tippertawsie — 
the wood of the Warlock's Well, tobar taibhse. 
The pool between Cushnie and Towie on the 
top of the hill is known as Plausie's Peel, and 
the DrinkitH Pots are at the source of the Thiefs 
Bum. 

The custom of naming the fields of the farm 
has been rendered unnecessary by the rotation 
of crops ; we can say " the neep field," " the 
corn field,"^ &c. The custom is therefore dying 
out. The old names of the fields of Tillyorn, 
taken from some prominent feature about them, 
are the Muckle and Little Tillyorn, the Burn 
Park, the Dry Park, the Square Park, the 
Greystone Knowe (from a farm near it, which 
received its name from the tenant that " took it 
in," because another farm so called seemed to 
pay well), the Gutterfauls, the Swnmer Knowe, 



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the Ho7veboy and Munroe. The Stack faul was 
a part of the Gutterfaul, and facing Wester Corse 
a part of the Greystone Park was called Torniis 
Brae, The fields of Mains of Hallhead are the 
Plate (the laird's pronunciation of flat (?) the 
Cot Pauls ^ the Garden Park^ the Back Park, the 
Bog Park^ the Mid Park, and the Green. 

Walking westward from Ley we have on the 
farm of Culmellie, the Cliends — cluainte, mea- 
dows — where the remains of a very large cairn 
are visible. Then come on the left hand the 
Hillock Rigs, the Laird's Rigs, the Lang Rigs, 
the Croft, Ringill, roinn guala, the point of the 
shoulder and the Riggies, The hill pasture 
was Badybeg, On the right hand, proceeding 
from the Ley, we have the Nether Wynans, 
the Holebutts — Butt, a piece of the field which 
in ploughing must be left out, in the present 
instance, on account of a hole — the Parkie, the 
Yardie, and, where the present farm-steading 
is, the Kilnfeedle. To the west of the steading 
was a piece of waste land, and then we came to 
a small field called Bogs tuff. This name 
appears in the 1640 statement of the Cushnie 
Marches — bog stuif, the bog of the stump, a tree 
or yird-fast stone. The Badenfaughs were 
near Badens. There were also at Culmellie 
the "parks at the gale o' the hoose and back 
o* the hoose," and west on the same side of the 
burn were the Bogfauld, Cots Parkie and Begbare. 
This last reminds us of the rhyme : 

" Begbare and Brew thin, 
Claw the wa's o' Clikumin." 

The Craftie Cummer of the Milltown is croft 
a' comar, the croft where two or three lands 
meet — at the junction of Milltown, Mains and 
Balchimmy. The Gormacks field at Blackhills 
may take its name from a man Wm. Gormack, 
who lived near Blackhills in 1741, but the 
Gormacks, now one of the Milltown Crofts, must 
have another explanation — enclosure of the 
swine (?) 

The Oldtown Glowrins were two small fields, 
now united, that glowered down on one from 
their elevated situation. 

The Kinnahard field, between Mill of Brux 
and CairncouUie, seems to be ceann an aird, the 
head or point of the height — the neighbouring 
farm of Sinnahard is " the seat (suidhe) of the 
height." There is at Tillyorn a rock called 
Brokhawhit (?) The ruins on the top of the 
wooded height above Kirkton of Cushnie are 
called Auld Thone (f) Arditosh is a part of the 
hill at the mouth of the Alt Tochie. 

The Broom Hill is south of Kirkton. A man 
worshipping about a hundred years ago in the 
Church of Cushnie fell asleep during sermon, 
and, awakening to a sense of tiredness without 
realizing where he was, cried out, " Curse and 



vengeance on the Breem Hillie ; my back *s 
sair !" 

The Ljimbi Reeves (rees) are near the 
Lauchlansheals. The Kirkton Weirds marks 
an old place, Wardhead. The Cot Butts are 
south east of the Manse, and between the 
steading and wood are the Dog Holes. The 
field, now called Knowehead, was the Tath Faut 
of Mains. Another field was the Rumblin' Paul, 
The Sauchen Meadow was near the Strype that 
flows alongside of the Lady's Walk, a path made 
by the late Mrs. Lumsden. The Auld Cots are 
at the bend of the road near the Smithy. The 
Barfaul, and Waterfaul, as also the Strath, are 
names connected with Mains of Cushnie. The 
high fields of Balchimmie are known as Machash^ 
a word referred to in the 1640 MS. 

Dukeston was in this parish till about a 
hundred years ago, when it was handed over to 
Kildrummy. Why was it so called ? 

The Lumsdens of Cushnie came from Berwick- 
shire through Fife to Maler, 1330, now Maildron 
in Kincardine O'Neil. From that they came to 
Cushnie and purchased Fowlis. The Mortimers 
came from Aberdour through Perthshire. Did 
they bring Fowlis from Fowlis Castle? Fowlis 
has been derived from foil, a den or hiding place, 
and Mr. McBain derives the word from follais, 
a conspicuous place ; but neither a hiding place 
nor a public place is very appropriate for the 
Leochel Fowlis. It may be allied to the old 
Scotch word fouellis, brushwood, materials for 
burning, fuel. The Mowat's part of Fowlis is 
called Fowlis Mowat. Mowat-seat is not an 
old name. It is not mentioned in the 1791 
Land Rental of Craigievar. Mowat Seat marks 
the place where the whisky began to take effect 
on the carriers of Mowat's coffin, when it was 
" reisted," according to the tradition. 

The old name of the fields here was the 
Backwairds of Craigievar. The servants at 
Craigievar called it *'the back o' G weed's elbow." 
When the farm steading was built, it was called 
Wester Craigievar, and subsequently, on the 
suggestion of Mr. Strachan, the factor, Mowat- 
seat. There is on this farm a Meams Well, 
which was once defiled by a nasty person, and 
as a consequence of such degrading treatment, 
it refused to flow any more. The genius of the 
spring was propitiated, however, by a kindly and 
canny woman bringing to it a contribution of 
water from three lairds' lands. It has continued 
to flow ever since. 

The Trooper's Stone is near Newbraes, but 
tradition says not who he was, what he did, or 
what was done to him there. 

The traditional story about Sourie, whose 
cairn and grave aie pointed out, is not without 
foundation, for from the Records of the 1647 



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83 



General Assembly we learn that Patrick Gordon 
of Glenbucket, and Alexander Sowre, acknow- 
ledged their accession to the rebellion humbly 
upon their knees. The Howff in the Leochel 
Churchyard is traditionally connected with the 
burial place of the Forbeses of Craigievar, and 
also with resurrectionist times. 

There is a spot in the Corse, hill called the 
Laird's Chamber, where tradition tells that one 
of the lairds of Corse hid in troublous times. 
He was supplied with butter from Tillyorn, the 
quality of which pleased him so much, that when 
his troubles came to an end, he raised the rent 
of the farm three merks. In accordance with 
this tradition is the fact that, in 1644, the laird 
removed "his haill victuals" to Fintray to be 
kept from the plundering MacGregors. 

Is Craig Durward a. reminiscence of the 
ancient Durward proprietors of Corse ? 

Tarland has its Topographical rhyme, 

" East town, Wast town, Corachree an* Melgum, 
Backside, Boddemen', Tenley in Tarland." 

In addition to the rhyme, "Tillyorn grows 
the corn, &c.," already quoted, we have another : 

** At Cushnie Caul, 
I bigget my faul ; 
At Ininteer, 
I simmer'd my steer ; 
At Little Lynturk, 
I drew my durk ; 
At Baldievin, 
I stack it in." 
Thornhill, Stirling. GEO. WILLIAMS. 



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NOTES ON AYRSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 

IV. 
Chambers has recorded these two rhymes : 
Rainbow, rainbow, rin awa' hame, 
The cow's to calf, the yowies to lamb. 

Rainbow, rainbow, 
Rin awa' hame. 
Come again at Martinmas 
When a' the corn's in. 
The following very popular rhyme is recited 
by children in Ayrshire when they observe the 
rainbow, — that arch of irised colours so charm- 
ingly sung by Thomas Campbell : 

Rainbow, rainbow, rin awa' hame, 

The kye 'ill be milked afore ye win hame. 

It is simpler and much prettier than the lines 
quoted from Dr. Chambers' work. The "kye" 
usually " win hame " between five and six ; and 
about the latter hour, if you chance to be near a 
field in which cows are grazing, you may hear 
the voice of the milk-maid crying from the gate 
— " Coo leddy, coo leddy." From this the 
children have originated the following rhyme : 

Coo leddy, coo leddy, 

You're parritch is ready. 



There is a rhyme from which Bums has 
borrowed, or which has been borrowed from 
Bums, often repeated when anyone has said or 
done something naughty, but not sufficiently 
sinful to call for stronger condemnation : 

Qohn Smith] you'll get your fairin', 
And Nick 'ill roast you like a herrin' ; 
No like a herrin', but like a trout, 
For when you're in you'll no' win out. 

In Death and Doctor Hornbook^ Burns says : 

But, hark ! I'll tell you of a plot, 
Tho' dinna ye be speakin o't ; 
I'll nail the self-conceited sot 

As dead's a herrin' ; 
Neist time we meet, I'll wad a groat, 

He gets his fairin' ! 

In Tain d. Shunter the same punishment is 
meted out to the hero : 

Ah, Tam ! ah, Tam ! thou'U get thy fairin' I 
In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin' ! 

The children sometimes invite their com- 
panions to inspect their eyes for the purpose of 
discovering the outstanding feature of their 
character — each colour having assigned to it 
a particular nature, somewhat after the language 
of flowers. The following rhyme denotes two 
of the colours, and the character attached to 
them ; 

Gray, gray greedy ; 

B'ue, b'ue beauty. 

Here is a rhyme that baffles my orthography, 
but I have done my best to render it phonetically: 
Izeckety, dickety dock. 
The mouse ran up the clock ; 
The clock struck one and down she ran, 
Izeckety, dickety dock. 
In my first article (S. N. &^ Q., August, p. 40) 
I gave a rhyme containing a fanciful enumeration 
of the numerals. I have since heard the 
following, which is more fanciful still, and seems 
to be a counting-out rhyme, and may be com- 
pared with that given in the June number of 
5. N.&-Q.: 

Anery, twaery, 

Tickery, seven ; 

Ala ma crack. 

Ten or eleven ; 

Fin, fan, Muscadan, 

Teedlim, toddlim, twenty-one. 
With reference to the counting-out rhyme 
given by W. B. R. W. in last number, and with 
which he compels my name, I never heard it 
before ; but I should be grateful, indeed, to any 
correspondent who may contribute any notes 
he may have on Ayrshire Folk-lore. 

Said to a companion, in answer to a query as 
to where anything came from : 

I got it where it grew, 
And it's no' there noo. 



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In reply to the question, what is your name? 
Peter Plug, 
The snail-gatherer ! 

After hearing an incredulous recital : 

Johnnie Raw, ye mean to blaw, 
I ken ye're up tae a thing or twa. 

Another nursery jingle runs : 

Chap at the door, 
Keek in. 
Lift the snick 
And walk ben. 

Each line in the above describes a certain 
manoeuvre. First line — the nurse knocks gently 
on the child's forehead. Second line— looks 
into his eyes. Third line — pretends to lift up 
his nose ; and, repeating the fourth line, puts 
her finger in his mouth. 

In this district, on any occasion such as a 
wedding, when a cab, or, as it is called in the 
locality, a noddy, is employed, the children 
collect about the door of the house in which the 
happy event is being celebrated, and shout, on 
the machine driving forward : 

Here's the noddy 
Fu' o' toddy. 

Mothers would sometimes say, in reply to an 
inquisitive child's questioning as to what mode 
of conveyance they were to use in a forthcoming 
jaunt (trip) : " We'll gang on Shanks's noddy " ; 
that is, they would walk the distance. This is 
a very old expression. In an old Scots song of 
a humorous cast, which I chanced to be reading 
the other day, and which dates back to the close 
of the sixteenth, I came across this verse : 

A guid blue bonnet on his head, 

An o'erlay 'bout his craigie ; 
And aye until the day he died 

He rode on Shanks's-naigie. 

Here we have a clue to the etymology of the 
word noddy. On the introduction of cabs into 
the rural districts, the country folks applied the 
term naigie (a diminutive form ot nag, a horse) 
to the new vehicle. By and by the word got 
corrupted into noddy, and the children found it 
an excellent rhyme for the name of the form of 
the national beverage which circulates very freely 
on the occasions when cabs are most in 
requisition. 

Most children are remarkably imitative, and 
will attempt to say or make anything which they 
have noticed their elders perform. A very 
innocent sort of beverage, much in vogue in the 
village twenty years ago, but now, I fear, given 
up in favour of more potent liquors, was treacle 
yill (ale). In imitation of this the children 
would get hold of a bottle, put a small piece of 
licorice in it, fill it with water, then shake it well 
until the water was coloured berry-brown, after 



which they would treat each other to "sugar 
alley watter." 

The children would also contrive to make 
miniature peep-shows. The drawer of an 
ordinary match-box was taken and filled with 
violets, daisies, and other flowers. It was then 
covered with a small piece of glass, enveloped 
in paper ; the part covering the glass was cut on 
three sides so as to form a lid to be raised when 
the spectator was permitted to see the marvellous 
wonders within. Thus equipped, a boy or girl 
would accost a companion in the words of the 
following rhyme : 

A preen to see a puppy-show, 

A preen to see a die ; 
A preen to see an auld man 

Sclimin up the sky ! 

You gave the pin or some other trifle, and were 
allowed to see the floral exhibition. 

The boys had a great many games which 
could not be classed as athletic, such as, the 
bliri' tollman, hounds and hares, tig, hi^-spy, 
hide-and-seek, buck-buck, etc. The two last 
mentioned, which were played to the accompani- 
ment of a rhyme, fall to be noticed here. Three 
boys would agree to play at Buck-buck. After 
counting-out one of their number, they disposed 
themselves in this manner : One of them stood 
against a wall or house. The one that was 
counted out, called buck, placed himself in a 
stooping posture, supporting his body by putting 
his hands on his knees, and placing his head 
against the breast of the first boy standing with 
his back to the wall. The third bestrode buck. 
He held up so many of his fingers and asked 
buck to guess how many there were. If buck 
made a wrong guess, the boy on his back gave 
him a good scud on the hips ; if he guessed 
correctly he was relieved and became tormentor 
in turn, rarely failing to pay the new buck with 
compound interest. The following rhyme was 
used. If guessed wrongly : 

Buck, buck. 
How many fingers do I hold up : 

Two you say 

And three it is, 
And then you get the other fis. 

If correctly guessed : 

Buck, buck, 
How many fingers do I hold up : 

Two you say 

And two it is, 
Poor buck rise up. 

Galston. John Muir, F.S.A. Scot. 



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The Christmas number of Mr. Stead's "Review 
of Reviews " will deal with the question of the 
deer-forests of Scotland. 



November, 1894.] SCOTTISH N02ES AND QUERIES. 



8S 



EXTRACTS FROM THE COUNCIL 
RECORDS OF OLD ABERDEEN. 

{Continued from page 72). 



Compt of the saides Cacies giwin up be 
Doctor Gordoun and Mr John Lundie Collect- 
ouris and bailzies the fyft of December 1636 
yeiris — 

Imprimis resaived be Doctor Gordoun at thrie 
severall courtis and a pairt from Mr. John 
Lundie 39 libs 9s. 



Dischairge — Imprimis givin to the Caciers for 
sex ruid of Cacie in the Loch Wynd and fyve 
ruid and a quarter Cacie anent the douket grein 
in the North syd at 40s the ruid 22 libs 15s 

Item to the officiaris for ten dayis 
attendance and work about sex shill- 
ingis the peace per day 5 libs 4s 

Item to David Donald for nyn scoir 
cairt fulls of gryt stones out of Clunies 
yaird to the Nether Chanrie Port 12 libs 



Sum ma 

So super exspent 



39 libs 19s 



IDS 



Compt Mr John Lundie. 

Imprimis be me Johne Lundie alon attour all 
that ues resaived be D. Gordoun according to 
the said Mr Johne's compt givin in writtin be 
himself 50 libs 15s 



Dischairge — Imprimis to the Ca- 
ciers for laying ellevin ruid of cacie 
about the Nether Chanrie Port and 
North entrie of the Town 21 libs 13s 4d 

Item advanced to the said Caciers 
for George Bruce and Thomas 
Mercer's cacie 27s 

Item to Nicoll Torrie for leiding 
sand all the tyme 5 libs i6s 8d 

Item to two officiaris to attend the 
work for 15 dayis wage and a part 
of the 16 10 libs 4s 



Summa 



39 libs 8d 



Restis in his hand 11 libs 15s 



Thairof 27s of Mr George Anderson to cacie 
the College boundis. 

5 December 1639. 

The said day the act anent the resetting of 
strange beggaris at the Mertimes court wes put 
to executione and the persones folowing being 
lawfullie convict wes all amerciat according to 
the act in 4 libs everie one bot for sundrie causes 



the rigor of the said act wes mitigat and thair 
onlayis modified as folowis — Imprimis Johne 
Wylie elder m the Spittall 40s ; Andrew Yong- 
sone in the Spittell 20s ; John Catto thair 13s. 4d ; 
Andrew Boyn 6s. 8d ; John Robie 13s. 4d ; 
Andrew Small 13s. 4d ; Thomas Crukshank his 
onlay for hurting Thomas Adam 26s. 8d ; James 
Davidson for resett of beggeris 26s. 8d ; 

The said day William Gibson and William 
Buchan wer conwict be thair awin confession for 
deforcing the officiaris that wes poynding upon 
ane act of the deacon of the flesheris and 
amerciat to ten pundis the man bot out of 
commiseratione for thair ignorance it wes 
modified to 4 libs the peace making 8 libs. 
Summa of theis onlayis 16 libs. 

Quhich wes distributed as folowis — 

Imprimis paed to Mr. Thomas Messer be 
D. Gordoun for a commission raising in the 
proces of the customes 8 libs 

Item givin to him to John Messer and James 
Skedow officiaris and William Wat Clerk for 
thair wages everie on a dolour extending in all 
to 8 libs 2s 

Item loss upon a leadin dolour givin in 4s 

Item givin out also be Doctor Gordoun for 
sustentation of two Wagabondis putt in ward be 
the Justice of Peace and giwin to a bearair to go 
to Pitmedden to try if it were thoise that robbed 
his tenentis 24s 

Item given be the said D. for this Court 
Book 20s 

30 June 1640. 

We Provest and baillies of the Citie of Auld 
Aberdein be thir presentis admitis Meriorie 
Carll Inhabitant in the said Citie fre woman in 
all tymes cuming to use the tred of huxtar by 
and sell all such wairis as hes bein in use to be 
boucht and sauld be ony of the said tred lauch- 
fullie abefoir be this our writt and subscrywit 
with our handis. 

Be it kend till all men be thir presentis me 
Maister Gilbert Ross reider of St Macher and 
maister of the muisick scooll thair Forsameikill 
as by ane act of the Toun's Court of the dait the 
threttein day of Junij M. sex hundreth threttie 
sex yeires 1 demittit in faworis of the craftis of 
Auld Aberdein ony richt tytill or custum that I 
haid to the uptaking of the fredome of the said 
craftis and unlawis of the toun to the effect they 
micht have deakins of thair awin hold thair 
awin Courtis and ilk craft uptak thair awin 
fredomes and unlawis. For the quhilk caus the 
saidis craftis and deakins becum bund and 
obleist to the baillies and the bailzeis to me 
yeirlie at the feast and terme of Mertimes the 
soume of fourtie merkis as ane pairt of my 
steipand as reider and scoollmaister . . . 
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Mr Gilbert Ross hes receawit from Doctor 
Williame Gordoun and Johne Forbes baillies all 
and haill the forsaid soume of fourtie merkis 
Scotis money quhairof I hold me weill content 
satisfiet and payit. 

2 November 1640. 

The said day it is statut and ordaint that the 
haill twa penny candill salbe as sufficient as the 
rest of the candill of Abirdein and thair aucht 
penny breid conforme thairto under the pain of 
confiscatioun as lykewayis ordainis that na 
huchsteris in Auld Aberdein by na mair meill 
nor serves themeselffes under the pain of fywe 
pundis toties quoties. 

The said day it is statut and ordaint that the 
haill Crem stowpis in Auld Aberdeen salbe 
brocht to the cross the nynt of November 
instant to sie the sufficiencie under the pain of 
fywe pundis. 

The said day it is statut and ordainet that all 
billis gifin in salbe maid and subscrywit be the 
clerk, utherwayes the samen to be rewen and 
not to be hard. 

The said day it is statut and ordanit that the 
haill husbandmen in Auld Aberdein sail saw the 
twalfif pairt of thair haill laboring in pese under 
the pain of fywe pundis toties quoties evri yeir. 

The said day it is statut and ordanit that the 
officeris in Auld Aberdein ilk ane thair day 
abowt on the Saboth day sail seirche and seik 
ather prenteishes or ony uther persones quhat- 
sumeuer in tyme of dewyne serwice and gif ony 
persone beis fund ather drinking or playing in 
the linkis or at any uther pastim quhatsumewer 
that they sail gif wp thair names leallie and 
trewlie as they sail answer to God and the ane 
halfife of the wnla to be gifin to the officer 
upgiffer. 

9 November 1640. 

The said day ordanis Johne Pettindreich to 
produce ane testimoniall frome the pairt come 
frome last the nixt court or else to remowe af 
of the toun. 

16 November 1640. 

The said day the baillies with consent of the 
maist pairt of the counsall hes ordanit Williame 
Watsone cordoner and George Gibsone to pay 
twantie shillingis ilk ane of thame and hes 
receawit thame to the toun to work quhair they 
pleise Quhilk twantie shillingis for ewerie ane of 
thame was becaus they fled out of the toun in 
tyme of trubill. 

The said day Quhaeuer sallis aill or byis aill 
with onseallit stowpis efter the dait heirof sail 
pay fourtie s. toties quoties within the boundis of 
Auld Aberdein. 

30 November 1640. 

The said (day) Williame Watt his tenentis and 



the tenentis within James Cruikschankis houses 
to be sichtit to be guid nichtbouris in sua far as 
they have kaill and elding. 

25 March 1641. 

The said day George Chalmer flescher hes 
inactit himself be thir presentis to enter Bessie 
Gray his seruitor upon the twantie nynt of 
Merche instant befoir the said baillie to ansuer 
at the instance of Johne Forbes lait baillie of the 
said citie for the stiking of ane kow of the said 
Jhones with ane craig knyff and that the said 
George sail enter the said Bessie the said day 
wnder the pain of fourtie pundis as also the said 
George obleisses him to pay the unlaw sick as 
salbe modiefiet aganis the said Bessie boith for 
pairtie and toun. Alex. M. Munro. 



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EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN 
ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD. 

Section D. 

(Continued from Vol. VII.^p. 4.) 

On a table-stone there is : 

To the memory | of | Captain John Farquharson 
Late of his Majesty's 76''^ Reg*^ of Foot | who died the 
29*** March 1806, aged 84 years. | This memorial is 
erected by his widow | Marjory Christie ; as a token 
of her regard | and esteem for his departed worth. 

Not far from this stone there is another to a 
second octogenarian in the following terms — 

Sacred | to the memory of | Robert Balmanno, 
Merchant | burgess in Aberdeen ; who departed this 
life ; I the 20^^^^ July 1820, aged 88 | Also his spouse 
Elizabeth Buchan | who departed this life the 12*^^ 
April 1804, I aged 69 years. | And also six of their 
children. | Also his second spouse Janet Sutherland | 
who departed this life the 17^*^ November, 1829 | aged 
60 years. 

Robert Balmanno was admitted a burgess of 
guild of Aberdeen on the 28'^ August, 1766. 

On an old marble table-stone, resting on a 
ground-stone, the inscription of which is entirely 
gone, there is : 

To the memory | of | James Thomson of Portlethen 
I Advocate in Aberdeen | who died 22^ of Dec' 1766, 
aged 67 years : | and Robert Thomson of Portlethen | 
Town Clerk of Aberdeen | who died 29*^ of April 
1767, aged 63 I Also of | James Thomson, Advocate, 
and Cashier to the Commercial | Banking Company 
of Aberdeen | who died the 3^ of July 1800, aged 45 
years. 

This is one of a series of tombstones to mem- 
bers of this family in the churchyard, and to 
which allusion has already been made. The 
first two were the sons of Mr Alexander Thom- 
son, Town Clerk from 1694 till his death in 1727, 
by his spouse, Helen Gregory. James, the elder 
brother, succeeded to the estate of Banchory on 
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conjunct clerk with his father three years before in which he was presented to the chair of Civil 

the latter's death, viz., 1724. Robert Thomson and Natural History in Marischal College, 

consequently enjoyed the office of Town Clerk On a table-stone there is inscribed : 

for the long period of forty-two years, and on Here lies the body of | John Farquhar, | late of 

his death he was succeeded by his nephew, Newton of Murtle. | He was born 20^*» June 1703, and 

Alexander Carnegie, who had been conjoined died 6 July 1791. | Also of Elizabeth Chalmers, his 

with him in 1762. spouse, | who died ihe 22^ July 1801, | aged Eighty- 

On a headstone to the south of the last is f^""^* '.M^r'"? KM^'f wi^M''P'''^''S;''^'??;' 

inscribed • J^" ^ John, | children to W™ Mortimer, Meicht. 

c„^,^,i ♦! ^u I f I »#r» TT^y 1 ..I. Ti -J in Abd'^ I Also Jean Farquhar his spouse, I who died 

fni^rlvV^nH ll -7 ' fl^,r ^^^X ^•"^' ^oth JuIy 1808, aged 6s years. | And Aleiander Mai- 

?^r^lf „f ^ ">«*'<J''*°f Wm-^^ \"'''^?T"'ti com Esqr | late of Bengkl, the r Son-in-Law, | who 

T.lv „1^. 1^ n ' I A ^'^^'n'l' ' T''p ''f'.r <li^d Hth May, 1807, Sged 64 years. | Also of the 

i^fn'Jc^^i' llf ? ^} H- 1 ' ^^"^A ^^th-i""-." ''bove I M^ William Mortimer! (Merchant in Aber- 

?8S«^?lJi,^. fVl f^"""""''^Vl°l'\PK^ deen, who died 24th November. 1822, ] aged 73 

J,H°U f ^•'*'.' The mortal remams of both hose \ A„d of Ann Farquhar, daughter to ] the saiJ 

^^^llV V i '" f{ ^•"'^ "f ' ,'k' ""' I°hn Farquhar, who died 2Sth | September 1801, 

memorial, which was erected in 1823 | by an ' ^ x^txxs o \ v > 

affectionate grandson. ^ ^ 

On an old marble table-stone there is : , ^u^'V ^^'"^"^^Z- 'f ?"PP%i^ ^% have belonged 

Charles Forbes of Shiells Esqr | died in February ^V^ Crimond district The Town Council of 

1764 I aged 66. | Janet Johnston his wife, daughter of Aberdeen in 1758 feued out the lands of Murtle 

I Sir John Johnston, of Caskiebain, | died in July *" ^°^^' ^"^ ^"^ 4th lot called Newton was taken 

1748, aged 57. I Thomas Forbes of Ballogie, Esq>* | PP ^y Mr Robert Duncan, who, however, held 

died January 8^^ 1777 I aged 73. | William Forbes, it for a very short time, when it passed into the 

his son I died in November 1778, aged 10. | Christian hands of Farquhar, who held it till about 1788. 

Cumine his wife, daughter of ( George Cumine of A son of Farquhar's was John Farquhar, bom 

Pittuly Esqr | died April 30^^ 1790, ( aged 56. at Bilbo, Crimond, in 1751, and who died in July, 

Charles Forbes of Shiells was for a long 1826, leaving a fortune of a million and a half, 

period Sheriff Substitute of the County of which was divided between his various nephews 

Aberdeen, and is said to have discharged the and nieces and their descendants. He went out 

duties of the office ^ " with great assiduity. He to Bombay as a military cadet, but ultimately 

was thoroughly acquainted with the laws and settled as a merchant at Palta in Bengal, where 

customs of this country, had a benevolent heart, he acquired a large fortune as the sole contractor 

and social disposition," which made his death for gunpowder to the Indian Government, 

justly regretted. His wife was a daughter of Returning to England in middle life with a 

Sir John Johnston, fourth baronet of Caskieben, fortune of about ;£5oo,ooo, he purchased, in 

by his wife Janet Mitchell, a daughter of Baillie 1822, the estate of Fonthill Abbey, Wilts, at a 

Thomas Mitchell of Aberdeen. There was no cost of ^330,000. He embarked in several 

issue of the marriage, which took place in 1725. commercial enterprises, which turned out most 

The Forbeses of Ballogie, or Midmar as it is lucrative, and being of rather penurious habits 

now called, were, it is believed, connected with he managed to amass the large fortune above 

the Sheriff, and this circumstance may account referred to. It is understood that at one time he 

for them using the same burying place. had the intention of founding a college in Aber- 

Of the family undermentioned I am unable to ^^^" ^^^^^ certain religious reservations, but 

give more information than is contained in the notwithstanding a promised endowment of 

inscription : ^loOiOoo, the necessary Parliamentary sanction 

The Revd Doctor William Morgan, | late Rector of ^^"^^ "^^ ^^ obtained, and the scheme dropped.^ 

Kingston, in Jamaica, | and thereafter Professor of Alex. M. MunRO. 
Philosophy | in the Marischal College of Aberdeen ; 



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died the id Sept"- 1788, aged 36 years. | Also Elspet Mr. Gardner, of Paisley, is about to publish 

Morgan his mother, { died i** Nov'" 1792, aged 78 ^"^ V'^^' Letters, and last Poems of Lewis 

years. | And George Morgan, his father, | died 8^** Morrison-Grant, edited by Jessie Annie Ander- 

June 1798, aged 76 years. I Also of James Morgan of son. Astheauthorof/^r^^/^w^z/^/zj, Mr. Morrison- 

Bonnymuir, | their son, who died 15th July 1823, aged Grant at once established himself as a poet of 

67. I He lived in Jamaica 25 years, and returned to the first rank, creating an interest in him and in 

Aberdeen | in 1802: esteemed as a husband father the promise that he gave of future work. This 

and friend. | And of Agnes Duncan | relict of the said interest comes now to be centered in the story 

James^ Morgan | who died on the 2"^ of March 1833, of his all-too-short life, into which his biographer 

^p,.^Lo™"ivyi^^^ J- J • -uu 1. gathers the last fragments of his poetic genius. 

Professor Morgan died in the same year as that rrr^ 7-, 7-%— i -. -r-. 

■ — — 1 i A Oeneral Account of the descendants of James Young, &c, 

1 Aberdeen Journal. 1894. Free Press, 6th March, 1894. 



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NOTABLE MEN AND WOMEN OF 
ABERDEENSHIRE. 

41. Bain, Alexander, LL.D. ( I'rofessor), Mental 
Philosopher. Born at Aberdeen in 1818, he graduated 
at Marischal College there in 1840. Having lectured 
as deputy professor for a few years in his native city, 
he afterwards taught Natural IMiilosophy at the Ander- 
sonian University, Glasgow, thereafter filled the post 
of Assistant Secretary to the Metropolitan Sanitary 
Committee, examined in Mental Philosophy for the 
University of London and the Indian Civil Service, 
and finally, in i860, was appointed to the Chaif of 
Logic in Aberdeen. He resigned in 1881, and the 
same year was chosen Rector of his University. In 
1859 he was made LL.D. by Edinburgh University. 
Since 1840 he has contributed to the Westminster 
Review and other periodicals. Bain's chief works 
are The Senses and the Intellect, 1855, and The 
Emotions and the Will, 1859, which complete his 
philosophy of the Human Mind. Other books are. 
Mental and Moral Science, 1868, Lo^i^c Deductive 
and Inductive, 1870, The Relation of Mind and Body, 
1873, Education as a Science, 1879. He wrote also 
a biography of James Mill, 1881, as well as a criticism 
of John Stuart Mill, 1882, besides several hand-books 
of English Grammar. He also assisted in editing 
Grote's Aristotle, and edited Grote's Minor Works. 
Bain is an empirical philosopher, and in the judgment 
of the late J. S. Mill, his two chief works are the 
most careful, the most complete, and the most 
genuinely analytical exposition of the human mind 
which a posteriori' '^syc^oXo^ has produced. 

42. Baird, Sir John, Lord Newbyth : Judge. Son 
of the James Baird whom Charles I. meant to create 
Lord Doveran ; but who died before the patent passed 
the seals, he was bred like his father to the law. ' His 
mother was a sister of the celebrated Aberdeenshire 
scholar, Thomas Dempster of Muiresk. Pie himself 
may have been born on his father's estate of Byth in 
Aberdour, or possibly in Edinburgh, about the year 
1 62 1. He was called to the bar in 1647, was knighted 
at the Restoration, and soon after was appointed 
Senator of the College of Justice by the title Lord 
Newbyth. He entered heartily into the Revolution 
of 1688, and overlived it ten years, dying in 1698. 

43. Baird, William: Genealogist. Last of the 
Bairds of Auchmedden. Born 1701, died 1777. 
Whether he was a native of Aberdour parish I have 
not learned ; but he was probably born in the county, 
as he and his wife are buried in St. Nicholas Church- 
yard, Aberdeen. He is said to have published a 
Translation of Thucydides. Having joined in the 
Jacobite rising of 1745, ^^ ^^^ obliged to lie in 
concealment for several years, generally in Echt, 
which belonged to his brother-in-law the Earl of 
Fife. He wrote interesting Genealogical Memoirs of 
the Duffs, tracing the History of that noble family to 
its Origin. He is also author of "Genealogical 
Collections concerning the Sir-Name of Baird and the 
families of Auchmedden, New Byth, and Sauchtonhall 
in particular." 

44. Bannerman (Sir) Alexander Burnett, Bart., 
M,D. (Prof.): Noted Medical Man. Born 1741, he 



became Professor of Medicine, Kings College, 1792, 
and died 18 14. 

45. Bannerman (Sir) Alexander, Kt. : Politician 
and Colonial Statesman. Born in Aberdeen on the 
17th October, 1788, he received his education at the 
Grammar School and Marischal College of his native 
city. Engaging in his father's business as a wine- 
merchant, he also became connected with various 
important manufacturing enterprises in Aberdeen, 
particularly in the Bannermill. He was also a 
partner in other large firms, and was largely engaged 
in the Whale-fishing. He took an active interest in 
public business, and in 181 1 was a member of the 
Town Council. Considered as the leader of the 
Liberal Party in Aberdeen, he was chosen member 
for that city in 1832, and continued to represent it 
till 1847, when he retired. He proved an active and 
useful member of parliament, a good speaker, and 
from his tact and business habits an excellent com- 
mittee man, and soon gained considerable parliamentary 
influence. He was the main instrument in obtaining 
a grant of ;^20,ooo for the restoration of Marischal 
College Buildings, which had been his own Alina 
Mater. In 1837 he was chosen Dean of Faculty for 
that college, and while the Melbourne ministry was 
in office, he was appointed a Commissioner of 
Greenwich Hospital. In 1848 Mr. Bannerman was 
appointed Governor of Prince Edward Island, and at 
the same time received the honour of Knighthood. 
He was subsequently removed to the Bahamas in 
1854, and finally in 1857 to Newfoundland, where he 
continiied till 1863. His death, which occurred on 
the 30th December, 1864, was the result of an 
accident. At his death he was heir-presumptive to 
the Baronetcy of Elsick and Crimonmogate. Sir 
Alexander had an interesting association with the 
life of the great philosopher and historian Thomas 
Carlyle through his having married Margaret Gordon, 
who was the *' Blumine" of Sartor Resartus. 

46. Bannerman, James, M.D. (Prof.): Noted 
Aberdeen Doctor. Son of No. 44, born in Aberdeen 
about 1770, he succeeded his father as Professor of 
Medicine, King's College, and died in 1838. 

47. Barbaur, John ( Archdeacon): VoQi. Supposed 
to have been born in 13 16 or 1327, and generally 
claimed as a native of Aberdeen, he is chiefly remark- 
able as the author of the excellent early Scottish poem 
"The Bruce." A sketch of the author's life will be 
found in any Biographical Dictionary, so is here 
dispensed with. He died in 1395. 

48. Barclay, James William, M.P. : Scottish 
Politician. Son of a builder, and born in Aberdeen 
in 1832, he was educated at the Grammar School and 
University of that city. A successful merchant and 
farmer, he was chosen to represent Forfarshire in the 
liberal interest in 1872, and held his seat till the 
election of 1892, when he was ousted from that 
constituency by Sir John Rig by. He has connection 
with several companies as Chairman of Directors. 

4Q. Barclay, John, M.A. (Rev.): Minor Poet and 
Divine. Born in Turriff" about 1647, he graduated at 
the University and King's College, Aberdeen, in 
1672, became one of the teachers of the Grammar 



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School, Aberdeen, and about 1674 was ordained to 
the parish of Monquhitter, and translated to Cruden 
in 1678. He scrupled for some time to take the 
test in 1681, and so forfeited his chai\;e, but was 
allowed to take it the following year. He died in 
1 69 1. Works : A Description of the Roman Catholick 
Church in Verse ^ represetUcti in a Vision, 1689. 
Besides other fugitive pieces, he translated Dr. Arthur 
Johnstone's Epigrams ( Skene^s Metnorialls for the 
Government of the Royal Burghs ), 1 685. He also 
published Poems atid Spiritual Songs, 1689. 

50. Barclay (Sir) Robert, K.C.B.: General. 
Hero of the Battle of Assaye, said to be a scion of the 
Towie family. He flourished 1800-1816. 

51. Barclay, William, M.D.{ Prof,): Minor Poet, 
Scholar, and Medical Writer. This author, who in 
many Biographical Dictionaries is represented as 
John Barclay, was the brother of Sir Patrick Barclay 
of Tolly, and was born alx)ut 1 5 70. He studied at 
the University of Louvain, under the celebrated 
scholar Justus Lipsius, to whom he addressed several 
letters which had been printed. Lipsius had such a 
high opinion of him, that he is recorded to have said 
lliat if "he were dying, he knew no person on earth 
he would leave his pen to but the doctor." Barclay 
describes himself as A.M. and M.D., but where he 
took these degrees we are not informed. Having been 
appointed a Professor in the University of Paris, he 
taught humanity there for several years, and was much 
esteemed for his learning and talent. He afterwards 
returned to Scotland, where he appears to have 
followed the Medical profession ; but soon went back 
to France and resumed his former occupation at 
Nantes in Bretagne. He is thought to have died in 
1630. A list of his works is given in Irving's Lives 
of Scottish Writers. Among them are Oratio pro 
Eloquentia, 1 598, Nepenthes or The Virtues of 
Tobacco, 1 6 14, Callirhoe, commonly called the Well of 
Spa or the Nymph of Aberdeen, &^c,, 1615, and 
various Latin Poems. 

52. Barker, A. C. : Minor Poet. Bom at Wowl- 
side in 1818, this author published in 1880, Fifty 
Years' Rhymes and Reminiscences. 

53. Baxter, Andrew: Metaphysician and Moral 
and Natural Philosopher. Born in Old Aberdeen 
about 1686, he was educated at King's College there, 
and afterwards became a private tutor, aniong his 
pupils being Lord Hay, Lord Blantyre and other 
gentlemen. His great work. An Inquiry into the 
Nature of the Human Soul, went through several 
editions. He died in 1750 at Whittingham, the seat 
of his pupil Mr. Hay. His later works were Matho- 
sive Cosmotheria puerilis, Dialogus, and An Appendix 
to the Inquiry into the Nature of the Soul. 

54. Bcuxter, Wm. : Grammarian. Born 1650 
Aberdeen. He was author of a Latin Grammar 
published 1679, and died 1723. 

55. BecUtie, Alexander : Teacher and Minor Poet. 
Born near Inverurie about 1780. Educated at Aber 
deen University, in 1809 he started a school at 
Fortrose, and 181 2 became English Master in Tain 
Academy. In 1832 Mr. Beattie, under the title of 
PoemSf containing the History of the Patriarch Joseph , 



published a volume of verse chiefly religious, but 
including the poems published, 1813, by nis cousin 
William, with modifications, not improvements. He 
died in 1840. 

56. Beattie, James Hay: Minor Poet. Son of 
Prof. James Beattie, LL.D. Born and studied at 
Al)erdeen, he graduated 1786, and next year was 
appointed crown assistant and successor to his father. 
He died in 1790, and his father published in 1799 a 
memoir of his s(m, containing his writings in verse 
and prose. 

57. Beattie, William: Minor Poet. Bom in 
Inverury (1760), he died in 1815. His volume of 
verse. Fruits of Time Parings, 181 3, republished in 
1873, is one of the most racy vernacular pr(Kluctions 
that have issued from the minor muse of Aberdeen- 
shire. He wrought as a heckler in Aberdeen. 

58. Berry, , il/.Z)..* Cape Politician. A native 

of Aberdeen, Dr. Berry emigrated early to the Cape 
of Good Hope, and has for the last quarter of a century 
resided in Queenstown there. Like Dick Whittington 
he has been thrice elected the chief ruler of the town, 
and has also held other public offices. At the election 
to the Cape Assembly a few months ago, he was 
returned member for the Queenstown Division in spite 
of the strenuous opposition of the Africander Bond. 
The election was esteemed locally so important, that 
the Editor of The Free Press o\ that place enthus- 
iastically declared that he was the first politician at 
the Cape who had succeeded in inducing any 
constituency there to call an imperative halt to the 
Africander Bond, and to suit its action to the word. 

W. B. R. W. 
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THE CANTERBURY TALES 



THE KNIGHT'S TALE (Continued), 

I. 

Mars' statue red, with spear and targe 
So shines in his white banner large 
That all the field gleams up and down ; 
And nigh it, was his pennon flown 
Of gold full rich, in it the feat 
Of vanquished Minotaur of Crete. 
Thus rode this duke and conqueror, 
With chivalry the very flower, 
Till come to Thebes, he did alight 
Fair in a field where he would fight. 
To speak in brief of this same thing ; 
With Creon, cruel Theban King, 
He fought, and slew him as a knight 
In combat, put his host to flight ; 
Assaulting, won the city after, 
And rent down wall, and beam, and rafter ; 
To these sad dames, restored again 
The bodies of their husbands slain, 
For funeral rites, as was the guise. 

But all too long that whole emprise ; 
The clamour great and waimenting 
These ladies made, the lamenting 
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By Theseus lord of Athens town 

Unto these dames, when home they went ; 

This much is only my intent. 

When that this worthy duke, Theseus, 
Had Creon slain and won Thebes thus, 
A-field all night he took his rest. 
With all the country did his best. 
Ransacking 'mong the bodies dead. 
To strip off harnessing and weed. 
The pillours did their work full sure 
After the dread discomfiture. 
Befell, amongst the heaps they found. 
Gored through with many a grievous wound. 
Two youthful knights, close lying by. 
Both armed alike full gorgeously ; 
Of whom, Arcite was named the one. 
And he the other, Palamon ; 
Both, half alive, half dead appear. 
By their coat armour and their gear. 
The heralds knew them special well 
As being of the blood royal 
Of Thebes, and of two sisters born. 
Away the pillours have them borne, 
And carried soft unto the tent 
Of Theseus, who full soon them sent 
To Athens, there to dwell in prison 
Perpetual, and would have no ranson. 
And when the duke had thus so done, 
He with his host rode home anon 
With laurel crowned, as conqueror. 
And there he lived in joy and honour 
A term of life ; what need words moe ? 
Within a tower, in pain and woe. 
Dwell Palamon and eke Arcite, 
For ay, and them no gold can quite. 

Thus year by year, and day by day. 
Till once upon a morn of May, 
That Emilie, fairer to be seen 
Than lily on its stalk so green ; 
Fresher than May with flowerets new, 
For with the rose tint strove her hue. 
Unknown the finer of the two ; 
Ere day, as she was wont to do. 
Had risen, and was all ready dight, 
For May no sluggard has o' night. 
The season prompts the gentle heart. 
And spurs him from his sleep to start. 
And saith, ** Arise, do thine observance." 

This maketh Emilie have remembrance 
To honour May, and thus to rise. 
Clothed was she fresh for this devise ; 
Her yellow hair in braided tress 
Adown her back, yard-long, I guess. 
While in the garden shines the sun. 
Fair Emilie walketh up and down. 
And gathers flowers, part white and red, 
To make a garland for her head, 
And angel-like, full heavenly sung. 
The great tower eke, so thick and strong, 



Chief dungeon of the castle, where 
These kinsmen knights imprisoned were, 
Of whom IVe told you, one and all. 
Joined nigh unto the garden wall 
Where Emilie in her course doth steer. 

Bright was the sun, the morning clear. 
And Palamon the prisoner sad 
As wont, by leave of jailor, had 
Arisen, and roamed the chamber high, 
Viewing the noble city nigh. 
And garden eke with branches green. 
Wherein is Emilie fair and sheen 
Betimes, and roaming up and down. 

This sorrowing prisoner Palamon 
Paceth his chamber to and fro. 
And to himself bemoans his woe, 
That ever he was bom, alas ! 

But so, it happened then to pass. 
That through a window thick with bars 
Of iron, great and massive spars, 
He cast his eyes on Emilie 
And forthwith weeps, and cries, " Ah me ! " 
As he were stung unto the heart. 
And with that cry Arcite doth start. 
Saying, " Cousin dear, what aileth thee ? 
Thou art so pale, death-like to see ? 
Why didst thou cry ? why so alarmed ? 
Heavens ! let us now with patience armed. 
Yield, for it may no better be. 
Fortune brings this adversity ; 
Some baleful aspect of the stars. 
Of Saturn, or the blood-red Mars, 
Hath given us this ; as sure as sworn 
So stood the heavens when we were born ; 
We must submit 'tis short and plain." 

Then Palamon to him again ; 
" Cousin 1 forsooth thou errest much, 
Vain fancy stirs thee with her touch. 
This prison caused me not to cry. 
But I was hurt right through mine eye 
Into mine heart ; my bane 'twill be. 
A beauteous lady that I see 
Roaming yon garden to and fro, 
Is cause of all my pain and woe. 
Unknown if woman or goddesse. 
But more like Venus, as I guess." 

Then on his knees low down he fell, 
Saying, " Venus, if it be your will 
Yourself thus 'fore me to transfigure, 
Me ! sorrowful and wretched creature ! 
Out of this prison grant escape. 
If so that destiny doth shape 
By word eteme we die in prison. 
Upon our lineage have compassion, 
Brought thus so low by tyranny." 

With that, gan Arcite to espy 
This lady roaming to and fro. 
The beauteous sight doth hurt him so, 
If Palamon were wounded sore. 



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HORN-BoOKS.~Before dosing his work on 
the old A B C Horn-book, which is to contain 
somelhintr like two hundred illustrations, Mr 
Andrew Tuer, of the Leadenhall Press, E.C., 
asks to be favoured with notes from those who 
may remember the horn-book in use, or who 
may have in their possession examples whi :h he 
has not yet seen. Information about spurious 
horn-books, from the sale of which certain per- 
sons at present are said 10 be reaping a golden 
harvest, is also sought. Tablets of this kind 
seem to have been mostly Eng^lish. Tickell 
sang of "The Horn Book," giving, in some 
eight lines, a description of these early A BC's; 
and Shenstone, in his " Schoolmistress," says^ 

"Their books ofstalure small they topk in hand, 
Which with pellucid horn secured are. 
To save from finger wel Ihe letters faii." 



Wolf's Crag.— Time and the strong north 
winds, says a contemporary, are destroying all 
that remains of romantic Fast Castle. It is 
situated on the most stonny part of the Bei 
wickshire coast, and has been immortalised by 
Scott as "Wolfs Crag" in The BHde of /jtm- 
mermoor. The outhouses in which Caleb I 
derston prepared his mysterious dinners 
level with the rock ; but two sides of the m 
tower, in which the Master of Ravenswood 
sided, stil! stand to attest its former strength. 
But though the buildings may have perished, 
the place is fully as weird now as ever it was in 
the days of the novehst. 



ANOTHER VERNON MEUAL, 
With reference to the interesting notice (VIII., 
49 and 53 pp.) of the Vernon Medal recently 
found in Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen, I may 
mention that ! have in my possession another 
of these Vernon medals, but of a different 
design. The obverse has a figure of Admiral 
Vernon, facing to the left, with a cannon and an 
anchor on either side, and the inscription round 
the edge the ' BHiTisH -glorv "reviv.d ■ bv 
ADMIRAL ■ VERNON. The obverse has a fleet of 
■warships before a town, with the inscription 
AD ■ VERNON "GENi- OGLE. ■TOOK-CARTHAGENA' 
BY ■ SEA ■ AND ■ LAND and in the exergue ApL 1. 
1741. This seems to be a strange type of the 
medal, for instead of capturing Carthagena, 
Admiral Vernon's attack upon it failed disast- 
rously. This took place, I think, on the4th March, 
1741. Can the date APl. i be intended for a 
piece of satire ? Perhaps ynur mntributor, 
J. F. K. J. can explain. This medal is in 
good preservation. I enclose a rough rubbing 
of it for your inspection, and should you wish to 
reproduce it, the medal itself is at your service 
for this purpose. ROBERT PAUL. 



(Huerfes. 

928. Epir.RAM ON A ScoTT!SH.Sn;r.— The follow- 
ing epigram, which I came across in the Gentleman 
and Lady's Weeklv Afagaziae, Edinburgh, VoL V., 
I775i ™By inlerest your readers. Is it to be found in 
any printed collection of epigrams ? The vessel which 
conveyed Grorgc I. to Brilain, via.% afterwards, it is 
s.ii'l, employed in the coal trade from the Firth of 
Forth ; which curious fact gave rise lo the lines in 

Behold the fu-rsin'd luirk, thaiwafled o'er 
CoaK the cipdiU, who ance imported Kiiig! ! 

]. W. Scott. 

929. " Makvkln Maker," and " Marikinb 
Shooes."^I lalely met ihese phrases in my reading, 
and am at a loss to know what they mean. I shall be 
glad to have an explanation. ComilNRR. 

930. Thr Phrase "Futt Rdllit." — -In going 
over some old docunienls relating to the lalter half of 
the siitlecnlh century, hearing on succession to 
heritable property, I have frequently met with the 
expression "/"" roilii." It seems lo have been sotne 
sort of a process, distinct Irom, and coming ufter 
infeftment or sasine, but what il,': procedure or purpose 
was, I have been unable to discover. W. 

931. Ane Crown ok Sone. — In 1594. an action of 
removal was raised in a Burgh Court, in which the 
defenders disputed the validity of the pursuer's lilte, 
and also the competency of the Court lo try or decide 
the cose. An agreement was come lo and signed by 
the procurators of both the parties, to refer the points 
at issue to the ilecision of two Edinburgh Advocates, 
who were nameil. As a Pledge and Security that 
the litigants would ahi.le hy the verdict of these 
Advocales, ihey were each ordained lo deposit in 
Court "Ane Crozone of Sonir What was ihe 
"Crown of Sone?" L. 

932. The Weird Stones of Fyvib. — A curious 
superstition is embodied in the following lines :— 

■■ Fyvie, Fyvit, ye'st never lhri»e 






Then 



in the Liddy'i b 



In his interesting and erudite work, " The Thaiui^e 
of Fermartyii," the Rev. William Temple, M.A., 
observes "A slone is preserved in ihe Castle {of 
Fyvie), and it is shown as one of the weird stones. 
It is called the dripping slone, and it is a.sserted that 
this stone gives out such a quanlity of damp as to half 
(ill the 1k>wI in ivhich it is kept with water." When 
Mr. Temple saw (he slone, however, there was no 
sign of moislnre abont it. Further information on 
this subjecl will, I am sure, be welcomed by readers 
of S. N. &• Q. 

Glasgow. J. M. Mackinlav, F.S.A. Scot. 

933- "To go to thr Stones"^! Hnd it stated 

in a Lanarkshire local history that this phrase is 
snmclimes used for "going to church." Is it used in 
any other part of Scotland, and how did the sayiog 
Diii;inBte? J. CaldeR RosS. 



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934. The Tippling Philosophers. — Who is the 

author of ** The Tippling Philosophers " ? The copy 

I possess was written c. 1720. It contains six stanzas, 

of which the first is as follows : — 

Diogenes surly and proud 

Who snarl'd at the Ivlacedon youth, 

Delighted in wine that was good, 

Because in good wine there was truth. 

Till growing as poor as was Job 

Not able to purchase a flask. 

He choosed for his mansion a Tub, 

And lived by the scent of the cask. C. 



an5wer5» 



827. A Phrase Concerning Burns (VII., 92). — 
As I have seen no reply to my query, I may, perhaps, 
he permitted to answer it myself; having recently 
"happened" upon the phrase referred to. The 
passage is as follows, but unfortunately I am unable to 
say where in Cowper's writings it is to be found. 
The date given is 1787. 

** Poor Burns loses much of his deserved praise in 
this country through our ignorance of his language. I 
despair of meeting with any Englishman who will take 
the pains that I have taken to understand him. His 
candle is bright, but shut up in a dark lantern. I 
lent him to a very sensible neighbour of mine, but his 
uncouth dialect spoiled all ; and before he had read 
him through, he was quite ranifeezledJ*'' 

One likes to think of the placid poet of Olney 
"taking the pains" to read Burns. Since Cowper's 
day, however. Englishmen have learned to appreciate, 
and do read, and moreover sing (with what success as 
to pronunciation the least said the soonest mended) 
the poems and songs of our peasant-poet. Bums has 
done much to perpetuate ** braid Scots ; " along with 
Scott, Hogg and Tannahill. At the present day few 
writers are more popular than those whose stories are 
laid north of the Tweed, and whose characters speak 
the tongue of Ramsay and Burns ; witness the 
popularity of the writings of Stevenson, Macdonald, 
Barrie, Mrs. Oliphant, and *' mony mae." It is 
curious to find Dr. Hugh Blair, the classic Edinburgh 
preacher and professor of Rhetoric, animadverting in 
almost identical words to those of Cowper on the 
phraseology of Allan Ramsay. "Honest Allan's" 
Gentle Shepherd^ by the way, was done into English 
sixty years after it had appeared in its final form in 
Edinburgh : vide^ A, Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd^ 
Translated into English by IV. Ward ; 8vo, 1785. 
Ward, according to his own showing, was a natural- 
ised Englishman, residing at Musselburgh. He does 
nor hesitate to hint that his version is superior to the 
original ; a delusion not uncommon among transla- 
tors. Five years after Ward's production appeared, 
another, and in many respects better, "Translation" 
was published : vide^ The Gentle Shepherd^ a Scotch 
Pastoraly by Allan Ramsay, Attempted in English, 
by Margaret Turner. London, 1790. The list" of 
subscribers appended to the volume contains the 
names of most of the nobility of Scotland ; the 
book being dedicated to the Prince of Wales. 
Henry Mackenzie, also, in his famous review of the 
first edition of Bums's poems (in No. 97 of The 



Lounger) y laments that in consequence of the dialect 
in which most of the poems are written, the poet's 
candle tho' bright, is "shut up in a dark lantern." 
Says the " Man of Feeling" : — 

" One bar, indeed, his birth and education have 
opposed to his fame, the language in which most of 
his poems are written. Even in Scotland, the 
provincial dialect which Ramsay and he have used is 
now read with a difficulty which generally damps the 
pleasure of the reader ; in England, it cannot be read 
at all, without such a constant reference to a glossary, 
as nearly to destroy that pleasure." 

Over-against these adverse criticisms let us put the 
words of the greatest living master of English, John 
Ruskin : — " For a Scotchman, next to his Bible, there 
is but one book — his native land ; but one language — 
his native tongue ; the sweetest^ richest^ subtlest, most 
musical of all the living dialects of Europe."*^ 

James W. Scott. 

915. Old Rhyme (VIII., 62).— This old rhyme was 
quite common in the Western districts of Aberdeen- 
shire as a nursery thyme, about half a century ago, 
and may be so still. It had its variations, but what 
remains of it in my memory is as follows : — 

" O this is nae my ain house, 
I ken by the biggin' o't ; 
For bread and cheese are my door cheeks, 
And pancakes the riggin' o't. 

Of a like construction is Burns' song, "This is nae 
my ain Lassie," also the Jacobite song, " This is nae 
my ain plaid," &c. Exile. 

926. Old Scotch Song (VIII., 77).— J. R. will 
find the song he is in quest of in any good edition of 
the works of Burns, under the title Kellybum Braes, 
each verse of which contains the refrain he quotes. 
There are fourteen verses in all. I give the first as a 
specimen : 

There lived a carl in Kellybum braes, 
(Hey, and the rue grows bonie wi' thyme). 

And he had a wife was the plague of his days : 
And the thyme it is withered, and rue is in prime. 

Bums's song is founded on an old ballad common in 
England, under the title of The Farmer^ s Old Wife, 
given in No. 62 of the Percy Society's publications. 
Glasgow. John Muir. 

927. Counting Out Rhyme (VIIL, 77). —The 
following variation comes from Campbeltown : — 

Zeenty, feenty. fickety, fae, 
Zell, gell, dominae, 
Zirky, birky, scoranae, 
Zan, gan, toosh. 

Another variation, furnished by Banff, is given in 

Rev. W. Gregor's "Notes on the Folklore of the 

North-East of Scotland " : — 

Eenitie, feenitie, ficker, ta, 

Fae, el, del, domina, 

Irky, birky, story, rock, 

An, tan, toust. W. 

138. Old Rhymes (L, 45). — Buchan will find the 
lines 

" It was at Auld Rain I was ta'en 
A prisoner for Lady Jean," 

in an old chap ballad called "the Bonny Lass of 
Banaphie." The copy before me was printed by W. 
Macnie, Stirling, in 1826. 



94 



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" Once I loved a lady fair, 
She was a beauty, I declare ; 
The only flower of the North Country 
That bonny lass of Banaphie. 
She being heiress of house and land, 
And I alone a poor farmer's son, 
It was her birth and high degree 
That parted my true love and me." 
The hero, William Graham, and " the bonny lass" 
were secretly married, but were parted by the 
mischievous plots of an angry father-in-law. Graham 
was seized at Auld Rain and carried prisoner to 
Aberdeen, 

" In Germany a soldier to be 
All for the lass of Banaphie " (Benachie?) 

The lady set out in hopes of finding her lover. 
" When her cruel father found 

His daughter she abroad was gone. 

He sent a letter on express, 

'Twas to call these lovers home. 

To him he gave a free discharge. 

All for the sake of Lady Jean ; 

But now we hear he's a wealthy squire 

Into the shire of Aberdeen." 
The ballad extends to some thirty verses. W. 

795. The Drum (VII., 46, 61, 62, 93, 106). — In 
Mackay's Burgh of Canongate I find the following 
reference to Drummers: — "The Drummer was an 
important person in most burghs of Scotland. When 
vagrants and beggars were banished from the town, 
the drummer accompanied the officer in charge to the 
outskirts of the burgh and drummed them out of the 
boundaries." "In more modern times the drummer 
was called into requisition to give notice of the lo.ss of 
valuables, sales by auction, or other matters of public 
interest." Under date 31 December, 1587, Mr. 
"John Thomsoun, flescheour," is appointed drummer 
" to pass through the burgh at 4 hours in the morning 
for the space of ane year heirefter, for the auld dutie : — 
James Eastore, Cautioner, that he should keep his 
hour wind and weather under pain of twelve shillings." 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

916. Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots 
(VIII., 62, 78). — If not already corrected, allow me 
to point out a misprint in the third line of the " Latin 
Poem by Mary Queen of Scots," at p. 62 of September 
Number. For "O care m*? Jesu," read "O care mi 
Jesu." Mi is vocative of mius (as fili of filius) an old 
form of meus " my." 

The following is an attempt at translation : — 

O Lord my God 
I've hoped in Thee, 

Jesu dear 
Now free thou me. 
In heavy chain, 

In cruel pain, 

1 long for Thee. 

I faint ; I moan ; 
On bended knee 
I Thee alone 
Adore, implore 
To set me free. 
Manse of Arbuthnott. R. M. Spence. 

♦ •» 



A London contemporary publishes the follow- 
ing lament. "Why does not some publisher 
bring out a new edition of that delightful book 
" Dream thorpe?" Why, because the book is 
procurable from any bookseller. 



Xiterature* 



Reminiscences of a Voyage to Shetland^ Orkney^ 
and Scotland^ in the summer of i8jg^ by 
Christian Ployen, Amtmand and Com- 
mandant in the Faroe Islands. Translated 
from the Danish by Catherine Spence. 
Published at Copenhagen, 1840. Lerwick : 
T. & J. Manson, 1894. [15 + 237 pp. Cr. 
8vo.] 
Stimulated by " a strong desire to visit foreign 
countries,^ and having a steady view to the im- 
provement of the people of Faroe, the author of 
this volume undertook the voyage. As Com- 
missioner for the Faroese, he investigated all 
subjects that had any real bearing on, or interest 
for, his constituents, and their progress. With 
what intelligence and success he executed the 
various tasks invohed in his journey, the reader 
can readily perceive. The simple-minded author 
takes very modest credit for his labours to de- 
velop the resoujces and to remove the prejudices 
of his fellow-countrymen. The book has, how- 
ever, a curious interest for the present day 
reader. Although the Voyage was made, little 
more than half-a-centuty ago, certain of his 
observations, which have an old-time look about 
them for us, had for the author all the interest 
of great novelty. 

The following quotations give a fair sample of 
the book, which, in passing, we may say — in get- 
up is highly creditable to the Lerwick press : — 

" It was on the 19th of June, about 6 a.m., 
that I first set foot on Scottish ground at Aber- 
deen, where I left the steamer. Everything 
around me showed a large and wealthy com- 
mercial city, an innumerable multitude of crafts 
of various sizes were loading and unloading, 
many were undergoing building and repair ; 
vans and porters passed each other on the quay, 
whilst cabs and elegant equipages rolled amongst 
them, .... whilst several steam factories 
already vomited thick clouds of smoke, and 
emitted harsh sounds. In the midst of all this 
bustle I made my peaceful entry into Scotland, 
having paid three pence of shore duty, the only 
import I have had the honour of paying her 
Majesty Queen Victoria [!] I got my luggage 
placed on the back of a porter, and made him 
walk before me to the Aberdeen Hotel, partly 
that he might show me the way, and partly that 
he might not get out of my sight, down any of 
the narrow lanes we crossed, but he wore on his 
heart a brass badge with a number which I 
carefully observed. As my guide walked slow- 
ly, I had plenty of time to look about me, and 
could not but admire the splendid structures of 
which this city is composed — they are all of 
hewn granite, and seem built for Eternity . . . 



November, 1894.] SCOTIISIf NOTES AND QUERIES. 



95 



Aberdeen is a strange city, one street sometimes 
lies from 16 to 20 feet higher than its neighbour, 
and a flight of stone steps unites them." 

" Close by my hotel, Union Street is divided 
by a hollow, in which flows a burn that might be 
easily crossed by means of a plank, but, in order 
that the street may not be interrupted by this 
hollow, a bridge has been built over it, measur- 
ing 48 of my paces in length, and consisting of 
a single arch. The structure is splendid while 
you only see the arch, but the tiny bum trickling 
beneath it takes away from the effect.^ 

The shops with their fine windows, 6 ft. by 
4ft., are *a luxury he never saw before.' A 
Highlander's dress is minutely described and 
admired although " if he should appear in it in 
any other part of the world he would be thought 
to commit a great indecency .... but in 
Scotland he may go anywhere without exciting 
observation." 

The stage coach which conveyed him to 
Arbroath, and the Railway thence to Dundee, 
are subjects of much comment. At Edinburgh 
the good man is more staggered with its Sabba- 
tarianism than with anything else. " Anything 
more tedious," he says, " than a Scottish Sab- 
bath it is impossible to imagine. It is indeed a 
day of rest, nothing to be heard but the ringing 
of bells, nothing is to be seen but grave-looking 
people, going and returning from the many 
churches. Certainly I consider it a duty to go 
to a church on Sunday, but according to my 
conviction .... it is allowable when the 
service of God is concluded to seek innocent 
amusement to cheer the mind after the labours 
of the past week, and to strengthen it anew for 
the coming one." " Sunday is consecrated in 
Scotland to churchgoing, prayers, reading the 
Bible, weariness, and — drinking secretly." A 
voyage by the Forth and Clyde Canal to Glas- 
gow is a great affair, and his observations on 
Glasgow and other places the author visited are 
if sometimes archaic none the less interesting on 
that account. Miss Spence of Gulberwick has 
to be congratulated on her happy translation of 
the work, reading which one feels that it has 
not been merely a matter of grammatical equi- 
valents, but that she has succeeded admirably 
in reproducing the spirit of the book. Ed. 



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Preterea vulumus ut talis sil oido pvrpcluus in 
divinonim celebialione : Primo anie linein Icrlii pulsus 
congregenliir omnes in liabilibiis induli qui ail illam 
horamasliingunlurinixirticuauslrali'ecclesiecollegii, 
quo liniLo pulsu incedant bini ct bini leinplum in- 
^dicnilo et chotum, ubi coram renerabili .lacraiticnto 
in medio ejusdem chori humililer se iucljiieiil, non 
genua flectentes scd caput ot corpus ; dtimlu singula 
sua loca seu stalla n^rcdianlur. Erunlque hoc uuhIo 

Imprimis per cliori qualuor anjjulosqualuor doctores, 
pcincipatis (i)'el civicus (15) a dcxtris, canonisin (16) 
et meaicus (30) a sinistris ; 

A deilris vero principalis .id incriiliL-in siibiirinci- 
pilii (al, . BiniUra c.nonisl. .,1 liomm |,,an,- 
m.to! (171 ; 

Subseqiientibus vero trilms stallis a dexlris subprinci- 
palis thcologie studcntes, viz., Audiell (3) Dimlugus 
(4) et Bawhelvy (5), a sinistris vero grammalici Ban- 
nakeddill (18) Berihill (ig) et Bcthelny (20) ; 

Subinde bachalarii jurium adextris (6) et sinistris (21); 

Cantor a. liextris (7} post theologie studentes, et tres 
capellani in stallis sulisequentilms (8, 9, 10) ; 

Similiter et sacrisla a sinistris sive ad aquiloncni 
chori (2Z), cum Iribus aliis capellanis (23, 24, 25) ; 

Pueii chori arile capcllanos'a dexlris sint (34, 35, 
36), et a sinistris (45, 46, 47) ; 

El artnim bursarij rcln|Ua staila occiipaliiint." 

The chaplain of St. Mary Magdalene had thus 
no special seat. Although the Cantor is said to 
come "post theologie studentes," this cannot 
mean in immediate succession to a student of 
theology, as a bachelor of lau appiirently inter- 
vened. It is not obvious hoiv the thirteen arts 
bursars could occupy all the remaininj; stalls. 
The want of correspondence between the number 
of the stalls and the number of members of the 
College perhaps lends countenance to the con- 
jecture, " that Elphinstone found the whole 
structure readymade somewhere in France and 
brought il over."' 

It would be interesting to compare the King's 
College arrangement with the arrangement of 
dignitaries in the stalls of other College chapels 
or of cathedrals. P. J. Ander.son. 



Messrs. Ross & Co. of Dingwall will shortly 
issue an account of the origin and descent of 
"The Douglasses of Feam and Kiltearn, and 
the Robertsons of Kindeace." 

Messrs. Lawrence and Bullen have just added 
the poems of William Drummond of Hawthoni- 
den to their " Muses Library." 

wall of™ri:^apel.°"" *'^ " ^ ° "" "'"' '" 
'Thc» (igurts refer lolhe numbe« of Ihe slalls as given in 



EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN 

ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD. 

Section D. 

{Co7itinued from page 8y.) 

On a ground-stone within the enclosure of the 

Skene burying-place there is recorded^ 

Sacred to the Memory | of John Russel, Esq. | Post 
Captain, K.N. | who rlied at Aberdeen | i6th Ocit., 
1813, aged 45 ycirs. | His son Robert | June, 1813. 
aged 6 months. | IHs daughter ElizaU-th | I4lh June, 
1814 I aged 5 years and 9 months. | IMs wife | Anna 
Russel I who died 29th August, 1835 | aged 65 years. 
1 His sou I George [ who died 9th July, 1843, Djged 
31. I And of his son | Thonios | Kui^eon ILE-LCS. 
I who died at Alwrdeen | 28th September, 1856 | 
aged 46. 

Captain John Russel was the eldest son of 
Thomas Russel of Rathen. 

On a table stone at the west wall there is 
inscribed — 

SacreJ | to the memory of | Anne Bowman | spouse 
of John Forbes, Esq. | who dieJ the 8th of JanT,, 
1S05 I aged 62 years. | Also to the memory of | John 
Forbes, Esq. | who died on the 24th January, 1830 ; | 
in the 96th year ol his age. { Likewise to 5 of their 
chilr!ren who dieil in infancy. { And in memory of 
their daughter | Barbara, widow of | Andrew Davidson 
\'si\. I Ailvocalo in Aberdeen | who died in Edinburgh, 
271h August, 1852 I in the 84th year of hei age. 

Another table-stone at the west wall records 
the names of three persons whose combined 
ages give no less than 225 years. 

Saeieil to the memory | of j Sophia Koil)es | eldest 
daughter of ) Capl. John Forbes of New, [ and siMHise 
to I William Forhcs, I-:sq., of Skeltaler, | who died 
zSlh Oclulicr, 1804, I aged 68 years 8 months. | And 
of the said | William Forbes, Esq. | who died lOth 
Seplr., 1819, I ageil 86 years. | And of | Nathaniel 
Forbes, Esq. | who died I7lh Nov'., 1S18, | aged 71 

The Forbeses of Skellater, in the parish of 
Strathdon, were descended from a younger son 
of the first laird of lirux, who branched off about 
140a In addition to Skellater they had also 
possession of Balbithan near Kintore, and the 
present house bears evidence of the improve- 
ments made upon it by William Forbes, 
Balbithan descended by entail from Forbes of 
Skellater to licnjamin Abernethy Gordon, who 
sold the estate to the Earl of Kintore. The 
William Forbes mentioned in the inscription 
was the son of Oeorge Forbes of Skellater by 
his spouse Christian Gordon, who died on the 
3rd of January, ;7S4- A daughter of William 
Forbes was married in 1788 to James Urquhart 
of Meldrum, who died without issue. 

On a table-stone there is — 

Here lie interred the Remains ] of | Robert Duncan 
I lale Merchant in Alierdeen, | who departed this bfe 



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1st March, 1789, | ngei\ 73, | Also Jean Milne, his 
spouse, I who died 7Lh May, iScS, nged 91. | Alex- 
ander Ihcir son, | who died gth March, 1789, aged 
31. I Also of Helen Carr, | Relict of ihe Kev*. William 
Milne. I MiniiitcrotKlldrummy, | whodied ajrd May, 
1787, I anf) 87. I And i.f ihfir dauj-hlcra, I Helen, 
Margattt, Dorothy ami May. | Also Ann Kdwnrda, 
siiDust of I Tli<jni.-Ls 1). Duncan, Merchant In | Alwc- 
(leen, who died 6th Fclirlinry, 1828, | agnd 27. 

Jean Milne, the wife of Robert Duncan, dcs- 
cnbed as " senior " to distinguish him from 
merchant of the same n:imc was one of iht 
datijjhters of the Rev. WJIIum i.- i. !■■, In. 
wife Helen Carr. Willi^iui ''-' : ■ 
to the charge of Kildruinn. , . , , 

by the Synod in [721 for "uri.i;..! mi-. 

of Sabbath-brenkiny," bill in the follnwiii^' 
year the sentence was revoked by the General 
Assembly, he receiving an adnionition to be 
more circumspect in his walk in time coming'. 
He died on the i6th AuKuat, 1762, ajjed 72. 
so that his wife must have been his Junior by 
thirty-six years. Besides the daughters men- 
tioned in the inscription, he had one other, 
[sobel, and seven sons, one of whom, David, was 
for some time minister of Edenkeillie. 

On a table-stone of Aberdeen granite, which 
has replaced an older stone,' there is— 

In mcmoO">f I JWti, ipH.=.e (■-. A'.-nii Vr ■^Iqilien 
I of Forresterhill, | who di.-l !-:■ ' ■ ' ■ -■ isi.i. 
aged 67 years. | And of Aj^i 



1 Nove 



'793, ' 



Alexander, their son, | vih' 
8th SeplemUer, 1809, aijcd 32 ye:L(s. | Alsn llic nljove 
nnmed Alciander Hiephen. | who died in Aberdeen | 
ihc iSlh Innliiity, 1827, ageil 84 years. | And his !f>n- 
in-lawWilliamlllack, | wine merchant in Aherdeen, | 
whii ilied Ihe 26lh SeplcinlJor, 18,33, agcJ 73 years, j 
Also Maig.-irel, | (l.iiighlL'r of the liald Alexander 
Stephen, | who died the 9th January, 1S45, aged 71 
year!!. { And Jane, | daughter uf the said Alexander 
Stephen, | and wife of the aliovc namci) Williain 
Black, I who died in London Ihe 1st May, 1S66, | in 
lhe94lhyearof herajie. | Alsoof Alexander, William, 
Thomas and (leorge Hlack, | Grandsons of the atorc- 
sal<l Alexander Stephen, Ihe two eldest of whom died 
at Alierdeen, | aged respectively 77 years, j Thomas 
died at Cnlcuila in Tulv, iSiS, I aged 24 years, j And 
George at Mcllraurne in May, 1S5S, aged 54 years. | 
In memory also of Katherinc Mary Kil|;our, | Grand- 
daughter of ihe above | William Black and Jean 
Stephen, who died at Aberdeen Ihe afilh Kcbruory, 
1867. 

Alexander Stephen, described as sometime of 
Pilmeddin, acquired the estate of KorresterhitI 
from Roderick McKcnzie of Flowerburn in 1799, 
and sold it again in i8o6 to John iHack, then of 
St. Juhii's, Nova Scotia. 

Within an enclosure at the west wall there is 

1 Scmr. ra.ii. > a. Uingwall Konlyt='. Noles, 



a ground-stone with the following inscription, 
which has replaced one of older date — 

In memoriain | Alexander Gordon, M.D., | died 
Octoltr igih, 1799, aged 47 years. | Elisabeth Harvey 
his wife, I born February 21, 1760, died March 8, 
1840. I Hiisnheih Iheir younger child, | died JanT, Jr, 
1793, aged 6 years. | Als-i | James Gordon his twin 
bri.lher, | somelitne Farmer in Mains of Orrock, ] 
died Nov. 6, 1841, aged S9 years. 

Dr. Gordon, as the older inscription tells us, 
was a surgeon in the Roya! Navy, and afterwards 
I'hy'^irian to the Aberdeen Dispensary. He was 

'I lime surgeon on board H.M. Ship ''Otter," 

. ' "II letiring from the navy aci[uired a con- 
'.ilile practice in Aberdeen. As an author, 
'1 liL-.itiseon "Puerperal Fever" was long held 
:is one of the best treatises on the subject, and 
it has been reprinted by the Sydenham Society, 
His daughter Mary married Robert Harvey of 
Braco mentioned below. 

On the wall above this stone there is a, granite 
tablet with the following — 



Maiy Gonlon his wife] Born Nov. 13, 1784, Died 
junei4, 1S18, I Robert HarveyofBruomhill.M.D., | 
llieir eldest son, | Horn Oct. 31, 1S05, Died June 19, 
[831. I Krccted by their second son | Alexander 
Harvey, M.D. 

Within the same enclosure there is also a 
small fjranitc cross, on Ihe base of which is the 
followmg inscription to the memory of the third 
and youngest son of Professor Alexander 
Harvey, M,U. — 

Reverend | William Harvey, B.A,, | .St. Mary'si 
Auchindoir. j IJiedJnne26, 1872, Aged 27. 

Robert Harvey of Hr.ico acquired Broomhill, 
near Ruthrieston, in 1813 (charter 21st June), 
and his eldest son Robert was retoured to him on 
12th November, 1827, On and August, 1830, he 
had from the Town Council a Charter of Con- 
firmation of the lands of Broomhill, and on his 
death without issue in 1S31, hewas succeeded 
by his immediately younger brother Alexander 
Harve)', M.D., who was the tiist professor of 
Materia Mcdica in ihe University of Aberdeen, 
and died in London, 18S9. 

On a very small head-stone close to the main 
walk there is — 

Burying Place | of | Jnmcs Morison of Elsick, I 
Under these granite slals | will be found a marble | 

This same stone marks the spot where, about 
two feet below the walk, protected by three large 
cranite slabs, there lies a marble stone with the 
following inscription — 

This Stone Mnrks the Burying Place of IJam^. 
Morison, j sometime Provost of Aberdeen, I wSo^ 
departed this life Febl, 25lli, 1748, in Ihe 84lh | yt^r' 



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of his age. And of Anna I^w his spouse, | who ilied 
April 4lh, I7i3,in the4lst year of het n^. | Of their 
children, Thomas, Jannet, [Ann, Chrislran & James 
are buried here. | James held Ihe office of L'hief 
Mflgistrale in this Cily, died JanT. 5th, | 1786, in Ihe 
78th year of his age. Here are also inlcned his | 
spouse, Isobel Dyce, who died Jjn. ajrd, 1781, | aged 
64, & their children, Williaui -Augustus | & Sophia 
who died in Infancy ; | & Rachel, aged 17 years. | 
Also Isiibel Morison, widow uf | James Abcrcromby 
of Be!lfie!d, who | died May i6th, 1S09, in her 7olh 
year. | And | Thomas Morison, M.D. | of K I sick and 
Disblair, I who died 21st June, 1824, | in the 7Sth 
year of his age. | And also | Helen Morison, who died 
and I Nov'. 1840, in the 86th yeai ofher age. 

James Morison was elected provost for a. term 
of two years from Michaelmas, 1730, having 
previously served the community as a council- 
man and in the Magistracy. Nothing is known 
regarding the Provost's parentage, except thai 
he was bovn in 1665, and that when admitted a 
burgess of Guild in i6go, he paid dues as an 
extranean. He married on 29th March, 1692, 
Anna Low in Old Aberdeen, and had a family 
of six sons and three daughters. In 169G he 
returned his stock for the Poll Book at 5,000 
merks. The Provost hved to see the troubles 
of the '15 and the '45 ; having died in 1748, and 
the "Aberdeen Journal," in referring lo his 
death, states that he departed " with an unblem- 
ished character. He behaved himself in every 
station of life in such a fair, straight way as 
procured him the universal love and affection of 
his fellow-citiiens, and his relations have by his 
death lost a most afTectionate parent and sincere 

Provost James Morison, [ unior, described as of 
Elsick, was the fifth son of the foregoing, and 
was born in 1708, He married in 1740 Isobell 
Dyce, the eldest daughter of James Dyce, 
merchant and proprietor of Disblair. The issue 
of this marriage was five sons and eleven 
daughters, but of the sons only two survived 
infancy, vii., Thomas, who was an army surgeon 
and served during the American War, and 
on his retirement succeeded to his aunt's property 
of Disblair. It was to Dr. Thomas Morison, in 
great measure, that the Spa of Strathijeffer owes 
much of its popularity. His death in 1824 is 
recorded in Ihe inscription. The other son of 
the provost who survived was George, who was 
settled in 1783 as minister of Oyne, and two 
years later at Ban chory-L) even ick, where, 
through a long ministry of sixty-one years, he 
■was held in the highest respect and esteem. He 
it was who built the present Suspension Bridge 
across the Dee at Culls. Of the Provost's 

^daughters are married Robert Farquhar, mer- 
. - cJiant in Aberdeen, and his grandson is Admiral 

'Sir Arthur Farquhar, K'.C. H., of Drumnagesk. 



Provost Morison's first term of office as Chiet 
Magistrate was for two years from Michaelmas, 
1744, and the outbreak of the rebellion in the 
following year made his term of office one of 
considerable interest. It is also worthy of 
note that the Provost was only 36 years of a^e 
when called upon to assume the highest civic 
position. On the 25th September, 1745, the 
rebels entered and took possession of the town 
without resistance, and having secured the 
Provost they took him to the Cross where James 
VIII. was proclaimed king. Pledging of healths 
then took place, but no amount of persuasion 
would make Morison drink the health of the 
Pretender, and so enraged were the rebels with 
him that they poured the wine down his shirt 
front. It was doubtless the firm stand that the 
Provost made on this occasion, which earned for 
him the soubriquet of "Provost Positive." 
Morison had a second terra of office as Provost 
for two years from Michaelmas, 1752. 

Alex. M. Munro, 



AN ABERDEENSHIRE ROMANCE. 
The noble author of the recently published 
Records of Aboyne, in an allusion ' to the once 
famous Capucinian Evangelist, John Forbes, 
Father Archangel, falls into a curious mistake 
and raises some interesting questions by 
remarking that he must have died before 20th 
Dec, 1S98, because on that date, Arthurj his 
half brother by their father's second marriage, 
obtained a Charter of the lordship of Forbes, 
ilut John Forbes and his mother were both then 
alive, and their story is one of the most romantic 
in die Annals of the House of Huntly. 

The long drawn period of the Scottish 
Reformation was the most intensely exciting and 
troubled in the whole public and domestic 
history of the country. In Aberdeenshire the 
contention was especially keen, for the greatest 
county magnate, George, 4th Earl of Huntly, 
Lord HighChancellor of Scotland, and "Terror 
of England," for many years maintained the 
cause of the ancient church against the popular 
change. He was taken prisoner at the Battle 
of Pinkie in 1 547, and detained in England for 
a considerable length of time. During this 
absence his youngest daughter. Lady Margaret 
Cordon, married John, Sth Lord Forbes, who 
subsequently became a Protestant. But his 
lady remained a staunch Catholic, and their 
sons, William, who was being educated to the 
priesthood, and John, also adhered to the old 
faith. Matters were not remedied by the 
revival of old quarrels between the rival clans. 



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and, finally, in the height of the religious struggle. 
Lord Forbes completed the family rupture by 
turning his Catholic lady and her youthful son 
out of doors. John Forbes left his native land, 
and by the influence of his elder brother, joined 
to the persuasions of his mother and of his uncle, 
James Gordon (Huntlasus, d. 1620), an eminent 
member of the Society of Jesus, he also adopted 
the ecclesiastical vocation. Both brothers 
entered the Capuchin Order of Franciscans, and 
resided chiefly in Flanders, whither they were 
followed by their mother, who subsisted there 
on a pension awarded to her by the King of 
Spain. Their father formed a second matri- 
monial connexion with Janet Seatoun of Tough, 
whose eldest son Arthur succeeded him in the 
barony of Forbes, as stated in the Records of 
Aboyne. 

Both William and John Forbes were called 
Father Archangel, and were esteemed very 
highly distinguished Members of their Order, 
and both laboured haid in the Low Countries 
to stem the flowing tide of reformed doctrine. 
Some of their adventures were of the most 
thrilling description, and it is said that John 
Forbes converted three hundred soldiers of a 
single Scottish regiment quartered in Holland. 
William died on 21st March, 159 1-2 ; Margaret, 
Lady Forbes, died at Ghent on ist January, 
1605-6 ; and seven months afterwards, on 2nd 
August, 1606, John drew his last breath. He 
lies buried in the^ Church of the Capuchins at 
Dendermonde. Memoirs of his life were written 
and published by a Flemish Member of the 
Order, Father Faustinus Cranius of Diest, with 
the title ^^ Altar AlexiuSy natione Scotus^ nobili 
familia oriundus nuper in Belg : felici S. 
Spirt f us afflatu delatus^ et in fainiliain Seraphici 
Patris S. Francisci Capucinorum adscriptum 
sub nomine F. Archangeli, Colon^ 1620. A 
French translation of the work was published 
at Paris in 162 1 ; an English translation, with 
portrait engraved by Picart, at Douay, 1623 ; 
and an Italian with the title '''' Narrativa delta 
Vita d^un Figlio et d^una Madre^'* at Modena, 
1634. Twenty years ago the story was retold in 
** The Brothers Archangel^ by an English 
Catholic^^ Lond., 1872. 

We are not aware how the second marriage 
of Lord Forbes was legalised, or what measures 
were taken to procure for its issue precedence in 
the title and estates over the son of Margaret 
Gordon. The Protestant Baron's harsh treat- 
ment of his Catholic wife very naturally em- 
bittered the feud between the families, but the 
result of the desperate struggle of conflicting 
religious parties favoured his views, and no doubt 
the means adopted to evade the strict law of 
succession were facilitated by the difference of 



creed, and by the monastic vows and celibacy 
of the rightful heir. 

The ecclesiastical designation Archangel 
appears to have been frequent among the 
Capuchins. A third Aberdeenshire Capucinian 
mentioned in the Balfour MSS., printed in 
Maidment's Analecta Scotica, vol. ii., among the 
"priests and traffecting seminaries in the Dyoceis 
of Aberdene and Murraye" is there described 
as " Capucian Leslie commonly called the Arch- 
angeli." The person here indicated is now 
commonly known as George Leslie of Monymusk, 
who died in 1639, and may almost be considered 
cotemporary with Forbes. The frequency of 
the designation has caused confusion before 
to-day, and it is remarkable that one of the many 
errors in Evan's Catalogue of Engraved Por- 
traits occurs under the name of John Forbes, 
therein described (vol. ii., 156,) as " son of Lord 
Forbes and Margaret Gordon, daughter of the 
Marquis of Huntly ; a Scotch Capuchin ; died 
1606 ;" *' with a large square beard, and holding 
a book ;" " Reverendus Pater Archangelus a 
Pembrok," &c., ** i2mo, very rare, £\ us 6d." 
On examining our own copy of the portrait we 
find that the entire legend runs — " Reverendus 
Pater Archangelus a Pembrok Anglus Cafu- 
cinus Proedicator et Definiior provincias Paris- 
iensis^ qui obiit Anno Domini 1631^ 12 D. Au- 
gustiy CBtatis vero suce 67, et a conversione ad 
Religionem Seraphicam^ ubi cum summa laude 
vixit^ 4^r But none of this can refer to John 
Forbes. Two other portraits of him are de- 
scribed by Evans, both of which are genuine, 
one of them. " ^ holding a crucifix," being a 
well executed engraving by J. Picart for the 
English translation of the Life by Cranius. 

In connection with this subject may we ven- 
ture to suggest the systematic preparation by 
the New Spalding Club of an Iconographia of 
the Counties within its province from the earliest 
period down to the close of last century. The 
reproduction of the fine old engraved and curi- 
ous old painted portraits of local worthies of 
byepast times, by one of the numerous processes 
facilitated by photography, is comparatively in- 
expensive. The Roll of suitable names is al- 
ready being reduced by the issue of excellent 
portraits in illustration of the Club's published 
volumes, no fewer than sixteen having already 
been engraved. But there are many important 
names which would have no topical prospect of 
appearing in the class of works published by 
the Club. The rarer portraits are scattered 
over all the world, and their discovery and pre- 
paration would occupy several years. No more 
important work can be conceived than this, none 
more useful if accompanied by brief well-written 
biographical notices, and none more likely to 



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make ihe name of ihe Oub illustrious. The 
fame of the old Spalding Club will live for ever 
in the " .Sculptured .Stones," and the I'ortrait 
Gallery of the Northern Shires may well be 
chosen as tlic magnum opus of its successor. 
We would also suggest thai the columns of this 
Magazine form an exceedingly suitable medium 
for collecting and preserving particulars of por- 
traits which it would be desirable to include in 
such a work. K. J. 



NOTAKLE MEN AND WOMEN OK 
AliERDKEN.SIIIKp;. 

59. Revirly, Alexamlti; I.L.D. (Re-<'.): Teachtr 
and Scholar. Horn in Alierdccn in 1823, Ur. Beverly, 
who has given his life In the le.iching profession, 
published in 186S an excellent volume of Exercises in 
Latin Prose composilion, which has jiasscd through 
several editinns. 

60. Bissell, George, M.A.: <iislinguished loaclicr. 
Bom Keith-halt 1751. In 17S4 he was appointed tu 
the parish school of Udny, in connection vrith which, 
for many years, he carried on a large and flourishing 
boarding-school, known as Ihe Udny Academy. [Icie, 
first under Ihe father and then under his sons, many 
of the sons of the Aberdeenshire county gcnllcmcn 
were educated ; and not a few of the scholars distin- 
guished themselves in aftoi life. Among ihem may be 
mentioned the names of Sir James Oulrani, Joseph 
Robertson, LL.D., J. Hill ISurlon, LL.U., Wm. 
Leslie of Warthill, M.P. for Al«rdecnshire, Rev. 
Robert Adam, Professor Samuel Trail, I). D., LL.D., 
Rev. William Temple, M.A.. K.S.A., and man) 
others. Mr. Bissell died in 1812. 

61. Bissell, Jamts, D.D.: licclesiastical leader of 
Moderate parly in Church of Scotland. Son of the 
above. IJorii at Udny 1794 or 5, gradualcd 
Marischal College ; by his father's death succecdeil 
the management of the Academy while still a mi 
youth, and was very successful as a teacher. H.iving 
studied for Ihe church, however, he resigned his 
connection with the school on being ordained to the 
parish of Bourtie in i8z6. He toot a leading part in 
the Non intrusion cimlroversy on the Moderate side. 
In 1850 Marischal College conferreii on him the 
degree of D,D., and in i86z he was chosen Moderator 
of the Church of Scollanil, but died ihe same year. 
His published writings are chiefly on passing 
ecclesiastical affairs, and are numerous. 

61. Bissell, John (Rev.): Noted Preacher and 
eccentric Divine. Born 29th August, 1692, licensed 
by the Aberdeen Presbytery 1 7 16, and orilained to the 
parish oJ New Machar 1717. He was translated to 
the 2nd charge Al>erdeen in 172S, and continued there 
till his death in 1756. A choleric peculiar man, he 
was opjiosed both to the Seceders and the Moderates, 
though more in sympathy with the former. He both 
preached and wrote against Whitlield in 1741. Ai\eT 
the Poiteous Act was read by many ministers of the 
Church he withdrew himself from attendance on all 
Church Courts. He published, 1731, The Rigil ef 
Patronages Considered, and 1732, Modern ErasUanisvi 



hiveiltd, also Discourses, 1763, wiih various single 
^rmons, &c. Extracts from his Diary have lieen 
ubiished by the Spalding Cluli. 
63. Hla<k,Alexandtr,n.D.(Pref.}: Free Church 
riifeasor. Horn in Alierdecn in 1781, and educated 
t Marischal College there. He first studied for the 
ledical profession ; Imt finally preferred theoli^. 
,Her license he was for a lime nssislanl to Ur. Ross 
I the East Church, and at the same lime acted as 
itor to his son, with whom he proceeded on a 
continental tour. An unsuccessful candidate for the 
chair of Divinity in King's College in 1816, his 
iremenls made such an impression on the judges 
be was recommended to Ihe Univeraty for the 
decree of D.L)., which was duly conferred on him. 
fas al the same time ordained to the parish of 
Tarves. Here he continued till 1831, when he was 
appointed Professor of Divinity in Marischal Oillegc. 
He was recognised as one of Ihe most learned men of 
his time in Ihe t:hurch of Scotland, and when in 1S39 
a Deputation was sent by the General Assembly of 
that Church to Palestine on a mission of enquiry, he 



of that deputation, accompanying Dr. Keith 
and Messrs. McCheyneandBonar. Al IheDisruplion 
he resigned his chair and joined the Free Church. In 
1844 hewasapi>ointed Professor of Ex^elicalTheoti^ 
in Ihe New College, Eilinburgh, and held Ihal posl 
till 1856, when he resigned. He survived till 1864. 
lie published in 1856 The Exesetical Study of thi 
Original Scriptures considered in cgiinection viith the 
training of Theological Students. This is Ihe only 
pulilication which Dr. Black gave to Ihe world as 
evidence of his vast and varied learning. But he was 
recognised by all who knew him as one of the best 
scholars of his generation. 

64. Blact, Isobel, Mrs. David Gill: Authoress. 
Born 1836 al Linhead, Foveran. She married in 
1870 David Gill, LL.D. of Blairythan, Astronomer 
Royal, Cape of Good Hope. She has published a 
volume entitled Six Months in Ascension Isle. 

65. Blackie, Gregory Watt: Actor. Brother of 
Professor Stuart Blackie. He was born in the second 
decade of this century, and died in 1S68. 

66. Blaclnuell, AUxandir, M.D. : Scottish Adven- 
turer. Bora in the first decade of the i8lh century, 
he studied at Marischal Collie and at Leyden under 
Boerhaave, where be look his M.D. degree. Afler 
various unsuccessful attempts lo win fortune for 
himself, first in Scolland and then in London, where 
in 1734 he was declared liankrupt, he came under the 
notice of the Swedish Ambassador in London through 
a work which he published on .^iculture. The 
result was (hat he received an appointment at Stock- 
holm, whither he proceeded in 1740. Here having 
the good forlune to prescribe successfully for the King 
during a serious illness, he became a court &vourite, 
and was seemingly on the high road to success, when, 
getting involved in a plot to change the succession lo 
the Swedish throne, he was arrested, tried and 
executed August, 1747. 

67. Blaciuvelt, EHiahelh: Botanist and Artist. 
Wile of the foregoing. Born in Aberdeen, and 
seemingly a cousin of the man she married, she has 
attained distinction through an illustrated Botanical 



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Work enlilicd A Curisus Herbal, lentaimng five 
hundred CHl! of Ihe most uscftii plams tum> used in the 
fradici af t-Kyn'r, 1737-9. 

68. Blaekwell, Thamas(Rev. Prineifal)r Schiilar. 
Bom Alicnieen 4Ih Aiigusi, 17DI, gradunterl Mariaiiia] 
College 1718, he !«csmc I'rofessor qF Greek 1783, 
and FrfnciiMl 1748. Wurks, Itiqttiry into ihe Life 
and IVriliags of Homer, 1737, DauRerofthe Rihellian, 
1746, Lelttrs coMfirtting Mylholo^, 1748. lie ilied 
in 1757- 

69. Blaikle, William G., D.D., I.L.D. (Pmf): 
Divine, Joumalisl, anil IlinEra]iher. Burn in Alieideen 
rSao, anil cJucatml Ihere fur the ministiy, he giailuatal 
in 1837, onlained in 184a, his first charge was Drum- 
blaile, where he lulxjiired nt Ihe time ofthc Disrujition, 
qnil nfit;T a year's naslornle lul Toilh miisl or his flucli 
to form a Free Chuich Conpegatidn. In the year 
1844 he set to work at I'ilriE, Etlinbiirph, to miae a 
new congrt^ion, and was very successful in thai task 
(luring a ministry of 24 ycnrs. ilis first volume, 
Seller Days Jar IVotking P'-ofle, went through scvera! 
editions, am! reached a circulalinn of 80,000. S\ib- 
sequenliy he edited the Free ChurcA Ji/agaiiiit from 
1849 to 1853, and the Jforlk British Review from 
iSeo to 1E63. lie is D.D. tif Kdinlniigh 1S64, nnd 
LL-D. of Alstdcen 1872. lie was Ironsferred to the 
Chair of ApolOEclici ami I'asloral Theology in 1868, 
■net has, among other works, publisher] Danid King 
of Israel, in 1856, and Tin Personal Life of David 
LitiingstBiu, 1M4, and J'reac/iers of Scaltand, 1S8S. 
He has also putilt'^heil a hiimilelic work, entitled, 
For the Work sf the Ministry, and hns edileii The 
Stinday Magazine im mtiayyitits. He was Moderator 
of Ihc Free Assembly in iSgi. 

70. Bonar, Win. : Farmer Poet of Smidiiycrofl, 
Bourlie. Born 1794. In on nbiluary notice he is 
said to have wriUun a poem enlilleJ The Waril, in 
■en ]iiirts. He died in 1S60. 

71. Sooth, William: AriisI, Born in Alierdccn, 
1807. Ileexhibilodatthe Royal Academy from 1837 
lo 1845. He WM B miniature painter, nnd sjiucially 
succes'iful wilh female porlraiLs. He died 1845, 

71. Bmtvr, Thoinas, Dr. : Mathematician. Born 
in Abenlecn shire, and educated it ihe University in 
Aberdeen. Dr. nower, who was a dislinguibhed 
mathematician, was employed in :707 by the Scots 
Parliament to calculate the equivalents payable to 
iScotland l>y England in return far the lialiility of the 
former country, fnr the debts contraclerl by England 
lieforc the Union, 

73. Brechin, George: Minor Poet. Burn Ellon, 
18Z9. Practising as a house- [lainlcr in Edicbuigh, 
Mr. Brechin published, in 1881, Sketches in OHtiine 
of Facts and Fancy. 

74. Brodie, Kotiert, A.M. (Re?'.): Diasenling 
IKvine and Author. Son of the Relief Minister, 
Aberdeen, and liorn there in 1784, he was educated 
for the ministry, and nrdained pastor of Fast Caniplxill 
Street Church, Glasgow, in :ao7. He was Motlerntur 
oflhe Relief Synod in 1S30, and died in 1846. He 
published in 1819 An Address on Ihe late riots in 
Glasginv, and another work on The Prevalence and 
Danger of Negative Error in Matters ef Faith. A 



volume of his discourses was published postliumously 
wilh Memoir prefixed. 

75. Brim-it. Arihi!>alii(Rev.): Original Secession 
Divine. T^.ihl.i r. !■ il,, L.l ill 1S04, Mr. Brown, who 
cnlertil il: - '1 ': riom the Establishment, 
wasi>i.l.i I ■ ■ ' 'ri[;:nBlSecessiooChurch, 
Leslie, i.i . .1 10 Kirriemuir in 1840, 
and 111 V-'.. ■■■■I...' -I i.";j. lie was suspended by 
Ihc Synod in 1S5B, flnddiedin 1879. Author of many 
pamphlets as well as of a volume cnlilled The Strength 
of Ihe Church. 

76. Brmen, Charles John, D.D.: Free Church 
Divine and Author. Born in Aberdeen 21st August, 
iSolj, he was educated ut the University of his native 
city, and ordained in 1831 as minister of Anderslon 
Church, Glasgow. Translated lo the New North 
Church, Eilinburgh, in 1837, he took an active part in 
Ihc Non-intrusion Controversy, and joined the Free 
Church in 1S43. He was a much esteemed leader of 
that reli)>iou! body, and in 1S72 was chosen Moderator 
of the Free Assembly. Amung his publ.shed works 
may be mentioned Slate of Religion in Ihe Land: a 
Letter la ihe Rev. E. Bickerstelh, 1844, The Divine 
Glory ef Chrisl, 1868, as well as various individual 
sermons, addresses and pamphlets. He died in 1884. 

77. Brmim, David, D.D. (Prindfal): Free 
Church Theologian, Prolific Author and Scholar. 
Brother of the last, and liom like him in Aberdeen, 
I7lh August, iSoj, he grailualed at Alierdeen Uni- 
versity in l8ai, nnd was licensed in 1S26. After 
setting for some lime as B.<isi3tant in Dumbarton, he 
was urilained minister utOrd, Banffshire, in 183G; but 
on joining the Free Church in 1843, he ceased to be 
minister ofOnl, becoming minister of Free St. James's, 
Gla.sgnw, Ihcil same )tnr. He had D.D. conferred 

Swii hirri \v i*^-;. .iTii' nvi^ promoted to ihe Free 
ollej;!.-, ''.I'. 1, ■■ '^i^ 1 Ic has for many years 
beenl'iii', ■ 'Ikge, Aberdeen, and was 

chostii \; .. -Usembly, 1885. Dr. 

Brown, \\'..' - ii : ':■. 1 in :l ^-reen old age, is one of 
the mos.t highly re-pirclcil niinislers of his native town, 
and still takes a deep interest in all current events. 
Among his wurks may be mentioned one on Chrises 
Second Comil/^, which has passed through many 
Lilitions, also A Commentary en the Old and New 
Testaments, which he wrote in collaboration with Dr. 
Robert Jameson and Mr. Faussel. He has also written 
on 7'he RestoraliBu oflhejeivs, as well as a Biography 
of Professor John Duncan. He look an active part 
in the controversy which agilaled the Free Church 
over the qiiestiun of Professor Robertson Smith's 
views. W. B, R. \V. 

Mr. Geo. F. Black, Assistant Keeper of the 

National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, has 
in preparation a work dealing with "Scottish 
Charms and Amulets," to be published by 
Mr. Geo, P. Johnston, Edinburgh. Mr. Black 
is desirous of makinj; the work as complete as 
possible, and will be grateful to any one for 
information of such Scottish Charms or Amulets 
as have not hitherto been described. All assist- 
ance given will be acknowledged in the work. 



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THE PROVERBS OF CHAUCER, WITH 

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM 

OTHER SOURCES. 

IX. 

DECISION AND PROCRASTINATION. 

Half the failures in life are the result of not 
being able to act with promptitude at the right 
moment. Procrastination is not only the thief 
of time, but the thief of character, and eats into 
a man's life with a dangerous and subtle power. 
On the other hand, the power of striking the 
iron while it is hot, of taking the tide of fortune 
at its flood, explains many of the successes in the 
lives of men who have had no great education, or 
possessed no very brilliant talents. Human 
nature has always displayed these characteristics, 
and the men of Chaucer's day, that is of five 
hundred years ago, were singularly like the men 
of our day. Thus their foibles and virtues, which 
passed into a proverb, are still proverbial, and 
find their counterpart in the aphorisms of other 
lands. This we shall proceed to illustrate under 
the present heading : — 

132. Whoso first Cometh to the mylle, first grynt. 

Bathe Prol, , 1. 389. 
Compare : 

First come, first served. — Hazlitt. 

Qui premier arrive aut moulin, premier doit 

mouldre. — Fr. (quoted by Ray). 
Ante molam primus qui venit, non molat imus. 

Mediaeval Latin (Hazlitt). 
First come, first saired. — Henderson. 
Qui premier vient au moulin premier doit 

moudre. — Le Roux. 
Le premier venu engraine. — Do. 
De, dirr j^rst kdmt, fait j^rst grlinnen. 

Friesian (Diiringsfeld). 
Hvo der kommer forst til Molle, faaer forst 

malet. — Danish (Do.) 
Primus veniens, primus molet. — Latin. 
Qui primo arriva al molin, molina. — Ltalian. 
Qui prum^ ba mol^ au bon molin, 
Prum^ engrane si nou lou sot coulin. — Gascogne. 
This proverb, with slight dialectical differences, 
is found in various parts of France. That the 
idea it contains should be widely spread is not 
so remarkable as the fact that the image chosen 
by Chaucer to express the idea should be so 
general. He is evidently quoting a very familiar 
proverb. 

133' Whil that iren is hoot men scholden smyte. 

Mel. T.y 1. 145. 
Compare : 

When the iron is hot strike. — Hazlitt. 

Strike while the iron is hot. — Ray. 

Man soil das Eisen Schmieden, weil es heiss ist. 

Diiringsfeld. 
Man skal smede Jernet medens det er hedt. 

Danish. 
Hamra skal jarn, methan heitt er. — Lcelandic. 
Ferrum, cum igni candet, tundendum. — Latin. 



II faut battrc le fer pendant qu' il est chand. 

French. 
Batti il ferro quando e caldo, — Italian, 
Quando o ferro esta accendido, entao ha de ser 
batid o. — Portuguese. 

134. Ther is an olde proverl>e that saith, the goodnesse 

that thou niaist do this day abyde not ne 
delaye it nought unto to morwe. 

Mel. T.y 1. 193. 

135. Whoso yeveth a yift, or doth a grace, 

Do hit by tyme, his thank is wel the more. 

Leg. Prol.f 1. 451. 

These two proverbs contain the same thought, 
and may therefore be taken together for 
illustration. 

Compare : 

He gives twice who gives in a trice. — Ray. 
One to-day is worth two to-morrows. — Hazlitt. 
Delay not till to-morrow what may be done 

to-day. — Henderson. 
Bis dat, qui cito dat. — Latin. 
Qui tot donne, deux fois donne. — Le Roux. 
Ein Heut ist besser, denn zehn Morgen. 

Diiringsfeld, 
Un bon aujourd'hui vaut mieux que deux 

demain. —French. 
Was du heute thun kannst, verschiebe nicht 

bis morgen. — Diiringsfeld. 

136a. The proverbe saith, He hastith wel, that wisly 
can abyde. — Mel. 7"., 1. 146. 

136b. He hastith wele that wysly kan abyde. 

Trol. /., 1. 956. 
Compare : 

Most hasle, worst speed. — Ray. 

Ride softly that we may come sooner home. 

Hazlitt. 
Hatez-vous lentement. — Le Roux. 
Qui bien attent ne surattent. — Do, 
Meulz valt un bon atente que malveis a haste. 

Do. 
Eile mit Weile. —German (Diiringsfeld). 
Far i Mag (Go, or travel, with rest). — Danish, 
ffirevde ppadiws. — Greek. 
Festina lente. —Latin. 
Presto et bene non si conviene. — Italian. 
"Tarry a little that we may make an end the 
sooner," was a saying of Sir Amias Paulet. 

Ray. 

The truth embodied in this proverb, — most 
neatly expressed in the Greek, Latin and Ger- 
man forms — is ancient as well as widely spread. 
Suetonius, in his biography of the Emperor 
Augustus (c. 25), relates as follows : Nihil minus 
perfectoduciquam festinationem temeritatemque 
convenire arbitrabatur. Crebro itaque ilia 
jactabat : (TTrcOSe Ppad4vs. 'a<r4>a\^s ydp 'e<rr *a(0€ly<ay 
^ dpaffifs (rT€aT7}\dT7}s. Et, sat celeriter fieri, quid- 
quid fiat satis bene. Goethe makes a reference 
to this in Hermann und Dorothea^ v. 82 : 

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Somewhat akin to above proverb is the 
foUowing, which occurs in three places : 

137a. The proverbe saith, in wikked haste is no 

profyt.— i^/?/. T., 1. 146. 
137b. Wikked haste doth no profyt.— /Vrj. 7"., 1. 359. 
137c. Hastif man ne wanteth neverecare. 

Troy I., IV. 1540. 
Compare : 

Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and 

want makes strife between the good man and 

his wife. — Ray (and Henderson.) 

A hasty man never wants woe. —Ray (and Hazlitt). 

"The mair haste the less speed," as the tailor 

said, wi' his lang thread. — Henderson. 
Fools' haste is nae speed. — His lop. 
Oft rap reweth. — Proverbs of Hending. 
Oft and lome rake ful rewit. — Do. 
Haste qui n'est cuite ne vault rien. — Le Rotix. 
Hastivite engendre repentance. — Do. 
Qi trop se haste se empesche. — Do. 
liithidh breith luath, lochdach. 
(A hasty decision may prove erroneous). 

Mackintoshes Gaelic Proverbs. 

138. Now diaweth cut, er that we ferrer twinne, 
He which that hath the shortest shal bej^inne 

Now draweth cut, for that is myn acord. 

ProL, 1. 838. 
It may be said that this is a method of arriving 
at a decision rather than a proverb, and in this 
particular instance it is, but the words used have 
passed into a proverb. When men are unable, 
or unwilling, to decide for themselves, they are 
tempted to leave the decision to chance or fate, 
or divinity, according to their ideas of the 
unknown. Froissart calls it tirer d, longue paille^ 
to draw the long straw (Vol. I., c. 294). The 
custom of deciding by lot has been common 
among all nations, and the weightiest and most 
solemn matters were often settled in this way. 
The Scriptures afford many examples as well as 
the writings of the Greeks and Romans, while 
among the Teutonic races it seems to have been 
equally practised. To trace the history of this 
custom would be interesting, but would take us 
too far afield. 

139. Lat se, which of yow shal here the belle 

To speke of love aright. — Troyl. III., 1. 149. 
Compare : 

To bear the bell. — Hazlitt. 

Hazlitt has the following note to this proverb : 
" This seems to be equivalent in import to, * To 
win the race.' It appears that a silver bell was 
sometimes the prize at horse-races. See Man- 
ningham's Diary ^ edit. 1868, p. 49." This may 
be so, and Hazlitt might have quoted in further 
support of the explanation he offers, the proverb : 
" It is evil to hop before them that run for the 
bell" (See also Gascoigne's Posies (1575) Works, 
I. 429). The meaning of the passage quoted 
from Chaucer is quite clear. It is : " Let us see 



which of you shall surpass the other in speaking 
of love," but the origin of this figure of speech, 
"to bear the bell," may have another explanation. 
It may be derived from the custom of the leade? 
in a flock of sheep wearing a bell. Hence the 
proverb : " It is a silly flock where the ewe bears 
the bell.^^ Carlyle (quoting Jean Paul) says : 
" Mankind follow their several bell-wethers," i.e. 
their several leaders. 

The following proverb may be inserted under 
this heading for want of a better place : 

140. Wynne whoso may, for al is for to selle. 

Bathe Prol., 1. 414. 
Compare : 

Win whoso may, it is ail for to sdl. — Hazlitt, 

M. A. C. 



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you are sure of it (otherwise not); then (iii) the 
w^tz;//'//^'' of the w»)rd (if ascertained) a little below; 
then (iv) the loituly where it is used. 

3. In makinj^ your extract, give (i) dalv of the book 
(if known), (ii) author s juifne (if known), (iii) fitit' 
(shortened if at all h^ig), (iv) exact rcferciuc to volume, 
and book, and chapter, and page (so far as possible) 
— in poetry give stanza and line (w hen ptissible). Thus: 

1886. M. Pkacock, I.imiscy '/'ales \U)X 'Tales 
and Rhymes in the IJndsey I'olk-Speech '], pn^e62. 

4. Make a quotati«»n for (i) every word wliicli is 
obviously a dialect wotd, and (ii) for standard Knglish 
words used in a dialectal form or sense. 

5. Quote tlie sentence in full, or if very long, as 
much as will make connected sense, and show the 
meaning and use of the word. 

6. Carefully preserve the spelling of the original. 

7. Kindly sort your slips into alphabetical onler 
before returning them to the Editor, and send with 
ihetn \\\Q full title of your lMM)k, and your own name 
and address, to Prof. JosRiMl Wric.ht, 6 Norham 
Road, Oxford.'' 

Modern lexicography is gone about in a very 
different way from what was Dr. Johnson's plan 
of operations. With him it was the learned man 
catering for the literary world, now it is the 
literary world catering for the learned men who 
know how to utilize all the aid they plead for or 
can possibly get. The promoters of this noble 
undertaking have already been 20 years engaged 
at it, and deserve all encouragement. 



THE CANTERBURY TALES. 



THE knight's tale (Continued), 

I. 

Strife, great and long was 'twixt these tway, 
If I had leisure but to say. 
As to th' effect ; it happed one day, 
To tell it shortly as I may, 
A worthy duke bight Perithous 
Sworn comrade of duke Theseus, 
Since that day they as children played, 
To Athens now a visit made 
To sport as he was wont to do. 
None else he gave such love unto ; 
He was himself beloved again, 
So well, as olden books maintain, 
That when one died, in sooth to tell, 
His fellow sought him down in Hell : 
But of that tale I do not write. 

Duke Perithous loved well Arcite ; 
At Thebes had known him many a year, 
And finally, at request and prayer 
Of Perithous, without a ranson 
Duke Theseus let him out of prison, 
To go where'er he pleased himsel'. 
In such a guise as I shall tell. 

The bargain, plainly to endite, 
'Twixt Theseus duke, and him Arcite ; 
That if so were, Arcite were found 
Ever, by day or night, on ground 
Pertaining lo duke Theseus, 
And caught, it was accorded thus: 
With sword that he should lose his head, 
There was no remedy nor rede. 
Thus taking leave, homeward he sped ; 
Let him beware,- his neck lith to wed. 

Great sorrow suffereth now Arcite, 
For through his heart he feels death smite. 
Ho weeps, wails, cries full piteously. 
To slay himself waits privily. 
'Wlas 1" saith he, "that 1 was born ! 
My lot is worse now than beforne. 
I'm doomed for ever now to dwell 
In no mere torment, but in Hell. 
Had 1 ne'er known this Perithous, 
I then had dwelt with Theseus 
Fettered in prison evermoe ; 
Yet I had been in bliss, not woe. 
The sight alone of her I serve. 
Though I her grace may ne'er deserve. 
Would have suffic ed enough for me. 
() cousin Palamon I quoth he. 
Thine is the victory most sure. 
In prison blissful thou mayest dure ; 
In prison.^ nay in paradise. 
Fortune to thee hath turned the dice. 
Thou'st sight of her, and I the absence, 
It may, -since thou art in her presence, 
And art a worthy knight and able. 



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107 



It may, — since Fortune is unstable, 

That thou sometime thy wish attain. 

But I in exile must remain 

Out of all grace, — in such despair, — 

Nor earth, nor water, fire, nor air. 

No creature made of them that is. 

Can heal, or comfort give in this. 

I pine in wanhope and distress. 

Farewell my life, joy, gladsomeness. 

Ah ! why complain men so in common 

Of God's purveyance, or of Fortune, 

That gives full oft in many a guise 

Much better than they can devise? 

A man desires to have great riches 

That oft occasion death or sickness ; 

And some would out of prison fain, 

At home are oft by menials slain. 

Infinite ills in these appear. 

We know not what we pray for here. 

We fare like one as drunk, as mouse, 

A drunk man wots he hath a house. 

But not which is the right way there ; 

To such 'tis slippery, causing care ; 

So in this world full oft fare we. 

Keenly we seek felicity. 

But oft go wrong egregiously. 

Thus all may say, and chiefly I 

That weened, and had some great opinion. 

If I might once escape from prison, 

Joy would be mine, and perfect bliss ; 

But I am far removed from this. 

Seeing you not, my Emilie, 

Is death, I see no remedy." 

Return we now to Palamon ; 
When that he wist Arcite was gone 
Such wailing made, the great strong tower 
Resounded loud from hour to hour. 
Upon his limbs the fetters great 
Were with his bitter tears all wet. 
Quoth he, "Ah, Arcite I cousin mine. 
Of all our strife the gain is thine. 
Thou walkest now in Thebes at large, 
And of my woe giv'st little charge. 
Thou may'st, since thou are wise and brave, 
Assemble all the kin we have 
And war so sharp upon this land. 
That by some hap or deed of hand, 
May'st have this lady for thy wife. 
For whom I need must lose my life. 
And certes, 'tis most like to be. 
Since thou'rt at large ; of prison free ; 
And eke a lord ; thy chance is great. 
More so than mine in prisoned state. 
I weep and wail may, while I live. 
With all the pain restraint may give. 
And eke with that love gives also ; 
Doubling my torment and my woe." 

Then fire of jealousy doth start 
Within him, takes him by the heart 
So fiercely, him you might behold 



As box or ash tree dead and cold. 

He cries out, " O thou Goddess stem 

Ruling this world by word eteme, 

Writing in page of athamant 

Your will and everlasting grant. 

What more do you all mankind hold 

Than sheep close lying in the fold ? 

For slain is man even as a beast ; 

Eke dwells in prison and arrest ; 

Sick, and in great adversity ; 

Yet oft is guiltless as we see. 

What rule is in this prescience 

That so tormenteth innocence ? 

Yet this increaseth all my penance. 

That man is bound to his observance 

For sake of Heaven, to stay his will. 

Nor like a beast his last fulfil. 

When dead, a beast feels no more pain ; 

Men after death may weep and 'plain, 

Though here he have much care and woe. 

Without a doubt it standeth so. 

I leave the answer to the wise ; 

I wot, here are enow of sighs ; 

I see a serpent or a thief 

Unto a true man do mischief. 

Yet go at large, do every turn. 

While I am prisoned through Saturn, 

And eke through Juno, jealous, wud, 

That hath well-nigh destroyed the blood 

Of Thebes, overturned its walls so wide : 

Venus me sla/th on th'other side 

With jealousy, and him I dread." 

To stint of Palamon I'm led. 
So let him in his prison dwell. 
And now of Arcite I will tell. 

(To be continued.) 



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Mr. John Russell.— The death was an- 
nounced a month ago of Mr. John Russell, for 
many years the assistant editor of Chambers?s 
Journal. Bom at Cupar-Fife about fifty years 
ago, he started as a printer, and afterwards took 
charge of the Border Advertiser^ which position 
he resigned to join the staff of Chambers. He 
will long be remembered by his " Haigs of 
Bemersyde," an excellent family history. 



♦•♦ 



Vernon Medal (VIII., 17, 53, 92).— Car- 
thagena was taken by Admiral Vernon with six 
sail of the line. Admiral Hozier, a very brave 
officer, failed to take it though he had eighteen 
sail of the line, being fettered by his instructions. 
He died of mortification and sorrow. In the 
classic poem of " Hozier's Ghost," by Glover, 
are these lines, spoken by the Ghost of Admiral 
Hozier : 

I with eighteen sail had done, 

What thou, brave and happy Vernon, 

Hast achieved with six alone." 

Mac Robert. 



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io8 



EUINBUKGH LEKIi A TURTLE 1—TIie praises 
of Edinburgh have been often sung. The liigh- 
flown panegyric of Sir David Wilkie is familiar 
to every one ; nor was Christopher North less 
enthusiastic in describing her nuturiil ami arti- 
ficial charms. Paxlon Hoort wrote - " Every- 
way, and everywhere, Edinburgh is wonderful. 
Probably there is no spot on the face of the 
earth of which so much has been written, so 
much has been well said, and well sunj;.' The 
late George Gilfillan is credited with saying that 
Edinburgh, on an autumn Sabbath evening, 
'• reminded hira of the new Jerusalem " ! Pro- 
bably the most curious thing ever " said or 
sung" respecting "Auld Reekie" appeared in 
Brookis General Gasetteer^ of the year 1812. 
Under the heading "Edinbui^" (sic), the fol- 
lowing bold figure of speech is employed in de- 
Bcnbing the city :—" The form of the Old Town 
resembles thai of a turtle ; the Castle being the 
head, the High Street being the ridge of the 
back, the narrow lanes or closes the shelving 
sides, and Holyrood House the tail." Could 
anything be more flattering or explicit? 

M[cM.\EL Merlin. 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [December, 1894. 



Counting Out Rhymes. — The following 
counting out rhymes have been given me by 
children from the places represented, and may 
be interesting to readers of .S'. N. Sr" Q. on 
account of the localities to which they belong. 
First a rhyme from Belize or British Honduras 
to the following effect : — 

Rata chotikera, Ronce I'cince, 
I'ingie-ningie Na, 
Itlie-pitlie, westak, canlee poo, 
I (tie- pit tie, Chit tie-pit tie, Chinee Choo. 
The second is from Honolulu, Sandwich 
Island, and is as follows ; — 

Eeeny, ineeny, minsy, mu, 
Crnck a feeny, finey, fu, 
I'up a jujee, mumma jujce, 
Raik, Baik, Ban, Do. 
The last hails from England, and is as follows : 

My father had an pld horse-shoe, 
And how many nails were in that shoe? 
One, two, three, O, U, T, spells out. 
Dollar. W. B. R, W. 

The Late Mr. J. M. Cray's Bequest.— The 
Lyon Office has received an important addition 
to the Library. By the will of the late Mr. J. 
M. Gray, Curator of the Scottish National 
Portrait Gallery, he bequeathed his library of 
Heraldic works to that Office. The collection 
numbers over 100 volumes, many of them works 
of the first importance, as may be seen by the 
following specimens ; 



Inlroduclio ad Lalinam Ulasoniuin, byjuhn Gibbon, 
Bluemanlle t'uisuivant, 1682. 

Discuuise and Defence of Arms and Armoury, by 
Eilwnrd Walerhous. 

Fcmc'^ Hlazon urGenltie, 1586. 

liiilton's bllumenlsul' Armories, 1610. 

Guillim's Display, 1611. 

Carter's Analysis of Honour. 

Favine's Theatre of Honour, 1623 ; and 

Segoing's Amiorial Universal, 1654. 

These works may be consulted at the Lyon 
Office, by those who are enquiring for a definite 
purpose. I. 

Find of Scorr Letters.— A remarkable 
find of Scott letters was made last month, at 
Galashiels. As to the genuineness of these 
letters there is not the slightest doubt The 
letters were discovered among an accumulation 
of old papers and letters which were being over- 
hauled by Mr. Alexander Rutherford of Gala- 
shiels. The letters, which number one hundred 
and three, are all addressed to Mr. George 
Craig, who was a partner of the Leith llank, and 
agent of that Bank in Galashiels. In 1834 
Mr. Alexander Rutherford's father joined Mr. 
Craig in business, and on the death of Mr, Craig 
iii 1843, the books, correspondence and other 
papers were left in the hands of Mr. Alexander 
Rutherford. The letters, which are neatly 
docketed, mostly pertain to banking negotiations 
of bills for great amounts on Constable, the 
Ballantynes, and others, and such business as 
Mr. Craig conducted for Sir Walter. Twenty- 
one of the letters bear the Edinburgh post mark, 
three from Melrose, while the remainder of the 
batch had been conveyed by messenger, A few 
of the notes contain invit.itions to join in the 

The most important letter in the collection is 
from Edinburgh. It is dated January 28th, 1826. 
He writes of "the most unexpected faUure of 
Messrs, Constable," and his great desire that his 
"affairs could onlybe brought to an advantageous 
conclusion for all parties by a private trust which 
will leave me at liberty to make exertions in 
completing some matters which will in a few 
weeks bring forward very large funds. I have 
the pleasure to think that no other person is 
likely to be a loser but myself, if this mode of 
settlement should be generally adopted, and that 
in my own life, if God grant me life and health." 

The Edinburch Sir Walter Scott 
Cldb. — The first meeting of the above club was 
held in the Waterloo Hotel. The membership 
of the club now numbers 496. After the business 
of the meeting was over, the members dined, 
Mr. Charles A. Cooper, the president of the club, 
proposed "The Memory of Sir Walter Scott." 



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109 



The Kingdom of Fife.— The " Ki 
is becoming an important world In li 
This monih we have three new books on Fife 
and Fife Village Life, while a fourth volume is 
announced " Fringes of Fife," by J. Geddie, 
illustrated by L. Weierter, two members of the 
staff of the Cockbum Street Press ; " Our Town 
and some of iis People. Sketches of Fife Folk," 
by John Menzies (Our Town is Auchtermuchty) ; 
"Tammas Bodkin : Swatches O' Hodden-Grey, 
by W. D. Laltn. This is a reprint of a volume 
formerly published at Cupar, price i/-, but now 
that the swatches are issued from a London 
house you are asked to pay 6/-. "Sunshine and 
Haar," by Gabriel Setoun, will shortly be issued 
by John Murray. Why should three of the 
above four works be issued from London 
Houses ? L 



dluertes. 

935. Robert Gordon, 1685.- Can any one lell 
me to whal family a person of Ihis name lielongcd, 
who is entered thus in the " Ckamher Maills of 
Marisehal Collegcforiheaesslon i685-S6?—"iBt Class, 
Rnliert Gordon and his servant Robert Blinshell." 
The fiict that as a student he had a servant, would 
seem to indicate that he was a man or good famiiy. 
He took his degree (M.A.) in 1689 ( Thens fori63g 
in Bedleian Library), His Arms were, Az. three 
boars' heads couped Or ; CresI, a star ; Motto, Fain 
Pnidentia Maior. 

Dollar. R. P. 

936. HuciUENOr Rbfucees in iHK North of 

ScoiLANIi. — Inforniation b> deslteil as to refugee 
i&milieaanil their descendants in the nnrlhern counties, 
es|iecially Xhejollie 01 Jcly family in Kincarilineshire. 
Particulars ma;^ be sent to R. S. Falier, Hon. Sec. 
Huguenot Society of London, lo, Primrose Hill 
Road, N.W. 

937. Robin Adair.— Who was the author of this 
popular song? It is often wrongly at trihu led to Burns. 
The poet himself npnlied the reduplication "crinkum- 
crankiim" lo " Roliin Adaii," which he also styled 
"a ciamp, out-of-the-way measure." Amo. 

938. Stp.venson Family.— a caJet of Hermi- 
ahields was living in Chester in 1693 ; and about the 
same time was horn William Steven^ion, afterwarda of 
AUerlon, near Liverpool, ihe son of Henry Stevenson 
hy his wife n/e Blackburn. Was there any kinship 
between these last and the abovementioned Alexander? 
And can any correspondent refer me to a pedigree of 
the Chester branch o( Ihe Hcrmishields family? 

Please reply direct lo F, Dunsfon, Burllons, Don- 
head, W. Salisbury. 

939. The Ancient Custom IN Erinn—Earrincs 

WORN BY THE SONS OF THE KkEE OR NOBL.E 

Families in iRELANn— oni.v as ornaments fob 
MALES. —Eugene O'Curry. "Manners and Customs 
of the Ancient IrLih," pp. 185-186, UrlureXXWUl., 



see Dress and Ornaments in Ancient Erinn, Vol. iii., 
London, 1873, has, "We now pass to articles of 
ornament with which our remote anccslois adorned 
the head, namely, ' ear-rings' " To this class of 
ornament, however, I have met but few references, 
and in each case the itvarers Toere men only. This 
ornament appears under two names, differing ap- 
parently in signification. The tiist name is Au-Nas(, 
or ZI-Nasc, which signifies literally an ear-ring ; the 
second name is Au-Chaimiuch, which literally signi- 
fies carliand, or ear-ligature. In Cormac's Glossary 
this appears Au-N'asc, that is a ring for the ear, that 
is a ring of gold which is worn upon the fingers or in 
the ears of the sons of the free or noble families." 
There are several notices lo gold ornamenls therein, 
for Ireland had goldsmiths. As Ireland had a Celtic 
population at this period, I am anxious to know 
whettier Scottish Celts— of noble families— thus 
decorated their sons of free or noble families with rings 
of gold. Will any Antiquarian laS.N. ^ Q. kindly 
solve my query? Amongst Ihe Ancient Greeks an 
ear-ring was worn in right ear by males, a sign of 
noble birth. The Vienna theory is curious. The 
dust likewise occasions complaints in the eyes. 
Numbers of men on that account wear ear-rings, which 
they assert are good for the eyes ; the hole in the ear, 
and Ihe weight of the ear-ring, drawing any humour 
in ihe eyes lo those parts. At the marriage of the 
present Duke of Nc)rfolk, sei-eral gentlemen had gold 
in ears. Ear-rings are commonly worn by sailors, 
l«ing an ancient supetsLition. Our continental neigh- 
iHiurs early pierce the ears of their boys Sir prudential 
reasons, having decided Gxilh in gold ear-rings lo 
cure chronic ophthalmia. " Harum usus in Gracia — 
puellie utraque dure, pueri tantum dextra ferebant." 
Thus — "In xXdriBi- iiir i ^ii\6aoipBS, 'Apuiox^^t 
ap6TtpiB' ^aXE?Ta, lot irfniTo ri DiH iWdpior ipopiaat 
St Ijr /ifipaxlax'" "—Sixli Empirin Adventu Gram- 
matiros. Lib- J., Cap. la. The Malmoe " M.D." 
is noticed—" Fugit hic locus Casparom Bartholinum 
in erudilo de inauribus veterum syntagmate, qui inter 
alia docet eliam pueris ornament! causa lulxis aurium 
pertusos exillisque suspensa atalflgmia." During the 
Fifteenth Century, and uotil a recent time, ear-rings 
were fashionable for men and lioys in aristocraUc 
circles of Europe. 

Cale SlrcL-1, 

London, S.W. 
940, Ear-Pjercinu bv Jewellers. - Gradually 
the public is coming to acknowledge that educated 
skilled labour in medicine and suigeiy is cheaper in 
the long run than haphazard empirical uninstructed 
performances, whose cures, if not romances, are 
exceptional flukes. The old practice of ear-piercing 
by the vendors of ear-rings has often given patients to 
the doctors, owing to the clumsy process adopled. A 
cold neetllc is screwed through the lobe of the ear, 
giving much pain at the time, and invariably exciting 
..a .:_„ „_.! -,ppuration. "Pride must fed 

., ..uir ™,.t time instilled into the ears of Ihe 

Lie victim, and the poor adolescent has to 
the spartan virtues. Thinking nothing loo 

■r our consideration where pain is concerned. 



n flam m alio: 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, [December, 1894. 



we have recently persuaded some of our fair young 
vestal friends to let us take the place of the jeweller ; 
and by sii^jply heating the needle to a red heat, it has 
almost painlessly passed through the lo])e into the cork 
l>ehind ; and the ear-ring having been adjusted, and 
occasionally rotated, neither inflammation, supjnira- 
tion, nor inc(mvenicncc of any kind has ensued. 
Vide— W. C. 

** British Medical Joiinml, 
Being the Journal of the British Medical Association.'*^ 

(Saturday, August lo). Loiulon, 1867, No. 345, 
Vol. 2. July', Dec, p. 120. — "Will any Contributor 
to .S'. N. k5r» Q. kindly explain chemical reason for this 
almost painless result mentioned by W. C." Dnrch- 
bohrung des Ohr Uippchens — " Die^e Operation gehort 
jetzt vorzugsweise der Chirurgia cosmetica an. Von 
den Aerzten der friihern Zeit ist sie als ein Ableitungs- 
mittal bei verschiedenen Krankheiten, die am Kopfe 
vorkommen, namentlich bei chronischenEntziindungen 
und Ausfliissen desOhrs, bei chronischen Augenentzun- 
dungen und bei rheumatischen Zahn — und Koj)f sch- 
merzen empfohlen worden." Vide — 

Encyklopadie 

der 

Gesamten Medicin, 

im 

Vereine mit mehreren Aerzlen 

herausgegeben von 

Carl Christian Schmidt, 

Doctor der Medicin und Chirurgie, 

Zweite Ausgabe 

Zweiter Band. 

Leipzig, 1848, 

p. 177. This extract is taken from an article upjn 
** Durchbohrung des Ohr lappchens." 

I merely mention this circumstance to strengthen my 
position, proving therefrom that this operation has 
many cogent reasons for its adoption as a remedial 
agency when Chronic Ophthalmia prevails. The 
panacea being ])erforation of the ears, and inserting 
gold wires as therapeutics for both sexes. Even in all 
civilized nations the precaution of earboring is resorted 
to. When sailors or soldiers have their eyes thus 
attacked, wires of gold or silver are worn. Boys 
thus wear ear-rings from childhood or babyhood. 

Kingsland. Susan Davis. 



answers* 



908. History of the Arhuthnot Family 
(VIII., 47). — See the eighth Report of the Historical 
Manuscripts Commission, p. 297. 

P. J. Anderson. 

916. Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots 
(VIII., 78). — As "C" seems to be an authority on 
this subject, perhaps he will oblige me, and doubtless 
others, by stating where the poem first appeared, 
when and by whom it was first attributed to Queen 
Mary? Where is the "common translation" which 
he gives to be found ? Who is its author ? It is very 
desirable in matters of fact to give references to 
authorities, rather than an anonymous ipse dixit. I 



am not sure to what the **it " refers in ** C*s" second 
sentence. The opinion expressed in the last sentence 
is so caustic and final that I shall not dare to let my 
translation see the light of day, but I may venture to 
quote one of the three German versions that I know 
exist. There is doubtless a French setting — can any 
one ([uote it ? Here is Dr. Konigsfeld's translation : 

III Allcm, O Vater ! 
Niir hofFt' ich auf Dich ; 
O Jesu, mein Heiland ! 
Nun rette Du mich : 
Mit Ketten umhaagen, 
Und schimpflich gefangen, 
Verl.ing' ich nach Dir ; 
Verschmachtend, vergehend 
Und demuthig flehend, 
Herr ! ruf ich und bete : 
Sey Retter Du mir ! 

Bearsden. 

933. To (JO TO THE Stones (VIII., 92).— One 
would have liked had Mr. J. Calder Ross mentioned 
the name of the Lanarkshire local history in which 
this phrase occurs. The origin of the phrase is 
interesting. When Christianity was preached in our 
land by the early missionaries, the structures of the 
new faith were occasionally built close to groups of 
standing stones. We may assume that, in some cases 
at least, the latter served to furnish materials for 
building the former. Sir Daniel Wilson, in his 
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland (Second Edition, Vol. 
I., p. 158), tells us that it is not uncommon for 
Highlanders to speak of going to the clachan, i.e. the 
stones, to indicate that they are going to church. It 
is curious to find the phrase in use in Lanarkshire. 

Glasgow. J. M. Mackinlay, F.S.A. Scot. 

933. The phrase, "to go to the stones," or to the 
"clachan," was commonly used in the North of 
Scotland for "going to church." It is supposed to 
have originated from the fact of so many churches 
being built near, or on the site of a stone circle. By 
this means so intimately were the "stones" (clachan 
in Gaelic) and the "church" associated in the minds 
of the Gaelic-speaking population, that going to the 
"clachan" was equivalent to going to the "church." 
The phrase, however, may be of far greater antiquity, 
probably coming down to us from druidical times, 
when the " clachans " or " standing stones " were the 
only churches of our pagan forefathers. H. F. L. 

John Farquhar of Fonthill(VIII., 87). — The 
Free Press account of Farquhar, which Mr. Munro 
quotes, was inaccurate. In 18 14 he executed a will 
in duplicate, bequeathing large sums to the Universities 
of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 
and to the Parochial Schoolmasters of Scotland. 
Farquhar died in 1826, and one of the executors 
nominate endeavoured to obtain probate of the copy 
which had been left in Calcutta. But the other copy, 
which had been in the testator's possession, was not 
forthcoming, and Sir John Nicholl held this to raise a 
legal presumption that it had been destroyed animo 
caiu'cllandi — and gave judgment for the next of kin. 

P. J. Anderson. 

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A new edition of William Leighton's Poems , 
has just been issued by Mr. Elliot Stock, 



Dfxember, 1 894. J SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, 



III 



Xtterature* 



We have just received from the Skandinavisk 
Antiquariat, 49 Gothersgade, Copenhagen, a 
catalogue (No. i) of rare, old, and valuable 
modern books. Specialism is invading the book 
trade, as it is dominating other professions and 
walks of life, and this catalogue is devoted to 
works on the languages, literature, history and 
topography, &c., of Iceland, Denmark, Norway 
and Sweden, Eddie Skaldic, and Saga literature. 
It is very carefully arranged under twelve 
different classifications of subjects, and English 
students of Scardinavian Antiquities, for whom 
this edition has been specially printed, will find 
it an excellent repertory and very easy of 
reference. 

Reminiscences of Yarrow. By the Late James 
Russell, D.D., Minister of Yarrow. With 
Preface by Professor Campbell Eraser, LL.D., 
D.C.L. Edited and annotated by the late 
Professor Veitch, LL.D. Illustrated by Tom 
Scott, A.R.S.A. Second Edition. Selkirk : 
George Lewis Sc Son. MDCCCXCiv. 
This book was happily written before the old 
order of things had passed away, and the march 
of civilization had not introduced more artificial 
modes of Hving and thinking. The historian, 
too, does not write from the outside, basing his 
statements on venerable documents ; nor has he 
had to grope in " detestable Dust-Abysses," as 
Carlyle would say, for his facts. The author, 
with his father. Dr. Robert Russell, were 
ministers of the parish of Yarrow for nearly a 
hundred years, and knew the people and every 
spot of ground with a keen and smpathetic 
knowledge that none other possessed. The 
parish of Yarrow (much larger then than it is 
now), with its classic stream and wealth of 
traditional lore, could not fail to be interesting to 
any thoughtful Scotchman, but to a Borderer, to 
a son of Yarrow who could appreciate its weird 
beauty, and with gracious sympathy enter into 
the joys and sorrows of its people, how 
fascinating must be the theme ! The " Remini- 
scences" are full of perpetual charm. Anecdote, 
history, topography, folk-lore, humour, poetry 
and old world superstitions are here in abund- 
ance. Ecclesiastical life, as it displayed itself 
in the Border, naturally occupies much space. 
The prejudices of the people towards paraph rases, 
pulpit gowns, and other "rags of Popery," were 
often keen ; shepherd life with its hardships and 
adventures ; post and newspaper " amenities " ; 
farmhouse and cottages ; smuggling and snow- 
storms, all come in for notice. Exceedingly 
racy is the sketch of the old parish school and 
schoolmaster, who, in spite of rather primitive 
appliances, and by methods that would not 



satisfy Her Majesty's Inspector in these days, 
nevertheless turned out good scholars. There 
is, of course, a good deal about Thomas Hogg, 
the Ettrick Shepherd, Tibbie Shiel (whose 
funeral sermon Dr. Russell preached in 1878), 
Sir^Valter Scott, Willie Laidlaw. and others, 
not Borderers, like Professor Wilson and 
Wordsworth, who were under the spell of the 
mystic glen and stream. It is not possible in a 
short notice to do justice to this volume, but it 
should be added that this second edition is 
presented in as perfect a form as could be 
imagined. Its sponsers, all enthusiastic Bor- 
derers, have evidently resolved to make it in 
every way worthy of its theme. Almost the last 
lines, if not the very last, from the pen of 
Professor Veitch, were written for this edition. 
The Rev. Alexander Williamson as first editor, 
and Professor Eraser, in his delightful prefatorial 
essay, have done their work well ; while Mr. Tom 
Scott has been lavish in illustrations of the most 
effective kind. In mechanical equipment, such 
as paper, printing and binding, the book is one 
of the most tasteful and elegant ever issued from 
the Scottish press. It is a book that every loyal 
Scot will delight to own. 

The An?ials of Fordoun^ being extracts from 

Records relating to the affairs of the parish of 

Fordoun, from the earliest times to the year 

1891. By W. Cramond, A.M., LL.D., F.S.A. 

Scot, Schoolmaster of Cullen. Montrose, 

1894. [108 pp. Fcap. 8vo.] 

This is an unpretentious but excellent little 

volume— an onmiiim gatherum of historical 

gleanings on the subject. The author is a native 

of the parish, and, as such, has executed the 

work con amore. As a body of facts it leaves 

nothing to be desired. The book contains two 

excellent features, ist "Extracts from the Roll 

of Fame," being brief biographical notices of 

notable natives of the parish ; and, 2nd, an 

attractive map. In all this Dr. Cramond has 

performed a distinct public service, which we 

hope will be duly appreciated. 



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" Broomieburn," by John Cunningham, is the 
latest addition to the J. M. Barrie school of 
literature. 

Messrs. Lawrence and BuUen will shortly 
publish " Twelve Border Ballads," with a dozen 
etchings by C. O. Murray, and an introduction 
by Andrew Lang. 

Messrs. Carson & Nichol will shortly publish 
the first of a series of volumes of abstracts of the 
Protocols of the Glasgow Town Clerks, com- 
mencing in the middle of the sixteenth century. 
The volumes will be edited by Mr. Robert 
Renwick, Town-Clerk-Depute of Glasgow. 



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SCOTCH BOOKS FOR THE MONTH. 

A Little Scottish World, dealing with Antiquarian 

matters and Folk-Lore in Ayrshire. Rev. K. 

Hewat. Cr 8vo, 3s 6d, La paper 5s net Menzies. 
Allen's Guide to B. of T. Exams, for Mates and 

Masters. Revised by A. Wood. 8vo, los 6d 

Kidd. 
Ambulance Pupil's Vade-Mecum. J. F. Sutherland. 

48mo, 2d, in case 6d Menzies. 

Are You Married. J. C. Haddcn. 12 mo, is, is 6d 

Morison. 
Arithmetic (The Groundwork of). J. C. Wills. 8vo, 

IS Bisset. 

Asiatic Neighbours. S. S. Thorburn. Demy 8vo, 

I OS 6d net Blackwood. 

A Swatch O' Hamespun. A. Marchbank. 6d 

Hunter. 
Carlyle (Read from T.) Notes by W. K. Leask. 

8vo, 28 6d Blackie. 

Chemistry (Text Bk. of Or.) A. Bernthun. 8vo, 

7s 6d Blackie. 

Chlorine (Nature of). H. Dary. Svo, 2s net Clay. 
Crofters (Local Migration of). G. Malcolm. 8vo, 

IS Blackwood. 

Cook (The Mod.) W. C. Butler. 8vo, 5s Menzies. 
Daisy and Her Friends. L. E. Tiddeman. 8vo, is 

Blackie. 
Deeper Spiritual Life, is net Douglas. 

Defamation (Law of). F. T. Cooper. 14s net 

Green. 
Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 3. W. G. T. Shedd. 

I2s 6d Clark. 

Egyptians (Modern), 1833-35. E- W* Lane. 8vo, 

5s Gardner. 

Fleur de Mer. P. Mael. 8vo, is Blackie. 

Foreign Missions after a Century. J.S.Dennis. 8vo, 

5s Oliphant. 

From the Clyde to the Jordan. H. Callan. 8vo, 

6s Blackie. 

Gaelic Hymns. A. K. McCallum. 8vo, 2s 6d net. 

Sinclair. 
Horace. Intro. Notes by A. J. Church. 8vo, 2s 6d 

Blackie. 
Horse (Educ. of the). E. K. Crocker. 8vo, 8s 6d 

net. Murray (G.) 

In a Stranger's Garden. C. Cuming. 8vo, is 6d 

Blackie. 
King and Parliament. G. H. Wakeling. 8vo, is 

Blackie. 
Little Jimmy. D. R. Jones. 8vo, is 6d Blackie. 
Livingstone and Stanley. 8vo, 2s Chambers. 

Local (II. Bk.) Government Act. J. P. Macdougall. 

8vo, 2s 6d net. Blackwood. 

Medico-Chirurgical Soc. (Trans, of). Vol. 13. 8vo, 

8s 6d net. Oliver & Boyd. 

My Aunt Nan. E. K. Hall. 8vo, Qd Blackie. 

Obstetrical Soc. (Trans, of). Vol. 19. Svo, 8s 6d 

net. Oliver & Boyd. 

Poets and Poetry of the Covenant. D. McAllister. 

8vo, 3s 6d Hunter. 

Plutarch's Lives of Greek Heroes. 8vo, is 4d 

Blackie. 
Presbyterian Forms of Service. 8vo, 3s, 4s net. 

McN. & Wallace. 



Readings and Dialogues Unco Funny. Svo, is, is 6d 

Leng. 
Readings in French. M. Minet. Svo, is 6d Blackie. 
Scrub and Preach. H. B. Gibberd. 32mo, id 

Bryce. 
Smellie (Dr. W.) and his Contemporaries. J. Glaister 

Maclehose. 
Speech (Disorders of). J. Wyllie. Svo, iSs 

Oliver & Boyd. 
St. Michael's and Inveresk. J. Wilkie. 3s 6d 

Oliphant. 
Such is Life. D. Macdonald. Svo, 2s 

Winter, Duncan & Co. 

Sure Resting Places. Svo, is Bryce. 

Teinds, where did they come from. S. Williamson. 

Svo, 6d Dunlop and Drennan. 

The Ascent of Man. Prin. Fairbairn. Svo, 2s 6d 

Hunter. 
The Fringes of Fife. J. Geddie. Svo, 5s Douglas. 
The Holy Spirit the Paraclete. J. Robson. Svo, 5s 

Oliphant. 
The Humour of the Scot. J. Inglis. Svo, 6s 

Douglas. 
The Last of the Prophets. J. Feather. Cr Svo, 2s 

Clark. 
The New Death Duties. J. C. Lorimer. Svo, 5s 

Green. 
The Perpetual Curate. Mrs. Oliphant. Svo, 3s 6d 

Blackwood. 

The Public General Statutes affecting Scotland, 1S94. 

Svo, 9s Blackwood. 

The Queen of the Caves. Mr. W. D. Baikie. Svo, 

IS 6d Peace. 

The Secret of Long Life. R. Bell. 6d Bryce. 

Thistle and Rose. A.Walton. Svo, 2s6d Chambers. 

Who was Lost and is Found. Mrs. Oliphant. Svo, 

6s Blackwood. 

Wills and Succession (Law of). John McLaren. 

3rd Ed. 2 vols. Imp. folio, 63s Bell & Brad.- 

Publishers will please forward lists by 15th of each 
month to John Inglis, 

12 Glen Street, Edinburgh. 



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Born at Edinburgh on November 17th, 1894, 
"The Liberal, a weekly review of Politics, 
Literature, Science, and Art." In size and style 
it is much like *' The Speaker," but is printed on 
good paper, and protected by a cover which is 
a beautiful piece of typog raphy. Under the able 
Editorship of Mr. Balsillie the paper should have 
a large circulation. 

Waverley, the little Surrey village from which 
Sir Walter Scott named his famous novel, will 
be no longer known under this name, as the 
local government board have decided to attach 
it to the Parish of Farmham. 

To the new edition of Robert F. Murray's 
Poems, Mr. Andrew Lang has contributed a 
memoir of the author. The volume is dedicated 
to " J. M. D. Meiklejohn, Esq., most indulgent 
of masters and kindest of friends," 



SCOTTISH 



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CONTENTS. 

Notes:— ^ Page 

Collection of Portraits, 113 

Local Bibliography, .^ 113 

Poems in Aberdeen Sasine Register. 118 

Epitaphs and Inscriptions in St. Nicholas Churchyard, 119 

Berwick-upon-Tweed Epitaphs, 121 

Saint Palladius, .^ 122 

Notable Men and Women of Aberdeenshire, 123 

Minor Notes : — 

Our Illustration, 125 

Folk- Lore — Counting-out Rhymes — Cabs in Aberdeen, 125 

Dr. Berry (Aberdeenshire Notables), 126 

Selling Degrees in Scottish Universities, 126 

The Duke of Cumberland in Banchory- Devenick, 126 

Queries: — ^ . 

Alderman in Scotland — Skinie— Families of Smith of 
Huntly and Meston of Aberdeen — Dr. John Hill 
Burton on Dr. James Melvin — Aberdeen Graduates 
Signing the Declaration of Independence, 127 

Answer : — 

Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots, 127 

Literature, 127 

Scotch Books for the Month, 128 



ABERDEEN, JANUARY, i8gs. 

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COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS. 

It will be noted with satisfaction with what 
promptness the New Spalding Club has adopted 
the suggestion of one of our correspondents last 
month (p. ioi)to form an Iconographia of the 
Northern Counties. In the forecast of its pub- 
lications the Club has committed itself to the 
issue of a work of this character, and nothing 
more worthy the energies of the Club could be 
undertaken, or more befitting the localities where, 
first, Jamesone so surely laid the foundations on 
which such a project must rest. Many consi- 
derations confirm the opinion that a work of this 
nature must necessarily be one of slow growth, 
for the materials of which it would be composed 
cannot be brought into immediate service at the 
fiat of any Club, except on such cost conditions 
as would spell bankruptcy. The Club, however, 
is already in possession of a small collection of 
plates, which would form a nucleus for the work. 
As time passes this nucleus will increase, in aid 
of the Iconographia Septentrionale. Besides this, 
it may reasonably be expected that the work 
would meet with such sympathy as to induce 
those who have the means to bear the expense 
of reproducing portraits of special interest to 
them. Happily the newer mechanical processes 



used in reproductions of the kind are both ex- 
cellent in quality and not so expensive as the 
older methods. The utility of such a work will 
be appreciated by all ; and whilst we shall have 
to lament the absence of faces we should like to 
see, because no authentic effigy of them exists, 
it is to be hoped that few considerable person- 
ages within the area will be omitted from the 
contemplated Valhalla. 



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LOCAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

Less than a year ago the New Spalding Club 
issued to its members, as the precursor of a con- 
templated much larger work, a " Hand List oi 
Bibliography of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincar- 
dine, by A. W. Robertson, M.A., Librarian of 
Aberdeen Public Library." Although the book 
contains 133 pp., and catalogues upwards of 6000 
items, it can convey but a faint idea of the labo- 
rious work which its compiler has performed. 
Still it is far from being complete, and we under- 
stand that he has received but slight response 
to his prefaced request for additions and cor- 
rections. In order to arouse a wider interest m 
this great and permanent record of local author- 
ship, the present writer takes advantage of a 
recent suggestion by the Editor of S. N. 6r* Q., 
that additions might appear in these pages, and 
he also considers this the most appropriate place 
for a few general remarks on the subject. 

Mr Robertson has not lightened his labours 
by imposing severe restrictions upon the scope 
of his undertaking, the limits of which are only 
ascertainable by inference from an analysis of 
the contents of the list. It embodies — 

I. Books, Pamphlets, and Periodicals, published 

or printed in the three Shires. 
II. Publications outside the three vShires : — 

(a) The works of authors connected with 

them by birth, parentage, property, 
title marriage, and education, or by 
residence at the period of publication. 

(b) Biographies of natives. 

(c) A few books containing topographical 

or pictorial allusion to the locality, 
whose authors have no connection 
with it. 

Within the above limits, the design, whatever it 
may be, has been somewhat arbitrarily followed 



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[January, 1895. 



by the compiler. But the line is not easily 
drawn, and numerous instances could doubtless 
be adduced to illustrate the difficulty of deciding 
upon admission or rejection. There are a few 
authors whose works the compiler could only 
omit with regret. To every one there will 
at once occur the name of a marvellous genius 
belonging, on the distaff side, to one of the most 
ancient families in Aberdeenshire, who, for ten 
of his early years, lived beneath the shadow of 
Old Marischal College, and who, long after- 
wards, wrote : — 

** But I am half a Scot by birth, and l)red 
A whole one, and my heart flies to my head 
As * Auld Langsyne' brings Scotland, one and all, 
Scotch plaids, Scotch snoods, the blue hills and clear 

streams. 
The Dee, the Don, Balgownie's brig's black wall, 
All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams 
Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall. 
Like Banquo's offspring — floating past me seems 
My childhood in this childishness of mine : 
1 care not — 'tis a glimpse of Auld Langsyne." 

But the plan of the work seems to exclude 
all the publications of the celebrated poet except 
an Edinburgh edition of '* Hours of Idleness," 
and we venture to believe that this treatment 
will not be approved by Dr. W. G. Blaikie, who 
not long ago contributed an able article to Har- 
per's Monthly Magazine on Byron's Aberdeen- 
shire connections, nor by many other Aberdoni- 
ans of literary acquirement We think also that 
the range of the work might, with advantage, be 
extended in directions of daily increasing conse- 
quence. Good Bibliographies very properly 
stand in the highest rank as works of reference, 
and the exclusion from Mr. Robertson's list of 
names of world-wide fame, in the honorable pro- 
fession of journalism, is to be deplored. The 
literary treasures which James Chalmers, James 
Perry, Alexander Thom, James Adam, James 
Gordon Bennet, Alexander Johnston Wilson, 
John Macdonell, and numerous others, have 
contributed to journalism, are surely worthy of 
simple mention, and many minor names dear to 
local recollection in connection with the literaiy 
administration of the pubHc press of the Shires 
should not be permitted to sink into unmerited 
obscurity, by exclusion from this local literary 
monument. 

Local bibliographies should contain a com- 
plete and easily accessible record of all that 
pertains to the literary history of the locality, 
and of omissions from the present one, it is cus- 
tomary to catalogue : — 

(1) The MS. works of local authors deposited in 

Public Libraries. 

(2) Important local contributions to the trans- 

actions of the learned societies, and to the 
scientific and professional press. 



(3) The names of local contributers to collected 

works, e.ir., *' Whistle Binkie"; "The 
Aberdeenshire Lintie, &c. 

(4) The names of contributors of the first rank to 

local periodicals and journals. 

(5) The contributions of eminent local authors to 

magazines, reviews, encyclopaedias, &c. 

(6) Names of local authors whose unpublished 

effusions appear in works of distinction, 
c.g.^ "Hards of Bon-Accord," "Bishop 
Forbes' Funerals, &c." 

(7) Brief memoranda of the literature of im- 

portant events or singular popular move- 
ments, originated by natives of the locality 
or occurring within it, e,g.^ Gordon Riots; 
the Huchanites ; Robertson Smith case. 

Even National Biographies contain such 
items, and there is no reason for their exclusion 
from a local list. 

One of the greatest difficulties to be sur- 
mounted by the local bibliographer is the 
affiliation of authors whose antecedents, from 
lapse of time or long absence from their native 
Shires, have become forgotten. The Works of 
George Conn^ William Davidson^ John Leitch^ 
James Cade?ihead^ and many other Aberdonians 
who adorned the professorial chairs of Conti- 
nental Universities in byegone centuries, are 
but slightly remembered and rarely consulted, 
and it would appear to be a useless waste of 
precious time to seek to discover whether the 
Fraser, who wrote "The Genuine History of 
Khuli Khan, London, 1742,'' was of the family 
of Philorth, whether he was a Banffshire 
George Glass, whose " History of the Cana- 
ries," issued from the London press in 1664 > 
or whether the anonymously published " Con- 
siderations upon Herring and Cod, London, 
1749," was the production of a meditative Fish 
Curer in Aberdeen. Yet it is in the elucidation 
of such obscurities that he finds his greatest 
triumphs, and it is in this direction also that 
information from all possible sources is most 
required. Such knowledge lingers long in the 
traditions of families, and should be speedily 
and freely communicated to the bibliographer 
by those who possess it. The compiler of so 
important a work as Mr. Robertson's is entitled 
to the sympathetic co-operation of all who 
possess special and exclusive information on 
these subjects, and it is with real pleasure that 
we ourselves add a few stones to the Cairn of 
Remembrance, which his assiduous research 
has already enabled him to erect. Space 
cannot be afforded for more than the shortest 
possible description of the works noted, and no 
doubt error may be found, for no compilation is 
more liable to mistake than a Bibliographical 
List. 



January, 1895.] 



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Abbott^ Jacobs The Child at Home 

The Path of Peace 
Abell^ JohUy Songs from Various Lan- 
guages Lond. 1 701. 
Ahercrombie^ /ohuy Probationary Essay Edin. 1804. 
Abenromby^ Patrick^ Vindication of the 

Act of Security Edin. 1707. 

Aberdeen, Plan of the Town 1820 (and several others). 
Aberdeen Harbour, Report by Hawk- 

shaw and Abernethy Abd. 1876. 

Aberdeenshire Roads Act, 1865 ,, 1 865. 

Aberdeen Temperance Society, Hand- 
book of Fete Abd. 1892. 
Aberdeen University, Catalogue of Books 
added to the Library, Abd. 1862, 
and periodically since, 24 Cat- 
alogues in all. ) 
Aberdeen University, Abstract of Ac- 
counts Abd. 1888. 
Bills in Parliament, 1832-89 Lond. v.y. 
*'John," His pilgrimage and his 

picture Abd. 1892. 

Libellus Academicus salutatorius ,, 1893. 

Listsof Students attending ArtsClasses ,, 1867. 
Masters of Arts, &c. ,, 1868. 

Med. Graduates of King's College, 

1800-60 ,, N.l). 

Minutes of General Council ,, i860. 

Minutes of Univ. Court. ,, 1887. 

Statutes and Orders of King's Coll. ,, 1754. 
Proceedings at Rectorial Court, 

Mar. Coll. ,, 1826. 

Subscriptions for rebuilding Mar. 

Coll. „ 1837. 

Students for four years not A.M. 

1800-61 ,, 1868. 

Report of Mg. re extension of 

buildings ,, * 1892. 

Students' Hand-book ,, 1893. 

Aberdeen Water Cure Journal. Vol H. ,, i860. 

Aberdeen Year Book for 1892 ,, 1893. 

Abstract of Laws: Farmers Club at 

Gordons Mill Abd. 1760. 

Act for better paving, &c. (1829) ,, 1843. 

Act for improving the Harbour ,, 1869. 

Adam, Hector A., ^TiXtits'loWy Edin. 1888. 

Adam, John, Exposition of the Epistle 

of James ,, 1867. 

Adam, Robert, The Religious World 

Displayed ,, 1806. 

( Extended and republished in 3 vols. ,, 1809) 
Adams, Andrenu Leith. 

Monograph on British Fossil Ele- 
phants Lond. 1877. 
Adams, Jane, Artless Lays. No. 3 Abd. 1849. 
^^<!z;//j,yi7i4;/, Flowersof Ancient History Edin. 1788. 
Elegant Anecdotes Lond. 1789. 
English Parnassus ,, ,, 
Curious Thoughts ,, 1 791. 
Moral Tales ,, ,, 
Death of Louis XVL ,, 1793. 
History of France. 3 Vols. ,, ,, 
Collection of Anecdotes. 2 Vols. ,, 1794. 
/^</(/w^«,yi7j^^, Evidences of Christianity Abd. 1792. 



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Adventures of ]ock of 'Enzie ,^ 1831. 
-(4j^^^///f«/ between the Abdn. Booksellers ,, 1835. 

Aitken, W. S., Star Dust 1883. 

Albania, rep. in Scot. Desc. Poems Edin. 1803. 

Alexander, Wi/iam, Memoir of A.J ervise Abd. 1879. 
Allan, Hugh, The Auld Kirk o' Turra's 

Testament, 12 pp. ,, 1863. 

Allan, John, A Council Canticle ,, N.D. 

Plddle-de-dee, a Hurdy-gurdy Ode 

Dean Norman down in the Mouth 

Handbook in testing Unitarianism 
Allardyce, Alex., M.P., Address to Pro- 
prietors of the Bank of England Lond. 1798. 

A Second Address, &c. ,, i8oi.- 
Allardyce, Alex. , C K. Sharpe's Letters. 

2 vols. Edin. 1888. 
Allardyce, Eliz., The following Songs and music : 

The Rose among the Heather. 

Answer to Byron's Fare Thee Well. 

Waterloo. 

Alves, Robert, Edinburgh, a Poem, &c. Edin. 1789. 

Banks of Esk and other Poems ,, 1 801. 

Ambrose, Isaac, War with Devils Abd. 1769. 

Anderson On Presb. Church Gov. ,, 1840. 

Anderson, Alex., Letter to the Citizens ,, 1792. 

A Second Letter ,, i793« 

Anderson, Davidy Montrose, a Drama Glas. 1820. 

Anderson, James, No King- Killers Lond. 1715* 

Sermon on Ezra iv., 15 ,, I7I4' 

Sermon on Jude 3 ,, 1720. 

Constitutions of the Free Masons ,, 1723. 

Discovery of their Ceremonies ,, 1725. 

Royal Cienealogies, 2 parts ,, 1732. 

Prisoners for Debts ,, 1737* 

Genealogical Hist, of the House of 

Yvery, 2 vols. ,, 1742. 
Afuierson, fames. Ancient Fortifications 

in the North of Scotland Edin. 1776. 

Practical Treatise on Chimneys Lond. 1776. 

Free Thoughts on the American 

Contest Edin. ,, 

Miscellaneous Thoughts ,, 1777* 

On National Industry ,, ,, 

The Corn Laws „ ,, 

Agriculture in Europe ,, 1779. 

The American Colonies ,, 1782. 

Further desc. of Ancient Fortifications , , , , 

The North British Fisheries ,, 1783. 

Treatise on Peat Moss ,, 1794. 

View of the Agriculture of Aberdeen ,, ,, 

On Draining Bogs Lond. ,, 

Anderson, James, Letters on Cochineal ,, 1788. 

Letters on Cochineal Insects Madras 1789. 

The Conclusion of Do. ,, 1790. 

Importation of Cochineal ,, 1795- 

Correspondence on Nopal, ,, 1796. 

On the Silkworm ,, ,, 

Introduction of Cow Pock ,, 1803. 

On exterminating the Small Pox ,, 1804. 

The Establishment of Nopal ,, 1808. 
Amier son, John, Account of the Family 

of Eraser Edin. 1825. 
Anderson, T. G. Torry. 

The Araby Maid, Words and Music 1833. 



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The Maiden's Vow, Words & Music 

I love the Sea, Do. 

Anderson^ P. y., Marischal Coll. Col- 
lections, <Scc. 

and S. AV(f, Records of Arts Class, 
1868-72 
Afidersojty IViiliam^ Female Education 

Christ the Plant of Renown 

The Holy, &c., Church 

Self Made Men 

Kings of Society 

Model Women 
Anderson^ \Vm.^ Pictorial Arts of Japan 
Atiderson^ William^ Tiist. of Russia 

The Baptists Justified 
Andcrsoity William^ lona and other poems Edin. 
Atidreiv.JaifuSy Nautical Tables Lond. 

Institutes of Grammar 

Key to Scripture Chr(»nology 
Andreiv, Sir IV. T'., Euphrates Valley 

Route Lond, 

The Indus 

Advance of Russia 

India and Her Neighbours 

Our Scientific Frontier 

The Euphrates Valley 

Indian Railways ,, 

AnguSyJ. A'., So sinks the day star Lond. 

AnguSy William^ English Si)elling Book Glas. 

Introduction to Angus' Vocabulary 

New System of English Grammar 
Do. do. abridged 

The Life of our Lord 

Juvenile Pieces 
Annvers to the twelve Queries 
Ansiver to Veritas 
Apocrypha 

Arbuthttoty Alexander^ Orationcs de 
Origine et Dignitate Juris 

Edit, and published Buchanan's Hist. 

Revised Bassandyne's ** Fall of the 
Romain's Kirk " 

Author of three Poems in Pinkerton'sColl. and of 

others in Maitland MSS., and of a MS. Hist. 

oflhe Arbulhnot Family mentioned by Jervise. 

.<4/'^/<M/7^/,-4rr//., Life &c. of Lord Lovat Lond. 1746. 

Arbuthnoty Janies^ Emigrant's Guide 

Book to Port Natal Abd. 1862. 

Arbuthfwty John, Aye and No. Lansdoione MSS. 



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The Laws of Chance Lond. 

Sermon on the Union 

Three Hours after Marriage 

Miscellaneous Pieces. 3 vols. 

Argument for Divine Providence. 
Phil. Trans. 1700, p. 6c6. 
Arnotty James y Treatise on Stricture 

Essays on Anivsthcsia, &c. 
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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [January, 1895. 



POEMS IN ABERDEEN SASINE 
REGISTER. 

The dialogue printed below is written at the 
end of the second volume of the Register of 
Sasines, extending from JanuaiT, 1 501-2 to 
April, 1 504. Unfortunately one of the leaves on 
which the poem is written is very much frayed 
and torn, and the transcript is therefore deficient 
from this cause as also from the character of 
the writing. 

It is signed at the foot C. Craufurd, but 
whether as author or transcriber is unknown. 
Can any reader suggest who Craufurd was ? 

Alex. M. Munro. 



I. 
ADAM OUR HELT. 

As fadir ande mane 
Incuruit dede throue ane Woman 
Hir ewyle consele nois ws ilk ane 
Full happy is he that has not ane. 

The Mane 
Code walde nen ane Woman be 
Nor zit hir ane prist as he 
Nor confessour ale is is plane 
Fule happy is he that has not ane. 

The Woman 
Ihu yat bocht and ransomt man 
Was borne in erde of ane Woman 
Ane Wirgene cleir as cristiale stane 
Unhappy is he that has not ane. 

The Woman 
The master lorde and kynge ale thre 
Off ale pristis was borne suchlie 
Fist of ane Woman and ane madin 
Vnhappy is he that has nocht ane. 

The Mane 
Nyne angelis in to Womane is hone 
Appcris tile ws hot fendis anone 
In thar schape tcmpis mony ane 
Fulhappy is he that has not ane. 

The Woman 
To the deuot Woman ande trowe 
Mony angelis appcrit and schew 
The sone of godc that sufferit pane 
Vnhappy is he that has not ane. 

The Mane 
Be ane Woman Joshepe was in pressone 
Ande baron slanc was wt tressone 
Ande Daiude in adulteri tane 
Fulhappy is he that has not ane. 

The Woman 
For to deliver ws and ransone 
In the wirgene he come dome 
Goddis discendit ande was sclane 
Vnhappy is he that has not ane. 



The Man 
Be ane Woman was sclane Amone 
Dissauit was wise solonione 
Ande to edolatri is gftne 
Fulhappy is he that has not ane. 

The Woman 
.\ne Woman that was richt gudly 
Quhene gode in to this lift wardly 
Obeit tile hir as his soueiane 
Vnhappy is he that has not ane. 

The Man 
Wirgile that was wiser in a irell 
Was bunging as is kende fule weile 
Be ane \Voman throwe his fals tranc 
Fulhappy is he that has nocht ane. 

The Woman 
Womane alquhar has honoring 
Baithe quene of hewyne and erd to ring 
The quhilk reconsellit gode a gane 
V^nhappy is he that has not ane. 

The Man 
Ane godis ande vther rascis 
Is na wiser man ane tham traistis 
Thar tressone gerris dee mony ane 
Fulhappy is he that has nocht ane. 

The Woman 
Ane Woman's tressone grace is 
Quhilk mercy oft tile ws purches 
Scho is advocat to ws to saue 
Vnhappy is he that has nocht ane. 

The Mane 
None yat men trowis ar wise 

. baitht land and gudis oft sysis 
Be woman cumis to gret disdane 
Fulhappy is he yat has not ane. 

The Woman 
Be woman oft yai geit office 

. and gret benefice 

. woman dois marbellis is certain 
Vnhappy is he yat has not ane. 

The Man 
Woman cane say ande gane say ale 
In worde nocht reide yocht yai sa fals 

. mak ane craft to lee a lane 
Fulhappy is he yat has not ane. 

The Woman 
. cumin of crist Jesu 
. not women wart enoble 
. ande trewe prophesy ilk ane 
Vnhappy is he yat has not ane. 

The Woman 
loss and plane in ane ballance 
. my sone set ye defferance 
ane awe war saide be ane 
Vnhappy is he yat has not ane. 



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The Woman 

If ale ye blame and the oflfens 
She loising may weile recoupens 
Off our lady yat schene madin 
Fulhappy is he yat has not ane. 

The Woman 

The mene gathe ar infamy t 
At wald saue haue women solamyt 
Sum ewell of woman has pieced it 
Bot yar grct gudness has accedit 
Of women is outrage and ewele doing 
Quhilkis is our gret to spek no thing 
Can sclewe abile his broyer 
Ande Judas als Rubiene his fay"" 
Ane his moder gert opping be 
Ane vyer Jesu crist ofert dee 
Ane said him ande him self hingit 
Quhilk be trasand his master wrangit. 

The Woman 

Code has randerit tile ws ilk ane 
Paradise throue woman is zeile 
Of ye quhilk we suld ale be fane 
Vnhappy is he yat has nocht ane. 

The Man 

Tovnis distroit ande gret ceteis 
Sa mony men throue woman deis 
Sum hangit sum witht suerdis sclane 
Fulhappy is he yat has nocht ane. 

The Woman 

Be ester was ale the lovis 
Fra dede deluerit the kynktro wis 
Scho prait for thame and nocht in wane 
Vnhappy is he yat has nocht ane. 

The Mane 

Priame paris and phebus 
Troilus hector helenus 
War sclane straith be goddis trane 
Fulhappy is he that has nocht ane. 

The Woman 

ludith ande hundreth thousand this 
Gert fle ye bibile tellis ws 
Sa waizant hir w^'tu sclane 
Vnhappy is he yat has not ane. 

The Man 

Ane woman oft schawis suet luking 
For tile decende baicht alid and zing 
Stak samsone bot band bot man 
Fulhappy is he yat has nocht ane. 

C. Craufurd. 



EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN 
ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD. 

Section D. 

( Continued from page 100.) 

A LITTLE to the north of the last mentioned 
stone there is a second '* buried " inscription to 
the memory of another chief magistrate. The 
tombstone lies partly under the main walk and 
partly under the adjoining lair, and is inscribed 
as follows : — 

Here lye the Remains of William Duncan, who 
departed this life the i8th of December, 1752, in the 
75th year of his age. Also of Euphemia Kirkwood 
his spouse, who departed this life the 1st of October, 
1740, in the 59th year of her age. Also of John 
Duncan of Mosstown, Merchant and late Provost of 
Aberdeen, who died the 20th December, 1798, aged 
80. And of Margaret Wight his spouse, who died 
2 1 St June, 1802, aged 84. 

Provost Duncan served three terms of two 
years each as chief magistrate, his first term 
being from Michaelmas, 1758, to Michaelmas, 
1760, and the last from 1766 to 1768. As 
indicated by the inscription the Provost was the 
son of William Duncan by his wife Euphemia 
Kirkwood, and the family is believed to belong 
to the Crimond district. Of the provost's family 
only two members have been identified, William, 
the only son, who died in London, 7th Sept., 
1722, and Helen, married on 3rd October, 1787, 
to the Rev. Gilbert Gerard, minister of the 
English church at Amsterdam, and afterwards 
Professor of Divinity at King's College. Provost 
Duncan acquired the property of Mosstown, in 
the parish of Logie Buchan, about 1758.^ On 
the death of Miss Gerard of Old Aberdeen, a few 
years ago, who was a grand-daughter of the 
Provost, a series of five portraits were given by 
her executor to the Town Council of Old Aber- 
deen. Two of the portraits represent the 
provost, one as a boy, and the other while 
holding the office of chief magistrate, while the 
remaining three represent the provost's wife, and 
his father and mother. The painter's name is 
unknown, but the picture of the provost is very 
well executed, and represents him with wig and 
black velvet coat, such as we find the Council 
ordaining as the most suitable dress for the 
provost. Provost Duncan died in his house in 
Old Aberdeen on the 20th December, 1798, at 
the advanced age of 80 years. James and 
Alexander Forbes, Albyn Terrace, are des- 
cendants of William Duncan, a brother of the 
provost. 

On a table-stone, within an enclosure close 
beside the main walk, there is : — 

Sacred to the Memory | of | Captain Andrew 
1 Thanage of Fermartyn. 



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znil Mnrch, iSoo, Dicil 
Sihon Miiy, I811. Elizaliclii.wuliKir | i.f Ihi? abuvE, 
died 5lh N'nv. | i8jj, a);i;il 62, | And Li inl<.-irL-<I at 
Calnis | In the Kiiigdom nf I'miict | leaving \ssac 
two daiightcrs. 

Captain Aniirew Mason was engaged in the 
Jamaica trade from llie port of Leilh, and it Js 
unknown how he came to settle here unless it 
was his native place. He was married at 
Aberdeen on 3rd April, 1797, to Ehzabeth Baird, 
who died, as noted above, on 5th November, 
1833. The ayes of the bride and bridegroom 
been respectively 26 and 54. Of the two 
daughters referred to, one became the mother 
of a peer of France still living, \n. the Vicomte 

Within an enclosure there are three monu- 
ments bearinK the following inscriptions : — 

(l) On a square block of Aberdeen granite : — 
Elected I to the memory | of | John Niven 1 of Thorn- 



{j} On a small ground stone •.^- 

Here also are liepOBiled | the remains of I Anne 
Leslie, I EpoHse of | John Niven of Thomlon, | »ho 
died 19th Keh., iSzo, | ngeil 71, | and orhi? four infant 
children, | Maigarel, James, ( NIargaret and Maiy. 

(3) On a sarcophagus of polished Peterhead 

Sacred | to the memory of | Robert Catmichael, 
Esquire, | who died on the 9th July, 1843, | ageil 75 
years. I Erected by hLs attached wife | Rachel N. 
Caimicliael. j Under this stone | arc also interred the 
remains | oflhesaid | Itach el Niven Camiichael, { who 
died on the 17th December, 1855, | aged 82 years. | 
Not my will but Thine be lione. 

Anne Leslie, the wife of John Niven, was a 
daughter of George Leslie, Merchant in Aber- 
deen, by his wife Katherine Irvine. Her sistei 
Kathenne was the third wife of William Young, 
Merchant in Aberdeen, A sister of Mrs. 
Carmichael's was Christina Niven, who married 
on 37th November, 1798. 

On a table-stone there is ; — 

Sacred to the memory of | Caplain Peter Cuthbert, 
I of the Native Infanliy in the Service of ] the 
Honourable the T-ast India Company, | who died at 
Bengal, zjrd September, 1769, | aged 37 years. | And 
of M^^ Martha Clnrlc, his spouse, | who died 
Aberdeen; in March, 1S07, | aged 69 years, and 
here interred. 

On another table-stone is inscribed : — 

John DioEwall of Rannicston | and Family. | He 
was born 1716 | and died : I31h May, 1793. 

On the adjoining lair belonging to the same 



family, there is the following inscription, which 
has taken the place of an older one : 

Mert-licinterre,! the remains of | Alexander Ding- 
tall. I Murchnnl in Alierdeen, ( who died 3rd July, 
;g6, off^X 48 yuara. | Of Elinahelh Douglass his | 
nouue, third liaughter of | John Douglass of Tilwhilly, 
|«ho dii'd at ('.iBseow, glh May, 1S13, | aged 66 
years, and of their children, 1 Eliiabelh, who died in 
infancy, 1789, | John, whodied lllh April, 179S, aged 
I, I Mary, who dieil glh May, 1799, aged 18, | Jean, 
vho died at I'etechead, nth .September, | iSoi, aged 
7. William, who die<l nt [ Glasgow, iSth January, 
836, Bgfd 54. 
John Dingwall,' first mentioned, was the 
fourth son of Arthur bingwall of Broomhill, in 
the parish of Monwhitter, by his wife Sarah 
Murray, and was baptised in May, 1716- Early 
in life he established a large business in the 
manufacture of knit-stockings, and carried the 
industry to an extent and perfection never before 
known in Aberdeen. His success in business 
enabled him to purchase, about 1757, the estate 
of Rannieslon, m the parish of Logic Buchan. 
In this connection it is interesting to note that 
he recorded arms in 1792, as follows :— Azure, 
a golden fleece suspended from the top of the 
shield between three spur-revels of six points or, 
within a bordure of the last, and that a note in 
the Lyon books bears that the golden fleece was 
assigned to him as a mark of distinction on 
account of the very essential services done by 
him to the stocking trade of the Town and 
County of Aberdeen.' 

He was Dean of Guild in 1750, and from 175S 
onward acted as one of the magistrates. Bailtie 
Dingwall was twice married. His first wife tt'as 
Mary, a daughter of the Rev. James Lumsden 
of Corrachie, ministerof Towie,by whom he had 
ten sons and six daughters. His second wife, 
whom he married on 15th June, 1786, was Mary, 
a daughter of the Rev. Waltei Syme, minister of 
Tullynessle, by whom he had no issue. 

The Aberdeen Journal, in referring to his 
death in 1793, remarks that "he was a gentle- 
man of the strictest integrity and punctuality in 
business, of a clear understanding, and a sincere 
friend. His memory will be long respected as 
a worthy and useful citizen, and in every respect 
a valuable member of Society." 

Alexander Dingwall, referred to in the second 
inscription, was the second surviving son of 
William Dingwall, by his second wife, Jean 
Fordyce of Culsh, and a nephew of John 
Dingwall above referred to. Bom on 25th 
November, 1748, he served an apprenticeship 
to his uncle John Dingwall, and in 1769 started 

1 Family of DingwHll Fotilyce. ' An Ordinaiy of Scollish 



January, 1895.] SCOTTISJf N07ES AND QUMRJMS. 



in business for himself in partnership wiih 
William Forbes, afterwards of Echi. This 
parlnRrship was apparently ilissolved before lis 
proper lime, and after a short period with bis 
uncle he commenced business on his own behoof, 
tihiefly with customers in Amsterdam, Rotter- 
dam and Brussels. 

On the z8th September, 1780, he married 
al Inchmarlo, Elizabeth Douglass, youngest 
daughter of John Douglass of Tilwhilly and 
Inchmarlo, and Mary Arbuthnott his wife, by 
whom he had issue two sons and five daughters, 
three of whom only survived their mother, who 
died in 1813. The elder daughter, Agnes, 
married the Rev. Robert Doig, as his third wife, 
and died gth April, 1854, while the younger 
daughter, Magdalen, married her cousin Alex- 
ander Dingwall Fordyce, Canada, and died 
there in 1846. She was the mother of A. Ding- 
wall Fordyce, the compiler of the two volumes 
of the Family Record, from which the above 
information has been taken. William, who died 
in Glasgow in 1S26, was unmarried. 

The next inscription is remarkable as having 
no date to indicate its age ; — 

To the memoiy | of | James Lindsay, | someLime 
Messenger in Aberdeen, | and Jsne Forlics, his 
Epouse, I who lived with esteem, and died regretted. | 
Also nf their children | James, WilliaiD and Ann, | all 
here interred. | This stone { was inscribed as a tribute 
of respect | by their surviving daughter, Jane. 

Od a table-stone, enclosed by an iron railing, 
there is the following inscription, which has 
replaced another of older date : — 

In memory | of I Mrs. Mary Kinloch, | late o( 
Golden Square, j who departed ihis life i^lh uf June, 
1832, I aged 80 years. [ George Kinloch, her youngcsl 
son, I who died J4lh June, [Soi, | aged zo years. | 
Charlotte Adamson Low | her Grand'daughler, | who 
died znd April, 1824 | in the rjtb year of her age. j 
James Kinloch, | her eldest son, | who died 29tli 
August, iSjS I in the 63rd year of his age. | Jane 
Kinloch her eldest daughter. | who died Sth Oclober, 
1S49, I aged IJ years. 

The older inscription informs us that Mrs. 
Kinloch was the widow of George Kinloch, late 
of Shepherdshaugh, and in referring to the death 
of the youngest son George, says he, "in the 
prime of youth fell a victim to the ravages of a 
consumption. Reader : If Filial Regard and 
attention to a widowed mother, if fraternal 
affection and a hfe unstained by the foUies 
incident to youth, can have any claim on thee 
for the Tribute of a Tear, on this grave let it 
drop." Charlotte A. Low was the daughter of 
Alexander Low, Merchant in Aberdeen, by his 
wif^ a daughter of George Kinloch, 

Alkx. M. Monro. 



BERWICK-UPON-TWEED EPITAPHS. 
In a recent number it was noted that a 
considerable collection of epitaphs had recently 
been appearing in the Glasgow Herald; the 
following epitaphs, from Berwick-upon-Tweed, 
as fhey are all from one churchyard, and, what 
is belter, are verified {which many of these 
inscriptions to be found in printed collections 
are not), deserve a place in S. N. &• Q. 

Berwick-upon-Tweed, November 24, 1894. 
Sir, — in the numerous letters which have 
appeared in the Herald on the subject of 
" Epitaphs," I have seen no notice of the 
specimens to be found in the old border town of 
Berwick-upon-Tweed. The parish churchyard 
of this borough is rich in epitaphs, and the 
following, which I copied some years ago, may 
interest readers of thd Herald: — 

The following apparently is a widow's tribute 
to her husband ; — 

" No more on board the bark he'll tread. 
Whose sails to commerce were unfuiled, 
Here ends his voyage, and hopes the dead 
May anchor in a belter world. 
■' He was a comfoil 10 my life ; 

He loved his children and his wife. 
W\% smile could banLsh ever; tear. 
And !imoolh Ihe ragged blow o( care." 

The next seems the production of a fond mother, 
and is to be found on another tablet, slightly 
altered : — 

" O silent grave to ihee I tmst. 
This sacred clod of lovely dust ; 
Keep il safely, sacred tomb. 
Until a parent asks for room." 



"Tbey sleep in Jesus free from pain, 
Our losEi though great to ihem is gain. 
Beloved by all who knew Ihem here. 
And to their friends none more dear." 
Here are some self-evident truths : — 

" If brealh were made 
For every man to buy. 
The poor man could not live. 
The rich man would not die," 
" Life is a l>lessing can't be sold, 
The ransom is too high. 
Justice will never be biTbed with gold, 
That man may never die." 
The person alluded to in the following verse 
must have had an eventful and unquiet career ; — 
"The storm, the shadow and the strife 
That made and magnified his life. 
Have sunk like winds along Ihe deep, 
And left him to untroubled sleep." 



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The next epitaph is a peculiar one, and refers to 
the fact that the Parish Church of Berwick, 
which is flat- roofed, has no steeple : — 

'*The peaceful mansions of the dead 
Are scattered far and near, 
But Ijy the stones o'er this yard spread, 
Seem numerously here. 

"A relative, far from his home, 
Mindful of men so just, 
Reveres this spot, inscribes this tomb, 
And in his God doth trust 

"That he shall pass a righteous life, 
Live long for sake of seven, 
Return in safety to his wife, 
And meet them all in heaven. 

**God bless the souls departed hence, 
This church without a steeple. 
The king, the clergy, and good sense 
Of all the Berwick people." 

Here is another upon a female : — 

"Though kindlier clay ne'er went to rest, 
Nor gentler mortal decked a grave, 
This was her glory at the best : 

See what a sinner Christ can save." 

The subsequent verses upon a sea-faring man 
are to be found in Tweedmouth Parish Church- 
yard also : — 

" Tho' Neptune's waves and Boreas' storms 
Have tossed me to and fro, 
In spite of all by God's decree 
I harbour here below. 

And now I lie at anchor 

With many of my fleet. 
In hopes once more for to set sail 

Our Admiral, Christ, to meet." 

Some inscriptions are Latinised. In the follow- 
ing quotation the dead person announces his 
fate and his expectations at the last day in this 
manner : — 

** Eheu ! Pulvis et Umbra sum ; 

Sonante Tuba 

et 

Apparante Christo 

Spero Meliora." 

The above specimens do not include the whole 
of the verses to be found. I was unable to 
decipher some on account of the decayed state 
of the stones. Those given, however, are 
sufficient to show the humour of past generations, 
although none of them equals that couplet which 
a widow, who combined piety with the affairs of 
this world, caused to be engraved upon the 
tomb of her deceased husband, a tradesman. 
After the departed spouse's death, virtues, &c., 
had been recorded at full length, the epitaph 
terminated thus — 

" Resigned unto the Heavenly will 
His wife keeps on the business still." 

John Gregson. 



SAINT PALLADIUS. 

The account of S. Palladius, patron of Fordoun, 
IS a much more complicated and interesting 
question than Investkjator {S. N. (Sr* Q.^ Vol. 
VIII., p. 72) appears to imagine. The allusion 
to Paddy's Well and Paddy Fair is as much to 
the point as quoting Michel Fair, Drumlithie, 
in proof of a visit from the Archangel. The 
study must go much further back than the MS. 
of Coupar^ the Stat. Acct. (Old and New), or 
Jamieson's Culdees. As to the contrast in 
holiness between the Palladian bishops and those 
now in Scotland, we do not appear to have 
authentic ground for comparsion, and the matter 
is not worth the mentioning. The legends of 
S. Palladius and S. Patrick must always hang 
together, and the stories told of the latter 
probably owe a good deal to the acts of his 
predecessor. Palladius was a common name in 
the West, and our missionary appears to be the 
one named by Prosper of Aquitaine, a con- 
temporary, as the deacon who in A.D. 429 
interceded with Pope Celestine for an agent to 
be sent over to Britain to counteract the 
influence of the Pelagian teachers, and who, two 
years after, was consecrated for the special post 
by the same Pope : " Ad Scotos in Christum 
credentes ordinatur a Papa Celestino Palladius 
et primus Episcopus mittitur." To this Prosper 
adds in another place, that "while the Pope 
laboured to keep the Roman island catholic, he 
made also the barbarous island Christian by 
ordaining a bishop for the Scots. This is 
referred to also by Bede, but it is curious that 
neither Prosper, Nennius, nor he alludes to 
S. Patrick. Thus far, however, the tradition is 
clear, and we can easily imagine a Briton or 
Gaul appealing to a neighbouring prelate for 
assistance against the inroads of heresy in the 
British church. In the lives of S. Patrick, 
Palladius is the temporary and feeble precursor 
of S. Patrick, and barely sets his foot on the 
Irish shore. In one account he fails in his 
mission, and dies among the Britons on his way 
to the continent : in another he suffers martyr- 
dom among the Scots : and in still another he 
is driven by storms "ad extremam partem 
Modhaidh versus Austrum,ubi fundavit ecclesiam 
Fordun : et Pledi est nomen ejus ibi." The 
legend is undergoing a steady evolution in 
details, and it is on the news of his death being 
reported to Celestine that consecration to the 
office and work is given to S. Patrick immediately 
before the Pope's death, a.d. 432. It may be a 
question as to the persons meant by the name 
Scot! in the fifth century, but the Scotch annalists 
had no hesitation in laying hold upon all that 
came to their net, and from them we have the 
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1 with being Eugenius, S. Teman 
and S. Serf, and say he died at Fordun after 
many years of teaching. John of Fordun gives 
his mile, and Boethius is most precise, calling 
his followers the Culdees, and thus originating 
the ecclesiastical quarrel that lost sight of 
S. Palladius and his personal history. The 
local traditions about the parish of Fordoun are 
very easily explained, and most suggestive to 
one who has a taste for archseology. The most 
important reMc is the Old Chapel of S. Palladius 
in the churchyard, which may, in whole or in 
part, be the church consecrated by the Bishop 
of S. Andrews on Monday, Oct., 17th, 1244. 
Was the Bishop preacher there on the Sunday, 
and did he gather the people around him upon 
the knowe in their hodden-greys ? The patron- 
day and parish fair did not lake place at that 
season, but near to 1 ' ' 



NOTABLE MEN ANQ WOMEN OF 
ABERDEENSHIRE. 

78. Brmun, George, LL.D. (Rev). : Antiquary and 
Teacher. IJorn in Aberdeen, 17S9, and educated 
there, he studied for the ministry in the Secession 
Church, and was ordained minister of Kamsbottom in 
t8l8, but resigned in 1829. Messrs. Gram uf Rams- 
lx)ttom, ihe brothers Cheeryble of Dickens's story, 
were the chief supporters of the Ramsboltom Church, 
and on the resignation of Dr. Brown the church was 
transferred to the Church of Scotland. From 1829 to 
1844 Mr. Brown taught an academy in Liverpool ; 
but having connected himself in that year with the 
English Presbyterian Church, he was inducted to the 
pastorate of Bromplun Church, and continued there 
till 1851, Meanwhile in 1844 he received the degree 
ofD.D. from Marischal College. Dr. Brown compiled 
a Statistical History of the United Presbyterian 
Church, which was very useful in producing the 
Annals and Statistics of that Church, published in 
1873. He died in 1869. 

79. Bro-.un, James : Printer, Alierdeen. One of 
the early primers of Aberdeen. Born in the Manse 
of Glenbuckel, or Strathdon, flourjsheii 1650-1661. 

80. B<-irtun,Ri^rtBortkToUk(Rev.'\: Episcopalian 
Divine, Hymnwriler, Jk;. K native of Aberdeen, 
bom 18th May, 1840, and educated at St. Mary's 
Hall, Oxford. Mr. Brown has held several cures in 
the Church of England, anil is now Vicar of All 
Saints, Scarborough. His publications in addition to 
Prose works are : StippUmeiUal Bytim and Tune 
Book, 1867; Sixteen Ilymns for Church and Heme, 
1870 ; Select Hymm, 1871. He was one of the four 
editors of S. P. C.K. Hymns. 

81. BroTvn, WUliani: Journalist and Minor Poet. 
Second son of Rev. Wm. Brown, Secession Minister, 
Craigdam, and born about 1760. He became 
proprietor and publisher of the Edinburgh Weekly 



Journal, which he also edited. He wrote and 
published verses, and died in 1809. 

82. Bryee, James, D.D.: Established Church 
Divine and Historian. Bom in Aberdeen in 1787, 
where his lather was a minister of the Relief Church, 
though he afterwards became a Churchman. Young 
Btyce was educated for the ministry. He graduated 
at Marischal College in 1800, and was ordained 
minister of Strachan Parish in 1S08. Having been 
appointed a Chaplain in the Bombay establishment, 
he demitled bis charge and proceeded to India in 
1814. He received the degree of D.D. in t8lS. 
Having returned home before the Disruption, he was 
suspended hy Ihe (ieneral Assembly for holding 
communiiin with the recalcitrant ministers of Strath- 
bogie. He died I lib March, 1866. Works : Sketch 
of the State of British India, :Slo. On the 
EccUsiaslical Establishment of the Church of Scotland 
as it exists in Stotland, and is now extended to British 
India. Ten Years of the Church of Seotland, 1 vols, 
1S50, He has also published a volume ol Sermons 
and many Speeches and Letters on Ecclesiastical 
Affairs. 

83. Brua, James: Journalist and Author. Born 
at Aberdeen in 1808. He became a Journalist in bis 
native town, and in 1837 was on the staff of The 
Aberdeen Constitutional. In 1840 he was appointed 
Editor of the Aberdeen Monthly Circular. To this 
paper he conlrihuled a series of I'en Portraits of the 
Aberdeen Clergy, which have lieen described as 
unrivalled for their rasping and critical spirit. He 
subsequently became editor, in succession, of The 
Fifeshire Journal, The Madras Alhenaum, The New- 
castle Chronicle, and The Belfast Northern Whig. 
Known as a brilliant journalist in his day, he published 
The Black Calendar of Aberdeen, 1840; Eminent 
Men of Aberdeen, 1841; Eminent Men of Eife, 1846; 
Classic and Historic Portraits, % vols., 1853 ; and 
Scenes and Sights in the East. He died 19th August, 
1861. 

84. Bruce, John, F.S.A.: Antiquary. Born i8oz, 
and educated for some lime at the Grammar School, 
Aberdeen ; he studied law, but finally gave himself to 
literature, manifesling a special interest in antiquarian 
pursuits. ?le published Nayaiard's Annals of Elisa- 
beth; Veme/s Notes on Ike Long Parliament ; Letters 
and Papers of the Vemey Family dmmi to the end of 
the year itsg ; Calendar of State Papers, domestic 
series, of Ihe reign of Charles L, i63J-}6, 9 vols., 
1858-66. He died in 1S69. 

85. Bmce, Robert, D.D. : Congregalionalist Divine. 
Born in Aberdeenshire 4th August, 1829, and educated 
for the church, Dr. Bruce has for many years been a 
leading Yorkshire Congregalionalist Minislei. He 
has been long settled in 1 luddersfield, where he h 
much respected. He was chosen chairman of the 
Congregational Union a good many years ago. 

86. Bulloch, John: Biographer and Antiquary, 
Editor of Hcoltish Notes and Queries. A native of 
Aberdeen, born in 1837. He has published an 
excellent Life of George Jamesone the Scottish Vandyck, 
1885, also Aberdeen 30Q Years Ago, 1S84, and Th4 



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fynoun, 1887, both of which exhiliil great research. 
Hefidcs these he conlrihuted a Inng series uf nrticles 
entitled Hhlorii Scents in AherJi/mAirf. whith 
appeared in Iht coiumna iif the " Alierdcen Weekly 
News, 1883-85, anil hns etiiteil this journal from the 
outset. Mr. Bulloch was for two terms a memlier of 
ihe Abeidecn School Biinril, anil takes mucli interest 
in the training of the young. 

87. Bulloch, John Malcolm: Minor Poet and 
Joamalisl. Bom in Atierdcen in 1867. Son o\ the 
Editor of thu Journal, he graduated at Aberiieen 
University in 188S, and devoted himself to journaiisni. 
He WHS for a lime a aub-editor of Ihe Ahirdeen Free 
Prtis: but is now in Ijindon and on the staff of Ike 
Sketch. Mr. Bulloch has written a gre&t deal of choice 
verge, and was a large cunlriiiulor to Ihe Cullege 
Magarineofhislimc. He published The Lord Hectors 
ef Ike UniverHtics of Ahcrdeen, 1890, University 
Cenlenaty Celtliralions in 1894, and Calle/;e Carsls in 
1894. tlis veiaes The Sunniest Season in Life have 
been adopteil as the Academic Song of his Alma 

88. Buchan, Patrick, M.A., M.D., Ph.D.: Poet 
and Antiquary. Born in Peterhead in 1814, he took 
his degree at Aberdeen. After practising some time 
as a doctor, he became a West India Merchant. He 
was one of the contributors to Whistlehinkit. In 
1872 he published Legend! ef the North; The Guidmaii 
o' Ingli! Mill, and The Fairy Bride. He has also 
published Legittdary Tales of the Highland!. He 

89. Buchan, Peter: Journalist, Minor Poel, Ballad 
Collector, Antiquary, Author, liorn at Peteihead in 
179a, he set up a printing press there in 1816. He 
published for a few months The Selector, in the summet 
of 1817. If the number and variety of the works 
issued by Mr. Buchan are taken into account, it will 
be felt that his industry was wonderful. Among his 
works are the following; Ritreations of Leisure Hours, 
heiiig Songs cliiijly i« the Scottish Dialect, 1814; 
Annals of Peterhead, 1S19; Historical and Authentic 
Account of Ihe NiAle Family of Keith, \%Z0\ Scripture 
and Philoiophit Arguments that Brutes hone Souls, 
1824 ; Gleanings of Scarce Old Ballads, 1825 ; Ancient 
Ballads and Songs of the North of Siolland, 3 vols., 
182S : Drama of Pelerliead Smugglirs and The Orphan 
Sailer, both in 1834 ; The Parallel, or Whigs and 
Tones Coniraslid, 1S3S ; The Eglinton Taurnameni, 
1839, besides many other historical and poetical pieces. 
He died in London in 1S34. 

90. BiifhaH, Thomas: (Major General), Jacobite 
Leader. Scion of the family of Auchmacoy, Losie 
Buchan, where he was born about the middle of the 
17th century. After serving in both France and 
Holland, he was appointed in [G82 Lieut. Colonel by 
Charles 11., and in 1686 Colonel of the Earl of Mar's 
Regiment of Foot in Scotland. Having received the 
thanks of the Privy Council for various services, he 
was in 16S9 promnted by King James to the rank of 
Major General, and after the death of General Dundee, 
and the repulse of General Connon at Dunkeld, he 
obtained the Chief Command of James's forces in 



Scotland. General Buchan, though not in command, 
Waspresent at the battle of Sheriffmuir. In 172I he 
was i>till in communication with the exiled family. 
Date of his death not ascertained. 

91, Burnett, Alex.: Diplomatist. Only son of 
George liumelt of the Kemoay family, and born there 
in the tirst half of tkc l8lh century. Appointed in 
1756 Secretary to Mr. afterwards Sir Andrew Mitchell, 
Envoy, and in 1759 Minister Plenipotentiary to the 
King of I'rusaia. Thai monarch was then about to 
enter nn his great "Seven Years War," and by Ihe 
express command of George II., Mitchell and his 
Secretary aceooipanictl Frederick in all his campaigns. 
In August, 17G4, Burnett was left as charge d' atfaires 
during Mitchell's alisence at the Spa, and in Scotland, 
the .Secretary conducting the correspondence of the 
Emba-isy till the Spring of 1766, when his principal 
returned to Berlin. He continued Secretary till Sir 
Andrew Mitchell's death in 1771. On leaving Berlin, 
Mr. Burnett brought with him an eEfort of royal genius 
that deserves to be mentioned as a curiosity in Kemnay 
House. It is a painting done by the great Frederick 
in a lit of gout, with an inscription at the foot, 
Fredericus prnxil in tanncntis. I have not learned 
the date oiVAi. Buuiett's death, but he was dead 
before 1794. 

gz. Burnett, George, of Kemnay : Agricultural 
Improver. Son of Thomas Burnett, who was the 
friend of Ihe Eleclress Sophia, and bom towards Ihe 
end of the 17th century. It has been remarked that 
he made what were then among the mosl beautiful 
pleasure-grounds in Ihe North of Scotland out of a 
peal moss. He was klher of the preceding. 

9?. Burnett, George, LL.D.: Antiquary, Lyon 
King at Arms. Bom Kemnay, 1823. His most 
valuable contributions to Scottish History are to be 
found in Vols, i-i^oi the Exchequer Bolls of Scotland, 
issued under his editoi^hip. Among his other writings 
'' ined. Popular Genealogists : " ' ' 



94. Burnet, John: Founder of Aberdeen "Burnet 
Priies." Burn in Aberdeen in 1729. Educated ihete 
be began business as a merchant in [750. Acquiring 
a considerable fortune, he bequeathed, in addition to 
other gifts for charitable purposes, a fund to accumulate 
for 40 years at a time, tdl two prizes of not less than 
jf 1200 and ,£400 could be offered for Essays illustrative 
of the goodness of God, without reference to 
Revelation. The prizes in the last competition, 1855, 
were won by Dr. Thomson, afterwarcis Archbishop 
of York, and Principal Tulloch, St. Andrews. 

95. Burnett, John: Lawyer. Bom 1763 at Aber- 
deen, and educated there. He passed Advocate, 17S5, 
became Sheriff of Haddington, 1803, Judge Admiral 
of Scotland, 1810. ami died the same year. Author 
of a Treatise on The Criminal Law ef Scotland. His 
portrait is given in a sheet with other advocates 
in Kay's Edinburgh FoitraiCs. 

W. B. R. W. 



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OUR ILLUSTRATION. 
We reproduce the sculptured tnbtct built into 
the square tower, Tolbooth Wynd, over the 
entrance to the Old Sugar House Close, Leith. 
It is a graphic representation of the ancient 
methods of handling goods, certainly very 
primitive compared with modem ways. Dnniel 
Wilson, in his Memorials of Edinburfik in the 
Oldtn Time, refers to this " striking piece of 
sculpture, and especially to the representation of 
a singularly rude specimen of mechanical 
mgenuity. This consists of a crane, the whole 
machinery of which is comprised in one large 
druin, or broad wheel, made to revolve like the 
wire cylinder of a squirrel's cage, by a poor 
labourer who occupies the quadruped's place and 
clambers up, sisyphus-like, in his endli 



treadmill.' 



The 



xt 






n of carrying a 



barrel on a " sling ^ by iwo men, and the 
sailing craft, fill up one side of this most 
interesting and historial stone, which is dated 
1678, and it is to be hoped will be long 
preserved. 



FOLK-LORE — COUNTIMG OUT RHYMES — 
Cabs in Aberdeen.— With reference to rhymes 
given in the " Notes on Ayrshire Folk-Lore" in 
the November number of S. A'. &• Q. (p. 83), it 
maybe mentioned that in Forfarshire circa 1838- 
44, the following lines were common- 
Grey e'fn greeJy ; 
Blue e'en beauty ; 
BUck t'lsa bloody 1 

aad other definitions that the writer cannot 
recall. The difference between Forfarshire and 
Ayrshire seem Co have lain in this, that "e'en" 
was used in each line in the former county, while 
in the latter county the colour of the eyes 
^" Gray, Blue," &c) was given twice. The form 
m Forfarshire of "The mouse ran up the clock" 
was this (phonetic spelling being followed 
according to recollection) — 

Ickery, dickery, dock. 

The moose ran up the clock ; 

The clock struck won, 

Doon the moose ran ; 

Come ickery, dickeiy <li>ck again. 
The punctuation is marked as indicating the 
pauses when the lines were repeated by seniors 
to children — usually by a mother, grandmother 
or aunt, standing in from of an eight-day clock 
(changing the words of Robert Nicoll, "ae bairn 
in her arms and Iwa at her knee "), and pointing 
to the face of the timepiece as the words were 
spoken. On p. 84 is a nursery jingle that was 
common in Forfarshire aC the period already 
mentioned. Another jingle not given by Mr. 



John Muir was (the places being touched as 
named)- 

This IS hroo brinkie ; 

This is e'e winkic ; 

This is cheek chcriie ; 

This is mou' merry ; 
.\a' this Is whaur the dog^i a' worry. 
These lines were spoken almost solely to youn;; 
children — by mother or nurse (sometimes by 
father, grandfather, or an intimate friend of the 
family) when the child was reclining or sifting 
on the knees of the rhymster. At the concluding 
tine the child was always laid on its back, 
supported by the left hand of the elder person, 
and tickled on the throat or under the chin by 
the right hand. On p. 93 are given two counling- 
out rhymes — one from Campbeltown, another 
from Banff. This was in common use in Hun- 
dee (phonetic spelling)— 

Etnilie, fceaitie, lickeLty, faig ; 

Ell, dell, iloman, aigg ; 

Irkie, biikie, sloiy, lock ; 

Ann, Ian, tonsh, jock. You're ool. 
The boys or (sometimes and) girls stood in a 
row with the counter in front of ihem. The 
counter usually began with himself, and was 
generally cute, enough to arrange for getting 
"oot." Each word reckoned one, so that each 
sixteenth "count" was free, the words being 
gone on with from beginning 10 end although 
there might not be more (as often happened) 
than five, six, or seven in the game, of which one 
had at lirst to lake the obnoxious part, such as 
being "it," or catcher at "tig," "peecoo" (kee- 
how)i ^^- ^^ '° ^^^^ ''^ Aberdeen see p. 94, 
where a quotation is given from a work published 
at Copenhagen in 1840, and now translated from 
the Danish and reprinted at Lerwick this year. 
The author is represented by the translator as 
saying that at Aberdeen in June, 1839, "cabs 
and elegant equipages rolled amongst " vans and 
porters passing each other on the quay. Is it 
not a misnomer louse the word "cab" here— at 
least if it is desired to have it believed that any 
vehicles in use in Aberdeen in 1839 were similar 
to those now termed cabs ? " Noddies " (see p. 
84) were in provincial towns in Scotland the 
first successors of the sedan chairs that couid be 
hired as private conveyances. The writer 
remembers the introduction of noddies into 
Dundee, circa 1841-43. They were, if he 
recollects rightly, set on four wheels ; certainly 
they were rather heavy and lumbersome, and 
had not very good springs. The door was at 
the back of the vehicle, and there was a seat at 
each side— each seat accommodating two adults. 
Two noddies were put on the streets in Dundee 
at the same time, nnd were soon followed by 
other two. The first two were named (the titles 



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being printed in large letters on the outer sides 
of the vehicles) "Bonnie Dundee" and "The 
Tay." The connetiion of these mailers with 
Aberdeen is this : Recently the ivriter was 
talking alioul conveyances in former use with 
two Aberdonians whose recollections extended 
over a like range, and they asstired him — giving 
reasons for fixing the dates— that carriages 
almost exactly similar to those called "noddies" 
in Dundee weie first brought into use in Aber- 
deen not earlier than 1841 or 1843, their novelty 
causing them to be specially noted and remem- 
bered, while the time of the introduction of cabs 
as now known could not be recalled, J. W. D. 



Dr. Berrv (Aberdeenshire Notables, Vlli., 
89). — The following additional dclailsconceming 
Dr. Berry's career may be interesting. Wm. 
Bisset Berry was bom in Aberdeen, 25th July, 
1839, studied at his native University, and 
graduated M.A. and M.D. of Marischal (College 
and University, 1858-62. After a year's 
experience of acountry doctor's life in the parish 
of Kincardine O'Neil, he took an appointment 
as Medical Officer on board one of the Cape 
Mail Steamers. Here he also continued a 
year, and thereafter seitle'd at the Cape, first in 
Burghersdorp, and thereafter at Qiiccnstoivn, 
which he now worthily represents in the Cape 
Parliament. Under the Cape Government he 
acted as one of the Commissioners for the supply 
of water to the Colony, and he has also acted 
as a Commissioner on the Educational Work 
of that colony. 



Selling Degrees in Scoitish Univer- 
sities. — A correspondence has recently been 
going on in one of our dailies respecting the 
medical quaUfication of "Vaccination Jenner." 
With that we have nothing to do here ; but the 
point to which 1 wish to direct attention is, that 
va one of the letters it is stated that Jenner 
bought his medical degree for X'Si from SL 
Andrews University. I have always understood 
that it was only in hybrid American colleges, 
and certain of the less reputable German 
universities, that degrees can be bought. Did 
our premier university ever sell her degrees, and 
if so when was the practice discontinued ? This 
is not the first time 1 have seen this charge made 
against St. Andrews. Some ten years ago I 
contradicted a similar story, which appeared in 
a Glasgow literary journal. My letter drew from 
the Secretary of the University of St. Andrews, 
Mr. J. Maitland Anderson, a statement (part of 
which I quote) which is surely authoritative and 
final : — " No university in this country ever 
conferred degrees in the manner described 



{_i.e. by application and purchase), and it is a pity 
thai the writer should have thought fit to 
associate the good name of St. Andrews with 
iL It is a reproach — albeit a very clumsy one — 
for which there is not the slightest foundation." 
James W, Scott. 



Thk Dcke of Cumberland in Banchohy- 
Devknick.— When the Duke of Cumberland, 
at the head of the Royal Army which was sent 
north to quell the Stuart rising of the '45, reached 
Tollohill, Banchory, on the estate of Lord 
Provost Siewart, a concourse of people was 
seen approaching the Bridge of Dee from the 
town. The Duke, thinking it not improbable 
that the citizens contemplated resistance to bis 
progress, sent forward a party of his men to 
ascertain the cause of the gathering. On their 
return they reported that it was "an honest 
man's funeral on its way lo Banchory-Ucvcnick." 
His Royal Highness, thereupon, rode up and 
accompanied the mourners for some distance. 
Mr. Duncan, who was an intimate friend of the 
late Dr. I'aul, noted these facts in 1837, adding, 
"The name of the deceased was Nelson. 1 
recollect upon a half-witted daughter of his, who, 
when her friends were talking of fine clothes, or 
the like, used to say, 'Aye, but theie's rane o' 
you sae gran's me, for the Duke was at my 
father's burial I'" Notwithstanding the mass 
of facts which have been published respecting 
the rising of the 45, it is singular that this 
anecdote has hitherto remained unnoticed, and 
it is all the more pleasant to record it now as a 
certain redeeming feature in the character of 
the Duke, who, from his harshness and severity 
in Scotland, earned the unenviable ritle of 
" Butcher Cumberland." 

John A. Hei 



941. A[.DEKME.\ i.N Scotland. — About what dale 
did the style " al'leritian," lo designate the chief 
mBgi5tia.le of a. royal hurgh in Scotland, give place to 
that of "provost"? In enily Rf^lera of Scotlish 
Town t^ouncils one freqnenlly reads such entries as : 
"The Eai'le day it is statu! and ordsntt be the 
Alilerroan Biikeis and Consalc for the coramonc 
profit of the lone accorJin^ lo, &c., &c" The 
" prouesl " was the man of a laler age. Amo. 

94a. SKrMK.— In "Delia's" c1a.ssic Scots story, 
Maiuii Wauth, " skitiie " is more than once used in 
the sense of siring ot twine ; c.R. -"James Bailer, 
aye a slaunch friend to the family, despatched a hnre 
foot cripple lassie down the close to me, wilh a brown 
paper parcel, tied with siinie." Is this a local word 7 
(I rionot remember having met wilh if anywhere, save 
in Moir's Luok) } and if so, where is its loealel I am 



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given to understand that it is a word derived from the 
old hand-loom weavers. Michael Merlin. 

943. Families of Smith of IIuntly and 
Meston of Aberdeen. — Information is earnestly 
desired in these cases, (i) Isabella Smith, who left 
IIuntly and went to America in 1819 ; (2) Peter 
Meston, who left Aberdeen and went to America in 
1 8 19. Will any one who can give names of brothers 
and sisters, or who possesses any information of the 
above — no matter how trivial — kindly communicate 
with Mrs. Adelaide Meston Odiorne, Langham Hotel, 
South End, Boston, Masscehusetts, U.S.A. 

944. Dr. John Hill Burton on Dr. James 
Melvin. — James Riddel, in his Aberdeen and its 
Folk (Aberd., 1868), p. 26, writes of Dr. Melvin: — 
*' I shall not attempt to illustrate in detail the methods 
he so successfully adopted in imparting to his scholars 
a knowledge of Latin, this having been most ably 
done by two of his quondam pupils, f^rofessor Masson, 
lately editor of A/acfnillan'*s Magazine, and Dr. John 
Hill Burton, author of the Scot Abroad and other 
works." Professor Masson's article is well known. 
Where can Dr. Hill Burton's account be found ? 

P. J. Anderson. 

945. Aberdeen Graduates Signing the De- 
claration OF Independence. — Professor Ramsay 
brings from America the story that three of the fifty- 
six names appended to the Declaration of Independence 
were those of Aberdeen graduates. Not having access 
to Sanderson's Biographies of the Sii^ners of the 
Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia, 1827), I 
am unable to identify these. Can Dr. Gammack 
help? P. J. Anderson. 

— - ■ ■ ■ J 

Hnswer* 



916. Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots 
(VIII., 78, no). — The annexed translation appeared 
in "Once a Week" (loth December, 1874), ^"^ is 
prefaced by the remark that "the musical sweetness 
of the Latin is scarcely translateable into English." 

My Lord and my God, my one hope and my stay, 
My Jesus, thou dearest, O take me away : 
In the bonds of my anguish, the woe of my pain, 
I have longed but for thee— let me long not in vain ; 
Fast failing, bewailing, all lowly I bow. 
Adoring, imploring — O rescue me now ! 
Wandsworth. R. 



Xiterature* 



LOVVTHER'S DIARY, 1629. 
After remaining unpublished for 265 years, the 
diary of Sir Christopher Lowther, who, at the 
age of twenty years or so, made a tour into 
Scotland, has been issued by Mr. David Douglas, 
Edinburgh. The young man, during his three 
weeks' sojourn, seems to have used his eyes to 
some purpose, with the result that the volume 
makes interesting reading, and gives a useful 
picture of domestic life in Scotland at that period. 
The book is entitled Our Journal I into Scotland, 



A.D. 162Q, from I^wther. On Nov. 5, 1629, 
young Sir Christopher Lowther, accompanied 
by his uncle and another companion, set out 
from Lowther for the North. After visiting 
Langholm and Selkirk, the party went by 
Galashiels to Edinburgh. In church Lowther 
informs us : 

"The women are churched before the service 
begins ; through Scotland the people in church, when 
the parson saith any prayers, they use a humming 
kind of lamentation for their sins." 

A footnote indicates that a survival of this 
custom prevailed so late as twenty years ago in 
a church in Brodick. Edinburgh seems to have 
pleased the visitors. They appear especially to 
have been interested in a meeting of the Court 
of Session, held in the High Kirk. One of the 
most racy passages in the book, and a fair 
sample of the interest and value attaching to 
the narrative, is the account given of a dinner 
at Old Gala House, under the presidency of the 
proprietor. Sir James Pringle. The description 
gives a good idea of the domestic customs and 
hearty hospitality of the times. 

*' P3ach dish was covered with another, then was 
there a basin with water for to wash our hands before 
we sat down, then being seated Sir James said grace. 
The cheer was big pottage, long kale, bowe or white 
kale, breoh sopps (sic), powdered beef, roast or 
boiled mutton, a venison pie in the form of an egg, 
goose, then cheese, a great company of little bits laid 
on a pewter platter, and cheese also uncut, then 
apples, then the tablecloth taken off and a towel the 
whole breadth of the table and half the length of it, 
a basin and ewer to wash, then a green carpet laid on, 
then one cup of beer set on the carpet, then a little 
long lawn serviter (linen napkin) plaited up a shilling 
or little more broad, laid cross over the corner of the 
table, and a glass of hot water set down also on the 
table, then be there three boys to say grace, the first 
the thanksgiving, the second the paternoster, the 
third a prayer for a blessing to God's Church, the 
good man of the house, his parents, kinsfolk, and the 
whole company, they then do drink hot waters, so at 
supper, when to bed, the collation which is a doupe 
(flagon) of ale." 

These brief excerpts sufficiently prove the 
value of the book, which requires no apology 
for its appearance. 

Narratives and Extracts from the Records of 

the Presbytery of Ellon, Part IL, 1607 to 1628. 

By Thomas Mair, Ellon. Aberdeen : W. 

Jolly & Sons, 1894. 

Like Part I., noticed before, this new issue 

makes excellent reading. It contains much 

that is curious and instructive, and provides a 

genuine insight to the life and habits domestic, 

conjugal, social, religious. But like all such 

narratives, for there is no finality, one misses 



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[January, 1895, 



items of interest, which, just because they lie, 
however little, outside the scope of the narra ' 
are not so much as named. There is, iiowi 
not a tiresome page in the present issue, 
it is well printed and got up. 

BiBLIOGRAPllV OF AllKUriF.EN I' 

Lite R:\Ti! RE, 
The Catholic Herald^ for Aberdeen, Inverness 
and the Northern Counties of Scotland, No. 
1, Friday, October Jth, 1S94- One Penny. 
Imprint, Printed by C. Diamond & Co., and 
published by the proprietor, J. J. Morgan, at 
115 Union Street, Aberdeen [same date]. 
Consists of 48 columns ordmary newspaper 
si/e, and "comes as an humble addition to the 
Cathohc Press of Great Britain." In the eleventh 
week of its publication it is increased by 12 
additional columns, A considerable portion of 
the subject matter is " supplied " by a central 
agency which caters for the interest of Catholic 
constituencies, leaving the purel 
and news pabulum to be add 
The prospectus explanatory of 
the paper is plain, frank, and 
will no doubt be found a welcon- 
Catholic 



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Circular, and the tablet at foot bore the ad- 
dress 12 St Andrew Square instead of the 
value. (F'ig. (f) 

3. [Twopence] yellow. 

4. [Threepence] red brown. 
In 1866 the Company issued two stamps simi- 
lar in design and lettering to i, but of smaller 
size, 22 X 29 mm. (Fig. b), 

5. One farthing, mauve. 

6. One halfpenny, green. 
In 1867 the size of the "Circular" Stamps 

was still farther reduced, 19 x 23 mm. ; and a 
new address, 12 Elder Street, took the place 
of the value. (Fig. c). 

7. r?l black on yellow. 

8. [?J red brown. 
On the other hand, the value now appeared 

on a new type of the ** Parcel " stamps, 24 x 29 
mm., bearing a horse and cart with driver in a 
lozenge : the Edinburgh arms on miniature 
shields in the upper corners, the Leith arms in 
the lower. (Fig. c). 

9. Twopence, yellow. 
10. Threepence, red brown. 

In the same year stan)ps weie issued in Aber- 
deen, Dundee, and (Glasgow, by offshoots of the 
Edinburgh Company. 

Aberdeen.— Kqc\^x\^\q^ 18;^ x 22 >2 mm. De- 
vice : the arms of the City (Gules three towers 
triple towered within a double tressure flory 
counterflory argent.) It will be noticed that the 
towers, which rather resemble heraldic castles, 
are incorrectly placed, one and two. Above : 
ABERDEEN. Below : Circular Delivery 
Company. At foot : value in words. (Fig./) 
XL One farthing, orange. 

12. Halfpenny, blue. 
Dundee. —Size as last. Device : the arms of 

the City. (Azure, a pot ot growing lilies argent). 
Above : Dundee. Other lettering as last. 

13. One farthing, pmk. 

14. Halfpenny, vermilion. 
G/asi^07u.--S\zc 21 X 27mm. Device: the 

arms of the City. (Argent, on a mount in base 
vert an oak tree proper, the stem at the base 
thereof surmounted by a salmon on its back 
also proper, with a signet ring in its mouth or ; 
on the top of the tree a redbreast, and in the 
sinister fess point an ancient handbell, both also 
proper). Above: Glasgow. Other lettering as 
fast. (Fig. //). 

15. One farthing, black. 

16. Halfpenny, vermilion. 
Similar stamps, with which I am not here con- 
cerned, were issued in London and in Liverpool. 

Nearly all the stamps i to 16 are found ini- 
perforate, rouletted and perforate. Later series 
are perforate, appearing imperforate only as 
reprints. 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [February, 1895. 

In August 1867 the action of these Companies 
attracted the attention of Government, and the 
Solicitor to the Post Office obtained a conviction 
against one of their messengers for "delivering 
letters contrary to the privilege of the Postmaster 
General," under the Acts 7 Wm. IV., cap. 33, 
and 1 Vict., cap. 36. After this conviction the 
promoters of the scheme proceeded to form a 
company on the mutual systeAi, in which the 
privilege of making use of the stamps was reserved 
to the shareholders ; claiming immunity on the 
ground that, as an exception to the monopoly 
of the Post Office is made in favour of private 
individuals employing their own ser\'ants to dis- 
tribute letters, a company so constituted should 
be in a similar position. The new Company was 
incorporated on February 22nd, 1868, with its 
chief office in London, and with branches in 
Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh 
and Leith, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow. 
.Series of stamps uniform in size (except for Edin- 
burgh), values and colours, appeared for these 
towns, the word Circular no longer forming 
part ot the lettering. 

Edinburgh and Leith. — 21 x 28 mm. Arms 
as in I. Above: EoiN* & Leith. Below: 
Delivery Company. At foot : value in words. 

(Fig. ;.) 

17. One penny, green. 

18. One halfpenny, blue. 

19. Three farthings, mauve. 

20. One penny, venniliom. 

Aberdeen. — 21 x 26 mm. Arms: the towers 
are now rightly placed, but the tressure has 
vanished ; some unrecognisable object app^rs 
in chief. Above : ABERDEEN. Other lettering 
as last. (Fig./) 

21. One farthing, green. 

22. Halfpenny, blue. 

23. One halfpenny, blue. 

24. Three farthings, mauve. 

25. One penny, vermilion. 

Dundee.— 21 x 26 mm. Arms as in 13. 
Above : Dundee. Other lettering as last 
(Fig. k.) 

26-30. As with Aberdeen. 

Glasi^ow. — 21 X 26 mm. Arms as in 15. 
Above : (jLasgow. Other lettering as last. 

(Fig /.) 

31-34. As with Edinburgh and Leith. 

The Company was again attacked by the 

Post Office m May, 1868, when the magistrate 

granted a case, which was argued before the 

Court of Queen's Bench on June 2, 1869. The 

report will be found in the Law Tinus for June 

26. It was held that the society was acting 

illegally, and judgment was given for the Post 

Office. This prosecution was a death-blow to 

the scheme. 



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131 



The agitation, remark Messrs. Philbrick & 
Westoby, may be considered as not having been 
absolutely fruitless, for it directed the attention 
of the public to the excessive charges of the 
Post Office for the conveyance of printed matter 
of small weight, and in 1870 the halfpenny rate 
for circulars was conceded by Government. 

The stamps from which figures ^, d, e, kXo I 
have been lithographed, are in my own possession 
unused. Those shown in figures b, c^f-igt have 
been kindly lent by Mr. Westoby. Nos. 22 and 
27 I have not seen, but copies are in Mr. Phil- 
brick's collection. 

In connection with the Aberdeen Company 
and its stamps, I should be glad to learn : — 

1. Where the offices of the branch were 
situated. 

2. Whether any references are to be found in 
the contemporary newspapers. 

3. Whether any copies of the stamps have 
been preserved on the original circulars and 
bearing postmarks. 

P. J. Anderson. 



4»» 



THE EDINBURGH MSS. FORGERIES. 

On Nov. 22, 1892, the Edinburgh Evening 
Dispatch commenced a series of articles, arising 
from a discovery of a ** Burns' MS. " which had 
appeared in the Cumnock Express. The sub- 
ject once opened, it soon became evident that 
for fully five years past the market had been 
deluged with many hundreds of suspicious MSS., 
chiefly, but by no means exclusively, through 
the medium of two well known Edinburgh book- 
sellers, certain auctioneers, and pawnshops. 
Bundles of these spurious papers had repeatedly 
been examined and rejected by learned and ex- 
pert gentlemen. But none of these seemed to 
nave recognised theduty of openly denouncingthe 
costly imposture, and warnmg the public to be 
on its guard, until the Cumnock correspondence 
gave the Editor of the Evening Dispatch his 
opportunity. The MSS. comprised vast num- 
bers of letters and original poems by Bums, 
letters and autographs of Scott, Thackeray, 
Dickens, Collingwood, Nelson, Abercromby, 
Edmund Burke, Southey, Hume, Hogg, Mrs 
Hemans, Carlyle, and Coleridge ; and a very 
large number of " Historical MSS.," National 
Covenants, called " Solemn Leagues and Cove- 
nants," one of them said to be dated 1648 (!), 
passports and letters by " Marie R.", Montrose, 
Dundee, Dalyell, Cromwell, Monck, Prince 
Charles, &c., and whole clouds of Covenanting 
witnesses. Hardly a large town in Great Bri- 
tain, where there is any market for such com- 
modities, but had contributed its victims, and 
patriotic Scots in America and the Colonies 
had been buying up our original history and 



literature in sackfuls. Every day the corres- 
pondence in the press laid bare dozens of these 
frauds, and the obstinate credulity of some of 
the victims. Suspicion became concentrated on 
an ex-lawyer's-clerk, known among his asso- 
ciates as " Antique Smith." In December this 
celebrity, for such he had become, was arrested. 
A veto was then laid by the Courts on the cor- 
respondence, as tending to prejudice the pri- 
soner's case. In June, 1893, Smith was tried 
and found guilty, but recommended to mercy, 
on the ground that " his crime was an unusual 
one." He was sentenced to imprisonment for 
twelve calendar months. 

Seldom seeing the Dispatch^ and hearing, in 
conversation, only of the "Bums forgeries," I 
had felt no great personal interest in the sub- 
ject. But on Dec. 7th a friend advised me to 
purchase that day's paper for some useful test 
of ink described in it. The copy happened to 
contain the list and dockets of 202 MSS. pur- 
chased by a Mr. Kennedy (U.S.) for a public 
library in America. Most of these were "Bums 
MSS.," but some 24 of them were " Historical," 
ranging from " Marie R. " to Prince Charles Ed- 
ward, including three Montrose signatures. Ex- 
amination of the last, so far as their contents 
appeared in the dockets, convmced me that the 
dates and places given were impossible, and I 
was led on to apply the same test to the rest in 
this and other similar lists. Not long before 
the exposure I . had purchased an interesting 
Montrose signature, and as it now appeared 
that the bookseller from whom the purchase 
was made was deeply compromised in the sale 
of the spurious MSS., I turned up his catalogue, 
with the result that some 25 " Montroses," 
" Cromwells," and Covenanting bonds and tes- 
timonies refused to stand the test of chrono- 
logy. Other occupations delayed further expo- 
sure of MSS. in these lists, and the veto laid on 
the correspondence foreclosed the discussion, 
leaving me with notes on some 50 spurious or 
highly suspicious documents. As these, for all 
we know to the contrary, may some day creep 
back into the market as authentic MSS., they 
must now share the fate of their congeners and 
be nailed to the counter. It will be understood 
that my knowledge of them is confined in al- 
most all cases to the printed details of their 
dockets (the folded sheet of paper in which 
MSS. are usually offered for sale, inscribed with 
a heading of their contents). Of the ink, hand- 
writing, paper, and other nuances^ I knew and 
know nothing. But it is obviously sheer waste 
of time, and to the public, after all, not very 
convincing, to be told that the writing and 
colour are suspicious, and the paper probably 
a fly-sheet tom from an old book, when the 



132 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, [February, 1895. 



date of the document itself is a chronological 
monstrosity. In law no proof is more absolute 
than a well-established alibi^ and there need be 
no further question of doubts and probabilities. 
Thus, if, as I found on inspecting one of the 
Kennedy MSS., the MS. itself was signed by the 
Regent Morton after his death — though the 
date on the docket was ten years earlier^ and 
therefore possible — none but the most inveterate 
spiritualist could maintain its authenticity, An 
order, signed hy Montrose, " to the captain 
commanding in Aberdeene," was dated 19th 
September, 1644, ^^ ^^O' day that Argyll, in 
pursuit of Montrose, entered Aberdeen, three 
days after Montrose had left it, on hearing of 
his rival's approach. According to one docu- 
ment, Montrose was still " Before our camp of 
Philliphaugh " on October 2nd, 1645, though the 
battle was fought on September 13th. 

In the following criticisms I shall, as a rule, 
forbear to give authorities, where the dates and 
events are such as can easily be verified in the 
common books and histories of the period. 

Kennedy MSS. 

1. Elizabeth R. Queen Elizabeth— Letter to 
Lord Moray. From Windsor, ** this 1 5th of 
Januarie, 1575." Relative to " the Prince." 

The Regent Moray was shot at Linlith- 
gow, 23rd January, 1570. In 1575, **the 
Prince" had for eight years been James 
VI., king of Scotland. 

2. Marie R., Queen of Scots. Warrant to a peer 
and " others under you to be ready to repair 
with all speed ye can to such leage as may be 
appointed," etc., 20th May, 1564. 

The inverted commas are so printed in 
the Dispatch's list of Kennedy MSS. The 
spelling is modern and un-Scotch. There 
do not appear to have been any disturb- 
ances in 1 564 to warrant such haste. Mary 
was then contemplating her project of mar- 
riage with Henry Darnley. 

3. Viscount Dundie, Graham of Claverhouse. 
Proclamation against misaffected noblemen 
and others. The Leaguer near Dundie, this 
17th of Januarie, MDCXXXIX. 

In the Dispatch of Dec. 9, " J. A." cast 
doubt on the expression, and pointed out 
the absurdity of " 16J9." In Arabic figures 
3 might have been confused with 8, but in 
Roman letters it is not so easy to account 
for the omission of the L. Was this a mere 
error in transcribing the docket ? A sight 
I had of the Kennedy MSS. subsequently 
showed that here at all events the docketter 
or cataloguer had not tampered with the 
egregious absurdity of the MS. Anyhow, 
in January, 1689, Dundee was in England, 
afterwards going north to attend the Con- 



vention appointed to be held on March 13th. 
He reached Edinburgh about the end of 
February. On the i6th March a plot to 
assassinate him and Sir George Mackenzie 
was revealed. On the i8th he left Edin- 
burgh to raise the king's standard. These 
facts dispose of the next MS. 

4. Viscount Dundie, Graham of Claverhouse. 
Order to the Town of Perth on supplies. Mar. 
1 8th, 1689. "The samen was ordered to be 
erased from the buiks of the Counsal." 

Dundee spent the night of the i8th at 
Linlithgow. Thence he proceeded to his 
house near Dundee. Several attempts to 
recall him to the Convention failed. On 
March 30th he was proclaimed a traitor. 

5. Sir John Cope. Proclamation prohibiting 
assisting the Rebels, 26th August, 1745, Stir- 
ling. Countersigned by Duncan Forbes (of 
Culloden), 26th August, 1745. 

Cope set out from Edinburgh on August 
19th, to rendezvous his troops at Stirling. 
On the 22nd he was at Amulree ; on 23rd 
at Tay Bridge ; 24th at Trinifuir ; 25th at 
Dalnacardoch. Thence he marched to 
Dalwhinnie, where it was decided in a 
council of war to turn aside to Inverness. 
Duncan Forbes was then at his own house 
at Culloden. Cope, shortly after passing 
Dalwhinnie, received a letter from Forbes, 
written from Culloden. 

I take this opportunity of protesting 
against the persistent practice in some 
school histories of calling Cope's force the 
" English." The Hanoverian army routed 
at Preston pans was composed mainly of 
Lov/land Scots and some (Whig) High- 
landers. National self-glorification on the 
strength of the Highland Jacobites and 
their achievements is a curious mark of the 
change of feeling towards the Highlanders, 
then generally regarded by Lowlanders 
with suspicion, horror, fear, or contempt 

6. James VII. Letter to Lord Viscount Kilsyth, 
signed at Commerey (Comrie), 26th Oct., 1715. 

In the MS. itself "VII." did not appear. 
James VII. died in 1701. The "Cheva- 
lier," James VIII., landed at Peterhead, 
December 22nd, 17 15, and sailed from 
Montrose in February, 1716. "Commerey" 
should be Commerey. 

7. Prince Charles Edward — Proclamation for 
raising Troops. Perth, loth September, 1745. 
By his Royal Highness' commands. George 
Murray, Halirood House, September, 1745. 

In the Dispatch^ Dec. 15, 1892, Mr John 
Russell showed that the Prince was styled 
simply " Highness," and " Halirood House" 
was spelt Holy-rood-house. 



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Prince Charles was at Perth Sept. 4-1 ith, 
and Lord George Murray was with him. 
The Prince entered Edinburgh i8th Sept. 
The MS. would seem to infer that Charles 
was at Perth, and G. Murray at " Halirood 
House" on Sept. loth. " George Murray'' 
is probably the forger's error for Jo. Mur- 
ray (v. No. 8), the Prince's Secretary. 

Mr Russell's criticism applies also to the 
following : — 

8. Prince Charles Edward — Commission to Co- 
lonel George Buchanan in Dunbarton. Haly- 
rude House, 25th October, 1745. Counter- 
signed by J. Murray. 

A genuine document quoted by Mr. 
Russell, runs — "Given at Holy-Rood-house," 
" By his Highness's command, Jo. Murray." 
Here, as far as date goes, the document 
might be genuine. Charles left Holyrood, 
Oct. 31st. 

9. Duke of Cumberland — Despatch to the Pro- 
vost, Baillies and Council of Perth. To give 
up the names of those who assisted the Rebels. 
Fort Augustus, 21st June, 1746. 

I have not been able to verify this date. 
The Duke was back at St James's July 
25th. It is more to the point to note that 
his proclamations were addressed to the 
General Assembly and Parish Ministers. 
Chambers, in hisHistory of the Rebellion, 
ch. XXV., specially mentions that such pro- 
clamation " was read in the churches of 
Perth and its vicinity." 

H. F. MoRLAND Simpson. 

(To be continued,) 



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LOCAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

We continue our List of additions to Mr. A. W. 
Robertson's " Hand List of Bibliography of the 
Shires of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine," and 
believe a few notes on some remarkable names 
and works contained in it will make it more 
generally interesting. 

It is singular to note how the pent up patriotism 
of a representative of the old local family of 
Cadenhead, who had settled at Padua, finds 
expression in two poems in honour of the 
restoration, and of the marriage of K. Charles II. 
The only copies known to us are preserved in 
the British Museum, and probably came from 
the King's Library. We have the high authority 
of the late Dr. Joseph Robertson for translating 
Camerarius and Chambre into the familiar local 
surname of Chalmers^ and we think it is to be 
regretted that in the " Hand List" the error of 
the Brit. Mus. Catalogue has been repeated by 
recording as the works of David Chambre (Lord 
Ormond) two books which Dr. J. Hill Burton long 



ago pointed out were written by another local 
David Camerarius. The works which we have 
added to Lord Ormond's Bibliography are fre- 
quently bound up with the Histoire Abbrdg^e^ 
and may thus have escaped notice. Christ^ s 
Kirk on the Green is included for its vivid 
representation of a phase of rural life in an 
ancient Aberdeenshire parish four centuries ago, 
by an unknown author, said to have been a 
Scottish king, in verse which later poets have 
frequently initated, but rarely excelled. The 
political agitations of a hundred years ago are 
significantly illustrated by the publication in 
our city of two works by William Cobbett. 
The younger Colman's vivacity and wit were 
never better exemplified than in the Random 
Records of his life at our University, and in a 
play written during, what he termed, his " exile " 
at Aberdeen. The name of George Conn, of 
the family of Auchry, one of the keenest Catholic 
controversial writers of the 17th century, is 
worthy of local preservation. The esteem in 
which he was held in his native shire, in his own 
time, IS marked by the existence of his portrait 
at Gordon Castle, with an inscription recording 
that he was papal legate to Henrietta, Queen of 
Charles I., and that, but for his early death, he 
would have been exalted to the purple. He died 
at Genoa, loth January, 1640, aet. 42, and his 
tomb in the church of San Lorenzo at Rome 
bears his eflfigy and armorial bearings. 

The earliest printed works of any Aberdeen 
author that we are able to record are two books by 
Gilbert Crab ( 1 5 1 7), both of which are excessively 
rare. No copy of either has ever occurred in 
the Sale Catalogue of any Scottish Library 
durmg the last 150 years, so far as we have 
been able to discover. The first noted by us is 
in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, and the 
Aberdeen University Library fortunately pos- 
sesses a beautiful and perfect copy of the second, 
the binding of which ought to be very carefully 
repaired. It was presented to the University by 
William Rait (Humanist, 1587), and the printer's 
name is James Mareschal. Sir Thomas Craig 
appears on our List upon the authority of his 
best biographer, supported by the opinion of his 
descendant, the late Sir James Gibson Craig. 
His Epithalamium on the marriage of George 
Gordon, Earl of Enzie, eldest son of the ist 
Marquis of Huntly, and Lady Anne Campbell, 
daughter of the 7th Earl of Argyll, in 1607, in 
any event entitles his name to inclusion, and 
assists us to believe Tytler's assertion that he 
was probably born at Craigston, We cannot 
afford space for the titles of the superabundant 
works of the late Dr. John Gumming, but any 
one interested will find most of them in AUibone. 
Works relating to the Dioceses of Moray and 



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Brechin are included, because they comprise 
many parishes in our three Counties. An 
excellent notice of Dr. William Davidson (1593- 
1670), the great Aberdeenshire Alchemist, was 
contributed by Mr. John Smith to the Proceedings 
of the Society of Antiquaries in 1873. His 
works are rather scarce. So are those of 
Thomas Dempster, whose remarkable personal 
history is now little known. He was a voluminous 
writer, and we believe that Mr. Robertson's List 
(14) with our own (15) combined, do not exhaust 
his Bibliography. 

We close our remarks by simple reference to 
three names of high rank in the annals of 
human genius which we, this month, add to 
those in the " Hand List." Sir Andrew Clark 
and James Matthews Duncan were bright 
examples of the long line of eminent physicians 
who, for more than three hundred years, have 
successively done honour to their Alma Mater ; 
and here in Aberdeen, the birthplace of Scottish 
Art, we feel proud to remember that the Royal 
Academicians of England have seldom enrolled 
a more illustrious name than that of William 
Dyce. K. J. 

Cadenhead James ^ Astroeae Venetoe plausus 
in Caroli 11 Stuarti Mag. Brit. 
R. Instauratione Padua 1661. 

Pallas pronuba in nuptiis Caroli 11 et 

Catharine ,, 1662. 

Cadenheadf William , The Links s.A. et L. 

Burns' auld Arm Chair Abd. 1884. 

Cairngorm Club Journal ,, 1893. 

Cairns^ William^ On Moral Freedom Lond. 1844. 

Memoir of Dr. John Young, and other works. 
Calder^ John^ Courayer's Declaration and 

Life Lond. 1789. 

Caldery Peter ^ Latin Exercises (Melvin) 

with Dissertations 1857. 

Latin Exercises (Supplementary Vol.) 1858. 

Do. 1873. 

Calder^ Robt.y Reasons for Toleration Edin. 1703. 

Divine Right of Episcopacy ,, 1705. 

Lawfulness of set forms of Prayer ,, 1706. 

Answer to W. Jamieson ,, 1708. 

The Nail struck to the head ,, 17 12. 

Miscellanies ,, 1 7 13. 

Cameron, Wm. , Ode on Lochiel's Birthday , , 1 796. 

View of the French Revolution ,, 1802. 

Campbell, A. A., Sermons, &c. ,, 1882. 

Campbell, Arch. (Bishop of Aberdeen), 

Queries to the Presbyterians Lond. 1702. 

Agreement for Episcopacy ,, 1703. 

Doctrines of a Middle State ,, 1713. 

Life of John Sage ,, 17 14. 

Campbell, George, Lecture on Systematic 

Theology ,, 1807. 

Lecture on Pulpit Eloquence ,, 1824. 

Campbell, /. A., Inaugural Address, &c. Mont. 1885. 

Caw/5^^//, yM;/, Voyages of a Bible Abd. 1839. 

Worlds Displayed ,, ,, 

Picture of Human Life ,, 1841. 



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Walks of Usefulness Abd. 1841. 

Alfred and Galba ,, 1842. 

Camustronary, a Humorous Skye Trip, 

by a Naval Officer 
Candlish, R. S., Gospel Contracts and 
Parallels (Memoir of and Ser- 
mons by Andrew Gray) Edin. 1862. 
The Canty Carly, or the Raveled Bridal of Auchronie 
— Peterhead, pr., by Peter Buchan for A. 
Keith, Aberdeen, n.d., pp. 12. 
Cantlie, James, Accidental Injuries Lond. 1884. 
Meade's Manual ,, 1883. 
Degeneration amongst Londoners ,, 1885. 
The Influence of Exercise on Health ,, 1883. 
Text Book of Naked Eye Anatomy ,, 1886. 
Cargill, Thomas, Verses on Erection of 

Marischal College Edin. 1893. 

Tract on Gowrie Conspiracy ,, 1601. 

Carnie, W., The Laird of Deeview 

(Broadsheet) Abd. 1876. 

Carr, Ralph, Sculptured Stones of Eastern 

Scotland Edin. 1867. 

Catalogue of A. Watson's Circulating 

Library Abd. 1821. 

Theological Library, Marischal Coll. ,, 181 1. 

Do. ,, 1823. 

Do. , Supp. Abd. 1816, 1828. 

Historical Portraits, &c. ,, 1859. 

Milne's Select Library ,, 1870. 

Caiechists* Poetical Manual ,, 1834. 

Chalmers, Alex., Continuation to History 

of England. 2 vols. Lond. 1793. 

Glossary to Shakspere ,, 1797- 

Sketch of the I. ojt Wight „ 1798. 

Barclay Dictionary ,, n.d. 

Burns' Life and Works ,, 1805. 

Beattie's Ministrel and Life 
Stevens' Shakspere with Notes and 

Life. 9 vols. „ 1803-5. 

Fielding's Works. lo vols. ,, 1806. 

War ton's Essays 
The Tatler, &c. 14 ,, 

Gibbon's Decline, &c. 12 „ ,, 1807. 

Bolingbroke's Works. 8 ,, ,, 1809. 

English Poets. 21 ,, ,, 18 10. 

The Projector. 3 ,, ,, 1811. 

Life of Alex. Candin ,, 1812. 

Memoir of John Nicholas ,, 1826. 

Complete List of Works in Gent. Mag., Feby. 1835. 

Chalmers, David (Lord Ormond) — 

Discours de la legitime succession des 

femmes Paris 1579. 

La Recherche des singularites plus 

remarquables concernant I'etat 

d'Escosse 

Memoirs de I'etat de France et hist. 

tragique de Marie R. d'Escosse, &c. 

Chalmers, Geo. (Principal), A Letter from 

the North 1730. 

Chalmers, James, The Channel Railway, 

&c. Lond. 1B61. 

England's Danger, &c. ,, 1864. 

Chalmers, James Hay, On Remains at 

Auchterless Edin. 1863. 



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Stone Cist at Inverurie Edin. 1870. 

Chalmers, John Inglis, On Dr. Patrick 

Chalmers of Haz'.ehead 
Chalmers, Patrick, Registrum Episcopatus 
Brechinensis (Bannatyne Club). 
2 vols. Abd. 1856. 

Chalmers, Patrick H,, Branch of the 
Family from which Principal 
George Chalmers was descended Abd. 1885. 
Chalmers, William (Fintrceus). 

Selectse Disputationes Paris 1630. 

Introductionem ad Logicam Andegal 1630. 

Antiquitatis de novitate Victoriae Fast. 1635. 
De Peccato, &c. Paris 1638. 

Scoticanae Ecclesiae infantia, &c. ,, 1643. 

Chalmers, William. 

Of incarcerated Hernia Lond. 1773* 

Chapman, George, Hints on Education 

of the lower ranks Edin. N.D. 

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Charles /., Works (curious front.) ,, .1766. 

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Writers, &c. Edin. 1833. 

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lets, &c. Lond. 1702. 
De Natura Febrae ,, 1725* 
On Geo. Baillie, in Gent. Mag. ,, 1738. 
Essay on Regimen ,, 1739* 
Natural Method of curing disease ,, 1742. 
Account of Cheyne and his cures ,, I743« 
Essay on Hydrocephalus Acutus Edin. 1808. 

Cheyne, James ^ Orationes rhetoricse Douay 1576. 

Scholae Duse, &c. ,, 1587* 

Chisholm, C. ( Turriff), Robert Burns, 

the Representative of his Era Gw. 1859. 
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Introduction to Latin ,, 1760. 

Christie, fames. Fragments in Life of 

Bp. Jolly ,, 1865. 

On Augmentation of Small I^ivings ,, ,, 
Christie, John, A Cist in Cabrach, &c. ,, 1865. 

Christison, David, On Grated Iron Doors 

of Scottish Castles ,, 1883-8. 

ChrisCs Kirk on the Green Oxon. 1691. 

Frequently republished. 
City of Aberdeen, Plan of unhealthy area 1889. 

Clark, Sir Andrew, Cholera, a disease of 

the Nervous System Lond. 1883. 

Address at the Lond. Hospital Med. 

Coll. „ 1876. 

Clinical Lectures, &c, 4 vols. ,, 1864-7. 

An Enemy of the Race ,, N.D. 

Clark, Thomas, An attempt at Vocal 

English. Priv. ptd. (Alxln.) s.L. et A. 

Cobbettf William, Democratic Principles 

Illustrated. Part. L Abd. 1798. 

Do. Part II. „ 

Cole, Charles, Sermons, &c. Phd. 1840 

Collie, John, Poems and Lyrics Bf. 1856. 

Colman, Geo. the Yr., Two to One Lond. 1784. 

Random Records. 2 vols. ,, 1830. 



Concilia Scotice (Bann. Club) Edin. 1866. 

Confession of Faith with Proofs, &c. Abd. 1839. 

Conn, George, Premetise, &c. Bonon. 1621. 

Assertiones Catholicarae Rome 1 621, 1629. 

Vita Mariae Stuartse (portrait) ,, 1624. 

De Duplici Statu Religionis apud 

Scotos ,, 1628. 

Cook, Geo., On Christ's Resurrection Lond. 1808. 
Copland, Alex., The Cairn o' Mount and 

Clochnaben Abd. 1892. 

'- and T. R. Gillies, Two Days 

and a Night in the Wilderness ,, 1878. 
Our Tour „ 1880. 

Copland, Patrick, Virginia, God be 

thanked Lond. 1622. 

Corbet, Adam, Ventnor Cove, a Poem. 

K. & C, Abd. N.D. 

Barnabas (port, of Rev. J. Bower) ,, 1867. 

Corbet, Wm., Memoir o(. i6mo, priv. pd. ,, 1879. 

CornwaWs New Aberdeen Directory „ 1853. 

The Cottager^ s Monitor ,, 1 84 1. 

Coutts, Francis, Acetopathy Edin. 1870. 

(looth Thousand, Lond. 1847 — Abdn. printed). 

Life of, with portrait. Priv. ptd. 1890. 

Crab, Gilbert, Tractatus notitiarum Paris N.D. 

Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea ,, 15 17. 

Craig, Alexander, Amorous Songs Lond. 1606. 

Craig, Robert. 

Remains of Rev. Jas. Stewart Edin. 1847. 

Theocracy ,, 1 848. 

The Man Christ Jesus ,, i855« 

Regeneration ' Lond. 1879. 

Craig, Sir Thomas, Genethliacon ,, 1566. 

Strephanophoria ,, 1603. 

Jus Feudale Lond. 1655 ; Edin. 1732. 

Illustrissimi domini Gordoniaecomitis 
Einziae haeredis, &c., epithala- 
mium ,, 1607. 

Poemata (in the Delitise, 1637) 
Scotland's Sovereignty Asserted Lond 1695.. 
Treatise on the Succession ,, 1703. 

Cramond, William, The Church and 

Churchyard of Cullen Abd. 1883. 

Craven, J. B., History of the Church in 

Ross Lond. 1886. 

Creighton, Chas., Hirsch's Pathology ,, 1883. 

Nat. Plist. of Cow Pox ,, 1887. 

Crombie, Alex., Gregory's Letters and 

Crombie's Replies ,, 18 1 9. 

Crombie, John,The Eastern Star (Masonic 

Ritual) Abd. 

The Black Do. ,, 

, and A. I. AfcConnochie. 

The Red (Masonic Ritual) Abd. 1882, 2d ed. 1889. 
The Green Do. ,, 1883, „ 1893. 

The Blue l?o. Abd. 1885. 

The Royal Order of Scotland Do. „ 1889. 
Royal Arch Principals' Installations 

Do. „ 1890. 

Craft Free Masonry Do. ,, 1890. 

Cruickshank, fames, A Collection of up- 
wards of 100 of the most popular 
Airs, &c. Abd. N.D. 

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The Flutina and Accordion Teacher. Lond. 1 851. 

Cummingy John. 

Sermon on Joshua xxiii., 14 

On Psalm xii., i 

On Psalm xxi., 1 1 

Remarks on Bentley on Popery 

On Jude 3 

Differences among Dissenting Ministers ,, 

On Death of Benj. Robinson 

Cwnming, fohn^ D.D. 

Watchman, what of the night? 
And- seventy-four other publications omitted from 
. Mr. Robertson's ** Hand List." 
Dalgamo, George, Lists of this Author's Pamphlets 
and MSS.— Sloane MSS. 4377— will be 
found in Gibson's Bthl. of Shorthand. 
DcUrymple, C. E., The Silver Cup of 

Calder of Assuanley, Strathbogie Edin, 1859. 
Tumulus at Auchleven Premnay 
Cairn at Pittodiie 

Shell Mounds, E. Coast of Aberdeen- 
shire 
The Stone Circle at Crichie 
Notice of An Ancient Portrait 
Dalyellj J. G.y Brief Analysis of the 
Ancient Records of the Bishopric 
of. Moray 
Danson, J.'M., The Knowledge of God. Abd. 1885. 
Davidson'y Alex. /?., The Preciousness of 

Christ. 30. pp. ,, 1876. 

Lectures Expository and Practical Edin. 1859. 

Davidson f C. B.y Stone Cists at Broom - 

end, Inverurie 
Davidson, Alex. D. , Syllabus of Materia 

Medica, &c. 
Davidson, George, Archie's Box, or the 
Stationmaster's Warning, Broad- 
sheet 
Davidson, John, The Dying Father and 
Husband 
The Priest and the Bishop, or the 
Robslaw Rant, a new Episcopal 
. Hyiiih. 4 pp. 
The Accounte of some Anciente 
Things, &c. 
Davidson, John Morrison, The Book of 

Lords Lond. 1884. 

The Book of Erin „ 1888. 

Davidson, Peter, The Violin Gw. 187 1 „ 1880. 

Man Know Thyself „ 1878. 

Davidson, Thomas, Bleek's Origin of 

Language N.Y. 1869. 

Parmenides St. Louis ,, 

Rosmini's Autobiography Bost. 1883. 

Rosmini's Psychology. 3 vols. Lond. 1884. 

Giordano Bruno, &c. Bost. 1886. 

Scartazzini's Handbook to Dante ,, 1887. 

Davidson, William. 

Curriculi Chymici — pars tertia 
Do. pars prima 

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De Sale, Terra et Lege Salica 

Observationes sur 1' Antimonia 

Commentationum Sublimis, dec. Hag. 

Theophrasti veridici Scoti. Doctoris 

Medici Plico-Mastix (printed at 

Aberdeen) Dantzic 

Collectanea Chimica Antw. 

Davie, James, The Schoolmaster's Musical 

Assistant. No. i. Edin. 

Part First of the Complete Repository, 

&c. Abd. 

Dawson, Aineas MacdonnelL 

Temporal Sovereignty of the Pope Lond. 
The N.W. Territory Ottawa 

The N.W. Territories and Brit. 

Columbia 
Pius IX. 

Last Defender of Jerusalem 
Zenobia, a Poem 
The Deer Case 
The Deeside Guide 
Delectus ex Aeliano Polyaeno aliisque. 

i2mo Abd. 

(The first Greek book printed in Aberdeen, 

Demaus, Robert, Selections from Paradise 

Lost Edin, 

Dempster, Thomas, Epithalamion ,, 

Panegyris in Jacobi Vassorii, &c. Paris 

Eucharisticon dictum, &c. 

Corippius De Laudibus Justini Minoris 

Epinicion, &c. 

J. Rosinus Antiquitatum Romanorum 

Decemviratus abrogatus „ 

Panegyricus Jacobo M. Brit. Regi Lend. 

Ad illustriss. virum Jac. Hay, &c. ,, 

Asserti Scotise, &c. Bonon. 

Scotorum Scriptorum Nomenclatura 

De Juramento, &c. 

Votum Divse Virgin i 

Accoltis De Bello, &c, 

AldrOvandi's Quadropedum, &c. 
Description of the Alford Valky Railway 
Dewar, Daniel, Observations on the Irish 

Discourses 

Sermon ; Christian Knowledge Socy. Edin. 

The Faithful Ministry Gw. 

Moral Philosophy. 2 vols. Lond. 

The Nature, &c., of the Atonement. 

On Revivals Abd. 

Progressive Development of the Plan 
of Redemption. 

Body of Divinity. 

The Church 

The Holy Spirit 

Evidences of Divine Revelation 

The Believer's Charter 

Manual of Devotion 

Communion Services of the Church 
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Confessions of Faith necessary Edin. 

Inspiration of the Scriptures. i2mo 

1800. 8vo, 1804. 8vo Gw. 

Dickie y Geoi'ge^ A Flora of Ulster Lond. 

Dickson^ Robert, Who was Scotland's 
first Printer 
Examples of Early Scottish Typo- 
graphy Abd. 
Dinnie, Robert, Cauld Kail Haet Again Abd. 
Donald, Adam, Life and Character of. Phd. N. D. ( 
Dojialdson, fames, Agric. Survey of Banff Edin. 

Do. Kincardine ,, 

Donaldson, /ohn,A.gr\c\x\\.\xxa\ Biography. Lond. 
Donaldson, Walter, Synopsis locorura 

communium, &c. Franc. 

Electa Laertiana ,, 

Lachrymae tumulo Walliae Princ. Sedan. 
Dougall, Wm, (Keith), Ilist. of a Case 

of Ilius Med. Com. 

Douglas Family, Synopsis of the Genealogy Lond. 
Douglas of Tilwhilly, Hist, of the Family ,, 
Douglas, Francis, A Pastoral Elegy Abd. 

Obstacles to the Improvement of 

Land ,, 

Life of James Crichton of Elsmie ,, 

Four Letters on Celibacy & Marriage Lond. 
Familiar Letters, &c. ,, 

Douglas, fames J., The Voice of Prayer Abd. 
Points of Difference. 
Meditational Sernions. 
Sketch of the Scottish Episcopal Ch. 
Douglas, Sylvester, Speech in the House 

of Commons Dublin 

Life of James Mercer (with his Poems) Lond. 
Dissertatio de Stimulis Leyd. 

Douglas, William, In Caroli Regis, &c. 

4to. Edin. 

Downie, Murdo, Marine Survey, E. Coast 

of Scotland Lond. 

Dfummond, fames, Scottish Market 

Crosses Edin. 

Duff Family, Genealogical Memoirs of 

the Duffs Abd. 

Duff, Anne fane Wharton^ The Minister's 

Story, p.p. Bf. 

Duff, M. E. G., Expedit laboremus Lond. 

Duff, Wm., Critical Observations, &c. 
History of Rhedi 
Last Address of a Clergyman in the 

decline of life Abd. 

Dun, Finlay, Solfeggi and Scale Exercises Edin. 
Vocal Melodies of Scotland ,, 

Wood's Songs of Scotland ,, 

Lays from Strathearn Gw. 

Musical Scrap Book Edin. 

Orain na'h Albain ,, 

Dun, Patrick, ed. Liddel's Artis Conser- 

vandi Abd. 

Dun, Sir Patrick, On Analysis of Mineral 
Waters 
Case of Sir P. Dun, &c. (Brit. Mus.) 
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by G. Osborne Dub. 

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1862. 


>> 


1866. 


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1868. 


Lond. 


1869. 


Edin. 


1870. 



Dun, William, Arcus Apoilinaris, &c. Leyd. 1653. 
Dunbar, Arch, Hamilton, Scottish Coats 

of Arms, &c. Edin. 1 89 1. 

Dunbar, Gavin, Epistolare de tempore, 

&c., in Reg. Epis. AM. ii. 236. 

Dunbar, fames, De Primordiis,*&c. Lond. 1779. 

Duncan, Francis, Our Garrisons in the 

West 
Duncan, George, Marston Brothers 
George Stanley 

Duncan, fames Matthews, On Displace- 
ments of the Uterus 

The Statics of Pregnancy 

The advancement of Midwifery 

Brauno's Uroemic Convulsions, &c. 

Is Ovariotomy justifiable ? 

Litzmann's Osteomalacia 

Fecundity, &c. 

Researches in Obstetrics 

On Perimetritis and Parametritis 

Mortality of Childbed, &c. 

The Mechanics of Natural and Mor- 
bid Parturition ,, 1875. 

On the Female Perineum Lond. 1878. 

Clinical Lectures ,, 1879. 

On Sterility, &c. „ 1884. 

Memoir by his sister, p.p. 

Duncan, fohn, ed. Robinson's Lexicon of 

the Greek New Test. Edin. 1838. 

Duncan, fohn. Life of, by W. Jolly Lond. 1883, 

Duncan, John, Essay on Genius Edin. 1814. 

Philosophy of Human Nature ,, 1815. 

Duncan, Wm., Discourse on the Roman 

Art of War Lond. 1755. 

ed. a Greek New Testament ,, 

,, Ainsworth Latin Dictionary ,, 1825. 

Life in Scot. Register Edin. 1794. 

Duncan, ^w.. The Stephenson Centenary ,, 1881, 
Duncan, W. A,, Duncan's Weekly 

Register Sydney 1843. 

Plea for N.S. Wales Constitution ,, 1856. 

De Queiros' Memorial (trans.) „ 1874. 

Duthie, Robert, Scenes of the Past Stonehav. 1853. 
The Duthie Park Alxi. 1883. 

Dyce, Robert, On Puerperal Convulsions ,, 1868. 

Dyce, William, Electro- Magnetism (Black- 
well Prize Essay). 

Letter to Lord Meadowbank Edin. 1837. 

Report to the Board of Trade, &c. Lond. 1840. 

Book of Common Prayer with the 
Canto Fermo. 2 vols. 

Theory of the Fine Arts 

Report on Iron, &c., Exhibition of 
185 1 

On the National Gallery 

Shepherds and Sheep. 

(To be continued. ) 






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1842-3. 
1844. 

I85I. 
1853. 



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Mr. J. J. Haldane Burgess contributes an 
important article, on Some Shetland Folk-Lore, 
to the January number of the ** Scottish Review." 



138 SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [February, 1895. 

LOCAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. should be able to overtake. Eveninmy"Hand- 

I DESIRE to offer my best thanks to the anony- List," rough and imperfect as it necessarily and 

mous writer on this subject, the first instalment confessed y is, there are many iteins mentioned 

of whose contribution appears in the January which will have to be ruled out of the Biblio- 

number. The extent and variety of his know- grapjiy itself, because their retention would 

ledge, as shown in his mention of many works consistently lead to the inclusion of other items 

which ought to find a place in my contemplated <iy"e beyond my attainment, and to the swelling 

Bibliography, as well as his manifest genuine of the more material volume beyond reasonable 

and intelligent sympathy with the aims of that '"""«■ O" a like showing Journalistic matter, 

enterprise, are such as cleariy entitle him to the J^e absence of which is so pathetically bewailed 

warm gratitude of all interested in the subject. by the writer, will be rigidly excluded, as will 

From this brief expression of my grateful a'^" »» contributions to Magazines, volumes of 

recognition of the value of his services, present Transactions of Societies and such like, unless, 

and prospective, I proceed to make a few indeed, they have been reproduced in separate 

observations upon some of his introductory boojc or pamphlet form. A pity it is that it is 

remarks, and also upon some of the authors so, for in many of these occasional and ephemeral 

whose names appear in his hst so far as contributions lies embedded material of the 

published ; and I do this the more readily, as it greatest interest and value. But for this very 

may enable both him and others to understand reason they deserve a separate treatment of 

somewhat of the position I have been compelled '^eir own, and the individual who will give them 

by circumstances to take up. '* «.'", deserve and will doubtless receive, a 

Like most of those who have ever embarked, ^P?^'^' "^f"^ of grateful recognition, 
or thought of embarking, on a work of the kind ^'''^ 'han this however, I have also found it 

in question, the writer evidently has dreams and "^^^''^^/^k^'"' {! r"*;''^**'"^^ f,'*™. ""f ^^ 

visions which, as such, excite interest and °? ]^^^^^ '^at, though no bom or bred m the 

admiration by their very largeness and useful- district they are more or less remotely rekt^ 

ness. But the case is somewhat altered when »» f^""''" ^^^'?"K"' V "„ ^^T' '^^T'^^i^ 

the attempt has seriously to be made to convert "arclay, and Bishop Burnett are types of such 

.V -ru- -i-i^.-i^ *. cases. To recosniise these would open the door 

these airy fabrics into substantial structures, ;^"^^^* ; ''V, u * r -^^^ Tu j 

every stone of which has to be hewn out, and '« »" f^"^\ ^""ff?^^ ^P% of writers gathered 

dressed, and adjusted. It is then tha the ^'''^ ^"1"*^ of the civilised world. So wi h 

practical difficulties present themselves, and by ^''f ,r„f ^ J^TI ^u^%^°\^^'' Agriculturist), 

fu„-. u- 1- -. J • . J »u J and Professor J. S. Blackie, they are recognised 

their multiplicity and variety damp the ardour, , 1 ■ r .u j » -u •• • 

1 „£ ', -11 .u« . . • ., „f by me only in so far as they made contributions 

and so often kill the enterprise of many .•',•. . ' .-, .. ' •. .-n j -^v ^u 

enthus' sts to literature while they were identified with the 

_,,■,, , district ; for it would be absurd to claim them 

To those who have the courage to persevere, ^^ ,„^,^, ^^^^^^^ ;„ ^^ „f ^„ ^^^j^ y^^ 

It not seldom happens that, as their work pro- productions, simply because they happened in 

ceeds, they find themselves more and more f^^ ^^^^^^ „f j^g^;/ ^^^eer to reside for a short 

^u"*^'?'?^^ '°c-'™'* n""^"" ''^^'u^^ and restrict jj^^ ;„ ^^^ district, and to produce one or more 

their field. Especially must this be the case ^^^ks during that residence, 
with those who, like myself, can give to their q^^^^ j^jg ^^^e suggested to me by entries 

arduous and usually self-imposed task only the ;„ j^e writer's list, so far as it is revealed, but 

spare moments that can be gleaned from a full ^^^- ^^^^^^ occupied so much of your space 

and busy life. It would be otherwise undoubt- j ^ii,«„„t ^^^ ^efer to them, but only express 

ediy, ifany could be found who, in addition to j^^ ^ j^^j ^jj^ regard to such of them as 

the requisiteknowledge and enterprise, possessed 3^^^,^ ^j^^rly find a place in my Bibliography, 

the qualification of abundant leisure ; while an j^^ writer is in a position to favour m^ if^not 

almost ideal condition would be attained if a few ^^^^ ^^^ opportunity of examining the actual 

such favourably endowed indniduals could be ^„rks, at least with a full and accurate biblio- 

got to agree to attack the work by sections, graphical description of them. 

Only m such circumstances, as it seems to me, ° "^ "^ a w » 

could it reasonably be expected that an enter- "• "^' Robertson. 

prise of the magnitude and exhaustiveness. Public Library, Aberdeen, 
shadowed forth by the writer, should be success- 
fully carried through. For myself, working 



»•» 



single-handed in the way already indicated, I o » r • ^1. ..-.^i r 

have found it necessary, the farther I have go^ie, ^.^^ '^ ^ ^'^^ "" "" "^"^ magazine 

to limit my range, and to exclude from my scope which will be issued this month by Messrs. 

much that I believed and hoped at the outset I Wm. Hodge & Co., Glasgow. 



February, 1895.] SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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NOTABLK xMEN AND WOMEN OF 
ABKRDFENSHIRE. 

96. Burnett^ Thomas^ of Kern nay : Literary and 
Political News Writer, Friend of the Electress Sophia, 
Leibnitz, &c. Horn in 1651;, he spent a large part of 
his early and middle life on the continent in France, 
Holland, and particularly in Hanover, where he was 
held in much esteem by the Electress Sophia, by 
whom he was trusted with many delicate negotiations. 
The numerous letters which passed between him and 
that princess on a variety of subjects, political, 
theological and philosophical, are full of valuable 
materials for a literary history of the period. Mr. 
Burnett, who had travelled extensively, possessed a 
good amount of knowledge, gathered from books, and 
improved by experience at home and abroad. He 
was a correspondent of his cousin, Bishop Burnett, and 
of the celebrated Leibnitz, the latter of whom, in a 
letter to George Stepney, who was English Ambassador 
at Dresden and Vienna, says in 1695, '* There is here 
(Hanover) a Scotch gentleman named Burnett, a 
relation of the Bishop of Salisbury, who is a man of 
much acquirement, and has profited well by his 
travels. " Sometime after this, in 1 703, when returning 
through France from a secret mission of the Electress 
to England, Mr. Burnett was, by contrivance of the 
Jesuits, arrested and committed to the Bastille, where, 
but for the repeated and earnest intercession of the 
Electress, and of her daughter the Queen of Prussia, 
he might have perished unheard of. By the inter- 
position, however, of the Duchess of Orleans, niece 
of the Electress, he was at length set at liberty. 
Leibnitz was also active in obtaining the release of 
the incarcerated Scot. Notwithstanding the desire 
of his mother that Mr. Burnett should be rewarded 
for his services on the accession of the Hanoverian 
dynasty to the English throne, George L neglected 
to do anything on his behalf. He died in 1729. 

97. Burr^ James : Minor Poet. Born at Tarves, 
1863. Noticed by Edwards in Modern Scottish Poets, 

98. Burton^ John Hill: Historian, &c. Born at 
Aberdeen, 22n(l August, 1809, he graduated at 
Marischal College in 1829. After studying law, he 
devoted himself chiefly to letters. In 1854 he was 
appointed Secretary to the Prison Board of Scotland, 
and subsequently Historiographer of Scotland. He 
died 1 88 1. He was a D.C.L. Oxford, and LL.D. 
Edinburgh and Aberdeen. A contributor to the West- 
minister Rei)ie7v: Blackwood, The Scotsman and 
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Among his original works 
may be named Life of Hume, 1846. Lives of Simon 
Lord Lovat and Duncan Forbes of Culloden, 1847. 
Political and Social Economy, 1849. A Manual of 
Scottish Law; A Treatise on the Law of (Scottish) 
Bankruptcy ; History of Scotland fro fn the Revolution 
to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection, 1853. 
The History of Scotland from Agricola^s Invasion to 
the Revolution of 16S8, 7 vofs., 1867-70. New 
Edition, 8 vols., 1873. The Book Hunter, 1862. 
The Scot Abroad, 2 vols., 1864. The Cairngorm 
Mountains, 1S64. Reigyi of Queen Anne, iSSo. He 
has also edited the Register of Privy Council of Scot- 
lafid for iS4S'7S^ and assisted in editing Bcntham's 
Works, &c. 



99. ByreSf James, of Tonley : Antiquary, Art 
Connoisseur. Born Tonley, Tough Parish, about 
1730, and died 181 7. He was distinguished for his 
knowledge of architectural antiquities and the fine 
arts, and lived much at Rome, where he gave lectures 
on his favourite themes. A posthumous and valuable 
work on Sepulchres of Etruria contains interesting 
archaeological lore. 

100. Booth, Jane, Mrs. Ferrier: Minor Poet. 
Mrs. Ferrier is a native of Auchmaleddie, New Deer, 
and was born there sometime in the 6th decade of this 
century. Her father was an eminent agriculturalist, 
and her mother, through whom she inherits that 
estate, belonged to the family of Parkhill, Monquhitter. 
Educated at Aberdeen and Dublin, Miss Booth was a 
young lady of high accomplishment and culture, when, 
through the death of her uncle, Alexander, in 1889, 
she liecame proprietrix of Parkhill. She was married 
to Dr. Thomas Ferrier on 13th December, 1892. 
This able and promising young physician, who was in 
the colonial service, unfortunately died six months 
after on board ship returning from Africa, smitten by 
malarial fever. His widow has issued a volume of 
poems entitled Bey of id the Shadoros. She is a frequent 
contributor to magazines. An active philanthropist, 
she is president of " The Women's Guild, Monquhitter," 
and takes a deep interest in " The Scotch Girls* 
Friendly Society,' and "The Onward and Upward 
Association." To the monthly organ ol the Society 
she contributes frequently. Mrs. Ferrier is at present 
engaged on a literary work which will probably soon 
appear in volume foim. 

loi. Cadenhead, William: Minor Poet. Born in 
Aberdeen, 1819, bred a factory worker, his mind early 
took a poetical bent through the reading of Beattie's 
MinstreL As early as 1839 he published a tale in 
verse, entitled The Prophecy, being an endeavour to 
realise the fulfilment of Thomas the Rhymer's 
vaticination concerning the old brig of Balgownie, 
near Aberdeen, celebrated by Byron in Don Juan, 
Continuing to write to the newspapers and other 
periodicals in 1853, he published a volume Flights of 
Fancy and Lays of Bon- Accord. In 1856 he published 
a guide book to his native city, under the title The 
Neiv Book of Bon-Accord. This little volume has 
been very popular. Latterly Mr. Cadenhead has 
been a wholesale wine and spirit merchant in Aberdeen. 
Some of his verses have appeared in Rogers's Scottish 
Minstrel and other similar collections. 

102. Calder, John, D.D. : Dissenting Divine, 
London ; Journalist, &c. Born in Aberdeen in 1732, 
he graduated at the University of his native city. In 
later life he became Private Secretary to the Duke of 
Northumberland, but is described as having been 
originally a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, 
He came to London under the patronage of the noble 
Duke referred to, with whom he had become acquainted 
while residing in the neighbourhood of Alnwick 
Castle. He published in association with Mr. John 
Nichols The TcUler, with notes, 6 vols, 1786, also 
Pierre Francois le Courayer^s> last Sentiments on 
Religion, from the French, 1787. While minister of a 
Dissenting Congregation near the Tower, he contributed 
to the London press, and is known as having engaged 



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in an abortive attempt to prepare for the press an 
edition of the Cyclopaedia, afterwards edited by 
Dr. Rees. He died in 1815. 

103. Calvert J Henry ( Talbot): Tragedian. Born in 
Aberdeen, 1833, bred as an architect, he followed 
that profession till, in 1862, by the advice of his father, 
he went on the stage. From the outset he took a 
good positiim in his profession, and was highly popular 
l)oth in Great Britain and the Colonies. He spent his 
closing years as teacher of elocution in Glasgow, and 
died in 1894. 

104. Cameron, Alexander (Kev.): Bishop of 
Roman Catholic Church. Born Auchindryne, lirae- 
mar, in 1747, he was consecrated Bishop of Maximin- 
opolis in 1798, resigned his charge, 1825, and died 
1828. 

105. Cameron, William { Rev,): Poet and Hymnist. 
Bom at or near Pananich, a hamlet near Ballater, in 
1751. He graduated at Marischal College, 1770, was 
ordained minister of Kirknewton Parish, 1786, and 
died 181 1. His first work, a collection of poems 
published 1780, was anonymous. Along with Rev. 
John Logan and Dr. John M orison of Canisbay, 
Mr. Cameron aided greatly in preparing the paraphrases 
sung in the Scottish Church. He is author of the 
14th, 17th and 66th paraphrases, and of portions of 
the 32nd, 40th and 49th. He died in 181 1, and a 
posthumous volume of verse was issued in 1813. He 
also wrote a review of the French Revolution, and his 
song. As o^er the Highlafid hills I hied, is still sung. 

106. Campbell, Colin : Architect. A countryman 
of the famous architect Gibbs, and said to have had 
fewer faults, but less imagination. He published 
between 1715 and. 1725 a series of architectural 
designs named Vitruviiis Britannicus. He also 
published, 1 7 16, The Ancient and Modern History of 
the Balearic Islands, translated from the Spanish. 
Mr. Campbell was surveyor of works at Greenwich 
Hospital, and died 1734. 

107. Campbell, George, D.D. ( ProJ.): Theologian. 
Born 25th December, 17 19, in Aberdeen, he was 
educated at the Grammar School and University of 
his native town. Trained at first for the law, he was 
apprenticed to a Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh ; 
but abandoning that profession he studied for the 
church, and in 1748 was ordained to the pastorate of 
Banchory-Ternan parish; but in 1757 was translated 
to Aberdeen, and in 1759 was promoted to be Principal 
of Marischal College. His first important work, an 
answer to Hume's Essay on Miracles, appeared in 
1763, and in 177 1 Dr. Campbell was appointed to the 
Chair of Divinity and Church History in Marischal 
College, resigning at the same time his parochial 
charge. In 1776 appeared his Philosophy 0/ Rhetoric. 
In 1777 he published a sermon on The Success of the 
First Publishers of the Gospel considered as a proof of 

*its Truth. His largest and in various respects his 
greatest work was his He7v Translation of the Gospels, 
accompanied by preliminary Dissertations on the 
language and more peculiar phrases of the New 
Testament, and with critical notes on the portion 
translated. It appeared in 1778. As a critical 
commentary it is superior to any production of the 
period, and is still deserving of careful perusal. Dr. 



Campbell died in 1 796. His lectures on Church History 
and those also on Divinity, and on the Composition 
of Discourses, were published after his death. His 
work on Miracles is still valued, and has been described 
as **one of the most acute and convincing treatises 
that has ever appeared on the subject." Herzog's 
EfKyclopaedia of Historical, Doctritml and Practical 
Theology speaks of him **as the acutest and most 
cultivated theologian the Church of Scotland has 
produced." His portrait, by Archibald Robertson, 
hangs in the Trinity Hall, Aberdeen ; and a copy is 
introduced in the Mitchell window, Marischal Collie. 
108. Cant, Andreiv (Rev): Noted Covenanter. 
Said to have been a native of Aberdeen, and born 
1584, but more probably of the family of Glendye in 
Strachan parish, Kincardineshire. He was educated 
at the Grammar School and King's College, Aberdeen, 
where he graduated in 161 2. Acting as Humanist at 
King's in 1614, he was settled at Alford as parish 
minister prior to December, 161 7. Though coveted 
by the presbyterians of Edinburgh, Cant, by the 
opposition of the bishops, failed to obtain translation, 
but continued at Alford till 1629, when he took service 
with Lord Forbes of Pitsligo as tutor to his &mily, 
and held the appointment till 1633. In that year 
Cant was settled at Pitsligo in a new church built by 
Lord Forbes. Here as well as in Alford Cant gave 
himself with great earnestness to promote the interests 
of presbyterianism. He was a member of the famous 
Glasgow Assembly of 1638, and took an active part 
in the suppression of Episcopacy. In the same year 
he was translated to Newbattle, near Edinburgh. In 
1640 he was appointed a chaplain to the Scottish army 
in England, and was present at the entry into New- 
castle. Cant did not continue long in Newbattle, as 
in 1 641 we find him again in Aberdeen, minister of 
St. Nicholas parish church. Here he continued to 
labour till the Restoration, when he was deposed from 
the ministry, and died in 1663. He has often been 
called ** the apostle of the covenant in the north," and 
certainly was the most active partisan of the extreme 
presbyterian party in that quarter, and had great 
influence with the nobles who adhered to the covenant. 
He was opposed to the Engagement and joined the 
Protestors in 165 1. His writings are Titles of our 
Blessed Saviour, Aberdeen, 8vo ; Sermon preached in 
the Grey friars'' Church, Edinburgh, 1638 ; Two 
sermons and a discourse and exhortation on Renewing 
the National Covenant, republished in Glasgow 1841. 
A portrait is in the possession of the University of 
Aberdeen. 

W. B. R. W. 



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** BROKEN MEN" FROM THE 

HIGHLANDS. 

Many Scotchmen in the last century had to 
come under this category, when they found it 
necessary, as a matter of prudence, to lose their 
identity, and reappear as new men in parts of 
the country far from the place of their birth. It 
was truly a case of Vac victis after the loss of 
Sherriffmoor and Culloden, and the Lowlands 



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along the east and south of Scotland became a 
precarious refuge for those Highlanders who had 
fought unsuccessfully for the House of Stewart, 
and were thankful to escape with their lives. 
Under the circumstances they sacrificed home 
and family ties, and sought only for oblivion till 
better days should come. The clan name was 
laid aside for Smith, Black, or Thomson, and 
perhaps the old familiar glen was depopulated, 
so that there was no call to revert to unpleasant 
memories. The clan feuds, again, were often 
productive of similar necessities, when the 
quickest remedy for a violent deed of vengeance 
was a "moonlight flitting" and a careful covering 
up of the tracks. In those days the means of 
transport were few and limited : distance was a 
very important consideration, and within the 
limits the powers of extradition might be rather 
summary. There is certainly a kind of ** honour 
among thieves,** but the prospect of the hang- 
man's cravat and the lone sough of the widdie 
were heavy tests to the strength of fidelity. The 
safest course was at all costs to decamp and 
make their feet their friends. Now, the High- 
landmen may have been good cragsmen, and 
they could step high on the hillside and through 
the heather, but they were indifferent sailors, 
and their chief treasures were pride and poverty. 
They could generally do well when they found 
their uay across the Borders, but they had 
usually to leave their nest first on a short flight. 
When, then, Donald Menzies would find it 
barely safe for him to remain on the Moor of 
Rannoch, he would vanish from the view and no 
questions would be asked, but he would reappear 
in the Lothians as a stalwart ploughman, and 
William Moon might live in peace, marry there, 
and prove a useful prosperous citizen. It was 
no one's particular business to search into the 
antecedents of his neighbour, and a Scotchman 
can always be trusted to parry the thrusts of one 
who is bent on inquisitiveness. 

This leads me to ask your correspondents if 
any attempt has ever been made to follow up the 
track of those who had for political reasons to 
leave their birthplace in the highlands and 
become the ** Broken Men ? " They formed a 
recognised class, and were generally treated 
with a certain respect because they were known 
to have passed through hardships and difficulty : 
they were for the most part " political martyrs," 
and there may have been, even in those days, 
an "underground railway" to transmit the 
fugitives into places of safety, but these details 
must long be forgotten. The chief object of 
interest is the family history, and it is only at 
this late date that such a matter can be attended 
to. The tradition of my own name may be given 
as an example of what must have been true of 



many others. It is said that, early or about the 
middle of the last century, three brothers came 
down from the highlands and settled in Buchan 
under a new name, but there is no suggestion as 
to the origin of the assumed name. They threw, 
as usual, their staff*, and each brother took his 
own path as the head of his staff" pointed. Thus 
there were three families in Buchan called 
Gamack or Gammack, and the members of two 
or three generations ago could count kin and 
name the clan from which they were descended. 
In the present day all is lost except the vague 
tradition, and with another generation it will pass 
out of memory. Yet this is only one of many 
such cases that the times were producing, and I 
have often wondered if any one, with access to 
the records of the eighteenth century, has taken 
up the matter as a curious study, or whether it 
is for all time to be left untilled as a piece of 
fallow land. There is more than romance in the 
life of the old clans, and there is a strange 
fascination in those high grey hills and long 
winding glens. But part of our reverence for 
them may have its strength in their having been 
the homes of our forefathers, and to many of us 
the name of Culloden comes with a very pregnant 
meaning. This comer of archaeology would 
yield, I am convinced, very interesting results, 
and there should be ho special difficulty in 
beginning to work with the attention directed to 
it. It might be useful, however, at the outset, to 
gather up and put on record how much has 
sd ready been done. 

James Gammack, LL.D. 
Plymouth, Conn., U.S.A. 



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Samuel Rutherford's Prison. — In his 
classic Letters Rutherford frequently speaks 
about his "prison," and of himself as a "prisoner." 
He never was a prisoner in the generally accepted 
meaning of the term. By his utterances on 
ecclesiastical matters, and still more by the 
attacks on Arminianism, Rutherford gave offence 
to the Bishops of Galloway, and was, in con- 
sequence, banished to the city of Aberdeen. 
Although prohibited from preaching, he was 
allowed to come and go as he pleased within 
the town, but like Shimei the son of Gera, in the 
reign of Solomon (i Kings ii., 36, yj\ he was 
not permitted to extend his walk beyond the 
city gates. This appears to have been a favourite 
mode of silencing a too out-spoken preacher ; 
and there are many instances of ministers being 
similarly confined within the "granite city" and 
other towns in Scotland. 



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" Bog, Myrtle and Peat " is the title of a new 
volume of stories by Mr. Crockett, which will be 
published next month. 



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THE LATE 
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S WORKS. 



LIST OF FIRST EDITIONS. 



The Pentland Rising, a Page of History, 1666. 

Inland Voyage, 1878. 

Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh, 1878. 

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. 1879. 

Virginibus Puerisque, and other Papers, 1 881. 

Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882. 

New Arabian Nights, 1882. 

Treasure Island, 1883. 

Silverado Squatters, 1883. 

The Body Snatcher, 1884. 

Child's (iarden of Verses, 1885. 

Prince Otto : a Romance, 1885. 

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886. 

Kidnapped : Adventures of David Balfour, 1886. 

Merry Men and other Tales and Fables, 1887. 

Underwoods, 1887. 

Memories and Portraits, 1887. 

Black Arrow : a Tale of the Roses, 1888. 

Master of Ballantrae, a Romance, 1889. 

Father Damien : Letter to Rev. Doctor Hyde, 1890. 

Ballads, 1891. 

Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays, 
1892. 

Beach of Falesa and the Bottle. Imp. 1892. 

Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in 
Samoa, 1892. 

Island Nights Entertainments, 1893. 

Catriona, a se(juel to Kidnapped, 1893. 

R. L. Stevenson and Fanny Van de (irift (Mrs. 

Stevenson. 
More New Arabian Nights — The Dynamiter, 1885. 



Fleeming Jenkins Papers by Colvin, with Memoir 
by R. L. Stevenson, 1888. 

R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne. 
The Wrong Box, 1 889. 
The Wrecker, 1892. 
The Ebb Tide, 1894. L 



(Siueriee. 

946. Georce .Si even son.— George Stevenson, a 
Banffshire man, lx)rn 1751, educated for the ministry, 
went to Virginia, U.S.A., lost his properly by fire, 
and l)ecame a schoolmaster there. Would some 
Aberdeen reader kindly let me know whether that 
name is borne on the University and Divinity Hall 
Records in Aberdeen during the i)erio(l, say, 1765 
1780, and if so would he kindly furnish me with 
extract ? 

Scott's Fasti. — Has any one done for the other 
divisions of the Church of Scotland a parallel work to 
Scott's Fasti? if so, titles will oblige 

"Southern Cross." 

947. Elmslie, . . . — Elmslie, a contractor and 
master builder, owned Garden Nook Close near Royal 



Infirmary, Aberdeen, and died shortly after 1826. 
Wanted full particulars, Christian name, |iarenlage, 
and where buried. His son Mr. William Elmslie, 
Treasurer to the Commissioners of Police, Aberdeen, 
died at Kidd Lane about 1849. .Married (2nd time) 
about 1826 Miss Margaret Bro<lie, daughter of Rev. 
John Brodie, Relief Church, Al erdcen. Wanted his 
mother's name, exact dates, and where he w.is buried. 
.South Australia. ".Southern Cross." 

948. Parody of .Song Johnnie Copk. — On the 
Queen's first visit to Scotland, Her Majesty, owing to 
the discomforts of the voyage, landed at Leiih at a 
much earlier hour than the one announced, and 
proceeded to Holyrood, thus upsetting the arrange- 
ments of the magistrates of Edinburgh and other civil 
and military dignitaries who had intented to welcome 
her with all due i)omp and cerennmy. Many were 
the jokes at the ex|>ense of the discomforted Town 
Council ; one of the l>e5t taking the form of a parotly 
of the familiar song **Johnnie Cope." James Forrest, 
it may In; as well to premise, was Lord Provost of 
Edinburgh at the time. I can only recall a few lines, 
can any reader supply the whole of the verses, and 
give the name of the author ? 

'* Hey ! Jamie Forrest, are ye wankin' yet? 
Or are your Hailies snoriii' yet ? 
Gin ye were wankin' I would wait, 
And gang to the pier i' the mornin'. 

die me ma hat an' robes o' slate, 
Come Bailies wt- may catch her yet. 

Na, na, ma I^jrd, ye are too late, 
She's been through the toon this moniin'." 

It is scaicely necessary to add that the Queen, with 
her usual courtesy, made a formal entry into the 
ancient capital of Scotland at a more reasonable hour, 
and received the homage of the city fathers. 

Michael Mkrlin. 

949. Corki.it, a Dye. — In his now familiar 
volume The Stkkit Minister^ Mr. Crockett puts into 
the mouth of one of his characters the ** famous 
quatrain," as he style's it, — 

"The Slock, Milquharker, ."ind Ctaignine, 
The Brceshie and Craienaw ; 
The five l)cst hills for loiiiit. 
That cic the Star wife saw." 

A footnote (quoted from Harper^s Rambler in 
Gallinvay), explains the meaning of the word "cork- 
lit," which I have italicise<l : — "In old limes the 
rocks and cliffs of the Dungeon of Buchan were 
famous for a kind of moss known as "corklil," used 
for dyeing, the gathering of which formetl part of the 
livelihood of the peasantry. .\t one time it was much 
used for dyeing soldiers' red coats." What is the 
lK)tanical name for this moss, and can any reader 
supply pari icu jars respecting its use in (ialloway or 
other parts of Scotland, and when it was su|)erseded 
by more mcxlern dyes ? Michael Merlin. 

950. Charles LKsr.iE, Jacobite HalladSincer. 
— Cjin any one give particulars of the history of Chas. 
Leslie, a celebrate<l Jacobite ballad singer, who died 
in 1782, aged 105 years. Any reference to 1x>oks or 
magazines containing information about Lesile would 
be highly appreciate. L. 



Fkbruarv. 1895.1 SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



answers. 

648. Ai.EXANURR WaTSTIN, AUTHOK DK " KAIL 

Brosb," &<;. {V., 171, 18S).— In his very characlei- 
islic volume. -Vref//r4 -Sufilf .' lU Wtaltk, H'tsdem, and 
Social Signifiiaatt, Professor J. S. BInckie inlrudnccs 

■he popular sung "The Kail Urose orAuld Scotland " 
Wtlh Ine following particulars concerning the uri|^n of 

"II was a favourite notion with the London 
l^ilosopher, Mr. Ruckle, that the char&clcr nf c1 liferent 
races of men cleiienils 011 the kind of food on which 
they are nourished ; and no doubt there a b eerlaln 
anioun'. of Irulh in his view ; enough, at all events, to 
give a hue of philiisai>hic plausibility 10 Fielding's 
umous song, in which the eating of lOBSt-bcef is 
BGcredilcd with the proiluction of thai stout warrior- 
breed of the seas, each one of whom, Neluin used to 
Kay, was equal to three Frenchman : — 

' When mifhiy rauI-InT wu Ihc Kngliihninn'i food, 

Oil. ihe n»M-bMf is Old Englind,"' * 
And oh, Ihc Old KngU-i- roMi-bcef !■ 
This song, naturally a great (avourilc with the 
Bubstanlial Iceilcis of the Knglish aimy and navy, 
happened to be ]ilayed peraistenlly l>y an Engliah 
regiment in the granite capital of the north, when 
stationed there during the time of the American war. 
The AberJonians as good Scotsmen, Imoat indeed 
the toughest bmins anil the hroailesi skulls of all bniad 
Scotland ; they also glory in the Inrlh or ihe entertain. 
mentof not a few very notable poets, as Barlmur, Rosi, 
Beattie, William Thnni, .Skinner, Still, (Irant, Dr. 
Waller Smith, and not a few ulliers; hi it was but 
natural that the cimstant echo of this English 

SloiificaliDn of l>eef-ealing should rouse a cuunter- 
lost in bvuur of Scottish diet, as it did in the Iveasl 
of Alexander Watson, a tailor and deaciin of the 
Incarporalol Trades in the eily that lies between two 
livers. Watson was a. nuin of no litciary pretentions, 
and sang, like many of our best popular song-writers, 
■o to speak, only "by accident, iir ' for fiin,' as Burns 
lued to say ; his pride, so far as he had any, w-os 
confined to the fact that ho had nindc Lord Byron's 
' first pair o' breeks,' of which Moore, in his Life of 
Ihe noble rhymer, failed t» make due mention ; lint 
ii» hard-headed fellow-ciliECna will ix prouder of his 



g than of his tailoring ; and the ' Kail Hi 
ind ' will be vans from Ihe 
Misnssippi, on festive uccasiurii, na long as Highland 



aX' 



AuTd Scotland ' will li 



n Ihe Gangei ti 



I shall nut duck Iwfore Ixindon rcit-la|>e, 
genuine Highlanders, bred on the hills, shall nut lie 
uhamed of showing their brawn." 

The version given b^ Professor Blackie differs slightly 
frotn Ihe one printed in these ciilumns. Anuldiiionol 
vene is given, following the one commencing " Thou 
out sodgers were dress'd," Kc. ; and verse 5, which 

Spcnn in S. N. &" Q., is nol inserted. The 
ditional verse is as follows : — 



WlihDut Eiigll-.h 



ougtuiidWn 



And ilic Erncc tKn wi«h ro>CFl plenty of (tiwc 
Oh, Ibe K«t bwc," &c. 

Jamks W. Scott. 
747, Salt ik ScotI-and (VL, 143, 174).— From 
his answer to this query one would infer (hat " Mac " 
is of opinion thai Scotland, instead of relying for 
supplies of salt on other countries, was always in a 
position not only to supply her own wants, liul to 
Eiport large quanlilies. This supposition is not borne 
out by facts. The Ledger of Hugh Halyburton (which 
eilends from the years 1493 to 1505], a Scottish 
merchant conducting commission business for hi* 
countrymen at Mlddleliui^, and conservator ofScottish 

Sirivil^es there, contains many entries uf salt imported 
rom Continental towns. "Salt was imported from 
France," says M. Francisque- Michel in his Critical 
Itiquiry iHto Ihe ^tellish Laiiguegt, "at least before 
1508, the dale of an agreement passed between 
James V., and Eustacius Koghe, Fleming, for the 
making of this substance. It did not come from 
Salius, so celebrated fnr iis manu&cture of salt, but 
from Rrouagc, and was ' recuil to be worth in fraught ' 
so many ' tunnia Ateion' — i.e., Olerun in Aunis. 
lamieson, in supposing Aleron might be from Fr. li la 
reni/e, or from Ihc name of Orleans, is in error." In 
Ihe CiisloiHS and Valuatiia, ^ MerckaniUus, ifioi, 
" Bay or French Salt " is charged 30s. the bull. The 
"tun Aleron " seems to have been a standard weight. 
The laws of CHeron, says (he authority already quoted, 
which are said to have been drawn up as early as the 
Iwelflh cenluiy, formed a sort of maritime code, and 
guided decisions nut merely in France, but in other 
countries. Tames \V. Scott. 

831. Contractions in Oi.ij Dekhs, &c. (VIL, 
92). — In days of old scribes were wont to shorten 
their tedious ialraurs by using contraclions 1 this 
appears to lie the only explanation of the prsctice to 
which "J." draws attenlion. The early printers also 
employed an clalwrate system of contractions in their 
printed copies of MSS. The printer's reason for 
following the custom of Ihe scribes was probably 
scarcity of type, or " letter," as it is technically 
termed. Contracted words were distinguished by a 
short stroke placeil over the teller immediately 

E receding Ihe one omitted ; e.g. ad^nnd ; hi — him ; 
6 = from; tha^lhan (or then) ; and so on. The 
letter "y" in the coolraclionsye = the ; yl = lhal ; are 
corruplions of the AnglO'Snuon character or syintot 
for "th." 

The following verses, from the Bihle of Tyndale, 
Coverdale, and Rogers (Ihe first ccmplele printed 
vtrsien of the Bible in Ellgli^h), will illustrate the 
practice followed by our early printers. This version 
of the Scriptures was admitted into England by royal 
license in 1536; Ihe verses are from the Book of 
Jonah, which Tyndale printed about Ihe year IJ33. 

IT " The they sayde unto hi, lei vs for whose cause 
we are thus trowhled : what is thine occupacio, whence 
comest Ihou, how is Ihy coire callcfl, & of what nacion 
art thou? 

H And the they toke Jonas, & cost hi in to ye se, 
& the se lefte ragynge. And ye men feared Ihe lotde 



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ezcedingly : & sacrificed sacrifice vnto the lorue : 
and vowed vowes." 

This excerpt also illu.'kt rates the accurac)' of the 
translation, and its close relation !<> the "Authorised 
Version" of l6ii, which, indeed, was largely Ijasetl 
upr>n it. James W. Scott. 

941. Ai.nKKMRN IN Si.oii.ANn (VIIL, 126).— In 
Rev. Kirkwrxxl Ilewars interesting work, ** A Little 
Scottish WVfrld," just published, the author remarks 
that in the Kurgh Reconls which l»egin in 1470, '* the 
rather Knglish -sounding word '.dderman' for magistrate 
twice cxrcurs," He however states elsewhere, p. 20, 
that the officials of the hurgh are *'a Prov<ist (formerly 
Chancellor, still earlier I'uirsman), two Hailics, four 
C'ouncillors, a Treasurer, a Fiscal, and a Liner." 
From this it may l>e inferretl that in the .Ayrshire 
Inirghs, prior to 1 470, the de>criplive epithet alderman 
for magistrate had practically died out, though for a 
little after that date the memory of its use still lingered 
on the minds of some. 

I>ollar. W. H. K. W. 

933. "To <:o TO THF. Stonf:s" (VIIL, 92, no). 
— Peccavi ! I>ecause (i) I shoul,! have acknowledged 
Mxmer the courtesy of the two gentlemen who have 
answered my (|uery ; and (2) the U)«jse w«)rding of that 
query has caused .Mr. .Mackinlay to suppjKe the phrase 
quoted is still in u^^c. At the time of writing I had 
not the lHX)k Ixrside me for reference. The l>oiik 
(though of course that is a matter of indifference now) 
is I<rd>ert Naismith's Stonchouse^ Historical ami 
Traditional^ and the exact words employed are, "This 
is a form of expression that was common up to recent 
times in some localities." J. C'aldf.r Ross. 



Xiterature. 



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climbing. A short paper by Mr. J. C. Barnett 
on Mountain Measurements is followed by an 
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on The P'lowering Plants and Fern Allies of the 
Cairngorms. .Mr. John Clarke describes the 
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Urimmond Hill finds in Mr. Alex. Copland a 
most genial and racy historian. The indefatig- 
able editor, Mr. McConnochic, brings up the 
rear with an article desrriptivc of the Kastern 
Cairngorms. The Club, chiefly through its 
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V. of the Archaeologia Scotica^ to illustrate 
Professor Norman Macpherson's paper On the 
Chapel and Ancient Buildings of King's College^ 
Aberdeen (republished by D. Wyllie &. Son in 
1890). This, a lithograph, is an exact repro- 
duction ; 7%" X 5", lettered KiNCi's College 
OF Old Aberdeen from a picture in the 
College supposed to have been painted 
BY Jamieson. 

Next comes the representation in a view of 
Old Aberdeen in Slezer's Theatrum Scotiae, 
Lond. 1693 ; Facies Ciuitatis Aberdoniae 
Veteris The Prospect of Old Aberdien. 
The point of view is again the South West. The 
North East tower appears battlemented, with a 
small dome shaped erection at one corner. This 
view has been reproduced, not merely in the 
later editions of Slezer, but, reduced to lo^^" x 
6", in Gordon's Description of Both Touns^ 1842 ; 
and, reduced to 6^" x 5", with a slightly altered 
foreground, in Beeverell's I^s Dt^lices de la 
Grande Bretagne^ Leiden, 1707 ; lettered VUE 
de la Vieille Aberdeen. 

In the Grangerised copy of Kennedy's Annals 
bequeathed to the University Library by Dr. 
James Mitchell {S. N. ^ Q., IIL, 72) is inserted 
a curious print, 11 K" x 6>^", lettered A South 
East View of King's College Old Aber- 
deen, 1785. This shows, in most peculiar 
perspective, the range of dormitories erected 
circa 1725 through the munificence of Dr. James 
Eraser, " Collegii Rcgii Maecenas " ; also the 
new manses built for the professors of Greek 
and Mathematics, and still tenanted by the 
occupants of these chairs. 

Cordiner in his Romantic Ruins and Remark- 
able Prospects of North Britain^ Lond., 1795, 
gives a view from the North West, 7%" x $>^", 
lettered "King's College, Aberdeen. C. 
Cordiner pinx. P. Mazell sculp. Published as 
the Act directs, April 1792, by Peter Mazell, 
engraver, 7 Bridges Street, Covent Garden". 
This print is the first to do justice to the beauty 
of the Crown Tower, the details of which, how- 
ever, are incorrectly rendered. The north wall 
of the chapel shows six buttresses instead of 
seven. The print also gives a glimpse of the 
colonnade which formed so characteristic a 
feature of the North side of Dr. Frasei-'s 
building. 

In Dr Mitchell's collection is what seems to 
be a reduced copy of Cordiner's view, 3^ x 2%'\ 
lettered "King's College Aberdeen. W. 
Read Sc." 

Wilson's Historical Account and Delineation 
of Aberdeen^ Abd., 1822, contains an excellent 
steel engraving of the College as seen from the 
South ; /^Vz" x y/z". " G. Smith delt. Eng^. 
by J. Swan, Glasgow ". A portion of the Chapel 



is visible — also the Hall of 1500. Lithographic 
reproductions of this view are found in Rettie's 
Aberdeen fifty years ago^ Abd., 1868; Robbie's 
Aberdeen^ its traditions and history^ Abd., 1893 > 
and Macpherson's Notes ; impressions from the 
original plate in the New Spalding Club's Officers 
and Graduates of King's College^ Abd., 1893. 

In 1824-$, at a cost of ^000 granted by 
Government and ;£5ooo publicly subscribed, the 
present West front of the College was erected, 
unfortunately in a style that harmonises but ill 
with that of the Crown Tower. Of this new 
front numerous views appeared. With the Univ- 
ersity copy of volume I. of the Aberdeen Censor^ 
1825, is bound up a "Geometrical Elevation 

OF THE PROPOSED WEST FRONT TO KlNO'S 

College. L. Schonberg's Lithogr., Abrdn.", 
6" X y^" ; but this lithograph is seemingly not 
referred to in the volume. Dr. Mitchell's collec- 
tion includes another GEOMETRICAL ELEVATION 
OF THE PROPOSED W^EST FRONT ACCORDING TO 
A PL.AN AGREED UPON AS TO INTERIOR ACCOM- 
MODATION, 10" X 5K", accompanied by a Geo- 
metrical ELEVATION OF THE PROPOSED EAST 
TOWER WITH AN OBSERVATORY (no litho- 
grapher's name) ; also a perspective view of the 
West front, io>^" by 7", "King's College 
Aberdeen. J. Henderson fecit. S. Leith 
lithogr.", with an apparently companion view of 
the interior of the Chapel looking Eastward 
(much clipped). One of the illustrations in 
Smith's Pocket Guide to the City of Aberdeen, 
1836, is a reduced outline copy of Henderson's 
view, 4^ " by 3X", " King's College. J. H., 
W. C., S. L." : sometimes also inserted in the 
Book of Bon-Accord. A more effective represent- 
ation is furnished by the second plate in the 
1830 edition of Orem ; 5" by 3%% "WEST 
Front of King's College, Old Aberdeen. 
Engd. by G. Aikman, Edinr. Published by 
John Rettie, bookseller, Aberdeen". 

One of the plates in Aberdeen illustrated in 
Nine Views, Montrose, 1840, shows the College 
from the North West, also the two manses above 
referred to; 11" by 8", "KING'S COLLEGE, 
Aberdeen. Nichol lithog. Edin." 

Infinitely superior, both in accuracy of detail 
and in artistic effect, is the beautiful plate which 
appears in Billings' Baronial and Ecclesiastical 
Antiquities of Scotland, Vol. I., Edin., 1852 ; 
V/2" by 6"., " Drawn by R. W. Billings. En- 
graved by T. H. le Keux'. This shows the 
West end of the chapel with the adjoining face 
of the Crown Tower, and charitably suppresses 
the 182$ frontage. "No other building in Scot- 
land", writes Mr. Billings, "exhibits the same 
cloister-like repose as this old college, whether 
its pinnacles be seen from a distance clustering 
over the trees, or the footsteps tread its echoing 



March, 1895.! SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, 147 

courts. . . The lantern of crossed rib arches of Garioch in 1719, by his wife Margery Mit- 

springing from a tower, which the northern chell. If so, he was brother to the Rev. Alex, 

architects seem to have derived from edifices in Gerard, Professor of Divinity in King's College, 

the style and character of the tower of Antwerp John Gray Gerard, who died in 1840, was for 

Cathedral, is here exhibited in more marked forty-nine years a member of Lloyds, 

and stem simplicity than either at Newcastle or On another table-stone there is : — 

Edinburgh, where the specimens partake more in memory | of i William Fidler | late of Carriston 

of the spiral character. The royal crown perched in the County of Fife | and formerly of the Island of 

on the meeting keystones adjusts an imitation Antigua. | He departed this life on the 22<i day of 

of reality with great felicity to the tone of Gothic March 1809, | aged 75 )ears. | In the same grave are 

architecture ". Two other plates in the same deposited the remains of | Samuel Read, | formerly of 

volume show respectively a portion of the Gardenstone Bleachfield, \ who died the 24**^ day of 

Chapel screen, and the Ante-Chapel (then used ^^^ '796, aged 38. | And of Isabella Edmond, | his 

as the Library) looking towards the West \P^f ^'1 2f,^^ ^»e^ t»^^'?'\^( May 1806, aged ^^^^^^ 

window ' Elizabeth Isabella Glennie | wife of Wilham 

r\ ' J -11 * i.* t,-u-* 1.1. r Read, Merchant in Aberdeen I who died the 6'** day 

Our second illustration exhibits the group of .^^ ^ :^^ ^g , ^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ , j^jj^^^jg^ ^^ , ^^^ 

College buildings as they appeared immediately g^j^ William Read | who died at London the 24th day 

before the Fusion of the College m i860 — the of June 1841 I aged 55 

year which witnessed at once the reorganisation j^^ p.^^^^ ^,^^ ^^^^^ ^^ Samuel Read, who 

of he university curnculum and the rebuilding ^^^ grandfather to the late Professor Spalding. 

'"f .v.^" P'T ?'"" T^ M^'n V"."^ fvf ^ ''"^.-n Elizabeth Isabella Glennie, wife of William Read 

of the quadrangle. The Hal of 1 500 then still (^^o was a manufacturer in Aberdeen), was 

survived as did the range of buddings erected ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ 3^^^^^ \^^ ^^ 

by Di. Fraser, but the latter had ong ceased to ^^^ \^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^] ^-^.^^^^ ^^ ^ 

be used as dormitories by students. The lower ^^^ J^ ^- ^ ^^ , » Professor George 

stones were occupied as classrooms, the attics ^^^^^^^ ^^ Marischal College, 

were tenantless. The tower at the S.W. corner q^ ^ marble table stone there is cut •— 

had disappeared, its site being covered by part ^ , r . r,., T^ t. ■ , »• ^ 1 

of the 1825 addition ; but the N.W. tower is still , ^^ memory | of | Thomas Paull, J who died the 7 

seen, though its quaint spire had been blown ^^^h'^d^'d^th 7th' A^'^YIvtT d'^o^'YThT 

down on Candlemas Day, 1715. "ft was sU Andrew PaVl, | whfd^ed the' 3^' August 1 77^8!: 

mainly^ Professor Macphpon tells us, "owing ^^ 53. | His spoise, Susanna Sandilands, | who 

to the efforts of Dr. John Hill Burton, the jied the 7 June 1798, aged 71. | Margaret Black | 

historian, that this tower was preserved [in i860]; spouse to James Paull, | who died the 2^ February 

and now that the hall and its window have been 1804 aged 64. | Her son Thomas, who died at | Trini- 

removed and replaced by a much loftier building, dad the 318' December 1803, aged 26. | James Paull, 

the tower, which is still interesting as a landmark, | who died the 13*-^ January 1809, aged 84 | His sister 

would require the replacing of the quaint old Marjory Paull, | who died 8th November 1809, aged 

spire to give it effect and significance". 80. | And Margaret Paull | who died 9th September 

P. J. Anderson. 181 5, aged 82. | Also of his daughter | Susanna Jane 

^, ^ * Paull, I who died 25th August 1836 aged 55. | And of 

his son I Tames Andrew Paull Sandilands | who died 

EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN 14th February 1846 aged 62, | And of bLh Fisher 

ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD. their near relation | who died at Seaton House | 29th 

Section D. December 1866 aged 61 years. | And Wilhelmina 

/^ w J r J. ,«,\ Pirie Duff his spouse I who died at Alness Ross-shire 

(Continued from page 121.) | ^g^^ December 1874 aged 44 years. 

On a table-stone :- Margaret Sandilands, the wife of Thomas 

Under this stone is deposited the body of | Gilbert p^^n ^^s a daughter of Patrick Sandilands of 

Gerard, late Advocate m Aberdeen | who departed (. J ^ j^-^ ^^^^^^ Magdalene Boyes, 

this life the 8ti» day of July 1766, | aged 37 years. | -Hnw nAlevindpr Davidson of Newton Of 

Also of Adam Gerard, his son, | who departed this ^^^^^ ot Alexander Uaviason 01 ^^ a^ \ 

life the 29^*^ day of November 1779. I aged 17 years. | ^^^ marriage of Thomas Paull and Margaret 

This stone is erected in memory of | an affectionate Sandilands there was issue two sons and two 

husband and son | by Agnes Hay. | Also in memory daughters. James, the elder son, was a merchant 

of I John Gray (Gerard I son of the above Gilbert Ger- in London, and Andrew married his cousin- 

ard I he was born at Aberdeen | 14^^ October 1760, j german, Susanna Sandilands. James Andrew 

and died much lamented | and respected at Camber- Paull Sandilands was the son of James Paull 

well I 19*"^ May 1840 | where his remains are interred, above mentioned, and was in his day a ** well 

It is believed that Gilbert Gerard was the son known figure in the streets of Aberdeen, with his 

of the Rev. Gilbert Gerard, Minister of Chapel half-dozen little dogs trotting about his feet— the 



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envy of dog fanciers. He was never married, 
and with him closed the long record of the 
Sandilands family about Aberdeen."^ 
On a table-stone : — 

Sacred to the memory of | Marjory | the third 
daughter of P. Reid | and for upwards of xxvi years 

I the beloved and affectionate wife of | John Innes, | 
Merchant Tailor of this City : | As a Christian she 
was pious & resigned | under many severe trials ; | As 
a Mother, truly exemplary ; | and as a Friend sincere. 

I She died suddenly on the xxix Novr. mdcccxxi | 
aged years, | leaving a disconsolate husljand, j 

and V children to deplore her loss. ] In this and the 
adjoining grave | are deposited the remains of viii of 
their children, | who died in infancy, j Also their 
second son, | Alexander Innes, Esq., | a member of 
the Royal College of Surgeons, London, | who died 
the XVII Novr. mdcccxxv. | in the xxviii year of 
his age. 

On a ground-stone :-- 

This I burying Ground, | containing two Graves, | 
belongs to | William Raitt, | Merchant in Aberdeen, 
I 1800. I Isaiah chap XL. | ver. 6. The voice said, 
Cry I and he said, what shall I Cry? | All flesh is 
grass, and all the | goodliness thereof is as the | flower 
of the field. 

The following mscription is on a ground-stone, 
but it is very much worn, and part is now 
illegible : — 

Here lyes under the hope of a blessed resurrection 
James Bartlet Merchant burges of Abd. who departed 
this life the 20th of Octr his age 42 | And 

Isobell Collie his spouse | who departed the 22 of 
Jan^ I 1701. I Ja^ Bartlet Mert 1722 aged 

Ann Gregory his wife dau"" of David (Jregory of Kin- 
nairdie 17 66 j Mr. Geo. Bartlet their 

son, Min"" | of O. Abd. December 7th 1753, aged 38. 
Also Helen Cuming Daughter of James Cuming Mer- 
chant in Aberdeen and spouse to [ David Bartlet, Ad- 
vocate I in Aberdeen, who died 1 May the 23'''^ 1767, 
aged I Also David Bartlet Advocate | who 

died March the 2^^ 1780, | aged 62 years | Likewise 
Helen Gellic, spouse to the | Rev^ Mr. George Bart- 
let died May 1766, aged 52. | And Ann Bartlet 
their daughter | spouse to James Maitland Mercht. 
Abd° I died May 1790, aged 35. 

The Bartlets may be counted as among the 
'* old blood " of the city, as the name occurs not 
infrequently in local records. Isobel Collie, the 
relict of James Bartlet, by her will, dated 13th 
January 1701, bequeathed to the Dean of (iuild 
Box of Aberdeen, by the hands of her executor, 
Baillie John Ross, the sum of four hundred 
pounds Scots money {£2>2> ^s. 8d.). The pur- 
pose of this bequest was that the annual rent, 
after the death of a life-renter, should be devoted 
" to any necessitous burges of Gild and his fa- 
milie for ther better mantinence and support."'^ 
James Bartlet, the next member of the family 

1 Family of Moir-Byres. ^ Annals 0/ Woodsidc 
2 Mortification Book. 



mentioned, had by his spouse, Ann Gregory, two 
sons, George born in 171 5, and David born in 
17 1 8. George^ was licensed by the Presbytery 
of Ellon on the 27th July 1738, and was pre- 
sented to the charge of Footdee, Aberdeen, on 
8th September 1740. His ministry at Footdee 
lasted four years, when he obtained the church 
of Crimond in 1744, on the presentation of Mr 
Buchan of Auchmacoy. On the 3rd June 1747 
he was admitted to the second charge of Old 
Machar, where he continued till his death in 
1753) at the early age of 38 years. The Aber- 
deen Journal^ in referring to his death, remarks : 
— " Besides his exemplary Conduct, both in pri- 
vate and publick character, he was possessed of 
such Talents, as fitted him for the most useful 
Services in the Church, had God been pleased 
to prolong his valuable life in this World, and 
his death is truly lamentable, as the Church has 
thereby lost one of its most able and faithful 
Pastors ; his Parish a tender Father, whom they 
justly esteemed, and all his acquaintances a 
most agreeable Companion and benevolent 
friend.^' His wife, Helen Gellie, was in all pro- 
bability a daughter of either Baillie William 
Gellie or his relative of the same name, at one 
time Dean of Guild. David, the second son of 
James Bartlet, became an advocate, and was 
twice married. His first wife, whose death is 
recorded in the inscription, was Helen Cuming, 
who at the time of her death was said to be one 
of the few remaining descendants of the house 
of Altyre. David Bartlet's second wife was 
Anne Westland, and her death occurred on the 
22nd March 1795, at the age of 72 years. 

On a ground stone : — 

Here Lies | William Ogston merchant in Aberdeen 
I who died in the year 1726 aged 46 | With his spouse 
Christian Jaffrey I who died in the 71st year of her age 
in 1748 I Also their Son in Law | T^he Gibson, 
Lieut, of the 27th Regt of Foot | Likewise Sarah his 
daughter | And Christian Ogston his spouse | who 
ordered this to their memory. 

This William Ogston is referred to at pp. 110 
and 201 of A Genealogical History of the 
Families of Ogston^ Edin., 1876. Christian 
Jafifrey probably belonged to the well known 
Quaker family, but it does not appear clear who 
her parents were, unless she was a daughter of 
Provost John J affray of Dilspro, by his second 
spouse, Margaret Gordon. The testimony of 
the christian names, Sarah and Christian, would, 
on the other hand, lead to the inference that she 
was a daughter of Andrew Jaffray of Kingswells, 
by his wife Christian Skene, did we not know 
that a son was born in 1677. 

Alex. M. Munro. 

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THE PROVERBS OF CHAUCER, WITH 

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM 

OTHER SOURCES. 

X. 

NECESSITY AND COMPULSION. 

The last group of proverbs with which we dealt 
illustrated the fact that men at sometime are 
masters of their fate, if they have the power to 
seize the golden opportunity ; while dallying, on 
the other hand, brings disaster. An opposite 
experience, equally true, is enforced m the 
proverbs under the present heading — that men 
are sometimes mastered by fate. "There's a 
divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them 
how we will," says Shakespeare. We must at 
times bend to the stern necessity of circum- 
stances, for necessity knows no law and allows 
no exceptions. This fact has passed into a 
proverb, and appears in various forms and in 
many lands. Chaucer, as we shall see, quotes 
several, and we shall find their equivalent in 
other directions. We begin with a familiar 
proverb of this class. 

141. Neede has na peere. —Reev. TaU, 1. 1 06. 

This is Chaucer's way of putting our proverb 
— "Necessity has no law.*' Hazlitt, who has 
this proverb, says that " here law means rather 
liberty or choice of action," and refers to 
Jenning's Obs. on IV. Country Dialects^ in voce, 
and Hunter's Hallamshire Glossary^ 1829, ibid. 
In the metrical Robert the Deuyll we find, "Nede 
hath no cure ;" and Skelton, in his Colyn Clout 
(circa 1520), puts it, "Nede hath no lawe." He 
calls it an old sawe. Hey wood has the same 
form. 

But (as the auncient Proverbe goes) 

Perforce obaies no lawe ; 
The crabbed carters whip will cause 

A stately steed to drawe. 
Turbei-vlie''s Tragicall Tales, 1 587 (repr. 1 837, p. 238). 

"Necessity hath no law" is also found in 
Ray's collection of "English Proverbs." He 
quotes the Greek : ^ k-vwyKt) 6vdk deol fiA^ovrai. 
And the Italian : 

La necessita non ha legge. 

Also : 

Ingens telum necessitas.— Cicero De Amic. 

Compare : 

Cha'n 'eil heart an aghaidh na h-cigin. 
(There is no guard [machine] against necessity). 

MackintosIC s Ciaelic Proverbs. 
Noth hat kcin Gebot. — German (Diiringsfeld). 
Nod bryder Budet.— Z>a;//V/ (Do.) 
Necessitas non habet legem. —Latin. \ 

Neccssite n'a point de loi. — French. I 

Many other examples might be quoted with \ 
slight deviations in form. The Portugese, for ^ 
instance, say : \ 



Necessidade nao tem lei, mas a da f6rne sobre 
todas p6de. (Necessity has no law, but 
that of hunger exceeds all). 

Compare also : 

But who can turne the streame of destinee, 
Or breake the chayne of strong necessitee, 
Which fast is tyde to Joves eternall seat ? 

Spenser s Faery Queene, B.L, v. 25. 
Who then can strive with strong necessitie, 
That holds the world in his still chaunging state. 

Do.^ B.L, ix. 42. 
Gesetz ist raachtig, machtiger ist die Noth. 

Goethe, 

There is a decided fatahsm in the following 
proverb : 

142. Al that cometh, comth by necissite. 

Troy I. iv., 1. 930. 

Compare : 

Tout avenra ce que doit avenir. — Le Roux. 
Tout avient quanqu' arenir doit. — Kadler. 

143a. To maken vertu of necessite. — K. T'., 1. 2184. 
143b. Thus maketh vertu of necessite. 

Troy I. iv., 1. 1 586. 
143c. That I made vertu of necessite. 

Sq. T. ii., 1. 247. 
Compare : 

Make a virtue of necessity. — Hazlitt. 

Ray (whom Hazlitt generally follows) has the 
same, and also gives the Italian form : 

11 savio fa della necessitk virtu. He adds : 
"TV ^farKaiav t6xv^ rpl^eiv and 'AvarKOKpayeiVf 
Erasmus makes to be much of the same sense, 
that is, to do or suffer that patiently which can- 
not well be avoided. Levins Jit patientia^ 
quicquid corrigere est nefas. Or to do that 
ourselves by an act of our own, which we should 
otherwise be compelled to do. So the abbeys 
and convents, which resigned their lands into 
King Henry VIII.'s hands, made a virtue of 
necessity." 

Compare also : 

Man muss aus der Noth eine Tugend roachen. 

Diiringsfeld, 
Fac de necessitate virtutem. — Latin (Do. ) 
II faut faire de necessite \ex\\x.-- French. 

The proverb is found in many languages. 
The following illustrations are now offered, but 
it may be mentioned here that the Latin 
quotation which Ray makes above is from 
Horace, Carm. I. 24 : 

Durum ! sed levius fit patentia 
Quidquid corrigere est nefas. 

Again : 

Are you content to be our general ? 

To make virtue of necessity, 

And live as we do, in this wilderness ? 

Two Gefttlemen of Verona, IV., i. 60. 

All places that the eye of heaven visits 
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Teach thy necessity to reason thus : 
There is no virtue like necessity. 
Think not the king did Imnish thee, 
But thou the king. 

ICing Richard II. J I. iii. 278. 
The art of our necessities is strange, 
That can make vile things precious. 

King Lear, III. ii. 65. 

Mr. Morris says that Chaucer got this proverb 
from Le Roman de la Rose (1. 14217) : 

S'il ne fait de necessite 
Vertu. 

Mr. Skeat says "It was a common proverb." 
This is likely to have been the case from the 
wide currency that the proverb has since 
obtained. 

The converse form of this proverb is the 
following : 

144. For whiche men seyne may nought distourbed be 
That shal bytyden of necessite. 

Troy I., II., 1. 622. 
Compare : 

Need makes virtue. — Hazlitt. 

Die Noth lehrt beten. — DUringsfeld. 

Optimus orandi magister necessitas. — Latin. 

Was nur aus reiner Noth passiert, 

Wird nie fiir schimpflich deklariert. — IVamier. 

145. Who may holdc a thinge that wol awey ? 

Troy I. i IV., 1. 1600. 
Compare : 

Who may hold that will away ? — Hazlitt. 
Wha can haud wha will awa ? — Hislop. 
L'on doit laisser aller ce que I'en ne peut tenir. 

Le Roux. 
146a. Be as be may, be ye no thing amased. 

Yem. Prol., 1. 382. 
146b. Be as be may, I wol noght hir accusen. 

Monk Z"., 1. 139. 
146c. Be as be may, I make of hit no cure. 

Legende of Goode Women, III., 1. 220. 
I46d. Be as be may, quod she, of forgyfynge. 

Ebd., v., 1. 173. 
I46e. Be as be may, for erneste or for game. 

Ehd., IX., 1. 142. 
This proverbial expression it will be seen 
occurs no less than five times in Chaucer. Haz- 
litt has : 

Be as be may, be is no banning. 

He adds : " Davies, however {Scourge of 
Folly^ 161 1, p. 141), puts it differently : *Be as 
he may, no banning is.'" We have more likely 
a simple misprint, which could be very easily 
made, even in these days of greater accuracy in 
the printing-office. Hazlitt does not seem to be 
aware of the frequency with which the proverb 
occurs in Chaucer, and always in exactly the 
same form to a letter. 

The same idea is found in the proverb : 
147a. Bityde what bityde.— ^/r Thopas T, 1. 163. 
147b. But natheless, bitide what bitide. 

TroyLf V., 1. 750, 



148. Thought in his herte, happe how happe may. 

TroyL, V., 1. 796. 

With these two proverbs compare : 
Now late it good as it may goo. 

Rom. de la Rose, 1. 4591. 

In the original this is : 
Or ant si cum aler porra. 

Compare : 

Tide what may betide 

liaig shall be laird of Bemerside. —Hazlitt. 

This reference to the Haigs of Bemerside 
(near Melrose), a famous Border family, doubt- 
less conceals an interesting story or tradition, 
which, however, I have not been able to discover. 
Perhaps some Border reader may be able to 
throw light on it. Hazlitt gives a reference to 
"Pegge's Curialia, 181 8, p. 266," a work which 
I do not know. Nor have I been able to find 
the proverb in the Scots collections. 

Compare also : 

Come what come may. 

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. 

Macbeth, I., iiL 146. 
Advienne ce qui pourra. — Wander. 

149a. Harme idon is don, whoso it rewe. 

Troyl., II., 1. 789. 

149b. But that is doon, nis not to done. 

Hous of Fame, I., 1. 361. 
Compare : 

Ce qui est fait n'est mie k faire. — Le Roux. 
Ce qui est fait est fait. — Wandelt. 
Geschehene Dinge leiden keinen Rath. 

German (DUringsfeld). 
Quod factum est, infectum fieri non potest. 

Latin (Do.) 
Dopo il falto il consiglio non vale. 

Italian (Do. ) 
Lo que hecho es, hecho ha de ser por esa vez. 

Spanish (Do, ) 

This proverb, which is a self-evident truth, is 
naturally widely spread, but the above are 
sufficiently representative for our purpose. The 
following may be added by way of illustration : 

Things without all remedy 

Should be without regard : what's done is done. 

Macbeth, III., ii. 1 1. 
Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; 
But what has been, has been, and I have had 
my hour. Dry Jen. 

What's gone, and what's past help 
Should be past grief. — Winter's Tale, III., 2. 

150. O deslinee, that mayst nat ben eschewed. 

Nonne Freest es 7 ale, \. 517. 
Compare : 

Nac fleeing frae fate. — Henderson. 

He that's born to be hanged will never be 

drowned. — Do. 
Seinem Schicksal mag Niemand entrinnen. 

German ( Diiringsjeld), 
Ingen kan undgaae sin Skjaebne. — Danish(Do.) 



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151. For what I drye or what I thinke, 
I wol myselven al hit drinke. 

HoHS of Fame, IX., iii., 1. 1880. 

Mr. Skeat says this is an allusion to the old 
proverb : "As I brew, so must I needs drink ;" 
in Camden's Remains. 

Hazlitt gives the proverb as quoted, and adds: 

Avallez ce que vous avez brass^ 
•Swallow ower that which you have browen, 

Mean : 

If you have browen wel, you shal drinke the 
better. — Wodroephe' s Spared Houres of a 
Souldier iu his Travels, 1623. 

Compare : 

And whoso wicked ale breweth 
Ful ofte be mot the werse drinke. 

Gower, Confessio Amantis, Bk. III. 

The same sentiment is expressed in various 
ways as : 

As ye mak your bed, sae ye maun lie doon. 

Henderson. 
As ye sow, so shall ye reap, &c. 

152. Him falles serve himself that has na swayn. 

Reeves Tale, 1. 107. 

(It falls to his lot, or he is obliged, to help 
himself, who has no servant,) is a proverbial 
expression, rather than a proverb in the strictest 
sense. 

Compare : 

If you would be well served, serve yourself, as 

Poor Richard says. — Benjamin Franklin. 
Qui n'a cheval si voist k piet. — Le Rot4X. 
Non oez vos al vilain retrairse, 
Que I'aigna boit, qui n'a lo vin. — Kadler. 

Moral obligation is illustrated in the following 
proverbs : 

153. Biheste is dette. 

Introd. to Man of Lawes, Pro). 1. 41. 

Compare : 

Promise is debt. — Hazlitt. 

Hazlitt says the proverb is found in the 
following old works : " Summoning of Every 
Man"(c. 1530); Gascoigne's "Certayne Notes 
of Instruction" (1572); Paradyce of Dainty 
Devyses" (1578); Harvey's "Foure Letters" 
(1592). 

A promise is a debt. — Gaelic. 

M. A. C. 



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HERALDIC EMBLAZONMENTS 
BY PRINCIPAL JOHN ROW. 

In Mr Cosmo Innes' Fasti Abet donenses^ pages. 
532-559, is printed the text of two manuscripts 
in Aberdeen University Library (C^. 5 . 64) : 
Album Amicorum Collegii Regii Aberdonensis^ 
1640, and The Names of those Benefactores 
of the Kittys Colledge. Universitie of Abd. who 
bestowed twentie poundes Scottish money, or 



above, towards the raiseing of the New Build- 
ing, 1658. From the lettering on the cover, 
the volume containing these seems to have been 
originally the property of Principal William 
Guild, but the entries are in the handwriting of 
his successor, Mr. John Row, at one time Mi- 
nister of the third charge in Aberdeen (5. N. &* 
Q., VII., 38. Cf. a facsimile given on p. XLVI of 
his History of the Kirk.) 

No mention is made in the Fasti of the fact 
that many of the entries are accompanied by 
pen and ink sketches of the arms of the donors. 
Such shields are found for : — 

William Elphinstoun, Bishop of Aberdene, 
Fundator. 

Gauin Dumbar, Bishop of Aberdene. 

William Stewart, Bishop of Aberdene. 

Alexander Reid, Doctor of Medicin. 

Mr Andro Straquhan, Dr. and professour of 
Divinitie. 

Mr Alexander Blakwall, humanist in South- 
wark. 

Mr Thomas Mercer, burges of Aberdene. 

Sir Fiancis Gordoun, Agent for his Maiestie 
in Pole. 

Sir Thomas Burnet of Leyes, knight Baronet. 

Alexander Hamiltoun, Generall of the Artil- 
lerie. 

Doctor Johne Forbes, Laird of Corse. 

James Lord Crighton, Vicount of Frendraught. 

Doctor William Guild, Principall of the King's 
Colledge. 

Mr James Sandilands, Professor of the Civil 
Law in the King's Colledge. 

Mr Andrew Moore, Dr. and Professor of Me- 
dicine in the King's Colledge. 

Mr Patrick Sandilands, Sub prin" in the King's 
Colledge. 

Mr William Douglas, Professor of Theologie 
in the K. Coll. 

Alex^ Burnett of Covntesse- wells. Bailie of Abd. 

Mr Alex' Dowglas of Dunies, Dr. of Medicine, 
Provest and Commissare of Bamff. 

Mr Thomas Sandilands of Crabestoune, Com- 
missare of Abd. 

Mr Robert Gordoune of Straloch. 

Mr James Gordoune, M mister at Touch in 
the Pbrie of Alfoorde. 

Mr George Gordoune, Regent, Professor of 
Philosophie in the King's Colledge. 

Sir John Gordoun of Haddo, Knight* Baronett. 

Colonel David Barclay. 

Mr Alexander Skene of Newtile, Bailie of 
Aberdene. 

Jhon Burnett of Elrick, Baillie of Aberdeine. 

The Laird of Monimusk. 

Isobell Douglas, relict of Mr Alex^ Cant, mi- 
nister of Banchorie. 

P. J. Anderson. 



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LOCAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Last month we remarked that the " Hand List 
of Bibliography of the Shires of Aberdeen, 
Banff, and Kincardine" catalogued fourteen 
works by Thomas Dempster^ and we may fitly 
begin our present notes by confessing that we 
were mistaken. The margins of our only copy 
of the "Hand List" are so closely annotated 
that we overlooked one note that " Scolding no 
Scholarship, 1669," was not written till more 
than forty years after the pen of Thomas 
Dempster had been laid aside for ever. We 
are not prepared to say by whom the work was 
written. In the reign of Charles the Second 
sectarian controversies raged fiercely among the 
divines of Bon-Accord. The papists were em- 
boldened by the introduction of prelacy, and 
John Menzies, Prof, of Divinity in Marischal 
College, the Pitfodels pervert, and Aberdonian 
Vicar of Bray, had a slight dispute with Francis 
Dempster^ Jesuit^ "otherwise sirnamed Rin or 
Logan^ for whose confutation he wrote a book 
entitled "Papismus Lucifugus," which was 
printed and published in Aberdeen at the expense 
of the Magistrates of the city in 1668. Not- 
withstanding the undoubted advantage of the 
addition of such patronage to the weight of his 
arguments, Menzies deemed it necessary for the 
final annihilation of his opponent to write a 
much bigger book, entitled " Roma Mendax," 
published in London in 1675. The literary 
history of the discussion would thus appear to 
be complete on one side, but on the other it is 
rather obscure, for the persecuted Papist could 
not find a printer in all Scotland to set up his 
rejoinders, and had to send his copy to the 
continent. We know of two works published 
under these difficulties, and had catalogued 
them under the name of Francis Dempster^ when 
the chance perusal of a note by Mr. J. P. Edmond, 
a writer of quite exceptional accursicy (A derdeen 
Printers^ p. 1 12) caused us to pause and consider. 
Edmond says that Francis Dempster was also 
dead m 1669, and we prudently decided to post- 
pone the matter till our Supplementary paper. 

This month we catalogue a rare volume of 
Sermons by Adam Elder, an eminent monk of 
Kinloss, so excellent in quality that the late 
Dr. Stuart thought two of them worth reprinting 
in his Records of the Abbey. In Stuart's volume 
will likewise be found some curious correspond- 
ence between their author and John Ferrerius, 
who retorts in reply to a doubt concerning his 
right to dispose of certain books, that Elder has 
been making too free with the Abbot's cabbages. 
Hence may probably originate a peculiar signi- 
fication of the word cabbage prevalent at the 
present day. We note also the authorship of a 



lyric gem, " The Boatie Rows," and of Ewing's 
delightful contribution to Hymnology. 

The Rev. James Farquharson wrote three 
curious little works on knotty points, which he 
hardly succeeded in clearing up. A more famous 
parson of Alfoid was John. Forbes, Moderator of 
the Aberdeen Assembly of 1605, most of whose 
works were written and published during his 
long exile in Holland. Dr. Adam Ferguson, tjie 
Historian, of Perthshire birth, but of Aberdeen- 
shire origin, finds a place on our List for his 
Memoir of Col. Patrick Ferguson. A more 
extended and interesting work on the same 
subject was published in Aberdeen a few years 
ago by Mr. James Ferguson, Jr. of Kinmundy, 
who is also the author of an excellent Memoir 
of Robert Ferguson, the Plotter, whose Biblio- 
graphy during his chequered half-century of 
mingled literary aspiration and political intrigue 
occupies so much of our space. 

Those of our readers who were at school half 
a century ago will not have forgotten the Class 
Books of Prof. George Ferguson and of Dr. 
James Fergusson of the West-End Academy, but 
our List is probably imperfect. Yet, as Educa- 
tional Works, they are of minor importance 
compared with those which prove the versatile 
genius of the gifted Andrew Findlater. The 
name of Charles Fernie, a man of great learning 
and worth, recalls the abortive attempt to 
establish an University at Fraserburgh, the 
history of which was fully described in these 
pages some time ago by Mr. P. J. Anderson. 
Several of the works of Prof. John Fleming, 
particularly his "British Animals," are still 
unsuperseded, but many of his valuable writings 
are only to be found in Contemporary Scientific 
publications. Their author was described by 
Sir David Brewster as " the most distinguished 
Naturalist in Great Britain." The notable 
Aberdeenshire family of Forbes naturally swells 
our list considerably. Ai'thiir Fo?bes^ of Brux^ 
is conclusively proved to have been the original 
author of" Don, a Poem," the interesting literary 
history of which is exhaustively detailed by the 
author of "The Bards of Bon-Accord," in a 
special chapter of that work. The same author 
joins issue with the late Mr. James Maidment 
on the disputed question of the authorship of 
" The Dominie Deposed," but his account of the 
local incidents upon which the poem is founded 
clearly establishes that William Forbes was author 
as well as hero. Truly Mr. Walker is without 
superior in his knowledge of the subjects treated 
in his able and valuable book. 

The expensive and brilliantly illustrated 
publications of Henry Ogg Forbes record his 
important discoveries and researches in the 
Ethnology and Zoology of the Eastern Archi- 



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pelago, and deserve to be better known in his 
native county. He is not the only Aberdonian 
who owes his position on our List to his labours 
in the distant East, for we have Fyvie the 
Missionary, Falconer the Orientalist, and the 
two Ceylon Fergusons, whose names have not 
been altogether excluded from the ** Hand List," 
although they are only Journalists. 

We have again fine examples of the Aberdeen 
Doctor in Sir James Forbes and George Fordyce, 
and a sound old fashioned lawyer in Prof. 
William Forbes ; and we adjourn for a month 
with a word of self-gratulation that the sumptuous 
Genealogical works of Sir William Fraser, noted 
by us, have reference to families long dominant 
within the boundaries of our three Shires. 

K. J. 

Edmond^ J. /'., Arms of the City of 

Aberdeen Abd. 1883. 

Guide to Exhibition of MSS., &c. ,, 1885. 
Edward^ Alex., The wonderful history of 

Union Chapel of Ease. 2nd ed. ,, 1824. 
Edivard, Thomas, Our Reptiles Bf. 1881. 

Protection of Wild Birds ,, N.D. 

Edwards, P., On Baptism (pref. by Dr. 

Kidd) Abd. 1838. 

Edwards, William, Poems, 72 pp. ,, 1 8 10. 

Elder, Adam, Strense sive Conciones 

Capitulares Paris 1558. 

Selectionb from above in Stuart's 

Kinloss Edin. 1872. 

Elphinstone, Genealogical Tree of the 

Hous of, 1808. 

Epicleti Enchiridion Abd. 1760. 

Errol, Ann Dnimmond, Ctss. of, An 

Account of Buchan circ. 1680. 

In Collections on Aberdeen and Banff 1843. 

Erskine,/. F. E. G"., Earldom of Mar, 

1565, 1567 and 1587 Edin. 1868. 



Case of, Supplement and Appendix 
On the Question of Precedence 
Essential Points 



1873. 
1868. 



Abd. N.D. 



Gw. i860. 

s.L. et A. 
Lond. 1817. 



Erskine, Ralph, Works. 7 vols. 
Esson, George Auldjs (and H. G. Bell), 

on Bankruptcy Law 
Ewen, John, The Boatie Rows (Words 

with music, many editions). 
A Volunteer Song, Words & Music 
Ewing, Alex., Observations on the Har- 

veian Doctrine, &c. 
Ewing, Alex., Selections from Lyra 

Germanica 
Address to the Younger Clergy 
The Early Celtic Church 

The Monks of lona ,, 1871. 

Eimng, Alex., "Jerusalem the Golden," (music). 
F. F., The right dance ; the wrong dance Abd. 1884. 
The' Factory Girl, or the dark places of 

Glasgow Abd. N.D. 

Faiiiueather, Robert, Righteousness the 

Preservative ., 1846. 

Falconer, David, The Agricultural Crisis Edin. 1850. 






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Bostan Lond. 

Persian Grammar. 2nd ed. 

Tuhfat-ul-Ahrar. (O.T. Soc.) 

Salaman-u-Absal. ( Do. ) 

Falconer, Ion G. N. K., Article "Short 

Hand" in Encyc. Britt. 9th ed. 

Farquhar, William, Arguments in favor 

of lay representation Edin. 

Presbyterianism indefensible ,, 

Farquhar son, James, On the form of the 

Ark of Noah Lond. 

On Leviathan and Behemoth 

New Illustration of Daniel's Last 
Vision 
Farquhar son, Robert, On Therapeutics 

A Guide to Therapeutics 

School Hygiene, &c. 

On some forms of Pneumonia 
Felinda or the Converted One 
Ferguson, Adam, Memoir of Lt. Col. 

Patrick Ferguson Lond, 

Ferguson, A.M., and John, The Plant- 
ing Directory Colombo 

The Tropical Agriculturist 

All about Gold, &c., in Ceylon 

The Ceylon Directory ,, 

Ferguson,^D., A Dirge Abd. 

Ferguson, George, Grammatical Exercises Edin. 

Key to the same 

Introductory Latin Delectus 

Ovid's Metamorphoses 

Cireronis Orationes Selecta 

Cireronis Cato Major 

Cireronis De Officiis 

Mair's Latin Dictionary remodelled 

Fergusson, James, Homer's Iliad, Books 

i.. vi., XX., xxiv., &c. Edin. 

Xenophon's Anabasis, Books i.,ii.,&c. ,, 
Grammatical Exercises, &c., on Attic 

Greek «) 

Ferguson, James (Lord Pitfour). 

On Grand Juries. p. pd. circ. 

Ferguson, James, Letter to John Kennedy Lond. 
Three Letters to John Kennedy 
Table of the Equations of Time 

Fergusson, James, Norwegian Origin of 
Scottish Brochs 
The Brochs 

The Clan and Name of Ferguson Gw. 

Ferguson, John, Ceylon in the Jubilee 

Year Lond. 

Ferguson, John, Chemical Manufactures 

of Glasgow Gw. 

Some relations of Chemistry to Medicine , , 
Sir Humphrey Davy Lond. 

The Chemical Writings of Demo- 

critus, &c. Gw. 

The First History of Chemistry ,, 

Bibliographical Notes on Histories 



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1855. 

1831. 

N.D. 

1838. 
1874. 

1877. 

1885. 

N.D. 

1848. 

1817. 

1878. 
1881. 
1881. 
1863. 
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1763. 
1775. 
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1877. 
1877. 
1892. 

1888. 

1876. 
1878. 

1879. 

1884. 
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Westr. 1886. 
1888. 



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Secretis Mulierum 
Bibliographical Notes, P. Vergil's 

JL>e Inventoribus 
Ferguson^ Robert^ (The Plotter). 

Justification, &c., on a Satisfaction 

On Moral Virtue 

The Interest of Reason in Religion 

The Black Box 

Justification thereof 

Reflections on Addresses 

Smith's Narrative 

Vindication thereof 

Reflections on the Jesuits 

Just and Modest Vindication 

Design of enslaving England discovered 

No Protestant Plot. 3 parts 

Rise and Growth of Popery Colon 

Detection of Murder of Essex 

Vindication of Fagel's Letter 

Answer to Penn's Advice 

Representation ofthreateningdangers 

Justification of the P. of Orange Lond. 

R. Ferguson's Apology 

Vindication of the Scots' Address 

Letter to Ch. Just. Holt 

Letter to Secretary Trenchard 

Motive of the Revolution 

Parliament dissolved, &c. 

Encroachments of the Dutch 

Advice to the Country 

Large Review of the Summary Review 

Against erecting the present Bank 

Letter to Harley 

The Scots Right to settle in Darien 

Bp. Guthrie's Memoirs 

Declarations on the Scots Plot 

Hist of the Revolution Lond. 1706, 2nd ed. 

On exchanging Marine Prisoners Lond, 

Qualifications of a Minister of State 

Obligations of Holland, &c. 

Hist, of Mobs, &c. 

Ferguson^ Wm. (Kinmundy), America by 

River and Rail 
The Two Comings of Christ 
Cretaceous Fossils of Aberdeenshire 
Some Geological Features of the 

Coast of Aberdeenshire Lpool. 

Inaugural Address to the Scientific 

and Literary Socy. Birkenhead 

The Work of the Enemy of Souls Abd. 
Hindrances to Presbyterian Progress 

in England Lpool. 

No Condemnation Edin. 

Clola Y.M.C.A., Opening Address 
On Flint Implements in Buchan 
Chalk Flints and Green-Sand Fossils 

in Aberdeenshire 
Shieldaig, Laying the Foundation 

Stone, &c. 
The Sands of Forvie 
A Cist and Urn at Parkhill 
Notes on a Cist at Parkhill (with 

Jamieson) 



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1703. 

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I715. 

1856. 
1857. 

1866. 

1868. 
187I. 

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Iron Ore Deposits in Aberdeen and 

Banff" „ 1885. 

Notes on the Sea Board of Aberdeen- 
shire. 3 parts. ,, 1880-86. 
Fergussott^ ^w., The Moved 's little while Lend. 1867. 
Inspiration, &c., of the Bible ,, 1881. 
Ferguson^ ^Fw., edited ** The Aberdeen 

Censor" Abd. 1825. 

Ferme^ Charles y Principal of Fraserburgh University. 

Analysis Ix)gica Edin. 1651. 

Translation, with Life. Wodrow See. 

Ferrerius^ Joannes , Hist. Abbatum de 

Kynlos. (Ban. Club) 

ed. Boece's Hist. 2nd ed., with 

continuation 
Historiae Compendium Gordoniae 
familiae. Ms. Adv. Lib., Edin. 
Fife, James Duff, 4ih E,, Catalogue of 

Pictures at Innes 
Firsl Report of the Aberdeen Bible Society Abd. 
Findlater, Afuirew, ** Epicurus," in 

Encyc. Metrop. Lond. 

ed. Chambers' Information for the 

People Edin. 

Chambers' Encyclopaedia 
Chambers' Etymological Dictionary 
(Chambers' Educational Course, 
many of the volumes being from 
his own pen, e.g. ** Language" 
Elementary Physiography 
Physiography 

ed. Mills Analysis with Notes 
Elementary Physical Geography 
Astronomy 

Fleming, John, Mineralogy of Orkney 

and Shetland Lond. 

Philosophy of Zoology. 2 vols. Edin. 

British Animals. (2nd ed. 1842) ,, 

On the Geological Deluge Lond. 

MoUuscuous Animals Edin. 

Proposal to establish a Museum, &c ,, 

The Temperature of the Seasons Lond. 

Lecture on Natural Science ,, 

The Lithology of Edinburgh Edin. 

Zoology of the Bass (in MacCrie's 

The Bass Rock) Lond. 

Flint, Robert, Christ's Kingdom upon 

Earth Edin. 

Foote, James, The duly of training up, &c. Abd. 

The Wilderness made glad Lond. 

Foote, Robert, A Sermon and Essay Abd. 

Forbes, A. P., The Prisoners of Craig 
macaire 

The Nicene Creed 

Helen Inglis 

Companion to the Altar 

Are you Converted ? 

Expl. of the 39 Articles. 2 vols. 

On the Grace of God 

Missal of St. Ternan of Arbuthnot 

Kalendars of Scottish Saints 

Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigern 

Adamnans Life of S. Columba (trans.) 



Lond. 
Edin. 



Lond. 
Oxfd. 

Abd. 
Lond. 

Edin. 
I) 



853. 

874. 
860. 
882. 



875. 
881. 
883. 
869. 
866. 
875. 

807. 
822. 
828. 
824. 

837. 
849. 

850. 

851. 

859. 

848. 

865. 
821. 
819. 

775. 

852. 

852. 

854. 
856. 

857. 
861. 
862. 
864. 
872. 

874. 



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Forbes, Alexander, loth Lord, A true 

copie of two letters, &c. Lond. 1642. 

Forbes, Alex., Conservatism in Aberdeen Abd. 1885. 
Fiscal Policy ,, ,, 

Political Principles verses Practice ,, 1883. 
Radicals : What they are and What 

they want ,, 1884. 

Free Imports, and Agricultural Ruin ,, 1888. 

Forbes, Anna, Insulinde Edin. 1887. 

Forbes, Archibald, Hist, of the War, 2 vols Lond. 1878. 

Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke ,, 1880. 

William I. of Germany ,, 1888. 

Forbes, Arthur, Don, a Poem Fin tray 1849. 

Forbes, Sir Chas., Letter to, on Indian 

Affairs Lond. 1826. 

Letters (2) on suppression of Public 

Discussion ,, 1824. 

Forbes, Sir Chas. , 2nd Bart. 

Iceland „ i860. 

The Campaign of Garibaldi ,, 1 861. 

A Standing Navy 
Forbes, Gordon S., Wild Life in Canara ,, 1885. 
Forbes, Henry Ogg, Denudation ,, 1878. 

On cocos nucifera ,, 1879. 

On the Cocos or Keeling Islands ,, 1879. 

On two new Cyrtandreae ,, 1882. 

On a species of Myzomela ,, 1883. 

On the habits of Thomisus decipilus 
A New Species of Thrush from 

Timorlant 
The fauna and flora of the Keeling 

Islands 
The Ethnology of Timorlaut 
Birds collected in Timorlaut, &c. 
On the tribes of the Island of Timor ,, 1884. 
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the 

Eastern Archipelago ,, 1885. 

Forbes, James, L'Eglise Catholique en 

Ecosse, &c. Paris 1885. 

Forbes, James, Nehustan, &c. Lond. 1694. 

Summary of Knowledge, &c. ,, 1700. 

God's Goodness ,, ,, 

Pastoral Instruction ,, 1713. 

Forbes, John (Filius), Sermo Funebris et 
Consolatorius, Metrum, Dissert- 
ationes, &c. 
(Forbes Funeralls, 1635). 

Forbes, John, The Saint's Hope Middleburgh 1608. 
Two Sermons ,, ,, 

On Justification „ 1616. 

On God's Spirit Lond. 1617. 

A Fruitful Sermon Amst. 1626. 

Four Sermons 1635. 

Sermon on i Tim. ii. 4 Delft. 1632. 

Records concerning the Kirk (1605- 

6). Wodrow Soc. Edin. 1846. 

Forbes, John, Epithalamium Heidel. 161 5. 

Forbes, John, Spiritual Songs 1757. 

Forbes, Sir John, Laennac's Mediate 

Auscultation (trans.) Lond. 1821. 

Auenbrugger's Inventum Novum 

(trans.) ,, 1824. 

(with Tweedie) Cyclopaedia of Prac- 
tical Medicine. 4 vols. ,, 1832-5. 



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(with Conolly) ed. Brit, and Foreign 

Medical Review Lond. 1 836- 1 847. 

Complete Index to the Review Lond. 1847. 

Forbes, John, Memoirs of the Earls of 

Granard ,, 1868. 

Forbes, John, Analytical Commentary on 

Romans ,, 1868. 

Predestination, &c. Edin. 1878. 

Studies on the Book of Psalms ,, 1888. 

Forbes, L. W., Addresses on admission 

of Rev. R. Macpherson Forres 1843. 

Forbes, Louisa Lilias, Forbes of Mony- 

musk and Pitsligo Edin. 18S0. 

Forbes, Patrick (of Corse), Instruc. Hist. 

Theologicae, fol. Amst. 1645 (Rox. 412). 

Forbes, Sir Samuel, Description of Aber- 
deenshire 1 7 16. 
In Joseph Robertson's Collections 1843. 

Forbes, Robert, On Christian Burial Edin. 1 765. 

Forbes, Robert, Questions on Baptism Abd. 1842. 

Preface to Watt's Guide to Prayer „ 1840. 

Forbes, William, On the Law of Bills 

of Exchange. (2nd ed. 1718) Edin. 1703. 
Church Lands and Tithes ,, 1705. 

On Mr. James Gordon's Reflections 

on same ,, 1706. 

Letters concerning the Parson of 

Banchory 
Justice of the Peace. Edin. 1707, 

part 2 ,, 1708. 

The Law of Elections ,, 17 10. 

Journal of Decisions ,, 1714. 

Oratio Inauguralis ,, ,, 

Institutes. 2 vols. ,,1722-30. 

State Papers Lond. 1740. 

Forbes, William (of Disblair), Allan 

Ramsay Metamorphosed, &c. s.L. et A. 

Essay upon Marriage 1704* 

Macic Faux the Mock Moralist 1705. 

Bang the Brocker s.L. et A. 

A Pill for Pork Eaters Edin. 1705, rep. 1823. 
The Rattlesnake Lend. 1712. 

Some Remarks upon Schema Sacrum 1712. 

The Farthingale revived s.L. et A. 

Forbes, William, The Dominie Deposed 

1747, 1751, &c. 
Forbes, William (Peterhead), A Song of 

Angels and Saints s.L. et A. 

The Christian Soldier (Phd.) 1798. 

The Seal of the Little Book Mont. 1799. 

The High Anointed Church Gw. 1800. 

Forbes, William, yth Lord, Rent Roll of 

Estates Bf. 1876. 

Fordoun, Ancient Sculpt. Monuments. 

(Bann. Club). Edin. 1848. 

Fordyce, Alex. Dingivall, R.N., Outlines 

of Naval Routine Lond. 1837, 

Fordyce, A. D. (Ontario), Who? What? 

Where? When? Fergus, 1884. 

/^^A-d^c^, Z?az/iV/, The Temple of Virtue ,, 1757. 
Fordyce^ George, Elements of Agriculture, 

&c. Edin. 1765-69-71, Lond. 1781-96. 



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[March, 1895. 



Elements of the Practtce of Physic. 

Parts I and 2 Lond. 1767-70. 

On the Digestion of Food ,, 1791. 

Djssertations on Fever Lond. 1 794-5-8-9- 1802-3. 

(American edn. Fordyce on Fevers, Phila. 1846.) 

Syllabus of Lectures on Chemistry Lond. N.D. 

MS. Notes of Lectures on the Practice of Physic 

in Lib. Med. Chir. Socy., Abdn. 

FordycCs Henrietta, Memoir of Dr. James 

Fordyce Lond. N.D. 

Fordyce y James y The Folly of Unlawful 



Ed in. 1760. 

Lond. 1765. 

1767. 

1775. 
1760. 

1783. 
1758. 

Edin. 1873. 
Lond. 1862. 



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1805-8. 



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Pleasures 
Sermons to Young Women 
Sermon on Lccles. xi. i 

,, on Prov. viii. 6-7 
Funeral Sermon on Lawrence 
Charge at Lindsay's Ordination 
Fordyceyjohny Historia Febris Maliaris 
Forresty JameSy The Callow Hill, Auch 

terless 
Forsyth y James y The Sporting Rifle 
Forsyth y James y D.D.y The Papacy briefly 

delineated Abd. 1850. 

Forsyth^ James S.yYoTmso{ Sttvicc Lond. 1894. 

Life and Times of Galilea 
Forsythy Robert, Beauties of Scotland. 

5 vols. 
Forsythy Williamyfr.y Botanical Nomen- 

clator 
Forsythy William y The Midnicht Meet in' 
Four Songs. 8vo. 
Francky Richardy Northern Memoirs 

Lond, 1694, rep. Edin. 1819. 
Fraser, A., Anuals of the family of Dyce 

Edin. 795, 2nd ed., 1805. 
rasery Alex. (Portlethen), Essay Abd. 1859. 

Fraser. Alex. ( /$th Ld. Saltoun). 

On disqualifications of eldest sons of 

Peers Lond. 1788 

Frasery JameSy ed. Campbell's Lectures 

on the Pastoral Character Lond. 181 1. 

Fraser, JohUy Offer maid to a gentleman 

of qualities &c. Paris 1604. 

A lerned epistle 1605. 

In Universam Aristotelis Philosophia 
Commentaria. 

Fraser, IVm.y On the Recent Increase in 

Pauper Lunacy Edin. 1881. 

Frasery Wm. N. , ed. An Account of the 

Surname of Baird Edin. 1857 & 1870. 

Frasery Wm. Ruxton, Maryton Parish Mont. 1870. 

Maryton Records ,, 1877. 

The Parish and District 

Frasery Williamy Queries in 

Ethics 
Frasery Sir William. 

History of the Carnegies. 
The Chiefs of Grant. 
The Douglas Book. 
Fitllartony John, Maitland's House of 

Seytoun (Maitland Club) Gw. 1829. 

Fyviey Williamy The Surat Mission Abd. 1829. 

Vocabulary, English and Goojuratee, Surat. 1828. 

Matthew, Do. Lond. 1840. 



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2 vols. Edin. 1867. 

3 n n 1883. 

4 ,1 „ 1885. 



Acts, English and Goojuratee 
John, Do. 

New Testament, Gujarati 
Pentateuch Do. 

The Holy Scriptures in Gujarati 

(To be continued.) 



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1842. 

1857. 
1858. 

1861. 






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DEATH OF MR ROBERT GRANT. 

The bulk of our readers know Mr Grant only 
under his pen-name of " Mormond" in these 
pages. We regret to announce his death on the 
14th ult., at the advanced age of 'j'j. From a 
lengthy notice in the Peterhead Sentinel the fol- 
lowing biographical facts regarding this rather 
remarkable man are gleaned. Mr Grant was 
humbly born and scantily educated at Peter- 
head. His natural intelligence was good, but 
his circumstances compelled him to graduate in 
a tailor's workshop, which has fostered many a 
budding genius. On the conclusion of his ap- 
prenticeship Mr Grant gratified his instinct for 
travel by going to Aberdeen, Glasgow, England, 
and even America. Reminiscences of these 
wanderings remained a life-long value and plea- 
sure to him. He wrote a good deal for the 
newspapers, partly on questions of the moment, 
and partly on antiquarian topics. The Banner 
oj Buchan (vide S. N. &^ Q. II., 180) was edited 
by Mr Grant during the six months of its exist- 
ence, and he was for a time on the staff of TAe 
Sentinel. He published numerous ephemera in 
prose and verse. 

" His tastes for literature were of a high order, 
and few men in a like position possessed the 
same intelligence and originality of thought." 
He was a humorist, a poet, and a bit of an artist; 
and although far in advance of his class, was not 
at all conceited or obtrusive. Mr Grant's folk- 
lore notes in 5. A^. 6r» g. were often favourably 
commented on, and only the growing frailties of 
age caused them to be discontinued. Ed. 



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Dumfriesshire Smugglers.— The Rev. 
James Eraser, in a paper recently contributed to 
the Dumfries Antiquarian Society, made refer- 
ence to the prevalence in former days of 
smuggling on the Colvend coast. There were 
men, he said, living in the parish when he went 
into it, fifty years ago, who remembered the 
traffic and possibly profited by it. Captain John 
Crombie, laird of Kipp, himself a seafaring man, 
had a cellar under the floor of his dining-room, 
approached by a secret trap-door, which the 
carpet covered, and which was doubtless 
designed for the safe custody of smuggled goods. 
He had himself seen the captain descend by the 
trap door and bring up a bottle. Mr. Fraser 
mentioned also that there is a similar cellar 



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under the dining-room of his manse, approached 
also by a trap door, and concealed in the same 
manner. 



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Rev. Dr. Blair, Edinburgh.— In the course 
of his address to the members of the Edinburgh 
Sutherland Association, on the occasion of their 
annual festival, the Rev. Dr. Blair, St. John's, 
Edinburgh, suggested that the younger men 
should, on their annual summer visit, endeavour 
to gather all they could of the superstitions, the 
incantations, charms, legends and old sayings, 
which he was sure must still abound in Suther- 
landshire. Much good work might in this way 
be accomplished by the members of County and 
Clan Associations (whose names at the present 
day is legion) ; work for which the historian, the 
antiquary, and the collector of folk-lore, would 
for ever be grateful. As numbers of intelligent 
young men connected with such societies have 
a knowledge of Gaelic as well as English, a con- 
siderable addition might in this way be made to 
our knowledge of place-names ; and many a 
"tradition, legend, tune and song" be rescued 
from oblivion. We trust that the good Doctor's 
words will not have been spoken in vain ; and 
that the prospective antiquaries will remember 
that the columns of S. N. &^ Q. are always open 
to original and reliable information concerning 
Scotland in days of old. 



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Berwick-upon-Tweed Epitaphs (VIII., 
121). -Another version of that epitaph, on page 
122, said to be found in Tweedsmouth Parish 
Churchyard, is found on a tombstone in Old 
Churchyard of Forgan in Fife. The Forgan 
epitaph runs as follows : 

Tho' Boreas blash and Nepton- 

is waves halh tossed 

me to and fro, by 

the order of God's 

Decree i harbour 

here below, where 

now I ly at anchor 

sure, with many of 

our fleet, expecting 

on day to set sail 

my Admiral Christ to meet. 

On a recent tombstone in Bervie Churchyard, 
we have the idea in the following shape : 
Here we lie moored 
With many more of our fleet, 
Waiting the Resurrection morn. 
Our Admiral Christ to meet. 

John Brown. 



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Bibliography of Local Publications.— 
I find that James Arbuthnot — " Modes of Farm- 
ing adapted to Buchan"— is not mentioned in 



Mr Robertson's Hand-list. The book was writ- 
ten in 1736. It is not likely a copy now exists. 
I find it mentioned in a Memorial of the Buchan 
Arbuthnots. The short but old-fashioned de- 
scription of its author may be of interest: — 
"James Arbuthnot of Wester Rora, &c. This 
excellent man received a classical education, 
which he improved by assiduous study. Accus- 
tomed to associate from his earliest years with 
the best families in that part of the country, his 
manners were those of an accomplished gentle- 
man. His fine countenance and graceful de- 
portment indicated the dignity of his mind. In 
benevolence of heart, suavity of temper, smcere 
piety, and universal good-will to mankind, he 
bore a striking resemblance to his celebrated 
namesake, Dr John Arbuthnot, As a farmer 
he was surpassed by none of his contemporaries. 
He was, if not the founder, at least the principal 
patron of a Farmer^ Society^ which tended 
greatly to promote the advancement of agricul- 
tural knowledge in that part of the County of 
Buchan ; and he published a small volume on 
the modes of farming adapted to Buchan, which 
possesses an uncommon degree of merit, consi- 
dering the period at which it was written — 1736. 
He died in 1770, at Auchleuchries, the house of 
his brother-in-law — Charles Gordon, Esq. of 
Auchleuchries — where he had resided for some 
years, having left the farm of Wester Rora to 
his son Nathaniel. 

Thomas Hutchison. 

951. Highland Regiments and New Year's 
Day. — The following description of a New Year 
custom has been going the round of the papers : — 

" At Aldershot, at five minutes to twelve, the band 
and pipers of the Seaforlh Highlanders, preceded by 
** Father Time" — the oldest soldier in the ranks, in 
costume, with hour glass and scythe — played across 
the square and out of the barrack gate, which was 
closed behind them. The strains of **Auld Lang 
Syne " bade farewell to the old year. As the clock 
struck the hour of midnight a knock was heard at the 
barrack gate. To the sentry's challenge, " Who goes 
there,"? came the answer, **The New Year." 
** Advance New Year, all's well," was the sentry's 
reply. The gates were thrown open, the guard turned 
out, and the **New Year," represented by the 
youngest drummer boy in full highland costume, was 
carried shoulder high, preceded by the pipers of the 
regiment. After making the round of the barracks he 
finished at the officers' mess." 

Is this custom observed by other Highland regiments? 
The " Gay Gordons," at present stationed at Glasgow, 
did not celebrate Christmas Day in any way ; beyond 
omitting the daily parades and drill. As one of the 
sergeants of the regiment said : "It wass just like a 
Sunday, or any other holiday T"* I have not heard 



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whether, as in the case of their comrades of the Sea- 
forth regiment, the Old and the New Year, respectively, 
made their exit and their entrance in propria persona. 

Amo. 

952. Home of Renton. — A Pedigree of the family 
of Home of Renton, Berwickshire (circa 1600 to 1700), 
or reference to any printed source of information 
would oblige. Absque Metu. 

953. Burnet of Seton. — Can anyone help me 
to connect the family of Burnet of Seton, Haddington- 
shire, with either the Burnets of Leys or ihe Burnets 
of Barns, Peeblesshire. Bishop Burnet (of the former 
family) was for some time settled near Haddington. 
Did he leave any descendants in the male line in that 
county? L. M. B. 

Please send answer to the following address, 5 
Oakhill Road, East Putney, London S.W. 

954. Rutherford or Rutherfurd?— Isnot the 
latter of these two forms of the inimitable letter- 
writer's name the correct one ? *' Rutherf(!7rd " is the 
spelling adopted by Murray, Bonar, Thomson, and, 
more recently, by Dr. Whyte of Edinburgh ; but as 
pointed out in the review of the latter's, Samuel 
Rutherford and some of his Correspottdents^ which 
appeared in the British Weekly ^ ** this form would be 
quite excusable had Samuel been as careless in the 
spelling of his own name as his contemporary, the 
Laodicean Baillie ; but on the title-pages of all his 
books printed in English, in his own time, he invariably 
appears as ' Rutherf«rd,' and in the St. Andrews copy 
of the Solemn Leagtie and Covenant his three 
signatures are in the same form." 

Michael Merlin. 

955. British Farmers' Magazine.— In 1827 the 
late Rev. George Gilfillan (at that time a lad of four- 
teen), contributed an article to this periodical ; one of 
the first articles, if not the first, he sent to any 
magazine. Can any reader give the subject of this 
paper? GilfiUan's next noteworthy articles, one on 
Professor Wilson and another on Dr. Chalmers, 
appeared in 1839 in the Edinburgh University 
Magazine. Amo. 

Hnswers* 



915. Old Rhyme (VHL, 62, 78, 93). — In answer- 
ing this query, both correspondents pronounce the 
lines referred to to be part of a nursery rhyme ; they 
appear to have overlooked the following version— 
probably the source of Ramsay's song — which is 
manifestly a Jacobite ballad. 

** O this is no my ain house, 
I ken by the biggin' o't ; 
For bow-kail thrave at mjr door cheek, 

And thistles on the riggin' o't. 
A carle came wi' lack o' grace, 
Wi' unco gear and unco face ; 
And sin' he claimed my daddy's place, 

I downa bide the triggin' o't. 

Wi' routh o* kin, and routh o' reek, 

My daddy's door it wadna steek ; 

But bread and cheese were bis door cheek, 

And girdle cakes the riggin' o't. 
Say, was it foul, or was it fair, 
To come a hunder mile and mair, 
For to ding out my daddy's heir, 

And dash him wi' the whiggin' o't ? " 



The above version is Uom Jacobite Songs and Ballads 
(Canterbury Poets), edited by G. S. Macquoid. In 
his Notes Mr. Macquoid says laconically : ** This (the 
verses quoted) was paraphrased into a love song by 
Ramsay, and spoilt in the process." Amo. 

941. Aldermen in Scotland (VIII., 126). — 
In Dr. Black's History af Buchan^ II. 31, reference 
is made to an action brought before the Lords of 
Council and Session in 1508, at the instance of the 
Alderman, bailies and burgesses of Montrose, against 
the citizens of Brechin for vexations and hindrances 
alleged to have been given to the Community of Mon- 
trose in their use of the Market of Brechin ; while in 
John Bulloch's Monograph on The Pynoursy quotations 
are given from the Registers of Aberdeen Town 
Council, which show that between the date of 1 502 
and 1522 it had ceased to be the practice to speak in 
these records of the "Alderman, baizes and Consale," 
and that in lieu thereof, the record ran *'the provest, 
baillies and counsell." 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

948. Parody OF Song Johnnie Cope (VIII., 142). 

— The following are the verses of this parody : — 
Hey ! Jamie Forrest, are ye waukin' yet? 

Or are your Bailies snorin' yet ? 
If ye were waukin' I would wait, 

Ye'll ha'e a merry, merry morning. 

The frigate guns they loud did roar, 

But louder did the Bailies snote, 
An' thocht it was an unco bore 

To rise up in the mornin'. 

Hey ! Jamie, &c. 

An' syne the castle thundered loud, 

But kipper it is savoury food. 
An' that the Bailies understood. 

Sae early in the mornin'. 

Hey ! Jamie, &c. 

The Queen she's come to Granton Pier ; 

Nae Provost an' nae Bailies here ! 
They're in their beds I muckle fear, 

Sae early in the mornin*. 

Hey ! Jamie, &c. 

The Queen she's come to Brandon Street, 

The Provost and the keys to meet ; 
And div ye think that she's to wait 

Your waukin' in the mornin'? 

Hey ! Jamie, &c. 

My lord ! my lord I the Queen is here. 

An' now, my lord, he lookit queer ; 
" An' what sets her sae sune asteer? 

Its barely nine i' the mornin'." 

Hey ! Jamie, &c. 

" Gae bring to me my robes o' state. 
Come Bailies we will catch her yet." 

Rin, rin, my lord, though ye' re ower late, 
She's through the toun this mornin'. 

Hey ! Jamie, &c. 

Awa' to Dalkeith ye maun hie, 

To mak' your best apology : 
The Queen she'll say, " Oh fie ! O fie ! 

You're lazy loons m the mornin." 

Hey ! Jamie, &c. 

The song was, to my certain knowledge, composed 
almost entirely by two of the daughters of the late 
Robert Scott- Moncrieff, Esq. of Fossoway, Advocate, 
and near relatives of my own. It was written at 
Dalkeith where Mr. Scott Moncrieff, who was for 
many years Chamberlain to the Duke of Buccleuch, 
resided. It was taken by an uncle of the young ladies 
the night it was written to Messrs. Blackwood the 
I publishers, and printed as a broadsheet upon the 



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following day. One of the sisters died many years 
ago in India, the elder survived until last year. She 
told me that the line 

" And now, my lord, he lookit queer " 

was suggested by the parish minister who chanced to 
call when the song was being composed. 

w. g. scott-moncrieff. 

916. Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots 
(VIII., 78, no, 127). — I have been interested in the 
Latin Poem by Mary Queen of Scots, and have 
attempted, as follows, to put it into verse: 

O Father in Heaven, 
My hope is in 1 hee, 
My Jesu, dear Jesu, 
Now rescue Thou me. 
In cruel chains l^ng, 
In bitter pains sighing, 
I'm longing for 1 hee. 
I, fainting and groaning, 
On bended knee moaning, 
Adore Thee, implore Thee 
My Saviour to be. 
The Manse, Bervie. John Brown. 

949. CoRKLiT, A Dye (VIII., 142). — Corklit is a 
lichen not a moss, and its botanical name is Lecanora 
tartarea, A beautiful crimson dye is obtained from it 
and other lichens by treating them with alkaline 
substances. A domestic dye is still prepared from 
lichens in many parts of the Highlands and Islands of 
Scotland, but the collection of these plants as an 
industry once flourishing in Scotland, ceased sometime 
in the first half of the present century. In Shetland 
the plant, as well as the dye prepared from it, is 
called Korkalett. In the Highlands it is named 
Corker ; but throughout Scotland the dye is best 
known under the name of Cudbear, a corruption of 
the Christian name of Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, who 
first introduced the manufacture in Glasgow. 

Edinburgh. A. B. Steele. 

Olden Trade Names (VII., 34). — The writer o{ 
this notice (which by the way is unsigned) asks for 
the meaning of several trade-names on his list, and as 
his query has called forth no reply, I append the 
meaning and derivation of those with which I am 
acquainted. The compilation of a complete list of 
obsolete trade-names, or of those the form or spelling 
of which merely is archaic, as suggested by this 
correspondent, would be a labour demanding con- 
siderable research, to which I may address myself at 
some future time, provided I do not learn that one 
already exists. 

Fial, Fiall = a vassal, dependant, one holding by a 
feudal tenure. O. Yi.feal^ Ix. fael^ feel. Fiall, feale, 
is vassalage ; Cf. fealty. '* Feal and Leal," = Faith- 
ful and Loyal. 

Pantounheilmaker. Pantoun^ a slipper. This 
word has various forms as, pantoujle^ pantufl^ pantuifil 
(Fr. pantoujle). In Dunbar's *'Of a Dance in the 
(^uenis Chalmer " the form is pantoun : — 

" Than cam in Dunbar the makkar, 
On all the flure thair was nane frakker. 
And thare he daunsit the dirrye dantoun ; 
He hoppet lyk a fillie wantoun, 

For iuiff of Mus«;raifFe, men tellis me ; 
He tripped, quhill he tint his pantoun: 
A mirrear dance mycht na man see." 



Sir David Lindsay also in his entertaining " Historie 
of Squyer Meldrum" (1550), employs the word 

" panton " : 

'* This was the mirrie tyme of May, 
Quhen this fair ladie, freshe and gay, 
Start up to take the hailsum air. 
With pantonis on hir feit ane pair." 
Quarlouris = dart or arrow makers, for a cross-bow ; 
O. Fr. quarrel^ quarel^ Fr. carreau ; Cf. surname 
Fletcher {Yx. flkhe) an arrow- maker. 

Sparginer = a plasterer. **To spairge, sparge^ (Fr. 
asperger) a wall," says M. Francisque- Michel, ** is to 
rough-cast a wall, to haarl a wall in northern dialect ; 
whilst spargeon is to plaster a wall, and sparginer is a 
plasterer." James W. Scott. 

950. Charles Leslie, Jacobite Ballad Singer 
(VIII., 142). — A portrait of, and some biographical 
particulars regarding this man, who was known as 
** Mussel Mou'd Charlie," are to be found in The 
Ballad Book, Edinburgh, 1827. W. J. 

950. Some years ago I bought a little book entitled 
' ' An Interesting and Faithful Narrative of the 
Wanderings of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and 
Miss Flora MacDonald, after the Battle of Culloden. 
From the Original Manuscript, by Alex. MacDonald 
(one of their Attendants), with a Memoir of his Life, 
and several Jacobite Poems and Songs." (Glasgow : 
Francis Orr & Sons, 1839. ) 

Amongst other matters the book contains an article 
on ** Castle Campbell," and an account of "Mussel 
Mou'd Charlie." I am unable to say whether the 
record is authentic, but from it I give the following 
abridged account : 

Charles Leslie was "one of the last and most 
singular of the followers and professors of the craft of 
Old Homer,— he, like his great prototype, not only 
composed, but sung his own eompositions for his daily 
bread." 

In his " Introductory Remarks on Popular Poetry," 
in a small volume of Ballads edited by Mr. G. R. 
Kinloch, of Edinburgh, Sir Walter Scott mentions 
him thus : *' The contents are announced as contain- 
ing the budget, or stock-in-trade, of an old Aberdeen- 
shire minstrel ; the very last, probably, of the race 
who, according to Percy's definition of the profession, 
sung his own compositions, and those of others, 
through the capital of the county, and other towns in 
that country of gentlemen. The man's name was 
Charles Leslie, but he was known more generally by 
the nick-name of Mussel-mou'd Charlie, from a singular 
projection of his under lip." His death was thus 
announced in the newspapers for October, 1792 (1782) : 
"Died at Old Rain, in Aberdeenshire, aged One 
Hundred and Four (Five) years, Charles Leslie, a 
hawker or ballad -singer, well known in that country 
by the name of Mussel-mou'd Charlie. He followed 
his occupation till within a few weeks of his death." 

Leslie was very popular in Aberdeen, and enjoyed 
a sort of monopoly of the minstrel calling there, no 
other person being allowed to chaunt ballads on the 
Plainstones of " the brave burgh." Most of his songs 
were of a jocose character. 

Hogg, in his "Jacobite Relies," says he had been 
told the song (Geordie Sits in Charlie's Chair) was 
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, 1855. 



The following account of this strange chnracter 'vi 
given in a letlei by Mr. /ames Troup {viho knew him 
personilly), addressed to Aleuander Irvine, lisq. , of 

" Sir,— Inclised I send you McLeotl's ilcfcal nt 
Inveniry ; allow mc ilso to send you some accounts oF 
Charles Leslie, the last of the Shennachies or old Scots 
Bards, who, I believe, made the first eight lines of the 
song, at least some of them. 

"Charles Leslie was a nttural sim of Leslie of Pit- 
caple, in the Garioch, an old family on Ury-side, 
commonly called 'Mussel mou'd Chnrlie.' lames 
i\ogg, quotes hiiu in his iD5thsoiig of Jacobite Relics. 
Some verses, he says, in that long song were made by 
' Mussel-muu'd Charlie.' He was a remarkably thin 
made man, almul 5 feet 10 inches hiyh, small red fiery 
eyes, a long chin, reddish hair, and since I ever knew 
him, carried a long pike-slalT a gonil denl longer than 
himself, with a targe hanleo -l)ag slung over his 
shoulder liefore him I0 hold his ballads, and a small 
pocket covered Bible with a long string at it. I have 
seen him several times at my father's when he called 
nt Mr. Leslie's, factor at Muchels, in his way when 
he went 10 and from the south, and was a welcome 
guest about the time of CuUoden for his news. When 
be knew of any to he hanged at Edinburgh, he was 
sure to lie there that day for their last speech nnd 
dying words. He was a wtll-fcnown man South and 
North, and could have given the genealogies of most 
of the old families between Dee and Don. 

" About the year 1780 Mr. Wells, Painter, took his 
likeness, with a good matiy oiidities in and about 
Aberdeen, with old Peter Garden, 13a years old, in 
Ihc parish of Auchlerless ; Margaret Walker, in 
Daviot, MI years old, &c., &c. The last lime I saw 
Charlie was in Morischal Street, led by a woman, 
carrying some milk in his hand. I suiipose he was 
blind. The magistrates of Aberdeen were very ill- 
natured to him : they often put him into jail for 
ainging, and asked him what for he did it ? ' Why,' 
says Charlie, ' for a bit of bread.' ' Why,' says the 
Provost, 'cannot you slog other songs than thai 
rebellious ones?' ' Oh, aye,' says Charlie, ' hut they 
winna buy them.' 'Where do you liuy them?' 
■ Why, faur I gel them cheapest.' 

"He was in jail when the accounts of McLeoil's 
Jefeat came to town, and a great many more townsmen, 
until it could hold DO more. Mr. Alexander McDonald, 
Merchant, Biuadgate; Mr. Francis Kose, intheCrecn, 
and a good many more were put into the guard -house. 
Mr, Rose was put in for leniling Trou]i the dancing- 
master a pair of pistols to go to Invetury. However, 
next day the accounts came of the defeat, and Ihey 
were all liberate, and the prisoners from Invernry ]iut 
in. Charlie was no sooner at the Cross tha.n heli^gan 
to sing ' Come, countrymen,' S:c. This I had from an 
old lass when I was a prentice in town. She was n 
servant in a gentleman's house, I l^clicve Mr. Turner 
at Tumerhall, who sent her every day tvllh victuals, 
Sc, to Charlie, who sung ihe whole day-lime to plenty 
of compaoy, and she and Charlie had the pleasure of 
standing in the crowd and saw some gentlemen anil 
Provost James Morrison mount the cross, and caused 
him take off his hal, and drink a glass of red wine to 
the Prince's health, and proclaim him Prince Regent. 



She said, if Charlie was ill before he was put in jail, 
he grow worse against the Whigs when he got out, &c." 
A curious portrait of Charlie forms the frontispiece, and 
is well worth reproducing. 

Aberdeen. James L.aing. 

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APRIL, 1895. 



Registered. {P«i*=y^.^^^ 



CONTENTS. 

Notes: — 

The Edinburgh MSS. Forgeries, 161 

Flora Macdonald, 163 

Notable Men and Women of Aberdeenshire, 164 

Dr. Chalmers, 166 

Bibliography of Aberdeen Publications, 1864 166 

Local Bibliography, 169 

Minor Notes : — 

Carved Horn, 171 

Suicide of an old minister of Newhills, 171 

Robertson Clan Charm-Stone, 172 

Scottish Good Templars, 172 

A Northern City Cold, 172 

Bibliography of Aberdeen Periodical Publications,.... 173 

Sonnet by Professor Blackie to Bums, 173 

Burns's Direct Descendants, 173 

Scott as a Presbyterian Elder, 174 

Queries: — 

Funeral Feasts— Burlaw in Scotland — Thraip — Rev. 
John Bisset's Diary — Aberdeen Joint Medical School 
Minutes — Stevenson's Works— Author of the " Pipers 
o' Buchan " — Sir David Wilkie— The Granite City,. . . 174 

Answers : — 

Writings of Professor Martin, LL.D. — Murray Lec- 
tures at King's College— Story of Deil o' Baldarroch — 
The Aberdeen Journal in 1746 — George Stevenson — 
Corklit, a Dye — Charles Leslie, Jacobite Ballad Singer 
— Rutherford or Rutherfurd, 175 

Literature, 175 

Scotch Books for the Month, 176 

ABERDEEN, APRIL, i8gs. 
♦•» 

THE EDINBURGH MSS. FORGERIES. 
(Continued from p. 131.) 

10. To the ** Lordis of our Session," anent the 
trial of the Queen's servant, James Meldrum, 
dated i Jany. 1568. Signed Marie R. On 
small quarto ; bears the mark of Her Majesty's 
seal. 

" Her Majesty" had been forced to abdi- 
cate on July 24th, 1567, and at the date on 
this document was a close prisoner in Loch- 
leven Castle, whence she escaped May 2nd, 
1 568. 

1 1. Charles R. Commission to James McArthur, 
dated at Newcastle, i8th May, 1646. Seal 
gone. 

Charles was brought to Newcastle by the 
Scots' Army, May 13th. He was practically 
their prisoner. How comes he to be sign- 
ing Commissions there, and then? The 
Covenanters were urging him to call in 
Commissions — Montrose's and Huntly's, for 
instance. 

12. Proclamation ordering the Lieges to assem- 



ble at Perth for the cause of King James VIII. 

In name of Prince Charles. Signed by J. 

Murray and J. Drummond. Camp at Perth, 

nth Sep. 1745. 

As we have seen (No. 7), Prince Charles 
left Perth on the nth. It is highly impro- 
bable that on or after that date he should 
order the " Lieges" to assemble there. Who 
was "J. Drummond"? James Drummond 
would have signed himself " Perth" [Duke 
of], and Lord John Drummond simply 
"Drummond." The latter was then in 
France [See No. 13 below]. J. Murray ap- 

t^ears to have signed himself " Jo. Murray. ** 
See No. 7]. 

13. Letter to Lord Cromartie. From J.Murray, 
secretary to Prince Charles, dated "from 
Holyrude House, 15th October, 1745, inform- 
ing his Lordship of the arrival at Montros, 
and sending him the papers received, that he 
may present them to his Royal Highness." 
He also sends monies, and advises a guard so 
that the money and stands of arms brought 
may not be lost. He notes that the Marquis 
d' Equilles is with the party, whose appearance 
at this time is most opportune. He adds, 
" You may trust the bearer hereof as myself, 
and send him to return by Kingorne, as there 
is some talk of a body of ships being ready to 
intercept all News, as hath already been done." 
Addressed "to my Lord Cromartie or his 
steward. These with all speid. 

J. Murray. (By Donald Grahame)." 

Here is a pretty kettle of fish ! For 
"Holyrude House," "Royal Highness" and 
"J. Murray," see No. 7 above. 

Why did Secretary Murray, then with the 
Prince at Holyrood, send Lord Cromartie 
papers to be presented to the Prince? 
Comment on "a body of ships" and on the 
extraordinary composition of the last sent- 
ence is needless. "Marquis d' Equilles' 
opportune appearance," indeed, as it should 
have been, to the purchaser. Monsieur de 
Boyer, styled Marquis d'Eguilles, was 
received on Oct. loth as French Ambassador 
at Holyrood. Chambers' Hist, of the '45, 
ch. xiv. It is however fair to state that the 
Chevalier de Johnstone in his Memoirs 
(Aberdeen, 1870, vol. i., 37), states that he 



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arrived at Montrose on Oct. nth. He calls 
him " M. d' Aiguille, brother of the Marquis | 
of Argout, who took the title of Ambassador , 
of the King of France." It seems probable ; 
that Johnstone gives the correct title and j 
spelling. Perhaps some Montrose corres- 
pondent could tell us when the ships arrived. 
Chambers further informs us that the Firth 
of Forth was at that time " swept by British 
cruisers", so that there was difficulty in 
getting money and arms transported to 
Edinburgh. The Earl of Cromarty did not 
join the Prince till he reached Bannockburn, 
shortly before the battle of Falkirk. 

14. To John Campbell at Glenmore in Argyll, 
Nov. 29th, 1745, signed ** Charles P.R.," vow- 
ing to do good to John, and praying for " law 
and order^ in this our kingdom. 

Which kingdom ? On Nov. 29th Charles 
marched from Preston to Manchester, 
which he entered at 2 p.m., and was probably 
too busy raising recruits and money to 
write to "John" about his trifling business. 
Perhaps some reader of S. A'. «S-» Q. can 
inform us wheiher there is a ('ilcnmore in 
Argyll. 

15. Commission signed " Charles P.R.,*' at Glen- 
finen, 20th Aug. 1745, ^o Capt. Kenneth 
M*Pherson, now residing at Perth. J. D. L. 
had this from Macpherson's son, who denies in 
1803 that his father served as above. 

Like enough. I fail to find his name in 
the history of the '45. Nor does it seem 
likely at this early date in the Rebellion 
that Charles should be sending commissions 
to Perth. He raised his standard at Glen- 
finnin Aug. 19th, and remained there two 
days. Who was "J. D. L.''? 

16. Commission signed " Dundie," i6th Dec. 
1688, at Dudhopie (?) appointing Capt. Geo. 
Drummond major in Ewan M*Pherson's 
Regiment." 

The note of interrogation presumably is 
not in the original, but may well stand. 
Major-General Claverhouse (created Vis- 
count about Nov.), of the Scottish Cavalry, 
reached London Oct. 28th, 1688, and did 
not return to Scotland till the end of Feb. 
1689. See No. 3. 

17. "Dundie" to Lord Callander anent conduct 
of Argyll, 5th July, 1569. 

Is it charity to assume a misprint for 
1669? Claverhouse was then abroad, and 
was not "Dundie" till 1688 (see No. 16 
above and No. 29 below). We must then 
assume two misprints for 1689. But " Dun- 
die" was killed June 17, 1689. So we must 
assume at least three misprints ! 

18. Perth 13th Jan. 1729. Receipt signed " Roy 



Campbell." £^0 received from Jas. Anderson, 
written payable in beeves. Rob Roy was a 
good writer, and his signature is that of a 
gentleman of culture. 

According to Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy 
was born about the middle of the xvii. cen- 
tury, and died an old man in 1733. For 
some years previous to his death he had 
abandoned his predatory habits. 

19. Marie R. Bot from Bailie Brown, Edin., 
1696 lb. for 10 Scots. 

Presumably "1696 for 10 lb. Scots?" 
But if so it will not suffice to suppose a 
single misprint, for 1596 (see No. 17). For 
Mary was executed Feb. 8th, 1587. Have 
we here two misprints for 1 569 ? Mary was 
then a prisoner in England, which she 
entered May 16, 1568. 

20. James R. 17 14. Bill for ;£20o stg. to James 
Stuart of Dundee, in the county of Meams. 

See No. 6 above, on the date. " Dundee 
in the county of Meams,** strikes one as like 
" Edinburgh in the county of Midlothian," 
or " London in the county of Middlesex,*' — 
true, for a geography manual, but needless. 
Was ever a letter to Dundee so addressed ? 
The above include all the Kennedy " His- 
torical" MS. I have cared to examine. The 
whole 202 were pronounced by the Brit. 
Museum palaeographists as Forgeries. 

To these we now add others from the 
Catalogue mentioned in our introductory 
remarks. This catalogue is undated. It 
contained a list of nearly 300 documents, 
mainly MSS. " principally from the Charter 
Chests of Jacobite Families." Further, 
" The early portion of the Documents were 
collected by a wealthy Antiquary in the 
West of Scotland, upwards of 50 years ago, 
and were kept in his repositories until re- 
cently. His successors, for family reasons, 
decline using his name. [That is, decline to 
allow his name to be published]. They have 
also been carefully examined, and favour- 
ably reported upon, by one of our chief 
Genealogists, whose opinion is that the 
Writing and Paper are all of the dates of 
the period. From these statements and 
original inquiries, I feel assured that the 
Documents are all genuine." We shall see. 

21. Queen Mary. — Letter, superscribed 12 March 
1568. Ordering one of Her Attendants to 
give an account of his failure with the Earl of 
Huntly, and to return to Her Presence. 

Mary was then a prisoner in Lochleven 
Castle. See No. 10 above. 

22. Queen Mary. — Copy Licence to the Lord 
Lyle to Anailzie his Wardlands of Ducbal and 
Lyle, 20 April 1 543. 



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163 



At this date Mary yf^sfour ynonths old : — 
born Dec. S, 1542. Apparently she was 
much more precocious than the Forger 
made Burns at seven ! (Edinb. Ev. Dispatch, 
Nov. 26, 1892). No wonder this precious 
relic was offered 2X four shillings / 

23. Queen Mary. — Letter (Facsimile), signed 
Off Carloill ye 16 July 1568. To our dearest 
Cousin of Argyle. 

What does ** Off Carloill " mean ? Mary 
was then at Carlisle, which she reached from 
Workington, where she landed May 16, 
1568. 

24. Argyle. — Declaration, signed May 1685, by 
Archibald, Earl of Argyle as Heritable Sheriff 
and Lieutenant of the Shires of Argyle and 
Tarbet, and Heritable Justice General of the 
said Shires and the West Isles and others. 
To his vassals and others there to concur for 
the defence of their Religion, Laws, and 
Liberties. 

Wodrow Hist. iii. 260-1 gives Argyll's 
Declaration in full, but without any of the 
above preamble. He states that it was 
printed 2ccidi dispersed on May 27th at Tar- 
bet. Note that the above gives no locality. 
In Wodrow's copy Argyll requires his 
"vassals everywhere, and all within my 
several jurisdictions [not otherwise specified] 
with the fencible men within their command 
to go to arms, and to join and concur with 
us," etc. Not a word in the document about 
" there " or anywhere else. Five guineas 
was the price asked for this precious original 
of the paper. 

The next is of interest, as suggesting that 
the Forger sometimes had recourse to the 
Printing Press. 

25. Argyle. — Deposition (printed) of Mr. William 
Carstares in Presence of the Privy Council. 
Edinburgh Castle 8 and 18 Sept. and 22 Dec. 
1684. Signed by Perth, Queensberry and 
Athol — relating to a Revolution in which 
Argyle is concerned. 

Wodrow, who examined the books of the 
Council, quotes the minutes in full down to 
Sept. 6. They record nothing of what passed 
at his examination Dec. 8th (iii. 102). The 
next entry was an order to remove him to 
Dumbarton Castle, Sept. 13th, whence he 
was removed on the 30th to Stirling Castle 
{ib, 101). He adds (p. 103), ** I cannot but 
suspect that article in Jerviswood's printed 
trial, page 23, where Mr Carstairs' deposi- 
tions are said to be renewed upon oath, the 
22d of December, in presence of His Ma- 
jesty's Privy Council, as being directly con- 
trary to the second and third conditions 
granted him [namely, full pardon and a pro- 



mise that he should never be brought as 
witness against any person or judicatory, 
directly or indirectly, for anything contained 
in his answers."] In all Wodrow's quota- 
tions his name is written " Carstairs.'"' A 
maimed copy of his depositions was printed 
as " the deposition of Mr William Carstairs, 
when he was examined before the lords of 
the secret committee \note the wofding\ 
given in by him, and received upon oath, 
upon the 22d of December, 1684, in the pre- 
sence of his majesty's privy council." Car- 
stairs afterwards denied that he renewed 
his depositions on the 22d Dec. \id ib, 108-9]. 

26. Charles I. Superscribed 16 Sept. 1646. Re- 
mission addressed to the Earl of Loudon, and 
a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Mar- 
quis of Montrose. 

See No. 11. 

27. Charles II. Declaration, signed 14 April, 
1660, on his Restoration. To be proclaimed 
at the Town Cross, Glasgow. 

At this date Monk had not declared for 
Charles. The Convention Parliament began 
its sittings on April 25th. On May ist 
Monk announced tha^ a messenger from the 
King was at the door, who presented the 
Declaration of Breda, where Charles then 
was. Charles landed at Dover May 25th. 
He was proclaimed King in London May 
8th, and at Edinburgh May 14th. The 
Glasgow people were a trifle "previous" in 
their loyalty — for once ! 

H. F. MoRLAND Simpson. 

( To he continued, ) 



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Flora Macdonald. — A letter has been re- 
ceived from the executors of the late Captain 
John Macdonald, of the 78th Seaforth High- 
landers, who claimed to be a descendant of Flora 
Macdonald, intimating the death of his widow, 
and stating that the sum of ^1000, which he left 
to erect a statue in memory of the heroine, is 
now available. In his will the testator stipulates 
that the statue shall be of bronze, and that upon 
the pedestal Dr Johnson's famous and oft-quoted 
description shall be engraven. 



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Messrs Macmillan & Co. have just issued two 
handsome volumes, which are of special interest 
to Scotsmen. One is, the Life of Adam Smith, 
by John Rae. This new edition contains much 
material which has never before been published 
The other volume, a " Memoir of Sir A. C. Ram- 
say, by Sir Archibald Geikie, is a valuable addi- 
tion to literature and science, by an accom- 
plished writer, who was a life-long friend. 



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[April, 1895 . 



109. CanI, Andrew (Kev.): Principal of Ed inbu^h 
University. Younger son of the Covenanter, and born 
at Alford in 1625, he was educated and graduated at 
Marischal College, and served as r^ent There. In 
1650 he was elected to the second charge of Si. 
Nicholas Church ai assistant to his father, and 1659 
was translated lu Liberton, Edinbui^h. 1673 Trinity 
Collie Church there, and in 1675 l^canie Principal 
of Ihe University and minister of the High Church, 
Edinbu^h He died 1685. His works are : Thtsts 
Fkiloso^uae ; De Libera Arbilrio: Oratio de Con- 
eordia Tkeelo/iarum it Discerdia, Edin., 1676. A third 
Andrew Cant, who was minister of South Leilh and 
Trinity Collie Church, and afterwards a ronjuring 
bishop, is styled by Dr. Joseph Robertson (Ikl. Lit. , 
p. 35), B, son of (he Rrst Andrew, and by Dr. Grub 
(Ecclis. Hist., III., p, 387), a son of the second 
Andrew. In reality he was son of Alexander Cant, 
minister of Banchory-Ternan, and elder brother of the 
second Andrew. 

Iia Cargin,Ja'ius,M.D.: Scottish I'hysicianand 
Botanist. Son of Tomas Caigill, merchant, Aberdeen. 
Friend of Arthur Johniione, lie stuilieii liot.iny 
and anatomy at B^sle under Caspar ilauhin, who 
mentioDS Dr. Cargill as having subsequently sent him 
seeds and specimens. Qesner and Lobel also ac- 
knowledge his services, and Ihe latter speaks of him as 
a philcsopher, and as well skilled ' ' * 



Marischal College. 

III. Cargill, Thomas: Rector of the Grammar 
School, Aberdeen, 15S0-160Z. Noted not merely for 
his skill as a preceptor, but for his powers of versili- 
cation. Among his writings were an Ode mi tht 
Era/can of Marischal Celtigt (1593), anti an AcceunI 
af Ike Antiquity and Privileges of Aberdeen ( 1601 ), 
both printed in Edinburgh at the cost of the Town 
Council of Aberdeen. 

iiz. Camie, IVm. : Minor I'oel and Psalmody 
Editor. Boin at Alierdeen, lllh November, 1S24. 
Originally a letter engraver, he becamE a student of 
literature ami music. In 1S45 he waschosen precentor 
of the Established Church, Banchory-Devenick, and 
in 1847 wa-s appointed Inspector of Poor for the parish. 
In 185* he became subeditor of the Aberdeen Herald, 
and was precentor of the High Church, Aberdeen, 
from 1S56 to 1S71. He has acted since 1S61 as 
Clerk and Treasurer to the Managers of Aberdeen 
Royal Infirmary and the Lunatic Asylum, lie has 
acted as dramatic and musical critic for many years. 
Mr. Carnie has done yeoman service in the advance- 
ment of congregntional singing in the North of 
Scotland. His Norihem Psalter (a work nut yet 
surpassed) has attained immense popularity all 
Scotland, and amongst all Presbyterian denominal 
and at the present lime upwards of 60,000 copies of 
his psalmmlic works have been issued. In 1887 
Mr. Carnie published a volume of verse under ihc 
title Waifs of Rhyme. 



113. Cassie, James, R.S.A.: AnisI, Born al 
Inverurie in l8ig;: painted in Aberdeen till his arrival 
in Edinbui^h in 1869, when he was etacted an 
Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy. In his 
early career he devoted himself to jxirtrailure ami 
animal painting ; but latterly gave most attention to 
landscape and river scenes. He became R.S.A. in 
1878, and died the following year. 

114. Chalmers, Adam: Minor Poet. Author of 
The Crusader and other Poems" published at Peter- 
head in 1856. 

115. Chaliiurs, Alexander: Eminent Literatenr 



:teen, zgth March, 1759, and educated there for . 
medical career, he preferreil literature to his own 
profession, and proceeding to London in 1779 got 
work (here as a journalist. He contributed to many 
of the leading journals, and for a lime edited TheMmit- 
ing Herald. It was, however, ns an editor of standard 
works that he gained bis chief distinction. Under his 
care appeared successively 45 volumes of the British 
Essayists, also complete editions of Shakspere, Burns, 
Beattie, and of many other English Foels. He also 
edited Giblion's History, Bolingbroke's Works, John- 
son's Lives of the Poet?, Cruden's Concordance, &c, 
S:c. His greatest achievement, however, is his Gtntml 
Biographical Dictionary in 32 vols. For 50 yeois 
Mr. Chalmers was one of the most laborious men irf 
letters in London, where he died in 1834. 

116. Chalmers, C*ar/« Z)., of Montshill : Major 
General. Son of an Aberdeen Advocate. The 
present representative of the Monkshill family. He 
is a Major General in the Royal Artillery. 

1 1 7. Chalmer or Chalmers, David, Lord Ormond : 
Scottish Judge. A prominent cotirtier and lawyer in 
the time of Queen Mary, this notable Aberdonian is 
generally said in Bic^raphical Dictionaries to have 
beenanativeof Rosa-shire. As,however, Mr. Temple 
in his Thaitage of Femtartyn shows that he was a son 
of Andrew Chalmer of Strichen, and was only 
connected with Ross-shire through his education there 
under his uncle the Chancellor of Ross, who also 
defrayed his education in Paris and Lorraine, it is 
really under Aberdeenshire that bis birth should be 
given. This took place according to Anderson in the 
Scottish Nation about 1 530, who further adds that he 



and Italy to study, in which latter country he was 

Eupil to hfarianus Soienns at Bologna in 1556. Od 
is return to Scotland he liecame successively parson 
of Suddy, provost of Crejchlon nod Chancellor of the 
iliocesc of 10ms. Temple adds that he was also 
employed by Bothwcll as his servant, and that by that 
noble's influence he was, in 1565, made a Senator of 
the College of Justice. He is alltged Imlb by Temple 
and Anderson to have been a great dealer between tlie 
Queen and Bothwell. This and other presumptions 
led to his lieing accused as one of those who had a 
share in the murder of Darnley. After Carberry Hill 
anit Langside he fled to Spain, but subsequently took 
refuge in France. In the meantime he was "foifaull" 



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SC0T2ISH NOTES AND Qt/MJUES. 



■«5 



in Pailiament, a sen 
removed on h.]s relum 
General Assembly rem 
king against this net, bi 
was never tried for the 
in 1586 he was restored 



ice, however, which was 
I Scotland in 1583. The 
ilrateil vigorously with ihe 
n spile of their protest he 
ne laid lo his charge, and 
1 the liench. 



During his residence in France he 
published ihe following works : Hisloirc Ahrigei dt 
iou! Us Rays dt Framt, Angleterre, tt Ecoise, mise en 
Ordre, &•(., 1579; La richtrche des SingularilJs let 
plus rewiarkables tontimant VEtat d'Eiosst, 1579; 
Discoun dt la legitime Successian dts Ftiames aux 
Fossetsioiis dt Ittirs Parens, fir's,, 1579. 

nB. Chalmers ar C&amitrs, Daiiid: Latin Toet, 
Scholar and Author. Possibly a native of FinlrBy, 
be was bred a Catholic, and lived on the Continent. 
He published at Paris in 1631 a volume entitled Be 
Sa>loru»i_ Ferliitdim, Ehclrina, et Fittale. lie was 
also author of a most elegant poelical History with 
beautiful digressions enlitled l.ysaader and Lncina. 

119. Chalmin, George, D.D. (Rev.): Principal 
of King's College. Alleged (o be from Slrichen parish. 
Born about 1671 ; licensed 1695, ordained to Kil- 
winning parish 1696, became Principal of King's 
College 1711, presented lo Old Machar parish 1728. 
This appointment le<l to great opposition on the part 
of many menibers of the Congr^piion, and though 
Mr. Chalmers was inducted in March, 1739, his 
seltlemenl was reversed by the General Assembly of 
thai year. Calleil anew on Ihe 230! September of 
1719, Mr. Chalmers was admitted % a comi 
Synod, which soon after was sffirmed by the General 
Assembly, 1730. Hedied 1746. The only publicalion 
ofhis which 1 have seen is a pamphlet styled : "A 
letter from the North, in answer to another from a 
friend in the Soulh, conceining Princijal Chalmers, 
his call to Old Mochar, &c.," 1730. 

izo. Chalmers, James: Journalist. Born at Alwr- 
deen, 31st March, 1742, be succeeiled his father as 
publisher of the Aherileen Journal. Died 1810, 
brother ofllj. 

IJI. Chamberlain, David, Al.D.: Royal Physician. 
A native of Aberdeen, he was appointed Physician tc 
Ann, Queen of James VI. He died in 1618, be- 
queathing 1000 nierks for the maintenance ufMarischal 
College. 

122. Cheyne, George, M.O., F.A'.S. : Eminent 
Physician. Bom a( Aucbincruive, Methlick parish, 
in 1671, after graduating at Edinbn^h under Pi icaitn, 
Dr. Cheyne started a London practise in 1702, in 
which city and in Bath he allernalely practised with 
great success. Full living havingmadehim enormously 
lat and asthmatic, be restricted himself rigorously lo 
a milk and vegetable diet, and derived such benefit 
from Ihe practice that he recommendctl it in all the 
later ofhis medical writings. Among these, some of 
which are still read, may be named A New TM^y 0/ 
Fevers, 1701 ; FAilesaphiial Principles of Natural 
Heligion, 1705; Essay of Health and Lung Lift, 1725; 
The English Malady, A Treatise on Nervous Dis- 
orders, 1733; All Essay oh Ihe ConI, vj2\: 'J'he 
NaSurai Method of Curing Ihe Diseases of Ihe Body, 



73S. Dr. Cheyne, wh<) was a good mathematician, 
published, 1703, the following work: Fluxionum 
metkodus irraersa, and laterhe published Rudimentonim 
methodi FlHxiimuiii imirsae specimtna, adversus At. 
de Menri. He died at Bath in 1743. 

Henry (Bishop): Bishop of Aberdeen. 
This ecclesiastic is credited with having built the 
celebrated "nuld brig 0' Balgownie" over the Don. 
This he is said lo have done aboiil the year 13JO out 
of the rents of his bishopric which bad accumulated 
during his exile in England, whither, as a supporter of 
bis uncle Comyn, he had been compelled lo withdraw 
on the triumph of King Robert the Bmce. This 
henefaclion was given to the people iif bis diocese in 
iken ofhi; gratitude for being restored to the favour 
of king, and being permitted to return home. On the 
other hand. Hector Boece states that on the restoration 

if Ibe Bishop to his see, the Scottish King ordered the 

accumulated revenues lo he spent, and the Parson of 

Kothiemay, in 1661, says that it is probable the bridge 

built out of these sequestrated revenues. Bishop 



I 1329- 

(Praf.): Scholar and Author. 
„e in Ellon ijarish, he was bom 
about IJ4S, and educated at Aberdeen, where he 
profiteil greatly under Mr. John Henderson. He 
then went 10 Paris where he taughl philosophjj with 
high reputation. From Paris he went to Douai, and 
thence to St. Barbes College, Paris, of which he 
became a Professor. He was alterwatds rector of Ihe 
College, and in Dempster's lime he was still regarded 
as a tutelary name. He was appointed Canon and 
Grand Penilenliary of the Cathedral, Toumay, and 
dicil there in 1602. His works are : Analysis in 
Pkilosopkiam ArislBttlis, 1573; Dt Sfkatra sen glabi 
cmlestisftUiriea, 1575; De Geographia, 1576; Oralietws 
dttoe de perfetle fhilasothe, !3't., 1577; Analysis el 
Scholia in A risWelem, lib, XIV. : DepHma sen divina 
philosophia, 157B; Aiuslysis in Physiologiam AriUote- 
lieam, 1580. His Kalendarium is frequently quoted 
in Dempster's Menologiciim Scolicum. 

125. Cheyiu, or le Chein, Sir Reginald: Public 
Man. Head of the Inverugie family, and brother of 
Ho. 113. Me was great cham)ierlain of Scotland 
from 1267 to 1269. He possessed immense estates, 
and was a prominent supporter of the English interest 
in Scotland. He sidimitled lo Fdward in I296. 

W. B. R. W. 



The autobiography of Mr A. B. Todd, of Cum- 
nock, which is promised in the spring, will con- 
lain many hitherto unpublished reminisci 
of Robert Bums. Mr Todd's father was a 
timate friend of the poet, who was only his s 
by nine years. 



Mr Robert Ford will publish, n< 
through Mr Alex. Cartiner, a volum 
enlitled "Wayside Songs and other ' 






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[April, 1895. 



Dr. CHAI.MERS.--Kili]ian>' has long laboured ! 
under the reproach of having no tablet or monu- 
ment to the memory of Chalmers, who began his 
niinislerial work in that sequestered Kifeshire ' 
village. Tardy recognition has, however, at last 
(nigh half a century after the great preacher was 
laid to rest in the Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh) 
been made of his services to the district and the 
Church, by the erection in the Parish Church of a 
brass tablet bearing the following inscription : — 
"In commemoration of the Rev. Thomas Chal- 
mers, D.D., havingbeen the minister of Kilmany 
for twelve years. Inducted, May, 1803. Trans- 
lated to Glasgow, July, [815. This tablet has 
beenerectedbyDavidGillespieofMountquhanie, 
1894." The erection of the above tablet by the 
venerable Laird of Mountquhanie acquits Kil- 
many of what might otherwise seem a lack of 
appreciation of this eminent Scotsman. 

The Phonelic Journal for January gives a fac- 
simile page of the shorthand used by Dr. Chal- 
mers in preparing his discourses. To those of us 
who are accustomed to the neater forms of to- 
day (says a contemporary), it is something 
" fearful to behold." It is the system of John 
West, who was for a time assistant of mathe- 
matics in St Andrews University— where Dr 
Chalmers studied. Mrs William Wood, the sur- 
viving daughter of Dr Thomas Chalmers, lives 
in Edinbut^h, and still delights herself with the 
perusal of her father's shorthand. In this re- 
spect she is more fortunate than the parents of 
the celebrated Dr Thomas were. The young 
student wrote such vile longhand that the father 
used to look at the letters with pleasure, as de- 
noting thai the son was still alive, and would 
then put them away with the quiet remark, 
" Tmnmas •will nod them himseP for us when 
he tomes kame." 



The History of the Family ok Seton. 
^Mr George B. Johnston. Edinburgh, has been 
very successful in procuring subscribers for Mi 
Geoi^e Seton's History of the Family of Seton. 
He intimates that all the 210 copies {10 being 
on large paper) have been taken up. Among 
the subscribers are Her Majesty the Queen, and 
many of the Scottish nobility. Copies have also 
been secured for the Royal Libraries at lierlii] 
and Stockholm. The work will be illustrated 
by etchings, photogravures, and about 350 
shields of arms printed in colours (hroughoui 
the text. It is expected to be issued about mid- 
summer. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABERDEEN 

PUBLICATIONS, 1894. 
The following; is a list of the works published 
in Aberdeen during the year 1894 (in the pre- 
paration of which I have again to acknowledge 
my indebtedness to Mr. A. W. Robertson, 
Librarian of the Public Library) :— 

Al>enleen Almanac and Northern Register for 1894. 
Alierdeen : Printed and published al the Journal 
Office, and sold by all twolisellers. Pp. 324- 

Alierdeen Artists' Society. Seventh Annual Exhihi- 
lion of Works of Modern Arlbts and Old Masters. 
Oclober, November, and December, 1894. In the 
Alierdeen An Gallery, Hchoolhill. Pp. 56 (catalf^ef. 
Aljcrdeen— Accounts of City of Aberdeen, Irom 
jolh Septeml)er, 1893, 10 Jlsl May, 1894- Aber- 
deen : Primed liy G. Cornwall & Smis, 1894. Pp. 
viii. \ 180. 

Aberdeen [Cily of). Return of Crimes »nd Offences 
reported to ihe police, with the statistics and details, 
for Iheycor ending 31st December, 1893. Aberdeen : 
Printed by G. Cornwall & Sons. 1894. Pp. 34- 

[.\berdeen]Grammar School Magazine (The). New 
Series, Nos. 1, z, 3 and 4 -January, April, July and 
Oclober, 1894. Alwrdeen: D. Wyllie & Son. 1894. 
[Alffitdcen Hailiour]. Account of the Revenue and 
l''x|iendilure of the Ilarlwur of Alierdeen for the year 
to 30th September, 1893, nnil relative slates. Pp. 56. 
Aberdeen Journal (The) and Its History : the Men 
who made it. Glimpses of the Olden Time. Descrip- 
tion of the New Buildings. Dinner to the Staff. 
I,eHers from the Dake of Richmond and Gordon, 
Mr. A. J. Balfour, Lord R. Churchill, &c. Aberdeen 
Journal Office. 1894. Pp. 34. 

Alierdeen Public Library. Ninth Annual Reporl 
of ihe Committee for the year ending September 30, 
1S93. Alierdeen: The University Press. 1894. 
Pp. 16. 

[Aberdeen Royal Infirmary]. Annual Reporl of the 
Royal Infirmary of Al>erdcen, for the year ended 31st 
December, 1893. Alwrdeen : Pritiled by James 
Russell, Crown Court, Union Street. 1894- Pp. S^- 
[Aberdeen Roj'al Lunatic Asylum]. Annual Report 
of the Royal Lunalic Asylum of .Aberdeen, for the year 
ended 315I December, 1893, with Ahslract of the 
Treasurer's Accounts for Ihe same period. Aberdeen : 
Printed liy G. Cornwall & Sons. 1894. Pp. 46. 

Aberdeen School Board. Seventh Triennial Reporl 
of the School board of the Burgh of Aberdeen. March, 
1894. Aberdeen University Press. Pp. 48. 

Aberdeen (University oi). Abstract of Accounts 
for the year ending isth September, 1893. Abeideen 
University Press. Pp. 38. 

Do., do. Buildings Extension Scheme. Alierdeen 
University Press. 1894, Pp. 10. 

Do., do. Catalf^e of Books added lo the Library 

in King's College, November, 1891, to Match, 1894, 

Aberdeen : Printed at the University Press. 1894. 

Pp. 56. 

Do., do. Catali^e of ihe Books in the Wilson 

" ' ■■ ry in Marischal College. Aber- 

University Press. 1894- Pp- '8. 



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167 



Do., do. Catalogue of the Law Library. Aberdeen: 
Printed at the University Press. 1894. Pp. 20. 

Do., do. King's College Chapel. Schemes for 
Restoration and Iniprovement. L Organ Fund. IL 
Chapel Fund. Lists of Subscribers and Balance 
Sheets. Aberdeen : Printed at the University Press. 
1894. Pp. 20. 

Do., do. Ordinances of the Scottish Universities 
Commissioners. Pp. 44. 

Do. , do. The Library. Rough List of the Works 
of a Periodical Class. With Prices. May, 1894. 
Pp. 48. 

Aberdeen University Calendar (The) for the year 
1894-95. Aberdeen : A. King & Co., Printers to the 
University. 1 894. Pp. 492. With Appendices. 
(Register of Meml^rs of the General Council, for the 
year 1894 ; Additions to the General Library of the 
University of Aberdeen, November, 1891, to March, 
1894 ; Civil Service in India. Examinations for the 
Civil Service of India — New Regulations ; Examina- 
tions for Candidates for the Army ; Assisted Student- 
ships for Science Teachers ; The Principal Pirie 
Memorial Fund ; Facilities for the prosecution of study 
on the Continent ; Fees for Laboratory Instruction 
other than required for medical graduation ; Students' 
Societies; Aberdeen Uuiversity Club ; King's Collie 
Chapel. Schemes for Restoration and Improvement ; 
and General Index). Pp. 176. 

Aberdeen (University of). Local Examinations 
Calendar for 1894-95. Containing Regulations and 
Subjects for 1895. Papers and Lists for 1894. 
Higher Certificate fur Women. Printed for the Univ- 
ersity at the University Press, and published by D. 
Wyllie & Son. Aberdeen, 1894. Pp. 95. 

Aberdeen University Students' Handlxwk for 1893- 
94. Published by the Students' Representative 
Council. Pp. 46. 

Aberdeen Y.M.C. A. Bulletin. New Series. Nos. 
16 to 21, February to December (bi-monthly). 

Alma Mater. Aberdeen University Magazine. 
Volume XL Al^rdeen : Students' Representative 
Council. MDCCCXCIV. Pp. vi. 4- 226. 

.Anderson (P. J.) and his old students. 21st April, 
1894. Privately printed at Aberdeen. Pp. 36. 

Anderson, Robert. — Some Reminiscences of Gor- 
don's Hospital. By Robert Anderson. Printed for 
Private Circulation only. 1894. Pp. 28. (Reprint 
from Evening Gazette^ with Notes). 

[Bain, Ebenezer, Jun.] Dr. William Guild's Morti- 
fication : Its Administration Past and Present. Notes 
of a Speech delivered in Trinity Hall, 7th December, 
1894. Aberdeen : Printed at the Aberdeen Journal 
Office. 1894. Pp. 12. (Printed for private cir- 
culation). 

Beveridpe, A. T. Gordon. — The Municipalisation 
of the Drink Traffic. An Address delivered to the 
Al»erdeen Independent Lalx>ur Party. By A. T. 
Gordon Beveridge, M.A., M.B., CM., Chairman 
Aberdeen Independent Labour Party, and member of 
the Aberdeen Town Council. Second Edition. 
Aberdeen : Printed and Published by G. & W. 
Fraser, ** Belmont " Works. Manchester ; Labour 
Press Society, Ld., Tib Street, 1894. Pp. 16. (Con- 
tains Appendix giving Scheme of Muncipalisation as 



approvefl by the Special Committee of the Al)erdeen 
Town Council.) 

Bon- Accord. Volume XVI. From 9th Septem- 
l)er, 1893, to 3rd March, 1894. 1893-4. 

Do. Volume XVII. 

Brown's Book-Stall. 1894. A. Brown & Co., 
Booksellers and Stationers, Union Street, Aberdeen. 
Pp. 204. 

Brown's Cycling Map of the Environs of Aberdeen 
for Cyclists and Tourists. From the Ordnance Sur- 
vey. Al:)erdeen : A. Brown & Co., 83 and 85 Union 
Street. 

Bulloch, John Malcolm. — College Carols, by John 
Malcolm Bulloch. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 
MDCCCXCIV. Pp. 79. 

Burnett, Alex. G. — The Millenarian Heresy. By 
Alex. G. Burnett, of Kemnay. Aberdeen : James 
Murray, 28 St Nicholas Street. Edinburgh : Mac- 
niven & Wallace. Tunbridge Wells : Richard Pelton, 
1894. Pp* 24. 

[Cadenhead, William].— The Old Skipper. By 
** W. C." June, 1894. Illustrated by Thomson and 
Duncan, Correction Wynd, Aberdeen. Pp. 8. 

Cairngorm Club Journal (The). Edited by Alex. 
Inkson M'Connochie. Issued twice a year. No. 2. 
January, 1894. No. 3, July 1894. Published by the 
Cairngorm Club. Agents : Al:)erdeen : D. Wyllie 
and Son. 

Cameron, W. N., and Rennie, W.S. — Poems : 
Democratic and Local. By W. N. Cameron and W. 
S. Rennie. Aberdeen, 1894. ^Pp. 24. 

Catholic Directory (The) for the Clergy and Laity 
in Scotland. 1894. By authority of the Archbishops 
and Bishops of Scotland. Aberdeen : Printed for 
Proprietor by A. King & Company, Printers to the 
University. 1894. Pp. xvi. -f 304. 

Centenary Celebration of St Nicholas United Pres- 
byterian Church, Union Grove, Al)erdeen. Being 
No. 142 of the Congregational Record. October, 
1894. Pp. 24. 

Cooper, Rev. James, D.D. — The Blessed Dead 
and Their Remembrance in Prayer by the Church on 
Earth. A Sermon preached m the East Church of 
S. Nicholas, Alxirdeen, 14th January, 1894, By the 
Rev. James Cooper, D.D., minister of the East 
Parish, Aberdeen. Aberdeen : William Jolly & Sons, 
23 Bridge Street. 1894. Pp. Z^. 

[Cooper, Rev. James, D. D., and Smith, Rev. J. 
Cromarty, B.D.] An Order of Family Worship for 
every day in the week, to which are added Prayers 
for Special Occasions. Arranged by Two Ministers 
of the Church of Scotland. Aberdeen : John Rac 
Smith. 1893. Pp« 84. 

Craib, Alexander — Prayers for family worship, in- 
cluding prayers for special occasions and family 
register. By Rev. Alex. Craib, F.S.A. Al^erdeen, 
1894. W. Jolly & Sons, 23 Bridge Street. Pp. 198. 

[Cruickshank, Alexander, LL.D.]— Vanishing 
Aberdeen : Fountainhall House and Dr Copland. 
Old Fountains near Fountainhall House. Mile- End 
Height and View. Aberdeen : Printed at the Aber- 
deen Journal Office, Broad Street. Pp. 26. (With 
five illustrations. ) 

Diack, W. — The Good Time Coming : by W. 



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[April, 1895. 



Diack, Author of " The Moral Effects of Socialism," 
&c. Aberdeen : A. Martin, George Street. Pp. 29. 

"Free Press" (The) Fair and Market List for 
1894. Pp. 30. 

[Geddes, Sir William Duguid] Boece and Melvin ; 
A Vindication ; or the sequence after Ne Prohibitive. 
Aberdeen ; Printed at the Aberdeen Journal Office. 
1894. Pp. 23 + 3. 

Gilcomston Parish Church Fellowship Association 
Magazine. Aberdeen ; Printed by James Blair, 15 
St Nicholas Street. 1894. Pp. 14. (No. 3. June 

1894). . 

Hamilton, D. J. — A Layman's Impressions of the 
7th Exhibition of the Aberdeen Artists' Society, 1894. 
Lecture delivered on loth November by D. J. 
Hamilton, Professor of Pathology, University of 
Aberdeen. Aberdeen, 1894. Pp. 31. 

History of the firm of John Falconer & Co. , drapers 
and outfitters, 65 Union Street, Aberdeen. 1780 to 
1894, Aberdeen : Lewis Smith & Son, 1894. Pp. 

2+13- 

Huntly, Marquis of. — The Records of Aboyne 

MCCXXX— MDCLXXXL Edited by Charles, XI. 

Marquis of Huntlyj Earl of Aboyne, P.C, LL.D., 

Aberdeen : Printed for the New Spalding Club. 

MDCCCXCI V. ■ Pp. xliv. + 590 (with eleven plates). 

In Memoriam : An Obituary of Aberdeen and 
Vicinity for the year 1893, with Biographical Notes 
and Portraits of Prominent Citizens. Compiled and 
Published by William Cay & Sons, 432 Union Street 
and 215 George Street, Aberdeen. Pp. 244. 

Inglis's Tide Table and Nautical Almanac for 
1894* 

[Jackson, Mrs J. A.] — A Bundle of Old Stories, 
with Illustrations. By an Aberdeenshire Lady. 
Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son. 1894. Pp. iii. 

Jeems Sim : A Third Series of his Epistles. Re- 
printed from ** The Northern Figaro," with Glossary 
and Original Page illustrations. Aberdeen: **The 
Northern Figaro" Office, 8 Gaelic Lane. Pp. 
I + ui. 

Jeffrey, James Thom. — The House Proprietors' 
Manual, or Memorandum of the Police Law of Aber- 
deen, affecting proprietors of houses within the city 
boundary. By James Thom Jeffrey, solicitor, Aber- 
deen, secretary to The Aberdeen House Proprietors' 
Association. Aberdeen ; Printed by G. & W. Fraser. 
1894. Pp. 49. 

[Johnston, William.] — A Genealogical Account of 
the descendants of James Young, merchant burgess of 
Aberdeen, and Rachel Cruickshank, his wife. 1697- 
1893. With notes as to many of the families with 
which they are connected. Aberdeen : Printed at 
the University Press. 1894. Pp. viii. + 264. 

Low, William Leslie. — David Thomson, M.A., 
Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of 
Aberdeen. A Sketch of his Character and Career. By 
William Leslie Low, M.A., Rector of St Columba's, 
Largs, and Canon of Cum brae. Aberdeen : Pub- 
lished by D. Wyllie & Son at 247 Union Street. 
MDCCCXCIV. Pp. xiv. + 124. 

[Macdonald, Alexander] — A Jumble of Jottings 
from the Memoirs of a Quiet Life. Aberdeen: 
A. Brown & Co. 1894. Pp. 40. 



Mackie, Rev. Charles. — The Making of the Bible : 
A Popular Exposition. Ry the Rev. Charles Mackie, 
M.A., Minister of Drumoak. Aberdeen : A. Brown 
and Company. 1894. Pp. 32. 

Mackintosh, John, LL.D. — History of the Valley 
of the Dee from the earliest times to the present day. 
By John Mackintosh, LL.D., Author of "The 
History of Civilisation in Scotland," &c., &c. Aber- 
deen : Taylor & Henderson, lithographers and 
printers to the Queen. MDCCCXCV. Pp. x. + 240. 
(with frontispiece of author). 

Mair, Thomas. — Narratives and Extracts from the 
Records of the Presbytery of Ellon. Part I. — 1597 to 
1607. By Thomas Mair, Ellon. Peterhead : David 
Scott, " Sentinel " Office. 1894. Pp. 60. 

Do., do.— Do., do., do. Part II.— 1607 to 1628, 
Aberdeen : W. Jolly & Sons, Albany Press, Bridge 
Street. 1894. Pp. 61 to 126. 

Marischal College (Defence of). Great Public 
Meeting in 1859. Re-printed by W. & W. Lindsay, 
Aberdeen. Pp. 32. 

Melvin, James. — Exercises in Latin Prose Composi- 
tion. By James Melvin, M. A., LL.D. Selected and 
edited by two former pupils, Joseph Ogilvie, M.A,, 
LL.D., Lecturer on Education in the University of 
Aberdeen, and Rev. James Wilson Legge, M.A., late 
Classical Master in the Grammar School of Aberdeen. 
Aberdeen : John Adam. MDCCCXCIV. Pp. 
XXVIH. +250. (With an introduction containing a 
brief account of Dr Melvin's life. A companion 
volume was issued containing the Latin of the versions 
as dictated by Dr Melvin. It was " supplied only to 
teachers on written application to the publishers.") 

Mill o' Tifty's Annie : or Andrew Lammie, The 
Trumpeter of Fyvie, and The Ghaist o' Dennilair : A 
Legend of Fyvie. Aberdeen : Lewis Smith & Son. 
Pp. 22. 

Moir, James, LL.D. — Hectoris Boetii Murthlacen- 
sium et Aberdonensium Episcoporum Vitae. Edited 
and Translated by James Moir, M.A., LL.D., 
Co-Rector of the Aberdeen Grammar School. Aber- 
deen. Printed for the New Spalding Club. 
MDCCCXCIV. Pp. XX. + 210 (with two plates). 

Northern Cricket and Football Annual (The) and 
Athletic Guide and Directory for 1894-95. Directory 
of Sports and Pastimes for 1894-95. Aberdeen : 
John Avery & Co. , Limited. 

Northern Figaro (The). Vol. XV. From 8ih July 
to 30th December, 1893. Printed and published by 
W. Milne Gibson, 8 Gaelic Lane, Aberdeen. 

Do., do. Vol. XVI. 

Post-Office Aberdeen Directory. 1894-95. Aber- 
deen : Printed for the Proprietor by A. King & Com- 
pany, Printers to the University, and sold by the 
Postmen. 1894. Pp. 552. 

Scottish Educational Year-Book and Diary (The) 
for 1894. For the use of members and officials of 
School Boards, Teachers, and others. Published at 
the "Free Press" Office, Aberdeen. Pp. 166. 

Scottish Notes and Queries. Vol. VII. June 
1893 to May 1894. Aberdeen. D. Wyllie & Son, 
247 Union Street. 1894. Pp. xiv. + 192. 

Stark, James,— Elspeth and Her Neighbours : 
Pictures of Church Life and Character Beyond the 



April, 1895.] 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Dee and the Spey. By James Stark, minister in 
Aberdeen, Author i>f "John Muiket of Hanff," " Dr 
Kidd of Alieoleen," etc. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie and 
Son. 1894- Pp. xii. + 136- 

SlewBrt, Rev. .Alex., LL.D— la it right and 
Christian to municipalise the drink trade P By (be 
Rev. Ales. SlEwarl, LL.D., &c, AberJecn. Aber- 
deen : D. Wyllie & .Son. Tji, 42. 

Sutherland, John S. — Gospel Uleanings anil other 
Oeea5ional Pieces in Verse. By John S. Sutherland. 
Ahcrdeen : Lewis Smith & Son. James Murray, zS 
St Nicholas Street. 1S94. Pp. lao. 

Thomson, W. Stewart.— One Hundred Short 
Essays on Public Examination To|>tcs. Ily W. 
Stewart Thomson, M.A„ F.S.A., B'.R.G.S., Author 
of " Practical Guide to Ei^lish Composition and 
Essay Writing," " Guide to Indexing and Pr6cis 
Writitig," etc. Aberdeen : Lewis Smith & Son. 
London : Slmpkin, Marshall, Hamillon, Kent, nnd 
Co., Limited. Edinburgh and Glasgow : John 
Menzies & Co. 1S94. Pp. xi. -i- log. 

Do., do. — Practical Guide to English Composition 
and Essay Writing. By W, Stewart Thomson, M.A., 
F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Editor of Civil Service Depan- 
ment of Ptapl^s Fritnd ; Author of " Civil Service 
Arilhmclic,"^ " Public Examination Spelling Key," 
etc Fourth Edition— Revised and Enlaced. Atier- 
-deen ; Lewis Smith h .Son. Edinburgh ; John 
Meniies & Co. Glasgow: VV. & R. Holmes. 
Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son. Manchester : ^ohn 
Heywood. I»ni!un . Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, 
& Co., Limited. 1H94. Pp. ' 
do,— Public Exaniir-""- '^- 
By W. Stewart Thomson, 1 , . 

Author of " Practical (iuide to English Composition 
and tssay Writing," " Guide to Incfexing and Pr&is 
Writing," Second Edition— Revised and Enlaced. 
Aberdeen t Lewis Smith & Bon. London ; Sini|>liin, 
MuBhall, Uamillon, Kent, & Ca, limited. Edin~ 
burgh and Glasgow : John Menziea k Co. Dublin : 
M.lL Gill J[ Son. 1894, Pp. xi. + 93. 

Do.,do.— Specimen Wotked-out Exercises in Index- 
ing and Precis- Writing (Set at Customs Competition, 
I4ovember, 1S93). By W. Stewart Thomson, M.A., 
F.S.A., F.R.G.S. London: .Simpkin, Marshall, 
Hamillon, Kent, h. Co., Limited. Eyre Jc Spot tis- 
woodc. East Harding Street, E.C. Aberdeen ; 
Lewis Smith k Son. Pp. 38. 

Under Lochnagar. Editeil liy R. A. Profeil, A.M. 
Aberdeen : Taylor & Hemlerson, lilh<^raphets and 
printers to Her Majesty. MDCCCXCIV. (The 
Book of the Cralhie Parish Church Baioar, Balmoral, 
4th and sili September, 1894). Pp. 116. 

CWalker, Alexander].— The Coiumonly of Per- 
winnes, called also Seotstown Moor ; an Inheritance 
ilill worth caring for. Aberdeen. Published by D. 
Wyllie & Son at 247 Union Street. MDCCCXCIV. 
Pp. 3a. [New Edition.] 

Will, John Chailes. —The Groundwork of Arithme- 
tic containing a complete summary of arithmetical 
<lefioitions. tables, rules, and theory ; a Ini^ collec- 
tion of important theoretical ijuestions stated and 
solved ; the explanatitin uf many arithmetical curiosi- 
ties, and, for the lirst time published, an entirely new 



and beautiful principle. By John Charles Will, 
Tutor in the Civil Service College, Aberdeen. Aber- 
deen : James G, Bisset, Sj Broad Street. Edinbui^h : 



Thin, 54 and 55 South Bridge. Glasgow 

{. Holmes, 3 and 5 Dunlop Street. Duhlin 

Nolao Brothers, 4 Lower Ormond Quay, and through 



W. 4 R. Holmi 



all Ixxiksellers. 1SQ4. Pp. XIIL+dy. 

Williamson, W. H.— What An Can Do for Us : 
Popular Lecture, delivered under the auspices of the 
Aberdeen Artists' Society, in the Art Gallery, Aber- 
deen, 14th November, 1B94. By W. H. Williatnson, 
M.n. Aberdeen: Printed at the " Fiee Press" 
Office. 1G94. Pp. 39. 

(Wilson, Professor J. Dove).— Syllabus of Lec- 
tures on the Law of Scotland in the University of 
Alierdeen. Pp. 16. 

Robert Andersos. 
(To be conlinutd ). 



LOCAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Our adtlitions 10 the " Hand List of Biblio- 
graphy of Aberdeen, Banif and Kincardine'' 
contain for this month rather less than half our 
notes under the initial G. The Life of Elphin- 
stone, iti rhyme, by Ale>L Garden, Advocate, 
was ^rst printed by the Htinleriaii Club, and 
the note by Dr. Jatnes Moir (Boece's Bishops, 
App. B, p. 173, Abd. 1894) with copy of the 
Title Page of the MSS. need cause no wa- 
vering in the belief of those who maintain that 
the art of pnnting was first introduced into 
Aberdeen in 1622. Garden's identity has per- 
plexed later editors, from James Watson, the 
Edinburgh Printer (an Aberdonian), having de- 
signated him Prof, of Philosophy in an edition 
of the Scottish Kings, 1709. Besides being a 
good printer, Watson was a man of some literary 
capability, as his Collection of Songs and His- 
tory of Printing stiffieiently testify ; but he ap- 
pears to have too hastily concluded that of the 
two Poets the Prof, of Philosophy was the Royal 
Panegyrist. That there were two of the saitie 
name in Aberdeen seems unquestionably fixed 
by the distinctive designations under their re- 
spective contributions to Bp. Forbes' Funeralls. 
The Prof, of Philosophy may have been the 
author of the Latin verses in William Micheil's 
Epitaphs, Abd,, 1634, but the Advocate prob- 
ably wrote all the works which Dr Moir coin- 
cides with Laing and TurnbuU in attributing to 
him. He is presumably the same individual 
who from 1636 to 1640 acted as Procur 
several of the Kitig's College Rectors. 



lish, and broad Scotch, in prose or vei^e, with 
equal facility and classic feltcitv. The writers of 
the same surname include his brother John, Dr 
Michael Geddcs, who rose to high rank in the 



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[April, 1895. 



diocese of Salisbury, in the days of its great 
Aberdonian Bishop ; and the distinguished Prin- 
cipal of Aberdeen University, the singing of 
whose Canticum created such enthusiasm at a 
recent Students* Concert. It is hard to say if 
we have completed the Bibliography of the 
honoured Principal, for some of his works are 
so " privately printed '* that we have never seen 
them, while others are hidden away like the ad- 
mirable patriotic lines on the Old Church of 
Gamrie, the perusal of which, in the pages of 
Dr Pratt's " Buchan," cjuickened the pulses of 
our boyhood. The publication of his collected 
poetical works would enrich our northern litera- 
ture, especially as his " Leopard Cats of Aber- 
deen" and other broad Scots effusions prove 
him as much master of our local Doric as of 
Attic Greek. 

Andrew Gibb, of all our artists, did most to 
preserve to posterity the lineaments of local 
objects of antiquarian interest, and a complete 
list of his numerous publications would form a 
most desirable Bibliographical page. In James 
Gibb we have a great Architect, born in Foot- 
dee, whose classical education at Marischal Col- 
lege influenced the pursuits of his later days ; 
and in David Gill, a truly clever Astronomer, 
most of whose writings are locked up in the 
journals of his science. Men of the Meamsand 
Aberdeen Folks in Glasgow do not forget the 
homes they have left ; and it is a pleasure to 
record the existence of their Social and Benevo- 
lent Unions in our Bibliographical List. 

K. J. 

Gadderer^ James y trans. Craig's Right of 

Succession Lond. 1703. 

Revised and published Episcopal 

Church Services Edin. 1724. 

Gammack, James y Cist sXG\tv\hexy\t ,, 1878. 
Bronze Swords found in Kincardine- 
shire ,, 1880. 
Chalice and Paten found at Bervie ,, 1883. 
Bronze Censor at Garvock ,, 1887. 
Itinerary of a Bishop, 13th cent. ; in 
* * Pontificale Ecclesiae St. Andreae " „ 1 885. 

Garden y Alex., Advocate ^ Poems in Bp. 
Forl)es Funeralls, 1635. 
A Theatre of Scottish Worthies and 

Life of Elphinstone Gw. 1878. 

Garden^ Alex, , Prof, of Philosophy ^ K. C. , 

Epitaphium (Forbes Funeralls 1635). 
Garden, Alex,, North side of Coast of 
Buchan— 1683. 

In Coll. on Aberdeen and Banff, 1843. 
Garden, Alex.,S\\ Letters to Whitefield, Boston, 1740. 

Justification ,, ,, 

Two Sermons ,, 1742. 

Garden, Alex. , On the Virginia Pink Root 1 764. 

Garden, Farquharson Taylor, The Fam- 
ily of Garden Edin. 1887. 



Edin. 1883. 

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Abd. 1824. 



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Garden, Georj^e, Queries and Protestation Lond. 1693. 

ed. with Memoir, Works of J. Forbes 

of Corse Amst. 1703. 

Garden, James, Circular Monuments in 

Scotland Edin. 1770. 

Hist, of Henry III. of France Lond. 1783. 

Garden, James, Theologiae puroe, &c. 1702. 

Comparative Theolc^ Bristol 1756. 

Garden, James (Advocate), Letter (Mur- 

chison Case) - Lond 1861. 

Garden, Rol>erl John, Dislocation of the 

Wrist Joint 
Gardiner, Geo. (Aberdour), Abst. of Pro- 
ceedings — Manse of Aberdour 

Remarks by the Procurator of the 
Church thereon 

Answer to the Remarks 
Gardiner, Thomas, Procession, with 

Answer to Aberdeen Star 
Gazetteer of Seotlatui, with maps 
Geddes, Alex,, Cursory Remarks, 

General Answers to Queries 

Answer to the Bp. of Comana 

Letter to Archbps. and Bps. 

Epistola Macaronica 

Carmen Seculare 

Collection of Spiritual Songs Abd. I79ij^rep. 1802. 

Linton, a Pastoral Poem 

Three Poems in Scottish, &c. 

The Iliad in English Verse 

Carmina secularia tria 

Ver-vert 

Letter to Dr. Douglas 

A Norfolk Tale 

Ode to T. Pelham 

Coulthurst's Sermon in rhyme 

The Church Triumphant 

New Year's Gift 

Sermon on the General Fast 

Bardomachia 

Bardomachia in English 

Paci feliciter reduci 

Geddes, John, Account of the Prov. of 
Biscay 
Royal Hunt in Atholl 
Memoir of Card. George Innes 
Treatise against Duelling 
Geddes, Michael, Hist, of Church of 
Malabar 
Church Hist, of Ethiopia 
Council of Trent 
Misc. Tracts. 3 vols. 
Tracts against Popery 
Life of Veronica of Milan 
Geddes, William, The Saints Recreation 

Edin. 1683, rep. Gw. 1753. 
Geddes, Sir W, D., Report on Grammar 

School Abd. 1854, 

Florculi Graeci Boreals Lond. 1882. 

Desc. of Melvin Memorial Window (Abd. 1885). 
Armorial Bearings of the Univ. of Abd. 1888. 

George MacDonald as a Poet 1891. 

Canticum in Almam Matrem Aber- 

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The Leopard Cats 
Big Bon- Accord 
Libellus Academicus Salutatorius 1893. 

Gctieral City Mission^ First Report Abd. 1854. 

General Unles, er'r., Aberdeen House of 

Refuge Abd. 1837. 

Gerard^ Alex.^ A Thanksgiving Sermon Edin. 1759. 
A Sermon on Tiius i. 7 ,, 1760. 

On I Peter ii. 16 ,, 1761. 

(7^r«n/, -<4/?;r., Corruption of Christianity ,, 1792. 
Gerard^ Alex.^ LL.D., Pendulum Experi- 
ments ,, 1 85 1. 
Instruments exhibited at Paris in 1855 (Abd. n.d.) 
Gerard, James Gilbert^ Observations on 

the Spite Valley Lond. 1833. 

Gerard, Patrick^ On Subalhoo and Kot- 
guhr, *' Asiatic Researches" xv. 
Gcrrard"jajiies, The Rural Lalx)urers Bf. n.d. 

Gihh, Andrew, Memorial Brass of Dr. 

Duncan Liddell, &c. Edin. 1876. 

Mason Marks ; Cath. of St. Machar ,, 1870. 
On Mural Antiquities ,, 1878. 

Sale Catalogue of his Library ,, 1892. 

(with J. M. Hay) The Scenery of 

the Dee Alxl. 1884. 

Gibb^Joseph, Essay with Campbell's New 

Test. ,, 1827. 

View of the New Covenant Edin. ,, 

Oirections for searching the Scriptures ,, 1828. 
Scripture Catechism , 1826. 

Gibbs, James, Trans, of Osorio's Hist, of 

the Portuguese. 2 vols. Lond. 1752. 

Gibson, Alex., Forest Reports Bombay 1849-55. 

The Forests of the Bombay Pre- 
sidency ,, 1863. 
Hove's Tours for .Scientific Research 

(edit.) . „ 1855. 

Bombay Flora ,, 1861. 

Gifford, Adam, Trust Disposition of, 21st 

Aug., 1885 s.i.. et A. 

Gilchrist, Alfred, Our Marriageable Girls AIkI. 1868. 
Gilfillan, Thomas, Memorabilia of 1866 Alxl. 1867. 
Gill, A. J. M., Gill of Blairythan and 

Savoch I 884. 

6*///, Z)af/V/, The opposition of Melpomene Lond. 1877. 

Report of Expedition to Ascension ,, 1878. 

On the Ascension Expedition ,, 1879. 

On the Mars Comparison Stars ,, ,, 

Determination of the Solar Parallax ,, 1881. 

On Thermometer Screens ,, 1882. 

Observations of Comets ,, 1883. 

Heliometer Observations ,, 1893 

(7i//a«,y£Z/;/^j, Antiquities in Alford Edin. 1861. 

Gillis, James, Letter to Mod. of Gen. 

Assembly ,, 1846. 

Lecture on Education ,, 1856. 

Letter to D. of Argyll ,, 1849. 

Glasga:a Aberdeenshire Association, 'RvAe^ Gw. 1858. 

Glasgoiu, Angus ami Mcarns Benevolent 

Society, Rules, &c. ,, (1843). 

Do. Do. Report & Lists ,, 1853. 

Gleig, George, trans. Lobo's Vovage to 

Abyssinia Lond. 1789. 

ed. Supp. to Encyc. Britt. 2nd ed. 

2 vols. Edin. 1801. 



Occasional Sermons Edin. 1803. 

A Charge ,, 1809. 

Two Sermons Lond. 1814. 

Stackhouse's Hist, of the Bible im- 
proved. 3 vols. „ 181 7 & 1830. 

Some Characteristic Doctrines of the 

Gosi)el Edin. 1819. 

(To be continued,) 



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The utility of printing other communications 
on this subject may be doubted. The arguments 
have been stated, and Mr. Robertson's reply to 
a large extent justifies his action and plans. 
His views are as enlightened as any of his 
friendly critics'. He is not straitened in him- 
self. Is he straitened in anyone else? We do 
not know what limitations may be imposed on 
him as t6 his work, but if necessary, as it 
seems to be, the New Spalding Club ought 
to give him such a big coil of rope that he 
might as well be absolutely free, both as to 
extent and as to time. In no other way can 
such an important work be perfected. There is 
a growing conviction that Mr. Robertson requires 
and deserves more organized help in his Her- 
culean task. It is hardly a task for one man. 
The foregoing letter affords the occasion of our 
saying this much heartily. Ed. 



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CARVED HORN. 

In sending us the photographs from which this 
month's Illustration has been taken, our corres- 
pondent, Mr. J. Smith, Strichen, says that he 
bought the horn from Mrs. Smith, Little Ben- 
dauch, Dyce, in December, 1892, in whose family 
it had been for many generations. It is con- 
jectured that it had belonged to the Keiths of 
Halforest, Kintore, no great distance off, and 
the initals G. K. give some colour to this. The 
Horn measures ^%, inches in length, and 3>i 
at the root end, and is dated 1691. 



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SUICIDE OF AN OLD MINISTER OF 

NEWHILLS. 

In the beginning of the last century the Minister 
of Newhills fell mto a gloomy and despondent 
frame of mind, which gave rise to much uneasi- 
ness in the family circle. Whether he made an 
unsuccessful attempt upon his life it is now im- 
possible to tell, but certain it is that his wife not 
only had a presentiment of the commission of 
such an act, but of the place in which it would 
be accomplished. She thereupon kept posses- 
sion of the key of the church-door, the Minister 
being allowed to enter only for sermon. 

About a year after the suspicion had been 
aroused the Minister got up early one morning, 



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[April, 1895. 



indicating that he was leaving to baptize a pa- 
rishioners child. 

No sooner was he gone than the wife missed 
the key, and enouired eagerly of her domestics 
which way the Minister had ^one. Being told 
that he had been observed gomg up the " kirk- 
loaning," she exclaimed in her anguish of mind, 
" then all is over." Almost at this moment the 
church bell was heard to toll ; but before the 
massive door could be forced, life had fled, for 
the Minister had suspended himself by the bell- 
rope, which hung inside the church. 

As may be supposed, this melancholy suicide, 
its deliberateness, method, and plan of execu- 
tion, caused intense excitement m the district, 
and grave difficulty was experienced in securing 
a successor. It was fully two years before one 
could be found to accept the charge, and on his 
appearing the first Sunday he was to preach, he 
found a large crowd collected in the churchyard, 
but not one daring to enter the sacred edifice, 
which in their opinion had been polluted by so 
heinous an offence. 

Taking off his hat, the Minister turned to the 
people and said — " My friends, the Devil has 
been here, but I will enter, and the Lord will go 
in with me." 

Thus encouraged the people followed, taking 
their seats in the galleries, none entering the 
lower part until it had been exorcised by a ser- 
mon. John A. Henderson. 



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Robertson Clan Charm-Stone.— A de- 
tailed notice of the charm- stone of the Clan 
Donnachie or Robertson is given in Notes and 
Queries, 8th S.V., 384. The notice is extracted 
from A Brief Account of the Clan Donnaehie, 
with Notes on its History and Traditions, by 
David Robertson, F.S.A. Scot. Glasgow : 
Printed for the Clan Donnachie. 1894. The 
charm-stone, which figures in the history of the 
sept from the days of the Bruce (it was mysteri- 
ously transmitted to the chief of the clan on the 
eve of Bannockbum), appears to have possessed 
the medicinal virtues of the " Lee Penny'* (vide 
Scotfs Talisman). It was for a time exhibited 
in the Antiquarian Museum, Edinburgh ; and a 
sketch of it appears in the Transactions of the 
Scottish Antiquaries. As strong representations 
are said, however, to have been made to the 
Chief of the Donnachaidh that it was "uncanny** 
for the charm not to be in his possession, it has 
been restored to his keeping. 



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Mr Andrew Lang's story, "A Monk of Fife," 
which is passing through the pages of The 
Monthly Packet, is an interesting new departure, 
and is claiming considerable attention. 



Scottish Good Templars.— From an his- 
torical sketch of the Good Templar movement 
in Scotland — Good Templary in Scotland : Its 
Work and Workers, iS&q-iSg^. Compiled and 
Edited by Brother Tom Honeyman, G.S. 
Glasgow : Grand Lodge of Scotland, 72 Great 
Clyde Street, 1894) it appears that this temper- 
ance organisation is of American origin, and 
that the first society or lodge was founded in 
1869. ^^ that year Brother Thomas Roberts, 
a native of Montrose, who had been Grand 
Worthy Chief Templar of Delaware, and a 
Good Templar organiser in Pennsylvania, was 
sent to Scotland for the purpose of introducing 
the Order among his countrymen. On August 
1 1, he held a meeting in the hall of the City of 
Glasgow United Working Men's Total Abstin- 
ence Society— (why have these societies such 
cumbrous titles ?) — in the Candleriggs, Glasgow. 
The chairman of the meeting, Mr Thomas 
Mackie, was at the close enrolled as the first 
Good Templar in Scotland. Two davs later a 
formal charter founded " Scotland's First Lodge 
No. I,** with a membership of forty-two. The 
movement has since spread all over the king- 
dom, and there are now hundreds of lodges, 
and many thousands of members, both adults 
and children. The historical sketch proper of 
the development of this phase of the temperance 
movement occupies but a small section of the 
book, the remainder being made up of portraits 
and biographical notices of prominent members 
of the body. 



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A Northern City Cold.— I have often 

wondered where the appropriate and oft-quoted 

line 

"A Northern City cold" 

first appeared, until stumbling across it the other 
day in a collection of the ephemeral publications 
of John Davidson, writer, I thought a note of its 
origin should be preserved in these columns. 
It occurs in one of three stanzas of doggerel 
rhyme in " The Speech of fohn Davidson, in- 
tended to be delivered at the Great Reform 
Meeting on the Broad Hill, Abdn, 1831.'' The 
line is probably the only one he ever wrote that 
will live as long as the city of Aberdeen exists, 
and as the verse is very characteristic of Johnnie's 
style we give the whole of it : — 

" It's true in Aberdeen we live, 
A Northern City cold ; 
But that our hearts are warm to him 
King William has been told." 

From Mr. Walker's note on the subject, in 
The Bards of Bon-Accord, we infer it must have 
been remodelled and republished at a later date. 

K. J. 



April, 1895.] 



SCOTTISH NOIES AND QUERIES. 



Bibliography of Aberdeen Periodical 
Publications (VII., 112 et antea).— Add the 
following : — 

The Church Catechist : for Sunday Schools 
and families. No. I. June 1868. Aberdeen : 
D. Wyllie & Son. Price one penny. 16 pp. and 
cover. Apparently edited by the Rev. Dr. 
Rorison, Peterhead. 

P. J. Anderson. 



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Sonnet by Professor Blackie to Burns. 
— The Rosebery Burns Club met last night 
(March 5, 1895) ^"^ ^^ Bank Restaurant," Queen 
Street, Glasgow — Mr Craibe Angus in the chair. 
. . . . The exhibits for the night by Mr 
Gabriel Blair were (i) an uncut copy of the first 
Edinburgh edition of the poems of Bums ; (2) 
Lord Byron's copy of the same edition. Byion's 
copy was bound in calf, and had on the front 
board the letter " B.,^ surmounted by a coronet. 
It showed considerable signs of use, and had 
the charm dear to Charles Lamb, " the sullied 
leaves" of a much-read book. The chairman 
exhibited a sonnet to Bums by the late Pro- 
fessor Blackie. It was written on the fly-leaf 
facing the title-page of the Idfe of Bums, 
written for Mr Walter Scott by the Professor, 
and published in 1888. Mr Angus stated that, 
in presenting the volume to him, the Professor 
said he considered the sonnet equal to any of 
his poems except "Jenny' Geddes," and he 
jocularly requested him to publish it in the event 
of his being the longest liver. He (Mr Angus) 
could find no better opportunity of doing so 
than by submitting it to this Club. The sonnet 
was as follows : — 

** Edinburgh, April i, i888. 

" Brother of Homer, Nature's darfing child, 
Best prophet of this dainty-cultured age, 
When men by far-sought fancies grandly spoiled, 
Find Truth's fair face in thy untutored page ; 
Thy home-spun words let silken dames dispraise 
And book -learned wits thy ploughman phase despise, 
There lives a power in thy fresh bickering lays 
That kins thee with the best that star the skies. 
Thy song is like the purple, vested Ben 
Rooted in granite, round whose shoulders sweep 
Salubrious airs, and lucid fountains leap 
Joyful into the warm green-winding glen, 
Where rushing rivers pour their warring tide, 
And grand old pine trees toss their branchy pride. 

**JoHN S. Blackie." 

— From the Glasgow Herald, 



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Messrs Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier have in 
the press a tale of Old St Andrews, by William 
Francis Collier, entitled " Marjorie Dudding- 
stone." 



BuRNs's Direct Descendants. 
M*Naught, the Editor of the "Annual 
Chronicle and Club Directory," contribut 
important contributions to the new i 
"Chronology of the Poetical Works of ] 
Bums," "Bums's Direct Descendants." 1 
of conclusion to the latter articie, Mr M*> 
informs his readers that "Robert Bums Hi 
son is the only male representative of the 
line now living. It is somewhat remarkah 
he bears the name of * Hutchinson,' and i 
in America. There is, besides, not a sin 
dividual, so far as our knowledge goes, 
the bound of Scotland who bears the ren 
name and can trace direct descent fro 
Poet.*' Tuming to the February number 
" Strand Magazine," we find a direct con 
tion to the above. Mr J. Munro, in a paj 
" The Line of Robert Burns," fully convir 
that the direct descent of the Poet is now 
on Scottish soil. Robert Bums, the 
descent, is at present keepei of the gunp 
magazine at Blackball, a small village 1 
three miles distant from Edmburgh. Tl 
lowing is his genealogical tree ; — 
I 
Robert Burns. Jean Armoi 

I 



Robert Burns Married Anne Shen 

Eldest son, educated at Dumfries, Edinburg 
Glasgow. Appointed to clerkship in Stamp 
London. Retired in 1833, and returned to Di 
Died, 1857. 

I I 



3 Married Mary Ca 

Robert Burns. 
Eldest son. Taught a private school in Dumf 
over 30 years. Died, 1879. 

I I 



Robert Burns. 
Eldest son. Educated at his father's school a 
fries. Enlisted In Seots Fusilier Guards. I 
the army, he was appointed keeper of the 
Edinburgh Gunpowder Magazine at Blackball 
position he has held for the last thirteen years. 



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The Rev. E. Maule Cole, F.G.S., cont: 
an interesting article on a British Burg 
Lerwick, which the reader will fail to find 
pages of his Murray's Guide. Mr Cole ii 
us that he was directed to the Burgh by 
telligent Lerwick bookseller. We regr< 
the name of the bookseller is not mention 



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[April, 1895. 



Scott as a Presbyterian Elder,— The 
fact that Sir Walter Scoit, who is commonly 
regarded as an Episcopalian of a more or 
less mild type, was ordained an elder of Ihe 
Established Church of Scotland does not seem 
to be widely known. This incident in Scutt'a 
life is passed over by Lockhari, but in Mr 
William Baird's recently- issued volume, /ohn 
Thomson of Duddingston, Pastor and Painter^ 
&c., &c. (Edinburgh : Andrew Elliot), the facts 
are gone very fully into, with the result that the 
ordinary conception of Scott as a Scottish 
Episcopalian is seen to be largely a mistake. 
John Thomson, the celebrated landscape 
painter, was presented to the parish of Dudding- 
ston in 1805, mainly through the efforts of Scott ; 
and, significantly enough, ere a year had passed 
the author of the Lay of ihe Last Minstrel and 
his brother, though not members of the church 
at Duddingston, were made ruling elders of the 
Kirk- Session. Shortly after his ordination, 
" Mr" Walter Scott was chosen by the Magis- 
trates and Town Council of Selkirk as their rul- 
ing elder to represent them at the General 
Assembly. He was again appointed in 1807, 
and on both occasions took up his commission. 
He acted as a niember of Presbytery as wellj for 
in the Kirk-Session book of Duddingston, at the 
dale December 15, 1805, there is an entry to the 
effect that Walter Scott was then chosen to re- 
present them in the Presbytery of Edinburgh 
and Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale. Scott 
figures much in Mr Baird's volume. When the 
Provincial Antiquities of Scotland was pro- 
jected, the letterpress was entrusted to the poet, 
and the task of illustration to Turner and 
Thomson. Mr Baird's handsome volume will 
be read with much interest by all lovers of 
Scottish' art ; and none can now re-echo his 
complaint that no adequate attempt has ever 
been made by way of biography and criiicisnn to 
eommem orate one of the most notable of 
Scottish artists. Michael Merlin. 



956. Funeral Ff.asts. — Mr. E. Howleit, F.S.A., 
in an article on "Burial Cusloms" in '' Curious 
Chunk CiislcBtt," recently iJublished liyMessrs. Wm. 
Andrews & Co., Hull, remarks : — "The Arvel Dinner 
appears to be an-»ncient cuslsm. -Thii was pniperly 
a solemn festival on (he day of inlernicnt, anil when 
ihe corpse was expused tu view. The relations and 
friends were invited to attend, so ihat, having inspected 
the liody, they might avouch that ihe death was a 
natural one, and thus exculpate the heir and all others 
entitled to the deceased's possessions from accusations 
of having used violence." 

j1!rw/niEao3 literally ",the,heiring-ale," or "feast " 



al which the heir lakes possession of the properly. 
Tht word is used princi|iatl)> in the N'lrlh or England, 
ami iK:ciir* in Brockell'.i Glossary of North Cmiiitry 
ti'erds," puLIisheii at NewcBKlle-on-Tyne(i829). As 
we [earn Trom Janiieran's SiMlsk Ditlignary the word 
is also known, or at least was till lately, in the western 
parts of KoKburghshire. In Lowland .Scotland the 
uf^ual phrase applicalile to a funeral supper was the 
dnxy, otherwise knuwn as dreiltfy, iler/fy or itirgy, all 
derivcil rriim the Latin words dirige nas Damint, used 
in the office for th^ dead. In reference to the dndsy, 
the late Mr. Jamei^Napier, 7n his Felk-ljire of the 
ffest of Scotland, soya, "to be present at this was 
considereil a mark of respect to the departed," and 
a<lds, "This cu&luni may be the remnant of an ancient 
practice^ — in some sort a supenli lion— which existeit 
in (Jreece, where ihe friends of the deceased, after the 
funeral, held a lunquet, Ihe fragments of which were 
ariern'ards carried to the lotnh. Is dralgy still used 
in Alierdeenshire or in the neiEhbouiiric counties? 
Glasgow. J. M. NtACKINLAY, F.S.A. ScoL 

957. BuKi.Aw IN Scotland.— The following note 
appears under this word in Bieviei's Phrase and Pailf : 
" Burlaw or Byrlaw, a sort oF Lynch-iaw in Ihe rural 
districts of Scotland. The iahaliitsnts of a district 
used to make certain taws for their own observance, 
and appoint one of their neighbours, called the Biirlam- 
mail, to carry oul the pains and penalties. The word 
is compounded of Ihe Dutch taur, a boor or rustic." 
What was the nature of this primitive system of police, 
and al whal period was it in existence? References 
tu accounts ol "burlaw" will oblige Auo. 

It miiy be nienlioned that for the last sentence 
ijuoletl from Brewer, the new edition of Phrase and 
Fable, sulislitules the following : — " The word is a 
corruption of byr-laii; byr=a liUtEh, common in such 
names as Derby, the burgh on the Derwent ; Crimsliy 
(q.v.), Grims-town." Eo, 

958. TllKAll-. — In the beginning of the sixteenlh 
century "ihraip" was a weight or measure used in 
the corn trade. Will some ofyour readers please say 
what the term represented? Alpha. 

959. Rkv. John Bisset's Diary.— In vol. L of 

Ihe " Miscellany of the Spalding Club" were printed 
extracts from the Diary of the Rev. John Bissel, 
Minister of Sl. Nicholas, 1738-56. The MS. of Ihe 
Diary was then, 1S41, in the possesision of the Rev. 
Alexander Thom, Nigg. Where is if now ? 

P. J. Andkhson, 
gtio. Abekdebn Joint Medical School Mi- 
nutes,— From 1818 to 1839 the Medical Schools of 
King's College and Mari^ichal College acted in con- 
juncliiin, keeping Minute Buuks distinct from ihose of 
the Colleges. These are not among Ihe records of 
ihc University. Arc ihey exlant in private hands? 



■n 



An 1)1 



of ihe late R. I,. Stevenson's Tvorks, I see the ft 
ing in a recent numl>er of the British Ifeehly: — " Mr. 
Lung repeats a current error in saying that Stevenson's 
fir^t publicallon was his pamphlet on Ihe * Pcntland 
Rising.' This is not so. His first publication was a 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



175 



little (Mllectiou nf verses issued some ycats before the 
dste of ihe ' Pentbnil Rising.' I believe tliere are 
only two or three copies known lo be in existence." 
Can any of your readers inform me of the dote of pub- 
lication of this precious volume of verse? I. 

963. Author of "The Pipers o' Buchan." — 
In a note 10 thissong, Peter Buchan, in his Book of 
Ballads, says:— "The 'Pipers o' Buchan' is the 
production of a tailor who could not write n single 
letter, and one of the most eccentric characters of his 
time. It was my intention at first to have given some 
account of the author of this singular production, as I 
was intimately acquainted with him ; but I hsve lately 
heard that his son, a veteran from the wars, intends 
publishing the whole poetical works with a Ufe of the 
old man, who died about eight years ago [1817], which 
makes me decline it." I would like to know the 
name of the tailor, and also if his piietical works were 
published along with his Life? 

ALB.XANnER LOWSON. 

963. Sir David WiLKie.— Can any of your readers 
inform me in whose possession is the original painting, 
"The Rem Day," by .Sir David Wilkie? 

"Edi\." 

964. " The Granite Cirv."— I shall be glad lo be 
informed, when, and by whom this phrase was first 
employed to designate the City of Aberdeen. Of all 
its lilies it is likely to be as enduring as the stone 
itself, and one would like lo know if its origin can be 
traced. CocNoMEN. 



answers. 

60. Writings ov Pbofbssor Martin, LL.D. 
(I., lo8).— Add the following: — 

Medem Infidtlily Abd. 1S48. 

Tie relalioas ef the Chrisliaa Kn'ela- 
lioM la SciiiKt Glasg. n.d. 

?. J. Anderson. 

3a. MuKRAV Lectures at Kinij's Collbue 
(L, 135, 155 ; IH., 44, 45 ! V., 9 i VI., 157 ; VIIL, 
28, 47).— Add the following:— 

1837-38. TAe adapialioH of Chrisliamty te the 
ivanis ami the moral conslitiitian of man. By D. 
Mttcdonald, M.A. Aberdeen: Lewis Smith. 1838. 
P. J. ANDBRao\. 

341. Stohv or Deil o' Bai.dabroch (IIL, 75, 
96, 107).— Recurring mote particularly to our answer 
(HI., 96), we have now to note havine only just seen 
what is prolfflbly the ariginal publication of the 
rhymed version of this story. It is a booklet of 34 pp., 
fcau 8vo (cut) in a coloured coi-er. The title runs— 
" '*' " 'darroch, and olher poems in the 



fcap8vo(cul) 
'■The De'il a 



Conitittttional Office, Castle Street, by George Corn- 
wall, 1839. Price Sixjicnce." z6 pages are occupied 
with the principal piece, which consists of over 900 
lines, but ihe " Baliiarroch " episode covers only two 
or three pages, and seems lo t-e a nucleus, round 
which the pawky author gathers n fourb of similar 
supematutal [ore. So far as we can remember the 



Cblication formerly noted, it confined itself to the 
Idarroch incident, but whether it was n reproduction 
of Ihe booklet before us, we have not at present any 
means of verifying. To Mr. A. I. McConnochie, who 
has in the press a new and enlarged edition of his 
Decside Guide, we look for a true relaiion of all 
connected wilh the affair- Ed- 

904, The Aberdeen Journal IS 1746 (Vin., 30). 
^See some ciirrespondence on this subject in the 
"Journal " for February 12, 13, 27, and March 5. 

P. J. Anderson. 
941S. Geokge.Stkvenson.&c. (Vlir., 142).— Wm. 
MacKelvie, D.D., has produceJ in his Amials imd 
Statistics of the United Predyterian Chunk a work 
correspoQding lo Scoll's Fasti, and David Scotl, D.D., 
has produced in his Annals and Slalislict of ihe 
Original Secession Church a uork of the same kind 
(or that body. .'Vs yet there is no such volume treating 
of the Free Church, though I believe* one is in pre- 
paration- 
Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

949. CoRKLiT, A Dve (VIII., 142).— This, no 
doubt, is the same dye known as cudbrar. The word 
lit is the substantive (or dye, and cork is the attributive 
defining it. Dr. Murray, in his Jfezo English Dic- 
tionary, says of the word Cork, that it is apparently a 
contraction of Corkir, Gaelic for purple, hence the 
lichen yieldinga purple dye. 

Llghlfoot, Flora Scotica (1786), 818 has Lichen 
Omphaloides as " Dark purple Dyer's lichen " : Cork 
orArcell. Crotal of ihe Gaels i and L. tartareusfnow 
Lecanora lartarea) as " Large yellow-saucered Dyer's 
lichen," Corcar of the Gaels. Both of these produce 
cndbear. 

Dollat. W. I). R. W, 

950. Charles Leslie, jAcuuntBALi.AD Singer 
(VIII., 142).— For full notice of Ihis remarkable 
character see Walker's Bards of Ben-Accord, sub voce. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 



me an autt^aph signature of Samuel Rutherfurd, of 
dale 24th April, 1645, where the name is written 
" Rutherfard." 
Dollar. R- P. 



Xiterature. 

New Lights on Old Edinburgh. By JOHN 

REID. Edinbui^h: David Douglas, 1894. 
Uniform in format with Miss Warrender's 
delightful little volume "Walks near Edinburgh," 
this book may be considered a complement in 
part lo it. Mr- Reid deals with the city in the 
same topical fashion ; not passing frotr. one 

Elace to another until he has exhausted what he 
as to say on it. The special section of the old 
city which is dealt with \% that roughly bounded 
by the High St., Blair St-, Cowgate and Parlia- 
ment Square- The unity of this plan is partly 
broken by one chapter on Edinburgh after the 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[April, 1895. 



of Old Edinburgh, 
ie where the whole 
id ihat the general 
e in which the 1 51h 



Union, and another on the official life of a Inst 
century Lord Provost, but on the whole the self- 
imposed restriclions have been respected. Only 
once or twice is the thread of the narrative 
broken by the introduction of extraneous matter. 

Mr, Reid has had special facilities of reference 
to the Town Council Charter Chests, and he 
has made judicious use of his opportunities. 
The book is specially valuable because of the 
curious side-tights which 
domestic life and 
One does not care 
is so good, yet it mi 
picture left on the m 
century hustles the 
little shown of the progressive 
manners, &c,, one would have liked to have 
seen. But perhaps a consecutive view was out 
of the question. 

A misprint seems to lurk in one of the foot- 
notes on p. 196 ; and on p. 81 there is a curious 
topographical mistake. The references to the 
Post, too, on p. 160, are not so clear as might 
be. The history of that periodical is not so 
simple as Mr. Reid would at hrst sight lead us 
to suppose. But these things are mere dust 
specks in the sky. The book is well-informed, 
highly readable, and betrays all the love of the 
subject which is necessary to a successful treat- 
ment. It should be added that the illustrations 
are real additions to the value of the book. 

J. Calder Ross. 



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Vol. VI I L] No. 12. 



MAY, 1895. 



Registered. {P;^;«J^.^^^^ 



CONTENTS. 

Notes: — •_ 

The Edinburgh MSS. Forgeries, 177 

A Private Register of Baptisms, j8o 

Marischal College Veterans, 182 

Bibliography of Aberdeen Publications, 1894 184 

Local Bibliography, 185 

Notable Men and Women of Aberdeenshire, 188 

Minor Notes : — 

Literature of the Robertson Smith Case, 190 

Edinburgh Pen and Pencil Club, 190 

Queries: — 

Badger Moon — Author of Clan Book Wanted — Tirling 
— Foreigners connected with Aberdeenshire — Morti- 
fication " Broads " in Aberdeen, 190 

Answers : — 

** Marykin Maker," and " Marikine Shooes" — Alder- 
men in Scotland — Burlaw in Scotland — Sir David 
Wilkie, 191 

Scotch Books for the Month, 192 



ABERDEEN, MAY, iSgs. 



-♦•♦- 



THE EDINBURGH MSS. FORGERIES. 
{Continued from p. 163.) 

28. Charles 1 1. Commission superscribed 
Whitehall, 3 Dec. 1668, and countersigned 
by Lauderdale and Dundee (Claverhouse). 

" Dundee" was not Dundee till 1688 (see 
No. 16 above). His first appearance in 
Scottish history was in 1677, when he was a 
captain. About May he received his 
commission to suppress Conventicles. 
Claverhouse is said to have entered the 
Dutch service after the close of the first 
war between England and Holland, termi- 
nated by the treaty of Breda, July 21, 1667. 
In 1674 he saved the life of William of 
Orange at the battle of Seneff. Shortly 
afterwards he returned home and took 
service under Charles II. 

29. Charles II. — Letter, signed Whitehall, 5 
Jany. 1667, by the Earl of Lauderdale to the 
Earl of Breadalbane. As to the Rebellion (of 
Covenanting fame). 

30. Charles II. — Letter, signed Windsor Castle, 
15 March 1667, by the Earl of Lauderdale to 
the Duke of Athole as to the Rebellion. 

W^hat was the Rebellion "of covenanting 
fame?" As to these documents, it is to be 
noted that both dates, according to English 
custom at the time, are probably " Eccles- 



iastical Style," by which the year commenced 
on Mar. 25. If so, they belong to the 
"Civil Year" 1668. But what Rebellion? 
Rullion Green was in Nov. 1666, and 
Both well Brig not till 1679. 

Wodrow ii. 83 gives a letter of Lauder- 
dale's, written from Whitehall on "Mar. 12, 
1667.'' On March 15th 1667-8, Pepys met 
King Charles in the Park, and afterwards 
went " to Whitehall, and there walked with 
this man and that till chapel done and the 
King dined." Charles was an excellent 
pedestrian, but the walk from Windsor 
Castle is not recorded ! On Mar. 14 1666- 
7 (and undoubtedly also on Mar. 15) the 
King was certainly in London (Pepys* 
Diary). The "Duke of Athole" was a 
Marquis as late as 1685 (Wodrow iv. 341). 

31. Charles II.— Letter signed, From our 
League, 30 Nov. 1666, from General Thomas 
Dalziel to the Earl of Lauderdale, regarding 
a loan of 300 Merks. 

" Our League ^ has long ere this become 
an object of suspicion. Rullion Green was 
fought Nov. 28th. After that there was no 
need for a " League " (Camp). After the 
battle Dalziel went West with a consider- 
able body of n>^n, and took up his head- 
quarters at Kilmarnock. He cantoned his 
men at free quarters in the insurgent 
districts. 

32. Letter, signed Edinburgh Castle, 26 March 
1672, by Charles Erskine, Lyon King at Arms 
to the Earl of Lauderdale, Secretary for 
Scotland. As to Dutch Ships to be sold for 
payment of his Fees 

A caviller might ask what the "Lyon 
King at Arms to the Earl of Lauderdale" 
may have been. There is in fact a curious 
family likeness between the docketter^s 
blunders in grammar and the blunders in 
grammar of the MSS. themselves, when 
quoted. About this time Lauderdale was 
made a Duke. I have not the means of 
stating exactly when. But I infer from 
Wodrow that it was previous to April, when 
he came down to Edinburgh to hold his 
last Parliament. Hume says he was made 
a Duke shortly after the formation of the 
Cabal M inistry ( 1 670). " Charles Erskine " 



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[May, 1895. 



wished to "cook his hare" before it was 
caught ! The Second War with Holland 
was declared on April 2d 1672, and a pro- 
clamation issued at Edinburgh to that effect. 

33. Charles 1 1. — Letters of Remission (in vellum) 
of Forfeiture in Favour of Gavin Hamilton, 
son of the Laird of Raplock, for his Share in 
the Rebellion of Both well Brig, 4 July 1681. 

That is, more than two years after the 
battle. " Gavin Hamihon of Raplock" does 
not appear in Wodrow. (Where is Rap- 
lock?) A namesake, described as in Mauld- 
slie in Carluke Parish, was tried on Dec. 
4th 1666, for complicity in the Pentland 
Rising, and executed on Dec. 7th (Wodrow 

".,39-48). 

Wodrow ii.^ 77^ gives the text of such a 
Remission, ''^ va favours of James Chalmers 
for the rebellious crime committed by him." 
Note the wording. 

34. Charles II. — Warrant, signed 1676, by the 
Earls of Angus and Glencaim for Sir William 
Cochrane of Cowdoune, Treasurer, to pay 
£jioo to Catherine, Daughter of Sir John 
Stewart of Manet. 

Was it usual to sign warrants with the 
date of the yeaf alone f I find in Wodrow 
no mention of these Earls, except the Earl 
of Glencaim, Chancellor, who was buried in 
St. Giles' Cathedral, July 28th 1664. I 

35. Charles II. — Declaration, signed Edinburgh, 
13 July 168 1, by the Earl of Moray and Duke 
of Queensberry on taking Office, and against 
Parties entering into Leagues and Covenants. 

The Earl of Murray became Secretary of 
State in conjunction with John Drummond 
of Lundin, treasurer-depute, by patent dated 
Nov. 6th 1684. He had served on a Com- 
mittee in the West, before he was sent by 
the Council on a mission to London in 1676. 
Queensberry is mentioned as one of the 
Members of Council who took the Test 
Oath, 22d Sep. 1681. It is more to the 
point to note a letter of the King " Given at 
our Court at Windsor Castle, the twelfth 
day of July, and of our reign the thirty- 
third year. 

By his majesty's command, 

Murray." 

Murray therefore posted from Windsor 
to Edinburgh in one day ! The letter was 
read in Parliament July 28th (Wodrow iii., 
288). Later on we find Murray, as Secretary, 
writing from Whitehall, Nov. 15th 168 1 {id, 
369). We should be glad to know from the 
"chief genealogist" who certified these 
MSS., or from others, whether Murray spelt 
his name " Moray" in 1681 ? 

The " Leagues and Covenants " is a mere 



echo of the modefn confusion between the 
National Covenant, 1638, and that infamous 
compact, the Solemn League and Covenant, 
1643. See No. 37 below. 

36. Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High 
Chancellor of England. Articles of High 
Treason and other heinous Misdemeanours. 
Drawn by the Earl of Bristol, with the Pro- 
ceedings of the House of Commons, Evidence 
and result. The Original Manuscript sm. 
folio (1677) rough calf. 

Here were a real treasure — but "oh thae 
puddock pies ! " — The date again I Claren- 
don fled in 1667, was sentenced to perpetual 
exile by Act of Parliament, Nov. 29th, 1667, 
and died at Rouen in 1674. 

37. Covenanters. — From Rathol, 13th June 1679. 
Declaration of Adherence to the Solemn 
League and Covenant of 1648. Signed by 
John Balfour, James Rankine, Christie, Craw- 
ford and numerous others. 

What was the *'^ Solemn League and 
Covenant of 1648?" John Balfour of Kin- 
loch joined the Rebels who were routed at 
Both well Brig, June 22nd, 1679. On Wed. 
nth and Thur. 12th they were at Hamilton ; 
13th at Bradisholme Park, 14th — 17th at 
Monkland Kirk ; thence to Hamilton, where 
they remained till their defeat. " Rathol " 
I fail to find in this neighbourhood on a 
good map. James Rankin, for the tumult 
at Kilmalcolm, was sentenced, June 16, 
1670, to be transported to the plantations. 

38. Mutual Bond, Linlithgow, 14 Aug. 1680. — 
Adhering to the Rutherglen Testimony, &c., 
Denouncing Charles II. and Openly taking 
Arms against him. Signed by John Sempel, 
John Paton, etc. 

There is no mention in Wodrow of any 
such Bond. According to this document 
this "Open" rising occurred ver>' shortly 
after the Sanquhar Declaration and the 
affair at Ayrs Moss. Those who are familiar 
with Wodrow's enormous industry in search- 
ing records for every tittle of evidence as 
to those times will probably admit the force of 
this negative evidence. He mentions three 
John Semples (so spelt), but none in con- 
nection with Linlithgow. He gives a full 
account of the trial of John Paton of 
Meadowhead, Ap. 16, 1684, executed May 
9th, for having joined the Rebels at Glas- 
gow [Both well Brig] June 14 or 15, 1679. 
Neither his admissions nor the charges 
brought against " this notorious rebel these 
eighteen years " say a word of any rebellious 
act in 1680. "The assize had no more to 
cognosce upon but his confession." Wod- 
row ii., 65. 



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179 



39. Letter, signed by David Hackston of Rathillot 
(Covenanter). Tolbooth of Edinburgh, 26 
July 1680. 

Here again Wodrow's silence lays this 
document under grave suspicion. Hackston 
of Rathillet, as W. spells the name, was 
taken at Ayrs Moss July 20th, and imprison- 
ed in the Tolbooth July 24th, till his sentence 
and execution on the 29th. W. quotes a 
portion of a letter he wrote to a friend on 
the 25th, describing the skirmish, and refers 
for the text to the " Cloud of Witnesses." 
It would have been interesting to compare 
this letter with the above. 

Here I may, perhaps, be allowed to add 
that I find in Wodrow no authority for the 
oft-repeated story that R. Cameron's head 
(one variation makes it his ''^still-bleeding 
head" !) was shown to his father, then a 
prisoner in the Tolbooth. I suspect that 
Cameron's father was an Episcopalian, as 
his son was, to begin with. It may not, 
perhaps, be generally known that Hackston 'is 
son was a violent Jacobite, and went out 
with Mar in 171 5. 

40. James VIII. — Proclamation as to accepting 
of the Prince of Wales as Regent, &c. Dated 
Court of Rome, 16 Jan. 1743. To be printed 
and published from Perth, 8 Sept. 1745. 
Signed by Command, J. Murray (Secretary). 

By " Court of Rome" is meant " Court at 
Rome." When Charles raised his standard 
at Glenfinnin, Tullibardine read a manifesto 
dated at Rome, Dec. 23 1743, and also a 
proclamation of the same date appointing 
Charles Prince Regent. This may be con- 
sidered sufficient ; but we may add that 
Sept. 8th, when the Prince was at Perth, 
was a Sunday. 

41. Prince Charles Edward. — Warrant, signed 
Holyrood, 5 Oct. 1745, by Charles Prince 
Regent in favour of James Aird, Linlithgow, 
for twenty guineas. Countersigned by Earl 
Murray. 

For "Holyrood" see No. 7. Who was 
" Earl Murray ? ' We read of Lord George 
Murray, and also of Mr John Murray of 
Broughton, the Prince's Secretary : and 
Mr he remained to the end of his miser- 
able career. 

42. Prince Charles. — Major McDonnell. — A 
supporter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 
his Speech at his Execution, 18 Oct. 1746. 

Is this meant for Major Macdonald of 
Tiendrish, th^ one prisoner taken by the 
Hanoverians at Falkirk ? One might sus- 
pect our sources of information as too 
meagre ; but we have a positive statement 
that between Aug. 2nd, when Donald Mac- 



donald, one of the officers taken at Carlisle, 
was executed at Kennington Common, and 
Nov. 28th, though there were many trials, 
there were no executions. (Chambers' Hist. 
'45, ch. xxix. 

43. George II: — Dispatch, signed Glasgow 22 
Dec. 1745, by Lord Glencairn to the Duke of 
Newcastle, relative to the troops in* Ayr and 
Renfrew Shires and Defence of Glasgow. 

Glasgow at this time was quite open and 
destitute of the means of defence. I find 
no trace of any project to defend it, nor of 
Hanoverian troops in the Shires named. 
On Sunday Dec. 22 Prince Charles entered 
Dumfries. Up to the 24th, when he 
marched from Drumlanrig through the pass 
of Daween to Douglas Castle in Clydesdale, 
he endeavoured to conceal his intention of 
marching on Glasgow instead of Edinburgh. 
The Glasgow volunteers, with Hamilton's 
and Gardiner's dragoons, had for some 
weeks been stationed at Stirling and the 
passes of the Forth, to prevent recruits and 
stores from passing south to Charles. On 
news of his arrival at Glasgow they fell back 
on Edinburgh, Dec. 26th. 

44. George II.— Printed Copy of the Rebel 
Army's behaviour while at Hamilton, 6th 
Jan. 1746. 

This is ambiguous. Does it mean 
"printed on Jan. 6th,'' or that the Rebel 
Army was there on Jan. 6th .»* In the latter 
case the document is certainly wrong. On 
Dec. 26th Charles entered Glasgow, and 
left it on Jan. 3rd. On the 5th he reached 
Stirling, which surrendered on the 7th. 
With the " Rebel Army" so near, it seems 
an act of some temerity for the good folk of 
Hamilton (on the former interpretation of the 
date) to publish their behaviour. For an- 
other instance of a dubious printed paper, 
see No. 25. 

45. Queen Anne — Letter, signed St James. 3 
Feb. i7o§, to the Commissioners (Scotland) 
Treaty of Union betwixt Our two Kingdoms. 

The Commissioners were appointed in 
1706, and the Treaty of Union came into 
force May ist 1707, as "every schoolboy 
knows." 

46. William and Mary.— Panegyrique de Marie 
Stuart, Reine d' Angleterre, d Ecosse, de 
France et d' Irelande. A very old Manuscript 
of 26 pages i2mo. 

Is it gratuitous to suppose that this " very 
old Manuscript" was meant to refer to 
" Mary Queen of Scots," and has been 
catalogued as a William and Mary ? Will- 
iam and Mary on their coins style them- 
selves King and Queen of Great Britain^ 



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[Ma- 



1895. 



France and Ireland. Will anyone assure 1 
me that 'Ecosse' was not written 'Escosse' 
ai this period? Mary Queen of Stols— if I 
she be the Mary Smart of this MS.- never , 
assumed the title of " Queen of England 1 
and Ireland." 

47. Rebellion.— Letter, DunUar, 7 May 1746. 
Sir Edward Falconer to Lord justice Clerk, 
in which Lord Tullibandie is mentioned, .^n 
old scroll of the period. \ 

Is "Lord Tullibandie" a recognised i 
variant of " TuUibardine ? " 1 

48. Aberdeen.— Comniission,Aberdeen,8Aprile 
1746, by the Duke of Cumberland to ibe 
Governors of Aberdeen for Municipal and ' 
Election Affairs, An old copy of the Period, i 

Can anyone vouch for this Document? 
The Duke left Aberdeen on the 8th and 
wasal BantTonlhe iolh,whereheencaniped. 
From (his 1 should infer that he left Aber- 
deen early on the 8lh. 

49. Queen Mary. — Letter, superscribed and 
Holograph, Linlithgow, 8 May IS — - To the 
Lords of Session as 10 the cause of Mrs. 
Paxton against the Duke of Hamilton. A 
fine specimen. 

50. Queen Mary. — Letter, superscribed and 
Holograph, signed 28 Oct. 15^. To the 
Lords of the I'rivy Council as to ihe case of 
Mrs. Janet Paxton, widow. A fine specimen. 

These two obviously stand or fall together. 
Who was Z)»)tf of Hamilton in Mary's reign? 
The first Duke was the " Engager" of 1648, 
created Duke 1643. 

H. F. MoELANn Simpson. 



A PRIVATE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS. 
The great importance of the Parochial Regis- 
ters to the genealogical student is apparent, 
and the only regret is that, at present, they are 
practically sealed books. Of equal importance, 
because so rarely can they be seen, are the 
private registers kept by the ministers of the 
various sens not in touch with the predomi- 
nating religious party of the time. 

The following fragment of a register kept for 
the recording of the baptisms of children whose 
parents were of the Catholic persuasion is a 

food example of such private registers. At the 
ate of the first entry, the laws against " Pa- 
pists " and Quakers were being enforced with 
the greatest severity, and numerous acts of 
Council were passed against the " trafficking 
priests," of whom Robert Francis appears to 
have been one. For these reasons I think the 
register is worth preserving in the pages of 
S.N.&'Q. 

Alex. M, Munbo. 



Register of Baptismes given of Aberdeen and 
elsewhair begining from Nov'. 20, 1687. 

The year of our Lord 1687 the 20 day of No', 
being Sunday I Robert Francis unworlhie 

priest residing for the time at Aberdeen did 
baptise in the same toun a girle bom the same 
day forsaid of M'. Thomas Forbes of Robslaw 
anil Jean Jamison husband and wife both calho- 
licks and of the paroch of Si. Nicolas of the said 
loun. The child got the name of Jean. The 
^'odfather was Mr. Alex'. Irvin of l^irny and 
(he godmother was Mrs. Jean Irvin daughter to 
the deceasi laird of Drume (and now Lady 
Murtle) both liveing in the forsaid paroch. In 
testimony quhairof I have writen and subscribit 
ihis as ane authentick copie of what was writen 
formerly at Aberdeen the 16 of Dec'. 1693. 

The year of our Lord 1687 the 27 day of 
>Jov'. ! Robert Francis priest residing for 

the time at Aberdeen did baptise a boy born 
some few dayes before of Alex', (lartlay pilot 
and Marjorie Gayen husband and wife both 
firotestanti and of the paroch of liveing at 

Torrie. The child got the name of Thomas. 
The godfather was Mr. Thomas Forbes of Robs- 
law and Ihe godmother Sarra Blackburn wife to 
Alex'. Koss painter both calholicks and in the 
paroch of St. Nicollas at Aberdeen. The bap- 
1 lisme was given with the consent of the parents 
and with assurance that the child should be 
educat catholick. In testimony quhairof I have 
writen and subscribit this as ane authentick 
copie of quhat I wrot formerly at Aberdeen the 
16 of December 1693. 

The year of our Lord 1688 the 15 of June was 
born Alexr. son of Mr. John Gordon of Seaton 
a protestant and of Mrs. Bettie Irvine catholick 
husband and wife who was baptised in the pro- 
testant mainer by Mr. John Reith minister of 
Old Aberdeen quhair the said Mr. John Gordon 
liveth. The same day L R. F. S. P. at the 
desyre of the said Mrs. Bettie and of her catho- 
lick relations gave the said child the cerimonies 
used in the calhohck church. The godfather 
was Mr, Alexr. Irvin of Lairny and the god- 
mother was Margret vEdie wife to Mr. Ritcbard 
Irvine of Camfield both of the paroch of St. 
Nicolas of Aberdeen. In testimony quhairof I 
have writen and subscribit this as ane authen- 
tick copie of quhat I did formerly at Aberdeen 
the i6of Dec'. 1693. 

18 June. 1688. 
Alex'. Burnet couper wright then catholick 
and Margret Craw protestant had a girle bap- 
tised born the 15 day of the same per eundem 
called Margret. The godfather was Ritchard 
Irvine and the godmother Margret jEdie etc. ul 
supra. 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



20 June. 16SS. 

I John Jesuite bnpiised a bny borne the 

day of the sanne month of Francis Innes 
master of the shore work of Aberdeen and of 
jean Maitland husband and wife. The child 
got the name of Lewis. The godfaiher was Mr. 
Lewis Innis priest and principail of the Scotish 
colledge at Paris tho absent. Of all this (he 
parents of the child assured me. In testimony 
quhairof 1 have writen etc. subscribit ut supra 
p. I, R. F. .S. P. 

17 August [6SS. 

I Robert Jesuite baptised a girle bom 

the said dayeof Mr, John Alex', doctor of medi- 
cine and Elizabeth Tumur husband and wife of 
the parish of S. N. The child was called Mar- 
jorie. The godfather was Alexr. Meniies of 
Buckie the godmother Mrs. Mariorie Forbes 
Lady dowager of Pitfodells, Of all of which 1 
was certainly informed. In testimony quhairof 
etc. subscribit ut supra. 

14 March 16S9. 

I R. F. S : P ; baptised a girle born the night 
before of Alexr. Couper cordiners in Aberdeen. 
The child got the name of Mariorie etc. ut 

24 Feb'' l6go. 

I R. F. S ; P : did baptise a boy bom the 
same day of John Birney meason and Janet 
Watson husband and wife liveing at the church 
m Anguse. The child got the name of William 
etc. ut supra. 

13 Aprill 169a 

I R. F. -S : P : did baptise a sirle bom the 1 1 
day of the same month of Andrew Morisons in 
quartans near Drum, The child got the name 
of Anna etc. ut supra, 

27 Aprili 1690. 

I R. F. S ; P ; did baptise a boy borne the 
same day (quhlch was palm Sunday) about 1 1 
aclock in the moming of Francis Innes and 
Jean Maitland husband and wife living in the 
paroch of S ; N : of Aberdeen. The child got 
the name of Robert. The godfather «as William 
Gordon merchant of the said toune and the god- 
mother Henriette Gordon wife to James Panton 
of the same toune. In testimony quhairof Mr. 
J. G. U. P. has writen this and I have subscribit 
It as ane aulhentick copie of what I wrote for- 
merly the i& of January 1694. 
3 June 1690. 

I R. F. S. P. baptised a girie of Alexr. Ferrier 
Skiper in Aberdeen and Mary More Widow 
livemg in the paroch of S : Clement at Futty, 
The child got the name of jean, llolh father 
and mother of the child were protestanls but 



Jean Jameson wife to Mr. Thomas Forbes of 
Robslaw assured nie ih.il the said child should 
be educated in the catholick faith etc. 
1691 July?. 

Was bom Margret daughter of Mr. John Gor- 
don of Seaton protestant and of Mrs. Betiie 
In-ine catholick his wife who was baptised by a 
protestant minister the 9 day of the same month 
as the childs mother assured me. The 5 day of 
August nixl ! R. F. S. P. did give the said child 
the accustomed cerimonies and prayers. I gave 
her the name of Margret etc. 
1693 Aprill a 

1 R. F. S. P. baptised a boy borne on the third 
of the same month of John Gordon of Dam- 
meath protestant and Anna Gordon catholick 
liveing in the same paroch. The child got the 
name of Francies etc. 

1693: 15 Aprill. 

I R, F. S. P. in the paroch of Ruthven did 
baptise a boy bom on the 14 of the same month 
of Robert Cruckshank catholick and Elspet 
Gray protestant liveing in the said paroch. The 
child got the name of John etc 
i6g6 Sept. 29 day. 

1 R. F. S. P. in the paroch of S. Nicolas at 
Aberdeen did give the cerimonies and prayers 
of baptisme to these underwriten who had been 
baptised when infants by protestant ministers 
viz. Elizabeth Collie daughter to George Collie 
protestant and Jean Thomson catholick husband 
and wife of the paroch of S. Machar of Old 
Aberdeen, Margret Jameson daughter to the 
deceast John fameson protestant merchant of 
Aberdeen and to the deceast Jean Blackburn 
catholick husband and wife of the said paroch 
of S, N ; Mrs, Anna Panton daughter to Hen- 
drie Panton of Hiltoun and Mrs. Ann Irvin 
Lard and Lady of Hiltoun of the said paroch 
of S. N : Isobeli Rob daughter to Robert 

Taylor and husband and wife of the paroch 

of S ; Machar Ann Cruckshank daughter to 
Cruckshank and husband and wife of the 

paroch of H : Machar and was both deceast 
Agnas Mill daughter to John Mill and Margret 
Hall husband and wife of the forsaid paroch of 
St. Machar. The same day I gave the same 
cerimonies and prayers to Agnas Farquhar 
daughter to John Farquhar merchant burgess 
of Aberdeen and the deceast Cathrin Blackhall 
husband and wife of the forsaid paroch of S : N : 
as al A J h d gh o John 

John R es onyeic. 

696 

W g d gh ^ r. John 

Gord d s Betiie 

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ner by and Ihe i day 

of October ihe same year 1 R, F. S. P. jn the 
paroch ofS. Machar of qublch ihe parents are 
did give the forsaid child the accustomed pray- 
ers and cerinionies of baptisnie at the mothers 
pious desire etc 

I Oct. 1696. 

I R. F. S. P. in the paroch of S : N : al Aber- 
deen did baptise a boy borne on the 27 of Aprill 
ihe same year of James Clerk prolestant and 
Christan Robertson desirouse to be caiholick 
husband and wife in Logie in the paroch of 
Udnie who gote the name of Thomas. The 
mother was fully content that the child should 
be brought up in (he catholick faith etc. 
1697 Sepf. 29. 

I R. F. S. P. in the paroch of S. N. gave the 
accustomed cerinionies and prayers of baptisme 
10 those after named who had been baptised 
youn;,' \\\ the prolestant mainer to wit John 
Stewart son of Alexr. Stewart merchant in Old 
Aberdeen and Isobell Collie protestants to Iso- 
bell Hay daughter to the deceast John Hay 
ground labourer and Margrct Frascr husband 
and wife both protestants who lived in Fraser- 
burgh and to Mariorie Hay daughter to William 
Hay merchant burgess of Aberdeen and Anna 
Gordon husband and wife both protestants of 
the forsaid paroch of S. N. In testimony etc, 
1697 DecC. 

I R. F. .S. P. in the paroch of S : N : of Aber- 
deen did give the accustomed cerinionies and 
prayers of baptisme to those aftemamed who 
. had been baptised young in the protcstant 
mainer viz. Margret Menzies daughter to the 
deceast Robert Menzies in Mill of Celcomston 
protestant and Jean VVachop catholick to Agnas 
■ Murray laufull daughter to the deceast James 
Murray protestant merchant in Turreffe and 
Agnas Cuming catholick now wife to Thomas 
Russell in Elgin and to Janet Collie laufull 
daughter of Thomas Collie shirrefTes officer and 
Rathvin Thomson of the said parish of S. Ma- 
char. In testimony etc, 

18 Uece'. 1697. 

I R. F. S. P. in the paroch of S. N. of Aber- 
deen did give the accustomed cerinionies and 
prayrs of baplisem to these two afternamed 
who had been baptised young in the protestant 
mainer to witt George Duncan merchant bur- 
gess of the said loun son to George Duncan in 
Marieculter protestant and to James Massie 
Merchant in the said toune son to the deceast 
George Massie and Margt. Oliphant husband 
and wife both protestants. In testimony etc. 
18 January 1698. 

1 R. F. S. P. in the paroch of S, N. of Aber- 
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prayers of baptisme 10 these afternamed of the 
forsaid paroch who had been baptised when 
young in the protestant mainer vii. to James 
Panton laufull son to Hendrie Panion of Hil- 
toun, to Margret Gouts wife of Mr. Robert Ir- 
vine laird of Cults to Jean Chamber widow of 
the deceast Jolin Jameson protestant merchant 
burgess of Aberdeen to Jean Wachop widow of 
the deceast Robert Meniies in Mill of Gilconi- 
ston to Jean and Mariorie Menzies laufull 
daughters of the said Robert Menzies. In tes- 

20 January 169S. 

Mr. John Gordon widower who lived near 
Coulter in the paroch of Pelerculter rcbaptised 
p eundeni. 

29 March 1698. 

I R. K. S. P. in the paroch of Dalmaik did 
give the accustomed cerinionies and prayers of 
baptisme to these aftemamed to wile who arc 
in the said parish and were baptised quhen 
young after the protestant mainer Andrew Cush- 
nie servant to the Laird of Drum. John Francis 
Steuart my servant siipleit the place of god- 
father to Margret Findlaytor servant to the for- 
said laird daughter to the deceast John Find- 
laytor in Burngreins in the paroch of Medlick 
Mrs. Jean Gordon servant in the said familie 
daughter of Mr. John Gordon of Culter. In 
testimony etc. 



MARISCHAL COLLEGE VETERANS 
(VI. t4s). 
Nf.xt October the new buildings so generously 
gifted to the University of Aberdeen by Dr. 
Charles Mitchell— Students' Union, Clock Tower 
and Graduation Hall— will be opened with some 
degree of ceremonial, the proceedings extending 
over several days. A general invitation will be 
issued to all graduates and alumni of the 
University, but it is probable that a special 
feature of the celebrations will be the reception, 
and recognition by some mark of Academic 
favour, of all the "veterans" of King's and 
Marischal Colleges who can be present And 
as " veterans " will be considered all those who 
entered either College not later than Session 
'839-40— that is twenty years at least before the 
last separate matriculations in 1859. 

To obtain accurate information as to these 
and their whereabouts is not an easy task. The 
Matriculation Albums give of course no clue to 
the after careers of students, and the Register of 
General Council, printed in the University 
Calendar, does not help much. Many Univer- 
sity alumni never qualified for admission to the 
General Council ; and even of those qualified 
only a ponion, before 1881, actually enrolled. 



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Appended is a list of the entrants at Marisc4)al 
College that I have been able to identify as 
surviving. I would appeal to those named to 
supply information relative to any class-fellows 
whose addresses they may know ; and to readers 
of S. N. 6f* Q, generally to help to render the 
list more nearly complete. 

P. J. Anderson. 

University, Aberdeen. 



Marischal College Entrants^ i8iS'i8jg, 

1815. Rev. John Forbes, LL.D., D.D., Pro- 
fessor emeritus, Aberdeen. 

[Taking his degree of M.A. in the year 18 19, 
Dr. Forbes, whose portrait accompanies this 
month's number, is the Senior Graduate of 
the University of Aberdeen. Indeed he appears 
to be the Senior Graduate of Great Britain. So 
far as can be learnt from the Calendars of the 
other Universities, their Seniors are : — 

St. Andrews : John H. W. Waugh, M.A., 1828. 
Glasgow : Rev. Hugh Moore, M.A„ 1823. 
Edinburgh : Patrick Keatinge, M.D., 1824. 
Oxford : Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, Bart, 

B.A., 1821. 
Cambridge : Charles O. Dayman, F.R.A.S., 

B.A., 1824.] 

18 1 7. Rev. David Brown, D.D., Principal, Free 

Church College, Aberdeen. 

1 81 8. Rev. Robert Thomson, M.A., Hull. 
1822. Rev. Charles Bisset, 18 St. Paul Street, 

Southport. 
Rev. David Scott Ferguson, Strachan, 
Banchory. 

1824. James Abemethy, 4 Delahay Street, Lon- 

don, S.W. 

Rev. John Grieve, 27 Angel Hill, Bury 
St Edmunds. 

John Murray, M.D., Indian Medical Ser- 
vice (retired), 17 Westbourne Square, 
London, W. 

George Smith, Reform Club, London. 

Rev. William Webster, New PitsligOjAbdn. 

1825. Rev. John Souter, Inverkeithny, Turriff. 

1826. William Hunter, LL.D., Advocate, Abdn. 
David Morice, M.D., 73 Foxburne Road, 

London, S.W. 
James Wallace, 47 Waverley Place, Abdn. 
Rev. Thomas Walker, St Andrew's 

Orphanage, Greenside, Edinburgh. 

1827. Rev. Alexander Fraser Russell, Kilmodan, 

Greenock. 

1828. Arthur Anderson, M.D., C.B., Inspector 

General of Hospitals, Sunnybrae, Pit- 
tochry. 

James Chalmers, of Westburn, Aberdeen. 

Alexander Murray, 29 Beechgrove Ter- 
race, Aberdeen. 



1828. Rev. George Peter, Kemnay, Aberdeen. 
Rev. John Robb, Pittrichie, Whiterasl 

1829. Alexander Fraser, 3 Cravenhill, Hyae 

Park, London, W. 
Major James Forbes, 54 Onslow Square, 

London, S.W. 
William Alexander Gavin, M.R.C.S., 

Strichen. 
George Grant, Advocate, Aberdeen. 
David Johnston, M.D., Kair House, 

Fordoun. 
Rev. John Murray Mitchell, LL.D., Nice, 

France. 
Rev. Alexander Thomson, D.D., 37 Port- 
land Crescent, Manchester. 
William Yeats, Advocate, Beaconhill, 

Murtle, Aberdeen. 

1830. Peter Duguid, of Bourtie, by Oldmeldrum. 
Rev. Alexander Stuart Leslie, 4 Marine 

Place, Aberdeen. 
Rev. Robert George Milne, Southport 
Rev. Robert Watt, Sheadle, Stafford. 

1 83 1. James Carter, Head Teacher, Adelaide, 

Jersey. 
John Craig, late H.E.I.C.S., Brighton. 
Robert Jamieson, M.D., Physician, Royal 

Lunatic Asylum, Aberdeen. 
James Matthews, Springhill House, Abdn. 
Rev. Alexander M ilne, Tough, Whitehousc. 
James Ross, Guelph, Canada. 
Rev. Alexander Urquhart, Caberfeigh, 

Longside. 

1832. Rev. Charles William Barclay, Academy 

Place, Elgin. 

Bruce Allan Bremner, M.D., Canaan 
Lane, Edinburgh. 

Rev. John Forbes Mitchell Cock, D.D., 
Rath en, Lonmay, Aberdeen. 

Captain John Macdonald Macdonald, 6 
Talbot Road, London, W. 

David Mitchell, Advocate, Aberdeen. 

Rev. Henry Angus Paterson, Stone House, 
Glasgow. 

Rev. Robert Ross, Cruden, Ellon. 

George Russell, retired merchant. View- 
field, Wandsworth, London. 

1833. George Barclay, merchant, 17 Coates 

Crescent, Edinburgh. 

Rev. William Garden Blaikie,D.D.,LL.D., 
Free Church Professor, Edinburgh. 

William N. Fraser, of Findrack, Aber- 
deenshire. 

James Collie, advocate, Aberdeen. 

Lachlan McKinnon,junior, advocate, Abdn. 

Rev. George Philip, D.D., 52 Blacket 
Place, Edinburgh. 

Rev. John Philip, Auchinblae, Fordoun. 

1834. Alexander Davidson of Dess, Advocate, 

Aberdeen. 



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1834. Edward Dunbar Dunbar, of Glen of 

Rothes, Morayshire. 

George Skene Keith, M.D., Edin- 
burgh. (See S, N. 6^ fi-, VII., 177). 

George Gordon Scott, Blackheath. 

Charles Smith, M.R.C.S.,Marnoch,Huntly 

William Thom, Hawarden, Chester. 

1835. George Allan, advocate, Aberdeen. 
Alexander Cushny, landowner, Pain's Hill, 

Cobham, Surrey. 
Rev. Andrew Donald, Blackford, Auch- 

terarder. 
William Duguid, 12 Albyn Terrace, Abdn. 
David Mather Masson, LL.D., professor 

of English literature, Edinburgh. 
Rev. James Simpson, 21 Gordondale 

Road, Aberdeen. 

1836. Alexander Bain, LL.D., Professor emeritus, 

.Aberdeen. 
David Reid Mackinnon, M.B., Surgeon 

General, Army Med. Dept., Malta. 
Alexander Cruickshank, LL.D., 20 Rose 

Street, Aberdeen. 
James PauU, advocate, Aberdeen. 
James Pattison Walker, M.D., Indian 

Med. Serv., London. 

1837. Rev. Canon William Bruce, B.D., Culross. 
Rev. Robert Hunter, LL.D., Forest Re- 
treat, Loughton, Essex. 

Alexander Simpson, advocate, Aberdeen. 
Rev. Walter Chalmers Smith, 1). D., LL. D., 

Edinburgh. 
William Smith, teacher, Gartly. 

Rev. James Sutherland, i St. Swithin 
Street, Aberdeen. 

1 838. Donald George Cattanach, advocate, Abdn. 
Rev. John Crombie, D.D., Smith's Falls, 

Canada. 
William Ferguson, of Kinmundy, Mintlaw. 
Rev. John Fiddes, Killearn, Glasgow. 
Rev. Alex. Forbes, Drumblade, Huntly. 
John Forbes Robertson, 22 Bedford 

Square, London. 
William Ross, M.D.,R.N., 12 Anson Road, 

Tufnell Park, London, N. 

David Shier, M.D., 3 Claremont Terrace, 
Exmouth. 

Rev. John Robert Turing, Edwinslone, 

Newark. 
James Webster, M.D., Elgin. 

1839. Rev. Alexander Esson, teacher, Birse, 

Aboyne. 
Charles Mitchell, LL.D., Jesmond 
Towers, Newcastle. 

Rev. William Murray, Royal Asylum, 

Aberdeen. 
Major Gen. Charles Metcalfe Young, 

Guildford, Surrey. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABERDEEN 
PUBLICATIONS, 1894. 

(Continued from page i6g.) 

Of works by Aberdeen authors and works 
relating to Aberdeen, published outside Aber- 
deen, the following are the principal : — 

"The Literature of the Georgian Era," by the late 
Professor Minto, edited with a bi(^raphical introduc- 
tion by Professor Knight, St. Andrews (William 
Blackwood & Sons) ; " Lectures on the Religion of 
the Semites," by the late Professor William Robertson 
Smith— new and revised edition — (A. and C. Black); 
"The Resurrection of the Dead. An Exposition of 
I Corinthians, xv," by the late Professor Milligan 
(T. & T. Clark) ; '* Christianity and Evolution," by 
Professor Iverach (Hodder & Stoughton) ; ** The 
Sabbath," by Professor Salmond — one of the Bible 
Class Primers edited by him — (T. & T. Clark); **The 
Holy Spirit : The Paraclete. A Study of the Work 
of the Holy Spirit in Man," by Rev. John Robson, 
D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier) ; "Land- 
marks of Church History," by Professor Cowan — one 
of the series of Guild Text-Books edited by Professor 
Charteris and Dr. McClymont (Adam and Charles 
Black); " Sabbath Sanctification. Prize Sermon on 
Neb. ix., 14," l)y the Rev. Wm. Frank Scott, Logie 
Buchan, Ellon (Edinburgh ; Sabbath Observance 
Society) ; "The Great Day of the Lord : A Survey 
of New Testament teaching on Christ's coming in his 
kingdom, the resurrection, and the judgment of the 
living and the dead," by Rev. Alexander Brown 
(second edition); "The Senses and the Intellect," 
by Alexander Bain (Fourth edition and final) ; 
" Philosophical Remains of George Croom Robertson, 
Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic, 
University College, London. With a Memoir," 
edited by Alexander Bain, LL.D., Emeritus Professor 
of Logic, University of Aberdeen, and T. Whittaker, 
B.A. (Oxon) (Williams and Norgate) ; " Lewis 
Morrison-Grant, his Life, Letters, and Last Poems," 
Edited by Jessie Annie Anderson (Alexander Gardner); 
"The Legend of Birse and other Poems," by Lord 
Granville Gordon (London ; Messrs. Bliss, Sands, 
and Foster) ; " Gordon or The Rose of Melhlic," by 
William Allan, M.P. (Hills cSc Co., 6 Fawcett St., 
Sunderland); ''Rosemary," by W. A. MacKenzie ; 
"The Temple of Death," by Edmund Mitchell 
(London : Hutchinson & Co.) ; " Medical Nursing," 
by the late James Anderson, M.D., with an intro- 
ductory biographical notice by the late Sir Andrew 
Clark (London : H. K. Lewis) ; "A Manual of 
Ambulance," by Dr. J. Scott Riddell (Griffin & Co.) ; 
" Outlines o( Biology," by P. Chalmers Mitchell, 
M.A., Aberdon. et Oxon., F.Z.S. (London: Methuen 
& Co.); "First Exercises in English Composition," 
by A. M. Williams (Collins' School Series) ; " Read- 
ings from Carlyle. A Selection of Representative 
Extracts from the Works of Thomas Carlyle," Edited, 
with Introduction and Notes, by W. Keith Leask, 
M.A., late Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford 
(Blackie & Son, Limited) ; " Earlscourt : a Novel of 
Provincial Life," by Alexander Allardyce — oritjinally 
contributed to the Weekly Free /V^jj— (William 



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Blackwood and Sons) ; ** Macpherson the Free- 
booter," by J. Gordon Philipps (A. Gardner, Paisley); 
*' A Black Diamond, or The Best and The Worst of 
It," "Her Day of Service" and " Rab Bethune's 
Double, or Life's Long Battle Won"— all by "Ed- 
ward Garrett " (Mrs. Fyvie Mayo) ; " Essay on Wills 
and Bequests," by Robert Murray of the North of 
Scotland Bank, Dundee (Edinburgh : The Darien 
Press)— which gained the first prize offered by the 
Institute of Bankers in Scotland for essays on the 
sul)ject ; "What Mean these Stones?" by C. Mac- 
lagan, author of " Hill Forts and Stone Circles of 
Scotland " — embracing references to the slone circles 
at Dyce, Lonmay, and Auquhorthies— (Edinburgh : 
David Douglas); " Romantic Stories of our Scottish 
Towns " (inclusive of the " Stones of Aberdeen "), by 
W. H. Davenport Adams (Glasgow) ; " Hammond's 
Hard Lines," by Skelton Kuppord (John Adams) 
(London) ; " Records of the 3rd (Buchan) Volunteer 
Battalion Gordon Highlanders," compiled by Captain 
and Hon. Major James Ferguson, Yr. of Kinmundy 
(D. Scott, Peterhead) ; Part 2 of Volume III. of the 
" Transactions of the Buchan Field Club" (David 
Scott, "Sentinel" Office, Peterhead); and "The 
Personal and Place Names of the Book of Deer," by 
Mr John Gray of London — a reprint therefrom — 
(David Scoti). 

"Wreckage," a drama in one act, from the German 
of Max Grube, issued during the year as one of Mr 
Neville Lynn's series of acting plays, was translated, 
adapted, and generally prepared for the stage by Herr 
Ilein, Aberdeen. " The more interesting portions" 
of an autobiography of Rev. James Foote, D. D., the 
first minister of the Free East Church, Aberdeen, 
were printed in the "cover" of the Free Church of 
Scotland Monthly supplied to members of the Free 
East Church during the year ; the intnxluctory part 
was given in the number for July. An article on 
"William Alexander, LL.D.," by Mrs. Mayo 
appeared in the Leisuie Hour for May. A new and 
original drama of rural life, " Mains's Wooin'," by 
Mr Gavin Greig, Whitehill, New Deer, was produced 
at New Pilsligo on I2lh April, 1894. 

A feature of the year, in a publishing sense, was 
the issue by several commercial firms— including the 
Culter Paper Mills ("ompany, the Northern Assurance 
Company, Messrs. J. Marr, VVood, & Company, and 
others— of "A Descriptive Account of Aberdeen, 
Illustrated," with additions descriptive of their 
respective places of business, the firm's history, &c. ; 
these were published by Messrs. W. T. Pike & Co., 
Brighton. Mr William Bruce, Footdee Preserved 
Provision Works, issued, on somewhat similar lines, 
"The Manufacture of Preserved Provisions. With 
Description of the Works" (illustrated), to which was 
appended, by permission, Mr A. M. Munro's descrip- 
tion of "Aberdeen from Bus and Car" (also illustrated). 
The " P'ree Press" proprietors issued "16 Phototype 
Views on the Route of the Cruden Railway." 

Many readers, doubtless, will regret to learn that, 
though "Brown's Book-Stall" appeared continuously 
throughout the year, its further publication is mean- 
while suspended. The year saw the commencement 
of a new series of " The Grammar School Magazine." 



The AberJeen Standard {{ormer\y the Labour Elector)^ 
a weekly paper, expired on J 7th February, 1894, with 
its 59th issue. A new weekly paper. The Catholic 
Herald^ professing to be for Aberdeen, Inverness, and 
the Northern Counties of Scotland, was started on 
5lh Octol>er, 1894. 

ROBERT ANDERSON. 



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LOCAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

The length of this month's List requires that an 
introductory commentary should be as brief as 
possible. Of the numerous members of the 
Gordon Clan who figure upon it, one of the 
most notable is John, Dean of Salisbury, whose 
story is thus quaintly told by Anthony a Wood 
in the Fasti Athenae Oxoniensis : '* John Gourden 
(Gordonius), of Baliol College, was created D.D. 
the same day (Aug. 13, 1605), because he was to 
dispute before the King, his kinsman. After his 
disputation was ended he had his degrees com- 
pleted by the King's Professor of Divinity (not 
that there was a necessity of it) to show unto 
his Majesty the form of that ceremony. This 
noble person was born in Scotland of the House 
of Huntley, was instructed in his youth in the 
schools and colleges, as well in Scotland as in 
France, in liberal arts and sciences and in the 
knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew languages 
and other Orientals. Afterwards he was gentle- 
man of three King's chambers in France, Charles 
IX., Henry III. and IV., and while he was in 
the flower of his age he was thus assailed with 
many corruptions, as well spiritual as temporal, 
and in many dangers of his life which God did 
miraculously deliver him from. At length King 
James the I. did call him into England and to 
the holy ministry, he being then 58 years of age, 
and upon the promotion of Dr. John Bridges to 
the See of Oxon, in the latter end of 1603, he 
made him Dean of Salisbury in Feby. 1604." 

Another Gordon is the author of the rarest 
book upon our List, " Penardo and Laissa," a 
singularly chivalric poem, "W^herein is described 
Penardo his most admirabel Deeds of Arms, his 
Ambition of Glore, his Contempt of Love, with 
Love's mighte Assalto and amorusTemptationes, 
Laissa's fearful enchantement, hir relief, hir 
travells, and lastly Love's admirabel force in hir 
relieving Penardo from the fire." More than a 
century ago Pinkerton described it as ** rare to 
excess," and at the present time only three copies 
are known, one of which is defective. Heber's 
copy brought £\2. 5. o. The author is best 
known through the numerous editions of his 
metrical History of King Robert Bruce. 

The surname of Gray gives us three Aberdeen 
writers unexcelled in their several vocations : 
John Gray, Barrister at Law, author of several 



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standard legal works, Peter Gray the eminent 
Actuary, and a locally better known Mathe- 
matician, Robert A. Gray, whose annually 
published Tide Tables for many years proved 
infallible guides to the skippers and pilots of the 
East Coast of Scotland. K. J. 

General Observations on the Poor Law Abd. n.d. 
Gilbert, Thomas, Discourse on the Guilt 

of Sin ,, 1778. 

Gillan, Robert, The Alarm of War Gw. 1855. 

Goodacre, Mr., Course of Lectures on 

Astronomy Abd. 1834. 

Goodall, Walter, ed. Balfours Practicks, 

with Pref. and Memoir Edin. 1754. 

ed. Scots Staggering State ,, ,, 

Dissertation on the Culdees in 

Keith's Cat. ,, 1755. 

ed. Crawford's Memoirs ,, 1767. 

ed. Fordun's Scotichronicon, 2 vols. ,, 1759. 
Gordon, Abercromby Z. , The System of 

National Education, &c. Abd. 1829 & 1839. 
Sermon on the Danger, &c. Abd. 1832. 

Essay puh. with Stuart on the Trinity ,, 1838. 
Parochial Churches and Schools in 

Large Towns ( ,, 1841). 

Letter to Mod. of Free Presbytery ,, 1846. 

Government Scheme of Education Lond. 1847. 

Gordon, Sir Adam, Edom o' Gordon Gw. 1755. 

Gordon, Alex, (Singing Sandy). 

Complete Hist, of Ancient Amphi- 
theatres (Maffei), trans. 2nd ed. 1736. 
Lupone, or The Inquisitor, a Comedy Lond. 1731. 
Essay on Lethicullier's Mummy ,, 1737. 
Essay on Dr. Mead's Mummy ,, ,, 
Gordon, Alex,, M.D,, On the Efficacy 

of Cold Bathing Abd. 1786. 

(with Dr, Colin Milne) Indigenous 

Botany, vol. i Lond. 1793. 

Gordofi, Alex,, Treatise on Elemental 

Locomotion ,, 1832. 

Gordon, Alex, (The Planter), "The War- 
lock Laird o' Skene," &c. 
Gordon, Alex,, Antiquities of the Parish 

ofCabrach Edin. 1884. 

Gordon, Alex., Fish Catching on the 
Dogger. 
What Cheer O ! Lond. 1890. 

The Folks o'Carglen ,, 1891. 

Gordon, Alex., 2nd Duke of , The Marq. 

of Huntlie's Retreat 1 7 1 5- 

Gordon, Alex,, ^th Duke of, "Cauld 

Kail in Aberdeen" various edits. 

Gordon, Sir Alex. H., Remarks on 

National Defence Lond. 1853. 

An Enquiry (Army Organization) ,, 1875. 

Gordon, Sir Arthur H., ix)rd Russell's 

Recollections ,, 1875. 

Gordon, Charles, ist Earl of Aboyne, 
Lines in Collections on Shires of 
Aberdeen and Banff, p. 27. 
Gordon, Charles, nth Marq, of Hunt ly. 

Speech in Ho. of Lords, 16 July, 1874 Lond. 1874. 
Address — Social Science Congress ,, 1876. 
The Guisers and their Mumming s.L. 1883. 



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Gordon, Cosmo R., Thoughts on the 

Eternal Lond. 1864. 

Gordon, D., Lives, Trials and Executions 
of Royal and Noble Personages, 
3 vols. ,, 1760. 

Gordon, Elizabeth, Duchess of. Thoughts 

on the Sabbath Edin. 1849. 

Gordon, Lord George, + 1645, **0n 
Black Eyes," Watson's Coll., 

pt. in. 

Gordon, Lord George, History of, Edin. 1780. 

Speech, &c. Lond. 1782. 

Trial „ 1787. 

Life of, by Robert Watson, ,, 1795. 

Gordon, Georqt, ist Marq. of Hunt ly, 

Surgundo Edin. 1837. 

Gordon, George, 2nd Marq. of Huntly, 

The Marq. of Huntly's Reply, &c. Lond. 1640. 
The Character of a True Subject 
Gordon, Geo. Hamilton, 4th Earl of 
Aberdeen, Pief. and Notes to 
Whittinglon's Eccles. Hist, of 
France Ix)nd. 1809. 

Correspondence to the E. of Aber- 
deen. Priv. ptd. N.D. 
Speech in the Ho. of Lords ,, 1840. 
Do. do. Edin. 1843. 

Gordon, G.J, A\, On Lay Co-operation Alxl. 1852. 
Gordon, Gilbert, Cont. of Sir Robt. 
Gordon's " Earldom of Suther- 
land," Edin. 1813. 
Gordon, fames ( Huntlcsus), Controver- 

saiium Epitomes. Vol.1. Poitiers 1612. 

Do. Vol. II. Paris 1618. 

reprinted with a third part Colon. 1620. 

Treatise on Traditions Lond. 16 14. 

Summary of Controversies, &c. ,, 1618. 

Gordon, James ( Lesmorau^ ). 

Biblia Sacra cum Commentariis. 

3 vols. Paris 1632-6. 

Theologia Moralis. 2 vols. ,, 1634. 

De Rebus Britannica novis n.d. 

Gordon, James {Yit?im), Epitaphia ( Forl)es 

Funeralls, 1635). 
Gordon, James (Prof, at Douay), 

Letter a Mons. I'Evequed' Arras, &c. Douai 1702. 
Gordon, James, A Request to Roman 

Catholics 1687. 

On L'EstiangesTrans. of-^sops Fables 1700. 

Some Just Reflections on a Pasquil 

against the Parson of Banchory 1706. 

Gordonjfames Edward, Report, Al)erdeen 

Auxiliary Reformation Socy. 183 1. 

Sjieech in the H. of Commons 1832. 

Irish Education ,, 

Original Reflections Lond. 1854. 

Go* don, James F. S., The abiding pres- 
ence of Christ ,, 1849. 
ed. Shaw's Hist, of Moray ,, 1882. 
lona ,, 1885. 
Gordon, Jane Maxivell, Duchess of, .Auto- 
biographical Sketch of, p. p. Gw. 1865. 
Gordon, John ( Bp. of Galloivay), ** Pax 

Vobis" or Gospel Liberty n.d. 



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1612. 

1613. 



Gordon^ John (Dean of Salisbury )^ Echo Paris 1 603. 

Panegyrique de Congratulation, &c. 

Paris, Rochelle and Lond. 1603. 

Assertiones pro vera, &c, 

Elizabetha Regina Manes 

England and Scotland's Happiness 

On the Union 

Papa-Cacuj 

Anti-Torto-Bellarminus 

Orthodoxo-Jacobus 

Tortus Retortus 

The Peace of the Church of England 

Ila/KurKftn;, &c. 

Doctrine of Divinitie 
Gordon^ John^ A Sermon Annapolis 1746. 

Gordon^ John C, H,y yth E. of Aberdeen, 

The Affirmation Bill Lond. 1883. 

Gordon, John Thomson (Sheriff of Mid- 

Lothian)^ Shakspere & Ourselves 1 863. 

Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, 
Marischal Coll. 

An Address as Rector 

Eloge on the D. of Wellington 

Address to the Members of the Glas- 
gow Athengeum 
Gordon^ LeiviSy 3rd Marq. of Huntly, 

Declaration and Engagement 
Gordon, Lewie, (Chap Book), var. edns. 
Gordon, Le7vis, Railway Economy 
Gordon, Margaret Maria, Work 

Sunbeams in the Cottage 

Little Millie 

The Word and the World 

Letters from Cannes and Nice 

The Motherless Boy 

Prevention 

The Sabbath a Delight 

Fashions of the Period 

The Double Cure 

Rights and Wrongs 

Workers 

Chief Women 

Sanctification through Faith 

Our Daughters 

Gordon, Mary Antoinetta, Marchioness 

of Huntly, Thoughts in Verse Lond. 1866. 

Gordon, Patrick, The First Book of the Famous 
History of Penardo and Laissa, other ways 
called the Warre of Love and Ambition, 
done in Heroick Verse Dort. 1615. 

Gordon, Patrick, Ge(^raphy anatomised Lond. 1683. 

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Gordon, P. L., Companion to Italy 
Gordon, Robert, Spirit and Scope of 

Education (trans.) 
Gordon, Robert, Christianity Vindicated 

Spiritual Order, &c. 
Gordon, Robert, Epicidium (Forlies Funeralls 1635). 
Gordon, Robert, Bleau Atlas Scotiae (vol vi. ) Amst. 1655. 
Theatrum Scotiae ,, 1662. 

Gordon, Sir Robert, Genealogical Hist, of 

the Earldom of Sutherland Edin. 1813. 

Brief of the Claim of Sir Robert 
Gordon to the Earldom of 
Sutherland. 4to S.L. et A. 



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Catalogueof the Gordonstoun Library Lond. 1816. 
Gordon, Sir Robert, Tlie Suther/and 

Peerage circ. 1830. 

Gordon, ThomcLs, Statistical Account of 

King's Coll. Edin. 1845. 

Gordon, Thomas (Caimess), Description 

of Ancient Coins, p. p. 4to, (Lond. 1835). 
'Gordon, William, M,D., Epitaphium 

(Forbes Funeralls, 1635). 
Gordon, William (Banchory), A briefF 
Letaine, &c., 1680. 
In Fugitive Scottish Poetry 1823. 

Gordon, William, Theoremata de Genera- 

tione Patavii 1621. 

Gordon, William, The Universal Accomp- 

tant. 2 vols. Edin. 1763-5. 

General Counting House ,, 1769. 

Institutes of Arithmetic ,, 1779. 

Titus Livius Roman History trans- 
lated into English Abd. 1805. 
Gordon, Commander W,, R.N. (Ellon). 

Balaclava and the Sevastopol Inquiry I^nd. 1856. 
Gordon*s Hospital, Form of Petition for 

Admission, &c. n.d. 

The Gospel Catechism Abd. 1834. 

A Gossip about Old Deer and its Neigh- 
bourhood N.D. 
Governors of Trust for Education in the 

Highlands, Scheme for 1895 Abd. 1894. 

Graham, John Murray, A Months Tour 

m Spain Lond. 1867. 

Memoir of Lord Lynedoch „ 1869. 

Historical View of Literature and Art ,, 187 1 
Annals of the Earls of Stair ,, 1875. 

Grammar School, Aberdeen, Prize List 

for 1866, &c. Abd. 1866. 

The Gratui Procession Abd. 1 832. 

Grant, A Brief Account of the Family of the Grants 

with the life of Sir Francis Grant, Lord 

Cullcn. 4to, priv. ptd. s.L. et A. 

Grant, The Ancestry of Gen. Grant, &c., 

by E. C. Marshall N. Y. 1869. 

Gfant, Sir Archibald, The case of, (Lond. 1732). 
Inventory of Lands, Tenements, &c., 

1730 Lond. 1732. 

Grant, Caroline Ogilvy, Countess of Sea- 
field, Harry Adair ,, 1885. 
Grant, Charles, Viscount de Vaux, Mem- 
oires historique de la maison 
de Grant ,, 1796. 
Grant, David, Metrical Tales, Sheffd. 1880. 
A Book of Ten Songs Edin. 1881. 
The Hermit of Powis Abd. 1886. 
Grant, Duncan,^ The duty of loving and 

seeking Christ Abd. 18 18. 

Addresses, &c. Philadelphia 1829. 

Dleasdanas na cloinne Edin. ,, 

Grant, Elizabeth, " Roy's Wife o' Aldi- 

valloch," 1820 and various edns. 

Grant, Francis (Lord Cullen), The 

Loyalists Reasons, &c. Edin. 1689. 

Sadducismus Debellatus Lond. 1698. 

A Brief Account, &c. Edin. 1700. 

Against Prophaneness 



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Letter from a Magistrate 
Vindication of Informers 
Ri<»ht of Presentation in Patronages 
An Essay for Peace 
A Letter, &c. 
Hist, of the Sabbath 
The Patriot Resolved 
Essays on Law, Reh'gion & Education 
A Key to the Plot 
Grants F. IV. ^ Sermons preached in 
Parish Church, Banff 
Life and Immortality 
Life in Christ 
Grants George ( MeUntm ), Association, 

or the Progress of Feeling 
Grants Hay McDou'all{\rTid\\\y), Abound- 
ing in the Work of the Lord Mont. 1862. 
Forgiveness of Sins Mont. 1861 & 1862. 

The Temple of the Ploly Ghost Mont. 1863. 

Will a Man rob God? 1866. 

Grants Ian Charles Ogilvie^ Sth E. of 

Seajield^ In Memoriam of, Invs. 1884. 

Grants John MacPherson^ Aerial shadows 

from the Cairngorm Mountains Edin. 183 1. 
Grants John, Roman I'rogress N. of the 

Grampians (Edin. 1822). 

Grants Sir John Peter^ On the Court of 

Session Lond. 

Essay on Wealth and Currency 
On the Law Officers of the Crown 

in Scotland 
On New Trials 
Speech on Wrongous Imprisonments 

Grants John Peter ^ ed. Mrs. Cirant's Lett- 
ers from the Mountains 1845. 
ed. Memoir of Mrs. Cirant of Laggaii 1844. 

Grant y Sir John Peter J Letter on the Policy 

of J. P. G. Governor of Bengal 1861. 

Trial of J. Long, with minutes by 

J. P. G. 1861. 

Grant, Joseph^ Poems and Songs Edin. 1834. 

Grant, Peter, The Merchandise of Time Dundee 1854. 

Grant, Sawney Grant (a song), Brit. Mus. (Abd. 1820) 

Grant, William ( Prestongrange), The 

Occasional Writer 1746. 

Remarks on Chur. of Scotland 

Patronages '^IZ'^' 

Grant, William, Inquiry into the Fevers 



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Observations on Fevers 
Essay on Jail Fever 
Epidemic Cough and Fever 
Fever and Sore Throat in London 
Atrabilious Temperament and C^out 
On Influenza 
Gray, Atidreif, The duty, *kc., of a 
Christian Church 
Correspondence with the I), of Argyll 
Representation of Presbyteries 
Gray, David, Report on New Whaling 

Grounds 
Gray, George, Recollections of Iluntly 
Gray, John, The Country Attorney's 
Practice 



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The Country Solicitor's Practice ,, 1837. 

The I^w of Costs ,, 1853. 

Gray, Peter, Tables and Formulae, &c. ,, 1849. 

Remarks on Life Contingencies ,, 1850. 

Single and Annual Assurance Preminus ,, 1856. 

Tables for the Formation of Logarithins ,, 1865. 

(li'ith Smith tSr* Orchard), Assurance 

&c.. Tables ,, 185 1. 

Gray, P., Thirteen Wood Engravings n.d. 

Gray, Robert A., Tide Tables Alxl. 1848, cS:c. 

Examination Papers Aid. 1853. 

Gray, Thomas, Poems Boyle, Abd. 1777. 

Great N. of S. Ry., Report of Committee ,, 1865. 
The Great Question for 18 $2 Lond. & Abd. 1 85 1. 
(Green, G. G. ), The Kidnappers Edin. 1893. 

Gregory, David, De Curva Catenaria Oxfd. 1697. 

Euclid is Opera Omnia ,, 1 703. 

De Stellarum Ortu, &c. Patavii 1743. 

Gregojy, Gcorgina, Short Account of the 

Family of Gregory, p.p. (Edin.) 1873. 



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NOTABLE MEN AND WOMEN Ol^ 
ABERDEENSHIRE. 

126. Christie, William, M.A. ( Very Rev.) • Dean 
of Moray and Antiquary. Born in 1816 at Monqu- 
hitter, his first settlement was at Buckie in 1839 ; but 
he removed to Fochabers and became Chaplain to the 
Duke of Gordon. He is remembered by his choice 
collectit)n of Scottish airs and ballads, 2 vols. He 
died in 1885. 

127. Chrystal, George, LL.D. (Prof): Mathe- 
matician, i\:c. Son of Wm. Chrystal of Gateside, 
Foveran, Mr Chrystal was educated at iUierdeen an<l 
Cambridge. After a distinguished student Ci,reer he 
wasappointed Professor of Mathematics in St. Andrews, 
and was transferred to Edinburgh in 1879, where he 
still carries on his tutorial work with much distinction. 

128. Clark, Andrew, Sir, M.D., F.R.S., 'cr*c., 
Bart. : Distinguished Physician. Born at Aberdeen, 
28th October, 1826, he was educated at Aberdeen 
and Edinburgh, where he graduated with great 
distinction. He settled in London in 1854, where he 
acquired a world-wide fame for his skill as a physician. 
Among his patients were almost all the leading 
celebrities of his generation, and he will live in history 
as the medical attendant and personal friend of Mr 
Ciladslpne, and *Mhe beloved physician" of George 
Eliot. His honours are too numerous to be mentioned, 
but among them are the following : — He was President 
of the Royal College of Physicians ; Honorary Fellow 
of the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland ; Consult- 
ing Physician of the I^ondon Hospital; LL.D. Edin- 
burgh and Al)etdeen ; F. R.S., <S:c. He was made a 
Baronet by Mr Gladstone in 1883. Though his 
professional success left him scant leisure for writing, 
he has made many important contributions to medical 
science, and has published works on the following 
subjects : The Theory of Asthma ; The History of 
Dry Pleurisy in its relation to lung disease ; Rival 
Inadequacy ; 7 he Anaemia of Girls ; Neurasthenia ; 
and Mucous Disease of the Colon. He died in 1893. 



May, 1895.] 



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129. Clai'k^ George: Nova Scotian Politician; 
Born 1827 at Insch, he emigrated to N. S. in 1847. 
A merchant in that colony, he was first returned to 
the House of Assembly as member for Colchester in 
1886, and was re-elected at the next General election 
as a liberal. He believes that Confederation has been 
a failure so far as Nova Scotia is concerned, and con- 
siders that a Union of the Maritime Provinces and 
reciprocity with the U.S. would be better for Nova 
Scotia. 

130. Clay^ John {Rev.): Baptist Divine and 
Philanthropist. Born at Aberdeen, 4th September, 
1770, he early went South, and in one of the Seaport 
towns of the South Coast of England, Southampton, 
I believe, he spent a long and useful life. He was 
known on account of a benevolent enterprise which 
he initiated and carried on as '* The Mopmaking 
Parson." He died in 1841. His life has been 
written. 

131. Clerihew, Francis: Advocate and Author. 
Born 1 80S at Aberdeen, son of a builder, educated 
for the bar at the Grammar School there, and employ- 
ed by the Sheriff in the duty of taking proof in suits 
depending in his court : he became interim sheriff- 
substitute at Stonehaven. A zealous Conservative, 
he wrote various political pamphlets, and contributed 
to the Aberdeen Magazine. Pie died in 1865. 

132. Cockbitrn., Patrick: Author. Son of Dr. 
John Cockburn, who was himselfa voluminous author, 
he was born in Udny in 1678, where his father was 
then minister. His writings were numerous. He 
died in 1748 or 9. V. Scott's Fasti. 

133. Coniyn^ Alexander, Earl of Bnchan: States- 
man. This noble played a prominent part in the 
reign of Alexander H. and Alexander HI. In 1244 
he was one of the guarantees of peace with England, 
and in 1251 was appointed Justiciary of Scotland, 
from which, however, he was removed in 1255. Two 
years later he was restored to that high office and held 
it till his death. In 1286, on the death of Alexander 
III., he was chosen one of the guardians of Scotland. 
He died 1289, aged about 70. 

134. Corny n, John, the black Earl of Buchan: 
Partisan Soldier. He took part with his namesake, 
the chief of the clan, known as '* Black John Comyn 
of Badenoch," in his rivalry with and opposition to 
Bruce as a claimant to the Scottish Crown. In 
prosecution of this feud he attacked that nobleman 
during . his residence in Aberdeenshire ; but was 
defeated in a pitched battle at Barra near Inverurie, 
22nd May, 1308. Retiring with the remains of his 
army to Buchan, he was pursued thither by Edward 
Bruce, the King's brother, who, having come up with 
him at Aikey Brae, finally routed him, and lelt him 
without the hope of recovering his fortunes. At this 
time the earldom was wasted by Bruce's faction with 
such relentless severity, that we are told by Barbour, 
for 60 years after men mourned the desolation of 
Buchan. This was the ruin of the Comyns' power in 
Scotland. Bruce seized iheir estates and divided them 
among his partisans. Such of their number as escaped 
the sword fled with their wives and children to 
England. 

135. Con or Cone^ George (Conaeus) Very Rever- 



end: Roman Catholic Dignitary and Author. Of the 
family of Auchry, Turriff, where he was born in 1594, 
he was educated for the Church at Douai, Paris, 
Rome and Bologna. He became Canon of St. 
Lawrence in Damaso, Secretary to the Congregation 
of Rites, and Domestic Prelate to the Pope. He has 
been described as "a clergyman of a singular character 
for piety and learning, in both which respects he was 
long celebrated at Kome." He besides knew men and 
business well, and was a favourite with Queen 
Henrietta of England, who tried to procure him a 
cardinal's hat. A fine scholar, possessed of consider- 
able skill in Latin verse, he was also a considerable 
author. He published in 1621 Praemetiae sive 
Caltunniae Hirlandoittm indicatae et Epos, <5r»^. ; 
in 1624, Vita Mariae Stuartae, Scotiae Reginae^ 
dotariae Galliae, Angliae et Hiberniae Heredis ; in 

1628, Dd Duplici Statu Religionis apud Scotos ; in 

1629, Assertiones Catholicae. He was a member of 
the Society of Jesus. He visited England under the 
patronage of Urban VIII. , and arrived in London on 
July, 1636, where for three years he acted as papal 
agent. He left England in 1639, and died in 1640 on 
his way to Rome. In one of his works he makes the 
following statement interesting to Scotland. He 
affirms that in the time of Chalemagne, many of the 
Scottish allies of that king who were sent over to 
France under the leadership of William, brother to 
the Scottish monarch, settled in Italy and became 
founders of several noble families there. Among them 
he mentions the Barones and the Mariscottis in 
Bononia and Siena, and the Scoti in Placentia and 
Mantua. A portrait of him is preserved at Gordon 
Castle. 

136. Cook, Robert ( Rev.) : E. Church Divine and 
Minor Poet. Born at Rhynie, 1793, and graduated 
at Marischal College, he was ordained at Clatt, 3rd 
August, 1813, translated to Ceres, 1844, and died 
1 85 1. Publications: — Sermon preached on the 
Abundant Harvest ; to which are subjoined Metrical 
Paraphrases, Aberdeen 1831 ; The Catechists' Poetical 
Manual, 1834 ; The Young Communicant^ s Manual, 
184Q. W. B. R. W. 



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7th April, 1895. 

In your notice of Dr. George Cheyne in the 
current number of 5. A^. &r^ Q.y you style him 
M.D., F.R.S., therein agreeing with the bio- 
graphy of Cheyne in Anderson's Scottish Nation. 
In the "Globe" edition of Boswell's Life of 
Johnson, however, there is a footnote to p. 362, 
apparently from the pen of the editor, Mr Mow- 
bray Morris, in which the statement is made 
that "he does not appear to have received any 
regular diploma." If this is true, Cheyne was 
an irregular practitioner. Your account is much 
the more probable of the two. Might I ask if 
the fact that Cheyne was an M.D. of Edinburgh 
is thoroughly authenticated, and what is the 
evidence for it ? 

Oxford. Jam ^ i . VI . U ., Aberd.