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SCOTTISH 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



I VOL. VII. 

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I 
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1 



June 1893, to May, 1894 



ABERDEEN 
D. WYLLIE & SON, 247 UNION STREET 

1894 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Old Engraved Spectacle Case - .... to face page 13 

Sword Belt of the Scottish Regalia - - - - - -^7 

Forfar Beggar's Badge - - - - - - -41 

The Aboyne Ogham Stone - - -- - - -49 

Chart of the Chief Colleges in the United States - - - - 72 

The Fordoun Sculptured Stone * ' - - - - -81 

Cumberland's Quarters, Guestrow, Aberdeen - - - - - 97 

Polmuir Mansion House, Aberdeen - - - - - -II3 

Greyfriars Parish Church, Aberdeen - - - - - -129 

Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens ------- 147 

Robroyston Sundial - - - - - - - -172 

The Heirs of the Keiths - - - - - - - 185 



388207 



W. JOLLY AND SONS, 

PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS, 

ALBANY BUILDINGS, 23 BRIDGE STREET, 

ABERDBBS. 



INDEX. 



INDEX TO SEVENTH VOLUME. 



Abercromby, Sir Alexander, Bart., M.P., ii6 
Abercromby, Alexander, M. P., of Tullibody, ii6 
Abercromby, Sir James, Bart., M.P., ii6 
Abercromby, Sir Robert, Bart., M.P., ii6 
Aberdeen and Aberdonians in 1658, 33, 59 
Aberdeen directory, 174, 190 
Aberdeen doctors in 1769 : family of Lynch, 77 
Aberdeen local ballad, 181 7, 92 
Aberdeen, Taxt Roll of the county of, 178 
Aberdeen University Library, 153, 172 
Aberdeenshire as a factor in Scottish life and 

thought, 131, 147, 162, 180 
Aberdeenshire folk-lore, 3, 22 
Aberdonian, on shipwreck of the Oscar, 14 
Aberdour, Wickedness and witchcraft in, 134 
Abergeldie, on Mowats of Abergeldie, 47 
Abemethy and Brechin, Round towers at, 14 
Aboyne Ogham Stone, The, 49, 66 
Absque Metu, on the Family of Dalmahoy of 
that ilk, 141 

on Clan Munro, 141 

A., G., on the loss of the Oscar, 60 

on Discovery of concealed passage, 60 

on Macara Clan, 60 

on The Baron's Cairn, Nigg, 142 

A., J., on the last relic of Inverugie Castle, 12 
Allan, Andrew, M.A., Inspector of Schools, 116 
Allan, Rev. James, M.A., Mamoch, 117 
Allan, John, grain merchant, 117 
Alexander, The late Mr. Wm., LL.D., Abdn., 152 
American degree-conferring institutions, Pro- 
visional List, 71 
American Colleges, Aberdeen Alumni the 

founders of, 76 
Amo, on funeral wreaths in Scotland, 158 
Ancient forests of Scotland, 47 
Ancient beggars, 1 56 
Ancient Scots, Society of, 173 
Anderson, P. J., on James Man and Arthur 
Johnston, 14 

on Aberdeen Alumni the founders of 

American colleges, 76 

on Aberdeen University Library, 172 

on Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen, 175 

on The Heirs of the Keiths, 177 

on Literature of the Robertson Smith case, 

184 
on Portraits of Marischal College Princi- 
pals, 189 



Andrews, William, on the Drum, 47 
A., J., on Mary, Queen of Scots, 106 
A., R., on the shipwreck of the Oscar, 29 

on " Daimen,'' " daimen-icker," 62 

on Bibliography of Aberdeen publications, 

1893, 167 

on Sillerton, 189 

Armada wrecks in Scotland, 24 
Archaeological discovery on Deeside, 12 
" Auld Reekie," 47, 62, 78 
Author wanted, name of, 173, 190 
Ayrshire folk-lore, 55 

B 

B., A., on Song wanted, 60 

on Old Family Pew, 151 

Baker, S. O., on family of Provost Livingstone 

Aberdeen, 28 
Baillie and Stobo, The families of, 105 
Baird, Andrew (Bailie), M.P., 117 
Ballads, Heroic Gaelic, 10 
Barry, Maltman, Eccentric Politician, 117 
Barometer, 106, 127 
Baron Cairn, Nigg, 126, 142 
Bayne of Tulloch, 14, 29 

Belt, The, of the Sword of State of Scotland, 17 
Bervie, Find of ancient coins near, 91 
Bennet, Sir Wm., of Marlfield, 59 
Bibliography of Aberdeen Periodical Literature, 

45, 112 
B. J., on Observations and marks on the text of 

Chaucer, 65 
Bibliography of Aberdeen Publication for 1893, 

167 
B., J. G., The families of Baillie and Stobo, 105 
Blackfriars in Aberdeen, inventory of charters 

relating to, 120, 134 
Black, James Watt, M.A., M.D., 117 
Black, James, journalist, 1 17 
Black, Rev. John, M.A., LL.D., professor, 117 
Black Maria, 88 

Blair, Rev. James, D.D., 14, 76, 106 
Bon-Accord Reporter, The, 27 
Bon-Accord, on Old ballad, 92 

on The Baron's Cairn, Nigg, 126 

Book of Deer, Meaning of words in the, 77 
Borthwick, Robert, Admiral of the Baltic Fleet, 

158 
B., R. E., on John Row's diary, 77 
Breadalbane, District of, 60 



• •• 

vin 



INDEX. 



Breadalbane traditions, ii8 
Bremner, Geo. St. J., 6i 
" Brig o' Balgownie," 92, 108 
Bnice, General, 158 
Bruce, James, 188 
Buchan on " Auld Reekie," 47 
Buchan, Fergus, Earl of. Charter, 139 
Burnet, Sir Bennet, of Marlfield, 59 
Burnett of Leys and collateral branches, 33 
Bums' Birthday, 158, 176 
Bums, A phrase concerning, 92 
-Bums' original prospectus, 186 
Bums to Clarinda, Letters of, 145, 162, 190 
B., W., on James Hislop, author of "Ca- 
meronian's Dream," 14 



Con Wickedness and witchcraft iij Aberdour, 134 
on The thickness of the wajls of Scottish 

castles, 88 
on Notes from the visitation book of the 

churches of the Mearns, 1677-1686 
on Burnett of Leys and collateral branches, 

on Old northern seed accounts, 42 

on Highland reivers in the seventeenth 

century, 45 

on Rin Met Bear, 47 

on Calders oif Asswanly, 47 

on Brass Stamp, T] 

on Large Families, 188 

C, A., on Antiquitaten Zeitune, 13 
Caird, R. A., on The family of Caird, ']^ 
Caird, The family of, Tj^ 108 
Calcjers of Asswanly, 47 
Calder (A.) on Dallas Family, 174 
Caledonian Ocean, 14, 28 
Campbell, Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyle, 171 
Canterbury Tales, The, 137, 154 
Carlyle, writings of. Recently discovered, 59 
Carrie, John, Death of Mr, 113 
Casting of the sieve and the shier, 106 
Caxton (William) on The invention of stereo- 
typing, 92 
Chamber's Institute on Author wanted, 173 
Chalmers, Alexander, of Cluny, 117 
Chaucer, Observations and remarks on the text 

of, 65, 87 
Chaucer's Proverbs, Illustrations of, 9, 49, 59 
Children's Rhymes, 192 
Christen, A., on Great Britain as seen by 

foreigners, 14 
Christie, Henry, Chamberlain to the Laird of 

Glenorchy, 46 
Christisons of Ledcharry, 46 
Church censure for burying on Sundays, 41 
Churches of the presbytery of the Meams, 

1677-1686, Notes from the visitation boo}c 

of, 89 



C, J. (Macduff), on Old Ballad, 136 
C, J. (Kenmore), on William Hay in Wester 
Culphin, 60 

on **Auld Reekie," 78 

on Hearsey Family, 78 

on Song wanted, 93 

on One pound bank notes, 94 

on Church censure for burying on Sundays, 

on Loch Tayside names, 46 

on Christisons of Ledcharry, 46 

on Henry Christie, &c., 46 

on Ancient forests of Scotland, 47 

on District of Breadalbane, 60 

on Breadalbane Traditions, 119 

on Alex. Johnston, 106 

Clarinda on Old Scots ballads, 143 

C, M. A., on The proverbs of Chaucer, &c., 49 

Coinage, Old Scottish, 105 

Coins, Local, 106, 127 

Constables of Aberdeen in 1698, Instructions 
for, 87 

Constant Reader, A, on Prince Charlie's dress 
at Culloden, 92 

Cooper, James, D.D., on Notes on Greyfriars 
Church, Aberdeen, 129 

Copeland, Rev. Patrick, 107 

County Council Act, New arrangement of pa- 
rishes, 174 

Craigmillar Castle, Inscription at, 174 

Criminal Court book of Old Aberdeen, Extracts 
from, 40 

Cruickshank, F., Notable Men and Women of 
Banffshire, 141 

Culloden, The Forbeses of, 105 

Curious discovery, 13 

Cumberland's Quarters, 97, 131 

C, W., on Instmments of torture, 92, 109 

on the Church of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 173 

on Fergus J., King of Scotland, 126 



" Daimen, A, icker in a thrave's a sma' request," 

47, 62, ^^ 
Dalmahoy of that Ilk, 175 
Dalmahoy on Dalmahoy of that Ilk, 175 
Date wanted, 28 

D., C, on Aberdeen Directory, 174 
D., R., on Meaning of "Thanzie and Belt," 190 
Dalgarno, J., on A rare pearl found in the river 

Ythan, 51 

on The Guidman's Fauld or Croft, 75 

Dallas Family, 174 

Dalmahoy of Ravelrig, 60, 141, 158, 175 

Dalnottar, 158 

D., E., on Mr. John Row's Diary, 94 

De Lard or De Lart, Family of, 141 

De Linton, Bernard, Abbot of Arbroath, 158 

Designed, 174 



INVUX. 



IX 



"wm^^^^i- 



Discovery of Conceajed Passage, 47, 6q, J07 

Discovery of ^ fampus MS., 76 

Displenish, 174, 19^ 

Donald, Robprt, JQMFnalis^, 117 

Donside on Alexander Laing, authQr qf "The 

Donean Tourist," 61 
Douglas' Virgil. 27, 48, 61 
Drum, The, 46, 61, 62, 93, 106 
Dunblane Cathedral, 1 2 
Dunbrec^c, Key, Patrick, 157, 175, J91 
D., W., on Frenches of Aberdeen, ;73 



E., C. I., on William Hunter, Surgeon, 17 10- 

17851 157 
Ed. on Old Houses in Aberdeen — Cumberland's 

Quarters, 97 

on The Canterbury Tales, 137, 154 

on Death of Mr. John Gray, Edinburgh, 172 

on the late Mr. William Alexander, LL.D., 

Aberdeen, 152 
Edinburgh Periodical Literature* Bibliography 

of, 18, 35, 68, 89 
English, The, Illustrated Magazine, 95 
Epitaphs and inscriptions in St. Nicholas 

Churchyard, 4 
Eye on the Discovery of Urns, i j 
on James Hyslop, author pf "The Ca- 

meronian's Dream,^ 29 

on Curious Discovery, 13 

on James Stillie, bookseller, 58 

on Old ballad, 1 10 

on Patrick Don Swan, 13 

on Local coins, 105 

on Children's Rhymes, 192 



F. on Lord Gardenstone, 8 

on The taxt roll of the county of Aberdeen, 

178 
Fagakinyrigh Club, 60 
Fergus, E. of Buchan, Charter of, 120 
Fergus the First, King of Scotland, 126, 159 
Fergusson, Robert, poet, 105, 142 
Ferguson, Thos., on Resurrection(ist) times, 125 

on Scotch sacrament stamps, 127 

Fife on James Bruce, 188 

F., J., on Meaning of words in the Book of Deer, 

n 

on Clan Forbes, 92 

on Old seal, 141 

on Lundie or Lundin of that ilk, 141 

F., J. B'., on List of wells in the vicinity of Torry, 

6 
Forbes, Clan, 92 
Forbes, John, advocate, 174 
Forbes, John, on Old ballad, 114 
Forbes of Knapemay, 174 



Forbes, Rpy, Wm., of Fprdoun, J 74 

Fordoiin Ogan> inscription, 125 

Fordoun sculptured stone, 81 

Fordyce, A. D., on Polmuir, near Aberdeen, 113 

Fordyce, Alexander Dingwall, thp late, 129 

F., P., on the "Tragedy pf Douglas," 173 

Frenches of Aberdeen, 17'? 

Fullerton, John, on The Gh^ist o' Den^ilair, 149 

Funeral Wreaths in Scotland, J58 



G. on Cumberland's Quarters, 131 
Gaelic, Epitaphs in, 91 
Ghaist, The, o' Dennilair, 149 
Gammack, James, LL.D., on Drs. Wm. Smith, 
uncle and nephew, 14 

on Rev. James Blair, D.D., 14 

on William and Mary College, &c , 54, 71 

pn Old Scpttish cpinage, 105 

prf Rev. Patrick Cppeland, 107 

pn Dr. William Smith, 141, 175 

pn Lead-wprk, 174 

pn American degree-cpnferring institutipns, 

71 
Gardenstpne, Lprd, 8 

George IV., Dancing with, 156 

Glenelg, The cup-marked stpne at, 66 

Gpdfathers and gpdmpthers, 175 

Gprdpn, Cpunt James, 158 

Gprdpn, James, pn Letter of Burns to Clarinda, 
145, 190 

on Lundie of that ilk| 159 

Old ballad, 109 

on Tragedy of Douglas, 191 

Gordon, J. F. S., on Old bell, 27 

on " Black Maria," 88 

on Oban church bell, 94 

on " Resurrectionist " times, 95 

Gprdon, Adam, Prpfesspr, 118 

Gprdpns pf Glenbucket, 106 

(jprdpn, William Rpbert, General, 118 

Gilchrist, Alfred, M.A., pn name pf authpr 
wanted, 190 

— — pn Tragedy of ppuglas, 191 

Grant, Catherine, Mrs. Edwards, Free Church 
Missipnary, 7 

Grant, Charles, M.A., Glenlivet, 25 

Grant, Charles, M.A., Knpckandp, 25 

Grant, Cosmp, M.A., 25 

Grant, Elizabeth, Mrs. Grant pf Carrpn, after- 
wards Mrs. Murray, spng writer, 7 

Grant, Lewis Mprrispn, minpr ppet, 7 

Grant, James, pn Mr. Rpbertspn's Biblipgraphy, 
188 

Grant, James, M.A., LL.D., 25 

Grant, James, Captain, 7 

Grant, Hpn. James Ogilvie, M.P., 7 

Grant, Rev. Jas., Bishop pf Sinita, &c., 7 

Grant, Rev. Jphn J. W., 26 



INDEX. 



Grant, John, M.A., minisiter of Croy, 25 
Grant, Hay MacDowall, evangelist and religious 

writer, 7 
Grant, Rev. Peter, 7 

Grant, Rev. Peter, Gaelic Poet and Hymnist, 7 
Grant, Sir William, M.P., 8 
Grant, Rev. William, F. C. author, 8 
Great Britam, as seen by foreigners, 14 
Gray, Death of Mr. John M., 172 
Gray, Rev. John, 8 
Gregory, Professor Charles, 26 
Gregory, Professor David, 26 
Green, Colonel William, C.B., 26 
Gregor, Rev. Walter, LL.D., 26 
Gregory, Professor James, 26 
Greyfriars Church, Aberdeen, Notes on, 129 
Guidman's, The, fauld or croft, 75 
G., W., on Aberdeen local ballad, 181 7, 92 

on Old Scots ballads, 126 

on Lanark Wappenshaw, 157 • 

H 

Hamilton, Rev. James, M.A., 14 

Hardie, John, minor poet, 118 

Hardy, Herbert, on Inscriptions on poor boxes, 

6 
Harper, Alexander, of Gardyne, 26 
Harrison, John, Poet and Novelist, 26 
Hay, Andrew, Major-General, C.B., 26 
Hay, Sir Andrew Leith, M.P., 26 
Hay, James, Lieut.-General, C.B., 27 
Hay, William, Ordiquhill, 43 
Hay, William, in Wester Culphin, 60 
H., R. P., on Barometer, 127 
Hepburn, George, M.A., 43 
Hearsey, C, on the Hearsey family, 46 
Hearsey Family, 46, 60, 'jZ 
" Heraldic " on " Brig o' Balgownie," 92 
Heron, The, as a weather-prophet, 59 
Hislop, James, author of "Cameron ian's Dream," 

14, 29, 48 
Highland Reivers in the 17th century, 45 
Highland Surnames, 158 
Highland Uniforms, 13 
Home, William, on Discovery of concealed 

passage, 47 
Hoyle, W. D., on Taylor Family of Forfarshire, 

188 
Hunter, William, surgeon (1710-1785), 157 
Hutcheson, A., on Letters of Bums to Clarinda, 

161 

I 

Imlach, James, of Castle Panton, 43 
Imlach, Colonel Sir William, K.C.B., 43 
Inglis, John, on the Belt of the sword of state 

of Scotland, 17 
Inglis of Cramond, 174 
Innes, Cardinal George, 43 
Innes, Lewis, 43 



Innes, Rev. A. M. George, 43 

Innes, Rev. George, F.C. Divine, 43 

Inscription on tombstone wanted, 28, 61 

Inverugie Castle, The last relic of, 12, 22 

lona or loua, 14 

Itinerary of a walking tour, 5 



J. on Contractions in old deeds, 92 

J., K., on Scottish tradesmen's tokens, 146 

on Displenish, 174 

Designed, 174 

Johnstone, Ja. F. Kellas, on Scottish local coins, 

127 
Johnstone, Alex., 106 
J., W., on Flora Macdonald, 68 

on Instruments of torture, 108 

on the Loss of the Oscar, 79 

K 

Keith, George Skene, D.D., E. C. divine, 118 

Keith, James, A.M., LL.D., 43 

Keiths, the heirs of the, 177 

Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen, yj^ 158, 175 

Kennedy, Archibald, A.M., D.D., 43 

Kirkcudbright, rare urn found near, 187 

Kidd, Rev. Dr., 103 

King Charles I.'s Bible, 105, 127 

Kinmuck, Discovery of urn and bones at, 166 

Knight, William, minor poet, 44 



L. on Fagakinyrigh Club, 60 

on Dalmahoy of Ravelrig, 60 

Ladies round the world, 155 

Lambie, David, on James Hyslop, author of 

" The Cameronian's Dream," 48 
Laing, Alexander, author of *'The Donean 

Tourist, 61 
Laing, James, on Aberdeen Directory, 190 
Lanark Wappenshaw, 157 
Large families, 188 
Largue, James, A.M., 44 
Lart, C. E., on Family of De Lard or De Lart, 

141 
Lead work, 174 
Leighton, J. E., on Inscription of tombstone 

wanted, 28, 61 
Levie, Geo. E., Translation of inscription wanted, 

Lindsay (E. R.) on York Buildm^s Co., ^^ 
Literature — Scottish ballad poetry, 12 

The making of a Banffshire burgh, 13 

Patrick Don Swan, Provost of Kirkcaldy, 13 

Antiquitaten-Zeitung, 13 

Origins of Pictish Symbolism, 30 

The Parish of Fordoun, 30 

University Centenary Ceremonies, 31 



INDEX. 



XI 



Literature — Harp of Perthshire, 31 

Our street : memories of Buccleuch Place, 

The Commonty of Perwmnes, 45 

Sir William Alexander and the Scottish 

attempt to colonise Acadia, 45 

List of Officers, University and King's 

College, Aberdeen, 46 

Walter Wathershank's " Adventure at 

Lammas Fair," 46 

Deeside, by A. Inkson McConnochie, 63 

Addresses on codification of law, 63 

Byways of the Scottish border, 63 

The life and death of Jamie Fleeman, the 

Laird of Udny's fool, 79 

The Deeside Guide, 79 

The Knox College Monthly Presbyterian 

Magazine, 94 

Memorable Edinburgh houses, 95 

Thomas Carlyle's Apprenticeship, 104 

Witchcraft in Kenmore 1730-57, 104 

A short account of Colonel Kyd, 104 

Theory and practice of navigation, 104 

Barncraig : episodes in the life of a Scottish 

village, 104 

Notes on the surnames of Francus, 

Franceis, French, in Scotland, with an ac- 
count of the Frenches of Thornydykes, 143 

McHardy — arms, crests, and tartan, with 

a short account of the origin of the name, 

143 
An Old Kirk Chronicle, by Rev. P. Hately 

Waddell, B.D., 159 
The Monist : a quarterly magazine of 

philosophy and science, 160 

Cairngorm Club Journal for January, 160 

Scottish Land-names, their origin and 

meaning, by Sir H. Maxwell, Bart., 172 
History of the Arbroath Public Library, 

172 
Fork-lore of Scottish Lochs and Springs, 

by James M. Mackinlay, 173. 188 
Livingston, Family of Provost, 28 
Lobban, Alexander, M.A., 44 
Lochalsh, Effigy of a knight at, 186 
Loch Tayside Names, 46 
Lundie or Lundin of that ilk, 141, 159 
Lynch (E. Melville) on Aberdeen Doctors in 

1769, &c., TJ 

M 

M. on Inventory of charters, 120 

on McConnochie's " Deeside," 63 

Mac-Angus on Highland Uniforms, 13 
Macara, Clan, 47, 60 
Macdonald, Alexander, journalist, 44 
Macdonald, Alexander, John Row's psalm book, 

76 
Macdonald, Flora, 67 



Macdonald, James, 114 

Macdonald, Wm., 114 

Mac. on Mackintosh Officers at CuUoden, 28 

on Major Macgillivray at Culloden, 28 

on Alexander Macgillivray, 28 

on Macgillivrays of the Doune, 59 

on Thyire and Kilbirny, 105 

on The Family of Caird, 108 

on Brig of Balgownie, 108 

on The proverbs of Chaucer, 49 

Macgillivray, Alexander, 28 
Macgillivrays of the Doune, 59, 'j^ 
Macgillivray, D., on Macgillivrays of the Doune, 

78 
Macgillivray, Major, at Culloden, 28 
Mackay, John, Society of Ancient Scots, 173 
Mackinlay, J. M., on Folk-lore of Scottish lochs 

and springs, 188 
Mackintosh Officers at Culloden, 28 
Mackintosh, James, M.A., Minister of Deskford, 

118 
Mackie, James, A.M., D.D., 44 
Mackintosh, James, Indian Merchant, 44 
Mackintosh, John, LL.D., 44 
Maclean, (jcorge, Governor of Cape Coast, 44 
Maclean, John, D.D., 44 
Macphail, A. W., on Old Ship Logs, 151, 171 
Macpherson, Colin, 57 
Macpherson, Isabella, 57 
Macpherson, Prof John, D.D., R.C.D., 57 
Macpherson, Rev. John, P\C.E. and author, 57 
Mac Ritchie, David, on Translation of inscription 

wanted, 28 
"Maid of Badenoch," 189 
Man, James, and Arthur Johnston, 14 
Marischal College Principals, Portraits of, 189 
Market Crosses, 47 
Mary, Queen of Scots, 106 
McConochie, Rev. James, 57 
McL., J. C, on Displenish, 191 
M*C., P. D., on The last relic of Inverugie 

Castle, 12 
M., D., on Macara Clan, 47 
M'D., J., on Round Towers at Abernethy and 

Brechin, 14 
McLachlan, James, A.M., 57 
Meaning of " Thanzie and Belt," 190 
M earns. Notes from the visitation book of the 

presbytery of the, 89 
Meldrum, Charles, C.M.G., L.L.D., 57 
Meldrum, Rev. George, A.M., 118 

Merlin, Michael, on Douglas' Virgil, 27 

on Ancient beggars, 1 56 

on Highland Surnames, 158 

on Burns' birthday, 158 

on Old Mortality's grave, 187 

Michie, J. G., on The Aboyne Ogham stone, 49 
Middleton, Charles, Colonel, 57 
Middleton, Colonel William, 57 



Minister, Name of, of Birse in 1736, 173, 191 
M., J. G., on Origins of Pictish symbolism, 30 
Moir, James, LL.D., on Douglas' Virgil, 48 
Monkbamson University centenary ceremonies, 

31 
Moodie, Prof. Wm., U.D., 57 
Mormond, on Aberdeenshire folk-lore, 3, 32 
Mowats of Abergeldie, 47 
Muir, John, on Burns' letter to Clarinda, 162 
Munro, Alex. M., on Diary of John Row, 38 
List of the inhabitants of Old Aberdeen, 

1636, I, 20 
Epitaphs and inscriptions in S. Nicholas 

Churchyard, 4 

Old Deer Stocking Stamp, 12 

— — Relic of infirmary built in i 754, 70 

Munro, Clan, 141 

Muir, John, on Recently discovered writings of 

Carlyle, 59 
— — Robroyston sundial, 172 

on Burns' birthday, 176 

s for Aberdeen Constables 



in 1698. 87 
on Interestihg collection of proclamations, 

83, I02 
Munro, Dr. Alex., Primus, 189 
Murdoch, Rev. John, 57 
Murray, David, on Bibliography of Edinburgh 

Periodical Literature, 89 
M., W., on Macgillivrays of the Doune, 78 

N 

Nicholson, Rev. Thomas, 57 
Nicknames of Scottish towns, 86, 112 
Nicol, William, M.P., 58 

Notable men and women of Banffshire, 7, 25, 
43, 57,73. 90, 100, I 'S 



Old Aberdeen, Extracts from the criminal o 

book of, 40 
Old ballad, 92, log, 114, 126, 143 
Old bell, 27 
Old Bronze Bell, 27 
Old deeds, Contractions in, 92 
Old Deer Stocking Stamp, 12 
Old document, 140 
Old family pew, 157 
Old Mortality's grave, 187 
Old northern seed accounts, 42 
Old Records— where kept ? 190 
Old Scots ballads, 126 
Old seal, 141 
Old Ship Logs, 151, 171 
Olden Trade, names, 34 
One pound bank notes, 77, 94 



Omum on Extracts from the criminal court 

book of Old Aberdeen, 40 
Ogilvie or Ogilvy, Sir Alex., Bart., Lord Forglen, 

58 
Ogilvie, Alexander, LL.D., 58 
Ogilvie, Duncan, A.M., D.D., 58 
Ogilvie, George, LL.D., Edinburgh, 73 
Oeilvie, George, M.P., 73 
OKilvie, Sir George, ist Lord Banff, 58 
Oirilvie, James, 3rd Earl of Seafield, 74 
Ogilvie, James, D.D., Calcutta, 74 
Ogilvie, James, ist Earl Findlater, 73 
Ogilvie, Jaines, and Earl of Seafield, 73 
Ogilvie, lames, ist Earl of Seafield, 73 
Ogilvie, Rev. John, Catholic manyr, 74 
Ogilvie, John, LL.D,, poet. 74 
Ogilvie, Joseph, LL.D,, Distinguished Educa- 
tionalist, 75 
Ogilvie, Marshal, 157 
Ogilvie, Colonel Patrick, M.P., 90 
Ogilvie, Sir Patrick, Lord Boyne, 75 
Ogilvie, Robert, LL.D,, inspector of schools, 90 
Ogilvie, Provost Thomas, M.P., 90 
Ogilvie, Walter, of Redhyth, 90 
Ogilvie or O^Ivy, Sir William, 90 
Ogilvie, Wilham, M,A., 90 
Oughton, Rear Admiral James, ti8 



Parishes, The new arrangement of, 174, 190 
Paterson, Rev. Alex., R. C. bishop, 90 
Patrick (Friar John), R. C. friar, 90 
Pearl, A rare, found in the river Ythan, 51 
Philip, Rev. Wilham Marshall; A.M., 90 
Phimister, Elizabeth, centenarian, 90 
P., J, B,, on Dalmahoy, 158 

on Lundie of that iik, 1 59 

Polmuir, near Aberdeen, 113 

Poor-boxes, Inscription, 6 

P,, R., on Tragedy of Douglas, 191 

on the Effigy of a knight at Lochalsh, 186 

Prince Charlie's dress at Culloden, 92 
Proclamations, An interesting collection of, 82, 



R. on Brig of Balgownie, !88 
— — on " Maid of Badenoch," 189 
Raban, Edward, printer, Aberdeen, 189 
Reek pennies, 77 
Reid, Colonel James, 91 
Reid, Joseph, A.M., 91 
Relic of infirmary built in 1754, i? 
"Resurrectionist" times, 95, 112, 125 
Rhind, Alexander, sculptor, 90 
Rhind, John, A.R.S.A,, sculptor, 90 
Rin met bear, 47, 63 

Robertson, A. W., on "The Bon-Accord Re- 
porter, 27 



INDEX. 



xiii 



King Charles the First's Bible, 127 
Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen, 158 
on Aberdeen Directory, 190 
on Name of author wanted, 190 



Robertson, George, LL.D., 91 
Robertson, Henry, M.P., C.E., 91 
Robertson, Adjutant-General John, 100 
Robertson's, Mr., Bibliography of Dr. James 

Taylor, 188 
Robroyston sundial, 172 
Ross, J. Calder, on Caledonian Ocean, 14 

on lona or loua, 14 

on Armada wrecks in Scotland, 24 

on Spanish blood in Scottish veins, 27 

on the Heron as a weather prophet, 59 

on The cup-marked stone at Glenelg, 66 

on Epitaphs in Gaelic, 91 

on Memorable Edinburgh houses, 95 

on Scotch sacrament stamps, 105 

on Invention of stereotyping, 109 

on Oban Church bell, 112 

on " Resurrectionist" times, 112 

on Poet Fergusson, 142 

John Row, Diary of, Principal of King's College 

in 1661-1672-1790, 38, 52, 70, n, 84,94, 

98, 122, 152, 164, 183 
Row's, John, Psalm Book, 76 
Roman Coins, Interesting find of, 76 
Ruddiman, Thomas, printer, 91 
Rye (Henry A.), on Old ship's logs, 171 



S., B. M., Where are old records kept? 190 
Scone stool of repentance, Theft o^ 156 
Scott, Rev. Andrew, bishop of Eretria, 100 
Scott, James W., on Instruments of torture, 126, 

159 
on Caledonian Ocean, 28 

on A Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical 

Literature, 18, 35, 68 
on A daimen icker in a thrave's a sma' 

request, ^^ 

on Auld Reekie, 78 

on Nicknames of Scottish towns, 86 

on A phrase concerning Bums, 92 

on Theft of Scone stool of repentance, 1 56 

on Bums' original prospectus, 1 86 

Scotch books for the month, 15, 31, 48, 64, 79, 

95, III, 128, 144, 160, 176 
Scotch Books, Sale of rare, 188 
Scotch Sacrament Stamps, 105, 127 
Scottish castles. The thickness of the walls of, 

88 
Scottish tradesmen's tokens, 146 
Scott-Moncrieff, W. G., on Sir William Bennet 

of Marlfield, 59 
Seaman on Barometer, 106 
Sellar, James, A.M., D.D., 100 
Sharp, Archbishop James, 100, 118 



Sharp, Sir Wm., loo 

Shepherd, James, poet, loi 

Shearer, John Sharp, naturalist in Canada, 10 1 

Shipwreck of the Oscar, 14, 29, 37, 60, 79 

Sillerton, 189 

Sim, Robert, minor poet and antiquary, loi 

Skene, A. P., on The Proverbs of Chaucer, 59 

Spanish blood in Scottish veins, 27, 48, 61 

Smith case. Literature of the Robertson, 184 

Smith, Rev. Alexander, R. C. bishop, loi 

Smith, Alexander, writer on morals, loi 

Smith, George, Fordyce, loi 

Smith, James Gordon, London publisher, loi 

Smith, Drs. Wm., uncle and nephew, 14, 76, 

141, 75 , 
Southesk [E^rl] on The Abojme Ogham ston6, 

66 
Song wanted, 60, 79, 93, 102 
"Spemit Humum" on Forbes of Knapemay, 

174 

on John Forbes, advocate, 174 

on Inglis of Cramond, 174 

on Rev. Wm. Forbes of Fordoun, 174 

on the Forbes's of Culloden, 105 

on Dr. Alex. Munro, 1 89 

St. Aidan, 157 

Stables, William Gordon, M.D., R.N., loi 

Stamp, Brass, ^^ 

St. Andrews, The haunted tower, 173 

St. Giles on One pound bank notes, ^^ 

on Reek pennies, ^^ 

St. Giles, The Church of, Edinburgh, 173 
St. Mungo on St. Aidan, 157 
Stereotyping, The invention of, 92, 109 
Stevenson, Thos. G., on The Drum, 62 

on One pound bank notes, 94 

on Robert Fei]gusson, 105, 109 

on Theipvention of stereotyping, 109 

on Archbishop Sharp, 118 

on Edward Raban, printer, Aberdeen, 1 89 

Stillie, James, bookseller, 58 

Stewart, James, A.M., loi 

Stephen, Sir George, Bart., Lord Mount Stephen, 

lOI 

Strachan, James, M.D., loi 

Supematural incidents. Remarkable cases of, 85 

Sutherland, T. G., on Inscription at Craigmillar 

Castle, 174 
Suttor, William, author, loi 



T. on New Arrangements of p)arishes, 190 

Taylor, Dr. James, 188 

Taylor Family of Forfarshire, 188 

T., J., on Date Wanted, 28 

on Rev. Patrick Dunbreck, 157, 191 

Thom, D. R., on Discovery of Urn and Bones 

at Kinmuck, 166 
T., W. L., Old Ballad, no 



XIV 



INDEX. 



Thomson, Rev. Peter, F.C. scholar, loi 
Thomson, William, on Archibald Campbell, 9th 

Earl of Argyle, 1 7 1 

on Alex. Watson, song-writer, 14 

on The loss of the whaling-ship Oscar, 37 

on Market crosses, 47 

on Auld Reekie, 62 

on Remarkable cases of supernatural 

incidents, 85 

The Drum, 93, 106 

Thomson, James, minor poet, loi 

Thyire and Kilbirny, 105 

Tingey, J. C, Spanish blood in Scottish veins, 48 

Todd, Andrew, M.A., D.D., 102 

Torture, Instruments of, 92, 108, 109, 126, 159 

"Tragedy of Douglas," The, 173, 191. 

Tragic romance of nearly 300 years ago, 97 

Translation of inscription wanted, 13, 28 

Travelling in olden time, 123 

Town crier, Death of the, 93 

Tulloch on Bayne of Tulloch, 29 

Turner on Sir D. Wilkie's " Rent Day," 190 

Turreff, J., on King Charles the I.'s Bible, 105 

T., W., on Instruments of Torture, 108 

u 

Ure, Geo., of Shargarton, 158, 176 
Urns, Discovery of, 1 1 

w 

W., A., Aberdeen and Aberdonians in 1658, 33, 

59 
Watson, Alexander, song- writer, 14 

Watson, Rev. Jonathan, Bishop of Dunkeld, 102 

Watson, Archibald Inglis, song-writer, 102 

Webster, John, A.M., D.D., 102 

Weir, George, A.M., 115 

Wells, List of, in the vicinity of Torry, 6 

Wilkie's, Sir David, Rent Day, 190 

Wilson, Andrew, A.M., Gamrie, 115 

Wilson, Fleetwood Pellew, 115 

Willox, Gregor, Tomintoul, 115 

Wilson, George Washington, photographer, 1 1 5 

Wilson, Sir James Milne, 116 

Wilson, James, Grenada, 1 1 5 

Wilson, Rev. James Hall, D.D., 115 

Wilson, Peter, LL.D., 116 

Wilson, Robert, M.D., 116 

WiUiam and Mary College, Williamsburg, 

Virginia, 54 



Wilson, W. Hay, on Bayne of Tulloch, 29 

W., R. C, on Bayne of Tulloch, 14 

W., W. R. B., on Dalnottar, 158 

on Bernard de Linton, Abbot of Arbroath, 

158 

Fergus I., King of Scotland, 159 

The new arrangements of parishes in con- 
nection with the County Council Act, 174 

on Aberdeenshire as a factor in Scottish 

life and thought, 131, 147, 162, 180 

on Marshal Ogilvie, 158 

on General Bruce, 158 

on Count James Gordon, 158 

on George Ure of Shargarton, 158 

on Robert Borthwick, &c., &c., 158 

on A daimen icker, &c, 47, 62 

on Rin met bear, 63 

on Song wanted, 79 

on Illustrations of Chaucer's proverbs, 9, 

on Invention of stereotyping, 109 

on Nicknames of Scottish towns, 112 

on Notable men and women of Banffshire, 

7, 25,43, 57, 73,90, 100, 115 

on Rev. James Hamilton, 14 

on Ayrshire folk-lore, 55 

on Spanish blood in Scottish veins, 61 

on The Drum, 61, 93 

on The barometer, 127 

on Name of author wanted, 190 

on Displenish, 191 

on Tragedy of Douglas, 1 9 1 

on Name of minister of Birse, 191 

on God-fathers and god-mothers, 175 

on Old ballad, 109 

on Sir Patrick Dunbreck, 175 

W., G., on Ure of Shargarton, 176 

W., J., on Casting of the sieve and the shier, 

106 
W., W., on Old ballad, 109 



X. on Name of the minister of Birse in 1736, 
on Mary Queen of Scots, 106 



York Buildings Co., 'j'j 
" Yule " and " Yeel," 112. 



SCOTTISH 



NOTES AND QUER 



Vol. VII.] No. j. 



JUNE, 1893. 



Registeked 



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CONTENTS. 

Notes :— Page 

List of the Inhabitants of Old Aberdeen, i 

Aberdeenshire Folk J^re, 3 

Epitaphs and Insci iptions in St Nicholas Churchyard,. 4 
Itinerary of a Walking Tour from Banff to Glasigow 

and back in 1813, 5 

List of Wells in the vicinity of Torryj with Remarks,.. 6 

Notable Men and Women of HanfTshire, 7 

Lord ( iardenstone, 8 

Further Illustrations of Chaucer's Proverbs, 9 

Heroic Gaelic Ballads, 10 

Minor Notes : — 

Inscription on Poor Boxes, 6 

Discovery of Urns, 11 

Archaeological Discovery on Deeside, 12 

The Last Relic of Inverugie Castle, 12 

Old Deer Stocking Stam^, 12 

Dunblane Cathedral, 12 

Queries:— 

Highland Uniforms — Curious Discovery — Translation 
of Inscription Wanted — Drs William Smith, Uncle and 
Nephew — Rev. James Blair — Rev. James Hamilton, 
M.A. — Alexander Watson, Song- writer — Shipwreck of 
the Oscar — Round Towers of Abemcthy and Brechin — 
James Hislop, author of *' The Cameronian's Dream,'* 13 

Answers : — 

Caledonian Ocean — James Man and Arthur Johnston — 
lona or loua — Bayne of Tulloch — Great Britain as seen 
by Foreigners, 14 

Literature, 12 

Scotch Books for the Month, 15 

ABERDEEN, JUNE, 1893. 

»■» - - 

LIST OF THE INHABITANTS OF OLD 
ABERDEEN, 1636. 

The interest which attaches to the two volumes 
of the Poll Book of 1696 as a means of identify- 
ing the beginnings of some of our present-day 
families, is well known, and the following list of 
the inhabitants of Old Aberdeen may conse- 
quently be of some use as a contribution towards 
the study of local family history. The date of 
the list is 1636, and it was compiled in virtue of 
an order of the " Court of the Citie of Auld 

Aberdeine fencit and affirmit upon the 

XI day of May " in that year. The Act is as 
follows : — '' The said day was taken up ane roll 
of the haill inhabitantes of the Auld toun Chan- 
rie and Spittell thair bairnes and servandes. As 
also ane roll of all the poor folkes within the 
said Toune and parioche." 

Names of the hihabitants ivUhin the Spiiicll. 
William Troup in Spittell, his wyff, aucht bairnes, 
and William Simsone his sen'ant. 



Thomas Elmslie, wricht, and his do( 
Patrick Johnstoun, tailzeour, and his 
Thomas Robertsone, wobster, his 

bairns, Alexander Senzeour and W 

servantes. 
John Adie, cordiner, his wyfF and 

bairnes. 
Thomas Innes, wobster, and his wyj 
John Wyllie elder, his wyff, James 

Robert Smythe, Alexander Tail 

Mariorie Reid, servantes. 
Thomas Dolas, wobster, his wyff, 

bairnes, Alexander Edward, Will 

stoune and Cristiane Scherer, ser\' 
George Halden, wobster, his wj'ff, 

bairnes, and Thomas Hall, servan 
Robert Bamet, couper, his wyff and 

bairnes, subtennent to George Hal 
Gilbert Robertsoune, wobster, his w] 

bairnes. 
John Wyllie younger, his wyff and fc 
John Cow, tailzeour, his wyff four b 

Meriorie Wode his gude sister. 
George Small, wobster, his w)'if, \.\ 

and Andro Cuthbert, servant, rece 

ane testimoniall. 
Hendrie Annand, his wyff and ane se 
Alexander Volume and Agnes Kellie \ 
Androw Zoungsone, wobster, his 

bairnes, James , John Crewie, J 

and Margaret Littilljohne, servan te 
Andro Boyne, tailzeour, his wyff, a 

Howat his ser\'ant. 
Andro Jaffray, his wyffe and ane bain 
Gilbert Gierke, absent. 
Williame Blake, his wyff and ane bail 
Elspet Troup and three bairnes in the < 

hous extravagantes ihair. 
Peter Bamet, his wyff and thrie uti 

women. 
Johne Porter, wricht, and his wyff abi 
James Skedway, wobster, and his wyfl 
Johne Andersone, tailzeour, his wyff, foi 

Andro Duthie, A rthour Andersone a 

Walker, servantes. 

Doctor Williame Gordoun, his wyff, thri 
James Rainie, George Milne, Jeane 
and Jane Still, servantes. 

James Innes, his wyff, his mother, an 
Patrick Davidsone, Andro Bartlet, 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [June, 1893 



Gordoune, Issobcll Gibsone and Cristiane ■ Andrew King, merchant, him selfe onlic 

Pattone, servantcs. Elspct Gray, puddinwricht, tuo baimes, the one 
Auld Abenieine, ' of ihem ane ydle sone in Williame Haves land. 
Thomas Merser, his wyff, three baimes, Robert I ^Villiame Hay, skmner, his dochter, and Patrick 
and Alexander Volumes, James Donald, Els- I ^ V"Ii^ir' serxant. ,r. ^ u- 

pet Gray and Elspet Hendrie, servanies! '^^^^f^ ^°^S' workman, himselfc and his wyft 

John Linsie, tailzeour, his wyf!, tua baimes, An- a,°"^^', ^- n- u 1 j v .^ r 

droDavidsoneandJeaneWagrellis,servantes. Alexander lellie, husbandman, his HTflT. four 

Marioune Nisbit, breadseller, hir selfe and ane , ^''^W'^ """^ Jeane Wat, servant. 

Ij^jj.j^g Johne Merser, smythe, hunselfe and his Hyff 

Arthour Gibsone, wrichl, himselfe onlie. , onlie. 

Cieorge Volume, muxter, his w>'ff and gude ^^f ^ ^'T'*"**'' ^^^owster, ane bairne and Annas 
sister absent. ' -^ ** Lumsden, servantes m Alexander Tellies land, 

Beatrix Cheilles, with ane ser\'ant, of no calling, .,' .^^l^^* , . . .. , ii« • . . 

absent Menorie duthne, without ane calling, in Johne 

Williame Hunter, husbandman, his wyff, thrie ^ Mcrsers land, absent. 

baimes, and Issobell Nicoll, servant. ^''^!,%9'^''? u' laxfisher. his wyff, two baimes, 

Alexander Coulles, himselfe and his wife. , f"^ ^^^^l Vi^xyxx^ servant. ^ ^ . ^ . 

James Law, wobster, his wyff ane baime, James J°*^"^ '^rx.yxYi^, gairdner, his wyff. thne baimes, 

Irwing and Elspet Aberdour, servantes. ^,^"^ yi^x^T^x Orum.hir servant 

Issobell Kelman,kailseller, hir selfe and tuo ^^argaret Couper and hir dochter in Johne 

baimes, shankeris. Smylheshous. 

Thomas Cmikshanke, cordiner, his wyff, tuo J°^"^ bauerlay, cordiner, himselfe and his wyff 

baimes, and Helene Cuming, servant. t-i"" I te 1 • 1 n u- ye j % . 

Elspet Law, breidseller, widow, and ane bairne, t-»spctjaffrey,breidscller,hirselfeandanehaime. 

absent Margret Boyes, breidseller, hirselfe and ane 

Robert Liiw, wobster, his wyff and thrie baimes. , , l'''^'^."^ ""^^'' J^*'"« '^^j?V^ Y?i n 

Andro Adamc, cordiner, his wyff, four baimes, ^"staine Robertsone and Issobell Paterson and 

his guidmother, and Gilbert Forsyith, serx'ant . ,^"" J "^^!?' ., .. ,- ... 

John Mackrines, his wyff, tuo baimes, Margret Alexander Hamet, tailzeour, himselfe and his 

Walsone and Margret Williamsonc, servantes. . ^^^v., ,l^*i, , 

Agnes Moriesone hir selfe and her dochter. Annable I- ullartoun sewster, absent 

Alexander Wadie, baxter, himselfe onlie. \}'T'''' '^''Jl*^'' ?>'» ^*^. ^7^ anci thair sone. 

Williame Knolles, his wyff, ane baime, and 




onlie. 

BVoneTesauit be'him wUhouVane iys\Tmoniai ,,,^''*"^,"^ ^I'Y' servant 

in William Hayes land. ^-'?P^^ F orsyithe and her dochter, dilsseller. 

Cristiane Hay, breidseller, and Hessie Watsone. Adamc Haueriay and his wyff onlie. 

hir servant. Robert W illox,staibler,his wyff and thnebaimes. 




Volume and Janet Farquharsone, senantes. , . \r \. '1 , V u- cc a c 

Williame Auld himselfe and his wyff onlie. ^ '\">^^^ Haueriay, husbandman, his ^-j^ and fyw 

- ' .^^^ bairnes. 

ane bairn, 

l>aimes. 

bai'meV "'■'*""""'» ""^ "'"» "'" "^" ""^ '""' Hector Ross, cordiner, his wyff, and ane baime. 

Mr David Leeche, sub-princip;ill, his wyff, hir """^'^^''^'y Andersone, cordiner, himselfe and his 

tuo bairnes and ser\antes. ^^y" ""''^- 

Johne Forbes, his wyff and her four baimes, ALEX. M. MUNRO. 

James Still and Bessie Couttes, servantes. ( I0 be continued,) 




June, 1893.] 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



ABERDEENSHIRE FOLK LORE. 

The impression which a kind and wise mother's 
words have upon her children lasts when the 
exact words have been forgotten, yet, when only 
slightly referred to, they will be at once recog- 
nised after many years. The seed once sown 
takes root, and it will depelid upon how it may 
have been cultivated in producing a good crop. 
The value of such instruction conveyed in this 
way was at one time more common than now ; 

books for the young are now cheap and plenty, 
and many mothers of the present day may think 
the auld-fashioned phrases of their grand- 
mothers out of date. Books got up for the 
young are well deserving of praise, and are cal- 
culated to convey valuable instruction and good 
moral lessons ; but the word spoken to the young 
listener by a kind mother goes to the heart at 
once, — it is given and taken as a gift, not as a 
lesson or bit of intellectual work, to be done as 
a task. 

This kind of instruction differs much accord- 
ing to the locality where it may be found. That 
which is to be found in rural districts contrasts 
favourably with what we find in our cities and 
large towns. It is to the first that I wish to call 
the reader's attention ; and such as I may be 
able to give, 1 hope to see supplemented by 
others of your contributors, better able for the 
task, and in this way help to preserve a most 
valuable branch of Folk Lore that is fast chang- 
ing, and less honoured than in olden times. 

A well-selected collection of this kind may be 
termed a kind mother's philosophy, and ought 
to be readily taken up as a labour of love and 
gratitude. 

The following is a small collection of the kind 
referred to : — 

A kind word kindly spoken does muckle gweed. 

Be kind an' couthy tae bairns. 

Hame's aye hanie, hooever peer it may be. 

A contented mind's a continual feast. 

Little gangs far wi' God's blessin'. 

Be aye kind to the peer bodie. 

Never lat yer hert gang doon. 

Heed nae clyps, fear nae froon. 

Keep yersel' aye snml and clean. 

A mither's aye the l^est freen. 

Never tak up wi' ill loons — 

There's queer folk in a' toons. 

Touch naething that's nae yer ain. 

Tak' care hoo ye spen', mind on a rainy day. 

Lat byganes be hyeganes, forget and forgi'e. 

Wee boats keep near the shore, big ships may 

venture far. 
Listen tae a gweed advice an' be thankfu' for't. 
Never tak' yer Maker's name in vain. 
Never dee a thing wi' an ill intention. 



Never konach God's benefit. 

Some bairns are spoiled wi' muckle dorfin. 

Some wha hae gouden locks wad like them iockerin. 

Yer ma ain bonnie lammie, mamie's wee doc. 

A mallison on them will fa' 

Wha tak' the laverock's eggs awa. 

Be kind tae a' dumb animals. 

Ower mony grieves hinder wark. 

Cleanliness is hauf godliness. 

Ower muckle o' onything is gweed for naething. 

A plain diet is better than dainties. 

Pit a stout hert tae a stay brae. 

Farawa* fowls hae fair feathers. 

There's nae place like hame, nae fireside like yer 

ain. 
E'en brings a' hame. 
Time an' tide for neen will bide. 
A clean fireside and a tidy wife 
Lichtens mony a care in life. 
Fair an' fause gang aft thegither. 
Keep your promise ever true. 
Ilka Jockie gets his Jeannie. 
Weel matched couples never rue. 
They are lifeless wha are fautless. 
Never tak yer heid up wi' silly ploys. 
Dinna count yer chuckens afore they're cot o' the 

shaull. 
Gar girss is ill tae grow. 
Ye may gang far an' fare waur. 
Look whaur yer to licht afore ye loup. 
It may be oot o' the fire an' in amang the emmers. 
Dinna tak' up wi' ilka ane ye meet. 
As ye mak' yer bed sae maun ye lie. 
Phat ye dee, dee it richt ; 
Weel deen needs a' yer micht. 
Never forget an auld freen, 
Nor a favour deen langs3nie. 
Never gi'e heed tae clavers an' clashes. 
Meal in wi' kent folk. 
Braw claes disna mak' a lady. 
Onything sets a weel-faured face. 
A bonny bride's easy buskit. 
Ye maun creep afore ye gang. 
Ca canny travels far. 
Strik' the iron whan its het. 
Wha bods weel sees nae boggies. 
The tapster wha pits a red licht aboon his door 

gi'es fair wamin'. 
Lichtlie come lichtlie gaen. 
Spend a' mak's nae freen. 
Whisky an' tabacca reek 
Maks mony ane their breid tae seek. 
Keep in wi' freens, mak' nae enemies. 
Hair an' hair maks the carle bare. 
Guid-will never wantit. 
Peer folk hae little to spare. 
Aye needin' follows aye giein'. 
Tak' care o' the pennies — the pouns '11 tak' care o* 

themsel's. 
Flee laich fa's licht ; 
Kind words hae muckle michi. 
A kind heart's a rich dower. 
Jouk an' lat the jaw gang ower. 

MORMOND. 



^iCOllISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[JuHE. 1893. 



epitaphs and inscrh'tions in 
st. nicholas chukchyard. 
Section D. 
On a lable-slone there is— 

George Gordon Jun'' Merchant anil | late Dean of 
Uoild or this Cily, died 1765 | aged 6j. ]lis Hifi; 
ElUalwth Irvine dicil ] 1776 Bgcd 66. She was 
Daughter of | Mr Alexander Irvine, lale minLiiier | of 
Cullen, Ihcreafler uf Fordyce. Their | Son-in-law 
Robert Downie, died 20^ October 1800, aged 3S. 
His wife I Janet Gordon, died 17" Octolier 1S33. | 
aged 79. Their Daughter Ann, died 1794 | aged 5. 
'nwirsan rsmet, died at Jamaica 1 29^ August, iSll, 

This stone has replaced an older one. the in- 
scription on ivhich has been preser^'cd by Mr 
A. U. Fordyce. It was as follows ; — 

"To the memory uf Mr George Gordon, Junior, 
Merchant and Late Dean of Guild of this Cily, He 
died in 1764' aged 63. And his wife M" EtiinJK'th 
Irvine, died in 1776, aged 64. Their daughter [silwl : 
died in 17SJ a^ed 40. Their son John Gordon i>f 
Viri^nia Esq : died there in 1803, ngeil 57- Their 
Son-in-law, Koh«r( Uownie, manufaclurer in Al-c-r- 
deen ; died 20"' Ticloliet, 1800, agerl jS. His daut:h- 
ler Ann : dial in 1794, ntjed S- Their sun James, 
died at Friendship Eslnlc, Island of Jamaica. 39"' 
Aueust, 1811, aijEd 18. His survit'int; son, Charles 
Downie, druggist in Alierdcen, causel lhi~J slnne lu 
be erected. Aim in ihts grave are interrnl the re- 
Diains of M" Barbara Irvine, relict uf M' Arehibal'l 
Campbell, lale minister at Grange. She dieil 2J'^ 
June, 1795, agcil 8t." 

George Uordon was elected Dean of Guild 
for the first time in July, 174^, al the first elec- 
tion held after the suppression of the Kebclliim 
of 1745, a warrant for a neweleciiun hnvin|;licen 
issued by the Privy Council. He was agnin 
elected Dean nl -Michaelmas, 1747. Mrs (ior- 
don was a daughter of Ihe Rev. Alexander In*ine, 
minister of Fi)rdyce(i7i6-47}, by his wife Isabel 
Ogilvy.' Her sister Barbara, who is also in- 
terred in the same grave, was, as stiiicii. the 
wife of the Rev. Archibald C.inipbdl, minister 
of Grange (1752-76), havinn been married on 
2JSt December, 1751. Mr Campliell tiled on the 
l6th October, 1774, aged (jfj years. 

The next two stones «ieal witli the married 
relations of daujihters of the Irviiies of Cults, 
near Aberdeen. 



Inn! 
whodie.l M.1% 
Keiih, his ■ 

who died M. 
Bmnet, his ' 



■y.,r| lie 



rue rinr, 



llC«|.ifCa,kii-lH 
•:l^^ I AImj 1 fhri 
l.in'J 1771,, aged 66 



:ed 43 year.. | Also | l«.i>el Irvine, his spouse, | 
hi' diiit 20^'' Jan'J iSoo aged 63, | Also Anne, 
lughter of ihe lale | lowph Simpson, merchant, 
AlwrJecn | And granddaughter of Ihe above | Geoige 
llurnet Y.ii\ of C.-t^kielicn, She dieil, | 1852, Aged 63. 
Alexander Bumet was a daughter of 
Charles Irvine of Culls, by his wife Euphemia 
Douglass, and a sister of Mrs Fordyce of Ardoe. 
The other stone is inscribed — 
In memory of ] John Clark, advocate ir. Aberdeen, 



.\nd M" Helen Irvine, spouse to | George Wilson 
merchant in Aberdeen, | who dieil the 2 October 

769. I Alio Margaret Irvine, their Nice, | who dicil 

O April 179S aged 62. 
The two ladies first mentioned were daughters 
of Robert Irvine of Cults, and sisters of Charles 
Irvine of Culls, the father of Mrs Alexander 
liomet already tnemioncd, and of Margaret 
Irvine, who died as above in 179S. 

The I nines of Cults were di.-scended from the 
house iif Dnim, the first proprietor of Cults 
being Kobeit Irvine, son of John Irvine of 
Murile, who acquired Ihe estate from John 
Thomson in June, 1679.- He was the father of 
Mrs John Clark and Mrs George Wilson, whose 
deaths are referred to in Ihe inscription. 
On a table-stone there is the following — 
S-iLTwl I 1(1 ibf inciiiMry of | Colquhoun M'Gru^, 

\ m.T.-l.iol in \l"Tdoi-Ei, | who dcparleil this I i^ at 
Uiiiiil ■1. '!> ;■'■' ' '■■L.iljcr, 1798, aged 58 years. | Of 
A'li. ' . ' -v-w^c I whodied at Alcnlcen, 

(PI, 1 ■ -T i792ageil sayenn. i OfGriiel 

l-lril ,1 ■■ 1'. Ii'- - ■ rvi spiiuM.', I who died nl Alier- 
deen, en ilie I" | January 1797, | Of Roltett M'Uri- 
gor I merchant in Al-ernien, sccf)nd son of|L'oliiu- 
houii .M'Grigor : whodied nl Alienleen on Ihe ai" { 

(uly 1799 I ageil 27 years. , Likewise of | I.icut. <'o- 
onel Charles M'Grigor . . . 

On a large Inble-stone there is— 

In mL'm..ry j of the lieV Mr John llisiel, | laie 
minlMcr cf ihc ^i•~\^■•^ in Aberdeen, I bom August 
i-r-' if'.-v "ili' 1 miniMer of the gospel at N?w- 
,„ ■ M .'.."■ 17.7. Fn>milience. tmnslnn-d 

X. •■■ . : ii'i' 1728; I where he die.1 No- 

vii. I ■ I !■ ''15"' vcai of his age, and 39"" 

,'i i . I I 'Mr wnA r^iilhrul luinisler of ihc 

l» ii.i . . 1 .Liiicheil to the Unc- 

II!. ^'' i.Ljvernment | of Ihe 

>u.i-j"ii, LiL,.L li.Y) .>,.K, III >.'-Liy respect, agreeable 
lo, -M\<\ luuo.U'd 00 ] liiu Word of God. | For this 

deviate from iliem in any Instance. | An impartial and 
undaunted KciifoVer ..f ilie victs I of the .Age. and 
nlace in sshlL-h he lived. I ■riirough the whole ci.urse 



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SCOTTISH N07ES AND QUERIES. 



ininisUy, parliculatly 1 in ihe laller pari of il. 

ounterecl | many rlifflcuUies, and llie most vio- 
IcDt opposiliun. I But he wns remaTLLa.hly supporter!, 
I under the several (rials, | and his Chancier nnd 
Bsljmatinn seemed lo increase, | in proportion lu the 
Oppo»lian be met uilh. | He was an Injilrument, in 
the hands of Gm!, | of doing good to the Souls of 
many, in Ihe I different places, where he bad | la- 
boured as a Minister, | to whom, on that account, his 
memory is | and must be precious. | I!e died justly 
and deeply regretted by all | who wish well to the 
Interesta of religion. | " Mark the perfect man, and 
behold the upright, | for (be end of that man is peace. 

The estimate given above of the Rev. Mr 
Bis.seC maybe true, but there are other accotjnts 
which would lead to the belief that he was far 
from being an even-tempered man. His choleric 
disposition on more than one occasion brought: 
him into conflict with popular feeling so much 
so, that on one occasion the provost excludetj 
him from the pulpit, and locked the church 
against him. When the Rev. George Whitefield 
visited the city in 1741 he preached in the fore- 
noon in S. Nicholas Church, on the invitation of 
the Rev. James Ogilvy, Mr Bisset's colleague. 
In the afternoon, when Mr Bisset's turn came, 
he was not lolh to seize the opportunity of at- 
tacking Whitefield. During his prayers he 
named Whitefield, and entreated the Lord to 
forgive the dishonourthat had been put upon him 
when that man was permitted to preach in the 
pulpit, and during the sermon he again returned 
to the attack. Whitefield in his Journal remarks, 
" the most of the congregation seemed surprised 

and chagrined and on the morrow, the 

magistrates sent for me, expressed themselves 
quite concerned at the treatment 1 had met with, 
and begged that I would accept the Freedom of 
the City."' Mr Bisset was the author of Tke 
Riffkt of Patronages Considered, Edinburgh, 
1731, and of several sermons, printed at Aber- 
deen and Edinbui-gh. His best known work 
was a Diary kept by him during the years of the 
Rebellion, 1745-46, and printed in the Miscellany 
of the Spalding Club, The Diary is in the form 
of letters 10 his friend, the Rev. Robert Willox, 
minister of Echt, and presents a pretty accurate 
slate of the country at the time, the alarms into 
which the burgesses were thrown, the conflicting 
rumours as to what had or had not taken place, 
and the general uncertainty of any event, except 
that which affected the burgh directly. 

Mr Bisset was married (o Agnes Pirie, who 
died Zist September. 1773, and his son John 
was minister first at Culsaimond and afterwards 
at Brechin. 

AtEX. M. Monro. 



ITINERARY OF A WALKING TOUR. 
In compliance with a wish for a detail of the 
expenses bill it is with pleasure subjoined : — 

Expaues of journey for Iwa ftrsons. 
J"ly. tin 
3. Taminloul, supper and breakfast, &c., £0 6 6 

3. Milk— boat at the Dee 005 

4. Castlelon — supper, beds, and lireakfest, o 12 o 

5. Spinal bill O 10 6 

Beadle of Dunkeld Cathedral 006 

To the gardener, &c„... o a II 

6. Dunkeld — dinner, beds, breakfast, o 15 6 

7. Paid Caravnn, &c., at Perth, 024 

Penh bill, 3 a i 

S. Kinross do., 5/7 ; Queensfenj do., 5/6, out 

Porter, tolls, &c, 020 

PaspageBoat, o I 8 

9. Douceurs at Register, Bridewell, Holy- 

rood, Ac, Edinburgh 070 

Chamber-maid and washing 040 

12. Coach 10 Falkirk o iS o 

Four Coachmen, 040 

Fare to Stirling 6/-, Guard a/- 089 

13. Centinel at Stirling Castle o I o 

Stirling bill 086 

Torwood, breakfast, 026 

Porter at Cttrron, 006 

Do. at Canal,.... 007 

Canal boat to Glii^jow 080 

14. Glasgow — ^Cathedral o I o 

Do. — Hunt erian Museum, 040 

Do. — At Mr Hadey's, 026 

i5. Do. — ^Lodgings, i 12 o 

Hteam-boat — Renfrew, o I o 

Paisley boat, 008 

Ferry boat and bridge, o o S 

Paisley Church and Eskcn Ferry, o 1 2 

17. Dunbarton bill o t4 10 

18. Church at Bonbill, o o 1 

Alexandda, Lodgings,,..,,, 026 

19. Port Glasgow, Feriy, 009 

Greenock, Do 050 

Lochlomond— Whisky 1/, Boatman 3d, o i 3 

Roivardennan I supper, 060 

20. Comar, breakfast 020 

Boat at Lock Katrine,... o 10 7 

Ard kin knock an, sapper snd lodgings,. 036 

21. Callander, breakfast 037 

A poor nun nl Edinbu^h, 006 

At Lochenrnhead, o I 8 

22. Killin bill 076 

Tayside — whisky and milk, o o g 

Ken more, breakfast, 054 

Lord Breadalbane's gardener,,,. o a 6 

At Tummei Bridge, O i 6 

Dnlnacardoch, supper and lodgings, ... o la o 

23. Da I whin nie, breakfast, 060 

Avie more bill 092 

24. Mr Ellison, bridge of Car, 056 

New Cottage, Ardclach, 016 

Forres bill 066 

Total, £16 7 9 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[June, 1893. 



LIST OF WELLS IN THE VICINITY OF 
TORRY, WITH REMARKS. 

1. St. Fitticies Well.— At the Bay of Nigg, 

named after the Patron Saint of the parish. 
A dip well. 

2. St. Fittick's Well.— At the Salmon Bothy, 

name unknown. A dip well covered in. 

3. St. Fittick's Well.— At the Fog Horn, Girdle- 

ness. This well was dug out by the Harbour 
Commissioners upwards of twenty years 
ago, but goes under no name. A dip well. 

4. The Bruntscallie or Craw Well. — Near the 

Greyhope Bay, named after the Bruntscallie 
Rock, on which the Oscar was wrecked on 
ist April, 1813. The salmon fishers have 
a net here, which they call the craw net, and 
is named after the rock which is known by 
both names. A dip well covered in. 

5. Jacob's Well.— Below the Torry Fort or 

Battery. A dip well. 

6. Forbes' Well.— At North Kirkhill, on the 
Greyhope Road — North side. A dip well. 

7. John Lindsay's Well or The Gibberie Wallie. 

— At the Heugh Head on the South side of 
the Greyhope Road. Was frequented on 
Saturday afternoons and holidays by women 
selling ginger bread here. 

8. The Pierhead or Icehouse Well. — Opposite 

the Pierhead, Torry, on the Greyhope Road. 
A dip well. 

9. The Pallen Well— At the back of the house 

No. 161 Sinclair Road, and at the back of 
John Webster's house. Pierhead. A pump 
stands here. 

10. The Struick Well.— Near the Old Free 

Church. The burn is now covered in, and 
the well done away with. 

1 1. The Corbie Well. — At the junction of Manse- 

field Road, and Sinclair Road. Its exact 
situation is not now known, but was some- 
where about the foot of Corbie Well Road, 
now called Mansefield Road. Another well 
on said Road, got up by subscription, was 
dug at the junction of Mansefield Road and 
Abbey Road many years ago. This latter 
well was a draw well, and the place is still 
marked by a stone on the top. 

12. The Stroup Well.— Near the Old Brickwork 

on the Old Road from Torry Farm. Slightly 
removed and now formed into a dip well— 
The water is excellent. 

13. John Philip's Well. — In mid Dee opposite 

the centre of Point Law. Taken away by 
the diversion of the river. The water was 
hard and of a yellowish colour. 

14. The Hareside Well. — On a field on Ness 

Farm, Balnagask, facing the Caledonian 
Railway not far from the Tullos hill. Is 
still in existence. The water is excellent. 



1 5. John Nisbet's Well. — On Point Law opposite 

Marischal Street. Taken away by the 
diversion of the river. Wells 13 and 15 
were in that part of Torry known in former 
days as Upper Torry. 

16. Green Road Bank Well.— On the Old Road 
leading from Torry Farm House to Craig- 
inches. The water from this well was led 
down by pipes to Torry Farm House, and 
now supplies Mr. Pope's Stone Granite 
Works, near Victoria Bridge. 

17. The Derby Well.— Near the Old Manse. 

A dip well. Not now used, the farmer 
having provided himself with another well 
below his garden near the bum. 

18. The Mary Well or Edward's Well.— At East 

Kirkhill on the St Fittick's Road. Adipwell. 

19. Kirkie's Well.— On South Kirkhill near the 
Torryhill Road, now called Balnagask Road. 
A pump still stands here. 

20. May Charles Well. — Top of a knoll on South 

Kirkhill near the Torryhill Road, now called 
Balnagask Road. A dip well. 

21. Barnett's Well.— In the Hedge Row Park 
West of Balnagask House, between Torry- 
hill Road, now called Balnagask Road, and 
Victoria Road. A pump still stands here, 
and not far from the pump a tree near which 
the house stood. 

22. Davidson's Well. — Within the policies of 

Balnagask House. A draw well. 

23. The Captain's Well.— On the East side of 

Baxter Street, formerly known as Balnagask 
Road, North of the Home Farm House of 
Balnagask. Named after Captain Adamson, 
who at one time lived here, and through 
whom the ship in the parish church of Nigg 
was gifted by Captain Affleck in 1829, when 
the church was opened. The well is now 
covered in, and crop growing thereon. 

24. John Stephen's Well. — At the back of Jubilee 

Buildings, Baxter Street, formerly known as 
Balnagask Road, near Abbey Road. Now 
covered up and crop growing thereon. 

25. Fettes' Well. — In Baxter Street, formerly 
known as Balnagask Road, opposite Baker 
Street. A pump still stands here. 

J. B. F. 



»>» 



Inscription on Poor-boxes (VI., 141).— 
In reply to Mr Charles Burion's note, I give an 
instance of a box for the poor in the church at 
Butterleigh, near Collompton, East Devon, the 
inscription on which is as follows :— *' This boxe 
is frelie given to receave almes for ye poore." 
Dated 1629. Perhaps this is one of the oldest 
remaining; poor-boxes- I shall be glad to hear 
of earlier instances to oblige Mr Burion. 

Dewsbury, Yorks. Herbert Hardy. 



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NOTADLE MKN&WOMTN OF BANFFSHIRE. 

(ConliniuHfrcmp. /?/, Vol. VI.) 

VHI. 

112. Calkariiit GmrU, Mrs Edtuarii: J'rce Church 
Missionary. This excellent lady, Ihe story of whose 
life anil labours was published by her brother in 1867, 
was born in the Manse of Kiikmichael, on Znd April. 
1813. Left an orphan, by her father's death at the 
early age of 31, she was educated at Edinburgh, 
wbilher her mother retired for Ihe upbringinE of her 
fttnily. After spending a ye»r al b seminary at Mel- 
rose, NEisfi Grant, in her 17th year, entered the family 
of Principal Nicol of St Andrew.s as governess, where 
she continued for 8 years. In 1838 she joined her 
Ijrothcr William at Lc^enlmond, where he acted as 
Minister for some lime, accompanying him also to 
Glasgow in 1S41, when he became assistant lo Dr 
Brown of St John's. About this lime she lost her 
sister Mary, who had been governess in the faiuilv of 
Lord William Douglas, and soon after tooli her place 
there, an appointment she held for two years. In 
1843 she returned to her brother, now comfortably 
settled as Minister of the Free Church, Ayr. Here 
she became acquainted with the Rev. Daniel Edward, 
Jewish Missionary, and was nianied to him in 1846. 
From this time till her death in 1861 she devoted her- 
self most successfully lo missionary labour among 
Cod's ancient people. Iler character, which was 
most attractive, has been beautiluUy described in the 
interesting Life issued by her brother in 1S67. 

1 13. Elisabtlh Grant, Mrs Grant of Camm, afttr- 
•watds Mn Murray : Song Writer. Bom near Aber- 
lour in 1745, she married her cousin, who was also a 
Grant, and proprietor of Carron, an estate, however, 
which he was forced to pari with. Mrs Grant's repu- 
tation rests on her connection with the popular song, 
" Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch," irf which she was the 
author. On the death of her first husband she mar- 
ried Dr Murray of Bath, where she died in 1814. 

1 14. Grant, Hay MaeDmvalt : ETangeliEt and Re- 
ligious Writer, This excellent man, who devoted a 
large part of his life tn visiting varions parts ol the 
country on evangelistic errands, was bom at Arndilly, 
Boharm, igth June, 1806. The date of his death I 
liave not ascertained. His lifehas been written, lie 
is the author of several booklets on religious subjects, 

g which are, " Aboundii^g in the Work of the 



Lord,^' iS6a; "Fi 






ssof ^ 



is and Recondlia 



D God." 1863; "The Temple of the Holy 
■Ghost 1 a Sci|uel lo Forgiveness of Sins and Recon- 
ciliation tu God," 1863. 

ilj. Gran/, Jamet, (Rev.): Bishop of Sinita and 
Vicar Apostolic. This Catholic dipnilary was l»m 
at Wefler Boggs, in Ihe Knzie, about 1709, and ad- 
mitted lo_ the .Scottish College, Rome, 1726, Or- 
dained priest there in 1734, before returning to Scot- 
land he spent a year in Paris, preparing himself for 
his mission. Coming home he served first in Loch- 
aber and afterwards in Ihe island of Barra. In 1746 
he was taken prisoner in this island as a Jacoblle, an<l 
thrown into Inverness jail, where he was confined till 
May, 1747, No accusation having lieeo lodgeii against 
him, and the Protestant Minister of Barra and others 
having borne testimony to his peaceful behaviour dur- 



ing the insurrection, he was at last liberated, nof, 
however, before his health had suffered from his con- 
linenient. On his enlargement he was transferred to 
the Enzie. In 1 75J he was consecrated at Edinburgh 
Bishop of Sinita, and became Bishop Smith's coad- 
jutor in governing the Catholics of Scotland. In 
1766 he became Vicar Apostolic of the LowUnd 
District bv the death of Bishop Smith. Bishop Grant 
died at Aberdeen, and December, 1778. 

116. CroHl, James (Captain), afterwards Granl- 
Duff: Historian jf the Mahrattas. Born Banff, on 
Sth July, 17S9, and etlucated there and at Marischal 
College, Alierdeen. Young Grant chose the profes- 
sion of arms and proceeded to Bombay in 1S05. Here 
his ability soon attracted the notice of the Indian 
Statesman, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and his conse- 
quent rise in Government service was rapid. Besides 
being appointed Persian interpreter and adjutant of 
his rl^meDl, he was called on lo fill other important 
posts, both civil and military, and in iSlS became 
British Reudent at .Sattara, where his admlnistiBlion 
was marked by ability and success. Returning home 
in 1821, be assumed the name of Duff on succeeding 
to the estate of Eden in 1S25. In 1826 bis valuable 
" History of the Mahrattas" appeared. He died in 
1857. His son is the well-known parliamentarian 
and Indian Statesman, Sir M. E. Grant-Duff. 

117. Grant, James Ogib-ie. M. P. (Nan.), subse- 
quently gtk Earl of Sic^eld: Public Man, Me was 
the second son of the 6lh E. of Seafield, and born on 
27th December, 1817. and educated at Harrow. He 
served for a short time in the army, but retireil in 
1S43. He was chosen M.P. for the counties of Elgin 
and Nairn as a Conservative in the Pariiament ol 1S68- 
74, and in 18S4 became Deputy- Lieu tenant of Banff- 
shire, in which year he also succeeded his nephew as 
8th Earl of Seafield. 

118. Grant, Lent's Morrison: Minor Poet. A 
native of Bolriphnie, and bom at Loch Park there, 
9th December, 1S72, this promising writer, while only 
a schoolboy, gained Ihe unique distinction of being 
ranked by Mr Edwanls of Brechin among Modem 
Scottish Poets, in ooe of the many volumes which 
that enthusiastic luver of Scottish verse has issued 
during the last fifteen years. Mr Grant has since 
studied at Alierdeen, and last year, vthilc only in his 
20th year, he published a volume of verse entitled 
" Frotomantis and other Poems." 

119. Gmnl, Peter (Rev.): Catholic Agent at 
Rome. Of the family of Blairfindy, Glenlivat, and 
bom alioul 1709, young Grant, who entered the Scots 
Collide, Rome, in 1726, returned as priest in 1736. 
Soon, however, he was sent Ijnck to Rome as Agent 
of the .Scottish Catholics there. In thia situation he 
was 1(>ng very active and useful, and seems lo have 
been friendly and serviceable to all English travellers 
who visited Rome in the iSth century, before his 
death in 17S4. A sketch of his life appears in the 
" National Dictionary of Biography." 

120. Grant. Peter, (Rev.) : tiaelic Poet and Hym- 
nist. Flourished about 1820, He was a Baptist 
preacher, and is generally spoken of as Peter Grant 
of Strathspey. He was Iwrn in 1775 in Inveraven. 
I have not seen any notice of his death. 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



III. Grunt, mUiam. Sir, M.P. : Maalet ul Ihe 
Rolls anil Slalcf^mDn. Mosi biLgtaphuri ruiire.wnl 
[his dislinguished lawyer as a native nf MuTsyshire, 
and burn I3[h Octolier, 17J3. 1 have seen him de- 
scribed as Uirn at the farm of Delchroy, near Advie 
Kirk ; but I have also seen him itcscrilieil as the sun 
of James Giant of Beldinnie, in Glass iiarish,— a small 
Ginnei, who afterwards became a cullectur of customs 
in Ihe Isle of Man. Young Grant, who was educated 
■t Aberdeen, also studied Civil Law at Leyden before 
he entered ax Lincoln's Inn. Called to the bar in 
1764, he was appointed Attorney General, Canada, 
in 1774. Returning to England he became M.P. fur 
Shaftesbniy in the Parliament of 1 790^96. Appsinted 

elge of the Carmarthen District, 1793, he liecame 
hdtor General to the Queen, 1795, Chief Justice 
of Chester, 1798, and Solicitor General, 1791, when 
he was knighted. He became Master of the Kolls in 
iSol, and held the oFlice till 1S17. From iSoS (o 1813 
he was elected aonuBlly Lord Rector of Maiischal 
Collide and University, Aberdeen. Ilewasalso M.I'. 
for his native (?) County o( Kanflahire, from 1796 till 
tSia. His death occurred in 183Z. Though a most 
forcible and easy speaker, scaicely inferior to any of 
his lime, he was remarkable for his tacitumily, and 
was known among ihe wits at the bar as William the 
SilenL The stoiy is well-known of his henring an 
daborale and lengthened argument for two days on 
the meaning of an Act of rarlianient, and when the 
counsel tinished sim])ly saying, " Gentlemen, the Act 
on which the pleading has been founded is repeRletl." 
On one ol his visits to Banff he rode out a few miles 
into the country, accompanied by some friends. The 
ordy observation that escaped him was in ]iassing a 
field of peas— " Very fine peas." Next day he rode 
out with the same cort^e, and was equally silent ; 
but, on passing the same spot, he remarked--" And 
very finely podded loo." Lord Brougham, in his 
book on the Statesmen of the Keign of Geurge HI., 
Speaks highly of his ability as a Judge, and mentions 
that he was the dcvLfor of the phrase about "the 
wisdom ol our ancestors," which played mi great a ^lart 
m the debateiTn the Reform olthe House of Commons. 

\3.i. Crmt, m!liau,,(Jin.:}: Free Church Author. 
Bom at Kirkniichael Manse on 6th September, 1S14, 
he was educated at Edinburgh, where his mother re- 
dded on the death of her husl»nd in 1S16. In 1S37 
he was chosen Minister of the Quoad Sacra Church, 
Lt^ie Almond, and in 1840 became flssislantlo Dr 
Thomas Brown, Glasgow. From this situation he 
was translated in 1843 to lie Minister of the Quoad 
Sacra Church, Wallacetown. The Disruption occur- 
red the same year, when he and his jieoplc threw in 
their lot with the Free Church. From thai period 
till his death in 1876 he was the beloved pastor of Ihe 
Free Church, Sandjpte, Ayr. His was a most influ- 
ential ministry. His works arc a Biography of his 
Sister, Mrs Edward ! a vohiraeof, Sermons, published 
posthuniuusly ; and many single Sermons, Essays, &c. 

123. Gray, John, (Jfgv.): Bishop of Hypsopolis, 
Roman Catholic Dignilarj'. Born al Buckie on i6th 
June, 1817, devoted himself to the priesthood of the 
Catholic Church, and in 1S62 was consecrated Bishop 
of Hypsopolis, wilh control of Lhc Catholics of Ihe 
WcsIofScotland. Ue died before 1 873. W, B, K. W. 



[June, 1893. 



LOm> t;AKUENSTONE. 
E.\trai;ti from his Journal, Vol. 11., 1772 10 1789. 

(V,, 94, 153, 179). — Continued. 
Thil old English Soldier complains that hi^ 
house is cold. I desire David may do anythinK 
reasonable to make him coinniodious, and par- 
ticularly that Whitsunday make out the head of 
his Bed, which 1 ordered when last here, though 
not yet done. 

1777. At Glasgow I was informed that most 
of the Priming there is done now with Copper- 
plates, which print equally on both sides. At 
some of the Best Fields they Bleach dry or half 
and half ; they discharge all the Leys before 
they lay the Cloth on a dry Field, and they use 
no machinery except the washing mills ; some 
of them affirm that the Dutch method is the 
best and safest for the Cloth. At M'Kenzie's 
Field I saw a Dryhouse quite proper, and fit to 
Dry 6 or 7000 Ells, which was erected for less 
than j£3o St^'. He promised to send me a par- 
ticular description, plan, and Estimate of iL 

Mr , an eminent Glasgow West India 

Merchant, says we may sell our Stockings to 
any extent there. Their chief demand is for 
Thread, Stockings and Breeches Pieces. Glas- 
gow pays annually to Aberdeen above £5000 
Stg. for Stockings. He kindly promises to be- 
friend Hurley if he apply there for commissions, 
If he goes to Glasgow should carry with him a 
cargo of goods, and go there in the months of 
February or March. They reckon 300 Stocking 
Looms in Glasgow. The Printers at Glasgow 
say that in the Copperplate way two or al n.ost 
three hands will do off 90 Uo/en Handkerchiefs 
in one day ; on Timber blocks one man can 
hardly do more than 10 dozen in a day. Mr 
Stirling employs 50 girls at the penciling branch. 
After they have been two years at the Business 
they can earn no more than 3/6 per week, which, 
however, is more than they will get by spinning, 
and easier work. Some of the Printers get one 
guinea, some more, per week. They make use 
of Wade in the material of Priming. Mr Stir- 
ling has made an experiment to raise Madder. 
He says droughts hurt the growth of it more 
than cold or rainy climates, and therefore thinks 
we should try it in all parts of Scotland. 

^//i May., ijtS. Speak to David Scott and 
Cummiston in favour of the Carter, who made 
too dear a purchase of a horse from David. 

Converse with David Beattie as to the dis- 
posal of Blackiemuir Land. 

Orchart, the Stocking Weaver, is willing to 
return to the Village. Bowman to judge of this. 

1 must settle with DavitI the disposal of a 
Plan for distribvition of Blackiemuir Lands, in 
which Mr William tiarden's advice will be pro- 
per. Smith, the Mason, to have 3acres ; James, 



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Millwright, 2 acres next the avenue east Park. 
David Jack, (a new Settler), Slater, gets the 4 
next acres ; Smith, the Mason, the next 3 ; so 
there remains in that Park two lots of 2 acres 
each. 

I have agreed to put William Wat, Mason, in 
possession of the Quarry upon Trial ; 1 have 
good hopes he will manage it well. I have given 
Fifty shillings for Tools, &c. I have verbally 
purchased his House and Garden zX £1^ stg. 
David IJeattie to get his Tack up with a Re- 
nounciation, and I have to give my Note for the 
Price before I go. He is to have three acres in 
the West Park of Blackiemuir. 

My honest Friend Cummiston and I have 
agreed equal to advance the price of the Carter's 
Horse on his Bill, to be repaid when he can ; 
but David Beat tie must apply to Mr Scott in 
both our names, and get some abatement of the 
Price, as it certainly was too high. 

I cannot afford at present to pay the purchase 
money of William Wat's House, being £1^ stg. 
David will pay it when he gets money and re- 
ceive his Renounciation ; he will also pay him 
10 Shs. Stg., which I promised him for wheel- 
barrows to the quarry. 

Robert Traill having now served me faithfully 
for nine years seems quite reconciled to the 
Countiy and willing to continue and settle his 
Family here. He also proposes to take a Lease 
of the Ward for his own behoof and accommo- 
dation of his Son-in-Law Croll, to which I agree, 
and I have this Day renued my last Bargain 
with him for five years more. F. 



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FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
CHAUCER'S PROVERBS. 

In compliance with the suggestion of M. A. C. 
I venture to send the following additional pro- 
verbs : — 

I. PROVERBS CONCERNING WOMEN. 

4. Man schal not suffer his wyf to roiile about. 

Compare — Die Haus — frau Soil nit Sein eine 
Ausfrau. — ( German Proverb. ) 
8. Mulier est honiinis cx)nfusio. 

Ante Helenam mulier tetterima causa belli. 

This Latin proverb has its equivalent in the 
English saw, " Women's jars breed men's wars." 
There is. a saying attributed to Vidocq, the cele- 
bratedhead of the detective department in France 
under Napoleon, which illustrates this saying 
from another point of view. It was, we are told, 
the habit of that sagacious discoverer of crimi- 
nals, when any unusually strange or perplexing 
crime was submitted to him, to say significantly 
to the narrator, "Trouvez moi la femme" A 
somewhat cognate idea seems to have suggested 
the proverb 1 heard more than once in my boy- 
hood in Ayrshire, quoted with the view of dis- 



couraging matrimony as being at best only a 
choice of evils — " Pit your haun in the creel, fish 
out an ether or an eel." To this proverb the 
English saw, " Wed once, wail always," is no 
bad pendant. 

II. LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. 

1 1 (a) and (e). Love is blynd alday and may not se, 
And albe that men seyn that blind is he, 
Algate me thought that he mighte se. 

Compare the Italian proverb "AmaPamico 
con il defetto suo," and the Latin corresponding 
saying, " Mores amici noveris, non oderis." 
13 {b). Forbede a love, and it is ten so wood. 

Compare : 

Follow love and it will flee : flee whylome love and 
it will follow thee. 

20. Who may nal ben a fool, if that he love ? 

Compare : 

Non simul cuiquam conceditur amare et sapere. 

21. If thou have neede of help, axe it of thy freendes, 

for there is noon so good a phisicien at neede 
as a trewe frend. 

Compare the i6th century proverb, quoted in 
Samuel Smith's Sermons, "In love is no lack," 
or the later proverb, " Friends tie their purses 
with a spider's thread." 

III. POVERTY AND RICHES. 

23 [a). If thou be poure, thy brother hateth thee, 

And all thy freudes fleen fro thee. 
{b). And if thy fortune change, that thou wexe 
poure, 

Farewell friendship and felawship ! 
(f ). For what man that hath frends thurgh fortune, 

Mishap wol make hem enemys, I gesse. 

Compare the following current sayings : — 
Ineicium Nulli sunt afiines. 

Its good to be sib to siller. 

Now that I have a ewe and a lamb everybody 

says to me ** Good morrow, Peter." 
When I hae a saxpence under my thoom, 
Then 1 hae credit in ilka toon. 
Prosperity gains friends ; adversity tries them. 

24 {b). Better it Is to die, than to have such poverty. 
Compare : 

To be poor and seem poor are the very devil. 
Poverty is not a sin but quite as bad. 
27 [a). With empty hand men may na hawkes tulle, 
or hire. 
The bonny lass tocherless has mair wooers 

than chances of a husband. 
Point d'argent, point de Suisse. 
21. AUe thinges obeyen to moneye. 

A loom pooch maks a blate merchant. — Ayrshire 
Proverb. 

31. That that is overdoon, it wol not preue aryght. 
Compare : 

Nil nimium. 

Enough is as good as a feast. 

32. Lightly as it cometh, so wol we spend. 

Cequi vient par la flute, s'en va par le tambour. 
38. There ben mo sterres, God wot, than a paire. 



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Compare : 
Non omnes occiderunt soles. 

IV. PATIENCE, INDUSTRY, AND SLOTH. 

39. Men seyn, the siiffrant overcometh. Compare : 
Durum palientia moUit. 
lie who tholes conquers. 
Quien sufrio vencio. 
In sufferances is rest. (i6/// century proverb^ 

Jrom Smithes Sermons. ) 
Geduld, Vernunft and Zeit. 
Macht moglich die LJnmoglichkeit. 

41. A workman is worthy his hyre. Compare : 
Palmam qui meruit ferat. 

42. Ydelnesse techith a man to do many yveles. 
Compare : 

When the devil finds an idle man, he sets him to 
work. 
44. Many smals maketh a gret. Compare : 
Mony a pickle maks a mickle. 

V. SPEECH AND SILENCE. 

53. The first vertue is to kepe tonge. Compare : 

A fool's bolt is soon shot. 
60. Good counseil wanteth, whan it most neede. 
Compare : 
Round a broken down carriage there are many 
counsellors. — ( Turkish Proverb. ) 
62. Ne bryng nat everyman into thyn house, 

For harbourage by night is perilous. Compare : 
If ye tak other folks bairns into your bosom, they 
are sure to creep out at your elbow. 

[Scotch Proverb.) 
63 (a) Werk by counceil and thou schalt not rewe. 
66, Aske and have. Compare : 
Belter speir than not be sure. — {Icelandic Proverb). 
He who asks us faintly teaches us to deny him. 
63 (/') Werke al thi thing by counseil and thee thar 
never rewe. 

In Smith's Sermons, an ingenious writer of the 
i6th century, is found the following proverb : 
" In wiving and thriving a man should take 
counsel of all the world." 

67. Thicke juge is wys, that soon understondeth a 

matier, and juggeth by leysir. 
" There's luck in leisure." '* Abundans cautcla 
non nocet," 

68. Suffyce unto thy good, though hit be smale. 
Compare : 

Let every man be content wi his ain kevil. 
71. A blynde man kan not juggen wel in he wis. 
Compare : 
A nod's as good as a wink to a blmd horse. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 



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HEROIC GAELIC BALLADS. 



IX.— THE LAY OF THE SMITHY. 

Among the uncanny persons who come from 
the Norsemen against the Fiann is a one-legged 
smith, who puts them under a spell to follow 
him, intending to destroy them : they not only 
escape, however, but get their famous swords 



from him. The smith's name (Lon mac Liomh- 
ain) is descriptive of his work, meaning 
" brightness son of the file." The ballad exists 
in very many similar copies, of which a collated 
version is given in the Leabharna Feinne, p. 65, 
but the story of Finn's trick is only found in 
Fletcher's version. The following translation 
mainly follows that of Gillies : the narrator is 
Ossian himself. 

1. One day we were on a rushy hillside, two valiant 

fours of the band, — myself and Oscar and 
Daorglas,* and Finn himself was there, the son 
of Cumhal. 

2. We saw coming from the plain a big fellow on 

one leg, with a dark black cloak of skin, and 
a dun helmet red with rust. 

3. Hideous was the appearance of the youth, hideous 

it was and ugly ; [one shaggy eye in the front 
of his face ; and he was all the while making 
for MacCumhal.^] 

4. Finn Mac Cumhal spoke to him as he was going 

past us: *' In what country is your dwelling, 
lad with your dress of skin ?" 

5. ** Lon mac Liobhain is my right name if you had 

information of me : I was a while at work as a 
smith with the King of Lochlann at Spaoili.^ 

6. "I come to put you under spells, since ye are 

folks in the service of arms, to follow me, a 
quiet band, west to the doors of my smithy." 

7. "In what place is thy sniiithy? Shall we be 

aught the better for seeing it ?" ** You would 
see it if you could : but ii I am able, you shall 
not see it." 

8. Then they went off walking over the province of 

Munster in hot haste ; on Sleeve Boy about a 
birch tree^ we were in four companies. 

9. One company of them was the smith, another of 

them was Daorglas ; Finn was behind us at 
the time, and a few of the nobles of the Fiann. 

10. The smith would take but one step over every 

waste and desert glen ; the skirt of our upper 
garment would but barely touch our haunches.'' 

11. Descending to the bottom of the corrie, ascending 

to the pass of toil, [they saw away on the hori- 
zon the dwelling-place of the ugly smith. ^] 

12. " Tarry a little," said the smith.^ " Close it not 

before me," said Daorglas, " leave me not at 
the door of your smithy in a strait place where 
I am alone." 

13. They found there seven bellows for blowing : they 

1 al. Di.irmad, who is certainly one of the eight : the others 
not named here are Caoilte, Faolan and GoU inac Morna. 

2 From Kennedy's version, which begins the verse with "He 
had a cowl on his ugly bald head." 

^ In Irvine's version the smith also says, '* In the land of 
Lochlann I was reared : happy was the father to whom I and 
my two brothers were bom. Spaoili is supposed to mean Up- 

CO lo 

* G. has " like a dragon (or, bear)." 

5 Apparently this is meant to express their speed ; other ver- 
sions have, *' you could barely see the skirt of his dress over his 
haunches." In either case the reference is to the Uine or shirt 
of the native Irish. 

« Not in Gillies. 

7 al. and perhaps better, " A little opening made the smith." 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



II 



found the smithy with trouble •? they found 
four smiths of the King of Merve,* ill-natured, 
unshapely men. 

14. Every smith had seven hands and seven long 

light pincers, and the seven hammers smiting 
there, and no worse would it answer Daorglas. 

15. Daorglas, the man who heated the forge, bitter 

and severe were his strivings :^® his colour was 
redder than oak-coal, from the effect of the 
work. 

16. One of the smiths spoke up right grimly and right 

gruffly : ** Who is the slender fearless man that 
would stretch out a link of steel ?" 

17. Finn spoke and answered the question, as was 

befitting for him at the time, ** That name shall 
be well spread abroad :" it has been Daorglas 
up to this time." 

18. There we got weapons stretched out, the polished 

bright-hued swords, perfect in their make, 
straight and splendid arms. 

19. Fead and Faoi and Fasdal and Conlann, daugh- 

ter of the smithy," and the long sword that 
Dermid had ; many was the day he proved it. 

20. I myself had the Short ener of bodies, that sounded 

loudly in the conflict : Finn mac Cumhal had 
the Son of Lon that left not a ^^hred of man*s 
flesh. 
[21. ^* Then said the smith, after he had tempered 
them as best he could, " They will never be 
all to my mind until they are tempered in 
human flesh." 

22. They cast lots among them, to see on whom the 

strait should fall : and on whom did the lot 
fall but on Finn, the king of the Clan B^oisgne. 

23. Finn moved towards the door, full of wrath about 

the matter : and so it fell he went along the 
road a little way, ver}' deep in thought. 

24. He went on till he came to a door, and knocked 

at it like one asking hospitality : an old wo- 
man answered him, and wisely and quietly 
questioned him. 

25. ** What is it that you are seeking, and from 

whence are you come this way ?".... 

26. Finn answered right frankly—'* I should like to 

know your name. What is your custom alx)ut 
staying, or your dwelling in this quarter?"^* 

27. "I am the mother of the smith . well can he 

fashion blade-edges : and I have been staying 
in the dwelling where you now see my face." 

28. ** Your son is wanting to see you west at the door 

of the smithy " 

29. ** It is seven years since T have seen my son or 

one of my friends : but if he is wanting me at 
this time I shall go to see him just now." 



8 It being an enchanted place and not easily found. 
» Probably the same as Beirbhe, which means Copenhagen. 
!•> In Gillies, " Caoilte the man who watched the smithy : 
't is a true tale that he quarrelled." 

11 In G., " That name shall not be scattered." G. also has 
these four verses (14-17) in a wrong order. 

12 Names of the swords. This custom of giving names to 
swords perhaps came from the Norsemen. These seem to mean 
" Whistler, Sleep ([or Sound ?), Protection, and Strife." 

1* Fletcher's episode begins here ; it may not belong to the 
ballad, as it is not found in the other versions. 
M i,€, "Where do you usually live?" 



30. Then Finn and the old woman moved west to the 

door of the smithy : he put the woman in first, 
since misfortune was in store for her. 

31. The smith thrust the bright-hued weapons right 

through the body of his mother : then said he 
to Finn, ** O wicked one ! you have made me 
shed the blood that I wished not." 

32. Said he to Finn, ** There is your sword, and put 

it up in the scabbard." Finn said, when he 
took the sword, that it had a bend and a weak 
point in it. 

33. The smith asked to see it, what the bend was that 

did not please him : Finn regretted giving it 
up and he asked the sword back again without 
delay. 

34. He thrust the sword into the smith, and tempered 

it as he wished ] 

35. We started off on a journey to take a tale from 

the King of Lochlann. Then out spoke the 
noble king with gentle strength, as was be- 
coming. 

36. ** We would not give from fear of you an account 

of six of our company." Then we lifted up our 
spears, and it was in front of the banners. 

37. They were in their seven battalions : never a 

prince had thought of fleeing : but in the midst 
of the Foide Fineadh there were only six of us. 

24. Two of them were myself and Caoilte : three of 

them was hospitable Faolan : four of them was 
Finn their head : and five of them was valiant 
Oscar. 

25. Six was GoU mac Morna, that brooked no shame 

within my memory : but I will end the num- 
bering, since the Fiann have gone to decay. 

26. I was good in the day of the hot race in the smithy 

of Lon mac Liomhain : to-night weak is my 
strength. after numbering the band. 



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Discovery of Urns.— The Musselburgh 
News records the following interesting find : — 
"At Mr George Lowe's sandpit at Kirkpark, 
during the last fortnight, no fewer than eleven 
urns have been taken out. These are of diverse 
shape and size, and the majority have some pri- 
mitive attempts at ornamentation. The largest 
is 19 inches high, and the smallest 1%. As the 
largest noted in the catalogue of the Edinburgh 
Museum is some i6>^ inches, it may be said 
that the last found is the largest in Scotland. 
The vessels were found containing bones and 
covered with small flat stones. One was in- 
verted over a smaller one, which contained the 
bone fragments. They were all got standing in 
the centre of a layer of bones. The place is a 
cemetery of the bronze period — 18 feet square — 
and an urn, now in the Museum, eleven inches 
high, was taken from it six years ago. The ves- 
sels are of a brown earthenware, and a broken 
fragment shows them to consist of an inner layer 
of dark discoloured matter and an outer of lighter 
coloured clay." Eye. 



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[June, 1893. 



ArcH/*:ological Discovery on Deeside. 
— The Evening Gazette of Tuesday, May 16, 
contains the following: — "On Saturday after- 
noon, while some labourers were working in a 
field on the farm of Balbridie, Durris, they came 
upon a flat stone, which, on being removed, laid 
bare a tomb lined with four large flagstones. 
It was about 40 inches long, 30 inches wide, and 
24 deep. It contained two very complete urns, 
elaborately carved, and also a number of human 
bones, including an almost perfect lower jaw, 
with teeth in splendid condition. There was 
also a small quantity of charred wood. On 
making further search, two more tombs were 
found, which also contained fragments of urns 
and bones. It is believed that there are more 
graves in the locality." 

" The Last Relic of Inverugie Castle." 
— To the description of this interesting carving, 
given in the last number of S. N. 6** Q.^ the fol- 
lowing notes may be added : — 

The coat impaled with that of Keith is the 
form of the arms of Douglas borne by the Earls 
of Morton, namely : First and fourth, the pater- 
nal coat of Douglas ; second and third, Argent, 
three piles issuing from a chief gules charged 
with two stars of the field, for Douglas of Dal- 
keith. In the carving the chief in the arms of 
Keith is brought down so far as to make the 
shield appear to be parted per fess. The en- 
graving seems to show three pullets on the chief, 
not a chief paly of six, which is the earliest and 
most authentic form. 

In the Douglas coat the crown with which the 
heart is ensigned is more like an antique than 
an imperial crown, and the coronet above the 
shield is not of the modern form of an earl's 
coronet, or of the form of coronet of order of 
British nobility, as now borne. 

The initials " W. E. M." and "A. C. M." are 
obviously those of *' William, Earl Marischal," 
and " Anne, Countess Marischal." 

P. D.-M*C. 

Another Correspondent, writing on the same 
subject, says : — At one time there was a stone 
panel over the gateway of the Castle with the 
Marischal arms engraved on it, and a separate 
stone bearing the letters 

W 

C 

A M 

1670 

probably signifying William and Countess Anna 
Morton, or Marischal and the letters on the coat 
of arms carved on wood might stand for Earl 
Marischal and Anna Countess Marischal. This 
William was the 7th Lord, and he died in 1671. 
The stone panel with the arms was taken away 
in 1832 and placed upon the pillar in Wood 



Street, and the stone with the letters was, about 
seven years ago, lying in front of Mrs White- 
cross's house, near the Castle. J. A. 

Old Deer Stocking Stamp.— In the re- 
cent excavations at Gallowhills for the new gas- 
ometer to be erected there, the brass stamp, an 
impression of which is given below, was disco- 
vered. A difficulty presented itself at first as to 
the probable use to which the stamp had been 
put, but it now seems clear that it is the Stock- 
mg Stamp used at one time for Old Deer. 
Stockings were, as is well known, a large part 
of Aberdeen trade during the early part of the 
last century, and to prevent bad workmanship, 
and to serve as a ready means of identification, 
the Dean of Guild Court of Aberdeen, in 1748, 
issued stamps to a number of districts in the 
county, including Old Deer. The stamp dug 
out at Gallowhills may in all probability be that 
issued in 1748 to mark the work of the knitters 
in Old Deer. Alex M. Munro. 




DuNiiLANE Cathedral. — In the Scotsman 
of 1st May will be found an account of the Re- 
storation of Dunblane Cathedral, with a sketch 
of its structural history from its foundation. 

Xlterature* 



Scottish Ballad Poetry. Edited by George 
Eyrk-Todd. Glasgow: William Hodge & 
Co. 1893. [Pp. 323, jyi X 5 in.] 
This constitutes the Fourth volume of the ad- 
mirable Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets 
by the same editor, and will probably eclipse its 
predecessors in popularity, inasmuch as the 
subject possesses a wider interest. To the un- 
initiated few tasks appear more easy than the 
editmg a book of ballads, but to bring within the 
compass of such a book as this the aristocracy 
of our large heritage of balladry, and as repre- 
sented by their most characteristic and perfect 
versions, involves a critical acumen and a liter- 
ary sense less common than is supposed. A 
charming essay of 40 pages prefaces the volunie. 
In it the editor discusses the origin, transmis- 



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'3 



■ sion, decline anil fall of llie Ballad, as well as 
the renaissance of interest in ballad poetry, alonj; 
with the various methods of editing adopted in 
their modem reproduction. He is justlj' hard 
on the license assumed oy certain editors, in 
tampering with the integrity of the current texts 
of ballads. " The only satisfactory editiuK, 
therefore," says Mr Eyre- Todd, "must be that 
which prints each ballad as the editor finds it, 
and which lets it stand upon its own merits for 
what it is worth." Each ballad is accompanied 
by a prefatory note, containing, usually, a soil 
of synonymy of the piece. The marginal glosses 
characteristic of the series make the rough places 
plain for all. It may not comport with the ge- 
neral plan of the series, but where Professor 
Child has found pabulum for his splendid edition 
of ten volumes it would not be difficult to issue 
a second volume, and under (he same careful 
editing still be eclectic. Ed. 

The Making of n Biinffshirf Ilurgh, being an 
Account of the Early Historj' of Macduff. 
Hy W. CRAMONii, A.M., LL.D., F.S.A. Scot 
ItanfT, 1893. [40 pp., fcp. S\o.] 
No man is more constantly or usefully in evi- 
dence in this particular department of work than 
I)r Cramonil. This booklet is composed of 
notes which originally appeared in the Baiiff- 
shire Journal, " and have been compiled," says 
the author, " to aid the future histonan." Like 
all Dr Cramond's works, these modest notes are 
brimful of interesting facts, for which the reader 
of to-day, as well as the said historian, ought to 
By such excellent work IJr Cra- 
1 excellent example to many who 
le way aid in the writing of local 
histor)'. If consecutive narratives like this pam- 
phlet cannot be compiled, the more detached 
historical facts should be noted by those who 
possess them ; and before they pass to the limbo 
of fot^otten thinjja, they might, for the sake of 
the future historian, pass into our own pages for 
preservation. En. 

Paltick Don Siviin : Provost nf Kirkcaldy, 
1S41-S6. 
This neatly printed booklet has just been issued 
by Mr L. Macbcan of the Fifeshiri Advertiser, 
with the object of assistinjj in nii^^iniJ monev tn 
provide a "Sw;in" In-iiiivji- I Ik- mm. mk i^ 

ilUistraied with .1 j;riiiip, ., ■ 

lyle, Dr John Carlyle, li ■ ■ 

Provost Swan, and cmiL.Lin ■ . ,. , ■ 

the late Provost's intim.i. - 

. Sage. Mr Macbcan \\.\~ - ■ i '. !i . 

and intei-esting, yet full <>1 i: . i 

with anecdotes chaiacten-iii. i.i 'li.' I;. <ii,i 

simple nature of the Provost, wliu was knuwu 
far beyond the ken of his own Burgh. 

Eve. 



be grateful, 

night ii 



Antiifuiiiilen- Zeitung. — This weekly illus- 
trated paper appears at Stuttgart, Boblinger- 
strasse 2, and is entirely devoted — 5 pages of 
te.it and 3 of advertisements^to things anti- 
quarian. No. 17 of this, the first year, contains 
among other things several columns of descrip- 
tive paragraphs anent archfeological finds in 
various places, several discoveries of Roman 
and Germanic burial places, with urns and uten- 
sils, and a very interesting article on the unique 
Spilzer collection which has lately been liroughl 
under the hammer in Paris. K. C, 

(Iluecfes. 

774. Highland Uniforms. — Can any of your 
reniteis inlonn nie %vltat Hiiiferm (ifnny) the Lowland 
Regiments on the Rebel tide wore in the KebEllioa of 
1715? There were severnl I/iwland Reginienls, in 

Cliculiir ihe Eail of Slralhmnre had commnnd uf a 
wlnnil Regiment of foot, (the names of the officers 
of which are given in Patten's History of the Rebel- 
lioii), ani) the Earl cif Panmure had also under his 
cnniinand n strong R^iraenl of font. There is no 
iloula ihat the greater pan of the Kehei army wore 
the Highland drCES. The following K^ments went 
to England umlcr Brigadier Mackintosh :—(') Lord 
Ht rat hii lore's Regiment. (A large part of this Regi- 
ment, however, was [iievented from crossing the Forth, 
anil eonseijuenlly neverwentsouth). (a) ligieDniin- 
innml'a Regiment. (3) Lord Nairne'a Ri^menl. (4) 
Earl of Mar's Ualtalinn, being Mar's immediate fol- 
lowing. (A .small part of each of these three latter 
Regiments al^io wcrt prevented from cros-sing the 
F.>rlht. (s) Urd Charles Murray's Regiment. (6) 
The Mackintosh Regiment., Patten says Ihat all these 
RcEimentB wart the Highland dress except the Strath- 
mores, tjul he does not say how that Rc^ment was 
apparelled ; nor does it appear from any of the ulher 
Histories how the other Repmenl^ of Foot, (of which 
Panmure's was the largest), nor the Cavalry, under 
the Earl of Southesk, were dressed. Perhaps some 
nf yuur many readers can inform me on this suhjcct. 
Mac-Ancv';. 

775. Cdrious DisfoVEHV.— The (7/u.t;-fli<. Etvn- 
in/: Citizen of April 17, 1S93, has ihe following: — 
" A rather curious discovery was made at Falkirk last 
month. A gamekeeper, named Watt, while clearing 
a stognaiit pool at Graeme's Dyke, on the Roman wall 
at<}reenhank, dshedup two complete coffins in pieces, 
jiid ]ini! of a third. A nickel plate attached to one 
\, I ivns in a good state of preservation, and Ixire 

■ riL-ia "I.H.S.," surroounteil hy two crossed 

<<U :ind emhleiualic figures. The police Were in- 

. . , . il, .nnil ninde diligent learch for human remains, 

Min-<-.<. Thrr^ w no l.iLryin(!-Er>.um! in the 

.11 ■" l'....r Iv - ■ II. I. ;.ii k i-i i:i.-.|ii.nilent might 






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[June, 1893. 



777. Drs. Wm. Smith (Uncle and Nephew). 
— In the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
of America in the end of last century, there is frequent 
allusion made to two clergymen, uncle and nephew, 
who were named Rev. Dr William Smith. The elder 
is said to have graduated at Aberdeen in 1747, and 
got his D. D. degree at Oxford, Dublin, and Aber- 
deen. The younger was born in 1754, and probably 
graduated about twenty years after. Do the matricu- 
lation or graduation lists at the University throw any 
light upon the birthplace, studies or graduation of 
these men, who are of interest as having left their 
mark upon the American Church ? 

James Gammack, LL.D. 
Plymouth, Conn. 

778. Rev. James Blair, D. D., Commissary in 
Virginia in the end of the 17th century. Director of 
Williamsburg, and President of William and Mary 
College, was born in Scotland in 1656, was ordained 
there about 1679, ^"cl died 1st August, 1743, in his 
88th year, and in the 65lh year of his priesthood . Is 
there any allusion to him in the books of the Univer- 
sity of Aberdeen, or in any of the ecclesiastical records? 
Is it known where he got his D.D. ? If he graduated 
at Aberdeen it had probably been vihctMi 1676, but 
he may have been educated at any of the other Scotch 
Universities. James Gammack, LL.D. 

Plymouth, Conn. 

779. Rev. James Hamilton, M.A. — This gen- 
tleman, an Episcopal Hymn- writer, is described in 
Julien's Dictionary of Hymnology as a native of Glen- 
dollar, Scotland, and born 1819 ; and in an earlier 
Book on Hymn-writers is said to be a native of Ellen- 
dollar. Can any reader of S. N. ^ Q. say which 
account is correct, and mention where Glendollar or 
Ellendollar is ? W. B. R. W. 

780. Alexander Watson, Song-writer.— Alex- 
ander Watson was a Merchant in Aberdeen, and the 
reputed author of several old Scotch songs. It is 
stated in Whistle Binkie^ vol. i, page 246, that Mr 
Watson was at one time Deacon of the Incorporated 
Trades of the Northern Metropolis. The Bards of 
Bon- Accord also styles him Deacon Watson, p. 328. 
I am desirous of ascertaining the year he was so, and 
have consulted Bain's History of the Aberdeen Incor- 
porated Trades unsuccessfully, at pp. 44-46. I will 
be pleased if any of your readers supply me with the 
information wanted. William Thomson. 

7 Madeira Place, Leith. 

781. Shipwreck of the Oscar. — Can any of 
your Aberdeen readers inform me regarding this dis- 
aster, which took place there about 70 years ago. Is | 
there any superstitious feeling on the part of seamen I 
commencing a long voyage on a PViday in conse- 1 
quence of this shipwreck ? 

Dundee. Aberdoninn. 

782. Round Towers at Abrrnrthy and Bre- 
chin. — I am sure you will give space in 6". N, 6^ Q, 
for information regarding these — namely, the date of 
their erection, by whom they were erected, the pur- 
pose which they were intended to serve, or other in- 
formation therewith connected. 

Dunoon. J. M*D. 



783. James Hislop, Author of the ** Came- 
RONiAN s Dream." — I will be obliged for further 
information regarding the above other than is to be 
found in Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature^ 
vol. 2, p. 508, or say where it is to be found. 

Dumfries. W. B. 

Hnswets. 



103. Caledonian Ocean (I., 180; XL, 188).— 
I am interested in this name and still wish an expla- 
nation. In the Latin Ptolemy's map of the British 
Isles, of date 1478, I find the sea immediately to the 
north of Scotland marked ** Oceanus Deucalidonius." 
The map which accompanies Pennant's Tour in Scot- 
land \_iyTT,\ has the same. If this latter map is not 
merely a copy of one much older, it would show that 
the seas adjacent to the Orkneys were known under 
this name till recent times. Can it be that in the 
quotation given at S. N. ^ Q.^ I., 180, ** Caledo- 
nion " is simply a misprint for " Deucalid onion " ? 
How did the sea get the latter name? As having a 
connection with the subject, I may say that I have 
heard the Firth of Forth called the " I^ith Firth,'' 
by a Captain trading to it. 

J. Calder Ross. 

365. James Man and Arthur Johnston (III., 
105, 125, 127, 143). — The editors of (iordon's Scots 
Affairs (Dr Joseph Robertson and Dr George Grub) 
mention (pref., p. 27) ** two volumes of his [James 
Man's] Historical Collections, now in the Library of 
the Faculty of Advocates ". An entry in the Senatus 
Minutes of King's College, of date 9th July 1806, 
states that the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, ac- 
quired, per Mr Brown, bookseller, the books of the 
late Professor Thomas Gordon, in whose hands Man's 
Collections on Arthur Johnston were known to have 
been. P. J. Anderson. 

413. Ionaor Ioua(III., 173, 192; IV., 18, 58). — 
In reading the Duke of Argyle's ** lona," I came 
across the following note, which may be of interest in 
connection with the alx)ve discussion. It seems to 
indicate that the latter name is of recent use. ** In 
Adamnan's Li'"e it is uniformly spelt * loua.' In the 
Gaelic language at the present day it is familiarly 
called * I', which simply means * Island'; but I am 
informed that the ancient form used by Adamnan, 
* loua', is still occasionally employed." [p. 100 n.] 

J. Calder Ross. 

771. Bayne of Tulloch (VI., 189). —The arras 
of this family are given in Nisbefs Heraldry, They 
are — **^s//r^ a wolfs head erased or armed, and 
languid gnles. Crest, a dexter hand grasping a dirk 
or^ Motto, * ut marte et arte,^ " There are no quar- 
terings given by Nisbet. Duncan Bayne had a char- 
ter of the lands of Tulloch, &c., in 1542; and it is 
stated in Burke's Lafided Gentry^ that Henry David- 
son, Esq., bought Tulloch from Kenneth Bayne in 
1763. 

Dundee. R. C. W. 

772. Great Britain as Seen by Foreigners 
(VI., 180). — A List of Foreign authors who have 
written on England and Scotland is rather a large 



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SCOTTISir NOTES AND QUERIES. 



'5 



order even for ihu hiapitable columns of S. N. &- 0' 
I give here a smnll list of such books in my )Wsses- 
sion, which may be uf inletesi to Mr C. Burion. 
Taine's " Nolcs sur rAngleterre," and especially his 
" History of English Literature," nre full of slriklne 
pictures and remarkable ohaervation. De Sotbi^re s 
work I don't know. Mostly nil the newer hooks can 
be easily got through Hachette & Co., London. 

Max O'^Rell's various books. 

Francis Wey. Les Anglais chex eux. 

„ Dick Moon Rn France. lournnl 

n Anglais de Paris. (May lie of inleresi in 



this 



Hector France. Les vn-nu-picrls de Lundrcs anil 
several other l»oks, in which he descrilies, in 
alrong colours, the shadier sideii ol low life. 

P. Datyl. I, La vie publique en Angleteire, 2, 
En Vacht. 3, I.es Anglais en Irlandc. 

A. Esquiros. L'Anglelerre el la vie Anglnise. 

F. Prevust. I^ musique au jinys des HrouillntdK. 

Mandat Grancey. Chez Poildy. 

F. Michel. Les Ecossais en France, et les F'ranfais 
en Ecosse. Contains much infomiatiDn, especi- 



]iroliably not whol the f[ueri.'it wants. 
Amongst the older ("hioniders and Critics migfil 
lie mentioned Bran ir.me, ifilh century, and Ktois- 

In CoEsell's National Library :i)iix.'arcd Irnnslnlions 
of two German relations nf 1' ravels in l-Ingland 
in the 17th and i8th centuries \~{a) Paul llenli- 
ncr — Travels in England during the reign of 
<Jueen Elizabeth. (*) C. I". Moiiti— Travels in 
England in 1782. 
ll^nrich Heine. " Engiische Kragnienle," a con- 
tinuation to " Heiseliilder." contained in the 
lixth vol. of Heine's wiirks, in TTie Coriaschc 
Bibliolhek der WeltlilleratUT. One mark per vol. 
Italian. — Giuseppe liaretli— (!!' Inglesi, (18th cen- 
turyj. Giusepi* Pecchiii— Le llinvani Inglesi. Eii- 
miHido di Amid— Ricordi di l^imlra. 

RHSsian.^M. Galovina — l)n;inl [,iel v'Anclia. 
(Ten Years in F.nglaml). 

Interesting tit-hilK of petSMnnl eniwrience and spc- 
cntalion miuhl lie found in dozen* of il ilTerent aulhnrs, 
like Benvenuto Cellini, J. J. Kousseau. Voltaire. 
Momciquieu, &c. A, CtrKtsiEN. 

.SCOTCH BOOK.S FIIK THE MONTH. 

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Sarah Selin.! Hamt-i. ['ocktl Novel Eiliiion, 

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Porphyry and Modern Rationalism. Rev. A, 

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Glimpses of the Olden Times, U-ing I':iiiact<> 

Illoslralive of the S'H:ial Life, and Manner? of the 
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Christ. Prof. Roberts. Cr 8vo, 3s Gardner. 
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History of the 2nd Dragoons— The Royal Scots 

Greys Second to None, 1678- 1893. Lieut-Col. 

Percy Groves. Illust. by Harry Payne, 3s net. 

Johnston. 
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and Natural. W. Hay. i6mo, is 6d Parlane. 
Johnston's Large Plan of Edinburgh. New Ed., 

in case is, on clo. 2s, do. and rollers, 4s Johnston. 
Leaving the Manse ; a Disruption tale. Kezia. is 

Nelson. 
Leisure Hour Verses. Alexander Small. Elliot. 
Life (The) of Christ in the Words of the Scripture. 

Rev. John McRury. Sinclair. 

Marjory's Story. A ( iirls' account of the Disruption. 

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Mrs. McFuddle an' Her Neebors. Jessie R. 

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Noel Chetwynd's Fall. Mr. J. H. Needell. Pocket 

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Nwan Ima. The Woman of Love ; Memorial 

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(July, 1893. 



following minutes of the Infirmary Board explain 
the initials on the stone, which must have been 
placed in the new building : — 

9th April, 1754. ** And the meeting recommend to 
the Provost to write a letter to Dr Gordon of Pitlurg, 
as present Master of the Masons' Lodge, that he and 
his fraternity may be pleased to give their counten- 
ance to the laying of the foundation-stone of the new 
building of the said Infirmary. James Morison, 
Preses. 

i6th April, 1754. ** The Directors of the Infirmary 
are to meet with the Magistrates in the Town House, 
on Thursday next, the eighteenth instant, at eleven 
forenoon, in order to countenance the solemnity of 
laying the foundation-stone of the new buildings of 
the Infirmary." 

The first set of initials are consequently those 
of Dr James Gordon of Pitlurg, Master of the 
The Lodge of Aberdeen, and the P. J. M. stands 
for Provost James Morison of Elsick, who was 
also Chairman of the Infirmary Board. 

Alex. M. Munro. 



»>» 



A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDINBURGH 

PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 

(Begun in 5. N, ^ Q., V., July, 1891.) 

18 ? Scottish Presbyterian Magazine. 
Monthly, price 4d. The organ of the Reformed 
Presbyterians in Scotland. Conducted by 
several ministers of that denomination. It 
contained able articles on religious topics. 
Published by Johnstone & Hunter, 104 High 
Street. It was at one time published at Ayr 
(vide S. N. &> Q., V., 45, 64). 

1837. Scottish Tract Magazine^ begun Octo- 
ber, 1837. Published by the Monthly Tract 
Co., and printed by R. Marshall, East Rose 
Street. Monthly, 12 pp., 8vo. It contained the 
usual kind of religious " tit bits." The volumes 
ran for two years. The last I have note of is 
Vol. 5 ; the last number of the tract bearing date 
September, 1847. 

^^yj (?)• ^^^ Phoenix; sl weekly Roman 
Catholic paper, edited by Dr. D. Cox. It ran 
for about 9 months. 

1837. The Consen/ative. Number i, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1837. Daily (this was in fact the 
earliest daily Scottish newspaper). The adver- 
tisement announcing its advent ran : — 

"This day is published No. I, price only three- 
pence, of the first daily Scottish newspaper, entitled 
The Conservative^ — the advocate of the just rights of 
the King, the Church, and the People. Published in 
Edinburgh every lawful day after the arrival of the 
London Mails, and containing full reports of the 
Parliamentary Debates, and the whole Foreign and 
Domestic intelligence of the day. The utmost 
attention paid to all intelligence relating to the 
Agricultural, Mercantile, and Manufacturing in- 



terests ; and accurate reports given of the London, 
Edinburgh, and Provincial Markets, Shipping News, 
Prices Current, &c." 

" The career of this pioneer of the Scottish 
daily press," says Mr. Norrie, "was compar- 
atively brief, the reading public not being yet 
able to stand threepence worth of Conservatism 
daily." 

1 837. Scottish Pilot Published at 166 High 
Street, "near the Cross." The prospectus, 
issued at the beginnmg of 1837, was as follows : 

" Early in February will appear the First Number 
of The Scottish Pilot Newspaper ; to be published in 
Edinburgh every Wednesday morning (and a Second 
Edition, containing the Markets and Latest News, 
about two o'clock), and to be conducted on Religious 



Principles. Its political motto is * Forward ; its 
moral code, * Do not evil that good may come ; * and 
its religious standard, * The Bible — Christianity Un- 
fettered and Unaided by Secular Power.' Scottish 
Dissenters must support this paper — Liberal Church- 
men may support it. Copies of the Prospectus may 
be obtained, and orders for the Paper may, in the 
meantime, he addressed to Mr. W. Matheson, book- 
seller, 69 George Street; Mr. M. Paterson, bookseller, 
12 Union Place; and Mr. Thomas Russell, 154 High 
Street. Persons in the country desirous of procuring 
the Scottish Pilot are requested to forward a remit- 
tance, or authorise a friend in town to order it for 
them. Arrangements are being made to have the 
first number issued on the first or second Wednesday 
of February. Terms — Payable in advance, per 
quarter, 4s. Qd. ; per half-year, 9s. ; per annum, 18s. 
Credit, per quarter, 5s. 3d. ; per half-year, los. ; per 
annum, 20s. For single copy, 4d." 

This paper was established to serve and be 
the organ of the Dissenters. Its editor was 
understood to be a Voluntary preacher, " whose 
writings," says Fraser, *' had about them all that 
rabid violence which is characteristic of his 
order when they become political agitators." 
The publication of the Scottish Pilot was con- 
tinued for a number of years. In March, 1841, 
the average circulation was said to be about 400 
weekly. 

1837. Phrenological Journal and Magasine 
of Moral Science. This publication, which 
eminated from George Combe and his associates 
and disciples, was a continuation of the Phreno- 
logical Journal and Miscellany^ started in 1823 
(vide S. N. &^ Q., VI., 19). Shortly after the 
commencement of the periodical {i.e. the earlier 
one) Combe became editor. His own contri- 
butions in support of this " science " are easily 
recognised by "the clearness, force, and ele- 
gance of his style." The Phrenological Journal 
was afterwards edited by Combe's nephew, Cox. 

1837. The Courier; weekly. A Roman 
Catholic paper, edited by David Doud. 

1837. Dramatic Spectator; edited by Poi, 



July 1893.] 



SCOTIISff N07ES AND QUERIES. 



Quiz, and Company. 8vo, 10 numbers pub- 
lished, price id. 

1837. MagoMine of Zoology and Botany ; 
conducted by Sir William Jerdine, P. J, Selby, 
and Dr. Johnston. 2 volumes. Continued as— 
Annals of Nalural Histoty, or Magazine of 
Zoology, Botany, and Geology. London, 5 vols., 
1838-40. Continued as — Annals and Magazine 
of Nalural History. Vols. 6-20, London, 1841- 
47 ; Second Series, 1848. 

1838. Medical Press Review. Monthly, 
price 5d. How many numbers? 

1839. Edinburgh University Magazine, 
Three numbers at least. 

1839. Edinburgh Literary Circular. Was 
this a periodical? and can any reader stale ho«' 
many numbers were issued, or supply other 
details F 



1817. Literary and Statistical Magasine for 
Scotland {vide S. N. &■ fi., V., 184). Motto : 
Simul et jucunda et idotiea dicere vita. — Hor. 
Edinburgh ; Printed for Macredie, Skelly &. Co., 
52 Prince's Street J. Pillans & Son, printers. 
Since noting this literary and scienti5c publi- 
cation, 1 have had an opportunity of examining 
Vols. 2 and 3, and think it advisable to give a 
detailed account of its aim and contents. The 
second volume begins with No. 5 of the maga- 
zine, and is dated February, 1818. The publi- 
cation will well bear dipping into, as it contains 
much interesting information relative to (he 
literary and scientific opinions of the period, and 
notices of recent publications. Many of the 
theories propounded in the articles are, neces- 
sarily, out of date, but there still remains much 
of permanent value. In order to give an idea 
of the bill of fare provided, I quote the contents 
of No. 5, Vol. 2 :— 

Original Communications — Remarks on Dr. Spurz- 
heim'a Theory ; On the Gipsies ; Boccaccio's Slory 
uf ?'cderigo Albeiigi and his Falcon ; Specimens of a 
Commenlsry on ihe Aphorisms of IHppociales; On 
the Aurura Borealis ; On Ihe System of Education 
PuiBueil in the Scotch Universities ; Remarks on ihe 
Various Translations of Virgil's jlilneiil by British 
Authors; Genealogical Chart of the Heathen Gods; 
Modern Critiwni. Extracts from Recent Publica- 
tions. Review (of new books — the first noticed being 
Scott's Rob Roy). Stalislii^ ; Scientific iDronDBtiun ; 
Queries and .\nswers (mainly dealing with pure 
niHthemalics) ; Poetry (original and selected): Aca- 
demical Intelligence (deaths, promulions, prizei, 
(l^rees conferred, 4c.); List of New Publications; 
Notes to Correspondents. 

It may be thought advisable to "make a note," 
as Captain Cuttle advises, of the towns dealt , 
with in the Statistical Account given in each 



quarterly number. These seem to have been 
full and reliable. The parishes in the second 
and third volumes are : — Berwick-upon-Tweed ; 
Tweedsmuir (Peeblesshire) ; Cranston (in Mid- 
lothian) ; the united parishes of Evie and Kendall 
{in the Presbytery of Kirkwall) ; Dunsyre 
(Lanarkshire); die united parishes of Broughton, 
Glenholni, and southern part of Kilbucho (Peeb- 
lesshire). Several meteorological tables are 
given, from observations made in the island of 
Shapinshay, Orkney. The following articles 
may also be noted, as they may interest readers 
of Ji'. N. ^ g.., viz. :— On the Changes in Uress 
of the Scottish Peasantry ; Holidays formerly 
kept in Scotland, and some of the Superstitions 
connected with them ; On the Change of Man- 
ners in Edinburgh ; On the Superstitions of the 
Highlands ; State of Scotland during Cromwell's 
Protectorate. 

Phrenology figures prominently in the pages 
of this (quarterly, as it did in most of the scien- 
tific periodicals of that time. George Combe, 
under the nom de guerre. Res non verba quaso, 
contriouted many articles on phrenology and 
kindred subjects to the IJterary and Siaiisfical 
Magasine ; and these formed the basis for his 
Essays on Phrenology, published in Edinburgh 
in 1819, George Combe, with Uavid Welsh and 
others, formed the Phrenological Society, in 
Edinbui^'h ; which, in 1823, started the Phreno- 
logical foumal (vtde S. N. &■ g., VL, 19). 

The articles in the Literary and Statistical 
are on the whole heavy reading, and there is a 
considerable modicum of (ruth in the strictures 
on the conduct of the publication made in a 
letter addressed to the editor and entitled, 
" Hints to the Editor respecting the true plan of 
a Periodical Journal." The letter is apparently 
a playful attack on the reviewers of the Jeftrey 
and Giflford school :— 

" You appear to have erected some old-fa;hioned 
standard of lilernry morality, and to have rallied round 
it a remnant of the last century, whose notions are as 
antiquated as your own. And with this band of 
veteran fencibles you have, it seems, resolved, and 
perhaps prudenlly when we consider youi means, to 
confine youru-lf to your own province, lu enter into 
no offensive warfare, and lo provoke no allack. How 
different this is from the modern system of liletaij 

' :s I bflieve I need not inform you ; but you 
il also know that a work of the nature of yours, 
far from seeking lo lead the public. 



of the old school cuts in a circle of our modern petits- 
maitrei. Now-a-days wc never look for wisdom in a 
book less than a poclly oclavo ; a magazine ivc wish 
to lie a companion, not a tutor, and lay il aside with 

pretending to make us wiser or betlei. . . . You 
wish, perhaps, to act upon the trite maxim of doing 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July, 1893. 



nolhinK secretly, which yau wuulrf not wish known 
by the whole wutld ; and accordingly 1 have been 
lold that you have used no means far concealing your 
identity, that you wear no mask, and are not even 
half concealed by a veil. Trust me, however, that 
in all this you have thought and done wrong, . , . 
You tell us far too little about the great men ol our 
own times. . ■ ■ Should a copy of your work per- 
Bdventure be found tifly years hence by your grand- 
children, they might read it from beginning In end 
without ever guessing that the finest spirits of this our 
northern Athene were wont to assemble in a gloomy 
tavern of a darksome close, to congratulate themselves 
on their own parts ; to laugh at Horace, whom few of 
them could read, and Pope, whom none of them could 
understand ; but chiefly to drink punch, and smoke 
tobacco. . . . Will the maxims of Christians and 
Paijans, the practice of Eastern Poets and Western 
Reviewers, be alike lost upon you?" 

A MS. note to one of the articles, " On the 
more Distinctive Characters of Genius," in the 
volume I have examined, attributes it to Thomas 
Carlyle. Is this correct? Carlyle was then in 
Edinburg'h, writing for Brewster's Cydopadia^ 
hut the article in question exhibits no trace of 
what Mr. Augustine Birrell styles, "Thomas 
Carlyle, his mark.'' Ciirjyle we know, however, 
who neverbecamea classical scholar.and showed 
little predilection for philosophy, was, when at- 
tending Edinburgh University, attracted to ma- 
thematics : partly, perhaps, because Leslie was 
the only professor there who seemed to have any 
"genius in his buainess." He afterwards be- 
came mathematical tutorat Annan School ; and 
later still proved his liking for that science by 
translating Legendre's Geometry, fitr Brewster. 
Bearing these facts in mind, the concluding 
paragraph of the article in question, quoted 
below, where the achievements of Scottish ma- 
thematicians are so much lauded, seems to point 
to Carlyle as the author. 

"The position we would maintain, and which has 
often lieen admitted, we believe, li that the example 
of masters of superior powers has had a decided influ- 
ence in the production of genius. Let the fact be ex- 
plained as il may, it canaoi. be coolioverteil that under 

fidenis have commonly appeared in grou|>«, and that 
great genius has commonly owed its birlh, in one way 
or another, to the genius of its preileeessor. Of this 
remark, bt^de other known instances, the malhemai- 
icat histoiy of Holland aflbrds, perhap<i, iomc of the 

must notable illualTatiuns It was at the 

lime of the Andersons of Finshaugh, (brothers or cou- 
sins), when the Marischal College, Aberdeen, stimu- 
lated by their names, acquired such celebrity in 
mathematics, as to be the earliest aeminpiry of these 
sciences in this country, and the nursery for professors, 
and other eminent literary men, to other colleges. In 
this career of science, we al present recollect not dis- 
tinctly the trophies of the two Grt^ories, James and 
David, of Maclaurin or of Sirason, in their times ; 



ve know that the world has done justice to the 
distinguished merits of the contemporary names of a 
Kobison, a Stewart, and a Playfair ; and we know 
that, during the superintendence of the late FrofessOT 
Vilant of St Andrews, who for forty-four years, with 
unshaken perseverance, upheld the dignity of the 
mathematics, there emerged from that seminary a 
Playfair, a (llennie, a West, a Leslie, and an Ivory, 
names which adom the sciences, and will yet, we 
trust, confer on them moae brilliant lustre." 

The Ettrick Shepherd's brother, William, was 
an occasional contributor. 

The two volumes of the Uitrary and Statisti- 
cal Magazine I have described can be seen in 
the Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library ; the 
British Museum has, I believe, a complete set 
of the volumes. 

J.\MES W. Scott. 

I" Ta be continued. ) 



LIST OF THE INHABITANTS OF OLD 

ABERDEEN, 1616. 

{Continued from Vol. VII.., page g.) 

Issobell Smythe, kailseller, hir dochter, and 

Katharin Paip, servant 
James Dauidsone, wobster.his wyff,thriebaimes, 

and Barbara Forsythe, servant. 
Robert Andcr5one,cordiner, his wyff, tuo bairnes, 

and Elspet Catto, servant. 
William Nicoll, wobster, his wyfi and his dochter 

Williaiit Willox, spinster, in Williame Nicoll's 

John Cordim of Deuchries, his wytf, tuo bairnes, 
William Chryslie and Agnes Farquhassone, 



William Buchane, flescher, his wyff, tuo bairnes, 

and Issobell Stewart, servant. 
Margaret Blakbume, hir selfe, hit dochter, and 

Janet Baitd, servant. 
William Gibsonc, husbandman, his wyff, fyve 

bairnes, and Meriorie Stewart, servant. 
Alexander Hantoun, his sister and ane baime. 
Issobell Gawine, brewster, and Forsythe, 

Robert Blinschelljflescher.his v^yfr,thrie bairnes, 

and Janet Fergusone, servant. 
William Nicol, younger, wobster, himselfe and 

his wyff onlic. 
Robert Nicol, his wyff, his sone, and tuo oyes. 
Alexander Vricht, couper, himselfe, his wyfi^ and 

tuo dochteris. 
Johne Cruikshank, heilmaker, his wyff, three 

bairnes, and Janet Stanneris, servant. 
Johne Kedie, tailzeour, and his wyff onlie. 
Elspet Leslie, customer, and her dochter onlie. 



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Robert Jake, gairdner, and his wyff onlie. 
Issobell Camecorse and Elspet Norie, of no 

calling, in Johne Gilcrystes hous, absent. 
Patrick Dauidsone, fischseller, and his wyff onlie. 
Issobell Gordoun and Elspet Branies, hir guid 

sister. 
Johne Law, wobster, his wyff, hir sone, and Johne 

Lidinghani, servant. 
Mariorie Hay, and Patricke Citchie, tailzeour. 
George Zoungsone, wobster, his wyff, and thrie 

baimes. 
Alexander Cruikshank, book binder, and his 

wyffe onlie. 
Elspet Torrie, shanker, tua baimes, and Elspet 

Petrie, servant. 
James Ailes, wobster, his wyff, and tua baimes. 
Andro Barker, smythe, his wyff and fyue baimes, 

the eldest 13 zeir. 
Alexander Guthrie, saidler, his wyff and thrie 

baimes, the eldest 13 zeir. 
Thomas Simsone, merchand, his wyff, ane going 

baime, and Elspet Smythe, servant. 
Robert Menzies, skinner, his wyff, thrie bairnes, 

and Beatrix French, thair servant — he come 

lot about sex weeks agoe. 
Thomas Spens, cuike, his wyffe^ thrie bairnes, 

his guidmother, and Agnes Wilsone, servant 
Andro Gray, fiescher, and his sister onlie. 
Robert Orem,cordiner,his wyff and four baimes, 

the eldest 16 zeir. 
Johne Andersone, cordiner, his wyff, tuo zoung 

baimes, Johne Hutcheon and Elspet Gerret, 

servant. 
Cristiane Blakburne, her dochter, and Helene 

Sibbald. 
Beatrix Torrie and Bessie Gray, hir dochter. 
Margaret Sangster, hir thrie brethren, tua young 

baimes, and Janet Hendersone, servant. 
Walter Sinclair, wricht, his wyff and thrie baimes, 

the eldest 15 zeir. 
Nicoll Torrie, husbandman, his wyff and four 

baimes, the eldest 8 zeir. 
James Tailyeour, his wyff, and ane bairne. 
George Moir, smythe, his wyff and four bairnes, 

the eldest 15 zeir. 
Mariore Simsone, browster, and Elspet Hay, hir 

servant. 
Thomas Megus, wobster, his wyff, Williame 

Vobster and Issobell Brine, servantes. 
Janet Blake and Margret Settoun, spinsteris and 

sewsteris in on hous. 
John Mackie, wobster, his wyff, Johne Gray and 

Elspet Keiths, servants. 
Alexander Ortoun, baxter, his wyff, Elspet 

Garioche and Agnes Sangster, servantes. 

Hendrie Adame, cordiner, his wyff, ane bairne, 
and Cristiane Smythe, servant. 

Walter Ortoun, his wyff, George and Issobell 
Ortounes, their baimes, men and women. 



George Chalmer, laxfischer, his wyff and four 

baimes, men and women. 
Janet Torrie, spinster, and thrie baimes, the 

eldest fyfteine zeiris of age. 
Janet Sandie, spinster. 
Dauid Simsone, traveller, and his wyff onlie. 
Androw Torrie, husbandman, his wyff, ane baime, 

and Issobell Pantoune, servant. 
Johne Forsyith, his wife, tua baimes, and Janet 

Johnstoune, servant. 
Elspet Selbie, shanker, and hir tuo dochteris. 
Johne Arthour, tailzeour, his wyff, and thrie, 

baimes, the eldest 18 zeir. 
Alexander Reid, wobster, and his wyff onlie. 
Janet Here vie. 
Elspet Tailzeour, candlemaker, and Issobell 

Eraser, spinster. 
Robert George Smythe, his wyff, his dochter, 

George Blythe& Elspet Hendersone, servantes. 
Helene Jamesone, spinster, and tua haimes. 
Andro Nicoll, husbandman, his wyff, ane baime, 

and Margaret Sutherland, servant. 
James Rainy, tailzeour, and his wyff onlie. 
Agnes Dreden, commer, onlie. 
Donald Wrquhart, gai rdner, his wyff, four bairnes, 

John Innes, Issobell Daniell, and Margret 

Tailzeour, his servantes. 
George Andersone, husbandman, his wyff, four 

bairnes, the eldest seuin zeires old, James 

Anderson and Meriorie Russell, servantes. 
Elspet Robertsone, breidseller. 
Walter Cruikshank, cordiner, and his sone onlie. 
Thomas Turner, his wyff and tua baimes. 
Mr Alexander Gairden, Advocat, and Johne 

Wricht, his servant. 
James Watsone, tailzeour, his wyff, and four 

bairnes, the eldest 13 zeir. 
Janet Mar, spinster, hir dochter, and Meriorie 

Williamsone, servant. 
Meriorie Carll, breidseller, and hir sone, ane man. 
Thomas Cuming, staibler, his wyff, his sone 

and ane oy. 
Patrick Omond and Jeane Campbell, his wyff, 

onlie. 
Bessie Duncane and thrie bairnes, the eldest 

fourtein zeir old. 
Williame Fyiff, measone, his wyff and thrie 

bairnes, the eldest 13 zeir. 
George Middiltoun, his wyff, seyne baimes, 

Alexander Lumisden, Alexander Leith, Jeane 

Gairden, Cristiane Dauie, Katherin Ros, and 

Margret Ross, their servants. 
William Bumet, his wyff, thrie bairnes, and 

Kathrin Prat, servant. 
Mr John Lundie, his wyff, tuo bairnes, Kathrin 

Addie and Janet Andro, servantes. 

The Commissar, his wyiff, thrie sones and good 
sone, tua dochteris, James Sime, Cristopher 
Curlande, Johne Nicolsone, Rebecca Howat, 



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[July, 1893. 



Margaret Cushnie, and Margret Lindsay, 
servantes. 

Janet Gordoun, hir dochter, Janet Scheipheard, 
Margaret and Elspet Watsone, servantes. 

The guidwyff of Coclarachie, Mariorie Low and 
Elspet Wobster, servantes. 

Johne Ritchie, bronduster,his wyfFand tua young 
bairnes. 

William Wat, notar, his wyff, and Janet Dun- 
can, servant. 

Johne Garioche, his [himself] and ane bairne. 

Janet Fraser and Issobell Lumsden, servantes. 

The guidwyiff of Auchrydie, hir oy onlie. 

Archbauld Bischope, belman. 

Janet Cruikshanke and her dochter. 

Elspet Lessen, hir sone and hir dochter, men 

and women. 
John Kilgour, elder, James and Harie Kilgouris 

and his oy. 
Johne Kilgour, zounger, his wyff, tua bairnes, 

and Margret Dauidsone. 
The laird of Banchrie, his wyff, and Cristiane 

Cuy, servant. 
Birsmoir, his wyff, ane zoung bairne, his tuo 

sisters, Robert Wicht, Issobell Knolles and 

Katherine Bannermane, servantes. 

Richard Foullartoun and his servant. 

Alexander Gordoun, his wyff, ane zoung bairne, 
and Agnes Mill, servant. 

Barbara Fiddes, spinster, and hir dochter. 

Mr Alexander Scrogie, his wyff, fyue bairnes, 
Jeane Allane and Kathrin I ruing, servants. 

Mr James Foullartoun and Agnes Duiguid. 

Agnes Meeke, poor. 

Johne Forbes and James Reid, his servant. 

Alexander Moubray, his wyff, his dochter, and 
his tua oyes. 

Janet Woode, vidow. 

Cristiane Con, hir dochter, and Elspet Philp, 
hir servant. 

Patrick Gordoun, and Alexander Key the, his 
servant. 

Williame Dunne, his wyff, and tuo zoung bairnes. 

Mr Gilbert Rose, his wyff, tua bairnes, and Isso- 
bell Iruing, servant. 

Mr Thomas Lillie, his wyff, his guidmother, his 
tuo brethren, his tuo bairnes, William For- 
syithe and Issobell Forbes, servantes. 

The result of this census shows that in 1636 
the adult population consisted of 235 males and 
324 females, and that including the *' bairnes " 
the total population was 836. 

Alex. M. Munro. 



■♦•♦ 



The Last Relic of Inverugie Castle 
(VII., 12). — The word "pullets" should be pal- 
lets ; and after " coronet of," insert " any other." 



ABERDEENSHIRE FOLK LORE. 
( Concluded from page j.) 

A mother's philosophy, contained in auld pro- 
verbs and maxims, may be divided into two 
kinds : that which is addressed to the younger 
branches of a family, and that which generally 
applies to the female sex when about to leave 
home for domestic service for the first time, or 
on the eve of marriage. Lore of this kind, such 
as might be expected from a father, I find to be 
rarer, and of another kind, deserving of a notice 
of its own. 

The following may be taken as belonging to 
the second branch of local lore of the kind I 
have called attention to. 

Not a few of the proverbs of all nations have 
received the attentions of the rhymster, and are 
preserved in metrical form, which helps the 
memory and assists to preserve the moral con- 
tained. With a few I take the liberty of pre- 
senting them in this form, believing that they 
will be easily recognised by all interested in the 
subject : — 

Learn young, learn fair ; 

Age an' want is an ill-matched pair. 

Be kind an' couthie tae the bairns ; 

Never tyne yer temper pin ; 
Bairns ken weel when they're richt guided ; 

A kind word their hearts will win. 

Work the day, an' trust nae morn ; 

They're few wha hae nae cark nor care ; 
Never grudge tae dee yer duty ; 

Wha dee their best can dee nae mair. 

Ilk birdie learns its young tae flee, 

An' what it has to prize or dree. 

As the auld cock craws the young ane learns ; 

A mither's love is life tae bairns. 

A thrifty wife can spin and sew, 

An' niak auld things as gweed as new. 

Tae gossips' stories gie nae heed ; 
Gie help tae neebour in her need ; 
A wumman's wark is never deen, 
Its trauchel on frae morn tae e'en. 

Gin tae the fraimt yer hired tae sair, 
Grudge wi' nae wark ye hae tae share. 

Never lat yer hert gang doon ; 

Dee nocht tae mak yer freen tae froon. 

Aye say yer prayers afore ye gang to sleep, 
An' God's ain day be sure ye ever keep. 

The old proverbs and wise sayings which have 
been noticed, and their worth referred to, in re- 
spect to their influence on young minds, and 
their lasting impressions when conveyed in a 
mother's words, have to be taken as selections 
from the memory of an old man ; but there still 
remains to be noticed the many which bear upon 
the mental and moral characteristics of the folks 
of the north-eastern counties of Scotland, more 
particularly those of the Counties of Aberdeen 



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and Banff, which are well deserving of particular 
notice. A few of these I purpose to notice, such 
as more particularly give an index to lotral and 
individual characteristics, and others having a 
historical bearing. 

Old sayings as well as old proverbs, which are 
still to be found in current use, may be accepted 
as still having power to mould character, and 
likewise act as a medium in reflecting the same. 

Such as refer to thrift, caution, cool calcula- 
tion, self-respecl, and sturdy independence may 
be said to be shared by all our countrymen alike, 
Ihe difference being found by comparing those 
found popular and current in the South-West of 
Scotland with those known in the North-East. 

Some of the latter may be here given, which 
others may add to ; — - 

Hauil yet ain unlil you ken wha yer Iruslin'. 

Phal's gwe«i to gi'i: is gweed lae keep. 

The word o' Ihe hime;.! mnn 's as gweetl as his bill. 

Tak care yet nae hrunt in bargain makin'. 

Be coutious whan ye buy a coo or hotse, ot tiiffet 
yer lihnlty wi' a horse cciupet. 

Never sell yer hen on a miny day. 

Never mix mt^eins wi' strangers. 

Keep yet tin affaire 10 yctseP. 

Dinna Inibbte yer heid wi' kirk an' slale affairs. 

Ye'll aye fin' ye've plenty ' ■ r. 

Rill, j-hninnn'i^ " ' 



[1 ye hae 



Buy chaip an sell clear. 

Dinna sell yer beaslic al a wanwnrlh wi 

plenty o' neeps in the green. 
Be couttauB hoo ye spen whan yet awa' frae hame. 
Be aye content wi' the condition yer placed in. 
Ye may gang far an' salt waur. 
Hand up yer heid afore laird, factor, ot niinislet — 

the honest man's as gwecl as ony o' them. 
Rpeak the tnith an' shame the dcil. 
There's nae man mair independenl than the «atk- 

man wha needs nite to grudge his pay. 

Strive through a' lae leave a (air name hehtn' ye. 

The spirit, if not the words, of some of the 
above may have been impressed upon the me- 
Tiiory of your Correspondent many years ago, 
and may nave been first heard far from Aber- 
deenshire. The readers of .V. N. S- Q.. will be 
able to judge of this for themselves, and it is to 
be hoped willingly help to supplement them. 
Such as may be found current, or at times only 
referred to, bearing upon Scotch canniness, 
thrift, and independence, should give a good 
idea of the influence they have upon individual 
character, and local differences, by giving ex- 
pression to sentimental impressions, and firmly 
impressed convictions on social questions com- 
manding attention. 

Old sayings which have some historical bear- 
ing, and referring only in a slight way to bygone 
manners and customs, are equally worth atten- 
tion. Such are now scarce and seldom referred 
to, from the fact that everything has undergone 



a great change since the commencement c 
present cenluiy. 

The following, which I have often heard 
60 years ago, gives a good idea of some t! 
and conditions connected with the same \ 
were well known eighty years ago ; — 

A sey do(j an' Kybu mak a gweed sipper. 

At the time here referred to fishing for 
dogs occupied our fishennen a Few weeks i 
summer season. The capital invested ii 
industry was small, and the boats inferjoi 
comfortable, and unfit for the " far-off fist 
Only a few were able to provide themselves 
nets for capturing herrings. So little was k 
about this valuable fish, that in a diary ke 
a Countess of Erroll, and mentioned ii 
Pratt's Buchan, her ladyship, after noticing 
of the fish found on the coast, adds — " 
strange to say, no herrings are found 01 
Buchan coast." Al the time mentioned hei 
had never been looked for, the poor fishe 
having no nets to put into the sea. 

Dog-fish, when used as an article of 
used to be dried on the rocks or smoket 
Finnan baddies ; and fishermen's wives us 
dispose of creelfullsof both through the coi 
going inland some miles, and returning i 
evening with oatmeal, given in barter t 
larmeis' wives for the dried dogs, and f 
peat-reeked haddies. The farm servants 
and lasses, had their " sey dogs and sybos 
guidman and his wife disposing of the hai 

Fishermen's wives are now relieved o 
laborious work of carrying the fish caug 
market, every catch being sold by auctior 
immediately despatched by tail, in a fresh 
dition, or prepared by curcrs in different 
and disposed of in the be^t markets. 

A few old sayings of amniier kind, knoi 
some, help to give the present generatit 
idea of the manners and customs common ai 
Ihe higher class in the 18th century. Th 
lowing is said to be well authenticated :— 

A tilled landed proprielor in Buchan, wh 
day had the honour of receiving a crowd 
sitors without having had previous notice 
him, was at his wit's end as lo how he wou 
able to entertain them in a way deserving 1 
honour paid to him. Knowing something < 
generalship of his housekeeper, to her he 
gated the commissariat department for the 
telling her to do her very best by having 
table at every meal. The housekeeper u 
took to do her very best, and gave all nece 
instructions to the other servants, tellin. 
table-maid, in a confidential way, to 

Spare the daiolies, 

An' gie Lady Jane a big platcfu' o' milk pt 

MORMO) 



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ARMADA WRECKS IN SCOTLAND, 
(5.iV;6^j2.,I.,i2i,i58; II.,i2,2i ; III., 14, 31, 43). 

The marvellous scarcity, or rather " the almost 
total absence" of references to the wrecks of 
the Armada on the shores of Scotland has 
already been remarked in S, N, &» Q, That 
there was not a corresponding apathy at the 
time among the common people of Scotland is 
almost certain. Especially among those who 
had embraced the reformed faith the apprehen- 
sion of danger and difficulty from the approach 
of the vast armament was great. The senti- 
ments of the Church is thus voiced by a con- 
temporary author : — " Terrible was the fear ; 
piercing were the preachings ; earnest, zealous, 
and fervent were the prayers ; sounding were 
the sighs and sobs and abounding were the 
tears at that last General Assembly kept at 
Edinburgh when the news was credibly told — 
sometimes of their landing at Dunbar, sometimes 
at St. Andrews and in Tay, and now and then 
at Aberdeen and the Cromarty Firth." in face 
of this consternation the want of official notifi- 
cation of the movements of the fleet or of the 
destruction of individual vessels is extraordinary. 
Most of the wrecks must of course have taken 
place among the islands of the West Coast ; 
and the unsettled condition of the Highlands as 
a whole, as well as the difficulties of communi- 
cation with these outlying regions, may largely 
account for intelligence of any ship coming 
ashore not reaching the ears of the Government. 

While working in another connection, I have 
come across several references to alleged wrecks 
which took place in Scottish waters, and these 
I submit so that the various statements may be 
authenticated, confuted, or added to as far as 
possible. At the risk of repetition I have 
mcluded two wrecks which have already been 
referred to in 5. N. &^ g., in order to make the 
list as complete as possible. 

1. St, Catherinis Dub, near Slains, Aberdeen- 
shire : vide discussion in S. N, &^ Q. at the 
above references. One report makes two 
wrecks occur here — those of the " St. Cathe- 
rine" and the "St. Martin." 

2. Fat'r Isle, between Orkney and Shetland. 
The vessel wrecked here was the " Gran 
Grison." She was commanded by Juan 
Gomez de Medina. " On the Spanish list 
and against his name appears in Lord 
Burghley's handwriting, 'This man's ship 
was drowned 17 Sept., on the Isle of Faire, 
near Scotland'" {N, &» g., 7, V., 377). A 
record of the traditions current among the 
islanders may be found in Cowie's Shetland^ 
Descriptive and Historical^ in the chapter 



devoted to Fair Isle. A highly interesting 
account of an incident that occurred at An- 
struther, in Fife, while the shipwrecked crew 
were on their way home, is given in James 
Melville's Diary (Wodrow Society's Publi- 
cations). 
3 & 4. On Sept. 19, 1588, vSecretary Fenton 
wrote to Burghley that "two ships and 800 
men [were] drowned and sunk in the North 
W^est Sea of Scotland, as appears by the con- 
fession of the Spanish prisoners " (N, &» Q.j 
ibid). Mention is made of one vessel stranded 
at the north end of the island of North Uist, 
and of another on the most southerly point 
of I slay. 

5. Tobermory Bay. The tradition that the 
"Florida," "one of the largest ships in the 
whole fleet," as Froude calls her, was sunk in 
some mysterious way in the harbour of Tober- 
mory is persistent. It is referred to among 
others by Pennant in his Tout, Hugh Miller 
in his Cruise of the Betsey, and Dr. Norman 
Macleod in his Reminiscences of a Highland 
Parish — \n all of which books interesting 
legendary matter connected with the " Florida" 
may be got. In January, 1 590-1, Maclean of 
Duart was indicted for a harrying expedition 
he had made in November, 1588. A section 
of the indictment is that he had employed 
Spaniards who "were a part of the army 
called the Holy League, &c." (vide S. N. 6t* g., 
III., 131, and Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, 1., 
2, 227). Another charge against him was 
that he had wilfully wrought damage to a 
vessel of a country at peace with the King of 
Scots, it being asserted that he had destroyed 
the " Florida." 

6. Portincross, Ayrshire (vide S. N. &^ Q. at 
the above references). Paterson in his His- 
tory of Kyle asserts without show of evidence 
that several wrecks occurred in Ayr and 
Galloway. There is a likelihood, however, 
of the statement being true. One of the 
entries in the Calendar of State Papers; Irish 
Series, 1^88, after recounting how one vessel 
was "broken" at Irris, in Ireland, goes on :— 
"They did afterwards by chance embark 
themselves in another of their ships and 
departed to sea, but being again driven back 
upon the northern coast of Ulster, and from 
thence putting to sea again, are sithence, as I 
hear say, cast away about the isles going for 
Scotland." A perusal of these State Papers 
seems to warrant the statement, that when 
some of the vessels found themselves in diffi- 
culties off the Irish coast, they tried to make 
for Scotland, in the belief that they would find 
ssdfety in one or other of her ports. It is 
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on the S.W. coast. But all this is of course 

in the region of conjecture. 

There is also a tradition of a wreck on the 

Mult of Cantyre. For the legend that has 

grown up at Portincross viiic N(w S/iit. Ace, 

Ayr, p. 2S8, n. 

It is to be noted that what purports to be 
Spanish guns have been recovered from wrecks 
at St Catherine's Dub, Tobermory, and Portin- 

The following quotation from the Memoirs of 
Sir James Melville (Bannatyite Club) is inte- 
resting as giving a contemporary explanation of 
the destruction of the Spanish fleet, as well as 
the general location of the wrecks. Drake's ex- 
pedient of sending fire-ships among the Spani- 
ards caused them to " cut the cords of their 
anchors for haste to esehew the fury of the fire. 
Where in the meantime God sent such a strange 
Storm of wind, that the whole navy was blown 
and broken upon divers coasts of our isles and 
of Ireland, and their wreck was the greater that 
they wanted their anchors." 

J. Calder Ross. 

Museelimrgh, [unf. 1893. 



Marjihnll, ihe noted composer of Strathspeys, who 



NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF BANFKSHIKE. 

( CeHlinued from p. S, Vol. VII.) 

IX. 

114. Grant. Charles, M.A., wor Kxfm nt L)nclicg, 
Glcniivet, in 1S37. Hi- u.-.i'; :i "..rnl.lp ciamiile „f a 
Scutlish youlh lnuiii|>Ui;i.' .' . 1- ]m . 1 nu.lil. smruuntl- 
ings. He cumiQenct.l >■ . . vi[iacilv of 

a fami-surranl, and il v . ,. i-iijMeen 

yeaiBof age that he cinrii. i.i . .1 ;iih n.rdi his ilis- 
tinguishetl relative, now Dr Vjinni ul Keiih. Amidst 
ialcrruplion he persevered so ihat he was in an in- 
ctedibly short time prepared for the University, where 
in 1858 he gnlned a high bursary. During ihf mrri- 
culum hegreally distinguishcil him^t^ir, a.n'1 i^radualeil 
with first class honuuis in ii:--i. - i, \\\<', Though 
he next studied far ilu I ' \tLis dnly 

licensed, he tumcil a-ii < several 

years he acted as A-'.i-.M' 1 r..:.. ■■ .1 ■ ■ 1 iuninnil)' at 
Alwideea, and next he u.is ii|>|niijii>:il L:i a classical 
niasteiship in the Gla&goii Acatloiuy, where he died 
after a short illness in 1S74. 

laj. Grant, Charlts. Af.A., a native of Knock- 
ando, was long a well kn>iwn fi^rc >in Spi.'ysiil<', 

where he acteil fur a consideraMi i"t...l .1 ' 

master (if AI>etlour. From this ■■ I ■ 'i ....-, 
many a giiod scholar, who nftcrv..!: ' ' 

lioninUTe. He was nncxcdlciu I , 

■eased an intimate acquaintance ttidi i^x.;i\ | i.!i) 
Horoce he read through e*-ery year. In Scotii-h lal- 
lads he was particularly well versed, and could quote 
EKlensively. He had a great knowledge of genealogy, 
and could trace with much minuteneEs the hisIoiY of 
the clans, especially of the Clan Grant. One tiling 
he was much famed for wa'- Strathspey music, iHjth 
on the violin and the bagpipes. He was a pupil of , 



I died ii 






126. Grant, Cosma, M.A., whs bom at Blairuamar- 
row, Kirkmlchael, and educated at Glenlivet, and for 
a short time at the Grammar School, Old Aberdeen. 
Entering the University in 1858 be gained the thirtl 
bursary {^30}, and after a very brilliant course pa- 
dualed in 1863 with double honours, and also gained 
the Hutlon Priie. Though he studied for the Church 
anii was duly licensed he took to leaching, for which 
he had great aptitude. He was appointed to the 
HeadmaslerEhipoflhe Old Aberdeen Grammar School, 
and proved himself singularly successful in preparing 
succeaslul bursars for the University. The reputation 
he gained led to his appointment (o a classical master- 
ship in the Edinburgh Academy ; but he had not l*en 
long there when his health failed and he had to resign. 
He returned to his native Speyside, but never reco- 
vered lo be able to resume duty, lie died in l88z. 

127. Gia»t, James, M.A., I.L.D., a native of In- 
veravon, furnishes a good example al'^npratjervidum 
ingimum rising superior tu environment, and not only 
tu, but a notable instance of one who has given a 
helping hand to many others imbued with like aspira- 
tions. After the usual preliminaries he entered King's 
College, Aberdeen, in 1850, as a high bursar, and 
having completed a successful course in 1S54, he com- 
menced a remarkable career as a teacher. The ap- 
pfiinlmenls he ttlleil in succession in the neighbour- 
hood of his native place were in the schook ot Kirk- 
michae!, Glenlivet, and Tominloul, and the singular 
achievements he accomplished in Ihe preparation of 
pupils lor the University are sufficiently attested by 
the success of such students as have been just noticed, 
viz., Cosmo and Charles Gram. To these may be 
added a family of Ihe name of Dcy, now well known 
and widely spread. Mr Grant was next transferred lo 
the Parish School of Banff, situated at Hilton, but he 



IhenewTrainingColIegeat Aberdeen. 
Appointed lo fill the vacsnl post, Mr Grant has found 
it a field worthy of his genius and special aptitude, so 
that, during the twenty years he has been at Keith, 
he has sent up to the University contingent after con- 
tingent of high bursars, till he now can lay claim lo 
the unique distinction of having supplied more stu- 
dents than any other teacher outside Ihe Cily of Aber- 
ilL-cn. In 1SS9 the University of Aberdeen conferred 
nil him Ihe degree of LL.D., and soon after his for- 
mer pupils met at Keith lo do him honour by a public 
b.-tnquet. With unabated vigour he still conducts this 
l^irge schoul, now known as the Keith Combined 
School, with an allendance of Eoo pupils. 

izS. Grant, John, At. A., Minister of Crny, was born 
in Ihe Parish of Kirkmlchael, Banffshire, in 1839, and 
educated wholly at Ihe School Ibere, by his talenled 
relative, Ateitaiider Cameron, M. A., who. after acting 
fi^r three sessions as AsaistanI Greek Professor at 
AlKrdecn, liecame Minister at Kingussie. John 



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Grant enlered Ihe Univetaily al the early age of 14, 
and, nfler compleling Ihe usua Icourse, commenccil 
the study o( divinily. In due Imie he was licensed, 
and held in succession ihe charges iifAdvie, Kothie- 
murchus, and Cromdale. He had occasionally as 
hearers from Tulchan Lodge, Jiihn BnElil, Sit Hcnty 
James, and Mr Bass. He was ap|Kiiiiled In the beau- 
tiful Parish of Cfoy in 1886. 1 le pas'iessed some lite- 
rary and poelic eift!, and now and again conlritiuled 
orliclm to [he press, as well as cumMsed some hymns. 
Fond of travelling he paid several visits to the Con- 
linenl, and was someLimcs delegalcd 10 conduct ser- 
vice at Geneva during the autumn months. He also 
tmvelledin Palestine. He died of influenza, in 1890. 
lag. Grant, John J. IV. IXet..), son of the Rev. 
Tames Grant, Fordyce, isanaliveof Ordiquhill, where 
he received his early education. He in due course 
proceeiled to the Universily of Edinhurgh, where he 
afterwards studied for the church. Ordained in iSSo, 
he first became Collegiate Minister of Haddington, 
from which he was lately translnled to St Stephen's, 
Edinhurgh, in succession to Dt Noromn Macleod, 
now of Inverness. It is seldom Ihat one so young 
has been so rapidly promoted. 

130. Greui, IVilliam. (Ccloiiel), C.B.: Crimean 
and Indian Veteran. Son of William Green, Esq., 
of Lyneburn, Aberlour. Born in 1S36, educated at 
Ihe Parish School, Grammar School, Aberdeen, and 
Universily there, he entered the 42nit Highlanders 
in 1855, became Captain in liiSg, Major in 1S74, 
Lieutenant-Colonel 18S?, ami Colonel (h.p.) 1885; 
served in Crimea 1855-6, in Indian Mutiny 1857 
(meotioned in despatcbea), in Ashanlee War 1873-4, 
in Egyptian War 1882 (uicntioaed in despilrhes), and 
commanded his regiment in E. Soudan 1884, and 
again throughout the Nile Expedition 18S4-5. He 
was sifehlly wounded in Egypt, and made CIS. for 
his services. In 1887 he was appointed to command 
the 75th Keeimenlal Di-^lricl (Abcideen). He has 
been awarded j^ioo a-yeac for distinguished and me- 

131. Grtger, IValler, LL.D., (Rev.): Philnlogist 
and Divine. Dr Gregor, who is Minister of Piisligo 
Parish Church, was ordained in 1B59. He has writ- 
leo an interesting work un [he Dialect of Banffshire, 
with a Glossary o( Words not in Jamiesnn's Diction- 
ary, 8vo, Lonilon, 1866. He has also jjulilished an- 
anonymously a brochure on the Educalioii Question, 
enlitleil " National Education and the Church of 
Scotland." He is Secretary of the Scottish Text 
Society, for which he has edited Roliand's " Court of 
Venus," and Dunbar's " Poems." He is also a Mem- 
ber of Council of the New Spalding Club, and is un- 
derslooii in he picpario^ for it a work on the Folk 
Lore of the North-Eastern Counties of Scotland. 

132. Grigory, Charlm, {I'refisipr): Distinguished 
Mathematician. He was n member of the famous 
Gregory family, which has given ruurleen prolessors 
to British Ifniversilies ("Fasti Acad. Marisoall," p. 
203) ; and was born at Kinnairdie, near Alierchirder, 
the paternal estate, in 1676. Educated at Aberdeen, 
he became Professor of Mathematics in Si Andrews 
in 1707, a position he held [ill 1739, when be resigned 
end lived in retirement till his dcatll in 1763. 



133. Gre,:;iiry, David (Prof.): A<!lronomer and 
Maiheinalici.in. Said in \\\e NiUioaal Dictionary ej 
Bisgraplty lo have been born at Kinnairdie, near 
Alierchirder, though often elsewhere called a native 
of Alierdeen, his liiith occurred nn the 34th June, 
t6Gl. Educaled at .'Aberdeen and Edinburgh, where 
he graduated. In 16S4 he was ap)iotnled Professor 
of Mathematics there, and signaliseii his entrance on 
ofHcc by a deed which proves at once his coura{<e and 
his kuowlettge,— Ihe deed, rii., of lieiog Ihe first of 
all the I'rofessors of the world to expound to his stu- 
dents the discoveries of Newlon, and lo use Ihe Prin- 
cipia as an academic text-book. In 1691 he was 
chosen F. K.S., and in the same year became Savilian 
Professor of Astronomy, Oxford. He died in 1708. 
His jirincipal writings were Exernlalio Gemnetriea de 
fjimiasione Figiirarum — Edinburgh, 1684 — a treatise 
on the quadrature and rectification of curves j Catop- 
Iricae tl Diaflricae Sfiaericae EUotenfa, 169S, being 
the snltstance of his lectures on Optics at Edinburgh ; 
ElCHitHls of Aslranomy, 170a, and various memoirs 
in Ihe Philosothkal Trrmsacliem, Vols. XVIII. to 
XXV. He edited a highly -prized edition of Euclid's 
Klenienls in the original Greek, with a Latin transla- 
tion 1 and. in conjunction with Dr Halley, Ihe Conies 
of Apollonius. 

134. Gregory, fames (Professor) : Mathamatioian, 
brother of the above, horn prol^bly at Kinnairdie 
aliout 1664. He succeeiled David in the Chair of 
Mathematics, Edinburgh, l6gi, retired 1735, and 
died 1742. 

135. Harper. Alexander, nf Gardyne : Minor Poet, 
Born at Inverkcithnie in 17S2, Mr Harper published, 
in iSio, Thi Mirror of Ijnii ; in 1843, Suntmer Ex- 



called Fntits of SaUtary Hours, He di»i in 1858, 

136. Harrison, John: Min.ir Poet and Novelisl. 
This author, who was bom at Forglen in 1814, is en- 
tirely self-eiiucateil. He was bred a farm-servant, but 
nflerwnrds liecame a traveller for various houses, espe- 
cially for Blackie & Co, In addition to being a poet, 
Mr Harrison has invented a machine for cleaning 
ship' bottoms al sea. Many of his poems have ap- 
peared in Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire and in other 
colleclions. In 1857 he published a tale called TAa 
Laird of Restalrig's Daughter. I am nol aware whe- 
ther he is still alive or not, 

137. Hay.AtuhTiu, Major-Gtneral : British Officer. 
Born at Monlblaiiy, Alvah, in 1762, and died 1814. 

138. Hay. Andrrw LeUh, M.P., (Sit): Soldier, 
Author, and Polilician. Son of General Hay of Ran- 
nes, Rathven, he was Iwm 17th February, 1784, 
During Ihe Peninsular war he served on the staff of 
the Duke of Wellington, and for his services there 
received ihe order of Charles HI. He was siilise- 
quently Military .Secretary, Assistant Quartermaster- 
General. an<l Adjutant-General in the West Indies, 
for which he received the order of the Legion >(f 
Honour. Elected M.P. for the Elgin Burghs, 1832, 
he sal for thero till 1838. and again from 1841 till 
1S47. He wna made K,H. in 1834, and received a 
minor office io Lnrd Melbourne's Administration. In 
1S38 he was appointed Governor of Bermuda. Besides 



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27 



being the author of an Account of the Peninsular War^ 
in two volumes, Sir Andrew pul)lished at Aberdeen, 
in 1849, a work in 4to, entitled The Castellated Ar- 
chitecture of Aberdeenshire. He was a Fellow of the 
Koyal Society of Edinburgh, and an antiquary. He 
died in 1862. 

139. Hay, James ( Lieut. -General), C.B. Of the 
family of Braco, this gallant soldier served during the 
Peninsular War in the i6th Lancers, and was present 
at the Passage of the Douro, and the Capture of 
Oporto. He was also in the affair with the French 
rearguard at Salamonde ; at the battle of Talavera, 
and the actions at Redinha, Condeixa, P'ox d'Avace, 
and Sabugal ; and at the iiattle of Fuentes d'Onor. 
In an affair with the " Lancers de Berg," near Espe- 
cia. General (then Captain) Hay commanded the 
Regiment, and took their colonel, a 'chef d'escadron,* 
and 79 men prisoners. In reference to this the Duke 
of Wellington, in his despatches, mentions that Capt. 
Hay greatly distinguished himself. At the com- 
mencement of the battle of Salamanca his right arm 
was broken, and he was several times engaged with 
the enemy during the siege of Burgos, and on the 
retreat to Portugal. He was also in command at the 
battles of Vittoria, the Nivelle, and the Nive, the 
passage of the Bidassoa and the Adour, and the entry 
into Bt)rdeaux. He commanded the i6th Lancers at 
Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at which latter battle he 
•was severely wounded. In recognition of his services 
he was made a C. B., and in 1851 became Lieutenant- 
General, He died in 1854. 



140. Dr. Gordon (VI., 185). Forhoxw 1816, read 
1 82 1 ; for Calvary read Cavalry ; for Glasgow Fades, 
read, Glasghu Fades. 



Old Bell. — There was sold lately, in Dowell's 
Rooms, Edinburgh, a Bell dated " 1789. Lep- 
ine Fondeur a Quimper," with Latin Cross em- 
bossed. This bell was in a church at Quimper, 
in Normandy, It was desecrated in the French 
Revolution, was in the *' Pique" frigate which 
was taken in the war, and was presented by the 
Captain to Wm. Macdonald of St Martin's, in 
1804. It was used in the belfry of St Martin's 
Abbey, in Strathmore, Perthshire, for 50 years. 

Glasgow. J. F. S. Gordon. 

Old Bronze Bell.— There has been brought 
to light at Forteviot a bronze bell of the old 
Celtic type. It is of the usual quadrangular 
form, with a strong heavy handle set on the 
round top of the bell, so that the upper part of 
the loop is horizontal and the sides bent inwards. 
It differs from other bells known in Scotland in 
having in the centre of one of its flat sides the 
letter " M " in relief Judging from the form of 
the letter, the bell, it is supposed, might date 
from about the beginning of the loth century. 
It measures 1 1 inches in height, including handle, 
which rises 2j4inches above the top of the bell, 
while its width at the mouth is 7 mches. — The 
Scottish Guardian^ May 19th, 1893. 



784. Douglas' Virc;il.— I shall be obliged by 
some reader kindly giving the meaning of the words 
italiciserl in the following lines from Gawin Douglas' 
translation of VirgiPs Aineid. They form part of the 
Night Scene in Book 4 : — 

The nicht followis, and eury wery wicht 
Throwout the erde has caucht anone richt. 
The sound plesund slepe theme liket best, 
Woddis and rayeand seis war at rest ; 
And the sterne, thar myd coursis rollis doun, 
All the fieldis still olhir, but noyif or soun. 
All l)eistis and byrdis of divers colours sere, 
And quhatsumeur in the brade lochis were, 
Or amang bushis harsk leyndis under the spray, 
Throw nicht is sylence slepit quhare thay lay, 
Mesing thare besy thoct and curis smert, 
All ilksome labour foryet, and out of hert. 

Gawin Douglas, who was born in 147 1 and died in 
1522, finished his translation of Virgil in 1513. Sir 
Waller Scott, in familiar lines, says of this prelate of 
the Douglas line, that 

*' In a barbarous age, 
He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page." 

MiciiAKL Mkrlin. 

785. Spanish Blood in Scoitish Veins. — It 
is common belief in certain parts of Aberdeen, Ayr, 
and P'ife that several families have Spanish blood in 
their veins, as well as Spanish names, and that these 
were intn)duce(l into the countiy in 1588, after the 
defeat of the Armada. Can any authoriues for, and 
examples of these statements l^ given? 

f. Calder Ross. 

786. The BonAccori) Reporter.— I have just 
come into possession of a numi)er of copies of this rare 
local publication, and should be glad of further infor- 
mation with regard to its history. Till this ** find " 

I had seen only one number, now I can account for 

II numbers, 9 published in September, 1842, to No. 
28, published in April, 1844, except Nos. 13, 14, and 
15, but including 3 Supplements. The publication is 
an eight-page monthly, measuring 10^ x 8^ inches, 
'* printed and published for the proprietors by Robert 
Edward and Company, and may be had at No. 5, 
Flourmill Brae." The price was twopence per number, 
and the pagination is continuous throughout. It con- 
cerns itself iilmost solely alx)ut local matters, of which 
it treats in the free and somewhat coarse style usually 
characteristic of the jniblisher's productions. In the 
last complete numl)er in my possession, the 28th, 
there is an editorial from '* The Reporter" to ** its 
friends and enemies," which makes the following pro- 
fession of its principles: — "We shall do as much 
good as we can — as little harm. But fun we will 
have — light and digestible, not heavy and griping : 
the humbug of public men, from the iTovost all the 
way down to the Town-himse liveryman, taking in 
our way parsons and painters, soldiers and shoemak- 
ers, editors and everybody, we shall hold up with 
fidelity ; the fair and proper exercise of popular opi- 
nion on the notorious extravagances and iniquities of 
all, we shall ever attempt to direct justly." No reason 



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[JULV, 1893. 



is given for this pronouncement lieing made at this 
sl^e of the career of the pulilicalion. Was it a iles- 
perBte cffurt lo iniitil sume life into a ttying causae ? 

A. W. ROBKHTSOS. 

787. Mackintosh Officeks at Cuu.oden.— I 
am exceedingly obligtd to Mr Noble fur hia very in- 
tercaling information regarding Lieu teriant -Colonel 
Mackintosh and Major Macliean. If he has still the 
list he mentions, perhaps he will further favour me 
with the names and ranks of the other officers nf the 
Regiment, and oblige. Mac, 

788. Major Macoillivrav at CiiLT,or)EN.— 
In a foot-note in Chamliers's History of the '^y, it is 
stated that " The la(e Mr Macdonaltl of Glenaladale 
told mc (Bishop Mackintosh) ihal he saw John Mor 
Mat^llivray, Major of the Mackintoshes, a gunshot 
past the enemy's cannon, and ihat he was surroundeil 
by the reinforcements sent against the Mackintoshes; 
that he killeiiadoien men with hisbioadsword, while 
some of the halberts were run into his body." This 
seems strange, as from all other accctunts t can gather, 
it is staled thai the Major of this Regiment was a 
Macbean. Will Mr Noble kindly dear this matter 
up in your next issue? and again favour Mac. 

789. Familv of Provost Livingston, Abeb- 

UEEN. — I have great pleasure in forwarding you a 
photograph of the Hell of the Sword of Stale of Scot- 
land, which came U, m,: on the Junili of my uncle, 
Dr Livingston-Ojjil'i IaIi,, . ji.. , 'f,l,iv, Alexander 
Livingstone, wa= I'l-.. ■- '•' i7.i')' Iwish 

lo find out onythiiiu . ..■;-.itjii5, bcfon 

Alexander, who Ma- ■ , unci married 

Margaret Symson. II< w. ■ "1. iiiSi. I want 

lo know who and •«\\a\ lii'i r:i(hcr was, and if he was 
nearly related to Tlnnipace. S. O. Rakek. 

Muchelney, Lnngpoit, Somerset. 

79a. Alexander Macgiluvrav. — In the Intler 
end of the last century, there wns a gentleman of this 
name uf Knock nsgael, Inverness, who had previously 
been a merchant in Carolina, America. Can any of 
your reiders say of what Macgillivrays he was, giving 
the genealogy ? Any inforraatiim will favour. 

Mau. 

791. Date Wantkd.— Can any reader inform me 
whether a sale of elTecIs at Ralguwon, Perthshire, 
tonk place after the tieath of Lord Lynedoch in 1S4.3, 
—after Ihe death of Kobert Graham of Rcilgortnn, 
who succee<ied tn the estate, — or uj>on what occasion 
such assumed sale took place, and the date thereof) 
J. T. 



answers. 

loj. Caledonian Ocean (1., iSo; II., iiS; 
VIL, 14).— Although I cannot answer the ucrtincnr 
questions asked Uy Mr Calder Ross, I think it well 
lo point out that .Smolletl, in Hnnipliry Clinker, pub- 
lished in 1771, V. 3, 12, (I quote from the original 
edition), speaks of the " Deucalidonian sea." As Ihe 
worthy laronei. Sir Walkin Phillips, who employs 
the phrase, is writing from Inverary, he must allude 
lo the Atlantic, not lo the sea immediately lo the 



north ol Scotland. In an article in the Scots Afaga- 
cinc, for 1S04, the Cerman Ocean is styled first the 
British Sea and laler the Hritbb Ocean. 

James W. Scott. 

746. Transi-ation of Inscription Wanted 
(VII., [3).— With reference to this Query, I would 
suggest that Mr Levie refer to The ScotiisA AtUigiiaty 
(edited by the Rev. A. W. Cornelius Hallen, Alloa,) 
of 1S90, Nos. 16 and 17. In No. 16 be wilt see a 
representilion of a brass box, which appeivs to re- 
semble the case in his possession. The inscriptions 
en bolh are Dutch, and although Mr Levie's tacks the 
calendar which is engraveil on those referred to in 
The Sfolliih Atiliiiuary, there is a general likeness 
running through all. In saying that the InscriptioDS 
are Dutch, I must confess I am unable to decipher 
Mr Levie's specimen, but I have no doubt any edu- 
cated Dutchman could furnish him with the inteipre- 
lation. It has been suggcslcd that those boxes, of 
which there appear to Tie many specimens in this 
country, were tobacco-boxes used by Dutch skippers. 

Eiiinbuigh. David MacRitchif, 

765, Inscription on Tombstone Wanted (VI., 
17a).— .Although not a reply lo the query inserted by 
your corresponilent in your April issue, perhaps the 
following information may not be uninteresting to him. 

a6lh June, 1893. J. E. Leighton. 

OctulKr 28th, I709.-Williara Gray and Elizabeth 

1710, William Gray and Elizabeth Annand, his wife, 
had a son bom, nameil John ; January 7th, 1713, • 
son, named Alccander ; August aoth, 1715, a daugh- 
ter, named Christian; April 5, 1718, a daughter, 
named Isoliel ; Decemlicr 7th, 1720, a daughter, 
nnmeil Margaret; March 2lsl, 1726, a daughter, 
named Els[-ie1 ; July 31SI, 1728, a scm, named Andrew;. 
April jotli, 1732, a daughter, nnmcii Barbara : Sept, 
20th, 1733, a son, named William. The foregoingis 
condensed from an extract of the Register ofSlains, 
by Robert Midtlleton, Session Clerk, dated 28th 
February, 1825. 

-\ugust iSih, 1753. —Ale\^iider Gray in this parish 
[.Slains], ;ii. ' ri,,; ,] ,1 [.liiisinn, in the I'arKh of 
Crudcn. 1 1 ■ .li- lily 6ih, 1754, Aleiander 



Mary ; July 9lh, i;-. 
July 16th, 1762, ;i.L 
28lh, 1764, iidaugliir 
2Sth, 1766, a son. I 
-768, ! 



: a rlauuhter. 

■ii: r, I .n-iittl Elspet ; 

, il!L :■! : August 39th, 

L><.i>ii»:i Jij\h, 1770, a 



From Toml'slont in Churrkyard of Parish of Slains. 
— To the memory of George Muir, late Farmer, Nether 
Leask, who died the i6lh day of April 1819, aged 69 
years j also his wife, Mary Gray, who died the 27th 
of May L857, a^ 99 years ; also then children, John 
Muir, Farmer 10 Milltown of Leask, who died a4lh 
March 1876, aged 87 years, and Jean Muir, who died 
7th March 1878, aged 76 year*, and iheir grandchild, 
Jane Muir, who died in iiilancy. 



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29 



771. Bavnb of Tulloch (VI., 189). — For zoo 
years Bayne was a considerable name in Ihe County 
of Ross. In 1507, King James IV. had ward of 
mark's worlh of land of old extenl of ihe Tulloch in 
his hands in consequence of the death of Farquhar 
Oure's son. Whether this Farquhar s™s of the Bayne 
family is not known, hut in 154Z King James V. 
granted the lands \a one Duncan Bayne, and in the 
hands of Ihe Bayne family Tulloch remained until 
towards Ihe end of the last century, when, on Ihe 
death of Sir Donald Bayne, the estate was heatily 
embairassed, and his cousin, Kenneth Bayne, who suc- 
ceeded him, sold Tulloch on the I jth January, 1762, 
for jf 10,500 Scots, to Mr Robert Gardner for a client, 
Ihe client being " Harry Daridson, who, being a re- 
lative of the family of Bayne, Highland ideas made 
him stretch a point to buy this estate, and heavily has 
he paid and deall generously by the old possessor." 

\V. HAV Wll-SON. 

The Parsonage, Dingwall. 

a aneni the 



l>e found. Can 
ik up their 



in which descendants 
R. C. W., or other correspondents, 
lion regarding this offshoot, where I 
abode, and if as proprietors or lena 



783. JAMF.S HvsLOi', Author oc "The Camk- 
itoNi\N's Dream (VI., 14). — Born in the Parish of 
Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire, 13th July, 179S. "The 



Drean 






was first published in the Edinl-un^i Afitgaziat of 
February, 1811. W. B. will find it reprinted in 
vol. X of Wilson's PiKli aud Poelry of Siellaiiil. A 
foot note by the editor of that work is im|H>rLnnt, 
"The n.inie is usually printed Hislop, lint we have 
the poet's own aulhotity, in his manuscript, for the 
spelling adopted," vii,, Hyslop. The I'uet died on 
iJecember 4lh, 1827. Eve. 

781. Shipwrkck of the Oscak {VII., 14). 
— The followinj,' is extracted from the Aberdeeit 
Journal oi X^iW 7, 1813 ; — 

On Thursday last, after a tract of the mildesl: 
weather known for many years, one of ihe most 
sudden and violent storms, for its short duration, 
was experienced here, which is recollected by 
the oldest inhabitant ; and attended by one of 
the most melancholy and distressing events that 
ever happened at this place. In the morning 
the wind, which had been westerly during the 
night, veered round to the south-eastward, with 
snow, blowing strong, but shifted soon after 10 
the north-eastward. At this tinre five of the 
whale-fishing ships belonging to this port, viz., 
the Hercules, Allison ; Latona, Ayre ; Middle- 
ton, Todd ; St Andrew, Reid ; and Oscar, Innes, 
which had sailed early in the morning, were 
riding at anchor in the bay ; and the weather 
being slill unsettled, and having the appearance 
of an impending storm, the two latter, about five 



o'clock, weighed and stood out to sea. A boat 
from the Oscar having gone ashore for some of 
the crew who were absent, that vessel put about, 
stood into the bay, and succeeded in getting the 
last of her hands on board. Dy this time she 
was far in shore ; and a fatal calm, with a heavy 
rolling sea and strong flood tide coming on, ren- 
dered it Impracticable to clear the Girdleness. 
The vessel continuing to fall to the leeward, was 
again under the necessity of bringing up in the 
face of the rocky shore within the Ness ; soon 
after which, the great violence of the gale which 
commenced from the N.E. with thick snow, ren- 
dered her situation perilous in the extreme, and 
tilled the minds of the people on shore with the 
most painful apprehensions. About half-past 
eleven o'clock a.m. the Oscar, after dragging her 
anchor was seen to go ashore in the Grey Hope, 
near the Short Ness. A considerable number 
of people succeeded in getting across by the 
ferry, and hastened to the spot, in order to ren- 
der such assistance as might be found in their 
power. The heart-rending scene which now 
presented itself made it too apparent that all 
human efforts for the preservation of the ship 
and crew must be unavailing. The vessel lay 
among large rocks, and, from the tremendous 
sea which went over her, ivas already breaking 
up. At this time an attempt was made by the 
crew to form a sort of bridge to the nearest rocks 
by cutting away the mainmast, which unfortu- 
nately fell alongside the ship, instead of towards 
the shore, as they had fondly expected. Many 
of the men who bad clung to the rigging were 
now plunged into the sea, by the falhng of the 
fore and mizzen masts ; and most of the re- 
mainder, having nothing to hold by, were swept 
off the wreck, and sank in sight of those on 
shore, who could render them no assistance, 
although the distance between them and the 
unfortunate seamen was such as to admit of a 
communication of sentiment, even by the coun- 
tenance. The fate of several others vi-as no less 
hard, for, after having nearly gained the shore, 
they were swept off by the heavy surf, or borne 
down by the casks and other wreck with which 
they were surrounded. The forecastle of the 
Oscar still remaining above water, five men 
were observed, and among them Captain Innes 
was distinctly seen tnaking signals for that as- 
sistance which could not possibly be afforded ; 
and after clinging long to the wreck, and strug- 
ghng hard for life, tliey shared the fate of their 
unfortunate companions, the vessel having soon 
gone to pieces. Mr John Jamson, 1st mate, and 
James Venus, a seaman belonging to Shields, 
were with difficulty saved, being the only sur- 
vivors out of a crew of 44 persons. 

R. A. 



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[July, 1893. 



Xiterature. 

Origins of Pictish Symteilism, with Notes on the 
Sun Boar, and a New litading of Ike Newton 
Inscriptions. By the Earl of Southekk, 
K.T., LL.D., F.S.A.Scot. David Douglas, 
Edinburgh, 1893. 
This is one of the most important treatises on 
its subject that has yet appeared. To that sub- 
ject the attention of Archieologists, and especi- 
ally Celtic ArchKologists, have recently been 
very much directed. Ever since the Spalding 
Club published their magnificent volumes on the 
"Sculptured Stones of Scotland," a laudable 
curiosity, not entirely confined to the learned, 
has been increasingly evinced to know something 
of the significance of these strange symbols ; and 
many fanciful and misleading theories have been 
suggested to explain them. These have only 
made the obscurity surrounding them more ob- 
scure. The learned societies of Ireland were 
among the earliest to subject the stone-sculp- 
tured figures to a rational and philosophical 
treatment. Then, strange to say, new light 
arose in a very unexpected quarter. The im- 
pulse given to this department of archeology 
by the researches of the learned Worsaae, and 
the publication of his Prehistoric History of the 
North and other works, may be said lo have in- 
augurated a new era, by directing special atten- 
tion to a Scandinavian source as the probable 
origin of our Scottish sione-sculptured symbols. 
Meanwhile little was done at home, either by 
learned societies or by individuals, lo pursue the 
subject on the lines suggested by the great 
Danish anticjuary. Papers were occasionally 
read at meetings of the Society in Edinburgh, 
and afterwards pubhshed in its Proceedings, 
which showed increasing interest in the subject ; 
but they were too fragmentary to be at all satis- 
factory. The Rhind Lectures, by Dr Joseph 
Anderson, valuable as they are in giving de- 
scriptions of individual rehcs of the stone age, 

have not succeeded in reducing them into any 
intelligible order, or shedding any new light on 
their origin or meaning. 

Lord Southesk has attempted both with a 
considerable measure of success. He is no new 
explorer in this field. As early as 1882, afier 
many years spent in examining and collating 
Ogham inscriptions wherever they were known 
to exist, he read a paper to the Society of Anti- 
quaries of Scotland on the Newton Stone ; and 
again another, in the following year, on the 
"Ogham inscriptions of Scotland." This was 
published in iSiij, illuslrated with diagrams of 
the Scoonie, the Aboyne, the Logie Elphinstone, 
the Newton, the Golspie, the Dressay, the Dur- 



rian, the Lunnasting, the St Ninian, and the 
Conningsburgh stones in the text, besides several 
photographs. And now, in the work before us, 
we have his matures! thoughts and conclusions. 

To the inexperienced in these mailers it may 
seem strange that so much patient investig'ation 
should be necessary m regard to the origm and 
significance of these symbols and especially of 
the inscriptions. But the difficulties to be en- 
countered are numerous, and often very per- 
plexing. " To indicate a few of these— apart 
from such obvious hindrances as obscuritj" of 
language, injuries, and rough workmanship — 
Professor Stephen noKs—u^esigned likeness in 
letters ofdt^erent value in (he same inscription; 
designed unlikeness in letters of Ike same valve 
in the same inscription; fomt-varialions in let- 
ters of similar -value in different inscriptions; 
spelling-variations in different inscriptions; and 
vowel-sound variations in different inscriptions." 
Nothing but a large experience can surmount 
these difficulties. Lord Southesk has that expe- 
rience, and a practised eye such as few possess. 

The work is illustrated with over 120 diagrams 
and figures in the text and plates ; and furnished 
with indices of personal and place names. 

j. G. M. 
The Parish 0/ Ponloun, Chapters in its History, 

or Reminiscences of Place and Character. 

By Charles A. Mollvsos. Aberdeen : 

John Rae Smith, D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. 

[26 -f 341 pp., 7X X 4?i inches.] 
A CAREFUL parish historian is not only a local 
but a public benefactor. He does not content 
himself with drawing merely on his own personal 
resources, however varied these may be. If he 
did he might manage to hold by the ear his co- 
parishioners, but it would be history run to seed, 
A WindoTD in Thrums would be more worthy 
of the epithet "historical" than such garrulous 
gossip, which would certainly bevery unpalatable 
to the general reader. Mr Mollyson's well 
known literary instincts have kept him right in 
these respects in the volume he has issued. It 
is full of mformalion of a most varied character, 
but all bearing closely on the subject on hand, 
and gives strong evidence of having been writ- 
ten con amore, leisurely, and with every desire 
to verify facts. We venture to think that there 
is scarcely a phase of parish life and character, 
or a factor in village history and progress, thai 
is unrepresented ; and whilst modern usages 
undoubtedly bulk largely, the author has not 
neglected the "antique basis," which gives lo 
the Meams no little prominence in the early 
history of Scotland. Seveml Illustrations adorn 
this otherwise sightly and well printed volume. 



but it 



oadda 



map of the county, showing prominently the po- 



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31 



sition of the parish so lovingly delineated. A 
full index and a fuller "contents" make the 
already well arranged materials of most easy 
reference. Altogether Mr Molly son is to be 
congratulated on his success. Ed. 

University Centenary Ceremonies. By John 
Malcolm Bulloch, M.A. An 8vo pam- 
phlet of 61 pp. Aberdeen, 1893. 
This elegant little brochure consists of a series 
of articles contributed by Mr Bulloch to the 
Aberdeen Daily Free Press, in anticipation of 
the celebration of the Quatercenlenary of the 
University of Aberdeen. An interesting and 
readable account is given successively of the 
celebrations in connection with the following 
Universities : — Bologna, Montpellier, Heidel- 
berg, Upsala, Leyden, Edinburgh, Dublin, a-^d 
Harvard ; historical facts respecting the rise 
and progress of these various seats of learning 
being given, and noteworthy incidents men- 
tioned which occurred at the great celebration 
gatherings. The pamphlet has the usual cha- 
racteristic of articles reprinted from a news- 
paper, viz., a tendency to repetition ; and too 
much harking back to Aberdeen. It is, never- 
theless, a meritorious piece of work ; its value 
being very considerably enhanced by a list of 
the universities of the world, contributed by Mr 
P. J. Anderson, LL.B. Many will regret that 
the issue of this pamphlet is limited. We trust 
that the author will not neglect Scottish and 
other antiquities, and that in his southern home 
he will still remain faithful to his A/ma Mater. 

MONKBARNS. 

The Harp of Perthshire^ a Collection of Songs, 
Ballads, and other Pieces, chiefly by Local 
Authors, with Notes Explanatory, Critical, 
and Biographical. By Robert Ford. Alex- 
ander Gardner, Paisley. 1893. [20 -h 519 
pp., 1% X 5 ins.] 
This handsome volume does ample justice to 
the Poets of Perthshire, of whom nearly 100 are 
sampled and biographed, from Henry Adamson, 
author of " The Muses Threnodie," down to the 
poet of yesterday. The editor admits that there 
is no Bums in the county, but rejoices in pos- 
sessing the Baroness Nairne, who, next to him, 
has given more songs of enduring fame to the 
world than any other single singer that Scotland 
has seen. There are others, like Charles Mac- 
kay, Robert Nicoll, Mrs Oliphant, and George 
Gilfillan, whose poetical effusions are cherished 
wherever poetry has a place, but, on the whole, 
the rank and file are not above mediocrity. 
By the way we observe a great poverty of Perth 
poetesses. The editor has performed his duties. 
with enthusiasm and care. His explanatory 
notes are excellent, and the biographical notices 
suitable and in good taste. A section is devoted 



to " Perthshire Songs and Poems by Outside 
Authors." There can be little doubt that this 
volume will please, and be popular as retaining 
all that is really best of its kind. Ed. 

Our Street : Memories of Buccleuch Place. By 
JosiAH Livingston. Edinburgh : James 
Thin. [79 pp., 8vo.] 
To you who dwelt in " Our Street," in bygone 
years, this booklet will prove immensely inte- 
resting. Here you will find your old chums at 
play, at school, and at work, while the wander- 
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author. To the stranger, who knows not " our 
street," he will in this little work find much 
information of byegone ways and customs in 
Edinburgh, before the introduction of railways. 

Eye. 



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Registered. {P«;^|jd.^j^^ 



CONTENTS. 
NoTBS :— Page 

Aberdeen and Aberdonians in 1658, 33 

The Burnetts of Leys and Collateral Branches, 33 

Olden Trade Names, 34 

A Bibliography of E^dinburgh Periodical Literature, . . 35 

The Loss of the " Oscar," 37 

Diary of John Row, Principal of King's College, 38 

Extracu from the Criminal Court Book of Old Aber- 
deen, 40 

Old Northern Seed Accounts, 42 

Notable Men and Women of Banffshire, 43 

Minor Notes:— 

Church Censure for Bur3ring on Sunday, 41 

Highland Reivers in the Seventeenth Century, 45 

Bibliography of Aberdeen Periodical Literature, 45 

Queries: — 

Loch Taysidc Names— Christisons of Ledcharay— 
Henry Christie, Chamberlain to the Laird of Glen- 
orchy— The Drum—" A Daimin icker in a thrave's a 
sma request— Mowats of Abergeldie—'*Auld Reekie' 
— Discovery of Concealed Passage — The Hearsey 
Family — Macara Clan, 45 

Answers : — 

Rin Met Bear— Calders of Asswanly— Ancient Forests 
of Scotland— James Hyslop, Author of " The Camer- 
onian's Dream "—Douglas" Virgil— Market Crosses- 
Spanish Blood in Scott^ Veins, 57 

LiTBRATURE, 45 

Scotch Books for the Month, 48 



ABERDEEN, JUL K, 1893, 



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ABERDEEN AND ABERDONIANS 

IN 1658. 
One of Cromweirs troopers, Richard Frank, 
bom in Cambridge in 1632, wrote his impres- 
sions of Scotland in 1658. A second edition of 
the book was edited by Sir Walter Scott, and 
from that edition, issued in 1821, Mr Hume 
Brown, in "Early Travellers in Scotland," 
makes some extracts. One of these, I think, 
your readers will be pleased to have. The 
wordy grandiere trooper puts his " Northern 
Memoirs" into dialogue form, and he, under 
the nom de guerre of Theophilus, and his 
friend, mider that of Amoldus, talk much 
about many things Scotch, and much that is not 
either interesting or instructive to anybody. To 
Aberdonians, at any rate, it is not uninterestmg 
to see Amoldus ask Theophilus—" What thmk 
you of the Church in New Aberdeen (that's the 
Cathedral) where the Magistrates sit under the 
sovereignty of the mace, and every merchant in 
his peculiar pew ; where every society of me- 



chanics have their particular seats, distinguished 
by escutcheons suitable to their professions, so 
that confusion seldom, or rarely, happens 
amongst them in quarrelling for places, where 
strangers are unsuspected for informers and in- 
truders, and the civility of the people such, that 
no man is left destitute of a seat to sit on, but 
every one entertained honourable to his qua- 
lity?" To this expression of opinion by his 
friend, Theophilus adds — "This is something 
like ; for it far exceeds the custom of Englan(^ 
where a man may stand in some churches till 
his feet are surbeat, yet nobody proffer him a 
remove or a stool to sit on." But " this is not 
all," quoth Amoldus. "In here you shall have 
such method in their musick, and such order 
and decorum of song devotion in the Church, 
as you will admire to hear, though not regulated 
by a canter or quirester, but only by an insipid 
parochial clerk, that never attempts further in 
the mathematicks of music, than to complect the 
parishioners to sing a psalm in tune." " Yes," 
said the Cromwellian trooper, as he and his 
friend are hading their way by Steenhive, — 
" You have concisely characterised Aberdeen 
and her inhabitants." One wonders how many 
of these Ironsides held the same opinion. 

A. W. 



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THE BURNETTS OF LEYS 
AND COLLATERAL BRANCHES. 

A VERY valuable and instructive Genealogical 
Tree of the family of Burnett of Leys and col- 
lateral branches has been drawn up by Mr W. 
Kendall Burnett, Advocate, which cannot fail to 
shed considerable light on many points of the 
history of this wide-spread and distinguished 
family. Nos. I. to XII. appear upon the main 
stem, after which branch off (i) Sir Thomas 
Burnett, 1st Bart, of Leys ; (2) James Burnett 
of Craigmyle and others. As an illustration we 
shall give the ancestry of the Burnetts of Mon- 
boddo, in the parish of Fordoun, a family that 
includes the well-known Lord Monboddo and 
others not without fame : — 

I. Alexander de Burnard obtained from King Ro^ 
bert the Bruce, in 1324, a charter of Killenachclerach* 
and certain lands in the forest of Drum. ! 

XL Symon Burnard. 



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III. William Butrnid (charter from Roliert II., 
1378, uf lands held liy his fniher in Ihe forest of Drum). 

IV. Robert BumBtil. AtyaXj Sheriff of Kincardine- 
shire in 1391. 

V. John Burnard of Leys, held office of Kings 
Mncei, died 1434. 

W. Alexander Bumnrd of Ivej's married Eliiabelh 
dauRhler of Alexander Forhes of Echi, and widow of 
Aleiander Kiach, d, ISrS- 

vn. Alexander Burnet of I*ys married Janel Gar- 
din of that ilk, died 1329. 

VIII. Alexander Burnet, yr. of Leys married Agnes 
Lychtoun, died 1526. 

IX. Alexander Bumet of Leys married (l} Janet 
Hanjillon, (z) Marjory, daughter of Lord Forbes, 
and willow of Aleian.kr Forbes of Brux, died IS74- 

X. John Bumet of Leys marriei! Eliiabelh, dnughter 
of John Lumsden of Cushnie. d, 1395- 

XL Alexander Burnet of Leys married Katherine, 
daughter of Robert Arbuthnot of Fiddes, d. 1578. 

XII. Alexander Bumet of Leys married Kalherine, 
daughter of Alexander Gordon of Leamoir, d, 1619. 

XIII. James Burnet of Craigniyle married. 1608, 
Elixabelh, daughter of Thomas Bumet of Craigmyle, 
d. 1645. 

XrV. James Burn. 
tWrd son of XIII., .. , . 

Eliifllieth, daughter of Coptain R. Irrine of Mi 
boddo, d. 1693. 

XV. Alexander Burnett of Monboddo m., 1686, 
Margaret, daughter of Sir Alexander Burnett of Leys, 
Jind Baronet, died c. i6go. Brother— Robert Bur- 
nett of Keir and Ballandro, died c. 1695. Sisters— 
(l) EIJMbeth, m. George Garioch of Kinslair, (a) 
Jean, m. Sir David Carnegie of Pitarrow. 

XVI. James Burnett of Monboddo m., 1709, Eiiia- 
beth, daughter of Sir William Forbes of Ciaigievar. 

XVn. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-99). 
m. Elixabeth Farquharson. Brothers— William b. . 
1710, Alexander b. 1711, Thomas b. 171S, Georgu 
b. 1723, Arthur b. 1724, Hugh b. 1727, John b. 1729, 
and William [(t73l-l8u) m. Mareaiet, daughter of 
John Taylor, Advocate, Aberdeen]. Sisters— Mar- 
garet h. 1720, Eliiabeth b. 1731, and Jane b. 1734. 

XVIII. [Arthur Burnett, 1763-74]. Helen Bur- 
nett ol Monboddo m. Kirltpatrick Williamson, who 
assumed the name of Burnett, d. 1833. Sister — Eliia 
the " Fair Eliza" of Burns, d. 1790. 

XIX. James Burnett -Burnett of Monboddo, 179a- 
1864, m. Jane, daughter of John IZIarter, Brothers — 
Arthur, Sheriff of Peebles (i797-'877) fid John. 
Sisters— Eliiabeth (1781-1815) m., 1806, Adam Cu- 
mine of Rattray, Helen b. 1789, Grace 1794-1864, 
and Margaret b. 1793- 

XX. James Cumine Burnett of Monboddo, b. 183S, 
m. 1864 Georgina Keith. Brother- Arthur Coffin 
Burnett (i840-7r}, Sisters— (l) Elizabeth b. 1844, 
m. James Badenoch Nicholson, Esq. of Clenbervie, 
(z) Helen b. 185S, m. William Disney Innes of Cowie, 
d. 1891. Issue— James Shank Burnett b, 1868, John 
\\. TB7l,MaryB. V. b. 1864, m., 1889, C. F. Wright, 

> ^nisler, London, and has issue, d. 1891, Arthur b. 
: , T678, Lilian May b. 1866, and Georgina li. 1867. 



OLDEN TRADE NAMES. 

The recent inieresting lists of the names of the 

inhabitants of Old Aberdeen (VIL, 1 and so) 

ilh their names and occupations, suggests the 
collection of a complete list of olden trades, 
towards which I offer the following instalment. 
Many of them are the names of trades still in 
existence, and only curious from the manner in 
which they are spelt, others are the names of 
trades now non-existent, and there are some 

ith whose aignificalion I should like to be 
made acquainted. 



Barker! 



(.510) I 



's Criminal Trials = Tan- 



Brondslers, Brondusl 


r (1636) Brov 








w maker. 


Baxters = Bakers. 





Cowparia = Coopers. 

Culleltaris ? 

Cuik(i59l)= Cook. 

Currour (1490) = Courier or Runner. 

Cnrtaris (1494} = Carters. 

Cordonaris ^ Shoemakers. 

Falconar = Falconer. 

Fytheiare = Fiddler, 

Fleschowares = Fleshers. 

Glaissen-wrycht (1576 in Walter CuUen's Chronicle) 

Ha r pare = Harper. 

Hooker — Fishing Hook Maker. 

Heilmakcr and Pantounheilmaker (?) 

Laxfischer = White-fishet. 

Litster = Dyer. 

Lular = Player on the Lute. 

Lorinier = Saddler. 

Mutters = Millers. 

Marinals and Merrinaris = Mariners. 

(Prenticesses and) FUlls (?) 

Pargiler {Pariis a wall} = Plasterer. 

Piparis, Pyperis — Pipers, 

Quarlouris (?) 

Spelare (1496) = Climber or Rope dancer. 

Scipar = Skipper, 

Stocker (?) 

Sparginer (?) 

Spinster = Spinner. 

Shanker = Stocking-weaver. 

Sawistar, Sawar (l497) = Sawyer. 

Sand leder = Sand carter or dealer. 

Skaffaris = Scavingers. 

Sklatteris = Slaters. 

Smyihtis =: Black -smiths. 

Sheaismiths (?) 

Tallnonar, talboner, tawbionar, laburner = Player 

on the Talbron or Dnitr. 
Tapesteris = Tapsters. 
Trumpalouris = Trumpeters. 
Trawelor [v. Walter Cullen's Chronicle, 1576) = 

Traveller. 
Waxlers (?) 
Wobsters = Weavers. 



August, 1893.J 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



35 



A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EUINBURGH 
PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 

(Begun \a S. N. &■ Q., V., July. 1S91.) 
1839. Home and Foreign Missionary Record 
for the Church of Scotland, Vol. 1., July, 1839. 
Continued as Church of Scotland Home and 
Foreign Missionary Record. New Series, edited 
by Pnncipal TuUoch. Vol. I., April, 1862. Still 
'being issued monthly. 

1839. Childretis Missionary Record. Vol, I., 
1839-40. This magazine has been variously en- 
litled : Childreiis Missionary Record, in con- 
nection with the Church uf Scotland j Juvenile 
Missionary Record; Juvenile Missionary Record 
and Sabbath Scholar^ Magazine. Other and 
frequent chan|[es, in title, size, and price, have 
from time to time been made. 

1840. Monthly Journal of Medicine. Price ss. 
Published by Sutherland & Knox. How many 
volumes? It was latterly, I believe, published 

1840. Scottish Temperance Herald. How 
many numbers of this periodical were published? 

184a Opera Glass : a Weekly Musical and 
Theatrical Miscellany. Edinburgh : J. Kay & 
Co. The British Museum Catalogue sajs :^ 
" Nos. I — 39 ; probably no more published. 
Mo. I, Friday. April 10, 1840, i^A; No. 14, 
July 10, id ; No. 15, July 17, 3d ; No. 19, Oct. 
23. 3d. 

1840. The Witness, 

The first number of this once powerful and 
influential newspaper, which instinctively recalls 
the name uf Hugh Miller, was issued on Wed- 
nesday, January 1;, 1840. The imprint was ; — 
Edinburgh : Printed by John Johnstone and 
Robert Fairley, at No. 8 Horse Wynd, and pub- 
lished by them at the Witness Office, 297 High 
Street, front of the Royal Exchange. It started 
with a circulation of 6co, but rapidly increased 
to 1800, by the end of its second year. In 1S43 
it was considerably enlarged. At first it was 
published on Wednesday and Saturday, price 
3jjd and 4>^d ; but in iS6z the dates of issue 
were altered to Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur- 
day, price zd and 3d. In the first prospectus 
the Witness was 5tykd The Old Whig. The 
Witness was the organ of the Non-Intrusion 
party of the Kirk of Scotland, --the party which, 
in 1843, became the Free Church of Scotland. 
It flashed like a meteor across the journalistic 
system of North Britain ; and played a most 
prominent part in the Disruption of the Esta- 
blished Church of Scotland, in politics it was, 
it) the main. Liberal ; but was independent of 

Eolitical parties ; being more a religious and 
terary than a political paper. The leading 
articles were powerfully and closely reasoneii 



although generally moderate in expression, and 
written in what a contemporary writer called "a 
chaste and gentlemanly style." It numbered 
among its contributors some of the most gifted 
writers in Scotland. A special feature of the 
paper was the admirable articles, conspicuous 
for their elegant and polished diction, on the 
various subjects then being agitated, having ref- 
erence to theology and evangelical teaching. 
During the sittings of the General Assemblies 
the paper was issued daily, thus enabling reports 
of the proceedings of the two bodies to be given 
at considerable length. Us high moral i.one, and 
the instructive nature of its articles, rendered it 
popular as a family newspaper. Latterly the 
circulation was stated to be 3657. In its palmy 
days the clear annual income was over ^2000 — 
a large sum for a bi-weekly newspaper in those 
days. The first editor, and until his tragic death 
a leading contributor, was, (in the words of Pro- 
fessor Masson), " the massive Hugh Miller from 
Cromarty, his self-acquired English classicism 
superinduced upon native Scandinavian strength, 
and powdered with the dust of the Old Red 
Sandstone." During the struggle ending in the 
Disruption of the Church of Scotland, Hugh 
Miller gave up all the strength and energy of 
his rugged soul to the service of the section 
which afterwards formed the Free Church. Dur- 
ing the sixteen years he occupied the editorial 
chair he contributed about 1000 articles and 
papers, " conspicuous for literary ability, still 
more so for a wide range of argument and of 
original thought, most of all for deep conscien- 
tiousness." In the columns of the Witness ap- 
peared his celebrated work, The Old Red Sand- 
stone : a series of articles on geology, setting 
forth, in picturesque and pellucid English, the 
results of original and valuable research. 

" Miller was the first of the physicists who, without 
diminullun of their scientific merits, have sought to 
rivnl lillcrateurs in the graces of langange. Lycll, 
Mnrchison, and Buckland quickly recognised the ad- 
vent of a fi^etih and poweiful mind." 

The motto under the heading of the Witness 
was the historical words of John Knox :^" I am 
in the place where I am demanded of conscience 
to speak the truth, and the truth I speak, im- 
">ugn it whoso listeth ;" and in the spirit of these 
told words Hugh Miller ever wrote. The Wtt- 
less early proved a formidable antagonist to the 
Scotsman, whose mission, says Mr Norrie,' 
seemed to be to smile the leaders of the new 
ecclesiastical organisation hip and thigh. 

The Rev. Dr. Walter C. Smith has drawn the 
following contrast between Hugh ^filler, the editor of 
the IVilruss, and Mr. Russel of the Scolsinas .■— 



36 SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [August, 1893. 

*' Hugh Miller and Alexander Russel had the making back to the recent Jubilee of the Free Church 

of the Fourth Estate in Scotland, and they were (respecting which, perhaps, too much was 

singularly fitted for the work that was laid to their written and spoken) to quote a portion of Hugh 

hands. Both iiien of great natural force and m- Miller's address to his readers on the threshold 

dependence of character ; various gifts, too, and wide ^^ jjjg miffhtv toils * 

culture — earnest, sincere, and fearless — they were so «»xir ' i i_ • j u • 

far like each other in their general patriotism, in their „ ^^ enter upon our labours at a period eniphati- 

clear integrity of mind, and in their honest love of f*\»y momentous--at the commencement, it is pro- 

freedom. Yet they were also curiously unlike, both ^able, of one of those important eras never forgotten 

in the build of their minds and in their general bias of ^^ f country, which influences for ages the condition 

thought. For, while Hugh Miller was slow in his ^"^ character of the people, and from which the 

intellectual movement, as became the reflective man f,^"^^ of their future history take colour and form, 

of science, and worked out even his exquisite literary ^^ enter, too, upon them at a time when, with few 

beauties in a heavy, lumbering kind of way, the other exceptions our bcottish contemporaries in the same 

was brisk, nimble, and agile, having an almost field-unable, it would seem, to lead, and unwilling 

Socratic keenness of reason, wrapt up in a lightsome J^ follow,— neither guide the opinions of the great 

and playful humour. He could never have done the ^"'"^ ^^ ^^^^"^ countrymen, nor yet echo their senti- 

higher scientific or literary work of his great rival, ^^"^s. . . . . The public and the newspapers 

but he was the very type of the able editor— shrewd, "^^^ ^^"^^n different sides. . . . . The differences 

intelligent, sharp-witted and ready— and the able pf the contending parties withm the Church of Scot- 

editor has a considerable part to play in these days. 1^"^. ^"^^f^ solely from the circumstance, that the one 

Yet the chief difference between them arose, after all, '^^^^^"s its onginal principles, and that the other has 

not so much from original mental characteristics, as ^^5"^^"^™ ."P/ nor is it at all improbable that it 

from the fact that while Miller's was shaped, like shall be decided by the issue of the present conflict, 

that of most Scotchmen, in the moulds of our whether the Church shall continue to unite its old 

ecclesiastical life and by the men it met there, character to its old name, or whether, for the future, 

Russel's, on the contrary, was fashioned by our ^^ shall retain the name only. The cause of the 

modern political activity, and by his associates in unchanged party m the Church is that of the Church 

that sphere. Hence there was a sort of historic ^^^elf ; it is that of the people of Scotland, and the 

solidity in the former, while the other had a certain people know it ; it was the cause of their fathers, and 

modernness in all his ideas; for the Church life of ^"^ \^\^^^^ of the Reformation ; it is the cause of a 

Scotland is historical, but its political views are a P"'^» efficient, unmodified Christianity, 

thing of yesterday." After the lamented death of Hugh Miller, the 

The Rev. Dr. Candlish, of St. George's, Witness (which had been for long sub-edited 

Edinburgh, was mainly instrumental in appoint- by the late Rev. Dr. Wylie), was for a brief 

ing Hugh Miller editor of the Witness; and it P^nod edited by Mr. Peter Bayne. On Mr. 

has been stated that it was at the manse of that Bayne's appointment as editor of the Dial, in 

stout ecclesiastical warrior, Dr. Begg (then of December, 1859, the paper had no regular 

Liberton, near Edinburgh), that the money was editor, and, in consequence, its circulation 

contributed which formed the guarantee fund rapidly declined. Several other Edinburgh 

for launching the paper. Miller's earliest papers claimed to be the organ of the Free 

biographer, Brown,^ thus summed up his qualifi- Church, and the support of that body was 

cations for so arduous a task as the conduct of divided among these claimants, to the detriment 

the Witness : — of the whole. After an unsuccessful experiment 

c^TT u n/iii 1 J J r 1- ,1 to appear as a daily (an experiment which only 

-Hugh Miller was amply endowed for the work he jested fifteen days), the Witness was, in 1864^ 

was called to perform, Perfectly acquainted with ^^„^^^j /v.^ ^^i^ k,. ,,^*.' «4. «.i. * • 

not the acts alone, but also the aims of the founders ^^P?f ^ ^?f ,'^^^ ^^ \"^^^^"' ^^ ,*^^ "Pj^^ pnce 

of the Scottish Church-having a most accurate con- ^^ ^^ ' ^^ ^^ P^'^^^^.f was tempted by this 

ception of the ground plan, so to speak, of the moderate offer. The Z?^//k ^^/^2e/ subsequently 

Scottish Reformation— able to put his finger at once acquired it for "an old song." The last num- 

upon all those points which indicated how widely the ber of the Witness appeared on Saturday, 

moderates had deflected from the ecclesiastical polity February 27, 1864. The dying words of the 

of Knox and Melville — at home in their favourite once-powerful paper were : — " Had hope of 

literature — knowing its excellencies no less than its human reward been our spring of action, we 

defects, he entered upon his duties, a workman should have cherished a miserable delusion, and 

needing not to be ashamed, and descended into the been fated to experience a mortifVing disappoint- 

arena of ecclesiastical conflict, armed at all points, so ^ent. * Cursed be the man that trusteth in 

far as the discussion of principles was concerned. n^^n.'" To this the Scotsman (at one period 

It may be expedient, in view of impending altogether out-run by the defunct paper), some- 

agitations throughout the country, and harking what flippantly replied :— " * We have been the 

2 The Life &» Times of Hugh Miller. By Thomas N. f^rvants of the Church alone,' are the Witness 5 

Brown, London and Glasgow : R. Griffin & Co., 1858. last words. If it had served its country as 



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37 



faithfully as it has served its sect, its service 
would not have been so unprofitable, its clients 
so ungrateful, nor its would-be masters so un- 
kind."* Truly, as Hugh Miller said, the news- 
paper editor writes on sand, when the tide is 
coming in. 

James W. Scott. 

(To be continued,) 



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THE LOSS OF THE WHALING SHIP OSCAR, 
AND OTHER SHIPPING REMINISCENCES. 

Notwithstanding the very interesting account 
extracted from the Aberdeen Journal of the 7th 
April, 181 3, communicated by "R. A." regarding 
the shipwreck of the Oscar (VII., 14, 29), with 
your permission I propose giving you an extract 
from the Book of Bon-Accord^ which is now 
getting very scarce. I do so the more readily 
as I consider it very interesting. I need not 
remind you that the author of this book was 
Robertson the Historian. Besides the loss of 
the Oscar, Robertson gave some particulars re- 
garding other vessels lost at this locality, which 
I am sure will be very acceptable to your readers. 
The small bay of Greyhope, a short distance 
North-westward from the Lighthouse, is me- 
morable as the scene of a disastrous shipwreck 
in the year 181 3. On the morning of the ist 
April five whaling vessels were ridmg at anchor 
in the roads when a sudden tempest came on 
from the south-east Two of the ships weighed 
and stood out to sea ; but as part of the crew of 
one, the ill-fated Oscar, had been left ashore, 
she was obliged to put about and keep near the 
land. By the time that all her men were on 
board she was far in shore ; meantime the wind 
had died away, and from the heavy roll of the 
sea, and a strong tide setting in, she was unable 
to clear the Girdleness. Soon after the gale 
sprung up with increased violence ; it was ac- 
companied with a dense shower of snow, and 
now blew from the north-east. The vessel in 
vain endeavoured to ride it out ; and after 
dragging her anchor, she was driven ashore on 
the Greyhope, on a large reef of rocks. The 
tremendous sea which broke over her threatened 
instant destruction ; and the only hope of safety 
for the crew was that of effecting a communica- 
tion with land. For this purpose the mainmast 
was hewed down in such a manner as that it 
might fall towards the beach ; but it dropped 
alongside the vessel. A number of the seamen 
who had clung to the rigging were hurled into 
the sea along with it, many were swept from the 

S Farther and fuller particulars respecting Hugh Miller and 
The Witness may he obtained by consulting: — Life and 
Letters of H. Walktr^ by Peter Bayne ; Life and Times of 
H, Miller^ bv T. N. Brown ; Edinburgh Review^ July, 1858 ; 
Mmm» in JIfacmillan' s Magazine^ May, 1865. 



deck, and others who attempted to swim to the 
land were borne down by the floating wreck, or 
overwhelmed by the fury of the surf. Only the 
forecastle now remained above water, and for a 
short time the master and three sailors were ob- 
served upon it, imploring that assistance which 
none could give. Of a crew of forty-four men, 
only two were saved. 

Many calamities of a similar nature occurred 
in the beginning of the year 181 5. On the 26th 
January the brig Caledonia foundered at the 
mouth of the harbour, in a violent hurricane, 
and all on board, to the number of six or seven, 
perished. The schooner Providence sought 
safety from the same tempest in a neighbouring 
bay, where, of four persons by whom she was 
manned, only the master reached the land. The 
Thames smack of Aberdeen, from London, with 
a valuable cargo of goods on board, appeared 
under circumstances of distress making for the 
harbour, with a favourable prospect of gaining 
it, until one of those tremendous seas with which 
she was surrounded laid her on her beam ends, 
and her mast nearly in the water. After remain- 
ing in this perilous position for some time she 
righted, but her sails and sheets being lacerated, 
she was now rendered unnavigable, left to the 
mercy of the waves, and her fate became inevit- 
able. She struck among the rocks in the Grey- 
hope, near the fatal spot where the Oscar had 
been destroyed. The crew, consisting of nine 
persons, with two passengers on board, perished, 
and the ship became a wreck. On the 29th, a 
Danish galliot, in striving to make the harbour, 
was dashed upon the North Pier, and one of the 
seamen crushed to death. ^ 

William Thomson. 

7 Madeira Place, Leith. 

* Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen, Vol. i, pp. 341- 
346. The port is associated with the disastrous ship- 
wreck which is deplored in " the grand old ballad of 
Sir Patrick Spens ' : — 

" O forty miles off Aberdeen 
'Tis fifty fathoms deep, 
And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, 
\Vi' the Scots lords at his feet.'^ 

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, pp. 278-282, by Sir 
Walter Scott ; Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Ancient and 
Modem, "^^ 16. Buchan, in his Gleanings of Scarce 
Old Ballads, gives a rather different version of this 
ballad : — 

" Half owre, half owre to Aberdour, 
Its fifty fathoms deep, 
And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, 
Wi' the Scots lords at his feet.'^ 

In a note Buchan says : — " This is one of the oldest 
ballads in the Scottish dialect, although history throws 
little light upon it. The scene of misfortune lies on 
the coast of Buchan, half owre, half owre to Aber- 
dour," about twenty miles from Peterhead. 



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[August, 1893. 



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

1661 — 1672 — 1790. 

John Row,* one of the Ministers of Aberdeen, 
and for some time Principal of King's College, 
was the second son of John Row, Minister of 
Carnock, author of the History of the Kirk of 
Scotland^ and a grandson of John Row the Re- 
former. He was born at the manse of Carnock, 
in Fifeshire, about the year 1598, his mother 
being Grissel, the daughter of David Fergusson, 
the first Protestant minister of Dunfermline. 
Educated at the University of St Andrews, he 
took his Arts degree at St Leonard's College in 
July, 161 7, and shortly afterwards was chosen 
master of the Grammar School of Kirkcaldy. 
Whether while still at Kirkcaldy, or afterwards, 
is not known, but he was for some time tutor to 
George, son of the first Earl of Kinnoul, Chan- 
cellor of Scotland ; and upon his patron's re- 
commendation he was, in June, 1632, appointed 
master of the Grammar School of Perth. Row's 
election, however, was not completed without 
exciting strong feelings against it, chiefly on the 
ground that the election had been made wholly 
by the civic authorities, without consulting with 
the clergy. The matter was, however, cleared 
up satisfactorily, for on the 15th August, 1632, 
" the ministers of Perth report, that on Monday 
last, Mr John Row, master of the Grammar 
School of Perth, acknowledged his oversight in 
entering to the said school without being tried 
by them, conform to the Acts of General As- 
sembly and Parliament ; and in presence of the 
Bishop of Dunkeld, and divers others of the 
Council of the said Burgh, offered himself to 
tryall if it were their pleasure, of which offer 
they rested contented, and therefore overpassed 
all tryalls because of the divers testimonies they 
had received of his qualification and sufficiency." 
Scarcely a year had passed when Row found 
himself once again in opposition to the Church, 
the charge this time being that he did not com- 
municate with the rest of the parish. Row's 
defence was that the institution of the Commu- 
nion had been so altered in Perth that he could 
not see his way conscientiously to join in its 
celebration. This was a matter not so easily 
settled as the former dispute, but ultimately 
Row agreed to refer himself to the will of the 
Presbytery, and to communicate in the future 
with the rest of the congregation. It was dur- 
ing his residence in Perth that he compiled a 
Hebrew Grammar, which received the approba- 
tion of his alma mater ^ and the appreciation of 
several others. The various changes in the form 
of church government, it is supposed, led Row 

1 Row's Historie of the Kirk o/Scotlamf- Edited by David 
Laing, LL.D. 



to qualify for the ministry, and through the in- 
fluence of Andrew Cant he was elected one of 
the ministers of St Nicholas Church in 1641. 
The first minute of Council referring to the 
matter is dated 10 November, 1641 :— 

** The said day the Provest bailyeis and counsell 
being convenit in the Tounes Counsell hous and have- 
and consideratioun that wpoun the report maid to 
thame of the worth and habilities of Mr Johne Row 
scollmaster in Perthe to be ane pastor in the Kirk of 
God they had writin for him to repair to this brughe 
that he might be hard preacheing in our pulpits, and 
he accordingly repairing hither and have preachit 
thrie several! tymes and givin content to the auditouris 

Thairfoir thay maid nomination of the said 

Mr Johne Row to be ane of the Ministers of the said 
brughe actuallie to supply and fill ane of the uacand 
roumes of the ministerie thairof, the Toune alwayes 
giving thair consent and allowance thairunto." 

The consent of the Head Court of citizens 
was given on the following day, and having sa- 
tisfied the Presbytery as to his qualifications, 
Row was admitted one of the ministers of the 
burgh on the 14th December, 1641. His inti- 
mate knowledge of Hebrew signalled him out 
a year later as the most capable to give a weekly 
lesson in that language to the students attend- 
ng Marischal College. This he continued to 



do for some time with considerable acceptance, 
and in September, 1643, ^^^ Council, in respect 
that he had dedicated his forthcoming Hebrew 
Grammar and Vocabulary to them, voted him 
a sum of 400 merks. The work was printed by 
George Anderson in Glasgow, and was pub- 
lished there in 1644. The book was the first 
of its kind published in Scotland, and was re- 
commended for use by the General Assembly 
in 1646. 

In the great struggle between the King and 
the Parliament, which was now raging, Row^s 
position was perfectly clear, for, in the graphic 
words of Clerk Spalding, he was " an arch Co- 
venanter." Throughout these stormy years he 
is found side-by-side with the elder Cant in all 
he does, and with him shares the perils of their 
position, necessitating them on one occasion to 
take refuge for some time in Dunnoter Castle, 
a proceeding which gives Spalding the oppor- 
tunity for remarking that " they fled like foxes." 

When Cromwell obtained the supremacy in 
Scotland, one of the first actions he took was to 
appoint Commissioners to visit the various Uni- 
versities, &c., for the purpose of ejecting those 
considered unsuitable. In 1652 two colonels 
and three judges visited Aberdeen, and having 
ejected Dr WiUiam Guild from being Principal 
of King's College, they elected Row to the po- 
sition. About this time Row had undoubtedly 
turned an Independent, and, along with John 
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College, and John Seaton, Minister of Old 
Aberdeen, who had followed his example, gave 
the Presbytery a good deal of trouble. Row^s 
tenure of office was not marked by anything of 
special importance, but it is generally agreed 
that he worthily upheld the traditions of King's. 
It was during his principalship in 1657 that the 
new work in the north-east comer of the College 
was begun, whieh considerably increased the 
former accommodation. 

Row has been, however, considerably blamed 
for a work which he published in 1660, entitled 
Eucharistia Basilike, a panegyrical poem ad- 
dressed to Charles II. on his Restoration, from 
the fact that in it he goes out of his way to 
reproach Cromwell as " O vile cruel worm." 
If Row's object in publishing this poem was to 
curry favour with the new powers that were, it 
utterly failed, for finding that the question of his 
deposition was only one of time, he resigned the 
office of principal, ist August, 1661, and took to 
private teaching. Besides the works already 
mentioned, Row in 1650 transcribed the revised 
MS. of his father's History of the Kirky and 
added a short supplement from his own notes, 
bringing it down to 1639. This addition was 
styled by himself " A Handful of Goats' Hair 
far furthering of the Building of the Taber- 
nacle^^ In 165 1 he compiled a treatise entitled 
^^^ Praxis Praceftorum Hebrace Grammaticce^^ 
which was dedicated to the Professors of Di- 
vinity in the sister Universities of Edinburgh 
and Glasgow ; but from the fact that a copy was 
written by Row so late as 1668, it is supposed 
never to have been printed. 

Row appears to have carried on his private 
teaching for a good few years, and from side re- 
ferences in the Diary, his pupils appear to have 
been of the better class, although it is generally 
stated he did not derive a great living from his 
teaching. Latterly he seems to have resided at 
bis son-in-law's house at the Manse of Kinellar, 
where he died of a palsy in October, 1672, aged 
seventy-four years. 

Row was married, but the name of his wife 
has not been discovered, and had a family of at 
least one son and four daughters. His son is 
referred to as tutor of William Fairley of Brunt- 
field, attending the High School of Edinburgh 
in 1 661. Lilias, the eldest daughter, married 
Mr John Mercer, minister at Kinellar; the 
second* daughter's name is not known ; Grissel, 

the third daughter, married Anderson ; 

and the youngest daughter, Margaret, was un- 
married, and died 4th June, 1672, and was in- 
terred beside her mother in Old Aberdeen. 

The little book, to which the perhaps rather 
pretentious title of Diary is given, measures 
Z)i ^ 3 ij^M and is, unfortunately, incomplete, 



as it commences on page 59. The writing of 
the Principal is a specimen of beautifully small 
caligraphy, and for the size of the book the 
amount of matter contained is wonderful. The 
first entry extant begins in September, 1661, just 
about the time he resigned the office of Princi- 
pal of King's College, and the last entry is 
dated 4th October, 1672, the month in which 
he died. 

The contents of the Diary consist chiefly of 
short notices relating to births, deaths, and mar- 
riages, and of one or two notable incidents of 
the times. It is a matter of great regret that 
the early part of the Diary is amissing, and 
more so that the portion left does not deal more 
particularly with the incidents in which the 
Principal must have taken a leading part. Such 
a Diary would have formed a suitable and wel- 
come continuation of the History of the Trubles 
by Clerk Spalding. 

On the death of the Principal the little book 
came into the possession of Mr Thomas Mercer 
of Todlaw and Smiddybum, the second son of 
Mr John Mercer, Minister of Kinellar, and Lilas 
Row, who continues it till his death. The next 
continuatpr was his son, Mr John Mercer, Mi- 
nister of Tyne, who bequeathed it to his son, 
John Mercer, farmer in Kirktown of Tyrie, who 
made entries down to the year 1790. The latter 
entries relate almost whollv to matters concern- 
ing members of the Mercer family. 

Alex. M. Munro. 



DIARY. 

merchand in Abd. died at Coningsberg (vulgo 
Quinsbridge) in Sept 1661 of the pest. 

Catrin Cowper daughter to the umqll Laird 
of Gogar married to Wm Ramsay merchand of 
Edz died Octob : 61. 

My son Octob : i . 1661 came from Midop to 
be Govemour to cusin Wm fairley of 

Bruntfield, a disciple at the high school of Edz 
(Edinburgh) Q. F. F. Q. S. 

Alex"^ Rutherfoord son to provost Rutherfoord 
at Abd. died anno aetates 80 Nov*" 10. 1661. 

Mr Alex*^ Midleton was transported from 
Rayne, admitted minister in Old Abd Nov"* 12 
i66t. 

At the visitatione of the Vniversitie of Abd in 
Sep' 1661 Mr Wm Moire prin" dimitted his 
place and Dr James Leslie succeeded him. 

August I. 61 Mr John Row prin^ in the old 
CoUedge dimitted his place and Mr Wm Rait at 
Brechin succeeded him prin" 

Nov' 1661 S' James Hope Lord Hopetoun 
who had bin a Lord of the Session ; son in law 
to the Earle of Marshall, by his eldest daughter, 
deceassed at Edz. 

Dec' 1 661 Dr Purves died at Edz. 



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Dec"* 1 66 1 The Ladie Stanypeth (which is in 
Fyffe) died in her daughters house Glenbervie. 

Jan"* 15 1662 died relict first of Wm 

Fergusson liveing at the shoare of Abd w^^out 
the Shiprow port ; nixt relict of Thomas Melvill 
dean of Guild aetatis 

Elspeth Goodaill daughter to Andro Goodaill 
and Elspeth Smith was maried to Cruik- 

shank Jan"" 14.1662 a merchand of Abd. 

Mr Robert Reid an expectant probationer li- 
centiat to preach and who preached often at 
Abd ; who made and vented a lying scandalous 
pasquill in verse ; upon died of a tuo or 3 

dayes secknes at Abd Jan"* 21. 1662. it was so 
reported : haveing issued at his nose, mouth, 
eyes and ears, all at once a great quantitie of 
blood and was supposed to have bled to death ; 
Nota that a day or two before this he comeing 
out of the kirk doore after the exercise of the 
pbrie behinde M. T. Mercer at Kinellar said 
that man has too much fanatick blood in his 
head ; uch was called to mynd by those to whom 
he spoke it quhen they heard of this so extraor- 
dinarie a bleeding : Deus vivit videt et audit &c 

Mr Ro* Preston of Prestone son of S*" John of 
Valley-field was ryding esk in Lothian w' his 
son, a propper youth ; whose horse stumbling 
in the water, he died his father looking on. 
Jan' 1662. 

About the beginning of '62 died my Lord 
Colevill of Cliesh. 

Wm Anderson goldsmith at Abd. a man of a 
brave merchanioh spirit ; but got to be poreish 
died Feby. 17. 1662. 

Mr John Sibbald minister of Arbuthnot ccelebs 
of good repute for charitie and sobrietie being 
subject often to a colick Feb^ 22 Saturday '62 
being at his meditation at the waterside of Ber- 
vie, in view of Sabbath work, a violent colick 
overtakes him ; comes home, lyes down, directs 
his boy to heat some ail for him ; but quhen the 
boy come with the hot aill, he found him ex- 
pyred : Lord prepare us. 

Bessie White wyfe of James Hill in south 
queens ferrie daughter of Thomas White in 
Kirkcaldie and Margt Gillespie deceassed, died 
a few days after she was brought to bed about 
the end of Feb' 1662. 

March 8 1662 Helen Forbes a woman of good 
age about 76, an holy woman haveing lived in 
inward and outward difficulties very many, died 
at Aberdeen. 

Mr Andro Gilmore advocate at Edz a preg- 
nant young man, brother to Sir John Gilmore 
president died at Edz of 2 or 3 dayes sicknes 
March : 14. 1662. 

March 15 '62 betwix 9 and 10 at night, Lillias 
Gilespie brought forth a daughter baptized Jean 
tuesday instant 18 . '62. 



Elizabeth queen of Bohemia of the Palatinat 
&c. daughter to King James 6 father sister to 
Charles 2 : died at Westminster London Febr 
13 1662 an. aetatis 66. a brave princesse a mother 
of many sons and daughters : and who learned 
to carie well under all hir changes. 

Mr Rob Burnet Advocat at Edz., son to my 
Lord Orimond lately deceessed an : '61 an hope- 
full pregnant young man died in his mother's 
aimis March 1662. 

(To be continued.) 



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EXTRACTS FROM THE CRIMINAL 
COURT BOOK OF OLD ABERDEEN. 

The first entry in this volume deals with a quar- 
rel between a prominent member of the Trades 
in new Aberdeen and the well known Aulton 
bellfounder. 

i8th October 1735 William Molyson baillie. 

The said Day anent the Criminale complaint 
at the instance of John Swap Thesaurer and 
pror. fiscal with concourse of Daniell Whyte 
Hookmaker in Aberdeen against John Mowat 
Blacksmith in Old Aberdeen for his beating and 
stricking the said Daniel Whyte on the mouth 
and face to the effusion of his blood. As also 
produced ane execution at the fiscalls instance 
against the said John Mowat under the hand of 
Andrew Hadden, Town's Serjeant, bearing him 
to have cited the said John Mowat personally 
apprehended to this day who being present at 
the bar and being interrogate on the forsaid 
complaint acknowledged that after much injuri- 
ous language of the said Daniel Whyte he was 
provoaked to give the said Daniell a Box on the 
face with his fist whereby he believes he was 
blooded. 

The Baillie having considered the forsaid 
complaint and confession fynes and ammerciats 
the said John Mowat in the sum of Fifty pund 
Scots money for behove of the Town and Like- 
ways Decerns him in the sum of Three pund 
Scots in name of assythment to the said Daniel 
Whyte .... 

28 November i73Sy William Thomson^ baillie. 

The said day anent the criminal complaint 
against Elspet Ross in Artlich above Strath- 
bogie in the Parish of Dumbennan for her steal- 
ing and away taking of ane white serge petticot 
from Isobel Lendrum servant to Mrs Orem in 
Old Aberdeen in manner mentioned in the said 
complaint. 

Thereafter the said Elspet Ross being brought 
out of prison where she was committed this 
morning .... interrogate on the forsaid com- 
plaint she confessed and acknowledged that 
upon the day lybelled towards night she stole 
the said serge pitticot, and declares she cannot 



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write. The Baiiiie having considered the for- 
said complaint with her judicial! confession above 
written He banished her out of this city and 
liberties thereof, and ordains her to be remanded 
back to prison till the morrow the 29th inst., 
and ordains her to be drummed out of this city 
the said twenty ninth betwixt the hours of eleven 
and twelve befomoon. With certification if she 
return she shall be corporeally punished. 

igth December^ ^735- Mr Alexander Eraser^ 
William Thomson and Andrew Burnes, ma- 
gistrates. 

The said Day anent the complaint pursued 
against George Mackie, wright in old Aberdeen 
for his contemptuous manner refusing upon the 
seventeenth of December instant to accept ane 
soldier to his house when required by a billet 
signed by Baillie Molyson one of the Magistrals 
of the city of Old Aberdeen, and even after the 
said Baillie Molyson was at the trouble to go 
along with the soldier to the said George 
Mackie's house and demanded him to receive 
the said soldier He persisted in the said con- 
tempuous manner to the said Baillie Molyson 
and refused to accept the said soldier. 

Thereafter appeared the said George Mackie 
.... and the said George Mackie denying the 
forsaid complaint Compeared James Walker 
Writter in Aberdeen procurator for the said 
George Mackie and craued ane day to see and 
answer the forsaid complaint, to whom the Bail- 
lies assigned the 20th inst, against elewen Aclock 
for that effect. 

20 December lyss* 

The said day compeared the said George 
Mackie and gave in defences against the forsaid 
complaint as on a paper apart. Answered by 
the fiscall That as the Quarter Master was the 
only public officer for quartering Soldiers within 
the Town Yet as it happened at the tyme men- 
tioned in the Complaint the Quartermaster had 
given over his office as appears by a letter to 
Baillie Thomson so it was incumbent and ne- 
cessary for one of the Magistrats of the town 
to perform that office until a Quartermaster had 
been chosen especially when the demand for a 
billet was so late at night that the soldier might 
been obliged to ly on the streets. 

Replyed by James Walker, procurator for the 
said George Mackie that the having arms in his 
house belonging to the two soldiers put on him 
by Andrew Cassie, Quartermaster, was a suffi- 
cient warrand to him to refuse any more soldiers 
till they were removed as is the common practice 
in all places where soldiers are cjuartered. 

2nd, The said Andrew Cassie having only 
given over his commission on Tuesday and this 
affair happening nixt day It could not be sup- 
posed that the Defender knew thereof And he 



declares that he did not, so that the refusing of 
the billet cannot be reckoned any contempt of 
Authority especially considering that the soldier 
bearer of the billet was a man of a very bad life 
and service whom any body in town would [not] 
receive. And it was the more hard on the De- 
fender considering his character. 

Zrd. The Baillies seem to be very forward in 
this affair for it was seen to all the beholders 
that the above answers were dictated by them- 
selves for the fiscall which it is thought was his 
part. But all that is lybelled against the de- 
fender seems to be of little consequence as it 
now comes out. Nor will any satisfaction or 
fyne they shall inflict, as it thought they will not 
add anything to the character or authority of 
Baillie Molyson Seeing the Defender has allways 
behaved himself most fairly and submissively. 

After more replies by the fiscal the matter 
went to proof, and the following is the judgment 
in this curious dispute : — 

The Baillies having considered the complaint 
with the witnesses depositions for proveing the 
same, find it proven that George Mackie, de- 
fender, had contemed Baillie Molyson one of 
the present magistrats his authoritie. In so far 
as when the said Baillie Molyson cam to the 
said George Mackie's house, and required him 
to take in and quarter a soldier, He the said 
George Mackie refused to receive the said sol- 
dier. And therefore the said Magistrats fine and 
ammerciats the said George Mackie in the sum 
of Ten pounds Scots and appoint and ordain 
the said George Mackie to make acknowledge- 
ment of his fault, and misbehaviour to Baillie 
Molyson in open Court, and ordain him to obey 
the said sentence instantly or go to prison till 
he observes the same. Ornum. 



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Church Censure for Burying on Sun- 
day, 1 73 1. — The following extracts from the 
Kirk Session Records of Kenmore may interest 
some of your readers. J. C. 

Kenmore, May 5th, 1751. — [The Session] appoints 
him [i.e. the church officer] also to Summond Do<^ 
Crerar in Tomflower Artallanaig for causing to open 
a grave upon the Lord's Day also Paf Crerar in Cal- 
ellichan, Jn^ M^'Ewen at the Milntown of Artallanaig 
Alex"* Crerar at Creitdow & Alex""® M^Nacaird in Lur- 
gin for attending upon a Burial & immediately drink- 
mg thereafter in time of Divine Service this Day was 
a fortnight Likewise Don<i McLaren in Claggan as 
being guilty of the Same to Compear before the Ses- 
sion ag'. this day Eight Days. 

Kenmore. May nth, 1751.— -Compear'd before 
the Session the sds Jn® M^Ewen, Do^ & Alex"" Crerars 
Alex' and Do<i M^Nacairds, who acknowledged the 
Said Scandal laid to their Charge Professed their 
Sorrow for the Offence given and promised not to 
Transgress in Time Coming after the Same Manner. 



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[August, 1893. 



OLD NORTHERN SEED ACCOUNTS. 

It is interesting to contrast merchants' accounts 
of different dates, the articles contained therein 
being occasionally so different, and the formal 
style of the older accounts being invariably 
awanting in the newer. The following notes 
are made from original accounts now before 
the writer : — 

I. "Gardine Seeds to the Leard of Mayon, 
Ap. 17th, 1693. Teakin of be David Stewart. 

lb. s. d. 

I one Torneip oo 04 oo 

I one Parsneip 00 03 04 

I one Carotts 00 05 00 

I one Leiks 00 08 00 



01 00 04." 

Either Patrick Lowson, the well-known mer- 
chant of Banff of that date, who supplied the 
goods, or the Laird of Mayne, to whom the 
goods were supplied, appear to have been 
somewhat slack as regards their accounts, for, 
before the above was paid, an addition was 
made in 1697, thereto, to the amount of 01 : 18 : 
06 : which included 5s for half an ounce of 
onions, is. 6d. for half an ounce of " whyt beats," 
and 7s. for half a pound of "heasting peis." 
The account was thus discharged : " Grants the 
Recett of the wt. in writn acompt, and all 
acompts preceiding be this subscrived att Banff, 
Apryll 30th, In. Vic and nintie seaven be me 
Patrik Lowsone." 

II. "Memorandum to Patrick Lowsone, 
mart, in Banff, for the followeing note of 
Garden Seeds : — 

lb. s. d. 

Imp : one unce of oynion seeds 00 07 06 

Item : one unce of pasneip seeds... 00 04 00 

Item : one unce of Carrot seeds.... 00 04 00 

Item : one unce of Whyte beits 00 03 00 

Item: half unce of Beitrawes 00 03 00 

Item : 4 Drop lattice 00 04 00 

Item : 2 Drop Chervill 

Item: 2 Drop purpie (?) 00 03 00 

Item: 2 Drop Marjoram 00 03 00 

Item : 2 Unees Spinage 00 06 00 

Item: 700 best eabbadge plants ... 01 01 00 

Sir, 
Please send me with the bearer the above- 
ment. note of seeds, together with some few of your 
best whyte pease. I am, Sir, your verie humble 
servt., Jo. Abernethie. To Patrick Lowsone, mert. 
in Banff. These." 

The foregoing note from the Laird of Mayne 
carefully instructs the merchant as to the price 
of the several items. The prices, like prices in 
general, show a general tendency to rise. He 
adds at the close, " Pray send me some setts of 
your best sort of Artichoaks." 

III. The Countess of Fife, Duffhouse, on 



13th January, 1762, sent an order for seeds to 
Mrs. Eagle, Seed Merchant, Edinburgh. As 
being the most convenient mode of despatch, 
they were sent in a vessel of Bailie Baird's 
which sailed from Leith for Lossie Harbour. 
The list illustrates the plants in common use at 
that date with the prices thereof. 

The Countess of Fife gave the following 
order for seeds and plants to Mrs. Eagle, Seed 
Merchant, Edinburgh, 13th January, 1762. As 
being the most convenient mode of despatch, 
they were sent in a vessel of Bailie Baird's 
which sailed from Leith for Lossie Harbour. 
The list illustrates the plants common at that 
time with the prices thereof : — 

2 drop Sweet William, 4d. 

1 ,, White Wallflower, 2d. 

2 ,, Bloody Wallflower, 4d. 
2 ,, Snap Dragon, 4d. 

4 ,, Double Sunflower, 6d. 

2 ,, Sweet Scented Marigold, 4d. 

I ,, French Scented Marigold, 2d. 

1 ,, Love-lieth-bleeding, 2d. 

2 ,, Double China Aster, 4d. 

2 ,, Double Chrysanthemums, 4d. 

I ,, Sensitive Plant, i)^d. a Seed. 

1 ,, Humble Plant, i^d. a Seed. 

2 „ White Candituff, 4d. 

1 ,, I Egg Plant, id. a Seed. 

30 different Plants of Auricula of the best kinds, 
from 6d. to i guinea. 

20 different Plants of Carnations of the best kinds, 
8d., lod., and is. 

2 Plants Passion Flower, at 6d. and is. 

IV. In 1773, a list of seeds was ordered for 
Ellon House. These show what vegetables 
were then in common use. A few quotations 
may be given from the list : Peas include 
Early Charlton, Large Marrowfalls, Early Nicol's 
and Short Sugar Dwarfs. Beans are Kidney, 
Windsor and Nonpareil, Spinage, round and 
prickly. Turnip, Early Dutch, yellow, and 
French ; while Onions are Strasburgh, Portugal, 
Bloodred and Silver skinned. Cabbage are 
large sugar-loaf, large English and red Dutch. 
We also find yellow and green savoys, green 
and red borecole with various sorts of radishes, 
also calliflower, brocolies, white and green 
beets, leeks, carrots, parsnip, &c. 

In glancing over the foregoing the early 
notice of turnip (in 1693) will be observed. 
One can scarcely fail also to observe the small 
quantities ordered, and the small prices ruling. 
In former times, too, customers were more 
easily supplied. Now, almost every article has 
varieties named after some specialist, or some 
firm who have improved it to such an extent 
that the common article would not be looked at, 
and, of course, the new varieties are generally 
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class of annuals are now superseded by newer 
ones, and bedding and herbaceous plants have 
taken their places. The peas, for example, are 
all out of date, and new varieties have taken 
their places, larger and more productive. So 
with onions, &c Cucumber, melon and tomato, 
are not mentioned in the lists, but are now 
largely grown. The great improvement in 
C|uality, at the present day, is perhaps the most 
important remark that can be made in glancing 
over these old, but not uninteresting, lists. 

C. 



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NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF BANFFSHIRE. 
( Continued from p. 27, Vol. VI L) 

X. 

140. Hay, William, a native of Ordiquhill, was 
educated at the Parish School there, by W. Cniick- 
shank, M.A., who had sent several successful bursars 
to the University. He gained the second bursary in 
1835 at King's College, Aberdeen, but he left before 
completing his course, and emigrated to Australia, 
where he has been exceedingly successful, and where 
he is now owner of a large estate at Wyuna, Brighton, 
Victoria. He has not forgot his native place, for re- 
cently he sent home ;f 1500 to build a Hall, which is 
now in course of erection. He also subscribed hand- 
somely to the present University Extension Scheme. 

141. Hepburn, George, M,A,, was bom in Ordi- 

auhill in 1809, and educated at the Parish School 
lere, from which he proceeded to King's College in 
1826. He had a brilliant career as a student, out- 
distancing all his compeers, especially in the depart- 
ment of Mathematics. In 1834 he was appointed 
Schoolmaster of Boyndie, a parish which claims as a 
native the famous grammarian, Thomas Ruddiman. 
Settling down to the quiet routine of his office, he did 
not fail to continue his mathematical studies, solving 
for his amusement most intricate problems, both in 
that branch and in astronomy. Though he resigned 
his appointment as schoolmaster several years ago, he 
holds a variety of public offices in the parish, and is 
regarded as an able exponent of the Poor Law Act. 
It is not often that one is found possessed of his vigour 
at so advanced an age. 

142. Imlach, James, of Castle Panton : Historian 
of Banff. A native of Banff, born 1789, he was 
educated at the academy there. He succeeded his 
father as agent in the Bank of Aberdeen, Banff; but 
is chiefly memorable as having published a brief 
History of Banff in 1868. He died in 1880. 

143. Imlach, William (Sir) K.C.B., Colonel: 
Distinguished Indian Officer. Bom m Banff in 1780, 
he proceeded early to India, where he proved a 
gallant soldier. He was present as a member of the 
storming party at the battle of Seringapatam, and saw 
Tippoo Sultan slain. At Bhurtpore he led the 
forlorn hope and had planted the British standard on 
the walls of the fortress, when he and his companions 
were temporarily overpowered, and young Imlach 
was thrown back into the ditch wounded. In 1809 
he led a body of Sepoys in an attack upon St. Pauls 



in the Island of Bourbon, held by the French ; the 
first occasion on which the Sepoys were employed in 
service out of India. The struggle was long and 
deadly ; but Imlach and the Sepoys were victorious. 
For his services he was appointed Governor of the 
Island of Rodriguez, with a salary of ;£'5000 a year. 
Before his death he had been made a K.C.B. He 
died prematurely in 1822. 

144. Innes, George, Cardinal, This Catholic 
dignitary who is said to have been created a Cardinal 
by John XXIII. , and who died about 1412, is said by 
some to have been a native of Banffshire ; hut others 
assign his nativity to Morayshire 

145. Innes, George (Rev.) Free Church Divine. 
Born Cullen Manse, 4th March, 1819. He was 
ordained 1843 ^^ Portknockie ; but this being a 
quoad sacra charge, and united to the Banff Free 
Church, he resigned, and in 1845 was translated to 
Canonbie. Hying in 1847, his life and sermons was 
posthumously published. His father, minister of 
Cullen and Deskford, was a native of Banff. 

146. Innes, Georgj (Rev. A. M.): Free Church 
Divine. A native of Banff. He graduated at King's 
College 1789, became schoolmaster of Kinloss, and m 
1 801 was licensed by the Presbytery of Forres. In 
1808 he was ordained over Cullen Parish, and in 
1829, was translated to Deskford. He wrote the 
account of that parish in the New Stat. Account, 
Vol. XIII. In 1843 1^^ joined in the Free Secession, 
and died in 185 1 in his 75th year. He was father of 
the foregoing minister. 

147. Innes, Lewis : Principal of the Scots College, 
Paris. Born at Walkerdale in the Enzie in 1 65 1. 
He studied for the priesthood in Paris, and in 1682 
became Principal of the Scots College there. This 
post he resigned in 1713, and acted as confidential 
secretary to James II. He formed one of the little 
group of exiles who acted as a sort of cabinet for that 
prince's affairs. He is said to be the author of the 
" Life of James II.," published in 1816. His brother 
is the more famous antiquary Thomas Innes. 

148. Keith, James, A.M., LL.D., a native of Keith, 
and educated at the Parish School there, entered 
King's College, and graduated in 1845. ^^ was ap- 
pointed to the Parish School of Knockando in 1846, 
and having studied for the Church of Scotland, he 
became Minister of Grantown in 1852, and a few years 
thereafter he was translated to his present charge, the 
Parish Church of Forres. For many years he has 
been well known for his scientific studies, and has 
contributed extensively to the leading scientific perio- 
dicals of the present time. 

149. Kennedy, Archibald^ A.M., D,D , Professor 
of Hebrew in the Aberdeen University, was bora at 
Whitehills, Boyndie, and educated at Fordyce. There- 
after he entered the University of Aberdeen, and after 
graduating he studied Divinity at Glasgow Univer- 
sity. He formed a liking for the study of Semitic 
languages, and proceeded to Germany, where he pro- 
secuted his favourite study. So great a reputation 
had he acquired for his knowledge of Hebrew that, 
on the retirement, a few years ago, of Prof Forbes, 
LL.D. and D.D., from that chair in Aberdeen Uni- 
versity, he was the successful candidate. Professor 



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Kennedy leceived ihe DegtKK of D.U. from lllasgow 
i) Diversity this year ( 1S93). 

150. Knight, WiUiam: Minor Poet. A native of 
Portgardun, and the ill^lintale son of a l&nded 
proprietor in Alierdeeashire. He was educntetl at 
Keith tttid St. Andrews Uqiversity for three iCMiona. 
Thereafter he became first a cleik in Aberdeen, and 
Chen a shoemaker. (le removed to Edinburgh in 
1853, but soon returned to the North of Scotland, 
where he died In 1S66. His poems were published 
postbumOQsly. 

151. Largae, James, ^.(Jf.,ana.tiveof Inverkeilhny, 
Banffshire, graduated at King's College in 1819, and 
was appointed Schoolmaster of the Parish of Mamoch 
in 1S34. During the time he held this );ost he bad 
the raie distioclion of preparing for Aberdeen Bursary 
CompetitioD two First Bursals and one Second. In 
1846 he was appointed 10 take charge of the Smith 
Bursars at Fotdyce, where he at the same time con- 
ducted a large boarding eslablishmeni for boys for 37 
years. He taught with remarkable success ; and hav- 
ing realised a moderate fortune, he retired in iSSz to 
Bridge of Allan, where he died a few years ago, at 
the advanced age of S2. 

152. LMan, AUxaiider, M.A., was born in Ordi- 
qahill, and educated at the Parish School, under Mr 
John Shand, M.A., now Schoolmaster of Mortlach. 
it is worthy of notice that both Mr Lobbao and the 
First Bursar — one Fleming — issued from that school in 
1866. The subject ofthis notice, though not so high a 
bursar, had a most distinguished course. After gradu- 
ating lie bebnme a teacher first at Ccathie, fiDiD which 
lie was promoted to the position of headmaster of the 
C of S. Practising School of the Edinburgh Training 
College. In 1875 he was appointed Rector of Milne's 
Institution, Fochabera, and, like his two predecessors 
ihere, he was ncit promoted to an Inspectorship of 
Schools, an office which he still tills in the Northem 
Couoties of Sutherland and Caithness. 

153. MiudanaM, Alexander: Agricultural Journa- 
list. A native of Croftglass, Glenrinnes, one of the 
youngest members of a family who have diatiu^uisbeii 
themselves in agricultural journalism. He is pro- 
prietor of " The Farmer and Stockbreeder." 

154. jWafflS»ia/(/,/a««.- Secretary of the Highland 
and Agricultural Sodetj, a brother of the above 
joumahst, also a native of Glenrinnes He is the author 
of a volume entitled " Food from the Far-West." 

155. Maaionaid, Willian: A^cultural Journalist, 
another brolher of the same family. He was bom at 
Croftglass in 1844, Vxi*. to journalism, and became 
editor of the "North British Agriculturist." He 
died 1887. The three brothers were nephews of the 
late Professor Black, LL.D., who was also a native 
of Glenrinnes, a highly celebrated scholar, and a most 
accomplished professor. 

156. MackU, lames, A-M., D.D. Bom in Rothie- 
may and educated at the Parish School there, he gra- 
duated at Aberdeen University, and was thereafter 
appointed to the Parish School of Alves in 1843. He 
became minister of the same parish in 1850, a position 
which he held tiU his death, which occurred a few 
years ago. Dr Mackie vras related to Ferguson the 

. -'-T was also a native of Rothiemay. 



57. Mackintosh, James: Successful Indian Mer- 
chant, Born near Banff' aliout (1782), he wjs Urod a 
ihip's carpenter in thai town. Proceeding to India 
jn board a ship, in which Dr. Robert Wilson of 
Banff was surgeon, through that gentlcaian's in- 
fluence, he obtained employment in Burns & Co., 
Builders, Calcutta. Here he soon rose until he 
became head of the firm, and finally look over the 
whole business, in which he made a considerable 
fortune. Returning home in l8z2, he bought the 
Estate of La .Uancha in Peebleshire, which he mode 
valuable property. He was alive in 1868. I have 
Dl learned the dale of hb death. 

158. Maikintash, John, LL.D.: Historian of 
Scottish Civiliialion. This remarkable man, who is 
In our own day about as unique a specimen of the 
triumph of intellect over circumstances as James 
Ferguson the Scottbh astronomer, also a BanfTshire 
man was in the l8lh century ; Is a native of Botriph- 
nie, and was bom there in 1833. He was bred a 
shoemaker, but since 1864 has conducted a stationery 
and newsagent's shop in Aberdeen. Here, amid the 
noise and bustle of the street, and subject to constant 
tntermption from customers, Mr. Mackintosh wrote 
the 4 volumes of bis interesting work, " The History 
of Civilization in Scotland." In recognition of his 
learning and industry, the Aberdeen University 

' -. him LL.D. in 1S8S ; and within the curreQt 
Mr Gladstone has assigned to him a grant 
from the Literary Fund. Dr. Mackintosh, besida 
writing a short history of Scotland, has also written 
on "Moral Culture, National Educaiioti, The Great 
Problem," Ac, &c. He is still active and vigorous, 
and intellectual as ever, and a valued contributor to 
S. N. &• Q. 

159. Maclean, Georgi : Governor of Capp Coast. 
Born in 1801 in the Manse of Keith, Mr Maclean, 
who had risen in the service of his country to be Go- 
vernor of Cape Coast Colony in West Africa, married 
in 1S38 the popular poetess Laelitia Elizabeth Landon. 
This marriage, which is stated in Mackenzie's Univer- 
sal Biography to have been a happy one, at all events 
soon terminated tragically, for having accompanied 
her husband to Cape Coast Castte, afler a few months' 
residence there, she died on the ijth October, 1839. 
from an overdose of prussic aind, a medicine she was 
used 10 take for the relief of neuralgic pains. Mr 
Maclean's death occurred, according to one account, 
in 1844 and to another in 1847. 

160. Maclean, /ohn, D.D. : Bishopof Saskatchewan. 
Born at Portsoy in 1828, he graduated at Aberdeen, 
and emigrating to Canada, became curate of St Paul's, 
London, in 1853. In l366 he was advanced to be 
Archdeacon of Manitoba and Professor of Divinity in 
St John's College, and in 1873 was appointed Bishop 
of the new diocese of Saskatchewan. He was also 
made a D.C.L. of Toronto University. He died in 
1886, W. B. R- W, 

(To he canlinued.) 



jAMtsCocKHURS, Selkirk.— The ballad you kindly 
send, with the historical note on it, is too well known 
to justiiy our printing it. Ed. 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



BlRUOGHAPHY OF ABERDEEN PkRI 
Literature.— /"^ie Cairngorm Club Journal ^ 
No. 1, July, t393, edited by A. I. M'Connochie. 
Issued twice a year. Published by the Cairn- 
gorm Club. Agents, U. Wyllie & Son, Aber- 
deen. Price one shilling. The siie is demy 8vo, 
and the number contams 56 pages of printed 
jnaller, set off with four illustrations. The open- 
ing articles are— Some Stray Thoughts on 
Mountain Climbing, by the Right Hon. James 
Bryce, M.P., and a Historical Sketch of the 
Cairngorm Club, by the Rev. Robert Lippe, 
followed by such well known mountaineers as 
Mr James Rose, Mr \Vm. Brown, LL.B. ; H. 
T. Monro, F.R.G.S. ; Mr AJex. Cruickshank, 
LL.D. ; and Mr Alex. Copland, who depict 
some very interesting experiences in mountain 
climbing. The Scottish end of our "tight little 
island" affords an almost unlimited field for the 
bealthful and useful pursuits which the Club has 
in view, and no better plan could have been 
devised to popularize these pursuits than the 

Eiblication here so handsomely and auspiciously 
[inched. J. B. 

Highland Reivers in the Seventeenth 
Century.— The following regulations, copied 
fi^m the original, were drawn up, apparently 
about the year 1650, and with the co-operation 
of the Sheriff, to protect the shire of Banff from 
Highland robbers and others ; — 

" Anicles far the Watche. 

First the watch sail be obleidged lo serve the schyre 
frtnn all depredsliones and harchip«sand iff any cattell 
goidis or bestiall, &c., ejceiding the novmbcr of luo 
•all be tackin, after noleis giwen to Ihe capitain as vas 
fonneily, that capitain and his cautioneies sail be bound 
to lelt cautione tor the indempnitie. 

Item, that the capitain and bis caulioneres sail be 
comptable for all such men as he sbW iniplay during 
the tyme that his imploymenl sail induir and ihere- 
•flet [for so longlynieaslheEenlilmen sail condiscend 
vnlo]. (The words within brackets erased). 

Item, that non sail be jmployed be the capitain to 
haw chaitge or service wnder him quhois canadge in 

res past haith bein skandalus and illegal, and that 
imployed be the capitain soil be wnder sufficient 

Item, that the capitain salbe bund and his cau" that 
the Inglishe horsses salbe setwed doreing his seruice 
[in caice ihey be transporlit to the Hilands] as the 
CDuntrcy guids are served. 

Item, if any catell, sheip, &e., salbe stollin Ihouch 
within the number of tuo if the samen salbe ftind lo 
be tiyed lo goc above Balveny that Ihe capitain sallie 
bnnd to mak reslitulion or present ihe men and if any 
indueller in the achyr so vrongit sail desyr the capitain 
to asisi and furniss men to daker any suspect persoune, 
that he soibe bund to doe the eamci 



I ordor fium the highe sherefl' or the governor of Bal- 
veny and according to the capitans good service the 
samen salbe takin into consideratione and occotdinglie 
revardeit by the shy re. 

Iff uny great parlie of Hilanders shall come douoe 
for depredalioiin that the country shall arys for the 



rcauiL 

gence in apprehending somcris, theiffis, vagal 
and masteries broJtin men as the capitan sail 



t dilli- 



Xitecatuce. 



Tht Commonly of Perwinnes, called also Scots- 
town Moor ; An inheriiance still worth caring 
for. Aberdeen Journal Office. 1893. 
In an 8vo pamphlet of 33 pp. Mr Alexander 
Walker, ex-Dean of Guild, calls his fellow- 
citizens' attention to an appanage which has 
come to the town of Aberdeen, through its 
recent incorporation with Old Aberdeen, m the 
pro indiviso interest, at least, of Scotstown Moor. 
The author, whilst not ignoring the historical 
aspects of the subject, is more anxious to awaken 
the attention of tlie new heritors to the natural 
history and beauty of the moor, and to its fea- 
tures of attraction as a health-giving resort. 
This Mr Walker does with a poetic pen and in 
a patriotic vein ; and it is to be hoped that what 
has hitherto been the happy hunting-ground of 
the Botanist and the Entomologist only, and a 
terra in^agnita to the great mass of the people, 
may become a better known, and a more acces- 
sible amenity of the town, and one to be sacredly 
safeguarded against all encroachments of its 
bounds. Several very carefully executed draw- 
ings enhance the interest and value of Mr 
Walker's delightful little book. Ed. 

Sir William Alexandtr and the Scoltisk Attempt 
to Colonise Acadia. By the Rev. George 
Patterson, D.D. [32 pp., mJC by8ii<in.] 
This large-sized, finely-printed pamphlet, which 
is evidently part of the Transactions of the Royal 
Society of Canada, undertakes to give an account 
of the abortive attempt to colonise Nova Scotia 
at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Dr 
Patterson's style is somewhat verbose, and he is 
occasionally tempted to enter fields which hardly 
come within the scope of his enquiry— notably, 
the literary merit of the originator of the move- 
ment, who afterwards became, and is belter 
known as, the Earl of Stirling — out he neverthe- 
less presents a very readable narrative of the 
effort. He does not hesitate to assign the blame 
of the failure to its right source — the half-hearted 
and almost treacherous conduct of Charles I. 
As early as 1621 a charter was granted 10 Alex- 
ander of all the land now variously called Nova 
Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Isle, 
New Brunswick, and what part of Canada pro- 
per lies to the north of the last province, under 
the name of Neiv Scotland. In 1622 the first 
expedition was fitted out from a Scottish port 



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Everything seemed to betoken success to the 
young colony, but complications unfortunately 
arose with the French, who also intended lo 
appropriate the territory under the name of 
Acadia. In 1631 Charles yielded, withdrew the 
royal support, and, like the Darien Scheme, a 
century later, ihe project collapsed. Altogether 
the attempt was a notable one, as much for itself 
as for the strange means adopted to raise funds. 
Much interesting light is thrown in the pamphlet 
upion the famous Nova Scotian baronetcies, A 
reprint of a map issued by Sir William accom- 
panies Dr Patterson's essay. 

J, Caldf-r Ross. 

{1) Usts of Officers, University and Kin^s Col- 
lege, Aberdeen, I4qs-i86g. P. J. A[nderson]. 
Printed at the University Press. 1893, [Post 
4to, 94 pp.] 
(1) Historical Notes on Ihe Libraries of the 
Universities of Aberdeen. P. }. A(nderson]. 
Printed at the University Press. 1S93. [Post 
8vo, 27 pp.] 
To the compiler of these brochures more than 
to any other man is due the merit of bringing 
the search-light of careful i n vest iyal ion upon, 
and ordered explanations of the affairs of the 
Universities of Aberdeen. Had a certain Do- 
minie -bibliothecar been privile];ed lo collate 
Mr Anderson's loving labours in this field, we 
know by what expletive he would have justly 
described them. In (1) we have no merely bald 
list of the holders of the various offices at King's, 
but an added body of accurately stated facts, 
which enhance its value for all readers, whether 
belonging to the University or not. In (2), 
which was undertaken at the request of the 
University Library Committee, a very interest- 
ing record is given of the growth of the Library 
firom the day of " small things" up to date, 
when Ihe libraries have really become very im- 
portant institutions. ED, 
Walter Walksrshanki Adventures at Lammas 

Fair. Selkirk : Lewis & Son. 1893. 
This is a jeu (Fesprit in Border Scotch. It is 
not particiilarly clever, but there is a rough hu- 
mour in it that will be best relished where the 
patois is understood. As a study in dialect it 
possesses some interest. The most noticeable 
difference between it and say West country 
Scotch is the modification of the a sound as in 
for. Wash becomes wesh ; sark, serk ; twa, 
twae i sharp, sherp, &c. The illustrations be- 
come the book. Ed. 

Thb Hsarsev Family.— Any clue tu the family 
of Christian Hearsey, who manied David Gavine of 
Langton, Berwick, would oblige. 

19 Bridge Street, C. Hersev. 

Westminster, S.W. 



79J. Loch Taysiue Namks,— Bareyra, Wuird, 
Artitmatin, Picrcuul. Can anyone localise Ihe aliove 
place names, which appear on the suulh side of Loch 
Tay, in Shearer's reprint of Gordon's map of the 
Miiilanii Provinces of Scotland, from Blaeu's Alias 1 

Keninore. J. C. 

793. Christisons of Ledcharhv.— I should be 
glad of any information regarding this family. Led- 
charry, which includes Edraviaoch, lies on ihe south 
side of Gleadochart, cxlending frtim the liver Dochart 
lo [he watershed, and is bounded on ihe east and 
west by the lands of Liangaistpn and Luib respec- 
tively. The following reference tu the family is fouiui 
in the Index in Libros Respoosionum (Appendix, 

n (Cristin ?) de t, de 
Lai'lquerne. 1484, Sa, Donaldi Cryslesoun t. Led- 

Among the Bieadalhane papers were, and likely 
Etill are :— 

Charter by Donald Cristesonc 10 Duncan Camp- 
bell [secund laird of Glenoichy] of the lands of Lad- 
carre in Glendochart, 22nd lune, 1494. 

Charter of confirmation thereof by James IV., 28lh 
June, 1494. 

Receipt by Donald Cristeson to Sir Duncan for the 
price, 29th June, 1494. 

Precept of Sasine by said Donald Cristeson, ist 
July, 1494' 

Instrument of Sasine thereon, 7th July, 1494. 

Kunmore, J. C. 

794. Henry Christib, Chambbeulin to ths 
Lairii of Glenorchy. — "On the 21st December, 
1655, 'Henry Christy of Heads' was by the Council 
of Itie Lord Protector appointed a Commissioner of 
Supply for Perthshire. As ' Henry Christie of Heads' 
he was constituted Conimissioner for Perthbhiie, in a 
Parliamenl held at Westminsler, on the 17th Septem- 
ber, 1656. In the Act of Eiceptions to the Acl of 
Indemnity, on the 9th September, 1662, he is, as 
' Hary Christie, chalmerlone to the laird of Glenwi- 
why,' fined ^laoo." ICeniaiasUat Memoirs ef Ihe 
Scottish UQUse of Christie, by Rev, Charles Rcjgers, 
LL.D., Grampian Club.] Henry Christie had a 
brother James, who appears as " bay Hie," about j688, 
in B volume of Court records of ihe Bailliary of Dis- 
ehcr and Toyer. I should be glad of any inform*, 
tion, genealogical or otherwise, concerning Henry 
Chiistie or his brother James. 

Kenmore. J. C 

795. The Drum. — I am busy preparing a papa 



the Drum, and am wishhil to obtain the following 
of calling 



I. When first used in Scotland as a 
attention before public notices were g: _. 

II. The class of notices given out by the Town 
Drummer ? 

III. Had each of ihe more important towns in 
Scotland a Drummer? 

IV. Was the Drummer paid by the local autho- 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



47 



V. Did he wear any unifonn P 

VI. Was there a Bellman as well as a Drummer ? 

VII. When was the office of Town Drummer Ah- 
continued ? 

For answers to anv oi all of the foregoing questions 
I shall feel greaily obliged. 

Hull, William Andrews. [ 

7g& "A Daimin ickkr in a thravk's a sma' 

RmoKST."— Can any reader of S. N. &' Q. pve 

■nofher a:ainitle of the u%e of the word " dAimin.'^ 



■nple of the use of the word " daimin," 



r Scottish author Ihan Bums? h 
the word still in use anywhere in Scotland ; and what 
are the senses in which it is used f Also, what is the 
etyinoloQ' of this word? I have spoken to several 
friends wlose acquaintance with the Scottish language 
ii considerable, who have never heard the word used. 
Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

797. MowATS OF Abbkgeldib. — In all Deeside 
historical sketches or tales that I have seen, notice is 
taken of this family, bul the fact of their being is 
amply " flashed" on the chronicler's page, neither the 
vhence nor when ihey came, how long they stayed, 
or where they went to, being stated. Were they any 
relations to the Mowats of Fowlis-Easter or Bal- 
qnhoIUe? Any assistance to elucidate these points 
will be esteemed. AbbK!;ei.die, 

798. "Auu> Reekie."— I have very often heard 
of the expression Auld Reekie being applied 10 the 
Capital of Scotland. Can you give the reason for it 
ben% to called ? or a reference, and oblige, 

BUCHAN, 

799. Macara Clan, — I shall be greatly iodehted 
to any of your nnmerous readers who will kindly give 
me information regarding this Clan, or refer me to 
any works or records bearing on the subject. Is 
there a Macara Tartan, and where can it be seen? 

D. M. 

800. Discovery or Concealed Passage.— On 
making extensive sanitary improvemenis some time 
ago in a warehouse in Castle Street, Aberdeen, I dis- 
covered whal turned out to be a passage leading to- 
wards Castle Hill. The opening was 5 feet 6 inches 
high, by 4 feet 6 inches broad, narrowing to a half 
drde 3 feet 9 inches high, well built with bricks. 
One of my men being very anxious to explore the pas- 
sage golinsideabag, with 30 fathoms of rope attached, 
and went in about 50 yards, till he was under 
the site of the new Salvation Barracks, when the light 
he carried began to flicker, and he returned. About 
ao yards along the tunnel a sword was found thrust 



throw any light on the matter, as to where tlie p, 
■age went, or anything else connected with it, I shal 
be much obliged. William Hokne. 



ago, RiN Met Bear (II„ 188).— I 
hm for an explanation of this term, in v 

ofthcaixteenth and early in the sevcnte _ 

Cberit or cheritit bear is equally puuling. The terms 



refer more probably to the measurement than to the 
character of the bear. In looking over some old ac- 
counts, of date 1592, I found the following entries, 
which have Eoin« liearing on the point : — (t) Gl&n to 
Patrik Robertsone in the Cannugail held xx bollis 
rinand beir qlk makis xviij bollis iij fir. cherit beir. 
(z] Ane chatder w' my lords awin gryt met nixt 
ressauil w' the rin and ley' [Leith] met. (3) Qlk 
viiixx vi bollis rinand come maid equall w' the giyt 
met extends to x chalder xii bolls ij fir. 

C. 

366. Calubrs of Asswanly (II., 188).— A»- 
swanly is in the parish of Glass. The Calders pos- 
sesscd it iiom the year 1440 till Duff of Braco pur- 
chased it in the lieginning of the eighteenth century. 
The Duke of Fife, descendant of Duff of Braco, sold 
it a few years ago to Mr Geddes of Blairmore. As 
the last Cald er of .\ss wanly has been characterised as a 
" drunkard and spendthrift," it is not surprising to 
find one of the family turning up as a coppersmith in 
the Aulton. C. 

Tog. Market Ckosses (VI., 88).— This subject 
has been very (ully treated by Mr J. Calder Ross. I 
do not, however, remember seeing the Cross of Old 
Aberdeen previously named. Will yon allow me now 
to do so ; and fiirthei, give a description of the same, 
as contained in Oram's Old Aherdctn, published in 
1791 :— "The inhabitants of this ancient city had 
liberty to erect a Cross conform to the fundamental 
charter. There was engraven and cut out of stone on 
the top of this Cross, on the South and North sides 
thereof, the picture of the blessed Virgin Mary, which 
was defaced at the beginning of the Reformation ; and 
below are the armorial coals of th* Kings of Scotland: 
Bishop Dunbar, Bishop Stuart, and Biiihop Gordon 
yet to be seen. The Crucifix on said Cross was cut 
down in the time of the last troubles, anno 1G40, as 
sayeth Mr Spalding in his Book of Annals, who lived 
in town at that lime." 

Orem does not give the dale of its erection, or 
where it was erected. Perhaps some of your corres- 

Eondents can yet supply this information ? Orero, 
owever, informs us that the Cross was to be seen in 
1791. Where? and is it still to be seen? 

William Thomson. 
7 Madeira Place, Leith. 

741, Ancient Forests of Scotland (VI., 142). 
— A considerable portion of the Blackmount deer 
forest in Argyllshire had at one lime been under lim- 
ber, as may yet be seen in the quantities of roots of 
Scotch fir annually exhumed for fuel by the stalkers 
and others residing in the forest. One or two clumps 
of fir, undoubted remnants of the Caledonian forest, 
. are still standing, the largest being at Crannich, on 
the farm of Achallader, through which the West 
Highland Railway has just been constructed. Inter- 
mingled with the fir are a few birches. Crannich 
signifies stunted wood, a term which certainly cannot 
be applied to the timber as it now stands, while, 
strange to say, since Gaelic phice names are almcot 
always descriptive, Achallader — field ol the oak wood 

Kenmore."*"'' J. C 



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[August, 1893. 



783. Jamrs lIvsLOi', Author of "The Came- 

RONiAs's Dream" (VII., 14).— IfW. B." liesitts 
to know all that may be known concerning the liji 



to ihe following work ;—" Poems by James Hvslop, 
author or the ' Cameron ian's Dream,' with a Sketch 
of his Life, and Notes on his Poems. By the Rev, 
Peter Mearns. Coldstream." Glasgow, C. L. Wright, 
100 West Geerge Street, 1887. If the book shoulil 
be out of prim, Mr Mearns. who if U.P. Minister of 
Coldstieaiq — and who is the most recent, as well aa 
the most painstaking, editor of Hyslop's poems- 
would, I am sure, be delighted to give all infurmatioii 
on the subject. 
Dundee. David Lambie. 

784. Douglas' Virgii. (VII., 2?).— 

Raytand'-n a misprint for ragtand, raging, a tiansli 
tion of Virgil's Jfl^i. 

Harsk is the Midille English form ol harsh, and the 
final * points to its Scandinavian origin. Virgil's 
equivalent is aspira. 

Leyndis is 3rd plural of a verb liynd, Uind, lene, lend, 
meaning lo dwell, somelitnes with idea of hiding 
It is, I think, connected with Icel. leyna to hide, 
rather than, as Skeat puts it, with Icel. lenda tci 
land. Il occurs several times in Douglas, and is 
not a rare word in Mid. English. Virgil's etjiiiva- 
lent Is tenant . 

lHuing means miligaling, and is a common word in 
Scots. Seejamieson. 

Another form is amiising. The etymology is doubt- 
fill, I think it is from the root mj— of L. minor = 
A. Sax. iKiH. Virgil's equivalent is Unitant. 

Ferycl should tie written foizet. It is a part of verb 
/orgel, proliably past participle which is found in 
M.E. 3s/onele as well asfonseten. 

James Moir, LL.D. 

785. Spanish Blood in Scottish Veins (VII., 
a?).— I have been told by one, who said that he was 
an eyewitness, that on the leads of a certain house in 
Irvine there was cut a pedigree of the family of Fairie, 
sometime of Irvine, tracing their descent from some 
great Spaniard bearing a somewhat similar name. 
AH that 1 could gather respecting the house was that 
it was in the occupation of the Misses Jean and Nancy 
Fairrie, circa 1845. I should be pleased to see this 
pedigree in S. N. &* Q. J. C, Tingey. 

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78. Peril is bothe fuyr and tow to assemble. 

Bathe ProL, 1. 89. 

Compare : 

Fire and flax differ. — Hazlitt. 
Fire is not to be quenched by tow. — Do. 
Cest folie meslre les estoupes trop pr^s du feu. 

Le Roux. 
The idea of both proverbs is, that the wise 
and the foolish cannot consort Compare also : 
Fools no Latin know. — Hazlitt, 

79. But soth is seyd, *' a fool can nocht be slille." 

Pari, of F.y 1. 574. 
This proverb might with equal propriety ap- 
pear in V. (" Speech and Silence"). 
Compare : 

Foolish tongues talk by the dozen. — Hazlitt. 
Nus fox ne sect sa langue taire. 

Roman de la Rose, 1. 4750. 
No fool knows how to hold his tongue. 

Ibid, Eng. Versit)n, 1. 5268. 
Sottes bolt is sone shote. — Prov. of Hemiyng. 
A fool's bolt is soon shot. —Hazlitt. 

Kemble quotes, says Skeat, from MS. Harl., 
fol. 4 : Ut dicunt multi^ ciio transit lancea stulti. 
This " leonine verse," as Hazlitt calls it, Arch- 
bishop Trench holds to be a later formation 
from the old English adage. (" On the Lessons 
in Proverbs," 1853, p. 29). It next occurs, ac- 
cording to Hazlitt, in " Dives and Pauper,'' by 
Henry Parker. 1495 : — 

Dives, Thou arte the more fole. But it is a 
common proverb. A foles bolte is soone 
shotte. The saying is in " Oliver Oatmeal s 
Quest of Inquiry," 1595 ; in Webster and 
Decker's play of " Northward Hoe," 1607 ; 
and in " Pasquils Jests," ed. 1629. In the 
time of crossbows, a negligent archer was apt 
to discharge his piece without due prepara- 
tion. — Hazlitt, 
Compare also : 

Et le fol parle moult, on le voit moult sou vent. 

Ebert, 

You are the better at proverbs, by how much ?— 
A fool's bolt is soon shot. — Henry F., iii. 7. 

Duke S. By my faith he is very swift and sen- 
tentious. 

Touch, According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such 
dulcet diseases. — As You Like It, v. iii. 

80. A fool may ek a wise man oftegyde. 

Troyl. I., 1. 630. 
Compare : 

A fool may give a wise man cowTi%€[.— Hazlitt, 
Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose. — Do. 
There is none so simple but can give counsel. -Z>^. 
Ung fol advise bien un saige. — Le Roux. 
Un sot sait moult souvent un sage counseiller. 

Ebert, 
A knave may help an honest mzxi.— Hazlitt, 
Now cheer up, sir Abbot, did you never hear yet 
That a fool he may learn a wise man wit. 
Ballad of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, 



81. The grettest clerkes beth not the wisest men. 

Reev, Tale, \, 134. 
An apt commentary on this proverb is pro- 
vided by this tale, where the miller, unlearned 
though he be, is more than a match for the two 
clerks— at first. He boasts : 

But by my thrift, yet schal I blere here ye, 
For al here sleight and al here philosophie. 

Instide of mele, yet wol I give them brew. 
The greatest clerks beth not the wisest men. 
The proverb is quoted by Hazlitt, Hislop, 
Donald, and others. 
Compare : 

Les meilleurs cleres ne sont pas les plus sages. 

Le Roux. 
The same distinction between learning and 
mother-wit — knowledge and wisdom — is drawn 
by Cowper : 

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one. 
Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells 
In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. 

The Task. 
And by Tennyson in the line : 

Knowledge conies, but wisdom lingers. 

Locksley Hall. 

82. Of alle men iblessed most he be, 
The wise astrologe daun Ptholome, 
That saith this proverbe in his Almagest : 
Of alle men his wisdom is highest, 

That rekkith not who hath the world in honde. 

Bathe Prol, 1. 323. 
Compare : 

He is wise that hath wit enough for his own 

affairs. — Hazlitt, 
Ad secrela poli curas extendere noli. — Wander, 

83. Who that buyldith his hous al of salwes, 
And priketh his blynd hors over the falmes. 
And suffrith his wyfe to go seken halwes, 

Is worthy to ben honged on the galwes. 

Bathe Prol,, 1. 655. 
These marks of the foolish man are given as 
above, with the language modernized, by Hazlitt, 
who also refers the saying to MS. hansd. 762, 
temp. Henry V., in Reliq. Ant, I. 233. He 
adds : See also Herbert's Ames^ p. 129. 

84. Unknowe unkyst, and lost that is unsought. 

Troyl. I. 1. 809. 
Compare : 

Unknown : unkist. — Hazlitt, 

85. Alias ; he nadde holde him by his ladd. 

Mane. Prol, 1. 51. 
Compare : 

Ne sutor ultra crepidam. — Latin Proverb, 

86. He can wel in myn eye seen a stalke. 

But in his owne he can nought seen a balke. 

Reev. Prol, 1. 65. 
The allusion is to Matt. vii. 3. — "Why be- 
holdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's 
eye, but considerest not the beam that is in 
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Compare : 

Fools aye see ither folks* faults, and forget their 

ain. — Domild, 
Cast the beam out of thie owne eye, 
Then thou maiest see a mothe in another mans. 

Reliq. Ant. I. 207. 
Tel voyt une grande ordure en Toeil de son 

voison qui ne la voit au sien. — Le Roux. 
Puis que tu as si mauvais iex que tu ne pues ta 
mauvaistie congnoistre, pour quoi congnois tu 
si bien la mauvaistie de ton voison 1—Kadler. 
Cur in amicorum vitiis tam cernis acutum, 
Quam aut aquila aut serpens Epidaurius ? 

At tibi contra, 
Evenit, inquirant vitia ut tua rursus et illi. 

Horace^ Sat. I., i. 3, 26. 
N^ios dj rhv kyJbv yJkv ^x" ^^^ ^^ ipvXaKycif 
TAv S* ai^Tov tdiov ovdiv iiri<TTp4<p€Tau. 

Theogn, Eleg. 439. 
'AxayTcs knyJkv els rb PovOerely <yo<pol 
AvTol S* afiafndvovT€i oCf yiv cbaKOfiev. 

Euripides, /->. Incert. 
AXffiOTOi (i/nj iHipai ^KOffrov iifxwp <t>kpei.Vy t^v fjutv 
ifiTpoadeVf rifv di 6iri<r$€V' koI hs fiJkv ttjv 
(fiTpoaOeVf diroTidivai tA tQp dWtav d/xafyrfi- 
fjuoLTa' As 5^ riyi' 6Tn<TdeVj rd iavruVf Si6 ovd^ 
KaOopiOfiev a^rd. 

Aesopus, Fr. (Stoboeus, Tit., xxiii. 6. 

87. The ner the fir the hatter is. — Troyl, I. 1. 449. 

Compare : 

Who is next fuyre he brenneth moost. 

AW*. R,^ I. 2478. 
Tanto plus calidum, quanto vicinius igni. 

Kadler, 

88. And eek be war to sporne ageyn an al. 

Balade de bon Conseyly I. ii. 

This, as Skeat reminds us, is the English 
equivalent of the Greek phrase, " to kick against 
the pricks.*' — Acts ix. 5. 

Compare : 

Folly it is to spurn against a prick. — Hazlitt, 

Puff not against the wind.—Z)^. 

Dure chose est regimber contre aguillon. 

Le Roux. 
Qui contre aguilon regibe deux fois se point. 

Do. 
Recalcitrer contre pointure 
Ne sert que de double pointure. — Do, 

89. Men may the wise atrenne and nought atrede. 

Iroyl, IV. 1. 1428. 

Chaucer says elsewhere ("Knight's Tale, 1. 
1591): 

Men may the eelde atrenne, but not alrcde. 
That is, "Men may outrun old age, but not 
outwit " surpass its counsel). This proverb, 
referring to old age, falls to be dealt with under 
another heading, and is noticed here because of 
its close verbal likeness to the line quoted from 
" Troylus and Crescide." 

90. Therefor I wol seye a proverl>e 



That he that fully knoweth therebe, 
May saufly leye hit to his ye. 

House of Fame i I., I. 289. 
Compare : 

L'herl)e 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 Diet, s. v. ** Herbe." 
Herl)e congneue soit bien venue. — Le Roux, 
L'herbe qu on cognoit on la doit bien Her k son 
doigt. — Do. 

90. " Therfor bihovelh him a ful long spoon 
That shal ete with a feend," thus herde I seye. 

Squieres 71, I. 602, 
Compare : 

He that eats with the devil hath need of a long 

spoon. — Hazlitt. 
He needs a lang-shanket sjwon that sups kail 

wi* the deil. —Hislop. 
Who dips with the devil he had need of a long 

spoon. — Appius and Virginia^ 1575' 
Yes, sir, the proverb says he that eats with the 

devil had need of a long spoon. I have 

brought you a ladle. 

Marlowe's y<f«/ of Malta, IH. 4. 
Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat 

with the devil. — Comedy of Errors y IV. 3. 
This is a devil and no monster : I will leave 

him ; I have no long spoon. — Tempest, II. 2. 

Hazlitt says this proverb also occurs in 
Kemp's " Nine Daies Wonder,"' 1600, and in 
Overburys " Characters," appended to the wife, 
a Jesuit is said to be " a larger spoone for a 
Traytour to feed with the Devill, then any other 
Order." The proverb is also found in the col- 
lection of Diiringfeld and Wander (German). 
Fallersleben (Old Netherland Proverbs), Man 
(Danish), and others. 

91. It is nought goode a slepyng hounde to wake. 

Troyl. III. 715. 
Compare : 

Wake not a sleeping lion. — Hazlitt. 
Let sleeping dogs lie. — Donald. 
II fait mal ^veiller le chien qui dort. — Le Roux. 
N'eveillez pas le chen qi dort. — Do. 

M. A. C. 



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A Rare Pearl Found in the River Ythan 
IN 1620. — Sir Thomas Menzies of Dum, Provost 
of Aberdeen, 1620, being introduced to King 
James, was graciously received, and had the 
honour of Knighthood conferred upon him. On 
this occasion, Sir Thomas presented to the 
King a pearl which had been found in a mussel 
shell, in the brook of Kelly, which runs into the 
river Ythan. It was considered by the jewellers 
of Edinburgh as the most valuable that had been 
seen, and, according to tradition, it holds a place 
in the imperial crown of Britain. 

J. Dalgarno. 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [September, 1893. 



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

1661— 1672 — 1790. 

IL 

March 15 1662. The Earle of Loudon Chan- 
cellare Campbell died at Edz. 

Apr. I '62 George Boyn merchand of Abd. his 
wife Ro'son a good young woman died of 

a consumption : sister to the precious young 
creature in the narrow wynd daughter to James 
Ro^son who made so glorious an end, some 12 
years ago, that feu has ever made the like. 

A book of prodigies of about ten sheets of 
paper set out by an author anonymos, wherein 
he shoes that God from the earth, waters 
aire, firmament and heavens is preaching to 
England at the rate of two sermons a week, 
quhen many of their best preachers are re- 
moved to corners ; haveing got doune about 
104 prodigies which have fallen out in England 
(setting doune tyme and place) within the space 
of a yeare, going before the King's restauration 
in Maie 29 '60 till it compleet a yeare, in an. '61 
promiseing to ad others has come to his handis 
since : letting us know that in that one yeare 
there are more prodigies nor have fallen out in 
many nations for many hundreds of years ; he 
gives a paralell to each ; but application to none. 

In the years '60 '61 '62 a great discoverie of 
witches and warlockes in Lothian and Fyffe and 
some other parts : very many in Libberton pa- 
riosh ; where Mr And. Cant is minister : be east 
Mussilburg a whole landwart toune all devills, 
which came to be noticed by a child 7 years of 
age relating very punctually what was done at 
the Kings coronation, telling the B. B. (bishops) 
habit, and mouchs &c., affirming on the morrow 
to a landwart man that he was present at the 
coronatione : being asked how came he home so 
soone, so great a jurney : Ans. my mother rode 
on the cat, my father rode on the bissom, I was 
caried in the skull, and this being revealled, they 
and their neighbours seized upon all confessed. 

Mr Thomas Couper, minister of monros, died 
of grieff March 28. 1662 : his wife daughter to 
umqll Robert Burrell in Cooper at Perth, being 
deemed for a witch. 

Also there is one at Brechin who hath 

a familiar spirit ; and quhen ye come in to hir 
house, ye need to speer nothing at hir ; She 
tells you all unasked ; as quhat money is in your 
pocket, your cariage with your wife &c. 

Mr John Seton sometyme Minister at Old 
Abd. Nov. 3 '57 Felton-bridge in Northumber- 
land, outted there, came to Abd with his familie, 
at the end of March 1662. 

Thurisday Aprile 10*** 1662 Our new B B 
Sharp fairfowl entered Edz with a horrible con- 
voy : Tuesd. Apr. 8 Mr Adam Barcklay elder 



minister at Awfoord at Yool in Deer '62 feasted 
all his relations ; and within 8 days was removed. 

Mr John Robertson minister at Dundie, who 
had bin my disciple at Stirlyn '617 and '618, died 
in March 1662. 

John Barkstend, John O Key and Miles Cor- 
bett regicides April 16 1662 were condemned to 
die haveing bin apprehended in Holland. 

The Act of Vniformitie concluded in the Eng- 
lish park. April 1662. 

1662 (lilbert Baverlay elder labourer of the 
ground in Old Abd. in despaire, because Mr 
Wm. Ro^sons third part of peterstoun (the col- 
led j^e haveing the two part) was taken from by 
the relict Gordon, he having laboured it 

many years he drowned himself in a well in the 
old toune : wch he told to the relict, and then to 
the minister Mr Alex*" Middleton, that he would 
pnt. drown himself, if he were put from his tack ; 
but his words were misregarded by both. 

Mr James Mowat a discreet gentleman, who, 
as a governor to young noblemen, had attended 
sundrie in France Germanie and Italie, died at 
Abd. of the stone Maie 5. '62. 

Mr Andro Cant yor his wife Burnet, 

daughter to the Laird of Leyes died at Libber- 
ton about the beginning of Maie 1662. 

1662 Maie 7 Wednesday the B B was conse- 
crated at holy rude house ; on the morrow the 
park sitting they were voyced in Spirituall Lords 
nemine contra dicente, and being forthwith 
called, the tuo Arch bb were placed above Duke 
Hamilton, and the rest above the Lords nixt to 
the Earles. Edz and not being come 

as yet from London. Wisheart and Mitchell 
who afterwards Maie were consecrated at St 
Andrews Mr Wm. Keith at Vdnie haveing the 
sermon. 

Mr John Murray at Methven in the pbrie 
of Perth deceassed Octob : 1661, and tuo 
dayes after him Mr George Tamson at Kilmen- 
nie in the pbrie of Cowpar of Fyfe haveing fore- 
told his death : being in good health on a Sab- 
bath day tells he had but one Sabbath more be- 
twixt him and eternitie : the nixt Sabbath he 
preached : and on the following Wednesday died 
of Synauche, or angina. 

Jean Bancanquall relict of Mr Murray at the 
Cash neare to the kirk of Stramiglo : an holy 
prudent zealous knowing Christian, deceassed 
at Kirkcaldie Maie 29 on the new holy day, 1662. 

John Hamilton Apothecarie in Edz deceassed 
of above 80 yeares age about Dec '61. 

Lillias Row bro*^ furth her fyft childe a daugh- 
ter called Christian, June 20*»» fryday about tuo 
in the morning 1662. 

The Earle of Perth an aged noble man died 
Maie '62. 

James Moray merchand burges of Abd (whose 



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son was the first infant I baptized) deceassed 
Julie '62. 

Hugh Anderson my oy born July 6. 1662. 

The old Lady Straloch relict of Mr Ro^ Gor- 
don, sumamed Forbes, deceassed August 3<i day 
being the Sabbath 1662, her husband died Aug. 
18. 1661. 

Mr Andro Abercrombies wife Forbes 

(late of Fintray) died of the jaundies Aug : '62. 

Mrs Colinson wife to Captain Colinson at 
Tinmouth died Julie 1662. 

Mr Alex"" White regent in the CoUedge Mar- 
shall at Abd died August 20. 1662. 

August. 27. '62 died Ogstone wife to 

Mr James Kennedie sheriff and toune clerk of 
Abd. 

Sep* about 2. 1662 Mr Ro* Bailie prin" of Glas- 
gow Vniversitie deceassed. 

Mr Wm. Maitland minister at Monkegie in 
the pbrie of Garioch died Sepr. 5. 1662. 

Mr Wm. Rait called to Dundee, dimitted his 
place of prinll of the K, Coll. of Abd. Septr 
1662. 

Issobell Reid relict of umqll Mr Alexr Scorgie 
minister at Old Abd deceassed Septr 28. 1 662 
leaveing sixe children all sua introque parente 
orbos, introque modo orphanos. Ergo about a 
yeare % after hir husband : betuix which tuo 
was great love. 

Mr George Meldrum, Minister at Aberdeen 
preached his valedictorie sermon Octob : 29. 
Sabb : 1662 upon his ordinarie text 2 Pet : 5. 9. 
10. II. 

Octob. 21, 1662. Sat doune the Synod of the 
diocie of Abd. Mr David Mitchell ordinarie B. 
of Abd moderator : Mr John Menzies and Mr 
George Meldrum of Abd deposed, unless before 
Janr I '63 they conform in subscryveing his 
paper of canonical! obedience. Tuo were ab- 
sent, Mr John Mercer and Mr James Douglas : 
4 took it to advise : Mr Alexander Leask, Alexr 
Garioch, David Lindesay, and Wm. Cheyn till 
about Yoole. 

Octob. '62 B. Sydserf of Galloway, a very 
aged man of above 80 deceassed : report Dun- 
kerk is sold to the King of P' ranee for 500,000 
pistollis. 

Nov 16 '62 John Broun merchand of Abd. 
an aged man haveing heard sermon before 
noone ; being the Sabbath stayed at home in 
the after noone, with his daughter Christian 
Broun distracted but after sermon was found 
dead in his house, some suspecting he had suf- 
fered violence. 

A little after deceassed James Broun skipper 
at Abd. 

Deer 5 '62. Richard Rutherfoord son to Alexr 
provost, whose name and airmes is on the pro- 
vost's seat : 



Decr 9 '62 Mr Alexr Midleton at the late 
synod chosen constant moderator of Abd pres- 
betrie by the B. of Abd. being minister at Old 
Abd. was admitted prin** of the K. colledge of 
Abd. 

To which day Mr Andro Cant elder, Alexr 
Cant John Menzies and George Meldrum yor 
were summoned to appeare before the Lords of 
Secret Councill to answer for their seditious and 
troubling cariage ; but Mr Andro got a testi- 
monie under the handes of D. D. Moore or 
Moire of his inabilitie to travell so far in this 
season. 

Marjorie Innes achoise good woman relict of 
Alexr Ferchar merchand of Abd. deceassed 
Deer 9 '62. 

James Gibbon my sisters son a godly young 
man died of a consumption August 1662 at Car- 
nok in Fyffe. 

Mr James Gordon at Drumblett died Decr 
1662. 

Item Mr Wm. Stevenson at Gemrie. 

Item Mr Andro Ker at Glenbucket. 

Item the countes of Aboyn sister to the laird 
of Drum. 

Item the Ladie Grant daughter to the Earle 
of Murray. 

Decr 31 '62 Wm. Gray present provest of Abd 
expyred of a squinance about 8 of clock at 
night haveing bin in good health the day before ; 
Lord prepare us, setatis 45. 

Wm. Douney late clerk to the Colledge of 
Justice, a good man, deceassed about Decr j^. 
1662. 

Mr Thomas Crawfoord eldest regent and pro- 
fessor of Mathesis in Edz. colledge died about 
the midst of Decr 1662. 

Mr David Dickson professor of Theologie in 
Edz. Colledge died Decr 28. '62. 

Janr '63 The Ladie S wen ton was removed : 
her husband being still in prison. 

Janr 24 '63 Mr Slow Englishman burges of 
Abd. died. 

Jam 29 about evening 1663 Mr David Mit- 
chell, Bishop of Aberdene expyred : was buried 
in Old Machar kirk conveyed thither from the 
castle of Abd. Feb. 5. 1663. 

Febr 4**». '63 Magdalene J affray spouse to 
Ro^ Ker of Menie, a godly woman deceassed 
after child-birth. 

The Lady Tolchon dowager sumamed Forbes 
of the house of Pitsligo deceassed at Thanestone 
Febr 2 1 '63. 

Issobell Cochran daughter to Walter late 
bailie of Abd. wife to John Leslie son to baillie 
bennisons deceassed Febr 26 1663 a precious 
holy woman. 

Febr 3 '63 died the Vicecount of Kenmoore, 
laird of Lochinvar &c. 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [September, 1893. 



Major Gairdin Laird of Troup son to the Laird 
of Neither Banchorie (a >(ood man and charit- 
able) deceassed about Maie 1662. 

March '93 died Mr Ro^ Ogilvie minister at 
Methlick in the presbitrie of Ellon presented 
parson of Kinkell, who has the presentation of 
7 kirks. 

March '63 died Mr James Rutherfoord School- 
m'' at Kemnay. 

March 23. '63 died John Sangster, merchand 
burges of Abd. who had been servant to Provost 
Alex"^ Jaffray. 

March '63 died my ladie Kilpunt sister to 
William Earle of Marshall, who haveing lived 
long distracted yet is reported to have died 
without distraction. 

Aprile 3. fryday '63 Archibald Mercer son to 
umq" Mr Thomas died anno aetatis at Km- 
ellar in his brother Mr John Mercers house 
haveing conflicted long with a fistula after its 
closing and drying up was removed about 9 of 
the clock at even. 

(To be continued.) 
♦•» 

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, 
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA. 

(VI., 175 ; VII., 14.) 



Next to Harvard University, Mass. in date of 
erection, and before it in wealth of varied. tra- 
dition, the William and Mary College has 
celebrated this year its second centenary. Its 
historical life has been checkered in an unusual 
measure, but better days appear once more to 
be in store for it. It must always have a special 
interest to us, as it owes its origin to the persistent 
energy of a Scotchman, the Rev. James Blair, 
D.D., who was educated at one of the Universi- 
ties of Aberdeen, and ordained in Scotland by 
a Scotch Bishop in one of the most interesting 
eras of the church's history, when she was very 
quietly organising herself for a great future to 
Scotland, which would have certainly come if 
the Revolution politics had not chilled and 
nipped the swelling bud. 

Virginia was the first colony on the Atlantic 
sea board, and was barely organised when it 
felt inspired with a strong desire to establish a 
University within its limits. The first attempt 
in this direction was made at Henrico City, 
where a College was built and endowed for the 
education of the English and Indian youth, in 
hopes that the latter would be converted and 
civilised, and become as a leaven among their 
countrymen. But this expectation received a 
rude shock in 1622, when the natives made a 
sudden attack upon the colony, and nearly 
extinguished it by a cruel massacre. This ended 



the project so far as related to Henrico, but 
President Gilman throws a further light upon 
the desire for higher education in Virginia. 
" There was another project for a university, as 
early as 1624, which has lately been brought to 
light. Dr. E. D. Neill, in Virginia Vetusta^ 
calls attention to the fact that an island in the 
Susquehanna, which the traveller may see to the 
north as he crosses the railroad bridge at Havre 
de Grace, was conditionally given for "the 
foundinge and maintenance of a universitie and 
such schools in Virginia as shall there be erected, 
and shall be called AcadenUa Virginiensis et 
Oxoniensis. The death of the projector, Edward 
Palmer, interrupted his plans." 

The proposal to secure a University in Vir- 
ginia, which became a royal colony in 1625, and 
had a Legislature under a Governor, received a 
great impetus from the arrival of Rev. James 
Blair as missionary in 1685. He was evidently 
a man of much force of character, and soon was 
appointed commissary of the Bishop of London, 
or, in other words, the representative and nearest 
approach to the episcopal office that the English 
colonies could then receive. This gave the 
commissary vast influence in colonial matters, 
although, as ecclesiastical functionary, his 
position was neither pleasant to himself nor very 
beneficial to the church. It brought him at once 
into collision with the Governor, but his visit to 
England to prosecute his charges against the 
Governor gave Mr. Blair the opportunity of 
pressing his application for a charter, and also 
his appeal for money to endow a college to be 
called by the names of the reigning sovereigns. 
In February 1692-3 he had the satisfaction of 
having the royal signatures attached to the 
charter of William and Mary College, which 
was to be built at Williamsburg, Virginia. The 
basis of the charter-privileges was ample, " that 
the church of Virginia may be furnished with a 
Seminary of Ministers of the Gospel, and that 
the youth may be piously educated in good 
letters and manners, and that the Christian faith 
may be propagated among the Western Indians 
to the glory of Almighty God : to make, found, 
and establish a certain place of universal study, 
or perpetual college of divinity, philosophy, 
languages, and other good arts and sciences." 
The first president or governor, appointed in the 
charter on life-tenure of office, was "our well 
beloved in Christ," Rev. James Blair, and the 
first chancellor, also named in the charter, was 
Bishop Compton of London, under whose 
spiritual jurisdiction the colonial church had 
been placed. The new College was endowed 
with a royal grant, and money was also collected 
for building ; bequests and benefactions began 
at once to flow in, so that at the outbreak of the 



September 1893.] SCOTJISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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War of Independence the college was the 
wealthiest institution in the colony, and had an 
annual income of twenty thousand dollars. It 
was wholly a product of Virginian enterprise, 
and the youth of the colonists were more and 
more coming to be educated at what was 
familiarly and affectionately known as " William 
and Mary." In the most interesting article upon 
this college in Scribner's Monthly. Mr. John 
Esten Cooke counts up "that it gave twenty- 
seven of its students to the aniiy in the Revolu- 
tion ; two Attorney-Generals in the United 
States ; it sent out nearly twenty Members of 
Congress, fifteen United States Senators, seven- 
teen Governors, thirtysev^n Judges, a Lieutenant- 
General and other high oflficers to the army, two 
Commodores to the navy, twelve Professors, four 
signers of the Declaration of Independence, 
seven Cabinet officers, the chief draughtsman 
and author of the Constitution, Edmund Ran- 
dolph ; the most eminent of the Chief Justices, 
John Marshall, and three Presidents of the 
United States." 

After the burning of Jamestown in 1675, 
Williamsburg came to the front and was made 
the seat of the colonial government. The college 
was built in the parish of Bruton near Williams- 
burg, and Mr. Blair became the second rector 
of the parish, as well as, after a time, the 
President of the College. But the College was 
barely founded when it was consumed with fire. 
In the midst of many difficulties, but with a 
most commendable zeal and energy, the edifice 
was renewed in 1725. The "Old Chapel" was 
added in 1732, and "became the place of 
sepulture of the most distinguished men of 
Virginia." The college is associated with all the 
civil and religious incidents in a most important 
period of colonial life, and has closely adhered 
to the religious auspices under which its foun- 
dations first were laid ; the Bishop of London 
was usually the Chancellor, and his Commissary 
the President. It enjoyed for some years a very 
prosperous career, and it may be noted that at 
Williamsburg, on December 5th, 1776, was held 
the first meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
"the parent society in America," of what appears 
to be now a necessity of Collegiate and University 
life. In its day William and Mary has done 
good service to the colony, and Bishop Meade 
(Bishop of Virginia, 1829- 1862), says of it, " It is 
positively affirmed by those most competent to 
speak, that the best ministers in Virginia were 
those educated at the College, and sent over to 
England for ordination." 

The College has been particularly unfortunate 
from fires. After the fire that nearly ruined it, 
soon after its inauguration, it was partially a 
second time destroyed in 1781 by the troops of 



the French King which were occupying it ; the 
French King had the grace however to restore 
it, and add a good rnany valuable books to 
replenish the library. It was again and even 
more completely destroyed by fire in 1859, to be 
rebuilt, however, and reopened in the early part 
of i860. On account of the close proximity of 
the Civil War, the exercises were suspended in 
1 86 1, and in September 1862, a disorderly com- 
pany of the Federal cavalry set fire to the central 
building, and injured the College to the amount 
of $80,000. It has naturally dropped for a time 
into practical inactivity and obscurity. Many 
efforts have been made to procure the necessary 
funds, both from the State and private friends, 
so as to enable the authorities to carry out a 
complete restoration. The Faculties are re- 
organised, and the main building is substantially 
renewed. This spring a vote of money has been 
passed by Congress to make amends for the 
Revolutionary losses, when in 178 1 the Collegiate 
exercises were suspended, and for the destruction 
of buildings and other property during the late 
war. Its list of students has been preserved, 
and is complete from 1720, and there is now 
every appearance of a long roll being added to 
the number when the University functions are 
once more organised and fully discharged. 
(Anderson, History of the Church of England 
in the Colonies ; Hawk*s Virginia; Scribner^s 
Monthly (1875) Vol. xi.. No. i, pp. 1-15, lllust. ; 
Pres. D. C. Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, 
Address at Harvard University^ 1886; Spencer, 
History of the Prot. Episc Church in U.S.A.); 
Adams, William and Mary College of Virginia; 
Neill, University and College of Virginia. 

James Gammack, LL.D. 
Plymouth, Conn. 



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AYRSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 

Mormond'S list of wise saws and maxims current 
in the North-East of Scotland, and constituting 
a sketch of the Proverbial Philosophy to which 
the sagacious parents of that northern district 
treat their children in their youth, has set me to 
the task of revising my boyish memories of 
similar maxims current in the South-West of 
Scotland. The result is the following brief col- 
lection of Ayrshire Saws, most of which I heard 
from the lips of my father or mother nearly forty 
years ago. I trust my collection may not be 
without interest to many of your readers : — 

A bird in the hand 's worth two in the bush. 

A merry gaun cout maks a canny auld horse. 

A* the months o* the year curse fair Februeer. 

A far awa' broch maks a near hand shour. 

A rolling stone gathers nae fog, but a tethered sheep 

gathers nae fat. 
An auld mason aye maks a guid barrowman. 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES fSEPXEMBER, 1893. 



A stitch in time saves nine. 

A brunt child dreads the fire. 

A cock's aye crouse on its ain midden-head. 

A' his geese are swans. 

As the day lengthens the cold strengthens. 

As we l>rew so we must bake. 

A straw shows how the wind blows. 

As ae door steiks another opens. 

A causey saint, a house deil. 

A wee buss is better than nae beild. 

Auld maid's bairns are aye well-bred. 

A toom pouch maks a blate merchant. 

A's fish that comes to his net. 

(The following is the Ayrshire version of two of 
Mormond's saws) : 
A bonny bride is sune buskit. 
Ye've made yer bed and ye maun jist lie on't. 

Better thole a grumph than a sumph. 

Better to get a deil than a daw. 

Beggars should never be choosers. 

Better finger off than aye wagging. 

Birds of a feather flock thegither. 

Better late than never. 

Changes are lightsome : fools are fond o' them. 

Claw me and I'll claw thee. 

Cut your coat according to your cloth. 

Charity begins at home but does not end there. 

Deil tak the hindmost. 

Don't quarrel with your bread and butter. 

Drowning men catch at straws. 

Drive the nail that will go. 

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. 

(Thts proverb is also found in Mormond's'collection). 
Example is better than precept. 
Enough's as good as a feast. 
Every man for himself and (iod for us a'. 
Every man for his ain haun as Harry Wynd fought. 
Extremes meet. 
E'en's you like, Meg Dorts. 
Every one toots best on his own horn. 
Faint heart never won fair lady. 
Farawa' fowls hae aye fair feathers. (Also in Mor- 

mond). 
Gie the deil his due. 

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 
God helps those who help themsel's. 
He maun just cool in the skin he het in. 
He'll thrash the last buttle. 
Hame's aye hame, though its never sae hamely. 

(Compare Mormond). 
She'll no sell her hens on a wat day. 
Here's the heart o' the bowstock. 
Honesty's the best policy. 
He loses buttles gathering straes. 
He expects spade shafts to bear plums. 
Haud yer breath to blaw yer parritch. 
Haifa loafs better than no bread. 
He should hae a lang spune that sups wi' the deil. 
He has a bee in his bonnet. 
It will ne'er be a mote on your marriage. 
Ill-doers are aye ill-dreaders. 
It's the cracked pitcher goes oftenest to the well. 
If ifs an' ands were pats and pans, there would be 

nae use for tinklers. 



It never rains but it pours. 

Its an ill wind that biaws naebody guid. 

Ill to hae but waur to want. 

I say as you say, Provost. 

Its as well to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. 

In for a penny in for a pound. 

Jouk an' let the jaw gae bye. (Compare Mormond). 

Judge a man by the company he keeps. 

Kittle cattle to shoe. 

Lazy as a bleachfield dowg lying in the sun a' day. 

Leeve, auld horse, and thou 'It get hay. 

Least said, soonest mended. 

Let diamond cut diamond. 

Leave well alone. 

Let byganes be byganes. (Compare Mormond). 

Look before you leap. (Compare Mormond). 

Make hay while the sun shines. 

Misfortunes never come singly. 

Maidens should be mim till they're married. 

Mony a pickle makes a mickle. 

Mad as a March hare. 

Mary Conn in a coach. 

Ne'er tak your maik frae the midden while there's a 

star in the lift. 
Need makes a naked man rin. 
Necessity has no law. 

Nobody knows where the shoe pinches but the wearer. 
Ne'er tak two bites to a cherry. 
Ne'er tak a flairfu' o* soles for a wife. 
No news is good news. 

Nobody can tell what's in the shaup till its shelt. 
One man's meat is another man's poison. 
Out of the frying-pan into the fire. 
One nail dings another oot. 
People who live in glass houses should not throw 

stones. 
Pit yer haun in the creel, fesh oot an ether or an eel. 
Penny wise and pound foolish. 
Prevention is better than cure. 
Pit the saddle on the richt horse. 
Pouring water on a drooned moose. 
Pit a stoot hert tae a stey brae. (Compare Mormond). 
Quateness is best. 
Richt wrangs naebody. 
Short accounts mak guid friends. 
Saturday flit, short sit. 
Shrink not for a shower. 
She'll no let her bane gang awa wi the dowg. 
She'll no fling doon the cogue when the coo flings. 
Saft's yer horn. 

Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil. 
She'll ne er scart a gray pow. 
Seeing is believing. 

Strike when the iron is hot. (Compare Mormond). 
Twice het kail are aye pat tasted. 
The bite's as guid's the soup. 
The proof o' the puddin's the preein o't. 
There are big stots in Ireland, but they canna come 

ower for horns. 
Tell the truth and shame the devil. 
The deil's no sae black as he's pentit. 
Two can play at that. 
Twa heads are better than ane, though they should be 

sheep's heads. 



September, 1893.] SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, 



They that do their turn in time sit half idle. 

The biter is bitten. 

There's nae friendship in trade. 

Tak care o' the pennies and the pounds will tak care 

o' themselves. 
Untymeous spurring spiles the steed. 
Whistling maids and crawing hens are nae counted 

canny 'bout oor toon en's. 
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 
You may tak a horse to the water, but you can't make 

him drink. 
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 
You fun' it where the Hielandman fun' the tangs. 
Ye're nae chicken for a' yer cheeping. 
Ye're ma ain bonnie lammie, mammie's wee doo. 

(Compare Mormond). 
Ye maun creep afore ye gang. (Compare Mormond). 

I agree with Mormond that a collection of 
sayings of the sort he has given, gathered from 
different Scottish counties, would be highly in- 
teresting and not a little instructive, and I hope 
some more of your correspondents may add to 
the stock furnished by Mormond and myself. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 



♦♦♦ 

NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF BANFFSHIRE- 

( Continued from p. 44^ Vol. VII.) 

XI. 

161. Ale Lac hlan, James i A.Af.^ a native of Boharm. 
Educated at the School of Keith, he entered King's 
College in 1850 as first bursar, and after a course of 
distinction was appointed first to the school of Tough, 
then to Insch, and while there he was asked to be- 
come interim Rector of the Aberdeen Grammar 
School, when the Rector, W. E. Evans, resigned. 
He studied for the Church of Scotland, and was in 
due course promoted, first to the Parish Church of 
Rathven, and sometime afterwards to the Parish of 
Inveravon, a position which he still holds. 

16 la. Macpherson^ Colin: Minor Poet. Born in 
Keith in 1826, he has written a good deal of verse. 
In 1878 he published a volume called The Farmer's 
Friend. 

162. Macpherson^ Isabella: Female Evangelist and 
Saint. This excellent lady, whose Life has been 
written by her brother, the Rev. John Macpherson of 
Dundee, was born in Cullen, 7th May, 1842, and died 
in 1887. Her career, which was marked by an en- 
thusiastic love of the lapsed and lost, and by great 
labours (m their behalf, closed prematurely in 1887. 

163. Macpherson^ John^ D.D. : Roman Catholic 
Divine and Professor. Born at Blairnamarrow, Tom- 
intoul, 29th August, 1801, young Macpherson was 
educated for the church at Paris. Ordained priest in 
1827 , he was at once appointed a Professor in the 
College at Aquhorties. Transferred to Dundee in 
1832, he became President of Blairs College in 1847, 
a post which he held till 1858. His death occurred 
in 1871. 

164. Macpherson, John{^Rev.): Free Church Evan- 
gelist and Author. A native of Cullen, Mr Macpher- 
son studied for the ministry of the P>ee Church, and 



was ordained in 1859. He has always taken an ac 
part in all evangelistic movements, and is autho 
several biographies of evangelists and others. An: 
his works may be named his Life of Dutuan Mc 
son, 1871 ; his Z^ of Isabella Macpherson ; and 
Christian Hero : a Sketch of the Life of Robert Am 
He is still alive. 

165. AIcConochie,Jas, {Rev.): Established Ch 
Divine and Author. Born in Mid Banffshire a 
(i753)» ^^ died in 1806. 

166. Aleldrum Charles, C.AI.G., LL.D. : Prof( 
of Mathematics. A native of Kirkmichael parish 
was educated at Marischal College and Univer 
Aberdeen, and graduated first in order of merit o 
graduates in 1844, when he was also Lord Rec 
prizeman. Having entered the Bombay Educati 
Department in 1846, he became Prof, of Mathems 
Royal College, Mauritius, 1848 ; Secretary and 
of the founders of the Meteorological Society of I 
ritius, 185 1 ; Government Meteorological Obse 
1862. He assisted to establish a new observatoi 
Mauritius, and in 1875 became Director of the F 
Alfred Observatory. Appointed Member of Co 
of the Government of Mauritius in 1886, he wa 
same year created A.C.M.G. He had previousl 
1876, been made an LL.D. by Aberdeen Univei 

167. Middleton, Charles {Colonel) \Two dis 

168. Aliddleton, William (C^/<?«^r/)/uished P 
sular Officers, natives of Kirkmichael parish, and 
of the farmer of Inverairy. The New Stat. Aci 
of the parish gives a brief notice of their career. 

169. Aloodie, Wm., D.D. {Prof.): Scholar, Au 
and Ecclesiastical Leader. A native of Kirk* 
Gartly parish, he was born in 1759, was educate 
the church, and became successively minister o 
parishes of Kirkcaldy and of St Andrew's, Edinb' 
In 1797 he was appointed Prof, of Hebrew, E 
Univ., and in 1798 received the degree of D.D., ' 
in 1799 he was chosen Moderator of the Genera 
sembly. He published various pamphlets, and e 
PVilson's Hebrew Grammar. His death occurr 
18 1 2, and his Sermons, with an account of hi 
prefixed, were published in 181 3. For a noti 
him see the New Stat. Ace. of Scot. 

170. Alurdoch, John {Rev.): Bishop of Cast; 
Roman Catholic Dignitary. Born at Wellhea 
the Enzie, nth November, 1796, he studied fc 
priesthood, and after serving in that capacit} 
promoted to be Bishop of Castatala. He died in 

171. Nicholson, Thomas {Rev.) : Bishop of ! 
tachium. Born about 1645, ^^ ^^ house of Bi 
bog, he was the son of Sir Thomas Nicholson 
daughter of the family connected with that e 
His parents being Protestants, he was brought 
that religion. Bred to letters he became one c 
Regents or Professors in Glasgow University, { 
he filled for nearly fourteen years. About th 
ginning of 1682 he embraced the Catholic faith 
in July that same year proceeded to Padua, takir 
Scottish College of Douay on his way to prosecu 
theological studies. After three years spent in j 
he was promoted to holy orders in 1685, and in 
returned as missionary priest to Scotland. ^ 
hended, like many other of the Catholic clergy 



S8 :sC071ISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [September, 1893. 

Revolution, he was cast into prison, and at last ba- Soon thereafter he succeeded his eldest brother in the 
nished to the Continent. He was employed there for school of Strichen, passing thence in 1854 to Mony- 
three years as confessor to a convent at Dunkirk. In musk school, where he also conducted a boarding 
1694 it was resolved by the congregation de Propa- establishment. His success as a teacher led to his 
ganda Fide^ that a Bishop shouUl be appointed to appointment in 1872 to the Head mastership of Gor- 
govern the Scottish Mission, and in August Mr Ni- don's Hospital. In due time, when the hospital sys- 
cholson was chosen for that office. His consecration tern was abrc^ated, he was charged with the difficult 
followed in February, 1695, at Paris. It was not, task of reorganising the Institution as a day and even- 
however, till 1696 that Bishop Nicholson ventured to ing school for secondary and technical instruction. 
England, when he was at once apprehended in Lon- His success in this work has been conspicuous, as 
don and kept in confinement till May, 1697. He was there is now prolmbly no better equipped school of 
then released, when he forthwith proceeded to Scot- the kind in the kingdom. His alma mater, recog- 
land, where for upwards of twenty years he discharged nising his eminent services, conferred on him the de' 
his episcopal functions without molestation. During greeofLL.D. in 1883. 

the last years of his life he resided chiefly at Preshome 175. O^lvU, Duncan^ A.M.^ D.D. A native of 

in the Enzie, where he died in 1718. A Latin epi- Keith, educated at Kordyce, he graduated at King's 

taph to his memory may still be seen in the Chapel of College in 1838. He held several charges in the 

St Ninians, Bellay, where he is buried. U.P. Church, amongst others that of Broughty- Ferry, 

172. Nicol, William, M.P. : Liverpool Shipowner then one in Edinburgh, next at Falkirk, whence he 
and Member of Parliament for Dover. Dr Cramond, retired recently. His son is minister of the U.P. 
in his Annals of Banff", quoting from ImlaclCs History Church at Rosehearty, near Fraserburgh. In 1866 he 
of Banff, says this gentleman was a son of James published a volume of Sermons entitled, Christ con- 
Nicol, Collector of Customs, Banff, who died in 1849, templated from Birth to Baptism. 

aged 82. I have learned nothing further of him. lie 176: Ogilvie, Sir George, ist Lord Banff : KoyzWsX. 

was a most successful merchant Leader. The eldest son of Sir Walter Ogilvie of 

173. Ogilvie or Ogilvy, Sir Alex. Bart., Lord For- Banff and Dunlugas, and born probably alx)ut the 
glen: the second son of the second Lord Banff, and l)eginning of the 17th century, he was created a ba- 
born about 1660, according to Douglas (Peerage, ronet in 1627. During the civil wars he adhered 
Vol. I., p. 193) he became an advocate, but there is strongly to the royal cause, and distinguished himself 
no evidence of this on record. He was created a Ba- at the action against the Covenanters under the Earl 
ronet in 1 701, and in 1702 was chosen Member of of Montrose, in June, 1639. After the defeat of the 
Parliament for Banff, on condition that he charged royalists there, he retired to England and served in 
nothing for his services, being thus the first to intro- the royal army. In 1642 King Charles raised him to 
duce in that constituency the present custom of gra- the peerage as Lord Banff. He died in 1663. 
tuitous service in Parliament. He continued Banff W. B. R. W. 
Member till the Union, of which he was a stanch (To be continued.) 

supporter. In 1706 he became a Lord of Session as 



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Lord Forglen. The same year he was made a Com- James Stillie.— We are sorry to announce 

missioner for the Treaty of Union. He died in 1727. ^^^ jeath of this veteran bookseller. Mr. Stillie, 

174. Ogilvie, Alexander, LL.D. : Distinguished who was in his 90th year, and had for some time 

Teacher. One of five brothers who have all acquired been in failing health, succumbed after a few 

the highest reputation as teachers of youth, he was ^ays' illness. Coming to Edinburgh, when a 

born at the farm of Ternemmy, m Rolhiemay 5th i^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ publishing firm of John 

November, 1830. His father, who was a brother of Dr Rallantvne & Co as an innrentire Hp rinidlv 

John Ogilvie, Editor of the Imperial Diciiofiary, had ^^l^antyne «x uo. as an apprentice He rapidly 

received but little schooling, beyond the proverbial f^^e m favour, and was entrusted with many 

** winter wraith " at the neighbouring parish school of important matters. It was dunng this penod, 

Ordiquhill ; but being of an intelligent and inquiring and later when he was transferred to the house 

turn of mind, he gained, in spite of the heavy and of James Ballantyne & Co., that he came so 

constant labour of the farm, a respectable knowledge much in contact with the then great unknown 

both of history and general literature. That, how- author of Waverley. In an interview, with a 

ever, which determined the set of the Ogilvie family representative of the Publisher^ Circular, he 

to scholarship was not so much the love of learning recently gave some of his reminiscences of Sir 

exhibited by their father, as the warm interest taken Walter. In 1825 he started in business in the 

in the family at Ternemmy by their generous relative, pjigh Street. After Scott's death he removed to 

Professor Cruickshank of Manschal College. For ^^e Mound, then to Princes Street and to 

this gentleman, the ready benefactor of many a de- Hanover Street, and lastly to 19a George Street. 

serving youne man, interested himself greatly m the tt- i. !.i_ j "^ y v..v-vr*5v, v^nv-v-v. 

training of his young relatives at Ternemmy, and was ^^^ shop was the rendezvous for collectors of 

the means of getting three of them in succession placed ^are and first editions. He was a shrewd busi- 

at the school of Fordyce on the Ogilvie Foundation, "^ss man, and had a decided objection to put oflf 

Alexander Ogilvie was the third of those thus favoured, time with the literary lounger, who does not 

After his school career, having obtained a bursary at wish to buy, but would like to have a look round 

King's College, he studied there, graduating in 1852. the shelves. 



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As we learn that Mr Stillie's stock will shortly 
be brought under the hammer, we wait with keen 
interest this sale, as he was said to own, among 
other rare gems, a very valuable set of Scotch 
historical manuscripts. Eye. 

Aberdeen and Aberdonians in 1758.— 
We have received the following correction from 
our esteemed correspondent, on his communica- 
tion, under the above heading, which appeared 
in S. N, &^ Q. last month : — 

We dare not let your printer say, other than 
Richard Frank said, about Aberdeen. He did 
not call " The Paroch Kirk of Saint Nicholas" 
a Cathedral^ as your printer, by the slightest of 
slips, makes him. In your issue for August, 
Frank is made to say, " that's the Cathedral," 
whereas he said, in the extract I gave, "that's 
no Cathedral." This abrupt interjectional re- 
mark of the Cromwellian soldier has more mean- 
ing in it, because, in an early utterance, he says, 
"Is this that Aberdeen so generally discours'd 
by the Scots for civility? "Yes,'* says his 
friend, " and for humanity, too, for its the para- 
gon of Scotland." The Puritan soldier then 
asks, "Is this Old Aberdeen, and old Univer- 
sity? why then a Sophister may pick up as 
much ethicks and politicks as will serve him to 
stuff out a pair of lawn sleeves. Cathedrals in 
some countries influence the inhabitants, as 
planets, you know, have government over the 
vital parts." This more extended quotation 
shows what was in the trooper's mind when he 
used the phrase, "that's no Cathedral," with 
reference to the Church of New Aberdeen. 

A. W. 

Recently Discovered Writings of Car- 
LYLE. — As announced in the literary journals of 
May last, while collecting materials for a bio- 
graphical sketch of Carlyle, to be prefixed to my 
annotated edition of his Essay on Burns, 1 dis- 
covered the following writings, which had hith- 
erto escaped the notice of his biographers : — 

The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal^ vol. I., 
June, 1819, pp. 63-75 ; 243-253 — Examination 
of some Compounds which depend upon weak 
Affinities. By Jacob Berzelius, M.D., F.R.S. 
[Translated by Thomas Carlyle.] 

The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal^ vol. 
III., 1820, pp. 124-138 — Remarks on Professor 
Hansteen's Inquiries concerning the Magnetism 
of the Earth. [By Thomas Carlyle]. Pp. 154- 
176; 317-342. Outlines of Professor Mohs' 
New System of Crystallography and Miner- 
alogy. [Translated by Thomas Carlyle]. 

The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. 1820, Vol. 
XIV., pp. 670-671— Jean Etienne Montucla, by 
T. C. \i.e. Thomas Carlyle]. 

The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. Vol. 



IV., 1821, pp. 1x4-124 — Remarks on Professor 
Hansteen's Inquiry Concerning the Magnetism 
of the Earth. [By Thomas Carlyle]. Pp. 56- 
67 — Outlines of Professor Mohs' New System 
of Crystallography and Mineralogy. [Trans- 
lated by Thomas Carlyle]. 
Galston. John Muir. 

The Heron as a Weather-Prophet. — 
The following local bit of weather-lore probably 
deserves a comer in S. N. 6^ Q. : — 

When the heron flies to sea 

Good weather it will be ; 
When the heron seeks the hill 

Good weather it will spill. 

It should be noted that in this region, where 
the mountains approach the coast so closely, 
" the hill " is almost an equivalent for " inland." 

J. Calder Ross. 
Sligachan, Skye, Aug., 1893. 

The Proverbs of Chaucer (VI., 51, et 
seq.) — Your Proverbist is surely too narrow in 
nailing Chaucer to any version of Scripture fa- 
miliar to us : there were several before Wicliflfe. 
Even the Roman scrivar contain, at this day, 
the same text in two diflferent versions some- 
times, in spite of the dogmatic definition that 
the Vulgate is the word of God ; and the stand- 
ard to which to refer. I was much surprised, 
forty years ago, to find that one of our common- 
est English proverbs existed verbatim in French 
centuries ago : In the 5th sermon for All Saints' 
St Bernard writes : " Vulgo dicitur. Quod non 
videt oealus, cor non dolit." We say : " What 
the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve " — 
exactly the same. 

A. P. Skene. 



(Siueries* 



801. Sir William Bennet of Marlfield. — 
Can any of your readers give me information relating 
to Sir William Bennet of Marlfield ? He is referred 
to by " Hugh Haliburton" in a recent number of 
Good Words as an early friend of the poet Thomson. 
But I can find no reference to him in such books as 
The Scottish Nation^ the Dictionary of National Bio- 
graphy^ or in Eminent Scotsmen. 

W. G. SCOTT-MONCRIEFF. 
Wecdingshall, Polmont. 

802. Macoii.livrays of THE DouNE. — In Ful- 

lerton's Scottish Highlands^ the article on the Mac- 

gillivrays concludes thus : — 

The race that will not wither, and has descended 

Long from every side, 

Excellent Macgillivrays of the Doune. 

As this is the only reference I have ever come across 
regarding this branch of the race of Gillebreac, will 
any of your correspondents enlighten me as to their 
pedigree, and state where Doune lies ? and oblige. 

Mac. 



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803. Fagakinvrigh Cl.UB. — Can any one supply 
informalion rcfiarclirg [his Cluh, Ihe hcaJquarlers of 
which seem 10 have been in Lcilh ? An aitdtess tu 
the members will lie found in James Thomson's Srols 
Pmixs, iSoi editiun, p. 154. L. 

S04 District ok BREAnALBANE.-Can any of 
your readers define the exact bouniiarics of the dis- 
trict of Bread albane? 

Kenmore. J. C. 

805. William Hay, in Wkster Culphin,— 

Did the above, who was a brotbei of tieorge Hay o( 

Rannes, who died in 1651, leave any dcscendanla? 

Kenmnre. J, C. 

806. Hearsey Family,— Can any one give me a 
clue to the family of Christian Mary Gavine, lu'^ 
tlearsey, lelaled to the families of IHlborough, 
Brskine (Buchan), Kabinson, Fullerton (Craighall), 
Baiid (Newbyth), Dnimmond (Slralhallan) ? About 
1760, she married David Gavin of Longton, Berwick- 
shire. I make out her jwdigrce thus : — 



s 5"° 

? 'a a 






807. : 



WANTliU. — Some of your corcespon- 
nt wilh Scottish song will have no dif- 
ficulty in naming the author of the following, and 
perhaps give the same entire :— 



809. Loss Of THE " Oscar."— The old broad- 
Bwiird, fixed in the hand of the figurehead of this ship 
(a Highlander in philibet;), was washed ashore after 
the wreck, and was given to William Johnston of 
Viewlield, nierchanl in Aberdeen, one of the owners 
of the ill&led ship. The weapon was preserved in 
the family of Mr Johnston, and in 1877 was in Ihe 
possession of bis son, Alexander Johnston, W.S. 
Can any one say if it is sti" ' ' " ' "' 






G. A. 



810. Discovery or Concbaled Passaob (VII., 
47).^It is now over sixty years since I heard of a 
party of young men proceeding, under torch-light, up 
a passage, The entrance lo which was near to where 
the Free St Oement's Church now stands. My re- 
collecrion Ls, that these youths penetrated the parage 
till they believed they came underneath the spot where 
lay, in the centre of Castle Street, the round la^ 
stone into which was planted ihe gallows in old time*. 
I rccoHect seeing Ihe opening, and as it appeared to 
have long stood open, —that may account for its having 
then been enplored so far, and for the air, now, if the 
same passage as Mr Home discovered, being foul, — 
seeing it has been long shut up, or covered over with 
earth. If Mr Home pleases to write Mr James 
Walker, wholesale ironmonger. Little Collins Street, 
Melbourne, Victoria, he might throw further light on 
what would seem to be the same passage as that dis- 
covered liy him. I believe the tide flowed up, at one 
time, to near the spot at which the opening stood, 
and that the ferry, in old tilnes, to Torry, started on 
this side at that place, so that the passage I mention 
may have been used during a siege of the castle for a. 
supply of provisions— ii»h in particular, as in the si^e 
of the Abbey of Deer, — or as an outlet by sea. 

Aberdeen. G. A. 

answers. 

799. Macaka Clan {VII., 47).-- Buchanan, in 
his Imok on Ancient Siatlisli Surnames, states that 
Ms is a branch of the Clan Macgregor, and that it 
forms a pretty numerous sept in the north part of 
Perthshire, In the seventeenth century Macaras were 
porlioners of Dryinniie in Strathearn. The Lyon 
office seems to have recognised the descent from the 
Macgregors, for, in r8i4, the following arms, closely 
resembling those ol Macgregor, were granted to Lieut. - 
Colonsl Robert Macara :—" Ermine or, tree erndi- 
cated in liend deiler, surmounted of a sword in bend 
sinister, the latter bearing on its point an imperial 
crown all proper." K. C. W. 



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651. Alexander Laing, Author of The Donean 
Tourirtf (V. 172, 191). — I have been able to glean 
the following particulars from an octogencrian who 
remembers **gleyed Laing," who was so called, she 
says, because he had but one eye. He used to lodge 
in her father's house when in the quarter. On these 
occasions, Laing was crowded round by young and old 
to hear him narrate his old-time stories. He taught 
my informant to read what she called "old Scotch," 
but her impression is that he was not a man of much 
education, but a great reader and well informed, with 
a craze for hunting churchyards for old or quaint 
epitaphs. He dealt in old books, which he carried 
in a box on his back. My informant thinks there 
must have been something ** low " about him, for he 
sold books to the farm servants that he dared not 
have produced in the house ! Donside. 

765. Inscription on Tombstone Wanted (VL, 
172; VII., 28). — Referring to the notices regarding 
the above which have appeared in S. N. &* Q., 1 am 
now enabled to give the complete inscription as it 
appears on the tombstone referred to . — 

** Here lies in the hopes of a blessed resurrection 
the corps of William Gray, sometime of Clochtow, 
who departed this life February 13^^ I744> aged 66 
years, — also Elspet Annan, his spouse, who died 23rd 
Deer. 1770, aged 81 years, —also Andrew Gray, their 
son, aged 29 years, — also Alex : Gray, sometime 
Farmer in Gnaps Leask, who died 21^'^ Deer. 1804, 
aged 92 years, — also Christian Johnston, his spouse, 
who died 10*'** Deer. 1807, aged years." 

July, 1893. J. E. Leighton. 

784. DoucsLAs' Virgil (VIL, 27, 48).— The de- 
tinitions of the words sought by your correspondent in 
the passage from the above work, are to be found in 
JamiesorCs Scottish Dictionary. I do not know if 
they are in the later editions ; they are, however, in 
the first edition, pul)lished in 1808. They are as 
follows : — 

** Reyeand," raging, from " Ray," rude, mad, wild. 

" Harsk," harsh. 

** Leyndis." Jamieson quotes this same passage, 
illustrating the meaning of this word, as ** remaining 
under covert," *' hiding." 

" Mesing," calming, allaying. 

** Foryet," forgot. 

Is your correspondent correct in the spelling of the 
words in the last two lines, ** curis" and *' ilksome?" 
The last is surely *' irksome," the former I can make 
nothing of, unless it be "cares'". ** Cares' smart " 
would be appropriate enough in the connection. 

By modernizing the spelling, and a few of the words, 
I think the passage would read somewhat like this : — 

" The night follows, and every weary wight 
Throughout the earth has caught anon right 
The sound pleasant sleep he likes best ; 
Woods and raging seas were at rest ; 
And the stars, their mid courses roll doun. 
All the fields still also, without noise or sound. 
All beasts and birds of divers colours *each one,' 
And whatsoever in the broad lochs were. 
Or among bushes harsh, hiding under the spray, 
Through night's silence slept where they lay, 



Calming their busy thought and * cares' smart' (?) 
All irksome labour forgot, and out of heart." 

I trust that this communication from ** far ayont 
the faem" will find a place in S. N. <5r» Q, 

Geo. St J. Bremner. 

San Francisco, Cal. 

785. Spanish Blood in Scottish Veins (VII., 
27). — I have learned from an Irvine friend, who has 
visited and examined the house once occupied by the 
Misses Fairrie, that no peiligree of the kind described 
now exists on the leads of that house, or is known 
by its present occupants to have existed there. The 
house is an old house, and the family of Fairrie was an 
old and respectable Irvine family, but is now extinct 
in the town, at least in the male line. As to the tra- 
dition of Spanish ancestry, I have heard that tradition 
about another Irvine family called Balsillie ; but never 
knew on what evidence it was founded. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

795. The Drum (VIL, 46).— I cannot answer all 
the queries propounded by Mr Andrews, but the fol- 
lowing particulars may perhaps help him : — 

I. As to the date when the town drummer became 
an institution in Scottish burgh life, I can give no 
precise information. The earliest notice I have seen 
of the existence of a drummer in any Scottish town is 
in Dr Cramond's Annals of Banff ^ where in Vol. I., 
p. 83, under date 1637-9, reference is made to the 
payment of 21s. for ane lanterne and candle to the 
drummer. Under date 1677 mention is made of a 
John Williamson being admitted as drummer by the 
Council, and his salary is specified as 10 marks yierlie 
with ane pair of schoon. Later references in the 
same volume show that by and by the drummer 
received a uniform at the expense of the town. Also 
interesting light is thrown on the character of the 
duties that official was called on to perform. But for 
these, and other interesting particulars, I advise Mr 
Andrews to consult the volumes referred to, which he 
will find a most valuable repertory of antiquarian lore. 

James Clelland in his book, The Rise and Progress 
of Glasgow (1820), p. 257, mentions that the bellman 
in that town, when proclaiming sales, anything lost 
or found, &c., was entitled to charge one shilling. 
He adds, "if proclamation be made for a strayed 
child after sunset, or on Sunday, an extra allowance 
is made. Proclamation for a cartload of herrings is 
only sixpence. 

II. In Irvine, the town I knew well as a boy, the 
notices given out by the drummer, who was also some- 
times a bellman and not a drummer, were chiefly 
notices of roups or sales, intimations of meetings sud- 
denly summoned, proclamation of the loss of a child, 
&c. 

III. The neighbouring town of Ayr had also a 
drummer thirty years ago, and perhaps still has. 

IV. The Town Council both appointed and paid 
the drummer. 

V. He wore a uniform. It was part of his duty to 
walk before the Town Council when that body ap- 
peared before the public. And every Sabbath he 
marched before them to church bearing a halbert and 
dressed in scarlet. 

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of a drum. The leason for this change I never knew. 
Perhaps the payment was less when the l)ell was used. 

VII. I incline to the opinion that in some towns 
of Scotland a town drummer will still l)e found. The 
latest reference in Dr Cramond's Annals o f Banff io 
the existence of that official is under the dale 1851 ; 
but I should not be surprised if he still flourishes in 
that ancient burgh. 

Dollar. W. IJ. R. W. 

795. The Drum.— In DailyeWs A/usica/ Mewoirs 
of Scotland^ 4to, 1849, (63/ for 42/), will be found 
** Notices of the Drums," with a print of the drum of 
** probably the fifteenth century. This is a singu- 
larly curious and interesting work, containing 40 plates 
of old musical instruments. 

Tiios. G. Stevenson. 
Frederick Street, Edinburgh. 

796. "Daimen," " Daimen-uker" (VII., 47). 
— Perhaps the following extract from Cuthbertson's 
Complete Glossary io the Poetry and Prose of Robert 
Burns may assist '* W. B. R. W." :— 

" Dainien^ Rare, now and then ; daimen-icker^ an 
ear of corn now and then. This seems to be another 
word for which Burns alone is responsible. Janiieson 
quotes no other authority for it, and says it is perha})s 
derived from * dieinent^ counted, from A.-S. deman, to 
reckon '. Now, granting that denian means to reckon, 
* counted ' seems but a poor explanation of ^/^/wtv/, 
which is always used as equivalent to something not 
worth taking into consideration, and might well be 
translated a chance one. As Jamieson introduces his 
derivation with a modest — perhaps I may, with the 
same saving adverb, suggest a less recondite origin for 
the word. In Burns's time, and later, the servants 
on a farm were invariably engaged for the half-year, 
and the reapers were invariably hired for the harvest, 
not for a fixed time, but till the croj) was secured. A 
person paid by the day was never seen save on an 
emergency. Hence to denote a thing of rare occur- 
rence, especially as his visit formed a sort of epoch in 
the monotonous lives of a farmer's household, a day- 
man was a convenient and (to them) expressive term. 
Anything seldom occurring would be said to be like a 
dayman^ and in the natural course of language the 
sign of the simile would be dropped. It may be said 
that if it were so * daysman ' would be far more natu- 
ral, but the Scottish peasantry knew their Bibles too 
well not to be aware that daysman had been already 
appropriated. 

Day-man, a labourer hired by tlie day. — East. Ilalliivell. 
Day-woman in ' Love's Labour Lost ' is generally ex- 
plained a dairy-woman^ which is a mere guess. 
Chaucer has — 

She was as it were a maner dey. 
Tyrwhitt thinks dey was originally a dav-labourer." 

R. A. 

796. -'A Daimenickkr, &c." (VIL. 47).-The 
word daimen, or, as it is pronounced, demmen, is 
still in use in Ayrshire, especially in the phrase '*a 
demmen yin, here and there." I have been told by 
a friend that a quotation other than from Burns is 
given in JamiesotCs Scottish Dictionary^ taken frofn a 



magazine at the lieginning of this century. An at- 
tempted derivation is also supplied by that writer. 
Still a good deal of obscurity rests upon the word, 
and it might serve a good purpose if some of your 
philological readers would turn their thoughts to the 
investigation of it. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

798. "AuLD Reekie" (VIL, 47).— The deriva- 
tion of this *' pet" name has already been discussed 
in S. N. 6r» Q. (I., 180, 201) but with no satisfactory 
! result. Ed. 

798. " AuLi) Reekie" (VIL, 47).— This familiar 
expression to denote the City of Edinburgh, I am 
afraid, cannot be very well explained, either as to the 
date of its origin or the circumstances which caused 
it. Mr Robert Chambers informs us, this highly ap- 
propriate sol)ri(iuet cannot be traced beyond the reign 
of Charles JI. Tradition assigns the following as the 
origin of the phrase : — An old gentleman in Fife, de- 
signed Durham of Largo, was in the habit, at the 
period mentioned, of regulating the time of evening 
worshij) by the appearance of the smoke of Edinburgh, 
which he could easily see, through the clear summer 
twilight, from his own door. When he observed the 
smoke increase in density, in consequence of the good 
folk of the city preparing their supper, he would call 
all the family into the house, saying — " It's time now, 
bairns, to tak' the beuks, and gang to our beds, for 
yonder's Auld Reekie, I see, putting on her nicht-cap." 

Wood, in his East Neuk of Fife ^ in giving the do- 
mestic history of Francis and James Durham, both of 
Largo, says, to one or other of these two mentioned 
lairds must be attributed the honour of giving to Edin- 
burgh the sobriquet of Auld Reekie, if there is any 
truth in the tradition recorded by Chambers. 

Kohl, in his Travels in Scotland^ a painstaking in- 
vestigator, says — '* Scotland's darling seat," as one 
of our greatest bards calls this city, — or Auld Reekie, 
as it is called by the natives, thereby still rememl)er- 
ing the olden times, and taking no heed of modern 
transformations. I have consulted WilsotCs Memo- 
rials of Edinburgh in the Olden Times without find- 
ing a single incident in reference to the subject now 
under consideration. 

I close this subject by giving a few lines from 
Robert Fergusson's Poetical Works, entitled Auld 
Reekie. This poem is a curious memorial of Edin- 
burgh in its old state, when as yet it mainly consisted 
of a few densely built streets, and exhibited many of 
the moral and social features of a small country town. 
The coarse bacchanalianism — the filthiness— the gos- 
sipry — the cadies — macaronies — street hunters of all 
kinds— are all faithfully described. 

Auld Reekie ! wale o' ilka toun 
That Scotland kens beneath the moon ; 
Where coothy chields at e'enin' meet, 
Their bizzin' crags and mous to weet ; 
And blythely gar auld care gae by, 
Wi' blinkin' an' wi' bleerin' eye. 

I must stoj), referring my readers to the poem itself 
for a description of Edinburgh in the olden times. 
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September, 1893.J SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, 



262. RiN Met Bear (II., 188; VII., 47).— I 
learn from a friend • that it is still the custom of the 
farmer, in measuring his oats or other grain, to give it 
a drop of about two feet when it is being run into the 
bushel. He adds, that if the grain should get a 
higher drop than two feet, or if the men at work mea- 
suring it were even to keep tramping about on the 
floor round the bushel in process of filling it, then the 
quantity contained by the bushel would be much 
increased. 

Cherit or Cheritet bear^ I suspect, means churted 
or pressed bear, i.e. bear that has undergone com- 
pression beyond what is legitimate in filling the bushel: 
perhaps even bear which has been compressed into 
the bushel till it cannot be compressed further. This 
will account for the fact that 20 bolls of " rinnand 
bear" are only equivalent to 18 bolls 3 firlots of 
*' cherit " or " churted bear." For of course by com- 
pressing or churting your grain more violently than is 
possible when you restrict yourself to the pressure of 
the normal two foot drop, you find that you have ap- 
parently diminished the quantity of your grain. 

I don't see so clearly what *' my lord's awin gryt 
met " can mean. But *' C.'s " quotation suggests that 
in the event of the Leith met being used instead of 
my Lord's great met, and when the grain at the same 
time is received into the vessel prepared to hold it as 
" running corn," i.e. with the usual run or drop, then 
there is a marked difference in the quantity of grain 
held by the same vessel. For it is added, as I under- 
stand the quotation, that 8 chalders 6 bolls running 
corn extend to 10 chalders 12 bolls 2 firlots, when 
t eated or made equal with the great met. 

Perhaps the fact that * * my Lord " is represented 
as the owner of " the gryt met " may be taken to sig- 
nify that the territorial magnates of that day insisted 
on measuring theic grain in a way which differed from 
that followed by the Leith merchants and most others, 
and differed of ct)urse so as always to give them the 
best of the bargain in any purchase which they effected 
on these terms. 

My friend told me, as illustrating the great differ- 
ences in apparent quantity held by the same vessel, 
that a bushel filled perfectly full with pure grass seed 
would, if the same quantity of grass seed were mixed 
with clover seed, be found no longer full, though a 
large quantity of clover seed had been introduced 
among the original grass seed. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

Xiterature* 



Deeside. By Alex. Inkson McConnochie. 

D. Wyllie & Son, Aberdeen, 1893 [160 pp. 

7X"by4l<"]. 
There has jilst been issued by Messrs. D. 
Wyllie & Son another volume of the series of 
admirable guide books published by that firm. 
This time it is Deeside^ and Mr. A. I. McCon- 
nochie justly deserves the thanks of the travelling 
public for providing them with such guides as 
the present and those that have preceded it. 
The Guide, starting at the river mouth, treats 



first of Aberdeen, and then following the ri^ 
upwards to its source, deals with the topograpl 
history and traditions of the district drained 
the Dee. The matter is clearly and succinc 
stated, and conveys just the kind of informati 
which the traveller or pedestrian most desi 
to know. 

An admirable map accompanies the Gui 
embracing the valleys of the Dee and Don 
well as the Cairngorm range and the conn 
tion with the railway system on Speyside. 
together the Guide is one we can thoroug 
recommend to all who wish to become in a 
way acquainted with the district of Deeside. 

The Guide has been printed by Messrs. 
Jolly & Sons, which is sufficient guarantee t 
it is well done. IV 

Addresses on Codification of Law. By 
GouDY, ^. J. G. Mac KAY, and R. V. Ca 
BELL. 8vo, pp. 82. W. Green & Son, E( 
burgh. 
"To simplify law and make it more comi 
hensible to the Public.'* This is the object y 
which these lectures have been issued. 
Goudy, in the course of his lecture, states t 
under codification, you would have your 
" cribb'd, cabin'd, and confin'd," as clauses, w 
under the present system, it is necessary to 1 
up old reports, in the hope that you may fii 
decision of a case similar to the present or 
your client. These lectures should be lar 
read by business men, for whom they a 
originally delivered. Ey 

Byways of the Scottish Border : a Pedest 
Pilgrimage. By GEORGE Eyre-Todd. 
pp. 226. J. Lewis, Selkirk. 
Mr. Eyre-Todd is already known as an e( 
of early Scottish poetry. He has now gi 
from his pen, a record of a tramp through 
home of ballad-poetry. Borderland. He is 
companied by his artist friend, Mr. Tom S 
A.R.S.A., and we have the result of their pilg 
age in the charming volume before us, which 
welcome addition to Border literature. Sta 
from Moffat, we trace the journeyings of 
pilgrims, by Moffat stream. Grey Mare's 
up Yarrow to St. Mary's Loch, where they 
for the night, under the social build of T 
Shiels. Next morning, they visit the hon 
the poet Hogg, Altrive Farm. This farr 
Duchess of Buccleuch bestowed upon the 
for life. They are now in the " Dowie De 
Yarrow." Wandering through the vale, ii 
company of our pilgrims, we are much impn 
by the author's many poetical references 
quotations. Yarrow, which has so influe 
our Scottish verse, leaves on the ordinary 
a peculiar, weird impression. A now roi 
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house wherein Mungo Park first saw the light 
of day ; while, a little further on, the belated 
wanderers view the lights of Selkirk. A bright 
morning sees Ihem trauiping through "The 
Wiiard's Countr>'," visiting the mansion of Sir 
Walter, and Melrose. We now trace their daily 
wanderings through Earlston, Dryburgh, Jed- 
burgh, and [he gipsy capital— Ye tholm. After 
leaving Yelholm, they visit a sad spot in Scottish 
history — namely, Flodden Field. Following on 
their track, we visit Coldstream, Norhani, and, 
lastly, Berwick. Having now reached the end 
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Registered. {P«;f|J! 



CONTENTS. 
Notes :— Page 

Observations and Remarks on the Text of Chaucer, — 65 

The Aboyne Ogham Stone, 66 

The Cup-marked Stone at Glenelg, 66 

Flora Macdonald, .^ 67 

A Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical Literature,.. . 68 

Diary of John Row, Principal of King's College, 70 

Provisional List of American Degree-conferring Insti- 
tutions, 71 

Notable Men and Women of Banffshire, 73 

The Guidman's Fauld or Croft, 75 

Minor Notes : — 

Interesting Find of Roman Coins, 76 

Discovery of a Famous Manuscript, 76 

John Row's Psalm Book, 76 

Queries: — 

Mr John Row's Diary — Aberdeen Alumni the Founders 
of American Colleges : James Blair, Patrick Copeland, 
William Smith — York Buildings Co. — Brass Stamps 
The Family of Caird— One Pound Bank Notes—" Reek 
Pennies," 76 

Answers : — 

Aberdeen Doctors in 1709 ; Family of Lynch — A 
Daimin icker in a thrave's a sma* request— **Auld 
Reekie "— Macgillivray of the Doune — Hearsey Family 
— Song Wanted — Loss of the " Oscar," 77 

Literature, 79 

Scotch Books for the Month, 79 

■ J. 

ABERDEEN, OCTOBER, 1893. 

»•» 

OBSERVATIONS AND REMARKS ON 
THE TEXT OF CHAUCER. 

The causes which operate in repelling a reader 
on making his first acquaintance with the writ- 
ings of Chaucer may be classed under the six 
following heads : — 

First, the antique spelling, so different from 
what one is accustomed with in ordinary Eng- 
lish. Second, the varieties in the spelling itself, 
some words being spelt in three and even four 
different ways, leaving the reader to imagine at 
first sight that he has fallen in with an entirely 
different word. Third, the different mode of 
accenting many words from that which obtains 
in modern days : the practice of Chaucer being 
the same as in the French language, to accent 
the second syllable instead of the first. Fourth, 
the pronouncing of the final e in certain cases, 
thereby rendering the word in two syllables, 
which to appearance and in ordinary cases is 
only of one syllable. P'ifth, the frequent use of 
double negatives as in the French ; a practice 
opposed to modern English, which uniformly 
rejects this application of the expression except 



when a positive is intended, but in Chaucer 
not. Sixth, the occurrence of many words enl 
obsolete, or of words still in use, but in a 
different sense. 

Some little practice is necessary to enal 
reader to overcome these difficulties, but r 
are still deterred from enjoying the poet 
this great master by these preliminary obsta 
Two different modes have been resorted 1 
order to render the poetry of Chaucer i 
accessible to the general reader. One i 
modernize the spelling, and accent those u 
which require to be pronounced in a diff( 
manner from modern usage. This no d 
removes some of the obstacles, and enabl 
reader to get through the lines with som< 
tention to the measure and rhythm, but it le 
the obsolete idiom of the language untouc 
Another mode is, to render the whole 
modern English, which may indeed give 
sense of the original, but is as unlike, as a tr 
lation into another tongue may well be. N 
of the beauties are thereby lost along witl 
the peculiarities of the older poet, and in reai 
these modern attempts we instinctively feel 
we are not reading Chaucer but only a mo< 
poet's production. I am aware of four mo< 
versions of Chaucer's select pieces, viz, Dryc 
Palamon and Arcite, a version of the Kni^ 
Tale ; his tale of the Cock and the Fox, a ver 
of the Nun's Priest's Tale : and his charact< 
the Good Parson, an amplification of one of 
personages ot the Prologue. The three pi 
of Dryden may be looked upon as magnifi* 
paraphrases, splendid modern poems, but ir 
respect can they be considered as resemb 
Chaucer. Pope's poem of January and Ma 
version of the Merchant's Tale, and his chara 
of the Wife of Bath, and the Temple of F; 
bear the same character. Wordsworth's ver 
of the Prioresses Tale, and the Cuckoo and 
Nightingale have more of the spirit of 
original, inasmuch as he lived in a more poel 
age, and was more conversant with our e 
poets than the wits of the last century, but 
by adhering so closely to the verse and mea: 
of the original it was necessary to take s 
liberties with the language, as to render tl 
attempts much more modern than they neec 
to give one a due notion of the manne 
Chaucer. Of Leigh Hunt's versions I have 



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[OCTOBBR, 1893. 



seen anything, consequently 1 can yive no 
opinion ; but I should suspect that they would 
resemble Wordsworth's manner considerably. 

I cannot help thinking lliat editors in general 
lay far 100 much stress on the necessity of retain- 
' ing the spelling of the manuscripts. No doubt 
a conscientious editor will hold himself bound 
to give the very words of the author which he 
undertakes to edit, but to insist that all the 
anomalies of the original text most be adhered 
to in order fully to understand the meaning and 
beauties of an author, cannot be borne out. 
Every successive manuscript disco\ered is a 
help lo correct the errors or deficiencies of the 
text, and is so far of service, but even here much 
judgment is requisite to settle conflicting claims, 
and after all, till we are certain that we have the 
very identical copy from the author's own hand, 
it is only a question of probability. My own 
conviction is that no such manuscript of Chaucer 
exists. Therefore we have only the manuscripts 
of copyists, full of errors, and we have yet to 
team thai these errors are so sacred that they 
dare not be meddled with. 

^^ J- li- 

THE ABOYNE OGHAM STONE. 
Tothe Editor of '' Scottish Notts and Qua ies." 

Sir, 

In reference to the article on the Aboyne 
Ogham Stone, by the Rev. J, G. Michie, which 
appears in your .September number, allow me lo 
pomt out that my learned friend (to whom 1 am 
under the highest antiquarian obligations) has 
inadvertently given a former reading of mine in 
place of that which will be found in my recently 
published work (referred to by him). The Origins 
of PicUsh Symbolism — see page 75. 

The whole inscription seems to me to trans- 
literate thus : — " Maqqoi Talluorrh Ffennaacc 
Abborflhhaan": and to signify :— "[Tl.e stone] 

of the Son of Talorc, Fineach of Aber ? 

(Aber-don, or Aber-ylhan?)". 

The reading " rests here," which 1 formerly 
adopted, is obtained by dividing the final word 
and viewing it as "Abborf[o?]thlia An"— taking 
" An" to represent the common formula " Ann" 
= rests here. But in all analogous examples the 
second N appears, and it ought not to be absent 
in the present case ; besides which, the form 
and position of the scores constituting AA favour 
union rather than disjunction : compare the 
double A in Ffennaac with the single A thrice 
occurrent elsewhere in this inscription. There- 
fore I do not now disjoin the "An", and conse- 
quently Mr Michie and I are thus far not at 
variance but in complete accord. 

As regards the identification of the place- 
name " Abborfthhaan", I cannot feel quite satis- 



fied with the reading " Aboyne"^which (at 
Mr Michie's suggestion, 1 believe,) I considered 
with favour in my paper on " The Oghams at 
Brodie, &!:.'— Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., 1885-6. I 
am doubtful as lo the assumption of a presum- 
ably omitted O (in Abborf[o?]thhaan"), and 
would rather view the F, which in some cases 
perhaps has the value of V, as a sort of as- 
piration—compare the Bressay Ogham, where 
" Nahhtffddadd" represents the proper name 
Nadad.— while the elision of TH, though ac- 
cordant with modem Gaelic practice, may not 
have always prevailed, for there is abundant 
reason to think that consonants now elided were 
in ancient times frequently, if not generally, 
sounded. On these grounds I have been dis- 
posed to question the claims of Aboyne, and to 
consider those of Aber(i)f-thaan = Aber-don, or 
.'\ber-[i]fthaan = Aber-ythan — viewing the as- 
sumed 1 as a breathing, rather than a full 
vowel,— but it is with diffidence that 1 indicate 
this slight want of concurrence with one whose 
knowledge of Gaelic is so infinitely greater than 
mine, and I only do so in order to invite further 
consideration of the subject. — I am, &c.. 

South ESK. 
Kinnaird Castle, Aug. 28, 1893. 
[Mr Michie's note was very limited, as space 
could not be afforded for a fuller notice ; but 
we are glad to receive from Lord Southesk, 
than whom no one is belter qualified to go 
into details on Ogham writing, the above in- 
teresting exposition of the inscription. — Ed.] 



THE CUP-MARKF.n STONF, AT GLENELG. 
The mystery surround ing the cup-marked stones 
is so profound that even the part they play in 
district folk-lore is not uninteresting. No ex- 
planation, which will prove the key to their ex- 
istence and appearance, is likely to be found in 
the direction of local beliefs concerning them, 
but their influence on popular imagination should 
on that account not be overlooked. 

Two of these stones are to be found in Glen, 
elg-one at the hamlet of Balvraid, and the 
other nearer the ancient brochs for which the 
glen is (amed. The latter is described by Mr 
J, Romilly Allen as a " flat slab of slate 3 feet 
9 in. long by 2 feet wide and 9 in. thick. Uf)on 
its upper surface are cut 30 very distinct cups, 
varying in diameter from i>i to 1% inches. In 
one case two cups are run into one by a connect- 
ing groove."' It is impossible that it can be in 
situ orij^itali, for at present the boulder lies on 
a heap of stones in the middle of a ploughed 
field. It is certainly not in a position where it 
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Much that is not "understanded of the people" 
is referred by them to elves and warlocks, and 
so it is not surprising to find the cups locally 
known as " Fairies' Footmarks", though one is 
startled at the shape thus ruthlessly given to the 
feet of the " good people". But the close prox- 
imity of the ancient dunes has given rise to 
another very elaborate explanation. To local 
imagination the builders of the massive round 
towers must have been pagans in their beliefs, 
and must have offered human sacrifices to 
appease their divinities. These victims were 
burned, and the cup-marked stones formed part 
of the sacrificial implements. It was necessary 
that everything be consumed. The juices of the 
body were likely to escape the fire. Depressions 
were accordingly made in the stone on which 
the body was laid, and these served temporarily 
to confine the liquids until the flames had time 
to act on them. Popular fancy is nothing if not 
original ! 

J. Calder Ross. 



♦•» 



FLORA MACDONALD. 

The following incidents concerning Flora Mac- 
donald, and the events of the '45, were gleaned 
from her life by her granddaughter, and are 
presented to the readers of 5. N. &' Q. in the 
hope that they may induce a study of the history 
of the period to which they refer, while resting 
in a Highland clachan during a drenching rain. 

For reasons given, the day of Flora's birth is 
uncertain, but it took place in 1722. Her father 
died suddenly while Flora was a child, leaving 
her brother Angus heir, by will, to the estate of 
Miltoun. The widowed mother, after a certain 
time, seems to have had many admirers. She, 
however, absolutely refused all advances. Hugh 
McDonald of Armadale persevered—" Faint 
heart never won." All his solicitations were 
rejected ; so much so, that his continued perse- 
verance annoyed her to such a degree that she 
gave orders to say she was particularly engaged ; 
but "might was right" in these days, (1732) for, 
on a certain night, Hugh McDonald, with a 
party of eight retainers, arrived at Miltoun 
House. Flora, and Angus her brother, in bed 
fast asleep, were awakened to find their mother 
pale, and almost fainting, in the arms of Arma- 
dale. She was placed in a boat and taken to 
Sleat in Skye, the property of her future husband, 
where in course of time she became reconciled, 
and, notwithstanding the rough treatment she 
received, her new home, by the devoted and 
affectionate kindness of Armadale, became a 
truly happy one. 

Little more need be said regarding Flora at 
this period of her life. Her education as well as 



her religious instruction were attended to by 
her mother, with the exception of a short time 
she was sent to Edinburgh to finish. Thereafter 
on her return home, visiting her relations and 
friends, attending to visitors at Armadale, with 
home-duties, such as attending to her mother's 
second family, seem to have engrossed her 
attention. 

The events connected with the '45 need not 
here be but incidently narrated; neither is it 
necessary to mention the wanderings of Prince 
Charles Stuart after the battle of Culloden, till 
we find the Prince with Captain O'Neil and 
Neil M'Eachan concealed in an old broken-down 
bothy at no great distance from Armadale in 
South Uist, where we find Flora on a visit to 
her brother at Miltoun. She at this period was 
desirous of returning home to her mother at 
Armadale in Skye, but her brother was opposed 
to her going, in consequence of the disturbed 
state of the country. Flora went to consult 
Mrs. McDonald of Ormaclade on the subject. 
Consider her surprise to learn that the Prince 
was in the neighbourhood. "Where are they?" 
said she. " I would give the world to see his 
Royal Highness ! " On the evening of the 20th 
June she was taken by Mrs. McDonald to the 
place of shelter, where she was introduced as : 
" a young relation who possibly may be of 
service to your Royal Highness in your distress." 
A scheme had been concocted before the arrival 
of Flora, which was now communicated to her. 
She at the time declined, but ultimately con- 
sented to consider the matter. She seriously 
thought of the trouble she might involve her 
relations and friends in by the step she was 
urged to take. As may be supposed, little sleep 
closed her eyelids that night. At daybreak, 
when Mrs. M' Donald came into her room all 
anxiety to learn her decision — her mind was 
made up. It was a great risk, but she deter- 
mined to save a life much more valuable than 
her own. It was arranged on the previous 
day that Flora should meet Captain O'Neil, the 
Prince's faithful attendant, in order to say if she 
consented to the scheme. A short conversation 
was the result, when he returned with the joyful 
tidings to the Prince. So closely was the Prince 
surrounded that Flora on h^r way back to Or- 
maclade was met by a party of militia, who 
accosted her civilly enough, asking for her pass- 
port. "What! None? then. Miss, we must 
just tak' ye afore our officer." And so she was 
walked off in charge, and, after a detention of 
about 14 hours, was confronted with — her step- 
father ! 

It may be necessary to explain that her step- 
father was at this time in command of a party 
of Skye militia then in pursuit of the Prince. 



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Her slepfather was favourable 10 the Sluarts, 
but to oblige his chief, Sir Alexander M'Uonald 
of Sleal, was induced to act in opposition to his 
secret inclinations. His surprise may be ima- 
gined on seeing his "ain bonnie Flora" as a 
prisoner. " My stepfather signed my passports, 
and 1 now only waited until he should write a 
letter to my mother, his wife " •.^■ 

Dear Wire, — I have sent your daughter from (his 
country, lest she should be any way frifihiened with 
the troops lying here. She hns got one, Betty Burke, 
an Irish ^rl, who ithe tells me is a good spinner. IT 
her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she 
spins all your lint ; or if you have wool to spin, you 
may employ her. 

I have sent Neil M'Eachen along with your 
daughter and Betty Burke lo take care of them. 
I am, your dutiful husband, 

Hugh M'Donai.i.. 
12nd June, 1746. 

It is believed her stepfather had an idea who 
Betty was, as he asked no q^ueslions, and seemed 
to hurry them away in a significant manner :— 
" Well, Flora, I wish you a safe crossing and 
happy meeting with your mother." To show 
the vigilance with which the Prince was ptirsued, 
another incident may be given. A trusty ser- 
vant came in a fright to say that General Camp- 
bell and Captain Ferguson, with a party of sol- 
diers and marines, were at Orraaclade in search 
of the Prince. The necessary arrangements being 
now completed, no tiijie was to be lost. There 
was the painful task of bidding farewell with 
warm-hearted Captain O'Nei!, his faithful com- 
panion, at eight o'clock on Saturday the 28th 
June. The Pnnce, Flora, M'Eachan, all named 
m the passports, got into a boat, previously se- 
cured and lying hid behind some rocks, and 
safely left the shores of lienbeciila. 

At length the tedious voyage came to a close. 
Flora proceeded to communicate their arrival to 
the friends of the Stuart cause. The Prince was 
received with Highland hospitality by M'Donald 
of Kingsburgh, and arrangements were hurriedly 
made to proceed to Portreeand Raasay. Here are 
Flora'sown words, in parting witi) Prince Charlie ; 
" The tears started m my eyes ; however, with 
an effort i drove them back, as the Prince came 
forward to me, and taking both my hands in 
his, clasped them warmly, as he thanked me in 
the most grateful manner for the services 1 had 
so opportunely rendered, and added ; " Although 
at present my affairs are but gloomy and unfa- 
vourable, yet the time will come, my good, dear 
Miss M'Donald, when 1 shall feel proud to wet- 
come my kind protectress 10 St James's. Fare- 
well now, and may heaven reward you as you 
deserve.' " 

W. T. 



A IHBLIOGRAPHY OF EDINBURGH 
PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 
(Begun in.?. N. ^ Q., V., July, iSgi-l 

1840. MfrchislonMagaxint; Edited by Geotge 
Macdonald. How many numbers ? Was this 
issued in connection with Merchiston Castle 
School, Edinburgh ? 

1840. Scottish Standard. Number i, Wed- 
nesday, January 15, 1840; the day that The 
Witness appeared. This paper was issued on 
Wednesday and Saturday, price ^Y^A. Edin- 
burgh : Printed and published by Thomas Ram- 
say, the proprietor, at the Standard Office, 21 
Waterloo Place (opposite the General Post 
Office). The Standard was issued in the Con- 
servative interest. In the prospectus it was 
stated :— 

" The publicatiun of a new Conservative joarnal in 
Edinliuign, so far from creating any surprise, will only 
he salis^iDg geocraJ and long cherished expectations, 
felt and acknowledged by all classes and parties in the 
country ; fur it is a &ct, tamenled over on the one 
side, and boasted of on the other, thai the Conserva- 
tive newspaper;, both in number and circulation, fall 
greatly liebind those which advocate destructive prin- 
ciples ; while there is probably no part of Great Bri- 
tain where it is more necessary lo make a vigorous 
eiertion of the influence of the Conservative presa 
than in the Meiropglis of Scotland. The S^mkh 
Staiulard will he devoted to the support of the Britidi 
Constitution in Church and State, in its full integrity; 
lu the maintenance of order ; the advancement of the 
great interests of the country ; and the promotion of 
the prosperity and happiness of all classes of the com- 
munity. And, enjoying access to the tiest sources of 
infoimalion, its polilical opinion will be found as cor- 
rect as its principles will be sound and its spirit inde- 
pendent." 

The Scottish Standard had a very brief exist- 
ence. Hugh Miller and his fellow-labourers 
swept all before them. When even the Scots- 
man, then in its twenty-third year, and ably 
conducted by Alexander Russel, tottered beneath 
the stonemason's blows, there was little chance 
of a new Conservative paper succeeding. 

184Z. Christian Pioneer. Intended to uphold 
the Great Doctrines of the Reformation, the 
Sufficiency of the Scriptures, the Right of In- 
dividual Judgment, and of fearless Free Inquiry. 
Edited by G. Harris. Glasgow: Vols. 1-15, 
1826-41; Edinburgh: Vols. 16-1S, 1842-44; 
Newcastle: Vol. 19, 1845. A new series com- 
menced with Vol. ig. 

1842. Scottish Hcjold. A weekly Non-Intru- 
sion paper, published in Edinburgh. In 1843 
it was amalgamated with The Witness, Robert 
Somers, when in his twentieth year, took charge 
of the Scottish Herald. Somers was a native of 
, Newton -Stewart. After his connection with this 



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paper ceased Sopiers went to Glasgow, and was 
for a time on the staff of the North British 
Daily Mail ; in 1859 he started the Morning 
Journal. He afterwards removed to London ; 
and died, at the ripe age of 70 years, in July, 1891. 
1842. Christian Miscellany. Edinburgh : 
James Johnstone. Number i, January i, 1842. 
Weekly, price i>^d. It contained sermons, 
general religious items, biblical illustrations (not 
pictures), &c. A monthly supplement was also 
published. 

1842. Edinburgh Dramatic Censor: a weekly 
Theatrical, Musical, and Literary Review. 
Number i, November 12, 1842 ; price i>^d. 
How many numbers? 

1843. Childreris Missionary Newspaper. 
Monthly, price i>^d. Edinburgh: Gall and 
Inglis, 38 North Bridge. Edited by C. H. 
Bateman ; afterwards by " F. W. S." A small 
monthly periodical containing missionary his- 
tories and anecdotes, and accounts of the mis- 
sionary operations of all evangelical churches 
and societies. After Vol. 2 the publication was 
entitled Childrerfs Monthly Missionary News- 
paper. Was it issued after 1861, at which time 

18 vols, had been published? 

1 843. Home and Foreign Missionary Record 
for the Free Church of Scotland; by Authority 
of the Board of Missions and Education. 
Monthly, price 2d., stamped 3d. This exten- 
sively-circulated publication, containing accounts 
of the missionary operations of the Free Church 
of Scotland, with reports of the funds of that 
denomination and the month's contributions to 
its various schemes, has, during its fifty years' 
existence, undergone many changes in title, size, 
and price. At one time, October, 1861, to July 
29, 1862 (39 numbers), it was issued weekly. It 
is at present edited by the Rev. Dr N. L. Walker, 
Dysart. Many of the larger congregations in 
Edinburgh, and elsewhere, issue a special cover, 
containing announcements and news connected 
with their own particular congregation. 

1843. Monthly Statement published by Au- 
thority of the Financial Committee of the Free 
Church of Scotland. Numbers i and 2, July 
and August, 1843. Were more of these " State- 
ments" published? 

1843. North British Agriculturist. Weekly, 
(Wednesday evening), price 3d. Neutral ; de- 
voted to the agricultural interests of Scotland. 
The original title was : — North British Agri- 
cultural Journal ; the original prices, 5d. and 6d. 
In 1 86 1 the price was 2d. and 3d. ; and with news, 
2;^d. and y/z^. 

1843. Edinburgh Ladie^ Magazine. Nos. i- 
6. Were any more numbers published ? What 
was the nature of this periodical, price, pub- 
lisher, &c. ? 



1844. Eree Church Magazine. Vols. 1-8, 
.1844-51 ; New Series, Vols. 1-2, 1852-53. What 
was the nature of this publication, and was it 
discontinued after 1853? 

1844. HarthilPs Railway. Coach^ and Steam- 
boat Guide. Monthly, id. Edinburgh : John 
Harthill, 23 Waterloo Place ; he also at one 
time published HarthilVs Monthly Telegraphy a 
publication similar to the above. 

1844. Morningside Mirror. Monthly, price 
id. Motto : Periturce parcite chartce; a rather 
curious motto. The Edinburgh Asylum Press : 
Dr Clouston, Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the 
Insane. This publication contains Hterary selec- 
tions, contributed by the inmates. The profits 
are devoted to the reading-room of the institu- 
tion. It is still published every month. 

1844. Scottish Dramatic Mirror and Public 
Amusement Guide. Weekly, 8 pp., price i>^d. 
Number i, Saturday, November 9, 1844 ; Num- 
ber 16, February 22, 1845. ? ^ published. 

1844. Northern Journal of Medicine: a 
Monthly Survey of Medical Knowledge at Home 
and Abroad. Vols, i and 2, edited by W. Seller 
and T. Lindley Kemp ; vols. 3 and 4 by W. 
Seller. It was afterwards published in London. 
Was the Northern Journal of Medicine a con- 
tinuation of the Monthly Journal of Medicine^ 
1840, {vide S. N. &^ Q., VII., 35)." 

1845. Scottish Christian Instructor and 
Monthly Magazine. Edinburgh : Alexander 
Cannon. Number i, August, 1845. The pro- 
fessed object of this periodical was to promote 
the cause of the Church of Scotland. For how 
long was it published ? 

1845. Christian Treasury : a F'amily Religi- 
ous Miscellany. Edinburgh : Johnstone, Hun- 
ter & Co., 104 High Street. Contained contri- 
butions from ministers and members of various 
evangelical denominations. At one time it was 
published weekly and monthly, the respective 
prices being id. and 5d. Latterly its pages were 
mainly filled with excerpts from recently issued 
religious books and periodicals, the original 
matter being of minor importance. For some 
years past the Christian Treasury has been 
published in London. 

1845. Scottish Railway Gazette and Journal 
of Bankings Insurance^ Steam Navis^ation^ Min- 
ings Canals^&^c. Neutral, Saturday, price 4>^d., 
stamped. Number i, 5th April, 1842. A small 
weekly newspaper, eschewing politics, advocat- 
ing the general interests of railway shareholders. 
It contains notices of meetings of shareholders, 
reprints of the daily share-lists for the week, &c. 
Average circulation, 174. Edinburgh : Joseph 
Henderson, 30 South Hanover Street. 

James W. Scott 

(To be continued,) 



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[October, 1893. 



1661— 1672- 

ni. 



1790. 



March '61 Barbara Anderson (mihi neplis ex 
filia) daughter to Mr Hugh Anderson at Cro- 
martie deceased, being about 3 yeares and 2 
moneths old. 

The Laird of Balgownie a papist sumamed 
Meniies died hydroped at Abd. Apr. 22 1663, 
about tetalis 32. 

Aprile 27 Monday, about half nyne in the 
morning 1663 Mr Andro Cant elder deceassed : 
after his laureation in the K. Coll. of Abd. he 
was Schoolm'' there luo yeares : then minister 
at Awfoord 16 : then at Pitsligo 7 ; then at New- 
bottle in East Lowthian 2. Then at Abd. last 
32 yeares : in all a minister for 47 yeares, buried 
at Abd. Aprile 30. 

Aprile 30 1663 died at Muchall? Sir Alexander 

Burnett of Ley is knight Baronett ; annOiEtatis 25. 

Sir Alex'' Durham Lord Lyon king of airms, 

brother to the countesse of Midleton, died at 

Edi. Apr. 27 1663, he conquessed Largo in FyfTe 

and deceassed ca:Iebs. 

Alex'' Tosh merchand burgea of Abd. his wife. 

Burnet lEtatis about 20 uas removed Maie 9 

■63- 

John Burnet late dean of gild at Abd. his wife 

Bowison died Maie 11 '63. 
Arthur Vkkart chirurgion an old ma 
Thurisday Maie 14 at even in health died 
night, before the nixt morning 1663. 

Elspeth Lumisden spouse to Dr James Lesiie 
prini" of the CoUedge Marshall died Ji 
Sabbath at even, '63. 

The LadieTeehmurie daughter to the laird of 
Phillorth died ex puerperio June 9 1663. 

George Davidson of I'ettans and Newhills 
burges of Abd, deceased anno fetatis June 16 
1663 : he guarded foottie Kirk-yaird with a dyck 
of stone and lyme ; Built a bowe-bridge over 
bucksbum, two myles from Abd. in the highway 
to Kintor ; for when he was a chapman he saw 
a man droun there, whereupon he vowed to build 
a bridge over that bum, if ever the Lord did 
enable him to do it. he mortified 600 merks per 
annum lo a minister at the kirk of Newhills, 
which kirk he builded : assigning also glebe 
manse and pasturage to that minister who was 
to serve the cure there : that as north Don syde 
was accomodat by the Kirk of New Machar; 
so south Don syde might be accomodat by the 
New Kirk of Newhills ; the whole parish of old 
being 12 myles in length, from the bridge of Dee 
to above Straloch : and lastly he mortified to 
the toun of Abd. 1000 lib per annum for to de- 
fray one of their 3 ministers stipends. Item he 
left mortifications to the kirkwork to both hos- 



pitalls to the pore of the town of Abd. for main- 
taining footie kirk dycks, and tlie bridge which 
he caused build over Bucksburn ; was buried 
ne 18 at the west kirk style, where a tomb is 
be reared over him. 

Dr Juxon who attended the late King at his 
execution, and by his son was made archbishop 
of Canterbury, died June 1663. 

Wm. Cook under kirk-officer at Abd. died 
June 25 1663. 

Edward Bruce Earle of Kincaim distracted 
died Maie 1663. 

Marjorie Mercer father sister to my son in law 
Mr John, died at Abd Aug ; 5 '63 buried at 
Crudan beside her husband. 

Mr Alex' Ferres (or Fergusson) minister at 
Crathie, in the presbiterie of Kincardine, died 
Maie '63. 
Julie 22 Wednesday '63. Sir Archibald John- 
stone, Lord Waristone, was executed at Edz., 
first hanged, then beheaded ; and his head set 
up on the Nether bowe beside Mr James Guth- 

The laird of Bimess Lindsay, in the parish 
of Logic, stabbed by Newtoun Gordoun : so he 
gored him doun. 

June '63 Dr Bramble archbishop of Armaugh 

July '63 died Buchan of Portielhencfelebs. 

Mr James Wood prin" of St Salvators Col- 
ledge at St Androes deposed by the Council! 
and confyned at Edi. 

Marg' Anderson spouse to John Scot bailhe 
of Abd, excommunicat for Anabaptisme, being 
dipped be Capt, John Gardin ; died after dely- 
veneofachild Juhe 1663. 

Julie '63 Mr Andro Cant minister at Libber- 
ton was married pro 2° with Sir John Gilmore's 
wifes sister called Clarkintons daughter. 

MrWilliamOliphantminister at Dunfermline 
deceased in summer '62. 

Mr Robert Uownie bibliothocarius in the Col- 
ledge Marshall and Catechist at Futtie died 
August 14 1663. 

Mr Arthur Forbes minister at Fraierhurgh 
died in Eda. August 1663. 

Issobell Rosse spouse to Mr Wm. Douglas 
pi-ofessor of Theologic in the K. Coll. of Abd. 
died August 27. >&63- 

Mr Andro Auehinlech parson of Bundle died 
Aprile 1663. 

My Lord Bamff surnamed Ogitvie, neare oc- 
togenarius deceased Sept. 5 '63. 

Alexander Lumisden of Ruthreston at the 
bridge of Dee, late bailie at Abd. Septr. 23 Wed- 
nesday 1663 beiny in health about 7 a cloak in 
the after noone deceased before eleven. 

Mr Tbom. Sydfbrs B. of Orkney (formerly of 
I Galloway) died Septr '63 aetatis above 80 at Edz. 



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71 



Dr Burnet brother to B. Alex. Burnet of Aber- 
dene, died at Edz. Septr '63 M.D. 

Dr Alex' Dowglas provest & Sheriff late of 
Banff died Octob 8 '63 M.D. 

Andro Coban merchand burges of Abd. of 
aetatis about 80 deceassed Julie '63. 

Octob : '63 The laird of Grant of that ilk died. 

Octob : '63 The Lady Frazer of Muchall who 
had bin first Lady Dunbeath in Caitness then 
vicecountesse of Arbuthnot, died Octob : 18 : 
Sabbath '63. 

'63. Dr James Leslie prinll. did marie 
Gray second sister to Provest Gil- 
bert Gray aetatis 14 he 50. 

Octob : 6, '63 died John Cymin of Kelneas in 
Moray, father to James, Mrs Wm. and John &c. 

Bessie Cruikshank spouse to merchand 

burges of Abd. (a wicked woman) died Octob. 
29. ^53. 

Geills (or rather Gillie) Burnet relict of umqll. 
Geo. Aidie (a precious good woman) died Novr. 
5 '63 betuix 3 and 4 in the efter noone. 

Mr Andro Fairfowll Archb. of Glasgow is re- 
ported to be deceassed Nov"" 2. 63. So it is. 

Novr 20. 63. at midnight following Mr Wm. 
Moire lait prinll. of the colledge Marshall at 
Abd. & professor of the mathematicks there 
who had been bailie of Abd. often, of Scotstoun, 
south Spittall & causey and &c. deceassed aetatis 
66. cur. 

Nov. 20. 63. Alex. Strachan chapell of 

Garioch, was drowned in the water of Urie aetatis 

Jonat Hay relict of umqll Wm. Forbes burges 
of Abd. mother in law to Mr Wm. Moire late 
principall, & John Jaffray late provest of Abd., 
deceassed Nov*" 24. 63, aetatis neare to 100, 
even 95. 

Novr 26. 63. Mr Thomas Gordon at Keth- 
ocksmyln died. 

Deer 22. 63. Elspeth Mercer relict of umqll. 
Alex"* Ramsay sister to umqll. Mr Thomas Mer- 
cer, mother in law to B. Paterson Rosseii : died 
aetatis 

Novr 22. 63. Marg^ Mowat was maried to 
Duncan Gordon of Cults, under Mr John Ferres 
his minestrie, in the pbrie of Kin and parish 
of Colengarden, for he has 3 kirks. 

Janr 5 day 1664 died Robert Cruikshank late 
bailie of Abd. of Elrick anno aetatis 'j']. 

Janr 12 day 64. died Alex. Mercer my oye in 
Kineller, of the small pocks, aetatis 4 yeares & 
14 dayes. 

Katrin (sister to Jean Anderson, spouse to 
Thomas Gordon in the Gallowgate) died Jan«^ 28 
'64, an aged woman. 

Thomas Cushney, glasier & painter, who fell 
to an estate by the death of doctor Guild his 
brother in law, died Febr 3d '64 aged 

Wm. Moire of Ferrihill neare to Abd. in health 



at supper Feb. 4. 64. died Feb. S- 64. a man of 
good age. 

Sir James Melvill of Calhill in Fyffe died in 
Edz. Feb. 64 aetatis 46. 

Febr. 28. 64. Marg* Skene ladie Bruntfield & 
Crawfordland (a precious woman) was removed 
of a violent colick, at Bruntfield leaving behind 
her one son Wm. Fairley. 

The Lady Arbuthnot daughter to Marshall 
died in Feb. 64 about the end. 

The Tutor of Pitsligo his eldest son Alexr. 
Forbes (who had bin troubled at my house), died 
in Feb. 64. aetatis ^ 

Robert Irvin commonly called Gossop Irvin, 
a traffecting papist, for many yeares, died at 
Abd. March 1 5 '64 about 80 of age, buried at 
Maria ad Nives. 

The laird of Mew Forbes in Mar, murdered 
by obelletor Forbes & his complices about the 
beginning of March 64. 

March 6. 64 died Mr James Wood late pro- 
vest of the old Colledge of St Androes deposed 
for non conformitie. 

(To be continued.) 



»•» 



PROVISIONAL LIST OF AMERICAN 
DEGREE-CONFERRING INSTITUTIONS 

(VI., 157, 175; VII., 14, 54). 

It is scarcely possible to give an exact account 
of the College and University system in the 
United States of America. Beyond the accepted 
facts that no unchartered institution of the kind 
can give any degree, and that nearly all the 
Colleges and Universities can confer a B.A. 
degree, there is no leading principle to be a reli- 
able guide. While Harvard received its incep- 
tion from the General Court of Massachusetts, 
and thus was the child of the people, William 
and Mary College in Virginia, upwards of fifty 
years later, had a Royal Charter. Now, for 
more than a century there has been but one 
charter-power, and therein is one of the diffi- 
culties. The Legislature of each State can alone 
give a charter, and there has been no attempt 
made to secure a national uniformity. The 
moulding influence must be a higher educational 
sentiment, which is to take the place of a central 
body of law for developing advanced education. 
This sentiment is felt to be working itself out in 
better shapes in all the States of the Union, and 
education has always been loyally regarded as 
an important factor in shaping the minds and 
characters of the people. 

The older form and name of the degree-con- 
ferring body was the College rather than the 
University : it was truly the day of small things, 
and the promoters of Education were not in- 
clined to provoke a hostile criticism by the adop- 



SC0TT2SM NOTES AND QUERIES. fOcroBER, 1893. 



tion of a high-sounding name. The Cburch 
and State were in those days closely connecied, 
and it required the assistance of both 10 main- 
tain the young institution. But University is 
now a name to conjure by, and has lost much of 
its honourable significance. In the Report of 
the Commissioners of Education of 1883-84 the 
Commissioner has had returns from 370 Colleges 
and Universities; in that of i888-8g there are 
returns from 384 ; and in that of 1889-90, from 
415. In each Report there is reference made 
to the looseness with which the titles ate used, 
and the difficulty of gauging the value of the 
education to be had at these Institutions. 

In the latest Report! 1 889-go, P- 756.) the Com- 
missioner quotes from the Right Hon. Prof. James 
Bryce, M.P., in The American Common-weallh, 
speaking of die general character of the Colleges 
andUniversities; — "Out ofthisenormoustota! of 
degree-granting bodies very few answer to the 
modern conception of a University. If we de- 
fine a University as a place where teaching of a 
high order, teaching which puts a man abreast 
of the fullest and most exact knowledge of the 
time, is given in a range of subjects covering all 
the great departments of intellectual life, not 
more than twelve, and possibly only eight or 
nine of the American institutions would fall 
within the definition- Of these nearly all are to 
be found in the Atlantic States. Next below 
them come some thirty or forty foundations, 
which are scarcely entitled to the name of Uni- 
versities. Below these, again, there is a 

third and much larger class, let us say three 
hundred,' which are for most intents and pur- 
poses schools The remainder would do 

better to renounce the privilege of granting de- 
grees, and be content to do school work accord- 
mg to school methods." 

Very closely allied to the character main 
tained by these is the value of the degree, 
and Professor Bryce is again quoted (page 
758) ; — "As regards the worth of the degrees 
given, there is, of course, the greatest possible 
difference between those of the better and those 
of the lower institutions : nor is the difference 
merely one between the few great Universities 
and the mass of small colleges or Western State 
Universities, for amongthe smaller colleges there 
are some which maintain as high a standard of 

thoroughness as the greatest Those of 

institutions belonging to the higher group and 
the two other classes represent, on an average, 
as much knowledge and mental discipline as the 
poll or pass degrees of Cambridge or Oxford — 
possibly rather less than the pass degrees of the 
the Scottish Universities. Between the highest 

1 Ea»d on Ibe REpon oF the Camini^ioDcr of Educsuon for 



American degrees and the honour degrees of 
Oxford and Cambridge it is hard to make any 
comparison." in the Report of 1889-90 there is 
a tabulated list of thirty-two different degrees 
conferred after examination, and nineteen hon- 
orary ; of the former the recipients numbered 
9017, and the latter 727. In the degrees con- 
ferred, as in the studies pursued, the expansion 
is towards science and philosophy. 

Comparatively few of the schools for higher 
education are called Non-Sectarian, but are 
under the auspices of some religious body, al- 
though care is usually taken to state that the 
education is entirely unsectarian, and no one 
need fear for encroachment upon religious belief. 
All the State Universities are Non-Sectarian. 

From the Report of 1889-90 this list is inte- 
resting :— 

Uenominalion bJ ColUgis and Uni-^ersilin. 

Non sectarian 99 

Methodist— 

Methodist Episcopal 52 

Methodist Episcopal South, i5 

African Methodist Episcopal, 3 

African Melhodisl Episcopal Zion I 

Methodist Protestant 2 

— 74 
Presliytenan— 

Presbyterian, 35 

Cumberland Presbyterian, 6 

Uoiled Presbyterian, 6 

Reformed Presbyterian I 

Associate Reformed Presbyterian, 1 

— 49 
Baptist- 
Baptist, 36 

Free Baptist 6 

Seventh Day Baptist, a 

— 4+ 

Roman Catholic, 51 

Congregational 22 

Christian, 20 

Lutheran, ig 

United Brethren, lo 

Protestant Episcopal, 6 

Refornied 6 

Friends, 6 

Universalis!, 4 

Evangelical Association, 2 

German Evangelical, i 

Seventh -Day Ad veil lists, I 

New Church (5 wedenborgian), I 

Total, 4IS 

Up to the Declaration of Independence there 
were only nine Colleges :— Harvard, Mass., 
1638 ; William and Mary, Virginia, 1693 ; Yale, 
Conn., 1701 ; New Jersey, Princeton, N.J., 1746 ; 
Pennsylvania, Penn., 1753; Columbia, New York, 
1754; Brown, R.I., 1765 ; Rutgers, N.J., 1766; 
and Dartmouth, N.H., 1769, There were a 



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few others organised but not chartered. Of | 
Ihese older Colleges all are in full activity and 
have genefally been designated University, with 
the exception of William and Mary College in 
Virginia, which has not yet recovered from the 
calamities of the civil war. The latest additions 
are Clark University, Worcester, Mass,, 1887 ; 
the University of Chicago, II!., 1890; and the 
I.*land Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, 
CaL, 1891. These three have been instituted 
by private munificence. In the spring of 1890 
Columbia College, New York, was reorganised. 

No one would be justified in attempting to 
assign the exact status of each degree -gran ling 
institution, or to define which is carrying out its 
function in education. From the statistics of 
the Colleges and Universities reporting to the 
Bureau of Education, a very imperfect list has 
been made up of 133 Institutions that grant 
degrees beyond the initiatory A.B., and are 
not placed only upon a scientific or agricultural 
basis. For some of the details recourse has 
been had to the President of the University, 
who has always been most obliging. The insti- 
tutions are arranged according to Slates, and no 
other classification is attempted. 

James Gammack, LL.D. 

Plymouth, Conn. 



NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF BANFFSHIRE. 

( Conlinued from f. SS, Vol. VII. ) 

XII. 

177. Ogilvie, George, M. P. : Public Man. Second 
son of Sit George Ogilvie of Danlugas. Founder of 
the Catnousie kmily. He was M.P. for Banffshire, 
1621, and died in 1625. 

178. Ogilvie, George, LL.D.: Head master of George 
Watson's College, Edinbuigh. Anrjlber of Ibe iamou5 
family of teachers of this name, born 25lh August, 
1836, at Tememny, Rothiemay, and educated, like 
his brother Alexander, at Fordyce School, he gradu- 
ated at Marischal College in 1848, atler a course of 
some distinction, especially in Mathematics. Appointed 
first to the Parish School of Dunoltar, he was next 
transferred in 1850 to the School of Turriff. In 1856 
he was selected to be Head Master and House Go- 
vernor of Daniel Stewart's Hospital, Edinburgh, and 
in 1870, when the hospital system was alxilished, and 
the Merchant Company's Schools instituted instead, 
he was put at the head of the most important institu- 
tion of the group, George Waton's Collie for boys. 
During the time that he has conducted this large public 
school it has achieved a success iguile remarkable. 
The attendance has been ovei 1600, and the amount 
of bursaries and scholarships annually gained by its 
pupils has now and again reached the handsome 
sum of jf5ooo. Two Senior Wranglers have come 
from Walsoti's College, lesides Ferguson Scholars 
and First Men at the Indian Civil Service Com- 
petitions. The Aberdeen University, on account of 
' ' ' a headmaster, conferred on him (he 



Son of the hrst Lord Deskfotd, he took an 
active pan in the public life of liis time. In 1641 he 
was nominated a Privy Councillor for life by Parlia- 
ment, and was member of several committees of Par- 
liament frum that year till 1647, when he died. 

180. Ogiivie, fames, 1st Earl of Seafield and ^ih 
Earl Findlater : Statesman. The secotid son of the 
3rd Elarl of Findlater, he was born in 1664, and edu- 
cated for the bar. In the Convention which met in 
i68g he supported King James, and was one of five 
who dissented from the vote declaring that monarch 
to have forfeited the throne. Nevertheless he took 
the oath of fidelity to King William and Queen Maty, 
and devoting himself to the practice of his profession 
acquired a large business. In 1693 he became Soli- 
ciloi-General and Sheriff of Banffshire, and was 
knighted. In 1695 he was made Secretary of State, 
and in 1698 was created Viscount Seafield, and ap- 
pointed President of the Parliament which met that 
year. He was Royal Commissioner to the General 
Assembly in the years 1700, 1703, 1724, and 1727, 
and was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Seafield in 
1701, On the accession of Queen Anne he was con- 
tinued Secretary of Stale. The same year he was 
appointed one of the Commissioners to treat of a 
Union with England, and was made Lord High Chan- 
cellor of Scotland. Macky in his Memoirs describes 
the Chancellor at this time as " not sincere, though 
affecting plainness and Eimiliarity of mannet, and as 
being very beautiful in bis person, with a graceful be- 
haviour, a smiling countenance, and a soft tongue. 
His pliability to Court influence, especially in con- 
nection with trouble!! arising out of the Darien expe- 
dition, lost him the fivout of the people, and in 1705, 
so great was his unpopularity in Edinburgh, that in 3 
tumult there, occasioned by the result of the trial of 
Captain Green and his crew, he narrowly escaped with 
his life. The same year he was chosen one of the 
Commissioners for the Union with England, the po- 
licy of which he actively and zealously supported. It 
was he who, when the Union was consummated, ex- 
claimed, with a levity not yet forgotten in Scotland, 
as the Estates rose for the last lime — " Now, 
there is an end of an auld sang." Strange to say, 
in 1713, this same statesman, who was so respon- 
sible for the Union with England, was so dissatisfied 
with lis results, that he moved for leave to bring in a 
bill dissolving that Union, — a motion which was de- 
feated by the small majority of four votes, and these 
proxies. The same year he was appointed Keeper of 
the Great Seal of Scotland, and he presided as Chan- 
cellor in the Court of Session, where his knowledge 
of law, and a particular talent he possessed for de- 
spatching business and abridging processes, rendered 
him eminently useful. He died in 1730. 

181. Ogilvie, Jamei, 2nd Earl of Seafield: Public 
Man. Born about 1689, he was during the rebellion 
of 1715 confined in Edinburgh Castle, on suspicion of 
disaffection to the Government. After succeeding to 
the Earldom, he was in 1734 appointed one of the 
Lords of Police, and in 1737 Vice' Admiral for Scot- 



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land, an office he held till his death in 1764. In 1734 
he was chosen one of the Representative Peers of 
Scotland, and was thrice re-elected to that office. 

182. Ogilvie^Jajnes, jrd Earlof Seafield : Agricul- 
tural Improver and Public Man. Born about 1 7 14 
he completed an excellent education by foreign travel. 
Horace Walpole speaks of him in 1740 ** as a highly 
sensible man," and declares that there are few young 
people who have so good an understanding, though 
he adds concerning his gravity, that " his solemn 
Scotchery is not a little formidable." In 1752 he 
established a bleach field in Deskford, where about 
I5CXD pieces of cloth and 1700 spyndles of thread yarn 
were annually whitened. He also established at Cul- 
len a manufactory for linen and damask. In 1754 he 
became a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland, but 
resigned in 176 1. In 1765 he became one of the 
Lords of Police. He was also one of the Trustees for 
the Improvement of Fisheries and Manufactures, and 
for the Management of the Annexed Estates in Scot- 
land. What, however, this peer is chiefly remem- 
bered for in Banffshire is his success as an Agricultural 
Improver. He introduced the turnip husbandry in 
the North, and by his own example, as well as by 
granting favourable leases to his tenants, did much to 
promote the advance in agriculture which began to 
be made at this time in Banffshire and the N. -W. of 
Scotland. He died in 1770. 

183. Ogilvie^ James ^ D.D., Superintendent of the 
Church of Scotland's Institution, Calcutta. This 
Indian Missionary was the son of Joseph Ogilvie of 
Newmill, Keith, and was born in 18 12. He entered 
as First Bursar at Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 
1829, and graduated in 1833, obtaining the gold medal 
as being the best scholar of his year. He subsequently 
acted for some time as one of the Classical Masters 
in the Grammar School of Aberdeen. In 1846 he 
proceeded to Calcutta to take charge of the Mission- 
ary College there, a post which he held till his death 
in 1 87 1, in the island of Penang. lie is described as 
a devoted Missionary of the Gospel of Christ. A 
monument is erected to his memory in the burying 
ground of the family in the Keith cemetery. 

184. O^lvie^Johji ( Rev. ) : C2i\ho\\cy[.2.xiyr. The 
only Banffshire martyr. According to the Preshome 
MSS. he was son of Walter Ogilvie of Drum, near 
Keith, and was born in 1580. Reared for the Priest- 
hood he became a member of the Society of Jesus, 
and returned about 1614 to Scotland as a Catholic 
propagandist and emissary, under the alias of Watson. 
He was arrested in 1615, and tried and executed in 
Glasgow. An interesting account of his trial was 
published at the time, from which the following facts 
are derived. He confessed that he was a priest, had 
been 21 years out of Scotland, had lived at Gratz in 
a Jesuit college there, and was now in Scotland by 
order of his Superior. Further questioned, he said 
his business in Scotland was to save souls. In a con- 
ference with the clergy he is said to have shown heat 
and choler. Subjected to torture, he was kept several 
nights without sleep, so as to extract information from 
him. His trial took place on the 28th Feby., 161 5. 
During the process, among other memorable things 
he said — " I repent of nothing I have done since 
coming to Scotland, except that I have not been so 



busy as I should, in that which ye call perverting." 
And again — *' If all the hairs of my head were priests, 
they would all come into this kingdom." He de- 
clared, moreover, with much truth and force, that in 
refusing to acknowledge the royal authority in matters 
of religion, he had done no more than the ministers 
at Dundee (a mistake for Aberdeen), who would not 
acknowledge his Majesty's authority in spiritual mat- 
ters more than he." And he added, that " the best 
ministers in the land are of that mind, and if they are 
wise will continue so." He was executed at the Cross 
of Glasgow, loth March, 1615, for no other crime 
than maintaining the Papal Supremacy. Dr Gordon, 
in his Chronicles of Keith^ says of htm — " He sealed 
in blood his faith, dying a felon's death, but really a 
martyr's." His body was further degraded by being 
buried in the common ground allotted to malefactors, 
close by the northern side of Glasgow Cathedral. 

185. O^scilvie^ John, LL.D. : Lexicographer and 
Minor Poet. A native of Marnoch he was educated 
at the Parish School of Ordiquhill along with his 
younger brother William, who was father of the well- 
known five teachers of that name, who have made 
Banffshire scholarship famous in our own times. 
Passing to the University, where he received some 
help in prosecuting his studies from a relation of the 
family, a General Ogilvie who figured in the Penin- 
sular War, and who paid a visit to the north in 1812 
to try to establish a claim to the title of Earl of Find- 
later. The last Earl died at Dresden in 181 1, and the 
title became extinct. He devoted himself at the close 
of his course to teaching, and for upwards of 30 years 
was Mathematical Master in Gordon's Hospital. His 
reputation mainly rests on his work as Editor of the 
Imperial Dictionary^ which in its time was the best 
work of the kind. The first edition of this appeared 
in 1850-51, and several editions have since been issued. 
He next prepared an abridgement in one volume, en- 
titled The Comprehensive E7ti(lish Dictionary In 
1865 he produced The Stttdent*s English Dictionary^ 
a work of considerable merit. The Students Dic- 
tionary was succeeded by The School Dictiofiary. 
He was engaged altogether about twenty-five years 
on these four works. His poetical gifts were brought 
to light when the Aberdeen Magazitu was started in 
1831. In this provincial Maga Professor Blackie, 
J. Hill Burton, and Joseph Robertson made their 
debut. John Ogilvie contributed regularly, and chiefly 
a series of Imitations of Horace in the Scottish dia- 
lect. The terse lyrical grace of the original he suc- 
ceeded thoroughly in imitating, and that too in a style 
not unworthy of his favourite Burns, whose poems he 
knew so well that he could have reproduced them if 
they had been lost. John Ogilvie was honoured with 
a place in The Bards of Bon- Accord^ an admirable 
collection of the local muse, compiled and edited in 
1887 by W. Walker of Aberdeen. Like the great 
lexicographer of the previous century, Dr Johnson, 
Dr Ogilvie was a man of great wit and humour, and 
thoroughly able to wield the big fiddle amidst his 
coterie of rival wits. He could sing a comic song 
with great effect, while he had not a little skill in 
handling both the violin and violoncello. He died 
in 1867. 



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186. Qgilvii, JoMpk, LL.D. : DislEmruJshcd EcJu- 
calionaUst. Anothec of ihe teaching ^i!vie<i, anii 
born like the otbeis on the faim of Tememny, Kolhie- 
may, which copsists of a long strip of not very fertile 
land in the extreme nurth of Ine parish. Joseph 
0|;i1vii:, whose liirib took place uO the 1st April, 
1833, was educated at the local Parish School, and 
priiceeiled, along with his younger tirolhef Robert, to 
tfae Giammur School of Aberdeen for a iinisihing 
qnatter there. These two young men, being nearly 
0/ an age, were privileged lo go through their whole 
coarse of e-lucation fari passu, and so were of great 
assistance to each other. Froceediog ftom the Gram- 
mar School to Marischnl College in 1S52, they gained 
bursaries by compelllion, and having dislinguished 
them^lves in almost every subject of sturly, graduated 
with honours in 1856. On leaving College Joaefih 
succeeded his brother George in Turriff School, Lul 
was almost immediately tranaferied to the School of 
Methlick, where he was early successful in preparing 
a Firsl and a Second Bursar for the Annual Competi- 
tion. In 1S66 he was appointed to the School of 
Keith, and in 1S73 was selected to inaugurate Ihe 
Normal School system in Aberdeen. The West Parish 
Sessional School was handed over for the purpose, 
and the successive espansions and improvi:menls de- 
manded amply attest the growth and repulalion of the 
new venture. The UniverBity of Aberdeen conferred 
on him the degree of LL.D. in 1S&9. Me collected 
and edited " The Aberdeen University Bursary Com- 
petition Ver^ons from 1S21 to 1S91," and also pre- 
pared a Key for the whole collection. He has recently 
had the honour of being appointed the First Lecturer 
on Education in Ihe University of Aberdeen. 

187. OgikiU, Sir Palriek, Lord Boynt : Son of Si 
W. of Huyne, Boyndie, and bornalioul 1630, he wa 
chosen M.P. for Banffshire in the Sessions 1669-74, 
- and 1674-78, also lo the Convention 1681-82, and thi 
Parliament 1685-86. In t6Sl he was raised to lh< 
Bench, and sat as Lord Boyne till the Revolution, 
when he was removed from the Bench. Date of deal" 
not ascertained, but conjecluied to be 1701. 

W. B. R. W. 
(ToiKKBalinued.) 

THE GUIDMAN'S FAULD OR CROFT. 
The late Mr Thomas Bowman, farmer, Bog- 
brae, Leask, Slains, years ago pointed out a 
site to me, on the farm of Woodend, Belscam- 
phie, called "The Guidman's Fauld," which he 
said was dedicated or set apart for the " Elfin 
King," mentioning other sites in the parish where 
cultivation had blotted them ouL The following 
extracts from the Sessional Records of Slains 
will be of interest to the readers of-S'. N. 6^ g-, 
as showing how the Session viewed these things. 
James Dalcarno. 
Slains, 2lst October, l649.--The sd Jaj- the Mi- 
nister and Elderiea being conveinet in Sessione, ani) 
after Invocatinne on Ihe name of God, (inter alia) The 
sd day Alexr. Hay of Earnhill, (a cadet of the family 
of Ertoll,) was elecit, nominal ind chosen Magistral 
/or Ibe Sessiiv) fojejoclingand taking up of peiul ties, 



and for givini; ordonces to my Lord his officer to 
)und Disobedient is. The sd. Alexr. being bailive 

theEailtjf Erxoll. 

Sessione, iBth Novr. 1649.— The sd. day the Mi- 
ster and Elderies being conveinet in Sessione, and 
eifter Invocatione un the name of God, [iotcr alia) 
The sd day the Minister askit at ye Eldories for dela- 
tiones and desyril Ihera lo try if yer was ancy of ye 
Pariochiners hail hallouc fyres set on upon halloue 
evine. The sd day the Minister requyiit of the 
Elderies if they knew aney pecis of land within the 
Paroch that was calit the Goodmanes land, or fauld, 
or iledicatit to Satane, or lattin ly unlaliourit. They 
sd yr was a piece of land in Bn^ne caiit the Garlel, 
(Elfland,) or Guidmanea fauld, within Andrew Robes 
laic, that was not labourit this manie yeires for quhat 
respect they knew not. The Minister desytit them 
to try qrfr it lay unlabourit. 

35 Novr. 1649.— The sd day the Minister and El- 
deries being conveinit in Sessione, and eifler Invoca- 
tione on the name of God, (inter alia) The sd day the 
Minister maid [ntimatione out of pulpel yat everie 
Mr of ane familie that could read, or had bairne-i or 
servandis yat culd read, sould by and have ane bybill 
and have it in yeir houses. 

The sd day Ihe Minister did intimat out of ye put- 
pet yat if aney mane within the Parocbc knew aney 
peice of land, or parcell of ground, within the parotJie 
that was callil Ihe Goodmanes land, or the Good- 
manes fauld, and lattine ly unlabourit, yat they would 
delat it lo ye Sessione that the auneries j^of might be 
sudit before ye Sessione. Intimat that Vuil be not 
keepit, but they yok yr oxin and horse and imploy yi 
servantis in yeir service that dayis alsweel as in aney 
uyer work day. Intimat, that yr be no Midsumer 
nor Hallow fyres under the paine of the havens of 
them to be condinglie piinishit. 

The s<i day James Wilkeine, Elder, delalit lo ye 
Sessione that Thomas I'alersune, tenant in Bescam- 
phie, told him that yr was ane peice of land in his tak 
calit the Guidmanes land and fauld, quhilk was not 
labourit [bis maney yeires. The sd Thomas Pater- 
sone to be sudit to ye nixt Sessione. 

Sessione, t6th December, 1649. — The sd day the 
Minister and Elderies being conveinit in Session, and 
eifler Invocalione on the name of God, (inter alia) 
Thomas Palersone to be sudit to ye nixt Lordis day. 

23 December, 1649. — The sd day the Minister and 
Elderies being conveinit in Sessione, and efter Invo- 
catione on the name of God, Thomas Patersonc being 
sumounil and calit compeirit : not ordanit to be sudit 

Sessione the 30tb December, 1649. — The sd day 
the Minister and Elderies being conveinit in Sessione, 
and efter Invocalione on the name of God, Compeirit 
Thomas Pateraine, and contessit that yr was «ne 
peice land in his rowme [farm] calit the guidmanes 
huld quhilk wajs this long time unlaliourit, He b 
ordanit to labour it. and promist to do so efter Wit- 
sonday qn it was for faching, (making way for cultiva- 
tion). The sd day the Minister did inqnyr of the 
Elderis that knew of aney that supersticiouslie keepit 
Yool day. They did all reporte that it was not 
keipit: ihat Ihey did not yok yr pleuches, but they 
yokt their work hoisc. 



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John Row's Psalm Book.— There was bought 
lately in London a copy of Knox's Lilurgy and 
Psalter, printed by Andro Hart, 1615, which 
lumcd out to be John Row's. On the oma- 
nieoted boards are embossed, on bot!i sides, 



M 
I P 

1618 



^ith a 



m;iiiient in the c 



Origin- 



ally it has had two clasps, but both are gone. 
The book has been rebacked, but is in fair order, 
and evidently has been much used. Row's name 
can still he traced on the title page, but is partly 
obliterated. At that part of the book where the 
leading men of the Church recommend it, oppo- 
site the name of "John Row," he has written, 
"My Grandfather." There are a good many 
notes on the margin, in what Mr. Munro calls 
Row's "beautifully small caligraphy." Under 
' The forme of excommunication, October 29, 
1648, I did excommunicate Jean Robertson, an 
obstinate papist." October 31, 1643. " On the 
admission of M. W. Keith to Kinnellar he was 
requyred to be faiihfull in all the poynts of the 
Covenant," and a great deal to the same import, 
leading to the belief that Row presided on that 
occasion. Many of the Psalms have verbal 
alterations, especially the iigth. On the back 
of the title to the Psalms there is a note in Latin 
how they should be used. It is dated Decem- 
bris 3, A.D. 1645. Abda;. 

Glasgow. Alex. Macdonalfj. 

Discovery of a Famous Manuscript.— 
A discovery has been made well calculated to 
excite the curiosity of all interested in Scottish 
history, costume, and tartans. One of the long 
missing much desiderated originals of the famous 
MSS. of the Vestiarium Scoticum has been dis- 
covered, after diligent search, and Mr A. Ross, 
Marchmont Herald, has all but completed his 
examination of the MS., the result of^ which he 
proposes to immediately make public. The im- 
portance of the discovery will be at once appar- 
ent. The work known as the Vestianum Scoti- 
cum was originally published in 1343 by the late 
John .Sobieski Stuart, who claimed to be a grand- 
son of Prince Charles Edward, the hero of the 
'45. The authenticity of his work was supposed 
to be completely annihilated by an article in the 
Quarterly Review for July, 1847, written by the 
late Professor George Skene of Glasgow, and 
the question of the antiquity of clan tartans, so 
far as it rested upon the authority of the Vesti- 
arium Scoticum, demolished. The statements 
of the Quarterly Reviewer have, however, been 
challenged and overthrown b> Mr Donald Wm. 
Stewart in his Otif and Rare Scotch Tartans, 
with the result that the entire discussion has 
been thrown back to the position it occupied 
half-a-ccntury ago, and the old question, then so 



keenly contested, comes up again for disi 
in all its freshness, Is (he i'tsttarium Scoticum 
genuine or not? To this deeply interesting 
question the present investigation is expected to 
afford a satisfactory reply. 

Interesting Find of Roman Coins.— A 
large discovery of Roman coin has been made 
at Kirkintilloch. Aworkeratthe Lion Foundry, 
while procuring a load of sand came upon a large 
number of Roman coins lying loose about fifteen 
inches from the surface. They numbered over 
tifty, and are in a remarkable state of preserva- 
tion, the Emperors' heads and the inscriptions 
on some of them being very distinct. The old- 
est of them belong to the time of Augustus, who 
reigned previous to and after the birth of Christ. 
Others bear the image and superscription of 
Vespasian, who reigned about 70 A.D. The latest 
of them, so far as yet ascertained, belong to the 
reign of Hadrian, who lived about 138 A.D., so 
that the oldest of them are about 1000 years old, 
and the newest over 170a years. A Jiirther 
search resulted in some more being discovered, 
along with the point and part of the stock of a 
steel spear, the whole measuring S in. in length. 
The foundry, it may be remarked, is near the 
line of the Ronian wall, traces of which abound 
throughout the vicinity. — Scotiman, 



811. 



(I^ueries. 






Fou.si 



Jamks Hlair, Patrick 
Com.ANri, William .Smith (L, 137 ; V., a ; VII., 
14, 54).— Dr Gammack's interesting communication 
in your last numlKi brings In light n hitherto unsus- 
pected connection between the Universities o\ Aber- 
deen and the oldest but one of the American Cidlc^;ES. 
An extract fruni Punchnid's History of CnHgr^alian- 
alism, quoted in.?. N. &• Q. for June 1S91, names as 
the first Rector ol Henrico t^llege, Mc Patrick Cope- 
Itind. one of the earliest bene&ctura of Marischal 
College [Fasti Acmi. Mariscall., I., 159-178). In 
Hall and Monslicld'd Bihliography of Edtuation (Bos- 
ton, U.S., 1SS6), p. 53, it is stated that Neill's Urn- 
■versUy and Coilc^ of Vir^nia (cited at the end of 
Dr Gammack's article) contains "an account of Patrick 
Coj>e1and and the original plan of Henrico". Any 
notes uu Copelnnd, supplemcnlajy to those in the 
Fastiaad in J'. N. &= Q., would he welcome. 

The fifth American College-the University of 
Pennsylvania, I753^aeem; 10 have been to an even 
greater eileni indehle<l to Ahrrdeen, its organiser and 
first Provost, Dr William Smith, having graduated at 
King's College. According to Sonnenstiein's Cycta- 
patdia of EdUiatimt (London, 1889), the History of 
the Pennsylvania University (referred to as preparing 
in S. N. & Q. I., 137) has appeared. Can Dr Gam- 
mack say whether the author, Mr Montgomery, has 
redeemed his promise to attribute " the parentage of 
Dr William Smith's well known curriculum of 1756", 
10 the Universities of Aberdeen? 

P. [. A.NDERSON. 



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77 



8l?. Mr John Row's Diarv.— Can any Cortcs- 
pondent of S. N. 5^ Q. explain the slalement in Mr 
John Row's inleresling Diary, p. 53. relnlive to the 
dates of death of Robert Gordon and his widow ? 

Sir John Gordon of Pitluig and Kinmundy, father 
of Robert Gordon, who was knighted si the baptism 
of Henry Prince of Wales, and liied 1600, married the 
Hon. Isabel Forbes ; but she must have been dead 
long before the date at which Mr Row wrote. Sir 
John's son, Robert Gordon of Stialoch, married in 
i6j8 Catherine, dau^ler of Sir Thntnas litimelt of 
Leys, isl Bart. ; is tliere any record of a second mar- 
riage? Surely the diarist must have I>een mistaken 
in saying that Robert Gordon's widow, who died 3rd 
Angust, i66z, was n^ Forbes. 

London. R. E. B. 

813. York Bijit.dIncs Co.— Could any of the 
readers of S. N.Gs'Q. inform me by letter, or ihrotigh 
the medium of your columns, how I could <inil access 
to the archives and account books of the above Corii- 
pany? I want to linil the inventory of Kdicll Castle. 
v.. R. Lindsay. 

Ealcarres, Colinsburgh, N.B. 



,SON 




^AKB^" 



814. Brass Stamp.— The aliovc is from the im- 
pression nf ft brjss stamp which neighs seven ounces 
and which has lately seen 'he light. What explana- 
tion con be given of the stamp ? C. 
No 

rith the one pound b-ink 
r thought of. Some ol 
your corres|]undenls will perha^is inform tue of the 
dale when they were first intriHluced ? and by whom? 

Edinburgh. St Gtlks. 

816. "Uep.K Penmks.— Theie is an expression 
which you will permit me to ventilnic, namely " Reek 
Pennies," which 1 have met with in the course of my 
reading, and reganiing which you may be able to pro- 
cure information ? 

Edinburgh. StGii.es. 



817. The Family of Caird.— I am seeking in- 
formation lo enable me lo make a record of my family's 
hislory as fac liack ,i.-^ I can learn anything. If any 
any of your readers could give me intormatiou on the 
following points I would feel obliged :— 

1. The derivation of the family name Caird, (Kerds 
were Churchmen, I have heard, in the middle ^es). 

2. Was there ever a Oan Cnird, or were Cairds 
ever a sept of a clan— Munro ! or were Cairds a Bor- 
der or T^wland House? 

3. Is it known whether anything approaching a 
tartan was ever associated with Caird ? 

R. A. Caiho. 

The Anchorage, Vanbrugh Hall, 
Blackheath, Kent. 

SiS. Meaning of Worhs (n Book of Deer 
Wanted. — Can any one explain the origin and mean- 
ing of the prefix "Mai", " Mael", or ■' Male" in 
such words in the Book of Deer as "Malbrigte", 
" Mai — (or Male — or Mab}^ — coluim ", '* Maelpelir ", 
" Malbrichan", " Malaechin ", " Maelgiric , and 
" Malsnecte"? 

i. Are we to understand that In such words as 
"rellmeic Gohroig" and " Pette meic Gamait", 
" Gobroig" and " Gamait " are names of persons? 

3. 1 should like to have the opinion of your readers 
on the following identifications of places mentioned in 
the grants of land 10 Coluinba and Drostan :— 

1. Orte to Farene, ? Ardo to Fovetan. 

2. Auchad tochi lemni, ? Auchenlen. 

3. Achad naglerec, ? Clerkhill. 

5. i'ett meic Gohroig, ? Cabra. 

6. -indelerc, ? Elrick. 

7. (Alterin alia nethe Da) 

Camone ? Kinmundy. 

J- F- 

answers. 

763-3. Aberdeen Doctors [n 1769 : Family 
OF LVNCH {VL, 172).— I have lately been in cor- 
respondence with Mr Vere Oliver, who is engaged in 
preparing a History nf Antigua. He can throw no 
light on the or^n of the document granted to my 
great -grand fat her, but be linds it recorded in the 
Minutes of the Council and Assembly of Antigua, that 
on the as''' April, 1771, " Thomas Lynch presented 
his diploma from many physicians of the College of 
Aberdeen, and received licence 10 practise on the 

Red Hill. li. Melville Lynch. 

79& "A DMMIN ICKEK IN A TKKAVE's A SMA' 

bequest" (VIL, 47, 6i).— The question as to the 
etymology of the word "daimin" (should W. B. R. 
W. not have written "daimen?") has been often 
raised, without any very satisfactory reply being given. 
It seems to be a word for which Burns himsell is 
responsible. Jamieson quotes no other authority for 
it, and says it is perhaps derived from " liitmml, 
counted, from A.-S. deman, to reckon." One of the 
most feasible explanations of the origin of the word 
1 have met with is Ihal given by Mr. John CuthU'iIsun 
in his useftil Glossary lo Ikt Prose and Pottry of 



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Robert Burnt. In case tlie book may not lie nccessiMe 
lo your queriat I quole his remarks on ihe workl. 
although Ihe passage is a BomewliHt lengLhy one. 
Comnienting on Jamieson's derivation, Mr. Culhbcrt- 

" Now, granting that dtnian means to reckon, 
'counted' seems but a poor explanation of dainun, 
which is always used as equivalent to something not 
worth taking into consideration, and tnight well be 

translated a chance one In Burns's 

time and later the servants on a farm wore invariably 
engaged Tor the half-year, and the reapers as invariably 
hired for the harvest, not for a lined time, but till the 
crop was secured. A person paid by ihe day was 
never seen save in an emergency. Hence to denote a 
thing of rare occurrence, espedaUy as his visit formed 
a sort of epoch in the monotonons lives of a farmer's 
household, a dayman was a convenient and (to them) 
expres^ve term. Anything seldom occurring would 
be said lo he like a dayman, and in Ihe natural course 
of language the sign of Ihe sinnile would be dropped. 
It mav be said that if it were so " daysman" would 
have been more natural, but tbe Scottish peasantry 
knew their Bibles too well not to be aware that 
daysman had been already appropriated." 

jAMKs W. Scott. 

798. "AcLD Reekie" (VII., 47, 62).— The 
following is an extract from a letter written in 1803 : — 

"I live and work in the new town of Efbnburgb, 
which is more wholesome than the old town— it is 
called Old Reeky and so it may, for the streets are 
always dark with the smoke, and it is jusl like a misty 
day whether there be wind or not, for Ihe smoke of 
the houses lalls down all on the streets and among the 
houses, so Ibat there is not one raouthfiil of fresh air 
to be got to breathe. Vou could not see down the 
street so far as from your stable to the head of the 
loan, and on a calm day not even so far. But the 
streets in the new town are as wide as that, and nli 
the houses built of cut stone, and all one height." 

Kenraore. J. C. 

798. "AuLD Reekie" (VII,, 47, 62).— The 
question as to the origin of this familiar nickname has 
already been raised in these columns {idde S. U'. Sf Q. 
I., iSo, 201). The name was probably given by 
country visitors in consequence of the cloud of smoke 
or reek (A.-S. rec. Ice. reykr) that is always impend- 
ing over the town. Viewed from the Castle ramparts, 
or from the summit of Arthur's Seat, the reek is very 
much in evidence. 

This highly popular soubriquet cannot, it h said, be 
traced beyond the reign of Charles IF. Allan Ramsay 
employs it :— 

"Auld Reekie mourn in sable hue ; 
Let fouth o' teardrops like May-dew." 

James W. Scoit. 
8q2. Macgiluvkavs aw the Dodne (VII., 59). 
— In Gaelic, Dunmaglass, the old seat of the chief of 
' " —the 



80Z. Macgillivr*veoftheDounb(VII.,s<)).— 
Doune Castle on Ihe Teilh, Perthshire, during the '4.5 
was held for Prince Charles. Macgregor of Glengyle 
is said to have been in command, but I think it possible 
the Macgillivrays {who formed part of the Prince's 
army), formed for a time the garrison. 

Doune Castle belonged at this time to the Earl of 
Moray. About 1640 (I write from memory), the then 
Earl of Moray claimed feudal superiority over certain 
Clan Chaltan lands, and seized certain Mackintosh 
lands. The Macgillivrays had for some centuries 
held their lands by dulhchas alone, hut in order lo 
strengthen his position Macgillivray of Dunmaglass 
(an ancester of the writer's) obtained a deed by vihich 
he became a vassal of the Earl of Cawdor. The 
Clan having an hereditary feud with the Earl of Moray 
were therefore likely to aid in holding Doune for the 

Shaw in his notice of th.^ Clan, in his Family and 
Clan History, "The Mackintoshesand Clan Chaltan," 



of a Gaelic poem. 

Colonel Alexander Maqjillivray of Dunmaglass, 
who Jed the Clan Chaltan at CuUoden, fell there with 
several cadets of bis family, and most of the Qan. 
The poem has the appearance of having been written 
after the battle to commemorate their services lo the 
losl cause of the Stewarts, hy a branch of whose 
family— the Lords Avondale— Uoune Castle was long 
held as a (;rant from the Scotch Stewart kings. 

Aberileen. D. Macoili.ivrav. 

806. Hearsev Family {VII., 60).— 1758, loth 

Novemlier. At Hcrmilagc, near Leith, the lady of 
David Gavine of Langtou, Esq., delivered of a 
daiighler. 

1765. 22Dd February. At Lang ion-house, near 
Duose, Miss Gavin, only chilli of David Gavin of 
Langlon, Esq. 

1767, 7nd Mnrch. In the 37th year of her age, 
Mrs, Christiana Maria Hearsey, wife of David Gavine 
of Langlon, Esq. 

The above notices are from the Scots Jtfa^/nint. 
David Gavin purchased the estate of Langlon on 15th 
December, 1757. He would have been married by 
that time, or at all events early in 1758, According 
to the above, his only child, by his first wife, died on 
aand February, 1765. "nd betwixt that dale and his 
wife's death, uo birth of another child is recorded in 
the Seo/s JUaga^iite. David Gavin married, secondly, 
on 2nd April, 1770, Lady Elizabeth Maitland, eldest 
daughter of the seventh Earl of Lauderdale. By her 
he had three children, all daughters. Mary Turner, 
the eldest daughter, was bom on 6th March, 1771, 
and, on 3rd September, 1793, became the wife of the 
4lh Earl of Breailalliane. The second daughter wa» 
born on 5th rebtuary, 1772, and the third on 22nd 
January, 1773. He died on Ihe aSlh August, 1773. 

The entries in the Seofs Magazine, however, require 
to be verified, as it shakes one's confidence in Ibcm to 
lind such as Ihe following, flagrant with errors, if it 
can lie relied on at all ; — 

1792, May glh, "Aged 13, Miss David Gavin, 
only daughter of David Gavin, Esq., of Langtown, by 



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Elizabeth, daughter of James, late Earl of Lauderdale. 
She was buried in Walthampstow churchyard." 

Elizabeth, one of the three daughters of David 
Gavin by his second wife, must have died sometime 
before 1027. She left ;^iooo for the benefit of the 
poor of the Parish of Kenmore. 

Ken more. J. C. 

807. Song Wanted (VII., 60). — The verse quoted 
is one which Burns supplied to William Thomson for 
his Collection of Scottish Airs. In a letter to Thom- 
son, 25th May, 1793, the Ayrshire poet writes — " Do 
you know the following little fragment in Wother- 
spoon*s Collection of Scots Songs : — 

* O gin my love were yon red rose, 

That grows upon yon castle wa', 
An* I mysel' a drap o' dew 

Into her bonnie breast to fa'. 
O there, beyond expression blest, 

I'd feast on beauties a' the night ; 
Sealed on her silk-saft faulds to rest. 

Till fleyed awa' wi' Phoebus' light.' 

This thought is inexpressibly beautiful, and quite, 
as far as I know, original. It is too short for a song, 
else I would forswear you altogether unless you gave 
it a place. I have often tried to eke a stanza to it in 
vain. After balancing myself for a musing five minutes 
on the hind legs of my elbow chair, I produced the 
following : — 

* O were my love yon lilac fair, 

Wi' purple blossoms to the Spring, 
And I a bird to shelter there. 

When wearied on my little wing. 
How would I mourn when it was torn 

By autumn wild and winter rude ; 
But I would sing on wanton wing 

When youthfu' May its blooms renewed. 

The verse concerning which A. B. writes was thus 
the work of our great national poet ; the author of the 
still finer stanza which provoked it, however, is un- 
known. I have never seen Wotherspoon's Collection 
of Scots Poems, and do not know the dale of its pub- 
lication ; I have read, however, the same stanza in 
Herd's Aficieiit and Modem Scottish Songs and Heroic 
Ballculs^ published 1769-76. Probably, therefore, we 
owe this fine verse to the care with which that enthu- 
siastic collector preserved every snatch of song or 
ballad that took his fancy. 

Dr Charles Mackay, in his Book of Scottish Song, 
referring to the above song, says: — A third stanza, 
written by a Mr Richardson, appears in some collec- 
tions ; but it is scarcely worthy of association with 
these two. The air is Highland, and was formerly 
known as " Lord Balgonie's Favourite." 

Rev. A. R. Bonar, in his Poets and Poetry of Scot- 
land froTn James I. to the present time, p. 10, (1861), 
supplies another version of this favourite song which I 
have not seen elsewhere : and the source of which he 
does not indicate : but which he evidently regards as 
a very early production of the Scottish muse. Per- 
haps some of your readers who are familiar with Scot- 
tish ballad jxietry may be able to say something of 
Dr Bonar's copy, which I here subjoin : — 



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" O gin my love were yon red rose, 
That grows upon yon castle wa', 
And I mysel' a drap o' dew 

Down on that red rose I would fa'. 
O my love's bonny, bonny, bonny : 
My love's bonny and fair to see : 
Whene'er I look on her weel-faured face 
She looks and smiles again to me. 

O gin my love were a pickle o' wheat. 

And growing upon yon lily lea. 
And I mysel' a bonny bird, 

Awa' wi' that pickle o' wheat I would flee. 
O my love's bonny, &c. 

gin my love were a coffer o' gowd. 
An' I the keeper o' the key, 

1 wad open the kist whene'er I list. 
And in that coffer I wad be. 

O my love's bonny, &c. 
Dollar. W^ B. R. W. 

809. Loss OF THE "Oscar" (VIL, 60).— The 
broadsword is now in the keeping of George Johnston 
of Gar Lands, Ewhurst, Guildford, Surrey, the grand- 
son of William and nephew of Alexander Johnston, 
referred to in query. W. J. 

Xiterature. 



The Life and Death of Jamie Fleeman, the Laird 
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Lewis Smith & Son, Aberdeen. 
To this new edition of *' Jamie Fleeman" has 
been added the ghost story, " The Adventures 
of Thrummy Cap," with a short sketch of the 
author, John Burness, who was a half-cousin of 
the Ayrshire poet. After having delighted seve- 
ral generations, Burness now lies in thie Spital 
burying-ground, Aberdeen, in a nameless tomb. 

The Deeside Guide, Descriptive and Tradition- 
ary. Illustrations and Map. Fcp. 8vo, 156 
pp. Lewis Smith & Son, Aberdeen. 
The Tourists' season has again called forth a 
new edition of this " Guide to Deeside." It is a 
handy size for the pocket, is well illustrated, and 
contains a map showing the windings of the 
Dee from its source to the sea. Eye. 



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Caesar Gallic War. J. Brown. 8vo, 1/6. Blackie. 

Cambrian Minstrelsie : a National Collection of Welsh 
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Castles (The) of the Lothians. J. Munro Bell. 4to, 
;^i 1/ ; Artist's Ed., £z SA R- & R- <^Jark. 

Chambers's Copy Books. I to 7, 2d each. Chambers. 

Commercial Geography of the World. Dr K. Zeh- 
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Cunard Passenger's Log-Book. i2mo, 6d. Bryce. 

Civil Service Addition Tests. R. Burnett. 8vo, lod ; 
Do. Tabular Statements, 8vo, 8d. J. Adam. 

Cookery (The Practical) Book. Mrs Hall. Menzies. 

Earth Knowledge. W. J. Harrison & H. R. Wake- 
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Edinburgh (Memorable) Houses. W. Harrison. Cr. 
8vo, 3/6. Oliphant. 

Edinburgh (Book of Old) ; with Historical Account 
of the Buildings therein reproduced, and Anecdotes 
of Edinburgh Life in Olden Time. 2/. Oliphant. 

Edinburgh (University of) Local Examination, Re- 
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Experiments on Air. (Alembic Club Reprints). 
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Questions. Sets 3 to 6, 1/ each ; bks. id. Holmes. 

Glimpses of Church and Social Life in the Highlands 
in Olden Times and other Papers. A Macpherson. 
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Howard (Story of) and Oberlin. 8vo, l/. Chambers. 

Howitt's (Mary) Poems. 8vo, 5/. Nelson. 

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Improved Roll Book. Fcp. 8vo, id. Miller. 

Infant Baptism. Rev. W. Maloy. 6d. McCallum. 

In the Land of the Golden Plume. D. L. Johnstone. 
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traces of which remain in the fractured portion 
above. 

As for the Ogham inscription, Professor Ram- 
say, we believe, stated that had he had no indi- 
cation beforehand that Oghams were there, he 
would not have recognised them, still he ad- 
mitted there were traces sufficient to justify that 
belief, though not of such a character as to con- 
vince him that it was well founded. The Earl 
of Southesk is of opinion that the photograph 
brings out the supposed Oghams, as likewise 
the inscription on the face, more clearly than one 
can trace them in the original, this being exactly 
in accord with what the writer found to result 
from the most favourable light. His Lordship 
further remarked that the photograph reveals 
a fact hardly discoverable in the stone, viz., that 
an ornamental pattern of the braided type has 
once existed on that edge, and hence arises a 
difficulty in discriminating between scores that 
might really belong to an Ogham inscription, 
and those that are merely remains of diagonally 
crossed decorative designs. Several of the 
scores that have been, or might be, taken for 
Ogham digits, seem remains of that sort, and 
the only scores that have a strongly Oghamic 
character are those half-way up the stone, which 
may read OFF, followed by a few less clearly 
indicated. More have been suggested, and the 
traces may justify one in accepting them con- 
jecturally, but no possible translation of the 
results could be arrived at without great revisal 
of the first draft. One objection to the accept- 
ance of the marks as Oghams consists in the 
absence of any true stem line. In the case of 
the Golspie Ogham, which has been cited as 
analagous, the scores are on a rounded beading 
entirely isolated, and being deeply cut, their po- 
sitions are for the most part nearly as well 
defined as if they were on an angle. 

We understand the position of the Earl of 
Southesk and Professor Ramsay regarding the 
matter is, that they by no means deny the ex- 
istence of the Oghams, but are too conscious of 
the difficulties in the case to be able to accept 
them unreservedly. His Lordship is inclined 
to think, if the inscription be a true one, that it 
is of considerably later date than the other 
designs on the stone, and appears to be an 
addition by an unskilled hand, such as that of 
the inscriber of the * scratch ' Oghams on the 
Kirk Michael stone in the Isle of Man. 

It may be remarked, that the undermost de- 
signs in front of the stone have undoubtedly 
been tampered with, though not at a recent date, 
by making the incised lines deeper by means of 
a nail or similar instrument, but the inscription 
on the edge has evidently never been interfered 
^jth since its first appearance. 



Mr Hutchison has earned many laurels in the 
field of antiquarian research, and we congratu- 
late him on being the first to note what has every 
appearance at least of an Ogham inscription. 



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AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF 
PROCLAMATIONS. 

In the City Charter room of Aberdeen there are 
preserved two large folio volumes, titled " Pro- 
clamation Books," in which a great number of 
interesting prints have been preserved. The 
literature relating to broadsides of this nature is 
surprisingly small, considering how intimately 
connected these proclamations are with the ma- 
terials for the making of history. The only 
volume of any importance treating on this 
subject is one recently issued in the series of the 
'' Bibliotheca Lindesiana," by Lord Lindsay, 
which contains notices of over 5500 proclama- 
tions issued between 1509 and 17 14 — the period 
from Henry VIII. to Queen Anne. The follow- 
ing list of the Aberdeen collection, which con- 
tains principally proclamations relating to Scotch 
affairs, may prove very interesting to readers of 
S. N. &r^ 2., and at some future time a synopsis 
of the more important may be given. 

Alex. M. Munro. 

1 592-3. Jan. 5. Against the traffickers with Spain. 

MS. 
1599. July 31. For the Registering of Sasines 

and other Writs. 

1605. Novr. 5. For Apprehension of T. Percy. 

1606. July 9. For better inbringing of the Land 
Tax. By the Privy Council^ Scot. 

161 5. Officers' Fees for Englishmen as they are 
received in the Port of London. 

161 6. Dec. 10. For keeping a Register of Bap- 
tisms, Marriages and Deaths by Ministers. 
By the Privy Council^ Scot. MS. 

Anent the presenting of Bairns to the 
Bishop at the Visitation of the Kirk of the 
Parish. By the Privy Council^ Scot. MS. 

Forbidding persons to practice phisick 
and medicine till they conform to new reli- 
gion. By the Privy Council^ Scot. MS. 

That a School be in each Parish. By 
the Privy Council^ Scot. MS. 

Forbidding the inbringing of Papists, &c, 
by Masters and Skippers. By the Ptivy 
Council^ Scot. MS. 

1620. June 29. Anent the Tanning and Barking 
of Hides. By the Privy Council^ Scot. 

1 62 1. Aug. 4. Imposing Tax of 30/- per ;^i of 
Old Extent. By the Parliament^ Scot. MS. 

1625. July 26. Anent his Majesty's declaration 
of the Church Government. By the Privy 
Council^ Scot. MS. 
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1626. July 1 1. Appointing Commission to receive 
resignations and grant infeftments of church 
lands. 

1626-7. Jan. 25. For holding of Waponshaw- 
ings [incomplete]. 

1627. April 3. To apprehend Egyptians, vaga- 
bonds, &c., that they may be joined to the 
army. By the Privy Council^ Scot. MS. 
June 25. Concerning French Goods taken 

as Reprisals. 

Oct. 9. For holding of Waponshawings. 
By the Privy Council^ Scot. MS. 
1627-8. Feb. 28. Appointing Commissioners to 
treat with parties desiring to purchase their 
Teinds. By the Privy Council^ Scot^ 

1628. July 16. Prorogating appointment of the 
above Commissioners till December, 1629. 
By the Privy Council^ Scot. 

Augt. 8. Appointing Meeting of Commis- 
sioners to hear parties as to Teinds on 22nd 
Septr. By the Commissioners on Teinds. 

Appointing Courts of Justiciary to be held 
in each Sheriffdom. By the Privy Council^ 
Scot. MS. 

Calling for production of titles to Teinds 
before the Commissioners. By the Com- 
missionets. 

Sept. 27. Ordaining Presbyteries to elect 
Sub-Commissioners to value the Teinds in 
each Presbytery. By the Commissioners. 

Nov. 26. Calling for further production of 
titles to Teinds. By the Commissioners. MS. 

1629. June 5. For Sub. Commissioners on Teinds 
to accept Office. By the Commissioners. 
MS. 

1629-30. Janry. 22. Lords of Erection, &c., to 
exhibit titles to Teinds. By the Commis- 
sioners. MS. 

1630. July 28. For an extra-ordinary taxation of 
2od. on all annualrents. By Convention of 
Estates. 

„ Deer. 7. Anent the Lyon Herald. By the 
Lords of Council. MS. 

1 63 1. April 20. Anent the Sale of Victual. By 
the Privy Council, Scot. MS. 

„ July 28. All Yam to be sold by weight. By 

the Privy Council, Scot. 
1633. June 28. For due payment of the Land 

Tax. By Parliament. 
Do. For due payment of tax of i6d. on all 

annualrents. By Parliament. 
1636. July 12. For apprehension of the Gordons 

and others as thieves, &c. By the Privy 

Council, Scot. MS. 
1638. June 28. Declaring King's adhesion to the 

true Religion. 
1640. July 28. For taking up a valuation in each 

burgh and presbytery. By Lords of Par- 

liament MS. 



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1 64 1 -2. March 7. For due payment 'of the loth 
penny of the taxation. By the Commission- 
ers of Parliament. 

1642. April 15. Fixing the true value of Rex 
dollars, ryalls, &c. By the Privy Council, 
Scot. MS. 

1643. Octr. 19. Anent the price and measure of 
Coal. By the Privy Council, Scot. 

„ Nov. 9. Anent the price and measure of 
Coal. By the Privy Council, Scot. 

,, Forbidding the transport of Coal 
from the Kingdom. By the Privy Council. 
Scot. 

1644. July 20. Anent the Coals. By the Privy 
Council, Scot. MS. 

1644-5. Feb. I. For inbringing of the Loan and 
Tax. By the Estates. 

1645-6 Jan. 8. Anent resetting James Grahame, 
sometime Earl of Montrose. By the Par- 
liament. 
„ Jan. 27. For relief of the quarterings of horse 
and foot By the Parliament. 

1646. April 5. For suppressing a traitorous Band 
contrived in the North. By the Estates. 
„ May I. For due payment of the Excise. 
By the Cofnmissioners of Excise. 

1652. Declaration for uniting Scotland into one 
Commonwealth with England. By Parlia- 
ment. 

1655. Novr. 27. Ordinance for Collecting the 
Customs and Excise. By the Commrs. 

1658. Septr. 9. Richard Cromwell proclaimed 
Protector in place of Oliver, late Protector, 
deceased. By His Highnesi Council. 

1660. Sept. 20. Against seditious slanderers of 
the King's Majesty and Government. By 
the Estates. 

„ Oct. 10. For calling the Parliament in 
Scotland. 
1660- 1. Jany. 19. Instructions to tacksman of 
the custom of foreign salt. By Commis- 
sioners of Excise. 

1661. June 10. Concerning Church affairs. 

„ „ 18. Anent the presentation of Mi- 

nisters. By Parliament. 

„ Augt, 2. Against thefts and robberies. By 
the Privy Council, Scot. 
1661-2. Jany. 2. Enforcing provisions of the Act 
for encouraging of Shipping and Naviga- 
tion. By the Pfivy Council, Scot, 

1662. April 24. Forbidding the importation of 
foreign copper coin. By the Privy Council, 
Scot. 

[Referred to in Proclamation July 20, 1671]. 

1663. Augt. 21. For a new imposition on Eng- 
lish commodities. By Parliament. 

1664. June 2. Prohibiting the landing of goods 
from Dutch vessels until undergone Qua- 
rantine. By the Privy Council, Scot. 



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1664. June 7. For re-calling and prohibiting 
Seamen'from the service of foreign Princes 
and States. By the PHvy Council^ Scot. 

„ July I. Prohibiting trade with Holland 
and United Provinces in consequence of 
Plague [incomplete]. By the Privy Council^ 
Scot. 

1665. June2. Forcallinga Convention of Estates. 
„ Aug. 4. For due payment of the Land Tax. 

By the Estates. 
„ Dec. 7, Fixing a further day for setting 
down Tax-rolls of relief By the Privy 
Council, Scot. 

1666. Augt. 14. Forbidding the sending of goods 
from Ostend or the Spanish Netherlands. 
By the PHvy Council, Scot. 

„ Oct. 25. For calling a Convention of Estates. 

1668. Nov. 19. Appointing Dort as the Staple 
Port. By the Privy Council, Scot. 

1669. Nov. 1 1. Procedure in the case of stolen 
goods. By the Privy Council, Scot. 

(To be continued.) 



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

1661 — 1672 — 1790. 

IV. 

Mr. Alex' Gregone eldest son to Mr. John 
Gregorie umqll at Drumaolie having 
prysed lands of Frendraughts ; because he 
refused to renunce all his right to those lands 
was murdered by the Lord Crichton's brother 
and died of his wounds at Abd. Aprile 7 '64 he 
was styled of Netherdale. Francis Crichton was 
the man who wounded him. 

Aprile 12 '64. John Burnet of Elrick bailie of 
Abd. and Marie Jameson were married. 

Grisel Row, March 23 '64 was brot to bed of 
a daughter baptized Elizabeth Apr. 7 '64. 

About the end of Aprile '64 died the Lady 
Auchter Ellon (spouse to Ro*^ Vdnie daughter 
to Pittrichie Maitland, a sweet young gentle- 
woman) of hir first child hir name Catharin, she 
died Maie 3^ on Rood day. 

The Earl of Glencairn high chancellare of 
Scotland is reported to be removed by death 
about the end of Maie '64 and so it was. 

June 20 '64. Mr Alex"* Strachan late schoolm' 
at Abd. minister at Birse in the pbrie. of Kincairn, 
about a yeare died at Abd. in Mr. Peacocks his 
brother in law his house, of the stone ; his wife 
daughter to Dr. Baron brot to bed ibidem the 
very day before, June 19. 

Lillias Row Julie 2^ day Saterday about tuo 
afternoon 1664 brot to bed of a daughter called 
Issobell Mercer. 

Julie 3d '64 Wm. Toux merchand burges of 
Abd. an old man died. 



July 2^ '64 Died Euphain Kineer spouse to 
Mr Robert Keith late at Old Deare. 
July II. 64. Patrik Moray baxter at Abd. died. 
Julie 26. 64 died Jean Buchan relict of Pro- 
vost Morison at Abd., also Peter Dureward a 
writter, servant to Andro Tamson, advocat. 

John Henriecordonareat Abd.whohadserved 
me 23 yeares died August 5. 64, anno aetatis 70. 

My Lord Crichton son to the laird of Fren- 
draucht, first a zealous covenanter, then a papist, 
then a protestant, died at London June day '64, 
and was said to die a papist and received ex- 
tream unction, and was buried in the popeish 
way. 

Sep*" 4. 1664. John Vdnie lait of yt ilk aetatis 
68 died at Edz of the stone : on the Sabbath at 
even. 

Octob : 4. 64. Samuell Syre englishman mer- 
chand burges of abd. died at Abd. 

Oct. 20. '64. Mr Wm. Frazer minister at 
maried Jean Stuart daughter to Walter of Blair- 
toune. 

Oct. 19. '64. died Marg* Gordon spouse to 
James Ro^son of Cults late dean of Gild at Abd. 

Octob : '64 at London died in prison for debt 
Thomas Carugill a profane avowed atheist. 

Nov"" 7. '64. died at Abd. Marjorie Moire a 
precious godly woman spouse to Thomas Mit- 
chell dean of gild. 

Nov''2i.'64. died Elizabeth Forbes a godly 
woman spouse to James Gordon of Seton bailie 
of Old Abd. aetatis 29. 

Mr James Richie died at Edz. Nov. '64. 

Forbes Carneston's son a youth at the 
King's Colledge died Deer. 2. 1664. 

Hector Smith burges of Abd. aetatis 96 died 
Deer. 25. '64. 

Andrew Burnett of Dores burges of Abd. died 
of greeved for his fyne Janr. 4. 1665. 

Janr. 1665 died the Bishop of Dunkel Mr 
George Haliburton. 

Also the Lady Ardros in Fyflfe ; sister to 
my Lord Crawford Lyndesay ; a godly woman 
mother in law to Leslie Forbes younger. 

Febr. 9. 1665. Mr Arthur Straton of Kirkside 
in the pariosh of St. Sirice in the Mearns, maried 
Bessie Mitchell at Abd. sister to Thomas dean 
of gild. 

Issobell Mason relict of umq" Wm. Moire of 
Ferriehill deceased at ferriehill, Feb"" 17. 1665 
aetatis 66. 

James Ro^on of Cults late dean of gild of 
Abd. died at Abd. in Nov*" 1664. 

Elspeth Hird merchand in Kirkcaldy, who 
had bin my servant both in Perth and Abd., a 
good woman, died at Kirkcaldy in Feb. '65. 

The old Lady Pitmedden of the house of Bal- 
gownie a papist died in Abd. in Febr. 1665. 

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died of the scurvie at Abd. March 30, 1665, 
aetatis 47. 

Wallace Bishop of Argile died March '65. 

Peter Vanhaget bookbinder at Abd. died 
Aprile 17. '65. 

Maie 15. '65 died Mr Alex'' Irwin minister at 
Langside aetatis 66 at old Abd. 

Gilbert Skene of Dyce deceassed Maie 16. '65. 

Maie 17. 1665 died Cymin wife to Mr 

Thomas Sandilands of Crabstoune Comissarie 
of Abd. 

Mr Alex'' Mitchell minister of Lumphanan and 
Marjorie Menzies were maried Maie 16. '65. 

Lilias Gilespie was brot to bed of a daughter 
called Elizabeth Skene Maie 21. 1665. 

March 22. Mr Andro Abercrombie late at 
Fintray died at Cawstoun in the pbrie of Aire 
in his son Mr Andro his house. 

Maie 15. Mr Andro Abercrombie curat at 
Cawstoun was maried w' Jean Taylor at Abd. 

Alex*" Bruce burges of Abd. was in church 
June 7 on the day of fasting Wednesday 1665. 
June 8 in the morning expyred. 

Mr Wm. Kininmunth minister at Keith died in 
the beginning of '65 ; and to him succeeded Sir 
James Strachan of Thornton who was laurated 
in the K. Coll. about some 4 or 5 years ago, 

Mr Samuel Row my cousin aetatis 64. died at 
Edz June 1665. 

June 27. 65. Mr Laurence Mercer & Beatrix 
Strachan were maried at Kintor. 

Aug. 3. '65. Thorn : Mitchell Dean of Gild at 
Abd. & Katharine Dune were maried and be pro 
tertio, tertium, or tertio vive. 

Marg^ Simson daughter to Mr Patrik at Stir- 
lin was removed, an aged woman. 

Alex*" W™son baxter at Abd. died of a palsie 
August 19. 1665, a man of mid age. 

Marjorie Sibald daughter to Dr Sibald at 
Abd., and spouse to Mr Robert Forbes regent 
in the K. Colledge of Abd. died Aug. 20. '65. 

Feddrat Irvin younger died at Edz. Aug. '65. 

Mr Ro' Rait minister at & Forbes 

were maried at Old Abd. Sepr. 5. 1665. 

Octob : '65. Mr W" Guthrie minister at New 
Kilmamo, a very anti-diotrophian man, died at 
Brechen in Angus. 

Octob. '65. Mr Vdnie Dr. of Theologie 
in England had hypochond. died at Knock. 

Mr John Alexr. eldest son to baillie Alexr. 
of Auchmul died at Abd. the year after his 

Thomas Harvie burges of Abd, a young man 
unmarried died Nov"" 11, '65. 

Elspeth Patrie first maried to Thomas Buck 
of Grandhom next to Sir Robert Farchar of 
Mownie died at Abd. Nov. 23, 1665. 

Nov. 30. '65 fiyday Mr William Scrougie mi- 
nister at Raffan & rector of the Vniversity of 
Abd. was maried wt. B. ScowgelFs daughter, 
lauration Oct 26. '65. 



REMARKABLE CASES OF SUPER- 
NATURAL INCIDENTS. 

No. I. 

In Scottish Notes and Queries for December, 
1889 (III., 104,) *' A Case of Extraordinary Su- 
perstition" is therein narrated, namely: — "The 
following incident from the Inverurie district is 
illustrative of this : A young man was accident- 
ally drowned in the river, and for some time 
every effort to recover the body failed. At 
length a woman * of supernatural vision' came 
forward with a proposal, which, if acted on, 
would assuredly lead to the recovery of the body. 
She directed that an ordinary soft biscuit be put 
into the river where the accident was believed 
to have taken place, and on reaching the place 
where the body lay the biscuit would sink. Her 
directions were followed, and the body was 
discovered." 

I give the paragraph entire, as your readers 
of to-day may not have an opportunity of re- 
ferring to the same. I directed attention to the 
subject at the time. I said, "If the facts therein 
narrated are true, and I have no reason to doubt 
A. M'D. R.'s statement, wherein does the * Ex- 
traordinary Superstition ' come in ? Its a pity 
your correspondent did not give some particu- 
lars, as, in a populous place like Inverurie, this 
circumstance could not fail to have been noised 
abroad, and could easily have been identified.^ 
I also gave several illustrations. Then the sub- 
ject was not considered opportune ; but I have 
been requested now to revise my notes and 
illustrations. 

Before doing so, permit me to give the follow- 
ing brief biographical sketch concerning James 
Robert Hope, third son of General the Hon. 
Sir Alexander Hope of Rankeillour and Luff- 
ness, Li.C.B., and M.P. for West Lothian. Mr. 
Hope quitted Eton in 1828, where he must have 
been looked upon as belonging to the /lite of 
the school, since on his leaving, the head master, 
Dr Keats, asked for his portrait, an honour re- 
served for the best of his scholars. 

In 1832 Mr Hope studied for the law ; and in 
1834 his cousin, the Earl of Haddington, Lord 
Lieutenant of Ireland, offered him the post of 
private secretary, which he declined. In 1840 
Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire, was 
commenced, the site for which had been selected 
by Mr Gladstone and Mr Hope, the latter con- 
tributing to the funds thereof ^6ooo. 

About 1839 Mr Hope finally adopted the Par* 
liamentary Bar as his profession, and became 
leading counsel. The railway excitement mama 
was soon after at its height, and the competition 
to engage Mr Hope in those busy. tirHes wa^.so 
keen that it was quite a common thMigi<fQi;)him 
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same day. He was leading counsel for the 
London and North- Western Railway Company, 
who had in one session twenty-five Bills in Par- 
liament, and he was paid in fees ;^2o,ooo. One 
other case in which he was engaged was The 
Mersey Conservancy and Dock Bill, where his 
fee is said to have been ;£" 10,000. 

In 1847 Mr Hope married Charlotte Lock- 
hart, granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and in 
1853 became possessor of Abbotsford in right 
of his wife, and for the remainder of his days 
made it his principal residence, and assumed 
the name of Scott. Mrs Hope Scott died in 
1858. Mr Hope Scott retired from his profession 
in 1 87 1, passing that year, as well as 1872, 
chiefly at Abbotsford. During all this time his 
health continued steadily to fail, and his end 
came on the 29th April, 1873, when he passed 
very peacefully and calmly away. 

In consequence of the delicate state of Mrs 
Hope Scott's health, and a change being con- 
sidered necessary, Mr Hope Scott purchased in 
1856 a Highland Estate, situated at Lochshiel, 
on the West Coast of Inverness-shire, North of 
Loch Sunart, and nearly opposite Skye. He 
built a massive comfortable mansion called 
Dorlin House, from his own design, abounding 
in long corridors, to enable the ladies and child- 
ren to have exercise under shelter in the rainy 
Highland climate. 

Mr Hope Scott, possessed of the brilliant 
qualities which I have faintly tried to pourtray, 
strong-minded Lawyer as he was, had a firm 
belief in second sight. 

The case in particular, which occurred in his 
immediate vicinity, is remembered to have 
made a deep impression on his mind. The 
facts were these : — One Sunday, shortly before 
Mr. Hope Scott came to Lochshiel, it happened, 
during service in a small country chapel, close 
to the present site of Dorlin House, that one of 
the congregation fainted and had to be carried 
out. After the service was over, the late 
Mr. Stewart, proprietor, Glenuig, asked this 
man what was the cause of his illness. For a 
long time he refused to tell, but at length, being 
pressed more urgently, declared that, of the 
four men who were sitting on the bench before 
him, three suddenly appeared to alter in every 
feature, and to be transported to other places, 
— one seemed to float, face upwards, on the 
surface of the sea ; another lay entangled among 
the long loose seaweed of the shore ; and the 
third lay stretched on the beach, completely 
covered with a white sheet. This sight brought 
on the fainting fit. Somehow the story got 
abroad, and the consequence was that the 
fourth individual, who did not enter into the 
vision at all, passed, in the course of the next 



four months, into a state verging on helpless 
idiocy, from the fear that he was among the 
doomed. But, strange to tell, the three men 
who were the subjects of the warning, were 
drowned together a few months later, when 
crossing an arm of the sea not far from the 
hamlet in which they dwelt. One of the bodies 
was found floating, as described above. Another 
was washed ashore on a sandy part of the 
coast, and, on being found, was covered with a 
sheet supplied by a farmer's family living close 
to the spot. The third was discovered at low 
water half-buried under a mass of seaweed and 
shingle. The fourth, who had survived to lose 
his senses as we have said, died in 1868. 

I will further illustrate this subject in a future 
number of S. N. &^ Q. 

William Thomson. 

7 Madeira Place, Leith. 



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NICKNAMES OF SCOTTISH TOWNS. 

The question has recently been reopened, in 
these columns, as to the origin of the name 
*' Auld Reekie," as applied to the Scottish Me- 
tropolis. This recalls the fact that this sobri- 
quet is not the only one applied to Edinburgh ; 
and that other Scottish towns share with her 
distinction, if it be one, of having a nickname. 
An older name, probably, than the familiar one 
given, is applied to the city Bums hails as 
'* Edina, Scotia's darling seat." 

" The Maiden Town," a name bestowed, appa- 
rently, on the strength of the tradition that the 
maiden daughters of a certain nameless Pictish 
king were, during times of intestine war, sent 
there for safety. " Mine own romantic town," 
as others beside Sir Walter Scott affectionately 
apostrophise her, has, besides, such more re- 
cently bestowed appellatives as—" The Modem 
Athens," and "The Grey Metropolis of the 
North" {Tennyson). Who was it that looking 
to climatic and social characteristics, called 
Dunedin " An East- windy West-endy place" ? 

" The Second City in the Empire," as, judg- 
ing from its newspapers, (especially its evening 
newspapers,) we are now to call Glasgow ; the 
" St. Mungo" of less ambitious days ; is an ap- 
pellative as questionable as it is pretentious. 
Those who use the phrase appear to forget that 
cities like Calcutta and Bombay are also in- 
cluded in " The Empire." 

A neighbouring town, celebrated for plaids 
and poets — Paisley, is often facetiously (and by 
many of its older inhabitants in sober earnest) 
called " Seestee." Is this the name of what 
may be called the old town of Paisley ; or how 
did the name originate ? 

The small village of Strathyre in Perthshire, 



November, 1893.J SCOTTISH NO 7 ES AND QUERIES, 

like Dreghorn in Ayrshire— (^7//^^ 6\ A^. ^ Q., 
VI., 12, 30) — rejoices in the nickname— " The 
City of Nineveh." 

More familiar sobriquets for Scottish towns 
are :— Aberdeen, "The Granite City"; Perth, 
"The Fair City"; and "The Lang Toon o' 
Kirkcaldy,'' in the Kingdom (of Fife). 

From the nature of their chief industries, the 
City of Dundee is sometimes called " Juteopolis," 
and Greenock " Sugaropolis." 

One wonders whether the well-known phrase 
of Mr Andrew Lang, when addressing St An- 
drews— ** The City of the Scarlet-gown"— 
will "stick" to the venerable academic town ; 
or whether she will, more mundanely, be dubbed 
" Golfopolis " ? The " Scarlet-gown is not, how- 
ever, it is hardly necessary to point out, pecuHar 
to the students of St Andrews University. 

This list of more or less familiar synonymous 
appellations for Scottish towns, can no doubt be 
considerably extended ; and, attention having 
been called to the subject, other readers, it may 
be hoped, will apply themselves to the task. 

James W. Scott. 



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81. 



84. 



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Further Illustrations of Chaucer's 
Proverbs.— Hoping that " M. A. C." may find 
the following proverbs helpful to him in his work 
on that subject, I venture to submit them to his 
consideration : — 

VII. Wisdom and Folly. 
80. "A fool may ek a wise man oftegyde." 
Compare : 

Though fools learn nothing from wise men, wise 

men learn much from fools. 
A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor 

alone. 
An ass that speaks right is better than a prophet 

that speaks wrong. 
" The greatest clerkes beth not the wisest men 
An unce o' mother wit is worth a pun' o' clergy. 

Ayrshire Proverb, 
** Unknowe, unkist." 
Compare : 

Its an ugly lass that's never kissed, 
And a silly body that's never missed. 

85. Alas ! he nadde holde him by his ladd. 
Compare : 

Cuique in sun arte credendum. 

86. He can wel in myn eye seen a stalke, 

Bot in his owne he can nought seen a balke. 
Compare : 

Let not the sieve point to the hole of the needle. 

Indian Proverb. 
He had need to have a heal pow that ca's his 

neighbour '* Nitty Know." 
Ein Esel schwift den andern Langohr. 
91. " It is nought good a sleepyng hound to wok." 
Compare ; 

Its kittle to wauken sleeping dowgs. 
Bourd not with Bawty lest he bite thee. 
Dollar. W. B. R. W. 



INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONSTABLES OF 
ABERDEEN IN 1698. 

Modern comic opera has made us acquaint 
with the fact that " a policeman's life is not a 
happy one " ; but if that is in any sense true to- 
day of the constable ais he tramps his beat, what 
must have been the life of his predecessor at 
the close of the seventeenth century ! To judge 
by the annexed Orders and Instructions the 
office of a guardian of the peace at that date 
was far from being a sinecure : — 

Aberdeen the 24 of lanuary 1698. 
Orders and Instructions 
For the Constables of the Burgh of Aberdeen^ Made 
and appointed be the Magistrals, lustices of Peace of 
the saids Burgh, to be observed and gone about by 
the said Constables : — 

I. All the saids Constables or any of them as they 
shall be required, shall give their appear- 
ance, when and where the saids Magistrals 
shall appoint, for giving Information of any 
breach of the Peace or other Misdemanners ; 
and receiving Orders and Directions as the 
saids Magistrals shall enjoy n. 
II. Every Constable^ in their respective Divisions, 
shall apprehend all Suspect Persons, who are 
Night-walkers, and cannot give a good ac- 
compt of themselves, and bring them to the 
Magistrals to be taken order with, as accords ; 
As likewayes all Vagabonds^ Idle Sturdie 
Beggars and Extraneans : As also all Idle 
Persons who have no Means to live upon, and 
will not betake themselves to some Trade. 

III. They shall apprehend any Guilty of Slaughter ^ 

Murther^ Theft, or any other Capitall Crime, 
and shall require the assistance of their Neigh- 
bours for bringing them to the Magistrals. 

IV. They shall require the assistance of their Neigh- 

bours for selling of any Fray or Stirr betwixt 
Parlies, and if any Parties shall flee to an 
House, The Constable shall follow to the 
House, and if the Door be shut, he shall re- 
quire the Master and Keeper to make open 
Doors ; which if he refuse to doe, the Con- 
stable shall lake Witness thereupon ; and he 
may follow in an fresh persute, although the 
Partie flee without the bounds of his charge, 
whereupon the Constable shall desire Con- 
cursance. 
V. They are to take up an exact Roll of all the 
Persons Inhabitants within their several Pre- 
cincts, Male and Female^ above ten years of 
Age. 
VI. They are to require all new Incomers to present 
their Testimonials to one of the Magistrals, 
that an Note of the samen may be taken in 
the Register for Testimonials ; And they shall 
delate all such as want Testimonials, or those 
that sets Houses to Strangers without ac- 
quainting the Magistrats, or such as see Ser- 
vants without Testimonials, 
VII. They are to delate all Unfree- Brewers v* 
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VIII. They are to delate all Persons that are foun.l 
taking The Name of God in vain, or any other- 
wayi^ Swearing or Cursing especially un the 
open Streets, or upon Mercal-days ; As like- 
Wuyei, all Pyktrs, and those under an ill 
Report 01 Scandalous. 
IX. They shall delate all Foniicalors and IViwri- 

wmigirs that comes to their knuwieilge. 
X. They shall delate all Drunkards and such as 
haunt Ttaiemi after Nine-acloaei at Night, 
and such as sell Drink in forbidden limes, or 
till men he Drunk in their Houses, or such 
as sell Drink above the rale of the Town's 
Salutes. 
XI, They shall delate all Sahlmth- Breakers, and 
such as wait not u)M)n Ihc Puplick Ordinances 
of Gods Worship, or bteakes the Lonis Day 
any other niBjiner of way : And for this ead. 
Two or Three of them ate to go thorow the 
Town (Pcr-Vifts) in time ni fion and Afisr^ 
naatuSertaons, to observe what Order is kept 
in the Town upon the Lord-Day. 
XII. They are to delate all Scolds, TuHers, and such 
as make Plyes. 

XIII. They shall delate Children come to years of 

Discretion that are disobedient to their Pa- 
rents, or .Servants Disobedient to their Mas- 
ters : As also, such Servants as shall he found 
Slealitrs and Pykers of their Masters (!oods or 
Houshold Plenishing. 

XIV. They shall delate such aa tran^ess any nf the 

Statutes published by the Magistrals that they 
may be Punished. 
XV. They shall have Four General Meetings in the 
Yeai, (m's.) one at the beginning of each 
Qaarler, for considering all the Affairs past in 
(he preceding Quarter. 
XVI. They shall meet each Monday at Nine-aclock 
in the Morning, inlYisLaigh Councill House, 
for keeping their Weekly Courts, and Ilk 
Absent to be fined in Twelve Shillings Scots 
( Tolies ptoliei). And if any Couslahle shall 
be found negligent of his Duly, to lje Cen- 
sured as the Magistrals shall Ihink lit. 

These regulations are contained in a Broad- 
side, and bear that they were extracted furth of 
the Justice Court Books of Aberdeen, by Master 
Alexander Thomson, Town Clerk of the said 
Burgh. Alex. M. Munro. 



"Black Maria."— The origin of the phrase 
as applied to the Prison Vans may be traced to 
old Colonial days. Maria Lee, a negress, kept 
a sailors' boarding- bouse in Boston. -She was 
of ^gantic size and strength, and was a great 
assistance whenever an unusually obstreperous 
individual was to be escorted to the police office. 
At one time she took three riotous jolly tars to 
the lock-up in one hand. The lawless element 
in Boston stood in awe of her, hence " Black 
Maria" came to mean the Prison Vitn, 

J. F. S. GORDON. 



THE THICKNESS OF THE WALLS OF 

SCOTTISH CASTLES. 
The following list, classified from the valuable 
volumes by Messrs Macgibbon and Ross on 
"The Castellated and Domestic Architecture 
of Scotland" will be found useful for reference : 
Many examples are found in England, but 
none in Scotland, of the Normaa keep, with its 
massive walls, from 12 to 10 feet in thickness. 
In the Thirteenth Century began in Scotland the 
castle that consisted of a great wall of enceinte, 
strengthened with towers, of which the keep 
formed the largest. Before that time palisaded 
earthen mounds and ditches were generally in 
use. The Chateau de Coucy (1223-1230) has 
walls 25 feet thick. Conisborough Castle, York- 
shire [Twelfth Century), is 15 feet thick. 

l-irst Period, 1300-1300. 
15 fl. — Both well (donjon). 



(Ayrshire), 
toft. 4 in- — Inverlochy. 
10-8 ft.— Rothesay, 
g.g ft. — Urquhatl (keep). 
9-7 ft. — Loch Doon. 
7 ft. — Lochindorb. 



T% ft.— Kinclaven, Perth- 
shire. 
7 ft.— Castle Roy (Inver- 



ness). 



Second Perioil, fjoo-rjoo. 



15 ft.— Duart (keep). ■ 

I3-I2fi ft.— Cessford, 

(Roxburghshire). 

12 fl.— brum. 

11-9 ft. — Ravenscraig, 

(Aberdeenshire). 
10 fl. — Closebum (ground 



8 ft.— Threave. 

S-7 ft. — Lochleven. 

7 ft. 4in.-CrichIon. 

7 ft.~Halirore.st. 

7 ft.— Drumin, 

7 ft.— Castle Swin U 

6 ft. — Clackmannan. 



0-9 ft. — Ardtoraish. 

nini Period, i4O0-i%42. 



12 ft.— Borlhwick. 

11 ft. — Balgonie. 

It ft.— Covington. 

loJi ft.— Spynie Palace. 

lo}^-6ft.— Roayth(Fife). 

10 ft. — Newark. 

IQ fl.— Castle Huntly, 
(Perthshire). 

10 ft. — Kinlochaline, 
{Argyll}. 

lo-g ft. — Ackergill. 

10-8 ft. — Mearns Tower, 
( Renfrew). 

10-8 ft.— Lethington. 

10-8 ft.- Halton, (Mid- 
lothian). 

9 ft.— Niddrie. 

gfl.— Castle Slalcaire 

9 ft.— Cas. Maoil, (Skye). 

8-7 ft. Federate. 

8-7 ft.— Kilbimie- 

1% ft. — Craignish. 



7fi ft.— Iiivcrquharity. 
7X ft. -Lennox. 
7 ft. — Kilravock. 
7 ft.— Dalzell. 
7 ft.— Barr (keep). 
7-6ft.— Badenheath. 
7-G ft. — Caimliulg. 
6ft.5in.— Amot. 
6 ft. 6in.— Balmuto. 
5 ft.— Sauchie, (Clack- 



6 ft. -Boh 






6 ft.— Lordscairnie. 
5!ift,— Rait, (Nairn). 
.i;>i ft. — Pitauivie. 
1% fl.— Guthrie. 
5 ft. 4 in. — Karnes. 
5 ft. — Hunlerston. 
2 ft. 6in.— Castle onAilsa 
Craig. 



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Fourth Period^ 1^42-1700. 



11^ ft.— Maclellan's Ho. 
(Kirkcudbright). 

10-9 ft. — Spedlin's Tower 
(Dumfries). 

10-8 ft.— Huntly Castle, 
(Aberdeenshire). 

9-8 ft. — Stonebyres. 

9-7 ft. — Cleish. 

8 ft.— Glamis. 

7 ft.— Castlehill (Peebles) 

7 ft. — Car berry. 

7-6 ft. — Scotstarvet. 

7-5^ ft. — Invermark. 

6 ft. — Lochhouse, (Dum- 
fries). 



6 ft. — Corgarff. 

SK ft.— Tower of Repent- 
ance, (Dumfries). 

5 ft. — Newmilns, (Ayr). 

5 ft. — Kinnaird. 

5-4 ft. — Monkland. 

4 ft. 3 in. — Posso. 

4 ft. — Maybole. 

4 ft. — Knock, (Aberdeen- 
shire). 

3 ft. 4 in. — Gilbertfield, 
(Lanark). 

3 ft. — Bonhard. 



2%, ft. 



-Clonbeith, (Ayr). 
C. 



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NOTES FROM THE VISITATION BOOK OF 
THE CHURCHES OF THE PRESBYTERY 
OF THE MEARNS, 1677-1686. 

The evil case of churches, schools, and paro- 
chial matters generally for a good many years 
subsequent to the re-establishment of Presby- 
terianism in 1690, is sufficiently well-known, but 
the state of matters during the period of Epis- 
copacy prior to that period is not so generally 
acknowledged. The following brief notes from 
the Visitation Book of the Presbytery of the 
Mearns (1677- 1686) serve to illustrate how the 
several churches were furnished with vessels 
dedicated for the administration of the Lord's 
Supper and Baptism, and in what condition the 
fabric of these churches was then found to be. 

I. Communion and Baptismal Vessels. 
Durris, ** Two cups of tlnne and one bason of 

tinne." 

FetieressOy " Four tin coups and a table cloath." 

Dunnottar, ** They have cups and table cloaths." 

Kinneffy. " Theirs no utensils." 

Bervie, " Their is non save a communion table- 

cloath." 
Glenbervie,.../'^ There is none." 
Arhuthnoty "There is ane silver basone and two 

silver cups, with communion table- 

cloathes." 
Garvocky ** They have two tinn cups with a 

table cloath." 

Fettercaim^ ..." They have none." 

Conveth V' They have none nor yet anything 

{Laur'J^trkj)) from the heritors for Communion 

Elements." 

Ecclesgreig \ ** They have none save a table- 
{St Cyms\ I cloath." 

FordouHy "There is four silver coups, one of 

which was wholly gifted by the 
present minister of the place and 
the other three was gifted by the 
comon people of the parochin, and 
ther is a table cloath. ' 



II. Fabric of the Churches. 

Durn'Sf " Under great decay" (1677), "the 

church is presently new built " 
(1686). 

FetteressOf The Church " hath bein upholden by 

the penalties exacted from scanda- 
lous persons." 

Dunnottar,, ..^'^ In no good condition." 

Kinneffy "The heritors have accorded for to 

make up its present defects neces- 
sary for its in tire reparation." 

Bervie, " It needs reparation." 

Benholm, "It is in good order and well main- 
tained. Some ten or twelve years 
ago the penalties was sometimes 
imployed for helping theirof." 

Glenbervie^....^^ It needs reparation." 

Garvock **It needs no present reparation." 

A />er /unknot,.. ^* It needs no present reparation save 

only the poynting of the roof." 

Fettercaim^ ..." For the time it is in good case. Its 

appointed by the presbetrie that in 
time coming the fabrick of the 
church be mantained promiscu- 
ously by the heritors." 

Conveth f " For the time it is not in good case, 

because severalls of the heritors ne- 
glect to mend their proportions, the 
church being devyded among tbe 
heritors according to their rents. The 
presbetrie appoint the whole fabrick 
to be repaired promiscuously." 

Ecclesgreig^ ... * * It is in good case. " 

Fordoun, ** The Church is maintained by the he- 
ritors every on paying their propor- 
tion according to the numl)er of 
their plewghs." 

C. 

♦♦♦ 

Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical 
Literature.— In reply to Mr. Scott's Query as 
to the Merchiston Magazine^ in last month's 
issue, I beg to say that it was a school magazine. 
The title page of volume II. runs thus : — "The 
Merchiston Magazine, consisting of contributions 
from the pupils of Merchiston Castle Academy. 
Vol. II. — July, 1840 . . . July, 1842. Edited 
by George Macdonald, Master for English Com- 
position. Edinburgh : Printed by Neil & Com- 
pany, 1842." In 8's. This, though styled Vol. 
II., commences with Number IX. on signature 
S, page 245, and ends on 2 I on page 469. Vol. 
I. presumably covered the two years, July, 1838, 
to July, 1840. I do not know whether a third 
volume was issued. I rather think not. 

169 West George St., David Murray. 
Glasgow, 5th Oct., 1893. 

We are sorry to say, that on account of the 
illness of Mr Scott, the respected compiler of 
this series, he has not been able to furnish his 
usual quota this month. £d. 



SCOniSH NOTES AND QUERIES. [Novuiber, 1893. 



NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF BANFFSHIRE 

{ Contintud frern p. js, yet. VH.) 
XIII. 

188. Ogilvit, Patrick (Coloml), M.P. ; Public Man. 
The Ihird son of ihe ihird Earl of Findlater, ami born 
atuut (166G), he entered Ihe army, anil in 17027 
represtnteil Ihe IJui^h of Callen in the Scottish Par- , 
liament. lie was also Member for CuUen in 1707, 
in the I'arliamenl that declared for the English Union, 
which of course be supported. In 1708 he was chosen 
lo the Imperial Parliament to represent Ihe Elgin ' 
Burghs. He died at Inchmarlin in 1737, aeed 71. 

1S9. OgituU, Robtrt, LL. P. : Inspeclui of Schools. 
Anutlicr of the notable 0|;ilvie bruthcis, he was born 
8lh November, 1S34, at Ternemny brni, Kothiemay. 
Educated alunc with his brulher Joseph he graduated 
with honours m 1856, having Kaineti dray's Mathe- 
matical Buisary of £(a, tlie most valuable priie nt 
Marischal College. While he was /miU finnii/s in 
mathematical studies, he was also an e seel lent classic- 
al scholar. His chief rival was the now Famous 
Ur. Miller of Madras. His first appointment was 
to the School of Banchory -Deve nick, where he sue 
cceded Mr John Black, who bad just been promoted 
to an Inspectorship of Schools. In 1860 he was chosen 
Kector of Milne's Institution, Fochabers, as succcswr 
10 his brother William, then removL-d to Crieff; and 
in 1868, on then-commendation of the Duke of Rich- 
mond, he became Inspector of Schools, here arain 
succeedinR Mr Black, who was pronuiled to lie Pro- 
fessur of Humanity in Alwrdeen. Soon after he was 
transferred lo the Stirling Uistrict. In l88z he was 
promoted to be one of (he three Senior Inspectors for 
Scotland, and translated to Aljerdeen. In 1888 he 
was removed tu Glasgow to succeed Dr Kerr. In 
that same year he received the degree of LL.D. at 
once from Aberdeen and Si Andrews. This douhle 
honour was conferred un him not only in considera' 
liuo of his poidtion and work as an Inspector, but for 
his well-known superior scholarship in Mathematics 
and Classics. Intelleclually the niosl robust of the 
family, he is gifted with rare powers of tliscri mi nation 
in questions involving any dilHcutly or delicacy of 
treatment. As an Inspector, he has had good field 
for his ripe scholarship and matured judgment. 
^, 190. Oil/vie, Thumai, M.P. The name of this 
gentleman appears as Member of the Scottish P.-irlia- 
ment for Banff in 1587. { 

191. Ogilvit, Thamas( Prevett ) M.r. Thisgenlle- 
man, who was Provost of Banff front 1670 lo 1678, was { 
■ member of the Scottish Parliament, as represcnia- I 
tivc for that town in 1675 and 167S. 

192. Ogiivit, tValUr, of Redhylh. Benefactor of 
his native parish of Furdyce, be died in 1678. 

'93- Ogilvii or Oxi/vj/, Sir William, of Stratheani : 
Public man of the family of Boyne, and born about 
1516, he became High Treasurer ol Scotland. 

194. Ogifvie, Wm., A.M. Distinguished teacher. 
The eldest of tive brothers, all famous in the same 
profession, he was born at Ternemny, Kothiemay, 
51h August, l8»>. After passing through Martschal 
College with some distinction, especially in Mathe- 
matics, be was appointed in 1S43 lo the parish school 



'of Strichen. Thence, in 1852, on the joint recom- 
mendation of Trofessoi Meniies, Inspector of Schools 
for Ihe Dick Bequest and Dr. Woodford, H.M.I, of 
Schools, both of whom w«re applied to, he was trans- 
. ferrcl to Milne's Institution, KuchaI.ers, where he 
' acted as Rector till he was, in 1S60, appointed to the 
' Rectorship of Morrison's Academy, Crieff. Among 
his pujiils may be mentioned Sir James Sivewrighl 
of South Africa, Professor Henry Drummond of 
Glasgow, and Prof- Daniel J. Cunningham, Trinity 
Collece, Dublin. As the pioneer of Ihe family, he 
pavetT the way for his brothers, licing succeeded by 
one or other of them in each post he vacated. He 
died suddenly in 1877, and many of his former pupils 
coniliineil in erecting a monument to his memory in 
the Crieff Cemetery. 

195. I'attriaH, Alex. (Rev.) Roman Catholic 
Bishop of Cybisla. A native of Pathhead, Rathven, 
and Imrn in 1766, he was educated for the priesthood. 
In 1S16 he was consecrated Bishop of Cybista, and 
had charge of the iliocese of Edinlnirgh till his death 
in l8jl. 

196. Palriii, John (Friar}: Roman Catholic 
Kathet. Dr. Cramond.in anote tohis^^Rm/ro/^afi^, 
II., 4, says that John I'atrick, a native of Banff, and 
of the Franciscan Order, accompanied 3o of that order 
abroad, and afterwards devoted his time to literary 
pursuits, and wrote several bonks upon the Reforma- 
tion and the events connected therewith. 

197. Fhilif, IVilliam Marshall, A.M. (Hrv.): 
Minor I'oet and Author. A native of Portsoy, and 
ordained Minister of the Parish of Skene in 1870, Ibis 
gentleman is referred 10 by Mr. Edwards of Brechin 
in one of his volumes on Modern Scolltsh Poets as 
having published verses. Ihe tales he has written 
are vivid tran^ripls of Scottish life and character. 
They are entitled— " It 'ill a' come richl." "Cove- 
dale," " Kirsly Macintosh's Scholars." 

198. rhimislir, Eliiafxtk, Mrs. SItwart : Cente- 
narian. Said lo have lieen born in the Ernie, i6lh 
March, 1791, she survived till 1S91. 

199. Hkind,jBkn, A.R.S.A. : Sculptor. A nalire 
of Banff, in which his family hail lived for generations, 
and born in 1828. Mr. Khind, after tinishi:^ his 
apprenticeship as a builder, came to Edinlwrgh 10 
study architecture ; Imt Mion threw that aside lor the 
more congenial work of sculpture, which he studied 
under Mr. Handyside Ritchie, A.R.S.A. In 1858 
he started business for himself. It is impossible to 
mention all the sculptural works of an executed by him 
lieforc his death. Suffice it to say they are scattered 
over the whole of Scotland. Among his later works 
was the execution of Ihe recumlieni figure of the 
Marquis of Montrose in St. Giles's Cathedral, and the 
slatue of the lale Dr. Chambers in front of the Museum 
of Science and Art, Edinburgh. His eldest son, Mr. 
William Birnie Rhind, has long been associated with 
his father in all his leading works. The second son, 
John Massey Khind, is gaining fame as a sculptor In 
New York. The third son is an architect ; while a 
daughter is in artist, and illustrates works for publish- 
ers in Edinburgh. Mr. Rhind died in 1893, shortly 
after lieing chosen A.R..S.A. 

300. Rhimi, AUxtmdtr : Sculptor. A jotmger 



November, 1893.] SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



brother uf the abuve, who also was born in Banff, in 
1S34, and died in iMg6. He fullowed his elder 
brother lo Edinburgh, and, like him, became an ex- 
cellent artist. His works are nuuieious. 

201. Reid, James, (Coknel): One of the last sur- 
vivors of Waterloo, b. 8lh Sept., 1794. Joined the 
ormy when not 17. Present at Waterloo, though not 
engaged. On reduction of the army in 1824, placed 
on half-pay, he soon after married and proceeded to 
Canada, where, during the rebellion, his niHilary 
training proved serviceable and he was made (L' Col.) 
He reuined his command o( the reserve Division of 
Huntinedon till he was88 years old. He died in 1891- 

202. Rtid, Jostph, A.M. : born in Rol hie may and 
educated at the Parish School there, he entered King's 
College, where he graduated in 1839. In 1840 he 
emigrated to the Cape of Good Hope, and acting 
lirst as Headmaster of a Government School, he 
started as Editor of a newspaper at Port Elizabeth, 
and acquiring a considerable standing as a writer and 
speaker, he was promoted to lie a representative in 
the Cape Parliament — both of Port Eliiabelh and 
Uitenhage. He was instrumental in establishing a 
Presbyterian Church in Port Elizabeth, and became 
the first ordained elder. He died a few years ago, at 
an advanced age- 

103. Robertson, Geotxi, LL.D. : Teacher and 
Author. Bom In Rothiemay, 1S3Z, and educated at 
Edinburgh and Glasgow, he devoted his life lo teach- 
ing. He taught successfully in Dundee High School, 
Inverness Academy, Edgbaslon Proprietary School, 
West Founlainhridge School, Edinburgh, and Warren- 
der Park School, in all which situations he gained 
credit. An excellent linguist 1 he translated into 
English Mommsen's History of Rome, and wrote a 
Class History of Scotland for the Messrs. Collins. In 
1874 Glasgow University made him LL.D. He died 
in 1S88. 

204. RoberlsoH, Htnry, M.l'.. C.E.: Ironmaster 
and Politician. A native of Banff, born in 1S16, he 
was bred an engineer, and proceeding to England 
became a successful businessman. He represented 
Shrewsbury from 1862 till 1865, and again from 1874 
till 1885. In that year he was returned for Merioneth- 
shire as a Libeial : but on becoming a Unionist he 
did not stand for the County in 1886. Mr. Robertson, 
who is a C.E., is also a Coal and Iron Master, and a 
director of several railways. He is a Magistrate and 
Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of Denbigh rnd 
Merioneth, and was High Sheriff of the latter county 
in 1870. 

205. Ruddinum, Thomas: Scholar, Printer, &c. 
A native of Raggel farm, Boyndie, born Oct., 1674, 
and educated at the parish school and Kin^s College, 
Aberdeen, where he gained the First Bursary at the 
competition of 1690 ; and took the degree of M,A. 
in 1694. Young Ruddiman's first situation was 
that of tutor in the family of Young of Aldbar. 
Thence, in 1695, he was transferred lo I.^urencekirk 
parish school. Afterwards he proceeded to Edinburgh, 
where he obtained a place in the Advocates' Library. 
In 1714 he published his Rudiments of the Latin 
tongue, which at once superseded all former gram 
in Scottish schools. In 1715 he started business 

printer along with his brother Walter : t72S, became 



er to the University, and in 1729, proprietor of 
the Caledonian Mercury. In 1730 he was appointed 
Chief Librarian, Advocates' Library; but resigned 
the app>intment in 1752, and died 5 years later, in 
1757. As a classical critic, Ruddiman is said to have 
been seldom surpassed. His main editorial labours 
devoted to a splendid edition of Buchanan's 
s, an " immaculate " Livy and a Virgil. He also 
edited Anderson's "Diplomata Scoliae," " Drtimmond 
of Ifawlhomden,'" a Latin Vocubulary, &c. A Life 
by George Chalmers appeared in 1794, 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

( To be eontinued.) 



Epitaphs in Gaelic— The love of the 
average Highlander for the Gaelic language 
is proverbial. It should perhaps be noted that 
this regard does not extend to epitaph inscrip- 
tions. 1 have seen a few Highland graveyards, 
and in only two cases have 1 noticed a complete 
tombstone record in Gaelic. Of course, a large 
number of the stones set up have no carving or 
inscription whatever, the people being too poor 
to pay for the oecessary work, or living loo re- 
mote from anyone who could do it. On a few 
of the stones inscribed in English, there is oc- 
casionally to be seen a fragment of a Gaelic 
Scripture text, but in the vast majority of cases 
English is the sole language used. Why this 
should be so is another questioiL 

J. Calder Ross. 

Find of Ancient Coins near Bervie.— 
While a ploughman employed by Mr Towers, 
farmer, Kmghornie, was lately ploughing a field 
known as the " Chapel Field," he came upon 
an earthen jar or pot, containing a great number 
of ancient siher coins in splendid preservation. 
The bulk of them are of Edward II., with pro- 
bably some of Edward III., the remainder being 
of the reign of Alexander III. of Scotland. It 
is noted that the various mintages of the coins 
of the Edwards had been struck in London, and 
from at least seven different dies. The coins 
are mostly all in good preservation, and a^Jear 
to have been very little in circulation. There 
are also coins from the mints of Dublin, Water- 
ford, and Bristol. The jar containing the coins 
was imbedded in stiff red clay, about eight or 
nine inches below the surface, near where an 
old chapel is said to have been erected by King 
David II. in commemoration of his landing with 
his English Queen from La Rochelle on 4th 
June, 1342, when he blew his horn to notify his 
arrival to the people of Bervie. Hence, accord- 
ing to legend, the name of Kinghornie. Autho- 
rities on place names, however, find another and 
very different derivation of the name. He also 
at the same time created Bervie a Royal burgh. 
The pot which contained the coins measured 6 
or 7 inches diameter and is about 6 inches deep 



92 



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819. Prince Charlie's Dress at Culloden. — 
Can any of your readers state how Prince Charlie was 
dressed at the Battle of Culloden, and authorities for 
the same ? A Constant Reader. 

820,— ** Brig o' Balgownie." — Will any Cor- 
respondent say who built the " Brig o' Balgownie" ? 
The Times newspaper, in a review of " The Exche- 
quer Rolls of Scotland," says it was Bishop Elphin- 
stone. Surely this is a mistake ? 

** Heraldic." 

821. Contractions in Old Deeds, &c. — Could 
you or any of your readers inform me what the reason 
was for so many of the words in old writings being 
shortened or contracted ? It seems strange that, at a 
time when people did not go at the headlong speed 
they do now-a-days, they should have dipt their 
words so much. Was it, like so many other things, 
just a fashion ? One would think that, in valuable 
deeds, with their prolixity, the words full out would 
have been desiral)le. Some contractions appear to 
answer no purpose, such as Jno. for John, &c. J. 

822. Clan Forbes.— Who was David Forbes, 
writer, Brodie's Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh ? He 
died 19th August, 1796, at Lauriston^ Edinburgh, 
aged 90. He married Helen Dalmahoy, heiress of 
f a ^William Dalmahoy of (^arnbee, Pittenweem, Fife, 
and had two sons, William (b. 1763) and Captain 
Alexander (b. 1767), Witnesses to baptisms: (b) 
Alexr. Munro, Physician in Edinburgh, and Sophia 
Lundie, Lady Innergallie. Trustees named in will : 
John Swinton of Swinlon, and Sir William Nairn of 
Dunsinan, both Senators of the College of Justice ; 
(b) Dr George Munro, late his Majesty's Physician in 
Minorca ; Dr Joseph Robertson, Surgeon in Edin- 
burgh ; Dr Nathaniel Spens, Physician there ; and 
Charles Stewart, Writer to the Signet. Cautioner to 
Notary Bond : Daniel Forbes, Writer in Edinburgh, 
son of Daniel Forbes, Lybster, Latheron, Caithness. 
Among his effects were : two old seals, ( i ) an eagle 
displayed, with motto, '' Spurnit Humum " ; (2) an 
old coat of arms (apparently not matriculated), 1st 
and 4th, as for Forbes of Culloden, 2nd and 3rd as 
for Dalmahoy. Two portraits : (l) a Lord (?) David 
Forbes (Sir David Forbes of Newhall ?) : (2) a Lady 
Margaret Hume. 

(a) Who was Wm. Dalmahoy of Carnbee ? 

Who was Helen Martin who married (say about 
1679) Wm. Dalmahoy, L of Ravelrig, Mid- 
lothian ? 

(b) Who was Alexr. Munro, Surgeon in Edinburgh ? 
Who was Dr George Munro, late his Majesty's 

Physician in Minorca ? (Lumsden's Family of 
Forbes states that Captain James Forbes of 
Caithness, (2nd son of Duncan Forbes, L of 
Culloden), married Agnes Munro, daughter of 
George Munro of Pillundie, elder brother of 
Sir Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts ; also that 
Margaret, 4th daughter of Duncan Forbes, IH. 
of Culloden (and sister of Lord President For- 
bes of Culloden), married George Munro of 

M ). 

Murrayfield. J. F. 



823. Instruments of Torture. — In the Parish 
Church here there is exhibited an iron instrument of 
torture, called the Branks. I have also seen another 
instrument, called the Jougs, I think at Duddingstone 
Church, near Edinburgh, but I haNe failed in finding 
the procedure whereby these instruments of torture 
were put in operation as a punishment. A reference 
to where this is to be found will oblige. 

St Andrews. W. C. 

824. The Invention of Stereotyping. — I will 
be very pleased to be informed of the name of the in- 
ventor of this now indispensable process, with the 
date, and it would be interesting if the name of the 
first book, or newspaper, printed therewith could be 
furnished. 

William Caxton. 

825. Old Ballad. — In .S. N, <Sr» Q. for April, 
1890, a Correspondent regrets that so few now seem to 
retain that old liking for ballad poetry so common in 
days gone by. I have long known the popular ballad, 

Bessie Bell and Mary Gray 

They were twa bonnie lasses. 
They biggit a bower on yon burn brae, 

And theekit it ower wi' rashes. 

This is, I think, all I ever knew of it. For the pur- 
pose of seeing the complete ballad I referred to Rogers^ 
Modern Scottish Minsttel ; Chambers'' s Scottish Songs 
and Ballads^ 1829 ; Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ^ 
by Sir Walter Scolt ; Buchans Ballads, 1825-1828— 
without finding it in any of these Collections. Some 
of your readers will be able to say who was the author, 
or in what Collection it is to be found ? 

Edinburgh. BON-AccORD. 

826. Aberdeen Local Ballad, 1817. — Can you 
inform me where I will find a complete copy of the 
ballad, " The Lament of John Home, the Keeper of 
the Town House, to his friend Symon Grant, thief 
catcher and general policeman for the city and sub- 
urbs, on the prospect of losing their snug berths, with 
all the pickings and perquisites." Mr Walker, in his 
Bards of Bon- Accord, from which the above is taken, 
gives 14 of the 28 stanzas, which excites one's curiosity 
to have the whole. It commences : — 

Sair, sair's my heart, O, Symon, man, 

We're ruined clean an' a' that ; 
Nae mair your wine and congo fine 
Can I gi'e you, an' a' that. 
An' a' that an' a' that, 
Your partan taes an' a' that, 
The chosen few an' me an' you, ~^ 

Maun shift our bodes an' a' that. 

Edinburgh. W. G. 

827. A Phrase concerning Burns.— Who was 
it said of Burns — "His candle is bright, but it is shut 
up in a dark lantern " ; in allusion to the fact that the 
majority of his poems are written in the Doric? I 
have seen the phrase attributed to Cowper. In this 
connection, it may not be irrelevant to note that The 
Bookman, for October, contains an interesting article 
on Cowper's copy of Robert Burns's Poems (1787), 
by W. Craibe Angus and Dr A. B. Grosart. 

Jas. W. Scott. 



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93 



Hnswer9. 



795. The Drum (VII., 46, 61). — I am not aware 
if the information requested by Mr Andrews has been 
supplied by Mr Stevenson. There seems, however, 
to have been no direct mention of the Aberdeen drum. 
Writing from memory, sixty years ago I knew the 
drummer, David Bannerman. Without answering 
Mr Andrews' queries seriatim, I would define the 
duties performed by the official under consideration as 
a walking advertiser by tuck of drum. I cannot say 
if any salary was attached to the office, which was in 
the appointment of the Town Council, who furnished 
a uniform — red coat, Sec. In looking into this sub- 
ject I find the town's drum of Aberdeen was exhibited 
in the Bishop's Castle, in the Glasgow International 
Exhibition in 1888, with the following notice : — 
** The Drum, or * Sweesh,' was a very important civic 
institution before the introduction of daily newspapers. 
It is customary to associate the drum with military 
matters only, but the records of the various burghs are 
filled with references to the important part it played 
in the everyday life of the city three centuries ago. 
No meeting of the Guildry or Head Court of the Citi- 
zens was properly constituted until the drummer com- 
peired and testified that he had intimated the meeting 
thro' a' the raws o' the toun ; rto funeral ceremony of 
importance could take place till the mourners had 
been summoned by the drum ; and one of the severer 
modes of punishment was that of banishment from 
one's native burgh by tuck of drum. The drum ex- 
hibited had doubtless seen many such scenes, and 
others of a more exciting kind, during the civil war in 
Charles I.'s reign." 

There must be other interesting facts connected with 
the Aberdeen Drum, which I would be glad to see 
preserved in S. N. <Sr» Q. 

William Thoi^son. 

7 Madeira Place, Leith. 

795. The Drum (VII., 46, 61). — Hume Brown's 
interesting volume. Early Travels in Scotland {i%<^i), 
gives some details, at pp. 239 and 258-9, of a practice 
common in certain Scottish Burghs in the seventeenth 
century, of sending round the town drummer to invite 
the townspeople to attend funerals. Two English 
travellers refer to the fact, that at Dunbar, Dumfries, 
and elsewhere, they found that when an inhabitant 
died, the bellman went through the streets ringing 
the passing bell, and acquainting every one with the 
death that had taken place, at the same time inviting 
all to the funeral. Furthermore, when the advertised 
funeral hour did arrive, the bellman again went 
through the streets at the head of the funeral proces- 
sion, ringing his bell all the way to the churchyard. 

Dollar, ^y. B. R. W. 

The following extract from a Dumfries paper may 
interest Mr Andrews. It appeared on 7th September 
last, and records the death of the local drummer. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

Death of the Town Crier. — On Wednesday 
afternoon, James Black, the town crier, died in the 
Infirmary, after two days' illness, from strangulated 
hernia, having entered the institution to undergo an 
operation. Deceased was a native of Balmaclellan, 



and came to Dumfries over thirty years ago. He was 
for some time employed in the Nithsdale Mills, where 
he met with an accident which deprived him of the 
use of one of his hands. He was appointed to the 
office of town crier fifteen years ago, and on account 
of the nature of the duties he had to perform, and his 
well-marked personality, for many years his figure has 
been a familiar one in the streets. His most import- 
ant duty was to tuck the drum when announcing the 
let of the public revenues. In connection with the 
office he had the right of posting bills on the bill 
stations belonging to the burgh ; but in October last 
a resolution of the Council forbade the further use of 
some of the places formerly utilized for this purpose. 
At the next meeting he addressed to the Council a 
facetious petition, which set forth that by their action 
his position had " become more severely honorary 
than remunerative," and expressing the belief that 
they would agree with him '* that the dignity of 
labour without remuneration was not a creed likely 
to appeal to a man of his years. " He therefore asked 
a small allowance for the duties which he discharged, 
but he only regained the use of the town's posting 
stations. He was sixty-seven years of age, and leaves 
a family of three sons and a daughter, his wife having 
died about a year ago. He was buried yesterday 
forenoon in Dumfries Cemetery. — Sep. 2. 

807. Song Wanted (VII., 60, 72).— "O gin my 
love were yon red rose," &c. Stenhouse says, ** This 
fragment is copied verbatim from Herd's Collection^ 
printed in 1 766," and that " The first four lines of it, 
as printed in Herd's Collection^ only are genuine ; the 
other four, though beautiful, are comparatively un- 
known. It will be noticed that the stanza as quoted 
by Burns from Wotherspoon^s Collection of Scots Songs 
has only three lines as it stands in Herd's Collection^ 
the fourth line having been altered from " Down on 
that red rose I wad fa'," to " Into her bonnie breast 
to fa'." When transcribing the fourth line Burns 
may have altered and improved it, and the other four 
lines ; but I have not seen Wotherspoon^s Collection^ 
and cannot say. 

Burns, in his letter to George Thomson enclosing 
the fragment and his own stanza, writes : — '* The 
verses are far inferior to ihe foregoing, I frankly con- 
fess ; but, if worthy of insertion at all, they might be 
first in place ; as every jioet, who knows anything of 
his trade, will husband his best thoughts for a con- 
cluding stroke." Accordingly, Thomson placed the 
stanza by Burns first, that by John Richardson second, 
aud the old stanza last. On consideration, it will be 
agreed, I think, that this arrangement is the best. It 
must be conceded that Richardson's stanza is much 
inferior to the other stanzas, and that the song is 
Ijetter without it ; but if Thomson had thought it 
altogether destitute of merit, he would not have ad- 
mitted it into his Collection. It was written expressly 
for Thomson's Collection^ and readers will judge for 
themselves as to the merits from the stanza Itself, 
which is as follows : — 



(( 



O were my love yon vi'let sweet. 
That peeps frae 'neath the hawthorn spray. 
And I mysel' the zephyr's breath, 
Amang its bonnie leaves to play : 



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I'd (an it wj' a pleasant gale, 
BcQeath Ihe noontide's scoichiag tay ; 
And sprinkle it wi' freshest deivs, 
At morning dawn and porlint; day." 
In his folio edition, Mr Thomson adapted the s 
to Oran Gaotl, a Gaelic or Irish melody (foe 
cross-claimed), and in his octavo edition to an 
ught bars of 
Kim by a 1 
eight bars added by hlmaeir : but what might 
ten about the music would lake up too much space, 
and must be left nut here. 

The »eraion of ihe song quoted by W. B. R. W. 
from Rev. A. R. Bonar's FaiU and Peeiry ofScolland 
is printed in Mittstrtlsy ef the Scottish Border ItMixi 
Herd's MS. ; also in Whitdaiiis Book of SeotlisA 
Song, and in several other Collections. Dr Mackay, 
in his Thousand and One Gems of Song, notes it as 
the earliest version, and author unknown. In Siol- 
tish Melcdies, published by John Sutherland, Edin- 
liurah, (circa IS35,) the last two lines of the refrain 
lead Ihus :— 

" Sae bonnie Ihe bud, an' sweet the blossom, 

BIytbe is the blink comes frae her e'e." 

I have seen this reading in only two Collections, 

■viz., Scottish Melodies, as above, and The Musical 

Cyclopedia, Aberdeen, 183B. 

Macduff: J. C. 

812. Mr John Row's Diary (VII., 77).— In the 

account of tus family given by the Pajson of Rotbie- 
may it is stated that his father, Rolwrt Gonlon of 
Stnluch, tDBiried, in i6o3, Katharine, ilaughler of 
Irvine of Lynturk, by whom he had 17 children j and 
Ihat Sir John Gordon (who liied 1600), married a 
•laughter of Kinnaird of KJnnaird. It was the father 
■of the latter— John Gordon, killed at the Battle ol 
Pinkie, 1J47 — whise wife was tsabel, daughter of 
I^rd Forbes. She survived till 1604. The name 
" Forbes" is possibly a slip of the pen or memory on 
the part of the Diarist. E. U. 

815. One PotiND Bank Norts (VII., 7;).~The 

Bank of Scotland was the first bank projected in the 
year 1605. Notes payable to bearer for 5, lo, 20, 
jO and lod Pounds were issued, but One Found Notes 
were not issued till 1704. Much interesting matter 
in regard to Banks and Bank Notes will be found in 
Logan's Scollish Banker, 1844, and also in SletKtt- 
ion's Chronicles of Ediiibtttgh I 185a. 

Edinburgh. T. G. Stevenson. 

815. One PoijND Bank Notes (Vlt., 77).— 

"St Giles" might consult Graham's The One Pound 
Note, in the Rise and Progress of Banking in Scot- 
land, and its Adaptability to Knulttnd. 

Kenmore. J. C, 



Oban Church Bell.— The bell of the 
old Parish Church, Oban, presently being 
demolished, is discovered to have a history. 
It bears the following inscription ; — " Luther- 
ian congregation : Hagers Toun, Washiii|;ton 
County, Maryland, Glasgow, i;86." The tell 
is said to have belonged to a vessel wrecked on 
the western coast. J. F. S. Gordon. 



Xfterature. 

The Knox College Monthly Presbyterian Ma^a- 

sine. Toronto, September, 1893. 
This serial cotiies lo us for the interest attach- 
ing to its first article, "Some Reminiscences of 
a Divinity Hall Sixty years ago." The said 
divinity hall is that of Aberdeen University, and 
of which the writer, the Rev. Wna. ReJd, D.D., 
of Toronto, is a graduate, dating as far back 
as 1833, but inadvertently omitted from our 
published list (Vol. VI., p. 146). Dr. Reid 
describes the manner in which the work of the 
divinity course was in his student days Judici- 
ously divided between the two Colleges of 
Kiiig's and Marischal ; and he also recalls 
many pleasant memories of Ihe divinity faculty. 
Principal Dewar, as well as Dr. Mcarns and 
Dr. Black, are delineated with care, and their 
characteristics brought into view. Dr. Reid is 
a native of Kildnimmy, and was bom in 1816. 
He went to Canada early in his ministerial 
career, as a missionary under the Glasgow 
Colonial Society. During his long career. Dr. 
Reid has run the gamut of all the principal 
posts of honour which his Chtirch has to confer, 
and has for long been general agent to its 
various schemes. In the article before us the 
author seems impressed with the fact that most 
of the earliest Presbyterian ministers who settled 
in Upper Canada, his own land of adoption, 
went out as chaplains of Scottish regiments, and 
that they came from the northern colleges, pre- 
sumably Aberdeen and St. Andrews. He also 
states "tliat at least one-fourth of the ministers 
in Canada, fifty years a^o, were from the Aber- 
deen Universities. This is not, however, to be 
wondered at in a country where Scotch people, 
especially north country Scotch, bulk so largely. 
In Ontario, no Scotchman can possibly feel 
frorn hortie. The language of the people is still 
largely tinged with the Scottish accent. The 
place names of Ayr, Banff, Braemar, and many 
more, speak volumes of the original homes m 
the petiple. And so every cemetery and church- 
yard prove to a demonstration that Canada is 
larger Scotland. Among the other articles in 
the number is a violent one on the Liquor 
Traffic, where the author speaks of "the drink- 
ing habits as a legacy from the old land." It is 
a pity that our cousins across the Atlantic did 
not content themselves with the ministers so 
freely sent them,and leave thedrink behind them. 
We hope they have not bettered the instruction, 
and excelled their projjenitors in their use of 
strong drink. America excels in magazines, 
and the one before us is no exception ; it is well 
printed and well got up, and does credit to its 
writers and editors. ED. 



November, 1893.] SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



95 



Memorable Edinburgh Houses. By Wu.MOT 
Harrison, lllusirated. 8vo, pp. 122. Edin- 
bui^h : Oliphani, Anderson and Ferrier, 
This volume deserves a welcome, for it is laid 
on Ihe altar devoted to hero-worship. It will be 
useful to sight-seers who try lo extract as much 
delight out of their rambleu as they can : it will 
be interesting and instructive to the student in 
the bye-ways of Scottish history and literature. 
It will serve, too, as a kind of protest against 
the " improvements" which, even at the time of 
publication, are doing their best lo make Allan 
Ramsay's "goose pie" unrecognisable. 

On the whole, the list of famous houses is as 
complete as is possible under the circumstances, 
though one is at a loss to understand what was 
the author's criterion of insertion that enabled 
him to omit such "memorable houses" as Holy- 
rood and those that are grouped on the Castle 
Rock — all of which have been rendered famous 
by their quondam inmates. Under no circum- 
stance, however, should Mcrchiston Castle, the 
residence of Napier, the inventor of logarithms, 
have been left out. Sites, too, (for (hey were 
within the scope of the author's plan,) might 
have been more liberally mentioned, such as 
those of the house in which Sir Walter Scott 
was born ; that in which Cardinal Beaton is 
supposed to have lived ; or Darien House, in 
which poor "Poet" Fergusson breathed out his 
life in wretchedness. Many famous men have, 
of course, resided in Edinburgh, of whose 
habitation no record has been left. Where, for 
example, did Goldsmith reside when he was 
studying medicine at the University? One 
would like to be certain of the view that in- 
^ired Tennyson to speak of Edinburgh as the 
"grey metropolis of the north." More (and this 
is the last criticism) might have been made of 
the events which look plate in the various 
bouses. The story of 'I Pet Marjorie" and Sir 
Walter Scxitt (for instance), recorded by Dr. 
John Brown as having occurred at "Castle 
Street, No. 39," is both beautiful and character- 
istic, and better merited mention by Mr. Har- 
rison than the vague generalities he has often 
^ven. These omissions, however, are but men- 
tioned to show how little there is really to say 
in the way of adverse criticism. The book 
itself is beautiful in its "get up." The artist's 
work is admirable, and the printer and book- 
binder are sans reproche. 

]. Calder Ross. 

Tki English Illuslraled Magazine. Oct., 1893. 
The reign of the magazine becomes more and 
more an assured fact, and the name of the can- 
didates for public favour is legion. The feature 



which magazine editors have most prominently 
in view is that of variety. In this respect The 
English Illustrated, which this month passes 
into the proprietary of the Illustrated News 
Company, and enters into a new lease of life, is 
the beau ideal. There ts a little history, science, 
art. poetry, and a good deal of fiction, something 
in short for every one. There is an interesting 
article on Canada and her new Governor, of 
whom there is an excellent portrait, along with 
several other illusirBiions. One of these is en- 
titled Haddo Hall, which is none other that the 
whilom House of Kelly, now Haddo House, 
The editors are announced to be Sir William 
Ingram, Bart., and Clement JC Shorter, who is 
reported to have a genius for editing. ED. 

" REStTRRECTiONiST" TIMES.— A unique relic 
of " Resurrectionist" days is to be seen in a 
small lodge-like edifice in Carmunnock Church- 
yard, in the shape of a printed notice, which 
reads as follow ; — 

Reoulaiions tob the Watch. 
Theie are two oti watch each night, who are to go 
on after sunset, and conlinnc till after daybreak in 
winter, and till afier sunrLie in summer. They ate 
strictly probihiled from getting intoxicated, or leaving 
the churchyard during that time : and no visitor is 
allowed to enter on any account without giving the 
password for the nijjhl. They ate also prohibited 
(torn making noise, ot firing guns, e>;cept when giving 
the alarm, thai any of the inhabitants in such cases 
may turn mhi to the aiisistance of the watch. Any 
damage that may be done to the watcb-house or the 
fumilute is 10 be repaired at ihe eipen-se of those who 

Ordered at Carmunnock on Ihe Sih January, tSzS. 
J. F. S. GOREKJN. 



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Our Illustration this month consists of a repre- 
sentation of the Sculptured Stone at Fordoun. 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. fDECEMBER, 1893. 



upper half of 3 large flat slab. Unfortunately, 
the inscription al the head is almnsl entirely 
worn away, and no trace of the lower portion of 
the stone could be discovered. Enouyh remains 
however, to positively identify it as having com- 
memorated a daughter of Alexander Cunning- 
ham, of West Barns, and one who died before 
1620 in her nineteenth year. The still sur*i\ing 

HlC . lACET . VIRGO .HO . ... . 

BARNIS . OBIT . AN . IJO . l6l . . 

E . (5V)^ 19, 

while upon a shield in the centre of the fiag- 
ment are the anus of Cunningham — a shakefork 
with a star in chief^with, at the sides, the large 
iniiials £. C. Below is the lext^ 

"ALTHOH . THE . VORMS 
MV . FLESH EAT . IN 

THIS . PLACE 
ZIT . I . SAL . SE . MV" 
(here the stone is broken ofT.) 

The armorial bearings are precisely the same 
as those which still exist upon an old carved oak 
panel in the south aisle of Crai! Church, together 
with the initials A. C. (Alexander Cunninfjham), 
and the date 160^. Not far from this panel is 
another with the initials H. M. at either side of 
a shield bearing three roundels— the am 
Helen Myrton, daughter of Thomas Myrli 
Cambo, and wife of Alexander Cunningham of 
Barns, whom she married in 1 596— the.se being 
certainly the pjirenis of Drummond's fiancee. 

Hitherto no sepulchral memorial of any of the 
Cunninghams could be found al Crail, although 
they had possessed the estate of West Barns 
(about a mile west from the burgh) for four 
centuries from the year 1376. 

Some time ngo the present writer 
fuilyendeavoured to ascertain the Christian n 
oftheyounglady who was to have wedded Ui ... 
mond of Hawlhornden ; but, judging from such 
as are known to have occurred in [he Cunning- 
ham a.nd Myrton families, and from the clue now 



Cunningham upon the very eve of her intended 
marriage, must have taken place in the year 161 5, 
ai the early age of eighteen. It was in the 
following year that Drummond published his 
"Poems— Amorous, Funeral I, Divine, I'aslorali" 
(printed by Andro Hart), in which the "Firs 
part" of the principalpiececelebrates the charms 
of his chosen bnde,and his distress at her tempo- 
rary absence; while the "Second part" consist; 
of bitter lamentations over her untimely death— 
" I have nought led to wish, my Hopes are Heii'1, 
And all with her lienealh n Marble laid." 
If {as is commonly beheved, and seems for many 



reasons hiyhly probable), Drummond ^>a5 really 
the author of " Polemo-Middinia," he must hsve 
penned that famous Macaronic as a playful skit 
upon some right-of-way dispute between his 
sister, Lady Scot of Scolstar\-it (often resident 
at Sir John Scot's house at Tiiirdpart), and the 
parents of Miss Cunningham, who were close 
neighbours. 

As is well known, Drummond ultimately 
married, in 1632, Elizabeth Logan, to whom, 
indeed, it is said that he was first attracted by 
some resemblance in her to his lost bride. 

The newly discovered tombstoneisofa common 
seventeenth century type— a " throng!) stone" 
lettered round the border with an epitaph com- 
mencing " Hie iacet honorabilis vir," " Heir lys 
ane honest young man," " Heir lies ane honest 
and virtuous gentlewoman," " Heir lyes ane faith- 
ful brother in Christ," or so forth— the general 
formula being closely ob5er\'eiL Any student of 
the subject must admit that there was (and, for 
that matter, still is) a strongly marked fashion 
even in tombstones, 

DIARY OF JOHN ROW, 

PRIN'CIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGF., &c., 

1661 — 1672—1790, 

V. 

Deer, 30 Wednesday D. Issobell Frazer Lady 
Vdnie Dowager deceassed at Knnckhall 1665 : 
and the nighi before her oldest daughter Mag- 
dalen Vdnie was married to Grigic younger. 

Janr 1 1666 died S^ Robert Ferchar of Mou- 
nic late provest of Abd., in his owin house at 
Abd., about .-etatis 80 leaveing many oyes wt 3 
daughters. 

Jan. 8 1666 Catrin Lighlon died in her sons 
badlie Burnets house ; being in her ordinary 
health, and all her clothes on, havcing refused 
to let any abide beside her, night or day ; fell 
down and died in a groarff, none being present. 

Glcnbucket Gordon died at Abd. of sore dis- 
ease Janr. 16. 

Joseph Brodie brother to my Lord Brodie 
married Mistress Downie, relict of Wm. Downie 
Uudislon Dundas daughter. 

Mr William Douglas Professor of TTicologie 
■' K. Coll. of Abd, was removed Janr. yi. 



1666 a 



nthen 



nmg. 



Febr. 4th Sabb : in the morning my eldest 
daughter Lillias was bro' lo bed, of 3 fourth 
daughter, called Anna. 

Mr Samuel Hamond and Mr Kncghtbridge 
sometyme ministers at Newcastle are now re- 
moved by death. 

Eiitabcih M id lelon relict of umqll MrWilliam 
SCrachan minister at Old Aberdeen deceassed 
at Tarves in her sons house, of the stone, Janr, 



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99 



30 in the morning, an houre or two before Pro- 
fessor Douglas ; her husband died March 8 '53 ; 
so she lived about 13 yeares after him. 

Febr. 9 died Marg' Irvin spouse to John For- 
bes of Tilligownie, daughter to umqll Mr Alexr. 
Irvin late of LongsidQ : she died in her fathers 
house in Old Abd., aetat. 28. 

Alexr. More baxter at Abd. died Eebr. 22, 
*66 of a disease called : caveat emptor. 

March i '66. died Adam More mason at Abd: 

March 4 '66, Sabb : Mr William Forbes bro- 
ther german to Sr John Forbes of Cragivar 
knight baronett died at Abd. of a fever ; a hope- 
full youth heare in an : 64. 

March 19 died Mr Ro* Keyth late at Old 
Deare an able godly man, he died of a confirmed 
stone. 

March 25 *66 died at Fovera Marg* Hunter 
spouse to Mr Alexr, Forbes of Ardo about 14 
dayes after she was bro* to bed : a good woman. 

Mr Alexr. Colvill Dr of Theologie & Professor 
of Hebrew in the New CoUedge at St Androes 
was removed Deer. 1665 — a learned man, 

aetat. 70. 

Violet Menzies Innkeeper spouse to Jo : Do- 
naldson late treasurer of Abd. was removed Apr. 
5, 1666. 

The Laird of Ludwham elder, sumamed 
Keyth was removed March 1666, aetat is 

Aprile *66 a band of Highlanders beset the 
laird of Moorehouse, Lyon, and set his house on 
fire, took himself and second son away with 
them, and murthered them cruelly : in revenge 
that he had pursued to death one of their frater- 
nite. 

William Strachan second son to Kemnay or 
Glenkindie yo'* died a bajan at CoUedge Mar- 
shall, Aprile 18. '66. 

Mr James Reid, advocat at Abd. died Apr. 
19 '66. 

Mr John Seton minister at Foveran, who had 
regented at Abd. ten yeares in the colledge Mar- 
shall, died ccelebs, Ap. 24, '66 aetatis 

Mr Alexr. Davidson elder advocat at Abd., 
died Ap. 27 '66 aetatis 

Rob Drumond of Midop, aetat. 80 Maie '66. 

Issobell Cheyn wife to Sr Patrik Leslie of 
I den late provost of Abd. died Maie about the 
beginning, an. '66. 

Andro Cranstone chirurgeon at Abd. died 
Maie 10, '66. 

Mr James Hamilton, late minister at Edz., 
died in March 1666, of a good age. 

Cap. Alexr. Wood, of the house of Bonitoun 
died at Abd. in Maie '66, of a good age. 

Maie 24. '66 Mr Patrik Sibbald was by B. 
Scowgill admitted & ordained minister of Abd. 
by the book of ordination printed 1636, in the 
great kirk of Abd. 



Maie 26, '66 died Charles Robertson younger, 
son to Charles Ro^^son elder, late baillie of Abd. 
a hopefull youth ; who instant Maie 22 on the 
day of publict mustering carried one of the 4 
cullors of Abd. ensign bearer. 

Maie '66 died the Laird of Boyn elder, sur- 
named Ogilvy. 

John Webster, an old rich man, merchand of 
Abd. died neare the end of Maie '66. 

Mr George Sharp, son to umqll James Sharp 
at Fyvie, did w^ a clod mell fell a man, for which 
he was execut about the beginning of June '66. 

Jonet Mellice wife to James Carnegie litster, 
who had served me 7 yeares, and Mr A. Cant 
also long, died at Abd. June 2 at midnight be- 
fore, '66. 

Troup of Banacraig died at Abd. June 7 '66. 

June 23 Saturday Robert Dalgleish a tertian 
in King's Colledge of Abd. and one of my schol- 
lars in Hebrew ; a bursar, a gentleman's son 
near Selkirk, died in the sea washing himself, 
by hazarding to go too far in. 

John Sibbald laird of Arnage in the parish of 
Ellon died June 10, 1666. 

Robert Fercharson laird of Innercald deceas- 
sed August '66 aetat : 

Mr John Carmichael, eldest son to Mr Fre- 
derick at Markinche, a precious young man, de- 
posed for nonconformity, died July '66. 

August 27 '66 died Mr Rot Blair late minister 
at St Andrews, a godly, learned and prudent 
man, neare to Inverkethen in Fyffe, in James 
Cranstone's house in Aberdour parish, aetatis 73. 

The countes of Midleton sister to umqll Mr 
James Durham died at Pinlico August 1666. 

Sept. 2d Sabbath about tuo in the morning a 
fire brak out in London in a baker's shop, and 
burnt violently till Wednesday the 5th of Sepr., 
and could not be quenched : and once it being 
quenched brak out againe, so that the far greater 
part of the citie is brunt down to rubbish, with 
the royall exchequer, so as in where 

their awin house stood nor can discern where 
were the streets. Lord pity, and sanctify the 
terrible dispensation to us all. 

Sr George Mowat of Mowatstoun, alias Ing- 
leshtoun alias Rottenraw in West Lothian died 
Septr. 1666. 

Octob : 2d '66 about one in the morning 
Sjt John jCarstaires of Kinmuher in Fyffe maried 
Barbara Forbes sister to Cragivar, in the Col- 
ledge kirk of Abd. 

Novr. '66 died the laird of Elsick, Ban- 
nerman. 

Catharin Gibbon, my sister Elizabeth's second 
daughter, wife to Adam Anderson, litster iij 
Dumfermline, died Aug : '66. : : 

The Laird of Fornet Irvin in November '66 " 
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Issobell Cochran relict of umqile Wm. Toux, 
sister to Bailie Cochran died Novr. 17 '66. 

Novr. 22 Thurisday 1666, at 5 in the morn- 
ing Mr Wm. Mitchell, preacher at Abd. maried 
Margi Cant, eldest daughter to umqll Mr Alexr. 

Deer JO '66 Issobell Gray, sister to provest 
Gilbert Gray, and spouse to Dr Leslie, died of 
a feu houres sicknes, after she had brought forth 
twins, of about 17 yeares aetatis. 

Janr. 5 '67 died Charles Dun elder litster : a 
good man. 

Janr. 9 '67 died Jean Guild relict of David 
Anderson (vulgo Davie do all things), sister to 
Dr Guild, aetatis 93, a good sober woman. 

Thomas Milne pinnet maker at Abd. a godly 
man was removed Janr. 26 '67. 

William Forbes major natural brother to Les- 
lie who slew Kincausie Irvin at the Crabstone 
about the year '46, was hanged ibidem loci, 
Febr. '67, his professed enemies being his judges. 

The Ladie Pitfoddells, yor. daughter to Sr. 
Andrew Fletcher of Inverpepher died at Abd. 
March '67. 

Sr. John Gordon of Haddo knight baronett 
died Mar. '67 leaving but one child a girle. 

Mr John Skene of Halyairdes in West Lo- 
thian, my pupill 9 yeares, died in Mar. '67. 

Thom Cowie who had long bin kirk officer at 
Abd. died March 29 '67 an : aetatis 87. 

Mr George Mill at Premnay died March '67. 

Mr James Simson banished died in Holland. 

Mr Wm. Chalmer at Skene died March 21 
1667. 

Apr: 24 '67 died Patrik Gellie at Abd. Mr.' of 
the Mortifications. 

Apr: 21 Sabbath died the Lady of Boyne, 
spouse to Patrik Ogilvy of Boyne, in a sudden 
fit of swarfing. 

Apr. 28 Sab: '67 Wm. Tamson and Anna 
Jaffray maried. 

Apr. 30 James Carnegie and Fergusson 

maried. 

Maie 24 Adamson maried 2° to Dr 

Moore died. 

Maie '67 died Mr Frederick Carmichael 
minister at Markinche in Fyffe, my brother in 
law and condisciple at colledge. 

(To he contimied.) 
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"The 'New Testament and its Writers," by 
the Rev. J. A. M'Clymont, which was published 
last year, is entering on its third edition. 

A new edition of Miss Jane Barlow's Bogland 
Studies^ a book of poems of Irish life, has been 
issued by Messrs Hodder & Stoughton, Lon- 
don. This new edition will, we are sure, be 
acceptable to many readers. 



NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF BANFFSHIRE 

{ Continued from p. gi^ Vol. VII.) 

XIV. 

206. Robertson, John, (Adjutant General): Dis- 
tinguished U.S. Officer. A native of Portsoy; born 
1814, took an active part* in the great Civil War. 
Died 1887. 

207. Scott y Andrew, (Rev.): Bishop of Eretria. 
Roman Catholic Dignitary. A native of Chapelford 
in the Enzie, and born 15th Sept., 1772, he was 
trained for the priesthood, and in 1828 was consecrated 
Bishop of Eretria, and died in 1846. 

208. Sellar, James, A.M., D.D. : was born at 
Keith in 1813, and educated at King's College, where 
he graduated in 1837. He taught for a time the 
parish school of St. Andrews Lhanbryde : but in 
1843 was ordained minister of Aberlour parish. He 
took an active part in the conduct of Church business 
in the North of Scotland, and in 1875 ^^^ chosen 
Moderator of the General Assembly. He died in 
1886. 

209. Sharp, James, (Archbishop) : Ecclesiastical 
Leader and Politician. Son of the Sheriff Clerk of 
Banffshire, and born in Castle of Banff, 4th May, 1618. 
Young Sharp was educated for the ministry at King's 
College, Aberdeen, (M.A., 1637,) Oxford and Cam- 
bridge, where he became acquainted with several emi- 
nentjEnglish divines, as Hammond, Sanderson and Tay- 
lor. In 1643 he was appointed Regent of Philosophy, 
St. Andrews, and in 1648 was ordained minister of 
Crail. In 1651, however, when Monk was reducing 
Scotland to obedience. Sharp was carried off to England 
with several other ministers; but he quickly regained his 
liberty, and for some years enjoyed the confidence of 
the Resolutioners, or moderate party in the Presby- 
terian Church. Appointed with five other ministers 
to communicate the views of that party to Monk in 
January, 1660, he proceeded, at Monk's suggestion, 
to Breda, when the King declared his intention of 
preserving the government of the Church of Scotland 
as "settled by law." His correspondence, for some 
months after his return from Holland, is full of 
apprehensions of prelacy, "cassock men," and the 
service-book ; but its bad faith stands revealed in his 
letter of 21st May, 1661, to Middleton, which proves 
that he was then (as probably before) confidentially 
corresponding with Clarendon and the English Bishops 
for the re-establishment of Episcopacy in Scotland. 
In return for having thus passed over to the King's 
party. Sharp was consecrated Archbishop of St. 
Andrews, i6th Dec, 1661. He is described by a 
recent biographer as "the supple and dexterous tool of 
Middleton or Lauderdale, as either gained the ascend- 
ency — a liar and a coward and a vindictive oppressor 
of those he betrayed." Certain at least it is that he 
soon became one of the best hated men in Scotland. 
In 1668 he was fired at by a fanatic, James Mitchell, 
but on that occasion escaped death. A few years 
later, however, he was murdered on the 3rd May, 1679, 
by a band of fanatic Covenanters who accidentally fell 
in with him while looking for another persecutor. 

210. Sharp, Sir Willtam, of Stonyhill, brother of 
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Edinburgh, and in 1665 became proprietor of an estate 
near Musselburgh, to which he seems subsequently to 
have given the name of Stonyhill. In 16^ he was 
knighted by the Earl of Lauderdale. He must have 
died before 1698, because in Cramond's Annals of 
Banffy the Town Council Records for January of that 
year notices the fact that Sir William Sharp of Stony- 
hill has mortified ;^5o sterling for making up ane pro- 
vision to schoolmasters of Banff, present and to come. 
Sir William was Keeper of the Scottish Signet, 1673, 
,and married before 1666. Born perhaps about 1621, 
and died (1697). 

211. Shearer, John Sharps Naturalist in Canada. 
A native of Banff. Born probably somewhere about 
1830. he was alive in 1887. 

212. Shepherd y James : Minor Poet. Born about 
1827, he settled in Edinburgh, where he was employed 
in a lawyer's office. He figures in one of Mr Ed- 
wards's volumes as one of Scotland's minor poets. 
His death occurred in 1887. 

213. Sim, Robert : Minor Poet and Antiquary. A 
native of Keith, born 1794, and died 1866. 

214. Smith, Alexander: Writer on Morals. A 
native of Banff, who in 18 10, along with a fellow- 
student, afterwards Dr Lewis Forbes, and others, 
founded the Banff Library when they were little more 
than boys. He studied for the ministry, and was a 
licentiate of the Church of Scotland. In 1835 he 
published The Philosophy of Morals in 2 vols. He 
was also author of other works. Born probably about 
1794 ; date of death unascertained. 

215. Smith, Alexander ( Rev. ) : Bishop of Parium. 
This Roman Catholic Prelate, who was born 16th 
June, 1814, in the Enzie, was trained for the priest- 
hood, and in 1847 consecrated Bishop of Parium, and 
died 1861. 

216. Smith, George: Benefactor of his native pa- 
rish. Born in Fordyce. At his death, alx)ut 1800, 
he bequeathed part of his fortune for the benefit of 
boys of the name of Smith, who were to be educated 
and boarded at Fordyce on his endowment. lie had 
been successful in India. 

217. Smith, James Gordon: London Publisher. 
Said by Dr Cramond, in his Annals of Banff, II., 
300, to have been a native of that town, and to have 
proceeded to London from Messrs Imlach's shop, in 
Low Street, Banff, about 1836. There, in partner- 
ship with another Banff man, Alexander Elder, he 
helped to build up the great publishing firm of Smith, 
Elder, & Co. Born probably in the first decade of 
the century, he died in London in 1873. He was 
remarkable for the generosity and encouragement he 
showed to north countrymen who came to settle in 
London. 

218. Stables, William Gordon, M.D., R.N. : No- 
velist and Minor Poet. Born in 1838, in Aberchirder, 
and having passed through the curricula of Arts and 
Medicine at Marischal College, 1854-62, he entered 
the naval service, but giving himself to literature, has 
become one of the most popular writers of stories for 
boys at present catering for that class of readers. He 
also writes verse, and appears as a Modern Scottish Poet 
in one ot Mr Edwards's volumes. He has published 
Medical Life in the Navy, Among his scores of novels 



may be mentioned, Aileen Aroon and Wild Life in the 
Land of the Giants. He is a constant contributor to 
the Boys Own Paper. An autobiographical sketch 
from his pen, entitled *' I remember, I remember," 
is at present appearing in Alma Mater, the Aberdeen 
University Magazine. 

219. Stephen, Sir George^ Bart., Lord Mount 
Stephen : Canadian Millionaire. Born at Dufftown, 
5th June, 1829, he emigrated to Canada at the age of 
20, and became largely interested in commercial un- 
dertakings in that country. In 1881 he undertook 
the great task of constructing the Canadian Pacific 
Railway across the whole breadth of the Continent, 
and this task he successfully completed. He was 
made a baronet on accomplishing this gigantic under- 
taking in 1886 : and was raised to the peerage as Lord 
Mount Stephen in 1891. His adopted daughter is 
married to Sir Henry Slafiord Northcote, second son 
of the late Earl of Iddesleigh. He has given munifi- 
cent sums of money to various objects : amongst 
others, £7000 to build and endow a Cottage Hospital 
in his native place, and £\ooo to the Aberdeen Uni- 
versity Extension Scheme. He resides mostly in this 
country. Ness Castle, Inverness, is his summer re- 
sidence. 

220. Ste^vart, fames, A.M., 2. native of Rothiemay, 
was a young man of rare gifts, who had the misfortune 
to be cut off when he had just achieved great academic 
distinction. He was taught at the parish school by 
W. Webster, A.M., a schoolmaster of great reputa- 
tion in his day. Entering King's College at an early 
age he obtained the third bursary, and closed his 
course in 1850, gaining the Simpson Greek Prize of 
;^6o. He had just begun a career of much promise 
as a teacher in the Banff Academy when his health 
failed, and he soon after died. 

221. Strachan,Ja)i\es, M.D., Inspector-General of 
Army Hospitals. Born in Banff in 1775, educated at 
Fordyce and King's (College, Aberdeen, he entered 
the army as surgeon, and served in Ireland, at Wal- 
cheren, America, and in India. Before retiring in 
1832 Dr S. had been for some years Inspector General 
of Hospitals. In 1835 he purchased the estate of 
Cortes, and died in 1840. 

222. Suttor, William : Author of a curious work, 
entitled '* Dialogues between a Nobleman and a Far- 
mer upon the Reduction of the National Debt, and 
other Affairs of Stale ; also the Distressed Condition 
of the Farmers in Scotland, considered with the pro- 
bable means of their relief and their Landlord's ad- 
vantage ; also a more effectual means than any hith- 
erto for suppressing Vice and Immorality, and encou- 
raging Religion and Virtue : The whole calculated 
exceedingly to promote the prosperity and grandeur 
of the British Nation. By William Suttor, a native 
of Banff. Edinburgh : Printed and sold by the Au- 
thor. 1788." 

223. TJiomson, James: Minor Poet. A native of 
Aberlour, and l^orn about ( 1 821), he has a place in 
one of Edwards's volumes dealing with the Modern 
Poets of Scotland. 

224. Thomson, Peter (Rev. ), Free Church Scholar. 
Born at Portsoy, 14th April, 185 1, he studied for the 
ministry, and had a most distinguished career as a 



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student, graduating M.A, at Aberdeen with Double 
First Class Honours ; but died not long after his 
settlement as Free Church Minister of St Fergus, in 
the yea^ 1880. The story of his life has been told 
in " A Scotch Student," 1881. He was the author 
of the Life of David, one of the Bible Class Primers, 
edited by Professor Salmond, D.D. 

225. Todd J Andrew, M.A., D.D., Minister of the 
Parish of Alvah, Banffshire, was born at Laggan, 
Mortlach, on 5th March, 1799, but removed when 
very young to Tipperty, Alvah. He was educated at 
the Parish School at Alvah and at the Banff Academy, 
whence he proceeded to King^s College, Aberdeen. 
After graduating he became Schoolmaster of Alvah, 
and filled that office for 23 years. He was appointed 
Minister of the Parish in 1841. He was an accom- 
plished classical scholar and an able divine, became 
the recognised leader of the Presbytery, and had con- 
ferred on him the degree of D.D. by the University 
of Aberdeen. He published an excellent Manual of 
Questions on Scripture History, with Notes and Ex- 
planations. The educational interests of the parish 
received much of his attention, and he took care to 
foster any talent manifested by his young parishioners. 
The present distinguished H.M. Inspector of Schools 
of Banffshire, Mr Allan Andrew, owed not a little, at 
the outset of his career, to Dr Todd. After an in- 
cumbency of nearly 27 years, he died on 17th Deer., 
1867. 

226. Watson, Archibald Inglis : Minor Poet and 
Song Writer. A native of Portsoy, and born there 
1 2th October, 181 8, he gained some local celebrity by 
his verses. His name appears among Edwards's Mo- 
dern Scottish Poets, and he is represented by some 
vferses in *' Whistle Binkie " — a collection of Lyrics 
published in Glasgow, the first edition of which is 
now scarce and valuable. He died at Aberdeen in 
1889. 

227. Watson, Jonathan (Rev.), Bishop of Dun- 
keld. A native of Banffshire, he was Minister of the 
Episcopal Chapel, Banff, in 1786, and after leaving 
Banff for Laurencekirk was' consecrated Bishop of 
Dunkeld. He was born in 1762, and died in 1808. 

228. Webster, John, A.M., D.D., a native of For- 
glen, was educated at the Parish School there, under his 
uncle, the Rev. John Webster, a teacher of some re- 
pute in his day. The subject of this notice graduated 
at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1843, and next year 
was appointed to the Parish School of Banchory- 
Devenick. Having studied for the Church of Scot- 
land, and becoming an able and acceptable preacher, 
he filled in succession the charges of Strichen, Elie, 
Cameron, St. John's, Edinburgh, and Cramond. 
Three years ago he retired, and now resides in Edin- 
burgh, and acts as Convener of the Education Com- 
mittee of the Church of Scotland. 

W. B. R. W. 
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807. Song Wanted. — In the answer to this query 
last month, the date 1766 should have been 1776; 
comparatively ** unknown, "comparatively "modern" ; 
** Wtftherspoon " »' Wttherspoon ": and in fifth line 
of Richardson's stanza, ** constant " for " pleasant." 



AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF 
PROCLAMATIONS. 

(Continued from p. 8^,) 

1669. Nov. 16. Asserting his Majesty's supre- 
macy over all persons and in all ecclesiasti- 
cal causes. By Parliament 

1669-70. Jan. 14. Fixing the value of leg and 
cross dollars. By the Privy Council^ Scot. 

1670. June 16. Anent the incorporation and pri- 
vileges of the Company for promoting fish- 
ing. By the Privy Council.^ Scot. 

1 670- 1. March 9. Forbidding the Importation 
of Salt. Do. 

1 67 1. July 20. Forbidding the Importation of 
foreign copper com. Do. 

1673. July II. Against the importation of old 
furbished wool cairds. By the Lords of 
Exchequer. 

1674. Sept. 28. For due observation of the peace 
with Holland. 

1675-76. March i. Against Conventicles and other 
Disorders. By the Privy Council^ Scot. 

1676. Oct. II. Fixing Campvere as the Staple 
Port. Do. 

„ Dec. 7. For regulating the price of ale and 
drinking beer. Do. 
1676-7. Jan. 25. Discharging persons from brew- 
ing till licenced. Do. 

„ March 6. For the granting of Passes to 
shipping. Do. 

1677. July 31. For regulating the price of ale 
and drinking beer. Do. 

„ Aug. 2. Obliging Heritors and Masters for 
their tenants and servants. Do. 

1679. ['* Proclamation vpon the Act of Indem- 
nitie relating to the not frequenting of di- 
vyne worship*' — endorse on fragment of a 
proclamation]. 

„ June 26. Against the reset of the rebels. 
By the Privy Council^ Scot. 
1679-80. Feb. 24. Appointing a voluntary con- 
tribution for building a stone bridge on the 
water of Ness at Inverness, Do. 

„ March 2. Revising the Laws anent Hunt- 
ing, Hawking, and Fishing. . Do. 

1680. May 6. Passes for ships to be granted 
hereafter by the High Admiral or his De- 
puties. Do. 

July 13. Appointing a voluntary contribu- 
tion for building a stone bridge on the water 
of Leven, near Dumbarton. Do. 
„ Augt. 10. Regulating the price and weight 
of beer proportionally to the prices of the 
drink. Do. 
1680-81. Feb. 4. Appointing a voluntary contri- 
bution for repairing the Harbour of Rose- 
hartie, at the Bay of Pitsligo. Do. 
„ March 5. Concerning the coinage. Do. 



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168 1. April II. For regulating and encouraging 
of trade in Scotland. Do. 

1 68 1 -2. March 16. Against Import of Silk and 
white lace. Do. 

1682. May 22. Establishing the Scots Staple 
Port at Cam phi re. Do. 

>» July 7. For a voluntary contribution to- 
wards rebuilding and repairing of the Har- 
bour of Aberdeen. Do. 

1683. June 4. Anent Pedagogues, Chaplains, 
and others. Do. 

„ June 4. Anent Highways, Bridges, and 

Ferrys. Do. 
„ July 14. That Officers of State do not leave 

the Kingdom without license Do. 

1684. April 24. Anent the Sumptuary Act. Do. 
„ May 5. Establishing Lieutenants in the 

shires of Argyle and Tarbet, and for pre- 
serving the Peace. Do. 
1684-5. Feb. 16. Calling a Parliament to be hol- 
den in Edinburgh. 

[Reprinted at Edinburgh.] 

1685. July 20. For securing the Peace of the 
Highlands. Do. 

„ Sept. 3. For securing the Peace of the 
Highlands. Do. 

1692. Aug. II. Anent the Beggars. [Copy] Do. 
„ Dec. 16. For apprehending Ensign and 

Sergeant Campels and regulating the Levy 
of Recruits. [2 copies]. Do. 

1693. Aug. 29. Anent the Beggars. [Copy]. Do. 
„ Octr. 12. Against transporting Corns to 

France. Do., 

1694. April 4. Against Deserters and their re- 
setters. Do. 

April 16. Anent the Horses and Arms of 
such as refuse to take the Oaths. Do. 

July 31. For inbringing of the Accounts of 
the Army. Do. 

July 31. For enforcing the Acts against 
Beggars. [Copy]. Do. 

Augt. 2. For the inbringing of the Pole- 
money, and Lists of what is payed for 
Hearth money. Do. 

Augt. 3. For production of the tacks of the 
Teinds of the Bishopricks. Do. 

Dec. 18. Anent Recruits and for seizing 
Deserters. Do. 

1695. Ju^y '^1 Concerning the Church. [Act]. 
By Parliament. M S. 

„ July 27. For inbringing the Pole Tax [re- 
printed at Aberdeen]. By the Privy Coun- 
cil., Scot. 

1696. April 16. For Sheriffs to report Seizures 
of Horses and Arms ordered by Proclama- 
tion [13th March]. Do. 

June 9. Against regraiting of victual and 
Forestallers and allowing the importation 
of Victual free of Public Burden [reprinted 
Aberdeen]. Do. 



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1697-8. March 3. Anent the Poor. [Copy]. Do. 

1698-9. March 30. Re-establishment of Staple 
port at Camphire. Do. 

1703. March 31. Warrand for levying of Sea- 
men. Do. 

1703-4. Jany. 10. Persons entering or leaving 
the Kingdom require passes. Do. 

171 1. Sept. 6. For Quarantine on Ships from 
the Baltic, &c. 

1 7 14. July 30. To report diligence in the various 
Acts of Parliament against Papists and 
Non-jurors in Scotland. By the Privy 
Council England. 
„ Dec. 6. For putting the Laws in execution 
against Papists and Non-jurors. 

1714-5. Jany. 5. For the encouragement of Piety 
and Virtue, and for the preventing and 
punishing of Vice, Prophaneness, and Im- 
morality. 

1 7 16-7. March 2. Prohibiting commerce with 
Sweden. 

1720. July. Order by the Commissioners of 
Excise as to excisable liquors. By the 
Commissioners. 
„ Aug. S. For Quarantine on Ships from the 
Mediterranean. By the Lords Justices. 

1760. Oct. 25. Proclamation of George III. as 
King. 
„ Oct. 31. For the encouragement of Piety 
and Virtue, and for preventing and punish- 
ing of Vice, Prophaneness, and Immor- 
ality. 

1820. Jany. 30. Proclamation of George IV. as 
King. 

1831. Nov. 2 1. Declaringcertain Political Unions 
illegal. ^ . 

Nov. 21. For the Removal of Nuisances. 
By the Privy Council. 

Alex. M. Munro. 



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Messrs Morison Brothers will publish shortly 
a new work by Mr Nicholas Dickson, entitled 
" The Auld Scotch Precentor." 

Rev. Dr. Kidd of Aberdeen.— Messrs D. 
Wyllie & Son, Aberdeen, have just issued a 
second edition of the Rev. James Stark's bio- 
graphical work, Dr Kidd of Aberdeen. The 
work. has proved rapidly successful, haying been 
only published a short time ago. This edition 
introduces some new matter into the work, in- 
cluding a letter from Dr Beattie, author of the 
" Minstrel," and chapters dealing with the anti- 
Patronage battle, and other topics interesting 
to those who follow the lesser currents in the 
development of Scottish Church History. It 
will increase the estimation in which the book 
is held by readers of ecclesiastical biography ; 
and show the great regard in which the memory 
of the good man is still held. 



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Xiterature. 



Thomas Carlyle's Apprenticeships a Bibliogra- 
phical Essay concerning his recently disco- 
vered Writings. By JOHN MUIR. Glasgow : 
Robert M*Clure. 1893. 
This 16 page pamphlet is a reprint of an article 
in the Scots Magazine, and purports to describe 
the literary work done by Carlyle during the 
years 18 18- 1822, a period which is a tabula rasa 
in all the biographies of Carlyle. Any authentic 
information on the early literary efforts of the 
Chelsea Sage must possess an interest for his 
widespread readers and admirers. Mr Muir's 
discoveries are that the Article on Jean Etienne 
Montucla, in the 14th volume of the Edinburgh 
Encyclopcedia^ the review of Prof. Hamilton's 
work on Chemistry, as well as two translated 
articles, one from the French of Berzelius, and 
the other from the German of Prof. Mohs, all 
in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal^ were 
written by Carlisle. The evidence seems con- 
clusive ; but, on Mr Muirs testimony, the ar- 
ticles " are mostly interesting when viewed in 
the light of raw material out of which the future 
Carlyle was made." Ed. 

Witchcraft in Kenmore^ '730-57 ; Extracts from 
the Kirk Session Records of the Parish. 
Compiled by John Christie. Aberfeldy : 
Duncan Cameron & Son. 1893. 
This pamphlet surely depicts the dying embers 
of the witch-fires in Scotland. The cases tried 
and reported with infinite detail involve a cer- 
tain element of dilute superstition, which met 
with appropriate punishment in a salutary re- 
buke from the pulpit. That superstition still 
lingers in the same district, but common sense 
thinks that the game is not worth the candle of 
criminal investigation, and so it survives as an 
interesting fragment of byegone credulity. Mr 
Christie is to be commended for unearthing the 
last words and dying speeches of trials for 
witchcraft. Ed. 

A Short Account of Colonel Kyd, the Founder 
of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. Re- 
printed from Vol. IV. of the Annals of the 
Garden. Calcutta, 1893. 
This remarkable man, Robert Kyd, was born 
in 1746, and belonged to an old Forfarshire 
family, and this monograph has been issued as 
a fitting centenary memorial of his death. At 
eighteen he became a cadet of the Bengal En- 
gineers, and ran the gamut of promotion and 
obtained his Lieutenant-Colonelcy in 171 2. He 
is described as " a man of wide and varied sym- 
pathies and experience," a keen observer, and 
withal a practical man. The suggestions he 
made from time to time were listened to with 
respect and usually carried out. In 1786 he 



officially submitted the scheme of a Botanic 
Garden for the cultivation of Cotton, Tobacco, 
Tea, Coffee, and other articles. Leave being 
obtained for his plan, ground was bought near 
Shalimar, Colonel Kyd's own residence, and a 
beginning made of what has long since proved 
an entire success, in determining the economic 
value of many plants, and the suitability or 
otherwise of India as a field for their culture. 
A copy of the Will and other documents are 
given in an appendix. These, whilst they attest 
the rather singular character of Colonel Kyd, 
also attest his great sagacity and judgment. He 
was never married, and the bulk of his fortune 
he left to his relatives, several of whom made 
India the scene of their career in life. A por- 
trait accompanies the biographical sketch, which 
is presumably the work of Dr King, the present 
talented Director of the Garden. Ed. 

Theory and Practice of Navigation, By W. H. 

Barham. Cr. 8vo, pp. 160. Glasgow : W. 

Collins, Sons & Co., Ltd. 
We have here a clear and accurate introduction 
to the more advanced works on Navigation. 
The volume, in addition to other matter, con- 
tains special chapters on the mariners' compass, 
latitude and longitude, plane and other sailing, 
log and log line, a very interesting subject ; and 
also a chapter on nautical astronomy. The 
book is neat, well illustrated, and is written by 
a well known examiner in navigation. 

Eye. 

Bamcraig — Episodes in the Life of a Scottish 
Village. By GABRIEL Setoun. Cr. 8vo, 
pp. 177. London : John Murray. 
This, the work of a new author, is a good work 
and full of promise. Gabriel Setoun, we may 
safely state, is merely a nom de plume. These 
sketches are mainly descriptive of two phases 
of life, the humorous and the serious. The 
humorous are new, neatly told, and very amus- 
ing ; but it is in his description of the more 
pathetic side of life that we find a higher stand- 
ard of excellence. Bamcraig (the scene of these 
Sketches), to the casual observer was a very 
prosaic looking village, no more than a street, 
and wynds ; a somewhat muddy harbour at one 
end, yet even there our author finds the warp 
and woof of life, now grave and now gay. 
Thrums and Cruisie Sketches are precisely of 
the sajiie class of sketch, but each of these au- 
thors treats his material after his own particular 
manner. In the present series the Sketches 
which most attracted our notice were, "The 
last of the six o'clock bell," and " Touch cauld 
iron." These are literature, and we are sure 
they will live. We await with interest the pub- 
lication of more of these tales ; but think the 
French quotations are out of place. EYE. 



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828. King Charles the First's Bible,— It is 
sail! that when King Charles the First was on (he 
scaffold he placed in the hands of Bi^ihop Juion, who 
attended him in his last moments, a Bihie, addressing 
to him t lie emphatic injunction, " Remimier." Be- 
tween Bishop Juxon and Patrick Scouga], who was 
Itiahup ol Aberdeen from 1664 to 16S2, (and father of 
Ilenty Scougal, the emincnl author of the Life ef 
Cod in the Saul of Man, which tan through so many 
editions,)thereexisledaconnection,the precise nature 
of which has not been ascertained, it is certain, 
however, that Bishop Juion bequeathed 10 Bi>Jiop 
Scougal the ISible which he had received under so 
al&ctmg circumslances. 

Dr Scroggie, for some time minister at Old Aber- 
deen, liut who was afterwards Bishop of Ai^yle, 
married Bishop Scougal's eldest daughter; James 
Moir of Stoneywood, Aberdeen, married the TSishop 
of Argyte's eldest [laughter. Through this channel 
ihe Bilile originally given to Bishop Juxon descended 
to (he Moirs of Stoneywood. 

A short time before Mr Moir sold the estate this 
valuable relic was stolen (along with a gold piece kept 
as a talisman). The female servant who had stolen 
the Bible was unable to dispose of it, as its history 
was well known ; so she relumed to Stoneywood with 
il, leaving the volume at the foot of a tree, in front of 
the house, where it was found next morning. The 
depredator had offered the volume for sale to a book- 
seller in Aberdeen, who, although he declined to 
purchase it, thought proper to abstract the blank leaf 
in which the monarch's autograph was written. This 
leaf he pasted upon another old iMble, which it is said 
he disposed t« a noble collector of rarities in the 
North for a large sum, as a Bible of Charles I. 

Mr Moir died in 1782, ami at his death the volume 
came into the possession of Geu^e Skene of Kubis- 
law. lather of James Skene of Rubislaw, the last sur- 
vivor of the six fiicnds of Sir Waller Scott to whom 
he dedicated the respective cantos of "Murmion." 
Thelale DrW. F. Skene, the Historiographer-Royal, 
fur Scotland, communicated some of the aliove details 
to Dr John Sluarl, more Ilian forly years ago, and 
stated it was then in the possession ol^ his father, the 
above James Skene. 

Can any of your readers give any information — 

(1) As to who was the purchaser of the old Bible 

containing the leaf pasted into it with King 
Charles's autograph ? 

(2) Who is now the possessor of Ihe valuable relic 

itself, the authenticity of which there can he 
no doubt ? 
Aberdeen. ]. TuKREFF. 

829. Old Scottish CoitJAGE. — Tt will he a great 
favour if some one will give an accurate accoulit of the 
old Scottish Coinage, and the value of the coins re- 
latively to each other and to the money Sterling. 
'^' It least the doit, plack, bodle, groat, rm ' 



twal penies mak a pence ; twenty pence mak a pur 
and twal pund mak a pound Sterling." She of 
spoke about aod counted by deils and bodies, and 

them to hi into the Table. This month I saw a la 
dictionary giving the news that a mark was a Scot! 
coin worth 13/4 Sterling : thai lexicographer had 
ralher mixed I Was the use of a Pcnci for the S! 
ling Scotch a common word or only local ? 

Plymouth, Conn. James Gammack, LL.D 

830. Thyire and KiLBiK.NV.— About the mid 
of the Sixteenth Century, in connection with an Al 
deen family, we read of a George Meld rum of Thy 
and an Alexander Ogilvy of Kilbirny. Can an; 
your correspondents locate these places? Were t 
in Aberdeenshire? Mac 

831. The Families op Baillie and Stobo 
I shall be gratified to have any information of 
descent and marriage of Kenneth Baillie, who 
Scotland and settled in Georgia, between 1734 ; 
1740. He was a captain and prominent man in 
colony. His daughter speaks of her " plantatic 
of Dunane or Dunain, and he speaks in his wil 
sons Kenneth, Alexander, Robert Cannibe Bail 
and of daughters Jean and Ann Clay Baillie, wif 
John Irvine, Surgeon in Sunbury. I should alsc 
thankful for any information as to the parentagi 
the Rev. Archibald Stoho, who, on leaving Scotia 
lirst went to the Darien Colony, but subsequei 
settled in Carolina and became a leading mini 



Savannah, (Jeorgia. J. G. t 

' 832, Robert Feegusson,— Did this poor " P< 
breathe out his li(e in the " Darien House," i Br, 
: Edinburgh,) as Mr J. Calder Ross remarks-(V 
95)— 1 suspect not; but rathtr in the "Cells" 
joining. In the publication entitled Edinburgh 
the OlJen Time, foiio, 1880, I find a notice of " ' 
I Darien House" having lieen used as a Lunatic i 
luni, popularly known by the name of Bedlam. 
" cells was a modem huilding, situated towards 
south-east corner of the grounds- It was a gla< 
and uncomfortable habitation, Ihe exit from wl 
was by a door in the wall, at the south-east corne 
Brislo Street. A melancholy association atlache 
it, as having been the scene where poor Robert 1 
gusson, that unhappy child of genius, so wretchi 
terminated his brief career, 16th October, 1774. 
Edinburgh. Thos. G. .STEVENSor 

833, Scotch Sacrament Stamps. — In a re- 
newspaper paragraph describing an exhibition of p 
age stamps in Paris, "one of the sixpenny sla 
formerly used for Scotch Sacrament Certificates" 
referred to as a special curiosity of the show. W 
were these, and why and where were they us 
Any information regarding them, and especially 
reproduction of one in S. N. &■ Q., would be it 
appreciated. J. Caldek Ros 

834. The Fordes's of Cui.loden.— The ir 
malion contained in Burke and similar genealo^ 
works being confined to the main line, particulars 
desired concerning the collateral male descents of 
family for two generations ; — 



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(i) Captain James Forbes of Caithness (2nd son of 
Duncan Forbes I. of Culloden) married Agnes 
Munro,. daughter of George Munro of Pitlundie, 
and had issue. 

(2) Captain Duncan Forl)es of Assynt (3rd son of 

Duncan Forbes I.) married (1630) Isobell Ruth- 
ven, daughter of Patrick Ruthven, Dundee, and 
had issue. 

(3) Sir David Forbes of Newhall, Advocate, (2nd son 

of John Forbes II. of CuUoden,) married Ca- 
therine Clerk, daughter of John Clerk of Peni- 
cuik, and had issue. 

(4) Thomas Forbes, Inverness, (3rd son of John For- 

bes II.) married Jean Culhbert, daughter of 
David Cuthbert, and had issue. 

(5) Jonathan Foibes, M.D., Elgin (5th son of John 

Forbes II.) married Jane Brodie, daughter of 
James Brodie of Lethen, and had issue. 

(6) Colonel John Forbes of Pittencrieff (6th son of 

John Forbes II.) married Elizabeth Graham, 
daughter of Bailie Graham, Edinburgh, and 
had issue. 

'* Spurnit Humum." 

835. Local Coins. — A number of letters have 
been contributed to the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch 
on the subject of " Local Coinage." The following 
is a list of local halfpennies which I have compiled 
from this correspondence : — 

Brechin, 1801. 

Burntisland, 1797. 

»» J 797 J ** Burntisland Vitriol Company." 

Dundee y 1795- 

1795; "Payable at the Warehouse of 

Alex. Molison." 

1796; 1797- 

1797; "Payable by John Pilmer, 

Church Lane. 
Edinburgh,... ly^o'y "Payable to Thos. and Alex. 

Hutchison." 
...1790. 
...1790; "Payable to Thos. and Alex. 

Hutchison." 
...1791. 

Forjar, 1797- 

Glasgcnu, 1 79 1. 

Inverness, ....1793; 1 7 94. 

...1794; " Payable at Mackintosh, Inglis, 
and Wilson." 

• .1795- 
...1796. 

...1796 ; " Payable at Mackintosh, Inglis, 

and Wilson." 

Leith, ,..1796. 

1796; " Payable at the House of John 

White, Kirkgate, Leith." 

1797. 

„ 1797 ; " Payable in Leith, Edinburgh, 

and (jlasgow." 

Montrose, 179 1. 

Perth, 1797. 

n (No date) ; "Payable on demand to 

* John Ferrier,' " 

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stamped around the edge of local coins? Was it an 
early form of advertising ? Eye. 

836. Barometer. — I will be pleased to be inform- 
ed, through your medium, of the name of the inventor 
of this most useful instrument, and the date of the in- 
vention, and a reference for future information. 

Montrose. Seaman. 

837. Mary, Queen of Scots.— Very interesting 
notices appeared in S. N, <5r* Q, for the year 1888 in 
reference to the portrait belonging to the Trustees of 
Blairs College. I am sure it would be interesting to 
have a list of all the known portraits of this unfortu- 
nate Queen, and in whose possession they are, for re- 
ference, made up by some historical reader of your 
excellent periodical. 

Aberdeen. X. 

838. Alex. Johnston. — Who was the Alex. John- 
ston, referred to in "Ferryman's" answer regarding 
Kennedy Clark — S. N. &" Q.y Vol. III., p. 110— and 
where may a copy of his Descendants of James Young 
and Rachel Cruickshank be consulted ? 

Kenmore. J. C. 

The Editor forwards his own copy to the querist. 

839. Casting of the Sieve and the Shier. — 
In our Session Records for the seventeenth century 
there are instances of parties being accused of the 
heinous sin of " Casting of the Sieve and the Shier," 
in order to recover stolen property. Can any reader 
give an explanation, and oblige ? J. W. 

Hnswers. 



773. The Gordons of Glenbucket (VI., 
189). — In Jervise's Epitaphs, Vol. I., p. 69, J. G. R. 
will find the copy of a tombstone in Kirkyard of 
Kirkmichael, Banffshire, to various members of the 
Glenbucket family, who died subsequent to the escape 
of the last laird to France after Culloden. The Glen- 
bucket Gordons had a place, called St. Bridget, in 
Kirkmichael Parish. J. A. 

778. Rev. Dr James Blair : William and 
Mary College, Va. (V., 2; VII., 14, 54). — In the 
Edinburgh graduation lists. Rev. Dr James Blair took 
his M.A. in 1673 J *"^ ^is brother, Dr Archibald 
Blair, graduated in 1685 : both settled and had issue 
in Virginia. As graduating at the University of Edin- 
burgh, the Blairs were probably natives of the South 
of Scotland. William and Mary College, Va., will, 
by the present charter, continue to be on the footing 
of a Normal School for Male Teachers so long as it 
requires to be subsidized by the State. 

Plymouth, Conn. James Gammack, LL.D. 

795. The Drum (VII., 46, 93). —I am afraid that 
I have led your readers to form a wrong impression, 
from the fact that I only mentioned one, while there 
were two Drummers in the City of Aberdeen, who 
had separate districts, David Bannerman being in the 
one with which I was acquainted. I avail myself of 
the present opportunity to present your readers with 
an extract from Orem's Old Aberdeen in connection 
with this subject : — " The Drummer and his dues. 
He is ordered by the Magistrates to go through the 
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and at eight hours at night ; as also to obey their 
eommands on other occasions ; for which he hath 
yearly a salary, viz., a crown out of the Convener's 
box, and half-a-crown out of every Trade's box, with 
four shillings Scots yearly from householders, being a 
penny quarterly, or yearly, as he thinks most conve- 
nient." I have no doubt, if the records of the differ- 
ent Royal Burghs of Scotland were searched they 
would be found to contain similar references to those 
I have given as to. Aberdeen. It is not my intention 
to follow the matter further. 
Leiih. Wm. Thomson. 

800-810. Discovery of Concealed Passage 
(VII., 47 and 60). — Writing to a Correspondent, 
Mr Walker, of 380 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, 
Victoria, having seen Query 810, says that its per- 
usal recalls to his memory some of the freaks of his 
youth, and particularly the explorations by him and 
some school companions of the passage there referred 
to. He was then (1829-30-31) a lad betwixt ten and 
twelve years of age, and several times explored the 
passage which entered a little to the east of the point 
where Hanover Street now joins Commerce Street and 
Castle Terrace, but which was long ago covered up. 
He and his companions, having procured a candle, 
went, as they supposed, under the Barrack, or Castle, 
Hill, proceeding onward till they reached what they 
believed to be the centre of Castle Street. There 
" the passage turned to the right ^^"^ and fearing that 
the passage led in the direction of Marischal College, 
where "dissection was carried on," their courage 
failed them and they returned. At the time of the 
last exploration the town was in a ferment with the 
disclosures in Edinburgh of the murders of Burke and 
Hare, and the subsequent burning of the " Burking 
House," in " Hospital Row," Aberdeen; and as these 
explorations were conducted without the knowledge 
of their friends, they feared being " made away with," 
and so turned back. 

Mr Walker has not seen Mr Home's description of 
his discovery, so a copy of S, N. ^ Q., containing 
query 800 has been sent him ; but I have little doubt 
that it is part of the same passage, and that the work- 
man's light flickered because the opening had been 
closed at its entrance as before stated, and the fresh 
air excluded. Mr Home, however, omits to say on 
what side of Castle Street his operations were con- 
ducted, or where the warehouse was situated. 

[Communicated. ] 

8ii. Rev. Patrick Copeland (VH., 76).— Rev. 
Patrick Copeland (Copland or Coupland) entered the 
East India Company's service in 1612, at the age of 
40. On his relurn to England in 1616 he brought 
with him a native of India, *' borne in the Bay of 
Bengale,^ whom he had converted, and now on De- 
cember 22nd, 1616, had baptized in London by the 
name of Peter Pope^ : in the following year they re- 
turned together to India. I need not follow Cope- 
land's dates at this period, until he returned from 
Japan in 1621. That voyage of 1620-21 fixed his 
later history, as his conversations with Sir Thomas 
Dale, late Governor of Virginia, who died in 1 6 19, 



1^ The name was given by the King. 



and with Sir Thomas Gates, directed his attentioi 
Virginia, and during the voyage home in the R 
George, East Indiaman, he collected subscription: 
placing schools in that colony. His schemes 1 
approved by the Virginia Company, Henrico Col 
had already been projected, and Copeland prop< 
to have a school, called the East India School, I 
at Charles City, but dependent on the College, 
himself received a grant of land from the Comp; 
was made Rector of Henrico, and preached a g 
sermon in Bow Church, London, in presence an( 
the request of the Virginia Company, on April i 
1622.^ The sermon was published with the follov 
title, "Virginia, God be thanked; or a Sermc 
Thanksgiving for the Happie Successe of the aflfa 
in Virginia this last yeare, preached by Patrick ( 
land at Bow Church, in Cheapside, before the 1 
orable Virginia Company, on Thursday the i8t 
Aprill, 1622. And now published by the comnn 
ment of the honorable Company. Hereunto are 
joyned some Epistles, written first in Latine (and 
Englished), in the East Indies by Peter Pope, an 
dian youth, borne in the Bay of Bengale^ who was 
taught and converted by the said P. C. And j 
baptized by Master John Wood, Dr. in Diviniti< 
a famous Assembly y before the Right Worshipfu^ 
East India Company^ at St Denis, in Fan-chi 
Streete in London, December 22nd, 1616. Prii 
by J. D. for William Sheffard ?iv\d John Bellai 
and to be sold at his shop at the two Greyhound 
Corne-hill, neere the Royall Exchange, 1622." 

But while anticipations were bright in London 
hopes were dissipated at Henrico College by 
massacre carried out by the Indians on March 2: 
and the energies of Copeland took another direct 
From 1622 to 1626 he appears to have remained in I 
don, and in October, 1623, was still resolved to g 
Virginia. But probably through the influence of 
friend Nicholas Ferrar, whose father was also intei 
ed in the Somers Islands, and left a legacy of ;^3C 
found a College there for the education of the Indiai 
Virginia, he finally went thither, and remained in 
Bermudas or Somers Islands, in mid -Atlantic, fo 
least twenty years. He went in 1626, accompa; 
by his wife and daughter. He was a missionary 
also a great educationalist, especially by the foui 
tion of free schools, which were so called from 
character of the education rather than from the 
emption from fees. But his free schools were no 
all appreciated by the Governors, although in 1 
he had bought four acres of land for his schools, 
erected buildings, at a cost altogether of ;^iooo. 
his letters we trace his presence in the Somers Isia: 
I Feb., 1627-8 ; i Feb., 1632-3 ; i Jan., 163. 
10 Dec, 1638 ; 4 Dec, 1639 ; 12 Feb., 1646-7 ; 
31 July, 1647. But his residence in the Soi 
Islands was not a happy time, as religious parties ^ 

3 This date is important for several reasons. It is somet 
called April 17, sometimes April 18 : in the original order il 
to be on Wednesday, April 17th, but for some unknown re 
it was really done on the i8th, as we read on the face of C 
land's Thanksgiving Sermon. Again, it fixes the Massac 
Henrico to Friday, March 22nd, 1621-2, which was not ( 
Friday, as said by Lefroy, and the year was not the one pn 
ing 1624, as is said by the same writer. 



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bitterly at feud, and there were no elements of cohe- 
sion. The Church of England was represented by 
Copeland and other three or four ministers, but while 
Mr Bridges alone refused to renounce his Episcopal 
orders, Copeland and other two withdrew all claims 
to- the ministry, and the Congregationalist or Inde- 
pendent plan was adopted of forming a new '* Church 
by Covenant." Copeland was a ruling elder in May, 
1644. For his Puritanism he was imprisoned for 
some time, and his last letter is dated ** From Georges 
Prison, Christ's school this last day of the 7th Mo., 
'47." About this iiVDLti \.ht Liturgy 0/ Guernsey and 
Jersey was adopted in the Bermudas. Captain Sayle 
had failed in obtaining the governorship of the Islands, 
and projected an emigration to Elcutheria or Eleu- 
thera, one of the Bahama group of islands. By some 
it is said to have been for the enjoyment of " liberty 
of conscience " in living and worshij), by others for 
objects less pure in motive and duty. In 1648 seventy 
persons sailed away to Eleutheria, and among them 
was Patrick Copeland, now nearly eighty years of age. 
The colony proved a failure, and the colonists suffered 
much from want of provisions : when the Boston 
Church sent them provisions in 1650 or 1 651, the ship 
found them in great straits, but the day was Sunday, 
and the faithful minister, Mr Copeland, had just 
finished an exposition of the twenty-third psalm. He 
probably died in Eleutheria l>etween 1 651 and 1655, 
but we have no data for time or place. (Anderson, 
Col. Church, i. 259, 272, 279, 292, 306, 376, ii. 40, 
333 : Dexter, Hist. Congreg. 219, 413, 460 : Lefroy, 
Mem. Bcrmud.^ i. 75, 140, 678, 695, ii. 9, 12, 72, 
188, 653, 688 : Neill, The Founders of Maryland, 
III, Virginia Carolorum, 195, and History of Vir- 
ginia, yj'j : Punchend, Hist. Cdngreg. IV. 367 sq. : 
Records of Marischal Coll. ami Univ. , 1 59 sq. 
Plymouth, Conn. Jamks Gammack, LL.D. 

817. The Family of Caird (VII., 77).— The 
Cairds were never a clan, although probably of Celtic 
origin. The gaelic word " Ceard," signifies a worker 
in iron, properly a tinsmith, and would be applied to 
any one of that trade. In the Highlands, and adjacent 
districts, where there were not livings for settled tin- 
smiths, this class of work was done by travelling 
tradesmen, once a respectable set, but now degenerated 
into the so-called "tinks," viz.: — tinkers or tin- 
workers. These wandering tinsmiths being exposed 
from earliest childhood to all the rigours of tent life, 
were enabled to withstand hardships, too severe for 
their more refined fellowmen, hence the application of 
the yet common phrase — "There's a deal of killing 
in a Caird." I find in the sixteenth and seventeenth 
centuries, the usual way of spelling it as a family name 
was Kerd or Keard, not as now. Mac. 

820. Brig of Balgownir (VII., 92).— I have 
seen it stated in an old History of Aberdeen, that this 
unique bridge was built by Bishop Cheyne, and also 
by King Robert Bruce, both of which are in a 
measure correct, for it is understood that the Bishop 
carried out the work by the authority of the King, 
who bore the expense. Mac. 

820. It is generally believed to have been built in 
King Robert Bruce's reign, on his return from exile, 
by Bishop Cheyne. (See Robbie's "Aberdeen," 



p. 49, 1893). Bishop Elphinstone flourished more 
than a century later. 

Wandsworth. R. 

820. As bearing on this subject, I transcribe the 
following from my " Historic Scenes in Aberdeen- 
shire." Ed. 

" The erection of the bridge, both as regards the 
founder and the date, is involved in some obscurity. 
Various assertions are made. Henry Cheyne, the 
13th Bishop of Aberdeen, is said to have built the 
bridge in 1290 or 1329. On the other hand, King 
Robert Bruce is credited with having laid the founda- 
tion, although some say he only repaired it. It seems 
gratuitous to associate Bruce's name with the latter 
operation, for it is hardly to be supposed, even if the 
bridge had been built at the date, 1290, that it should 
stand in need of such serious repair as to engage the 
interest of the King, otherwise burdened with cares. 
If we do not draw a mistaken inference from histori- 
cal or traditional narrative, it may, we think, be 
shown how probable it is that both the King and the 
Bishop were identified with the building of the Brig 
o' Balgownie. It is said that Bishop Cheyne, who 
was a cadet of the ancient family of the Cheynes of 
Inverugie, in common with the other ecclesiastical 
and civil leaders in Scotland bowed the knee to Ed- 
ward of England when he overran their country. 
Cheyne appears to have been more than ordinarily 
involved in his submission (17th July, 1296,) to the 
usurper, by whom he was entrusted with the carrying 
out of certain public services, for which he merited 
and received the royal favour. In all this the Bishop 
reckoned without his host, and when Bruce, in his 
efforts to assert the freedom of his country, was like 
to be crowned with success, he fled to England for a 
time. During his absence the revenues of his See 
accumulated, and, on his restoration by Bruce, he 
represented that his error was one of judgment, and 
that he did not lack in affection to his country, for he 
spent his great wealth in erecting the Bridge of Don. 
It is just possible, however, that his doing so might 
have been a condition of his restoration, in which case 
the ICing had as important a share in the structure as 
the Bishop. It is worthy of remark, that the bridge 
is said to have been founded in 1329, and in that same 
year both Bruce and the Bishop died." 

823. Instrumf.nts of Torture (VII., 92).—- 
I fear I cannot furnish W. C. with the information he 
desires. I find, in Rodger's History of St Amire^vs, 
there is still exhibited to strangers visiting the Town 
Church an instrument somewhat in the form of a hel- 
met, composed of iron bars, and having a piece of iron 
attached for entering the mouth, being intended to be 
fastened on the head, behind the neck, by a strong 
padlock. This machine is believed to have l^een con- 
structed by command of Archbishop Sharp for the 
punishment of one Isobel Lindsay, who, in the spirit 
of furious fanaticism, had repeatedly interrupted him 
in the midst of his ministrations in the pulpit, in defi- 
ance of both the magistrates and the presbytery. In 
the Burgh Records of the Canongate, Maitland Club 
Miscellany, I find that Bessie Tailiefeir, in the Can- 
ongate, Edinburgh, having slandered Bailie Thomas 
Hunter, by saying he had in his house ane false stoup 



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(measure), which was found not to be true. She was 
sentenced to be brankit and set on the Cross for an 
hour. Patrick Gordon of Ruthven (Spalding Club). 
Three witnesses attested regarding James Middleton 
that, on being rebuked by the minister, they heard 
him say that he cared not for him, nor any minister 
in Scotland ; and when the minister threatened to put 
him in the jougs, they heard him say that neither he 
nor the best minister within seven miles durst do so 
much. 

From these facts it does not seem that much legal 
procedure was required in those days for the punish- 
ment of offenders, either civil or ecclesiastical. 

W. T. 

823. Instruments of Torture (VII., 92). — 
Since I directed attention to this subject I have been 
endeavouring, with my very limited library, to inves- 
tigate the matter, but without satisfactory results. 
Relying on your kindness, may I be permitted to say, 
that the Privy Council in the olden times had various 
instruments of torture. Some one conversant with 
Scottish history will perhaps give the names of these, 
and say who the inventors were. W. C. 

824. The Invention of Stereotyping (VII., 
92). — The inventor was understood to have been 
William Ged, an Edinburgh goldsmith. The first 
specimen of printing from stereotype plates was 
"Sallusti Historiae, Edin., Guil. Ged, Aurifaber, 
Edin. Non Typis Mobilibusexcudebat, 1739." i2mo. 

A new process was invented by Earl Stanhope, in or 
about the year 1804. The first book printed thereby 
was understood to have been '* Freylinghausen's 
Abstract of the Doctrine of the Christian Religion." 
Royal 8vo, 1804. 

Edinburgh. Thomas George Stevenson. 

824, The inventor of stereotyping was an Edinburgh 
goldsmith, William Ged, who, about 1725, brought 
out his new invention. The first books thus published 
seem to have been two prayer books. For further 
details see Chambers' s Encyclopaedia^ sub voce stereo- 
typing, and William Ged. W. B. R. W. 

824. The following paragraph, taken from Cham- 
bers's Encyclopedia^ may meet "William Caxton's" 
wants : — "William Ged, inventor of the art of stereo- 
typing, was an Edinburgh goldsmith, who, from 1725 
onwards, bent his energies to the stereotyping of 
books. He entered into partnership with a London 
capitalist, and was commissioned by the University of 
Cambridge to stereotype some prayer-books and 
Bibles, though only two prayer-books were actually 
finished ; for, owing to the unfair treatment of his 
partner and the injustice of his own workmen, Ged 
was compelled to abandon the enterprise. He 
returned to Edinburgh a disappointed man, and died 
there on the 19th October, 1749. His most note- 
worthy production, after his return home, was a 
stereotyped edition of Sallust (1739). See Nichol's 
Memoirs, 1781." 

The Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, exhibited not 
only one of the original plates used by Ged in printing 
the Sallust, but also a copy of the volume itself. It 
is claimed that this book, which was printed in 1739, 
was the first printed from stereographic plates. The 
invention was made about 1725. J. Caldbr Ross. 



825. Old Ballad (VII., 92). — Dr. Mars! 
Coupar- Angus, in his valuable work, Historic 
in Perthshire^ p. 75, gives the following vei 
the fine old Scottish lyric to which your corresp 
refers : — 

** Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 

They were twa bonnie lasses ; 
They biggit a bower on yon bum brae, 
And theekit it o'er wi' rashes. 

They theekit it o'er wi' rashes green. 
They theekit it o'er wi' heather ; 

But the pest cam' frae the burrows-toun. 
And slew them baith thegither. 

They thought to lie in Methven Kirk, 

Among their noble kin ; 
But they maun lie on Lynedoch brae. 

To beek forenent the sun. 

Oh ! Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 
They were twa bonnie lasses ; 

They biggit a bower on yon burn brae, 
And theekit it o'er wi' rashes." 

Robert Ford, in his Harp of Perthshire, 1893 
gives the same version, and says it was first pri; 
Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, under the title 
Twa Lasses." Its author is unknown ; but i 
dently the work of a local bard of the seve 
century, describing one of those pathetic tr 
that were not uncommon during the ravages 
the plague repeatedly made in Scotland i 
century. Mr. Ford also gives a love son 
humorous type, written by Allan Ramsay, 
starts with the first four lines of the original 
and mentions that this subject has also been 1 
by Robert NicoU, as well as by "the Methven 
James Duff, in the volume of his poems pu 
1 81 6. He further adds, that another ballad 
theme exists in " Auld Scots Ballads." (I 
Alexander Gardner, 1889). W. B. R 

825. In "The Legendary Ballads of Engia 
Scotland," compiled and edited by John. S. I^ 
will be found the ballad asked for by your cor 
dent, viz., "Bessie Bell and Mary Gray." 
introductory note, the compiler says : — " 
during a visitation of the plague, or pestilence 
17th century, that Bessie Bell and Mary Gn 
companions, and daughters of the Lairds of 1 
and Ledurch, in Perthshire, retired to a bower 
banks of the Almond. A young gentleman oi 
who was in love with one or other of them, p 
them their food and other necessaries ; but he 
the infection with him, and they both died. 1 
ing to the usual practice of the time, the vie 
the plague were not buried in the usual p 
sepulture, but were buried at a place called E 
Ilaugh, near the spot where they died." T 
doubt as to the authorship of the ballad ; 1 
verses which are usually sung were written b 
Ramsay. There are only four verses gi^ 
Mr Roberts : — 

O, Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 
They were twa bonnie lasses ; 

They biggit a bower on yon burn brae. 
And theekit it ower wi' rashes. 



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They theckit it ower wi' rashes green, 
They theekit it ower wi' heather ; 

But the pest cam* frae the burrows-toun, 
And slew them baith thegither. 

They thought to lie in Melhven kirkyard, 

Among their noble kin ; 
But they maun lie in Dronoch Haugh, 

On the l>ent l)efore the sun. 

And Bessie Bell and Mar>' Gray, 
They were twa bonnie lasses ; 

They biggit a bower by yon bum brae, 
And theekit it ower wi' rashes. W. 



W. 



825. If ** Bon- Accord " wishes to know where the 
Song ** Bessie Bell and Mary Gray" is to l)e found, 
he may consult 7'he Tea-Table Miscellany^ by Allan 
Ramsay, reprint of 1876, Vol. I, p. 54; The Poems of 
Allan Ramsay^ edition of 1800, Vol. 11., p. 224 ; 
Ancient and Modern Scottish Son^s^ by David Herd, 
Kerr & Richardson's edition, 1869, Vol. I., p. 199; 
The Caledonian Musical Museum^ Vol. II., printed in 
1 8 10, p. 79 ; The SonjE^i of Scotland, by Robert Cham- 
bers, 1829, Vol. I., p. 225; The Son^s of Scotland, 
Glasgow, 1 87 1, p. 80 ; Tlu Book 0/ Scottish Song^ by 
Alexander Whitelaw, 1875, p. 362. 

The Ballad of " Bessy Bell and Mary Gray" is to 
be found in A Ballad Book, privately printed in 1823, 
by the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, p. 62 ; The 
Scottish Ballads, by Robert Chambers, 1829, p. 146 ; 
The Ballads of Scotland, by W. E. Aytoun, 1858, 
Vol. II., p. 363 ; and both the Song and Ballad 
are to be found in The Songs of Scotland, by Allan 
Cunningham, T825, Vol. III., pp. 58-60; and Songs 
of Scotland, by Charles Mackay, pp. 27-29. 

The Song, with the exception of the first four lines, 
was written by Allan Ramsay. The author of the 
Ballad is unknown ; it was recovered and first 
printed by Mr Sharpe. James Gordon. 

825. The original version of this ballad, '* The Twa 
Lasses," author unknown, was rescued from oblivion 
by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and is included in his 
*' Ballad Book." The following is word for word 
from Sharpe's Collection : — 

O Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 

They war twa bonnie lasses ! 
They biggit a bower on yon burn brae, 

And theekit it o'er wi' rashes. 
They theekit it o'er with heather, 

But the pest cam' frae the burrows town, 
And slew them baith thepither. 

They thought to lye in Methven Kirkyard, 

Among their noble kin. 
But they maun lye in Stronach Haugh, 

To biek forenent the sin. 
And Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 

They war twa bonnie lasses ! 
They biggit a bower on yon burn brae, 

And theekit it o'er wi rashes. 

The modern version, ** Bessie Bell and Mary Gray,'* 
was written by Allan Ramsay, the first stage of the 
original only having been retained : — 

O, Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 
They were twa bonnie lasses ; 



They biggit a bouir on yon bom-brae, 

And theekit it ower wi' rashes. 
Fair Bessie Bell I lo'ed yestreen, 

And thocht I ne'er could alter. 
But Mar}* Gray's twa pawky een 

They gar my fismcy ^ter. 

Bessie's hair's like a lint tap. 

She smiles like a May moming, 
When Phoebus starts frae Thetis lap. 

The hills with rays adorning ; 
White is her neck, saft is her hand. 

Her waist and feet fii' genty ; 
With ilka grace she can command : 

Her lips, O, wow ! they're dainty. 

But Mar}''s locks are like the craw. 

Her een like diamond's glances ; 
She's aye sae clean, redd-up and braw ; 

She kills whene'er she dances ; 
Blythe as a kid, wi' wit at will, 

She blooming, tight, and tall is ; 
And guides her airs sae gracefii' still : 

O, Jove, she's like thy Pallas. 

Dear Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, 

Ye unco sair oppress us ; 
Our fancies jee between ye twa, 

Ye are sic bonnie lasses. 
Wae's me ! for baith I canna get ; 

To ane by law we're stented ; 
Then I'll draw cuts, and tak' my fate, 

And be wi' ane contented. 

Ford very justly remarks on this ballad that, "It is a 
performance not without merit ; but as the author has 
dared to transform the burden of the verses from the 
tender pathos to lively humour, we give him credit 
for it with a grudge, for the good reason, that in so far 
as his version gains popularity, a sweetly-pathetic 
historic romance loses its hold on the public mind." 
The celebrated Bessie Bell and Mary Gray lie buried 
near Lynedoch. According to tradition, Bessy Bell 
was on a visit to Mary Gray, and on the outbreak of 
the plague (in 1665), they retired to a cottage, or 
bower, about a mile from Lynedoch House, for 
safety. They escaped the scourge for some time, but 
at last fell victims, having caught the infection frona a 
youth, who being in love with them both, supplied 
them with food, and here they died. Eye. 

825. Different versions of the ballad will l)e found 
in *' Chambers's Ballads," "Lyle's Ancient Ballads 
and Songs," "Child's Ballads," and " Stenhouse's 
Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland." Historic notes 
are attached to each version. The authorship of the 
ballad is not mentioned in any of these collections. 
In Lyle's Ballads the following note is added : — 
"The fragment here collated is from the singing of 
two aged persons, one of them a native of Perthshire. 
It is to be regretted that none of the intermediate 
stanzas of this fine old ballad are upon record, neither 
Bannatyne nor Maitland has the ballad entered in their 
MSS., whilst all the information gahied respecting it 
is obtained from country traditions. Elizabeth Bell 
is said to have been a gentleman's daughter in Perth- 
shire, while Mary Gray belonged to the House of 



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LynedDch. The ladies were intimate friends, anil 
while ihe plague rased in Scotland, in 1666, they 
retired toa. glen near Lynedoch, toavoid the ciiiitBgion, 
and there built for themselves a liower, where they 
might have remained in security, until its liiiy had 
been spent, but for the imprudence of a young gentle- 
man, ardently attached to one of the young ladies, 
and who imparled to bolh the contagion, when they 
drooped and died. A luge flat stone rests above 
their remains, pointing out to strangers the site of 
[heir interment. A few years ego, the authorship of 
the ballad was the siilijecl of a spiriteil correspondence 
in the pages of the Siotsman. 

Peterhead. W. L. T. 



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Nicknames of Scottish Towns.— The 
nickname for Paisley, quoted by Mr Scott, 
should read ** Seestu," not " Seestee." It ori- 
ginated, as I understand, in quite recent times, 
in connection with a story told about an Edin- 
burgh beadle, who, when showing a strange 
minister the sights of the metropolis from the 
Calton Hill, pointed to this and that church or 
other public edifice, with this introductory for- 
mula, Seestu yon spire, &c., as the case might 
be, and then followed up the affirmative answer 
which he received with the comment — Well, the 
minister, precentor, &c., as happened to be the 
case, is a Paisley man. The story is told, if I 
remember right, in the life of Dr James Hamil- 
ton of London. It seems to have taken the 
public fancy, and is no doubt the origin of the 
name. Mr Scott has not given Stirling's sobri- 
quets, which, I believe, are at least two, if not 
more, viz., " The City of the Rock," and " Snow- 
down." W. B. R. W. 

Oban Church Bell (VII., 94).— The fol- 
lowing quotation from the Oban Parish Maga- 
zine for August of this year, will prove supple- 
mentary : — " From the inscription it appears 
that the bell was made in ulasgow in the year 
1786, for the use of said congregation. It is 
doubtful, however, if the bell ever reached Ame- 
rica. It appears more likely that the ship in 
which it was sent was wrecked upon the coast 
of Mull ; for it is told that a certain man named 
Mackenzie, whose home was at Easdale, having 
occasion to go ashore at Mull, found the bell 
upon that island, got it put on board of his boat, 
and took it with him to Easdale. Mackenzie 
afterwards came to reside in Oban. He brought 
the bell with him, and it then passed into pos- 
session of the Stevensons, who fixed it up in 
their shipbuilding yard at Argyle Square, and 
there it rang the workmen in and out. Later, 
it was taken to Kilbride Church, where it was 
hoisted among the branches of a strong tree, 
and served as a monitor of the times, until in 
the same service it was removed into Oban in 
1 82 1, and erected on the belfry of the church." 
At the same time, the Oban Titnes promised 
some quotations from a letter received from 
Hagerstown by the Provost, as well as some 
sentences from the Hagerstown Mail in regard 
to the bell, but, so far as I know, the promise 
is yet unfulfilled. 

J. Calder Ross. 

Resurrection Times (VII., 95).— The va- 
rious means adopted to prevent body-snatching, 
at the beginning of the present century, yet re- 
quire notmg down, so far as I know. That relays 
of watchers were appointed in most cases is 
matter of common knowledge, and may possibly 
account for many of the ghost-stories at present 




current in country places. That watchtowers 
or small out-houses were specially erected for 
the accommodation and comfort of these pious 
souls is also well known. But preventive 
measures went farther, as many of our grave- 
yards testify, through the thick-barred gratings 
which still cover a number of the lairs. Special 
means which reached below the surface were 
also adopted. Recently (I am sorry that I ne- 
glected to note the " where " and the " when ") 
a huge cage of iron netting, which had evidently 

enclosed the coffin, was 
exhumed. In the parish 
churchyard of Colinton, 
near Edinburgh, there still 
lies a massive and heavy 
iron case, wanting the bot- 
tom, as was necessary, 
which it was customary to place over a newly 
buried coffin, until the natural lapse of time ren- 
dered further precautions useless. I give a 
slight sketch of this iron case as it now appears, 
and hope that other artifices to baulk the " re- 
surrectionists " may be put on record. 

J. Calder Ross. 

Bibliography of Aberdeen Periodical 
LiTERATURK.— Gi/comsfon Parish Church Mag- 
azine is a post 4to Annual of 12 pp., with a green 
cover. No. i is printed by G. & W. Eraser, 
April, 1892 ; and No. 2 by James Blair, May, 
1893. The object of this serial is to promote 
the work of the Young Men's Fellowship Associa- 
ation of the Gilcomston Parish Church, a print 
of which forms the frontispiece to No. i, and a 
portrait of Dr Kidd, the well-known minister 
of the church, that of No. 2. The articles are 
chiefly religious, educational, and literary, con- 
tributed by the members of the Church Guild. 
The first number was edited by Mr Wm. Hen'lry, 
and the second by Mr John Wisely. J. B. 

"Yule" and "Yeel".—" What!" said the 
late Provost Jamieson nearly seventy years ago, 
who had come from England to take charge of 
Richards & Co.'s works at Montrose — " What is 
the reason," said he to one of the hands, ** that 
the work is stopped this morning ?" " Auld Yule, 
sir," was the reply. " Oh !" exclaimed the Pro- 
vost, without comprehending the word. He met 
another, and repeated the same question, and 
got for an answer — " Auld Yeel, sn"." Finally, 
he met the head overseer. ** George," said he, 
" can you tell me how the work is stopped ? I 
asked one fellow, and he groaned * Yule,' and 
then another, and he squeaked 'Yeel !" but what 
the deuce they meant I can't make out." The 
overseer explained the matter : It was Old 
Christmas, and that it was a Montrosian who 
groaned "Yule," and an Aberdonian who 
squeaked " Yeel ! " — Montrose Reinew, 



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He was a zc«alous antiquarian, and had an ex- 
tensive knowledge of botany and geology. He 
had strong literar)' tastes, and contributed many 
short papers, mostly in the form of letters, to 
the various newspapers of the day. 

Many of his contributions on antiquarian sub- 
jects have appeared in A'ofes and (2ueries^ and 
he was a frequent and valued contributor to Scot- 
tish Notes and Queries. Shortly after taking 
up his residence at Carnoustie he published a 
volume of Antiquarian Sketches, which is now 
very scarce. It is an octavo, and is entitled 
" Ancient Things in Angus : a series of Articles 
on Ancient Things, Manners, and Customs in 
Forfarshire, by John Carrie. Arbroath : Thomas 
Buncle. 1881." The preface mentions that 
the articles were originally published in the 
Arbroath Guide^ in the years 1879-81. The 
book deals with the antiquities of the county, 
such as the various Roman camps, the Abbeys 
of Coupar-Angus and Arbroath, the Castles of 
Glamis, Panmure, Kelly, Edzell, &c., the round 
tower of Brechin, and many other cognate sub- 
jects. The work extends to 156 pp., and is 
illustrated by a view of Arbroath Abbey and by 
a map of Forfarshire. 

Mr Carrie was 74 years of age, and has left a 
family of three sons and five daughters. 



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OLD BALLAD. 

Dr NicOL of Alford has sent us the following 
Ballad for preservation in our pages. It pos- 
sesses the interest of never having been in 
print before, and we accompany the ballad 
with the authentication of its original tran- 
scriber. Ed. 

THE GRISLY GHAIST O' BAIRNSDALE. 

I have been advised by some of my friends, 
whose opinion I value, to publish the following 
ballad, which was taken down by my wife, from 
the lips of her grandmother, at Sunnyside, Fyvie, 
in the autumn of 1870. Mrs Greig, my wife's 
grandmother, is now in her 84th year. She is a 
native of the parish of Fyvie, and learned the 
ballad when a girl from her grandmother, also 
a native of the parish. Many old people in the 
parish know the ballad and can repeat a verse 
or two of it ; and all agree that it is of great an- 
tiquity. On my asking Mrs Greig " how old 
the ballad was supposed to be when she was 
young ?" she replied, " Oh, just as auld as it is 
yet." About 40 years ago, the late Wm. Gordon, 
Esq. of Fyvie, knowing the legend, and having 
heard some words of the ballad, tried to recover 
the whole of it ; and at his instance Mrs Greig, 
among others, was applied to by her brother, 
the late Rev. John Stott, schoolmaster, Fyvie, 



but although she knew that she had sung it when 
a girl, it had then entirely escaped her memory ; 
but now, in her old age, the old ballad comes 
back to her with the clearness and freshness of 
other memories of her youth. In the very few 
instances where a line or part of a line was im- 
perfectly remembered, or entirely wanting, the 
attempt at restoration is indicated by the print- 
ing being in italics. 

Bairnsdale is a small farm on the estate of 
Fyvie, distant from the parish church about a 
quarter of a mile, and lying along the road lead- 
ing from the church to Woodhead. It is distant 
about a mile from the Den of Dinnilair, a ravine 
running from below Woodhead to the banks of 
the Ythan, which was the chief haunt of the 
ghost, and in this Den was " the hole, where the 
grisly ghaist he lay." 

John Forbes. 
Mains of Fyvie Cottage, 
2 1 St Dec, 1872. 



THE GRISLY GHAIST O' BAIRNSDALE. 

*' I'm the widow o' Bairnsdale, 
An' I live on the ley, 
An' the grisly ghaist comes to my door 
I' the mornin' afore day. 

He winna gang awa' frae me 

For shout nor yet for cry ; 
He winna gang awa' frae me 

I' the mornin' afore day, 

Till I hae gi'en the faith and troth 

That lies in my richt han', 
That I will gar my twa sons gang 

Seek the hole that he lies in." 

The widow was sick, an' vera sick, 

An' sick an' like to dee, 
An' she sent for her a in twa sons 

To come to her presentlie. 

In it cam' her eldest son, 
Wi' his Mess-buik on his briest, 
" What aileth thee, my mither dear ? 
For ye ken weel I'm a priest." 

An' in it cam' her youngest son, 
Wi' his Mess-buik on his heart. 

What aileth thee, my mother dear? 
For ye ken weel I'm a clerk." 

I'm the Widow o' Bairnsdale, 

An' I live on the ley, 
An' the grisly ghaist comes to my door 

I' the mornin' afore day. 

He winna gang awa' frae me 
For shout nor yet for cry ; 

lie winna gang awa' frae me 
I' the mornin' afore day, 

Till I hae gi'en the faith and troth 
That lie in my richt han', 



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That I will gar my twa sons gang 
Seek the hole that he lies in. '* 

They sent a messenger through the ian' 

They sent him quietlie 
To warn eleven armed men 

To come and gang them wi*, 

To warn eleven buirdly men. 
Well armed from head to heel, 

An' wi' as mony guid grey hunds, 
Could bark an' bite as weel. 

They sought it up the ferny bank, 

An' down the ferny brae, 
Or that they cam' unto the hole 

Whaur the grisly ghaist he lay. 

The armed meit began to shak\ 
The dogs their tails did lout. 

An' syne the earth began to quak', 
An' the grisly ghaist cam' out, 

An' a' the eleven armed men 

They ran awa' wi' speed ; 
An' a' the eleven guid grey huns 

They ran as they were mad. 

The armed men they ran wi^ speed, 

Nane ever luiket back. 
Unless the widow's ain twa sons, 

An' they stood up an' spak* ; 

'* I conjure, I conjure ye grisly ghaist, 
I pray Guid conjure ye. 
Gin ye hae onything to say 
I pray ye tell't to me." 

** I was forester in this wud 

For thretty years and three, 
An' I was kill't in red war slain 
At the fit o' this greenwood tree. 

I steed i' the door o' Mary Kirk,^ 
An' heard me cursed thrice, 

A' for a pair o' dog leather gloves, 
Three pennies was the price. 

Ye dae gang doon, an' further doon. 
To the fit o' yon greenwood tree, 

An' there you'll get your mither's troth 
That she has gi'en to me, 

Ye'll get your mither's faith and troth 
But an' three hunner pun' ; 

An' I'll never come back to Bairnsdale, 
To fleg neither woman nor man." 



1 Note.— The first line of this verse was taken down from the 
1 ips of Widow Clark, South Crichie, and this is the only instance 
where Mrs Greig's version of the ballad has been rejected. The 
three versions of the lines current in the parish are : — 

" I steed i' the door o' Mary Kirk." 
•• I steed i' the door o' Haly Kirk." 
" I steed mysel' in guid kirk door." 

The first has been reluctantly adopted, on the advice of some 
friends \vho prefer it, because the Priory of Fyvie, founded by 
King William the Lion in the i^th century, was dedicated to 
Saint Mary the Virgin. There is, however, some reason for 
supposing that the second version, " Haly Kirk," may have 
been the original expression, and changed to "Mary Kirk" 
after the erection of the Priory. The third version is evidently 
a modern corruption, and after the Reformation, 



NOTABLE MEN & WOMEN OF BANFFS 
( Continued from p. 102, Vol. VII.) 

XV. 

229. Weir, George, A.M., a native of Al 
was Schoolmaster of Turriff in 1848, became 
of Banff Academy in 1850, and a few years af 
appointed to be a Professor of Classical Liters 
Queen's College, Canada. 

230. Willox, Gregor. A so-called Wizard 
name figured in the Village of Tomintoul in tl 
century, about whom very remarkable storie 
been told. 

231. Wilson, Fleetwood Pellew: Successful E 
Man. Son of a Lieutenant in the Navy, whc 
his son after Admiral Pellew. He was borr 
the year (181 1), in the town of Portsoy. H 
early to sea in the East India Company's servic 
after a time settled at Bahia in Brazil, in part 
with his brother Edward. By-and-by, the t 
extending, Fleetwood came to London ant 
blished himself as a shipbroker and shipown 
course of time he became a Director of the 
Bank of London, and had a share in many bi| 
cial concerns. He died in London about 188 
74 years. At his death he left about a mi 
money. 

232. Wilson, George Washington : Photoi 
Artist. A native of Banffshire, Mr Wilson i 
life studied at the Art School, Edinburgh, aloi 
James Cassie and John Faed, and for somi 
practised art as a portrait painter. Taking, h( 
to photography, in which art he was one of th 
eers, he obtained the highest reputation for h 
and had the honour of being appointed Photoj 
to Her Majesty in Scotland. Mr Wilson, wh 
member of the Aberdeen Chamber of Comme 
in the Town Council from 1880 till 1882. 
born about 1815, and died in 1893. His son, 
T. Wilson, is a great financial authority, and 
Editor of the Standard. 

233. Wilson, Andrew, A.M., a native of ( 
educated at King's College, where he gradu 
1837, was appointed to the Parish School of A 
1 84 1, and in 1850 was made Rector of John "V\ 
Institution, Edinburgh ; and, after holding th 
for several years, he became Minister of Loc 
from which position he retired to Edinburgh, a 
there some years ago. 

234. Wilson, James, of Grenada : Benefactc 
native place. This gentleman, who proceedec 
West Indies and prospered there, left upw; 
;^50C)0 to found and endow the Banff Academ 
seems to have died before 1820. V. Crami 
188. 

235. Wilson, James Hall ( Rev.) : Congrej 
Divine and Author. Born at Cullen, 1st Ma> 
he was educated at the Grammar School the 
Dr Cramond says was *'the best scholar in the s 
Though intended by his father for commerc 
James, who had meanwhile learned shorthar 
who was fond of literature, obtained in 1835 
pointment as reporter and editor on the A 
Advertiser. That paper was discontinued ii 
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sub-editor for six years, and spent his spare hours at- 
tending classes at Marischal College. In 1843 ^^ 
went to Birmingham and became associated with the 
late Joseph Sturge in promoting the cause of civil and 
religious freedom. Here he edited the Birmingham 
Pilot, with Herbert Spencer as his " Sub" ; but 
when the Corn Laws were repealed the paper was 
discontinued, and he then got an appointment on the 
Morning Chronicle. On the demise of that paper in 
1847 he proceeded to Aberdeen to edit The North of 
Scotland Gazette. This afforded him a means of com- 
pleting his course of study at Marischal College, espe- 
cially in the Moral Philosophy and Divinity Classes, 
so as to fit him for the ministry in the Congregational 
body, with which he had been long connected. Dur- 
ing this period he began the Albion Street Mission in 
1848, and for ten years carried it on, until invited to 
become Secretary of Home Missionary Society in con- 
nection with the Congregational Church. This office 
he held for twenty years, retiring in 1878, when he 
became pastor of " Collier's Rents Congregational 
Church, which prospered so greatly under his mi- 
nistry that, when he resigned in his 8ist year, he left 
behind him a new chapel and an attached people. 
He has retained for many years his connection with 
the Times as a " Special," and was the representative 
of that paper at the Evangelical Alliance meeting in 
Florence, doing also special work at Rome, Naples, 
Pompeii, and Milan. Among his published writings 
are — Bon- Accord Repository of Local Institutions ; 
The Early History of Christianity in Scotland ; 
Character and Influence of Satan ; History of the 
Albion Street Alission ; Our Moral Wastes and Hoiv 
to Reclaivi Them ; Life and Labour in Christ's Vine- 
yard ; Brands Plucked from the Burning ; Life of the 
late Prince Consort ; also several pamphlets. 

236. Wilson, Sir James Milne : Australasian States- 
man. Born in March, 181 2, Mr Wilson left home 
when little more than a boy. His education had been 
limited ; but, being a careful student, his knowledge 
on almost every subject was extensive. He was 
Mayor of Hobart Town in 1868, when he entertained 
the Duke of Edinburgh. He was also Prime Minister 
of Tasmania in 1872, while Mr Trollope was on a visit 
to the Australian Colonies, and that writer speaks in 
the highest terms of the Colonial Statesman's abilities. 
He was created a knight in 1873, and afterwards be- 
came President of the Legislative Council. He died 
in 1880, on his 6ist birthday. The Melbourne Argus 
said of him —He was, perhaps next to the late William 
Robertson, the most popular man in Hobart Town or 
perhaps in Tasmania. His intercourse with friends 
and opponents (he had no enemies) was uniformly 
characterised by geniality, courtesy, conciliation, and 
consideration for the feelings of others. 

237. Wilson, Robert, M.D.: Traveller, &c. A 
native of Banff, and born there in 1787, Mr Wilson, 
after receiving a liberal education at Banff, Aberdeen, 
and Edinburgh, became surgeon and purser on board 
an East Indiaman. A passionate desire for travel led 
him to Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine, India, 
China, and many other countries, in the course of 
which he was imprisoned by the Arabs, and had many 
other adventures. He was Private Secretary to the 



Marquis of Hastings while the latter was Governor of 
Malta. Dr Wilson finally settled down at Glenairnie, 
Edinkillie, and died in 1871. He bequeathed to the 
University of Aberdeen the bulk of his fortune, 
amounting to ;f 9000, together with his library, and 
collection of antiquities, paintings, &c. He is the 
Founder of the Wilson Exploration Scholarship, and 
the Donor of the Wilson Museum, Marischal College, 
Aberdeen. 

238. Wilson, Peter, LL.D. : Scholar and Linguist. 
Born Ordiquhill, 23rd November, 1746, and educated 
at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he emigrated to 
America in 1753, and became Principal of Mackenzie 
Academy, New Jersey. An active Whig of the Re- 
volution, he was chosen Member of the Legislature, 
1778-83. Dr Wilson published an Introduction to 
Greek Prosody, 181 1, and an edition of Adam's Roman 
Antiquities^ 1819 ; also an edition of the Greek New 
Testament, which was republished in 1859. He died 
in 1825. 

239. Abercromby, Sir Alexander, Bart,, M.P. : 
Public Man. Son of Alexander, who was grand fal- 
coner to Charles I., and was created a Baronet in 
1636, he was probably born about (161 1 ), became 
M.P. for Banffshire, 1640-1, also 1643 (Convention), 
1646-7 and 1648, when he was laird of Birkenbog, 
also 1 66 1 -3. He died about (168 ). 

240. Abercromby, Alexander, il/./l, of Tullibody. 
Public Man. Second son of No. 221 he succeeded to 
Tullibody estates in 1699, and was chosen M.P. for 
Clackmannanshire, 1703-7. He was grandfather of 
the famous General Sir Ralph Abercromby. He died 

in 1755- 

241. Abercromby, Sir James, Bart., M.P, : Public 
Man. Born Birkenbog (1668), eldest son of No. 221, 
he became M.P. for Banffshire, 1693-1712. He died 
in 1734. 

242. Abercromby, Sir Robert, Bart., M.P, : Public 
Man. He was Member for Banffshire in 1812-18, and 
died in 1855. 

243. Allan, Andrew, M.A., H.M. Inspector of 
Schools, was born in the Parish of Alvah, August 31, 
1843. Educated chiefly at the Parish School, he en- 
tered King's College in 1859 and graduated in 1863. 
Though his preliminary training was but indifferent, 
his talent was such that he attained speedily to a high 
position in the classical and philosophical departments 
of study. His genius as a teacher was early disco- 
vered, and, after filling one or two posts in that capa- 
city, he was appointed English Master in Milne's In- 
stitution, Fochabers, in 1866. Two years thereafter 
the Rectorship falling vacant he was promoted to that 
office. The splendid work he accomplished coming 
under the notice of the Duke of Richmond, he was 
nominated in 1875 ^^r an Inspectorship of Schools. 
Officiating first in the Glasgow district, and subse- 
quently in Aberdeen, he was promoted to the full 
charge of Banffshire and Orkney in 1886. In this 
important sphere he has exerted a most wholesome 
influence, and is recognised as a high authority on all 
educational questions of the present time. He pos- 
sesses an extensive knowledge of our country's history 
and literature. He is a keen observer of Scottish life 
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diction, and excels as a speaker and lecturer on what- 
ever topic he chooses to discuss. 

244. Allauy James (Rev.), M.A., Minister of the 
Parish of Marnoch. Born at Barnhills on 8th Oct., 
1830, educated at Rothieraay and Cullen, he entered 
Marischal College in 1844, and graduated in 1848, 
obtaining " honourable distinction " and the Mathe- 
matical Bursary (Gray's) of £(>o. He was first ap- 
pointed Schoolmaster at Deskford in 1850, and there- 
after, having studied for the Church, he was soon 
recognised as an able and popular preacher, and re- 
ceived promotion after promotion, first to Grantown, 
next to Grange, and then to Keith. While at Keith 
he was instrumental in providing and endowing a 
church in the adjoining village of Newmill. The im- 
portant Parish of Marnoch ^coming vacant in 1880 

' he was at once elected to that charge, where he still 
ministers to a large and attached congregation. 

245. Allan, John : Grain Merchant. A native of 
Retannoch, Rothiemay, and sprung from a humble 
rank in life, Mr Allan, by industry and energy, became 
perhaps the most successful and enterprising merchant 
in his native county. He first occupied the small 
farm of Barnhills, but settled afterwards in Portsoy, 
where his business transactions extended over the 
whole of the North of Scotland. He died in 1876, 
aged 75, when his minister, the Rev. W. W. Peyton, 
preached a beautiful funeral sermon about him, which 
has been printed. His elder son is the Minister of 
Marnoch, mentioned above. 

246. Bairdy Andrew (Bailie), M.P. : Red-hot 
Covenanter. He was a member of the 1658 Assem- 
bly. And besides serving his native town as Bailie 
for many years, he was also M. P. for the Burgh in 
the years 1628-33, 1639-40. 

247. Barry, Maltman: Eccentric Politician. He 
was the unsuccessful Unionist candidate for BanfiT- 
shire in 1892. His political career has been remark- 
able. In his hot youth he knew Karl Marx : but the 
Turkish crisis found him rabidly Jingo. In a moment 
of enthusiasm he scrambled up the plinth of Nelson's 
Monument in Trafalgar Square, wearing a red fez, 
and waving a Turkish flag. He claims to be the cre- 
ator of the Independent Labour Party : and is, I be- 
lieve, a native of Banffshire. 

248. Black, fames, [oumalist, and Provost of Elgin, 
an older brother of the distinguished Professor noticed 
below, is a native of Glenrinnes. After an apprentice- 
ship in the Journal Office, Banff, he went to Elgin, 
and became Editor of the Elgin Courant, and soon 
after chief proprietor of that paper. He possesses 
much of the talent of his brother, being an accom- 
plished writer and speaker on public topics. He has 
long filled the post of Chief Magistrate of Elgin, and 
holds other important posts in that county and district. 
Some years ago he bought the fine farm of Sheriffston, 
where he now resides. 

249. Black, James Watt, M,A., M.D, : a native of 
Fordyce, educated at Rothiemay and Grammar School, 
Aberdeen, entered King's College in 1855, gaining 
second bursary. His course was highly distinguished, 
especially in Mathematics. He graduated in 1859, 
when he carried off the Simpson Prize of ;£"6o for 
Mathematics. Proceeding next to Edinburgh to study 



medicine, he became the first student of his year, car- 
rying off highest honours in more than one subject of 
study. Sir James Y. Simpson engaged him as his 
assistant, and Dr Black, after obtaining much valuable 
insight and guidance under this famous Physician, 
went to London, and rapidly secured a fine practice 
in ihe West End. He is now largely employed as a 
consulting physician. He was lately called in in the 
case of Professor Jowett. 

250. Black, John (Rev,), M.A., LL.D., Eminent 
Scholar, Professor of Humanity in the University of 
Aberdeen. He was born in Glenrinnes, Jan. 14, 1834, 
educated at the local school and afterwards at Keith, 
whence he proceeded to King's College in 1857, gain- 
ing the third Bursary. His subsequent career was 
unusually brilliant in every department of study. Un- 
rivalled in the mathematical classes, he carried off the 
Simpson prize of £(iO, while he was surpassed in clas- 
sics by only one compeer, who afterwards became 
Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, and is now the well 
known Sir James Stirling. At the close of his curri- 
culum he accepted the post of Schoolmaster of Ban- 
chory-Devenick. While there he passed the Dick 
Bequest examination with such distinction that he was 
awarded a special prize of ;f 30 — the highest ever 
given. This success led to his promotion to an In- 
spectorship of Schools in 1857. Serving first under 
Dr Woodford, in the Edinburgh district, he was next 
transferred to the Aberdeen district, including that 
county, Kincardine, and Forfar. A vacancy occur- 
ring in the chair of Humanityjn the University in 
1868 he was appointed. Of him at the time it was 
affirmed, that he was the one man that was competent 
to take up the duties of any chair in the University. 
During his incumbency no one in the north com- 
manded more influence and esteem than the portly 
and accomplished Professor of Humanity. When the 
Education Act came into force in 1873 he was elected 
a member of the Aberdeen School Board, and from 
his vast educational knowledge and experience he be- 
came virtually consulting counsel, and was exten- 
sively employed by the Education Department in 
settling difficulties as to school sites, &c., throughout 
the whole North of Scotland. At next election he 
became Chairman of the Aberdeen Board, when 
he contrived and initiated a policy which will long 
stand as a memorial of his wisdom and foresight. 
With startling suddenness this great and good man 
was cut off November 17th, 1881, in his 47th year. 
'''' Multis ille bonis Jiebilis occidit^ Amongst many 
expressions of sympathy from all parts of the country 
Her Majesty the Queen sent to the widow a most gra- 
cious message of sympathy and condolence. It must 
be added that he was licensed as a preacher and had 
the honour of preaching before the Queen and also 
before the General Assembly. No man of the century, 
born in the county of Banff, better deserves to be in- 
cluded among its Notables. 

251. Chalmers^, Alexander, of Cluny : Benefactor 
of his native county. Born 1765, he was a successful 
business man, and dying in 1835 left ;f 70,000 to found 
a Hospital for the Sick Poor of Banffshire, in the 
county town of Banff. 

252. Donald f Robert : Journalist. Bom Banffshire 



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about 1861, his first journalistic experience was on the 
Edinburi:;h Evenin_^ News. Thence he passed to 
Northampton and finally to London, where he was 
employed on the Pail Mall Gazette. In 1893 ^*^ ^^" 
came Kditorof the new journal London^ which devotes 
itself to the local affairs of that great city. 

253. Gordon^ Adam (Professor ) : Continental 
Scholar. Dr Cramond, quoting the Birth Brieves, 
Aberdeen, for 3rd October, 1648, finds that this gen- 
tleman, who was Principal and Professor of the Greek 
tongue in the College of Mell in P'rance, was son of a 
William Gordon, who had been a Baillie in Banff. 

254. Gordon, William Robert, General. Third son 
of the late General Gordon, C.B. of Lochdhu. Born 
at Inverlochy, Kirkmichael, where his father resided, 
he removed with his family to Lochdhu, Nairn, and 
was educated at the Academy there, having as a 
schoolfellow the late Colonel Grant of the Nile. At 
an early age he entered the Bengal army and served 
in India for thirty-two years. Returning to Nairn 
about ten years ago he spent the evening of his days 
in that quiet retreat, taking a great interest in county 
business. He died on 8th June, 1893, in his 66th 
year. 

255. Hardie,John: Minor Poet. Born 1849, J" 
Gamrie, the son of a crofter, he was bred to Garden- 
ing, which occupation he still follows at Brechin. 
Having written a number of fair verses, Mr Edwards 
of that town gives him a place in the l6th volume of 
his Modem Scottish Poets. 

2.<^(i. Keith, George Skene, D.D. : Established 
Church Divine and Author. The representative of 
what I understand is the Banffshire family of Auqu- 
horsk or Afforsk, and born 6th Nov., 1752, Mr Keith 
was educated at Marischal College, where he gradu- 
ated in 1770. Having studied for the Church, he 
was ordained Minister of Keithhall in 1778, had D.D. 
from his Alma Mater in 1803, and was translated to 
Tulliallan in 1822, where he died in 1823. Described 
as an active minister and eloquent preacher, he was 
also a somewhat prolific author. Among his writings 
are the following : — Sermons and Discotirses, 1785 ; 
Tracts on Weights, Measures, and Coins, 1791 ; 
Tracts on the Com Laws, 1792 ; An Impartial View 
of the Present State of Great Britain, 1797 ; Life and 
Writings of George Campbell, D.D., 1880 ; &c., &c. 

257. Mackintosh, James, M.A., Minister of Desk- 
ford, a native of Ordequhill, received his early educa- 
tion at the Parish School of Croy, Nairnshire. Gra- 
duated M.A. at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1 831, 
and was licensed by the Presbytery of Dingwall in 
1843, ^"d called to Deskford the same year. His 
Jubilee was celebrated on 14th December, 1893. One 
of his sons is the distinguished student Dr Ashley W. 
Mackintosh. 

258. Meldrum, George, A.M. (Rev.): Covenant- 
ing sufferer. Possessed of the estate of Crombie, 
Aberchirder, and probably a Banffshire man, he is 
referred to by Dr MacDonald, in his Covenanters of 
Moray, as one of the ousted ministers who preached 
at Conventicles in Moray, and who were proceeded 
against by the Government. He had graduated in 
1637 at King's College, Aberdeen, and was ordained 
to the parish of Glass in 1644. Deposed for Noncon- 



formity in 1664, he retired to his property of Crombie, 
but continued to preach as occasion served, till in 
1684 he was arrested, and after trial sentenced to be 
banished. This severe sentence, however, was nmiti- 
gated to confinement in Blackness Castle, from whence 
he was soon liberated, on giving bond to pay a heavy 
fine. On the Revolution of 1688 Mr Meldrum was 
restored to the parish of Glass, and in the year 1690 
was a member of the General Assembly, and appointed 
one of the Commission for Visiting Parishes North of 
the Tay. He died in Nov., 1692, aged 76. 

259. Oughton, James, Rear Admiral. Born Cullen, 
1 76 1, the son of John Hawtie, Shoemaker, Faskane, 
at an early age this remarkable man entered the Navy. 
Having distinguished himself in the American war, he 
received a Commission as Lieutenant for his gallantry, 
especially at the taking of Cuddalore, 1783. Having 
again distinguished himself in 1790, especially at 
Ushant, he was posted in 1799, and attained the rank 
of Rear Admiral in 1825. He died in 1832. For 
notice, see Cramond's Cullen. 

W. B. R. W. 



In the Article, " No. 209, Sharp, James, Arch- 
bishop," I observe that your Correspondent, ** W. B. 
R. W.," fails to mention that in Kirkton^s History of 
the Church of Scotland there will be found much curi- 
ous information as to the Archbishop, with an Account 
of his Murder, by an Actor therein — ^James Russell. 
Edited by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe. 4to, 1817. 

Edinburgh. Thos. G. Stevenson. 



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BREADALBANE TRADITIONS. 

The following traditionary stories, noted down 
in the second decade of this century, are from 
a MS., believed to have been written by Ewan 
McDougall, Baron Bailie Clerk and Ground 
Officer at Taymouth. The MS., which is now 
in the possession of Mr Archibald McDougall, 
Milton, Ardtalnaig, is very ragged at the edges, 
consequently several words are awanting. 
Kenmore. J. C. 

I. 

Some difference having happened between 
the Athol and Ogilbys now of Airlie, their 
ffamilies, the Atholians, headed by John Stewart, 
commonly called Jain Dubh Bionach of Sheir- 
glass, Captain of Athole, went and took away 
the creach or cattle of Airlie's tenants, after 
fighting with and defeating the owners, upon 
which occasion the Athole piper composed and 
played the piobreachd or march still called 
Bodich nan Briogguish. This Jam Dubh Bio- 
nach seems to me to be John Stewart, first of 
Shierglass, of the family of Lady well, a branch 
of the family of Fioncastle, who descended from 
the old family of Garth, so that Brodich nan 
Breaguish is the Stewarts' March, and not Lord 
Breadalbane's, as erroneously from its 

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piper to John Glass, first Earl of Breadalbane, 
at the Blair in Gallu. 

II. 

A famous robber, from the north country, 
called Mac Ghilleshealich, came with his men 
to take the creach of the then Laird of Menzies 
and his tenants, and it being in the harvest time, 
a man went into a stook of corn and fired a shot 
at the Robbers, whereupon they instantly fled, 
thinking that every stook covered a man in 
The gun, which either belonged to the Mac 
Ghilleshealich was fired, was in the Bolfracks 
family until, as is supposed, it was given up by 
the late Bolfracks to the Laird of Menzies. 

III. 

A Robber from Lochaber having crossed the 
hill between Auchmore and Glenbeich, on the 
north side of Lochearn, having at night landed 
at the house of a poor widow woman in Glen- 
beich, with his twelve men and piper, of which 
number the Robber's company then generally 
consisted, and having demanded Biatachd or 
food, and she having none to give them, they 
killed the only calf she had, made it ready and 
fed thereon, and staid all night, and when they 
were going away next morning to the south- 
ward, the poor woman said that her only request 
to God was that they would fall into the hands 
of Donue Mea Mac Shearlich, whereupon they 
asked her who that man was, and where he 
lived, and being informed that he lived in Dall 
of Ardconaig, and directed what course to bring 
them to him, they set out on their journey ; and 
having come within sight of Donald's house, the 
commander sent him an order to have breakfast 
immediately ready for him and his men, and if 

he would not . Donald returned an answer 

desiring him to come, and if he would . The 

commander on receiving such a daring reply 
went forward with his men, which Donald ob- 
serving, went with his own two sons and his 
son-in-law, who, as well as the father, were so 
dexterous Bowmen, that they would top a yellow 
gowan at the other end of the great meadow of 
Dall, went all to meet the robbers, and having 
approached each other, Donald and his said 
small party nailed the Captain and all his men 
to the ground, except the piper, who fled and 
jumped the bum of Ardconaig, by west of the 
farm of Finglen ; but being followed by one of 
Donald's sons, he, when the piper was recover- 
ing after his most extraordinary jump, let go an 
arrow, and thereby also nailed him to the ground. 
That place is still called Leum a Phiobair. 

IV. 

The Macgregors of Glenurchey, who were 
then very numerous, went to the south country, 
as is thought Monteith, and carried off the creach 
of some people there, which they drove through 
Glenlochy, on their way through which glen 



they met with a man who was coming but of his 
own door, on the farm of Wester Kenknock, in 
order to yoke his horse to the plow, from whom 
they demanded his horse to carry a sick member 
of their company ; and he having refused their 
request, they instantly stabbed him to death ; 
whereupon notice was immediately sent to Sir 
Duncan Dubh, who was then at Finlarig, who 
instantly sent for some King's men, then in the 
Castle of Down, who set off immediately and 
joined some Breadalbane men, who were wait- 
ing them in the head of Glenlochy, and marched 
together to Glenurchay, and upon the next day 
after the aforesaid man was killed at Kinknock, 
fought with and killed the greater part of the 
Macgregors, at the Battle of Beintoaig, which 
was the last gathering of that clann, in that part 
of the then Kingdom of Scotland. 

V. 

The Stewarts of Apine and the McLaurins of 
Balquhidder, who are descendants of the Boyles, 
now Earls of Glasgow, having had some differ- 
ence, the Apine men and their followers came 
to Balquhidder and took the creach of the Mac- 
Laurins,of whom by the mother Dougal Stewart, 
first of Apine, natural son of John, last Lord 
Lorn, afterwards of Innermeath, &c., &c., which 
was the title of his ancestors. The MacLaurins, 
who were then very numerous and strong, over- 
took them at a place on the east side of the river 
Urchay, (at the foot of Bein dourain, the famous 
Deerforest,) Leckado, where they fought 

with great vigour on both sides, and where the 
Stewarts would have been wholly cut off, had 
not the Laird of Glenurchay to their as- 

sistance, from his House either in the Island of 
Loch Toilleadh, or from his Castle in Achala- 
der, both in the Braes of Glenurchay, notwith- 
standing whereof the Maclarens carried back 
their cattle, leaving most of their men slain, who 
were, with those of Apine, gathered into heaps 
and buried, over which heaps small stones were 
put, which are still to be seen. 

VL 

The MacDougalls of Nether Lorn, a Branch 
of Lord Lorn, who were then also very numer- 
ous and strong, and whose seat was the Castle 
of Ardmaddy, having differed with the clann 
Donochy of Strowan, they came to Rannoch, 
and carried away the creach of the inhabitants, 
who, having gathered and followed, came up 
with the Macdougalls between Druimilart and 
Glensrae in Glenurchay, where, having fought 
bitterly, the Rannoch men were slain, and their 
chief fled with difficulty. The slain were buried 
in the same way as those who fell on Lecado, 
and the cairns are still called Cuim nan Ran- 
noch, the Rannochmen's Cairns, and their arms 
were put into a small loch near the cairns, called 
Loch nan Arm. 



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INVENTORY of CHARTERS RELATING 

TO THE 

BLACKFRIARS IN ABERDEEN. 
So litik is known regarding tlie various orders 
of Friars settled in Aberdeen, that [he following 
inventory of charters of gift to the order of 
Blackfriars may be found useful by many read- 
ers. The inventory is preserved among the City 
papers, while the charters, or what remain of 
them, are preserved at Marischal College. When 
the Earl Mariscbal resolved Co found his New 
College at Aberdeen, it was partly endowed from 
the revenues of the various religious orders in 
the burgh, and this accounts for the writs being 
in the College archives. An attempt has been 
made to identify the writs in the Inventory with 
those now extant, and the result is given by a 
teference to ibe mass or bundle where they are 
to be found in Mariscbal College. Among the 
projected volumes of the New Spalding Club is 
one by the Secretary, dealing with the donation 
charters to this and other orders of Friars set- 
tled within the burgh, M. 

This is the lust and irew Inventar of all the 
Wreitlis fund out be S' Thomas Mengzeis 
prouest of aberdene and Walter Koberlsone 
clerk depute thair of concerning the blakfreris 
of aberdene and now belanging to the new 
college of aberdene fundat be the eril Marshall. 
W. ROUERTSOUN. 

Inventar of the wreittis and ewidentis belang- 
ing to the IJIatkfrieris of Aberdene serchit and 
fund out be the Industrie and trawellis of S'' 
thomas Mengzes of Cultis knychl Prouest of 
Abirdene and Walter tobertsone Clerk depute 
of the said bui^he Quhilkis Wreittis wer lacken 
away and caryit southe be frier Abircromby the 
tyme of the reforniatioun of religioun within this 
lungdome quhilk wes in the zeir of God 1559 
i«ins, and no knawlege could be gottin of the 
said wreittis till this tyme to wit July \b\j. 

Item ane charlor grantit be Richard Litchow 
to Johnne Edniing burges of abd. of ane petce 
land in the CastelTgett of abd. on the southcsyid 
of the gelt passing fra the mercat criice towardis 
the trinitie frieris plaice daitil at abd. die vendris 

Sroxime ante septum beati Andree aposioli anno 
oniini 1338, — Mass viii. 1. 
Item ane charter giwen be the said Hew Dun- 
bar To Johnne Dunbar his sone of Twa peices 
of land Lyand contigue togidder in the gallow- 
fett on the northe syid of the gett passand 
tbairfra to the blackfrieris daitit at abd. die 
Jouis in crastino natinitatis beati Joannis 
Baptiste anno domini 133B. — Mass ix. 12. 

Item ane chartor giwen be Andro Hleiche 
brother and air to vmqll Roger sleiche burgess 
of Abirdeine to faew Dunbar burges thairof of 
ane anualreni of ten scfaillingis sex d Stirling | 



moe. furth of tua peices of land with the 
pertinenlis Lyand contigue togidder within the 
burghe of abd. in the ga!!owgett on the northe 
syid of the same Gett qlk passis fra the gallow- 
gett to the blackfrieris plaice daitit at abd. at 
the feast of the natiuitie of Johne the baptist 
'342- 

Item ane charlor giwen be Patrick de Galuidia 
oy to William de Galuidia burges of abd to 
Patrick baxter burges yrof of ane peice land with 
the biggingis yairwpoun in the gallogett on the 
northesyid of the gett passand to the blakfrieris 
plaice daitit at abd, the 20 Jar 1352. 

Item ane chartor giwen be Thomas earle of 
mar to the saidis frieris of ane peice or croft of 
land Lyand on the southe pairt of thair plaice 
from Sanct nicolas kirk towardis the denbum 
with fredonie of grinding thair comes multure 
frie in the mylne of gilquhomesioun daitit at 
abd. 15 marcij 1355. 

Item ane chartor grantit be the burgesses and 
communilie of abd. to Willeame Dunbar of twa 
peices of arabill land Lyand on the wastsyid of 
the kirk of Sanct nicolas paroche kirk of abd. 
daitit at abd. 30 October 1374. — Mass x. 5. 

Item ane chartor maid be Philip barbor burges 
of abd. to Christiane Crwn his mother sister of 
all richt and titill he hes to all Landis anual- 
rentis croftis tenementis or wther possessioune 
quhatsumeuir belanging to him in here'' richt 
within the burghe of abd. or outwith the same 
daitit at abd. 6 No' 1383, — Mass xix. 3. 

Item ane chartor maid be thomas daltoun ane 
of the blakfrieris to Willeame Dunbar bur;ges 
of abd. of ane annualrent of nyne Schillingis 
slirling out of the land inhabitit be Witliame 
Sherow Lyand in the schipraw of abd. daitit at 
abd, I august 1392. — Mass xix. 4. 

Item ane charlor maid be Johnne Keyth to 
the saidis frieris of all and haill four croftis of 
land Lyand in the terretorie of the croftis of 
Kintoir daitit at Kintoir 4 December 139?. — 
Mass xvii. 9 u. 

Item ane saising giwen be Richard fitchet 
of the baillies of Abirdeine to the prior and 
i'ent of the blackfrieris yrof of all and sindrie 
the landis anualrentis and croftis qlkis be 
Langit to vmqll Willeame Dunbar bulges of the 
said burghe Lyand within the same burghe and 
territorie thairof except the tenement qrin the 
said Williame duellit him selff daitit at abd. 7 
Marche 1397, 

Item ane charlor grantit be Robert Chalmer 
burges of Kintoir to the saidis frieris of all and 
haill four niidis of land in Kintoir daitit at 
Kintoir 2 Maij i398.^Mass xvi. 4. 

Item ane band giwen be Thomas Roull burges 
of Abd. bindand him his airis and assignayis in 
payment zeirlie of fourtie penneis anualrent to 



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the saldis frieris daitit at abd. 20 februar 1423. 
— Mass X. 6. 

Item ane Intrument Undir the signe and 
subscriptioun of Thomas boyle notor of the dait 
9 Sepr 1430 Upoun confession of Gilbert 
Mengzes burges of abirdeine that thair wes 
chartor's sealit be Andro fiddes to the saidis 
frieris vpoun landis of Inverurie and Inglands- 
toun. — Mass xvii. 8. 

Item ane saising giwen be Andro Sprinct of 
ane land in the greyne be Alexander kintor 
baillie daitit lofeb^ 1430. — Mass xii. 63 (wanting). 

Item ane doome of propertie vpoun the 
recowerie of the herell richt of ane wast land on 
the east syid of the keyheid of Abd. for not 
payment to the saidis frieris of ane anualrent of 
thrie schillingis viijd. of the dait 20 aprill 1444. 

Item and chartor giwen be Christen Straitoun 
Lady of that ilk and Lowranstoun to the saidis 
frieris of ane anualrent of Tuantie Schillingis 
scottis money to be vplifted out of the land of 
Johne black in the Castellgett of abd. behend 
the tollbuithe of the dait at abd. vltimo Maij 145 1. 
— Mass viii. 5. 

Item ane prie. of resignatioun maid be agnes 
leask of pratistoun qrby the said Agnes resignit 
in the handis of ane nobill lord Willeame Keyth 
of that ilk and marschell of Scotland ane zeirlie 
anualrent of fourtie schillingis to be vplifted 
zeirlie furth of hir landis of Pratistoun hayning 
hill and Crouy with the pertinentis lyand weth 
[in] the barronie of Troupt and shreffdome of 
abd. daitit at abd. 20 august 1453. — Mass xx. 7. 

Item ane precept of saising giwen be Willeame 
hay earle of ErroU and constabill of Scotland to 
the prior and convent of the saidis frieris of ane 
anualrent of threttie schillings scottis moe. to be 
vplifted furth of his landis of waster balmatuthill 
lyand within the earledome of Buchane and 
Shreffdome of abd. of the dait at abd. 29 Jar 
I455cumsasina in secunda cauda. — Mass xviii. 2. 

Item the copie of ane chartor wrettin on papyr 
undir the subscriptioun of Sr Johnne Stirling 
noter Grantit be Williame Cargill of Segyden to 
the saidis frieris of ane anualrent of four pundis 
sterling moe. furth of his landis of Segidden and 
halff landis of Cremound with the pertinentis 
Lyand wethin the regalitie of Gareauche. — xvi. i. 

Item twa instrumentis concerning the said 
anuall furth of Segyden ane of the dait 10 aprill 
1467 Undir the signe and subscriptioun of 
Thomas monreis notar, the wther of the dait 26 
May 1467 Johnne lindsay notar. — xv. 2, 3. 

Item ane precept of saising giwen be Richard 
forbes Deane of abirdene to the saidis frieris of 
anualrent of Ten pundis to be vplifted zeirlie 
furth of the landis of futhes beg and futhes moir 
with the mylne thairof qlkis failzieng out of all 
wyr Landis lyand within the lo[rdship] of futhes 



and syreffdome of abd. With the saising in 
secunda cauda of the dait 16 Febr. 1469. — xii. 49. 

Item ane saising of ane land out with the southe 
port of the Castellgett giwen to Andro holdan 
and Mariorie blinschell his spous be resignatioun 
of Alexander Waus channoun and officiallof abd. 
undir the signe and subscriptioun of Robert 
Lies not. daitit 6 Marche 1473. — ^viii. 7. 

Item ane chartor giwen be Johnne rutherfurd 
son and air to vmgll andro Rutherfurd burges 
of Abirdeine to andro allan burges yrof of certaine 
croftis of land thairin conteainit Within the 
terretorieofabirdeine daitit 22 marche 1474. — ix. i. 

Item ane chartor of confirmatioun giwen to the 
saidis freiris be King James the third undir his 
great seall confirming dywers particular don- 
atiounes of landis and anualrentis thairin 
mentionat grantit to the saidis frieris and all and 
sundrie wther donatiounes of landis and anual- 
rentis thairin mentionat grantit to the saidis 
frieris in generall giwen to thame or thair 
predicessoris at any tyme of befoir daitit at edr. 
the Last September 1477. — i. 5. 

Item ane chartor maid be Elizabeth Kymnie- 
soun zoungest dochter and ane of the airis of 
vmqll alexander Kymniesoun burges of abd. to 
Johnne Curtor burges of bamiff and Marioun 
his spous of the halff of the landis and croftis 
callit Cunyngar hillis Lyand within the fredome 
of abd. for payment of aucht s. vjd. anualrent to 
the cheplanes of the Cathedrall kirk of abd. 
daitit 16 May 1481. — See x. 13. 

Item ane chartor giwen be Patrick Leslie of 
Balquhane to the saidis freiris of ane anualrent of 
fourtie schillingis scottis moe. furth of the landis 
of Segyden lyand within the parochine of Kineth- 
mont Shereffdome of abd. and regalitie of gareaut 
of the dait at Balquhane 9 Sepr. 1487. — xv. 4. 

Item the saidis frieris instrument of saising of 
the said anualrent of fourtie schillingis undir the 
signe and subscriptioun of Thomas ramsay notar 
publict of the dait 14 October 1487. — xv. 11. 

Item ane precept of saising maid and grantit 
be Arthure forbes of Rires and elizabeth Weynies 
his spous for giweng saising to the saidis freiris 
of all and haill thair landis of Pryne and Srathi- 
boyis Lyand in the syreffdome of Perthe cum 
sasina in secunda cauda daitit at abd. 25 aprill 
1488. — XV. 9. (To be continued.) 

Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co., London, have 
just issued a new edition of "The Poems in the 
Scottish Dialect, by James Thomson, weaver in Kin- 
leith." The first edition of this forgotten Currie 
poet's works was published in Leith in 1801. L 

Mr. Andrew W. Tuer is advertising for old A, B, C, 
Horn-Books, and would be grateful for references to 
examples in museums and private hands : being en- 
gaged on a work on the Horn-Book. His address is 
50 Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. L 



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

1661 — 1672 — 1790. 
VI. 

Mr Al : Forbes of Ardo maried the goodwife 
of Clahriach June ii '67 he haveing 6 bairns 
and she 4. 

William Fairlie of Bruntsfield maried Row- 
allans daughter. 

Helen Skene The Lady Gogar dowager, a 
godly woman died at Edz July '67 of a good 

age. 

George Rosse elder burges of Abd. who ma- 
ried Walker relict of John Galloway died 
August 8 '67. 

Gilbert Gray, provost of Abd. died Augt. 14 
'67 aetatis 35. 

D. Anna Forbes Lady Gight daughter to the 
Lord Forbes deceased Sepr, 14 '67. a^tat. 60. 

Sepr. 19 '67 Mr David Lyell minister at Ban- 
chorie was transplanted to Aberdene. 

Elizabeth Row my eldest sister was removed 
dwelling in Torrie aetatis 66 : in the yeare 1667 
August 27. 

Mr Wm. Campbell long a regent in the old 
colledge at St Androes died at Dundie anno '66. 

Andro Burnet of Shethoksley aetatis 67 died 
Novris. 18. 1667. 

Mr David Lindesay minister of Balhelvie died 
Novr. 25. 67 aetatis. 

Grisell Row my third daughter was brot. to 
bed of a second son called John Anderson Nov 
28 1667 Thursday. 

Janry. 7 1668 John Rosse merchand burges 
at Abd. late thesaurer died of a fever, a man of 
mid age. 

Mr Gilbert Anderson at Cruden died about 
Febr. 4. 1668. 

Febr. 19. '68 died old Mr Tho. Lillie an ad- 
vocat of Old Abd. before the Commissare. 

Febr. 20 died old Davie Riccart at Abd : a 
rich man. 

March '68 died my Lord Banff, aetatis 

March 29 died John Duff Litster at Abd : 
Sabbath. 

Aprile died the precious Earl of Cassills. 

aetat: 

Mr Wm. Chrystie chaplain to the Laird of 
Caddell is reported to be deceassed. 

Andro Meldrum of Iden sometyme bailie of 
Abd. deceassed Maie 18 r668 anno aetatis 

Marjorie Sandilands daughter to umqll. Mr 
James toun clerk of Abd. & civilist of the K. 
Colledge, deceassed Maie 24 Sabb : '68. aetatis 
18. 

Julie I. '68 Thomas Gordon of Manaughtie & 
Helen Seton were maried at Abd. in the Trinitie 
chapell. 



Aug : 12. '68 my daughter Lillias was dely- 
vered of a man child baptized Alexr. 

Aug : 20 deceassed James Ro^son (nicknamed 
Cosieman) merchand at Abd. in the Narrow 
Wynd. 

Mr Robt. Burnet advocat at Edz. son to Leyes 
deceassed at the day of '68 a preci- 
ous godly man. 

My Lord Marre decessed Aug : 27. '68. 

Thomas Ferchar son to James Ferchar mer- 
chand burges of Abd. deceassed Sepr. 9 '68 an 
hopefull youth. 

Marjorie Baron in the green relict of John 
Ronald a good woman & of a good old age, de- 
ceassed Sepr. 25 '68. 

James Frazer i^conomous died Octob. 4. '68. 

Mr John Barcklay minister at Leslie maried 
Milne daughterof the late minister at Prem- 
nay Octob : 29 Thursday '68. 

Guthrie relict of umwhill Mr Joseph Brudie 
was removed Octob : 1668 a good uoman ; very 
antiepiscopal though a B.'s daughter Mr John 
Guthrie, B. of Murray. 

James Cymin of Relicas in Morray, my 
schollar, was removed Deer. 1668. 

Janr. '69 Mr Thomas Torres, Methlick, 

was removed : to him succeeded Mr Arthur 
Strachan my schollar. 

Hugh McGie chirurgeon at Abd. died sud- 
denly on Janr. 26 '69, comeing out of his bed, 
fell down and died instantly. 

The old Ladie Brodie my Lord Brody his 
mother was removed on Deer. 1668. 

Robert Ker of Menie collector was removed 
Febr. 4 1669. 

Febr. 13 '69 Joan Anderson relict of Sanderis 
Hendrie, an aged woman, was removed. 

Febr. 18 '69 The Lady Touch sister to 

baillie Alexr., mother to Thomas Cargill, my 
Schollar, died. 

Febr. '69 The Marques of Montrose, son 
to James Graham (the great) and the Lord 
Montgomerie died. 

John Leech baxter in the Old toune died 
March 5 1669. 

Tippertie Innes son to Patrik Innes a servant 
of Mr John Skenes w* me died at Abd. March 
13 1669. 

Mr Paul Shalitti, a Jew, a Rabbin, a preacher 
came to Abd. about the beginning of Aprile 
1669, professing to teach Hebrew and the ori- 
entall languages : convert from Judaisme about 
six yeares ago. 

John Jameson brother in law to Wm. Black- 
burn died Apr. 16, 1669, at Abd. 

John Sandilands commissary dark, died in 
the end of Aprile, '69. 

My sister Catharin Row at Culross died in 
summer 1668. 



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James Skene yor. son to white James Skene, 
Lyon depute, my schoUar in March '69, was cut 
of the stone, and a very great long stone was 
taken from him, but the wound never healling 
he died Maie 23. '69, Sabbath, at one in the 
morning, a very hopefull boy aetat : 

George Gordon of Kethoksmiln deceassed 
about the end of Maie '69. 

John Smith late baillie of Abd. deceassed of 
sore and long disease, June 11/69. 

Barbarra Hervie spouse to George Cruik- 
shank at the bridge of Don died childbed July 
19 1669. 

Julie 21 1669 Grisell was delyvered of a son 
(this is third) called Gilbert Anderson. 

August 27 '69 died Sr Gilbert Menzies of Pit- 
foddells, the oldest laird of 3 : a papist buried 
apud Mariam ad nives. 

The body of Park Hay a godly woman in 
Murray was removed in Aug. '69. 

Mr Thomas Sandilands of Crabstane Com- 
missare of Abd. deceassed lethargick at Old 
Abd. Oct. 12. '69. 

Alexr. Stewart of Colpnay bluide &c. died 
Novr. II '69. 

losse not a whoU lodging for tuo glasse 
windowes.^ 

Jean Dune daughter to Charles Dun Elder 
hertick Novr. 14. 

Walter Cochrane of Dunbrek late bailie of 
Abd. deceassed at Abd. aetat 72. Dec. 7. 1669, 
he discharged ringing of bells. 

Dec. 13 died Mercer relict of James Frazer 
-^conomous. 

Dec. 14 '69. died Marg^ Smith, Quaker, spouse 
to Gilb. MoUeson bailie of Abd ; a few houres 
after miscarying ; leaveing 2 sons & 7 daughters. 

James Anderson in the Gallowgate, called 
civill James, died Deer. 17 '69 had but one 
daughter, maried to Charles Ro^son's eldest son. 

Peter Leeth of Whitehaugh died, a hopefull 
youth. Deer. 23. 1669. 

In Novr. before that about sixe weeks his 
Tutor John Forbes of Blacktoune a godly man 
was removed ; goutish. 

Deer. 23. '69. John Skene eldest son to Baillie 
Skene did take to wife Helen Fullerton, Kin- 
aber's eldest daughter, at Kinaber before wit- 
nesses inviting the minister of Monros " to come 
and be witness " to the marriage, both being 
Quakers. 

Janr. nth '70 Barbara Simson spouse to An- 
drew Sibbald dyer at Abd. died of sore disease, 
well reported of by all. 

In Janr. '70 it is reported that the pope and 
General Monck the Duke of Albemarle are re- 
moved by death. 

1 What connection, if any, this entrjr has with that immedi- 
ately before it would be difficult to imagine. 



Janr. 24. '70 died Paul Colinson late balli< 
Abd. uncle to Mr John Menzies professoi 
Theologie, an excommunicat papist, who bei 
his death disclaimed all merit. 

Cap : John Gilespie late baillie of Kirkca! 
died Deer. 23 1669. 

Jean Moir eldest daughter to Dr Moir a 
13, died of a consumption, and discharge! 
garland to be put upon her coffin : on the S 
bath, March 13. 1670. 

John Mercer my eldest grandchilde d 
aetat : 18, Octob: 14. 1671 of a fistula in 
back at the end. 

My daughter Grisell was brot to bed of a 
baptized Alex^. August 28 1672. 

My youngest daughter Margt Row was 
moved after sore and long disease June 4. i( 
at even, aetatis 25. She died very Christian 
was interred in the old town hard by 
mother's corps according to her ouin desire 
fore her deceasse. 

August 3d. 1672 My oldest daughter Lil 
was delyvered of a daughter called Margar 
Saterday in the morning. This child lived 
7 weeks. 

Octob : 4 day '72 Grisel Row bro' furth a n 
child baptized James. 

(To he continued.) 

♦ •♦ 

TRAVELLING IN THE OLDEN TIM! 

Account of disbursements, by W. Fordyce 
Culsh, going to Moffat, the time there, a 
when returning, and other disbursements 
within, 1737 : — 

June 28, 1737. To gold and money taken £ s. 

South by Culsh this day, 307 5 

Given out the said day of drink money to 

the Servants at Culsh, I 4 

To the Groom and Nurse at Kelly, i 4 

For green bear to th^e horses at Tarves, 9 2 

To Mr Brown's Servants at Ballhelvie, o 18 

July 2. For dressing my wig, o 2 

For confections and seed caik, I o 

To Willie Black, to buy sweeties, o 6 

At Cassow Port in Jullie Brun's, and 6d. to 

the poor, o 4 

July 3. At the Kirk at Kinigie, 9 5 

To hire for the two horses from Aberdeen 

to Dundee, with 6/. of drink money to the 

hirer, 8 6 

At New Dundee, this night and next morn- 
ing, with 6/- of fraught, o 19 

July 4. At Kenaway, for myself, servants, 

and horses, I 5 

Horse hire from New Dundee to Kinghorne, 

with 4/- to the hirer to drink, 4 4 

To Boat fraught at Kinghorne, 3/6 spent 

at Leith, and 4d. to the poor, o ii 

July 6. For 4 lbs. shugar for my tea when 

at Moffat, I 13 



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For I lb. prouns, ^ lb. rasines, i/- for cher- 
ries, 6 sheets of paper, and 2d. to a poor 
woman, 082 

For %, lb. confections, to be given Lady 

llenerata Gordon, o 10 6 

For letting Geo. Brumner see the Castle of 

Edinburgh, 004 

For shaving, and dressing my wig when at 
Edinburgh, with 3/- for dressing my silk 
stockings, o 12 o 

July 7. To this night and next morning for 
myself, servants, and horses, at Lintoun, 
with 2d. to a poor woman, I 15 8 

July 12. Lost in the bowling green, and 12/- 

of bowling green maill, I i o 

July 22. For weshing my big coat, two pairs 
of coatten stockings, one pair black loom 
ones, and two hand Courtches, or Nose 
Napkines, 050 

For 4 baiths, 280 

To the Servt. Maid for her services, i o o 

From the 15th to the 26th, after breakfast, 

for my own and servant's diet, 9 18 6 

To Dr Gaven Cocks, for his advice, and two 

dozes of salts for making the water operate, 611 o 

To the Poor at Moffat, from the time I came 

till I went away, o 8 o 

For shaving, and dressing my wigs the time 
at Moffat, o 12 o 

July 26. To this night, and next morning, 
at Lammentown, for the two horse, and 
hirer, 176 

July 27. This night and next morning at 
Hamilton, and 6/- to the porter for seeing 
the Palace, 220 

July 28. For ceeing the Kirks and College 

of Glasgow, o 13 o 

At Both well Bridges of Customs, o I o 

July 29. At Loanhead this night, and next 
morning, with 6/- to the Gardeners at 
Newliston, 180 

August 3. For fegs, rasines, & confections, o 19 6 

For pears, and two bottles water from Cor- 
storphine, o 2 2 

For a bottle Claret Wine with Alexander 

Hay at Ormiston, 140 

Drink money to George Brumner, 020 

At Kirkcaldy this night, and next morning, 
for my horse, and servants, with 6/- to 
Mr Finlason's servant maid, I 4 O 

August 4. Customs at the Bridge of Erne,,. 020 

This night, and next morning, for myself, 
servant, and horses, at Pearth, with 4/- of 
fraught, 200 

August 5. For seeing the house and church, 

Scoon, 640 

At Cupar of Angus, and to two poor people, o 13 2 

August 6. At July Brans, and to poor peo- 
ple, and Casso Port, o 12 o 

Account of money given out by Culsh, not to be 
reckoned with his charges to Mofifat Wells, 1737 : — 

July I. For 3 fir leddars at Aberdeen, sent £ s. d. 

to Culsh by Alex. Reidhead, 026 

For three fethoms of sma' ropes, 016 



For paying the making of my sister's gown 

at Aberdeen, I 4 o 

To William Garden and his Servant, for 
drawing and writing the conveyance by the 
heritors of New Deer, in William Mair's 

fevours, 7 16 o 

To spent with him, and the other witnesses 
to the signing thereof in the Coffee house, 

and for a bottle of wine, 160 

August 8. To Mr Black's servant, and his 

son Willie, with 2d. to a poor man, o 18 2 

To Richard Muir, the time my horse was at 

Aberdeen, i 12 o 

For shaving, the time there, 030 

For I lb. rasines to give the boys at Eggie, 046 

August 9. White money and turner's, o 18 10 

For my own dennar, said time being all the 

rest of the diets under invitation, o 16 o 

For putting on a piece of silver on the head 

ofmykain, I 4 o 

July 27. For a gray mearat Lanerick, 46 18 o 

For a broun mear thereat, . . 57 12 o 

2.\ yards red tape, for tying up their tails,.... 026 
For 4 new shoes to the Grey Mear and 3 to 
the Brown, and the other shoe mended,... I 14 o 

Account of Disbursements going to Edinburgh, the 
time there, and when returning, with other Disburse- 
ments at within 1740 : — £ s. d. 

July 19. Cash taken from Culsh this day, 246 12 4 
Given to my Servants when I went away,... o 15 o 

To Johnie Fordyce, 020 

July 20. To the Porter at Kelly, o 12 o 

July 21. To William Young, wigmaker in 

Aberdeen, for a wig, per discharge, 880 

To two poor people, 006 

To Mr Black's Servants, o 12 o 

To this night and next morning at Aberbro- 

thick, whereof 10/6 for the horse, o 14 o 

To a Cadie for showing me Mr Walker's,.... 020 

To twa poor men, o o 6 

J uly 24. To the Servants at Orwell, o 8 o 

July 25. To this night and next morning at 

Kinross, and for my horse, and 6/- to Mr 

Black's Servant, , o 10 o 

To a poor woman 002 

July 26. Spent this afternoon at the Abbey 

Hill, with Knock Castle and Coburtie, . . . . 030 

To % oi \ lb. confected carvie, 040 

To the Postage of a letter to John French 

and my sister, 020 

July 29. To a piece of black dro^et cloth 

for a pair of breaches, and 12/- for two 

sheip's skinns, for lining to them, 2 14 o 

To two poor men, 030 

July 30. To Doctor Clerk of consultation, 12 12 o 

To two poor men, 004 

To spent with Montblairie and Alex. Hay in 

the Coffee house , o 3 o 

July 31. For a dram with David Pan ton,... 030 

For a white iron pencase, 020 

For diet from the 25th after dennar, that I 

came to Edinburgh to this day after dennar, 217 4 
For a seat to William Mair and myself in a 

haicknie coach, having hired her to Leith, 



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o 

4 
o 

6 



2 6 

14 o 

o 6 



19 6 

10 o 

12 o 

16 o 



and for a ticket in the stage therefrom to 

Edinburgh, o i6 o 

August 2. To the Groom at Hopetown 

house, being there last night, o 32 o 

To a son of Peter Chyne's, at Mill of Mac- 
terry, having seen him in the hyre house 

at Rossberrie, 020 

To Mr Aickinhead, Chyrurgion, for 2 boxes 

pills, conform to Dr Clark's Receipt, 5 14 9 

To Stubbald Wallace, Mercht., for a pair of 

black loom stockings, 2 14 

August 3. To the poor this day o o 

August 4. For cleaning my Big Coat, o 18 

August 5 . For l^f lb. of rasines, o 4 

To spent with Theodore Forbes in Kellai, 
when he told me the unlucky story of my 
Closets being brock, and papers destroyed, o 
August 7. To the Servants at Pardivan, and 

one of them sent with me to Humbie, o 

To a man for putting me over Leith water, 

the water being in a speat, o 

August II. At Dunfermline from the 9th at 
dinnar time to this day after breakfast, for 

dyet, &c., and 1/6 to the poor, I 

August 12. For a soap box and brush, I 

For a green silk purse to myself, o 

For the British Angler to Muiresk, I 

August 13. To the officer of the Goldsmiths 
for goeing about anongst them getting the 
silver buttons, &c., stolen from Culsh, 
marked in their books, in case the rogue 

that did it offer them at all, o 12 o 

August 14. For a stoned ring to my Sister, 7 16 o 

For dressing watch in Turriff, 280 

To John Dingwall for ring case to my sister, o 12 o 
For I lb. rasines, 2 lbs. confected almonds, 

and berries, and 2/- for a lock towallies,.. o 18 o 
For the postage of three letters from Abdn., 060 
This night, in Mr Thomas' at Leith, 2/- to 

the servant lass, and next day at dennar,.. o 19 o 
August 15. For Postage of a letter to John 

French, and 2d. to a poor man, 022 

To this night and next morning at Lithgow, 

of which 10/- for my horse, o 19 o 

For seeing the Palace and Church, o 2 o 

August 16. Seeing Stirling Castle, &c., 080 

August 17. To the Poor at Orwell, 006 

August 19. To dennar, &c. , at Aberbrothick, 076 
August 20. To Mr Honeyman's Servant at 

Kinneff for shewing me the way to road,.. 010 
August 21. Spent in Mrs Lesslie s with An- 
drew Thomson, Jo. Clerk, Wm. Murdach, 
Provost Cruick shank, and James Black, 
after comeing out of the Toll)Ooth from 

examining Holland and Fergusson, 7 18 o 

To Andw. Thomson for his pains in writing 

Holland's declaration in the Tolbooth, 300 

To Wm. Lamb, constable, for searching and 

apprehending Fergusson, 4 4 o 

To a Clerk for write my sister's petition 

against Holland, 060 

To the Sheriff Clerk, for the extract of his, 

and Fergusson's confession, 300 

To George Cruik, post, for bring my trunk 
from Edinbu^h, i 10 o 



For confected orange pill, &c. , o 

To Mr Brown at Ballhelvie's Servant, for 

shewing me the way to Newburgh, o 

To spent there with him, and the Soldier, 
when getting information against Fergus- 
son and Holland, o 

Gold, white money, and copper returned,.. 66 
Money that I gave in, or cannot mind what's 

done with it, o 

To John Cruden, when sent to Aberdeen to 
know if Culsh was come there, o 3 



6 o 



6 o 



6 
6 



o 
10 



4 4 



♦•» 



Resurrection[ist] Times (VIL, 94, 112).— 
In the old churchyard of Udny there is a round 
house of some size and apparently of very strong 
and solid masonry. The floor is higher than the 
ground, — from recollection I should say about 
knee high,— and I have been informed it is a 
Turntable, and that coffins brought for burial 
were temporarily laid upon it ; as fresh cases 
appeared the apparatus swung round to make 
room for them, and the oldest was gradually 
brought round to the door again : and when 
each in turn was judged to be sufficiently " ripe'' 
to be useless to the " resurrection man,'' it was 
buried. I wonder if your correspondent has 
ever heard of this, or if there is any truth in it ? 
I have seen the building and looked in at the 
door"; it has all the appearance of structure 
stated, but I never had time or occasion to ex- 
amine minutely or verify the thing. It could, I 
suppose, easily be done. 

Old Aberdeen. Thos. Ferguson. 

The Fordoun Ogam Inscription. — Mr 
Romilly Allen keeps the Illustrated Archceolo- 
gist up to a very high standard of excellence, 
especially from the pictorial point of view. 
Here, if anywhere, the modern mechanical pro- 
cesses of production come in, for an article of 
vertu cannot be produced satisfactorily except 
by photography. The number for December 
was especially interesting to Scotch antiquaries, 
containing, as it did, an article by Mr Gilbert 
Goudie on the excavations of a Pictish tower in 
Shetland. The beautiful " process " illustrations 
add enormously to the interest of the article. 
The same remarks apply to Mr Allen's own 
article on " the Celtic Brooch and how it was 
worn." To the same number Lord Southesk 
contributed a note on the supposed Ogam in- 
scription observed at Fordoun by Mr Alexander 
Hutcheson. In giving permission for its pub- 
lication his Lordship wishes it to be made clear 
that he does not express doubt of the Fordoun 
Ogam in the sense of strongly disbelieving in 
it, and only wishes to record a verdict of " not 
proven," pending renewed examination. " On 
the 22nd of September," he says, " I visited 
Fordoun with Prof. Ramsay, in order to inspect 



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the stone in the (so-called) Chapel of Si Palla- 
dius, on which an Ogam inscription is reportt^d 
to exist, as well as the Romanesque inscription 
on the fece referred 10 in the ' Report on the 
Sculptured Stones' in the Proctedin^^s of the 
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Throu;gh 
the kindness of the Rev. Mr Men^iies the stone 
had been placed in a good lifjht near the door 
of the chapel, and Prof. Ramsay and I examined 
it with the greatest care, comparing the original 
inscription with the photographs. As regards 
the Ogams, the conclusion arrived at by Prof. 
Ramsay (in which I fully concurred) is that their 
existence is doubtful, at present neither to be 
affirmed nor denied. Markings greatly resembl- 
ing Ogam groups most certainly exist, but there 
are several considerations which prevent frank 
acceptance of them as significant characters. 
Chief anionj; these, to my mind, is the absence 
of a definite stem-line. The supposed Fotdoun 
Ogams are not distinctly isolated, and this leads 
to another consideration thai mUitates against 
their acceptance. I refer to ihe remains of a 
diagonally -braided or interlaced decoration, 
which seems to have occupied the whole length 
of the edge of the stone. It seems to me that 
in many, if not all, of the supposed Ogam scores, 
the directions of the lines suggest that they are 
merely portions of the diagonal omamenL A 
few groups near the centre of the edge are, how- 
ever, more vertical in character, and strongly 
resemble Ogams. I cannot find clear warrant 
for the details in Mr Hulcheson's diagram, 
and, even accepting them, no piobable legend 



Queries. 

•,• Questions and Ani;wers intended for insertion in 
S. N. &• Q. may be ssnl to the Eiiilor, cnre of 
Messrs. D. WylHe & Son, Booksellers to the 
Queen, or W. Jolly & Sons, Primers, 23 Brifige 
Street, Aberdeen. 
84a FEitct;s TBB First, King OF Scotland. — 

In the Kcture Gallery, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, 
there is a portrait of Fergus First King of Scotland. 
TVouid some of your Scots historical readers favour 
me with the 5-eBrhe commenced his reign, and give the 
name of his father, with a reference 10 his authority. 

St Andrews. W. C. 

841. The Baron's Cairn, Nigg.— Could any of 
^ur corresponiienls refer me to any buck or publica- 
tion where the Baron's Caim, in tligg, Kincardine- 
shire, is mentioned ? Being on the top of the com- 
mencement of the Grampian range, near the sea, and 
close to the entrance In AWrdeen, could il have lieen 
raised as a land-matk fur vessels making for the har- 
bour? 

Bon -Accord. 



843. Oi.n Scots BAi.LAns. -It is noi 
10 cunlinue the discussion so admirably handled in 
December S. N. S^ Q., in reference to that fine old 
ballad, " Bessy Bel! and Ntary Gray," but to express 
my regret that valuable mailer, such ns your respected 
coriespondenl W. L. T. refers to as having appeared 
in the Sielmian some years ago in reference to this 
ballad should be lost sight o? I think that such 
subjects would very much interest your readers, and 
should find a place in S. N. &• Q. for Ihcir preserva- 
tion. A few yenrs ago a similar correspondence look 
place in regard to the ballad "John Anderson my 
jo," Might nut some one give us the result of it at 

St Andrews. W. G. 



answers. 

823. iNSTKr-MRNTS OF TORTUHE (VII., 92, 

109). — Il is scarcely correct to call the Brank and the 
Jongs " instruments of torture :" they cannot even be 
named beside the Rack or the Bool. The former, 
known in England as "the scold's bridle," was em- 
ployed for "the taming of the shrew." It was s 
kind of iron mask, covering the head and face, with 
apertures for the nose and eyes. At the mouth, a, 
plate of iron projected inwards, so as to press upon the 
longiii; ijf the culprit, who was thus effectually gagged. 

Ij: i'l. ' ; I; ill iif Forfer there is, I believe, a 

I" '■ ■ ■111 as "the witches' bridle of 

li.i lliL' gag beingalong piece of 

jr ■'. Mil .--pikes. One may also be seen 

ill L.Li^ A.i.:..,i,.J .U.^iqiiarian Museum, Edinburgh : in 
which instlluliun are also preserved many inslruments 
of torlnre. The Jou^ was an even milder mode of 



Old Charch Life in Scotland. The follow- 
ing excerpt is from that work : — 

"The most common form of corporal punishment 
that Church Courts in this country {i.e. Scotland) in- 
flicted was confinement for an hour oi two in the 
jougs. These jougs were iron collars thai were put 
round the necks of delinquents. They were part of 
the paraphernalia of every church long ago. Some- 
times they were fixed in a pillar at the church gate, 
sometimes in a tree in the churchyard, and sometimes 
in a wall of the church itself, at the side of the princi- 
pal door. At Fenwick, the jou^ may be seen dangling 
on the church wall, about five feet bom the ground, 
and in the old Session Records of that interesting 
pariah there are cases to be found of culprits beii^ 
appointed to 'stand in the jcges from eight lill ten, 
and thence go to the place of repentance within ye 
kirk.' It was only in extreme cases, however, that 
Kirk Sessions had recourse to the jougs. In t66l the 
patience of the Kirk Session of Rothesay was sorely 
tried by an inebriate member of their congregation, 
who would not Ijy any amount of persuasion or rebuke 
he induced to live soberly. As a last resource the 
Session warned her, that 'if hereafter she should be 
found drunk, she would be put in the joggs and have 
her ditlay written on her face.' That there were 
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places two hundred years ago is quite certain, but the 
only reference to them that I have observed in the 
Session Records is an entry of payment of ;^l i6s. 
in 1 68 1 ' for a lock to the bregan and mending it.' 
The word bregan, or, as it is spelt in Jamieson's Dic- 
tionary^ braidgeane, (in the Galston Records, spelt 
breggaine, breggan, bradzane, and bredyane), was the 
common word in Ayrshire for jougs, and the fact that 
the Mauchline Session were in i68i keeping the lock 
of the bregan in order, is proof that the bregan was at 
that date either in use or kept for use when occasion 
should require. In the Session Records of Galston 
there are explicit . . . references to the bregan 
or bredyane and the purpose for which it was meant 
In Lorn parish, too, as well as in Galston, 
profanation of the Sabbath was occasionally punished 
by a lock-up in the breggan ; but in Lorn the punish- 
ment was inflicted in the orthodox way by a magis- 
trate." 

The Kirk Session, in those days, often arrogated to 
itself the powers of the civil magistrate ; imposing 
fines and sentencinj^ offenders to the jougs at its own 
sweet will. " There is an old Act of Parliament," says 
Dr. Edgar, "which empowered Sheriffs of Counties 
to appoint session bailies in parishes that were unblest 
with any resident magistrate. These session bailies 
were elders that had commission to put certain laws 
affecting public morals, such as the laws against pro- 
faneness, into execution. It thus happened, as Baillie 
says, that in some cases where Kirk Sessions imposed 
spiritual censures an elder in the Session simultane- 
ously imposed a civil fine. . . . There can be no 
doubt that whether Kirk Sessions had constituent 
bailies or not, they did inflict civil penalties, both 
* pecunial ' and corporal. They ordered fines to be 
paid for particular offences, and they increased fines 
at their own discretion. . . . Kirk Sessions were 
fond of mulcting and fining, and for a reason that does 
them no discredit. The fines went for the good of the 
parish, and especially for behoof of the poor, . . ." 
This is, however, a side question, and it will be 
sufficient to refer W. C. to Dr. Edgar's book for 
further information on the point. 

The following works on obsolete punishments and 
the employment of instalments of tortuie may be con- 
sulted with advantage : — Howard's Stale of PHsons 
(new ed. 1780); Jardine's Reading on the Use of 
Toi'ttire in England ^ (Lond., 1837) ; Chambers's 
Domestic Annals of Scotland ; the Notes to the 
Waverley Novels; and an article in the Comhill 
Magazine, V. 17, 1868. 

James W. Scott. 

828. King Charles the First's Bible (VII., 
105). — The romance connected with this Bible is told 
at some length, and with his wonted picturesqueness, 
by Dr John Brown, in his "John Leech and Other 
Papers " (Edinburgh, 1882), see pp. 87-90. As there 
stated, the spurious King Charles Bible, containing 
the pilfered leaf which bore the autograph of the 
King, was bought by one of the Earls of Fife. It 
was deposited in the Library at Duff House, where I 
have seen and examined it, and where presumably it 
still is. Of the original King Charles's Bible, which 



was robbed in the. way described by Dr Brown, I 
know nothing but what he tells. 

A. W. Robertson. 

833. Scotch Sacrament Stamps (VII., 105).— 
I had not heard of this curious tax until, only the day 
previous to my reading the above query, I came across 
the statement in a paper, '* Curiosities of Taxation," 
written over the name " Maltus Questelle Holyoake," 
in Temple Bar, Novr. , p. 347 — " Scotch Sacramental 
Certificates used to bear a sixpenny stamp." Perhaps 
if Mr J. Calder Ross were to communicate with the 
Editor of the mngazine quoted, he might, through the 
means of the author of the article, obtain a reference 
to the source of the information. 

Old Aberdeen. Thomas Ferguson, 

835. Scottish Local Coins — (i8th Century 
Tokens) (VII., 106). — The manufacture and public 
issue of coins by private traders in the closing decade 
of last century had its origin in the depreciated con- 
dition and great scarcity of the standard copper coin- 
age of the Kingdom. Following the example of local 
tradesmen during the civil wars of the previous century, 
several English shopkeepers and employers of labour, 
began, about 1787, to issue "Promissary Tokens," 
each coin usually bearing upon one of its sides, or upon 
the edge, an obligation to redeem it in regal coinage 
upon demand. The name and address of the issuer of 
each of these metallic Promissary notes was thus as 
necessary as the indication of its value as a circulating 
medium ; and, in the earlier years of the issue, its 
purpose was doubtless to satisfy a real public want 
rather than to reap the private advantage of an adver- 
tisement. The Government did not adequately meet 
the necessities of the public by an abundant standard 
coinage until 1797, and in the meantime many hundreds 
of varieties of Tokens had been privately issued in the 
United Kingdom and in Ireland, forming a fine series 
of medals which are interesting on account of their 
beauty and increasing rarity. The Scottish examples 
are mostly well executed. The contemporary bib- 
liography of the subject embraces three important 
works : — Provincial Copper Coins, by Charles Pye, 
London, 1794-6 ; The Virtuoso s Companion and 
Coin Collector's Gtiide, by M. Denton, 8 vols., Lond., 
1795-7 ; and An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, 
by James Conder, Ipswich, 1799. 

Ja. F. Kellas Johnstone. 

836. Barometer (VII., 106). — In reply to " Sea- 
man," of Montrose, Torricelli — born 1608, in Italy — 
invented the Mercurial Barometer. Blaise Pascal, 
the philosopher and theologian, born 1623, made 
many experiments with, and improved the instrument. 
Improvements have been continued to the present 
day. The Aneroid Barometer is a recent invention, 
and although a handy and useful instrument for gene- 
ral purposes, is not to be compared to a first-rate 
Mercurial Barometer as a scientific instrument 

Brighton. R. P. H. 

836. Barometer (VII., 106). — This instrument 
was the invention of Evangelista Torricello, b. 1608, 
d. 1647. The date of its invention is given as 1643 
in Chambers's Encyclopaedia. For further informa- 
tion see that work. Possibly, however, the celebrated 



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[January, 1894. 



English Philosopher, Robert Boyle, had something to 
do either with perfecting or popularising the instru- 
ment ; for I find in Dr Murray's Neiu English Dic- 
tionary the following quotation from the Philosophi- 
cal Transactions of the Royal Society for 1665-6, " A 
Barometer or Baroscope first made public by that 
Noble Searcher of Nature, Mr Boyle." This is the 
earliest instance known of the use of the word in 
English. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 



SCOTCH BOOKS FOR THE MONTH. 

Across Texas. E. S. Ellis. Cr. 8vo, 2/6. Nelson. 
Animal Adventures. A. R. Hope. l/, Nimmo. 
As we Sweep through the Deep, G. Stables. Nelson. 
Biddy. P. E. S. 8vo, 6d, Oliphant. 

Biddy, Tibby, and French Bessie. 1/6. Oliphant. 
Birth-Book (Jewel). M. Donald. 6d. Nimmo, 

Birth-Book of Riddles. M. Donald. 6d. Nimmo. 
Blackwood (Sir S. A.) In Memoriam. 4d. Stevenson. 
Blanche. Mrs Molesworth. 8vo, 5s. Chambers. 
Burnsiana. J. D. Ross. Vol, 3, 4to, 2/6. Gardner. 
Bute (Island oQ in the Olden Time. Blackwood. 

Cases (Selected) Decided in the Sheriff Courts. 2nd 

Series. W. Guthrie. Demy Svo, 18/ net. Clark. 
Cham l>ers's Journal. Vol. 1893. 9A Chambers. 

Children's Messenger. Vol. 4to, i/. (jlass. 

Children's Treasury. 1894. 410, i/. Nelson. 

Cniisie Sketches. F. Mackenzie. 3rd ed. 32mo, i/. 

Wyllie. 
Darwinianism. J. F. Stirling. 10/6. Clark. 

Doing and Daring. E. Stredder. 3/6. Nelson. 

Doorside Ditties. J. Morison. 3/6. Blackwood. 
Edinburgh Med. Calendar. 2/. Livingston. 

Edinburgh (The) Pocket Diary. Oliver & Boyd. 

Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs. 5/. Hodge. 
Forms for Sheriffs. Notes by G. Sellar. Anderson (G). 
French Bessie. P. E, S. 8vo, 6d. Oliphant. 

Glasgow Tec. Col. Calendar, 1893-94. Anderson (G.) 
Glimpses of the Beautiful. Henderson. Henderson (G). 
Golfing and other Poems. J. Thomson. 2/6 Hodge. 
Heine (Poems of). Sir T. Martin. 5/. Blackwood. 
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Hydrostatics. E. H. Pinkerton. 4/6 Blackie. 

India (Atlas of), with Intro, by Sir W. W. Hunter. 

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In His Presence, W. J. Govan. i/. Allan (G.) 
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Law (Scottish) Review. Vol. 9, 21/- & 24/. Hodge. 
Legal Philosophy. W. A. Watt. 5/. Clark. 

Little Swedish Baron. Cr. Svo, 1/6. Nelson. 

Merry Chimes. W. S. Roddie. 2/6 Bayles & Fer. 
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Morison's (John) Poems. Vol. i, 3/6 Macleod. 

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The following is a synopsis of the Scotch Books of 

1893- 

Volumes 

Children's Books and Minor Fiction, 168 

Ed ucation , 105 

Religion and Theology, 94 

Biography and History, 58 

Fiction, 50 

Poetry and Drama, 48 

Bibliography, Ecclesiastical History, Folk- 
lore, Archaeology and Local History, ... 44 

Directories and Guides, 30 

Law, 27 

Other Works, 152 

Total 776 

The Publications of four cities compared : — 

Volumes 

Edinburgh, 5^6 

Glasgow, 171 

Aberdeen, 32 

Paisley, 24 

733 

Publishers will please forward lists by 15th of each 
month to John Inglis, 

12 Glen Street, Edinbuigh. 



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land true Gothic survived the decay of the style 
in England, should stand among us for years 
under sentence of destruction, and scarce a 
voice be raised to cry for respite ! 

The Grey Friars of Aberdeen belonged to a 
late reform of the famous Order of S. Francis 
(hratres Minores) — the Observantine. They 
were introduced into Scotland, it is said from 
Germany, by our poet-king, James I. 

Bp. Keith (Catalogue of Scottish Bishops) 
says the Aberdeen Convent was founded in 
1 47 1, and it is quite possible it was not opened 
till that year ; but the Obituary mentions several 
of the Friars as in Aberdeen, and at work on the 
buildings, some years earlier : — " Brother John 
" Leydis, layman and carpenter, who laboured 
"faithfully in his craft as well as in this place^^ 
(the technical word with the Friars for their con- 
vents) "as for other places^ a brother devout 
"and zealous. He died 1459;" and "Brother 
" Walter Leydess, carpenter, who faithfully con- 
"structed for this convent the bell-tower and 
" the cells of the brethren, and did many other 
"good works. He died in 1469." The ground 
on which the convent stood was given to the 
Friars by Richard Vaus, laird of Many (died 
1478): "it was said he could have received a 
"hundred pounds for the site." Alexander 
Richardson, " a most special benefactor among 
" special ones," died in 1479. Among those who 
" brought the Sacred Observance to this king- 
"dom," the Obituary mentions one who was 
probably related to this eminent benefactor — 
" Brother John Richardson, " who received," it 
says, ^^2i place at Edinburgh, and a second ^/^^^ 
"at S. Andrews, and was the principal agent in 
" securing this our third ^/a^^," but he too seems 
to have passed away before the Friars entered 
on actual possession : "he died in 1469, and is 
" buried in the Church of S. Nicholas, before 
"the High Altar." The first "vicar," or prior, 
of the Aberdeen Convent was a Dutchman, 
" Brother Gerard of Taxalia " (no doubt, the 
Isle of Texel, in Holland) ; he also " was one of 
" the first fathers who brought the Sacred Ob- 
" servance to this kingdom ; he always perse- 
" vered in this province for the space of twelve 
" years, and died in this convent, its vicar, in 
" 1473." David Colison gave " a portion of his 
" tenement for the amplifying of the cloister ; " 
and when he died in 1481, his eldest son, for the 
weal of his father's soul, " constructed the pas- 
sage to the choir." In the same year died another 
benefactor, Robert Colane, who, "at his own 
"expense, constructed the greater part of the 
" dormitory." Sir William Elphinstone, parson 
of Clatt, contributed, about the same time, "for 
"the building of the gable of the old choir, 10 
" merks. And in the end of his days, for the 



" building of our new churchy he paid down ;^ioo 
" in numbered money." To this new church (the 
one still standing) there are many contributors ; 
but the chief honour is ascribed, and no doubt 
justly, to the munificent prelate, to whose piety 
and taste Aberdeen owes so many of its orna- 
ments. Bishop Gavin Dunbar (15 18-1532). He 
"built our new church from its foundation,'' 
giving 1400 merks for the buildmg, and leaving 
to the Friars in his will, " 10 merks, a silver 
"chalice, and a scarlet chasuble." Dunbar's 
architect was Alexander Galloway, parson of 
Kinkell, who was himself a man of note, one of 
the great benefactors of the University, of which 
he was an early Rector, whose art, it is probable, 
may be traced in many of those "Sacrament 
houses," which constitute so interesting a feature 
in many of the parish churches in this province, 
and who was ready for the then daring feat of 
bridging the Dee at the Craiglug. Galloway, 
who is commemorated in two elaborate notices 
in the Friars' Obituary — in the one, written in 
the most ambitious "classical" dialect of the 
Renaissance, he is described as " minister of the 
" fane of Kinkell ; " the other, in the homelier 
" monastic " Latin of an older period, describes 
him simply as " rector of the church of Kinkell." 
But both testify that he " erected, at the expense 
" of Bp. Gavin Dunbar, the new church ;" as, 
indeed, Bp. Dunbar's arms remain on it to 
shew. To Galloway, then, we certainly owe all 
the ancient parts of Greyfriars Church as we 
have it — i.e.^ the east wall, the south gable, with 
the great window, and the whole of the western 
side, towards Broad Street, containing a magni- 
ficent range of pointed windows with buttresses 
between — magnificent still, though the barbarous 
taste of last century tore out the mullions of the 
windows ; and though the beautiful grey of the 
sandstone walls has turned to black or green in 
the damp and airless confinement to which, by 
the erection of high houses between them and 
Broad Street, they have been so long subjected. 
The citizens of Aberdeen are getting, for the 
first time for 250 years, a glimpse of the noble 
building, just before it is removed. 

The great south window — with its seven 
lights, its slender mullions supported by an 
accoladed transom and artfully intertwined 
above, so that three times over there are three 
sets of compartments (thus suggesting the 
fundamental Christian doctrine of the Trinity) 
— is unique in Scotland, perhaps in Britain. It 
is interesting to compare it with another 
window, similar in style and of much the same 
period, which in 15 18 was inserted into the 
north transept of S. Nicholas. The window in 
S. Nicholas is clumsy and ugly : that in Grey- 
friars is a model of dignity and grace. The 



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buttresses, too, are remarkably good, worthy of 
a better age, and (surely?) of a better fate. 
This window and the buttresses beside it — 
indeed the whole gable— should unc[u est ion ably 
"be preserved in the new church ; it is enough 
to lose the west side^not to speak of all the 
associations (more interesting in the period after 
Ihe Reformation than before it) which cluster 
round the site. The east wall of the church is 
also ancient, but to it the cloister joined, and 
it is of rubble construction, not of the fine ashlar 
■work of the west side. It shews, however, two 
door-ways arched with segments of a circle, 
and part apparently of a large pointed arch, the 
puqiose of which it is not very easy to explain. 
In another wall stretching from the south end 
of the church to the buildings of Marischal 
College, there are traces of a series of low 
pointed arches, supported on brick niers, which 
may either be remams of the Friars cloister, or 
have formed the undercroft of one of the con- 
ventual buildings — perhaps of the infirmary 
which Bishop William Stewart (died 1545) 
constructed as his contribution to the convent. 
The church originally extended twenty feet 
further north i and it had a bell-turret (shewn 
' \ Parson Gordon's Map of Aberdeen). The 



responsible for the popular notion that Grey- 
friars is "an ugly church," and which un- 
doubtedly merit that epithet, were added in 
1768, in the style which the "taste" of that 
period was pleased to denominate " Roman 
Classical." James Cooper, D.D. 



Cumherland's Quarters (Vil., 97).— Let 
tnc thank you for the picture of 45 Guestrow, in 
December number ; but I should like to have 
further particulars about this house. I have 
examined the arms above the doorway, and 
which you promise to reproduce. They are 
those of the L'umsdens — a buckle or, with two 
wolves' heads couped in chief and escallop in 
base. I have been informed that the house 
belonged to Matthew Lumsden, a famous ma- 
gistrate of Aberdeen, before it was owned by 
Sir George Skene. But instead of attributing 
the arms to possession by Matthew Lumsden, 
is it not more hkely that their presence is due to 
the fact that Dr Andrew Skene married Mar- 
garet Lumsden, a daughter of David Lumsden 
of Cushnie, who died m 1718, from which union 
sprang the Thomsons of Banchory ? Ate there 
evidences pro or con in respect of the alleged 
possession of this notable mansion by the Gor- 
dons of Hallhead as a town house ? It always 
appeared tome to be too good for them. It would 
be well to have the record completed G. 



■ ABERDEENSHIRE AS A FACTOR 
SCOTTISH LIFE AND THOUGHT. 
No one can cast even a momentary glance 
the map of .Scotland withoutbeing arrested 
the bold outline of the seacoast. But if thert 
one portion of that striking outline which i 
more readily attract the attention of an obser 
than another, it will most likely be that secti 
of the coast which stretches from Kinnair 
Head, the most Northern point in Aberdeenshi 
and trends suddenly Westwards for many mi! 
till it reaches the Moray Frith. Fortheeiff 
of that abrupt Westward trend is to give to t 
coast line of the North-East of Scotland an i 
pearance of square concentrated strength, whi' 
irresistibly suggests the idea of a mighty shot 
der of colossal proportionsand Herculean enere 
fitted. Atlaslike, to bear the weight even of 
world without being crushed by it. It needs 1 
unusual power of imagination, therefore, for tl 
instructed and patriotic Scot to find in the natui 
scenery which we have just described a viv 
suggestion of the dogged endurance and prete 
natural energy which have been the outstandii 
characteristics of his race throughout the who 
of their historic development. Nor do I thii 
that such an observer need necessarily be * 
cused of irrational extravagance, if on markit 
farther the unique position of the great Shire < 
Aberdeen among the other ScottLsh Shires, k 
should be tempted to speak of that remarkabl 
county as constituting the shoulder-joint t 
knuckle-end of Scotland. For assuredly, whe 
one notices not only how the Scottish coast-lin 
rounds itself off at the extreme North-Easier 
end of Aberdeenshire, and stretches squarel 
away to the West, but also how the bulk ani 
body of that county, stretching diagonally to th 
South-West, is driven wedge-fashion into th 
very heart of Scotland, one begins to understani 
how natural is the imagery which represent 
Aberdenshire as a bolt or rivet binding the dii 
ferent parts of Scotland together, or as a hingi 
or pivot, round which the great mass of tha 
country may revolve. 

Bui whatever may be thought of ihe fitness o 
the imagery we have just employed to set fortl 
the physical position of Aberdeenshire,a5relatec 
to the other counties in the map of Scotland, il 
can scarcely be doubled by any one familiai 
with Scottish history, that in many respects, al 
least, the aforesaid imagery is well adapted 
to exhibit the large and important part which 
the men of that county have played in the 
entire development of the Scottish people. For, 
whether as respects pohlics, or religion, or lite- 
rature, or science, or art, it is no more than the 
truth to declare, that with the exception of Mid- 
lothian, and the great Shires of Lanark, Ayr^ 



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Fife, Forfar, and Perth, no Scottish county holds 
so high a place as Aberdeen, or has played an 
equally prominent part in the development of 
our national history. Indeed, while not denying 
to the counties above specified whatever honour 
they may justly claim m connection with their 
relatively large share in the special glories of 
Scotland's political and religious history, I yet 
hope, in the following paper, to succeed in show- 
ing that in respect to the relative bulk and value 
of the various contributions made by the differ- 
ent Scottish Shires to Scotland's general historic 
development, Aberdeen is scarcely, if at all, 
behind any of its rivals, not even the most illus- 
trious of them all. 

Before rehearsing in detail the various items 
of the evidence on which I rely for the establish- 
ment of the position above indicated, it will 
serve, I think, a useful purpose to give a few 
statistics in regard (ij to the area of Aberdeen- 
shire as compared with other Scottish counties, 
and (2) in regard to the relative place in respect 
to the number of its inhabitants which that shire 
has held to the other chief Scottish counties at 
different dates in Scottish history. 

In regard, then, to its superficial area, I ob- 
serve that Aberdeenshire ranks only fourth 
among Scottish counties. In this respect, if in 
no other, it must yield to the three Highland 
Shires of Argyle, Inverness, and Perth. But 
though in superficial area Aberdeenshire holds 
thus only the fourth place among Scottish 
counties, in the matter of the number of its pa- 
rishes it stands considerably ahead of any other 
Scottish County. Thus while the Shires of Perth, 
Fife, and Forfar contain 70, 60 and 54 parishes 
respectively, Aberdeenshire has been distri- 
buted into no fewer than 78 such divisions. An 
interesting and suggestive fact this seems to me. 
For, as I interpret it, it appears not obscurely 
to hint, that in those early ages of Scottish his- 
tory, when the land was being thus permanently 
subdivided, Aberdeenshire was in all likelihood 
one of the most densely populated parts of Scot- 
land. We have, indeed, no means of deter- 
mining with any approach to accuracy what was 
the relative populousness of different parts of 
Scotland to each other before the middle of the 
1 8th century. But all the evidence that does 
exist seems to point to the conclusion that, at 
all events from the tenth to the eighteenth cen- 
tury, Aberdeenshire, relatively to the other 
Scottish counties, was much more populous 
than it is to-day. 

The first Scottish census having any claim to 
accuracy, was, as we have said, that of 1755, 
taken at the request of the General Assembly of 
the Scottish Church by the different parish 
ministers of the day. Now, this census reveals 



the interesting fact that the two most populous 
Scottish counties in the middle of the i8th 
century were Perth and Aberdeen ; the one 
containing 116,836 inhabitants, and the other 
118,902. But, though Perth, a century and a 
half ago seems thus to have had the better of 
Aberdeen in the matter of populousness to the 
number of some 2000 inhabitants, nevertheless, 
as from the twelfth century onwards, Aberdeen- 
shire was probably more civilized than Perth, it 
is not unreasonable to infer, that at least in the 
centuries prior to the English Union, that county 
may have had the honour of being the most 
thickly populated of all the Scottish counties, 
especially as, owing to its remoteness from the 
Border, it was much less exposed to the harass- 
ing invasions of the English. 

But while, as we have just seen, Aberdeen, at 
the middle of the i8th century, was the second 
most populous county in Scotland, standing in 
this respect a very close second to Perth, by the 
end of that century it had fallen back almost to 
thelplace it now holds, and stood only third 
among Scottish counties as respects the number 
of its inhabitants. This place, moreover, I may 
observe, it generally held until last century, not- 
withstanding all the fluctuation of population 
that has marked the present century. And 
even now it still ranks fourth. This is the more 
remarkable, as while Perth, which long stood 
first in respect to the number of its people, now 
ranks only eighth, being, indeed, less populous 
to-day than it was at the beginning of the cen- 
tury ; and while other counties, such as Lanark, 
Midlothian, Forfar, Fife, Ayr, and Renfrew, 
have in the interval immensely increased in 
population, Aberdeen, with far less natural 
advantages for stimulating population than any 
of those counties, being, indeed, singularly desti- 
tute of those facilities for the creation of manu- 
facturing industry, which the coal-fields of these 
counties confer upon them, has yet contrived to 
hold its own as the fourth most populous of 
Scottish counties, in this respect coming im- 
mediately after the important and populous 
counties of Lanark, Midlothian, and Renfrew. 

A district which has so nobly held its own in 
the great struggle for existence which has been 
going on in Scotland for centuries, and which, 
moreover, has shown no sign of failing force in 
the far keener rivalry and more strenuous com- 
petition that has marked the conditions of Scot- 
tish life in our own age, must from the very out- 
set of its history have been occupied by a people 
naturally endowed with an intense vital energy, 
and with a faculty of self-adjustment to changing 
circumstances seldom granted to any people. 
And that these characteristics are typical of the 
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by the universal testimony of all who have had 
much to do with that clever, hardy, and aggres- 
sive race. For whatever faults the Aberdonian 
may have, certainly no one has ever accused 
him of weakness or effeminacy, either of mind 
or body. He has sometimes been described as 
coarse in his tastes, rough in his manners, and 
devoid of the gentler virtues and milder graces 
that we usually associate with the possession of 
a refined and sensitive nature ; but no one has 
ever either found or called him a weakling. You 
may say of the Aberdonian's intellect that it is 
strong rather than fine ; but you would never 
think of calling it nerveless and weak. His 
character may possibly seem to you robust rather 
than beautiful ; but most assuredly it will never 
seem unmanly or morbid. You may describe 
his nature as rugged rather than chivalrous ; 
but at any rate it is unsubduable. His endur- 
ance you may call dogged rather than heroic ; 
but at all events it is invincible. His shrewdness, 
too, may perhaps seem to you too keen to be 
pleasant, his wariness too unrelaxing to be 
admirable, especially to those against whom it 
is exercised ; and finally, his thrift may perhaps 
justly be regarded as too rigid to be noble. 
Nevertheless, you will be unable to deny that it 
has been on the foundation of these rugged and 
somewhat uncouth virtues that the Aberdonian 
has built up a character of noble self-de- 
pendence, — a character, which in the strenuous 
competition with rival races, that it has been his 
lot for centuries to maintain, has given him a 
foremost place in every country into which he 
has penetrated, and in every pursuit where 
virile qualities are in request. And these quali- 
ties also undoubtedly it is, which, in spite of the 
fact that it has been his ill hap to be settled in 
what was originally, perhaps, one of the stoniest 
and barrenest regions of a country that is pro- 
verbially sterile, have yet enabled him not only 
to maintain his ground even there, as the repre- 
sentative of a race of rare fecundity and energy, 
but actually to build up on a soil so naturally 
unpropitious for such a structure, a civilization, 
which, though in some respects it may be styled 
hard and narrow, has at least never been lacking 
in utilitarian thoroughness, and masculine 
strength and endurance. 

In view of these facts, I have sometimes 
thought that to a competent philologist and 
antiquary, an investigation into the anthropo- 
logy of Aberdeen offers a most tempting subject 
of inquiry, and one likely to lead to interesting 
and important results. I do not know, indeed, 
whether it is still possible for a scientific enquirer 
to ascertain, with any approach to accuracy, 
what were the various races, the blending of 
which together, either in historic or prehistoric 



times, has produced the well-known and highly 
accentuated type of man whom the modem 
Aberdonian is universally admitted to be. So 
far, at all events, as I am concerned, I must ac- 
knowledge that I am, personally, not competent 
for this task, much as I would like to prosecute 
it, and that, though I have endeavoured to 
obtain materials fitted to throw light on a sub- 
ject so obscure, I have not been very success- 
ful in my efforts. Others, too, who have been 
prosecuting similiar enquiries, have, I believe, 
the same report to make. Mr Smith, a recent 
historian of his native county, announces his 
own ill success m this matter in one of the 
interesting volumes with which his name is 
associated. While the late Sir George Camp- 
bell, M.P., in a paper which he read some years 
ago before the British Association, made the 
explicit avowal : — *" I have never been able to 
ascertain who the Aberdonians are, and what is 
the language they speak, so different in its forms 
and intonations from the rest of Scotland." 

But while this is true, there can be no doubt, 
of course, that the primitive inhabitants of Aber- 
deenshire, at the time when they first come 
within the purview of history, were predomin- 
antly Celtic, and spoke a Celtic dialect. That 
much at least has been established by the late 
Dr Skene, in his interesting volumes on the 
Early History of Celtic Scotland. But that an- 
terior to the arrival of the Saxon, Danish, Nor- 
man, and other Colonists, who from the eighth 
to the twelfth century began to pour into Scot- 
land, and to occupy it with that masterful energy 
which has always been characteristic of Teutonic 
colonisation, hosts of an early and long-forgotten 
race must have invaded this portion of that 
country, and brought the first cultivation into 
its valleys, may be conjectured from the fact, 
that throughout the length and breadth of Aber- 
deenshire are to be found specimens of those 
strange undeciphered sculptured stones which 
are at once the pride and the reproach of the 
Scottish antiquary. 

Unable, however, though I am to give any 
satisfactory account of the origin of the Aber- 
donian people, I regard it as an interesting and 
suggestive fact, more particularly as illustrating 
the energy and talent which that people early 
developed, that it is to the Shire of Aberdeen 
that the earliest known Scottish manuscript be- 
longs. I refer, of course, to the celebrated Book 
of Deer. This interesting volume, the margins 
of which are covered with narratives of the en- 
dowment of the little Buchan convent to which 
its name is attached, belongs probably to the 
ninth century, and is certainly the oldest piece 
of Scottish writing known to exist. The mar- 
ginal notices to which we have referred, and 



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which constitute now the chief value of the little 
volume, were without doubt written in the ninth 
and tenth centuries ; and as they are composed 
in Gaelic, they clearly prove, that up, at least, 
to the tenth century, the prevalent dialect in the 
Buchan district of Aberdeen was Gaelic. But 
while they prove this, they also establish the fact 
that a thousand years ago the Aberdeenshire 
seaboard was already peopled by an intelligent 
and energetic race, who had come under the 
power of Christianity, and were laying the found- 
ations of a strong and healthy Christian civiliza- 
tion. W. B. R. W. 

(Tobl continued.) 



1701 Nov. 30. The Session considering the 
great abounding- of uncleanness in this 
paroch do appoint a four-nooked big stool 
to be made of an ell high to stand in the 
mids of the floor before the pulpit to be a 
terror to faulters that they may come from 
the remote publick places and stand ther 
when the minister rebukes them. 

1701 Dec 14. To Andrew Cumine for making 
the faulters' stool 55. Sc, which was befor 
appointed to be made to stand before the 
pulpit, it was made of an old broken boat. 

1702 June 14. It being represented that George 
Mihi and Hillen Lamb his wife in Quarrel- 
burn are guilty of charming in laying hot 
stones above their door to know therby some 
sickness of their child wherby it hes come 
to pass in the just judgment of God that 
their house and all their plenishing with 
barns and byres are totally burnt to ashes 
viz. the hot stones taking fire in the thack 
of the hous. They are appoynted to com- 
pear before the Session the nixt dyet. 

1702 June 28. This day compeared George 
Mihi and his wife confessing that they used 
these charms of hot stones wherby their 
house was burnt and that they learned the 
same from a beggar wife. The session did 
favour them upon the accompt of their 
simplicity and ingenuity and because the 
Lord hes punished them for their folly. 
They are appointed to be publikly rebuked 
the next Lord's day. 

1702 July 12. The minister reports that George 

Michieand his wife Helen Lamb compeared 

before the congregation and were publikly 

rebuked for their charming. 

(Kirk Session Records of Aberdour, 

Aberdeenshire.) 



INVENTORY of CHARTERS RELATING 

TO THE 

BLACKFRIARS IN ABERDEEN. 
(Concluded from p^%t I3i.) 

Item ane Instrument of saising of the halffof 
ane land lyand in the Wast syd of the gallowgetl 
of abd. giwen to the saidis frieris be resignatiouD 
of the said arthure forhes of Rires undir the 
signe and subacriptioun of Sr Johnne Stirling 
not. publict of the dait 6 aprill 1490.— ix. 4. 

Item ane Instrument undir the signe and 
subscriptioun of Sr Johnne Stirhngnotarquhairbe 
the said arthure forhes of Rires disponit his 
haill insicht and planescheing within his LudgC' 
ing in the gallowgett of abd. to the saidis frieris 
for the soume of fourtie merkis moe. In claus 
of Warrandice of the said anualrent of twa 
merkis disponit be him to the saidjs frieris out 
of the said land of the dait the 24 December 

493-— if- 21. 

Item ane chartor giwen he the saidis Arthure 
forbes of Rires to the saidis frieris of ane anual- 
rent of Twa merkis scottis moe. furth of his land 
Lyand on the east syd of the gallowgett of Abd. 
daitit at the said burghe 24 December 1493. 

Item ane Instrument of saising of the said 
anuall of Twa merkis given to the saidis frieris 
be resignatioun of the said arthure forbes furth 

"the said land Under the signe and subscrip- 
un of Sr Johnne Stirling notar of the same 

;m aneprecept of saising giwen be alexander 
Johnstoun of that ilk for giweing saising to the 
saidis frieris of ane anualrent of tuantie schilling is 
scottis moe. to be vplifted furth of his landis of 
Wodland LittilJ dyce Corsshill Craig standaine 
stanes and buchthill with the perlinentis Lyand 
within the forresl of Cordyce and syreffdome of 
abd. daitit at abd. 13 Jar 1494 cum sasina in 
secunda cauda. — xviii. 6. 

Item ane chartor given be Johnne Collesoun 
burges of abirdeine to the saidis frieris of the 
anualrentis efterspect. viz ane anualrent of 
Tuantie schillingisout ofthelandof vmqllandro 
Smyth Lyand on the wastsyd of the gallowgett 
Item ane anualrent of Tuelff schillingis furth of 
chryistie htsteris Land in the gallowgett and ane 
uther anualrent of sex .schillingis aucht d. out of 
the land of thomas giiespie on the wast syd of 
the same gett of the dait at abd. xj december 
149S-— i^t- 7- 

Item the saidis fneris instrument of saismgof 
the saidis thrie anuallis giwen to thame be re- 
signarioim of the said Johnne Collesoun Under 
the Signe and subscriptioun of S' Johnne Stir- 
ling notar of the dait 15 December 1495. — 
is. 16. 

Item ane chartor maid be George meldrum of 
ywie to the saidis prior and convent of ane 



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anualrent of threttie thrie schillingis four d. 
scottis moe furth of his landis and fischeingis of 
banchori Dewinick lyand within the shreffdome 
of abd. of the dait at abd. 20 aprill 15 10 zeiris. 

Item ane precept of saising following on the 
said chartor of the said anualrent of threttie 
thrie schillingis four d. of the dait foirsd. cum 
sasina in secunda cauda. 

Item ane instrument of saising giwen be the 
saidis frieris of ane wast Land of vmq^^ Johnne 
gilespieonthe south syidof the Castellgettof abd. 
Undir the signe and subscriptioun of Sr Johnne 
Stirling notar of the dait 13 Junii 15 10. — viii. 9. 

Item ane chartor maid and grantit be Wil- 
leame earle marschall Lord Keythe, &c. To the 
prior and convent of the frieris predicatoris in 
abirdeine on an zeirlie anualrent of Ten pundis 
scottis moe To be vplifted furth of the barronie 
of Dunottar lyand within the schereffdome of 
Kincardin of the dait at Dunotter 22 august 
1 5 10 zeiris. — i. 16. 

Item ane precept of sasing following on the 
said chartor of the same dait. — L 17. 

Item ane Instrument of saising following on 
the said precept Undir the Signe and subscrip- 
tioun of Sr Johnne Stirling noter of the same 
dait. — i. 18. 

Item ane mstrument of saising given to the 
saidis frieris on an anualrent of four schillingis 
furthe of thair awm croft Lyand befoir the blak- 
frieris plaice be resignatioun of Mr. thomas 
chalmer cheplane of o' ladye altar wethin the 
paroche kirk of Abd. undir the signe and sub- 
scriptioun of Mr Laurence Cheyne notar of the 
dait 12 Maij 1511.— xi. 18. 

Item ane saising giwen to mariorie greigorie 
relict of vmqll Thomas Waus burgess of abd. of 
ane anualrent of Sex schillingis out of ane land 
in the greyne Be wertew of the resignatioun of 
Williame Wobster under the signe and sub- 
scriptioun of Mr David nicolsoune notar daitit 
15 Ja' 1523. — xii. 42. 

Item ane chartor maid be Alexander leslie of 
that ilk to the saidis frieris on ane anualrent of 
Ten merkis furth of the Landis of new leslie 
saillit and subscrywit be the said alex of the dait 
at abirdeine 21 October 1524. — xiv. 3. 

Item ane Instrument of saising given to the 
saidis frieris of ane anualrent of Ten merkis 
furth of the landis of new leslie lyand within the 
regalitie of Gareauche and shireffdome of abd. 
Giwen be wertew of ane precept of saising of 
Alexander Leslie of that ilk of the dait 24 Oc- 
tober 1524 Undir the signe and subscriptioun of 
thomas scherar notar. — xx. 6. 

Item ane chartor maid be the said Sr thomas 
myirtoun to the said frieris of all and haill his 
halff of thrie croftis of Land in the Terretorie of 
Rubislaw To witt the halff of the Craigwall 



croft Item twa riggis of the Crabstane and the 
half of one uther rig at the Crabstane of the dait 
at Abd. 17 October 1528. — x. 15. 

Item ane instrument of saising following 
thairwpoun undir the signe and subscriptioun 
of Thomas beltie of the dait 18 Maij 1528 
[? 1529]. — X. 21. 

Item ane instrument of saising giwen to the 
saidis frieris be resignatioun of the said Sr 
thomas Myirtoun of ane anualrent of fourtie 
shilling is furth of the croft of Johnne CoUesone 
elder Callit Kilbankis and Lochfield of the dait 
23 November 1529 Undir the signe and sub- 
scriptioun of Mr David nicolsone notar publict. 

Item ane chartor maid be Gilbert Menzes 
Provest of Abd. and Mariorie Chalmer his 
spous To Sr Thomas Myirtoun archedeane of 
abirdene on ane anualrent of fourtie schillingis 
furth of his croftis callit Coulis croft and Pratis 
croft of the dait at abirdene 13 august 1530 
zeiris. — x. 8. 

Item the said Sr thomas Myirtoun his instru- 
ment of saising of the said anualrent be resig- 
natioun of the said Gilbert Menzes and his said 
spous wndir the signe and subscriptioun of Mr 
David nicolson notar publict of the same dait 

Item ane precept of saising giwen be Mr 
Andro TuUidaff of Ranystoun to the saidis frieris 
of ane anualrent of fourtie schillingis scottis mo® 
furth of the sone halff landis of litill Warthill 
lyand within the parochine of Rayne and shreff- 
dome of abd daitit at abd penultimo July 1532. 

Item the saidis frieris instrument of saising of 
the said anualrent of fourtie schillingis giwen 
be wertew of the said precept of the dait 13 au- 
gust 1532 Undir the signe and subscriptioun of 
Mr Johnne bumet notar publict 

Item ane rentall of the saidis frieris, the sup- 
erscriptioun qrof is writtin with reid jnk in the 
zeir of god 1 535. 

Item the principall sumoundis againis the said 
Willeame lord forbes, alex** Leslie of Petcapill 
George meldrum of fywie and James gordoun 
of Lesmoir raisit at the instance of the saidis 
freiris for the expensses of pley susteanit be 
thame in obteaning of the decreitis mentionat in 
the saidis sumoundis daitit at edr. 4 October 
and of hir maiesties reigne the xj zeir. [1552]. 

Item the Queenes letteris of poynding and 
arreastment giwen be delyerance of the lordis of 
Counsall undir his Maiesties signet at the in- 
stance of the prior and convent of the saidis 
frieris agains alexander leslie of Petcappill Wa 
Lord forbes George meldrum of fywie and James 
gordon of Lesmoir past.vpoun the saidis lordis 
decreit giwen aganne the saidis persones for 
certaine particular anualrentis yrin conteannt of 
the dait at edr. 13 October and of hir maties. 
reigne the allevint zeir. [1552]. 



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Item ane confirmatioun of Queen Marie con- 
fimiing ane decreit of the lordis of Counsall 
giwen at the instance of the prior and convent 
of the saidis frieris againis alex' Leslie of Pet- 
cappil qrby the said alexander wes decemit to 
pay to the saidis freyris ane zeirlie anualrent of 
fourtie schillingis furth of his halff landis of Cre- 
mound and disponit to the saidis freiris be 
vmqi^ Willeame Cargill qlk confirmatioun is 
daitit at edr. 5 feb"^ 1553.— xv. 5. 

Item Queene Maries confirmatioun Undir the 
testemonie of the great seall confirming ane de- 
creit of the lordis of consall giwen at the instance 
of the prior and convent of the saidis frieris 
agains Willeame Lord forbes Decerning him to 
pay to the saidis frieris ane anualrent of Ten 
pundis furth of the saidis landis of futhes beg 
and futhes moir. — xviii. 3. 

The tuentie thrie day of December Jai sex 
hundreth twentie fywe zeris Mr Patrik Dun 
doctor in phisick and principall of the new col- 
lege off aberdene Receaved furth of the Toun of 
aberdenes charter kist The haill wreittis and 
evidentis particularlie mentioned in this catologe 
befoir written consisting of thrie Leaves of paper 
To be mad furth cummand to the vse of the said 
college in all tyme cuming. 

Patrik Dun P. with my hand. 

David Rutherfurd, Witness. 

Robert Johnstone, Witness. 

A. Jaffray, Witnes. 



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OLD BALLAD (VIL, 114). 

There has been in my possession for about ten 
years the ballad The Grisly Ghaist d Bairns- 
dale^ with preface and note as in S, N. &^ Q. for 
January. It is in pamphlet form, printed at the 
Express Office, Huntly. There is no date but 
that at the foot of the preface, by John Forbes, 
2ist Dec, 1872. 

I have also (and send for insertion) what 
seems to be an older version of the ballad, 
with note appended, T/ie Ghost of Bairnsdale^ 
copied from Minor Poems^ Historical and Tra- 
ditional^ and Ballads chiefly relating to Fyvie 
and its neighbourhood^ by James Gordon, Cam- 
alines. Aberdeen : Printed for the Author by 
A. King & Co., Concert Court, Broad Street. 
1858. 

THE GHOST OF BAIRNSDALE. 

(revised). 

There lived a widow at Baimsdale, 

I've heard old people say, 
And a grizly ghost came to her door 

Ilk morning lang ere day. 

He would not gang awa' frae her 

For shout nor yet for cry — 
Till she would send her twa braw sons 

To see where he did lie. 



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The widow grew sick, and very sick, — 

And sick and like to die, — 
She sent for her twa buirdly sons 

To speak wi* her speedily. 

Then in it came, her eldest son 

Wi' mass-book on his breast, 
And said, " What ails my mother dear? 

You ken well I'm a priest." 

And in it came her second son, 

Wi' mass-book on his arm, 
And said, ** What ails my mother dear? 

Gweed shield your life firom harm!" 

I've lang been widow o' Bairnsdale, 

And lived upon this lay — 
And the grizly ghost comes to my door 

Ilk morning lang ere day. 

He winna gang awa' frae me 

For shout nor yet for cry ; 
Till ye take his bones to holy ground 

Fra' the hole in whilk they lie. 

Ye'll quietly go the parish o'er. 

And call at ilky town ; 
Tell them to meet at * Saint Mary's Kirk' 

The morn by sun down. 

Ye'll wile eleven stalwart men 

To search the woods a' roun'. 
Until you come to the fearful spot 

His body was put down. 

And ye maun take eleven gray hounds 

Can bark and bite fu' well, — 
To warn ye when ye come to the spot 

Where his murder'd body fell. 

And ye maun lake his body awa' 
To Saint Mary's blest kirkyard, — 

And he winna come back to Bairnsdale, 
Nor mair be seen nor heard." 

They gather'd the men to Saint Mary's Kirk, 
And the staunch sleuch hounds also, — 

And a' Ardlogie's wilesome braes, 
They've driven them to and fro. 

They sought him up the Fernie bank 

And down the Fernie brae ; 
But in the den o' Dinnielair 

His murder'd body lay. 

O mark and moonless was the night. 

And loud the dogs did bark 
When they came to that evil place 

Where he was seen when dark. 

O loudly bayed the good blood hounds, 

As soon as they came near ; 
And then the grizly ghost, I trow, 

Right awesome did appear. 

** Ye'll go you down and farther down. 
To the fit o' yon greenwood tree ; 
And there you'll find my body laid 
Where Warstling murdered me^ 

I've stood into *Saint Mary's ICirk door,' 
Heard my name cursed thrice. 



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An' a* for a pair o* dog-skin gloves, 
Three ha-pennies was the price. 

Ye'll bury me among Christian mools 

As soon as ever you can, 
And I'll never come back to Bairnsdale 

To fear either woman or man." 

They've buried him by "Saint Mary's Kirk," 

Near to Saint Mary's queir. 
And he never was seen at Bairnsdale 

Man nor woman to fear. 

I am not aware that the above was ever in print ; 
however, it would be a pity to suffer such a fine old 
tradition to die out. There may be other versions of 
it, as there are about all oral things of the kind. The 
lady from whom I heard it had almost forgot it : but 
from the detached pieces I made an attempt to string 
it up and try to preserve it from the fate of too much 
of the same kind. I am at a loss with some of it, 
namely, the dog-skin gloves ; but, in our days of pro- 
gress, it will be all termed a hum. Query — Whether 
is it safer to l)elieve too much or too little ? 

There is another Ballad on the subject, which 
retains all the incidents of the legend, The 
Ghaist d Dennilair^ written by Mr John Fuller- 
ton, though I have been told by some Fyvie 
folks that a Rev. Mr Little, who was for a short 
time assistant to the minister of Fyvie, was the 
author. It is a beautiful poem, whoever may 
have been th^ author ; but as many readers of 
S, N. &^ Q. must have seen this ballad, only the 
first and last stanzas are here quoted : — 

THE GHAIST O' DENNILAIR. 

Oh, weirdly wild is Dennilair ! 
The bravest, bauldest, dinna care 
To wanner, e'en mid noontide's glare, 

Doon by its stream ; . 
Though fair the flowers that deck its braes, 
And blythe the birds that lilt their lays, 
Nae sweet-faced bairns there mak' their plays. 

Or happy dream. 

Oh, bonny are the braes o' Gight ! 
When simmer days are lang an' bricht 
I'd lie upo' them day an' nicht. 

Nor dream o' care ; 
But listen to the sang o' birds. 
The flow o' streams, an' low o' herds ; 
A book o' music wan tin' words 

Is Dennilair. 



Macduff. 



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J. C. 



From Edinburgh to the Antarctic is the title 
of an illustrated record of the Dundee Whaling 
expedition of 1892-3. Messrs Longman will be 
the publishers. 

A second edition of George Eyre Todd's 
Byways of the Scottish Border has just been 
issued. The first edition of this book was al- 
most entirely bought up on publication. 



THE CANTERBURY TALES. 

To studies and emendations of the Shakspearian 
text the late Mr John Bulloch, senior, paid some 
attention to the text of Chaucer. One result of 
this interest was his conversion of The Prologue, 
The Knight's Tale, and the Squire's Tale from 
the hendecasyllabic form of the original into 
ottosyllabic verse. Except in the matter of 
the spelling it was not otherwise his object to 
modernize or paraphrase. The problem was, 
how under the condition of a deliberately chosen 
shorter line, and modernized spelling, the real 
spirit and essential qualities of the original might 
be alligned. To the general reader the original, 
although ** Surmounting every Toung terestrial," 
is undoubtedly a sealed book. How far Mr 
Bulloch has rendered a service to the general 
reader, without doing violence to the original, 
the following specimen will show. Ed. 

PROLOGUE. 

When April with his showers so sweet 

Had pierced the drought of March complete, 

And bathed each vein with moisture o'er, 

Whose virtue gendereth the flower ; 

When eke hath zephyr's full sweet breath 

Enspired in every holt and heath, 

The tender buds, and the young sun. 

Hath in the Ram his course half run ; 

And little birds make melody, 

That sleep all night with open eye, 

As Nature prompts through every age : 

Folks long to go on pilgrimage, 

And Palmers for to seek strange strands, 

And ancient saints in sundry lands ; 

From England's very farthest end 

To Canterbury they doth wend 

The blissful "Martyr Saint" to seek, 

That holpen them when they were sick. 

Befell that season on a day. 
In South wark's Tabard as I lay 
Devoutly resting, to engage 
In Canterbury Pilgrimage, 
At night came to that hostelry 
A score and nine, in company. 
Of sundry folk that chanced to fall 
In fellowship, and pilgrims all 
That Canterburyward would ride. 
The chambers and the stalls were wide, 
And we were treated of the best. 
Not long the sun had gone to rest 
Ere I'd conversed with every one, 
In fellowship was I anon, 
Agreeing early up to rise. 
And take the way we did devise. 
But natheless, while I've time or space, 
Or farther in this tale do pace, 
Methinketh it agreeth to reason 
To tell you of the whole condition 



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Of each, so as it seemed to me ; 
And who they were ; of what degree ; 
In what array that they were in : 
And with a Knight I first begin. 

A Knight was there, a worthy man, 
That from the time he first began 
To ride abroad loved chivalry, 
Truth, honour, freedom, courtesy. 
Full worthy in his liege lord's war, 
There he had ridden (none so far). 
In Christendom and Heathenesse, 
And honoured aye for worthiness. 
At Alisaundre fought, when won. 
Full oft he had the joust begun 
Above all nations met the Pruss. 
In Lettowe journeyed, and in Russ, 
No man so oft of his degree. 
In Gemade at the siege was he 
Of Algesir ; in Belmari^ ; 
At Lagas ; and at Satali^ ; 
When they were won. In the Great Sea 
At many a bold descent was he. 
Of deadly battles saw fifteen ; 
Fought for our faith at Tramassene 
Three times in lists, and slew his foe. 
This worthy knight had been also 
Serving the lord of Palati^ 
'Gainst heathens in the land Turke^, 
And aye he had a sovereign prize. 
Though valiant, yet he was as wise. 
Meek in his port as any maid, 
He never word of rudness said 
In all his life to any wight ; 
A very perfect gentle knight. 
To tell you now of his array, 
His horse was good but nowise gay ; 
Of fustian wore an old jup6n, 
Besmuttered with his habergeon ; 
For lately come from voyaging, 
Thus went he on his pilgriming. 

With him, his son a youthful squire, 
A lover and a bachelor. 
With curled locks as laid in press ; 
Of twenty years of age I guess. 
In stature, was of even length, 
Wonderous nimble, great of strength. 
And sometime been in chivachie. 
In Flaundres, Artois, Picardie, 
And borne him well in that short space, 
To stead him in his lady's grace. 
Embroidered, like unto a mead 
Of freshest flowers all white and red. 
Singing, or fluting all the day, 
As fresh as in the month of May. 
His gown full short, sleeves long and wide, 
Sat well on horse, and fair could ride. 

Songs he could make, and well endite, 
Eke joust and dance, pourtray and write. 
So hot he loved, — by nightertale 



As sleepless as a nightingale. 
Was courteous, lowly, serviceable ; 
And carved before his sire at table. 

One Yeoman ; he no servants more 
Had then, for 'twas his pleasure so ; 
And clad in coat and hood of green, 
With sheaf of peacock arrows keen 
Under his beh full thriftily. 
He dressed his tackle yeomanly, 
No arrows drooped with feathers low ; 
In hand he bare a mighty bow. 
With head cropt short, and brownish visage ; 
Of wood-craft knew, and all the usage. 
Upon his arm he bare a bracer, 
And by his side a sword and buckler ; 
On th' other side a dagger clear. 
Well harnessed, sharp as point of spear ; 
A Christopher on breast full sheen ; 
A horn he bare, — the baldrick green : 
A forester truly bred, I guess. 

Also a Nun, a Prioress. 
Smiling full simple was and coy ; 
Her greatest oath was by St Loy ; 
Her name eke, Madame Eglantyne. 
She sang the Services Divine, 
Entun'd so in her voice full sweetly, 
And French she spoke full fair and featly, 
Like school at Stratford at the Bow ; 
She did not French of Paris know. 
At meat well taught was she withal, 
No morsel from her lips let fall. 
Nor fingers wet in sauces deep, 
But ladylike herself did keep ; 
No drop did fall upon her breast. 
In courtesy was set her lest. 
Her overlip she wiped so clean. 
That in her cup no speck was seen 
Of grease, when she had drunk her draught 
Full seemly to her food she raught. 
She truly was of good deport, 
Full pleasant, amiable of port. 
And pained herself to ape the Court 
With stately mien, — to be, in short. 
Held worthy of all reverence. 
To speak of her benevolence, — 
So charitable and piteous. 
She wept if that she saw a mouse 
Caught bleeding in a trap, or dead. 
Small hounds she had, and them she fed 
With roasted flesh, milk, wasted bread ; 
But sore she wept if One were dead. 
Or smitten with a yard, smart : 
*Twas conscience all, and tender heart. 
Her wimple seemly pinched it was ; 
Her nose was straight ; eyes grey as glass ; 
Her mouth full small, and soft, and red ; 
With certainly a fair forehead. 
A span almost in breadth, I trow ; 
And well proportioned seemed to grow. 



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Full neat her cloak, as I was 'ware ; 
Of coral round her arm she bare 
A pair of beads all gauded green, 
Thence hung a brooch of gold full sheen, 
On which was writ a neat crowned A, 
Then, Amor vincit omnia. 
Another Nun with her had she, — 
Her chapelleine, Priests also, three. 
A Monk, and for the mastery fair, 
A horseman, loving venerie rare ; 
A manly man, for abbot-able ; 
With many a dainty horse in stable. 
Riding, you might his bridle hear, 
Gingle in whistling wind so clear, 
And eke as loud as chapel bell. 
This lord as keeper of the cell, — 
The rule of Maur and Benedict, 
Because 'twas old and somewhat strict, 
This same Monk let it by him pace. 
And gave to newer modes free space. 
"Texts moral," said he, "than one pluck'dhen"! 
" That hunters are not holy men " ; 
Or, " that a monk when cloisterless 
Is like a fish when waterless " ; 
That is, a monk beyond his cloister ; 
Such texts he held not worth an oyster. 
And his opinion was not bad : 
Why study he ? or be so mad 
As on a book all day to pore ? 
Or drudge with hands for evermore 
As Austyn bid ? are folks thus served ? 
Be Austyn's task for him — reserved 1 
He therefore was a rider right 
With greyhounds swift as fowl in flight ! 
Riding, and hunting of the hare 
Was all his joy, nor cost would spare. 
His sleeves were purfled at the hand 
With fur, the finest of the land. 
Fastening his hood beneath his chin 
He had of gold a curious pin : 
A love-knot in the broad end was. 
His head was bald, and shone like glass ; 
And eke his face as 'twere anoint, 
A lord full fat and in good point 
Eyes steep, and rolling in his head. 
That steamed like pot of molten lead. 
Boots pliant, — horse in goodly state. 
Now certainly a fair prelate ; 
Not pale, like some forpining ghost. 
He liked fat swans 'fore any roast. 

(To be continued,) 



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The edition de luxe of The Siickit Minister 
promises to be a choice book. It is to be limited 
to 250 signed copies. The following names are 
mentioned as illustrators of the work : — Mr 
Ernest Waterloo, A.R.A., Mr James Paterson, 
R.W.S., Mr Joseph Pennell, Mr W. S. Mac- 
George, and Mr W. G. Brown Murdoch. 



TRANSLATION OF A CHARTER OF 
FERGUS EARL OF BUCHAN. 

Accompanying this is a quarto engravedhro2iA' 
side of the original, It is docqueted " Cum au- 
tographo Penes Jacobum Ferguson de Pitfour 
rite concordat. 

Alexander Brown, 
Bibliothecae Facultatis Juridicae 
apud Scotos Bibliothecarius." 

The imprint in the right hand comer is J. 
Ainslie, Sculpt, St Andrews Street, Newtown, 
Edin. 

Charter of Fergus Earl of Buchan, granted to 
John, Son of Uthredus, before the year 121 1. 
To all who shall see or hear of this Charter Fergus 
Earl of Buchan wisheth health in the Lord. Know 
all men, that I have given and granted, and by this 
Charter confirmed, to John, son of Uthredus, and his 
heirs, in exchange for the Lands of Slains and Cru- 
den, the Three Daughs of Feddret, viz. , Easter Auch- 
och, Atherb, Auchethad and Quiltes, wholly and 
without diminution, as well in length as in breadth, 
with all their boundaries and proper divisions, viz., 
On the East from the rivulet running on the East side 
of Easter Auchoch as far as the Crooked hollow on 
the West side of the Hill of Derevan on the West, 
and between the High Road above Clochmerly as it 
extends on the South as far as the Physician's Cross 
on the North ; and' again going up on the East from 
the foord of the rivulet of Huskethuire, between 
Auchelit (Affioch) and Atherb, as &r as the rivulet of 
Gight on the West, and on the foresaid East side from 
the Foord of the rivulet between the two Auhcranthis 
as far as the said Water of Gight, below the Shee p 
Cott of Ruther McOan of AUathan on the West and 
proceeding in the middle between the 

Two Sheep Colts Southward, as far as the foresaid 
High Road above Clochmerly, and likewise from the 
great hollow lying near the Manor of Cairnbanno, on 
the North- West side, extending to the Water Gight, 
as far as the conflux of the of Lethalge on the 

North side, and from the Crooked hollow which is 
called Hollers Myleth, lying between Bathangie and 
the hill of Darevan, on the West side of the Darevan, 
and likewise from the Dyke at the hollow foord of 
Auhakerly, on the West side as far as to the North 
side of Craigcultur, and from Craigcultur to the fores 
and Physician's Cross, and from the said Cross to the 
North side of the Darevan. Together with the Land 
of Ardendraught, and all its boundaries and pertinents 
and proper divisions, to be held and possessed of me 
and my heirs to him and his Heirs and Assignees, for 
their homage and service in feof and heritage, in its 
woods and plains, meadows and pastures, mines and 
waters and lakes, roads and paths, in its hawkings 
and huntings, mills and with its natives and inha- 

bitants, and all the customs of the said Lands, with 
and and with all manner of escheates 

and rights pertaining to me and my heirs any manner 
of way, and other advantages, and all the and 
privileges which belong to the foresaid Three Daughs 
of Fedderath and the foresaid Land of Ardendraught, 



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or can belong to them in any manner of way for the 
time coming, as freely, fully, and honourably as I and 
my predecessors have held and possessed the said 
Lands at any time, or as any Earl or Lord in the 
Kingdom of Scotland can freely, fully and honourably 
infeft any vassal in any Land, retaining only to myself 
and my heirs my Court for Life and Limb when it 
shall happen, and the said John and his Heirs and 
Assignies shall pay to me the free Service of one 
Archer and attendance three times a year at my Court 
at Ellon, for trying Capital Offences, together with 
the public Service of our Lord the King, as far as 
shall concern the fues and Lands in lieu of every other 
burden, due Service Aid or Secular exaction. More- 
over, I Will and Grant that at the time of the relief 
of said Lands, the said John and his Heirs and As- 
signies, on account of the foresaid exchange shall 
only be bound to pay to me and my Heirs for his 
relief Twenty Pounds Sterling proportionally at the 
two usual terms of the year as occasions shall happen. 
I, Fergus and my Heirs, for the foresaid Service, 
shall warrant against and defend for ever to the said 
John and his Heirs and Assignies, against all deadly 
the foresaid Three Daughs, and the forenamed Land 
of Ardendraught, with their pertinents, liberties and 
assythments and other privileges as aforesaid. In 
testimony hereof, my Seal is put to this present Char- 
ter before these Witnesses : — Malcolm Earl of 

and David his Brother, Thomas of Kinnealvon, Alex- 
ander of Blair, Henry of Abernethy, William of Slains, 

Magnus, son of , Gilbride, son of Lamond, Cos- 

patrick, son of Madid, Malochenes his brother, Nin- 
nus, son of Normas, Adam the Earl's brother, Robert 
of Munfort, and many others. 

(On the back) The Charter of Fadrath. 



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OLD DOCUMENT. 

The following curious document has been sent 
us for preservation and for possible explication. 
It is closely and well written in an antique hand, 
on an old laid paper, measuring 3^ in. broad 
by 6 in. long, and may from its appearance ap- 
proach 200 years old. It is mounted on new 
paper, but the original has got frayed at its nu- 
merous folds to the loss of a few words. Any 
conjecture as to its date, history, or author would 
be of interest. 

A humble petition or civil request of david hut- 
cheson, from the majestrates of Aberdeen. 
I being a man of some learning, have been now 
eighteen months in the Spital, dwelling without the 
town's privilege, in which time I have translated most 
of the sacred Scriptures from the original hebrew and 
Greek in which they were at first wrot by holy men 
of old, whom God had inspired with his holy spirit to 
foreshow unto mankind what his will was, the ends 
and designs of his eternal purposes with them, which 
many have so misconstructed by not understanding 
the otiginals, and endangering both their eternal and 
temporal happiness by them, raising firom thence 
troubles many, both in church and state, contrary 
to the end they were designed for at first— hence came 



all sects and sorts of opinions, by men of corrupt 
minds, seting them over sometime according to their 
own fancies — each sect to justify their own opinion, 
and condemn their neighbours, which was foreknown 
and told them they would do — 2 Tim. 3, 9 — and that 
their folly should proceed no further, but be made 
known unto all men, that as there is but one shepherd 
there may be but one sheepfold, and that the son of 
man may find this faith on the earth at his coming, 
hath, therefore, stirred up a spirit into me to make 
their mistake visible unto all men, by seting over 
the original along with the translation word for word 
verbatim, the original in red letters and the translation 
in black below it, so as that aliho the translator do 
add a word or sentence more to any dark phraise in 
his own language, he doeth not therefore add unto 
the words of God, but of the 

reader — Rev. 22, 18-19 — and lest any should say this 
word or phraise does not signify to compile 

Alphabetically a polyglute register of words 

sacred, cited with chapter and verse, thorowthe whole 
book where that word or phraise is more used, that 
by comparing the one place with the other all may 
commodiously come to the true knowledge of the ori- 
ginal, and learn easily to read and understand the 
word of God in hebrew and Greek characters in which 
it was at first wrot. And now what I request of you, 
is that if ye would be so Good as Grant me the liberty 
to learn this in the city to any people that pleaseth for 
a lively hood to me, because I am run short, and I 
would only put out this sign on the following words 
at my window, viz. : — 

Ho, he who is carious for to know 
that sacred hebrew and the Greek, 

which unto men salvation show, 
come serious unto me and speak, 

for I contain no evil thought, 

my speech is also pure and plain ; 
and the purpose is for which I wrought, 

your souls friend for to remain. 

mysterious points, the most profound 
that darkened long have been to man, 

I here most plainly do expound 
what hiden was since the world began. 

Reader, now that we may know 
whether ye be friend or fo, 
give the free will offering before ye Go. 
Oh, come and see, for your own salvation, 
How the Scriptures hath been abused in our 
translation ! 



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The January part of The A rl /ourna/ contSLins 
an illustrated article on the Queen's Park, Edin- 
burgh. 

Mr Anderson, the clever Dundee artist, better 
known as " Cynicus," contemplates reissuing a 
selection from his cutting " Satires." The re- 
issue will be in black and white, in separate 
plates, and will be published at the popular price 
of IS. 



February, 1894.! SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Rev. Andrew Wilson.— Allow me to make 
some corrections, or rather additions, to the 
notice of the Rev. Andrew Wilson, which 
appeared in your January's " Notable Men and 
Women of Banffshire." From Lochgelly he 
came in April, i36i, to Fern, in the Presbytery 
of Brechin, to be Assistant and Successor to the 
Rev. David Harris, where he was one of my near- 
est clerical neighbours. There he remained till 
Oct '67, when he resigned his charge on the 
same day that, and jusl a few hours before, Mr. 
Harris died, and thus was never full minister of 
the parish. He then went to Edinburgh, where 
he lived at Liberton Bank, in the house of Miss 
Burton, the sister of the late historian. When 
there he occupied much of his time in hterary 
work. Though never upon the regular statF of 
the Scotsman he was a frequent contributor, and 
for several years wrote many of the reviews on 
Theological works. He died in '90 or '91, and 
was buried in the churchyard of Macduff, in 
which town he was bom. I made a pious 
pilgrimage to the grave of my old friend in 1892. 
He had a brother who was minister of Aberdour, 
and there are still some distant relatives in 
Macduff. He kept up his excellent scholarship 
to the last, and was well acquainted with natural 
science. He was one of the most accomphshed, 
and at the same time one of the most genial and 
likeable men 1 ever met. 

F. Ckuickshank. 

Manse of Let h not, 
Brechin. 



*>* Questions and Answeis intended for tnEectiun in 
S. N. ^ Q. may he sent to the Editor, care of 
Messrs. D. Wyllie & Son, Book<iellers to the 
Queen, or W. Jolly & Sons, Priolers, 23 Bridge 
Street, Aberdeen. 

843. The Family of Dalhahov ofthat Ilk. 
— Douglas, iohia " Barooage of Scotland," states that 
Wm. Dalmahoyof Kavelrii;, Midlothian, a younger son 
of Sir Alexander Ualmahoy uf Dalmuhoy, and an 
officer in the Scots Hotse Guards, married (circa 1680) 
Helen Martin, and was priiEenilor of William Dal- 
mahoy (bom 1695), who mamed Macy Fraser, daugh- 
ter of William 2nd Lord Saltoun. There was a Wil- 
liam Dalmahoy of Cambee, Fife (dica 1745), designed 
as " the only son of Helen Martin, daughter of George 
Martin, 3nd son of Dr George Martin, of St Salvator's 
College, .St Andrews." Qaa any reader say if the 
Helen Martin who married William Dalmahoy I. of 
Ravelrig was the danghler of Geoi^e Martin above 
mentioned, and thus prove William Dalmahoy of 
Cainbee 10 be identical with William Dalmahoy \\. 
of Ravclr^, who married Mary Fraser ? Ravelrig was 
sold by Volliara Dalmahoy II. in 1734. 

" Absqub Metu." 



844. Old Seal.— I have in my possession an old 
Real : a three masted ship in full sail ; motto, " Such 
is life." Is this a crest ; if so, of what family ? 

J. F. 

845. LtJNDlE OR LtJNDiN OF THAT I LK.— Infor- 
mation concerning Sophia Lundie (or Lundin}, Lady 
Innergellie, living in 1767, is desired, with pediCTce, 
ifpioEsible. J. F. 

S46. Family of Db Lard o*. De Lart. — Can 
any reader inform me if anything ia known of the 
&raily of " de Lard, de Laide, or de Lart ? " " Ma- 
tilda, 3rd danghler of Malise, 7th Earl of Stratheme, 

married a certain de Lard ; their son, Alexander 

de Lard, claimed the Earldom of Stralherne, through 
his mother. Robert II. granted (1374-5, Mar. 21,) 
charter to David, Earl of Stialheme, 2nd creation, all 
the lands in Caidiness, including the Castle of Brath- 
well, and all rights and claims to the Earldom of 
Strnlheme, which Alexander de Laide had, by reason 
of his mother, Matilda, both on the designation of the 
said Alexan'ler." 

Is anything known of any other members of (his 
family in Scotland? The fiimily of " de Lard " or 
" de Lart" is of French origin, and a branch came to 
England with the Black Pnnce, Malise, 6th Earl of 
Stratheme, was engaged in the Gascon wars, and 
possibly his granddaughter, Matilda, married one of 
this family, a Gascon one. Are there any branches 
of this name eidsling in Scotland ? 

C. E. Lart. 
847. Clan Monro.— Information is desired con. 
cerning the pedigrees of the following : — 

(1) George Munro of Pillundie, elder brother of Sir 

Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts. Died before 
1687. 

(2) Dr Aleitander Munro, Physician in Edinburgh. 
(Living in 1767). 

(3) Dr George Munro, " late His Majesty's Physician 
in Minorca". (Living in 1790). 

"Absque Mbtd." 



Hnsvcers. 

777— Sii. Rkv. Wm. Smith, D.D. (I. 137; VIL 
14, 76).— Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith had his Life and 
CemsfimdeiKi put together in two volumes, and 
published in Phfladelphia in l379-So by his great- 
grandson, Horace Wemyss Smith, who was not quite 
^miliar, however, with our Scotch places, ways, and 
terminology, so that we are sometimes at a loss as to 
the Scotch facts. William Smith, son of Thomas 
Smith, and his Rrst wife Elizaheth Duncan, was "bom 
upon the banks of the river Don, within a few miles 
of Aberdeen, in Aberdeenshire-" This Thomas Bmitii 



I gei 



idem 






i. livi 



country estate, which he had inherited from his father, 
James Smith." William, the only child by his 
mother, "was bom SepL Tlh, 1727, and bauliied in 
the old Aberdeenshire Kirk, Oct. 19th of the same 
year." He went to the parish school until in .^735 
" he was taken charge of by the Sodely for the 
Education of Parochial School mast ets," but "the 



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parish school " here indicated appears to be unknown. 
From the education of this Society he ** entered the 
University of Aberdeen (in the beginning of the year 
1 741), and resided there for the full terms of years 
required for the first degree, which he received in 
March, 1747, and left the institution."^ In January, 
1750, he was sent up to London as a commissioner on 
behalf of the Scotch schoolmasters, and probably 
spent that year as a clerk with the Society for the 
Propagation of the Gospel. Next year, in March, he 
sailed for New York, and for two years, until 1753, 
he was tutor on Long Island. But by his General 
Idea of the College of Mirania^ in 1753, he attracted 
the notice of Dr. Ben. Franklin and other education- 
alists, and that year was oflfered the charge of the 
College and Academy then being projected in 
Philadelphia. He first, however, returned to England, 
and was ordained both deacon and priest at Fulham 
in December, when Samuel Seabury, afterwards 
Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island, was also 
ordained : he returned to the North to see his honoured 
father, and, he says, " preached in the Kirk in which 
I was baptized."^ On his return to America he was 
inducted Provost of the College, Academy, and 
Charitable School of Philadelphia in May, 1754, and 
the Curriculum he drew up for the College shows every 
trace of his University training in Scotland, though 
he had the wisdom to adapt himself and it to their 
surroundings. He was able for a time to keep the 
Classics forward, but he yielded to a three years course, 
and to wait some years before it was lengthened. 
Though he continued on a friendly footing with the 
Penns, his gieat opponents were the Quaker faction, 
through whose influence he and his future father-in-law 
were illegally imprisoned in 1758. When prosecuting 
(very successfully) his appeal before the King in 
Council, he received his doctorate from King's College, 
Aberdeen, on March loth, and from Oxford on March 
27th : he received the same degree from Dublin 
University on January 9th, 1764. From 1754 to 1777, 
when the College was closed on account of the soldiery 
holding it, and on to 1779, when the charter was 
abrogated, Dr. Smith's attention was constantly 
occupied with controversy and with the anxieties 
incident to one of the most prominent men in church 
and state. He was most energetic in the development 
of the College in Philadelphia and had many enemies, 
of whom, strange to say. Dr. Franklin was one of the 
chief. At the first Convention of the Episcopal Clergy 
of Pennsylvania Dr. Smith was President, and was 
prominent in the movement. On any great occasion 
of funeral, defeat, or victory, Dr. Smith was the 
preacher. When driven from Philadelphia, he went 
with his family to Chestertown in 1780, and commenced 
what, since 1782, is now Washington College : at 
Chestertown, and under his chairmanship, the name, 
"The Protestant Episcopal Church "was first proposed, 

i He studied at King's, but almost every fact, above stated, 
suggests a query and some fuller explanation. Could the 
Valuation Rolls of Aberdeenshire throw any light upon the 
estate, or family, or kirk ? James Smith was born in 1651, and 
his son Thomas in 1692. 

2 Had he been presbyterian or episcopalian ? The extract 
about his preaching is quoted from his Diary, and is provokingly 
indefinite where we want information. 



by the Rev. Mr. Wilmer. During the development 
of the Episcopate, the settlement of the American 
Prayer Book, and the full organisation of the American 
Church, Dr. Smith was an acknowledged leader, and 
himself appears to have been elected as their bishop 
by the clergy of Maryland, but no advance was made 
to his consecration. In 1789 the Assembly of Penn- 
sylvania restored the charter to the College of 
Philadelphia, "declaring the Act of 1779 repugnant 
to justice and in violation of the Constitution of the 
State," but in 1791 the College was united on equal 
terms with the University of the State of Pennsylvania, 
and Dr. Smith retired from the office of Principal. 
The Scourge of Yellow Fever fell upon Philadelphia 
in 1793, ^"^d carried oflf Mrs. Smith, as it also did the 
Rev. Alexander Murray, a Scotchman, born in 1727, 
and graduated at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1803, 
May 14, Dr. Smith died in Philadelphia, and was 
buried at the Falls of Schuylkill, where the family 
residence stood. His name is associated with other 
Scotchman, as Rev. William Smith, D. D. (the younger), 
who was at best only a distant relative, but an Aber- 
donian, and ordained in Scotland, Rev. Alexander 
Murray, a man of much energy and a great friend to 
the American church in her difficulties. Rev. John 
Gordon, D.D., a Scotchman ordained in 1745, Rev. 
John Bissett, A.M., a Scotchman ordained by Bp. 
Seabury in 1786, and Rev. John Pilmore, a Scotchman 
ordained by Bp. Seabury. It is evident from the 
foregoing statement that his relation to the University 
of Pennsylvania was too remote to be effective, and 
prior to the union his interests were all with the Collie 
and not very friendly to the University. He was a 
man of strong character, eloquent in the pulpit, and 
as often feared as loved, but his heart was fixed upon 
the value of education, and he has left his mark upon 
the institutions of Maryland and Pennsylvania. 
Plymouth, Conn. James Gammack, LL.D. 

832. Poet Fergusson (VII., 105).— I must plead 
guilty to a want of strict accuracy when I said that 
Fergusson died in Darien House. That point was, I 
believe, set at rest by a correspondence which took 
place a year or two ago in the Scotsman. I do not 
know if Mr Stevenson, whom I must thank, is quoting 
from the Edinburgh in the Olden Time in the latter 
part of his query ; but if he is, what he writes has a 
curious interest when compared with the following 
excerpt. Sir Daniel Wilson, in his Mtmofials of 
Edinburgh, I., 141 (2nd Ed.) writes — "In its later 
days it was abandoned to the purposes of a pauper 
lunatic asylum, and is popularly known by the name 
of Bedlam. A melancholy association attaches to a 
more modern portion of it towards the south, as 
having been the scene where the poet Fergusson, that 
unhappy child of genius, so wretchedly terminated 
his brief career. 

J. Calder Ross. 

841. The Baron's Cairn, Nigg (VII., 126).— 
A lady, connected with Nigg, who died in 1863, at 
the age of 83, informed me that, in her childhood, this 
Cairn was known as *' Baron Baxter's Cairn," and 
was used as a beacon-fire at night and as an outlook, 
seawards, by day. How Baxter, who was a native of 
Nigg, came to be called ** Baron " I never could learn, 



February, 1894.] SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



but have thought it proliable thai he, or some of his 
forbears, had been the lait of the Baron Baillies of 
Tony, which is, or was at one time, a Burgh of Ba- 
rony. In the "Burgess Roll" of Aberdeen, pub- 
lished a yea.r or two ago, there is an entry, under dale 
1454-5, to the effect that Andrew Chapnnan, dwelling 
at Loirston, was employed to make a fire on the 
" Cairn of Loirston eveiy night up to the feast of 
St Martin, and to keep a Walchman during the day, 
" to warn against the English." This Cairn of Loir- 
ston I take to be the same known in Inter limes as 
" Baron Baxter's Cairn." Such an entry in the Bur- 
gess Roll of Aberdeen could scarcely occur unless the 
dty had some closer relationship with Nigg than mere 
neighbourhood. It would be desirabk 10 know, 
while on ihis subject, whether the Record of the 
" IJuigfa Court" of the Barony of Torry exists. If 
so, one would expect to find m the City Charter 
Rooms, or in the Archives of the Forbeses of Mony- 
musk, as both were severally jnlereslett as superiors 
of Torry. The old Cross of Torry stood near the 
middle of the old village, hard by the " Slruach," a 
bum which ran Ihrough it to the Dee, but long since 
diverted or dried up ; and Baron Baxler'shouse stood 
near a goodly-siied tree — long the only tree in Torry 
— but hoth swept away by the Dee Extension. 

Aberdeen. G. A. 

843. Old Scots Bax-lads {VII., 126).— The 
correspondence in the Scotsman relative to the 
identity of John Anderson, the original of Bums's 
poem of "John Anderson my Jo," occurred about 5 
years ago. It was opened by the Rev. Father Blair, 
who sEitmed that a man whose native place was 
Ayrshire, but who aiteiwards lived and died at 
Invergarry in lSj2 was the real peisonage, and that 
he was visited whilst he lived in Argyleshire by the 
poet. One reply points out that, as it was in 1787 
that Bums visited Argyleshire, John Anderson was 
a young man of 39, his condition would not probably 
correspond with the hero of the song. It quotes the 
tradition tha.t Ihe original was the piper of Kelso. 
Another reply properly rccals the fact thai the tille of 
the piece is old, and this of course suggests thai Bums 
needed no friend of his own to personate the hero. A 
longish rejoinder from Father Blair does not clarify 
the matter, although he can see nothing in the corres- 
pondence to induce him to abandon his opinion that 
Ibe John Anderson, whose epitaph he quotes from his 
tomb at Fort Augustus, is Bums's origina! for his 
beautiful song- Another longish letter from one of 
. the former correspondents brings the rather needless 
controversy lo an end by his reassertion that Bums's 
description is inapplicable lo the person liroug:h[ 
forward by Father Blair. Clariniia. 



Mr Hugh Haliburton expects to issue a 
volume of poems in the course of February. 

The Literary World is responsible for the 
following : — " Gabriel Setoun, who recently made 
his literary ddbiit with Bamcraig, is about to 
publish a volume of poems.'' Who is to be the 
publisher? 



Xtterature. 

Noles on the Surnames of Francus, Franceis, 
French, &'c., in Scotland, -with an Account oj 
the Frenches of Thomydykes. ByA. D. Wele 
French [F.S.A. Scot., &c., &c.], Author o) 
the "Index Armorial". Boston: Privately 
Printed, \l^i. [109 pp., 9X X 6 in.} 
This is not an every-day genealogical work, 
inasmuch as the author brings to it an unusual 
amount of scholarship and historical knowledge. 
In a brief but valuable preface Mr French dis- 
cusses the philology of the name and the chro- 
nology of its various forms and orthographical 
changes, as it spread itself over the civilized 
world. Coming to Scotland, every page gives 
proof of thorough research and minute investi- 
gation, the antique basis being largely the 
archives of the religious houses both of Scot- 
land and the ContineiiL In all this the authot 
has gone about his work as an e.xpert. Among 
the various brief memorials of the bearers of the 

?atronymic, Mr French (p. 45) refers to Thomaf 
'ranche. Master Mason to the Bishop of Aber- 
deen for building the Bridge of Dee, and whose 
eldest son, "who died in 1530, was buried in 
Aberdeen Cathedral, where is found his epitaph.' 
It may interest the author if we transcribe the 
epitaph, which is now much worn : — 

son of tomas Tra- 
in the second part of the book the authoi 
gives an interesting account of the Thomydyke 
branch of the family, dating from the time ol 
Bruce, in the middle of the fourteenth to the 
middle of the seventeenth century. As became 
a Border family, the Frenches took an active 
part in many a fray, and, withal, maintained a 
dignilied position. Several representatives □< 
the family held crown apgointments. If any- 
thing the author has somewhat restrained him- 
self in this department, as there can be little 
doubt that the charter-chest wonld yield a good 
deal of interest outwith the purely genealogical. 
The book is, however, stricdy reliable, and s 
model of a family record ; and its get-up is well 
worth the thanks gracefully paid to the printer, 
('n/effl//a, by the author in his preface. An index 
would have been a useful adjunct. Ed. 

McHardy — Arms, Crest, and Tartan, tuilk a 

short Account of the Origin of the Name. 

Published by Balding & Mansell, London. 
This brochure consists of 2 pp. 410 of subjecl 
matter, whilst the Arms and Tartan, printed in 
colours, occupy two pages more. The McHardys 
are supposed to be of French stock, but in 
Scotland their special habitat seems lo have 



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been the upper reaches of the Don and Dee, 
with Corgarff Castle as their point (Tappui, 
Among the dan this brief history will be wel- 
come as a pointer to more detailed research. 

Ed. 



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LITERARY NOTES. 

Messrs Morison have in preparation a second 
series of Auld Scotch Sangs by Sinclair Dunn. 

The current No. of The Christian Leader con- 
tains a new serial story by the author of The 
Stickit Minister. 

It is with a feeling of much regret we announce 
the death of Mr R. F. Murray, the St. Andrews 
Poet, at the early age of 30. 

According to the Glasgow Echo^ there is an 
old lady, named Mrs Stewart, who now lives in 
a Glasgow almshouse, who danced with George 
the Fourth when he visited Holyrood in 1822. 
Mrs Stewart is 98, but she still retains the most 
vivid recollection of an incident which was evi- 
dently the proudest fact in her life, and never 
tells the story of that famous ball without re- 
calling that the King had diamond buckles on 
his shoes. It is a strange vicissitude of fortune 
to have danced in youth with a king in a palace 
and to spend one's age in a Glasgow almshouse. 

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In the Press, and luill be published in a few days^ 
THE BLESSED DEAD 

AND THEIR INTEREST IN THE PRAYERS AND 
HOPE OF THE CHURCH, 

BY THE 

Rev. JAMES COOPER, D.D. 



ABERDEEN; W. JOLLY & SONS, 23 Bridge Strbbt. 



SCOTTISH 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



Vol. VII.] No. lo. 



MARCH, 1894. 



Registered. {P«^^|jd.^j^^ 



CONTENTS. 
Notes : — Page 

Letter of Burns to Clarinda, 145 

Scottish Tradesmen's Tokens, .^ ^ 146 

Aberdeenshire as a Factor in Scottish Life and 

Thought, .^ 147 

Ballad — The Ghaist of Dennylair, 149 

The late Mr William Alexander, LL.D , 152 

Diary of John Row, Principal of King's College, 152 

Aberdeen University Library, 153 

The^ Canterbury Tales 154 

Ancient Beggars, 156 

Minor Notes; — 

Old Ships' Logs 151 

Ladies Round the World, 155 

Theft of Scone Stool of Repentance 156 

Dancing with George IV 156 

Queries:— 

William Hunter, Surgeon — Rev. Patiick Dunbreck — 
St Aidan — Lanark Wappinshaw — Old Family Pew — 
Marshal Ogilvie — General Bruce — Count James Gor- 
don— George Ure of Shargarton — Robert Borthwick, 
Admiral of the Baltic Fleet in the Russian Navy — 
Dalnottar — Bernard of Linton, Abbot of Arbroath — 
Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen — Highland Surnames 
— Funeral Wreaths in Scotland — Burns's Birthday, . . 157 

Answers : — 

Instruments of Torture — Fergus the First, King of 
Scotland — Dalmahoy — Lundie of that Ilk, 158 

Literature 159 

Scotch Books for the Month, 160 

ABERDEEN, MARCH, i8g4. 
♦•» 

LETTER OF BURNS TO CLARINDA. 

I HAVE just now, my ever dearest madam, de- 
livered your kind present to my sweet little 
Bobbie, who I find a very fine little fellow. Your 
letter was waiting me. Your interview with Mr 

K opens a wound, ill-closed in my breast : 

not that I think his friendship of so much con- 
sequence to you, but because you set such a 
value on it Now for a little news that will 
please you. I, this morning, as I came home, 
called for a certain woman. I am disgusted 
with her. I cannot endure her. I, while my 
heart smote me for the prophanity, tried to com- 
pare her with my Clarinda : 'twas setting the 
expiring glimmer of a farthing taper beside the 
cloudless glory of the meridian sun. Here was 
tasteless insipidity, vulgarity of soul, and mer- 
cenary fawning ; there polished good sense, 
heaven-born genius, and the most generous, the 
most delicate, the most tender Passion. I have 
done with her, and she with me. * 

I set off to-morrow for Dutnfrie shire. It is 



merely out of compliment to Mr Miller^ for I 
know that the Indies must be my lot. I will 
write you from Dumfries, if these horrid post- 
ages don't frighten me. 

** Whatever place, whatever land I see, 
My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee : 
Still to * Clarinda * turns with ceaseless pain, 
And drags at each return a lengthen'd chain." 

I just stay to write you a few lines before I 
go to call on my friend Mr Gavin Hamilton, I 
hate myself as an unworthy sinner, because these 
interviews of old, dear friends, make me for half 
a moment almost forget Clarinda. 

Remember to-morrow evening at eight o'clock 
I shall be with the Father of Mercies, at that 
hour on your account. Farewell ! If the post 
goes not to-night, I'll fyiish the other page to- 
morrow morning. 

Sylvander. 

P. S. — Remember. 

Forty years ago I sent a copy of this letter to 
a provincial newspaper, where it appeared, but 
I have not seen it in print elsewhere. It is 
written on two sides of a sheet of letter paper, 
the P.S. being on the third page. If it was 
dated the date had been clipped off. It bears 
the post mark " Mauchline." The words printed 
in italics have been scored over with a pen and 
ink, and partially effaced, also the postmark. A 
portion of the seal is still attached to the letter ; 
and half of the third page, on which the address 
must have been written, has been torn off. 

As many writings, said to have been from the 
pen of Bums, have been in circulation of late, I 
think right to state how this one came into my 
possession. In 1849, J" course of conversation 
with the late Mr Wm. Elder, Writer, Edinburgh, 
we happened to talk of Burns, when he men- 
tioned that he had been acquainted with Cla- 
rinda, and that she had at one of his visits given 
him a letter written by Burns to her ; and he 
added — " I know you collect such things ; I do 
not ; and if you put any value on it, you are most 
welcome to it. A short time after he brought 
the letter to me. I asked him if he could ex- 
plain how some of the words were effaced. He 
said, " I cannot do that — the letter is now as it 
was when I got it from her." 

Edinburgh. jAMES GORDON. 



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SCOTTISH TRADESMEN'S TOKENS. 

The issue for January contained a short note 
explanatory of the issue of Promissory Tokens 
a hundred years ago, and we believe the follow- 
ing Catalogue of the Scottish series will be 
found interesting. In the early decades of the 
present century they were extensively current, 
but now they are rarely seen except in the hands 
of dealers, while the choicest specimens have 
long been locked up in the cabinets of collectors. 
Unless otherwise mentioned the coinage is cop- 
per, and the size is stated when not expressed 
by inscription upon the coin itself 

[Our Illustration this month delineates all the 
principal tokens in the following list.] 

ABERDEEN. 

No. I. 

Size. Halfpenny. 

Obv. A ruined Castle within a wreath of laurel. 

Jiev. Monogram, **J. B." 

Legetui. ** Al:)erdeen Token, 1797." 

Note. — This coin is scarce, and it would he interesting 
to ascertain if it was actually issued by an Aber- 
deen tradesman, or whether it was merely ma- 
nufactured and sold to collectors by Denton, the 
Lambeth Engraver and Coin Dealer, who has 
used the same obverse; for one of his own business 
tokens. 

BRECHIN. 

No. 2. 
Sim. Halfpenny. 

Obv. View of Cathedral and Round Tower. 
Legend. ** Payable by Smith and Wilson." 
Exergue. " Church. 
Rev. View of mill. 

Legend. '* East Mill". Ex. " Brechin, 1801." 
Note. — Fairly well executed, had an extensive cur- 
rency, and is not rare. 

BURNTISLAND. 

No. 3. 

Size. Halfpenny. 

Obv. A Carboy between a Rose and Thistle, under- 
neath the Monogram, '* B. V. Co." 

Rez>. The Legend, ** Burntisland Vitriol Compy., 
1797," within a Vandykcd garter, containing the 
motto, *' Nemo me impune lacessit." 

Edge. Milled. 

Note. — Execution good ; not an uncommon coin. 

DUNDEE. 

No. 4. 
Obv. View of Warehouse ; the arms of Dundee and 
Motto, ** Dei Donum," in an oval underneath. 
Legends. Upper — ** Public Warehouses on the 
Quay." Lower — " Shipping of this Port, 8800 
tons Regr." 
Ex. ;• Wright Jun. Des." 
Rev. View of Dundee Town House. 
Legend. •' Dundee Penny. 1797" 
Ex. ** Town House, Founded 1732." 
Edge. Payable on Demand by Thos. Webster, Junr. 
Note. — This is the only promissory coin of the penny 
size issued by a Scottish merchant. 



No. 5, 
Size. Halfpenny. 

Obv.. Arms of Dundee and Mottoes ** Dei Donum " 
and ** Prudentia ct Candore," 
Legend. ** Payable at W. Croom's, High Street, 
Dundee." 
Rev. Lei;end occupying the whole field of the coin in 
six lines, "Sells Wholesale Woolen & Linen Dra- 
l^ery Goods, Watches, &c., &c.. Cheap." 

No. 6. 
The same as last but much smaller. 

No. 7. 
Obv. Ship (brig) unloading at a quay. 

Legend. ** Commerce Augnients Dundee." 
Ex. *' Wright Delin.", the Arms of Dundee and 
motto, *' Dei Donum." 
Rev. View of Church Tower. 
Le^ejtd. '* Dundee Halfpenny, 1795." 
Ex. "Old Tower, Founded 1189.'^ 
Edge. * * Payable at the Warehouse of Alexr. Molison. " 

No. 8. 
Obv. Barque unloading at a quay. 
Legettd. '* Mare et Commercium colimus." 
Ex. Arms of Dundee and Motto, ** Dei Donum," 
in a sunk oval- 
Rev. View of Dundee Infirmary in sunk oval ; under- 
neath, " L W. I. Design." 
Legends. Upper — *' Dundee Halfpenny, 1796." 
Lower — Infirmary Founded, 1794." 
Edge. Engrailed. 

No. 9. 
The same design, but of very inferior execution. 

No 10. 
Obv^ View of an ancient gateway. 
Legend. ** Cowgate Port. The last remains of our 

ancient walls." 
Ex. ** Wright Tun. Des." over a star. 
Rev. View of a church. 
Legends. ** Dundee Halfpenny, 1797." *' St An- 
drews Church, Found<* 1772." 
Edge. •* Payable at the Warehouse Alex. Swap & Co." 

No. II. 
Obv. Man working Flax at a bench ; bales on the 
floor. "Flax Heckling." j^or. *' W. Dos." 
Legend. ** 3336 Tons Flax and Hemp imi)orted 
here in 1796, Value L. 160,128." 
Rev. View of Dudhop^ Barracks. 

Legends. Upper — " Dundee Halfpenny, 1797." 

Lower — ** Dudhope Castle, Found** 1660, 
Converted into Barracks 1794." 

No. 12. 
Obv. View of a Glass Manufactory. 
Ex. ** Wright Des." 

Legend. "Glass Works, West Cone, Founded 1788." 
Rev. View of Dundee Town House. 

Legends. Upper— *' Dundee Halfpenny, 1797." 

Lower — "Town House Finished, 1734." 
Edge, " Payable by John Pilmer, Church Lane." 

No. 13. 
Size. Farthing. 
Obv. Pair of Scales over the Cypher " M, & Co." 

Legend. " Payable on Demand, Dundee." 
Rev, Soldier on guard in a fort. " 



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for the unique and characteristic development 
of the Scottish people which followed that pro- 
tracted and victorious struggle, I need say but 
little here of what Scottish tradition has to 
relate concerning the part played by Aberdeen- 
shire in these early centuries. One point, how- 
ever, I must not omit to notice. I refer to the 
creditable part taken by the Aberdonians in the 
heroic conflicts and sacrifices which, after many 
years of anxious vicissitudes, were brought to a 
satisfactory close by Bruce's victory at Bannock- 
bum. Thus it is, I think, worthy of being re- 
corded, that long before Scotland generally had 
declared for Bruce, at the very time, indeed, 
when the Bruce's fortunes seemed almost at 
their lowest ebb, the citizens of Aberdeen, who 
had never willingly acknowledged the right of 
their Southern neighbours to authority in Scot- 
land, rose against the English garrison which 
had been left in the castle by Edward I., put 
them to the sword, and laid the castle in ruins, 
to prevent the English from returning ; while a 
party of Englishmen, who happened to be in the 
neighbourhood at the time, and who, on hearing 
of the disaster that had befallen their country- 
men, made haste, if possible, to recover the town, 
were themselves met and defeated by the stout 
burghers of Aberdeen in the Churchyard of St 
Nicholas. 

But this was not the only or the chief service 
which the Aberdonians rendered to the cause of 
Scottish independence. For, the following year. 
King Robert in person, who had meanwhile been 
defeated in almost every engagement which he 
had hitherto had with the English and their 
supporters in Scotland, having repaired to Aber- 
deen in a state of great bodily weakness and 
mental depression, and ready to despair of the 
recovery alike of his health and his kingdom, 
was so cordially received in that town, that he 
was encouraged, weak as he was, to renew the 
struggle in which he had been so often baffled. 
The citizens, moreover, flocking round his stand- 
ard, and freely offering assistance in money as 
well as in men, he boldly went northward at 
once, in search of the English army, at that time 
commanded by John Cumin Earl of Buchan, 
and Moubray an English general. And in the 
battle which followed, and which was fought on 
the 22nd of May, 1308, near Inverurie, Bruce, 
although so weak that he had to be supported 
on horseback during the engagement, won a 
splendid victory and totally routed the English 
with great slaughter. This was the turning 
point in Bruce's fortunes. For, aided by reviv- 
ing hope, his health was soon re-established ; 
while the national affairs, too, from this time 
forward began to put on a more favourable 
aspect. And so the battle of Bara, won as it 
was by Aberdonian valour, proved, if not the 



first, at all events a very important step in that 
career of victory which was to reach its climax 
and consummation on the glorious field of Ban- 
nockburn. 

But, while distinguishing themselves thus 
honourably in the heroic struggles by which 
Scotland's independence was finally regained, 
the people of Aberdeen showed equal valour, 
and performed a public service scarcely less im- 
portant, when, a century later, on the fatal and 
bloody field of Harlaw, their stubborn courage, 
assisted by the valour of the gentlemen of Angus 
and the Mearns, broke the fiery onset of the 
Celtic clans, and probably determined once for 
all, that Scottish civilisation was henceforth to 
be Teutonic and not Celtic. The people of 
Aberdeen still speak, and justly speak, with pride 
of the part which their ancestors, with their 
Provost at their head, played in that stubborn 
and bloody battle. For if the victory there was 
glorious, and its issues important, it was dearly 
won : seeing that of the gallant band of burgesses 
who marched forth under the leadership of the 
gallant Sir Robert Davidson, to defend their 
homes against the threatened attack of the King 
of the Western Isles, very few indeed returned. 
The Provost himself was slain, while the greater 
number of the stalwart burgesses, who fought 
around him, also fell, many families losing not 
only their head, but every male in the house. 
Thus it is told of Leslie of Balquhain, a baron 
of ancient lineage, that both he and six of his 
sons were slain on that fatal field. 

We do not wonder that a battle so fiercely 
contested, and felt to be big with issues so mo- 
mentous, should have made so deep an impres- 
sion on the national mind, and fixed itself per- 
manently in the music and poetry of Scotland. 
Thus we know that a March, called The Battle 
of Harlaw continued to be a popular air down 
to the time of Drummond of Hawthornden ; 
while a spirited ballad on the same event is still 
repeated in our own day, which describes the 
meeting of the armies and the de iths of the 
chiefs in no ignoble strain. 

But if there is any glory in having thus suc- 
cessfully stemmed the tide of barbaric invasion 
which seemed threatening to engulf the rising 
liberty and civilisation of Scotland, it is only fair 
to remember those to whom the credit of such a 
memorable achievement is mainly due, and to 
pay our just tribute of admiration to the stout- 
hearted Aberdonian barons and burgesses who, 
at so great a cost to themselves, successfully 
conserved the cause of light and freedom. 

Another noteworthy service to the political 
development of the Scottish monarchy, which 
was rendered by Aberdeenshire forty years later, 
was the part taken by the Aberdonian clan of 
the Gordons in the great struggle between the 



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royal family of the Stuarts and the retainers of 
the great families of Douglas and Lindsay com- 
bined. For when the issue of that miserable 
civil strife seemed doubtful, the Aberdonian 
Gordons, with Huntly at their head, unhesitat- 
ingly threw their weight into the scale against 
the rebel lords, and by gaining the bloody battle 
of Brechin for the royal cause, determined that 
the Stuart dynasty and not the Douglas should 
rule in Scotland. Whether, indeed, this achieve- 
ment, in view of the character of the Stuarts, 
was an unmixed boon to Scotland, may be ques- 
tioned ; but, at all events, it may be put to the 
credit of Aberdeenshire that it preserved the 
continuity of the royal line, and averted a revo- 
lution which, from any point of view, could 
scarcely have been productive of much benefit 
to the suffering Scottish people. 

An anecdote is told in connection with this 
battle, which, as illustrative at once of the rude 
energy and ready adaptableness of the Aber- 
donian character, is well worth reproducing. 
Huntly who, as Lieutenant of the North, was 
followed to the field by other clans besides his 
own immediate retainers, in appointing the 
chiefs who were to command in the approach- 
ing battle, was ill-advised enough to appoint his 
own second son, the Laird of Gigbt, to head the 
Gordons. This gave great offence to that proud 
and susceptible tribe ; for, as Huntly himself 
was not a full-blooded Gordon, being, indeed, a 
Seton by the father's side, and only a Gordon 
by the mother's, the fastidious pride, so charac- 
teristic of Highland feeling, disdained to recog- 
nise in his offspring the fit leader of the clan at 
such a critical moment. And accordingly Gor- 
don of Scurdargue, to whom pertained the 
honour of being the true representative of the 
male line of the Gordons, at the request of the 
clan applied to Huntly for the right of marching 
at their head. On Huntly's refusing this de- 
mand, Scurdargue, it is said, taking off his black 
bonnet, waved it above his head and said, " A' 
that's come o' me, follow me," when straightway 
the whole clan went oft with him and left Huntly 
alone. But the Earl, who was himself, it must 
be remembered, an Aberdonian, though a Seton, 
proved equal to the occasion, for, with admir- 
able presence of mind, riding up at once to the 
rebellious clan, he cried out, " Gentlemen, you 
have overcome me. I yield to you. Scurdargue, 
command the Gordons ! And now, gentlemen, 
that you have got the better of me, let me see if 
you will beat Lord Crawford ! " The result was 
most satisfactory, for the Gordons in high spirits 
attacked the enemy : and Earl Huntly had the 
good fortune to win a most important victory, 
in return for which he obtained the lands of 
Badenoch and Lochaber, for "hadding," as it 



was said, " the crown on the King's head." 
From that moment the family of Huntly became 
the greatest in the North : and this contention 
with the clan, by making them feel bold at the 
outset of the engagement, was supposed to have 
contributed not a little to the victory at Brechin. 
Passing down to the i6th and 17th centuries, 
it must be admitted that Aberdeenshire, though 
playing a conspicuous part in the civil conten- 
tions that mark the history of those centuries, 
and though obtaining its full share in the sturt 
and strife and bloodshed then passing in Scot- 
land, was a less influential factor in determining 
the issue of the religious and political revolu- 
tions that characterise that disturbed period 
of Scottish history, than some other Scottish 
counties. This is to some extent to be accounted 
for by the fact that, though Protestant doctrines 
were early and largely embraced by the citizens 
of Aberdeen, and by many other of the Aber- 
donian gentry and common people, the influence 
of the more powerful county families, such as 
the Gordons, the Leslies, and the Hays, was for 
a considerable time cast in favour of the old 
faith. But, whatever be the explanation, there 
can be no doubt of the fact, that while the four 
counties of Perth, Fife, Angus, and Ayr, did 
yeoman service in the stormy contentions that 
issued in the establishment of the Reformed 
Rehgion in Scotland, the contribution made by 
Aberdeenshire to this great work was compara- 
tively meagre and unimportant. None of the 
great heroes and leaders of the Protestant party 
were of Aberdeenshire extraction ; while not a 
few of the theologians and champions of the 
Catholic cause, both in Scotland and the Con- 
tinent of Europe, were natives of that county. 

W. B. R. W. 
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THE GHAIST O' DENNILAIR. 

Having given two different versions in previous 
numbers of this Fyvie ballad, we have much 
pleasure in laying before our readers the follow- 
ing communication from Mr John Fullerton, 
(an esteemed correspondent, from our first No.), 
the author of a third, and, as will be seen, the 
most poetic of the three : — 

The Cottage. Pitfour, 5th Feb., 1894. 
Dear Mr Editor.— I have read with much 
interest " The Grisly Ghaist o' Baimsdale," 
which appeared in the January No. oiS.N.&^Q.^ 
and with still greater interest I have just perused 
"The Ghost of Bairnsdale" (Revised), which 
appears in your February No. above the initials 
of J. C, your Macduff correspondent. Both are 
valuable contributions to legendary lore, and 
both are new to me. " The Ghaist o' Denni- 



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lair," which " J. C." says retains all the incidents 
of " The Ghaist of Baimsdale," was written by 
me and published anonymously in 1870. This 
is how it came to be thought of: — In the sum- 
mer of that year some literary friends and I 
agreed to spend a day on the links and among 
the bents and around the old churchyard of St 
Fergus. The day was a "perfect day" — the 
bees drowsily hummed at our feet amid the 
wild flowers, larks carolled far over-head, close 
at heaven's gate, and the sunlit ocean lapped 
and murmured up the yellow sands. As we 
rested near a bubbling spring and drank of its 
cool clear waters, legend and ballad were talked 
of: what more appropriate subject to engross 
our thoughts near the silent kirkyard, far re- 
moved from the dwellings of men, — when some- 
one remarked that there was another ballad 
connected with the Fyvie district, so redolent of 
poetical associations, other than " Mill of Tiftie's 
Annie," but that all efforts to procure a copy of 
that old ballad with its wandering Ghaist had 
till then been in vain. It was hinted that I 
might try my hand at a ballad bringing the 
Ghaist again to the front, and haunting the 
ravine of Dennilair nightly till laid to rest by 
the payment to the priest of the price of the 
stolen gloves. The idea fastened itself on my 
mind, and before we left the bents that lovely 
evening the ballad was under way, and within a 
night or two the sixteen stanzas were in black 
on white. The first edition of " The Ghaist o' 
Dennilair" was issued in August, 1870, and 
another edition was disposed of within three 
months thereafter. I never heard of a Revd. 
Mr Little. It is not, however, the first time 
that my productions, many of which had ap- 
peared in the Journal^ the Free Press^ and the 
Telegraphic News^ without a pen-name, have 
been claimed by others besides this clergyman, 
and their names or initials put thereto. I send 
the first proof of " The Ghaist " as I had cor- 
rected it in 1870. The ballad is given at length 
in my friend the late Mr Patrick Morgan's An- 
nals of Woodside^ &^c.^ and in The Scottish Art 
Review of 1889, under the nom de plume of 
" Wild Rose." — For the benefit of such of your 
readers who may not have seen the ballad I 
subjoin a copy of it as it appeared in the Scottish 
Art Review, — I am, &c., 

John Fullerton. 

THE GHAIST O' DENNILAIR. 

By "Wild Rose." 

The following Ballad is written to preserve a 
legend, long, and at one time commonly known 
in the district of Fyvie. Dennilair is a pictur- 
esque ravine which runs directly from the Par- 
sonage, All Saints, Woodhead, to the river 



Ythan, a little above where it enters the Braes 
o' Gight, and is one of the loveliest spots in a 
district justly famed for its beautiful scenery. 

Oh, weirdly wild is Dennilair ! 
The bravest, bauldest, dinna care 
To wanner, e*en mid noontide's glare, 

Doon by its stream ; 
Though fair the flowers that deck its braes, 
An* blythe the birds that lilt their lays, 
Nae sweet-faced bairns there mak' their plays, 

Or happy dream. 

At nicht, when a' is husht an' still, 
Save wind's low sabbin' on the hill, 
Or eident flow o' stream an' rill, 

Ghaists meet, they say ; 
An' when the mune is i' the west. 
An' larks begin to leave the nest, 
Ane, troubled mair than a' the rest 

Alane will stray. 

Wi' face as white's the driven snaw, 
He noiseless glints through leafy shaw, 
But blossoms feel nae his foot-fa'. 

He treads sae licht ; 
An' aft, as 'neath a tree he stan's, 
He wrings in wae his fleshless ban's. 
But nane will stop to tak' com man's 

Frae sic a wicht. 

Ae fearfu' nicht o' wind an' rain — 
The like o't's ne'er been seen again — 
A cottar's wife was seized wi' pain 

On jizzen-bed, — 
The guidman raise, drest in a crack, 
But spak nae till on Daisy's back, — 
** My wife, wae's me, is on the rack 

An' near han' dead ! 

** An' I'm nae keen aboot this road ; 
I winner gin the ghaist's abroad, 
That Daisy swithers 'neath her load 

'Tween death an' life ? " 
He digs the spurs deep in her sides. 
An' wi' a death-like tremor rides ; 
The ford is passed, he sees whaur bides 

The canny wife. 

Oh, weirdly wild is Dennilair 
When claps o' thunner rend the air. 
An' forked lightning's vivid glare 

Sets hills a-flame. 
When eerie soughs swall o' the breeze. 
An' sabs an' sichs come thro' the trees ; 
The guid man's blood was like to fi-eeze 

As he rade hame. 

" Cross nae the ford," the dame implores, 
'*The water's deep — hear hoo it roars— 
An', oh, I fear the ghaist's afore's ; 

On sic a nicht. 
We'll meet him lone on bank or brae ; 
Oh, turn, guidman, till brak o' day ; 
We're far eneuch this dreary way — 

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In vain she begs ; nae cry he hears 
As (loon the broken road he tears, 
His ain heart beatin' lood its fears 

That winna rest : 
Still deeper in auld Daisy's sides 
He ca's the spurs as on he rides ; 
Nor cares tho' ilka hillock hides 

A fearsome ghaist. 

He nears the ford, the dame a-hin*, 
The sheltie teaiin' on like win' — 
" He's swift o' fit wha'll tak' me in," 

The guidman says : 
Alack ! when hauf-way thro' the ford. 
He hears a groan an' syne a word, 
An' sees a fleshless han' — "The Lord 

Preserve's ! " he prays. 

" Ye ride licht fast, my brave guidman ; 

But dinna fear my fleshless han', 

I'se guide ye're beast wi' care an* cann 

Thro' ford or flood ; 
I ken ilk fit o' Dennilair, 
In winter bleak, an' simmer fair 
I've travelled here, baith late an' air. 
Hill, dale, an' wood ; 

** But naethin' stranger than mysel' 
I've seen — it is the truth I tell — 
An' naething strange to me befel 

Thae twenty years. 
But whaurfore dee ye ride the nicht ? 
I ken — nor winner at ye're fricht ; 
But ye'll be safe, an' I'll be richt, 

Sae calm ye're fears. 

" Wae's me ! I've waited lang an' sair — 
Thae twice ten dreary years an' mair — 
For sic a tryste by Dennilair ; 

Joy gars me greet ; 
For weel I ken ye're loon's first cry 
Will brak' the spells that o' me lie ; 
Then to the dead I'll creep in-by 

'Neath gowans sweet. 

" The haly kirk, it cursed me thrice ; 
A pair o' glives, three groats the price. 
Was a' I stole — they waurna nice, 

Gey waur o' wear ; 
An' aye sin' syne, wi' troubled breast, 
I've wanner'd here a restless ghaist, 
Forsaken, shunned, unloved, unblest 

Year efter year. 

" An' sae, guidman, at break o' day 
Gang to the tree on yonder brae — 
The leafless aik wi' branches grey ; — 

Aneath its stem 
Dig deep, till four grey groats ye see, 
Then to the priest the glives' price gie 
Wha cuist his malison on me, — 

Noo, there's ye're hame." 

Nae mair, when a' is husht and still 
Save wind's low sabbin' on the hill. 
Or tinklin' flow o' stream an' rill 

Ghaists noiseless stray ; 



Weird Dennilair is weird nae mair ; 
The ghaist is laid, an' flow'ries fair 
Bloom ower his grave, an' scent the air 
Baith nicht an' day. 

Oh, bonny are the braes o' Gight I 
When simmer days are lang an' bricht 
I'd lie upo' them day an' nicht. 

Nor dream o' care ; 
But listen to the sang o' birds. 
The flow o' streams, an' low o' herds ; 
A book o' music wantin' words 

Is Dennilair. 



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Old Ships' Logs.— The Scotsman of Jan. 19 
contains an interesting report of a valuable relic 
of the last century, which has just been unearthed 
by an Edinburgh bookseller, who has decided 
to forward it to the British Museum. Mr A. W. 
Macphail, the bookseller in question, on going 
over some volumes he had purchased from a 
private family, discovered that one of the volumes 
contained the bound log-books of some of the 
old ships of the Royal Navy. The volume is in 
good condition, and the entries deal with many 
exciting events about the years 1793 and 1794. 
" The logs are four in all, and belonged to the 
Adamant, the Incendiary, the Bellerophon, and 
the Venerable. In all cases the writing is singu- 
larly clear and legible, and the books have been 
kept with the greatest neatness. The Adamant, 
moreover, appears to have possessed an officer 
of an artistic turn, for many of the pages are 
devoted to water-colour sketches of places visited 
in the course of the cruise. There is one parti- 
cularly clever picture showing a mishap to the 
Penelope, the Adamant's consort, which struck 
on one of the eastern ledges of the Gut of Canso 
on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1791. It is 
somewhat curious and provoking, however, to 
find no reference to this incident in the log nar- 
rative, an omission which rather induces the 
theory that the artist was drawing upon his ima- 
gination. The first part of the Adamant's log is 
missing, for it opens at Halifax in May, 1791, 
when the ship had evidently been some months 
on her cruise. She was stationed on the coast 
of North America in company with several other 
vessels, and the log continues till the 4th of 
June, 1792, when she was paid oflf at Mount 
Edgcumbe." The following excerpts from these 
logs show how discipline was maintained on 
board the brave old oaks : — 

"At 10 punished Denis Cushin (seaman) with 12 
lashes for being Insolent to his superior Officers. At 
noon furled sails." 

"a.m. at ten, punished Michael Matthews and 
Edward Shuttle (seamen), the former with 12 lashes 
for drunkenness, and the latter with 24 lashes for 
drunkenness and Mutinous Expressions. Sent the 
empty casks on shore. Opened a pipe of wine." 



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[March, 1894. 



THE LATE MR. WM. ALEXANDER, LL.D., 

ABERDEEN. 

By the death, within the last few days, of Mr. 
William Alexander, there has passed away from 
the world of Journalism, and the more abiding 
world of '* General Literature," a personality at 
once distinct, influential, modest, and kindly. 
As a journalist of long standing he was ever 
serious and fair-minded. He never descended 
to the cock-pit of controversial badinage. To 
use his own words, " he never allo>l%d his pen 
more license in treating an opponent than he 
would allow his tongue if addressing him face to 
face." However tenaciously he may have sup- 
ported his views, which were always convictions, 
he never embittered any controversy in his ex 
position of them. It was, however, the 
publication, among others, of the now classic 
Johnny Gtbb of Gushetneuk^ that stamped its 
author a man of literary genius, and established 
him firmly in the affections of English reading 
people the world over. To those who enjoyed 
the pleasure of personal intimacy with Mr. 
Alexander, and knew his unselfishness and his 
wide sympathies and his helpfulness, wherever 
help was needed, comes an unusual personal 
sense of loss. — Ed. 



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DIARY OF JOHN ROW, 

PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, &c., 

1661 — 1672 — 1790. 

VIL 

Continuation by Mr. Thomas Mercer, Minister 

at Kinnellar, 

From the beginning of this page is written by 
me, Mr. Thomas Mercer, July 21 '75. 

Mr. Alexander Youngsone my sister Agnes 
husband died upon the 14 of October 1674. 

I was graduatt by-Mr. Robert Patterson re- 
gent in the Neutoun coledge of Abd. the 20 day 
of July 1675 years being of age 17 years and 6 
munth. 

Agnes Beens my fathers mother died upon 
the 27 of November about i in the morning, 
lieving att the time in Fachfeedle w*^ her eldest 
daughter Christian Mercer in the year 1675. 
Mr. John Mercers childrin/s birth : — 
John Mercer bom Dec. 18. 1653. 
Agnes Febr. 2. '56 17 P. 
Mr. Thomas Janr. 28 '58. 35 P. 
Alexander Deer. 29 '59. 
Christian Juni 20 '62. P. 70. 
Isobell July 2. '64. P. 95. 
Anna Febr. 4 '66. P. 1004. 
Alexander Augt. 12 '68. P. 118. 
Margaret Agust 3 '72. P. 127. 
One who lieved bot 24 ours borne Janr. 1674. 



This is the birth of my father's children —No- 
vember I. 167s years. 

The minister of Dice, Mr William Cheen died 
the 1 1 of Februar in the year 1676 aetatis 3 score 
and 3. 

My father died Septr. 21 in the year 1676 in 
Abd. being on the Thursday before Michalfaire 
and caried to Kinellar on Saturday and interred 
ther he haweing lived in Abd. efter he left his 
ministrie att Kinnellar onle in regard of his ten- 
demes butt fourteen weeks wanting 3 days he 
haweing preched in Kinnellar on the 1 1 of Junij 
and he dieing on the 2 1 of Sepr., his last text 
being in the 20 of the Acts 25 vers ye shall see 
my face no more which did com very true to 
hand — he died in a spett of desluations (sic) 
being tied to his bed 5 years wanting sum sen 
weeks being wary perfect to his last breth, he 
died about one efternoon on Thursday aetatis 52. 

Mariorie Beens died October 30 about sievin 
the clok att night the year Jai. vj threescore and 
sixteen. 

Mr Robert Skeen died the same night about 
the same time schoolm*" of the gramer scool of 
new Abd. 

My sister Agnes was maried w<^ William Lind- 
say of Culsh on the 19 day of Junij 1677 in Abd. 
by Mr George Meldrum minister y*" att 12 of 
the clok in the fornoon very privatly no persons 
seeing them but those interested who in num- 
ber was 6 and the officers w* the minister. 

My ant Christian Mercer my fathers eldest 
sister Faichfeilds lady died Sep^ 12. 1677 aetatis 

I was married w^ Anna Reatt the laird of 
Halgreens third daughter July 17 1681 in the 
church of Bervie by Mr Peter Reatt it being on 
the Sabbath night about nine of the clock att 
night very privatly as to freinds. 

My bedfellow was brought to bed of her first 
child September 13 about ten a clock in the 
forenoon who was bapteized y^ same day Janett 
by Mr John Dunbar minister att Forglen church 
1682 years. 

My bedfellow was removed by death, Octo- 
ber I aboutt 3 in the morning 1683, she died in 
an consumptione. 

My father in law (sic) Mr William Jhonesone 
of Fachfeilddied October 22 1683, he died of an 
fistula w*^ the emerods betwixt 2 and 3 in the 
morning. 

I was maried w^ Isobell Smith, Robert Smith 
of Smidibourn his 3rd daughter upon the 5 of 
Jany. 1684 in the church of Fyvie by Mr John 
Dunbar minister of Forglen. 

She was brought to bed of her first child 
Februar 20 1685 baptized upon the morrow 
called Lileas after my mother she being bom 
betuixt 10 and 1 1 a clock in the fornoon. 



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My wife was brought to bed of her second 
child being a sone upon the fourth day of Januar 
1687 about halfe eleven in the clock att night 
who was baptized in the church of Forglen be 
Mr John Dunbar minister ther Januar tenth 
whose name was John. 

My wife was brought to bed of her 3** child 
called Margratt Januar 13 aboutt 7 o clock att 
night in the year -90. 

My father in law Robert Smith of Smiddi- 
burn was removed by death aboutt 10 a clock 
att night be the Sabaths nightt in the year 1690 
being of age 68. 

My brother Alex"^ died att langbryd decer. ij 
1690 years he haveing severall years not been 
sui compus he being of age 22 years. 

My eldest sister Agnes spouse to Wm. Lind- 
say of Culsh was removed by death Feby. 26 
about 8 in the morning in the year '91 and in- 
terred March i being Saboth in the afternoon. 
She died of the fever haveing been brought to 
bed of an girell the night before her death about 
8 a clock being but the 7th month of her time 
w' the said child. 

Robert Smith my wife's youngest brother was 
killed att Garr briggs be one Alex"" Hardie att 
the time governour of an garisone in the house 
of Ririe upon the 9 day of April 1692 about 6 
off the clock att night who was most killed 

he being w^out any airmour upon him saive an 
small rod in his hand, and the governour did 
thrust him wt an small swoord in the left side 
opposit to the heartt so that w* the thrust 
he fell and never spock one word. 

My wife was brought to bed of her fourth 
child the 25 of Apryll 1693 years aboutt half 
eight ol the clock in the morning being tuisday 
who was christened upon thursday thereafter at 
the church of Fyvie be Mr George Dalgamo 
minister there whose name was Thomas. 

William Lindsay of Culsh dyed of an fever 
Nover. 12 about ij a clock att nightt in the year 
1694. 

Androw Dalgamo of Cambanno dyed Dec. 7 
aboutt 2 in the morning 1694 years. 

(T'o he continued.) 



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The contents of the current number of the 
" Scottish Review " are essentially national. In 
the article on "Scottish Fiction of to-day" we 
have a very fair criticism of our prominent 
Scottish novelists. 

A contemporary states that, "the fine library 
of the late Mr. J. Wylie Guild will, it is expected, 
pass into the market ere long. It consists of 
over 12,000 volumes. The Stuart section is 
very rich in valuable works, one of the volumes 
having belonged to Mary Queen of Scots." 



ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. 

We have been asked to give publicity to the 
following (inter alia) Regulations, to cause the 
Library to be more widely used than hitherto 
by Researchers : — 

* * Researchers " permitted by the Senatus to use the 
Library on j)ayment of los 6d annually. 

The Library and Reading Rooms in both buildings 
shall, in the meantime, be open on Monday, Tuesday, 
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from Ten A.M. 
to Four P.M., and on Saturdays from Ten A.M. to 
Two P.M. ; except in the months of August and 
Septemlier. 

The Library and Reading Rooms shall be closed 
at the time of the Annual Inspection, and on such 
Public Holidays and during such period in the autumn 
recess as may be determined by the Library Commit- 
tee. During the rest of August and September they 
shall, in the meantime, l)e open only from Ten A.M. 
to One P. M. on three days in each week in each build- 
ing, the days alternating. 

All B»x)ks recommended for purchase must be en- 
tered on recommendation -forms which may be obtained 
in the Library ; and all recommendations must be 
placed in the hands of the Librarian at least four 
working days before the meeting of the Library Com- 
mittee to which they are to be submitted. 

Lists of all Additions to the Library shall be posted 
up at short intervals at both Colleges ; and an An- 
nual Supplement of Additions during the year to both 
Libraries shall be inserted in the Calendar of the 
University. 

Note. — The Library Committee is most desirous to 
extend in every way possible the usefulness of the 
Library, and will endeavour to employ to the best 
advantage the means at its disposal ; but these are 
not large, and for a time it will not l)e possible to 
effect all that is aimed at. Intending Ixjnefactors will 
discover few modes of strengthening the educational 
power of the University more likely to do good than 
the endowment of the Library. Such endowment 
might take the form of providing either for the ne- 
cessary working expenses, or for the purchase of 
periodicals or of standard works in any special depart- 
ment ol study. 

Many who cannot give large sums could yet, at 
little expense or inconvenience, greatly lienefit the 
University Librarj* by the donation of Books of which 
they have made all the use that they themselves 
desire, and which they have ascertained from the 
Librarian would be acceptable in the Library. For 
several years the University Calendar has shown that 
the Library has l)enefited considerably by gifts ; but 
the actual number of donors connected with the Uni- 
versity and with the city and the adjoining district is 
but small — miserably so when compared with similar 
lists of donations to many other libraries in Universi- 
ties and elsewhere. 

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The February "Bookman" prints a cutting 
criticism, by Mr. D. Hay Fleming, on Mr. A. 
Lang's "St. Andrews." We patiently await 
Mr. Lang's rejoiner. 



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[March, 1894. 



THE CANTERBURY TALES. 

PROLOG UE — Continued, 

A Frere, — a wanton and a merry ; 
A limitour, a portly man. 
In th' Orders four there's no one can 
Such dalliance use or fairer language. 
Often had he made up marriage 
For youthful maids withouten cost. 
To his confreres a noble post. 
Full well beloved, familiar he 
With franklins in his own countr^e, 
And city wives most worthy deemed. 
For he, a shriving power it seemed 
More than a curate had, he said ; 
Licentiate, too, he had been made. 
Full sweetly did he hear confession ; 
Eke, pleasant was his absolution ; 
An easy man to dole out penance, 
Where he expected handsome pittance. 
*' To a poor Order what is given, 
Is sign a man hath been well shriven. 
For if he gave, that surely meant 
The man was truly penitent. 
For many are so hard of heart, 
They weep not though full sore they smart ; 
Therefore, instead of tears and prayers. 
May such give silver to poor freres." 
His tippet stuffed aye full of knives 
And pins, as presents for fair wives. 
He truly had a merry note. 
Sang well and played upon a rote ; 
At gaddings aye he bare the prize. 
His neck, white as the fleur-de-lys. 
Strong, too, as any champion known, 
Knew more of taverns in the town. 
Of hostelries and tapsters gay 
Than lazar, or than beggar may. 
" To such a worthy man as he 
It 'greed not with his faculty 
To have acquaintanceship, though slight ; 
It looks not well, 'tis far from right 
To deal at all with such poraille, 
But rich folk, — sellers of vitaille." 
O'er all, where profit seemed to warrant, 
A courteous and a lowly servant, 
Nowhere a man so virtuous. 
No better beggar in his house. 
He profitably farmed his grant, 
No Brother came into his haunt ; 
For had a widow but one shoe, 
So sweet his In Principio too. 
He'd have a farthmg ere he went ; 
His chance was better than his rent. 
And rage he could as any whelp ; 
In love-days he would give good help, 
He then was like no cloisterer there. 
Or scholar poor, with cope threadbare, 
But like a master or a pope. 
With double worsted semicope, 



Round as a bell and free from press. 
He somewhat lisped for wantonness 
To smooth his English on his tongue : 
And in his harping, when he sung. 
His eyes kept ever twinkling bright. 
Like stars upon a frosty night. 
This limitour was named Hub^rd. 

A Merchant, with a forked beard, 
In motley. High on horse he sat ; 
On head a Flaundrish beaver hat ; 
His boots were clasp'd full neat aud fair. 
His reasons, given with solemn air. 
Aye sounding of increase and winning. 
He would the sea were in good keeping 
'Twixt Middleburg and Orwell range. 
Crown-bits he sold in good exchange. 
This man so well his wit beset. 
There wist no wicht he was in debt, 
So sure did he his governance 
In bargaining and chevysaunce. 
Forsooth a worthy man withal. 
But name to me not known at all. 

A Clerk of Oxenford als6. 
That studied logic long ago. 
His horse as lean as is a rake, 
Himself not fat I undertake. 
But hollow looked, and soberly. 
Threadbare his over courtesy ; 
For he no benefice had got. 
No office yet had been his lot. 
Would rather have at his bed's head 
A score of books, clothed black or red. 
Of Stagyrite philosophy. 
Than rich robes, viol, psaltery. 
Although a great philosopher 
Few shillings in his coffer were. 
All that his friends so freely lent. 
On books and learning he had spent. 
And busily for their souls did pray 
That gave him wherewith to scolaie. 
Of study took most care and heed. 
Not one word spake he more than need ; 
And that was said in form and reverence. 
And short, and quick, and full of sentence. 
On virtue's side was aye his speech, 
Would gladly learn and gladly teach. 

A learned Law Sergeant, wary, wise. 
Oft seen upon the throng'd parvyse. 
Was there, too ; rich in excellence. 
Discreet, and of great reverence : 
For such he seemed, his words so wise. 
Justice was often in assize 
By patent granted from the crown, 
For knowledge and for high renown. 
Of fees and robes he'd many a one. 
So great a purchaser was none. 
'Twas all fee simple in effect. 
That purchasing might none suspect 
So busy a man you could not pass, 



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He yet seemed busier than he was. 
In terms, brought dooms and cases all 
That from King William's time did fall. 
He could indite, lay down the law, 
No man could ever find a flaw ; 
He'd make each statute plain by rote. 
Homely he rode in medley coat. 
His girdle silk, the bars but small ; 
Of his array I've told you all. 

A Franklin next, in manners easy ; 
His beard was white as is the daisy ; 
And in complexion eke full sanguine. 
He loved a wine-sop in the morning. 
Delight he ever revelled in. 
To Epicure was near akin, 
That held opinion, *' full delight 
Must be felicity outright." 
A householder, and great was he, 
St. Julien in his own countr^e. 
His bread, bis ale each day at one. 
Nowhere so well envined a man. 
Baked meat was ever in his house. 
And fish, and flesh the most plenteous. 
His house aye snowed of meat and drink. 
Of all the dainties men could think. 
After the seasons of the year 
His diet changed as did appear. 
Fat partridges he had in mew. 
And many a bream and luce in stew. 
Alas the cook ! till sauce was got 
Full poignant, sharp, no gear forgot. 
His table stood in hall alway, 
And ready covered all the day. 
At sessions he was lord and sire. 
Full oft was knight, too, of the shire. 
An anlace, and a purse of silk. 
Hung at his girdle white as milk. 
Sheriff he'd been, likewise contour ; 
Nowhere a worthier vavasour. 

The Haberdasher, Carpent^re, 
And Webster, Dyer, Tapicere, 
Were in the self-same livery clad, 
A solemn great fratern'ty had. 
Their year, full fresh and new, did pass. 
Their knives were mounted, not with brass. 
But silver, wrought full clean and well ; 
Their girdles, pouches every deal. 
Well seemed each one a burgess fit 
In Guildhall on the dais to sit. 
Each, for the wit that in him ran. 
Well fitted for an alderman. 
For cattle, — they'd enough, — and rent ; 
And eke their wives would well assent : 
Else certainly they were to blame. 
'Tis fine to be yclept Madh.me, 
To go to vigils, all beforne. 
With mantles royally upborne. 

A Cook they'd with them for the nonce, 
To boil the fowls and marrow bones. 



Prepare the spice and ^^alingale. 
He knew a draught of London ale. 
Could roast, and seethe, and boil, and 
Make mortreux, and bake well a pie. 
But great harm 'twas, as seemed to m< 
A mormal on his shin had h^. 
Blanc-mange that made he with the b< 
A Shipman there, dwelt far by west 
For aught I wot, of Dart^mouth. 
Upon a rouncey as he could. 
In gown of faulding to the knee. 
A dagger in a belt had he 
About his neck, 'neath arm adown. 
Hot summers made his hue all brown. 
He truly was a jolly fellow. 
And many a draught of wine full mell 
From Bourdeaux drew while chapmer 
No conscience over-nice he kept. 
If fighting, got the upper hand, 
By sea bore off to every land. 
Biit of his skill to reckon tides, 
And streams, and dangers on all sides 
And harbours, weather, lodemankge, 
None such from Hull to far Carthkge. 
Hardy and wise, I undertake : 
With many a storm his beard did shal 
He knew all havens as they were, 
From Scotland to Cape Finisterre, 
Each creek in Brittany and Spain. 
His barge was named the Magdelaync 
(To be continued. ) 



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Bibliography of Edinburgh Perk 
Literature.— We are happy to state tl 
prolonged illness of Mr. Scott is passing 
and he hopes at an early date to resur 
important series. 

Ladies' Round the World.— Th 
example of newspaper enterprise is on ; 
so vast that it is not to be wondered at 
should prove the engrossing subject of th 
The proprietors of the Dundee Court 
Dundee Weekly News, who last year sent 
working men on a tour through Ameri 
sending two young ladies on a tour rou 
world. The travellers — Miss F. Marie '. 
and Miss Bessie Maxwell— left Duni 
Thursday last week, and will proceed acr 
Continent to Brindisi. In addition to Eu 
countries they will visit Egypt, Arabia, 
China, Japan, Canada, and the United 
The object of their journey is to obtain f 
accurate information as to woman's posi 
the world. The conditions of female labc 
engage special attention, but all social 01 
ous matters in which the sex are interest 
come within the scope of inquiry. The r* 
this novel mission will be awaited wit! 
interest. 



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[March, 1894. 



ANCIENT ItKGCARS. 
An account of the method adopted for reducing 
the number of begKars in Scotland, and a de- 
scription of the badycs authorised 10 be worn by 
those privileged to bejf (uiher than the gaber- 
lunzie of the Edie Ochiltree type), witli repre- 
sentations of these bad^'esj, nas given in a for- 
mer volume, (V., 99 ; VII., 40). The following 
letter, which appeared in ati Edinburgh weekly 
literary paper, of date January, 1775, may be of 
interest, as showing how zealously the regula- 
tions already described were given effect to, and 
with what good results. After detailing the 
action of the Edinburgh Town Guard, whom the 
wiiter observed "most inhumanly dragging a 
poor superannuated woman, by neck and heels, 
into a most dismal cavern below the ne* bridge," 
for having had the temerity to beg a bit of bread; 
the writer proceeds to describe the superior 
police regulations in Aberdeen : — 

" When I was last in Aberdeen the case of the 
IJ^gars was much in agitation ; hut their niethiKl to 
get rid of them was a very diflerent one TroHi this of 
our (Edinburgh) rulers. They did not presume to 
imprison any man, pniit or rich, withuul having done 
something ilcser\ing it, which is surely not the case 
with thesE puot crcntuces. The )ilun which they pur- 
Bued was, first In iuue a jiroclamxtiun, requiring every 
beggar to give in their names, places of abude, and 
the time how long they had heen in the town, which 
if ttiey refused to do, then they would lie liable to be 
apprehended ; this, hiiwever, they all complied with 
ID a man ; and nccordingly, a iilrict enquiry being 
made into the Inilli or their allegations, all who did 
not belong to 1 he town were sent to their respective 
parishes, with a letter desiring the pioper ofhcers to 
employ them, if cap:ible to work ; and if nut, to pro- 
vide nir them. This they were obliged lo do, and 
now there is not so much as one beggar but such as 
have been born and bred in the town, which are not 
jnaoy in number. These, however, are not lucltt up 
in a cavern, but all who are able have work given 
them, and were paid accordingly ; such as are incap- 
able of working are put into their charily-housc, which 
not biHng large enough to contain them all, the sur- 
plus are allowed to b^, and have a badge given them 
ibi that purpose ; so that there is not a single beggar 
on the i^treets without permission, and those are but 
very few in number ; if a strange one pops out at any 
time he K taken up and !ri;nt to his parish, with a 
proper recommendalioo." 

Judging from the prevalence of begging at 
the present day, notwithstanding most stringent 
enactments for suppressing the practice, we ap- 
pear less able to cope with the problem than our 
old-time rulers, with their simple but eflicient 
regulations. 

Michael Merlin. 



" The Literary World " of February i6th co 
ins a short aket<:h of Arthur Conan Doyle. 



Theft of -Sconf. Stool of Repentance. 
— Under the general and high-sounding heading 
" History," the following curious item of news 
appears in The GenlUmaa and Lad^s Weikly 
.l/(i(,'/(j/«/, published in Edinburgh; date, Feb. 
tj, 1773. The excerpt will at least show how 
much this mode of (moral) torture was venerated 
and dreaded at that period. 

" We hear from Scone that a very melancholy affair 
has ba|ipene(l there lately, which makes a considerable 
noise in that parish. A young man and woman, 
having been delected in a crinnnal correspondence 
ti^clhcr, were ordered to make the usual satisfaction, 
by sitting on the stool of repentance. Many wise and 
ju.Hcious persiQs have complained of the evil tendency 
of IhLs public profeseion of repentance, as the shame 
attending it has, in all prolahility, been the means of 
liriiing the unhappy culprits into very dangerous prac- 
tices ; which ha.<i been but too visible in the present 
case : Fur, on the night preceding that fatal day, 
when they were to have suffered the public rebuke, '' 

IS fouml that » 






; tvil-disposed persi 
had most wickedly, daringly, presumptuously, and 
sacrilegiously carried off the stool of re[}entance ; 
and, to the great grief of all the lovers of antiquity, 
not the smallest vestige of this venerable relique is 
now to be discovered. What will be the consequences 
of this affair, lime only can discover." 
Has " time," to whom so much is relegated, we 
wonder, thrown any light on the perpetrators of 
this " wicked, daring, presumptions, and sa.cri' 
legions" act : or, had the Kirk Session of Scone 
to replace this " venerable relique ?' The Ses- 
sion Records of that date, if still extant, may 
have somewhat to say on the matter. 

[AMES W. Scott. 

Dancing with Georcje IV.— A Scotch cor- 
respondent writes to Truth as follows, on 25th 
January, t894 : — 

" The papers have been recording the feet that Mrs 
Slewart, who lives in an almshouse in Glasgow, can 
boast of having danced with George IV., anil the 
Teligraph pubbshed last week a gushing "lender" 
on this old lady's statement. 

" Mrs Stewart is said to be considerably over ninety, 
and no doubt she has been misled liy a defective me- 
moiy, fbrherslatement is pal[iahly untrue, and indeed 
so lantaAtical, that It is wonderful that any serious 
newspaper cin have regarded il as worthy of credit. 

" Mrs Stewart describes herself as being the niece 
of 'the Roynl restaurateur' in Edinburgh, and this 
relative is alleged to have procured for her, 'by some 
means,' an invitation to the ball which was given at 
Ilolyrood Palace iluring the King's visit to Edinburgh 
in lS32. Now, inasmuch as the function in question 
was a Stale ball given by the King, to which only in- 
diviilnals who had appeared at Court were invited by 
the Lord Chamberlam, it is evident Ihat a person in 
Mrs Stewart's humble position could not, by aoy pos 
sible means, have obtained an invitation, and, as a 
matter of fact, only the cream of the Site of Scotch 



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•SI 



sociely were ailniiHeii lo Holyrood on Ihat memoralile 
occasion. Besides, in 1822 King Geo^^e hail for 
many years enlirely given updancing, and it was long 
remembEied, thai at the Slate B,Uls which were given 
at Dublin in iSil, and at Edinbutgh in 1822, he re- 
miintxl throughout the evenii^ at the heEul uf the 
room, seated in a ciimsun-and-gold eaiy-chair, where 
he held a. sort of inlurraal lev^e. The idea of the 
King wandering ahoul the iKill-room and picking up 
as a partner a young lady utterly unknown both to him 
and the Court would, under 
wildly extravagant nnd absurd. 



(Hueries. 

B48. Wii-iJAM Hunter, SiJHfJBON (1710.178s),-- 
Some of your readers may perhaps be able lo assist 
me in tracing Ibe family of an ancestor of mine, and 
I venture to trouble you with the following patticu- 
lara : — William Hunter, bom about 1710, educated as 
a surgeon in Scotland, entered the medics' service of 
the Army ns Surgeon of " Coltetd's Regiment of Ma- 
rines," 1741. Afterwards was with Colonel William 
Shirley'* Regiment of Foot in 1754. Placed an half- 
pay in 1756, and continued sn until 17S5, when his 
name disappears from the Army List through death, 
at the age of 75. On retiring from the Army he 
settled at Margate, Kent. lie married a Miss Mar- 
garet Smart, daughter of I'eter Smart of Hall Place, 
Barming, Kent, who was a sister of the pact, Chris- 
topher Smart. There is some reason for supposing 
that Mr William Hunter came from the family of the 
Hunters of Thurston, Co. Haddington, but the con- 
nection is by no means cleat to his descendants. The 
arms he used are — -In chief gules a hound courant 
argent, in base argent 3 hunting horns stringed vert, 
A seal belonging to him is in possession of the family. 
The crest was n boar's heaii. Any information show- 
ing Iht fiHiilv cimiic-cticn^ of this gtdiillcm-in «iH lie 
th nk 1 L 




849. kBV. PAmiCK DuSBRIicK,— Mr Dun 
was one of the Ministers of Aberdeen, who, after the 
disestablishment of the Episcopal Church in 16S9, 



managed lo retain possession of his living until 1716, 
when, in consequence of the part he had taken ir 
connection with the " rising" of 1715, the Presbyter) 
of Alierdeen, on the i6th May, 1716, served a libe! 
against bim, with the result that he was shortly after, 
wards deposed and went into " hiding" at Rora, in 
the parish of Longside. He afterwards appears to 
have returned lo Al;etdeen, for there is still extant a 
very able and interesting correspondence by hitr, of a 
controversial nalure, dated from that city in the years 
1719-1720. — Can any of your readers inform me in 
which of the Established churches in Aberdeen Mi 
Dunbreck had been minister, or favour me with any 
particulars of his career after his return to the city ? 
Aberdeen. J, T, 

850. St AiOAN, — a correspondent in the Daily 
StBlsman asks for information when and where in 
Ireland Ibis Saint was bom. Si Aidan died at Bam- 
borough on 31st August, 651, and was inlerred in 
Landisfarne. So far the correspondent, to which no 
reply has been made. As the subject is of interest, 
perhaps some of your antiquarian correspondents will 
give the information, and any known particulars re- 
garding St Aidan, through the medium of S. N. &' Q. 

St Mungo. 

851. Lanark Wappenshaw. — In Sir Walter 
Scott's Old Mortality, Centenary Edition, page 31, it 
is narrated that the " Sheriff of the County of Lanark 
was holding the Wappenshaw." Being desirous of 
fiirther information as to ihe origin and nature of this 
gatheriog, I have consulted Burton's and Tytler's Hit- 
toiy of ^(otlanJ without finding the least reference to 
the subject. Perhaps some of your historical readers 
will favour tne with particulars, and a reference as to 
where they are to be found. 

St Andrews-. W. G, 

852. Old Family Vt.\N.—The Bmli of the CAm- 
HtcUs qf Kfith, by the Rev. J. F. S. Cordon, St 
Andrews, Glasgow, informs us that the Misses Stuart 
of Birkenburn latterly lived in the Square of Fife^ 
Keith. Alexander Kynoch, who married their niece, 
Magdalen Stephen (both deceased), discovered in 
their coal-houne a piece of their old family pew (be- 
longing to the old kirk, rebuilt 1569, taken down in 
1S19), carved with arms and having these words : — 

This . Desk . Erected . By . A. G. of . Birkenburn . 

Soli . Deo . Gloria . Inviddam . Sv Perat . lesvs. 
(To God alone be Glory. Jesus overcometh Envy.) 
It would be interesting to know to what purpose the 
old family pew was put on its discovery. Perhaps 
Mr Gordon can now supply the information, which 
cannot fail to interest your readers. 

Aberdeen, A. B. 

853. Marshal Ogilvib,— I find in Cordon's His- 
lory of Peter the Gnat this soldier referied to. Can 
any of your readers say to what Scottish family he 
belonged i He is called by Gordon " an old experi- 
enced officer," and is alleged to have introduced many 
improvements into the Russian military service. Mis 
grandfather, who serveil in the Austrian army, was, 
for good service, made a Baron of the Empire. The 
grandson, afterwards Marshal Ogilvie, from his youth 



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[March, 1894. 



served with distinction in the Imperial armies against 
the Turks. He was some 60 years of age when he 
entered the Russian service, in which he continued 
three years. During that period he conducted the 
si^e of Narva, as well as brought off the Russian 
army with success at Grodno. He was much beloved 
by the Russian soldiers while he continued among 
them. On leaving he entered the service of King 
Augustus, and died and was buried at Dresden in 
1 7 12. Can any reader of S, N. 6r* Q. add to the 
above details? W. B. R. W. 

854. General Bruce. — This distinguished Scot 
is also referred to in the same interesting volume, but 
no clue is given to the family to which he belonged. 
He was plenipotentiary for the Czar at the Swedish 
Court in 17 10. He was also the Czar's ambassador 
at the Conference of Niestadt, where peace was con- 
cluded between Russia and Sweden. Can any of 
your readers give any particulars of his family history? 

W. B. R. W. 

855. Count James Gordon. — Who was the 
Count James Gordon mentioned in Major-General 
Alexander Gordon's History of Peter the Great as 
having distinguished himself at the siege or Notte- 
burgh, where he was wounded, and in recognition of 
his gallantry was rewarded by the Czar Peter ? 

W. B. R. W. 

856. George Ure of Shargarton. — Is the 
estate of this well known Covenanter situated in Perth- 
shire or Stirlingshire ? W. B. R. W. 

857. Robert Borthwick, Admiral of the 
Baltic Fleet in the Russian Navy. — This emi- 
nent Russian naval officer is said to have been born 
in Edinburgh towards the end of last century. Can 
this be corroborated ? Can any reader sketch his 
career? W. B. R. W. 

858. Dalnottar. — Where is the village of Dal- 
nottar, in which the well known Edinburgh evange- 
list, familiarly called " Daddy Flockhart," was born? 

W. B. R. W. 

859. Bernard de Linton, Abbot of Arbroath. 
— To what family did this distinguished ecclesiastic 
belong ? He is said to have been the author of the 
famous letter from the Scottish Parliament to the Pope 
vindicating Scottish independence. He died in 1333, 
after having been about five years Bishop of Sodor 
and Man, and is said to be buried in Arbroath. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

860. Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen.— Of 
this work there would seem to have been two editions 
— one on ordinary paper and one on large paper. 
Having now a copy of the latter in the Public Lib- 
rary, I have had occasion lately to compare it with 
one of the ordinary edition, and made the interesting 
discovery that, though the two editions have exactly 
the same title page and preface, and profess to l»e two 
issues of one and the same work, they differ materi- 
ally in the matter and pagination of the first two chap- 
ters. It would seem as if for one or other of the two 
editions these two chapters had been entirely re- 
written, with the result that at numerous points there 
is great dissimilarity, while at almost no two points is 
there exact similarity. The fact is new to me, and 



calls for some explanation, which I trust some one 
may be able to supply. Further, it would be inter- 
esting to know which of the two editions is to be re- 
garded as the first. 

A. W. Robertson. 

861. Highland Surnames.— In reading the late 
Professor Cosmo Innes's racy lecture, published in book 
form, entitled Coricertting some Scotch Surnames^ I 
find he hardly touches on the numerous Celtic sur- 
names common to our country. What work or works 
is the best to consult for reliable information on the 
derivation and meaning of Highland surnames? 

Michael Merlin. 

862. Funeral Wreaths in Scotland. — We 
have only recently adopted, to any extent, the custom 
of our English cousins of placing floral wreaths on the 
coffins and graves of our dead. Save in our larger 
towns, and among folk who regard it as ** genteel" 
and " correct form," funeral wreaths are generally con- 
spicuous by their absence at our burials ; and how 
frequently do we read in the obituary column of our 
papers (especially in the case of elderly people) the 
request, " No flowers." Nor, until quite recent years, 
did our cemeteries resemble nursery-gardens ; as not 
a few now do. That this dislike of floral decorations 
at funerals did not always exist may be inferred from 
an entry in Row's Diary, which recently appeared in 
these columns (VII. 123); viz.y "Jean Moir, eldest 
daughter of Dr Moir, getat 13, died of a consumption, 
and discharged a garland to be put upoft her coffin ; on 
Sabbath, March 13, 1670." Some reader of 5. N, &* 
Q. will, perhaps, kindly supply information regarding 
this subject. 

Amo. 

863. BuRNs's Birthday.— At the ** Feast of St 
Robert," as the annual observation of the poet's birth- 
day has somewhat cynically been dubbed, I heard for 
the first time, that until nigh the second decade of the 
century, the 29ih of January, not the 25th, was re- 
cognised as the day upon which Burns first saw the 
light. It was not until 1818, I was told, when Mr 
R. A. Smith, a member of the Paisley Bums Club, 
consulted the entry in the Session Books of Ayr 
Parish, that it was finally demonstrated that the 25th 
was the day. This curious fact, although new to me, 
may be familiar enough to students of BOrns. I shall 
be pleased by some of them stating where I can obtain 
information as to how the mistake arose, and an 
account of the belated discovery of the correct date. 

Michael Merlin. 



answers. 



843. Dalmahoy (VII., 141). —If "Absque Matu" 
will consult the Martin Genealogist MSS. in the Ad- 
vocates' Library, he may possibly get some informa- 
tion as to the point which he wishes cleared up. The 
MSS. are from the collections of George Martin of 
Claremont, at one time Secretary to Archbishop 
Sharp, afterwards Commissary of vSt Andrews and 
author of the " Reliquiae Sivi Andrere." He died 
about 1703. 

J. B. P. 



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159 



823. Instruments of Torture (VII., 92, 109, 
126), — For ** Lorn" parish (twice repeated, p. 127), 
read ** Sorn." Burns in his Jolly Begi^ars refers to 
the punishment of the Jougs, and also to the Cutty- 
stool ; putting into the mouth of '* poor Merry- An- 
drew the words : — 

* * I ance was tyed up like a stirk. 

For civilly swearing and quaffing ; 
I ance was abused C the kirk. 
For lowsing a lass i' my daffin'." 

The third line may, however, refer to the public 
rebuke and admonition common in Scottish churches 
**. lang syne." Burns himself, on a certain memorable 
occasion, was thus *' abused i' the kirk " ; although 
he had not, like many of ** Daddy Auld's" parish- 
ioners, to ** mount the creepie-chair," or literally to 
repent in sackcloth and ashes ; as offenders had to, at 
an earlier period. 

James W. Scott. 

840. Fergus I. King of Scotland (VII. 126). — 
The Imperial Dictionary of Biography calls this mo- 
narch one of the chiefs who headed the immigration 
of the Scots from Ireland into the Western Highlands. 
He is described as the second son of Ere, King of 
Dalriada or Ulster, and is alleged to have led a colony 
of Scots into the Argyleshire Highlands in 503. This 
is the opinion now general. It is interesting, how- 
ever, to notice, that in George Buchanan's History of 
Scotland, the same Fergus is called nephew of a pre- 
vious Scottish King, named Engenius, who was slain 
by the Romans. He is represented as having fled to 
Scandinavia and acquired great renown there, and as 
having been recalled to his native land, on the de- 
parture of the Romans, by the invitation both of Picts 
and Scots. He is alleged to have landed in Argyle, 
at the head not only of many Scottish exiles, but of 
many Danes who joined his expedition. The date of 
this expedition is given by Marianus Scotus as 403 
A.D. This so-called Fergus the First was really, ac- 
cording to Scottish tradition, Fergus the Second. 
For, according to the tradition as given in Fordun, 
the Scottish monarchy originated under Fergus, the 
son of Ferchard, a.c. 330. It had, therefore, on this 
footing, already lasted 733 years before Fergus, the 
real founder of the Scottish nile in Scotland, settled 
in Argyle in the year 403, if Buchanan is correct. 
Of course no portrait of either can possibly exist. 
Indeed, all the early portraits of Scottish Kings in 
Holy rood are ridiculous impostures. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

845. Lundie of that ilk (VII., 141).— Sophia 
Lundie Lady Innergelly was the daughter of Robert 
Lundie of that ilk, by his wife Ann, daughter of Sir 
James Inglis of Cramond. The pedigree of the family 
will be found in Wood's " East Neuk of Fife," pp. 
239-242. J. B. P. 

845. A pedigree of this family will be found in 
Wood's "East Neuk of Fife," 2nd edition, pp. 45- 
56 ; and a pedigree of the Lumsdaine family, to one 
of whom Sophia Lundie was married, will be found 
on pp. 383-385. 

James Gordon. 



Xiterature. 



An Old Kirk Chronicle^ being a History of 
Auldhame, Tyninghame, and Whitekirk, in 
East Lothian, from Session Records 161 5- 
1850. By Rev. P. Hately Waddell, B.D., 
Minister of the United Parish. Wm. Black- 
wood & Sons, Edinburgh and London. 1893. 
[166 pp., 10 X 6^ inches.] 
This handsome volume is the product of the 
author's sense of personal duty, as to him, " It 
seems the duty of every parish minister, so far 
as it is possible, to collect or publish whatever 
may be historically or ecclesiastically interest- 
ing in his own parish, so as to leave a perma- 
nent record of what he and his people have 
inherited from the past.'* When this is done 
with the prudent abstention from loquacity dis- 
played by the author, who thinks that the chro- 
nicle of his church " is so simple and parochial, 
that it will not bear amplifying or allow itself to 
be exaggerated to greater ends " — a good pur- 
pose is well served. For all that, the author is 
not a man who is parochial in his views or nar- 
row in his aims. 

His work is so far made easy, even possible, 
by a careful record to his hand, extending from 
161 5 to 1761, more than a third of the period, 
being the product of one penman — John Lau- 
der— or "Mr Johne," the simple-mmded but 
faithful Covenanting minister of Tyninghame: 
And there is nothing finer in all the volume 
than .the sympathetic sketch of this good man. 
" For 52 years the ideal of his life lay among 
his people : he was undisturbed by higher aims, 
undistracted by greater cares. He was not an 
official in the parish, he was its father, and as a 
father he knew no distinction between sacred 
and secular in the interest he felt for the life of 
his people. All that concerned them concerned 
him. It is this frank human interest which is 
now to us the most beautiful and sacred element 
in these records of a village kirk and congre- 
gation." 

In the whole circumstances we commend 
Mr Waddell's method of editing his materials. 
Instead of reproducing them verbatim et litera- 
tim, he has carefully classified what he has 
rightly conceived to be subjects of interest, and 
drawn the disjecta membra into ordered masses 
— more careful to preserve their spirit, always 
preserving of course their historic sequence, 
than to wade through volumes of unrelated 
facts. In giving apt expression to their general 
significance, the author has succeeded in pre- 
serving a truly artistic impression. His method 
of treatment yields perhaps its best results in 
the chapter on Discipline, a subject which al- 
ways stands in need of more or less delicate 



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[March, 1894. 



handling. But the truth is, that fine taste and 
good sense are the key-notes of the book, which 
will not only be acceptable in its own parish, 
but be popular in a much wider area. The 
work, otherwise beautiful in its get-up, is em- 
bellished by 22 excellent plates in photogravure. 

Ei). 

The Monist^ a Quarterly Magazine [of Philoso- 
phy Jind Science]. Janutiry, 1894. Chicago: 
The Open Court Publishing Co. London : 
Walls & Co. Yearly, 9s 6d. [160 pp., 8vo.] 
No better proof could be given than the exist- 
ence of such a periodical that America is, par 
excellence, the country of the magazine, and that 
Chicago is fast making good its claim to be the 
Hub of the universe. The aim of the Monist is 
philosophical, and it is the exponent of the 
principle which postulates the metaphysical 
doctrine that '' there is but one substance, either 
mind (idealism) or matter (materialism), or a 
substance that is neither mind nor matter, but 
is the substantial ground of both. We are not, 
in our present capacity, concerned in the recon- 
dite contest between Monism and Dualism, but 
it is interesting to note the Bibliographical facts 
and position of this serial. A glance at the 
contents of the numbers already published 
shows, that as is the case with other American 
publications, it considers its field to be the world, 
for just as its contributors are drawn from the 
ends of the earth, so its readers and subscribers 
are presumably not confined to the area of the 
American continent, but are probably world- 
wide. The editor is Dr Paul Carus, associated 
with Edward C. Hegeler and Mary Carus. 
Among the contributors are several well known 
names, including Max Miiller, Moncure D. Con- 
way, and Dr Lewins, whilst prominent scientists 
from France and Italy keep up the interest. 
The periodical is got up in the loveliest Ameri- 
can style, and is altogether a singular and cre- 
ditable emanation from the Phcunix City. 

Eu. 

The Cairngorm Club Journal for January, 1894. 

Edited by Alkx. Inkson McConnochie. 

Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 
To the mountaineer and the non-mountaineer 
alike this issue will be interesting. Narratives 
of half-a-dozen "climbs" of as many mountains, 
including Snowdon, with the Club's Excursions 
and Notes, and crisp reviews of books, make 
excellent reading ; whilst the illustrations, some 
of which are high class, give a realistic cast to 
the subject, which leaves nothing to be desired. 

Ed. 

Sir William Muir's "Life of Mahomet" has 
now reached a third edition. The first edition 
was published more than thirty years ago. 



SCOTCH BOOKS FOR THE MONTH. 

Agricultural Chemistry (Johnston's), rewritten by 

I'rof. G. M. Aiknian. 8vo. Blackwood. 

Anecdotes alx)Ut Animals. J. Syddall. M'Dougall. 
Annan (Guitlc to). 3rd Ed. Watt (A.) 

An OKI Kirk Chronicle, being a History of Auld- 

haine, Tyninghame, and Whitekirk, 161 5-1850. 

Kcv. 1*. IL Waddcll. 20s; 30s. Blackwood. 

Atlas (Royal) of Mcxlern Geography. A. K. John- 

stim. Folio. New Ed., jf 6 6s ; ^ 10 IDS. Johnston. 
Burns (Annual) Chronicle and Club Directory. Ed. 

by Dr M 'Naught. 8vo, 1/6. 

D. Brown & Co., Kilmarnock. 
Calendar of Calendars, 1894, 3d. Gallon (E.) 

Covenanters (Homes and Haunts oQ. ist Series. 

A. B. Todd. New Edition. Crown Svo, 3/6. 

R. W. Hunter. 
Edinburgh (Sup. to) Univ. Calendar, 1893-4. Thin. 
Education (Manual of) Sellar's, revised by J. E. 

Graham. 9th Ed., Svo, 12/6. Blackwood. 

Episcopal Church Report (Scotland), 1893. R. Grant. 
Free (Union) Church : its Origin and History. David 

Elder, Maclaxen (G.) 

How to Read the Prophets. Part 4, Ezekiel. B. 

Blake. Post 8vo, 4/- Clark. 

Insolvency (Manual of Law oQ. J. Murdoch. 5th 

Ed., 8vo, 30/- Blackwood. 

Jud^e Nothing before the Time. J. MaclecKl. Hitt. 
Manures ami the Principles of Manuring. G. M. 

Aikman. Svo. Blackwood. 

Micrographia (Extracts from). R. Hook. 1/6 Clay. 
Ophthalmology (Text Book oQ. W. F. Norris and 

C. A. Oliver. Svo, 25/- Pentland. 

Railway Cases (50 years). James Ferguson. Svo, 

5/- net. Green. 

Scots Minstrclsie. Vol. 4. Dr John Greig. Jack. 
Scottish (Miscellany oQ History Society. Vol. I. 

The Library of James VL, 1578-S3. Svo, Illust. 

(Edin.) 

Scottish (The) Law List. Svo, 9/- Jack. 

Sister Three. Mr A. M. Wright. Parlane. 

Tennyson's Idylls of the King. M. W. Maccallum. 

Svo, 7/6 Maclehose. 

Two (ireat Scotsmen : the Brothers William and John 

Hunter. G. R. Mather. 410, 10/6 Maclehose. 
Wordsworth's (Dorothy) Tour in Scotland." Edited 

by the late Principal Shairp. 3rd Ed., 5/- Douglas. 

Publishers will please forward lists by 15th of each 
month to John Inolis, 

12 Glen Street, Edinburgh. 



♦•♦ 



A 6th edition of Rev. S. R. Crockett's "Stickit 
Minister" is now in the press. The first edition 
was issued in May of last year. 

Messrs. D. Hryce & Son, Glasgow, are about 
to add to their popular " Pearl Series" of books 
an ''Address-Index and Desk-Book." 

"The Builders of American Literature," by 
F. H. Underwood, LL.D., W.S., Consul at 
Edinburgh, contains many touching reminis- 
cences of his life-long friend, James Russell 
LowelL 



SCOTTISH 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



Vol. VII.] No. ii. 



APRIL, 1894. 



Registered. {P«;;^|J^.^j^^^ 



CONTENTS. 

Notes : — ^ Page 

Letter of Burns to Clarinda, ^ .^ 161 

Aberdeenshire as a Factor in Scottish Life and 

Thought 162 

Diary of John Row, Principal of King's College, 164 

Discovery of Urn and Bones at Kinmuck, 166 

Bibliography of Aberdeen Publications, 1693, 167 

Archibald Campbell. 7th Earl of Argyle, 171 

Minor Notes : — 

Old Ships' Logs, 171 

Death of Mr John M. Gray, Edinburgh 172 

Aberdeen University Library 172 

Robroyston Sundial, 172 

The Haunted Tower of St Andrews, 173 

Queries: — 

Name of the Minister of Birse in 1736 — Name of 
Author Wanted— The "Tragedy of Douglas"— The 
Church of St Giles, Edinburgh — Society of Ancient 
Scots — Frenches of Aberdeen — Dallas Family — Aber- 
deen Directory— The New Arrangement of Parishes 
in connection with the County Council Act — Disple- 
nish — Designed — Forbes of Knapernay — John Forbes, 
Advocate, of Newhall ; Annabeila Bruce of Povrfoulis 
— Inglis of Cramond — Rev. William Forbes of For- 
doun — Inscription at Craigmillar Castle, 173 

Answers : — 

Godfathers and Godmothers — Rev. Wm Smith, D.D. 
—Rev. Patrick Dunbreck — Dalmahoy of that Ilk — 
George Ure of Shirgarton — Kennedy's Annals of Aber 
deen — Burns's Birthday, 175 

Literature, 172 

Scotch Books for the Month, 176 



ABERDEEN, APRIL, i8g4. 



♦•» 



LETTER OF BURNS TO CLARINDA. 

This letter appears to have been first printed in 
the Banffshire Journal. Was this the " provin- 
cial newspaper'' to which Mr Gordon sent a copy 
of the letter forty years ago ? Mr Gordon does 
not seem to be aware that the letter, although 
omitted from The Correspondence between Bums 
and Clarinda, Edinburgh, 1843, was published 
in Paterson's Edition of The Works of Bums, 
Edinburgh, 1879, Vol. V., pp. 94-6. 

The letter is without doubt that one referred 
to by Clarinda in her's to Bums, dated 5th 
March, 1788, as having been received by her 
eight days previously from Mauchline. She 
says, ** I got both your letters from Kilmarnock 
and Mauchline." Mr Gordon states that the 
original bears the post mark of Mauchline, but 
no date. Scott- Douglas heads it conjecturally, 
"[Mossgeil, 23rd Feby., I788]'\ but several re- 
ferences establish it as the Mauchline letter 
referred to by Clarinda. A " present " is men- 



tioned as having been sent to " little Bobbie.* 
This was doubtless the " twa wee sarkies** which 
the poet, as stated in his Kilmarnock letter, in- 
tended, " in about two hours," to present to " the 
little fellow." The Kilmarnock letter is dated 
" Friday [22nd Feby.] ^ The Mauchline letter 
could not therefore be earlier than the 23rd, but 
might be a day or two later, as Clarinda (letter 
5th March), referring to a lapse in the corres- 
pondence, says, " the cruelest of pains you have 
mflicted on me for eight days past." 

Burns's ungracious and unjust reference to "a 
certain woman," who could have been no other 
than the future Mrs Burns, has already been 
commented on. He concludes the reference in 
the letter by the words — " I have done with her, 
and she with me." At this very time he had 
accomplished what he evidently intended to be 
a permanent settlement of Jean Armour's claims 
upon him. In the letter to Robert Ainslie, dated 
March 3rd, 1788, the poet says with reference 
to Jean, " I swore her privately and solemnly 
never to attempt any claim on me as a husband — 
even though anybody should persuade her she had 
such a claim, which she had not — neither during 
my life, nor after my death. She did all this 
like a good girl." 

It is impossible to believe that when Burns 
wrote these lines he had any intention of marry- 
ing Jean Armour, and yet, in less than two 
months, he apparently under the stress of "power- 
ful circumstances that omnipotent necessity was 
laying in wait " for him, had, privately, yet not 
less really, given her "a matrimonial title to 
his Corpus.^^ (Letter to Jas. Smith, Apl. 28th, 
1788). A light is cast upon these relations by 
the letter to Mrs McLehose, March 9, 1789, 
already quoted from, which, although written a 
year afterwards, undoubtedly refers to the at- 
tempt to break with Jean. He says, " I have 
already told you, and I again aver it, that, at 
the period of time alluded to, I was not under 
the smallest moral tie to Mrs B ." Is there 



any explanation of this attitude towards Jean in 
the fact that at that time, to use his own lan- 
guage, he was "the distracted victim of charms" 
(Clarinda's), " which no man ever approached 
with impunity? Had I seen," he continues, 
" the least glimmering of hope that these charms 
could ever have been mine ; or even had not 
iron necessity — but these are unavailing words"! 



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[April, 1894. 



Was it llien to gain favour with Clarinda that 
be penned the harsh words about " a certain 
wtitnan"? Or did he, in spite of " the least 
ghmmefingof hope," that the charms of Clarinda 
could ever be his, hope against conviction, that 
somehoiv, " my dearest partner nf my soul, Cla- 
rinda and I will yet make out our pilgrimage 
tog'ether"? (Syivander to Clarinda, nth April, 
1788), Who shall say? This Armour episode 
seems to have been due to one of those moods 
of the Poet's mind which baffle interpretation, 
and render many of his actions inexplicable and 
incapable of solution by the rules applicable to 
ordinary men. The redeeming feature in the 
dark episode is that the Poet's relations towards 
Jean so speedily changed, and that when his 
better nature reasserted itself he did her ample 
justice. "I have got," he says after his mar- 
riage, " the handsomest figure, the sweetest tem- 
Kr, the soundest constitution, and the kindest 
art in the County, . . . and she has the 
finest 'wnod-noie wild' 1 ever heard." (Letter 
to Miss Margaret Chalmers). 

The last paragraph of the letter you publish 
contains the words," Remember to-morrow even- 
ing at eight o'clock I shall be with the Father of 
Mercies, at that hour, on your account." This 
was in accordance with the well known compact 
with Clarinda. Burns had agreed to meet her 
"at tht Throne of Grace" exactly at 8 p.m. of 
every Sunday during their separation. It may 
not be so well known that a similar sentiment 
is expressed by .Shakespeare in the play of 
Cymbeline. Imogen says :— 

" Ere I could tell him 
How I would think on him, at certain hours ; 

ot have charR'd him 

Al the siith hour uf mom, at noon, al mirfnighl 



T'en 



le wilh a 



ns, for 



n for him. 
B roughly- Ferry. A. HutcheSON. 

Lettkr of Burns to Clarinda (VIl.. [55). 
— When 1 read Mr James Gordon's interesting 
note in last number of S.N.&'Q. regarding the 
letter from Sylvander to Clarinda, which he 
publishes, i fell certain that T had read the letter 
before, in the Poet's works, into which Mr Gor- 
don thinks it has not yet found its way. Turn* 
ing up Mr Scott Douglas's Library Edition, I 
find the letter printed at pages 94-96 of volume 
^ i and stated to be " Here first included in the 
Correspondence." in a foot-note the careful 
editor states — " We take this from the columns 
df the Banffshire Journal, in which it appeared 
some years ago, ' as printed from the original ', 
which was described as considerably mutilated, 
the upper portion being cut off." Mr Gordon's 
previous reproduction of the letter has not been 
in vain. John Mdir. 



ABER[)EEN.SHIRF, AS A FACTOR IN 

SCOTTISH LIFE AND THOUGHT. 
(Continued from p. 14^.) 

Although Aberdeenshire did not lead the Pro- 
testant movement in Scotland, it certainly did 
not lag far behind the rest of that country in 
respect to the heartiness with which it embraced 
that movement once it had been established. 

No doubt, even in the 17th century, Aber- 
deenshire, ahhouph distinctively Protestant, was 
not so enthusiastically Presbyterian as the rest 
of Scotland, and certainly in the Covenanting 
struggles, which constitute the chief glory of 
Scottish history in that troublous age, the men 
of this county took a very small share. It can- 
not be denied, of course, that it was at Aberdeen, 
in connection with the abortive attempt to hold 
there a General Assembly of the Church, in de- 
fiance of the royal wish, that the great historic 
conflict between the Church of Scotland and the 
State for the right of Self-government, reached 
its first and sharpest crisis. But among those 
who distinguished themselves on that occasion, 
none excepting the Moderator were Aberdeen- 
shire men. The truth is, it would be no exag- 
geration to say that during the 17th century, 
among the clergy and the ruling classes gener- 
ally in Aberdeenshire, covenanting principles 
were by no means popular. One significant 
illustration of this statement may be found in 
the fact, that while Aherdeenshire during that 
century produced many learned prelates and 
able divines who opposed the Covenant, not one 
of the leading Presbyterian clergy of the period 
was a native of that county. Ayrshire, for ex- 
ample, could boast of Robert Biair, Alexander 
Peden, Zachary Boyd, and Hugh Binning;^ 
Fifeshire, of Alexander Henderson, George Gil- 
lespie, and Richard Cameron ; — Perthshire, 
of Cargill, Blackadder, and Wellwood: — and 
Forfarshire, of James Durham and the two 
Guthries ;— while other Scotch counties have 
also their own illustrious roll of Covenanting 
worthies. Aberdeenshire, on the other hand, 
has few or no such names to boast. It is true 
that the famous Andrew Cant, the well known 
Apostle of the Covenant in the North, and who 
was long Minister of Aberdeen, is claimed by 
some as a native of that city. Hut this claim is, 
to say the least of it, doubtful ; al all events he 
is also claimed, and apparently on good autho- 
rity, as having been a native of the Mearns and 
not of Aberdeenshire. 

But while the roll of Covenanting champions 
contains very few Aberdeenshire names, the list 
of the names of those Aberdonian authors ivho 
opposed the Covenant is by no means contempt- 
ible. This will be evident when i mention that 



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it contains, along with other lesser celebrities, 
names so respectable as those of Bishop Forbes, 
and Drs Guild, Sibbald, and Scroggie. It is 
plain, therefore, that, in the i6th and 17th cen- 
turies, Aberdeenshire was a conservative rather 
than a reforming force in Scottish life, and that 
the function which it then performed in connec- 
tion with Scottish development was that of mo- 
derating and restraining rather than of creating 
enthusiasm, A significant si^n of how the 
warmer and more forward spirits of the South 
and West felt at this time towards their colder 
and more self-contained brethren of the North- 
East, may be seen in the action of the General 
Assembly which met in Glasgow in 1638. For 
when the ministers and elders gathered there 
proceeded to choose a clerk to take note of the 
proceedings, we are told by one who was pre- 
sent, that Mr James Sandilands was rejected 
because he came from that " unsanctified place," 
Aberdeen, while Archibald Johnstone of Warris- 
ton was chosen in his stead. 

But, while owing to the lack of sympathy 
between the men of light and leading in Aber- 
deenshire in the 17th century, and the predomi- 
nant tone of Scottish thought and life in the rest 
of the country at that time, Aberdonian energy 
and talent scarcely found scope for their full 
manifestation at home, perhaps, all the more on 
that account, they sought free vent and expansion 
for themselves abroad. And it is a significant and 
suggestive fact, that Aberdonian scholars were 
to be found holding high positions as Professors 
all over Europe in that century ; while such of 
them as still clung to the Catholic Faith were 
promoted to the highest places in the Church, — 
the only British ecclesiastic designated for a 
cardinalate in that age — Monsignor George Con 
of Auchry — having been of Aberdonian birth, — 
while at a later date, in the same century, Leslie 
Bishop of Laybach, and a Prince of the Holy 
Roman Empire, also hailed from Aberdeen, and 
was a native of the parish of Rayne. Among 
the men of action of the time, who distinguished 
themselves in service abroad, may be mentioned 
General James King, Lord Eythm, General Sir 
Arthur Forbes, and General Hurry, all of whom 
gained military experience and renown under 
the great leader Gustavus Adolphus ; while 
equally distinguished as captains in the oppos- 
ing Austrian army may be mentioned Marshal 
Walter Leslie, and his nephew, also a marshal, 
and both prominent Austrian statesmen. Nor 
should we forget here General Patrick Gordon, 
the noted Russian General, who did more, per- 
haps, to establish the Russian Empire than any 
other man ; nor (though their exploits are con- 
fined to the 1 8th century rather than the 17th), 
the famous Marshal Keith, who was Frederick 



the Great's favourite general, and his brother 
the Earl Marischal, his most trusted and skilful 
diplomatist. 

Passing on to the i8th century, the first inci- 
dent in Aberdeenshire history that was fraught 
with momentous consequences to Scottish de- 
velopment was the vigorous resistance made by 
the people of Old Deer to the ordination of a 
Presbyterian minister to the church there, — an 
ordination which was being effected according 
to the ecclesiastical law of the time, at the in- 
stance of the presbytery. In this case, however, 
the law broke down, for, headed by the local 
gentry, who were mainly Episcopalians in sym- 
pathy, it appears that the populace rabbled the 
Presbytery when they came to perform the ordi- 
nation ceremony in the church, and so compelled 
that ceremony to be performed elsewhere. The 
result of this tumult was an appeal to the 
Government to prevent such outrages in the 
future. Thereupon the English Parliament, 
though blindly ignorant of the nature and wishes 
of the people for whom it was legislating, but 
thinking in the pride of its fancied superiority 
that by conforming as far as possible Scottish 
ecclesiastical law to English methods, an end 
would be put to such unseemly scenes, passed 
the Patronage Act of 171 1, — an Act which, 
whatever were the motives of the legislators who 
passed it (and they may possibly have been 
innocent enough), has assuredly done more to 
divide and embitter the Scottish people than any 
other Act in the Statute Book. 

Referring to the influence of Aberdeenshire 
on the course of Scottish ecclesiastical history, 
it is a curious and significant fact, that it was in 
that county that the first instance occurred of 
the settlement of a minister without a call from 
the people, and in a parish the inhabitants of 
which were presbyterian in sympathy, in total 
disregard of their wishes. This event took place 
in 1726, and was the first of a long series of 
those irritating outrages on the most cherished 
convictions of all loyal presbyterians, which led 
to the Secessions of 1732 and 1759, and which 
culminated a century later in the great Disrup- 
tion of 1843. I^ this connection it is not, I 
think, without significance, as certainly it is not 
without interest, to remember that it was in 
Aberdeenshire again, in our own century, that 
the protracted conflict between the Scottish 
Church and the State, for the exercise of spi- 
ritual independence, reached its last great crisis. 
For, as is well known, it was when the General 
Assembly suspended from the exercise of their 
office the contumacious ministers of the Aber- 
deenshire Presbytery of Strathbogie, that, the 
State having thereupon, through the decision of 
its law courts, sustained the action of the con. 



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[April, 1894. 



tumacious clergy, necessitated the Disruption 
from the Established Church of those who 
could not thus submit with a good conscience to 
see spiritual decisions overridden by secular 
authority. It was thus to a very large extent as 
the result of the action of Aberdeenshire on the 
Scottish ecclesiastical situation that the Dis- 
ruption of the Scottish Church was brought 
about, — that great event, which is certainly the 
most memorable and heroic Scottish action of 
the 19th century. 

It may be remarked here, as in some sort a 
counterpoise to the generally hostile attitude 
maintained by the mass of the Aberdeenshire 
rural clergy to the spiritual movement that cul- 
minated in the Disruption, that it is a very inte- 
resting and suggestive fact, that while most of 
the cities and larger towns of Scotland contri- 
buted a respectable quota to the noble band of 
ministers and elders who, on the i8th of May, 
1843, left the Established Church and consti- 
tuted the Free Church of Scotland, there is only 
one among all the cities of Scotland, and that 
the City of Aberdeen, which can claim the sig- 
nal honour of having seen all her ministers who 
were connected with the Establishment relin- 
quish their status and emoluments and join the 
phalanx that marched from St Andrews Church 
to Canonmills Hall. Looking back on an inci- 
dent so noble and spirit-stirring, — an incident 
which led Dr Guthrie at the time, with that pic- 
turesque and ready eloquence, of which he was 
so great a master, to express his admiration in 
the characteristic apostrophe : — " Noble Aber- 
deen ! Though many daughters have done 
virtuously, yet thou excellest them all," I for 
one do not wonder that the city whose annals 
it has hallowed and adorned, has ever since 
been in the forefront of the battle for the cause 
of popular rights and equal freedom, nor that 
from that memorable day a conspicuously higher 
part has been taken by the more representative 
men of this county in the spiritual movement of 
the time, whether as affecting the intellectual or 
political development of the age. 

In the above hasty sketch something, no 
doubt, has been said to show that the influence 
of Aberdeenshire has been largely felt in the past, 
and still continues to be felt alike in the poli- 
tical and religious life of Scotland. But much 
more remains unsaid, to which I might advert, 
if space permitted. I have already, however, 
trespassed too much on the patience of the read- 
ers of S. N. 6f* Q.. and shall therefore not only 
omit much which I would like to notice, but 
shall endeavour to compress what I have got to 
say in the briefest possible form. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

(To be continued.) 



DIARY OF JOHN ROW, 

PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, &c., 

1661 — 1672 — 1790. 

VIH. 

My wife was brought to bed of her $^*> child 
called Christian upon the 2 day of January 1695 
betwixt 5 and 6 aclock att night being Wednes- 
day. 

My wife was born Nover 2 : 1662. 

My daughter Christian died Januer. 5 about 
7 aclock at night being only one year of age and 
three days in the year 1696 being Sabaths 
nightt, interred on the morrow below the Rood 
dore of the church of Fyvie. 

* My grandfather Mr John Row leitt principall 
of the King's Colledge of Abd. the beginer of 
this book died att my fathers hous of a palsie 
Octobr. 1672. 

My wife was brought to bed of her 6th child 
March 22. 1696 years being Sabath morning 
about one aclock in the morning being a sone 
whose name was William, baptized att the church 
of Fyvie March 25. 

Itt IS to be observed that m the year 1696 the 
harvest in the most pairt of the shire of Abed, 
did begin in the beginning of Agust and was not 
ended in the ait cornis whill the midle of Nover. 
and in many plaises was never shoren by reasone 
of great storms of rain y^ did come in the letter 
end of October and continowed whill the last 
day of Nover. on which day ther did come an 
greatt storm of snow which continued till the 
23 of Decer. w^out any braick so that when 
the 15 of Januar 1697 wes come it was not all 
away & I having a man sent to Logie old toun 
m the parish of Achterless upon the 26 day of 
Decer. he told when he came home y^ he did 
speak w^ birds keeping ther sheep from ther 
corns and hade done it all the storm and about 
the 6 or 8 of Januar they who had ther corns 
the furth did begin to shear and thresh them 
and did maick meill of them which was as sweett 
in the teast as if itt had been mixed w* suger. 

Margratt Lindsay relick of Robert Smith of 
Smiddieburn died Januar 13 1697 about 5 aclock 
in the morning being of age aboutt 71 who con- 
tinued perfect of her senses untill the last. 

Thomas Mercer my fathers second brother 
leat Dean of Gild of Abd. dyed quaker Apryll 
16 the year 1697 about 8 aclock in the morning 
of age 71 and hade left a paper ounder his hand 
restriking his wife and childring to inter his 
corps any way butt in the quakers buriall place 
in the head of the gallogett, but his neerest re- 
lationes finding no restricktion upon them they 
did taicke the saime upon them and although 

^ This entry is in a different hand, and is evidently the work 
of one or other of the children at the Manse of Kinellar. 



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the quakers did maick a graive for him in ther 
buriall place they interred his corps in the new 
church as they go into the sessione house opesett 
to the mid piller whair there was interred before 
of his ansestors his great grandfather, his grand- 
father and his own father ther being a grave 
stone above them w^ all the letters theron in- 
dented wt lead the deatt of wch was an hundreth 
year before wanting one, as also the wholl con- 
vention of quakers in or neir Abd. did convein 
being rekooned to be above the number of an 
hundreth to opose his interment ther but losed 
ther desing so far that they were not alowed to 
take on lift of his corps. 

Jeams Mercer sone to the forsd Thomas was 
maried w' Irving dawghter to the Laird of 

Cults in the parishon of Banchrie the of 

Februar 1697. 

Margrat Grigorie relick of Thomas Mercer 
deied October 30 1697. 

Cristian Mercer my 2d sister spous to Mr 
Alexander Robertsone minister at Lengside deied 
of an squinans Aprill 19 at 2 aclock in the 
morning 1698 years. 

Isobel Leslie spowse to W™ Smith of Smiddi- 
burn deied Januar 9. 1700 years about 6 aclock 
at night in a strong malignant fever. 

My wife was brought to bed of her sevent child 
Februar g about ten aclock at night called Jeams 
after Jeams Mercer merchand in Abd. my cus- 
ing german in the year 1700 baptized the tenth 
of Februar at the kirk of Forgland be Mr John 
Dunbar minister ther. 

W»n Lindsay of Culsh was maried wt Elizabeth 
Leslie dawghter to Patrik Leslie in the Mains 
of Fyvie Wartle Leslies uncle of Apryll 1701 
at the church of Forgland she haveing stayed 
at my house att Todlaw from the time of her 
being contracted whill her mariage ther being 
some that designed to taik her from her faithers 
She being a young widow of Jeams Gordons of 
Wastertowns and haveing a good portionebe him. 

Janot Grigorie, Thomas Thomson of Faich- 
fields Lady dyed of an gravell Februar i. 1702 
about 7 of the clok in the morning haveing no 
sone to him. 

Jeams Mercer mentioned in the 141 paige 
[under date Feb: 1697] dyed consumtive and 
November 20 aboutt ten of the clok in the 
morning interred Saboth 23 after both sermons 
in his fathers grave 1702 years leaving a sone 
and 2 daughters as childring being himself about 
32 years of age. 

Lsobel Mercer spous to Mr Thomas Thomsone 
of Coklawdyed att Old Abd. March 3. 1704 years 
of 70 years of aige who was interred in the south 
church dore of the sd Cathedral Church of old 
Abd. 

Janet Mercer my oldest daughter was maried 



Wt Robert Rait 2d sone to George Rait portioner 
of follorowll Junij i. 1704 years be Mr George 
Dalgarno minister* att Fyvie att my house m 
Smiddybum very privatly as to freinds. 

My eldest son John was graduat att Maris- 
chall College in new Abd. be Mr William Smith 
regent Junij 15. 1704. 

Mr Thomas Thomsoneof Coklaw was removed 
by death October 25, 1704 att ij aclok in the for- 
noon being att that time minister att Old Abd, 
and interred in the portch of the sd. church 
beside his Lady October 28. 

William Smith younger in tiftie dyed of a fever 
Mairch 13. 1705 years aetatis 62. 

My daughter Janet was brought to bed of her 
first child being a daughter Mairch 21. 1705 
about ten aclok in the fomoon. 

My wife was called by death Nover. 10. 1705 
years about 12 of the clok in the day who was 
neer 8 years before trysted wt an decay con- 
trakted by a plooresie fever who was interred 
Nover. 14 in the church of Fyvie in her faithers 
and grand faithers graiv. 

My daughter Lillias was married to George 
Pantone second sone to Jeams Panton in 
Apryll 16. 1706 years. 

My daughter Janet was brought to bed of her 
2d child being a daughter Februar 19. 1707 
being Wednesday called Jean. 

My daughter Lillias was brought to bed of 
her first child being a daughter March 12, 1707 
being a about 12 a'clok off the day called 

Isobell. 

I was maried w^ Christien Reid sister german 
to Sir John Reid of Barra Junij 3. 1707 years att 
Abd, in Mr Alexander Thomsone of Portlethen 
town dark of Abd. his house at 7 aclok att night 
very privatly, 

James Reid leat bailie of Abd. my wifes bro- 
ther was removed by death at mill of Bourtie 
July 4 being Sabaths night about 7 aclok 1708 
years and interred in the east end of the church 
of Burtie July 6 about 7 aclok in the morning. 

Christian Mercer relik of Alexander Troup 
merchand in Abd. dyed October i. 1708 years 
leaving 2 childring behind her Thomas and 
Margratt. 

Charles Orem martchand in Abd. husband to 
Isobell Mercer dyed hektick Januar ij. 1709. 

My daughter Lilleas was brought to bed of a 
sone Junij 5 being Sabaths morning att on of 
the clok in the morning whos name was John 
bapteised in Turreff in the year 1709. 

My daughter Janet was brought to bed of her 
3d child being a sone October 8. 1709. 

The Lady Barra was brought to bed of her 
3d child being a sone whose name was John 
Decer. 12 att night 1709. 

(To be continued,) 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[April, 1894. 



Readers of S. N. S- Q. may be inierested to 
bear of a linil which was made in Deceniber last 
on the farm of Wood side, Kinmuck, belonging; 
to the University of Aberdeen, and situated in 
tbe Parish of Keith-hall, Aberdeenshire. While 
Mr McConnachie, the tenant of the farm, w:ls 
ploughing a field about a quarter of a mile to 
the north-east of Kinmuck, the plough exf)osed 
a small deposit of what turned out to be bones, 
mingled with the shattered fragments of a clay 
urn. About six weeks after the discovery I 
visited the place and saw the spot where the urn 
was discovered. It must have been very close 
to the surface of the ground, but had apparently 
been protected by some half dozen rough stones 
which were lying near, and had originally been 
arranged round the urn. The ground was stil! 
covered with a quantity of small fraijments of 
bone, and I also found a number of chips of 
charred wood. The fragments of pottery had 
been dispersed, but I recovered about i3 pieces 
of various siies, the largest being 2% inches by 
1% inches. As in so many similar cases, the 
plough which brought the old relic to tight had 




at the same time almost destroyed it. No im- 
piimients of any kind werefouna. I have pieced 
together some of the fragments of what had 
formed the upper part of one side of the urn, 
which must have measured about 8 inches in 
diameter at the lip. Running round the inner 
surface of the urn, and about an inch from the 
top, there is a shallow out distinct groove, the 
object of which, if any, is not very apparent It 
may possibly have been formed by the finger 

X of the potter in the process of manufacture, 
outer surface is adorned by a simple but 



effective pattern, formed apparently by twisted 
cords impressed on the soft clay. Three par- 
allel lines, distant about a quarter of an inch 
from each other, run round the upper part, and 
the rest of the surface i*s covered with diagonal 
lines, arranged in a sort of " herrinij-bone " pat- 
tern. The urn, which is about half-an-inch thick, 
is foi med of a reddish yellow clay, and a section 
shows three distinct layers, the middle one being 
formed of a coarser material, blackened as if by 
the action of fire. 1 believe this is a common 
characteristic of such pottery, and it would be 
interesting to know what was the probable pro- 
cess of manufacture. 

It is greatly to be regretted that so little of 
the um has been preserved, as it must have 
been, when complete, a remarkably large and 
handsome specimen of its kind. 

The place where the remains were found is 
not far from the locality known as Ulair Hussey 
("Field of Blood"), which is traditionally the 
scene of a great conflict between the Scots and 
the Danes. In the immediate neighbourhood, 
several finds of cists with urns, &c., have at 
various limes been made. The New Statistical 
Account (1842) contains the following account 
of one such discovery : — " In a large barrow or 
tumulus, about So yards from a Druidic stone, a 
chance visitor observed an um partially unco- 
vered. It was found to contain calcined bones. 
Two larger urns were subsequently found in a 
reverse position to the other, and were taken 
out in fra^ents. The bones in all the three 
were put into a box and buried in the original 

The bones recently found were submitted to 
Dr R. W. Reid, Professor of Anatomy in Aber- 
deen University, who reported upon them as 
follows ; — "The fragments of bone submitted to 
me are sixty-four in number, varying in size from 
3 in. by % m. to the site and shape of a split 
pea. The fragments are extremely brittle, and 
consist almost entirely of inorganic matter. 
The two largest appear 10 be portions of the 
shaft of a small humerus. The others are too 
small to allow of their reference to particular 
bones, human or otherwise, excepting one which 
belongs to that part of the right malar which 
enters into the formation of the outer margin 
of the right orbital cavity. From the appear- 
ance of this piece of bone, and the slenderness 
of the humeral fragments, il may be inferred 
that the skeleton to which they belonged was 
that of a small individual, and probably that of 

The fragments of the um and the bones have 
now been placed in the Anatomical Museum, 
Marischal College. 

D. R. THOM. 



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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABERDEEN 
PUBLICATIONS, 1893. 

The following is a list of the works published 
in Aberdeen during the year 1893 : — 

Aberdeen Almanac and Northern Register for 1893. 
Aberdeen : Printed and published at the Journal 
Office, and sold by all booksellers. Pp. 114. 

Al^erdeen Artists' Society. Sixth Annual Exhibi- 
tion of Works of Modern Artists and Old Masters. 
February, March, and April, 1893. In the Aberdeen 
Art Gallery, Schoolhill. Pp. 76. (Catalogue). 

Aberdeen (City of) Corporation Accounts for the 
year from 30th September. 1892, to 30th September, 
1893. Aberdeen : Printed by G. Cornwall & Sons. 
1893. Pp. 175. 

Aberdeen Ecclesiological Society (Transactions of). 
Seventh year, mdcccxcii. Aberdeen : Printed for 
the Society (by W. Jolly & Sons), 1893. Pp- 95- 

Aberdeen Excise Licence Holders' Association 
Meeting, 22nd March, 1893. Pp. 18. 

Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine. June, 1893. 
Aberdeen : Printed by G. & W. Fraser. 1893. 
Pp. 19. 

Aberdeen Public Library. Eighth Annual Report 
of the Committee for the year ending September 30, 
1892. Aberdeen : The University Press. 1893. 
Pp. 21. 

[Aberdeen Royal Infirmary]. Annual Report of 
the Royal Infirmary of Aberdeen, for the year ended 
31st December, 1892. Aberdeen : Printed by James 
Russell, Crown Court, Union Street. 1893. Pp* 54* 

[Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum]. Annual Re- 
port of the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen, for 
the year ended 31st December, 1892, with Abstract 
of the Treasurer's Accounts for the same period. 
Aberdeen : Printed by G. Cornwall & Sons. 1893. 
Pp. 46. 

Aberdeen Temperance Literature Association. 
Fourth Annual Report of the Committee. Pp. 8. 

Aberdeen University Arts Class, 1884-8. Class 
Record. MDCCCXCII I. Pp. 30. 

Aberdeen University Calendar (The) for the year 
1893-94. Aberdeen : A. King& Co., Printers to the 
University. 1893. Pp- ^^' + 45^* With Appen- 
dices and General Index. Pp. 138. (This edition 
contains several new features, among them — Financial 
and Statistical Statements of the University, Report 
on Wants of the University, Notes on the University 
Libraries, and the Addresses of Members of the Ge- 
neral Council). 

Aberdeen University Students' Handbook for 1893- 
94. Published by the Students' Representative Coun- 
cil. Pp. 46. (First issue. Embraces a University 
Calendar, information about Students' Societies, and 
a Directory of Students' Names and Addresses). 

Aberdeen Year Book (The) for 1893. Leading 
Events of the Year ; Trade Reports ; Biographical 
Notices, &c. Aberdeen : Printed and Published at 
the Free Press Office. 1893. Pp. 136. (First issue). 

Abenleen Y. M. C. A. Bulletin. New Series, 
Nos. 10, II, 12, and 13 (February, March, June and 
August). 

[Alexander, William, LL.D.] — Free East Church 
Reminiscences, read before meetings of the Congre- 



gation of the Free East Church, Aberdeen, April 26th 
and May 3rd, 1893. Aberdeen, 1893. PP' ^9* 

Alma Mater. Aberdeen University Magazine. 
Volume X. Aberdeen ; Students' Representative 
Council. MDCCCXCiii. Pp. viii. -h 234. (With 
Minto Memorial Number annexed), 

[Anderson, Rev. James, Dyce.] — Cruisie Sketches: 
Studies of Life in a Forfarshire Village. By Fergus 
Mackenzie. Al:>erdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. 
Edinburgh : J. Menzies & Co. London : Marshall 
Bros. Pp. vi. -f 140. (Reprint from various series 
of Sketches of Scottish Life, contributed to the 
People^ 5 Friend. Smaller and cheaper edition — pp. 
vi. -f 230 ; title-page bears date 1894). 

[Do. do.] — The Humours of Glenbruar. By Fergus 
Mackenzie, author of '* Cruisie Sketches." London : 
Gay & Bird. Edinburgh and Glasgow : J. Menzies & 
Co. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 1894. Pp. 227. 
(Reprint of sketches mainly contributed to the Peoplis 
Friend). 

Anderson, P. J. — Officers and Graduates of Uni- 
versity and King's College, Aberdeen, mvd-mdccclx. 
Edited by Peter John Andersbn, M.A., LL.B. 
Aberdeen : Printed for the New Spalding Club. 
MDCCCXCIII. Pp. xvii. -f 399. 

[Do., do.]. — Lists of Officers University and King*s 
College, Aberdeen, 1495- 1860. P. J. A. Printed at 
the University Press. 1893. Pp. 94. (Issued for 
private circulation ; subsequently incorporated in the 
preceding volume). 

[Do., do.] — Historical Notes on the Libraries of 
the Universities of Aberdeen. P. J. A. Aberdeen : 
Printed at the University Press. 1893. Pp. 27. 
(Issued for private circulation ; subsequerttly incorpo- 
rated in the University Calendar). 

Banchory (The) and Deeside District Good Templar 
Hand Book and Guide. No i, February, March, 
April, 1893. Compiled and Published by the Litera- 
ture Committee of the St Ternan Lodge, I.O.G.T. 
Price One Halfpenny. Aberdeen : Printed by James 
Main, 75 George Street. Pp. 16. 

Barnett, Lizzie J. A. — At His feet (thoughts for 
mothers). By Lizzie T. A. Barnett. Aberdeen : D. 
Wyllie & Son. 1893.' Pp- 59- 

Beveridge, A. T. Gordon. — The Municipalisation of 
the Drink Traffic. An Address delivered to the 
Aberdeen Independent Labour Party, by A. T. 
Gordon Beveridge, M.A., M.B., CM.. Chairman, 
Aberdeen Independent Labour Party, and member of 
the Aberdeen Town Council. Publishers : — Adams, 
I St. Nicholas Street, Aberdeen ; Holmes, 3 and 5 
Dunlop Street, Glasgow ; John B. Fairgrieve, 7 and 9 
Cockburn Street, Edinburgh ; Mrs. Lundie, 35 
Reform Street, Dundee. Price — One Penny. 1893. 
Pp. 7. 

Blackfriars P.S.A. Magazine. The Monthly 
Record of the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Meeting, 
Aberdeen. Vol. I., No. I. March, 1893, 

Brebner William .- -A Selection of continuous Eng- 
lish passaj^es set at various examinations, forming a 
Supplement to First Lessons in French Composition. 
By William Brebner. Aberdeen : John Rae Smith, 
57 Union Street. 1893. Pp. viii. -f 54. 

Brown's Book-Stall. 1893. A. Brown & Co., 
Booksellers and Stationers, Union Street, Aberdeen, 



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Pp. 260. (Contains a continuation of the articlest 
under the heading of ** Brown's Al>erdeen Book- 
Stall," descriptive of the history of the firm of A. 
Brown & Co., with sketches of local afTairs, and 
including an In Memoriam sketch of Mr. G. W. 
Wilson ; also two papers read at the Librarians* 
Conference in Aberdeen in September — one by Mr. 
A. W. Rol)ertson ; the other by Mr. George Walker). 

Bulloch, J. M. — Certain College Carols. By John 
Malcolm Bulloch, Aberdeen, mdcccxciv. Pp. 32. 
(College Carols by **The Jack Daw of Rhymes,** 
mostly contributed to **Alma Mater.** Fifty copies 
printed for private circulation only). 

Do. do. — University Centenary Ceremonies. By 
John Malcolm Bulloch, M. A. , Aberdeen. MDCCCXCiii. 
Pp. xvi. + 61. (Originally contributed to the ** Daily 
Free Press.'* An Appendix — "The Universities of 
the World, with Dates of Foundation " — furnished by 
Mr. P. J. Anderson). 

Burnett, R. —Civil Service Addition Tests. By R. 
Burnett (Civil Service Tutorial Series). Aberdeen : 
John Adam. London : Simpkin, Marshall, 
Hamilton, Kent, & Co. Edinburgh and Glasgow : 
John Menzies & Co. Pp. 52. 

Do. do. — Civil Service Tabular Statements, with 
Explanatory Introduction. By R. Burnett (Civil 
Service Tutorial Series). (Same publishers as above). 

Pp. 32. 

Cadenhead, William. — The New Book of Bon- 
Accord : A Guide to the City of Aberdeen. By 
William Cadenhead. Seventh Edition — Thoroughly 
Revised and Enlarged. Aberdeen : Lewis Smith and 
Son, M*Combie's Court. 1893. Pp. ii. -I- 99. 

Cairngorm Club Journal (The). Edited by 
Alexander Inkson M*Connochie. Issued twice a 
year. No. I., July, 1893. Published by the Cairn- 
gorm Club. Agents — Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 
Pp. 56. 

Catholic Directory (The) for the Clergy and Laity 
in Scotland. 1893. ^X authority of the Archbishops 
and Bishops of Scotland. Aberdeen : Printed for the 
Proprietor, by A. King & Co., Printers to the 
University. 1893. ^P* 323. (With illustrations of 
St. Marys Cathedral, Aberdeen, and the Interior of 
Our Lady and St. Margaret's Glasgow, and Portraits 
of the Bishop of Dunkeld, Mgr. Munro, and Mgr. 
Campbell, Rector, Scots College, Rome). 

Chalmers, Andrew.— A Red-Cross Romance. By 
Andrew Chalmers. London : Simpkin, Marshall, 
and Co. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. 
Pp. 102. 

Children's Fresh-Air Fortnight and Ailing Home. 
1892. Report of the Fourth Season's Work, with list 
of office-bearers, subscribers, &c. Aberdeen : Printed 
at the •* Free Press" Office. 1893. Pp. 16. 

Christen, A. — Vade-Mecum of French Pronuncia- 
tion. By A. Christen, Senior French and German 

Master, Gordon's College London 1893. 

Al>erdeen : Printed by W. Jolly & Sons, 23 Bridge 
Street. Pp. viii. -i- 134. 

Cooper, Rev. James, D. D. — The Free Church 
Jubilee. A Sermon preached in the East Church of 
S. Nicholas, Aberdeen, on Sunday, 21st May, 1893, 
being Whitsunday. By the Rev. James Cooper, 
D.D., minister of the East Parbh, Aberdeen. William 



Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London. 
MDCCCXCiii. Pp. 15. 

Cramond, William, M.A., LL.D. — The Annals of 
Banff. Compiled by William Cramond, M. A., LL.D., 
Schoolmaster of Cullen. Volume Second. Al)erdeen : 
Printed for the New Spalding Club, mdcccxciii. 
Pp. xii. + 498, and twelve illustrations at end. 

Deeside Guide (The) : Descriptive and Traditionary. 
Illustrated (by kind permission) from latest photo- 
graphs by Messrs. G. W. Wilson & Co., Limited, 
Aberdeen, and with Tourist's Map, Reduced from 
Ordinance Survey. Al)erdeen : Lewis Smith & Son. 
Edinburgh and Glasgow : John Menzies & Co. Pp. 
115 -h Glossary (i page). (New Edition). 

Diack, W. — The Moral Effects of Socialism. By 
W. Diack. Being a Lecture delivered in Greyfriars 
Hall on the evening of 12th February, 1893, under 
the auspices of the Aberdeen Socialist Society. Price — 
One Penny. Pp. 20. 

Doak, Rev. Andrew, M. A. — Peace Through Battle. 
Criticism of Pronouncements of Drs. Cooper and 
Mitchell on the Disruption. Preached in Trinity 
Free Church on morning of Sunday, May 28, 1893, 
by Rev. Andrew Doak, M. A. Aberdeen : A. & R. 
Milne, 229 and 229A Union Street. 1893. f*P- H- 

Douglas, R. Smeaton. — Freehand Drawing and 
Principles of Construction. Designed and arranged 
by R. Smeaton Douglas, Art Master, Madras College, 
St. Andrews. Aberdeen : Photo-lithographed and 
printed by Thomson & Duncan. 

Duncan, W. O. — Abstract of the Burgh Police 
(Scotland) Act, 1892. By W. O. Duncan, B.A., 
Advocate, in Aberdeen. Aberdeen : Printed by 
James Blair, 15 St. Nicholas Street. 1893. Pp. 15. 

Free Churchism and State Churchism brought to 
the Test of Scripture and Reason with two Corollaries. 
By a Free Church Minister. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie 
and Son. 1893. Pp. 40. 

"Free Press" (The) Fair and Market List for 
1893. Pp. 16. 

[Geddes, Sir William Duguidl. — Defence of the Old 
Crown ; or the case for King's College stated and ex- 
plained. Pp. 34. 

Gilbert, W. Matthews, M.J.I. — Notes on Art and 
Artists in the Al)erdeen Exhibition, 1893. ^X W. 
Matthews Gilbert, M.J.I. Pp.37. (Printed at the 
** Aberdeen Journal " Office). 

Gilcomston Parish Church Fellowship Association 
Magazine. No. II. May, 1893. ^'P* 12. 

Inglis's Tide Table and Nautical Almanac for 1893. 
Containing Daily Tides, Lights, Port Charges for the 
Principal British Ports, and much other valuable in- 
formation for Mariners. Published by Alexander 
Inglis, 398 Great Western Road, Aberdeen. Pp. 195. 

In Memoriam : An Obituary of Aberdeen and 
Vicinity for the Year 1892, with Biographical Notes 
and Portraits of Prominent Citizens. Compiled and 
Published by William Cay & Sons, 432 Union Street 
and 215 George Street, Aberdeen. Pp. 205. 

In Memoriam William Minto. Alma Mater. 
March 4. 1893. (Unpaged). 

Iverach, Professor James. — The Disruption: Its 
Causes and its Consequences : with an appendix on a 
chapter in "The Earl of Aberdeen,** by the Hon. Sir 
Arthur Gordon, G.C.M. [sic\ By James Iverach, 



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M.A., D.D., Professor of Apologetics, Free Church 
College, Aberdeen. Edinburgh : R. W. Hunter, 
and Macniven & Wallace. Glasgow : J. N. 
Mackinlay. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. 

Pp. 38. 

Jamieson, Rev. Georeje, D.D. — Neo-Catholicism in 
the Church of Scotland : A Word for Protestantism as 
affected by "The Scottish Church Society." By the 
Rev. George Jamieson, D.D., minister of Old 
Machar. Aberdeen : John Rae Smith, 1893. Pp. 

49. 
Jubilee of Royal Northern Agricultural Society : 

Fifty Years' Progress. Reprinted from " Banffshire 

Journal" of July 18, 1893. Banff: Published at 

** Banffshire Journal " Office. Pp. 20. 

[King, Arthur.] — Bon-Accord Rhymes and Ballads. 
No. 6. The Beylies of Bon- Accord. A Prayer : In 
Rhyme and in Reason. By a Cynic Cuss. Al>erdeen : 
Printed for and published by George Middleton, 
Baker Street. 1893. Pp. 16. 

Kyd, Thomas. — The Institute of Actuaries. Sa- 
muel Brown Prize Essay on the Enfranchisement of 
leaseholds and the taxation of ground r^nts, chief 
rents, and kindred charges on land in England and 
Wales. By Thomas Kyd, F.I. A., of the Northern 
Assurance Company. Pp. iv. + 6I. 

Life and Death (The) of Jamie Fleeman, the Laird 
ofUdny*s Fool. Illustrated. Fifty-Sixth Thousand, 
Enlarged. Pp. 78. Adventures of Thrummy Cap : 
A Tale in the Broad Scottish Dialect. By John 
Burness. Pp. 15. Aberdeen : Lewis Smith & Son, 
M*Combie's Court. 1893. 

M*Connochie, Alexander Inkson. — Deeside. By 
Alexander Inkson M*Connochie, author of ** Ben 
Muich Dhui and his Neighbours," * * Bennachie, " 
**Lochnagar," &c. Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son. 
1893. Pp. 160. (With Map). 

MacDonald, G. — Scotch Songs and Ballads. By 
George MacDonald, LL.D., author of *' David 
Elginbrod," "Alec. Forbes," &c. Aberdeen: John 
Rae Smith, 57 Union Street. 1893. Pp. iv. + 134. 

Mackenzie, W. A. — Poems by W. A. Mackenzie. 
Aberdeen : J. Johnston & Co. 1893. Pp- S^- 

Mayo, Isabella Fyvie. — The Passing Years. 
Sonnets by Isabella Fyvie Mayo. Aberdeen : D. 
Wyllie & Son. (Fourteen sonnets unpaged). 

Mollyson, C. A. — The Parish of Fordoun : Chapters 
in its History, or Reminiscences of Place and 
Character. By Charles A. Mollyson. Aberdeen : 
John Rae Smith, D. Wyllie & Son. Mncccxciii. 
Pp. xxviii. +341. 

[Murray, Arthur J.] — St. Paul's to the Highlands 
and Back. Aberdeen Steam Navigation Co. London : 
Aberdeen Wharf Limehouse ; Passenger Office : 102 
Queen Victoria Street ; and Aberdeen. Pp. 68. 

[Murray, Rev. Thomas, Midmar.] — A Defence of 
the Declaratory Act of the Free Church of Scotland. 
By a Free Church Minister. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie 
and Son. Edinburgh : R. W. Hunter. Glasgow : 
J. N. Mackinlay. 1893. Pp. 15. 

Newhills Speaker (The). — Printed for the pro- 
prietors and publishers by C. Davidson & Sons, 
Limited, Mugiemoss, Aberdeenshire. (Two numbers 
only issued — 14th and 28lh November, 1893). 

Northern Cricket and Football Annual (The) and 



Athletic Guide and Directory for 1893-94. Directory 
of Sports and Pastimes for 1893-94. Aberdeen : John 
Avery & Co., Limited. 

Philip, J. Bentley. — Syllabus of Elementary Course 
of Botany. By J. Bentley Philip, M.A. Aberdeen: 
James G. Bisset, 85 Broad Street. 1893. Pp. 23. 

Philip, John. — Reminiscences of Gibraltar, Egypt, 
and the Egyptian War, 1882. (From the Ranks). 
By John Philip (Aberdeen City Police), late Sergeant, 
2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. 
Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. Pp. xvi. -h 160. 

Post - Office Aberdeen Directory. 1893 - 94. 
Aberdeen : Printed for the Proprietor by A. King and 
Company, Printers to the University, and sold by the 
Postmen. 1893. Pp. iv. -f 542. 

Railway (The) Benevolent Institution Bazaar, 
Music Hall, Aberdeen, Friday and Saturday, 22nd 
and 23rd December, 1893 — Book of the Bazaar. Pp. 
56. (Contains, inter alia^ "Rambling Reminiscences 
of Railways in the North," by Mr. John S. Stuart ; 
and **An Auld Yule Tide," by Mr William Alexander, 
LL.D.). 

Rectorial Election. — Five Cartoons ; two numbers 
(Nos. 2 and 3) of The Claymore; A Slashing 
Periodical (with a cartoon in each number) ; and a 
broadsheet — "The Fillin* o' The Chair. Ane 
Ballant for the Times." 

Reduced Ordnance Survey Map of Aberdeen, 
Stonehaven, Deeside, Donside, and the Cairngorm 
District, for Tourists and Cyclists. D. Wyllie & Son, 
Publishers, Booksellers, and Stationers, 247 Union 
Street, Aberdeen. Branch — 42 Bridge Street. 

The Religious Condition of the Free Church of 
Scotland in the Exodus and Jubilee Decades, respec- 
tively. Stated and Compared. Specially meant for 
persons not passed middle life. By a Free Church 
Minister. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. Pp. 37. 

Riddell, J. Scott. — Manual of First Aid, being a 
course of ambulance lectures, with directions for the 
management of practical classes, and a series of 
examination papers. By J. Scott Riddell, CM., 
M.B., M.A. With 118 Illustrations by Alexander 
Don, M.A. Aberdeen : Taylor & Henderson, 17 
Adelphi. 1893. Pp. xii. -f 195. 

Robbie, William. — Aberdeen: Its Traditions and 
History, with notices of some eminent Aberdonians. 
By William Robbie, author of "The Heir of Glen- 
dornie," &c. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. 
Pp. xii. +517. (With Illustrations and Paterson's 
Plan of 1746). 

Robertson, A. W. — Hand-List of Bibliography of 
the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine. By 
A. W. Robertson, M.A. Aberdeen : Printed for the 
New Spalding Club. 1893. Pp. 133. 

[Robertson, Rev. D., Free Church, Inveraven.] — 
Memoir of the late Jane Stuart Mitchell, of Al)erdeen. 
Containing some account of her labours of love lor 
Glenlivet, her birth place. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie 
and Son. 1893. Pp. 32. 

Robertson, Joseph, LL.D. — Scottish Abbeys and 
Cathedrals. By Joseph Robertson, LL.D. With 
Biographical Memoir of the Author. Popular 
Edition. Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. 
Pp. xl. + no. 

S. Mary's Chapel, the " Lower Church" of S. Ni- 



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[April, 1894. 



cholas, Aberdeen, Statement and Ap{)eal for its Re- 
paration and Adornment. Issued by the Restoration ' 
Committee. Al)erdccn : 1893. Pp. il. ■ 

Scottish Educational Vear-I5<x)k and Diar^ (The) ; 
for 1894. For the use of meml>ers and ofticials of 
School Boards, teachers, and others. Publisheti at 
the Free Press Office, Alxirdeen. I*p. 165. ; 

Scottish Notes and (Queries. Vol. VI. June, 1892, 
to May, 1893. Alwrdeen : D. Wyllie & Son, 247 
Union Street, 1893. Pp. xiv. + 192. 

Secondary Education (Scotland). Burgh Commit- 
tee of Al)erdeen. Summary of Answers to Queries as 
to the provision for secondary education in this City of 
Al)erdeen. i8th March, 1893. Pp. 30. 

Stark, James. — I)r Kidd of Alxjrdeen : a Picture of 
Religious Life in By-Cione IXiys. By James Stark, 
Minister in Alxirdeen, Author of **John Murker", 
** Life's Stages", etc. Second Edition. Al)erdeen : 
D. Wyllie & Son. 1893. Pp. xiv. + 313. (Three 
new chapters added—*' The Ami- Patronage Battle ", 
'*The Gilc(miston Pastor from Home", and '* More 
Kiddiana ". This edition is dedicated to Sir Wdliam 
Henderson, of Devanha House). 

Temple, Rev. William. — The Thanage of Fermar- 
tyn, including the district commonly called Formartine, 
its proprietors, with genealogical deductions ; its pa- 
rishes, ministers, churches, churchyards, antiquities, 
&c. By Rev. William Temple, M.A., F.S.A. Scot,, 
of S. Margaret's, Forgue. Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & 
Son. 1894. Pp, xvi. + 710. 

Thomson, W. Stewart. — Civil Service Arithmetic 
for Preliminary and Competitive Examinations. By 
W. Stewart Thomson, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. 
Aberdeen : The University Press. 

Do. do. — Guide to Scottish Law Examinations 
(Preliminary and General Knowledge) with over twenty 
sets of papers and answers. By W. Stewart Thomson, 
M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Author of "Civil Service 
Arithmetic ", &c. Aberdeen : The University Press. 

Do. do. — Practical Guide to English Composition 
and Essay Writing. By W. Stewart Thomson, &c. 
Third Edition — Revised and Enlarged. Aberdeen : 
Lewis Smith & Son. 

Do, do. — The Public Examination Spelling Key. 
By W. Stewart Thomson, &c. Aberdeen : I^ewis 
Smith & Son. 

Troup, A. J. M. — " Fontythan" and Other Poems. 
By Alex. J. M. Troup, Journalist, Ythan Wells, 
Insch, Aberdeenshire. Printed at the Aberdeen 
Journal Office. 1893. Pp* H^. 

University of A!)erdeen. Department of Agricul- 
ture. Proceedings for 1892-93. Pp. 44, with Map. 

University of Aberdeen (The) Local Examinations 
Calendar for 1893-94. Containing Regulations and 
Subjects for 1894-95. Papers and Lists for 1893. 
Higher Certificate for Women. Printed for the Uni- 
versity at the University Press, and published by D. 
Wyllie & Son, Aberdeen. 1893. Pp.105. 

Upper Deeside Agricultural Association. Jubilee 
Year, 1893. Sketch of Origin and Progress of Asso- 
ciation. Printed at the Aberdeen Journal Office, 
1893. Pp. 23. 

[Walker, Alexander]. —The Commonty of Perwin- 
nes, called also Scotstown Moor : an Inheritance still 



worth caring for. Aberdeen Journal Office, 1893. 

IV- 33- 
[Do. do.] — Thoughts on Theine: being remarks on 

the growing, curing, selling, and drinking of tea. 

Aberdeen Journal 0%.z^i^ 1 893. Pp, 21. 

Walker, James Dingwall. — Scottish Antiquities and 

other occasional papers. By James Dingwall Walker. 

Al)erdeen : The University Press. 1893. Pp. [8] 

+ 127. 

Of works by Al)erdeen authors and works relating 
to Al>erdeen, published outside Aberdeen, the follow- 
ing are the pnncipal : — " The Church in the Roman 
Empire l)efore A.D. 170," by Professor W. M. 
Ramsay (Hmlder & Stoughton) ; "Logic Inductive 
and Deductive," by the late Professor Minto — one of 
the volumes of the University Extension Manuals 
(John Murray) ; ** Plain Principles of Prose Com- 
position," also by Professor Minto (William Black- 
wood & Sons) ; "People of F'inland in Archaic Times : 
Being Sketches of them given in Kalevala, and in 
other national works," by Dr. J. C. Brown, formerly 
minister of Belmont Street U.P. Church, Aberdeen 
(Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner, & Co.); a new edition 
of '* Hinduism and its Relation to Christianity," by 
Rev. Dr. Robson (Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier) ; 
"Three Churchmen," by Rev. Dr. Walker, of Mony- 
musk, embracing a Sketch and Reminiscence^ of the 
late Professor Grub (R. Grant & Son); "Jeremiah," 
the Seatonian Prize Poem for 1892, by Rev. G. W, 
Rowntree, Rector of St. Paul's, Aberdeen (Deighton, 
Bell, & Co., Cambridge); "The Scottish Church 
Society : Some Account of Its Aims," by the late 
Prof. Milligan(J. Gardner Hitt, Edinburgh) ; "Ideals 
of Life Taken from Literature and Other Sermons," 
by Rev. Joseph Vickery (James Clarke & Co.); 
" Balmoral : A Romance of the Queen's Country," a 
novel by Mr. Alexander Allardyce (William Black- 
wood & Sons) ; " Convivial Caledonia : Inns and 
Taverns of Scotland and some famous people who 
have fre(juented them," by Mr. Robert Kempt — ^a re- 
production (largely re-written and with considerable 
additions) of a scries of articles that appeared in the 
Weekly Free Press (Chapman & Hall, Ld.); **The 
Kidnappers: A Tale of Last Century," by Mr. George 
C. Green — a story dealing with the kidnapping 
practised in Aberdeen, originally contributed to the 
Weekly Free Press (Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier) ; 
a new issue of "The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland," 
edited by Mr. Francis H. Groome — articles on Aber- 
deen, Aberdeenshire, &c. (William Mackenzie) ; " Es- 
carlamonde and other poems," by Douglas Ainslie ; 
" After Fifty Years, or Letters of a Grand&ther on 
occasion of the Jubilee of the Free Church of Scotland 
in 1843," by W. G. Blaikie, D.D. ; " Practical Ar- 
ithmetic Exercises for Senior Pupils," [by James 
Campbell]; "The Making of a Banffshire Burgh : 
an account of the early history of Macduff,'* by W. 
CramondjLL.D. ; "Via Nova : anew Latin Reader," 
by W. T. Fyfe; "The Earl of Aberdeen," by the 
Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon ; " A. Mackay, Ruthquist, 
or Singing the Ciospel among Hindus and Gonds," 
by the Author of " A. M. Mackay, pioneer mission- 
ary " ; ** The Poetical Works of George MacDonald," 
2 vols. ; " Discussions on the Apocalypse," by 



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William Milligan, D.D. ; " Bank Manflgement," by 
Robert Murray, north of ScoUami Bank, Limited, 
Uundse ; a pninphlel on "The Consumption of 
Water in Towns and Villages," read by Mr. John D. 
Wolson, C.E., County Engineer, Aberdeen, read at 
the annunl Congress of the Sanitary Association of 
Scotland, and afterwards published in the Saitilary 
JouiHal (A. Macdougsll) ; " t'iefa of the Spear ; or 
Gleanings from a Soldier's Life " — a brochure of 24 

Eages, by Mr. William Walker Reid ; " George 
room Robertson," by Eoieritos Professor Bain, off- 
printed from Mind: and "Hyaline D^eneralion of 
the Spinal Cotd," by William Bulloch, M.B,, CM., 
Aberdeen, off-printed from Brain. 

Robert Anderson. 

P.S. —The difficulty of making this annual list com- 
plete and exact — even with the kind assistance of Mr 
.4.. W. Kuliertson, the Librarian at the Public Library 
—is very considerable. Authors, editors, coropilers, 
and publishers would greatly facilitate the work of 
local bibUif^phy by arranging that a copy ol their 
respective works be sent to the Public Library. It 
is, besides, desirable that, as regards local publica- 
tions, that Institution should be as well served as Sta- 
tioners' Hall or the British Museum. 

R. A. 



ARCHIRALD CAMPBELL,' gih EARL OF 

ARGYLE. 
In the Edinburgh Town Council of 6th March, 
1894, Bailie Dunlop announced that during the 
week several interesting historical documents 
had been discovered in the Municipal Buildings, 
the most important of which was the original 
death-warrant of the Earl of Argyle, who suffered 
by the Maiden at the Market Cross in the year 
1685. It was a most interesting and most 
valuable document, and he hoped the seartJiers 
woultl yet discover also the warrants for the 
execution of the Earl of Morton, the Marquis of 
Montiose, and the Marquis of Argyle. He had 
not the very slightest doubt of the authenticity 
of the document, which was in the following 

Copy Watrand for eneculing the Earle of 
At^le, dated igih June 1685. 
For as meikic as Archibald Cam) bell late Earle of 



A memorandum left by Argyle for his 
jng the remarkable dying utterances of ri 



We parted suddenly, but 1 hope shall 
meele hapily in heaven. I pray God bless you, and 
if you seeke him he will he found of you. 

My wilTe »ill say all to you, pray love and respect 
her. I am your loving father ArC!YI.e. 

I'or Mr lohne Campbell." 
— Fm ibniUs of Historical Manuscrifti, iii. No. 104. 



Argyle has hecn found guilly of the crynie of treason 
is by Warrand of the Lords of His Majesty's Privie 
Councill, founded on a letter Iroui his Sacred Majestie, 
adjudged by us to be taken to the Maicat Croce <^ 
Edinburgh on the thretieth day of this instant moneth 
of June Sixteen hundred and eightie lyve years and 
ther betwixt two and fyve o'cloke in the afternoon to 
be beheadit and there after his head to be afBit on 
the Tolbuth of Edinburgh on an high piece of iron 
THESE THEREFORE Requyre and command the 
Mngistrats of Edinr. to see the said senlaunce and 
dacree putt to dewe execution in all pnynls as they 
will be answerable AND FOR that end to recenve 
the person of the saiii Archiliald Campbell late Earle 
of Aigyle at the Castle Gate of Edinr. Che said thretlie 
day of June at twelve o'cloke preceislie from which 
they are to carry him <ioon to the Laigh Toun Councill 
House of Edior. with a strong guoird wher they are to 
keep him till the ordinary tyme of execudon AND 
FOR the doeing of all which Ihir pmtls are to them 
ane sufficient Warrand GIVEN at Edinburgh the 
twenty-ninth day of June Siiiteen hundred and eightie 
fyve years. 

(Signed) LiNl.lTHCow. 

( ,, j J. A. FotlLls. 

( ,, ) Geo. Lockhart. 

( ,, ) David Balfoijk. 

( „ ) KooER Hog. 

( ,, ) A. Seton. 

( ,, } P. LVON. 

This document, the Bailie said, settled one 
point which had been very much canvassed of 
late — whether the Duke of Argyle was brought 
down from the Castle to Gourlay's House, in 
Mauchan's Close, three days prior to his execu- 
tion. It had entirely disposed of that tradition. 

Such of your readers who are not acquainted 
with the history of the trial, sentence, and execu- 
tion of the above Earl of Argyle, are referred to 
Chambers's Domtstic History of Scotland, Vol. 
II., pp. 354-469 ; Omond's Lord Advocates of 
Scotland, Vol. I., pp. 217 ; Burton's History of 
Scotland, Vol. VII., pp. 243, 244, 259, 261. 

William Thomson, 



Old Ships' Logs (VIL, rsO.—On seeing 
the account that Mr A. W. Macphail was pro- 
posing to present some volumes of Logs he had 
purchased to the British Museum, and knowing 
that all the Logs of the Royal Navy are kept at 
Her Majesty's Record Office, Fetter Lane, I 
drew the attention of E. Salisbury, Esq., of that 
office, to the statement. He kindly looked into 
the matter, and informed me that the Captain's 
Logs are all there, and that The Adamant, 
Captain David Knox, left Hheemess June ist, 
1789, and arrived at Halifax July 3i5t, 1789. 
Also that there were three official Lo^s kept, 
and that it was usual for the various officers to 
keep private Logs, and that these volumes must 
be one of the pnvaie Logs. Henkv A. Rve, 



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SCOTTJSir NOTES AND QUEHIES. 



fAPRIL, 1894. 



Death of Mr John M. Gray, Edinburgh. 
— It is with sincere rcRret that we record the 
death of Mr John M, Gray, the Curator of the 
Scottish National Portmit Gallery, Edinburgh, 
on the 22nd ult. A strong love of art, and a 
particularly patient and inlelligent student of 
portraiture during the past twelve or fifietn 
years, led to his being recognised as an autho- 
rity on this subject, and pointed him as /iKile 
primeps the very man for the important position 
he held. As an author, critic, and lecturer on 
Scottish portraiture and kindred subjects, Mr 
Cray is very favourably known, and it will not 
be an easy task lo fill the niche he has so 
successfully occupied. Full of enthusiasm and 
information, Mr Gray was ever ready to com- 
municate his wide and varied knowledge, — En. 
University Library, Aberdeen (VH., 
153).— The Note on the University Library 
which appeared in S. JV.&'Q. for March, might 
be supplemented by the following ' 
formation ;— 
C. In future the Libmry Commitlef wilt meet monthly 

lo consider recommendalions of buoki. 
a. The Annual rns|>eclion wiU be held in Ihe end of 

Seplenilier, instead of in April. 

3. The Ca/eiiJar viiU contain a list of all books added 

during the preceding year. 

4. Classes of books that will always be welcomed as 

(a) Books dealing with Scottish topics, espe- 
cially books iKnring on, or printed in, the 
North -Eastern Counlies. 

(6) Books written or edileJ by giaduales or 
alumni of Aberdeen. 

(c) Books relaling lo Universities or learned 
societies at home or abroad. 

P. J. Anderson. 
RoBROYSTON SuNDiAL.— A quaint and pic- 
turesque relic of historic times, not generally 
known or visited by the pubhc, is the curious 
sundial atthe front of Robroyston House, an old 
familymansion, situated about three miles north- 
east of Glasgow. The sundial is about four feet 
high, and octagonal in form. The eight sides 
are marked with figures and lines, varying in 
each as the rules of dialling required. It has 
this advantage over sundials of the usual form, 
that the local time rould be noted not only on 
the flat top but on three of its sides as well. 



Thelat 



t of Robroyston farm, when dig- 
e ago round the base, observed 
[016 carved out on the stone at the 
s was probably the date of its 
iundials of this design became 
obsolete about the twelfth century. The date 
was, apparently, recut in the year 1679, which is 
carved on theupperfaceofthe dial in bold figures. 
This dial is represented in our Illustration. 
Glasgow. John Muir. 



the figures ii 
first e 



XUerature. 

Scft/ish Ijind-Namti, their Origin and Mean- 
ing. By Sir Herbert Maxwell, Ban., 
M.P., Rhtnd Lecturer in 1893, Author of 
Studies in the Topography of Galloway, &c, 
\Vm. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1894. 
[Cr. 8vo, 3ig pp.] 
This interesting volume consists of six Rhind 
Lectures, and is a scholarly effort to rescue the 
subject from the empirical treatment it has but 
too often received and to which it must be said 
it temptingly lends itself. A knoivledge of the 
true meaning of place-names invests the whole 
subject of nomenclature with a living and per- 
manent interest, for, according to the author, 
" Every place-name means something." One 
of the chiefdifficulties of the study is the absence 
of any very early Scottish literature, which, as 
in the case of Ireland, would have gone very far 
to arrest, if not to stratify quite, the first and 
most correct forms of the names apphed, applied 
never arbitrarily but as a " business-like defini- 
tion, derived from some peculiarity or leading 
feature." Sir Herbert divides the subject into 
three sections— General Principles, The Lan- 
guages of Scottish Place-Names, and The Les- 
son of Place-Names. These are followed by a 
copious Index of place-names referred to in the 
text. It is difficult lo say which of all these 
phases of the subject is the most attractive. In 
Ihe learned and judicious author's hands each is 
instinct with large knowledge and high intelli- 
gence, and with a commendable caution, begot- 
ten of a frank admission of the difficulties of the 
research and a keen sense of the mischief done 
by mere word-mongers. It is needless to say 
that something more is needed for a right inter- 
pretation of Scottish Place-names than the pos- 
session of a Gaelic Dictionary, and a turn for 
happy guessing ; and it is also needless to say, 
that the desired haven of a reliable signification 
of the place-names of any country whatever, can 
only be reached by the scientific steering of such 
pilots as the author of this most useful book. 
Sir Herbert's lectures are suggestive, and bring 
us within a measureable distance of a complete 
vocabulary of Scottish Place-names, a boon to 
all who possess any modicum of interest in this 
iubject. Ed. 

History of the Arbroath Public Library from 
rigy to rSg^. By J. M. McBaen, F.S.A. Scot 
Arbroath : Brodie & Salmond [1894]. 
This timely pamphlet of 46 pages contains a 
simple narrative, conceived to be a more likely 
stimulus to the adoption of the Free Public 
Libraries Act than any abstract argument would 
likely be. It can hardly be said to be pleasant 



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reading, for although the institution is nearly 
\oa years aid, it has often had its foot in the 
grave. Many interesting details in its career 
are given, but we should have liked a statement 
as to the numher and character of the books 00 
its shelves, and which would be handed over to 
the community, should the Act be adopted. 

Eu. 
Folklore 0/ Scottish Lochs and Springs. JAMES 
M. Mackinlav, M.A., F.S.A. Scot. William 
Hodge & Co., Glasgow, 1893. [365 pp. 8vo.] 
Mr. Hope quite recently gave us The Holy 
Wells : Tkeir legends and Superstitions. We 
now have a volume on the cult, as relative to 
Scotland. Among primitive races we find that 
wells, streams, and lakes, are frequently re- 
garded as possessed with some supernatural 
power, to which offerings may be made. In 
Scotland quite recently, about i860, we learn 
that a loch in the Gairloch district was un- 
successfully dredged to rid it of a water-kelpie. 
While as a proof that civilization does not 
always crush out superstition, the river Ganges 
is still a sacred river to the Hindu of to-day. 
The wells of Scotland were mostly visited for 
their supposed power of imparting strength to 
the weak. Occasionally our author carries the 
reader to famous wells in England, Ireland, and 
Isle of Man, while he might have been better 
employed in giving us more details of a few of 
our Scottish wells. Turning to page 62, St. 
Catherine's Balm-well, a well which is still 
visited by the curious, we find dismissed with a 
notice consisting of two lines. We at least 
expected to find the origin of this once famous 
well stated. The volume contains much curious 
and valuable information ; it is a perfect mine of 
research. The copious index appended to the 
work is sufficient proof of the author's industry. 
This index and list of reference books will 
prove of great utility to students of the cult. 



The Haunted Tower, St Andrews. — 
The Si Andrews Citizen of 24th February con- 
tains an interesting article by Mr A. Hutcheson, 
Architect, Droughty- Ferry, on the Haunted 
Tower, Ht Andrews. The tower dates from the 
16th century, and on an exploration in i368 was 
found to contain several embalmed bodies in 
coffins. Mr Hutchison believes these remains 
to be much older than the tower, but offers a 
very reasonable explanation of this circumstance. 
He thinks "that these bodies were those of 
saints preserved in the Cathedral of St Andrews, 
and possibly in other ecclesiastical edifices in 
the city, which relics were hurriedly and secretly 
removed to this tower, as at once the nearest 
and safest repository, when the sack of the 
churches took place in i559." 



from his window the prompt assault by his wife o 
what I may call hi.s man-servant, exclaimed, keeping 
lime with his tune — 

" O Jenny ilang, Jenny dang, Jenny dang the weaver.' 
On referring to Roger's Modtm ScoHisk Minslrilsy, 
Vol. II., p, 210, it IS staled that the origin of the air 
was hy the Rev. Mr Gardner. Some of your corres- 
pondenls versed in ballad poetry will he able to say 
if this is intended for the same individual, and which 

865. Name of Author Wanted. — I will be very 
pleased if any of your numerous readers will inform 
me who is the author of the old Scottish ballad Christ's 
Kirk on the Green. 

Wail ne'er in Scotland heard nor seen 

Sic dancin' nor deray, 
Neither at Falkland on the Green, 
Oi Peebles at the play. 
Peebles. Chambers' Institutb. 

S66. TUR "TRAdRDY OK DOUIILAS." — I Will 1* 

obliged i( some of your correspond ems will inform me 
when and where this tragedy — hy the Rev. John 
Hume, sometime Minister of AthelslBnett^d— was first 
performed, with the names of the pcrfoimets. 
AthelsLaneford. P. F. 

867. The Church OF St Giles, Edinbhhgh.— 
Will you permit me, IhrQugh Ihemediumof i'.A'.&'Q.. 
10 enquire what conslitules a church with the title of 
"Cathedral"? I observe, from an advertisement in 
the ScBlsman cimnecled with the alwve church, that 
it isslyled " Cathedral.'" Are there any other churches 
connected with the Established Church in Scotland 
styled Cathedrals? Why is the Town Church here, 
as well as, say, St Nicholas Church in Aberdeen, not 
styled Cathedrals? 

St Andrews. W. C. 

868. Society of Ancient Scots.— Perhaps, if 
such a society really existed, some reader of S./f. Sj'Q. 
may he oble to tell what weie itsobjecls, constilulion, 
&C. I have, among my books, " Lives of Eminent 
Scotsmen (Pi.eL«) by the Society of Ancient Scots, re- 
established A.D. 1770"; 3 vols., lamo, London, 
1821. The " Lives" are well written, and the criti- 
cisms, on ihe whole, seem to be just and appreciative. 
Each article bears the initials of its writer. The little 
volumes are nicely printed, and the book was pub- 
lished 1^ T. Boys, Lndgale Hill. 

Wiesbaden, Germany. JOH-v Mackay. 

869. Frenches of Aberdbbn. — Full information 
is desired about this fiimily, to which reference is made 
hy The Daily Free Press as follows :— " They were 
represented lineally in ihiee successive generations by 
George French, lilster, " master of the woollen ma- 
nufactory," and son-in-law of Provost Fordyce ; John 
French, advocate, procurator- fiscal, and son-in-law of 



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the first Principal Blackwetl ; and George French, 
lecluret on cheniislry in Mnrischal Cotle);e. Whether 
these Frenches were descended from the masons, 
bridee-buitders, and landholders who came fnnn the 
south b ihe fifteenth century is a problem for the in- 
genuity and industry of our local aniiquatians and 
genealc^sts. W. D. 

870. Dallas Family.— I am anxious to find ihe 
ancestry of Lachlan Dallas of Inverness. He was 
bom in 1697, maiiied 17ZI, and died 1752. It is 
almost certain that his father was John Dallas in Gal- 
cantriy, who died, in May, 1719, |py his »ife, Bessie 
Dailas, who was relict and executrix in iTil. He is 
said to have been descended from a son of Dallas of 
Cantray, settled tm the farm of Little Canlray alxiut 
the year 1670 ; but it is thought not improbable that 1 
be may have lieen grandson of John Dallas, whose 
father, William Dallas of Cantray, purchased the lands | 
of Little Conclachan to himself, and his]<<£0nt/son, | 
John, heritably. I should be greatly obliged by any . 
information. A. Caliier. 

871. Aberdeen Directory.— In what year was 
the Aberdeen Directory published for the first lime ? 1 
I cannot find it either in Mr J. Malcolm Bulloch's 
Bibliography in 5-. N. &- Q., Vol. I., or in Mr A. W. 
Robertson's Handlist of Bihliography, recently pub- 
lished. C. U. I 

872. The New Arrankement of Parishes in : 
connection with the cotjntv council act.— 
In some counties of Scotland considerable changes 
have been made in the arrancement of parishes at- 
tached to particular counties. Thus Culross and Tul- 
liallan Parishes have been transferred from Perth lo ' 
Fife. Can any reaiter of S. N. &>• Q. give a fiill 
account of the character and amount of such changes? 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 1 

873. DlSPLENISH.— I have been unable to discover 
this word in any dictionary, although the usefulness \ 
and propriety with which I have observed it employed j 
in Scotland are considerable. The laie Dr 0|jilvie 
must have been intimately acquainted with it, and as 
there is no better eynonym, while its ilerivalion is 
equally authoritative with that of the common word ' 
" replenish ", I have always felt surprised that he 
omitted it from the Imperial Dictionary. Is the area . 
of its usage restricted lo the North-eastern counties, 1 
or is it general throughout Scotland ? '. 

K. J. 

874. Designed. — What is the origin of this Scot- 1 
ticism ? The English equivalent is " designated" , 
and I have thoueht that the Scottidsm may have ori- 
ginated in a habit of contracting the larger wonl in , 
manuscript in byepast centuries; but the persistency 
with which it is perjietuated in modern legal docu- 
ments and process, and even in the public journals of 
Scotland, would seem to indicatean assumed propriety 
of usage founded uixin a classic derivation. The nu- 
merous English Dictionaries at my command yive no 
information on Ihe subject. 

In writing this query two other words, identical in | 
proper terminal form, have been employed. Had I 
written " origined" and " ferpeltied" every Scot , 
would have said, How ridiculous ! And surely it is | 



equally ridiculous to write "lAii^Mf^" when " dtiig- 
noted" is meant. At all events let Scottish Lawyers, 
Messengers at Arms and Sherifli' Officers retain a 
monopoly of Ihe absurdity in the Conveyances, Pro- 
cesses and Warrants, which are seldom seen beyond 
the Border ; but let us not employ it in journals, 
periodicals, and books which circulate whereicr the 
English language is read. K. J, 

875 FoRBESOF Knapbrnay. — According toLums- 
den 5 " Family of Forbes." John Forbes, (younger 
brother of Sir Samuel Forbes, Bart., of Foveran), 
married Margaret Crawford, and purchased the lands 
of Knapernay. In the Edinburgh (City) Register of 
Births, under date 33rd November, 170S, the follow- 
ing entry appears :— 

"John Forbes of Knaperlie (? Knapernay) and 
Margaret Crawford his spouse, A. S. N. David ; 
W. David, Earl of Glasgow ; William, Lord Forbes; 
Sir David Forbes, Advocate ; Sir James Elphinsttme 
of Logie." 

Can any of your readers inform me what became of 
David Forbes, and lo what (amity his mother, Mar- 
garet Crawford, belonged ? 

" Spernit Humum." 

876. John Forbes, Advocate, of NewhatI ; An- 
NABELLA Bruce, of Fowfoulis. —The following infor- 
nmlion would oblige : — Date of John Forbes's marriage 
with Annabel la Bruce, d. of James Bruce of Powfoulia, 
and issue. Date of his death and place of intermenL 
Date when Newhall passed out of tlie family. 

"SrEBNiT Humum." 

877. iNfiLls OK Cramond. — Can any reader infOTin 
me if David Inglis of Auchindinny, near Penicuik, 
was related lo Sir James Inglis of Cramond (d. 16M). 

878. Rev. William Forbes of Fordoun,— 
Wm. Forbes was minister of the Parish of Fordoun, 
Kincardineshire, fiom 1747 to 1771 (Scott's Fasti). 
I should like to know to which branch of the Forbes 
family he belonged, and would be indebted to any 
reader who could give his pedigree. 

879. Inscription at Cbaiomiller Castle. — 
Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the 
Inscription or Coal of Arms over the main entrance 
to Craigmillar Castle ? 

Edinburgh. T. G. Sutherland. 

88a. Lead-Work.— H.1S anyone turned his atten- 
tion to ihe ornamental or architectural use of Lead in 
Scotland ? It was a frequent covering for a church 
spire, or it budded oul in a finial for the turret. Beau- 
tifiilly designed and figureil troughs were in the inner 
court of the castle, and square spouts, with expanded 
tops, came down the walls. Colossal lions, griffins, 
and winged cupids decorated the garden fountains. 
An Apollo was probably the centre point of the par- 
terre, and an Orpheus invited to the garden bower. 
Are any remains of these to be now found, when other 
forms and material for decoration are pressing so hard 
upon the simple honest lead? The old lead was not 
an attenuated rolled sheel, bul a good solid castiog, 
which required no little skill lo hang on a ilantiDg 



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17s 



roof, with allowance for expansion ahd shrinkage. 
Modern lead is soon covered with a dark tatnish, but 
the old lead put out a white or greyish platina, which 
gave it a beautiful freshness, and was never affected 
by the atmosphere. Can any account be given of 
either the mediseval or the later application of this 
material to Scotch decoration, building, covering or 
statuary ? Is anything known of the use and form of 
the lead covering that was taken from S. Machar's 
Cathedral, and lost when the ship foundered off the 
Girdleness ? Was the spire of the East Church that 
was burned, covered with wood or lead ? A showy 
bronze figure is often but lead covered with paint and 
some filings : are these ever met with in Scotland ? 

James Gammack, LL.D. 
Plymouth, Conn. 

answers* 



725. Godfathers and Godmothers (VI., io8, 
127). — Evidently in the time of Knox it was the 
practice of the Presbyterian clergy to require the pre- 
sence of such persons at the administration of baptism. 
Thus Ninion Winzet, in his *' Four Score Three Ques- 
tions ^^"^ published in 1563, puts to Knox and his fol- 
lowers the following questions : — '* And quhy baptize 
ze in the Kirk, and in ony prophane basin, and nocht 
in the plane feildis, and in the reuar or fluid, as did 
St John the Baptist, Philip, and the rest of the 
Apostolis ? Quhy haif ze godfatheris and godmotheris, 
sen the haill congregatioun thair praesent may be 
witness ? Quhy held ze godmotheris in the beginning, 
and now repellis the samin ? " Does this last question 
imply that thus early after the Reformation the mi- 
nisters of the Church of Scotland were discouraging 
the presence of godmothers at baptism? 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

777-811. Rev. Wm. Smith, D.D. (I., 137 ; VII., 
14, 76, 141).— Dr Smith did not in all probability 
study at King's but at Marischal, and in so far I con- 
fess an erratum. His name is not among the Gra- 
duates at King's in 1747, and when he received his 
D.D. there in 1759 the diploma is full of eulogy, but 
does not claim him as a graduate. The diploma from 
Oxford, the same year, calls him '*ex Academia 
Al)erdonensi in Artibus Magistrum," and the letter 
commending him to Oxford for the degree designates 
him " M.A. of the University of Aberdeen." We 
shall probably see his name among the graduates in 
Mr Anderson's next volume on Marischal College : is 
it possible to find any trace of the persons who recom- 
mended him to King's College for the D. D. degree ? 

James Gammack, LL.D. 

Plymouth, Conn. 

843. Dalmahoy of that Ilk (VII., 158). — 
William Dalmahoy of Ravelrig, Officer in the Scots 
Horse Guards, who married Helen Marten, had a son 
William, but he was not the only son. There was a 
son James, born 1682, another, yi?^^, born 1686, and 
another, Archibald, born 1689. These, however, 
probably predeceased their father, and therefore 
William II. might be called ^'' the only son of Helen 
Marten" properly **the only surviving son." 

Edinburgh. DALMAHOY4 



8604 Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen (VII., 
J 58). — I noted the two issues of part of Kennedy's 
Annals, when editing the vo'ume of Charters relating 
to the Burgh of Aberdeen (p. 3, foot). Both issues 
are found on small paper. Internal evidence proves 
that the issue in which Chap. I. begins, ** Aberdeen, 
the capital of the county' , and Chap; II. begins, 
"After the demise of Alexander III.", is prior to 
that in which the beginnings run, ** In the northern 
regions of Britain", and *' In tracing the rise and 
progress. " 

There can he little doubt that the early copies of 
sheets B, C, D, E, F, were cancelled on account of 
the gross blunders with which in them the renderings 
of the Burgh Charters are disfigured. Not only are 
the Domesday types, then for the first time set up by an 
Aberdeen printer, again and again used wrongly (e.g. 

p for p and vice versa : t for t and vice versa) ; but 
the text is full of misreadings (e.g. ' inter' for * fuerit'j 
'extraus' for * extraneus', * Henrico' for *Herveo', 
* Pelgonerii' for ' Pelgoueni'), and grammatical errors 
(e.g. * quietes' for * quietos*, ' communitate' for *com- 
munitati', 'tellarum' for * tellariis*, etc.) All such 
slips are corrected in the second issue. In one place, 
in order to justify his misreading of *M' for * DD', 
Kennedy falsifies history by speaking of William the 
Lion's grandfather Malcolm. In the second issue 
this becomes David. 

It seems probable that, after the early sheets had 
been printed off, some friend intervened to save Ken- 
nedy from the criticism which his careless editing 
invited ; and induced him to reprint the faulty por- 
tion. It is curious to note, that in the revised edition 
he speaks throughout with an air of much greater con- 
fidence than before. Many changes such as the fol- 
lowing may be observed : — 

First ed. Second ed. 

** Aberdeen was pro- " Aberdeen, being a 
bably among the earliest trading town, was cer- 
of the boroughs found en- lainly among the earliest 
titled to any royal mark of the King's lx)roughs 
of distinction. " found entitled to any pre- 

eminent mark of distinc- 
tion from the crown." 
"Both these charters, "These two charters, 

dated at Aberdeen, 28th which bear date at Aber- 
August, are pretty much deen, the 28th of August, 
of the same tenor." are of the same tenor." 

"That this was the "Such undoubtedly was 
local situation of the town the local situation of Ab- 
in ancient times is con- erdeen." 
firmed by many," etc. 

P. J. Anderson. 

849. Rev. Patrick Dunbreck (VII., 157). — 
Is your correspondent right in saying of this gentle- 
man that he was a minister of one of the Aberdeen 
churches until 17 16? Certainly Dr Hew Scott's 
Fasti knows nothing of him. As far as I can see no 
minister of the name of Dunbreck has ever occupied 
any parish in the Synod of Aberdeen, Angus and the 
Mearns, or those of Argyll, Glenelg, Moray, Ross, 
Sutherland and Caithness and Orkney and Shetland. 
I havfi looked over Dr Scott's index of names of the 



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ininisters who have occupied charges in these Synods 
since the Reformation, and the name of Dunbreck 
does not once appear there. 

Dollar. W. B. R. W. 

856. George Ure of Shirgarton (VII., 158). 
— Shirgarton, the estate of James (not George) Ure, 
was partly in Perthshire, partly in Stirlingshire — in 
the parish of Kippen. The larger part of the old 
barony was included in the Stewartry of Menteith. 
By recent changes of boundaries, the whole estate is 
now in Perthshire. 

Thornhill, Stirling. G. W. 

863. Burns's Birthday (VII., 138). — The cor- 
respondent who writes under this heading in last issue 
will get exhaustive information on the subject in Pais- 
ley Burfis' Clubs J by Mr Robert Brown, F.S.A. Scot., 
published last year. 

Galston. John Muir. 

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♦>♦ 

LITERARY NOTES. 

The Edinburgh Pen and Pencil Club propose 
to place memorial tablets on the notable houses 
connected with literary and artistic Edinburgh, 
of the past. 

A new edition of that important work, the 
County Directory of Scotland, will be issued 
immediately ; the last sheets of the book being 
now in the press. 

The last issue of " The Scottish Law Review'* 
contains an article on " The Collier a Century 
Ago," by R. B. 

Two Glasgow literary men are candidates for 
the Chair of English Literature in Aberdeen 
University, Dr James Colville, and Mr Eyre- 
Todd. 

The autograph manuscript of Sir W. Scott's 
** Life of Napoleon Buonaparte," is to be sold at 
Messrs Sotheby's this month. 

♦>• 

Errata.— P. 147 ,>r "Carders" read "Conders." 



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Vol. VII.] No. 12. 



MAY, 1894. 



Registered. {P«;;^|J^-3j^j^ 



CONTENTS. 

Notes : — Page 

The Heirs of the Keiths 177 

Taxt Roll of the County of Aberdeen, 1554. . . .^ 178 

Aberdeenshire as a Factor in Scottish Life and 

Thought, 180 

Diary of John Row, Principal of King's College, 183 

Literature of the Robertson Smith Case 184 

Effigy of a Knight at Lochalsh 186 

Bums' Original Frospectus 186 

Minor Notes : — 

Old Mortality's Grave 187 

Rare Urn Found near Kirkcudbright 187 

Sale of Rare Scotch Books 188 

Mr. Robertson's Bibliography and Dr. James Taylor, 188 

Folk-lore of Scottish Lochs and Springs 188 

Children's Rhymes 192 

Queries: — 

Large Families — Taylor Family of Forfarshire— James 
Bruce— Portraits of Marischal College Principals — 
Edward Raban, Printer, Aberdeen — Sillerton — Dr. 
Alex. Monro, Primus — The Meaning of Thanzie and 
Belt— Where are Old Records Kept ? 188 

Answers : — 

The New Arrangement of Parishes. &c. — Letter of 
Burns to Clarinda— Aberdeen Directory — Name of 
Author Wanted — Tragedy of Douglas— Displenish— 
Rev. Patrick Dunbreck — Name of the Minister of 
Birse in 1736 190 

Scotch Books for the Month, 192 

^^^—i ^■■■— — ^^^■■^— ^^^^^ — "^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ 

ABERDEEN, MAY, 1894. 

♦•» 

THE HEIRS OF THE KEITHS. 

Who is the heir male of William, first Earl 
Marischal ; and who of Sir William Keith, first 
Baronet of Ludquhaim ? 

The male line of George, fifth Earl, the founder 
of Marischal College, undoubtedly failed with 
the death, in 1778, of George, tenth (attainted) 
Earl Marischal, and fifth Earl of Kintore. The 
co-heirs general of the fifth Earl are Clementina 
and Evelyn, the great-great-great-great grand- 
daughters of Mary Keith, sister of the tenth Earl. 
These ladies are also co-heirs of the Lords 
Elphinstone and of the Earls ofWigtoun and of 
Perth. 

In 1782, George Keith of Northfield was 
served heir male of his ancestor (patris atavi 
tritavi) Robert, Marischal of Scotland, the lather 
of the first Earl. It is difficult to understand 
how this service could have been allowed, im- 
plying, as it did, the extinction of the male lines 
of Pittendrum, Auquhorsk, and Craig. (See 
accompanying Genealogical Tree). 



The last male of the Craig branch,^ Sir Robert 
Murray Keith, did not die until 1795, his sister 
Anne (the Mrs Bethune Baliol of Sir Walter 
Scott) surviving to 18 18. 

Bishop Robert Keith (1681-1756 : author of 
the History of Affairs in Church and State) was 
great-great-great-great grandson of Alexander 
of Pittendrum. The Bishop's grandnephew, 
Robert, died in 1780 ; so that seemingly no 
obstacle to the Northfield service could have 
arisen from this branch. But in 1801 the Lyon 
Office granted the undifferenced arms borne 
since 1672^ by the Earls Marischal (Argent, on 
a chief gules three pallets or) to Alexander Keith 
of Ravelstone and Dunottar, as heir male of the 
family. Riddell speaks of the Ravelstone pedi- 
gree as " vamped up in modem times " ; and 
the late Lyon King, Mr George Burnett, writing 
to me shortly before his death, relative to the 
recognition of 180 1, remarks, " I can only give 
as excuse that / was not then Lyon." 

There remains the Auquhorsk branch. ^ 
Douglas says of Alexander, third son of William, 
second Earl Marischal, " to whom he gave the 
lands of Auquhorsk, which continued in the 
possession of his descendants till they were sold 
by Mr James Keith, W.S., and his son Professor 
Thomas Keith of the Marischal College, Aber- 
deen, paternal grandfather of the worthy and 
able George Skene Keith, minister of Keith- 
hall, representative of this branch." The lines 
of descent jfrom the Rev. George Skene Keith 
are shown in the accompanying Tree, but the 
descent to him, so far as I am aware, has not 
been clearly established. No Professor at 
Marischal College bore the name of Thomas 
Keith, but I find in the list of the Regents, 
Robert Keith, 1683-87, and George Keith, 17 13- 
15. Kennedy {Annalsy II., 118) mentions also 
a John Keith, whose name does not appear in 
the extant College Records. 

According to Robert Milne's MS. (Adv. Libr.), 

^ Arf?is : Argent, on a chief embattled gules three 
pallets or, a bordure crenelle of the second. 

* The ancient bearings— Argent, a chief paly of six 
or and gules — appear in the arms of the University of 
Aberdeen, as having been the form used by the founder 
of Marischal College. 

^ Arms : Argent, on a chief gules three pallets or, 
differenced with a buckle of the last. 



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[May, 1894. 



the Ludquhairn Baronetcy* was granted in 1630 
with succession to heirs male whatsoever. 
Douglas names two sons of the fifth Baronet, 
Frederick and William ; and in this he is 
followed by Burke. 

[Crawford's Officers of State ^ 1726; Nisbet's 
Heraldry^ II., Appx., 1742 ; Bishop Keith's Vin- 
dication^ 1750; Scots Magazine^ Nov., 1766; 
Aberdeen Journal^ i8th Sept., 1780, and 30th 
Sept., 1782; Register of Retours^ 1782; Douglas' 
Baronage^ 1798 ; Douglas' Peerage^ ed. Wood, 
1813 ; Registrum Mag. Sig. 1814 ; Buchan's 
Family cfKeith^ 1820 ; Riddell's Peerage Law^ 
1842 ; Lawson's Biog. Sketch of Bishop Keith^ 
1844 ; Burke's Extinct Baronetcies^ 1844 ; Smyth's 
Memoirs of Sir R. M. Keith^ 1849 5 Herald and 
Genealogist^ iii., 1866 ; Napier's Biog. Sketch of 
Keiths^ 1870; Davidson's Inverurie^ 1878; 
Walford's Country Families, 1881 ; Stodart's 
Scottish Arms, 1881 ; Hewlett's Dor??ta?it 
Dignities^ 1882 ; Foster's Baronetage^ 1882 ; 
Burke*s Forfeited Peerages, 1883 ; Taylor's 
Historic Families, 1887 ; Foster's Altimni 
Oxonienses, 1888.] 

P. J. Anderson. 



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TAXT ROLL OF THE COUNTY OF 
ABERDEEN, 1554. 

The following copy of the oldest Taxed Roll of 
the County of Aberdeen in Queen Mary's Reign, 
1554— of the Temporal Men's Lands and the 
Spiritual Men's Lands of Auld Extent will prove 
interesting to the readers of S. N. &^ Q. So 
far as known to me such have not hitherto been 
published. F. 

Copy Oldest Taxt Roll of the County of Aber- 
deen in Queen Marie's Rayn, 1534. 

Curia Vice comitatus de Aberdeen tenta 
ptoria ejusdem Duodecimo die Mensis Maii 
Anno domini, 1554, per Nobilem et potentein 
dominum Georgium Comitem de Huntlie, &c. 
Viccomitatum principalem de Aberdeen, Georg- 
ium Gordon Du"™ de Gordon et Joannem Leslie 
de Balquhain Vice comitatus Deputatit^ Viccom- 
itatus conjunctim & divisim pro tribunal! sedens. 

NORIiE INQUISITORUM & BaR-TeXANTO & 

RETORNs. 

Alex. Eraser of Philorth. 
John Forbes of Pitsligo. 
Pat. Cheyne of Esslemont. 
John Erskine of Balhagarty. 
Geo. Crawford of Fedderat. 
Wm. Cheyne of Straloch. 

^ Arms: Argent, a cross crosslet fitchee and an 
^callop in fess azure ; on a chief gules three pallets or. 



John Strachan of Thorntoun. 
James Gordon of Haddo. 
Wm. Auchinlkch of Schithyne. 
James Dempstkr of Muras. 
Wm. Mortimer of Craigievar. 
Jas. Innks of Aiichintoul. 
Alex. Cumink of Culter. 
Robt. Irvine of Belty. 
Alex. Tullideph of Raniestoun. 
David (Iordon of Findrack. 



TiiR Temporal Mkns Lands of Auld Extent. 

In the first. The Baronry of Huntly alias 

Strathbogie, Tenant and Tcnnandrie, ;^200 o O 
Earl of Erroll for his Lands and Baronry 

ofSlains, ... ... loo o o 

Lord Elphinstown for his Lands of Kil- 

drimmy, .. ... ... ... ... 60 00 

Lord Erskine for his Lands of Kelly and 

Balhagy, 40 O O 

Earl Marischal for Aden, ... ... 400 

Item for Kintore and Skene, ... ... 21 lO o 

Lord Sinclair for his Lands of Newburgh, 21 O O 

Lord Forbes Property and Tenandrie, ... 40 O O 

Lord Brothick for Alierdour, ... ... 30 O O 

James Gordon of Methlick for the same, 800 

Laird of Tilliep^ony for the same, ... 200 

Laird of Johnslcys for the .same, ... 200 

Laird of Pitsligo for the same, ... ... 40 O O 

Laird of Tulquhon for the same, ... 20 o o 

Laird of JoUieforbes for the same, ... 12 O O 

Laird of Hrux for the Baronry or the same, 18 O o 

Laird of Asloon for Sinnaboth, ... ... 200 

Master John Forbes of Barras, ... ... 900 

Laird of Skene for the same, ... ... lo O O 

Laird of Medlar for the same, Ciishny & 

FeaK IP., 900 

Laird of Thainstoun and Kinnellar, ... 300 

Laird of Cocklairachy Forbes, ... .. I lO o 

Laird of Johnstoun. Prcjpertyand Tenandrie, 20 o O 

Laird of Gight for the l^aronry Schivas, 12 00 
Laird of Pittierow for Froversmie and 

Gilcomstoun, ... ... ... ... lo o O 

Jas. Gordon for his Lands he holds of the 

Queen, ... ... ... ... ... 800 

Laird of Liltlefollow for the same, ... 200 

Laird of Abergeklie for the same, ... 600 

Laird of Delgaly for the same, ... ... 20 O O 

Laird of Mures for his part of Auchterless, 10 o o 

Laird of Esslement for the same, ... 10 o o 

Laird of Balquholly for the same, ... 800 

Laird of Dumbrech for the same, ... 300 

Laird of Auchmacoy for the same, ... 300 

Laird of Craigfintray for the same, .. 300 

Pitmechlen --Abcrcrondiy for the same, 600 

Laird of Ciight for Fc'tterletter, ... ... I o o 

Laird of Belnacraig, ... ... ... 300 

Wm. Blackhall for his i)art of Barrac^^. 

and Find)'., ... 400 

Laird of Frendraught for the same Propy. 

and Teny., ... ... ... ... 50 o o 

Laird of Philorth for the same, ... ... 20 o o 

Laird of Fedderat for the same,... ... 20 o o 



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Laird of Fivie for the samePropy. &Teny. 
Laird of Inchmairly for Ardyrainy, Iner 

i J icax *^ y 9*** •■• .•• ••• •■ 

Laird of Schythin for the same Balgy 
ariQ c i\» J .•• ... ... .. 

Laird of Auchinhove for the same, 
Laird of Foveran for the same, ... 
Laird of Meldrum — Propy. and Teny. .. 
Laird of Udny for the same & Aughlown 
Wm. King for Barrack and Bourty, 
Laird of Drum for the same, 
Laird of Echt for the same, 
Balquhain — Propy. and Teny., .., 
Laird of Leslie — Propy. and Teny., 
Laird of Pitcaple,... 
Laird of Granhilly for Slin., Moncoffer 

and Fortrie, 
Thos. Tullo for his part of Moncoffer, 
Laird of Glenbervj^ for Kemnay, 
Laird of Inverallochy for the same, 
Andrew Chalmers of Straylithine, 
Laird of Hallhead for the same, 
Laird of Innsmarky for his property of 

Laird of Dalgarno, Fintray, for the same 

Boddom, ... 

Straloch for part of Crichie, 

Laird of Fivie for his Iwd. part of Auch 

L^L IV^od* .•• ■•• ••■ ••• •• 

Laird of Murry for the same, 
Thos. Menzies of Pitfoddels, 
John Grant of Baddendalloch for Inver 

\^ I w y llVTa ■•• •■• ••• ••• ga 

Strachan of Glenkindy, ... 
John Leith, Portioner of Barns,... 
Laird of Boythie for his Propy. of Kind 

X \j\^ IlL* ••• ••• ••• ••■ •• 

John Panton of Pitmedden for Alathon 

Ochter Ellon for the same, 

Towie Barclay for the same, 

Ocherton and Logyreiff, ,. 

Rannystoun and Mosstown, 

Laird of Stonnyvvood for the same and 

Muchall, 
Laird of Ochter Ellon for the same. 
Laird of Craigyvar for the same, 
Patr. Leith of Heert Hill, 
Jannet Leith of Abergeldie for her pt. of 

ijarns, ... ... ... ... . . 

Wm. Blackball of that Ilk for the same 
Thos. Copland for his lands of Uduch, .. 
James Urquhart for his part of Fisherie 
Thos. Chalmers for his Lands of Cults 

and lille Mt., .. 
Portioner of Laithers for ye sama, 
Jas. Innes of Toux and Pitfour, ... 
Robt. & Alex. Innes for Rotbiesbirsebone 
Alex. Eraser of Durris for Bel ty, 

John Strachan of Lenturk for the same 

And. Wood of Colpnay for part of Fin 

&1CX^1C« «•• ••« ■•• •■• •• 

John Norrie for his part of Finnersie, .. 
Laird of Menny for his part of Ruthstanes 
Laird of Petcur for Drumblate, 



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Alex. Dunbar of Pitquharrey, ... 

George Crichton for Toux, 

Laird of Raty for his Lands of Ardone 

Buchansf^., 
Thos. Gordon, Kinnerty, for the same, 
Laird of Portowtown for the same, 
James Wood for his Lands of Birnies, .. 
William Burnet for Gask, 
Laird of Coullertack Leslie, 
Laird of Kenfauns for Lumphannan, ... 
Laird of Innermarky for Monnycabock, 
Laird of Craibstone, 
Lord Glames for Belhelvie Courtstown 

and Dranyn. , 
Wm. Hay for Crimmonmogat, ... 
Geo. Gordon for his Lands of Dorlaithers, 
Innermyth for his Lands of Dorlaithers, 
Auchlesson, 
x\rnaQge, ... ... ... ... •.. 

Alex. Gordon for Brachey and Midletn. 

of Knockenytower, 
Alex. Cumine of Culture for Culture Cumine, 
The Lands of Drymies pertaining to 

Wm. Gordon, ... 



£\ 10 o 
I 10 o 



3 o 

3 o 

3 o 

6 o 

2 o 

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3 o 

2 o 



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10 
10 
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210 



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In all ;^I382 o o 

Here follows the Queen's A win Lands WMn said 
Sheriffdom : — 

In the first Her Graces Lands of Strude, 
Cromar and Brae Mar gives now by the 
year to the Chequer thirty score of 
pounds or thereby, ... ... ...£600 

Item Alex. Leslie of Wardhouse, 

Item Laird of Drum gives for Cowlie to 

V^liCvJ UCl • ••• ••• ••• ••• 

Item Her Graces Lands of ONeil, Corss, 
Kincraigy and Muirtown gives yearly 
to Chequer, 

And twenty six shillings eight pennies to 
Bishops of Abdn. for the seed. Teind 
which Lds. are in the hands of Patr. 

X^ \JX L/Coi ••• ••• ••• ••• ••■ 



900 



13 10 o 



6 8 



;g833 16 8 

Item The Barons of Inquest foresaid kens not 
perfectly the availl of the Queen's Grace Lands of 
Auld extent but reffers the same to the Rolls of Her 
Graces Chequer. 

The Spiritual Mens Lands of Auld Extent, 

FROM THE TaXT ROLL, 1 554. 

In the first. The Archbp. of St. Andrews 

Barronnes and Lands of Keig and 

Monymusk, 
The Bishop of Aberdeen's Lands of Birse, 

Tillienessel, Rayne, David and others 

within the said Sherriffdome 

The Abbot of Arbroath's Lands of Tarves 

and Fivie, 
The Abbot of Lindore's Lands of Fintray 

and Culsamond with others in said 

Sherriffdom, 



£ao o 



80 o o 



20 O O 



100 O O 



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I 
2 



The Abbot of Deer's Lands, £20 

The Abbot of Coupar's Lands, 4 

The Abbot of Kinloss Lands, o 

The Prior of Monymusk's Lands, ... 5 

The Parson of Kincardine's Lands and 

Barronry of Oneal, 13 

The Parson of TurreflTs Lands of Kirk- 

town of Turreff and Burgh of the same, 5 
The Prior of St. Andrews Lands of Kirk- 
town of Bourty, 

The Dean of Aberdeen's Lands, 

The Parson of Belhelvie's Lands of Blair- 

l^/U !•« ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 

King's College Lands of Culleyne, Banna- 
kettle, Adziel and Kirktown of Slains, 
Mr. Lawrence Young's Lands of Westhall, 
Parson of Oyne's Lands of Kirktown of 

^^r y lie* •• tt ••• ••• ••• 

Mr. Arthur Tailfairs of Kirktown ofOyne, 
The Vicar of Forye's Lands of Kirktown 

of Slains, 
The Treasurer of Aberdeen's Lands of 

Kirktoun of David and Mouny, 
The Arch Dean of Aberdeen's Lands of 

Kirktown of Rayne, ... 
Mr. Alex. Hydde's Lands of Spittle, ... 
Parson of Invereuchlys Lands of Kinbelloch 

belonging to the Chaplainry of. 
The Chanter of Aberdeen's Lands of 

Kirktoun of Auchterless, 

The Kirktown of Kildrummie, 

The Kirktoun of Glenbucket, 

Pilon targe pertaining to the Parson of 

V./Udlllllv« ••• ■•• ••• ••• 

Parson of Clett's Lands of an Plough of 

Christ's Kirk, ... 
Parson of Monymusk's Lands of Bonach, 



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4 
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8 

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6 

2 

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N.B.— In this Taxt Roll, 1554, The Auld Extent 
of the Temporal Men's Lands amounts in all to ;^I382, 
so that instead of the Tenth, the Spiritual Men had 
near to a fifth of the whole Lands in the Kingdom. 

In the end of said Taxt Roll there is also a Rental 
of the Feu-duties payable furth of the Bishoprick of 
Aberdeen, out of a great many Lands, and which 
comes to about ;f 3500, including the feu-duties out of 
Houses about Old Aberdeen, and Fishings, &c. 



Rental of that part of the Bishoprick of St. 
Andrews which lies in Aberdeenshire. 

The Duke of Gordon's feu-duty for the 

Lordship of Keig, ;f 299 1 3 

Sir Archd. Grant for his Lands of Mony- 

lllUdlV* ••• ••• ■•• ••• ••• 

The Earl of Kintore for Kirktoun of 

^^^wlllvCXly ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 

Reid— of Glassel, 

Skene of Dyce for Kirktoun of Dyce, . . . 
Invercauld for Kirktoun of LogieColdstone, 
Mr. Duff of Premnay for Craigstoun, ... 



57 

7 

3 
6 

2 

2 



12 

13 

13 

3 
18 



Hog — of Ramoir for Cluny, 

Mr. Thomas Burnet, now Mr. Campbell, 
for Kirkhill, 



;^I0 O 

3 12 8 

; g393 9 8 

Follows a long Rental of the Bishoprick of Murray, 
consisting of Feu-duties, Tack Duties, and Rentalled 
Boles of Grain or Meal. Fowls and Customs 
included and converted. 

Then a Rental of the Bishoprick of Caithness, but 
none of these were copied, as they concern us but little. 



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ABERDEENSHIRE AS A FACTOR IN 

SCOTTISH LIFE AND THOUGHT. 

(Continued from p. 164.) 

Apart altogether, however, from the prominent 
place, which I hope I have shown Aberdeenshire 
has taken in determining the political and reli- 
gious development of Scotland, I think, I may 
also claim for that county an exceedingly note- 
worthy share in the promotion of Scottish liter- 
ary, artistic, and scientific development. The 
evidence on this latter point, which I hope to 
present, is indeed, in my judgment, both ample 
and conclusive. Exhibited, however, in the bald 
statistical form to which I must now mainly con- 
fine myself, I greatly fear it may prove less 
convincing than if I had opportunity for de- 
veloping it in a more adequate and satisfactory 
fashion. 

Readers of my previous papers on Ayrshire 
and Banffshire are already aware that, for a large 
part of my life, I have been amassing statistics 
relating to Scottish Biography, and designed 
specially to show, in respect to the different 
Scottish counties, their comparative fertility in 
noteworthy men. Four years ago, in my papers 
on Ayrshire, when the number of notable men 
and women whose birthplaces I had ascertained 
amounted to 6327, I found that the order in 
which the first seven counties on my list, when 
arranged in respect to their relative fertility in 
men of distinction, stood to one another was this : 
I, Edinburgh ; 2, Aberdeen ; 3, Lanark; 4, Fife : 
5, Ayr ; 6, Perth : 7, Forfar. To-day, when the 
number of notables figuring in my lists has 
swelled to 8884, 1 find that the same seven 
counties still take the lead of all the others by a 
considerable interval. It is true that, in the 
meantime, some slight changes have occurred 
in the order in which these several counties 
stand to each other. Thus my present roll of 
merit among the Scottish counties stands as 
follows : — 

1. Edinburgh, with a muster-roll of loiSnotables. 

2. Lanark, with „ 769 

3. Aberdeen, with „ 735 

4. Ayr, with „ 703 



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5. Fife, with a muster-roll of 640 notables. 

6. Perth, with „ 568 

7. Forfar, with „ 564 

On comparing these two lists together it will be 
at once seen, that the only alteration that has 
been effected in the relative positions of the dif- 
ferent counties indicated has taken place in the 
case of the counties of Aberdeen and Lanark, 
and Ayr and Fife respectively, which have ex- 
actly changed places. This change is however, 
in no sense surprising. For during the whole 
period that my investigations have been pro- 
ceeding, so closely have these counties run one 
another in this matter of their relative fertility in 
talent and energy, that they have, of course, 
been necessarily subject to frequent alternations 
in their respective positions towards one another, 
when thus considered, according as at any time 
my data for so comparing them have been un- 
expectedly augmented for one county and not 
for another. And this, as my acquaintance with 
local literature has been growing, has been a by 
no means infrequent occurrence. In my judg- 
ment, however, it is a very suggestive, and, in- 
deed, conclusive fact, that the same seven 
counties which now head the list of Scottish 
counties in regard to this matter of their re- 
spective numbers of notable natives, held ex- 
actly the same position as they now do, when in 
1866 I first arranged the Scottish counties on 
this principle, — though, at that time, the notable 
names that stood on my lists totalled only 1200, 
or less than a seventh of the names that now 
appear there. For, though the order of merit, 
if I may so express myself, as between the seven 
premier Scottish counties, has varied more than 
once during the 30 years my researches have 
been going on, yet as the ratio of difference be- 
tween the first seven counties and all others has 
undergone practically no modification, I person- 
ally have no hesitation in avowing my belief that 
my statistics are substantially correct and reli- 
able, in so far as they assign to the seven counties 
we have mentioned above, the foremost place in 
the historic development of Scottish Thought 
and Life. I conclude, therefore, without the 
least misgiving, that Aberdeenshire, ranking as 
she does third among Scottish counties for the 
number of her noteworthy men, while she stands 
now only fourth for the number of her inhabi- 
tants, must have contributed at least her due 
share to the joint stock of talent and energy by 
which Scottish History has been made and Scot- 
tish Civilization developed. 

The question may perhaps be put to me here : 
" But is not the talent of Aberdeenshire a talent 
that reveals itself disproportionately strong in a 
materialistic, as distinguished from an idealistic 
or spiritual direction?" Well, the answer to 



that question will, I think, best be given by a 
rough analysis of the facts I have ascertained in 
regard to the varied forms and the different 
directions in which Aberdeenshire talent has 
chiefly manifested itself 

It is to me, then, let me say here, a somewhat 
unexpected but significant fact, that, when my 
Aberdeenshire notable names are ranged under 
the categories which I regard as representing' 
the realistic as distinguished from the idealistic 
genius of the people, there appears only a slight 
preponderance of the former over the latter. I 
find in the one class only 514 names as against 
503 in the other Now, in view of the number 
of the names compared, the difference here is so 
slight as to be wholly inappreciable. The truth 
is, the men of this county seem to distinguish 
themselves almost equally in every department 
of human thought and effort. 

Now this singularly well-balanced character 
of the Aberdonian intellect, its ambidextrous 
ability, if I may employ such a phrase to desig- 
nate its equal aptitude for success either in ideal- 
istic or realistic work, must, no doubt, be trace- 
able to some cause or causes. I do not suppose, 
indeed, that it is possible for us to determine 
with absolute precision, what the cause or causes 
referred to really have been. But, for my part, 
though not inclined to speak on such B^ subject 
with extreme confidence, I am disposed, as the 
result of my comparison of different Scottish 
counties in the matter of the respective mental 
types exhibited by their inhabitants, to conclude, 
that it is mainly the history of a district that de- 
termines the characteristic genius of its people. 
I conclude, therefore, that the remarkable blend- 
ing of idealistic elevation with realistic grasp 
which distinguishes the noblest representative 
Aberdonians has originated in the historic influ- 
ences that have most deeply and most constantly 
affected the inhabitants of the country as a whole. 
Thus the idealistic bias of which I have spoken. 
I am fain to associate with the elevating enthu- 
siasm which, as I have mentioned, passed like 
a contagion over the greater part of this district 
at the period of the struggle for Scottish Inde- 
pendence. For ever since that memorable 
struggle, in all the different religious and political 
revolutions that have subsequently occurred in 
Scotland : there has been a response more or less 
general among the natives of this region to the 
passion that was stirring elsewhere. It was 
sometimes a conservative rather than a progres- 
sive impulse it is true, that dominated the thought 
and life of the people of this shire ; but whatever 
the nature of the impulse by which they were 
swayed, it is a significant fact, that no national 
crisis has ever occurred in Scotland without 
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and forward to share in it, on one side or another, 
while their enthusiasm, whatever form it might 
take, never failed to lead them to gallant efforts 
and noble sacrifices. And it is to this fact, the 
fact namely of the existence of a basis of enthu- 
siasm in the Aberdonian character, revealing 
itself in ever-renewed efforts and sacrifices un- 
grudgingly rendered for any cause deemed great 
or worthy, that I personally am inclined to attri- 
bute the idealist temper that is so valuable an 
element in the mental development of the best 
and most representative men of that district. 
While, on the other hand, the realistic grasp 
which is no less a notable feature of this same 
typical Aberdonian mind. I am even more posi- 
tively inclined to connect with the extraordinarily 
severe struggle for existence, which for centuries 
every new generation of Aberdonians has been 
compelled to maintain, owing to the specially 
strong and stubborn character of their soil in 
many districts as well as the bitter inclemency 
of their seasons, particularly in winter and spring. 
But whatever be the value of the foregoing 
speculation, there can be little doubt, 1 think, as 
to the reality of that remarkable equipoise in the 
Aberdonian intellect between idealistic passion 
and realist selfrestraint which it has been the aim 
of the speculation referred to, to interpret and 
explain. At all events, I am sanguine enough to 
hope that the brief survey 1 now propose to take 
of the whole field of Aberdonian achievement 
will tend to establish the real existence of that 
remarkable mental balance, which I have ven- 
tured to ascribe to the typical Aberdonian in- 
telligence! 

I have mentioned that, though there is a singu- 
lar equality exhibited by my statistics between 
thenumber of Aberdeenshire names which have 
attained distinction in connection with what I 
regard as specially realistic pursuits on the one 
hand, and those connected with specificially 
idealistic pursuits on the other, yet on the whole 
the former has slightly the preponderance. I 
will, therefore, start my review of the achieve- 
ments of Aberdeenshire talent by considering the 
part, first of all, which the men of this county 
have taken in the public life of the country. 

When I survey my lists, then, with the view of 
ascertaining the share which Aberdeenshire has 
had in the political development, not merely of 
Scotland, but of the British Empire, I learn there 
the significant fact that these lists contain the 
names of no fewer than 183 public men of Aber- 
donian origin who have won distinction by the 
successful administration of civil, military, naval, 
or legal affairs. Space forbids me entering into 
a lengthened enumeration of their names. But 
anyone who is in the smallest degree acquainted 
either with the civil or military history of Great 



Britain, must know how many heroic and capable 
public servants have been furnished to the Bri- 
tish Empire by the Aberdeenshire families of 
Gordon, P^orbes, Fraser, Innes, Irvine, Keith, 
Leslie, Leith, Lumsden, Skene, Burnett, Gerard, 
Farquharson, Bannerman, Fordyce, Ferguson, 
Moir, and, others, the enumeration of which we 
must meanwhile regretfully omit. In this con- 
nection, however, I may be allowed to notice the 
somewhat suggestive circumstance, that of the 
only two native born Scots who have ever held 
the honourable position of Prime Minister of the 
United Kingdom, one, to wit, the fourth Earl of 
Aberdeen, though not born in the county, yet 
really belonged to the Aberdeenshire family of 
Gordon. I exclude here any reference to Mr, 
Gladstone or Lord Kosebery, as these premiers, 
though of Scottish origin, were both born in 
England. 

And here, dealing as I am at present with the 
practical side of Aberdonian genius, it may be 
well for me to allude also to the fact that, besides 
the names of 183 public servants, who as States- 
men, Politicians, Soldiers, Sailors, Governors of 
Colonies, Judges, &c., have deserved well of their 
countrymen, my lists contain the names of 32 
captains of industry or successful merchants and 
manufacturers, as well as of 7 distinguished 
agriculturists, and 6 mechanical inventors, and 4 
travellers or explorers, one of whom. Sir George 
Nares, has, I believe, penetrated further toward 
the North Pole than has hitherto been reached 
by any other man. 

In regard to Aberdeenshire's 32 successful 
business men, most of them, I may remark, have 
made their fortunes furth of their native Kingdom 
of Scotland, either in England, or the East, or in 
some other portion of the world. Examples of 
this, for instance, are to be found in the great 
Indian merchant princes, the Forbeses, now one 
of the wealthiest of Aberdeen county families, 
as well as the Farquhars, a London merchant 
family, one of whom became the millionaire 
proprietor of the celebrated estate of Fonthill, 
which once belonged to the princely Beckford, 
the well known author of Vathek. Within the 
last few years, moreover, there have died annu- 
ally more than one millionaire Aberdonian, as 
will be evident when I enumerate the following 
names, all recently dead. Sir John Anderson, 
the head of the Woolwich Gun Factory, Alex- 
ander Mitchell, an American speculator and mil- 
lionaire, the Hon. Francis Ormond, an Australian 
wool king and philanthropist, Sir James T. 
Mackenzie, who raised himself from the lowest 
social grade to be a man of more than princely 
fortune, as well as Andrew Penny, known as "the 
Silver King," George Kynoch, M.P., the great 
Birmingham manufacturer, and James Shaw, a 



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noted iron-master who used to glory in the name 
of "the Aberdeen laddie." While, that Aber- 
deenshire is still holding its own in this way 
is evident when I mention that, among other 
prominent business men still in active life, I find 
the distinguished names of George Auldjo 
Jamieson of Edinburgh, and Sir Thomas Suther- 
land of London. W. B. R. W.- 

(To be continued.) 



■^•^^ 



DIARY OF JOHN ROW, 

PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, &c., 

1 66 1 — 1672 — 1790. 
IX. 

My sone Mr John was soiled Minister at 
Fyvie Nover. last 17 10. 

D. Agnes Falconer Lady Banff dyed Januar 
4, 171 1 at Forgland anat 85. 

Agnes Ogilvie Lady Barra was brought to bed 
of her 4* child being a sone Januar 25. 1711 
whose name is Georg. 

My daughter Janet was brought to bed of her 
4*^ child being a daughter dead born Nover. 10. 
1 7 10. 

William Lindsay of Culsh born Junii 6, 1678 
years. 

Hellen Grigorie spous to Mr Alex. Thomsone 
of Portlethcn Towns dark and consulter of Abd. 
a woman singular for piety and naturall pairts 
died of an gravell Septer. 7. friday in the year 

171 1 and interred in the churchyeard at the futt 
of Mr. Osburn grav leat minister ther. 

My daughter Janett was removed by death 
Decer. 15. 171 1 years in the 7* month w*^ child 
butt not deleivered and interred in the church of 
Fyvie betwixt the south and north church door. 

Isobell Mercer relik of Charles Orem dyed 
Agust 171 1 years. 

Agnes Ogilvie Lady Barra was brought to bed 
of her 5' child March 2. Sabath morning 1712 
years whose name was Anna. 

My sone Mr. William was graduatt Apryll 24. 

1712 years in Marischalls Colledge of Abd. be 
Mr William Smith regent. 

My daughter Lillias was brought to bed of her 
3^^ child being a sone Decer. ij. in the morning 
being thursday whos neam was George 171 2. 

Alexander Reid younger of Barra was eleked 
comistioner to the breitish parliament represent- 
ing 5 northern broughs to witt Elgen Cullen 
Banff Kintor and Inverurie in the year 171 1 of 
aige 26. 

My sone Mr William was elected scoolmaster 
at Garvok Januar ij. 1713. 

Alexander Forbes Laird of Glasfoord quaker 
dyed of an gravell Januar 30. 17 13. 

Lord George Banff an man of an very eivell 
life was burnt to ashes in his bed Januar 30. 



17 1 3 ther being none w* in the house that night 
butt himselfe and an servant woman who made 
her eskeap when she was awakened w^ the 
flames butt no possability to get the fire stopt or 
to get my Lord releived. 

My mother was removed by death October 
31. in the year 17 13 of aige 'j'j and was interred 
in the church of Fyvie Nover. 5. 

My eldest sone was maried w' Isobel Mairton 
daughter to Robert Mairton at burntbrae Mairch 
29. 1715. 

My daughter Margratt was maried w' W™ 
Steiven Marchand att Old Meldrum Junij 7. 
171 5 att my own house att Smiddibum. 

Jeams did go to hollen an trying voage w* 
Charles Gordone sone to provost Gordone att 
Abd. Aparyl 24. 17 15. 

Isobell Mairton my daughter in law was 
brought to bed of her first child being a son 
whose name was John March 24. 17 16. 

Jeams did enter John Crukshanks ship at Abd. 
May ij. 171 5 in order to saill to Noroway and 
Franc. 

Margarat was brought to bed of her first child 
being an daughter August 27. Munday about 4 
a clock in the morning whose nem was Christian 
in the year 1716. 

Lillias was brought to bed of an douchter 
Junij 2. 17 1 7 being saboth whos nem was 
Margratt. 

Mr. George Dalgairno minister of Fyvie was 
removed by death July 21. 17 17 years. 

Thomas went from this to Lundon Aug'. 17 16. 

Mr Robert Hay was setled Minister att Fyvie 
May I. 1718. 

My eldest son was setled Minister at Tyrie 
the last of Nover. 1710. 

My daughter in law was brought to bed of her 
1^ child Decer. 12. about 4 of the clok in the 
morning being a dauchter named Elizabeth 1718 
years. 

My sone Mr William was lisensed to preach 
Nover. 26. 17 18. 

My daughter Margrat was brought to bed 
of her second child being an son Septer. 12. 
about 7 of the clok in the morning being 
Saterday called William 17 19 years. 

Mr Robert Hay minister at Fyvie was deposed 
for his falling in furnication wt Ogelbie 

daughter to Logie Ogelbie in the barn Junij 24. 
1 719 years. 

Mr Thomas Scot was setled minister at Fyvie 
July 13. 1720. 

My sone, Mr. William, was setled minister at 
Pitsligo, Septr. 22, in the year 1720. 

My daughter, Lillias, was brought to bed of 
an daughter March ij., 172 1, whose neam was 
Barbara. 

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[May, 1 894* 



of Culsh, was removed by death March 17, in 
the morning, 1721 years. 

My daughter-in-law, Isobell Mercer, was 
brought to bed of her 3^ cheild, being a sone, 
whose neam was Thomas, October 27, Friday, 
about one or two of the clok in the morning in 
the year 1721. 

Sr. Harie Innes of that ilk, an religius man, who 
hade bein trubled for many years w*^ an astma 
dyed sudenly of that distemper whill he and his 
Lady were both reddie to go to church upon the 
Lord's day, Nover. 5, 1721 years. 

William Lindsay of Culsh was removed by 
death, March 26, at night, 1722 years, of aige 44. 

My daughter, Margrat, was brought to bed of 
her 3<^ child, being an sone, Junij. 12, 1722, Tuis- 
day, and baptised the 17, being the sabath, 
whose nem was Thomas. 

Thomas Thomson of Faichfield was removed 
by death Nover. 6, 1722, of aige 67. 

My sister Anna was removed by death, 
Februar. ij., 1723. 

What follows is insert by Mr. John Mercer, 
min"" at Fyvie. 

My wife brought forth her first child March 
24. 1 7 16 named John and baptised the 27th by 
Mr Thomas Uduy min^ at Strichen. 

My wife was brought to bed of her second 
child Dec. 12, 17 18, the child was baptised the 
16 by Mr. Udny foresd., named Elisabeth. 

My wife brought forth her 3d child, Oct. 27, 
172 1, who was baptised by my Brother, Mr. 
William, that same day, named Thomas. 

My wife brought forth her 4th child, June 15, 
1723, who was baptised the same day by Mr. 
Udny foresaid, named Isobel. 

My brother, Mr. William, was maried June 
8, 1723, w* Anne Monro, daughter to Andrew 
Monro, Shirref Clerk of Elgin. 

My Father died July i, 1723, of an astma and 
hydropsie, having been trysted with the former 
from the begining of Febry. last, and w* the 
latter from the end of March, and was interred 
the 3^ of July in the Church of Fyvie, in the 
same grave where my mother, Isabel Smith, his 
second wife, and her Father and Grandfather, 
had been laid, aetatis 65 y" and 5 months. 

March 1724. My sister Lilias brought 

forth a son called William. 

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

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

May 20, 1725. This morning at 7 o'clock my 
wife brought forth a daughter, who in the after- 
noon was baptised by Mr. Udny foresaid and 
named Agnes. 

(To be continued.) 



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

Since the lamented death of Professor Robert- 
son Smith, the University Library has acquired 
a collection of pamphlets relating to his ejection 
from the Hebrew Chair in the Free Church 
College, Aberdeen. The titles of these pamph- 
lets, as far as possible in chronological order, 
are appended. The collection is probably 
far from complete, and I shall be grateful for a 
note of other titles. I need hardly add that any 
pamphlet, dealing with the case, and not 
mentioned below, will be a welcome gift to the 
Library of his Alma Mater. 

1. Infidelity in Aberdeen P'ree Church College. 

Extracts from the article *' Bible" in the new 
edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Edin- 
burgh, 1875), contributed by Prof. W. R. 
Smith, Free Church College, Aberdeen — with 
annotations. Edinburgh : G. and A. Young, 
n.d. 8vo ; pp. 8. 

2. Remarks on Professor W. R. Smith's article 
** Bible " in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 
By M. N. Edinburgh : Lyon & Gemmell. 

1876. 8vo ; pp. 24. 

3. Free Church of Scotland. Special report of the 
College Committee on Professor Smith's article 
"Bible." Edinburgh: Maclaren & Macniven. 

1877. 8vo ; pp. 34. 

4. Observations on Professor W. R. Smith's article 
** Bible " in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. By 
James Kennedy, B.D. Edinburgh: James 
Gemmell. 1877. 8vo ; pp. 36. 

5. An examination of articles contributed by Professor 
- W. Robertson Smith to the Encyclopaedia 

Britannica, the Expositor, and the British 
Quarterly Review. By a Minister of the Free 
Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : James 
Gemmell. 1877. 8vo ; pp. 77. 

6. Professor Smith on the Bible, and Dr. Marcus 
Dods on Inspiration. By the Rev. James 
Smith, M.A., Free Church, Tarland. Edin- 
burgh : John Greig & Son. 1877. 8vo ; pp. 56. 

7. The Bible on the Rock : a letter to Principal 
Rainy, on his speech in the Free Church 
Commission, and on Professor W. R. Smith's 
article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. By 
the author of The Sabbath on the Rock. Edin- 
burgh : James Gemmell, 1877. 8vo; pp.35. 

8. Prof. W. Rol>ertson Smith on Old Testament 
Scripture and Rationalistic Theology. [Aber- 
deen], 1877. i2mo ; pp. 23. 

9. Professor Smith's criticisms on the Pentateuch 
examined. By the Rev. James Smith, M. A., 
Free Church, Tarland. Aberdeen : Lewis 
Smith. 1878. i2mo ; pp. 72. 

10. The authorship and date of the books of Moses 
considered with special reference to Professor 
Smith's views. By the Rev. William Paul, 
D.D., Minister of Banchory Devenick. Aber- 
deen : Lewis Smith. 1878. 8vo ; pp. 74- 

11. The libel against Professor William Robertson 



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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES, 



i8S 



Smith. Report of proceedings in the Free 
Church presbytery of Aberdeen, February 14 
to March 14, 1878. With form of libel. 
[Aberdeen] 1878. 8vo ; pp. 127. 

12. Answer to the form of libel now before the Free 

Church presbytery of Al>erdeen. By W. 
Robertson Smith. Edinburgh : David Douglas. 
1878. 8vo ; pp. 64. 

13. Additional answer to the libel with some account 

of the evidence that parts of the Pentateuchal 
law are later than the time of Moses. By W. 
Robertson Smith. Edinburgh: David Douglas. 
1878. Svo ; pp. 88. 

14. Answer to the amended libel. By W. Robertson 

Smith. With appendix containing plea in law. 
Edinburgh: D.Douglas. 1879. Svo; pp.42. 

15. Communications on the case of Professor Robert- 

son Smith in the General Assembly of the 
Free Church of Scotland held at Glasgow in 

1878. By Sir Henry Wellwood Moncrieff and 
others. Edinburgh : John Maclaren & Son. 

1879. 8vo ; pp. vi. + 66. 

16. The present position of Professor Robertson 

Smith's case, with reference to letters by Sir 
Henry W. Moncrieff in the "Weekly Review." 
By a Free Church Layman. Edinburgh : 
Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. 1879. Svo ; 
pp. 38. 

17. Professor Smith's new plea and the Presbytery's 

procedure : being a speech delivered in the 
Free Synod of Aberdeen, 14th October, 1879. 
By the Rev. James Smith, M.A., Tarland. 
Edinburgh : J. Gemmell. 1879. Svo ; pp. 43. 

18. Testimonials in favour of Rev. William Robertson 

Smith, M.A., Professor of Hebrew and Old 
Testament Exegesis in the Free Church College, 
Aberdeen. [For Chair of Mathematics, Univ. 
Glasg.] Aberdeen, 1879. Svo ; pp. 25. 

19. History of the case of }*rofessor W. Robertson 

Smith in the Free Church of Scotland, from its 
first consideration by the College Committee till 
the close of the General Assembly in 1S79, By 
Sir Henry Wellwood Moncrieff, Bart., D.D. 
Edinburgh : John Maclaren & Son. [iSSo], 
i2mo ; pp. 117. 

20. Letter from Professor W. Robertson Smith to 

Rev. Dr. Spence, Clerk of Aberdeen Free 
Presbytery. Dated 17th July, 1880. Aber- 
deen. Svo : pp. 7. 

21. Correspondence between Professor Smith and 

Professor Blnnie. Aberdeen : Daily Free Press, 
Aug. 20, 21, 23, 24, iSSo 

22. Letter of Professor W. Robertson Smith to Rev. 

Sir Henry Moncrieff. Dated 20th October, 

1880. Aberdeen, 1880. Svo: pp. 11. 

23. Lithographed circular letter from W. Robertson 

Smith to accompany last. Dated 21st Oct., 1880. 

24. Speech delivered at a special meeting of the 

Commission of Assembly of the Free Church 
on 27th October, 18S0. By Professor W. 
Robertson Smith. Edinburgh : Macniven & 
Wallace. [iSSo]. Svo ; pp. 32. 

25. Thoughts on the Aberdeen case. By the pre- 

Disruption elder. Edinburgh : John Maclaren 
& Son. 1880. Svo J pp. 46. 



26. Professor Smith's article on ** Hebrew Language 

and Literature " in the eleventh volume of the 
Encyclopaedia Britannica. By the Rev. 
Malcolm White, M.A., Free South Church, 
Blairgowrie. Edinburgh : John Maclaren & 
Son. iSSo. i2mo ; pp. 20. 

27. A review of Professor Smith's article on Hebrew 

Language and Literature. By the Rev. 
Stevenson Smith, Sanquhar. Edinburgh : J. 
Maclaren & Son. iSSo. i2mo ; pp. 19. 

28. The action of the Commission of Assembly in 

Professor Smith's case explained and vindicated. 
By the Rev. John Adam, D.D., Glasgow. 
Glasgow : David Bryce & Son. iSSo. Svo ; 
pp. 20. 

29. The action of the Free Church Commission ultra 

vires : a reply to the ** Action of the Commission 
explained and vindicated by the Rev. J. Adam, 
D.D." By W. G. Blackie, Ph.D., elder in 
the Free Church of Scotland. 
20. The Commission of Assembly ; and Professor 
Robertson Smith's reply to the Committee's 
report. By the Rev. James Innes, M.A., 
Panbride. Edinburgh : John Maclaren & Son. 
1881. Svo ; pp. 47. 

31. The present position of the case of Prof. Robertson 

Smith : a speech delivered in the Free Pres- 
bytery of Perth, March 30th, iSSi. By the 
Rev. D. D. Bannerman, M.A. Edinburgh : 
Andrew Elliot. 188 1. Svo ; pp. 32. 

32. 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, held in the Christian 
Institute, Glasgow, Friday, December 30th, 
iSSo. Glasgow : W. G. Blackie & Co. iSSl. 
Svo ; pp. 32. 

33. Remarks on Professor Smith's Theory of Scripture. 

By Rev. William Forwell, Dundee. Dundee : 
James P. Matthew & Co. iSSi. Svo; pp. 31. 

34. Professor Robertson Smith's new ideas considered 

in a statement prepared for the Free Presbytery 
of Edinburgh. By the Rev. George Macaulay 
of Free Roxburgh Church, Edinburgh. Edin- 
burgh : G. A. Young & Co. n.d. Svo ; pp. 16. 

35. Modern criticism : being an examination of the 

speech delivered by Professor Robertson Smith 
at the meeting of the Commission of the 
General Assembly of the Free Church of 
Scotland on the 27th October, iSSo. By the 
Rev. George Macaulay. Glasgow : David 
Bryce & Son. 1 88 1. Svo ; pp. 44. 

36. Uncritical criticism, a review of Professor W. 

Robertson Smith's Commission speech. By 
James Sime, M.A., F.R.S.E. Edinburgh: 
John Maclaren & Son. [1881]. Svo ; pp. 47. 

37. The Robertson Smith case. Recorded reasons 

and imputed motives of the Free Church leaders. 
By a Free Church layman. Edinburgh : Bal- 
lantyne press. 18S2. Svo; pp. 15. 

The volume of pamphlets which, on the day 
of Professor Robertson Smith's death, realised 
two guineas at the sale of Mr. A. D. Morice*s 



SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[May, 1894. 



library, contain only Nos. 1 1, 12, 13, 14, of tin 

University collection, tOKClhcr with :-^ 

37. An iipcn kttci to I'linciiinl Kaiiiy. liy W. 

Kulierlsiin Smilli. Kiliiiliurt^h, 1880. Kvo ; 

pp. 17. r. J. Amikrsos, 



THE EFKKJY OF A KNKIHT AT 
LOCHALSH. 
The whole question of the sculptured cffigi 
found in the Wc5t and North-west of Scotland 
is a remarkably interesting one— as much 
account of the [icculiaritics of dress exhibited 
on account of the ori)riu ivhich the stont^s may 
have had. On the fonncr point, what Drum- 
mond says is important, "the anuour of the 
knisbtly cfligies in the West Ili)jhlan<ls is a 
most puzzling matter. One thing 1 have not 
yet found at any place which 1 have \isiied - 
what we now term the Highland dress, the near- 
est approach beiny on a cross at Kilcreyyaii, 
but it is not the belted plaid, which is llic old 

form of wearing the dress One ]>cculi- 

arity about these figures is llie fonii of the hel- 
met, which is almost invariably of the same type, 

the basinel of the 13th or i4ih century 

The surcoat, which is generally sleeved, is, un- 
like any other knightly dress I know of, seem- 
ingly made of leather or strong cloth, quiUcd in 
regular folds, held to the arm by bands |)laccd 
above and below the elbow."' 

Drummond has also something to say about 
the origin of these sculptured figures. He is 
inclined to cast doubt upon the extensive depre- 
dations on lona which have usually been as- 
sumed as the reason whysomany figuied stones 
are found over the west. ISut the object of this 
note is not to deal with these (juestjons. It is 
more to call attention to an example of these 
knightly effigies, which lies at Lochalsh, and of 
which I have been unable to discover any notice. - 
The stone, of which a rough sketch 
subjoined, lies in the present 
lurchj'ard of Lochalsh. That it 
[les not occupy its original site is 
ic conunon report of the district, 
correspondent belonging to Loch- 
Ish writes tliat "it was removed 
etween 1756 and [760, and placed 
ver the grave of Donald Matheson, 
the Laird of Attadale, in the church- 
yard of Lochalsh, where it still lies." 
- The figure originally seems to have 
occupit-d a place in the old rhtjr.h 
■ 'vill a Comhain. Of this ancient 



building 1 



Part of 



vestige now 
me sue is even under cultivation. 

In length the figure is fi^ feet, and the breadth 
across the shoulders is 10% inches. 

The efllgy is assigned to Dugald Roy Mathe- 
son, who succeeded to the chieftaincy of his 
clan in 1539. The tradition of his death, like 
most of the Highland history, is subject to vari- 
ation, but the following is the account current in 
the district.' 

Part of (he land of Lochalsh had been acquired 
by the Mackenzies of Kintail and the Macdon- 
aids of (ilcngarry, and their proximity to one 
another and to the Mathcsons did not tend to 
the friendliness of all. The Chiefs of the Mac- 
d<nialds and the Malhcsons had a standing dif- 
ference about the niarthes and the apportion- 
ment of the rents raised off the land. Eventu- 
ally, however, they contrived to patch up a peace, 
and Macdonald invited .Matheson to a friendly 
feasl in his fortalice at the Loch of Auchna- 
hinian, in Lochalsh. Matheson attended with 
only his (lille Mor or Champion, instead of his 
usual retinue of thirteen men. The guest had 
always had an abhorrence of goat's flesh, and 
when what seemed to be that food was placed 
before him, .Matheson at once protested against 
the implied insult. .Macdonald answered that 
the dish was made of good mutton. But the 
whole proceeding was a dce]]-laid plot. To 
provide the excuse for a tjuaricl Macdonald had 
caused a lamb to be fed upon goat's milk, and 
the flavour which was thus imparted aroused, as 
was expected and intended, the suspicion of his ' 
guest. The quarrel became violent, and ended 
in Matheson being suddenly seized by a number 
of men, concealed near at hand for that purpose, 
and carried bound to a boat. They did not, 
' iwevcr, get far away with their prize. At the 
itrance to Kyle Rlica Matheson died out of 
eer chagrin, and Ihey had to return and land 
5 body at lialmacjira.-' 

A stone coHin was made, anil the remains of 
the unfortunate Cliief were buried in Kill a Com- 
hain. " It was covered with a stone bearing the 
efiigy of a warrior in full armour, which stone 
quarried and taken from the River Nostie 
by a John Matheson," says my local corre- 
spondent. J. Calder Ross. 



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BURNS'S OKICINAL PROSPECTUS. 
S'lUtiliNTH of IJurns will read with interest the 
subjoined connnuniciition, which appeared in 
tlic GUisgimi Ilcntld, early in the month of 



i Mr Mad 
isoner to In 



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February. Many valuable articles and letters 
relative to the poet and his works have recently 
appeared in that paper. 

James W. Scott. 

" 319 Cathcarl Road, January 31, 1894, 
Sir, --It is not known lo^Teneral readers lh.it abniii 
four months ere the appearance of ihe i>lue-paper- 
boarded, thin-octavo, three-shilling volume {i.e. the 
Kihiiarnock edition of liurns's Poems), the poet issued 
a prospectus. Only one copy of it is said now to 
exist, and that is in the possession of Mr J. B. Green- 
shields, Kerse, Lcsmahagow. I have visited Kerse 
House, and walked through the l)eauliful surrounding 
grounds and glen. Mr Cireenshields, who has been 
ailing for some lime, is related to IJurns's correspond- 
ent, the poet " Honest-hearted auld Lapraik," of 
Muirkirk, to whom Hums penned three epistles, which 
were lent and lost. Mr Cireenshields had a great 
quantity of Burns MSS., some of which, cm conscien- 
tious grounds, he burned, saying — " How much it is 
to be regretted that Burns prostituted liis genius ; on 
broad moral grounds I have just finished a bonfire of 
them ; so here ends the matter !" Mr Scott Douglas 
says — *' We assume that only the more offensive por- 
tions would thus be dealt with ; but for our part we 
cannot sympathise with the exceeding ' breadth ' of 
Mr Greenshield's moral sense. Bogles are generally 
harmless, and not very frightful objects when dragged 
into daylight, and witchcraft has l)ecome defunct since 
it ceased to be the fashion to burn witches.'' The 
following is a copy of Mr Greenshield's copy of Burns's 
*' Prospectus." Six hundred at least would be issued 
of them, the number of the poems : 

Ajjril 14th, 1785. 

PROPOSALS FOR I'lBLlSHING RV Sf nSCRIl'TION 
SCOTTISH I'OKMS HV ROBERT HURNS. 

The work to be elegantly pi inted in one volume octavo. 
Price, stitched, three shillings. As the author has not the 
most distant mercenary view in publishing, as soon as so many 
subscribers appear as will defray the necessary expense the work 
will be sent to the press. 

Set out the Ijruni side of your shin, 
For pride in poets is nae sin, 
Glory's the prize for which they rin, 

And fame's their joe I 
And wha best blaws the horn shall win — 

And wherefore no? — Allan Katnsay. 

The poet said that he cleared merely £20 by the 
venture, but from Mr R. Cole's typographers' check- 
note Burns's profits ought to have exceeded £,y:i. A 
good copy of the thin three-shilling volumes at a 
public sale might bring now ;!^ioo. 

I have heard it said that some of Burns's odd poems 
found their way into perhaps Glasgow, Edinburgh, 
and London newspapers before the volume was issued, 
but cannot vouch for the truth. — I am, &c., 

S. Brown." 



Mortality lies buried in the kirkyard of Sanquhar.' 

Kindly allow me to correct this statement. The burial 

place of Old Mortality was for long unknown : even 

Sir Waller Scott, who made the character immortal, 

and who was himself so learned an antiquary, did not 

know it ; but it became known some five-and-twenty 

ycjus ago to Mr Adam Black, the famous publisher, 

who was for some time Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 

and in November, 1869, he erected a monument to the 

memory of Old Mortality in the kirkyard of Caerlave- 

rock. The real name of Old Mortality was Robert 

Paterson. He was a native of Hawick, was born in 

171 5, and died at the age of 86 at Bankend, some 

eight miles from Dumfries, and in the parish of 

Caerlaverock. Here is a copy of the inscription which 

Mr Black caused to l)e placed on the monument in the 

kirkyard of Caerlaverock : — 

Erected to the Memory of 

Robert Paterson, the Old 

Mortality of Sir Waller Scott, 

Who was buried here February, 1801. 

Why seeks he with unwearied toil 

Through Death's dim walks to urge his way, 

Reclaim his long-asserted spoil, 
And lead oblivion into day V 

— I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, 

William Stakke." 



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Old Mortality's Grave.— The following 
letter, which appeared in a recent issue of the 
Times., deserves a corner in .S". N. er^ (2- The 
headstone is of red freestone. 

Michael Merlin. 

Sir, — In your issue of to-day, under the heading 
An Illustrated Gift-Book., I see it stated that * Old 



Rare Urn Found near Kirkcudbright. 
— At the March meeting of the Society of Anti- 
quaries of Scotland, Mr Frederick Coles read a 
notice of a discovery of a very pretty and rare 
variety of the small cup-shaped urns usually 
found in connection with the large cinerary urn 
which ordinarily contains the burnt bones of a 
cremated interment of the bronze age. The 
present example was recently found in plough- 
ing at Wrinnyliggate, about three miles from 
Kirkcudbright, and was exhibited by the Kirk- 
cudbright Museum Association through their 
curator, Mr M'Kie, to whom the author was also 
mdebted for information as to the circumstances 
of the discovery. In this case, as is usual, there 
seems to have been a very large urn enclosing 
the burnt bones, which was unfortunately shat- 
tered by the plough. The small urn which was 
found in the cavity in the furrow is only 2 inches 
in height and 2>^ inches diameter at the widest 
part. It is peculiar in having its sides formed 
of open work, being pierced with 14 triangular 
perforations, apparently with a sharp implement 
while the clay was soft. The solid part left be- 
tween the perforations are ornamented with 
incised paralleled lines and punctures. These 
small urns with open work perforating the sides 
were formerly supposed to be incense cups, but 
Canon (ireenwell regarded them as more likely 
to have been used for conveying the fire to 
kindle the funeral pile. The Kirkcudbright 
example is the first of this special variety, with 
triangular perforations, that has been found in 
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SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES 



LMay, 1894. 



Sale of Rare Scotch Books.— Several 
tooka of interest to Scottish antiquaries were 
recently sold at Sotheby's. The sum of ^6 15s. 
was given for an unknown account, in old French, 
of the death of Mary Queen of Scots, consisting 
■of but four leaves, without title page, and pro- 
bably one of the rarest works relating to the 
Scottish Queen. Another rare book on the same 
subject, also in old French, with a curious wood- 
cut portrait of the Queen, sold for X5- L^ 'os. 
and ^4 15s. were the prices given respectively 
for first editions of Sir Walter Scott's " Kenil- 
worth" and " Tales of the Crusaders." A large 
paper copy of the Bannatyne Club IJook with 
the Black Book of Taymouth and other papers 
from the Breadalbane Charter-Room, privately 
printed in London, 1855, sold for ^5 as. 6d. 
j£3 15s. was ^iven for a first edition of Greweli's 
" Life of Johnson," a presentation copy to the 
Earl of Kellie, with inscription in the author's 
autograph, Dibdin's bibliographical "Deca- 
meron" sold for 10 guineas, and the sanie 
author's "Tour in France and Germany" for 
^18 5s. The sum of /n 53. was given for 
several volumes of a weekly publication tailed 
Britannia, containing five original articles by 
Thackeray never reprinted, and a notice of the 
funeral of Napoleon, supposed to be written by 
Thackeray as Paris correspondent for a news- 

Mr. Robertson's Bibliography and Dr. 
James Taylor.—! see in Mr. Robertson's 
Bibliography of Ike Siirci of Aberdeen, Banff, 
and Kincardine, the name of the author of 
Edward I. in the North of Scotland '\s put in as 
"Alexander" Taylor. It should be Dr. "James" 
Taylor, late East India Company's Service. 

He also published at Elgin, in 1851, a Me- 
moir of Flarentius Volusenus; and in 1853 
received the Isia medal for his DescripUvt and 
Historical Account of the Cotton Manufacture 
of Dacca in Bengal, published in 1851 by John 
Mortimer, 141 Strand. He also prepared a 
Stetc/t of the Topography and Statistics of Dacca 
in 1840, printed, by order of the Government, 
by G. H. Hullman, Military Orphan Press, 
Calcutta. 

1 have a lot of MSS. of the late Dr. Taylor, 
but they are so mixed that no one has been 
found equal to the task of putting them together. 
One relates to the History of the Picts, another 
to Robin Hood's visit to Scotland, etc. 

Glen Gtant. JAMES GRANT. 

*»* We shall be glad to note further addenda 
to Mr Robertson's Hand list. Ed. 



in S.N.S^Q. o{ my " Folklore of Scottish Lochs 
and Springs." There is, however, a mistake in 
it to which 1 should like (o be allowed to call 
attention. Your reviewer says, "turning to page 
6i, St. Catherine's Balm Well, a well which is 
still visited by the curious, we find dismissed 
with a notice consisting of two lines. We at 
least expected to <ind the origin of this once 
famous well stated," The desired information 
will be found in my volume on pages 95, 96, and 
97, hut the passage is too long for quotation 
here, J. M, Mackinlav. 

4 Weslhoume Gardens, 

Glasgow, 7lh Aiiril. 



(liuerles. 

B8t. LaRi;E KaMIUEs. — (i). Walter Bnird of 
Ordinhoves and his wife Kalherine Grant, daughter uf 
Ballindalloch, had 3a children (c 1563). (2) John 
Gardyne and Elixabeth Arbulhnol hud 4 sans and so 
daughters (p. 1 1 1, Fraser's Laureitcetirk ). (3) Alex- 
ander Gray, sometime farmer in Mill of Bums, who 
died in the 96lh year of his age, having had 32 legit- 
imnte children liy his two wives (Fysie Churchyard). 
(4) Sir David Carnegie of Pittarrow was tnarried three 
limes and had 17 children. His first wife died in 
1677. He married secondly in 1684. (5) Patrick 
Duff of Craigston had 36 sans and daughters by his 
two wives (Annals of Banff, H. 316). (fi) Alexander 
Mcintosh, laird of Blervie, had 32 of a family (The 
MilnesofBanff, p. 4). Some ai 



882. Taylor Family of Fokfakshire.— I shall 
be ohliged if any one can give me information respect- 
ing the above. A William Taytor of Dunnichan, near 
Forfer, bom 1705, went lo Yurk as a Scotch Linen- 
Factor, and manied a daughter of Major Wilson of 
Leeds, a merchant. He died in 1757 from fever 
caught when the young I'relender came, in helping 
his countrymen to escape off the Yorkshire coast. 
William Taylor, and a Mr. Dempster of Dunnichan, 
in their youth, were personal fnenda. I have heard 
that there was a Taylor Clan in Forfarshire ; and ihey 
were connected with the Frasers. The Coat of Arras 
of the family to which William Taylor belonged was: 
"Argent or Or, a Sallire sable, between a crescent, 
surmounted by a cross-croslet filchde aiure, in chief, 
and in base, and a heart in each fiank gules." Crest, 
" An Arm embowed in armour, holdiog a cross-croslet 
fitch^e," Motto, " Tu hoc signo vinces." Is any- 
thing known of a lamily of Taylor in Forfarshire, in 
the 17th and l8lh centuries, to whom William Taylor 
might belong? where they lived? and how far can 
they be traced back ? and to whom as ancestor ? And 
also re "Taylor "Clan, 

Liphuok. Hants. W. D. HOVLK. 

883, James Bruce.— From at least 1796 to 181S. 
a gentleman of this name carried on a grocery busi- 
ness in George Street, Edinburgh, Vie had a brother, 
David, who was a captain in the army, being stadooed 
at Gibraltar the most of the above period. About Ihe 



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years 1802-3, David was an ensign in the 2nd Battalion 
of the 5th Regiment. I have been told the family 
belonged to Fifeshire, and claimed descent from 
Robert the Bruce. Can any of your readers verify 
this, and add further information, which will oblige. 

Fife. 

884. Portraits of Marischal College Prin- 
cipals. — I am anxious to complete, for the University 
Library, a set of photographs from portraits of the 
fifteen Principals of Marischal College. Appended 
are their names, those whose portraits are known to 
me being printed in italics. I shall be grateful for 
information regarding portraits of the others. 

I. Robert Howie, 1 593- 1 598. Previously minister 
of third charge, Aberdeen ; afterwards 
minister of first charge, Dundee, and prin- 
cipal of St. Mary*s College, St. Andrews. 
Native of Aberdeen ; studied at King's 
College, at Herborn, and at Basel. 

II. Gilbert Gray, 1 598- 1 6 14. Studied at Edinburgh. 

III. Andrew Aedie, 1615-1619. Had resided in 

Dantzic. 

IV. William Forbes, 1620-1621. Previously Pro- 

fessor of Logic, minister of Alford, Mony- 
musk,and third charge, Aberdeen ; afterwards 
minister and first bishop of Edinburgh. 
Native of Aberdeen ; studied at Marischal 
College, Helmstadt, Heidell>erg, Leyden, 
and Oxford. Portrait by Jamesone in Maris- 
chal College, reproduced in Wodrow's Biog. 
Coll. (New Spalding Club). 

V. Patrick Dun^ M.D., 1621 -164^. Previously 
Professor of Logic in Marischal College, and 
Mediciner in King's College. Studied at 
Basel. Portrait by Jamesone in Grammar 
School, reproduced in Fasti Acad. MariscalU 
(New Spalding Club). 
VI. William Moir, £64^-1661, Previously Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics, and a baillie. Portrait 
in Marischal College, "copy after Jamesone. 
At Scotstoun is the original from which this 
was prolmbly painted." (Knight's MS. 
Collections). 
VII. James Leslie, M.D., 1 661 -1678. 
VIII. Robert Paterson, rdyg-iy 16. Previously regent 
and librarian ; also Commissary. Portrait 
by [?] in Marischal College. 
IX. Thomas Black well, 171 7-1 728. Previously 
minister of Paisley, and of second charge and 
Greyfriars, Aberdeen ; also Professor of 
Divinity. 
X. John OsborHy 1^28-1748. Previously minister 
of third charge, Aberdeen. Portrait by 
Alexander in Trades Hall. 
XI. Tho?nas Blackwell the Younger, 1748-17^7. 
Previously Professor of Greek. Portrait by 
[?] in Trades Hall. 
XII. Robert Pollock, I751-I7S9' Previously minister 
of Duddingston, and of Greyfriars ; also 
Professor of Divinity. Portrait by [?] in 
Marischal College. 
XIII. George Campbell, I7$g-i7g6. Previously 
minister of Banchory-Ternan, of second 



charge, and of Greyfriars, Aberdeen ; also 
Professor of Divinity. Portrait by Archibald 
Robertson in Trades Hall. 
XIV. William Lawrence Brown, 1796-1832. Previ- 
ously minister of Utrecht, and of Greyfriars ; 
Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht, and of 
Divinity, Marischal College. 
XV. Daniel Dewar, 1832- 1860. Previously minister 
of Strontian, of Greyfriars, Aberdeen, and of 
Tron Church, Glasgow : Professor of Moral 
Philosophy, King's College, and of Divinity, 
Marischal College. 

P. J. Anderson. 

885. Edward Raban, Printer, Aberdeen. — I 
have just fallen in with a nice, clean, and perfect copy 
of »* M. William Guild's, Minister at King-Edward, 
Three Rare Monuments of Antiquities : printed at 
Aberdeen, 1624." In its engraved vellum cover it 
is inscribed, ** This book pertains to Mrs. Barbara 
Forbes," and again "August 20th, 1801, St. 
Auchiraes — given by the Hon. Mrs. Forbes of Pitsligo 
to Alexander Jolly." It has also got the autograph of 
"Alexander Jolly" upon the title page. This copy 
agrees with the description given in EdmoncTs Aber- 
deen Printers, 1886, as pertaining to the copies 
thereof in the University Library, Glasgow, and the 
British Museum, London. Mr. David Laing possessed 
a bound copy, which was sold at the sale of his library 
in London, in 1879, and brought the sum of three 
pounds and twelve shillings. I understand that there 
is no copy of this work in the University Library, 
Aberdeen. Can any of your readers give me infor- 
mation as to the sale of Bishop Jolly's Library, when 
and where such took place ? 

Edinburgh. Thos. G. Stevenson. 

886. "Sillerton."— Can any reader throw any 
light on the origin or history of this term, as applied 
to Gordon's Hospital ? So far as I know, the term is 
not used by any local historian, but in Paterson's 
Map of Aberdeen, 1746 (reproduced in Mr. Robbie's 
"Aberdeen : its Traditions and History,") the site of 
Gordon's Hospital is marked " Silverton Hospital." 
That name could hardly have been put on the map at 
hap-hazard — there must have been a reason for it. 
The curious thing is, that Gordon's Hospital was 
opened for the admission of boys in 1746. R. A. 

887. Maid of Badenoch. — Can any of your 
readers refer me to the author and music of a song 
under the above title which was familiar and popular 
in social circles over 50 years ago ? 

Wandsworth. R, 

888. Dr. Alex. Monro, Primus. — The father of 
Dr. Alex. Monro was John Monro, Surgeon in the 
army of King William. Of the numerous biographical 
authorities I have consulted, not one states in definite 
terms who his mother was, although several, including 
the Dictionary of National Biography, allude to her 
as " a Forbes of the family of Culloden." I shall be 
indebted to any of your readers who can give me her 
name and parentage. She would be bom before 1675, 
and would probably be a granddaughter of John 
Forbes, II. of Culloden, or a daughter of his brother 
Capt. James Forbes of Caithness (who married Agnes