J w THE SCOTTISH ANTIQUARY or Northern Notes & Queries EDITED BY THE REV. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN, M.A. F.S.A. SCOT., CONC. SCOT. HIST. Soc., F. HUGT. S. ESTABLISHED 1886 VOL. VI. WITH INDEXES EDINBURGH Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty at the University Press MDCCCXCII ' THE SCOTTISH ANTIQUARY ' is issued in Quarterly Parts, is. each ; Annual Subscription, 45. SOLD BY THE FOLLOWING BOOKSELLERS:— Edinburgh, G. P. JOHNSTON, George Street. ,, RICHARD CAMERON, South St. David Street. London, . ELLIOT STOCK, Paternoster Row, E.G. Aberdeen, J. RAE SMITH, Union Street. Dundee, G. PETRIE, Nethergate. Glasgow, . HUGH HOPKINS, Renfield Street. All Letters and Subscribers' Names to be sent to the Editor, The Rev. A. W. CORNELIUS H ALLEN, Parsonage, Alloa. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Seal of Dundee, . . 23 Arms of Berwick County Council, .."... 30 A Primitive Candlestick, . . . . . . 42 Brass of Regent Murray, . . . . . . 55 A Doctor's Chamber, 66 Old Bronze Vessel, 93 Brass of John Beton, 113 Sailor's Costume, . . . . . . . .127 Seal of the Bishop of Ross, 127 Tombstone in Ulm Cathedral, . . . . .132 Garter Medal, 135 Brass of Alexander Cpckburn, . . . . .185 Engraved Title-page, . . . . . . .190 Arms of Belfast, .T~~""~~. 191,192 The Scottish Antiquary OR Northern Notes and Queries CONTENTS. NOTES. QUERIES. PAGE PAGE 357. Heraldry, . . . i CLXVI. Pulpit at Bo'ness, • 45 358. Heraldic Exhibition, . ; . . 7 CLXVII. Bethune Family, . • 45 359. Registers of Old St. Paul's, Edin- CLXVIII. George Bethune of Kingusk . 45 burgh, . . . . 8 CLXIX. Dunbar Family, . . 46 360. Oldest Seal of the Burgh of Dundee, 22 CLXX. Rutherford Family, . • 46 361. List of Rebels, 1745-6, . 25 CLXXI. Linlithgow, . . 46 362. Notes on Attainted Jacobites, 27 CLXX 1 1. Hannan Family, . . 46 363. Arms of Berwick County Council, . 30 CLXXIII. Stewart of Auldhame, . . 46 364. Ross Family, 31 CLXXIV. Early Scottish Weavers, . . 46 365. Shoolbred, 40 366. Drumalbyn, 41 REPLIES. 367. Stewart Family, .... 41 368. A Primitive Candlestick, 42 CXXI. Scot of Scotstarvet, . . 46 369. Sir Charles Bailly 42 CLIII. Latch, .... • 47 370. Scots in Sweden, .... 43 371. Rose MSS., 43 NOTICES OF BOOKS, . 48 » NOTE. — The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of Contributors. All Communications to be sent to the EDITOR of1 The Scottish Antiquary? The Parsonage, Alloa. 357. HERALDRY.— It is impossible to study History intelligently without recognising the importance of Genealogy, and the utility of Heraldry, not only to illustrate Genealogy, but to assist in individualising historical characters. In Europe, for the last ten centuries, wars and revolutions have set up and have cast down thrones and dynasties, and in these events Genealogy has played a prominent part. If we take Great Britain alone, the rival claims to the Scottish throne, the wars of the Roses in England, the Union of the two Crowns under James vi. and i., the Act of Settle- ment which led to the Jacobite risings, cannot be clearly understood by one who cannot follow the lines of descent of a genealogical table ; and further, the more Genealogy is studied, the better will the composition of a nation be understood and its characteristics accounted for. National VOL. VI. — NO. XXI. A 2 The Scottish Antiquary ; character changes by reason of the infusion of alien blood which introduces new qualities.1 That this is the case is proved from the effects of cross- breeding in our domestic animals. Why does a farmer or a sportsman pay qoo or 1000 guineas for a bull or a horse with a duly recorded pedigree when he might purchase a good looking serviceable beast for less than as many shillings? He has learnt by experience that the qualities of the parents are transmitted to the offspring, and a carefully constructed and trustworthy pedigree is a guarantee that he obtains what he desires. The Americans, a people not wanting in cuteness, regard the pedigrees of their families as important as those of their cattle In America, most towns of any considerable size possess genealogical societies, hundreds, or perhaps more correctly thousands of pedigrees have been printed, not of the wealthier families only, but of those engaged in trade also. The sole object cannot be vanity : one great desire possesses them, to find an ancestor in England or in Scotland, and so prove their claim to be our cousins. They know the source of their energy and shrewdness because they are wise enough not to despise or neglect Genealogy. Even England can compare favourably with Scotland. During the i6th and i;th centuries official pedigrees were enrolled by the Kings of Arms of the College of Arms. Amongst these, which number about 2000, many middle-class families are to be found. Some hundreds of these pedigrees have been printed, while the whole collection in manuscript is kept at the College of Arms, where it can be examined. During the last two hundred years no official visitations for enrolling pedigrees have been made, but a vast number have been lodged with and certified by the College as correct. During this period also the history of nearly every English county has been written parish by parish, so thoroughly, that the genealogies of what are called county families may be said to be made up to date,2 and during the last thirty years many provincial periodicals, ever increasing in number, have continued the work and supplied omissions. As yet, however, the English middle class or trading families have not to any very great extent followed the example of their American cousins, but still something is being done. When we come to consider Scotland, we are met with the remarkable fact that a people who pride themselves on Mang pedigrees' trust chiefly to unwritten and hazy traditions, very many of which are manifestly 'old wives' fables. Douglas, the only compiler of a complete National Peerage, was most painstaking, but he had to face many difficulties, and in some cases stupid obstacles. He attempted a Baronage or account of the principal untitled families, but it was left unfinished. Of late years, valuable histories have been compiled of some of the great Scottish families, but even from these not much is to be learned of families founded by younger sons. The Lyon 1 The value of genealogy is admitted by such passages as the following (Scotsman, Tune i, 1891) :— « Browning's genealogy cannot be traced back with certainty beyond his grandfather. Both his father and grandfather were clerks in the Bank of England, the former being a man of more than ordinary mental gifts and capacities, and a famous book- lover. He probably derived the poetic temperament, his highly nervous organisation, and his bodily infirmities— not great, yet greater than they seemed— froni his mother. She was, according to Carlyle, "the true type of a Scottish gentle-woman,' her mother being a Scotswoman, her father a Hamburg German settled in Dundee. The blending of the robust Anglo-Saxon with the Scoto-German stock produced the Robert Browning P2° A7a recent sale at Sotheby's, London, forty-one different English County Histories sold for a total of ;£io6j, or an average of £24, IDS, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 3 Office is remarkably ill-equipped in the matter of pedigrees ; indeed it has only of late years done any profitable work. The late Lyon King, Dr. Burnett, and the Lyon Depute, Mr. Stodart, put fresh life into it, and the Heraldic Exhibition shows that the present Lyon, Mr. Paul, and his colleagues, are enthusiastic in the cause. These remarks on Genealogy are necessary as an introduction to the con- sideration of Heraldry. Genealogy may exist without Heraldry, but Heraldry separated from Genealogy has no meaning, nay, cannot be said to possess an existence. Heraldry is the system which allocates to certain individuals the right to use certain marks or badges called Armorial Bearings. These are to families what distinctive uniforms are to regiments or tartans to clans, and in their earlier employment were as publicly used and recognised. The soldier armed cap-a-pie could only be known by the device painted on his shield or the crest placed on his helmet. These were granted by his sovereign as captain-general of the army. Their possession was recorded in England by the Earl Marshal and his subordinates, the kings and heralds composing the College of Arms : — in Scotland by the Lord Lyon, King of Arms. Armorial bearings thus officially granted descend to all the male descendants of the grantee, in- case of younger sons and their descendants some trifling change is usually made so as to leave the heir of line in possession of the arms as originally granted. In the case of female succession (there being no son), the daughter or daughters, until marriage, bear the arms, without a crest, not on a shield but on a lozenge supposed to represent the distaff. At marriage her arms are placed on a small shield in the centre of the husband's, her children bear them on the second and third quarters of the shield, the father's being borne on the first and fourth. A man who marries a woman who has a brother or brothers places her arms by his own on his shield (which is called impal- ing), but the issue of the marriage use the father's arms only. Before dwelling on the artistic use that may be made of heraldic designs, a very few words may be said on the technical terms used. No more need be attempted in this paper, because those to whom the subject affords no pleasure would only be further wearied, and those who wish to know more can study it for themselves in the Encyc. Brit, or in Heraldic Manuals, a list of which is given at the end. I. The Shield. — The most important part of the blazon, as the complete Armorial Bearings are termed, is the shield. In early examples it was in shape similar to that used in warfare, in later times fanciful forms were adopted. It is not necessary to describe here the names given to the different portions of the shield's surface. The colour of the shield before devices are added, is termed 'the field.' The colours are heraldically described as metals, colours, and furs. The 2 metals are — Gold, styled or, represented in engravings by dots. Silver, „ argent, „ a plain white surface. The 4 colours in general use are — Red, styled gules, represented in engravings by vertical lines. Blue, „ azure, „ horizontal lines. Black, „ sable, ,, vertical and hori- zontal cross-lines. Green, „ vert, „ diagonal lines. There are three other colours hardly ever used in British armoury. 4 The Scottish Antiquary ; The only fur that need be mentioned here is ermine, represented by small upright arrow-heads between three dots to represent the black tails of ermines. On the shield devices were drawn, this rule being laid down, metal could not be placed on metal, nor, except very rarely, colour on colour. The earliest devices were simple rectilineal figures termed ordinaries, these were, the bend dexter and sinister, the chevron, the chief, the cross, the fess, the pale, the quarter, and the saltire. Next come charges or figures of animals, flowers, heavenly bodies, weapons, etc. ; these were used singly or in groups. And lastly, charges and ordinaries were combined, the laws as to tinctures being still observed. The lowest stage, or rather the degradation, of the science was reached last century, when representations of sieges and sea-fights were granted as arms or augmentations. The Crest. — Next in importance to the shield is the crest, or device placed over a wreath or coronet, often erroneously called a ducal coronet, on the helmet or above the shield, and useful in the battlefield as a conspicuous badge. The Motto) usually placed on a scroll below the shield, originally was the warcry. The Supporters. — Noblemen, Knights of the Bath, some Baronets and Commoners, have the right to use supporters, representations of real or fabulous creatures, holding up the shield. These originated in the practice of knights previous to a tournament placing men, usually disguised in some fanciful way, to hold up their shield before their tents. The Helmet. — "Usually, but not always, placed above the shield, and bearing the crest. The rank of the owner is indicated by the position and fashion of the helmet. The Mantle or Lambrequin is a fanciful representation of the linen covering of the helmet slashed by the swords of the enemy. And now, it may be asked, can nothing be gained by a knowledge of Heraldry, can no use be found for it in this nineteenth century ? It may be well to quote the words of Mr. Woodward of Montrose, whose know- ledge of the subject is probably unsurpassed by any living Armourist : — ' Not the least important of the many beneficial results of the general revival of archaeological studies is to be found in the recognition of the value of Heraldry as a handmaid to History. The ridiculous manner in which the science was handled in most of the old heraldic treatises, through which it became associated with all manner of absurdities in natural history, and with legendary stories manifestly devoid of historic truth, tended to obscure its true value, and exposed it to the ridicule and con- tempt alike of the cultured man of letters, who styled it "a foolish business," and of the superficial observer. ' The " science of fools " is only one of many contemptuous epithets ignorantly applied to what has been happily termed " crystallised history." But the increased attention paid to historical studies, and the renaissance of a general appreciation of the beautiful in Art, have combined to restore the science to a position which, but for the ignorance of its professed teachers in this country, it would never have lost. Its importance and extreme utility, not merely to the professed archaeologist, but to the man of taste and the collector of articles de vertu of every kind, have, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 5 especially during the last quarter of a century, met increasingly with proper recognition. Nowadays the collector of pictures, tapestries, glass, china, coins, or seals — whatever be his hobby — down to ex libris, and even postage-stamps, finds in the armorial bearings so frequently displayed on them contemporary evidence of the highest value with regard to the date, the country, or the ownership of the articles he amasses. As a natural result the last thirty years have been prolific in manuals, and treatises of varying importance, dealing with British Heraldry ; and the excellent work of such writers as Lower, Planche, Seton, and especially Boutel), have done much to awaken an intelligent interest in a most in- teresting study.5 J Culture consists in furnishing the mind with a variety of knowledge. The knight of old was skilled in the use of sword and battle-axe, and in the stratagems of the chase he could also tune the lute to which he sang the praises of his mistress. The gentleman and lady of this age must in like manner prove their right to the title by the possession of a mind, gentle, because cultivated in various ways and planted with some of the flowers that brighten life. It is easy to laugh at what is not understood, any fool can do that ; those who possess sense will be ready rather to learn, though they may not care to study deeply, many subjects that are brought before them. People who use long words they do riot understand make themselves ridiculous, and so do those who use technical terms rashly ; and this fault is frequently committed by those who speak of ' crests ' and k arms ' without knowledge, as if they meant the same thing. Those who have studied this paper need not misapply such terms while examining the treasures exhibited in Edinburgh • but a little further pursuit of knowledge will show how Heraldry can be applied to brighten the often dry study of History, how kings and warriors may be individualised by their achievements enshrined in their coats of arms. That Heraldry was understood by educated people in the seventeenth century is shown by the common use of heraldic terms by the writers of the time. During the eighteenth century old English literature, customs, and architecture were regarded as rude and barbarous, and Heraldry was deposed in good company. For some years past a revival has been going on in which Sir Walter Scott was one of the first movers. Mediaeval architecture is now the fashion for House as well as Church. Shakespeare and his contemporaries are valued as they should be, but the power to understand many things they tell us has been much weakened by the past neglect of many old words and the disappearance of old customs. It is absolutely necessary that a knowledge of Heraldry should be restored, otherwise words and phrases now revived and adornments now substituted for pseudo-classical monstrosities will appeal to deaf ears and blind eyes. Fairly educated men and women can no longer afford to sneer at Heraldry as absurd ; they must prepare themselves to give some rational reply to the children who ask them the meaning of objects in common life. A knowledge of Heraldry is absolutely necessary to the decorator of the present day ; the use of heraldic ornamentation for wall, roof, and window is becoming general. In Scotland we have been long in learning 1 The Genealogist, Oct. 1886. 6 The Scottish Antiquary ; the use of colour in decoration ; there has been a great antipathy to it. We live under a canopy more frequently grey than azure we (the men at least) clothe ourselves in sad-coloured garments; we inhabit drab houses with :iate roofs That we should not use brick when stone is cheaper is in- telligible but red tiles for roofs can be procured as cheaply as slates, and are as durable ; as yet, however, they are not aristocratic, and therefore not fashionable ; but we might paint our doors and our wmdow-frames with something brighter than sad green or mendacious dingy oak graining, and I?U*st on ou? public buildings our architects might supply the means for colour adornment. Inside our public buildings the field of operation is wide but yet it is, alas ! untouched. County and Burgh Chambers, Town Halls and Public Reading Rooms offer peculiar facilities to the decorator, who would find heraldic devices not only effective but appropriate. I he arms of men of fame, of worth, of letters, would be object-lessons. And as to colour, some forty years ago, when I was engaged on some decora- tive work a friend, the well-known English architect Butterfield, advised me to study Heraldry, because the rules of Blazonry secured a correct combination of colours, while the fortuitous juxtaposition of different coats of arms was sure to produce an artistic effect. _ 1 hat this is the case will be acknowledged by every one capable of judging who has seen the panel roof of a large hall, or the cornice round the walls adorned with painted shields of arms ; and when applied to windows, those who only know the Parliament House, Edinburgh, must admit the beauty of the effect produced. The house decorator, then, should study Heraldry, may be assured that a movement is going on which the Exhibition in Edinburgh will do much to quicken ; but the house decorator will not be employed in painting shields till those who have built for themselves houses become more cultivated, and learn to rely more on their own taste than on the opinion of the professional decorator or upholsterer ; in short, until they are fit to become independent, and value the freedom of pleasing themselves. What a joy it would be to build a house here in sad-coloured Scotland and carry out unfettered ideas of comfort and beauty ! People would of course at first look and laugh, then look and like, and lastly look and love. Such a house would be like a rose-tree in a garden of cabbages, like a girl bright in dress and brighter still in beauty in an assemblage of Quakers. And let ladies recognise the fact that they will find Heraldry a most interesting study in itself, and that it will provide them with designs for those many dainty articles they are ever busy manufacturing for the adornments of their houses or for gifts to friends. Heraldic banner screens may be made most effective and appropriate ; in fact Heraldry lends itself readily to all sorts of embroidery. Those who paint would find real pleasure in illuminating a manuscript copy of some favourite poem. Take, for instance, the pathetic ' Flowers of the Forest,' a stanza written in the centre of each page and surrounded by such a border as old illuminators loved, with shields of arms of those of Scotland's sons who fell at Flodden— such a work would give delight in the doing, and when finished will be a joy- BOOKS USEFUL TO STUDENTS OF HERALDRY. T. Nesbit's System of Heraldry -, 1722. 2. Guillim's Display of Heraldry, 1724. or, Northern Notes and Qiieries. 3. Seton's Law and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland. 4. Scottish Arms.'by R. R. Stodart. 5. Elvin's Dictionary of Heraldry. 6. Bou tail's Heraldry. 7. Clarke's Heraldry. ^ ^ CORNELIUS HALLEN. -US HERALDIC EXHIBITION.— The arrangements for the Heraldic Exhibition, which is to be held at Edinburgh in connection with the visit of the Royal Archaeological Institute, are proceeding favourably. The Committee have got many offers of rare and valuable objects, and the Exhibition is sure to prove an interesting one. An influential London Committee has been affording valuable aid, and the authori- ties at South Kensington have been good enough to promise some of their treasures. The Marquis of Bute is sending the Murthly Book of Hours, a magnificent MS. of the i3th century, with which is bound up several full-page illuminations, one of which contains what is sup- posed to be one of the earliest representations of coat armour. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Ogilvy send a splendid Scottish armorial, most brilliantly and artistically executed with full-length figures of the Kings of Scotland : this work does not seem to have been known to any recent writer on the science Mr. Vicars of -Dublin, an enthusiastic collector, is placing his stores of heraldic items most freely at the disposal of the Committee : among them may be mentioned what is probably a unique collec- tion of 52 portraits of Heralds. Many early grants of arms, English, Scottish, and Irish, are promised, together with some notable family trees, in particular the celebrated Glenurquhy tree, painted by Jameson, from Taymouth Castle. There will be a small but choice collection of heraldic stained-glass, and a large and representative gathering of seals, generally, of course, in the shape of impressions appended to documents. Several thousand ex libris plates have been put at the disposal of the Committee, but it has been found impossible to do more than select a few of these to illustrate various periods and styles. There will also be displayed some fine specimens of heraldic china and glass. The Exhibition will probably be opened on the ist of July, and will remain open till the end of August : it is to be held in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, a Government build- ing under constant police supervision, so that exhibitors need have no fear for the safety of their exhibits. After due consideration the Com- mittee have come to the conclusion that the Exhibition should, so far as they are concerned, be opened free to the public. This, of course, com- pels them to rely entirely on the generosity of persons interested in the subject for subscriptions to defray the expense of the undertaking. While exercising the utmost economy, they have not yet got a sufficient amount of funds to enable them to carry out the plan as they would like : and they should be much obliged by any contributions being sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. A. W. Inglis, Royal Institution, Edinburgh. The Com- mittee hope to issue a catalogue at the beginning of the Exhibition, and, if the funds admit, to produce an edition of it, illustrated with photographs, later on, but this must entirely depend on the state of the finances. J. B. P. 8 The Scottish Antiquary ; 359. REGISTERS OF OLD ST. PAUL'S, EDINBURGH, A.D. 1736-1747 (continued from vol. \.page 152).— 1736. Sep. 6. Att Leith, baptized a son of Jo. Pew, Brewer, named William. Wm. Henderson, Mr. & Mrs. Deuchar, witnesses. Sep. 30. Baptized a son of Alexr. Keith, junr., Under Clk. of Sessions, & Johanna Swinton, named Alexander. Alexr. Keith, Senr., Alexr. Orem, Senr. & Junr., & Miss Swinton, Mr. Duff of Crombie, Hamilton of Bangour, Dor. Rutherford, &c., witnesses. „ Nov. 14, f. i. p. ves. Baptized a daur. of Walter Boswall, Saidlar named Margaret. Deacon Boswall, Mr. Orrock, Mrs Greig, &c., pnt. „ Dec. 1 6. Baptized (in John Hempseed's house, Cowgate), a daur. of Hugh Smith, Writer, named Margaret .... „ Dec. 1 6. Baptized (ho. 6J v.) in Morocco's Land, Canongate, a daur. of Alex. Finlay, Taylor, named Eupheme. Deacon Callender, Alex. Mackenzie, James Craig, &c., witnesses. „ Dec. 1 8, f. 7. h. 6£ v. Baptized (in the Advocates' Gloss) a daur. of William Wilson, Writer in Edinr., & Lillias Haldane, daur. of Lanrick, namedLillias. Mrs. Margt. Haldane, Mrs. . . . Wilson, Spors, Mr. Henderson & Mr. Murray, &c." pnt. Sdy. Liturgy. „ Dec. 24, Xmas Eve, f. 6. h. 6j. v. Baptized (in my own house), a son of Wm. Goodwin, Curryer, & Jean Shields, named Alexander. Cath. Harris, Anne Campbell, &c., witnesses. A°. Sal. 1737. Jan. 12, f. 4. h. 3^ v. Baptized a son of Wm. Stephen, Taylor (at his house opposite to the Cross), named Andrew. Thomas Shaw & his wife, &c., pnt. „ Jan. 1 8. By allowance of the Rd. Messrs. Law & Forbes, Minrs. of Leith, baptized a son of James Sutherland, Mert., yr., named Alexander. Mr. Daes & Mr. Gibson, Mrs. Murray & 3 Daurs., pnt. „ Jan. 31, f. 2. h. 5. v. Baptized a son of Mr. David Graeme, Advocate, & ... Murray, daur. of Abercairnie, named James. Lady Balgowan, Sir Wm. Nairn of Dunsinnan, & David Graeme, Orchill, Spors., Messrs. Wm. Graeme, Adam Mercer & yr. wives, Lady Murray, & Dor. Dundas, &c., pnt. Pr. Litur. „ May 19. Baptized (in Mrs. Thomson's) a son of Rot. Taylor, Shoemaker, & Janet Thomson, named James. Lady Pitcairly & her Daur., Andrew Thomson, Messrs. Menzies & Taylor, pnt. „ June 3, f. 6. h. 4. v. Baptized a daur. of James Hay, Writter to the Signet, named Anne — sine Lit. Alex. Keith, Junr., Albert Monro, ffoarester of Commiston, &c., Lady Kilmundy, Misses Turner & Leith, witnesses. „ June 23. Baptized a daur. of Richard Walker, Drawer in Mr. Jollie's, & ... Denune, named Christian. Mrs. Denune, Mrs. Monro, John Bell, &c., witnesses. „ June 28, f. 2. h. 6. v. Baptized a daur. of Alex. Orme, Writer, named Anne. Alex. Keith of Ravelston, Senr. & Junr., Adam Mercer, Rot. Rose, Mr. Dav. Couper, all Writers, Mrs. Keith, Junr. & her sister, Miss Couper, &c., witnesses. „ July 8, f. 6. h. 7. v. Baptized (in absence of Mr. Hunter) a son of Gilbert Crichton, Stabler, in the head of the Cowgate, named or, Northern Notes and Queries. 9 Alexander. Cath. Cleghorn & Eliz. Ewes, Witnesses, Mr. Alexr. Lockhart, Advocate, intended Godffayr. 1737. July 24, f. i. h. 7. v. Baptized in St, Ninian's Raw, a daur. of John Smith, Staymaker, from Kirkwall, named Agnes. John Traill of Wodwick, &c., pnt. — about 8 or 10. „ Aug. n, f. 5. h. 6. v. Baptized a daur. of William M'Dougall, Mert, named Margaret. My Lady Murray, Mrs Hunter, Miss Calder, Miss Scott, Robert & John Douglasses, & Francis Scott, witnesses. This in absence, but by Desire of Mr. David Rae. ,, Septr. 4, f. i. h. 5. v. Baptized a son of Alexr. Fraser, Shoemaker, named William. „ Septr. 25, f. i. h. 4. v. Baptized a daur. . . . Halyday & Barbara Drummond, named Barbara. Mr. Guthrie, Miss Stirling, Mrs. Hales, &c., pnt. N.B. — I was designed God'ffayr. „ Oct. 26, f. 4. h. 6. v. Mr. Blair's Son William was Christen'd (two hours after his Birth) by Mr. Hunter. David Beatt, Margt. Maitland, & S. Spors. „ Nov. 27. Baptized (in the Canongate) a son of David Brown (sert. to Saughton), named John — Tho. Miln, Geo. „ Dec. 28, f. 4. h. 5. v. Baptized a son of Alexr. Keith, Under Clk. of Session, and Johanna Swinton, named Alexander (the former son of that name being dead). Alex. Keith, Senr., Mr. Orem, Dor. Rutherford, Mr. Watt, James Hay, Mrs. Orem, Miss Swinton, &c., &c., present. N.B. — Mrs. Keith (after three month of grief for the Death of her former children, and toyl by the sickness of her husband) came to the altar of God on Xtmas Day, and brought forth her son on St. John's Day, Ao£a TW 0ea>. A°. Sal. 1738. Feb. 4, f. 7. h. 7. v. Baptized a daur. of Alexr. Findlay, Taylor, named Euphem. Deacon Callendar, &c., &c., present. „ Feb. 5, f. i. h. 4^ ves. Baptized (per Liturg.) a posthumous Daur. of Mr. Henry Guild, Writer, named Henriette. The Honble. Mr. James Graham of Airth, Mrs. Mary Hunter, and Mrs. Jean Spence, Spors. Coram mult test. „ Feb. 5, h. 5^ ves. Baptized a daur. of Hugh Smith, Writer, named Catherine. James Craig, Writer, &c., &c., pnt. ,, Apr. i, f. 7. cir. mend. Easter Even. Baptized twins, a son and a daur. of Dav. Graeme, Orchill, & Euph. Nairn, named John & Agnes. Spors. for the son, John Nairn of Greenyards, Adam Mercer, & Mrs. Mercer, and for the daur., Lady Pit- cairns, Mrs. Jane Graeme, & Mr. David Graeme, Advocate. Per Liturg. „ Apr. Baptized a daur. of the Rd. Mr. James Mackenzie, named Elizabeth. Mrs. Grizel Urquhart, Mr. Al. M'Leod, my Collegue, his wife, & Mr. Char. Rose, witnesses. Per Lit. „ Apr. 29, f. 7. h. 3. v. Baptized a son of Wm. & Janet Livingstoune's, named Frances — the ffayr. a Souldier in Holland. The moyr. (Spor.) in great want, wt. 5 children. „ May 26, f. 6. h. 4. v. Baptized a son of Hugh Robertson, sert. to Mr. Alexr. Keith of Ravelstone, named John — 6 witnesses. „ June 8, f. 5. h. 6. v. In absence of the Rd. Messrs. Blair & Hunter, ro The Scottish Antiquary ; baptized (in the Advocates' Close) a son of David Mackenzie, Mert, & ... Hay, daur. of Arnbath, named George. Messrs. William Hay, . . . Rose . . ., witnesses. 1738. June n, f. i. h. 6. v. Baptized a son of ... Stroke, Taylor in St. Mary Wynd, named Alexander. John More, Bookbinder, and his wife, Mr. Addieson, Writer, etc., witnesses. ,, June 1 6. Baptized a daur. of George Bean & Janet Harper, named Mary. „ July i, f. 7. h. 6. v. Baptized a son of William Wilson, Writer, named George (pr. Liturg.). George Murray, Surgeon, Mr. Henderson, Mrs. Margaret Haldane, &c., witnesses. ,, July 23, f. i. h. 5. v. Baptized a son of George Smith, Shoemaker, Precentor in C.C., named Thomas. Mr. Tho. Ruddiman, &c., &c., witnesses. ,, Sep. 2, f. 7. h. 5. v. Baptized (in Gossford's Closs) a son of Andrew Ewing (Sert. to Henry Bethune of Balfour) named Archibald. Geo. Falconar, son to Lord Halkerston, Robt. Menzies, Writer, Alexr. Reid, Goldsmith, Margt. Shiells, Anne Hay, &c., witnesses. „ Sep. 22, f. 6. h. n. m. Baptized a daughter of Ranald M'Donell, a Centinell in the City Gaurd, and Jean Drummond, named Anne. James Couper & Margt. M'Donell, witnesses. „ Sept. 22, h. 6. v. In the Old Assembly Closs, baptized a son of Mr. James Hay, Writer to the Signet, & Ann ffarqrson, named Adam. Eliz. Leith, Helen Turner, Adam Hay, S. Geo. Ord, Albert Monro, Mr. & Mrs. Kerr, Alexr. Keith, Junr., & his wife, Forrester of Comiston, &c., witnesses. Sine Lib. ,, Oct. 14. In Halkerston's Wynd, baptized a son of Ja. Whithead, Wright, & Eliz. Warden, named John. Pr. off. Brev., the child being born in the 5th or 6th month. ,, Oct. 14, f. 7. h. 5. v. In Forresters Wynd, Mr. Black baptized (pr. Liturg.) a son of Cairnfields named James; I was Spor. Tho. Gordon, Al. Symmers, & Ja. Grant, &c., witnesses. ,, Oct. 20. Baptized a son of Stephen Wetherspoon (Sert. to Clerking- ton) named James. Jo. Stevenson & Mrs. Thomson. „ Oct. 30. Baptized a daur. of David Lynn, Shoemaker Potteraw, named Frances. Mr. Henderson, &c., pnt. „ Nov. 19, f. i. h. 4. v. Baptized a son of John Paxton & ... Adam, daur. of Mr. Wm. Adam, named Archibald. Arch. Stewart, John Gordon, &c., witnesses. A° Sal. I739- Jan. 24, f. 4. h. 6. v. Baptized a son of Robert Balfour of Balbirnie & Ann Ramsay, named John. Sir John Ramsay of Whitehill, John Lumisden & Lady, Mr. David Drummond, Dor. Lermont, Senr., Mr. James Graeme, Writer, & his daur., & Mrs. . . . Balfour, pnt. N.B. — Yt. I had first converse wt. Mr. Balfour, to know qther. it was wt. his good likeing yt.I was employed, oyrwayes. I would proceed no farther. He told me that it was his own motion, & yt. the reason I had not been called to christen his former child was one apprehension yt. the Clergy of our Comn were strictly tyed down to the use of Liturgies, Ceremonies, &c. To this I replyed, , that for what was essential to the Sacrat. (t.g. Water, the or, Northern Notes and Queries. 1 1 Invocatn. of the holy Trinity, to ane authorized administrator) being parts of the Institution, 'twas not in my power to dispence with them, nor would he desire it. But for what was merely Ceremony, (e.g. Books, Sign of the Cross, taking the Child into the arms of the Priest) however ancient & decent & Symbolical, yet these we had a Discretionary power to omitt, when they were like to offend the weak, &c. &c. T739' Feb. 3, f. 7. h. 6. v. In James's Court, baptized a son of Archi- bald Stewart, Mert. of Edinr., named Archibald. Lord & Lady Minto, Mrs. Rutherford, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon, Mr. & Mrs. Haly- burton, present. N.B. — This child is said to have been born in the eight month. „ Feb. 14, in the Canongate, h. 6. v. Baptized a daur. of John Paxton, Coachman to the Countess of Eglington, named Susannah. „ Apr. 20, Good friday, h. 2. v. Baptized a daur. of John Hemp- seed, Officer to the Bank, named Margaret-Threipland. Mrs. Janet Threipland, Misses Eliz., Margt. & ... Falconers, & Hugh Smith, Writer, Spors. ,, Apr. 29, f. i. h. 4. v. Baptized a daur. of Robert Barclay, Taylor, named Christan, Rachel Thomson, Mrs. Thomson, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. Morison, &c., witnesses. ,, June 7, f. 5. h. 7. v. Baptized a daur. of John Gadderar (Sert. to the Duke of Gordon), & ... Ranken, his wife, named Jean. ,, June 22, f. 6. h. 6. v. In Forresters Wynd, baptized twin sons of Alexr. Keith, Under Clk. of Session, & Johanna Swinton, named the ist John, & the 2d Thomas. Mr. Keith of Ravelston, Messrs. James Hay, & Alexr. Orme, & yr. wives, Dor. Rutherford, Mr. Watts, & Mr. St. Clair, &c., pnt. „ June 28, f. 5. h. 7. v. Baptized in Stenlaws Closs, a daur. of David Nevay (Sert. to Dor. Clerk), & Jean Pearson, named Margaret, Miss Peggie Clerk, Mr. Pearson, Silk Dyer, &c., Spors. „ July 22, f. i. h 5. v. In Marlins Wynd, baptized a daur. of Mr. David Graeme, Advocate, named Christian. Lady Bettie Mont gomery, Mrs. Reggie Graeme, & Adam Mercer, Spors.^ pr. Lit. „ July 29, f. i. h. 5. v. At Leith, baptized a son of John Houison, Taylor, named David — Coram multis testib. „ Augt. 5, f. i. h. 4. v. In Peebles Wynd, baptized a son of John Nicol, Wright, & Mary Adam, named William. Geo. Lamb, Geo. Gordon, &c. &c., witnesses. „ Augt. 26, f. i. h. 6. v. In Lord Roystons Closs, Lawn Mercat, baptized a son of John Shaw, Writer, & Christian Murray, named William. Jean & Mary Murrays, Rot. Biggar, Alexr. Jno. Mackintosh, Mrs. Murray, &c., pnt. „ Sept. 9, f. i. h. 4. v. In Stein Law's Closs, baptized a daur. of Mathew Webster (Sert. to. Col. Cathcart), named Chartees. Mrs. Emilia Mackenzie, Mrs. Jan. Scott, &c., pnt. „ Octr. 5, f. 6. h. 6. v. In Peeble's Wynd, baptized a son of Colin Haigs, Wright, & Sallee, named Colin. This in abscence of Mr. Al. M'Kenzie, Minr. „ Octr. 23, circa merid. Baptized a daur. of David Graeme .of Orchill, & Euph. Nairn, named Margaret — pr. Lit. Dor. Robert Lewis, Janet Graeme, Margt. Nairn, & Margt. Graeme, Spors. 1 2 The Scottish Antiquary ; 1739. Nov. i, f. 5. h. 6. v. In Pearson's Gloss, baptized a daur. of Robt. Taylor, Shoemaker, named Catherine. Mrs. Thomson & her family, Mrs. Taylor & her family, pnt „ Nov. 4, f. i. h. 5. v. At the Watergate, baptized a daur. of William Clerk, Ship M., named Mary; the Moyr. Spor; Mr. Purvees, &c. &c., pnt. „ Nov. 8, f. 5. h. 6. v. At Portsburgh, baptized a daur. of David Leslie, & Elspet Cowan (in Chapperhill near Logie, Almond), named Jean. „ Nov. ii, f. i. h. 6. v. In Writers Court, baptized a daur. of Mich Elphinston, Storekeeper of Edinr. Castle, named Lillias. Mrs. Douglas, her son & daur., Mrs. Home, &c., pnt. [Nearly half a page is left blank here. — ED.] A. D. O. M. P. F. & SSto. ANNO SALUTIS 1740. 1740. Jan. 20, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Anchor Closs, baptized a daur. of Hugh Smith, Writer, named Jean. ,, Mar. 25, h. 6. v. Baptized a daur. of Hugh Robertson (Sert. to Mr. Keith, Ravelston), named Elizabeth. ,, Apr. 13, f. i. h. 5. v. In Roxburgh's Closs, baptized a son of George Bean Drawer, in Mrs. Clerks, named Alexander. „ Apr. 20, f. i. h. 7. v. In Forresters Wynd, baptized (pr. Lit.) a son of William Wilson, Writer, named William. Mr. Henderson & his wife George Murray, Surgeon, Mrs. Anne Haldane, &c., pnt. ,, June. 15 Baptized a son of John Paxton, Book-keeper to Mr. Stewart, named John. John Gordon & his grandson, Mrs. Stewart, &c., Mr. Tho. Drumond, pnt. „ July. 6, f. i. h. 4. v. Baptized a son of Geo. Boswall, Sadler, named David. Walter Boswell, Sadler, Doctor White, Miss Robertson, & Mrs. Greig, &c., pnt. „ July. h. 5. v. At Keiths Barley Office, baptized a daur. of Kenneth Boggie, Sert. to ... named Isabel. Jo. Anderson, Sert. to Peter Blair, Skinner, James Caddel, &c., pnt. „ July. 13, f. i. h. 4. v. Baptized a son of Robert Barclay, Taylor, named William — pr. Lgian. Mr. Wallace, Mr. Morison & his wife, Mrs. Thomson, &c., pnt. „ July. 26, f. 7. At midnight. Wt. out the West Port, baptized a son (near expiring) of John Craig, Shoemaker. „ Augt. 3, f. i. h. 6. v. In Dicksons Closs, baptized a daur. of William M'Donald, Porter, named Jean. James Samuel, Alexr. Campbell, &c., witnesses. „ Augt. 24, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Cowgate, baptized a son of Alexander Campbell, Workman, named Dougall. Wm. M'Donald, Duncan Smith, &c., witnesses. „ Oct. 2, At Leith, f. 5. h. 4. v. I witnessed the baptism of Capt, David Littlejohns son, named Alexander. „ Oct. 5, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Flesh Mercat Closs, Canongate, baptized a son of Cha. Elder, Sert. to Congalton, named Charles. Alexr. Elder, Ja. Smith, & Margt. Elder, pnt. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 1 3 1740, Novr. 2, f. i. h. 4. v. In Blackfryar Wynd, baptized a son of Matthew Webster, Sert. to Col. Cathcart, named James. ,, Novr. 1 8, In Bulls Gloss, baptized a son of Stephen Wetherspoon, named Erskine. „ Novr. 24, f. 2. h. 3. v. In Martins Wynd, baptized a daur. of Mi- David Graeme, Advocate, named Anne. Mrs. Margt. & Eliz. Graemes, & the Bd., Mr. Thomas Drummond, Spors, Lady Balgowan, Mrs. P.Graeme, & Ad. Mercer, pnt. „ Deer. 27, f. 7. F. St. Jo. Mr. Tho. Ruddman & I walkd to Braids Brigs where I baptized a daur. of Peter Hardie, Smith, & Ann Scott named Jacobina. Capt. . . . Douglas & his two Daurs. &c., pnt. A° Sal. 1741. Febry. i. f. i. h. 4. v. In Forresters Wynd, baptized a son of Alexr Keith, Under Clerk of Session, named John. Messrs Ja. Hay, Al. Orme, Walt. St. Clair, &c., pnt. „ Feby. 12, f. 5. h. 4. Baptized a son of Ronald M 'Donald, Soldier in the City Guard, named Daniel. ,, March. 24, f. 3. h. loma. m. In my house, baptized a son of Andrew Yorston, Soldier, & Janet Brown, named Adam. This is the 25 child of his ffayr. who is aged 71, some of 'em born in Spain, & some in Flanders. ,, Apr. 17, f. 6. cir. Merid. Opposite to the Canongate Church, baptized a son of Patrick Dodds, Wright, named Francis. James & John Aitkens, Jean M'Lean, &c. &c., witnesses. „ Apr. 17, h. 5. v. ^ N.S. Opposite to the Cross of Edr., baptized a son of Mr. Gumming, Examiner in the Excise Office, named George Drummond. Provost Drummond, David Spence, Mr. Edgar & his Lady, &c. &c., present. ,, May 10, f. i. h. 4. v. In Alexr. Mercers house, in Mary Kings Gloss, baptized a son of Walter Orrock, Shoemaker, & Eliz. Mercer, named Alexander. Dor. White, Dougal Gedd, &c., pnt. ,, June 28, f. i. h. 6. v. In Conns Close baptized a daur. of Archi- bald Napier, Pentherer, & Margt. Fraser, named Margt. Hugh Robertson, Jean Scott, & Margt. Clerk, &c., witnesses. „ Augt. 22, f. 7. h. 4. v. At Summer Hall, baptized a daur. of Mr. James Hay, Writer to the Signet, & An. Fargson, named Mary. Mr. Ord, Mr. & Mrs. Keith, Mr. Tytler & his daur., Mr. Lindsay, & his wife, Mrs. Kerr, &c., witnesses. „ Augt. 23, f. i. h. 7. v. Baptized a son of Robt. Barclay, Taylor, named Thomas. Mr. Morison, Mr. Thomson, &c., spors. „ Septr. 4, f. 6. h. 5. v. Baptized a son of William Wilson, Writer, named James. Geo. Murray, Mr. Carmichael, Miss Haldane, &c., spors. „ Octr. 7, f. 4. h. 5. v. In James's Court, baptized a son of Archd. Stewart, Wine Mert., named Archibald Baillie Coutts. Messrs. Jo. Gordon, Jo. Halyburton, & Martin Eccles, & their wives, Lady Allanbank, &c., witnesses. „ Deer. 26, f. 7. h. 4. v. In Martins Wynd, at my desire, Mr. Drum- mond baptized a daur. of Mr. David Graeme, Advocate, named Mary. Lady Dowager of Nairn, Mrs. Margt. Graeme (for Lady Mary Drummond), & the Lady of Logic Almond, spors., Lady 14 The Scottish Antiquary ; Maxwell, pnt. N.B. — Mrs. Graeme was abroad & Coccated the day before. 1741. Deer. 30, f. 4. h. 5. v. In the Canongate, baptized a son of Sir Alexr. Macdonald of Slate, & Lady Margt. Montgomerie, named James — born 26th. The Countesses of Seaforth, Southesk, & Wigton, Lady Frances Montgomery, Mrs. Lock- hart of Carnwath, Mrs. Al. Lockhart, Mrs. Mary Lockhart, Mrs. MunrOj Mrs. Kennedy, Miss M'Donald, Lords Wigton & St. Clair, Capt. Wm. Lockhart, & Prof. Munro, pnt.— S. Lit. A° Sal. 1742. Jan. i, f. 6. h. 5..v. In Gavin Lochs Land, baptized a daur. of Rot.- Taylor, Shoemaker, named Jean. Mrs. Thomson & her 2 daurs., James Taylor & 3 sisters, pnt. ,, Jan. 24, f. i. h. 5. v. In Liberton's Wynd, baptized a daur. of Kenneth Mackenzie (now serving at London), and Mary Eraser, named Mary. Alexander Stewart, spor. „ Jan. 29, f. 6. h. 4. v. Below Smith's Land, baptized a son of Hugh Stewart, Sert. to the E. of Selkirk, & Isabel Clerk, once my serts., named James aft. the King. Jo. & Rot. Stewarts, pnt. N.B. — The parents declared their marriage was regularly pro- ceeded, on the 3ist of March last, being Easter Tuesday. ,, March, i, f. 2. h. 3. v. At the head of Todricks Wynd, baptized a daur. of Wm. Stephen, Taylor, named Jean. March, 21, f. i. h. 4. v. In Peeble's Wynd, baptized a son of John Nicol, Wright, named Archibald. George Gordon, Rot. Miln, &c., witnesses. ,, March, 23, f. 3. h. 4. v. In the Canongate, baptized a son of Alexr. Findlay, Taylor (now at London), named Alexander. Decon James Callendar (grandfather) Spor. „ Mar. 23, h. 5. v. In the Castlehill, baptised a son of John Paxton, Book-keeper to Mr. Stewart, named William. Mr. Jo. Gordon, Mr. Jo. fforrest, & their wives, Mrs. Stewart & her son, witnesses. „ Mar. 28, f. i. h. 4. v. In Roxburgh's Closs, baptized a son of George Bean, my old Sert, named John. Mr. Walker, &c., pnt. „ Apr. 4, f. i. h. 5. v. In the Cowgate, baptized (for Mr. Addison) a son of ... Thomson, Silk-weaver, lately deceased, nam'd James. Mr. Henderson, Alexr. Addison, &c., pnt. — pr. Lit. ,, Apr. 9, f. 6. h. 6. v. At Laurieston, baptized a daur. of Mr. Cummings, in the Excise office, named Rebecca. Mrs. Edgar, Mrs. Anderson, & Mr. Edgar, Advocate, 'Spors. — pr. Lit. ,, May 30, f. i. h. 4. v. At Grayfryars Gate, baptized a daur. of John Rait, WTorkman, named Isabel. ,, July 2, f. 6. h. 2\. v. In my own house, baptized a son of Thomas M'Lellan, Soldier in Edr. Castle, named Japhet. Geo. Tulop, &: Richd. Robinson, Soldiers, & Eliz. Simpson, Spors. ,, July 4, f. i. h. 7. v. In the O. Baxter's Closs, baptized a son of Malice, Sert. to Judge Graham, named James. Walter Davidson, &c. &c., pnt. „ Augt. 3, f. 3. h. 3. v. Opposite to the Corn Market, E. side, Edr., at the desire of Mr. Forbes, Leith (pr. Murdo Smith), baptized a son of William Knox, Sert. to Lord Maxwell, & or, Northern Notes and Queries. 1 5 Eliz. Dallas, named Alexander. Rot. Maxwell, Stabler, Wm. M'pharson, Murdo Smith, &c., pnt. 1742. Augt. 4, f. 4. h. 5. v. In Fowlis's Gloss, in Mr. Raes absence, I baptized a son of James Gumming, Mert., named William. Wm. Gumming, Pitullie, John Douglas, Lady Douglas, Mr. Cha. Erskines Lady, Mrs. Erskine & her daur., Margt. Gumming & her niece, &c., pnt. ,, Octor. 17, f. i. h. 4. v. Baptized a daur. of A. Fitchet, Dancing- Mr., & Helen Miln of Garmouth, named Susannah. Alexr. Grant, . . . Thaine, &c. &c., pnt. — pr. Liam. „ Octor. 19, f. 3. h. uma. £. Mat. Mr. Ruddiman, Jo. Gillan, & I walked to Braids Briggs, where I baptized a daur. of Pat. Hardie, Smith, & Ann Scott, named Alice. Alice Ruddiman, Mrs. MacCulloch, &c., pnt. „ Octor. 21, f. 5. 8. 6. v. In Nydries Wyncl, baptized a son of William Simpson, Sert. to Drummair, & Alice Smith, named William. David M'Laggan, Mathew M'Bain, & Martha Light- body, &c., pnt. ,, Novr. 7, f. i. h. 4. v. In . . . . Gloss, Luckenbooths, baptized a son of Robert Barclay, Taylor, named Robert. Mr. Wood, Surgeon, Mr. Morison & his wife, Mrs. Thomson, &c., pnt. ., Novr. 10, f. 4. h. 4. v. Opposite to the Cross, baptized a daur. of Alexr. Keith, Under Clk. of Session, & Johan Swinton. named Jean. The Laird of Swinton, Bruxie, Dor. Rutherford, Messrs. Ja. Hay, & Alexr. Orme, wt. zre. wives, Mrs. Cockburn, Mrs. Peg. Swinton, &c. &c., pnt. ,, Dec. 24, f. 6. h. 2. v. In Mary Kings Gloss, baptized a daur. of John Goodwillie, Writer, named Isabella. Jo. Gilmore, Writer, Mrs. Preston & her daur., & Mrs. Corstorphin, pnt. „ Dec. 25, h. 6. v. In the Meal Mercat, baptized a son of John Haliburton of Murrays Law, Mert., & Mary Gordon, named Thomas. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Barbara Halyburton, &c., pnt. A° Sal. 1743. Jary., 15, f. 7. h. 6. v. In Patersones Court, baptized a son of Ebenezer Oliphant, Goldsmith, & ... Belchies, named James. Laurence Oliphant, yor. of Gask, Martin Lindsay, Dougal Ged, Dor. Whyte, Tho. Belchies, &c., pnt. „ Febry. 14, f. 2. h. 4. v. In Wetherspoons Gloss, Grass Mercat, baptized a daur. of Archd. Bruce, Taylor, & Eliz. Stewart, from Coupar in Angus, named Janet. Jo. Elder, Gilb. Rotson., Ann Smith, Mary Paterson, pnt. ., Mar. 27, f. i. h. 4. v. Baptized a son of Geo. Bos wall, Saidler, named George. Mr. Anderson, Jo. Melvin, Mrs. Boswall, &c. ., Apr. 17, f. i. h. 6. v. In" Cants Gloss, baptized a son of William Hay, Sert. to Mr. Cha. St. Clair, Advocate, & Ann Short, named John. James Farquharson, Sert. to Mr. Pringle, Ann Jackson, &c., pnt. „ May 4, f. 4. h. 4. v. At Summerhall, S.E. of Hope Park, baptized a son of Mr. James Hay, Writer to the Signet, & Anne Farqrson, named George. Mr. Cjrd, Mr. and Mrs. Keith, Mr. Tytler, his son and daur., Commiston, Albert Munro, Mrs. Kerr, Helen 1 6 The Scottish Antiquary ; Turner, &c., pnt. N.B. This child was born on Sunday, 24th Apr., but his baptism was so long deferr'd on acct. of the Epidemical Cold, and fever qch had prevail'd in Mr. Hay's family. 1743. June i, f. 4. h. 3. v. In Libbertons Wynd, baptized a son of Gilbert Gow, Drawer in Mr. Walker's, & Margt. Collie, named David. James Reoch, Jno. Fife, &c., pnt. June 5, f. i. h. 5. v. At Drumsheugh, baptized a daur. of Mr. Archd. Stewart, Member of Parliat. for Edinr., named Grizell. Sir John Stewart of Allanbank, proxey for his broyr., Provost Coutts, Lord Minto and his son, Mr. Hary Barclay, Mr. Forrest, Mr. Halyburton, Mr. Eccles, and their wives, &c., pnt. „ June 5, h. 6J. In the College Wynd, baptized a daur. of Andrew Wilson, Lint Dresser), & Eliz. Leslie, named Margaret. James Wouldhave, John Nicol, Margt. Jackson, &c., pnt. ., June 8, f. 4. h. 4. v. Bailies Closs, Cowgate, baptized a son Randolph M'Donnel, of the City Gaurd, & ... Drummond, named Alexander. Thos. Gow, Malster, Chris. Drummond, &c., pnt. ,, Augt. 8, At the desire of Mr. Blair, I baptized, in Writers Court, a son of John Seton, Mert., & Elizabeth Berry, named James. James Seton, late Bailie of Edinr., John Houston, Writer. &c. &c., pnt. ,, Augt. 10, f. 4. 5j. ves. At the head of th' Old Assembly Closs, baptized a son of Walter Orrock, Shoemaker, & Elizabeth Mercer, named David. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer, &c., pnt. ., Augt. 10, h. 6|. In Fowler's Closs, baptized, for Mr. Blair, a son of Martin Eccles, Surgeon, named William. Miss . . . Elliot, Dor. Rot. Lowis & Mr. Craigie, Spors. — pr. Liam ; Mr. Archd. Stewart and his Lady, Pitcarr, Mr. Kid, Bailie Allan, &c. &c., pnt. ., Septr. 15, f. 5. h. 5. v. In Brownes Closs, baptized a son of John More, Bookbinder, & Margt. Patullo, named John. Wm. Gordon, Bookseller, &c., pnt. ,. Septr. 26, f. 2. h. 3. v. In our Chappel in Carrubbers Closs, I read vespers, pro re nata, and administered baptism (according to the Form for those of riper years) to the Co. of Eglinton's negro servant, having before endeavoured to prepare him for it. He was named Alexander Archibald Caesar. James Eraser, Clk., Joseph Rotson., my nephew, and Keith Thriepland, my wife (as proxies for the Earl of Eglinton, Mr. Archibald, and Lady Helen Montgomerys), being his chosen witnesses. Miss Babie Smith, Mrs. Warders Scholars, Margt. Hunter, the Ladies of March, and some vyr. young people, pnt. Octor. 3. f. 2. h. 6. v. In Curries Closs, Castlehill, Edr., baptized a daur. of Mr. Jo Cummings, in the Excise Office, named Anne. Mrs. Preston, Dor. Rutherford, Mr. Ramsay, Mr. Sinclair, & Mr. Preston, pnt. ,, Novor. 2. f. 4. h. 4. v. In Forrester's Wynd, baptized a daur. of William Wilson, Writer, named Caecilia. Mrs. Anne Haldane, Mrs. Wilson, & Mr. Wilson, Spors. — pr. Liturg ; Mr. Rot. Henderson £ his wife, Geo. Murray & his daur., Caecilia, & Mrs. Murray, pnt. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 1 7 17 3. Novor. 20, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Cowgate, baptized a son of Alexr. M'Glashan, Taylor, & Kath. Forbes, named John. Wm. Ingles, Jo. M 'Carter, & Mary Smith, witnesses. N.B.—Vt. Novr. 8th, while I was at Adiston, my Collegue, Mr. Mackenzie, baptized a son of George Bayne, Clerk to ... Wright, Fflax Mert. in the Cowgate, named Logan. ,, Novor. 26, f. 7. h. 4^. v. After the burial of good Lady Rankeilor- Hope, I baptized (at the bottom of Milnes Square) a son of John Scott, Chairman, & Eliz. Neilson, named William. Wm. Scott, Thos. Murray, Gouldiers in the City Guard, £c., pnt. ,, Decer. n, f. i. h. 6. v. near Weirs Land, Canongate, baptized a son of David Reid, Shoemaker, & Lillias Hay, named William. Wm. Reid, Wm. Darling, & Mrs. Lindsay, £c., pnt. „ Decer. 13, f. 3. h. 4. v. in the Worlds End Closs, at the desire of Mr. Rae (confined by sore eyes), I baptized a son of Mr. John Murray of Broughton, named David. My Lady Murray, Mrs. Ferguson, Mr. Thos. Hay, Win. M'Dougal, & their Ladyes, Mr. Cha. Murray of Stanhope, Capt. Pat. Murray, Jo. Douglas, &c., pnt. „ Decer. 16, f. 6. h. 6. v. in St. Marys Wynd, at the desire of Mr. Rae, baptized a daur. of James Scott of Dunkeld, Writer, named Margaret. Deacon Chassells & his wife (being the grand- parents), John Hay, Wigmaker, & his wife, Mrs. M'Pherson, & Wm. Scott, pnts. „ Decer. 29, f. 5. h. 3. v. In the Middle Common Closs, Canongate, baptized a son of William Henderson, Sert. to Kavers Kerr, & Chris. Gibson, named John. Jo. Gibson, Al. Kinloch, Edr., Eliz. Gibson, pnt. A° Sal. 1744. Janry. 29, f. i. h. 5. v. In the Canongate, baptized a son (born the 1 5th h. 7^. v.) of Kenneth, Marquiss of Seafort, & Mary Stewart of Garlics, niece of the E. Marischal of Scotland, named Kenneth. — Sin. Lit. Lord Garlics, Spor. ; Duke of Perth, Earls of Wigton & Aboyn, Lord St. Clair, Ld. Royston & his son, Baron Clerk, Frazerdale, Mr. Alexr. Lockhart, Mr. Jo. Mackenzie, Dor. Stenison, Mr. Chisolm, &c., £. almost as many Ladies — the Countesses of Morray & Wigton, Lady Frances Mackenzie, Ly. St. Clair, Mrs. Kath. Stewart, Ly. Garlies, Mrs. Lockhart, Mrs. Mary Lockhart, Mrs. Jean M'Kenzie, Miss Paterson, &c. &c., pnt. „ Feb. 5, f. i. h. 7. v. At the foot of Cants Closs, baptized a son of Mathew M'Baine, Butler to the E. of Wigton, and Martha Light- body, named James. Alexr. Foreman, Helen Morison, &c., pnt. „ Feb. 28, f. 3. h. 5. v. In the Pleasance, baptized a son of John Stewart, Taylor, & Eliz. Bruce, named John. Henry Neilson, & Wm. Doby, Weavers, and Kath. Gray, &c., pnt. „ Apr. i, f. i. h. 4. v. In Gossfords Closs, baptized a son of Andrew Ewen, Innkeeper, named John ; & visited his wife Janet Straiten, dying. „ Apr. 15, f. i. h. 4. v. In Writters Court, baptized a son of William Mossman, Painter, & Jean Butter, Milliner, named Thomas John Blair of Balthaigck, Jo. Fullarton of Dudwick, Mr. VOL. vi. — NO. xxi. B 1 8 The Scottish Antiquary ; Watson, Writer, Mrs. Jo. Blair, Mrs. Jac. Blair, & Mrs. Mary Butter, pnt. — pr. Liam. 1744. June 3, f. i. h. 4. v. In Waristons Gloss, baptized a daur. of ... Weir, Sugar Mert, and . . . Gordon, named Anne. Richd. Walker & his wife, .Mrs. Watson, Mr. Dollas, &c., pnt. „ Septer. 16, f. i. h. 4. v. At the foot of Mary Kings Gloss, baptized a daur. of John Goodwillie, Writer, named Henrietta. — pr. Lit. ,, Septer. 27, f. 5. cir. merid. At Ravelston, baptized a daur. of Mr. Alexr. Keith & Johan Swinton, named Agnes. Miss Annie Rutherford, Peggie Swinton, Mrs. St. Clair, Dor. Rutherford, Messrs. Jo. Sinclair, Hary Guthrie, Jo. Hog, Alexr. & David Orme, & old Mr. Keith, pnt. „ Septer. 30, f. i. h. 4. v. In the High School Wynd, baptized a son of Hugh Stewart & Isabel Clerk, my old Serts., named Neil, Joseph Robertson, Jo. Hempseed, his wife & son, &c., pnt. „ Octor. 9, f. 3. h. 4. v. Baptized a daur. of Walter Orrock, Deacon of the Shoemakers, named Helen. Mrs. Mercer, Mr. Dougal Ged, & their wives, &c. &c., pnt. „ Novr. 4, f. i. h. 4. v. In the middle Baxters Gloss, baptized a daur. of Geo. Livingstone, Sert. to Mr. M'farlane, Vintner, & Chris. Davidson, named Beatrix. George Bean, &c. &c., pnt. „ Novr. 26. In Grays Gloss, baptized a son of Evan Mackenzie, Soldier in the City Gaurd, & Mary M'Donell, whom I had marryed 6th Dec. last. „ Novr. 26, h. 5. v. In Marlins Wynd, Mr. Dd. baptized a son of Mr. David Graeme, Advocate, named James. Lady Moncrief, Godmother ; Mr. Brice & I. Spors for Abercairny & Newton. A° Sal. 1745. Jany. 13, f. i. h. 5. v. Opposite to the Luckenbooths, baptized a son of John Halyburton, of Murray's Law, Mercht., named John Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon, Jo. Halyburton of Newmains, Bailie Mansfield and his wife, &c. &c., pnt. „ Jany. 18, f. 6. h. 3. v. While my Col. read prs. for me, I baptized (in the Pleasants) a dying child of Cha. Guthrie, Staymaker (lately deceas'd), & .... Fraser his wife, farrgone in a Dropsie. t . . . Bisset, Spor. „ Jany. 24, f: 5. h. 3. v. In Carrubbers Gloss, baptized a daur. (a weakly child) of Liet. James Bruce, of the Royal Regt., and Mrs. Ja. Gibson, daur. of Sir Edward Gibson, named Barbara. My Lady Gibson, Mrs. Isob. Maitland, David Bruce, Writer, & Liet. Ja. Montgomery, Spors. Mr. Scrimzeor of Birkhill, Advocate, & his Lady, pnt. „ Apr. 2, f. 3. h. 2. v. At the Cowgate head, baptized a daur. of James Riddoch, Shoemaker, named Katherine. „ Apr. n, f. 5. h. 4. v. In Tothericks Wynd, baptized a daur. of Francis Shand, Sert. to Sir Ja. Stewart of Goodtrees, & Helen M'Colmic, named Frances ; the moyr. Spor., &c. ,, Apr. 21, f. i. h. 9j. v. About the middle of the Potterrow, near the Seceding Meeting-house, baptized a daughter of Daniel Wilson, Wright, & Mary Adam, named Janet. Tho. Oliphant, Dyer, Janet Adam, Margt. Black, &c., pnt. N.£.—\ certificate of their marriage was produced. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 1 9 T745- June 16, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Covt. Gloss, baptized a son of Gilbert Gow, Vintner, named Gilbert. Mr. Seton & his son, Richd. Walker & his, Ja. Stewart, Ja. Reoch, £c. £c. £c., pnt. ,, June 30, f. i. h. 4|. v. In Morison's Gloss, Mr. Robertson being in England for his health, I baptized a daur. of Ronald M 'Donald, Vintner, named Elizabeth (pr. Liam) Grizel Stewart. Isobel Hutchinson, Spors. ,, July 7, f. i. h. 4. v. In Writer's Court, baptized a son, William Mosman, Painter, named David. John Blair Balthayock, John Fullarton, Dudwich, Cha. Butter, Mert,, Mrs. Butter, Miss Mosman, &c., Spors. — (pr. Liam). „ July 12, f. 6. h. 4. v. In Gloss, baptized a daur. of John More, Bookbinder, named Isabel. „ Sept. 10, f. 3. h. v. In Peebles Wynd, baptized (pr. Lit.) a daur. of Jo. Cummings, Collr. of Excise, now at Montrose, named Margaret. Mrs. Anderson (the grandmoyr.), Margt. Anderson, & Dor. Wilson, Spors. „ Sept. 19, Baptized a son of Culbertson, Porter in Canongate, named James. „ Sept. 23, f. 2. h. 3. v. Baptized a son of Roger M'Donell, Sert. to the Earl of Nithsdale, & Ann Gregory, named Charles, after the Prince of Wales, then at Holyrood-house. „ Sept. 25, f. 4. h. 6. v. In Smith's Land, baptized a daughter of Walter Orrock, Shoemaker, named Isabel. Miss Dundas, Dougal Ged & his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Mercer, &c., pnt. „ Oct. 7, f. 2. cir. merid. At Whitehall, baptized a daur. of Robert Balfour Ramsay, named Elizabeth. Mrs. Rosina Ramsay, Eliz. Balfour, Mary Drufnond, Miss Graham, Messrs. Calderwood, Ja. Graham, and Preston of Gorton, &c., pnt. „ .Oct. u, f. 6. h. 4. v. At Leith Milns, baptized a son of Wm, Weir, Mert. in Edinr., & Eliz. Gordon, named Charles-William. Mr. Thos. Tulloh, Mrs. Walker, Miss Dunbar, &c., pnt. „ Oct. 13, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Canongate head, baptized a daur. of William Heriot, Gunsmith, named Janet. Misses Janie & Jeanie Stephens, Jo- Wilson, &c., pnt. „ Oct. 29, f. 3. h. 5. v. In Halkerston's Wynd, baptized a daughter of Paul Husband, Confectioner, named Lillias. David Gow, Writer, B. Rot. Lindsay & his wife, &c., pnt. ,, Novr. 17, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Back Stairs, baptized a son of John Urquhart & Margt. Harper, named John ; the moyr. Spor. „ Der. 19, f. 5. h. 5. v. In Lady Pitcairlies house in the Lawn Mercat, baptized a daur. of Capt. Rot. Taylor & Jean Thomson, named Barbara ; the moyr. Spor. Dor. Taylor, & his broyrs. & sisters, Mrs. Thomson, &c., pnt. „ Der. 27, F. St. Jo. Evan. f. 6. cir. merid. In my closet, baptized a daur. of John Stewart, taylor, named Elizabeth. A° Sal. 1746. Jary. 3, f. 6. h. 10 ma. mat. In my room, baptized a daughter of Stephen Wetherspoon, groom to , named Agnes. Hugh Wilson, Helen Maxwell, &c., witnesses. ,, Jary. 14, f. 3. h. 8. v. Baptized a daur. of William Miller, Chairman, & Beatrix Clink, named Rebecca. Rebecca M'Leod, Martha Ritchie, &c., witnesses. 20 The Scottish A ntiquary ; bW'f 3 h. 8.v. Baptized a son of Mathew M'Bane & brV ' 3' (serts to Pitcurr), named Daniel. Allan Ma^TfT'cfrca merid. At Ravelstown, baptized a son of Alex, KeUh under Clk. of Session, named Robert Do. Rutherford, Messrs Ja Hay, Hary Guthrie, William & J. Swmtons, Mrs. Market, baptized twins a son & a daughter of Ebenezer Oliphant, Jeweller named John & Emelia Messrs. John, Thomas, &c. &c., Belchies, Dr. White, Tun^oTi. h. 5. v. Near to Pillrigg, baptized a daur. of Deacon J Robert Barclay, Taylor, named Mary Robertson Mr Hugh Crawford & his Lady, Stuart Carmichael, & Mrs. Peggie Stewart, July 6,^". h. 4. v. Dor. Drummond baptized a daur. of Mr. David Grime, Advocate, named Charlotte. Tuly 10 f 5 h 6. v. In Worlds End Closs, baptized a daur. of David Laing, Butler to my Lady St. Clair, named Margaret. Tuly is, f. 3- cir. merid. At Hatton, read prs. and baptized (sdy. Lam) a daur. of Hugh & Elizabeth Seton, of Touch, named Barbara. Mrs. Smith, Lady Barrowfield, & Mr. Sellar, proxy for Mr. Chas. Smith, Spors. Augt. 10, f. i. h. 8. mat. In my closet, baptized a daur. of James Storie, Waterman, named Rachel. Augt. ii, h. 4. v. In Fifes Closs, baptized (in absence of Mr. Kae) a son of John Mackintosh, Brushmaker, named Alexander. Dor. Clark & his son, & Mary Weir, pnt. Sept. 6, h. 6. v. In Roxburgh's Closs, baptized a daur. of Robert Wilson (Sert. of Coll. Jn. Stewart, now at London), named Isabel. Dan. M'Lean, Chairman, & Jas. Nicoll, &c., witnesses. Sept. 25, f. 5. at noon. In Kinlochs Closs, baptized a daur. of Hary Guthrie, Writer, & Rachel Miln, named Anne. Peter Henderson & .... Hutchinson, Mr. Miln, &c., pnt. Sept. 25, h. 7^. v. In Upper Baxter's Closs, baptized a son of J -- M ..... ofB ........ &M ...... F ...... nam'd John- Charles. C ... R .... & Mrs. E . . . n, pnt. Octor. 3, f. 6. h. 6. v. In the Flesh Mercat Closs, Canongate, bap- tized a son of John Goodwillie, Wter., named John. Isob. Lumisden, Eliz. Barclay, &c., Spors. Novr. 15, f. 7. h. ii. m. At the Neyr. Bow, baptized a son of George Duncan, named John. Novr. 21, f. 6. h. 3. v. In the West Bow, baptized a son of Alexr. Nicolson, Plumber, named Robert. Sir Richard Murray, my Lady Murray, & daurs., pnt. — (pr. Liam). Der. 7, f. i. h. 6. v. In ..... Closs, baptized a daur. of ... Living- ston, Sert. to Mr. Walker, named Christian. Richard & Chris. Walkers, £c., pnt. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 21 A° Sal. 1747. Jary. 12, f. 2. h. 5. v. In Bess-Wynd, baptized a son of Walter Orrock, Shoemaker in Edinr., now Mert. in Levin, named John. Mr. & Mrs. Ramsay of Leith, Mr. & Mrs. Mercer, Dougal Ged, Mr. Bailie of Beinson, &c., pnt. „ Febry. 8, f. i. h. 9. m. In my house at Mattins, baptized a Negro Servant of Hugh Seton of Touch, named Charles, after having kept him about 8 weeks in my house in order to instruct and prepare him for it. James Fraser & Ka. Threipland, my wife, were his chosen witnesses. Ly. Balgowan, Mrs. Leslie, Clem. Smith, Mrs. Butler, £c., pnt. ; qd. f. f. q. sit. Deij precor. ,, Mar. 13, f. 6. h. 7. v. In my closet, baptized Charles, a son of John Neish, now prisoner in Perth, sometime a Sert. to the Pr. C. & of Margt. Glen. Duncan Neish, Spor. ,, Mar. 20, f. 6. h. 7. v. In Todericks Wynd, baptized a daughter of James Wood, Taylor, named Beatrix. „ Apr. 8, f. 4. h. 6. v. In the Luckenbooths, baptized a son of Andrew Wilson (Lint dresser), named Walter. James Woodhaue, Jo. Niccol, &c., pnt. „ Apr. 9, f. 5. h. 6. v. In Smiths Land, baptized a daur. of Thomas Duff, Sert. to Sir Rot. Menzies, named Mary. John M'Grigor, Alexr. Leith, Ann Campbell, &c., pnt. „ May 27, f. 4. h. 5. v. In Forresters Wynd, baptized a son of William Wilsone, Writer, & Lillias Haldane, named Charles. Mrs. Murray, Mr. Rot. Henderson, Mrs. Ann Haldane, &c., Spors. — (pr. Liam). „ May 30, f. 7. at noon. At Ravelstone, baptized a daur. of Alexander Keith, under Clk. of Session, & Johanna Swinton, named Margaret. Dor. Jo. Rutherford, & his Lady, Alexr. & David Orme, pnt. „ June 28, f. i. h. 7. v. Parliat. Closs, at the top of the Presidents Stairs, baptized a son of John Crawford, sometime Mert., after- wards Tidesman, & Late a Sculker, named Charles-Edward- Charteris. Jo. M'Niven, Neil M'Duff, & Caecilia Scott, witnesses. ,, June 29, f. 2. h. 8. v. In the Pleasants, baptized a daur. of John Davidsone, sometime Mert. in Canongate, late a sculker, named Char. Charlotte \sic\ Jo. Watson, Jo. Kearie, Hel. Burns, pnt. „ July 6, f. 2. h. 3. v. In Borthwicks Closs, baptized a daur. of George Bayne (Clk. to Jo. Wright), named Charlotte. Miss Isob. Mackenzie, daur. of Dochairn,, Frances Ware, & Mary Lockart, pnt. „ Augt. 8, f. 7. h. 3. v. In the High School Wynd, baptized a daur. of Hugh Stewart & Isabel Clerk, some time my Servants, named Katherine. Lady Katherine Charters & Mrs. Harper, God- moyrs. Jo. Hempseed & his wife, &c., pnt. „ Augt. 9, f. i. h. 5. v. In Writer's Court, baptized a son of Mr. James Hay, Writer, & .... Moodie, named Charles. Alexr. Keith, Clk., And. Hay, Montblairie, & Mrs. M. Lermont, Lady Ard- backie, Ly. Nicolson, &c., pnt. „ Sept. 9, f. 4. h. 6. v. In Blackfryar Wynd, baptized a daur. of ... . Mackaindlay, Chairman, named Barbara. 22 The Scottish Antiquary ; 1747. Octor. 3, f. 7. h. 6. v. In Marlins Wynd, baptized a son. of Mr. David Graeme, Advocate, named John. Mrs. Ehz. Graeme, Jo. Rattray, & David Carmichael, Spors., &c. &c. •Octor 5 f. 2. h. 2. v. In Tweedales Gloss, baptized a daughter of John Borthwick, Taylor, & Marjory Wood, named Janet. Geo. Bayne, James Harper, Charles Hepburn, Jo. Prmgle & his wife, Octor/ 7, f. i. h. 5. v. In Black Fryars Wynd, baptized a daur. of James Reoch, Writer & Pror., named Agnes. Geo. Lauder, Surgeon, &c., pnt. Octor. 27, f. 3. h. 6. v. In the Parliat. Gloss (for Mr. Pat Gordon), baptized a daughter of John Hope, Mere., named Stuart Mary. Mrs. (al) Monro, Miss Peggy Hope, & Rankeelor, Spors.— (pr. Liam). „ Nov. 19, f. 5. h. 6. v. In the Canongate, baptized (pr. Lit) a daur. of Alexr. Nicolson, Plumber, named Jean, Sir Richd. Murray, my Lady Murray, & 2 Daurs. pnt. „ Decer. 25, Xtmas Day, f. 6. h. 6. v. In the Old Assembly Gloss, baptized a daur. of Peter Cameron, Sert. to Mrs. Walker, named Charlotte. Mrs. Walker's children, Mr. Grant, Gil. Gone & his wife, &c., pnt. . (To be continued.} 360. OLDEST SEAL OF THE BURGH OF DUNDEE. — The following in- teresting note appeared in the Dundee Advertiser of 3oth April 1890. By the courtesy of the Editor, we are not only permitted to reprint it for our readers, but to make use of the engraving illustrating the seal. ED. 1 BURGH SEAL OF DUNDEE IN 1492. * Whilst Sir William Fraser, Deputy-Keeper of the Records of Scotland, was examining the documents at Melville House preparatory to completing his work on The Melvilles, Earls of Melville ', and the Leslies •, Earls of Leven, he came across a parchment bearing the Seal of the Burgh of Dundee, and dated i6th April 1492. Having communicated with us regarding this Seal, he found that it was much older than what was sup- posed to be the oldest Dundee Seal of the Burgh preserved amongst the Town's Charters, and he obtained permission from Mr. Melville-Cartwright, which was readily granted, to send the document and seal here that we might have the latter reproduced in these columns. It is of special interest as showing that the symbolical " pot and lilies " was adopted as the emblem of Dundee at a much earlier date than is usually supposed. 'The first reference to a so-called Seal of the Burgh of Dundee is found in Rymer's Foedera, vol. iii. page 371, where it is stated that the docu- ment appointing proctors for the ransom of David n. in 1357 had such a seal appended. Mr. Joseph Bain, in his Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, describes this seal, which is now in the Chapter-House, Westminster, but questions whether it was the Burgh Seal. His descrip- tion is as follows :— A Saint vested with a tall, pointed m.itre and seated, pastoral staff in left hand, giving benediction with right ; figure kneeling at each side; background diapered with lozenges; SIGNUM . . . ENTIS DE DVNDE. Reverse— The Virgin crowned, seated with the Holy Child ; angel at each side, with outstretched wings, swinging censer ; similar background. . . . IT.LUM COMMUNE viLL. . . . N. AVE MARIA. Like Mr. Bain, we have grave doubts as to this being the Burgh Seal of Dundee. It seems more or, Northern Notes and Queries. 23 likely to be the seal of the Rector of St. Clement's Church — which stood on the site of the present Town House — than the common seal used by the Magistrates. In Mr. Hay's valuable book of " Writs, Charters, and Documents connected with Dundee " there is a lithograph of a seal appended to a document dated 2ist March 1555, which is described as the oldest seal of the burgh preserved in the charter-room. An examina- tion of this picture will show that the seal is identical with the one de- scribed above ; and as the document relates to the Chaplainry of St. Salvador, this makes it very probable that it is not a burghal but an ecclesiastical seal. 'The document to which the seal here engraved is attached is a Notarial Instrument dated i6th April 1492, and is in excellent preserva- tion. It is written partly in Latin and partly in Scots, and has several peculiarities of phraseology. It narrates that in presence of Thomas Seres and Robert Wedderburn, Bailies of the Burgh of Dundee, in the Tolbooth there, Dorothy Tulloch, wife of Walter Wood of Bonnytoun, appeared, and produced a contract dated at Dundee, i6th April 1492, by which her husband and herself renounce and quit-claim in favour of David Ogilvy of Inchmartin, all the said Dorothy's rights as heir to the late Alexander Ogilvy, her mother's brother, and her mother [grandmother], Christian Glen, over the lands of Inchmartin, Duntrune, Balmuto, and Dron, in the shires of Perth, Fife, and Forfar ; which contract the said Dorothy, in the absence of her husband, approves and confirms by her oath made before the Bailies, concluding with these words : — " Sa help me God, and myn awin hand, and be this crois and alhaly crois and all at God made on 24 The Scottish Antiquary ; sex dayis and sewin nycht, and be my paite of paradise." In the notary's testification it is declared that the "Common Seal of the Burgh of Dundee " is appended. The document itself is interesting as showing the origin of the old Forfarshire family of the Woods of Bonnytown, but we wish to direct notice at present exclusively to the seal. It shows incon- testably that the pot with lilies— the emblem of the Virgin— was used as the burgh device 400 years ago. As to the wyverns that are represented as supporters, it will be noticed that the wings of these animals are de- flexed, not displayed— thus settling an old heraldic controversy. When Sir Charles Erskine of Cambo, Lyon King of Arms, issued his certificate as to the arms of Dundee on 30th July 1673, he declared that the "pot and growing lilies " had been, and were to be, " the true and unrepeatable signes-armoriall of the Burgh-Royall." There is here not any mention of the Virgin and Child or the Mitred Bishop ever having been the arms of Dundee. Everything suggests that this which we have engraved is the oldest existing seal of the Burgh of Dundee.' The following appeared in the issue of 2nd May : — ' On Thursday last we described a seal of the burgh of Dundee show- ing the pot and lilies as the heraldic device used in 1492, and we referred to a seal of 1357, the fragments of which are now in the Chapter-House, Westminster, which has been regarded with doubt as to whether it was the Common Seal of the burgh. Our article has directed the attention of Mr. William Hay, Town Clerk of Dundee, specially to this subject, and he has submitted for our inspection the principal impressions of the Burgh Seals of Dundee which are preserved in the Town's Charter-room. The oldest of these is appended to a charter dated 2ist March 1555, and, as we suggested, is identical in every particular with the seal of 1357. As it is in excellent preservation, there is no difficulty in making out the figures of St. Clement with his anchor on the obverse, and the Virgin and Child on the reverse, whilst the inscription is perfect, and entirely agrees with the suggestions we made to supply the missing portions of the legend on the 1357 seal. This was unquestionably the Great Seal of the Burgh, to be used on special occasions, and the legend describes it as SIGILLUM COMMUNE VILUE DE DVNDE. Mr. Hay's opinion is that after the Re- formation this form of the Seal was definitely abandoned, as savouring of Popery, and it is very probable that it never was used subsequent to 1555. The fact that James Halyburtoun, the Provost of that time, was a pro- minent leader amongst the Reformers, makes this theory almost a certainty. To the same document is appended the round seal of the Bishop of Brechin, who was superior of the Chaplainry of St. Salvator in Dundee, to which the charter refers. 1 Previous to this time the minor seal of the burgh had borne the device of the pot and lilies, as shown by our reproduction of the seal of 1492 which Sir William Fraser submitted to us ; and there is proof that later documents bore this device exclusively. One of the parchments shown to us by Mr. Hay is a Transumpt made on 24th July 1592 of a charter dated Hth June 1562, the seal attached bearing the pot and lilies, with the wyverns as supporters. In the notarial testing-clause it is described as "the privy seal of the burgh." Another of the documents in Mr. Hay's charge is a Transumpt dated 2d December 1629 of the important charter of iTth November 1594, by which the Earl of Craufurd conferred upon the Hospital the lands and houses belonging to the Minorite Friars in or, Northern Notes and Queries. 2 5 Dundee The seal has the pot and lilies and usual supporters, and is described by the Provost and Bailies as " our seal" The heraldic bearings of the burgh were definitely settled by Sir Charles Erskme of Cambo, Lord Lyon King of Arms, in 1673; and we have thus examples of the Burgh Seal of Dundee from 1357 till the present time. 761 LIST OF REBELS, 1745-6.— There is a list of Rebels in the British Museum (Add. MSS. No. 19,796)- Some additional information may be obtained therefrom. Lists were published last year in the JVairn Telegraph, the Banff shire Journal, and the Aberdeen Free Press, containing the names of northern rebels, obtained, I understand, from the Record Office, but they do not differ materially from the list subsequently published by Lord Rosebery. The Editor of some of these lists arranged them by parishes which is a decided improvement on the plan adopted in the list published by the Scottish History Society. A tendency has been apparent of late to magnify the Rebellion of 1745. With much greater propriety could such a process be applied to the Rebellion of 1715- Tested in various ways the Lists usually published seem for some northern districts at least singularly complete. When names of persons concerned in the Rebellion are referred to in Kirk Session records they are generally also met with in the Lists. Out of fifteen names mentioned in The Church of Speymouth, p. 59, all are identified in the lists except perhaps two, but these names may perhaps be objected to for a fair test. George Geddes, servant, is stated in Deskford Kirk Session Minutes to have been engaged in the Rebellion. His name does not occur in the Lists Alexander Gordon, schoolmaster, Cairney, is stated in the records of the Presbytery of Strathbogie to have been in the Rebellion. His name also does not appear in the usual Lists. The sentiment and romance that have circled around the Jacobite risings have aided much in mis- representing the actual state of matters. Kirk Session records generally furnish us with a very faithful reflex of the prevalent sentiments of the time, and it may not be without value to quote a few brief extracts therefrom. All evidence goes to show that the '45 was regarded, in general, as a con- siderable nuisance. A few Kirk Sessions are ominously silent when they might have been expected to speak, but the general feeling will be shown from the following : — Presbytery of Fordyce. 1 745.—' The Synod have appointed presbyteries to correspond with one another during these publick disturbances occasioned by a horrid rebellion, fomented and carried on by the abbettors of the Young Pretender.' Presbytery of Fordyce. 1746, January 15.— ' The post road from Fordyce has for some time been infested by the rebels.' Kirk Session of Fordyce. 1747.— 'John Richardson recommended by the Kirk Session to the Earl of Findlater for a place in the Customs on account of his good behaviour during the late wicked and unnatural rebellion.' . . . . Kirk Session of Fordyce. 1746, April 20.— 'Thanksgiving intimate by order of the Synod for the prospect of deliverance from the oppression by the rebels.' Kirk Session of Fordyce. 1746, May 25.— « Proclamation read this day from the Duke of Cumberland, and a letter from the Lord Justice Clerk, relating to the discovery of the rebels. The minister took advice of 2 6 The Scottish A ntiquary ; the Elders and warned them to be upon their guard. They also gave an account of the several rebels that had gone out of this par sh. KM Session of Deskford. 1746, April 23.-' Thanksgiving for the glor^us victory over the rebels at Culloden, i6th inst where numbers of the rebel army were slain and a complete victory obtained. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Kirk Session of Ruthven. 1746.-' Mr. Grant, Schoolmaster, recom- mended by the Presbytery to the Committee for an augmentation of his salary, he having suffered considerably by the rebels in their passing and . 1746, March 3o.-'The bedle craved of the Session the favour to lend him a crown, being straitened by reason of the pretender's son's soldiers threatening to pomd him for his excise, as others in the bounds are, which was granted.' Kirk Session of Cullen. 1746, April 23.—' A day of thanksgiving ap- pointed by the Synod for the goodness of the season and the prospect of the present rebellion being soon extinguished.' Kirk Session of Cullen. 1746, June 26.— 'A day of thanksgiving ap- pointed by the King for our late happy deliverance.' Kirk Session of Bellie. 1746, March 2.— 'The Session, considering that the times were such that all justice was silent, resolved to refer till they should see if God in his providence would put an end to the confusions.' Kirk Session of Bellie. 1746, March 1 6.— 'This day the minister intimate the Duke of Cumberland's proclamation, dated at Montrose, re- quiring such of the Rebels as bore no office and were only private men to lay down their arms and return to their own homes, for which (great numbers of the Rebels being in Church), that afternoon, many outrages were committed about his house, and upon Tuesday he himself was made prisoner by them ; and we had no sermon from this day untill the Duke's army came past, i2th April 1746.' Presbytery of Strathbogie. 1745, December 25. — 'Present Mr. Tough from Aberlour, correspondent according to the appointment of the Synod, that neighbouring presbyteries should correspond with one another for prayer and converse in these times of trouble and danger.' 1746, January 15. — ' The Presbytery delayed going through their minutes on account of the dis- turbances of the times.' 1746, March 26. — 'The Presbytery consider that by reason of the confusion of the times they could not do anything with the delinquents.' 1746, April 30.— 'Mr. Ramsay represented that Alexander Gordon, who had been admitted Schoolmaster at Cairny, had left that place and joined in the rebellion, and craved that the school might be declared vacant.' Kirk Session of EssiL 1746, February 22. — ' Mr. Crichtone of Auchin- goul, who assumed the title of Vicount Frendraught, came to Germach. The rebells of his Regiment were very unruly, and showed little regard to his authority.' March 2.—' Several rebells were in church, heard King George prayed for and made no disturbance.' March 1 8.— 'Lord John Drummond came to the Manse, and it became the rebel's headquarters at Spey. About a week after the Duke of Perth came, and the house was frequented by Lord Ogilvie, Sir William Gordon Park, Sir James Kinloch, Avachie, Cowbardie, Major Hales, Mr. Fletcher of Benschie, and sometimes others, as Lord Elcho, Lord Strathallan, Lord Balmerinoch, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 2 7 Earle of Kilmarnock, Secretary Murray, Mr. Sullivan, and many others. Though this was very expensive to the minister, they used him very civilly, and gave him no disturbance in point of principle, but there was no publick worship during their stay.' Kirk Session of Essil. 1 746, April 1 3. — ' After the Duke of Cumberland with his army marched away, preached on Psalm xviii. 46 : —The Lord liveth ; and blessed be my Rock; and the God of my salvation be exalted.' Kirk Session of Essil. 1746, June 26. — 'This day being appointed by the General Assembly for thanksgiving for the defeat of the late Rebellion ; and our deliverance from Popery and arbitrary power, the text before and after -noon was Psalm 126, 3: — The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.' Kirk Session of Dundurcas. 1 746, April 12. — ' To our joy the Highland rabble on the approach of the Duke and King's army fled in great confusion away.' 'The sixteen of Aprile the Duke of Cumberlain gave a totall defeat to the Highland rabble at Moor of Culloden. There the English army crown'd with victory and triumph.' April 27. — 'Cumberland's converts begin now to crowd the meeting.' May 4. — ' After sermon the session with pleasure and thankfulness to God met without danger.' June 26. — 'Public Thanksgiving.' The little sympathy the rebellion had in this district may be seen from the depositions of some forty or fifty witnesses as recorded in ' The Plundering of Cullen House.' W. CRAMOND. CULLEN. 362. SOME NOTES ON THE ATTAINTED JACOBITES, 1746. — The follow- ing notes on some of the gentlemen attainted in the Exchequer List of 1746 may perhaps be found interesting, and may excite some other readers of the Scottish Antiquary to come forward with information concerning the less-known heroes of the '45. Of the more celebrated leaders, such as Lochiel, etc., I have only given the names of books where notices of them may be found. FRANCIS STEUART. John Berwick, gentleman, Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment. Executed at Kennington Common, 3oth July 1746. Andrew Blood, gentleman farmer, Officer in the Manchester Squadron, Executed at Kennington Common, 3oth July 1746. James Bradshaw, merchant, Manchester, Captain first in the Man- chester Regiment, and afterwards in the Life Guards under Lord Elcho. Executed at Kennington Common, 28th November 1746. James Brand, gentleman watchmaker. Executed at Carlisle, i8th October 1746. Francis Buchanan of Arnpryor, late ofCallander, called 'chief of the family of Buchanan.' Executed at Carlisle, i8th October 1746. See Chambers's Rebellion. His two brothers, Patrick and Thomas, were also found guilty, but were not executed. Dr. Archibald Cameron. . ^ See History of the Comer ons, by Donald Cameron, yr. of Lochiel. j Alexander Mackenzie- Ludoyic Cameron, of Torcastle, younger son of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, Colonel. He fled, after Culloden, to France, where he obtained a gratification of 1000 livres. He married a cousin of his own, named Chisholm. 2 s The Scottish A ntiquary ; Thomas Chadwick, gentleman. } See Chambers's Thomas Coppoch, -clerk. ( Rebellion. James Dawson, student at St. Johns, Cambridge J J&J^ Raiment Executed at Kennington Common, 3oth July 1746, His Charles was also tried but acquitted; another brother joined m clerk in the Auditor's Office in the Exchequer of Scotland Officer in Cask's troop of the Perthshire Regiment. He escaped, after Culloden, to France, where he received a pension of 350 Hvres, but he writes in 1759 to Oliphant of Cask asking for help. George Fletcher, gentleman, linendraper near Salford Bridge, Captain in the Manchester Regiment. Executed at Kennington Common, 3ot Ul Chlrles Gordon of Tarperso. Executed at Carlisle, isth November 1 74Tohn Gordon, elder of Glenbucket, born about 1672. After Culloden he escaped to Norway and thence to France, where he had a pension < i20olivres. He had formerly engaged in the rising of 1715. mjames0 Graham, yr. of Airth, eldest son of James Graham of Airth, Colonel in the Princes army. After Culloden he escaped to France, and died there in the Scots College of Paris. George Hamilton of Redhouse, Captain. He was captured at Clifton, and executed at York, ist November 1746. John Hamilton, Esq., Governor of Carlisle. Executed at Kenning- ton Common, 28th November 1746. John Hay, portioner of Restalrig, W.S., second son of Alexander Hay of Huntingdon, married Anne, daughter and heiress of James Elphinstone of Restalrig, he joined the Jacobite party and became treasurer to Prince Charles. In 1746 he escaped to the Continent, but ultimately revisited Scotland. He died 6th December 1784. William Home, nephew to Home of Bassihrig. Executed at York, 28th October 1746. Alexander and Charles Kinloch, brothers of Sir James of that Ilk, both were found guilty but were not executed. They died unmarried. Sir James Kinloch of Kinloch, 3rd Bart., joined the army of Prince Charles. He was captured after Culloden, tried and condemned to be executed, but managed to escape to France, where he remained until a pardon was granted. His estates were forfeited but bought back for the family by Janet Duff, his wife, sister to the Earl of Fife. He had one son. Patrick Lindsay, farmer, Tweeddale, son of John Lindsay of Worme- stone, Captain in the Jacobite Highland army. Proclaimed Prince Charles, 1745, at St. Andrews, captured at Dundee and executed at Brampton, 2ist October 1746. He married first, Miss Mann; second, Agnes Robertson. George Lockhart, yr. of Carnwath, eldest son of George Lockhart of Carnwath. He was specially excepted from all the Acts of Amnesty. After Culloden he escaped abroad, where he died without issue, 2d February 1761. Andrew Lumsden. See Dennistoun's Life of Sir R. Strange. Robert Lyon, 'clerk' or Episcopal minister at Perth. Executed at Penryth, 28th October 1746. or, Northern Notes and Queries 29 Alexander MacDonald of Keppoch, son of Coll MacDonald of Keppoch, educated at Glasgow. Joined Prince Charles at Glenfinnan, killed at Culloden, i6th April 1746. He had married Isabel, daughter of Robert Stewart of Appin. Donald MacDonald of Clanranald. See Mackenzie's History of the MacDonalds. Donald MacDonald of Lochgarry, son of John MacDonald of Lochgarry, a devoted Jacobite. After Culloden he fled to France, and his wife, Isabella Gordon, barely escaped from the burning of Lochgarry, in the garb of a clansman. He died at Paris shortly after hearing of his son petitioning for pardon. Donald MacDonald, gentleman, grandson of Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch. Executed at Kennington Common, 26th August 1746. Donald MacDonald of Kinlochmoydart, son of Ranald of Kinloeh- moydart, married Isabel, daughter of Robert Stewart of Appin. Executed at Carlisle, i8th October 1746. Donald MacDonald of Teirnadreish. He commanded the Keppoch regiment for a time and took Fort William, i6th August 1745. Captured after Culloden, he was executed at Carlisle, i8th October 1746. Alexander M'Gilivrae of Drumaglash, appointed by Lady Macintosh of Moy Colonel of the regiment she raised for Prince Charles. He and all his officers except three fell at Culloden, i6th April 1746. John M'Kinnon of M'Kinnon. See Anderson's Scottish Nation, etc. Lachlan M'Lachlan of Castle Lachlan, i5th chief of the clan Lachlan. Killed at Culloden, i6th April 1746; married Mary, daughter of Robert Stewart of Appin. Alexander M'Leod of Muiravonside, son of Mr. John M'Leod, advocate. He was despatched on a mission to Skye to enlist M'Leod of M'Leod on the Jacobite side, but was unsuccessful. After Culloden he led a wandering life through the Highlands, but received a pardon nth July 1778. He married, 1710, a daughter of W. Montgomery of Macbeth Hill, without issue. He died 3oth December 1784. Ewen M'Pherson of Cluny. See Stewart's Sketches of the Highlanders, and Mackenzie's History of the Clan Chattan, etc. Lawrence Mercer of Lethinely, Officer in Lanerick's troop of the Perthshire Regiment. Died in prison before i5th November 1746. Hon. Robert Nairn, or Mercer, of Aldie, second son of the attainted Lord Nairn; married, i6th August 1720, Jean, daughter and heiress of Sir Lawrence Mercer of Aldie. He was an officer in the Jacobite army, and was killed at Culloden, i6th April 1746. David Morgan, Esq., Barrister-at-law, of a good Monmouthshire family. Executed at Kennington Common, 3oth July 1746. Richard Morrison, wigrnaker, valet to Prince Charles, made prisoner after Culloden, and condemned to be hanged. He escaped to France, and appears afterwards to have been taken into the service of the Chevalier de Saint George as valet. Sir David Murray of Stanhope, 4th Bart, eldest son of Sir David Murray. He was sentenced to death at York, but was pardoned on the condition that he left Scotland for life. His estates were sold. He retired to France, where he had a pension of 1000 livres, and died in exile. Walter Ogilvie, gentleman, Lieutenant in Lord Lewis Gordon's Regi- ment. Executed at Kennington Common, 22d August 1746. 30 The Scottish Antiquary ; Laurence Oliphant of Cask. ) See Kingston Oliphant's Jacobite Laurence Oliphant, yr., of Cask, f Lairds of Gask. Sir Archibald Primrose (Foulis) of Dunipace, Bart. ; married, first, Mary, daughter of John, Earl of Wigton, no issue; second, 1724, Mary, daughter of Archibald, Earl of Rosebery. He joined Prince Charles, for which he was executed at Carlisle, i5th November 1746. His only son died unmarried. A pension of ^200 was granted to his daughters. Charles Stewart of Ardshiel. See Stewart's Stewarts of Appin. Francis Townley, of the Burnley family, Colonel of the Manchester Regiment. He was an officer in the French service (since 1728) and had been present at the siege of Philipsburgh. Executed at Kennington Common, 3oth July 1746. Sir John Wedderburn, Baronet, born 1 704, married Jean, daughter, of John Fullarton of Fullarton ; joined the Jacobites, and became receiver of excise duties and cess for the counties of Perth and Angus, and a volunteer in Ogilvy's Regiment. Executed at Kennington Common, 28th November 1746. His son, John Wedderburn of Ballindean, was also a cornet in the same regiment, and was present at Culloden. Andrew Wood, gentleman, Captain in Roy Stewart's Regiment, born about 1724. Executed at Kennington Common, 28th November 1746. 363. ARMS OF BERWICK COUNTY COUNCIL. — Excerpt of Letters Patent or, Northern Notes and Queries. 3 1 * WHEREAS the Council of the County of Berwick have by Petition of date the Nineteenth day of September ultimo Prayed that We would Grant Our Licence and Authority to them and to their successors in office to bear and use on a Seal or otherwise for official purposes con- nected with the said County such Ensigns Armorial as might be found suitable and according to the Laws, of Arms : Know ye therefore that we have devised, and do by these presents Assign, Ratify, and Confirm to the said Council of the County of Berwick and to their Successors in office, and to the said County of Berwick the following Ensigns Armorial as depicted upon the margin hereof, and matriculated of even date with these presents in Our Public Register of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland, vizt., Argent, on a Mount Vert, a Bear Sable collared and chained Or, standing in front of a Tree proper. ' Matriculated the Tenth day of October 1890. * (Signed) J. W. MITCHELL. 'Lyon Clerk.' 364. Ross FAMILY (continued from vol. v. p. 161). — APPENDIX B. 1297. ROYAL LETTERS No. 3252. (Calendar of Scottish Documents n., No. 920 Record Office, London.) Printed in Stevenson's Historical Documents^ vol. ii. Magnifico principi ac Domino suo pro cunctis Metuendo et Reverendo Domino Edwardo Dei gratia Regi Anglic Illustri Domino Hybernie et Duel Aquitanie. Hen. . . . permissione Divina Ecclesie Abdonensis Minister humilis. Johannes Cumyn Comes de Buchan et comestabularius Scocie et Gastenatus films Comitis de Mar1 salutem. ... [obsjequii Reverencie et honoris. Cum in Moravia et aliis terris quibusdam giacen- tibus per Andream fulium (sic) Domini Andree de Moravia et alios quos- dam pacis. . . . tumultus jam dudum surrexisset non modicus. Domina- cioni vestre patefacimus per presentem quod nos pacem vestram fervide volentes dictum tumultum cassare et inde. . . . frenare dictas partes cum sufficienti potencia vestra et nostra ultra montes Scocie adivimus et ipsas ubique visitavimus et Malefactores quesivimus in Modis ipsis. . . . quod Dominus Andreas de Rath vobis cum festinacione clarius declarabit et cum venimus ad villam de Inernys. Misimus pro nobilissima comitissa de Ros quod. . . . veniret et suum consilium. posse et auxilium nobis adhiberet circa pacis custodiam et Regalem Justiciam ordinando et in posterum observando et pro bona sua. . . . tinuaret. ut a vobis Militis suis exigentibus gratiam et quetes reportaret in futurum. Que nostras supplicaciones benignissime admittens et commodum [vestrum consuljens et honorem accessit ad nos et curam suam cum nostra apposuit diligentis- simam ad omnia ritissime ordinant. Et quia in omnibus temporibus. . . . diligens fuit et benevola que vestre excellencie sedem possumus innotescere 1 Gratney, son of the Earl of Mar, had been thanked by Edward, nth June 1297, for quelling disturbances in the Sheriflfdom of Aberdeen. He was required to hasten to the assistance of William Fitzwnrren, Constable of Urquhart Castle, and in the present letter gives an account of his expedition. (Genealogist^ vol. iv. p. 187.) „ 2 The Scottish A ntiqnary ; nobis humiliter supplicavit ut statum suum curam et diligenciam labores peri us ques vobis declarare curavemus et testimomum ventati per- hSere 'Ac'nos justis suis supplicacionibus inclmati in fide et fidehtate libus vobis [respojndere possumus vel ab aliis suis yicmis maionbus, MedKs erminoribus attrahere seu inquirere ipsam fidehssimam m omni- buscommendamus quod probat . - , [e]xhibitio (i) cum sit d.leccioms et affeccionis probado (2) verissima. Et quia ad dictarum parcmm borealium Rossie scilicet. Ergadie et msularum custodiam. . . . [Co]- mite Rossen itas (3) earundem utilem proclamat necessanum et dilectum dignetur vestra discretio residenda circa ipsum etpaterne vestre custofdiam] et securitatem vestram. . . . et honorem aliquid ordmare quod vobis ex nunc in expedicionem potent redundare. Sciturus quod si domi stetisset tumultus nullatenus surrexisse[t]. . apud Inernys die Mercurii in vigilia Sancti Jacobi Apostoh. Anno Domini M°. C Nonasesimo septem. [There is another letter from the same three persons on the following day 25 July 1297, in Norman French; but it does not mention the countess.— See Stevenson's Historical Documents, Scotland, 11. ; Bame's Catalogue, n. 921.] (i.) exhibitis Stevenson. (2.) prefessio Stevenson. (3.) cias Stevenson. 2$th fitly 1297. ROYAL LETTERS No. 3258. (Calendar of Scottish Documents, No. 922 Record Office, London.) Calendared by Mr. Bain ; but not printed. Excellentissimo Domino suo pro cunctis Metuendo. diligendo. et Reverendo. Domino Edwardo Dei gratia Regi Anglic Illustri Domino Hib . . . sui de Hurchard salutem. Reverenciam. obsequium. et honorem. Dominacioni vestre patefacio per presentem quod cum literas vestras circa lanam et coream . , . Mandatum specialiter. Quidam • malevoli quod me motl ex hoc accesserunt ad Andream de Moravia apud castrum de la Avvath in Ross et All . . . scripsit itaque magnificus Dominus Reginaldus le Chen,1 ut die Dominica proxima post festam assencionis Dominice apud Inernys accendentem simul cum eo et aliis vestra nego . . . redeuntem versus Hurcharde tractatu diei finite. Memo- ratus Andreas et dictus Allexander Pilchys cum suis fautoribus contra- verunt et ceperunt. et cum eo cefperunt] . . . Loveth xviij equos de quibus x. erant sufficientes ad quolibet opus bonum. Die Lune in Cerstino idem Andreas cum suo exercitu, et dictus Allexander Pilchys . . . suum misit ad me. quod illud malurn sic inceptum de woluntate sua nullatenus emanavit. Etsi mihi videtur quod castrum defendere non posse ... ad opus vestrum contra quoscumque sicut vitam suam propriam. Tune gentes referens Comitisse dixi quod credidi me et castrum satis defendere et peciit Id ... non intromittens nisi in maius periclum emineret, et sic recessit dictus armigerus relictus Andreas de Moravia cum suo exercitu 1 In 1290 a father and son bearing this name were alive. A third Ranald le Chen, grandson of the first, became a great man in Sutherlandshire. One of his daughters married Nicolas, brother of William, Earl of Sutherland, and ancestor of Duffus. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 33 et burgensibus de Inernys ex parte . . . prospexi de castro et vidi exer- citum nlii Comitis de Ros. quern Comitissa misit in Mey et castri vestri subsidium quod intellexit quod me defendere . . . ab aliquibus aliis cir- cumiacentibus in periculum posse eminere. et videns quod pro malo venisset dixi quod parvis non. Tune quidam fatui (?) hoc Risum ad ... arcedo (?) quod Andreas de Moravia et ejus potenciam attemptasset circa obsessum amovendo si posset. Audiens tune Matteus quod recessit sic ex tune 1 . . . t et obsessum de castro de Hurchard amoveret ; omnino et multa bona opera fecit et vidit quod castrum providencia fuerat desti- tutum misit . . . posse quod nullum d . . . ustinui. Andreas vero de Moravia ex tune potenciam colligens et congregans magnum exercitum congregavit et custoditus pac . . . festinanter be ... is et tune de nocte interfecit Willelmum Puer, et Riccardum filium meum confidens de potencia sua et cedens totum regnum . . . de interfeccione Domini Ala . . . Johannis fratris sui . . . m cum suo exercitu ad castrum de la Awath et de Balkeny et . . . silvas ad ... inde postulat eminere s . . . vestrum honorem . . . tas eorundem salvavit et in silvis fuerant inventi . . . ut dicta Comitissa nobilissima . . . quod . . . Dominum sancte (?) ecclesie (?)... omnis si placet considerare dignemini statum Comitisse et per . . . Sciturus in fide et fidelitate quibus vobis teneor pariter et homagio vobis facio capta de Domino suo securitate ydonea restituendo . . . quern nlius Comitis de Ros salvavit et supplicat quod Majestati sue rogitare (?) dignemini. Datus apud Inernys viij. Kal. Augusti Anno . . . Parliamentary Petition No. 9146 without date, probably soon after August 1297. Record Office, London. Sereniffimo Principi ac Domino fuo Reverentiffimo Domino Edwardo Dei gracia Illuftri Regi Anglie, Domino Ibernye, Duci Aquitanye, fua humilif et devota Eufemia Comitiffa de fal[utem in] falutif auctore et fe ad fua precepta et mandata promptam et paratam ac in omnibuf obedientem. Reverentiffime Dominacioni veftre in cu fpef mea pendit et allevacio anguftiarurn mearum omni qua poffum fupplico devo- cione et affectione quatinuf Willelmo de Culy e Regno veftro oriundo et fpeciali meo fuper hiif que vobif ex parte mea fidem adhibe (?) fi placet dignemini indubitatam et ea ad gratum productur effectum . . . Preterea (?) que quicquid dictuf W. clericuf (?) meuf ex parte mea vobif monftraverit abfqve aliqua difiimulacione pro poffe . . . quebo. Valeat excellencia veftra femper in D[omino]. Note. — This parchment having been carefully examined ' dif W. ctecuf meuf,' is now the reading instead of ' dfif W. filiuf meuf • yet decufvs, not at all distinct, and a hole follows Wifto de Culy, or Ouly, where his style would have been given ; we can only say most probably Clericus. The Countess's title is also lost by a hole, the top of a letter, possibly R, being left. The word must be a short one, and the only Scotch Earldom which would fit is Ross; over the gap there is an indication of the contrac- tion. (Signed) JOSEPH BAIN. APPENDIX C. The Lady Foulis of 1576 was Katherine, daughter of Alex. Ross (16) of Balnagown, and 2nd wife of Robert More Munro, Laird of Foulis, by whom she had, with other children, a son George ; by his first wife her VOL. vi. — NO. xxi. c 34 The Scottish Antiquary ; husband had two sons, Robert and Hector. She was a widow, and her eldest stepson was dead when she and Hector were tried separately, he being 'he pursuer against his stepmother, although he was to appear at the ba as a criminal She was accused of conspiring to get rid of her eldest stepson, so that her brother, George Ross, might marry Robert Munro's wife, and as a necessary step she attempted to poison George s wife She was assisted by her brother, but he was never prosecuted. She 'engaged various witches, who came to Canorth and made images in butter of the young Laird of Foulis, and of the Lady of Balnagown ; they shot at them eight times with an elf-arrow without hitting them. On another day they set up images of clay, and shot at them twelve times, always missing. Lady Foulis and her brother then decided on trying poison, which she sent by her nurse, who having tasted it died. At last, through a cook, she administered poison to Margery Campbell, her sister- in-law, which did not kill her, but brought on an incurable illness. These doings were shortly after judicially investigated, when Christian Ross and Thomas M'Kean (witch and warlock) were convicted and burnt — Nov. 1577. Lady Foulis fled to Caithness, but in a few months was taken back by her husband. In 1589, he having died, his son and successor, Robert, purchased a commission for the trial of witches and sorcerers, aiming at his step- mother; he died in the same year, how, it does not appear, leaving the succession to his brother Hector, who now became the nominal prosecutor of his stepmother. The jury who tried her, being composed of the dependants of the Foulis family, acquitted her. The accusation against Hector was, that in August 1588 he had communed with three notorious witches for the recovery of his eldest brother, but they assured him that he had been too late in sending for them. Hector, falling ill in June 1589, sent for a notorious witch, who told him that he would not recover unless the principal man of his blood suffered for him. Therefore his half-brother George was chosen, and various plans were tried to effect his death. Hector recovered, but George fell ill, and died in July 1590, when his mother commenced a prosecution against Hector, now the Laird. He was acquitted, the jury being composed of his own retainers. Katherine, daughter of George Ross of Balnagown, who afterwards married Sir William Sinclair of Mey, was much mixed up in the charges against Lady Foulis.— Abbreviated from Chambers's Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. i. p. 203. The following notices about this extraordinary trial are printed in vol. iv. of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland :— 1589.— Complaint of Katherine Ross, relict of Robert Munro of Foulis, Margaret Sutherland, spouse of Hector Munro, portioner of Kilterne ; Bessie Innes, spouse of Neil Munro in Swardich ; Margaret Ros, spouse of John Keith M'Donald Roy in Coull, and Margaret Mowatt, as follows :— Mr. Hector Munro, now of Foulis . . . seeks to possess himself in any way of the lands of Foulis, and to dispossess her thairfra, tried to have her killed by her tenants, and then finding he could not succeed by direct or indirect means, upon wrong information purchased a commission for trying them for witchcraft. They pray the commission may be discharged, as they 'be of veritie they ar honnest women . . . spotted at na tyme with ony sic ungodlie practizeis ' or, Northern Notes and Queries. 35 Then follows a caution in 10,000 merks by Lauchlan M'Intoshe and Mr. Hector Munro of Foulis as principals and their surety that on 28th Oct. next they will prosecute to the utmost Katherine Ross . . . and that Mr. Hector is to pay her daily 403. for her expenses until she be tried. Edinburgh, 5th Nov. — Caution in ^"2000 by John Campbell of Calder for Mr. H. Munro, that he will not harm Katherine Ross, Lady Foulis, her tenants or servants. APPENDIX D. Bailie Robert Ross (112), son of Alexander Ross of Easterfearn (105), had by his wife, Jannet, daughter of Alexander Ross of Little Tarrell (vi.)> a daughter Janet, married to John M'Kenzie, described in a bond of pro- vision from his father for ^1000, dated 2Qth April 1713, as 'shipmaster in Cromarty, third son of Mr. Bernard M'Kenzie of Sandilands.' (Sasine on it i yth November 1736.) On i3th June 1710, he being then styled 1 shipmaster/ disponed of ' three aikers of land in the field called Goose- dales,' . . . near the town of Cromarty, to William Ross, merchant in Tain. (Sasine 8th January 1725.) In the Cromarty Registers the baptisms of their children are not entered, the only notice about his family being — 1723, June 4th, John M'Kenzie, couper in Cromartie, and Margaret Ross, servant-maid to John M'Kenzie, shipmaster in Cromartie, gave up their names. George M'Kenzie (the shipmaster's elder brother) is cautioner. Under Clan Vorichy, in Dr. George Mackenzie's MS. History, written circa 1720,* it appears that the family of Sandilands was descended from Murdoch Riach M'Kenzie, a natural son of Kenneth, fourth baron of Kintail. He was slain in an incursion he made into Caithness. There ate many people descended from him both in Sutherland and Ross, called by the Highlanders Clan Vorichy. i. Among these descendants was Colonel Daniel M'Kenzie, who served for some time under Colin, Earl of Seaforth, and afterwards in Muscovy and Flanders, where he became Colonel of a Regiment of Foot. He is said to have married a relative of the House of Nassau.2 In his old age he revisited Scotland, and, as a gift to Earl Colin, brought with him ' the golden bed,' so called from ' the golden trappings and embroi- deries of gold and quiltings that were put on a sea-green velvet belonging to it.' Earl Colin dying before his arrival, he gave the bed to Earl George. A few years ago, on the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Brahan, the golden bed was in the state room. Colonel Daniel returned to Flanders, where he died, leaving six sons. Of five of them nothing is known. One son, Captain Bernard, accom- panied him to Scotland, and, taking service under Earl George, was Major at the battle of Auldearn, where he fell 9th May 1645. He married Mrs. Ramsay, a Dutch woman of Scottish parentage, by whom he had, 2. Daniel. (See below.) 3. George, M.D., Inverness, who d. s.p. 1678, having married Janet Robertson in Inverness. 1 From a copy in the possession of Sir James D. M'Kenzie, Bart. 2 Dr. M'Kenzie styles her ' daughter of Jan Wolford, Count of Brediod, Governor of Budloch in Flanders.' 6 The Scottish Antiquary ; 4. William, merchant 2. Daniel M'Kenzie married c Bernard. (See below.) i p. asL^-S£^^£s2 »^3S^S«»R%l^i ^,o "o collect the rents of the bishoprick of Ross, in his application setting forth his descent from the House of Nassau, and that the pension va con"d to him by Queen Anne. After a careful search in the RecordTffice, London, no trace has been found either of his application or of his pension. Hugh Miller (Scenes and Legends of the ^rth of Scot- land) states that he was 'a quiet, timid sort of man, with httle force > of character, but, what served his turn equally well, a good deal of cunning. He purchased the estate of Sandilands, and dying there 3oth July 1713, was buried at Fortrose. He married Jean, daughter of Alexander dunes of Dunskeath, by whom he had, 6. Alexander. (See below). 7 George, 'in Cromarty' married Margaret, daughter to Alexander Ross of Little Tarrell (vi.) (Cromarty Registers, 2oth November 1714), and died s.p. 8. John. (See /a;/.) Lilias, married John Forrester of Culnauld. Sasine 1714* Christian, married Andrew Bayne in Cromarty. 6. Anna, baptized 23d November 1683 (Cromarty Registers). 6. Alexander M'Kenzie, M.D., of Sandilands and Kinnoch, an estate which he purchased (Sasine loth July 1710). Born in 1678, he studied at Aberdeen, and was for some time surgeon-major in the Duke of Argyle's regiment in Flanders, who sent him to study at Leyden. He finally settled at Fortrose. He died 26th September 1722, having married, contract dated at Fortrose, i4th May 1707, Anne, daughter of Alexander M'Kenzie of Belmaduthy, by whom he had 9. Bernard. (See below.) [i.] Katherine, eldest daughter, and spouse to Alexander Baillie, Writer, Inverness. (Sasine i7th November 1736.) [2.] Anna. 9. Bernard M'Kenzie, ' only son and heir of deceased Dr. Alexander.' (Sasine 22d June 1732.) ' Of Kinnoch.' (Sasine i7th November 1736.) He married Margaret, daughter of David Ross of Kindeace (43), and had 10. , a son, who died s.p. [i.] Isabella, who married Smith of the Fortrose Academy, and had a son Colonel William Smith, E.I.C.S., who died in India — March 1836. 8. To return to John M'Kenzie, third son of Mr. Bernard. Dr. M'Kenzie states that ' he is at sea for his further improvement.' Bom probably about 1 68 1. At his death he left his widow, Janet Ross, in poor circum- or, Northern Notes and Queries. 37 stances. In 1745 she was living in Billiter Lane, London, with seven children, who were all living in 1759, one of them a son, aged then, about twenty-four, who was anxious to serve in the army. Of the daughters, Jean, probably the eldest. (See below.} Margaret, ' daughter of deceased John M'Kenzie, ship- master, Cromarty,' inherited property from her uncle, George M'Kenzie of Moorfields. (Sasine 3d August 1764.) [3.] Justina,1 born circa 1734, married Henry Davidson, first of Tulloch, an estate he purchased in 1762 for ;£io,2oo, at a judicial sale, from the old family of Bayne of Tulloch, his relatives through his mother, Jean Bayne. Being anxious to save it from passing to strangers, he not only paid a long price, but afterwards behaved most generously to the old family, as is proved by the pro- visions made in his Will for various members. His Will was proved in London, 27th June 1781, by his brother and successor, Duncan Davidson, and his relative Charles Graham. He died 7th January 1781, s.p., and was buried in the Parish Church of Kingston-on-Thames, where the Davidson Monument in the Vicar's Chapel forms one of the chief ornaments of the Church. The will of Justina Davidson was proved in London by her husband's nephew, Henry Davidson, and her sister Delicia M'Neil, to whom she left the residue of her property, and desired to be buried by the side of her husband at Kingston. Dying 1 6th November 1804, her wish was not fulfilled, for she was laid in the Conti tomb at Hampstead. [4.] Delicia, born circa 1739, married M'Neil; she was his widow in September 1780, and dying 3oth April 1806, was also buried in the Conti tomb. She had an only child, Jannet, who married, as second wife, her relative, Andrew Reid of Lionsdown, co. Herts. She with two of her sons, Hugh and Robert, was buried in the Conti tomb. [5.] , married M'Kenzie, by whom she had two daughters. [i.] Jean, married in Edinburgh, 5th August 1778 (Scots Mag.\ John Fraser of Achnagairn. Her grand-daughter, Dora Loraine Fraser, married the above Robert Reid, and was also buried at Hampstead. [2.] Delicia died unmarried. The above-named Jean M'Kenzie, daughter of the shipmaster, married Robert, son of James White, who went to Tripoli, 7th May 1751, with the Hon. Augustus Keppel, in H.M.S. Lyme, as British Agent and Consul-General, being the bearer of a present from George n. to the Bashaw. He died there 29th November 1763, the affairs of the Consulate 1 There is a tradition that the shipmaster had been enamoured in Italy of a lady called Justina. This name can be traced from Justina M'Kenzie to many families in Scotland and England. It is a common name at Venice, for the battle of Lepanto was fought on Sunday, 7th October 1571, St. Justina's Day. 3 8 The Scottish Antiquary ; being left to the care of his widow (Archives oj the Consulate). Ad- ministration of his effects was granted to his widow 3oth December 1766, he being described as late of the parish of St. James, Westminster. Robert, who for a short time was Vice-Consul and Chancellor at Tripoli. He died before 1769. Jannetta. (See below.} Jannetta White, only daughter, born circa 1 737, having obtained a papal dispensation, was married at the Roman Catholic Church at Tripoli, 26th April 1756, to Cosimo Michelangelo Conti, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Consul-General at Tripoli, and afterwards at Genoa, for the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was inscribed in the 'Libro d'Oro' of Leghorn, preserved in the Archives at Florence. Dying at the Baths of San Giuliano in Tuscany, 26th March 1788, he was buried at Gello, but no trace of his grave remains. The Countess became a Roman Catholic, and dying in Florence i8th May 1800 (Register of the Church of St. Lorenzo), was buried at the pretty country church of Santa Maria a Novoli, but no stone marks her resting-place. On ist January 1770, a bore-brieve was issued from the Lyon Office, signed by Thomas Brodie, Leo Dept. setting forth the honourable descent of Countess Conti, both on her father's and mother's side : a most mendacious document with a certain admixture of truth, on the father's side claiming descent from White of Bannachie (now White-Melville), on the mother's from the Earls of Seaforth. The Countess did not obtain the Arms of White of Bannachie, but the following : — Arg. a martlet between three quatrefoils sa. ; on the upper part of the shield on a band purple three wheat sheaves or. Crest, a spread-eagle. This bore-brieve, duly attested, exists in the Archives at Florence, and in a splendidly emblazoned parchment, belong- ing to a descendant, the water bougets of Ross of Balniel are given instead of the lions of the Earls of Ross. Count Conti left, 1. Giovanni Giuseppe Pasquale. (See below.} i.] Jannetta. (See/0rf.) 2.1 Elisabetta Carolina. (See post.) 3.] Maria Caterina Filippa, born at Genoa, nth March 1767, died unmarried Qth August 1799. i. Giovanni, a General, who was created Marchese di Trevignano, was born at Genoa, 2d March 1770. He died in Florence, 2ist March 1828, and was buried in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, having married, i3th August 1804, Orsola, daughter of the Marchese Pompeo Bourbon del Monte ; she died 2d November 1843, and was buried in the cloister of San Lorenzo at Florence, leaving, 2. Cosimo Maurizio, created Prince of Trevignano by Pope Gregory xvi. Born at Pisa, 6th March 1809, died at Albano, s.p., 2d July 1855; buried there in the Church of the Cappuccini. Having married Adelaide, daughter of Prince Tommaso Corsini, she died 4th February 1878. [i,] Maria Anna Teresa, born at Pisa, 4th May 1812, died 25th November 1855, having married, 22nd April 1830, brioyanm Ginori, who died 6th August 1858, leaving, 3. umo. (bee below.) [i.] Emilia, married Major Ignazio Oppenauer. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 39 3. Gino Ginori-Conti, Prince of Trevignano on the death of his uncle, bom at Florence, 5th February 1836, married, ipth November 1^62, Paolina, daughter of Count Luigi Fabbri, and has, 4. Piero, born 3rd June 1865. 5. Ugo, born 29th May 1872. [i.] Maria Luisa, married July 1890, Giovanni Battista Ridolfi. To return to Jannetta Conti, eldest daughter of Count Cosimo, born at Tripoli, 9th February 1759. Brought up by her grandmother, Jean M'Kenzie, she died at Hampstead, i8th July 1780, and was buried near the parish church. On a massive tomb, erected to her memory, are cut on separate shields the Arms of Conti and White, surmounted by a Count's coronet ; on the right of the shields is an inscription setting forth her descent, on the left her virtues and accomplishments. Some years ago, during a storm, a large tree fell upon the tomb, and the heavy slabs being thrown to the ground, the vault with the coffins was left exposed ; so it remained for some time, until the churchwardens covered it over. A builder, feeling sure that some day the owners would be found, collected the stones, and placed them in the crypt of the parish church. The tomb has lately been replaced. Elisabetta Carolina Conti, second daughter of Count Cosimo, born at Tripoli 27th August 1760, and dying at Florence in the Palazzo Buonar- roti, i2th August 1827, was buried in the cloister of Santa Croce.1 She married 1782, Filippo, eldest son of Leonardo Buonarroti, and had, with two daughters, who died unmarried, i. Leonardo Cosimo, born at Bastia in Corsica, nth Novem- ber 1790, and died s.p. i2th February 1858, having married, i4th February 1846, Rosina Vendramin, a Venetian, widow of Thomas Grant; she died i6th June 1856. Leonardo Cosimo was the last of the direct collateral line of Michelangelo Buonarroti, and left by Will the Palazzo and all its contents to the Munici- pality of Florence. They were both buried at their Villa at Settignano, and after a time the tomb of Michelangelo in Santa Croce was opened to receive Leonardo Cosimo and his wife.2 In the Registers of 1 Inscription on the tomb : — Qui e sepolta e in Dio riposa Da continui gravissimi aflfanni Elisabetta Buonarroti Nata Contessa Conti Che pei figli ai quali fu padre e madre E pel vacillarite decoro della famiglia Fece e pati piu che altra mai. Visse anni LXXVII mori il XII Agosto MDCCCXXXH. O madre rarissima e sfortunata Ricevi in questo marmo bagnato di pianto L'ultimo doloroso addio Del figlio inconsolabile Cosimo Buonarroti Che tanto riamata tu amasti. 2 Rosina was daughter of Giovanni Vendramin of Venice, and of Lucia Diaz Faria, a Portuguese, and was born in London 22nd August 1814. She was a good linguist, musician, and artist. Touching by chance a spring in the wainscot of one of the rooms in the Buonarroti Palace, she discovered the entrance to a closet, in which were several of the great sculptor's models, and among them that of 'David.' 40 The Scottish Antiquary ; the Duomo is preserved an account of the opening of the tomb. It is stated that the only bodies of the Buonarroti family which could be identified were those of the Senator Filippo and of his father Leon- ardo, who died in 1684. All the other coffins had crumbled away. [i.l Faustina Buonarroti, born i;th September 1785, married, as second wife, Domenico Sturbini of Pescia ; she died 4th February 1860, and was buried at San Miniato. P. She wrote a volume of poems, published by Le Monnier, 1857; one of the best is in memory of her grandmother, Jannetta White. [2.] Antonia Buonarroti, born 5th April 1787, married 1803, Count Giovanni del Testa of Pisa. P. The career of Filippo Buonarroti was most extraordinary. Born nth November 1761, created Knight of the Order of San Stefano, in 1778 he was appointed page to the Grand Duke Peter Leopold. He became imbued with republican doctrines, and, plotting against the government, was denounced by his father. His life was spared ; he was exiled, and went to Corsica, where he founded a newspaper LAmico delta Liberia Italiana. In 1792 he abandoned his wife and five children, leaving them in penury, and went to Paris, where he played a leading part in the ' Terror,' and took to himself another wife under the Tree of Liberty. His family removed to Pisa, and lived there with the Countess Conti. After the massacres of 1793 he was commissary of the republic in Corsica, then at Lyons, but from both places he was expelled by the population for his cruelties. When Robespierre fell, he was agent with the army in Italy, was arrested and imprisoned, but the amnesty granted by the Directory set him free. In Paris he became president of the Society of the Pantheon, and in 1796 conspired with Babeuf against the Directory. Condemned to death, his sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life at Cherbourg, where he was when Bonaparte became First Consul, by whom he was banished to the Isle of Oleron. At length he was pardoned on condition of his leaving France. He settled in Switzerland, and was concerned in all the plots against Napoleon and the Bourbons. In his old age, when no longer to be feared, Louis Philippe allowed him to return to Paris, where he ended his days in a hospital in 1839. (Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, by Aurelio Gotti, 1875. History of Babeuf s Conspiracy, by Buonarroti, translated by Bronterre, 1836.) 365. SHOOLBRED.— This Scottish name is of rare occurrence, and any suggestions as to its etymology would be interesting. In the county of Fife, where alone it is met with in old documents, it is both a place name and a family name. The only reference to it as a place name that I have met with is in the ' Inquis. Retorn. Co. Fife ' ('93) Maii3, 1608. J£A£S™* WALTERUS MAWER, hares Walteri Mawer de Mawerstoun, et terns de Kilquhiss wester, quorum terrae, vulgo vocatse ae Kilquhiss, sunt partes in senecallater de Fyiff. E. 8 1. (Io67) Sep. 20 1669. JACOBUS LINDSAY, hares Jacobus Lindsay de Kilvvhish, patris, in or, Northern Notes and Queries. 41 villa et terra de Wester Kilwhish, quorum pendiculum et portio terrae vulgo nuncupata lie Showbraids de Kilwhish existit pars et portio,, infra dominum de FiflF.— E. 8 \.feudiferme. xxix. 287. In the same work I find. Co. Fife — 1 66 1. Dec. 12. Thomas Schoolbraids, portioner of Auchtermuchty, heir to his grandfather, Thomas Schoolbraids. 1663. June ii. Walter Schoolbraidis, portioner 'de Hill de Auchter- muchtie,' heir to his uncle, Robert Schoolbraid. 1664. June 23. Margaret Scholbreads, heir to her father, Allan Schol- breads, portioner of Auchtermuchty. 1664. June 23. Alexander Guidell, heir of his mother, Ephania Schol- breads. 1685. July 1 6. Elizabeth Shoolbraid, heir to her father, Thomas Shool- braid, portioner of Auchtermuchty. From the middle of the iyth century to the present time the family can be traced. But information as to its earlier history will be acceptable. A. W. C. H. 366. DRUMALBYN. — A farm and burn not far south of Lanark bear this name. The local pronunciation seems to be DRUMAHBIN. The occurrence of this word in the middle of the Lowlands may be worthy of note. W. M. C. 367. STEWART (see vol. v. pp. i, 77). — As a continuation to the remarks of ' 2 ' the following notes on the Pedigree of Stewart of Ladywell may be given — I. James Stewart, ist of Ladywell (2nd son of James Stewart in Fin- castle by his wife Margaret Carwood, and brother of James Stewart of Fincastle), was Commissary of Dunkeld. He had issue — 1. Thomas, who succeeded. 2. John, who seems to have succeeded his brother. 3. Sir Gilbert Stewart of Poliak, knight, Commissary of Dunkeld, and Sheriff of Perth, left at least one son — Charles Stewart of Rotmell, also Commissary of Dunkeld, married and had issue — (1) Patrick Stewart, served heir to his father, 3oth June 1693. (2) Charles, called in Duncan Stewart's History a ' seaman.' (3) Helen, married (i) Alexander Stewart of Fondeyuet, (2) Charles Stewart of Inchgarth. (4) Amelia, baptized at Dunkeld, nth October 1687. 4. William, to whom Sir Gilbert of Poliak is served heir, 1650. 5. Dorothy, married John Stewart of Bonskield. 6. Jean, first wife of Neill Stewart of Fors. 7. Isobell, married (i) John Stewart of Fungorth, (2) 5th Feb. 1670, John Blair of Ardblair. 8. daughter, married John Stewart of Killichassie. II. Thomas Stewart of Ladywell (omitted by Duncan Stewart) suc- ceeded his father. His brother, Sir Gilbert, is retoured heir to him in 1650. III. John Stewart of Ladywell, seems to have succeeded his brother ; he was Commissary of Dunkeld, and was beheaded at Edinburgh in 1641. 2 The Scottish Antiquary ; married Isobell Mitchell, who remarried Alexander Neightone -some- o before 1693. He seems to have been twice married; by the first wit< John, his successor. a daughter, 2. Amehe. V John Stewart of Lady well, Commissary of Dunkeld, succeeded his father, to whom he is served heir i4th July 1693. He married Helen, daughter of William Lindsay of Kilspindie by Margaret daughter of Mr. William Bethun, brother to David Bethun of Creich (she is served heir- portioner to her maternal grandfather in 1699). They left no issue. A. F. S. 368. A PRIMITIVE CANDLESTICK.— The subscriber has got in his posses- sion an interesting memento of the 'good old times.' While ransacking his house, a farmer (living near Doune) found amongst the rafters a curious and ingenious holder for a candle or dip. It is made exactly on the principle of a ship's top-mast. It consists of two standards or pillars of wood, and is fitted with a cap. This cap works like a swivel, and allows the top standard, which is furnished with eight rests, to slide up or down, thus enabling the light to be lowered or heightened at pleasure. When raised to its full ex- tent it measures 34 inches, and when lowered 22 inches. The age of this candlestick can only be conjectural, but to judge from its time-worn appearance two hundred years will be near the mark. W. B. BRUCE. DUNBLANE. 369. SIR CHARLES BAILLY. — Cor- nelius van Grestel, in his Historia sacra et prof ana Archiepiscopatus Mechliniensis (vol. ii. p. 83) in his description of La Hulpe, a village a few miles south- east of Brussels, writes : — In hac Parochiale visitur sepulchrale monumentum Carolide Bailly, quondam Secretarii Maria Stuartce, Reginse Scotise . . . cujus est haec Inscriptio. Cy gift Sr. Charles Bailly en son vivant de la Chambre se \ cretaire de la Reyne tfEscosse decapitee en Angleterre pour la \ foy Catholique, depuis or, Northern Notes and Queries. 43 Commissaire de vivres du camp de \ sa majeste qui trespassa a Page de 84 ans> le 27 Decembre \ 1624. | . Et Damoiselle Democrite Swerts, sa femme que trespassa a Fa \ ge de 92 ans, le 3 jour de Mars 1633, lesquels ont ete par \ mariage 50 ans par ensembles, priez Dieu pour leurs ames \ Respice finem Quarteria Bailly, Labiin, Perotte, Rollin, Swerts, Appleterre, Dongodt, Pervys. 370. SCOTS IN SWEDEN (vol. v. p. 75). — The second volume of the Miscellany printed by the Spottiswoode Society contains (page 383) 'A list of the Scottish officers under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden.' 371. ROSE MSS. — Inventory of MSS. collected by Mr. W. Rose^ but now amissing (continued from vol. v.,/. 177). 90. Note of all the Templars and Temple lands in Aberdeenshire. 91. Particular notes from the record of the family of Innes — of Balvenie, Orton, Denool, Coxton, Drainy, Blackhills, Edingeath, etc. 92. MS. of the Wemyss family connected with Macduff, in two parts. 93. Copy Charter of erection of the barony of Glendouachy, Auch- medden, etc., to John, Earl of Buchan, with a Charter of erection of the town of Down (now burgh Macduff) into a free burgh with certain priviledges, dated 1528. 94. Principal Commission, Charles, Prince of Wales, Regent, to Sir Wm. Gordon of Park to be Lieut. Col. in a regiment of horse commanded by Lord Pitsligo, dated at Holyrood House i8th October 1745, super- scribed and his seal appended. 95. A copperplate Charter of Malcolm, King of Scotland, A.D. 1060, to Ronald, Earl of Caithness, of that Earldom, for defending the King from Macbeth, in Latin. 96. Receipt signed by Mr. Robt. Gordon, brother of John Gordon, of Pitberg, to George, Earl of Marischal, for a principal bounding evident of the lands of Fachill, mortified to the Abbacy of Deir, made by Wm. Gumming, Earl of Buchan, and to be transumed in order to settle the adjacent lands of Logic, and obliging himself to deliver the same ; the seal of the Earl is declared to be appended. Receipt dated 5th June 1611. 97. Charter and donation by Marjory, Countess of Athole, Lady Strathalva, of the lands of Alva, to the Abbacy of Coupar, with a confirma- tion by Thomas, Earl of Marr, and Lord of Alva, and of a gift given by David of Strathbogie, 1314; very curious. 98. Copy, King David Bruce to Wm. Abernethie of Salton of the barony of Rothiemay, dated at Elgin 1346, upon the forfeiture of David de Strathbogie. 99. Copy Charter in favours of the town of Cullen, mentioning King Robert Bruce's Charter to that town. 100. A curious letter from Lord Lovat to Duncan Forbes of Culloden, President of the Court of Session, 2oth December 1745, concerning his concern in that Rebellion. 101. A bundle of curious and valuable retours of very ancient date of 44 The Scottish Antiquary ; the Hays, etc., being retours of the lands of Westfield, Fochaber, Aultohash Moynes, etc., with the seals of the jury. 102 A parcel of church procedure, form of worship covenant and miracles, 1634, and an inventory concerning the estate of Gallashields and ' A^rcel of very old papers relating to the Dunbars, Calders, Hays, Sinclair, Sutherland, Chisholms, Gumming, Crauford, Innes, etc 1367 104. Curious old papers, with seals appended, relative to Earl Huntly s house in Elgin, which of old pertained to the Earl of Murray, called the Little Earl, lying near the Little Close, and afterwards pertaining to the said Earl Huntly, retoured 1636. 105. Papers anent the Temple Lands of Longbnde and inquest there- anent in favours of the Dumbrecks, 1509. 1 06. Papers relating to the Canons of the Cathedral Kirk of Murray, and particularly of the Pans of Elgin. 107. Papers regarding the Leslies of Leslie, 1426, and Temple Lands of Leslie, with seals added thereto, and valuation of teinds of Kinnethmont. 1 08. Papers relating to Gellie in Fordyce, who were merchants in Poland, 1653. 109. A Charter granted by John Spence and the rest of the members of the monastery of Maisondieu, 1552. no. Charter of the lands of Little Tollan or Tollanrule, 1560. in. MS. concerning Thanes in Scotland. 112. Old Charters of the Lord of the Isles and of Aberchirder, 1426 and 1438. 113. King David's Charter to Hugo de Ross and Leslie. Item, King Robert Bruce's Charter of the lands of Carnousie to Alex. Meldrum, and Sibilla, daughter of Simon the Thane of Aberchirder, with seal appended, 1326. Item, Charter by King David of Scots, anno 1347, dated at Elgin, with seal appended, of Rothiemay upon the forfeiture of Cummyn of Strathbogie ; very curious. 114. Papers about Mortlick and stipend. 115. Charter of confirmation, with great seal appended, of the lands of Aberchirder of grants 1426 and 1438. Item, the decree-arbitral of the marches of Yochrie, 1493. Item, copy thereanent Charter, with a seal in perfect preservation, of Barmuckity, 1459, in favours of Alex. Dunbar. Item, Charter of James v., with seal entire. 1 1 6. Walter Leslie of Kininvies, Charter to Robert Leslie, son of Walter, from the Earl and Countess of Athol, with their seals appended, 1558. 117. Curious rentals of the parish of Aberchirder, agreement and sales of the lands of Auchentoul and Cromby, inventories of the rights and decrees disjoining Carnousie from Marnoch to Forglen, and the special account of the stipends and vicarage of each. 1 1 8. History of the Earldom of Mar. 1 19. A parcel relative to Sinclairs of Caithness and the old settlements in Queen Mary's time. 120. History of Dunkinty, Kilmallemock and old extent. 121. Memorial and case relative to the peerage of Ross, old almanacs and newspapers of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, 1678 and 1688. 122. Contract with Innes and Innermarkie and their clan in 1587 wherein Edmgeath cannot write. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 45 123. Original Charter of Innes by the Earl of Huntly to Innes and Janet Gordon his daughter of the lands of Forest of Boyne, with seal appended, 1469. 124. Some papers of the Barony of Duffus, copy of disposition of Ardgay, 1747, with Lord Duffus's sasine of Ardgay, 1653. 125. Abbot and Convent of Aberbrothick — Charter subscribed by all the Convent, 1525, to Salton of Bogfachell in Tarves. Assedation by them to Salton, 1527, of the teinds of Aberchirder and Inverboyndie and Banff. 126. MS. report of John Sim, W.S. ; his report of the Earldom of Mar and progress from early dates, from Lord Erskine's copy. 127. Memorial of secret information given to King James vn. in MS. which contains some historical tracts yet unknown to the world. 128. A MS. book of great size and much writing, containing a history of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, with curious trials, anecdotes and procedure of censure and disputation of the errors of churches in the reigns of Queen Mary and James VI. It contains also a MS. of curious accounts of historical events in Scotland and of the See and ancient Bishops of St. Andrews. 129. Inventory of great length of the papers and grants made by the Abbot of Kinloss of the lands of Struthers, Winderlaw Newton, etc., from 1559, to Dunbars of Newton, Hempriggs, Asleisk, Wester Alves, etc. W. CRAMOND. CULLEN. QUERIES. CLXVI. PULPIT AT BO'NESS. — Can any of your readers give informa- tion regarding an ancient carved wooden pulpit which exists, or did exist, in the parish church of Bo'ness, Linlithgowshire ? It dates from about the middle of the seventeenth century — a period when many beautiful pulpits were constructed in Holland, from whence it is alleged to have been brought by merchants who then traded with that country. Are the names of any of these persons known, or are there records which may contain reference to the matter ? W. BENNET. CLXVII. BETHUNE FAMILY. — I should be much obliged if any of your readers could tell me if the Bethunes of Pitkie, Langermerston, Melgund, or Balfarge still exist, and where, also which of the different branches of the family descend from the Cardinal ? I should be glad to correspond directly with any one cognisant of and interested in the family. ALFRED A. BAKER. 12 OLD SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON. CLXVIII. GEORGE BETHUNE OF KINGUSK — Physician in Cupar-Fife, died 1774, sold Kingusk to Sir Robert Anstruther of Balcaskie, Bart. I should be glad to know who his wife was (she survived 6 The Scottish Antiquary ; him)) and what family they had. He .as, of John Bethune of Blebo. did he die? and where interred? TTXX RUTHERFORD FAMiLY.-The late Mr. James Maidment, the wen known advocate and antiquary, had m his possession printed papers relating to most of the name of Rutherford in Se south of Scotland" during the earlier part of last century. Will any contributor be good enough to inform me m whose possession these papers now are, or where they^o be found , ARTHUR LODGE, DALKEITH ROAD, EDINBURGH. CLXXI LTNLITHGOW.— The name by which this town is known in the Highlands is Gleann-eidhean ; pronunciation of the second term dh is silent. The name signifies Glen Ivy. Is there anything about Linlithgow to make the name appropriate? J. U CLXXII HANNAN FAMILY.— Is this not very common surname of foreign origin? It is said that there was a family or families of the name in or about North Berwick in the end of the last century. Any information would be of interest. GENEALOGIST. CLXXI II. STEWART OF AULDHAME.— Can any readers of the Scottish 'Antiquary give any information about George Stewart (or Stuart) of Oldham or Auldhame, who was living in April 1677 ? His property is in different places designated by these two varying methods of spelling. A. r . o. CLXXI V. EARLY SCOTTISH WEAVERS. — * On the descent thither (i.e. to Leith from Edinburgh) is a small village, very prosperous, in- habited by weavers of wool — which gives its name to the best cloths in Scotland.'— Major, c. 1521. What was the name of the village— Picardy ? What is the name of the cloth ? When did Picardy weavers first come there — before 1521 ? T. G. L, REPLIES TO QUERIES. CXXI. ' Margaret, fifth daughter of Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, married first to John Trotter of Charterhall, secondly to John Murray of Philiphaugh, and had issue . . .' [This and marriages of Scot's other daughters] ' are documented from the writs of the family.' — Douglas1 Baronage, p. 223. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 47 George [not John ut supra] Trotter of Chesterhall got a charter, i June 1662, ' Georgio Trotter de Charterhall, - et Margaretae Scot ejus sponsae.' He died without male issue. — Baronage, p. 206. Sir John Murray of Philiphaugh married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, widow of John (sic) Trotter of Charterhall, by whom he had only one daughter, Jean, who died young. Sir John died 1676, and was succeeded by his eldest son [by first wife]. — Baronage, p. 104. (6915) June 23, 1688. Domina Margareta Scott, Domina Philiphauch, haeres talliae et provisionis Jeannae Murray, filiae. xl. 2 1 6. Inquis. Gener. Nov. 8, 1677. Jacobus Murray de Philiphauch, hares masculus Joannis Murray de Philiphaugh patris xxxiii. 293. Inquis, Special. Selkirk.— ED. CLIII. LATCH. — There are two places in the parish of Ceres, Fifeshire, called East and West Latch. The name is Gaelic, the correct spelling of which is Lathach ; in pronunciation th is silent, and the word signifies a mire. Lykerstanes. — The earliest notice that we have of these is in the Register of the Priory of St. Andrews, in the perambulation of the boundaries of the lands of Kirkness, Kinross-shire, A.D. 1054. They are there described as, ' unum aceruum lapidem qui dicitur in vulgari, lykirstyne.' There is a park on that estate still known as the Lykerstane Park. There were two Lickerstanes, pillar-shaped, in the parish of Abdie, about three feet high, at a junction of roads near the churchyard. They were removed in the early part of this century, though no obstruction. There were also Licker- stanes in the following parishes in Fife. At Falkland, if I mistake not, there is one which is yet to be seen built into a wall, which, in ignorance of its origin and use, is ignominiously known as the Liquorstane. There is a notice of Lickerstanes in the parish of Pittenweem (see Fife Retours, No. 508); also in the parish of Kettle (see old Statistical Account) ; and in the parishes of Scoonie and Login, Fifeshire, as I have learned from residents, but whether the stones are extant or not I am not able to state. That there were Lickerstanes in the parish of Dun- fermline is testified by the fact that there is a farm in it k?wwn as Leckerstone. In the parish of Abernethy, Perthshire, they are still extant on the side of the road leading towards the river Earn, not far from the churchyard. They are very inconspicu- ous • but those interested in relics of the past in Abernethy have been warned to see to their preservation. And in a parish so rich in antiquities as Abernethy (and of which they are deservedly proud) there is every reason to believe that they 43 The Scottish Antiquary. will be protected. Were the Retours and other published records SSmfned there can be little doubt that there were Lickerstanes Tvery many parishes in Scotland. The name is pure Anglo- Saxon Lie signifies a corpse, and there can be no doubt tha on th^se stones the corpse was laid, and there the funeral servce began and continued all the way to the churchyard. They are the equivalents of the Lichgates so common in England, where the minister meets the funeral procession and begins the burial service. ALEX. LAING, F.S.A. Scot. NOTICES OF BOOKS. Some Old Families, by H. B. M'Call. Privately printed for presentation. Everything about this book is satisfactory : the thought that led to its production— the seeking for rest, not in inactivity, but in change of work, and in this way acquiring and recording genealogical facts that would else have been lost. Mr. M'Call has written an account of eleven Scottish families, and his work shows that he is a genealogist who understands the value of honest work. The matter he has collected is so varied and interest- ing, that we intend on a future occasion to return to the consideration of it. The illustrations are numerous and artistic, and the thick quarto volume will be highly prized by the fortunate possessors. Copies will be found in the Advocates' Library, and the Libraries of Edinburgh University, the Royal Society, and the Society of Antiquaries, and the British Museum. Only 100 copies have been printed. Monumental Brasses, by E. M. Beloe, junr., King's Lynn. A series of twenty-five photo-lithographs. Our readers may be aware that monumental brasses were largely employed in England from the fourteenth to the seven- teenth century, and that many hundreds have escaped the zeal of the fanatic iconoclast, the greed of the eighteenth-century church repairer, and the vandalism of the nineteenth-century church restorer (?). Before the Reforma- tion some fine examples existed in Scotland, as slabs with matrices at St. Andrews, Dunblane, Glasgow, Cambuskenneth, and elsewhere bear witness. Some modern brasses, however, show that the qualities of this sort of monu- ment are appreciated. We advise all in any way interested to procure Mr. Beloe's work at once, as only a few copies have been printed, and the price (IQS. 3d.) is exceedingly moderate. He has selected his specimens from Norfolk, a county very rich in handsome brasses. In some cases, where brasses have been lost or destroyed, he has given photo-litho- graphs of copies taken many years ago by the late Craven Ord, Esq., and now preserved in the British Museum. The presence of these adds considerably to the value of the collection. All the plates are beautifully executed, and the work is sure to increase in value. The work is advertised on the third page of the cover of this number. Replies to Queries are earnestly requested. — Ep, The Scottish Antiquary OR Northern Notes and Queries CONTENTS. NOTES. PAGE 49 53 53 54 54 54 372. Erskine of Dun, 373. Burgh Seal of Dundee, . 374. Primitive Candlestick, . 375. Arabic Numerals, . 376. Notes on Attainted Jacobites, 377. The Brass to the Regent Murray, 378. Sculptured Monuments of Scotland, 56 379. Goods belonging to John, Earl of Mar . 60 380. The Use of Armorial Bearings, . 61 381. Erskines of Balgownie and Shid- field, 62 382. A Doctor's Chamber, 1500, . . 66 383. Fountainbridge, . . . .67 384. Will of John Mitchell, 1581, . . 67 385. Registers of Old St. Paul's, Edin- burgh, 69 PAGE 386. Ross Family, . . . .81 387. The Historian Wodrow, . . 86 388. Knight of the Kirk, . . .90 389. Name Givers, . . . .90 390. English Workmen in Glasgow, . 91 QUERIES. CLXXV. Douglas Family, . . 93 CLXXVI. Old Bronze Vessel, . . 93 CLXXVII. Campbells of Cawdor, . 93 REPLIES. CXV. Cunninghar, . . 93 CXXIII. Houstouns of Fortrose, . . 94 CLVIII. Old Trade-mark, ... 96 CLIX. A Broken Cross, . . .96 CLXII. Scottish Surnames, . . 96 NOTE. — The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of Contributors. All Communications to be sent to the EDITOR of1 The Scottish Antiquary] The Parsonage, Alloa. 372. ERSKINE OF DUN (vol. iv.pp. 116, 183). — Three accounts of the family of Erskine of Dun have lately been written — (a) by ' 2 ' in the Scottish Antiquary (vide supra) ; (b) by Mr. A. H. Millar in his Castles and Mansions of Scotland '; and (c) by Mr. E. E. Scott in his account of the Halcro and Erskine Families. These will be referred to below as «., £., c. All of these writers have confessed their inability to give an exact pedigree of the family for the period between 1592-1660. I propose, however, to do this, and in order to construct it in a satisfactory manner, shall make use of official documents and papers referred to in the fifth report of the Historical MSS. Commission. (Continued on page 52.) VOL. vi. — NO. xxii. D PEDIGREE OF ERSKINE OF DUN. SIR Erskine. SIR ROBERT ERSKINE, ancestor of the present Earl of Mar. i. JOHN == a. ii. ALEXANDER == alive 1451. heiress of the Earl of Mar. CONTRACTIONS. n. natus. o. obiit. o.s.p. obiit sine prole. o.s.p.s. obiit sine prole superstite. o.s.p.s.m. obiit sine prole superstite masculo. np. married. iii JOHN = MARJORY GRAHAM o. 1504. ]8. I (ofFintry), 0.1508. iv. JOHN KATHERINE MONYPENNY, ^HOMAS, fell at Flodden, 1513- °' lf THOMAS == ANN OGILVY. v. SIR JOHN = MARGARET RUTHVEN. SIR THOM* fell at Flodden, 1513- i i. w. vi. JOHN =ELIZABETH LINDSAY, = 11. 1508,0. 1589- 5. | o. 1538- ^T I E BEIRLE, WILLIAM. ERSKINES o. 1572. e. of Pittodrie. TOHN vii ROBERT = CATHERINE GRAHAM MARGARET = PATRICK MAULE. 9.v.p.s.p. 1563. *I590. f- j (ofMorphie). * v">. jo'^^T'^^-T STEL F?=, " DAVID = JEANE MAULE. ARTHUR = MARGARET "' ATA ITT IT t IX. JOHN = IV 0. 1592. K. KEITH. o. ante 1603. fj,, v. MAULF. £. \ 1 x. JOHN, xi. JOH X. o. II 1 N = MAGDALEN DAVID. ROBERT, xin. SIR ALEX- = HALY- p. <r. ANDER, n. 1600, BURTON. O.C. l66o. r. \ 1 1 - HENRY, <£. x n.c. 1601. V. i I • I ' xii. JOHN, [? ALEXANDER], SIR JOHN = . . . BETOUN. xiv. DAVID = . . o. 1613. ir. o. 1613. TT. JOHN, ;/. 1644, o. ante 1655, s.p. xv. DAVID = MAGDALEN n. 1670, o. 1755. /3/3- I RIDDELL. I xvi. JOHN = MARGARET INGLIS, np. 1739. xvii. JOHN = MARY BAIRD, np. 1770. I I [daughter] MARGARET = ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, o.s.p. o. 1848. I2th Earl of Cassilis, ist Marquis I of Ailsa, np. 1793. \~ ~\ MARQUIS OF JOHN KENNEDY ERSKINE = AUGUSTA FITZCLARENCE. AILSA. n. 1802, o. 1831. WILLIAM === CATHERINE JONES, n. 1828. ! np. 1862. AUGUSTUS KENNEDY ERSKINE of Dun, n. 1866, 7. 8. NOTES TO PEDIGREE TABLE. a. stands for notes in Scot. Antiq. by ' 2 ' ; b. for Millar's Castles of Scotland ; c. for Scott's Halcro Erskine Families, a. 'John Ersskyne, Knight, Lord of Dun' — charter 1400. (b. page 338.) 3. ' Had charter of Dun on his father's resignation, 28th Jan. 1449.' (a. page 118.) Margaret Ruthven was Dowager-Countess of Buchan. (a. page 118, b. page 345.) The celebrated ' Superintendent.' c. (ped. tab.) states that he had a son, John, by his second wife, which John he makes father of a son John, whom he erroneously makes the husband of Jean Maule, the wife of David Erskine. e. Mr. Commissary Maule states that she was a native of Picardy, and mother of Margaret, wife of his brother, Patrick Maule. £. An account of his misdoings is given, (b. page 371.) 7). Of this marriage were born, inter alias, Patrick, first Earl of Panmure, ' uncle of Sir Alexander Erskine,' xiii. of Dun ; Jean, wife of David Erskine, second son of John, viii. of Dun ; and Margaret, wife of Arthur Erskine, brother to David. B. Margaret Lindsay, daur. of Alexander, first Lord Spynie, is named his wife by b. (page 374), but a. (page 183) writes 'he seems to have married Agnes Ogilvy, who, as Lady Logy, executed, on the 8th January 1614, a deed of assignation in favour of Magdalen Halyburton, widow of her grandson, Lady Carnegie, life-renter of the Mains of Dun.' Sir John Carnegie of Ethie, afterwards first Lord Northesk, was her second husband ; she died c. 1640. Hist. of Carnegies, ii. 351. t. This Samuel died before 1690, leaving a widow and one son, of whom nothing further is known, (b. page 371. ) K. Styled 'John of Nathrow'; he married 1588 ; Aug. 1592, Provost of Montrose (R.P.C.). (b. page 374.) In a deed of reversion, 28th Oct. 1588, he quotes the contract of marriage, the parties being ' (i) The Right Hon. John Erskine, Elder, Frank tenementer of Dun, my grand- schir ; (2) Robert Erskine, fear of Dun, my guidschire ; (3) John Erskine of Logy, my father.' His son John x. was born before i6th Nov. 1592, when he made his will. X. That John x. succeeded John ix. is clear from Mr. Maule's statement. He was of full age and served heir to his father, John, 5th Nov. 1603 (•#*#.), but was dead before 4th Dec. 1603, when his cousin and successor married (R.S.M. i2th Jan. 1607). /A. See note 17. v. ' Mr. Arthur,' styled in the legal Process ' father's brother' to Robert the accused. £. See note i\. o. Mr. Maule states that he succeeded his cousin, John x. of Dun. He married 1603 (see note X. ), and died 1610. (Hist, of Carnegies, vol. ii. p. 351.) In his marriage contract (1603) he is styled great-grandson of Robert Erskine vii. (R.M.S. 1607, Jan. 12). TT. Murdered 1613 by their uncle Robert. The name of the younger brother is uncertain. p. David 'of Logy' is mentioned (R.P.C. vii. 576-578) as concerned with his brother, Robert, in disturbances at Montrose 29th Nov. 1604. He must have died before 1610. 0-. Executed 1616 for the murder of his nephews, John xii. of Dun and (?) Alexander. T. The following retour (Forfar, vii. 332) refers to him : — . ' 8 May 1621. Alexander Erskine of Dun, heir-male of John Erskine of Dun, his brother's son.' An assignation, 8th Jan. 1614, is printed in the Spalding Club Mis. vol. iv. p. 81, mentioning Alexander Erskine of Dun, with consent of John Erskyne, minister of Eccles- greig [or St. Cyrus], his tutor. (Spald. Mis.} This is important as proving that Alexander at once succeeded the eleventh Laird, murdered in 1613, and also that his tutor was the some man who was appointed to be tutor to the children of John Erskine xi. Additional evidence as to his paternity is to be found in the existence of letters written to him by 'his uncle ' the first Earl of Panmure, who was brother to Jean Maule, wife of David. The retour shows he was born before 1660. Nephew to first Earl of Panmure (5 Rep. His. MSS. page 637). v. Henry was of full age in 1625 when he wrote a letter to his brother on business matters. ($fk Rep. His. MSS. page 637.) 0. x- $• Helen, Isobel, Annas, daughters of David Erskine, condemned as aiders in the murder of their nephews. Isobel and Annas were executed 22nd June 1614. Their sister Helen, as ' less guilty and more penitent,' was banished, and Mr. Scott (c. page 15) holds that she married Patrick Halcro in Orkney. w. Sir John died before his father, as the retour given under aa. shows. The Montrose Baptismal Register gives the baptism, in 1644, of John, ' son of Sir John Erskine, fiar of Dun.' This son must have died in childhood. aa. 4th Jan. 1655. David Erskine appeirand of Dun, eldest [surviving] son to Sir Alexander Erskine of Dun, Knyght, heir-male of Sir John Erskine, fear of Dun, Knyght (eldest son to the said Sir Alexander Erskine) his brother. (Ret. Gen. xxii. 53.) David succeeded his father before 1670, for in a retour dated I4th July 1670 he is styled 1 David Erskine of Dun.' The Arms of Erskine of Dun were registered by him (see p, 53). (3/3. David Erskine of Dun, Lord of Session, as ' Lord Dun.' 52 The Scottish Antiquary ; I have also found most valuable contemporary information as to the descent of the lands of Dun, and the relationship between the lairds, which has evidently been overlooked by the three writers, a., b., c. Mr. Robert Maule, Commissary of St. Andrews, was younger brother to Patrick Maule of Panmure. About 1610 he wrote Memorials of the Maule Family ; a great portion of this work is printed in the introduction to the Registrum de Panmure. A near relative to persons connected by marriage with the Dun family, he must have been well acquainted with prominent facts concerning them, while his high official position and character make him a witness whose statements are above suspicion. He records that his brother Patrick Maule married Margaret, daughter of John Erskirie vi. of Dun, 'the Superintendant,' by his second wife, ' Barbara Beirle, a native of Picardy.' By this marriage Patrick had, inter altos, Patrick, afterwards ist Earl of Panmure, 'uncle of Sir Alexander [xin] of Dun' (5 Rep. His. MSS. p. 637), Jeane, who married David Erskine, and Margaret, who married Arthur his brother. Mr. Commissary Maule gives a clear account of the succession to the estate. Referring to John Erskine ix. of Dun, he writes : ' His sone quha was lard, diing without ayres, the said Davids sone callit Jhone did succeid ' (Reg. de Panmure, p. xxxviii.). From this it is clear that David predeceased his nephew John x. We find (Reg. Priv. Con. vii. 576-578) that in 1604 two brothers, David and Robert Erskine, styled * of Logy/ were connected with some disturb- ances in Montrose. These must have been sons of David Erskine and Jean Maule, and next younger brothers to John xi. of Dun. This John XL was son-in-law to Halyburton of Pitcur, and the indictment of Robert for murder alleges that ' (sic) Erskine of Dun, who was son-in-law to the laird of Pitcur, had upon his deathbed nominated Mr. John Erskine, minister of St. Cyrus, to be tutor testamentary to the said two young boys his (accused) brother's sons, by which he (Robert) was defrauded of the charges of the bairns' (Scot. Antiq. iv. 185). David, the younger of Logy,must have died before 1610, and thus Robert, his brother, was next in succession to Dun on the death of his nephews. On his execution for their murder the land passed to his next brother, Sir Alexander Erskine xin. This Alexander, who was knighted before 1625, is addressed in a series of letters, extending from 1631-1640, written by the first Earl of Panmure, as his nephew (His. MSS. Com., p. 637), an additional proof that he was a son of David Erskine and Jean Maule. Alexander had also a younger brother, Henry, who was of full age 1625, and wrote on business from London (ibid.). It is now sufficiently clear that Robert murdered his brother's children, two sons of John Erskine XL of Dun and grandchildren of David. Evidence against him appears to have been procured by torture, and the use of witchcraft was also charged against him. At such a time, and under such circumstances, little reliance can be placed on the imperfect account of the matter that exists. It was a tragedy the surroundings of which were sure to suffer from exaggeration and idle rumour. The three accounts of the family already referred to differ as to the next stage of the pedigree, it will therefore be well to state that the retours prove that Sir Alexander xin. (the son of David) was succeeded by his second son David xiv., his eldest son dying in his lifetime without surviving issue 7me* i ™e earlier and .later Portions of the pedigree do not present any difficulties, but '2' (a. iv. p. 186) prints one of the family papers given or, Northern Notes and Queries. 53 in the Spalding Club Miscellany, which must be the work of a late, and ill- informed scribe. Who the John Erskine was of whose children a list is given it is impossible to say, but the children certainly did not occupy the places in the pedigree there assigned to them. Mr. Millar also (b. p. 384) speaks of two Alexanders, father and son. There most certainly was only one. Mr. Scott makes Jean Maule the wife of a John Erskine, grand- son of the Superintendent by his second marriage (c. ped. tab.). Jean was, as we have shown, the wife of David Erskine. J. W. Mitchell, Esq., Rothesay Herald, has very kindly supplied the following extract from the Lyon Register, of the arms of Erskine of Dun, registered circa ' 1672-78 ' : — ' David Areskine of Dun Bears two coats quarterlie, first Argent a pale Sable be the name of Areskine, second, gules, a sword in pale Argent hilted and pomelled Or, be the name of Dun, third as the second, the fourth as the first, above the shield ane Helmet befitting his degree mantled gules doubled Argent, next is placed on ane Torce for his Crest a gryphan head erased proper, holding in his mouth a sword in bend as the former, and on ye bled thereof this motto, In Domino Confido, sup- ported be two gryphans winged and armed Or' — ' 1672-78.' A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN. 373. BURGH SEAL OF DUNDEE. — Referring to the article on the Burgh Seal of Dundee, may I remark that the town was under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose emblem, a pot of lilies, has been the hall- mark for silver-plate there for many years ? I have some toddy ladles with it, and the mark is repeated, apparently, in this as in some other cases, in place of the Scottish Standard mark of a Thistle, which only dates from 1759. I think it will be found this is the original seal, and that described by Mr. Bain has been that of one of the Guilds there. May the Bishop not be St. Elegius, who was patron of the Hammermen's Guild ? This would account for the obverse and reverse of the seal. Chaffers, in his book on hall-marks on silver-plate, says : ' The arms of the town are azure, a pot of lilies argent, Crest a lily argent, Supporters two Dragons vert, their tails knotted together below the Shield. Motto, * Dei Donum? In the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, there is an interesting brass matrix of a seal of the fifteenth century in excellent preservation, executed for the use of the Incorporation of Hammermen of Dundee, representing a figure of St. Elegius in episcopal vestments, holding a hammer in his right hand and a crozier in his left ; within a niche at each side is a bough-pot of lilies, and beneath a shield bearing a hammer in pale with a crown of three points inscribed ' S.'ce Malliato Sci Elegi de Dunde: J. H. 374. PRIMITIVE CANDLESTICK (vi. 42). — Mr. Bruce will find a paper on Carles (the Scottish name for the candlestick he describes) in the Proceedings of the Scottish Antiquaries for 1889. Specimens may still be recovered from farmhouses in hill districts, though the introduction of petroleum has superseded the use of these old-fashioned pieces of house- furniture. HERBERT MAXWELL. The Scottish Antiquary ; bdowT In thge 2d edition of Durandut Rationale, printed i474, m my ossSion the signatures run alphabetically from i to 4, the fifth leaf Cfa cross. V figure 4 consists of a loop with a diagonal con- tinuation very much resembling a MS. .with a large and circular loop 7S save that the lines are straight. These rapidly executed numerals are valuable as showing their common form. 776 NOTES ON ATTAINTED JACOBITES.— Captain Patrick Lindesay.— On pace 66 (Appendix 2) of Lord Rosebery's List of Persons concerned in the Rebellion of 1745-46, there is a note on Captain Peter Lindsay throwing some doubt as to his identity with the Patrick Lindsay who was executed at Brampton. They were really the same person,— Patrick Lindesay, variously desig- nated 'Farmer, Wester Deans Houses, Tweeddale,' and 'Gentleman,' was third son of James Lindsay, 4th of Wormestone, Fife, by Margaret Halliburton his wife. He married first a daughter of John Man, Mer- chant in Dundee, and had two children — 1. David Lindesay, served heir to his maternal grandfather in 1742. 2. Elizabeth. On the outbreak of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Patrick Lindesay pro- claimed Prince Charles at St. Andrews, became a Captain in the Jacobite army, and ' carried arms with the Rebels ' until after Culloden. He was taken prisoner in Angus, July 1746, and was executed at Brampton 2ist October 1746. By his second wife, Agnes Robertson, daughter of the Minister of Eddleston, of the Strowan family, he had a son. 3. James Lindesay, Wine Merchant, Leith, died in 1801, who by his wife, Margaret Bell, left numerous descendants. JOHN CROSSE. 377. THE BRASS TO THE REGENT MURRAY. — We give a plate of a monument of interest to Scotsmen ; it is reduced from a full-sized fac- simile of a rubbing, a few copies of which were given by the late David Laing, F.S.A. (Scot.), to his friends. In the year 1865, at the January meeting, Mr. Laing read a paper before the Society of Antiquaries on the monument of which the brass forms a part, and the report of the Society contains also a picture of the monument, which is in St. Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh. It is, however, the brass plate that we would now describe. The inscription engraved on it was written by George Buchanan. Those who are acquainted with English sixteenth-century brasses know that very frequently older memorials, torn from their slabs, were utilised, a new design being engraved on the reverse side. This was the case with the or, Northern Notes and Queries. 55 56 The Scottish Antiquary ; Murray plate, which formed half of an older memorial. The cost of the brass, and other details concerning it, are given in a memorandum found in the charter-room, Donibristle, and endorsed 'The Compt of furnisit to my L Buriall ' : — 1 Item, gaif to Jhone Ryotaill and Murdoche Valkar, measounis, for the making of my Lordis sepulteur according to the indentour maid betuix vmquhill Maister Jhone Wod and thame .*-;•'. . • • icxxxiiili. vi s. vmd. ' Item, to James Gray, goldsmyth, for ingraving of ane platt of bras vpoun my Lordis sepulteur, . . • • x* h- ' Item, to David Romane for the same platt of bras, . vii h. * Item, for varnising of the same plaitt and putting vpe and fixing thairof, •. "» 1L 1 Item, to the payntour for bleking of the sepulteur and his paynis, xx s. In conclusion we would add that Erskine Beveridge, Esq., F.S. A. (Scot.), most kindly furnished the photograph from which our plate is taken. ED. 378. SCULPTURED MONUMENTS OF SCOTLAND.— A collection of ' rubbings ' of sculptured monuments from various parts of Scotland by Miss Maclagan, Stirling, a Lady Associate of the Society of Antiquaries, was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery buildings on the occasion of the recent visit of the British Archaeological Institute. We cannot do better than give our readers the account which appeared in the Scotsman of August 1 1. The collection consists of upwards of 400 rubbings mounted on 271 sheets, the largest of which is 10 ft. square. No collection at all ap- proaching this one in extent, variety, and effectiveness has ever been made in Scotland. The mere travelling to the distant sites, accessible in many cases only under circumstances of difficulty and privation, represents an amount of fatigue, and the preparation of the rubbings an amount of effort, which few, indeed, would care to undertake. The list of places visited ranges from Farr, in the north of Sutherland, to Whithorn, in the south of Wigtownshire, and from Aberdeenshire on the east to some of the remoter islands of the Outer Hebrides on the west. There are no fewer than 54 rubbings from the monuments of lona ; Rodill, in Harris, supplies seven; the island of Mull, ten ; Inchkenneth, five ; Tiree, twelve ; Oronsay, four; and Islay, thirty-five. The ancient graveyards of Argyllshire, however, are the happy hunting-ground of the collector— Kilmorie, in Knapdale, fur- nishing sixteen; Kilmichael, Glassary, seventeen;' Saddell, Kilmartin, Strachin, and Kiels, in Morven, about a dozen each ; Ardchattan, Dalmally, and Inishail, about a dozen and a half among them ; and half a dozen other places from three to six apiece. Miss Maclagan's rubbings are not of the ordinary kind affected by the antiquary who is afraid of improving the appearance of the transcript he has obtained from the stone. Her plan appears to be to rub lightly, and outline boldly, shading up with Indian ink, so as to obtain an impressive presentment of the original. The variety of design and beauty of execu- tion of the patterns on many of these monuments afford a revelation of the wealth and power and purity of the old artistic feeling that lingered in so many separate centres in the Scottish Highlands for centuries after the or, Northern Notes and Queries. 57 older art of the Celtic people had ceased to exist. For Miss Maclagan's collection shows strikingly what, of course, we knew before, but what the public have not seen gathered together into one series, viz. that there were two great divisions or periods in the monumental art of Scotland which may be roughly stated as reaching from, say, the seventh century to the twelfth on the eastern side of Scotland, and from the twetfth or thirteenth century to the Reformation on the western or Highland side. The characteristics of the earlier art, though chiefly found in the east, are present in the west also, as on St. Martin's cross and on fragments of earlier crosses at lona, on the Kildalton cross in Islay, and the crosses at Ardchattan and Kilkerran, and on some isolated fragments scattered through the Hebrides. The earlier phase of the art is thus demonstrated to have pervaded Scotland, and, for that matter, Northumbria as well ; but the later phase, which is distinguished by the dominance of foliage in the scroll-like designs, is unknown on the eastern side of the country. The most characteristic examples of the earlier style possess a remark- able family likeness, made the more striking by contrast with the groups of the later style. The stones of the earlier group, which stand erect, are of great size, and roughly shaped like a headstone ; while those of the later style are simple oblong or coffin-shaped slabs which lay prone on the grave. The crosses of the two periods are also distinguished by their form and ornamentation, those of the first period being much more massive, and those of the second slim, and, like the recumbent slabs, presenting foliageous ornament as the chief element of their decoration. Examples of the massive erect headstones from Aberlemno, St. Vigeans, Glamis, Meigle, and the Garioch in Aberdeenshire, show the characteristics of the class, and attract attention not only by the quaintness of their groups of figure subjects, but also by the prominence amidst their decoration of the symbols which are peculiar to the early Christian monuments of Scot- land, and whose meaning and derivation are alike unknown. Like the crosses of the earlier type, their decorative patterns are chiefly of interlaced work, and many varieties of the oblique fret which the Celtic decorators manipulated in a manner peculiar to themselves, with occasional patterns formed from the divergent spiral so characteristic of all Celtic work prior to the tenth century. In the later crosses and the recumbent slabs this last element is entirely wanting, and the interlaced work and fretwork of the earlier time is overshadowed by the preponderance of foliage. The quaint groups of animals from the Divine Bestiaries of the earlier period are also absent from the later crosses and recumbent slabs, their place being taken by the griffin, the mermaid, and other creatures dear to the imagination of the later Middle Ages. The griffins seem to have been the most popular, and are often introduced at the bottom of the cross-shaft, so that their tails may be prolonged into the wavy scroll of foliage which covers the whole face of the cross. A number of effigies of Highland chiefs, whose names are forgotten or but doubtfully assigned by tradition, serve to break the monotony of the extensive series of foliage-covered slabs, and here and there an ecclesiastic, mitred and vested and bearing a crozier, or clasping a chalice to his breast, makes an effective contrast to the man of war with his claymore and shield, his bassinet and habergeon. There are figures of chiefs with spear in hand in Gothic niches among the foliage of the slabs, and figures of galleys of the quaintest form, and hunting scenes with the hounds in full cry or killing 5 8 The Scottish Antiquary ; the stag. Many phases of ancient life and many varieties of old Scottish armour and costume are exhibited, and a full insight is given into the genius and feeling of the Middle- Age handicraft of monumental sculpture. Perhaps the most remarkable 'rubbing' is that of the tomb at Rodill in Harris, which appears from the inscription to have been erected by Alastar Crotach to his father, William Macleod of Dunvegan, in 1528. The canvas on which this ' rubbing ' is mounted is ten feet square, and the number of figures in the composition is about thirty. The effigy of the chief in plate armour lies under a semicircular canopy, the back of which is filled with figures, while the fronts of the voussoirs of the arch are also decorated with a series of sculptures in nine panels, making it the most remarkable monument of its kind in Scotland, and raising in every mind the inquiry, how was it possible in the early part of the sixteenth century to erect in that remote part of the wild Highlands a work of monumental sculpture that would be famous in any country of cultured Europe ? In connection with the above account we print a few notes which we had prepared on the same subject. They are not, however, confined to the class of stones which Miss Maclagan has so skilfully copied. Every antiquary acquainted with sepulchral monuments in Scotland must be struck with the fact that their number is very great, and their presence spread over the whole country. A close acquaintance with them leads to the conclusion that they possess marked features which gave them a national character. This is specially the case with early specimens, whose peculiar ornamentation mark them out as true descendants of the prehistoric monoliths which perplex the archaeologist. In the West Highlands this ornamentation is found even on post-Reformation stones, and is typical of the secluded condition of the country. On the East Coast and in the Lowlands the character was changed by the introduction of foreign forms. Recumbent effigies, common on the Continent and in England, were adopted, and an attempt was, in some cases, made to copy the carved canopies which add to the dignity and general effectiveness of these mediaeval monuments. The wholesale clearance-out which the old churches in Scotland underwent, has doubtless destroyed all traces of many tombs which were regarded not only as cumbering the area of the building, but also as savouring of superstition. What iconoclastic rage can do is seen by those who visit some of the Flemish cathedrals, notably St. Rombaulds at Mechlin, which was completely denuded of the tombs of the noble families which made the city famous. So with Scotland : the number of fourteenth and fifteenth century effigies now existing is very small, and their rich surroundings have disappeared. There exists, how- ever, a post-Reformation class of tombs unlike any to be met with in England— tombs, not as there intramural, but placed outside in God's acre. In many cases these are substantial fabrics, quadrangular enclosures open to the sky, with heavy iron gates in front, and mural monuments placed on the opposite walls. Good specimens are to be found in the Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, and in the Cathedral Churchyard, Glasgow. To the ecclesialogist they wear a dismal, and almost a repulsive aspect. Not so elaborate as these, but yet costly, and certainly more pleasing, are the lofty tombs erected against churchyard walls. The style of these is cinco cento, and the display of columns, cherubs, symbolical devices, and armorial bearings, gives to them a florid and often an over- burdened effect. A fine example of this style of tomb is given vol. iv. p. 50. <?r, Northern Notes and Queries. 59 The whole design is good, while the carved capitals of the pilasters, which are middle-pointed Gothic in their style, give a special character to it. So elaborate are many of these monuments, and so skilfully executed, that they suggest foreign workmanship. Evidence exists that Scottish nobles did procure sepulchral monuments from Flanders, and, very possible, the practice was not uncommon. Had it been otherwise, the native designer or sculptor must have made a name for himself, and burgh records and family papers would have preserved it for our information. In the accounts for building the Earl of Murray's tomb (see p. 54), it is stated that John Ryotaill and Murdoch Walker were the masons employed. The former was probably a son of Nicholas Roytell, a Frenchman, appointed king's mason in 1539. If so, it is likely that he designed this monument, which in character resembles a large class of contemporary tombs, which are certainly not national in their style. For those who could not afford a costly mural memorial, the 'through stone' afforded opportunities for sculpture. These long slabs, either laid on the grave or raised on a base of masonry, or on four corner pillars, are common to England and Scot- land— but excessive ornamentation marks the northern ' through stone '- and a notable feature is the rude execution of the devices that are made use of. The ancient Celtic sculptured stone rarely lacks dignity, while, in many instances, the skill displayed by the workman is wonderful. The sixteenth and seventeenth century Lowland 'through stones' suggest that they were the work of men far inferior in manual skill and in good taste, not only to early workmen but to the makers of the more costly mural tombs. When Flemish, they were the work of unskilled workmen, and could be brought over in the trading vessels at small cost. Many of them, however, are undoubtedly of native production, which may be concluded from the frequent use of heraldic designs, which, however, in many cases, are incorrectly rendered, but which indicates that they were specially executed for the person commemorated. 9A good example of the Scottish 'through stone' is given vol. v. p. n. Some districts seem specially to have affected them, and their presence in unusual numbers is a sure indication that the parish contained a more than average number of small landed proprietors. It is much to be wished that the work commenced by Miss Maclagan should be continued, and that the carved sepulchral monuments of all the districts in Scotland down to the end of the seventeenth century should be sketched, or, better still, photographed. A complete series, properly arranged, would prove a novel and attractive feature at some future archaeological gathering. Better still would it be if Dr. Stewart's great work were supplemented by volumes containing drawings of monuments unnoticed by him. There is a class of tombstones which, as a rule, is hardly worthy of much attention, but which possesses a general interest — the older head- stones, which are often adorned with representations of ' work-looms,' as the tools of the handicraftsman were termed in Scotland. Many of these have perished from decay and neglect, more are perishing. The modern headstone, while usually more pretentious, has less effectiveness of design, and does not, in country districts, show advantageously side by side with its neglected and despised predecessor. In our remarks we have said nothing about epitaphs, which require consideration by themselves. ED. 6o The Scottish Antiquary ; 379. GOODS BELONGING TO JOHN, EARL OF MAR, K.G. — The Rev. R. Paul, Dollar, a descendant of the Erskines through the Alva branch, has kindly furnished me with the original manuscript list of property which Mary Stewart, second wife and widow of John, Earl of Mar, K.G., who died 1634, desired to have added to his testament, doubtless with the object of adding to the value of his goods and thus increasing her share as widow. The document, which is clearly original, consists of nineteen closely written foolscap pages. There are 120 items with the value set against each. In the margin in another hand is entered the decision come to on each item. It would not be judicious to print the MS. in extenso, many of the items being of no general interest. We therefore give a selection. The endorsement is 'Certaine sommes off money desyrit be ye Countess off Mar to be eiket to ye charge off ing to her husband's testament.' The first page commences, ' Certane sommes wh my la. Countes off Mar desyres may be eiket to ye testament off her umqll husband ye earle of mar, who deceast ye xiij. off Decemb. 1634 yeares. Moveables. Imp. Yair is in my umqll Lord of Mar his testament ane broune stood meare prysit to fourtie pounds, wh is thoght to be worthe ane hundreth poundis, inde yat ye exec and his factores must be comptable for, as ye superplus off our ilk apprysit meare. ^"60 o o. 2. Ite. yair wes in ye possessione of my umq11 sd Lord ye tyme off his decease fyve coatch horses q off two were appoynted for airship, ye other thrie were worthe ane hundreth poundis a peece q off ye exer and his factores confirmes only one att fiftie markis, inde y* ye exer and his factores must eik to ye testament as ye superplus off ye pryce off omittit and ill apprysit coatch horses. ^"266, 134. 3. Ite. Omittit out off ye sd testament all my umqll Lord his ryding horses wl yair ryding graithe being sex horses by ye airship horses to witt ane sore pacit geiden, ane gray gelden, ane whyte meare, twa blak neagis and ane pokmantie naige, thoght to be worthe ye better to mend ye worse ane hundreth pounds a peece, inde y* [&c. as before]. ;£6oo o o. 5. Ite. Ye tyme off my umqll Lord his decease yare wes in his posses- sione upon ye store roumes off fargrayes and achlanaskyes eleven score and fyve wedderis, wh are prysit in ye testament to four markis a peece w< ye woole upon yare bakis, qas William Lindsay chamberlane off ye sd roumes be ye exer and his factores dir.ectione sauld such off them as were not spent in ye earle off Mar and my lay countesse off Mar her than houses att fyve markis a piece, inde [&c] ^150 o o. 6. Ite. omittit out off ye sd testament ye ewes, lambes, lulmunth, and gimer wh were upo ye sd store roumes off fargrayes and achlanskyes, wh according to yare particular dursven (?) will appeare be ye boltane book 1 634 to be nyne scoire and fyve in nunber att fourtie shillings a peece ye better to mend ye worse inde [&c] ,£37000. 7. Ite. my umqll Lord had ye tyme off his decease four georges by ye airship george and twa garturs by ye airship gartur wh georges and garturs ar omittit out off testament and must now be eikit being worthe ^1333 6 8- 8. Ite. my umqll Lord had ye tyme off his decease tua purses one embroudred w* gold and pearle and ane other off velvit qr in were thrie score tenn peeces off silver, qlk ar omittit out ye testament and now aucht to be eiket being purses and silver peeces worthe £66 13 4 9. Ite. yair was in ye umqll earle his possess ye tyme off his decease or, Northern Notes and Queries. 6 1 tua coatches by ye airship coatche prycit in ye testament to ane hundreth markis a peece wh ar thoght to have been worthe then fyve hundreth marks a piece, inde [&c] £S33 6 8. 39. Ite. ye sd chamerlane gettis allowed to hym certane sommes de- pursit be hym att my Lo. his directioun to futmen, cuik, porter, weshar, those who wakit horses in ye night on ye grasse and others employed in my lord his adoes as ye particular articles off comptis will show wh being employed to my Lo. his use audit to be eiket to ye testament ^74 7 6. 63. Ite. in ye comptis off Alloway crope 1634 ye chamerlane gettis allowed to Andrew Erskene gairdner and his two men ane whole yeares nail whereas he served but half one yeare to witt fro martinmas 1634 to wits 1635, att wh terme he and his men were dismissed: Quo ye whole yeares flail being 29 bollis meate and four bollis beare ye half is fourteen bollis tua furlottis meate at tenn markis a boll and two bollis beare at seven poundis los. a boll conforme to ye chamerlanes warrand aucht to be eiket to testa1 ext to £>\ i 1 1 34. 380. THE USE OF ARMORIAL BEARINGS (i. p. 9). — The Heraldic' Exhibition opened in Edinburgh cannot fail to produce some good results. Popular it is not likely to be, for few take any interest in the subject of armorial bearings or genealogy as a science, and the work of education, though it may commence with a display such as the rooms in Queen Street afford, must be carried out by more sober and lasting means. We trust that the effect of the Exhibition will be seen in the improved work of the decorator, and that thus it will act on the public, as other art exhibitions have done, slowly but surely and profitably. We would, however, consider chiefly the effect it will have in the use of armorial bearings, and the increased inclination of wealthy people to obtain proper authority for a display to which they as a rule have shown themselves prone, without much consideration as to the position in which they place themselves by assuming armorial bearings without — nay, in spite of — official authorisation. It must be admitted that the laws affecting armorial bearings are in a very unsatisfactory condition — we will not discuss how matters stand in England and Ireland. Here in Scotland the Lyon Office is a Government department, which does some- thing to increase the revenue of the State. Its officials are nominally armed with what, could they be exercised, would now be regarded as the ex- cessive powers, of confiscating and mutilating private property if to it is affixed unauthorised armorial ornamentation. These powers, we need scarcely say, are never exercised, yet the Government which wisely allows them to slumber does not blush to profit by the breaking of the law it has not the inclination to enforce. A tax is laid on armorial bearings, whether they be authorised or fictitious. The uninitiated often suppose that by paying the tax they obtain a right to the armorial bearing they use. Not a bit of it. The tax is levied on genuine and bogus arms alike, and leaves them genuine or bogus. This is the more strange when we consider that a tradesman may register his trade-mark for a small fee, and may interdict any one else from using it ; but if a man pays a heavy fee to Government to obtain the right to use a coat-of-arms — granted not always according to the design he wishes, but to that the Lyon King selects — he has no remedy if his neighbour (whether bearing his name or not) adopts the same device. The tax on armorial bearings is a lucra- 62 The Scottish Antiquary ; tive one, and no objection can be taken to it. Let it be doubled to those who cannot show an official grant. Nothing would be lost to the Exchequer, and if the fees for registration at the Lyon Office were reduced much would be gained ; for very many would hasten to register arms to which they could then show legal right, or to take out grants for new devices in order to be scheduled under the reduced rate of taxation ; while those who did not take this step would have to pay double, and being thus ' posted ' as impostors, would soon follow suit. Thus the tax would not suffer, while the revenue derived from the fees for grants would benefit. We would also suggest that the Lyon Office should print the names of those whose arms are registered, and also periodically notify the names of those who take out arms. Thus the genuine would be at once distinguishable from the bogus article, and men, rather than discard orna- ments they had improperly assumed, would hasten to obtain the proper authority to use them. ED. 381. ERSKINES OF BALGOWNIE AND SHIELFIELD (vol. v.//. 97, 143). —SiR,— Although I have of necessity been somewhat tardy in replying to the statements and observations relative to my pamphlet ' The Erskine Halcro Genealogy] — contained in your No. for December 1890, — I still rely on your fairness to insert the present communication. Arms of Erskine of Shieldfield. The Shieldfield Arms were registered in the Lyon Register about 1 700, not *t. 1719 or later,3 as you state. I got this information from my nephew, who is an official in the Register House, Edinburgh, and was permitted by the late Mr. Burnett, Lyon King, to inspect the Register on my account, and I implicitly rely on the information as correct. Mr. Alexander Nisbet's great work A System of Heraldry was first published in 1722, three years before the death of the author. It is still called by many ' The best book on Heraldry in the English language.' In the first volume Mr. Nisbet says in the introduction that he was indebted to the courtesy of the Lyon King at the time, for allowing him to make extracts of many of the Arms from the Lyon Register, and that in all such cases he had put the letters L.R. after the Arms; further, on page 42, Nisbet gives the particulars of the Shieldfield Arms, exactly as I have quoted them on page 7 of my pamphlet, with the addition of the Crest and Motto as quoted by you, and adds the above letters L.R., thus proving incontestibly that these Arms were on the Lyon Register at the time and taken by Nisbet from the same. At page 42 Nisbet also states that 'Erskine of Sheefield was descended of the ifamily of Balgownie.' This was in 1722, and is stated on the same page with the Arms of Balgownie (which are there quite distinct from those of Shieldfield, and not identical with them, as you observed), and I submit it is inconceivable that if this assertion had-been otherwise than correct it would have remained uncontradicted during all the 170 years which have elapsed since then. In reference to the Crest and Motto of Shieldfield, which I did not record in my pamphlet, I might have added that they bear on the face such a similarity to the Crest and Motto of the Marr Arms as to make it quite reasonable to hold that these also had been arranged by the Herald as ' differenced ' or ' distinguished ' from the Marr Crest and Motto in the same manner as the Shield etc are consistent with their being differenced from the Balgownie and Marr Arms, or. Northern Notes and Queries. 63 as I hold in my pamphlet and still hold. Thus Nisbet has the Crests, etc., as follows : — Marr.—A right hand Proper holding a dagger (skeen) in Pale Argent, hilted and pomeled Or. Motto, ' Je pens e plus? Shieldfield. — A dexter arm from the elbow Proper, holding a Cross Crosslet Or pointed downwards, and the Motto 'Think well.' Finally, on this point, Nisbet's Heraldry, published in 1722, is the original and great work of the author (a second edition of which was not published until long afterwards), and cannot reasonably be described as ' his edition of that year,' as you have described it. The Annals of the Halyburtons. This book, which was privately printed and distributed by Sir Walter Scott among his friends in 1820, is for the most part a copy, not of any myth, as you describe it, but of a bona fide family Register of the Haly- burtons of New Mains — connections of Sir Walter Scott's ancestors, the original manuscript of which is still in the Library at Abbotsford. Much of the narrative in it was quoted by Sir Walter in the Preface to his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, published in 1821, and the whole of this quotation was adopted at full length from the Preface to the Minstrelsy, in 1847, in the Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh, presented in that year to the Bannatyne Club by John Spottiswoode, Esq. of Spottiswoode, assisted, as he says in the Preface, by William Fraser, Esq., of Edinburgh, an eminent Antiquarian (now Sir William Fraser, K.C.B., LL.D., Deputy Keeper of the Records of Scotland). Unfortunately the quotation in the Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh is stated therein to have been made from ' The History of the Scottish Border, vol. i. p. xcii.' There is no such book. The quotation was from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1821, vol. i. p. xciii. No doubt this error has caused a good deal of trouble. It was pointed out to me in a note from Dorset Eccles, Esq., Acting Superintendent of the Reading Room, British Museum, dated loth February 1887. This family record of the New Mains family bears on it to have been commenced about the middle of the i7th century — that is, about 1650. It clearly narrates the abduction of Elizabeth Halyburton, the young heiress of Shieldfield by her grandfather, the abbot, in person about 1558, when she was taken to Stirling and married to Alexander Erskine, a brother as 'tis said of the laird of Balgownie, who thus became the first laird of Shieldfield. This record was first published, as I have said, by Sir Walter Scott in the Minstrelsy in 1821, and was no doubt unknown out of the Halyburton connection until then. It formally revives and renews the uncontradicted statement of Nisbet made one hundred years before in his Heraldry that Erskines of Shieldfield are descended from Erskines of Balgownie, and when to this corroboration is added the entire compati- bility of the arms of Shieldfield with such arms as a herald would have framed for a younger branch of the families of Balgownie and Marr — by the rules of differencing — I submit that a very strong case is made out that Shieldfield descends from Balgownie as stated. Of what particular Erskine of Balgownie Alexander Erskine was brother there is wanting absolute proof. In the face of your quotation from the Cambuskenneth Monastery Register he could not have been a brother of James Erskine I. of Little Sauchie and Balgownie, for Alexander, that 64 The Scottish Antiquary , brother, is correctly described by Douglas in his Peerage as parson of Monybreck, and was older than Alexander Erskine who married Elizabeth Halyburton must have been. Moreover, the parson of Monybreck would naturally have been described not as brother of Balgownie, but as brother of John IV. Lord Erskine. Alexander must therefore most probably have been a younger son of James I. of Balgownie, and a brother of Robert II. of Balgownie, probably the Alexander Erskine who is witness to deeds at the time, without being designated. My suggestion that he might have been minister of Monybreck must therefore be dropped as untenable. Was Abbot James Stewart alive in 1546 ? Atpage 287 of fa& Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh, Edinburgh 1847, isacopy of a grant by Thomas, Commendator of Dryburgh, dated 1 8th November 1546. In this reference is made to a dispute in which Abbot James Stewart had been before that time mixed up, and he is there referred to as follows : ' Venerabilem patrem Jacobum Stewart tune in humanis agentemj and you infer from this that at the date of the deed he was dead. I have taken every pains to obtain a correct translation of the phrase, and taken advice of a correspondent well versed in interpreting such old deeds, and I find the meaning is simply that Abbot James Stewart had been at the time referred to managing the temporal affairs of the Monastery of Dryburgh but had been superseded in that matter. If he had been dead at the date of the deed some mention would have been made of it, or at all events the word quondam would have been prefixed to his name, as is done in a subsequent part of the same deed in referring to King James v. of Scotland, who was undoubtedly then dead — and before whose name consequently the word quondam appears. I may add that if the above expression you have relied on as meaning that Abbot James had died before February 1546 were reasonably capable of being so translated, a fatal discrepancy would thus be created between the narrative of this deed and the Annals of the Halyburtons which clearly state that Abbot James was alive in 1558, when he took away his granddaughter and married her to Alexander Erskine, and as this narrative is implicitly relied on, and quoted at length in the Liber S. Marie de £>ryl>urgk,ls\ich a fatal discrepancy could not have escaped the notice of Mr. Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode and his learned Editor, Sir William Eraser, and all the distinguished members of the Bannatyne Club who may have perused the work— not to speak of such members of the public as since 1847 may have had access to the same. Genealogy of Erskine of Balgownie. I made use of the best materials I could procure in framing this. No doubt the facility you have of referring to the family papers has given you an advantage I did not possess, and I must defer accordingly to your corrections My Table I, as far as the Balgownie Erskines are concerned, was only illustrative of their connection with the Shieldfield Erskines, and I did not prosecute the inquiry further than No. VII., John Erskine Advocate, with whom the male representation of the family terminated! I may however, in reference to your account of No. IX., Robert Cunning- ham'^rf7w y°ur a«ention to what is said in Mr. David Beveridge's Culross and Tulhallan, viz. that this Robert Cunningham was not a clergyman of *" -Pea or, Northern Notes and Queries. 65 the Church of Scotland, as you state, but was the Rev. Robert Cunningham, minister of the Antiburger Congregation at East Barns in East Lothian, and that his mother, Hannah Erskine, widow of John Cuningham, married Mr. Adam Eil, one of the leading Secession ministers in Edinburgh. I observe you mention that Robert Cunningham married a daughter of MoncrierT of Culfargie. This is also a name connected with the Secession Church, the Rev. Alexander Moncrieff of Abernethy, one of the four brethren who seceded from the Church of Scotland in 1747, having been a son of Matthew Moncrieff of Culfargie. Shieldfield. This is the spelling throughout Sir David Erskine's Annals and Anti- quities of Dryburgh) and I adopted it for uniformity. Had I now to choose I would prefer Sheifield. Sir Robert Douglas in his Baronetage spells it Sheffield. — I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, E. ERSKINE SCOTT. 14 MARLBOROUGH ROAD, LEE, KENT, i^th June 1891. To the Editor of 'The Scottish Antiquary* 1. Arms. — The approximate dates attributed to the registrations of the Balgownie and the Shielfield Arms were added to the official extracts by the Lyon Clerk, as the quotation commas show. Having ourselves ex- amined the original Registers, we concur with his opinion. We fail to find in Mr. Scott's remarks any proof that the Arms were registered before 1719. As to similarity, it is clear that both Balgownie and Shielfield are differ- enced forms of Mar. Every armorist, however, is aware that the rules of cadency have never been formulated with exactness, and that no sound conclusions can be drawn as to the correct relation of cadets to the parent house, from differenced armorial bearings. Nisbet's work is deservedly held in honour, but his statements when unsupported by proof have no official authority where the Lyon Office is silent. He himself admits that he is obliged occasionally to make use of family, traditions, to which, how- ever, he properly attaches no undue weight. 2. The Annals of the Halyburtons. — It is not clear that Mr. Scott is aware that the Annals have lately been reprinted for the Grampian Club — he designates the work a ^ bona-fide family register,' whatever that may mean. It was commenced about 1650. The unknown writer who started it laments that he has no trustworthy accounts of the family before that time, and he honestly makes use of the phrase ' 'tis said.' It is manifest that no genealogist can construct a sound pedigree out of such materials, and in this case Mr. Scott increases his difficulties by rejecting the very man who would suit his purpose, viz. Alexander Erskine, Parson of Mony- breck, and 'brother to Balgownie,' for a purely imaginary Alexander who would have been a young lad when Abbot James Stewart died. The 'Parson' was born between 1500 and 1504, and supposing the marriage took place as late as 1559, he was not then too old to marry an heiress. We have not, however, discovered proof as to the exact date of the marriage. The traditionary designation 'brother to Balgownie' would be correct if applied to the ' Parson,' but not to a son of James of Balgownie, who lived till 1592, and thus survived Alexander of Shiel- field. After 1552 the Parson could not have been styled 'brother to VOL. vi. — NO. xxii. E 66 The Scottish Antiquary ; Lord Erskine' as Mr. Scott suggests, but 'uncle to Lord Erskine,' a designation not likely to be used— but it is not profitable in this case to discuss the possible correctness of guesswork. 3. Abbot James Stewart. — We have consulted scholars well versed in legal and classical Latin — we need only name Thomas Dickson, Esq., LL.D., Curator of Historical Records, Register House, Edinburgh — no doubt exists in their minds that the grant by Abbot Thomas Erskine in 1546, furnishes clear evidence that Abbot James Stewart was then dead. It is true the editors of ' the Annals of the Halyburtons ' did not discuss the discrepancy between the legend and this fact as proved by the grant : their silence, however, neither injures the evidence nor strengthens the legend. 4. Erskine of Balgownie. — All the errors in Mr. Scott's pedigree of this family might have been avoided by a careful use of printed and published works. Access to family papers enabled us to supply additional particu- lars. We have to thank Mr. Scott for the suggestions he offers at the close of his letter. It is, however, impossible that Rachel Erskine married a second husband, for she predeceased Mr. Cuninghame. We think Mr. Scott may be right in remarking that the Mr. Cuninghame was not a minister of the Established Church, his name does not occur in Scott's Fasti. ED. 382. A DOCTOR'S CHAMBER, A.D. 1500.— Representations of domestic life in bygone years are particularly valuable. Drawings of old houses show us where people lived; such plates as the one we give below help to show us how they lived. We have to thank Mr. G. P. Johnston, George Street, Edinburgh, for per- mission to use it. It is a reduced facsimile of the frontispiece of a work lately in his possession, Fasci- culus Medetinsi) etc., by Joannes de Kethum, printed at Venice 1500. An exceedingly rare book, it fur- nishes us with a clear idea of the fittings and arrangements of a chamber used as a study and per- haps lecture-room by a Doctor of Medicine. High up above the window is a long shelf, on which eight volumes rest showing the titles written on their sides. Raised on a dais is a wide wooden desk with two projecting wings with ornamented points, while half-open doors dis- cover a shallow cupboard in the hi« Wt hatwi Centre> The Doctor> with a pen in his left hand, and wearing a head-dress resembling a turban and doubt- MTS^ r acrinted,with «5A«^tS m his right hand a volume which rests on the top of the portion of the desk. On the left-hand portion h or, Northern Notes and Queries. 67 book-desk on which rests an open volume, beyond this is an hour-glass. Immediately below and in front of the desk is a long locker, on the lid of which three volumes are lying. To the right a man is seated on a low stool ; in the left centre a middle-aged woman, from whose crossed hands depends a set of beads ; from the left a lad is entering bearing in his hand a wicker Vessel something like a pail, other two vessels similar but larger are placed beside the sitting figures. The use of these is not apparent. In another plate which the volume contains, depicting a bedside visit, an attendant carries one of these vessels, it may be a thurible used as a disinfectant. In conclusion, we would note that the window is filled with small circles of convex glass, like the ' bulls' eyes ' still found in old case- ments. The carving on the front of the wings of the high desk resembles that carved on early cabinets and on the panels of pulpits. We should be glad if any of our readers possessing old prints of domestic interiors would permit us to have them copied, so that the house-life of earlier days might be illustrated. ED. 383. FOUNTAINBRIDGE. — A letter appeared in the Scotsman in July con- cerning the origin of the name of this suburb of Edinburgh. We think the following extract will prove interesting : — ' The original and correct name, yet to be seen on old maps of the city, was the Fauxbourgs or Suburbs. The first corruption appears to have been to Foulbriggs, by which name it is still best known to the lower class of the townspeople ; then as breig or brig is the Scotch form of bridge, it was no great stretch to con vert foul into fountain, so concocting the more pleasing and genteel compouad of Fountainbridge, and all this notwithstanding of there being neither water nor a bridge within any reasonable distance of the spot.' 384. WILL OF JOHN MITCHELL, 1581. — John Mitchell in Bandeath, Co. Stirling, whose will is given below, relieved of its archaisms, was the ancestor of the Mitchells, Baronets, and probably of the Mitchells of Craigend, Co. Stirling. The will is interesting as giving an insight into the value of farm stock, etc., in the i6th century. We have to thank J. W. Mitchell, Esq., Rothesay Herald, for permitting us to use his MS. MODERNISED COPY. WILL OF JOHN MITCHELL IN BANDITH, IN THE COUNTY OF STIRLING. The testament testamentar and Inventory of the goods, geir, sums of money, and debts pertaining to unquhile John Mitchell in Baddindeth, within the SherirTdam of Stirling, the times of his decease who deceased in the neth of May, the year of God 1580 years, faithfully made and given up by himself as concerning the nomination (?) and debts owing by him, and presently made and given up by Janet Johnston his relict, and Alexander Young, baker, in Stirling, his son-in-law, as concerning the Inventory of his goods and geir, whom he nominated his Executors in his latter will underwritten of the date at his dwelling-place of Baddindeth the 26th day February, the year of God 1579. Item, the said unquhile John Mitchell, had the goods, geir, sums of money, and debts of the value and price of the following pertaining to him the time of his decease ; viz : — A grey horse price, £14, 135. 4d. ; Item, another white grey price 20 marks ; Item, three mares, two black and one 68 The Scottish Antiquary ; grey, price each £10, total £$°', Item, an old grey mare, price £4; Item, a Stag of a year old, price £4; Item, two fillies price each £8, total £16', Item, two old oxen, price each £6, total £12 ; Item, three Stots of two years old, price each £4, total £12; Item, ten cows of which five old farrow cows with stirk, and five young cows with calves, price each 10 marks, total 100 marks; Item, three young cows of a year- old, price each 305., total £4, xos. ; Item, a Stot of a year old, price 305. ; Item, forty-six old sheep, price each i6s., total £$6, i6s. ; Item, twenty hoggs, price of each 125., total £12-, Item, sown on the ground forty bolls of oats 'estimat to ye third come extending to VPX' bolls of oats, price of the boll with the foddes 403., total ^240; Item, more than ten bolls of wheat sown, ' estimat to ye ferd corne ' extending to forty bolls of wheat, price of the boll with the foddes £4, total £160 ; Item, more than ten bolls of peas and beans sown, ' estimat to ye ferd corne ' extending to 40 bolls peas and beans, price of the boll with the foddes, £3, total ^120 ; Item, more than ten bolls beir sown, ( estimat to ye ferd corne,' extending to forty bolls, beir price of the boll with the foddes 5 marks, total 200 marks; Item, in utencils and domiciles with the ' abuezements of his body,' (clothes) Estimated to 50 marks. Total of the Inventory, ^914, 2S. 8d. No debts owing to the dead. Follows the debts owing by the dead.— Item, there was owing by the said unquhile John Mitchell to Thomas Moderall in Cambuskenneth of borrowed money, ^30 ; Item, to Duncan Ranald in Papiltreis, of borrowed money, £22, 145. 4d. ; Item, to John Mitchell, Elder, his son in Alloway, ,£23, 6s. 8d. ; Item, to Thomas Mitchell, his son in Stirling for ' geir ' furnished to the horse by him the time of the defuncts sickness, £1$, 143. ; Item, to Andrew Stevenson in Craignigelt for the rest of the price of a horse, £6 ; Item, to David Robeson, weaver, £4; Item, to James Mitchell his son of borrowed money, 4 marks ; Item to Malie Murray for ale the time of his sickness, £4. ; Item, to Thomas Watson, merchant in Stirling, 335. ; Item, to John Muirhead. smith, 203. ; Item, to Alex. Brown, pedlar, £4, 6s. 8d. ; Item, to my Lord of Mar for his rent of the ground, in the year 1580 years, £17 ; Item, to William Stevenson for his fee, £9, 133. 4d. ; Item, to Richard Kedstoun, £4; Item, to Janet Johnston, £$, xos. ; to John Archibald, i2s. of fee; to James Johnston, 225. of fee. Total of debts owing by the dead, ^"151, 43. 8d. Rest of the geir the debts deducted, £762, i8s. To be divided into three parts the dead's part is ^154, 6s. Whereof the total is compounded for £&. Follows the dead's legacy and latter will. — Upon the 26th day of February, the yeaV of God 1579 years, which day the said John Mitchell made his legacy and latter will as follows, viz. : —the said John Mitchell nominated and made Janet Johnston his spouse, and Alexander Young, baker, in Stirling, his son-in-law, his Executor, and referred the making and upgiving of the Inventory of his goods and geir unto them; Item, he ordained and made the said Janet Johnston his spouse only intromissative with his goods and geir; Item, he ordained and made John Myllas, bailie of Stirling, « overman ' to the said executors ; Item, the defunct left and disposed of the free geir that pertained to his part, to his daughter Isobel Mitchell, IPO marks money, the remaining free or, Northern Notes and Queries. 69 geir that pertained to him he left and disposed to Janet Johnston his spouse. This was done at his dwelling-place in Buddindeth before these witnesses, John Myllas, bailie of Stirling, Duncan Ranald in Papiltreis, and Alex. Schort in Blackgrange, ' wk vyis dues sic subscribitur. Ita est/ Patricius Gillespie, Minister of the word of God in the church of Kirkton, etc., etc. Janet Johnston, his relict during her lifetime, and after her decease William Mitchell her son, and Christian Wyild his spouse, had a tack of half the lands of Bandeth from the King (on the forfeiture of the Earl of Mar), on the payment of seventeene pounds usuale money of this realm, at twa terms in the year Whitsunday and Martinmas in winter, iri equal portions, together with six capons at the term used and wont only at Holyrood House, 3 Oct., the year of God 1584. 385. REGISTERS OF OLD ST. PAUL'S, EDINBURGH, A.D. 1748-1762 (continued from p. 22). — A° Sal. 1748. Febry. 20, f. 7. h. 6. v. At the Meal Mercat, baptized a son of Ebenezer Oliphant, Goldsmith, named Anthony. Messrs. John & Thos. Belchies, &c., pnt. „ Mar. 5, f. 7. h. n. m. In my Closet, baptized a posthumus son of James Graeme, Weaver, & Elizabeth Alison, named Henry. „ Mar. 1 6, f. 4. h. 7. v. In my Closet, baptized a son of Charles Shepherd in the Canongate, Cobler, & Kat. Alexander, named John. John Fforbes, Jean Simpson, & Margt. Cowie, pnt. „ Mar. 20, f. i. h. 5^. v. In .... Closs, Lawn Mercat, baptized a son of George Livingston, Sert. to Mrs. Walker, named Andrew. Richd. Walker, Gilb. Gow, &c., pnt. ,, Mar. 23, f. 4. h. 4. v. In the Canongate head, baptized a daur. of Robert Strange, Engraver, & Isab. Lumisden, named Mary. Mr. & Mrs. Lumisden & Mr. Berry, present. „ May 9, f. 2. h. 7. v. In Grays Closs, baptized a daur. of William Fleeming, late a riding footman of C. P. R. . . . Fife. Spors. — James Allan, &c., pnt. ,, May 24, f. 3. h. 6. v. In the Flesh Mercat Closs, Canong., baptized a daur. of Patrick Cuthbertson, Silver-smith, & Margt. Caw, named Euphame. David & Thos. Beatts, Mr. McDonald, Leith, & Chris. Caw, &c., pnt. „ July 13, f. 4. h. 7. mat. In the Anchor Closs, baptized a son of William Dollas of Newton, Wright, & Margt. How, named James. N.B. — This child (born in the 6th Moneth) dyed soon after his Baptism. „ July 1 8, f. 2. h. 3. v. In Lady Miln's house, in Blackfryar Wynd, baptized a daur. of John McDonell of Glengarie (prisoner in Edinr. Castle, & ... Gordon, daur. of Glenbucket, named Henrietta-Fraser. J. Hope, Miss Barclay, & McDonell, Spors. — (p. Lit). „ July 31, f. i. h. 5. v. In the Old Assembly Closs, baptized a daur. of William Hendrie, Writer, & Margt. Gray, named Johanna. Mrs. Semple, Mrs. Lynd, Mr. Hepburn, & Ja. Gordon, pnt. „ Augt. 14, f. i. h. 2. v. Opposite to the Cross Well, baptized a daur. of Chas. Esplin, Painter, & Pat. Preston, named Helen. Jo. Esplin, Mrs. Kath. Duncan, &c. &c., pnt. 70 The Scottish Antiquary ; 1748. Aug. 15, f. 2. noon. In Smiths Land, baptized a daur. of Sir William Dunbar of Hemprigs, & ... Sinclair, named Jean Frances. Miss Sinclair, Miss Jeanie M'Kenzie, & Peggie Gedds, Spors.— Ao£a TW 0ea>. Aug. 21, f. i. h. 9j mat In my Closet, baptiz'd a daur. of William Stewart Chairman, & Margt. Fairgrieve, named Charlotte. Jas. Stewart Chairman, &c., pnt. Aug. 22, f. 2. h. 7. v. At home, baptized a son of William Miller, Chairman, named James. Mrs. Haliburton, &c., pnt. „ Aug. 30, f. 3. h. 8J. v. In Libbertons Wynd, baptized a son of Hary Guthrie, Writer, & ... Tytler, named Alexander. Mr. Tytler Senr. & Junr., Mrs. Lindsey, &c., pnt. „ Sept. i, f. 5. h. 9. m. In my house, baptized a son of Henry Gibsone, Souldier in Drumlanrigs Regt, & Jean Marshall, named James. Hugh Gibsone Smith, Spor. ,, Sept. 3, f. 6. h. 5. v. In the Cowgate 'twixt the College & horse wynds, baptized a daur. of James Stewart, Writer, & Alison Ruddiman, named Anne. Mr. & Mrs. Ruddiman, Spors., Walt. Ruddiman, his wife & daur., &c., pnt. ,, Sept. 7, f. 4. h. 5. v. Near Pilrig, baptized a daughter of Deacon Robert Barclay, Taylor, named Charles \sic\. Stuart Carmichael, Mrs. Crawford, Margt. Stuart, &c., pnt. ,, Sept. 13, f. 3. h. 6. v. In Borthwicks Closs, baptized a daur. of George Bayne, Clk., & Jan. Harper, named Anne. John Malice, Mrs. Black, &c., pnt. „ Sept. 26, f. 2. h. 6. v. In Smiths Land, baptized a daur. of Archbald Stewart, Mert. (late Moderator Constable), & Charlotte Bailie, named Helen. Mr. Jo. Hamilton, wh. his daur. & grandchild, Mr. Jon. & Mrs. M'farlane, Archd. Hamilton & James Guild, &c., pnt. „ Nov. 25, f. 6. h. 4. v. In my Closet, baptized a son of John Good- willie, Writer, & ... Carstorphin, in Lybberton's Wynd, named Andrew. Rot. Barclay, Mrs. Strange, Spors. „ Nov. 29, f. 3. h. 8|. v. In my Closet, baptized a daughter of Mr. James Hay, Writer to the Signet, named Magdalen. LadyNicolson, Mrs. Kerr, Mr. Hay, & Jo. Gumming, Spors. „ Deer. 19, f. 2. cir. merid. In Forresters Wynd, baptized a daur. of honest William Wilson, Writer, named Janet. Mr. Wilson, & his son Robert, Isabel Lady Ardshiell, & Isobel Wilson, Spors. „ Deer. 19, i. aft. noon. At home, baptized a son of John Farquhar, Sert. to Mr. Lockart, & Janet Small, named John. Jo. M'Lellan, & Walter Clerk, Shoemakers, & Isob. Main, pnt A° Dni. 1749- Jany. ip, f. 3. h. 7. v. In my Closet, baptized a son of James Allan Cadie}i named Bartholomew. *r !22' ^ Im ,h< 5* v' In my DinS' Room> baptized a daur. of Walter Orrock now Mert. in Leven, named Janet. Dougal Ged., Goldsmith, Mrs. Mercer, Yor., &c., Spors. iT-r'^'i /o?-,V' ITJ the Advoca*es Closs, baptized a son of Baihe Gill (Clerk on board a ship of warr) & Eliz. Barclay named Robert Rot. Barclay, Physician, Mr. & Mrs. Barclay (grand- parents), Spors. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7 1 .1749. Feby. 22, f. 4. h. 4j. v. In the F. Mt. Closs Canongate, baptized a daur. of Robert Strange, Engraver (at pnt. in Rouen), & Is.ob. Lumisden, named Mary Bruce. Mr. & Mrs. Lumisden & Jo. Wright, Spors. ,, Mar. 2, f. 5. h. 7. v. In my Closet, baptized a son of John Scott, Sert. to James Douglas of Dornock, & Mary Malcolm, named Charles. Wm. Murray, &c., pnt. „ Mar. i2; f. i. h. 6. v. In my House, baptized a daur. of Hugh Robertson (Sert. to the Earl of Galloway) & Margt. Napier, named Henrietta. J. Thomson, Musician, & his wife, & Jean Wardrope, Spors. ,, May i, f. 2. h. 3. v. In my House, baptized a daur. of William Elliot, Writer, & Agnes Delias, named Cockburn. Mary Dollas, Barb. Alexr., &C., present. „ July 12, f. 4. h. nj. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of Patrick Cuthbertson, Goldsmith in the Canongate, & Margt. Caw, named Anne. John, Chris., & .... Caws, Spors. „ July, 22, f. 7. h. 10. m. In my house, baptized a son of Jo, Davidson sometime Mert. in Canongate, & Margt. Smith, named James. Jo. Tulloh, &c., pnt. ,, Aug. 20, f. i. h. 6. v. In Mr. Chessuls house back of the Canongate, S.S. (for Mr. Rae), baptized a daur. of James Scott, Mert. Mrs. Chessul, Miss Mcpherson, & Mrs. Fleming, pnt. [N. D.] In my absence, Mr. Pat Gordon baptized twin sons of Archbald Stewart, Mert., & ... Bailie, in Smiths Land. „ Nov. 8, f. 4. h. 7. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of Andrew Wilson, Lintdresser, & Eliz. Leslie, named Janet. Jo. Nicol & Mary Adam, pnt. „ Dec. 6, f. 4. cir. merid. In my Closet, baptized a son of Donald Mackintosh, Porter, & Jean Reid, named Donald, Danl. McLean, Pet. Scott, tSz: Janet Mackintosh, pnt. [N. D.] h. 7. v. In the Castlehill, baptized a daur. of Alexr. Nicolson, Plumber, named Elizabeth. Sir Richd. Murray, his moyr. & sister, Mrs. Thomson, &c., pnt. — (pr. Liam). [N. D.] h. 9. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of Donald Stewart, Taylor, & Barb. Campbell, named Isabell. Ja. Crichton, Rot. Stewart, & Mrs. Monro, pnt. ,, Deer. 7, f. 5. h. 3. v. In Libbertons wynd, baptized a daur. of Hary Guthrie, Writer, & ... Tytler, named Jean. Old Mrs. Tytler, Jean Tytler, pnt. — (pr. Liam). „ Deer. 10, f. i. h. 5^. v. In the Old Assembly Closs, baptized a son of William Hendrie, Writer, & Margt. Gray, named Peter Hepburn. Ja. Gordon, Taylor, Mrs. How, Mrs. Semple, & Mr. Fleming, pnt. — (pt. Liam). „ Deer. 14, f. 5. h. 8. v. In my Closet, baptized a son of Chas. Reoch, Barbar (now at London), & Margt. Beg, named Charles. Jo. Beg (Sert. to Browsterland) & Margt. Thomson, Spors. ,, Deer. 24, f. i. h. 7. v. In Fowlis's Closs, baptized a son of Don. McDonald, Butler to the Earl of Galloway, & Ann Kilpatrick, named John. Jo. Urquhart, Cook, Mrs. Wigt, Mr. Main, Mrs. Sandilands, & Jean Lyon, pnt. „ Deer. 26, f. 3. h. 6. v. In the Cowgate, baptized a daur. of James 72 The Scottish Antiquary ; Stewart, Extractr., named Alison. Mr. Thos. Buddiman, Mrs. Buddiman, Walter Buddiman, & Eliz. Stewart, pnt.— (pr. Liam). A° Dom. 1750- Jany. 29, f. 2. h. 8. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of Alexander M'Intyre,' Porter, & Griz M'Donald, named Catherine. Jean M'Intyre, Penelope Arbuthnot, & Jo Small, pnt. „ Feb. 18, f. i. h. 7. v. Baptized a son of Alexr. M'Nab, Chaircarrier, & Eliz. Dewar, named John. Malcolm M'Drumond, Mary Dewar, &c., pnt. „ Feb. 33, f. 6. h. 4. v. In the Anchor Closs, baptized a daur. of William Dollas of Newton, Wright, & Margt. How, named Elizabeth. Mrs. How, Mrs. Thomson, & Mr. Harper, both Spors, — (pr. Liam). „ Feb. 27, f. 3. h. 8. v. In Todderichs Wd., baptized a daur. of James Wood, Taylor, & Kath. Chalmers, named Isobel. Tho. Souter, Dav. Tansh, Isobel Fergusson, Mrs. Widrow, pnt. „ Mar. 23, f. 6. h. 4. v. In . . . Closs, baptized a son of John More, Bookbinder, named Charles. Wm. Gordon, Bookseller, &c., pnt. „ Apr. 24, f. 3. h. 8. v. At the head of Cant's Closs, baptized a son of John Gordon, Mert., named Patrick. The Reverend Mr. Pat. Gordon, the ffayr., & Mrs. Urquhart, Spors. — (pr. Liam). N.B. — This was at the desire of my Dr. Broyr. Gordon. „ May 29, f. 3. h. 6. v. In Blackfryars wd., baptized a son of James Reoch, pror., named James Edward Henry. Jo. Glass of Sauchie, Geo. Lauder, &c., pnt., & Lady Humbie. „ June 19, f. 3. h. 7. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of John Farquharson, Chairman, & Bethia Michie, named Margaret. Thos. Michie, Eliz. Michie, &c., pnt. „ July 8, f. i. h. 6. v. In my house, baptized a daur. of Geo. Bean, & ... Harper, named Jean. John Baine, the honest Sert. of Murray, a false master, & two women, Spors. „ July 1 1, f. 4. In my house, baptized a son of Donald Henderson, Chairman, & Janet Boyd, named John. Rot. M'Lairen, Eliz. Holyday, pnt. „ Augt. i, f. 4. h. 4. v. In the Fishmercat Closs, baptized (for Mr. David Rae) a daur. of Wm. Rutherford, named Jean. „ Septr. 9, f. i. h. 7. v. In Smith's Land, baptized a daur. of Archibald Stewart & Mrs. Charlotte Bailie, named Margaret. Archd. Hamilton, Mert, & Jas. Guild, Wter., pnt. „ n, f. 3. h. 7. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of William Stewart, Chairman, & Margt. Fargrieve, named Christian. James Stewart & Chris. Kerr, pnt. „ Octr. 26, f. 6. h. 3. v. In my house, baptized a son of Thos. Gow, Shoemaker in the Pleasance, & Ka. Lowson, named Gilbert. Gilbert Gow, Vintner, & his wife, pnt. „ Nov. 23, f. 6. h. 5. v. In Dunbar's Closs, baptized a son of Bailie M'Gill, Mert., & Eliz. Barclay, named James. Jo. Goodwillie, Rot. Barclay & his wife, Spors. „ Deer. 8, f. 7. h. 3. v. At Lauriston, baptized a daur. of Wm. Elliot, Writer, & Agnes Dollas, named Elizabeth. Ann Nisbet, Janet Schaw, & Mrs. Wright, pnt. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 73 A° Sal. 1751. Febry. 12, f. 3. h. 7. v. In the Castlehill, baptized a son of Alexr. Nicolson, Plumber, named Alexander. My Lady Murray of Blackbarronry, her daur., & two sons, Robert & Archd., pnt., pr. Litm. „ Febry. 25, f. 2. h. 8. v. In the Trunk Gloss, baptized a son of John Crawford of Bingrie, Esq., & Eliz. Maxwell, named Alexander. Lady Inches, Spor. The child weak, & dyed about 10 at nt. „ Mar. 23, f. 7. h. 3. v. In Libbertons Wynd, baptized a daughter of Pat. Cuthbertson, Goldsmith, & Margt. Caw, named Euphame. Kath. Beatt, John & Christ. Caw, pnt. ,, Mar. 26, f. 3. h. 7. v. In my Low-house, baptized a son of James Hay, Monquiter, & ... Moodie, named James. Geo. Turn- bull, Mr. Scott, Mrs. Falconer Halkerton, & An. Reynold, Spors. „ Apr. 7, Easter Day, h. 6J. v. In Wariston's Gloss, baptized a son of William Hendry, Writer, named William. John Callender, Mrs. Semphill, Mrs. Hendry, Spors. „ Apr. 21, f. i. h. 6J v. In my Closet, baptized a son of Alexr. M'Intyre, Porter, & Grizel Dollas, named Charles. Wm. Delias, Duncan Forbes, & Chris. Fraser & Mrs. Young, pnt. „ May 21, f. 3. In my absence, Mr. Rae baptized a child of Andrew Douglas, Mert., & Chris. Cheape. „ May 23, f. 5. h. 6. v. Near the Cross I baptized a daur. of William Dollar, Chairmaster, & Margt. M'Intosh, named Mary. „ June 28, f. 6. h. 10. v. In Nyddrie's Wynd, baptized a daughter of Thos. Laurie, Workman, & Mary Laurie, named Christian. ,, July n, f. 5. h. 7. v. In my Closet, baptized a son of David Rattray, workman in Canongate, & Chris. Sime, named John. Jo. Gordon, Arthur Smith, & yEgidia Smith, pnt. „ Augt. .4, f. i. h. 6J. v. In Bells Wynd, baptized a son of Hugh Robertson (Sert. to Mr. Baird of Newbeath), & Margt. Napier, named Hugh. Jo. & Jas. Thomson, Musicians, & Jean Wardrope, Mert., &c., pnt. „ Augt. 10, f. 7. h. 4. v. At Newington, baptized a daughter of Hary Guthrie, Writer, named Christian. Old Mr. Tytlar, & her two daurs. Jean & Mrs. Lindsay, pnt. ,, Augt. 13, f. 3. h. 9. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of William Forrest, Gardener, & Helen Newlands, named Jean. Andr. Moffat (Gardener), Spor. Wm. Dollas & his wife, pnt. ,, Aug. 1 8, f. i. h. 7. v. Ibid., baptized a daur. of Dan. Fraser, Sert. to Rothemay, & Janet Balfour, named Elizabeth. Mary Heriat, & Mary Laurie, pnt. ,, Augt. 21, f. 4. h. 7. v. In Smiths Land, baptized a daur. of John Stewart of Allonbank, Advocate, & Agnes Smith, named Elizabeth. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Seton of Touch, & Mr. Charles Smith, Spors. ,, Augt. 27, f. 3. h. 4. v. In Smiths Land, baptized twins, a son & daur. of Archd. Stewart, Mert, & Charl. Bailie, named Andrew & Elizabeth. James Guild & Mrs. Fleming pnt. „ Septr. 15, f. 5. h. 6J. v. At the back of Bess Wynd, baptized a son of Geo. Livingstone, Drawer in Mr. Walkers, & named Charles (born in the 7th moneth). „ Octor. 3, f. 5. h. 4. v. At Ravelston, baptized a son of Alexander 74 The Scottish Antiquary ; Keith & Johan, Swinton, named George. Alexr. Keith senr. & junr., Dr. Jo. Rutherford, & Jane Orme, pnt. N.B. — This child was born in the 8th moneth. 1751. Octor. 22, f. 3. h. 4. v. In the Lawn Mercat, baptized (pr. Lit.) a daur. of John Goodwillie, Writer, & ... Corstorphine, named Mary. Mr. & Mrs. Barclay, M'Gill, &c. &c., pnt. Novr. 25, f. 2. h. 5. v. In Forrester's Wynd, baptized a son of William Taylor, Writer to the Signet, & .... Innes, named Robert. Messrs. Alexr. Innes, Wm. Mercer, & Archd. Hart & yr. wives, Wm. Taylor, . . . Innes, Miss Taylor, Mercer, &c., pnt. A° Sal. 1752. Jan. 17, f. 6. h. 5. v. In the Parliat. Gloss, baptized a daur. of Jas. Stewart, Writer, & Alison Ruddiman, named Isabel. Isob. Bailie (for Mrs. Coventry), Mr. Thos. & Walt. Ruddiman, Spors., & Jo. Belchear, pnt., pr. Liam. „ Febry. 9, f. 5. h. 6. v. In ... Gloss Lawn Mercat, baptized a son of B . . . M'Gill, Mert, & Eliz. Barclay, named Robert. Robt. Barclay and his wife, Jo. Goodwillie & his, Spors. Geo. & Agnes Barclays, & 2 Mrs. Barclays, pnt. „ Feby. 19, f. 4. h. 5. v. Baptized a daur. of Chas. Esplin, named Katherine. John Espline, Mrs. Preston, &c., Spors. „ Apr. 1.8, f. 7. h. 4. v. At Lauriston, baptized a daur. of William Elliot, Writer, & Agnes Dollas, named Mary. Chris. & Mary Delias, and Miss Shaw, pnt. ,, May n, f. 2. h. 2. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of Donald Henderson, Chairman, & Ann Boyd, named Jean. Rot. M'Lairen, Margt. White, pnt. „ May 21, f. 5. h. 6. v. In Kinlochs Gloss, baptized a son of Mr. George Gordon of Gordonbank, Writer, & ... Muirhead, named James. Mrs. & Ms Muirhead, & ... Gordon of Avochie, yr., Spors. „ May 22, f. 6. h. yj. v. In Libbertons Wynd, baptized a daur. of Peter Cuthbertson, Goldsmith, & ... Caw, named Christian. Kat. Beatt, & ... Caws, &c., pnt. „ May 27, f. 4. h. 7. v. At Abbeyhill, baptized a daur. of Alexr. Lidderdale; Gardener, &...., named Helen. Mrs. Jean Rose, Jo. Dunbar, &c., pnt. „ June i, f. 2. h. 5. v. In the Grass Mercat, baptized a daur. of William Hendry, Writer, named Agnes. Jo. Callender, Mrs. Struphill, &c., Spors. „ n, f. 2. h. 3. v. In the Castlehill, baptized a daur. of Alexr. Nicolson, Plumber, & ... Murray, named Jacobina Stuart. Mr. Webster & his daur. Chris., Spors. „ 30, f. 3. h. 6. v. In the Back Stairs from the Meal Market, baptized a son of George Hay, Printer, named Thomas. Walt. Ruddiman, Jas. Mackenzie, & T. Traill, Wrs., Spors. » JulY 5, f- i. h. 7j. v. In Robinsons Gloss, baptized a daur. of Geo. Bean, Clk., & Jan. Harper, named Christian. Chris. Walker, Jas. Harper, pnt. „ July n, f. 7. h. 8. v. In my Closet, baptized a son of Donald Stewart, Chairman, named ^Eneas. Jas. Stewart, ^neas & Margt. Campbells, pnt. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 75 1752. Augt. ii, f. 3. h. 4. v. In Blackfryars Wynd, baptized a daur. of James Reoch, Prot, named Isobel. Thos. Sinclair, Writer, Pat. Edie, Surgeon, Mrs. Reoch, &c., pnt. Oct. i, N. S. f. i. h. 4. v. Fowlis's Closshead, baptized a son of Wm. Heriot, Gunsmith, named James. James M'Douall, Mert., &c., pnt. „ Oct. i, h. 5. v. In Monteiths Gloss, baptized a daur. of Mr. John Clarkson, Wine Mert., & ... Taylor, named Marion. Dr. Taylor, Lady Pitcairlies, & 2 nieces, pnt. „ Oct. 6, f. 6. h. 4. v. In the Advocates Gloss, baptized a son of Geo. Livingston, Vintner, named John. Allan Stewart, Surgeon, &c., pnt. ,, Oct. 19. f. 5. h. 4. v. In Toddericks Wynd, baptized a daur. of James Wood, Taylor, & . . . . , named Anne. Elizabeth Irvine, Willm. Watt, &c., pnt. „ Oct. 22, f. 5. h. i. v. In Smiths Land, baptized a daur. of John Stewart of Allonbank, Advocate, named Margaret. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Barb. Smith, Barb. Walkinshaw, & Wm. Sellar, Spors. „ Nov. 2, f. 3. h, loj. v. At the Meal Mercat, baptized a daur. (born in the 7th moneth) of John Hutton, Brushmaker, & Anne Ruddiman, named Janet. Walter Ruddiman and his wife, Mrs. Fenton, & Mrs. Fleming, Midwife, pnt. ,, Nov. 30, f. 5. h. 5. v. At Newington, baptized a son of Harie Guthrie, Writer, & Eliz. Tytler, named Harie. Wm. Tytler, Writer, Geo. Lindsay, Clerk, & Euphame Guthrie, Spors. ,, Dec. 3, f. i. h. 5. v. In Morrisons Gloss, baptized a daughter of Walter Orrock, Mert. in Fife, named Helen. Mrs. White & Mosman & Mercer, Dougal Ged, &c. &c., pnt. A° Sal. 1753. Jany. 23, f. 3. h. 5. v. In Bells Wynd, baptized a son of William Stewart, Chairmaster, named William. James Stewart, Chairmr., &c. &c., pnt. „ Febry. 15, f. 5. h. 5. v. At the Cowgate Port, baptized a son of Peter Ramsay, Stabler, named James. Jo. Ramsay, Collr., Wm. Sutherland, Brewer, and his family, &c., pnt. ,, Febry. 16, f. 6. h. 6. v. In my Closet, baptized a daughter of William Conn, Taylor in Canongate, named Elizabeth. Eliz. Conn, Isab. Crawford, Wm. Reid, & Henry Tait, pnt. „ Febry. 18, f. i. h. 4. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of William Blair, Weaver, now Soldier in Coll. Halket's Regiment in Holland, & Jane M 'Alpine, named Jean. Jo. Cameron, Jo. Monro, & Jean Bryden, pnt. „ Febry. 19, f. 2. h..6. v. In the Westbow, baptized a son of . . . . Downie, Journeyman Watchmaker, & Sara Morison, named John. Mrs. Dickson, Deacon Barclay & his family, &c., pnt. ,, Febry. 25, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Plain Stone Gloss, Canongate, baptized a son of Alexr. Alves, Shoemaker, named John. Mr. Sutherland, Brewer, . . . Sime, Writer, &c., pnt. ,, May 30, f. 4. h. 6. v. In Bell's Wynd, baptized a daur. of Hu. Robertson (Servt. to Ld. Minto), & Margt. Napier, named Elliot. ,, Augt. 9, I was ill. Mr. Ro'son (at my desire) baptized of Jo. Farq'son, Chairman, & Bathia Michie. 7 6 The Scottish Antiquary ; 1753 Augt. 26, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Castlehill, I baptized a daur. of Alexr. Nicolson, Plumber, named Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson, &c. &c., pnt. Septr. 5, f. 4. h. 4. v. In the Lawn Mercat, baptized a daur. of John Goodwillie, Writer, named Anne. Wm. Lumisden, Rot. Barclay, B. M'Gill & yr. wives, pnt.— pr. Litm. Septr. 29, f. 7. h. 4. v. At Laurieston, baptized a daur. of William Elliot, Writer, named Henrietta. Lady Craigleith, Wm. Delias of Newton, Miss Jan. Shaw, Miss Elliot, &c., pnt. Octor. 7, f. i. h. 5. v. In Kinloch's Gloss, baptized twin sons of John Clarkson, Wine Mert, & Barb. Taylor, named James & Charles. Dr. Taylor and his daur. and son, Mr. James Stewart, Treasr. to the Widows Fund, Lady Pitcairlies, &c. &c. &c., pnt. Decer. 3, f. 2. cir. meridiem. In the Fountain Gloss, baptized a son of Sir Stuart Threipland, Physician, & Jan. Sinclair, named David (after the two grandfathers). Mrs. Harper, Mr. Budge, & Sir Stuart, Spors. Mrs. Budge, Jan. Threipland, pnt. Ao£a TO> 0ea>. „ Decer. 19, f. 4. h. 4. v. Near the Cross, baptized a daur. of Charles Espline, & Pat . . . , named Charles. Mrs. Preston, Jo. Espline, &c., Spors. A° Sal. 1754- Jal7- 6> f- l- n- 5- v- In the Advocates Closs, baptized a son of Robert Barclay, Taylor, named Charles-John. Jo. Goodwillie, M'Gill, Agnes Barclay, Spors. jary. 16, f. 4. h. 3. v. In the Lower Baxters Closs, baptized a daur. of Peter Cuthbertson, Goldsmith, . . . Caw, named Margaret. Mrs. Caw, David Beatt, &c., pnt. ,, Mar. 6, f. 3. h. 9. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of Donald Henderson, Chairman, & Ann Henderson, n. Christian. Jo. Hyslop & Eliz. Stewart pnt. „ Mar. 17, f. i. h. 5, v. At the back of the Canongate, baptized a son of Alexr. Paterson, Brewer, & Eliz. Gibson, named Alexander. Thomas Mack, and his wife, Jean Rose, Euph. Taylor, pnt. ,, Apr. 5, f. 6. h. 5. v. At the Cowgate Port, baptized a son of Peter Ramsay, Steblar, & ... Mackenzie, named Peter. Jo. Ramsay, Collector, &rc., pnt. „ May 19, f. i. h. 4. v. In the Old Posthouse Closs, baptized a son, of Jas. Cargill, mert. & named James. Lady Wood- cockdale, Mr. & Mrs. Pringle, Dav. Berry's son and daur., pnt. ,, May 24, f. 6. h. 2J. v. In my closet, baptized a son of John Greig, Sailor (now in Greenland), & Jean Brown, named John. Jo. Archbald, Flaxdresser Spor. Margt. Falconer & Jan. Ramsay pnt. - -„. • Septer. 17, f. 3. h. 4^. v. In the Writers Court, baptized a son of Jas. Stewart, Writer, & Alice Ruddiman, named Thomas Ruddi- man. The learned & worthy grandfather, Wm. Inglis, Isab. Bailie, & Lady MacKenzie, Spors. ,, Nov. 15, f. 6. h. 5. v. In Smiths Land, baptized a son of Archibald Stewart, mert., & Charlt. Bailie, named John. John Hamilton Wishia, John M'Farlane, James Guild, all Writers, Alex. Stewart Miles, & Miss Nellie Murray, pnt. „ Deer. 20, f. 6. h. 4. v. At Newington, baptized a daur. of Hary Guthrie, Writer, & Eliz. Tytler, named Anne. Geo. Lindsay, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 77 Clk., Mrs. Lindssay, Mrs. (Wm.), & Jean Tytler, Spors. — pr. Litm. A° Sal. J755- Jarv- 24> *• 6> h. ii. mat. In the Fountain Closs, baptized a daiir. of Sir Stuart Threipland, Physician, & Dame Janet Sinclair, named Janet (after the grandmother, Lady Janet Sinclair of Southdun). Mrs. Fargeson, Mrs. Harper, Mr. Sinclair, Sr. S., Spors. » Jary- 2&- f- l- h- 5- v- Dickson's Closs head, baptized a daughter of Andrew Douglas, Druggist, & Chris. Cheap, name Christian- Henrietta, Margt. & . , . . . Cheap, & Mrs. Fleming, pnt. ,, Mar. 3, f. 2. h. 4. v. In the Canongate head, baptized a son of Peter Cuthbertson, Goldsmith, & Mt. Caw, name William. David Beatt, . . . Poison & Chris. Caw, pnt. „ Mar. 1 6, f. i. h. 6. v. N.S. of -the Castlehill, baptized a son of Alexr. Nicholson, plumber, named Charles. Rot. Murray, Mr. & Mrs. Thomson, Mrs. Ballentine & Mrs. Pringle, Spors. — pr. Litm. ,, Mar. 21. At Hallyards, near Kirkliston, f. 6. h. 2\. v. Baptized the posthumous son of Wm. Elliot, Writer, & Agn. Dallas, named William. Wm. Elliot (the granduncle), Writer, Wm. Dallas, Lady Craigleith, Spors. Corn. Elliot & Chris. Dallas, pnt. „ Apr. i, f. 3. h. 4. v. In the Anchor Closs, baptized a son of William Dallas, Wright, & Donna Haliburton (born on Easter day at noon), named James. Lady Craiglieth, Thos. Haliburton, Mr. Dallas, Spors. ..... Gibb, pnt ,, Apr. 22, f. 3. h. 6. v. In the Cowgate, baptized a daur. of Jas. Robertson, Packman, & Margt. Scott, named Katherine. Pat. Scot, &c., pnt. „ May 7, f. 4. noon. In Todderics Wynd, baptized a daur. of Jas. Wood, Taylor, named Katherine. David Tansh, Lady Charleton, &c., pnt. „ May 7, h. 4. In Bell's Wynd, baptized a daur. of Wm. Stewart, Chairmr., named Katherine. Jas. Stewart, &c., pnt. „ May 15, f. 5. h. 4. v. In Henderson's Stairs, baptized a son of Bailie M'Gill, Mert, & Eliz. Barclay, named Bailie. Ye Barclays & Jo. Goodwillie Spors. ,, Jun. 8, f. i. h. 7. v. In my Closet, baptized a daur. of Alexr. Maclntyre, Workman, & Griz. Dollas, named Agnes. Jo. Drumond, Dan. Stuart, &c., pnt. ,, Jun. 1 6, baptized (by my Collegue) in my absence, James CargilPs daur. „ July 15, f. 3. h. 6. v. Opposite to the Gaurd, N.S., baptized a son of John Fergusson, Taylor, named David. Jo. More, Mert., &c., pnt. „ July 23, f. 4. h. 12. merid. In' Stephen Laws Closs, baptized a daur. of Wm. Cleland, Mariner (son of Rot. Cleland sometime of Carnbee), & Frances Hall, named Elizabeth. The grandfayr., Spor, Mrs. Pringle, &c.,. pnt. , „ Oct. 4, f. 7. h. 8J. v. In Bailies Closs, Cowgate, baptized a son (born in the 7th moneth) of Don. Henderson, workman, named Donald. „ Oct. 5, f. i. h. 5. v. At Powderhall, baptized (Mr. P. Gordon being ill) a son of Mr Sime, Writer to the Signet, & 78 The Scottish Antiquary ; Ravenscroft, named John. Wm. Gordon, Mrs. Scott, & Mrs. Alexander of Alloa, pnt. 1755. Nov. 1 6, f. i. h. 5. v. In the Old-Bank Gloss, baptized a daur. of George Livingston, Inkeeper, named Mary. Mr. Bell, &c., pnt. A° Sal. 1756. Febry. 16, f. 2. h. 5. v. baptized a son of Robert Morison, Barber, & .... Ramsay, named Alexander. Alexr. White, Jo. Graeme, Plumber, &c. &c., pnt. Apr. 2, f. 6. h. 5j. v. Near the Cowgate Port, in the house of Wm. Sutherland, Brewer, baptized a daur. of .... Sutherland of Woodend, named Euphame. Mr. Budge, Peter Ramsay, .... Richardson, &c. &c., pnt. Apr. 22, f. 5. h. 5. v. At the Meadows, E.S., baptized a daun of Jo. Hall, Weaver, & .... named Janet. Chris. Hall, &c. &c., Witnesses. May 7, f. 6. h. 4. v. Canongate, my Cous. baptized Alexander Paterson, Brewer, & Eliz. Gibsone, their son, named Andrew. I being not well. [There is below this entry a quarter of a page blank. — ED.] „ Novr. 8. f. 2. h. 5. v. Baptized a daur. of Chas. Esplin, named Janet. „ Deer. 13, f. 2. h. 4^. v. In the Back Stairs, baptized a son of B. MacGill, Mert., & Eliz. Barclay, [named George. Chas. Butler, Jo. Goodwillie, & Agn. Barclay, Spors. Auspice Deo opt. Max. P.F. & S.Sto. A° Dom. 1757. Jany. 12, f. 4. h. 6. v. In Forresters Wynd, baptized a son of .... Willison, Surgeon, named David. Miss Dempster, Mrs. Ramsay, and her daur., pnt. „ Feb. 3, f. 5. h. 3. v. In the Lawn Mercat, baptized a daur. of Jo. Goodwillie, Writer, & .... Carstorphine, named Magdalen. „ June 1 6, f. 5. h. 5. v. Near Newmilns, baptized a daur. of Wm. Green, Factor for Mr. Charteris, & .... Mackintosh, named Katherine. Mr. & Mrs. Robertson, .... Craig, & .... Grant, 4 Serts. at Newmilns, pnt. — sine Lit. „ Augt. 24, f. i. h. 5. v. In Toddericks Wynd, baptized a daur. of John Fergusson, Taylor, named Isabell. „ Septer. i, f. 5. h. 6. v. In Leith Wynd, baptized a son of John Clerkson, Wine Mert., & .... Taylor, named John. Alexr. Cuninghame, Writer, Peter Adie, Surgeon, Miss Campbel, &c., pnt. „ Nover. 5. f. 7. h. 6. v. In the Old-Assembly Close, baptized a daur. of Nathaniel Spens, Surgeon, & .... Mulliken, named Jean. Mrs. Mulliken, Lathallan & his lady, Miss Douglas, Mr. Houston, &c., pnt. A° Sal. 1758. Jany. 2, f. 2. h. 3. v. Castle Hill, N.S, baptized a son of Alexr. Nicholson, Plumber, & .... Murray, named Alexander— pr. Liam. Mr. Mabone, Mr. Thomson, &c., Spors. „ Jany 4, f. 4. h. 4. v. In the Anchor Cl., baptized a son of Wm. Dallas, Wright, & Donna Halyburton, named Thomas. Miss Reg. Haliburton, Mr. Gibb, Jo. Mansfield, Banker, Ly. Craig- leith, &c. &c., pnt.— pr. Liam. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 79 1758. Mar. 19, Palm Sunday, h. 4j. ves. In Byres's Close, baptized (pr. Liam) a daur. of Wm. Moir of Lonmay, & Worthley Stewart, named Mary. Mrs. Stewart (the grandmoyr.), & her oyr. daur., Dougal Ged, his wife & daur., Nath. Spens, Mr. (Jo.) Moir, & Mr. Johnston, Midwife, pnt „ Apr. i, f. 7. h. 4. v. At the Cowgate Port, baptized a son of Peter Ramsay, Stabler, & .... Mackenzie, named William. Wm. Ramsay, Wm. Suyrland & his wife, Jas. Ramsay, & Jas. Hunter, Bankier, pnt. — S. Lit. „ Apr. n, f. 3. h. 3. v. Near Hope Park, baptized a son of Jo. Hall, Weaver, named Robert Horsburgh, Jan. Hall, &c. &c., pnt. „ Aug. 2, f. 4. h. yj. v. At Cotes, near the Colt-bridge, baptized a son of Mr. John Sime, Writer, named James. Mr. And. Alves, Miss Maxwell, &c., pnt. „ Aug. 3, f. 5. h. 5. v. At Moultreshill, baptized a daur. of James Stewart, Writer, & Alison Ruddiman, named Caecilia. Messrs. Paton, Gray, W. Ruddiman, & Hutton, &c., pnt. — pr. Litm. „ Aug. 7, f. 2. h. 6. v. In the Backstairs Pt. Ch., baptized a daur. of Bailie M'Gill & Barclay, named Agnes. Eliz. Barclay, Mr. & Mrs. Goodwillie, Spors. — pr. Litm. A° Sal. 1759. Jany. 25, h. 4. v. In the Anchor Close, baptized a son of Wm. Dallas of Newton & Donnah Haliburton, named William. Mr. Wm. Harper, Junr., Mr. Dallas, & Margt. Haliburton, Spors.— pr. Litm. ,, Febry. 4, f. i. h. 5. v. Canongate, baptized the son of Chas. Stewart, Shoemaker, & Eliz. Threipland, named James. Mrs. (Jas.) Smyth, Mr. Joseph Ro'son, & Jo. Graham, Writer, Spors. — pr. Litm. — &c. &c., pnt. „ Apr. 17, f. 3. h. 5. v. In the Cowgate, baptized a son of Wm. Tytler, Writer to the Signet, named Patrick— S. L. Messrs. Guthrie & Lindsay, &c., pnt. „ June 15, f. 6. h. 7. v. In the Old Assembly Close, baptized a daur. of Nathaniel Spens, & Mullikin, named Janet — aft. Ly. Lathallan. Wm. Inglis, Mrs. M'Dowall, Mrs. Douglas, &c., pnt— S. L. ,, June 24, f. i. noon. In my room I baptized a son of Jo. Nicol, Wright, named Francis. Mrs. Craigie, Jeane Leslie, &c. &c., pnt. — S. L. „ Septer. 20. Bothr. for me, baptized (in the herb mercat) a son of Don. Henderson, n. Daniel. „ Septer. 23, f. i. h. 5. v. In the Canongate, I baptized a son of Alex. Paterson & Eliz. Gibson, named John. A° Sal. 1760. Jany. 17, f. 5. h. 5. v. In Craigs Close, baptized a son of Willison, Druggist, & Dempster, named Samuel. Miss Dempster, Lady (Dowr.) Dunichan, Mrs. Ramsay, Leith, Mrs. More, &c. &c., pnt. „ Mar. 23, f. i. h. 4^. v. In Todericks Wynd, baptized a son of James Wood, Taylor, & Kath , named Joseph — Do. Jos. Robertson, Mrs. Brown & her son Peter, Spors. — S. L. 8o The Scottish Antiquary. 1760. Apr. 8, Easter Tuesday, 4 v. In Ship-tavern Close, baptized (per Liturgm.) a daur. of Wm. Dallas, Wright, & Donna1 Haliburton, named Margaret. Margt. Halyburton, Ly. Craigleith, & Mr. Harper, Junr., Spors. „ Apr. 15, f. 3. h. 6. v. In the Canongate, baptized a son of John Hall, Weaver, & Horseburgh, named Charles. Jan. Hall, Wm. Brown, &c., witnesses. „ Apr. 25, f. 6. h. 5. ves. In the Backstairs over the Meal Mercat, baptized (per Litm.) a daur. of B. M'Gill & Eliz. Barclay, named Jean. Mrs. R. Barclay, Chas. Butler & his wife, Spors. May 15, F. Ascens. h. 5. f. 5.. In Dicksons Land, baptized a daur. of Jas. Park, Druggist, & M'Lean, named Annie. Hector M'Lean, Writer, Mr. M'Lachlan, &c., pnt— S. L. „ Aug. 20, f. 4. h. 6. v. In the Old Assembly Close, baptized daur. of Nath. Spens, Surgeon, named Jean. Wm. Inglis and his wife, Rob. Douglas, &c. &c., pnt.— S. L. ,, Sept. 1 8, f. 5. At Moulters Hill, Mr. Harper, Junr. (in my absence) baptized a son of Jas. Stewart, Writer, & Alice Ruddiman, named Charles. ,, Sept. 21, f. i. h. 4. v. I baptized a son of Jas. Cargill & named James. S. Lt. Lady Woodcockdale, Mrs. Jas. Hay, Mr Berry, Rot. Pringle, his wife and son, pnt. A° Sal. 1761. Febry. 13, f. 6. noon. In my closet, baptized a daur. of James Strachan, Chairman (from Auchindore), & Jean Touch, named Jean. Mrs. Jeane Rutherford, Adam Hay, Peter Urquhart, &c., pnt.— S. L. ,, Mar. 8, f. i. h. 4. v. In Miln's Square, baptized a daur. of Jo. Russel, Writer, & Margt. Fraser, named Margaret. ,, May 24, f. i. h. 6. v. In World'send Close, I baptized a daur. of Jo. Clerkson, Wine Mert., & Taylor, named William. Wm. Taylor, Mert., Miss Taylor, & Capt. James Cathcart of Inverleiih, &c., pnt. — Sine Lit. „ June 28, f. i. h. 5j. v. In the Ship Close, baptized a daur. of Wm. Dallas & David Haliburton, named David. Misses Halyburton & Scott, & Mr. Harper, Spors. — Sdy. Lit. „ Aug. 3, f. 2. h. 3. v. At Inveresk, I administered Hypothetical Baptism to Margaret Erskine, wife of Archd. Stirling of Keir. Mrs. Magdalene Stirling, witness. ,, Septer. 18. My Cousin for me, baptized a son of Don. Mackenzie, named Daniel. ., Nover. 9, f. 2. h. 4. v. In Nydries Wynd, baptized a son of Nath. Spens, Surgeon, & Mullikin, named James. Robert & Mrs. Douglas, &c., pnt. — S. L. „ Nov. 26, f. 5. h. 4. v. In ... Close, baptized a daur. of Jas. Cargil, Mert, & Kath. Auchinleck, named Katherine. Ly. Woodcock- dale, Kath. Berry, Mrs. Pringle, pnt. — S. L. 1762. Jany. 25, f. 2. h. 5. v. In Mr. Orrs N. S., opposite to Martins Wd., baptized a son of James M'H . . . th [blotted], Purser in the Coins (?) & Chris. Walker, named James. Tas. Park, Druggist & his wife, & Paul Husband, &c., pnt.— S. L. 1 Over Donna is written David. Probably her full name was Davidonna. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 8 1 1762. June 18, f. 6. h. 4. v. Baptized a son of Wm. Dallas Wright & Donna Haliburton, named Peter, pr. Litm. Margt. Haliburton, Mr. Harper, Junr., &c., Spors. „ Octor. 27. In the Herb Mercat, f. 4. h. 4. v., baptized a son of David Buchanan, Flesher, & Susan Callender, named John. Deacon Wemyss, £c., pnt. — S. L. „ Novr. 9, f. 3. h. ii. Mat. In ... Close, in Kinlocks Close, baptized a son of Sir Stuart Threipland of Fingask, & Janet Murray of Pennyland, named Patrick. Miss Budge, her Father, & Sr. S. Thrd., Spors. — pr. Liturm. „ Deer. 4. In Kennedys Close, f. 7. h. 3. v., baptized a daur. of Hugh Stewart, Chairmaster, named Katherine — S. L. (To be continued.} 386. Ross FAMILY (continued from p. 40). — THE COUNTS VON Ross OF PRUSSIA. — In the Neues Preussiches A dels- Lexicon, Leipzic 1837, and in other German works x it is stated that Alexander Ross von Inver- chasley, married Susanna Munro, and being a zealous Presbyterian was persecuted by the Bishops, and fled from Scotland in 1692, settling in the Netherlands. An Alexander Ross, but not of the Inverchasley family, may have sought refuge in the Netherlands, but not at the date assigned by Count John Ross (see/0j/) in the account compiled by him early in the present century. It seemed probable that Alexander (Ixxi), younger son of Alexander Ross of Eye who died 1659, and who is said to have gone abroad and married (MS. pedigree), might have been ancestor of the Counts Ross. The death of this Alexander was announced by his nephew, Charles Ross, afterwards of Eye, to his ' cousigne,' David Ross of Inver- chasley, Tutor of Kindeace, at Taine, in a letter bearing date, Edinburgh, i7th September 1701. — 'I am sorrie to tell you that a letter has come from Lieutenant Stewart to Andrew Ross, Balblair's son, giving account that Alexander Ross died at Bergen-op-Zoom, a frontier town of the United Provinces, about the beginning of September, New Style,2 and that his lady was not well.' It will be seen from the following account that this Alexander was not the ancestor of the Counts Ross, that family having evidently settled on the Lower Rhine previous to 1625, as is proved by their having married Germans, and at that date they had adopted German names and habits. If a history of the early struggles of the Reformed Churches on the Lower Rhine, including lists of communicants, could be found, probably the connecting-link with Scotland would be easily traced. At present the first of the family who appears in the register of Duisburg, near the Dutch frontier on the Lower Rhine, is Peter Ross, born circa 1625, and married to Christine Rademaker, by whom he had a son, 2. Matthias, born at Duisburg -- I^59 ^ ne married there — 1691, Maria Dorothea Schliiters, by whom he had, 1. Christine Maria, b. - 1692. 2. Peter. (See below.) 3. Christine Maria, born 28th August 1695. 4. William. 1 Stammbuch des Adels in Deutschland. — Taschenbuch der graflichen Hausen. - Began in Germany in 1700, when 18 days were thrown out of February. VOL. VI. — NO. XXII. F 3 2 The Scottish A ntiquary ; 5. Matthias, born i6th August 1699. 6. Hermann, born 3d January 1701. 7. Maria Elizabeth, born ist June 1705. 3. Peter, born at Duisburg 2d September 1693, married - -, and had' Matthias Gerard. He left Holland 25th December 1766, as assistant purveyor in the Dutch East India Com- pany. On arriving in Bengal he was sent to Hoogly, where he died nth August 1769, having named his cousin, John Matthias Ross, executor to his will (State Archives at The Hague). Maria Matilda, married Israel Gotthelf Hintre. Sibilla Margaret, married Bernard Fredemburg. 4 William, born at Duisburg 27th December 1696. On 2d April 1721 he was ordained minister of the Reformed Evangelical Church, he received a call to Xanten, and then to Isselburg in the same district, where he remained until 1748, when he became minister at Wesel. He died there- - 1768, having married - - Catherine Gertrude Brinkman, by whom he had, 1. Peter William, born 3151 March 1729. He married, first. Anna Sibilla Vetten, by whom, with two daughters, he had one son, John Gottfried, born - - 1756, and died un- married - - 1803. He married, secondly, Margaretha Biischen, by whom he had three daughters. 2. John Matthias. (See below.) 3. Henry Gottfried. (See/arf.) 4. Theodore Bernhard, became minister at Wallach when his brother Henry was called to Isselburg, bom 25th Oc- tober 1734, he married Sibilla Cramer. 5. Dorothea Sibilla Catharina, born 3d December 1736, married John Osthoff in Wesel, and had six chil- dren. 6. Johanna Maria Elizabeth, born loth January 1745, married — Bernhard Everard Duden. 5. John Matthias was born at Isselburg gth June 1730. Previous to December 1751 he visited England, hoping himself to obtain possession of some property in Scotland to which he believed that he was entitled, but want of means prevented him from prosecuting his claim. He probably saw David Ross of Inverchasley, George Ross, afterwards of Cromarty, and Hugh Ross of Kerse. It was one of these who, in the family annals, is styled the rich relation who obtained for him an appointment in the Dutch East India Company, as assistant, with 24 florins a month. He left Texel igth December 1751, on board the ' Immagonda,' for Bengal. He arrived there 7th August 1752, and was sent to Fort Gustavus to be employed in the Hoogly factory. He acted as under-treasurer, and then as treasurer in other factories, until he returned to Hoogly in 1763 as secretary. In 1759 there is no notice about him, but he must have seen the destruction of the Dutch fleet and army, and Clive dictating his own terms at Chinsu- rah. After filling several posts, he was named head-trader in 1771, and also in that year chief-director at Cassimbazar. In 1776 he became com- or, Northern Notes and Queries. 83 missary-director in Bengal with 180 florins a month. War having broken out between the Dutch and English on 3d July 1781, he was taken prisoner by the latter and carried off. When peace was proclaimed in 17-83, he was liberated, and returned to Holland as ex-director. About 20,000 florins of his salary were still owing to him, which the board ' of the seven- teen ' of the East India Company, in 1784, refused to pay, it does not appear for what reason. The decree was registered in 1786, and the money was never paid. — (Log of the Immagonda. — Roll of the troops and Company's servants, Archives at The Hague.) On his leaving Bengal, by a deed dated 28th December 1782, he manumitted all his slaves, giving them also a considerable sum of money for their support. He married 1786, a beautiful lady of 16, Joanna Catharina de Schubert, and dying at Brussels 1787, left an only son, John Frederick. (See below.) The widow married, secondly, in 1790, John Peter de Motte, a banker, and settling with her husband at Warsaw took with them her son. In a letter from William Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Orange, then in exile, dated Schonhausen, 2oth July 1799, he addresses her as Mevrouw Motte, assuring her that ' when a happy turn of affairs might bring him back to his fatherland, he would seek to be of service to her and her husband.' This happy turn did not come till 1813, when he returned to the Nether- lands as Sovereign Prince, and in 1815 became King. Mevrouw Motte during the war, and especially in 1812-13, assisted by her son, devoted her fortune and energies to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded soldiers and prisoners, irrespective of country or creed. She returned to Holland, and died at Amsterdam 25th April 1814. The Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, mother of the Sovereign Prince, in a letter dated Haag, 8th May 1814, in her own name, in that of her daughter-in-law the reigning Prin- cess,1 and of her daughter the Duchess,2 addressed an affectionate letter of sympathy to John Ross, styling him 'very dear and much loved Count.' 6. John Frederick was born at Brussels, 28th November 1787, just before his father's death. It does not appear in what year he assumed the title of Count ; as I have shown, he was so styled in 1814. In that year he had a silver medal 3 struck in memory of his mother. He sent one to the King of Prussia, who thanks him 'for the beautiful memorial of filial love,' in a letter dated Leipzig, i8th January 1815, and styles him Count. On the previous 20th December, during the Congress of Vienna, he had saved the King from being assassinated by a foreign adventurer. In 1813 tne Emperor of Russia had given him the Cross of St. Anne in brilliants, and he had offered to the Emperor a valuable gift from the col- lection of oriental rarities left by his father. Leaving Warsaw he settled at Berlin and received from King Frederick William a diploma, dated 9th March 1820, recognising his title. The wording of the diploma is most unusual :— (John Ross claims descent from the Earls of Ross, but there is no pedigree annexed) . . . ' whereas Count Johann von Ross has most humbly prayed of Us that We would be graciously pleased to adjudge to 1 Frederica Wilhelmina, daughter of Frederick William in. of Prussia. 2 Frederica Louisa, widow of the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick. 3 On the medal she is styled Countess Ross. Her bust is in profile, and a lightning flash striking her. With other devices, there are the arms of Ross and Schubert. On the reverse, with many emblems, there is an inscription in Dutch, signifying— The | ,Father- land to help to free | and men's disasters | to lessen | was the vocation wherein | she died. — On six banners are inscribed, Confidence — Religion — Perseverance — Courage — Sacrifice — Unity. 84 The Scottish Antiquary ; him ... a deed of recognition and ratification of the dignity of a Count deduced from his ancestors, and also the grounds have been adduced by him which establish the rightfulness of his dignity of a Count, and he without fault of his has lost the means of proving his dignity in a manner which would be binding on a Count, Now it is Our Will, in evidence of Our Royal Favour and Grace, hereby most graciously to comply with the aforesaid petition, ... to wit, to recognise and ratify the dignity of a Count to Johann von Ross for himself and the rightfully begotten heirs of his body and posterity in descending line/ In the Pariser Zeitung, 21 st June 1826, he is mentioned as being the first Dutchman who had made an ascent in a balloon. He was a man of some talent, but very eccentric, living in a house in Johannis Strasse (Berlin) surrounded by a large garden. He had the backs of his neighbours' houses painted to represent vistas of scenery. Having a varied collection of curiosities, he divided his house into four sections named after the four quarters of the Globe. In the Asiatic section he used often to hide himself in one of the large pagodas to listen to the remarks made about him by visitors to his museum. He died unmarried 25th November 1848. To return to — (1) Henry Gottfried Ross (the son of William 4.). Having been ordained minister of the Reformed Church i3th January 1760, he received a call to Wallach, near Wesel, and later to Isselburg. Born 25th May 1732, he died 22d February 1796, having married - Anna Catharina Heymans, by whom he had, 1. Catharina Henrietta, born - , married - I?87, Amtmann Hermani-Werthebruch. 2. Maria Catharina, born at Isselburg, 5th February 1762, married - - 1791, T. E. Evers. 3. Wilhelmina Johanna Dorothea, born i4th October 1763. 4. Johanna Sibilla, born 27th December 1765, married - 1790, Reverend Henry Esch. 5. Catharina Godofreda, born 23d December 1767. 6. William John Gottfried. (See 7. Johanna Helena Frederika, born 25th February 1777. John Matthias Ross, late Governor, signed the Issel- burg Register as witness. (2) William John Gottfried was born at Isselburg 3d July 1772. His uncle, John Matthias, wished him to be educated for the law, but yielding to his father's desire, he prepared for the ministry. He studied at the University of Duisburg, and received his first call in 1793 to Homberg, in the Duchy of Berg, whence he was called to Budberg, a small place on the Lower Rhine, the scene of his labours for 33 years. He began his work in troublous times ; owing to the French occupation, for six months after his call he was unable to cross to the opposite bank of the Rhine ; it was at Easter 1795 that he reached Budberg. to. find his house a ruin. There he was active in promoting education, and the welfare of his people • his conciliatory manners winning for him the love and respect of all classes and creeds. He steadily refused to leave his Rhine parish for any worldly advancement, but in 1826 Frederick William in. sent for him to Berlin to confer on the state of the Evangelical Churches in Westphalia and the Rhine Provinces. Although strongly urged to remain in Berlin, it was not until the following year that he consented to leave Budberg being or. Northern Notes and Queries. 85 convinced that it was in the interest of the Church. The Evangelical Union was owing to his exertions, and he was appointed by the King first bishop of the United Churches, with the supervision of Westphalia and the Rhine Provinces. In Berlin he took great interest in the advancement of education, and in the care of a large orphanage, to which he induced his cousin, Count John, to leave a considerable part of his fortune. The King sent him a Diploma of Count, urging him to assume the title, but he repeatedly declined, considering it .unsuitable to his calling. In 1843 he received from the University of Bonn an address, thanking him for his unwearied activity and conciliatory measures in the interest of the Churches. He was a man of fine presence and most benevolent countenance, and was as beloved at Berlin as he had been on the Rhine. With Frederick William in. he possessed great influence, and was always treated by him with marked consideration and respect. Under his successor, Frederick William iv., a sovereign of a very different temperament, he found his counsels slighted and his position untenable, therefore in 1846 he resigned the supervision of Westphalia and the Rhine Provinces. He died at Berlin, 28th September 1854, and was buried at Budberg, having married, - 1795, Louisa Cecilia, daughter of Peter Charles de Weerth. She died • 1840, leaving, 1. Caroline, born 1796, married Colonel W. C. Wentzel. 2. Antoinette, born 1805, married Carl Tendering auf Hans Ahr. 3. William. (See below.) 4. Frederick William. (See/atf.) 5. Luise Marie, born 1817, married I838, Frederic Schneider, and died — - 1889. (3) William, Count Ross, obtained, 24th February 1855, a further recognition of his right, and of his brother's family, to the title of Count. He. was Councillor of the Court of Aids in Dresden. Born 2d September 1806, he died at Dresden, 26th December 1874, having married, 9th July 1838, a Saxon lady, Adelheid Meinhold. He left, 1. Luise Christiane Cecilia, born at Dresden I843-1 2. Cecilia Luise, bom i8th May 1850, married 9th June 1886, Max Baron von Thielmann, Prussian Ambassador at Hamburg, and has, Carola Mathilde, born 1890. (4) Frederick William, Count Ross. His father gave him on his marriage the estates of Hans Loo and Pottichel on the Lower Rhine. Born 1 8 10, he died at Dresden 9th October 1854, having married at Bonn, 1 5th May 1840, Ida aus 'm Weerth. They had, 1. Frederick William. (See below.) 2. Constance Luise Marie, born 1846, married at Loo 1 4th September 1862 Frederic Carl von Fridirici Steinmann - Mellentin, Captain in the Artillery Regiment of the Guards, and owner of the manor of Gassendorf and other property in Silesia. He fell at the battle of St. Privat, 2Oth August 1870, leaving, with three daughters, a son, Frederick, born 1865, owner of Gassendorf. 1 To Countess Luise Ross I am indebted for much assistance, and for having placed at my disposal many family papers. 86 The Scottish Antiquary ; (5) Frederick William, Count Ross, Rittmeister yth Hussars He fought in the war of 1866 ; in 1870 he was severely wounded on the head by the explosion at the fortress of Laon ; he was at the battle of Mars-la-Tour, and in the fights round Orleans. Born at Haus Loo 9th July 1841, he died at Bonn from the effects of the wounds received at Laon, yth July 1883, having married at Bonn, i4th September 1862, Margaretha Luise von Bulow. By his death s.p. this branch of the Ross family became extinct in the male line. . , Arms. Gu., 3 lions rampant or; Helmet of his degree with a Counts coronet, bearing for crest a lily arg., with a palm branch on either side ; Dexter supporter, a blackamoor with an apron az., Sinister, a lion or. Motto, In magnts voluisse sat est. In the Adels-Lexicon are also named, without indicating their origin, — 2. Colonel Johann Carl von Ross, who having served for forty years was raised in 1786 to the position of Freiherr, with the addition of von Rosen- bach to his name. Captain Robert Ross von Thornthoun of the Austrian service was made a Bohemian Knight. In the logs of the ships belonging to the Dutch East India Company, rolls of their troops and servants, preserved at The Hague, are mentioned— Edmond Ros, born at Amsterdam, appointed 'assistant' with 24 florins a month, left Texel for Batavia ist January 1744, and arriving there 3d July was employed as writer. He made a will, ist September 1750, in favour of his only daughter, Katherine Maria Ros, then about 22 years of age, living with his brother-in-law, Peter Pas, in Amsterdam, and failing her he left his money to the children of his sister, Anna Margaret Ros or Pas. He died 2oth September. Daniel Ros, born at Breda, was engaged, 6th April 1749, as soldier with 9 florins a month. He reached Batavia 22d January 1750. He served in the Dutch possessions until 25th November 1759, when he was returned missing after the battle of Chandernagore. Daniel Ros, born in Ross-shire, was also engaged as a soldier, with the same pay. Leaving Texel for Batavia $d October 1752, he arrived there 7th June 1753, and was sent to Quail, where he died 26th July 1764. He left no will, and the money owing to him was never claimed. John Theodore Ross, born at Bakel in Brabant, was appointed pastor with a salary of 100 florins a month. Leaving Texel 29th June 1787, after remaining for a time at the Cape of Good Hope, he reached Batavia i8th July 1788, and remained as pastor of the Dutch community. In 1809 he appears as honorary Professor of Theology and Knight of the Royal Order of Holland. After 1810 there is no further mention of him. Mr. Paul Ross, born at Veldhoven, was engaged in 1787 as member of the legal council at Batavia, with a stipend of 150 florins a month. He died there 6th June 1791, leaving a widow, Gesina Cornelia Schultz. John Theodore Ross was one of the executors to his will. F. N. R. 387. THE HISTORIAN WODROW. — Upon two occasions, in 1717 and 1726, the inhabitants of the town of Stirling made attempts to secure as their minister the Reverend Robert Wodrow, Minister of the Parish of East- wood, and historian of the Church of Scotland. The call of 1717, signed by the leading inhabitants of the town, has been preserved in the historian's or, Northern Notes and Queries. family, and is now in possession of his lineal representative, Mr. Charles W. Wodrow Thomson, Chartered Accountant, Edinburgh, by whose kind permission I am enabled to forward a transcription of the call and the signatures appended. MARCHMONT HERALD. We, heads of families, merchands, tradesmen, maltmen, mechanicks, and others, burgesses and inhabitants of the burgh of Stirling, hereto subscribing, do hereby declare our satisfaction with, and consent unto a call given by our Town Council and Kirk Session to the Reverend Mr. Robert Woodrow, Minister of the Gospel at Eastwood, to be one of the ministers in this congregation, heartily joining in the desire that he may come and labour amongst us in the work of the Gospel, promising all due subjection and encouragement suitable from a loving people to their faithful pastor. In testimonie whereof we have subscribed these presents at Sterling the fifteenth day of Januarie 1717 years. Alex. Burd. Wm. Paterson. Alexr. Glasfurd. Archibald Moir. John Don. George Drummond. Jo. Finlaysone. Will. Urquhart, Ja. Johnstone. Ja. Christie. Tho. Darling. Jannes Laing. Patrick Dounie. William Hendrie. Mr. Wm. Thomson. William Cowan. James Burns. Jo. Allane. John Shereswood. John Hyndshaw, Stationer. Alexr. Donaldson. Andrew Millar. John Aitkine, John Lindsay. William Spittal. Thomas Glen. Pat. Maxwell. Ro. Wingate. Ja. Wallace. Will. Allan. George Jaffraye. James Mitchell. John Gallaway. Andrew Mclieharn. And. Wright. James Dugon. Hendrie Jafray. Alexr. Boler. James Gibb. John Miller. Walter Hardie. John Hardie. Ja. Christie. Patrick Gillespe. J. Russell. Ja. Christie. David Gillespie. Wm. Leask. Ja. Nicoll. Thos. Gillespie. Michaell Downie. J. Don. Patrick Stevenson. Ja. Urquhart. Will. Maiben. John Nill. Jo. Sconce. John Christie. Joseph Hunter. John Napier. John Stiwnson. James Stivenson. Robert Burn. John Adam. Andrew Mitchell. John Robertson. James Robertson. Archibald Mcnab. Archibald Paterson. Alexr. Paterson. Ro. Robertson. David Walker. Will. Lyon. Charels Lyon. John Hill. John Heart. Hugh Forbes. William Howstowne. John Stivenson. John Balfouer. George Reid. William Buchan. Will. Gilfillan. John Finlayson. John Baxter. Alexr. Ride. Henry Duncan. William Hugat. Rot. Gardiner. William Mitchell. William Allan. Thomas Gillespie, yor. Cha. Ross. James Neaper. Jo. Berrihill. William Barklay. Ro. Barklie. Ja. Baird. Wm. Steilintoun. Da. Neaper. James Bwchanan. Archibald Anderson. Christopher Russall. Francis Houstoun. John Anderson. Thomas Thomsone. Andrew Miller. John Waugh. William Bowie. George Rind. Jam. McKnor. James Bochen. John Wright, elder. Will. Wright. Jam. Hill. William Pattersone. William McCrockett. John Lowrie. J. Grahame. Thomas Dounie. John Stivinson. Robert Cowan. William Smith. Colline McLourie. John Bell. John McArthur. Charles McFarland. Jo. Allan. John Din. Lawrence Frazer. Walter Din. Robert Balfour. Archibald Moir. John Rolok. John Henderson. 88 The Scottish Antiquary ; James Lovvk. John Jamison. John Dowgall. Alexr. Finlayson. John Davie. Tho. Murray. Alexr. Gilfillane. James Walker. Rot. Duncane. James Harvie. John Wordie. Alexr. Plook. John Finlaysone. John Gray. William Wright. James Davie, Hugh Smith. William Wands. Thomas Brun. John Thomsone. Andrew Wilsone. James Ross. Will. Allane. Andrew Chrystie. John Turnbull. Robert Buchanan. John Stevenson. Alexr. Fletcher. Thomas Reoch. Ja. Brisbane. Alexr. Steuart. Tho. Glen. Mu. Steuart. Patrick Glaus. James Murrow. Robert Finlaysone. David Buchn. Robert Forester. William Forester. John Forester. Patrick Ferguson. Will. Finlaysone. Thomas Wright. James Challmers. David Mafett. Willam McKlersi. John Broun. James Adam. George Henderson. Ja. Urquhart. Thomas Campbell. Patrick Wright. Thomas Thomson. James Mclchriest. John Kee. Will. Cuninghame. John Garrow. Alexr. Chrystie. Georg Danskine. Alexander Fergusson. Georg Reid, yor. Will. Glas. John Dason. Jams Jafrie. Willi. Oliphant. Tho. Mclay. John Fergusone. Will. Andersone. John Finlaysone. John Aiken. William Gilchrist. Alexander Harla. John Blair. John Campbell. Duncan Bryce. Thomas Jamisone. John Robertsone. John Skillie. Andrew Hunter. John Ewing. John Russal. Jannes R'ussal. Robert Chrystie. John McKinnon. Patrick Proven. Jo. Muschett. Malcolm McGibbon. Jo. Easson. Walter Easson. John White. John McKessone. Ja. Watsone. William Garoh. Jo. Millar. John Simpson. Thomas Baird, yor. James Glen. John Glen. John Dewer. Archibald Aikman. Patrik Norie. John Willson. Alexr. Sharpe. James Low. Archibald Chrystie. Walter Easson. Charles Morison. Thomas Davie. Will. Christie. Thomas Brown. John Adam, elder. Thomas Archibald. Ja. Nicoll. Cha. Ross, B. William Murray. George Reid. Geor. Miller. William Miller. Alexr. Muschett. Ja. Steuart. Andrew Liddel. Ja. Lourie. William Hendersone. Ja. Watsone. Jon. Hendersone. Walter Cowan. Thomas Gall. John Main. Tho. Baird. Robert Callenter. Patrick Dewar. Jo. Ewing. Ja. Callander. Jo. Glen. Edward Luckison. J. Martine. Alexr. Mitchell. John Henderson. Joseph Cowan. Geo. Dow. David Yewine. Jo. Kelly. Jo. Mcljohn. Pat. Fisher. John Mclaren. Ja. Watsone. Pat. Dicksone. Jo. Mclay. [a. Garone. Jo. Kay. James Harvie. John Sibbet. Patrick Glespie. Ja. Watsone. Ja. Young. Alexander Condie. Archibald Mcfarland. William Cherire. William Baird. Jo. Reid, fames Grame. Robert Hall. Andrew Huton. Wm. Gilchrist. T. F. John Adam. John Forbes. Christie Miller. John Henderson. Alexander Cowan. J.L. James Mofet. James Miler. John McKounu. Doncan Mcffarllen. John Miler. Donel McKnivr. John Wright. John Rusell. David MitcheL Alexander Vatch. John taler. Robert Bier. Patrick Lowrie. Thomas Robrtson. Patrick Finleson. James Tayllor. Will. Christie. Thomas Key. John Miller. James Ramsay. Joseph Cowan. Will. Wands. James Wands. James Chalmers. or, N or t kern Notes and Queries. Wm. Anderson. D. W. David Wilson. Alexr. Chalmers. James Henrie. W. C. Wm. Corsar. Robert Turnbull. Alexander Mushet. William Ramsey. William Laurie, elder. William Laurie, yor. John McKison. John Wilison. Archibald Stivenson. John Watson. John Paterson. John Watson. Thomas Bouie. James Stivenson. John Bouie. James Stivenson, yongr. Wm. Keir. Archibald McKelchreist. John Aikman. John Christie. William Mceson. James Aikman. John Stinson. Robert Finlaysone. John Wilison. Thomas Mwre. Andrew Challmers. J. Finlaysone. Will. Millar. Robert Gilchrist. William Gilkrist. William Wright. Thomas Gillfilane. William Gilfilane. John Campbell. John Davie, youir. Thomas Watson. Rot. Ker. Alex. Donaldsone. John Brown. John Lonie. Thomas Rowan. John Gibb. Alex. John Edom. James Brown. William Fergsuon. Andrew Stewart. John Turnbull. Jas. Ferguson. Robert Henderson. James Cowan. John Muschet. Ja. Dick. The Call is signed upon four sheets of paper which have been mounted on a roller, and so carefully preserved that all but three names are deci- pherable. Alexander Dicksone. J. Henderson. Rot. McFarlane. James Adie. James Kidston. John Watson. Duncan Stewart. James Bruce. Dougal Graeme. Chreystie Miler. James Gilespie. Alexr. Adam. John Livingston. Thomas Blar. John Turnbull. W. S. William Grem. William Thomson. Patrick Gream. John Mitchell. Georg. Robison. John Brember. W. W. William Hart. David Anderson. Ja. Webster. Alexander Cown. Richard Rae. Robert Hinderson. Alexander Calender. John Mcfarlen. Robert Gilchri-t. John Shirra. William James Crookshanks. John Ferguson. Jo. McGrigor. Alexr. Robertson. Robert M orison. Donald Forrester. Jon. Gilfillane. Jam. Thomson. Da. Miller. John Foster. Alexr. Watson. Alex. Smith. Adam Jack. James Chalmers. John Edmonstoune. John John Chirstie. Jo. Robertson. Roberd Fergusone. Georg. Fisher. Ro. Rind. Neill Glass. John Brember. Alexr. Donaldson. Alexr. Cram. Ja. Christie, Junr. John Seatton. Wm. Christie. Robert Gallaway. Alexr. Gilchrist. John Ried. James Daussone. Andrew Millar. William Wilsone. James Douglas. Tho. Christie. James Harper. Andrew McKie. Ja. Christie. Alexander Brown. William Young. John Paton. William Thomson. Alexr. Doller. David Mitchell. John Tilloch. Alexander Clark. Will. Gillfillane. And. Thomsone. Wm. Morisone. William Allan. Wilam Gilchrist. James Cushnie. Doncan Mcfarson. John Galawa. Robert Forsyth. Alexander Galawa. Andrew Kerr. John Stirling. John Fergie. Alexr. Stalker. John McFarllan. Robert Simers. Archibald Campbell. George Esplin. Robert Anderson. Robert Stirling. William McIIowat. Robert Brown. William Walter Stinson. Jannes Smith. Rott. Hamilton. William McKuen. John Neilson. John Miler. Alexr. Br David Gowing. R. C. Ritch mark. John McLaren. John Glen. John Sinson. James McK I. C. Ja. Chamers mark. John Ferrg — 90 The Scottish Antiquary ; 388. KNIGHT OF THE KIRK (vol. iv.//. 129, 180). — A passage bearing upon this subject occurs in Arbroath and its Abbey, by David Millar, (page 135) which we give our readers : — ED. ' It may be observed that the Latin title Dominus, so often applied to priests and monks at this time, was equivalent to the prefix Sir, by which many of them were styled, and which title, it will be recollected, was repudiated by Walter Miln, the priest of Lunan, when applied to him by his accusers on his trial, adding, "I have been ower long one of the Pope's knights." Sir David Lyndesay alludes to this title in the following lines : — " The pure Priest thinkis he gets nae richt , Be he nocht stylit like an Knicht, And callit Schir befoir his name, As Schir Thomas and Schir Williame." The title was applied to persons in priests' orders who had not taken the proper academical degree of Master of Arts, so as to entitle them to use the higher prefix of master • or magister, which is applied to some of the clergy named in Robert Scot's list of souls. The title Den, prefixed to the names of several Arbroath abbots and monks in vernacular writings seems to have been the Scottish mode of writing Dean, as Lyndesay adds — " All monkes, as ye may hear and see, Are called Deanes for dignitie ; Albeit his mother milke the kow, He must be callit Deane Andrew." The title's Sir or Den, as applied to clergy, seenis to have fallen into disuse after the Reformation. But as many Romish priests of the lower ranks came to be employed as readers and teachers, the term was after that event applied, in the old form of Dominie, to Schoolmasters, and seems to have been familiarly used in addressing them ; and that with more respect than is now generally attached to the term. An instance of this is afforded by a conversation which John Row, minister of Perth, had on his deathbed, in 1580, with "the master of the gramer schoole, commonlie called Dominis Rind," as recorded in the Additions to Row's Coronis, p. 456, Wodrow edition. Much information is collected on this point in Dr Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary (voce Pope's Knights) ; and some observa- tions "On the title of Sir, applied to priests," are given by Mr David Laing in the appendix (p. 555) to the first volume of his Wodrow edition of Knox's Works.' 389. NAME GIVERS. — In most parochial registers of Baptism in Scotland the names of witnesses are given ; usually these were relatives of the infant. In a few registers, however, instead of witnesses the name of the person in honour of whom the name was given is entered under the heading * Witnesses, etc.' Thus an infant at Dundee named George has opposite his name ' His Majesty King George [i.] ' ; while in another case, in 1746, the Duke of Cumberland, the hero of Culloden, appears as the name giver. One parent even entered < David, King of Israel ' as name giver to his child. By adding the names of the genuine witnesses or the statement ' before the congregation ' security was afforded that the rite had been properly performed. It would be curious to know what purpose the officials imagined they served when they chronicled the whims of parents or, Northern Notes and Queries. 9 1 in the manner we have mentioned. Doubtless the infant George would be trained up to be a loyal subject to the Hanoverian dynasty. Was the youthful David destined to be a precentor ? ED. 390. ENGLISH WORKMEN IN GLASGOW, 1758-1805. — The Registers of Baptisms and Marriages of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Glasgow were carefully kept by the Rev. John Falconar, the minister. Very many of the entries concern the soldiers stationed in the city, and Protestant Irish work- men. Two of the staple trades of the place, delph-making and bottle-making, were largely carried on by Englishmen. We think that a list of their names, with the date of the earliest record concerning each, will interest our readers in England, and may be of value as throwing a light on the intro- duction and growth of certain handicrafts now nourishing. i. Potters — Delph-makers or Stoneware-makers. John Holden, ' Englishman,' and Isabel Faucet, his wife, 1760, Potter. Robert Bingwall, Potter, 'Englishman,' 1770. John Hainton, Delph-maker, and Lucia Chatilly, his wife, 1771. Mr. Bignol, Stoneware Manufacturer,*froni England, 1772. William Cockley, Delph-maker, 1772. Thomas Bibby, Stoneware-maker, 1772, a daughter named Angelotte. Anne Newell, his wife. Robert Watson, Painter and Gilder at the Delft-house, Elizabeth Metcalfe, his wife. Isaac Cartlege, 1778 (had a son bapt. Aaron), at the Stoneware factory, Mary Steel, his wife. John Forrester, journeyman 'at the Stone or Earthenware Works.' William Suckers, 1781, Delft-maker. Richard Abbey, 1781, Painter at the. Delft-house, an Englishman, Rachel Garner, his wife. Thomas Pratt, 1781, Potter. Jacob Low, 1782, Potter from England, Isobel Lee, his wife. Edward Glass, 1783, at the Delft-house, lately from England, Ann Evans, his wife. Thomas Mayo, 1783, at the Delft-house, Nanny Steel, his wife. James M'Donald, 1785, by trade a Potter, Janet Cant, his wife. Daniel Steel, 1786, Potter from England, Mary Brook, his wife, Aaron, his son. John Eaton, 1788, at the Delft-field, Mary Hold, his wife. John Mitchell, 1789, Potter, Ann Fishwick, his wife. John Barlow, 1790, Potter at the Stone-field, an Englishman. John Mitchell, 1790, Potter. John Yumens, 1793, Potter. James Tennant, 1794, Stoneware-maker, May Hypson, his wife. Charles Colt, 1794, Dealer in Stoneware, Mary Foster, his wife, both from England. 2. Glass and Bottle-makers. Cornelius Groves, 1763. Amos Robertson, 1763. John Gardener, 1764. Timothy Warren, Bottle-blower, 1765. Joseph Wilkins, 1770, "'Englishman,' Helen Banner, his wife, 1776. 92 The Scottish Antiquary ; Thomas Rowand, Bottle-blower, 1773, 'Englishman.' William Fletcher, 1775, Helen Quick, his wife. William Mustard, 1777, Bottle-maker from Newcastle, Catherine Walton, his wife. William Deak, 1777 or Dalk, at the Glass-house, Finniestoun [1783]. Ralph Ashwood, 1778, Bottlemaker from Lancashire, Mary Young, his wife. Jacob Smith, 1779, at the Flint Glass-house at Finniestoun, from Newcastle, Elizb Rannison, his wife. Robert Fairfield, 1779, Bottle-maker at Dumbarton, from Newcastle, Mary Yardley, his wife. Samuel Elliot, 1779, Glass-maker at Finnieston, from Newcastle, Marg1 Turn bull, his wife. Peter Verden, 1779, Glassmaker at Finnieston, Eliza Cook, his wife. Mathew Beatson, 1779, Bottle-maker, Barbara Eagleson, his wife. James Potts, 1780, at Finnieston Glass-works, Elizabeth Fachouder, his wife. Thomas Green, 1780, Chrystal Glass-maker, from England, at Finnieston. John Harris, 1781, Chrystal-maker, Mary Bucke, his wife. Thomas Holden, 1781, at^the Glass-works, Dumbarton. William Mathews, 1782, 'at the Chrystal Glass-works, Finnieston, Elizb Russell, his wife. William Tweeddal, 1784, Chrystal Glass-maker, Ann Tissaac, his wife. William Barns, 1785, Chrystal Glass-maker at Finnieston, from London Mary Brown, his wife. Jacob Smith, 1785, Gallowgate Chrystal Glass-works, Elizb Ranny, his wife. Thomas M'Cuckly, 1786, Chrystal Glass-maker at Finnieston, and Margaret Meckysm, his wife, both from England. Timothy Pemberton, 1786, Bottle-maker, Jane Morrison or Murray 1780 his wife, married at Bishop Weirmouth 7th Oct. 1779. Thomas Barns,. 1786, Chrystal Glass-maker, from England Mr. William Geddes, 1786, at the Chrystal Glass-house, Margaret Cow his wife. Mr. Henry Whitehouse, 1786, Chrystal-maker, Gallowgate, Catherine Beucher, his wife. John Hudson 1787 Chrystal Glass-maker, Isobel Rutherford, his wife. Wilham Hattell, 1787, Glass-house, Gallowgate '• £aT0U3' I?88' C'erk l° the CHrySta John Dow, 1788, Bottle-maker, Fanny Flaus, his wife Anthony Strobach, 1788, Glass-engraver Thomas Dark, 1788, Chrystal Glass-maker, Mary Craig his wife Susanna Timothy Warren, 1793, Bottle-maker, Ann Shiplie his wife Jame^gleson, I?94, Bottle-maker, Elizabeth" Thorns™ "his wife, from Thomas Warrand, 1794, Bottle-maker, Agnes Fulton his wife John Warren, i79S, Bottle-maker, Mary Stirling, hTwife James Sykes, 1796, Bottle-blower, and Margaret or, Northern Notes and Queries. 93 QUERIES. CLXXV. DOUGLAS FAMILY. — At a recent sale at Puttick & Simpson's, Leicester Square, London, was sold a Johnsonian letter of Francis Douglas, of 'Abbotts Inch,' Scotland, dated loth July 1775. Will any one inform me who was this Francis Douglas, to what branch of the Douglas family he belonged, and whether he had a son named Francis ? If so, what became of him ? Francis Douglas, of Abbotts Inch, appears by his letter to have been a literary man, as he alludes to either a book or a play he had written called ' The Gentleman.' Further, I shall be glad if any one will kindly refer me to pedigrees or branches of the Douglas family wherein the Christian name of Francis appears, about 1740-1800. W. H. COTTELL. VEOLMBRIDGE, WOOD VALE, LONDON, S.E. CLXXVI. OLD BRONZE VESSEL.— This is a very rough sketch of a small bronze cup, found during recent excavations in Christ Church Place, Dublin. Can you inform me as to its probable use ? I am of opinion it is a measure, or perhaps for holding oil for anointing, etc. It is evidently of great anti- quity, and made of fine old bronze. Above sketch is about the size of original. WM. USHER CLARKE. CLXXVII. CAMPBELLS OF CAWDOR. — (i) Information desired as to the Campbells of Ardnahow, Islay, maternal ancestors of the late Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. Were the^ d rectly descended from the family of their chief, Campbell of Cawdor? and, if so, how? (2) Did William Campbell of Tyrabolls, Islay, brother of Sir John Campbell of Cawdor, leave descendants? He married, firstly, Agnes, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock, and relict of David Rose of Holme ; secondly, a Miss Campbell. Kindly reply direct. CAMPBELL BLAIR. WHALLEY HOUSE, MANCHESTER. REPLIES TO QUERIES. CXV. CUNNINGHAR. — The piece of land upon which the City Hospital, Aberdeen, is erected was known as the Cuninghar Holes. (See Scottish Notes and Queries, January 1889.) In the Promptorium Parvulorum it is spelt Connyngere. 94 The Scottish Antiquary ; In Halliwell's Archaic Dictionary, a rabbit-warren is quoted as Conygarthe, from Palgrave. In Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary a quotation is given from the Scottish Acts of Parliament, 1494— 'That na man tak cunnyngis out of utheris cunnyngarthis.' (See Scottish Notes and Queries, July 1889.) Cunning Garth, in the Lake District, is said to mean ' the King's yard.' (See Canon Taylor's Words and Places^} GEORGE FRATER. WREXHAM. CXXIII. (vol. iv. p. 93) HOUSTOUNS OF FORTROSE. — The following notes regarding the Houstouns of Ross, etc., may be of some assistance to ' 5 ' : — The Rev. Thomas Houstoun of Inverness, who died upon 9th Feb. 1605, is regarded as progenitor of Northern Houstouns. He had a daughter Elspet, who married Wm. Robertson of Kindeace. He is said to have had a son John, minister of Wardlaw 1611. This John married Elspet Eraser, probably of the Struy Family. Upon i8th May 1630 there is a bond by Thomas Eraser of Struy in their favour for 1000 merks. There is another bond by Struy upon 26th June 1640 for 2000 merks, while in June 1643 there is bond by Struy in favour of 'Mr. John Houstoun as Tutor to Alexander and Isobel Houstoun, his lawful bairns.' In 1662 there is Rev. James Houstoun, Rector of Kirkmichael and Culliludden. His paternity is unknown to me. He mar- ried and had : — 1. George. 2. David. George Houstoun, merchant of Fortrose, married (contract yth April 1710) Hendrat, eldest dau. of Dr. Alex. Inglis of Nairn, by his wife Jean Urquhart. The tocher is 500 merks. On ist March 1726 Robert Backs disposed to them certain lands within Fortrose and Rosemarkie. Their eldest son, Alexander, afterwards Provost of Fortrose, married . He had a disposition from Adam Gordon of Ardoch of certain burgh lands upon 27th January 1755. He died 2d October 1767, and left four daughters, viz. : — (i) Janet, married Rev. Alex. Wood of Rose- markie. (ii) Catherine, m. Rev. John Urquhart of Feam, (iii) Alexandrina, m. Rev. Jas. Smith of Avock. (iv) Ann, m. [? Capt. Ken. Mackenzie of 78th Regt.]. The Rev. Thomas Houstoun of Boleskine, 1647, was probably grandson of Rev. Thomas of Inverness. Upon a tombstone in Boleskine churchyard, bearing the Houstoun and Fraser arms quartered, is the following inscription :— < This stone is placed hierfor Master Thomas Houstoun, minister at Boleskine, and Mane Fraser, daughter to Al. Fraser of Erechit, his spouse, who or, Northern Notes and Qiieries. 95 departed the i5th day of March 1681 — and he departed the 4th of Februar 1705.' ' Hier we lye asleep, Till Christ the world surround. This Sepulchre we keep, Until the Trumpet sound.' They had :— 1. Thomas (see below], 2. A son who married , and had William of Drumy- ample (see post). II. Thomas, married Janet Mackintosh, dau. of Mackintosh of Aberarder and had : — 1. Thomas (see below). 2. Hugh Houstoun of Meikle Ferry (see post). III. Thomas Houstoun, married first Jane MacBean, and had : — 1. Dr. Simon, d.s.p. 2. Mr. Lewis (see post). 3. Jane, d. unm. He married secondly Christian, dau. of John Gray of Overskibo and had : — 1. John, d. at . 2. Hugh, m. Creagan, sister to the Bishop of Sodor and Man. 3. Alexander, d. unm. 4. George, d. in Jamaica. 5. Ann, m. John Ross of Invernauld. IV. Mr. Lewis Houstoun, son of Thomas, married his cousin Jane, daughter to Hugh Houstoun, and had : — 1. Mr. Hugh, d. in Demerara, s.p,l. 2. James, d. y. 3. Alexander, d. in West Indies, s.p.l. 4. Arch. Montgomery, d. in London. 5. Thomas of Creich (see below). 6. Jane, m. (8 April 1806) Mr. William Grant of Tain. V. Thomas Houstoun of Creich, Tacksman of Kintradwell, etc., married his cousin Mary Houstoun, dau. to Hugh Houstoun of Creich, and had : — 1. Mr. Lewis, m. (Enesina Reed, dau. of Gabriel Reed, Esq., Gordon Bush (dead). 2. Hugh, ma. Miss Mitchell (dead). 3. Major William, ma. Katharine, dau. of Ralph Reed, Esq., Skelpaig. Resides at Kintradwell. (2.) Jane, m. Ellerington Reed, her brother-in-law. Hugh Houstoun of Meikle Ferry, second son of Thomas II. married Catherine, daughter of John Gray of Overskibo, and had :— (3.) Ann, m. Hugh Ross, Esq. of Knockbrake. 1. John, d. y. 2. John, married and had a son Simon. 3. Catherine, m. - 4. Ann, m. Hugh Houstoun of Creich. 5. Jane, m. Lewis Houstoun IV. 6. Isabella, m. Andrew Davidson, Overskibo. 96 The Scottish Antiquary; 7. Christian, m. Rev. J. Campbell, Jamaica. 8. Margaret, m. Hugh Davidson, Rosebank. 9. Rebecca, m. Hugh Macpherson, Brora. 10. Mary, m. George Mackay of Tordarroch. William Houstoun of Drumyample m. Catherine Fraser, dau. to Hugh Fraser of Keppoch, and had : — 1. Thomas. 2. Alexander. 3. William. 4. Hugh of Creich (see below}. 5. Elspet. Hugh of Creich, d. 19 March 1825, m. Ann, dau. of Hugh Hous- toun of Meikle Ferry, by whom he had : — 1. Hugh. 2. Lieut. William, of yistRegt, d. 5. May 1811. 3. Catherine, m. Chas. Monro of Allan. 4. Mary, m. Thomas Houstoun of Creich. 5. Jane, m. Hugh Ross of Knockluke. The foregoing notes relative to descendants of Rev. Thomas Houstoun of Boleskine are from an old MS. pedigree. D. MURRAY ROSE. CLVIII. OLD TRADE-MARK. — There is some similarity between the above described by your correspondent * E. B.J and certain marks, described as Masons' Marks, on the pulpit of St. Stephen's Church, Vienna. (See The Builder, October 10, 1863.) GEORGE FRATER. CLIX. A BROKEN CROSS.— 'E. B.' does not state what the other figures on the tombstone are ; they possibly might give a clue to the above. The following might be consulted on the subject : ' On Certain Marks discoverable in the Stones of various Build- ings erected in the Middle Ages,' by George Goodwin, Jun. (See Archceologia, vol. xxx.). And in Archceologia for 1852 a paper by Mr. Patrick Chalmers, F.S.A., with new examples of Masons' Marks from Scotland. GEORGE FRATER. CLXII. SCOTTISH SURNAMES.— See A Short Introduction to the OrHn of Surnames, by P. Dudgeon (Edinburgh: D. Douglas 1890) Also ' Man* in Galloway, by the same author. See Banffshire Year-Book (Ban/shire Journal Office, 1891) for very complete lists of fishermen, etc. See article on < To-Names ' in Scotsman 9th September 1889 (a copy of which I can send Mr. Frater for perusal). I presume Mr. Frater is acquainted with the following although not distinctively Scottish :— Lordan's Of Certain English Surnames. Lower's English Surnames; Article on Surnames in Corn/nil Magazine, April 1868 ; Long's Personal and Family Names • Bardsley's English Surnames. \y. CRAMOND. " CULLEN. The Scottish Antiquary OR Northern Notes and Queries CONTENTS. 393 394 395 NOTES. 391. Diary of the Rev. John Hunter, Shetland, 1734-1745, . ... 97 392. Monumental Brass of John Beton, 112 Petition of Royalist Officers, . 113 Orkney Folk Lore, . . 115 Proclamation by John, Earl of Mar, 121 122 122 I27 I27 127 I30 396. Betrothal and Marriage, 397. The Scots in Ulster, . 398. Sailor's Costume in 1693, 399. Seal of Bishop Stephen of Ross 400. Rebel Prisoners at Inverness, 401. Price of Glass in 1686, . 402. Registers of Old St. Paul's, Edin burgh, 130 403. Records of the Monastery of Kin- loss, 131 404. Arabic Numerals, .... 132 405. Petition of John, Earl of Dundee, . 132 406. Notes on the Family of Urquhart, 133 407. Garter Medal, . . . .135 l-AGE 408. Letter from David Hume, . .135 409. Seals of Bishop of Caithness, . 137 410. A 'No Popery' Petition, 1779, . 138 411. Ross Family, . . . . 139 QUERIES. CLXXVIII. Strathearn Lennoxes, 139 CLXXIX. Old Proverbial Expression 139 CLXXX. Chiefs of Clans, . 139 CLXXXI. Sir James Murray, . 140 CLXXXII. ' Wude Willie Grime,' 140 REPLIES. I. & XXXII. Grahame of Mote, . 140 XCI. Bennet Family, . . 140 CLXIX. William Dunbar, . 141 CLXXIV. Early Scottish Weavers, 142 CLXXV. Douglas Family, . 143 NOTICES OF BOOKS, . . . 143 NOTE. — The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of Contributors. All Communications to be sent to the EDITOR of The Scottish Antiquary] The Parsonage, Alloa. 391. DIARY OF THE REV. JOHN HUNTER, EPISCOPAL MINISTER IN SHETLAND, 1734-1745. — Through the courtesy of John Bruce, Esq. of Sumburgh, owner of the MS., we have been enabled to print for the first time the curious and interesting Diary of the Rev. John Hunter, who, until the opening of St. Magnus Church in Lerwick, in 1864, was the last Episcopal clergyman in Shetland. The Diary is a small octavo volume of 82 pages, consisting of entries ranging from 1734 to 1745, of Baptisms, Marriages, and Accounts, mixed up confusedly, but which, for the sake of distinctness to the reader, have now been arranged in the print in order under their proper heads. It is thus not a Diary in the ordinary sense. It contains no references to VOL. vi. — NO. xxiir. G 9g The Scottish Antiquary ; current life in his own district, or to public events, no revelation of his sentiments on any question, civil or religious, but is merely a bald record of certain portions of his ministerial work and of his private accounts. It shows the almost fugitive character of the position of the ' tolerated ' Epi- scopal clergy in some quarters of Scotland at the time, and the scattered nature of the flock to whom the author ministered. Some of the entries, in reference to many well-known families in Shet- land, are of considerable interest to the local historian and genealogist. The marriage of Mr. John Skinner, then tutor to the family of Sinclair of Scalloway, author of * Tullochgorum ' and other poems, to the author's daughter Grizell, is recorded on i2th November 1741. A son of this marriage was Dr. John Skinner, Bishop of Aberdeen, whose son William Skinner, D.D., succeeded him as Bishop of that diocese, and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and died in 1857. The Accounts, sixteen in number, are curious as showing the amount and manner in which he received his stipend or ' encouragement/ each person being debited with a certain sum, the amount apparently of the agreed-upon annual contribution for his support, and then credited with so much as was received in kind, to which in many instances the values are appended. The prices of the various articles, as then current in the Islands, are a curious illustration of the economic conditions prevailing at the time. Of Hunter himself not much is known. He may possibly have been a cadet of the Lunna family. He first appears on record in a letter by Bishop Rose to Bishop Falconar, dated 2ist March 1715, recommending him to be admitted to the order of priesthood. He does not appear to have been so admitted, and he soon thereafter went north to Shetland. On 1 6th August 1734 he sailed from Whiteness for Fraserburgh, and on the 28th of the same month was admitted to the order of deacon, probably at Aberdeen. He thereafter returned to Shetland, and on 5th November following he performed his first baptism. He was at this time a man of at least middle age, and had been married for some time. The births of three of his children are given in the Diary. His time seems to have been spent largely in visiting his people in different parts of the country ; but his permanent residence was at Sumra- garth, in the parish of Dunrossness, to which he removed in May 1741, as appears from a casual entry in his accounts. He seems to have had a small chapel, dedicated to St. Barnabas, the site of which, it is thought, may have been about the village of Tolb, in the same parish of Dunross- ness. See footnote, page 104. He continued to minister to such as were of his communion down to his death in the year 1761 ; and on the 2Qth of October of that year his widow was granted an allowance from the Clergy charity fund, and in 1782 his daughter received some relief from the same source. He was the author of a poem called ' Laxo's Lines,' written about 1720, on the model of Hudibras, treating of certain local scandals of his day. The east window of the Episcopal Church at Lerwick has been filled in with stained glass to his memory. GILBT. GOUDIE, CARRICK PURSUIVANT. EDINBURGH. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 99 DIARY OF REV. JOHN HUNTER, IN ZETLAND, 1734-1745. ^ August 1 6, 1734. Mr. John went from Whiteness to Frasersbrough in ye Diligent. Wm. M'Kindly, Mr. [i.e. Master]. August 28. Put in Deacon's orders. Marriages. 1. June 23, 1735. Married Yaocom Sinclair and Margaret Lesk at House. 2. Novr. 4, 1736. Married Peter Williamson and Catherine Fullertone at House. 3. Deer. 2, 1740. John M'Intosh, mert. [Merchant], married to Mrs. Jean Sinclair, sister to Alexr. Sinclair of Brow at Whiteness. 4. Novr. 5, 1741, Scalberry. Henry Jameson & Ursella Gilberts daur., in Rerewickj in the Parish of Dunrossness, were married. 5. Sumbroughgerth, Novr. 12, 1741. Adam Davidson and Catherine Swenton, in Scatness, were married. 6. Sumbroughgerth, Novr. 12, 1741. Mr. John Skinner, Chaplain at House, & Grizell Hunter, lawll. daur. Mr. John & Christian Hunter, were married. 7. Feby. 4, 1742. Charles Leslie & Marion Sinclair were married at Sumbroughgerth. 8. July 6, 1742. Alexr. Innes (Physician) & Elizabeth Pitcairne were married by Mr. Hunter. 9 & 10. Novr. 25, 1742. Wm. Sinclair & Marion Hacro; George Williamson & Marion James daughter, were married at Sumragerth. William Sinclair in Bigtoun, and Geo. in Rerewick. 11. Jany. 20, 174^. Magnus Mouatt & Barbara Jonson were married at Sumragerth. 12. Feby. 16, 174!- Hans Smith & Marion Sutherland were married. 13. Feby. 16, i74§. John Lesly & Anne Aiken were married at Sumra- gerth. 14. Sumragerth, April 14, 1743, William Nicolson, alias 'blind Willie,' and Grissel Ratray were publickly married. 15. Fair Isle, July 17, 1743. Robert Sinclair, Laird of Quendall, & Mrs. Jacobina M'Kenzie were married. 16. Houss, Deer. 6, 1744. Jerom Umphray & Barbara Nicolson, in Burra, were married. Children Baptized by Mr. John Hunter. 1. 1734, Novem. 5. Ro. Bruce of Sumburgh his son called Laurence. 2. Novem. 14. Laurence Tulloch, mertt. [Merchant] in Whiteness, hade a son baptized called Alexr. 3. December 4. Jo. Reid, mertt. in Lerwick, hade a son baptized called John. 4. 1735, Augt. 7. James Calder and Elizabeth Forbess in Wilsness, hade a son baptized called Robert. Godfathers— And. & James Forbes. Godmother — Grissella Bruce. 5. Sept. 8, 1735. James Sutherland & Anne Brown in Lerwick, hade a son baptized called James. Godfathers— Geo. Fenton & James Brown. Godmother — Mrs. Wilson. I0o The Scottish Antiquary ; 6 Novr. 30, 1735. Robert Bruce of Sumbrugh, and Alice Dammahoy, l his spouse, hade a son baptized called John. Godfathers— Ja. Scot of Gibliston & Robert Sinclair of Scalloway. Godmother- Madam Fraser. 7 Decem 7 1735. Ro. Mouatt in Scatness, & Barbara Sinclair, his spouse hade a son baptized called Robert. Godfathers— Ja. Scot of Gibliston, Rob. Dick of Fracafield,2 Ro. Sinclair of Scalloway, Ro. Bruce of Sumbrough. Godmother— Lady Scalloway, etc. 8. Deer. , 1735. Robert Dick of Fracafield, and Jean Dickson, his spouse, 'hade a daughter baptized called Frances. Godfather— Ro. Sinclair of Scalloway. Godmothers— Mrs. Peggy Pitcairn & Mrs. Wilson. 9. Deer. , 1735. Mag. Vedar and Marg. Murray hade a daughter baptized called Marjory. 10. Dec. , 1735. Geo. Mouat & Mag. Rollo hade a son baptized called Abraham. Godmor.— Mrs. Wilson. Godfa. — Ja. Sutherland, Francis Gray. 11. Apr. 28, 1736. Yocom Sinclair & Mag. Lesk in House had a son baptized called James. Godfather— Mr. James Scot. Godmother- Lady Scalloway. 12. Apr. 29, 1736. Laur. Bruce of Braewick, & Anna Nicolson, his spouse, hade a daughter baptized called Jannet. 13. Apr. 30, 1736. Mr. Jo. & Christian Hunters hade a son baptized called Robert. Godfathers — Ja. Scot, And. Dick of Wormidale. Godmother — Lady Giblistone. 14. May 19, 1736. James Forbess and Jannet Halcrow in Skelberry hade a son baptized called John. Godfathers — And. Forbess, his father, & John Morison in Bigtoun. Godmother — Elizabeth Forbess, spouse to James Calder. 15. Aug. 2, 1736. James Calder and Eliz. Forbess in Wilsness hade a son baptized, called Andrew. Godfather — James Forbess in Skelberry. Godmother — Ann Lesly in Sumbrough. 16. House, Septr. 12, 1736. William Banerman, alias , and , hade a daughter baptized called Catherine. God F.— Ro. Sinclair of Scalloway. G.M.— Phil. Damahoy,3 his lady. 17. Scalloway, Septr. 17, 1736. James Bizet and Marg. Strong, his spouse, hade a son baptized called David. G.F. — James Scott of Gibliston. G.M. — Lilias Scott, his sister. 18. Octr. 13, 1736. Ro. Dick of Fracafield, Esq., and Dickson, his spouse, hade a son baptized called Charles. G.F. — Laur. Bruce of Braewick and And. Ross, chamberlain; G.M. — Mrs. Greig, alias Susan Dick, spouse to John Greig, ship mr. in Zetland. 19. Alexr. Innes, Dr. of Phisick, and Barbara Scott,4 his spouse, had a 1 Daughter of Sir John Dalmahoy, Bart., of that Ilk. 2 The family of Fracafield, descended from Captain Andrew Dick, a son of Mr. John Dick, fiar of Braid, who was appointed Steward Principal and Chamberlain of Orkney and Shetland in 1669. The estate was sold by Charles Dick in 1774. In 1821 his son, Major William Dick, was served heir-male of his ancestor, Sir William Dick of Braid, and styled himself a Baronet (never recognised by Burke). His grandson, Sir Charles William Hookoday Dick, was in destitute circumstances, and the family is apparently now extinct. * Philadelphia Dalmahoy, a daughter of Sir John Dalmahoy, Bart. Daughter of John Scott of Melby, and widow of Hector Scott of Scotshall. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 101 daur. baptized called Lillias. G.F. — James Scot of Gibliston. G.Mo. — Lillias Scot, his sister. This was done Octr. 18, 1736. 20. Novr. 7, 1736. in Burrow, hade a son baptized called John. G.F.— Ro. Sinclair of Houss. G.M.— Phil. Dammahoy, his lady. 21. St. Andrews, 1736. James Sutherland & Anne Broun hade a son baptized called Robert. G.F. — Francis Gray and Ro. Farqr., merchants. G.M. — Marg. Ross, alias Mrs. Craigie. 22. Scalloway, Jany. 20, 173-?-. John Scott of Valley, and Elizabeth Mitchell,1 his lady, hade a son baptized called John. G. F. — Robt. Sinclair of Houss and James Scott, brother german to the said John Scott. G.M. — Lilias Scott, his sister. 23. Lerwick, March 7, 173^. James Broun & Jannet Farqhar. hade a son baptized called William. God Far. — James Craigie & Ro. Farquhar. G.M. — Marg. Ross. 24. Lerwick, March 9, 173-$- John Reid & Marg. Fraser hade a son baptized called William. G.F. — Alexr. Glenny & Francis Gray. G.M. — Mairon Dunbar, spouse to John Wilsone. 25. Lunna, May 12, 1737. Ro. Hunter of Lunna, and Ursella Bruce,2 his lady, hade a son baptized called Thomas. G.F. — Ro. Bruce of Simbister, Laur. Smith, mertt. in Whalsay. God Mo. — Mar. Bruce, Lady Simbister, & Madam Fraser. 26. Scalloway, May 29, 1737. Arthur Scott & hade a daur. baptized called Catherine. 27. Lerwick, June 21, 1737. John Wilson and Marion Dunbar hade a daughter baptized called Catharine. G.F. — Francis Gray. G.M. — Mrs. Sutherland, Catherine Dunbar. 28. Lerwick, Novr. n, 1737. Francis Gray and Marg. Gray hade a son baptized called Joseph. G.F. —John Reid & Jo. Wilson. G.M. — Marion Dunbar. 29. Lerwick, Novr. 14, 1737. Ro. Dick of Frackafield & Jean Dickson, his spouse, hade a son baptized called Andrew. G.F. — Gilb. Niven of Scousbrough & Wm. Niven of Windhouse. G.M. — Marg. Pitcairn. 30. Whiteness, Deer. 29, 1737. Laur. Tulloch & Grissell Watson hade a son baptized called James. G.F. — Alexr. Sinclair of Brow & Ro. his brother. G.M. — Jean Sinclair, sister to Brow. 31. Scalloway, Jary. 26, 173!. John Scot of Melbie & Elizabeth Mitchell, his spouse, hade a son baptized called James. G.Fa.— James Scott of Giblistone and Alexander Innes, Physician. G.M. — Mis Lillias Scott, their sister. 32. Mar. 23, 1738. John Irvine & Jannet hade a daur, baptized called Catherine. G.F. — James Bizet. G.M. — Mis Lillias Scott & Mrs. Hunter. 33. Aprile 14, 1738. Richd. Henderson & Barbara Laing hade a son baptized called James. G.F.— James Bizet, and ye parent. G.M. — Mrs. Hunter. 34. Aug. , 1738. John Wilson & Marion Dunbar in Lerwick hade a daughter baptized called Jean. G.F. — Francis Gray. G.M. — Mrs. Davidson, alias Jean M'intosh. Named Jean. 1 Daughter of Charles Mitchell of Uresland and Pitteadie. 2 Daughter of Robert Bruce of Chalester. i o 2 The Scottish A ntiquary ; 35. Septr. 13, 1738. James Sutherland & Anne Broun hade a daughter baptized called Isabella Marina. G.F.— Francis Gray. G.Mo.— Marg. Ross, alias Mrs. Craigie, &c. 36. House, Novr. i, 1738. Ro. Christy and Catherine Leask hade a daughter baptized called Sinclara. G.F.— Robert Sinclair of House, and G.M. — Philadelphia Dammahoy his Ladie, and Catherine Sinclair, lawfull daur. to Sandsound. 37. Vallay, Novr. 28, 1738. John Scott of Melbie & Eliz. Mitchell, his spouse, hade a daughter baptized called Grissel. G.F. — James Scott, bror. to do. G.M. — Ye Lady of Giblistone & Mis Lilias Scott, her daughter. 38. Scalloway, Deer. 21, 1738. Jam. Scott hade daur. baptized called Mary, begot in fornication wt. Elspet Davidson. G.F. — James Bizet. G.M. — Margaret Strong, his wife, & Grissel Hunter, lawll. daur. to Mr. John Hunter, minr. 39. Scalloway, Deer. 24, 1738. Gilbert Bairnson & Sweety Sandersdaur. hade a son baptized called Murdoch. G.F. — Ro. Sinclair of House & And. Dick of Wormidale. G.M. — Philad. Dalmahoy, Lady of House. 40. Lerwick, Jany. 7, 173!. Jonn R-^d & Marg. Fraser hade a son baptized called Peter. G.F. — sd. Reid and Francis Gray, mert. in Lerwick. G.M. — Marg. Gray, spouse to the said Francis Gray. 41. Ness, Ash Wednesday, March 7, 1739. James Calder & Eliz. Forbess hade a son baptized called James. G.F. — And. Forbess in Skelberry, & James Forbess, his son. G.M. — Barbara Forbess. 42. Whiteness, Apr. 12, 1739. Laur. Tulloch & Grissel Watson hade a daur. baptized called Margaret. G.F. — John M'intosh, mert. G.M. — Jean Sinclair and Mary Watson. 43. Skelberry, Apr. 28, 1739. James Forbess & Jannet Hacroe had a son baptized called James. G. Fa.— And. Forbes. G.M. — Barbara Forbess. 44. Scalloway, May n, 1739. James Bizet & Marg. Strang hade a son baptized called Andrew. G.F.— James Scott, etc. 45. May 12, 1739. James Broun & Jannet Farqr. hade a daur. baptized called Jannet. G.F.— Ro. Farqr. G.M.— Mrs. Sutherland, etc. 46. Wm. Henderson in Brassa,1 and Mitchell, his spouse, hade a son baptized called Wm. G.F.— James Nicolson, writer in Ler. ; Ro. Sinclair, shipmaster. G.M.— Mrs. Sinclair, his wife. 47. Thomas Eisbister and Mar. Grieg, his spouse, hade a son baptized called Laur. G.F.— Alexr. Glenny, mert., Ro. Farqr. G.M.— Mrs. Sutherland, alias Ann Brown. 48. House, May 31, 1739. James Inkster & his spouse, hade a son baptized called James. G.F.— Ro. Sinclair, of House. G.M.— Philad. Dammahoy, his Lady. 49. Lerwick, June 13, 1739. Laur. Bruce of Braewick, & Ann Nicolson, his spouse, hade a son baptized called Lawrence. G.F.— Ro. Scollay, mertt. in Ler., & Wm. Nicolson of Lochend. G.M.— Mrs. Scollay. 1 Son of William Henderson of Gairdie and brother of Magnus Henderson of Gairdie. His wife was Catherine Mitchell, daughter of Sir John Mitchell, first Baronet of West- snore. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 103 50. July 21, 1739. Ro. Dick of Frackafield & Jean Dickson, his spouse, hade a daur. baptized called Christian. G.F. — Wm. Nicolson, Glasier. G.M. — old Mrs. Dick & Mis Peggie Pitcairn. 51. Scalloway, Aug. 21, 1739. Mr. John & Christian Hunter hade a son baptized called James. G.F. — Andrew Dick, of Wormidale & James Nicolson, writer in Lerwick. G.M. — Grissel Mitchell, Lady of Giblistone. He was bom Friday ye i7th of Aug., about ten o'clock at night. 52. Lerwick, Septr. 13, 1739. Jam. Sutherland & Anne Broun hade a son baptized called Andrew. G.F. — And. Horrie, writer, & James Craigie, mertt. in Ler. G.M. — Marg. Ross, spouse to sd •Craigie. 53. House, Novr. 18, 1739. Malcom Fullertoune & , his spouse, hade a daur. baptized called Elizabeth. G.F. — George Sinclair in Burrow, & Philadelphia Dalmahoy, Lady of House. 54. Deer. 9, 1739, Brassa. Francis Carnaigie & Anne Nicolsone hade a son baptized called Arthur. G.F. — Arthur Nicolsone, mertt. in Lerwick, & William Nicolsone of Lochend. G.M. — old Mrs. Nicolsone, her mother. 55. Lerwick, 22 Deer. 1739. Andrew Horry & Eliza. Lamb hade a son baptized called John. G.F. — Ro. Scolla, mertt. in Lerwick, and Alexr. Innes, Physician. G.M. — Isabel Horrie, spouse to Francis Hedel, dyer in Lerwick. 56. Jany. n, 1740. Ro. Hunter, of Lunna, and Ursella Bruce, his spouse, hade a daur. baptized called Grissel. 57. Lunna, Jany. n, 1740. James Robertson & Ann Malcolmson hade a son baptized called Robert. G.F. — Lunna. 58. Utherbister, Jany. n, 1740. Lawrence Jameson and Margaret Ross, his spouse, hade a son baptized called Thomas. G.F. — Lunna, and Tho. Hunter, his brother. G.M. — Catharine Park. 59 & 60. Lerwick, July 8th, 1740. Ro. Dick of Fracafield & Jean Dickson, his spouse, hade two children baptized, a son named Thomas, and a daur. named Elizabeth. G.F. — Mr. Wm. Ross. G.M. — Mrs. Grieg, Mis Peggie Pitcairne. 6 1. Vally, July 13, 1740. John Scott of Melbie, and Eliz. Mitchell, his spouse, had a daughter baptized called Margaret. G.F. — James Scot of Giblistone. G.M. — Grissel Mitchel, Lady Giblistone, & Jean Mitchel, Lady of Westshore. 62. July 25, 1740. John Reid, mertt, & Mag. Fraser, his spouse, hade a daur. baptized called Grissel. G.F. — John Smollet & Jo. Wilson. G.M.— Mrs. Wilson, &c. 63. Vallay, Sept. 7, 1740. Nicol Henderson & Bar. Laing, his spouse, had a son baptized called Scot. G.F. — himself. G.M. — Lady Melbie & Mis Lillias Scott. 64. Whiteness, Novr., 1740. John M'intosh & Jean Sinclair hade a daughter baptized called Anna Margareta. G.F. — Jam. Scot, of Giblestone. G.M.— Mrs. Hunter & Girssell Watson. 65. Houss, Deer. 7, 1740. Yacomb Sinclair & Margaret Lesk hade a son baptized called Stuart. G.F. — John Dalmahoy, sailor, & Mr. John Skinner, Chaplin to Rob. Sinclair, of Scalloway, Esqr. G.M. — Grissel Hunter, lawll. daur. to Mr. John Hunter, minister in Zetland. The Scottish Antiquary ; 66. Cleekhimin, Deer. 16, 1740. Jam. Sutherland and Anne Broun ' hade a son baptized called Wm. G.F.— Robert Farqr. & James Broun. G.M.— Mrs. Broun, alias Jannet Farqr. 67 Brassay, Mar. 17, 1741- George Innes & Barb. Geo. daur, his spouse, hade a daur. baptized called Jacobma. G.K— James Craigie, in Lerwick. G.M.— Marg. Ross & Sarah Livistoune. 68.1 Simragerth, Septr. 23, 1741.— John Sutherland & Catharine Rich, in had a daur. baptized called Molina. G.M. — Mrs. Hunter and Grissell Hunter, &c. 69. Scalberry, Octr. 16, 1741. James Forbess and Jannet Hacroe, his spouse, had a daur. baptized called Jannet. G.F.— And. Forbes, inScalbery. G.M.— Mrs. Hunter & Barbara Forbes, spouse to John Strong. 70. Octr. 17, 1741, Wilsness. James Calder & Elizabeth Forbess, his spouse, had a daur. baptized called Jannet. G.F. — And. Forbess, in Scalberry. G.M.— Barbara Forbess, spouse to John Strong. 71. Sumburgh, Novr. 21, 1741. Alexr. Scot, in South voe, & , his spouse, had a son baptized called James. G.F. — ye parent. G.M. — Mrs. Hunter. 72. St. Barnabys Chappel,2 Novr. 22, 1741. Wm. Stout in Gerth, & , his spouse, had a daur. baptized called Barbara. G.M. — Barbara Irvine. 73. Sumbroughgerth, Novr. 25, 1741. John Fea, in Cour, & , his spouse, had a son baptized called Charles. G.F. — Charles Yoinson. G.M. — Penelope Yoinson, sert. in Sumbrough. 74. Sound in Yell, Jany. i, 1742. Gilbert Nevin of Scousbrough/ & Barbara Dick, his spouse, had a son baptized called James. G.F. — The Father, Daniel M'cleron, wright. G.M. —Jean Strong, spouse to the said Daniel. 75. Febry. 5, Friday, about 9 in morn. 1742, Mr. John & Christian Hunter hade a son born who was baptized Febr. 9, named John. G.F.^-Mr. Sinclair & Mr. Forbes. G.M.— Mrs. Forbes. 76. Febry. 15, 1742. Robert Hunter of Lunna & Ursella Bruce, his spouse, hade a daughter baptized called Helen. G.F. — Lunna himself. G.M- — Grisella Bruce alias Madam Fraser. 77. May ii, 1742. George Innes & Barbara Geo. daur. in Brassay had a daur. baptized called Elizabeth. G.F. — James Craigie, mertt. in Ler., & G.M. — Marg. Ross, & Sara Livingston. 78. Tho. Linklater and Jannet Marshall, his spouse, had a daur. baptized called Jacobina, June 10, 1742. 79. Aug. 28, 1742. Nichol Broun & Barbara Mouatt had a son bapt. called Wm. ; represented by the father himself. 1 At this point the progressive numbers of the baptisms cease, but they are now supplied in what follows for the sake of continuity. 4 St. Barnabas' Chapel.— The Rev. J. B. Craven, author of the History of the Episcopal Church in Orkney, 1688-1882, states that this chapel was situated at Lerwick. This is doubtful. The child baptized on this occasion was born at Garth in Dunrossness. The minister was at Sumburgh the previous day, and at his own residence in Sumburghgarth three days later, all which seems to localise the scene in the parish of Dunrossness. The Niven family of Scousburgh in Dunrossness, and of Windhouse in the island of Yell. Nmian Niven, a notary, in the early part of the 1 7th century, whose misdeeds formed the subject of a lengthy complaint addressed to the Lords of the Privy Council, in the year 1641, was of this family. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 105 80. Septr. i, 1742. John Hacro & Agnes Wm.'s-daur., had a son baptized called John. 81. Septr. 27, 1742. John Nichol and Catherine Shuan had a son baptized called Robert. 82. Septr. 27, 1742. Alex. Watson & Barbara Strong had a son baptized called John. G.F. — Peter Watson & Andrew Nicolson. G.M. — Eliza Forbes. 83. Whiteness, Octr. 9, 1742. Laurence Tulloch & Grissel Watson had a daur. baptized called Margaret. 84. Vallay, Novr. 7, 1742. Nichol Henderson and Barbara Laing had a daur. baptized called Lilias. G.F. — Mr. Ja. Scott. G.M.— Lillias Scott. 85. Novr. 28, 1742. Thomas Stout & Marg. Strong in Northhouse had a son baptized called John. 86. Novr. 29, 1742. Mr. John Skinner & Grissel Hunter had a son baptized called James. G.Fa. — John Sinclair of Quendal junior, Esq.,1 Laur. Sinclair of Goat G.M. — Jannet Hacro, spouse to James Forbess, shipmaster in Scalberry. He was born ye 22d of Novr. about 1 1 at night. 87. March 15, 1743. John Jameson and Barbara Fraser in Braiks had a daughter baptized called Jannet. 88. Mar. 16, 1743. James Lesk and Janet Hendrysdaur., in St. Ninian's Isle had a daur. baptized called Helen. 89. St. Barnabus Chappel, March 20, 1742/3. John Stout and Helen Irvine had a son baptized called Robert. 90. Simragerth, March 24, 1742/3. George Bairnson and Anne, John's daughter, hade a daughter, baptized called Christian. 91. Simragerth, Febry. 5, 1742/3. Hendry Jameson & Ursella Gilbert's dr., in Raerwick had a son baptized called Laurence. 92. Simragerth, March 31, 1743. And. Charleson & Jean Geroik in Colipound had a daur. baptized called Christian. 93. S. Barnaby's Chappel, Apr. 10, 1743. Wm. Stout & Marg. Scot in Tob had a daur. baptized called Alice. G.F. — ye Parent. G.M. — Penelope Jonson. 94. Wilsness, Apr. 12, 1743. Wm. Meader, deceased, and Marg. Mulloch, his wife, had a daur. baptized called Elizabeth. G.F. — John Meader, his father. G.M. — Elizabeth Forbess, spouse to James Caddel, & Eliza. Muir, spouse to Charles Shuan, sailor. 95. Scatness, Apr. 17, 1743. Adam Davidson and Catherine Swintoun had a son baptized called William. Sponsor — ye father and Mr. John Hunter, minir. 96. Hogan Brassa, May 16, 1743. George Innes & Barbara George daur., had [a daughter] baptized called Katharine. G.F. — James Craigie alias Stebbagrind. G.M. — Marg. Ross, his spouse. 97. Houss, May 27, 1743. Robert Christy and Catharine Leask, his spouse, had a daur. baptized called Grissell. The father, sponsor. 98. Cleckhimin, June 21, 1743. Wm. Nicolson of Lochend 2 & Margaret 1 The family of Sinclair of Quendale became embarrassed in circumstances about the middle of last century. The estate was sold in 1770, and the family is now extinct. 2 In 1826, Mr. Arthur Nicolson of Lochend was served heir-male to the line of Nicolson of that Ilk and Lasswade, Bart. The present holder of the title (which is not now recognised by the Lyon Office) is Sir Arthur Bolt Nicolson. io6 The Scottish Antiquary ; Stewart had a son baptized (born in fornication.) G.F. — James Sutherland, merit, there. G.M.— Ann Brown, his spouse. 99. Whiteness, July 27, 1743. John M'intosh and Jean Sinclair, his spouse, had a daughter baptized called Barbara. Witnesses — Alexr. Sinclair of Brow and Barbara Mitchell, his spouse. 100. Lunna, July 30, 1743. Robert Hunter of Lunna and Urssella Bruce, his spouse, had a daughter baptized called Catharine. Witnesses — Theodore Noble, Mrs. Hay, &c. 101. Wilsness, Octr. 26, 1743. James Caddel, sailor, and Elizabeth Forbes, his spouse, had a son baptized called John. G.F. —John Bruce, yr. of Sumbrough. G.M. — Mrs. Hunter. 102. Lerwick, Novr. 8, 1743. Alexr. Innes, physician, and Elizabeth Pitcarne, his spouse, had a son baptized called John. G.F. — James Scott of Gibblestoun & Mr. Arthur Nicolson, mertt. G.M. — Miss Margaret Pitcarne, sister to ye said Mrs. Innes. 103. Wilsness, March 23, 1744. Wm. Nicole & Helen Omond there had a son baptized called . G.F. — John Nicole and James Calder. G. M. — Mrs. Calder. 104. Scatness, Septr. 23, 1744. Alexr. Watson, sailor, & Barbara Strong, his spouse, had a son baptized called James. G.F. — Wm. M'Kindly in Scatness & Ro Watson, sailor there. G.M.— Grissel Dougal, spouse to sd. M'Kindly. 105. Burravvoe Yell, Aug. 28, 1744. Robert Nevin and Barbara Buchan, . his spouse, had a son baptized called James, presented by ye father. 1 06. Hogan, Octr. 7, 1744. George Innes and Barbara, George daur., had a son baptized called Magnus. G.F.— James Craigie. G.M. — Marg. Ross, his spouse. 107. Simragerth, Novr. 7 (1744). Charles Fea in Scousbrough & Christian Nicol had a daur. baptized called Isabel, presented by her Father, sole sponsor. 1 08. Sumbrough, Mar. 3, 1745. Laurence Nicol and Penelope Jonson had a daughter baptized called Alice. G.F. — John Nicol in Gruitness. G.M. — Helen Omond and Yonson." 109. Vallay, May 19, 1745. Nicol Henderson and Barbara Laing had a daughter baptized called Margaret. G.F.— John Scott of Melbie. G.M.— Lillias Scott. no. Simbister, May 29, 1745. John Bruce Stuart & Clementina Stuart,1 his Lady, had a daur baptized called Margaret. G.F.— Laurence Smith. G.M.— Mar. Bruce, Lady Simbister & (rest gone), in. . . . ness, June 9, 1745. Laurence Lesk and his spouse, had a daur baptized called Barbara. G.F.— Wm. M'Kindly, presented by ye Father. II2- Deer. 21, 1745. James Forbes & Jannet had a son baptized called Robert. (I.) Lady Gibliston, Dr. [Scots money] Jmp. To my encouragement, £$6 o o 1 Clementina Stewart (daughter and heiress of John Lawrence Stewart of Bigtoun) 2L 5 tT^ t0 J°Qhn ?-UCG <Stew-art) the Property of Bigton passed into the posses- sion of the Bruces of Symbister, and it still remains a portion of that estate. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 107 Cr. A mart, . . .. -v . . . ,£12 o o A stick linnin, 12 ells, - . . . < . - ". 5 8 o To lisp 1 butter, to 2 sheep. to 14 ss. Scots, . o 14 o To a pair women's shoes. May 17, to cash, . . . . . . *. 0120 Novr. 1736. By a ram. By a cow. By ballance of our last year's account, . ---.,. 7 16 o 1737 By a ram & a lamb & a smale ox. By cash to my wife, ..... o 17 o By cash to my selfe, . .. . . •-_; • .-" * . o 12 o 1738 To cash to my wife at Easter, 1738, . '.. . i 10 o To cash, 1738, ........ 60 To cash, 1738, . . . .. . . . . ono To 2 rams. To 4 pair stockins. To a jury ox. (II.) Scalloway, Dr. To my encouragement, 30 o o To cash, .. . . . . .. 580 To 3 prayer books, . . .. . . . 2150 Cr. By i cow, . . . . . . . . 1000 By i lisp salt, . . . ... . . . o 10 o By i lisp malt, i o o By cash, ......... 300 By i anker '2 butter, . . . . . . . 800 By i lisp meal, 140 By i sow, . . . . . . . . . 1160 By i lispd meal, . 140 By lispd bear, .... ... 0120 By 3 lispd malt, 300 By cash pd. Dr. Arch., . . . . . . 7 10 o By cash Rot. Arbuthnot, . 1 1 6 8 By i anker waters, 10 o o By i lib. hemp, . . .050 By cash, . 600 Novr. 1736. By a cow for slaughter. By an anker butter. 1 Lisp, i.e. Lispund, a weight in Orkney and Shetland, 12 Ibs., but latterly raised to 1 8 Ibs., Scots measure. 3 Anker, a local measure of capacity (Orkney and Shetland). io8 The Scottish Antiquary ; (III.) Quandall, Dr. 1735. To my encouragement, from June i5th, 1735, to ditto 1736, . • ^"60 o o To my encouragement for year 1736, . . 60 o o Cr. 1735- By i Ox, . By six geese, . . . By six lispd meal, .... By six lisp bear, . . By six botles wine, July 13, 1736, by cash, July 20, by cash, ...... Octr. 20, by cash, ...... By a mart or cow, 1736, ...... By six geese, 1736, By ballance paid in cash, . . . . 1736. By victual. Novr. 7, 1737. By i cow. By 4 geese. By 3 lisp groats, 3 of meal. After Compt. Apr. 1739, received 2 barrels oyle. 2 lispds. dry bear. 2 lispd. (?) Febry. 6, 1 740. Received 1 2 lisp dry bear. Item 12 lispd. oat meal. Item 6 lispd. malt. Item i anker butter. Item from Brough 2 lisp meal. By Bill to Loch End. Contra Cr. Novr. 17, 1741, By i cow. Apr. 41 To i lispd groats. Since my coming to ye Ness,1 May 1741 — By \ lispd. groats. By 5 lispd. oat meal. By 2 lispd. dry bear. By i six cord bought. By 9! ells course linnen. By i lispd. dry bear. (IV.) Wm. Henderson in Bressay & Gloup. 1735 To my encouragement, ^I2 Q Q / *- Ness, i.e. Dunrossness parish. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 109 Cr. By \ anker waters. By 4 pints ditto. By 2 rolls tobacco. 1738. To rolls tobacco at different times. To 3 lispd. malt. 1736. To i roll tobacco. To cash, ... . ...^300 To stick course linnen. To 4^ ells Scots linnen. Novr. 25th, 1740. To i roll tobacco. (V.) Fracafield, Dr. 1735. To my encouragement, •'.••*'• . • . •' . . . 12120 To cash from Mr. Ross, . . ... . . 12 12 o To cash from Scousbrough, 900 Cr. By my acco" w* Jo Brebnar, . . . . 3 12 o By 12 ells damask, . . . . . . . 16160 By bill pd. Al. Davidson, 680 By \ lib. tea. By 2 lib. bend leither. By \ lib. hops. (VI.) Lunna, Dr. 1735. By my encouragement, . . . . . . 12120 Cr. By bill pd. me by Mrs. Bell, . . . . . 12 o o By 2 lisp wool, . . .. ... . 800 Novr. 1 5th 1737. By cash, 300 (VII.) And. Horrie, Dr. 1735. To my encouragement, 600 To cash borrowed, . . ... . . 300 To 5 pair stockens, i 10 o Cr. By a pair shoes. By 2 pints brandy. By Jamaica pepper. 1738 By i cheese By 2 pints waters. 1739 By 3 bottles wine. By i bottle brandy. Septr. 3, 1740. To 2 bottles brandy. To 2 bottles rum. To 2 bottles gin. To \ mutchkin oyle. To 4 lib. sugar. IIO The Scottish Antiquary ; Deer. 15. To 6 ells linen. Deer. 22. To 2 botts. rum & two of brandy. To cash 6 lib. Scots. To 72 tusk. j, Sept. i st, 1740. To ballance due, . • ^9 J3 May 1 9th, 1741- This day counted with Mr. Horry. Dr. to cash & expects, . ' . ' • 255 Cr.bydo., .... 22 l6 o Ballance due Mr. Horry, . • £2 I2 To be discounted off this current year, at 6 lib. Scots, per annum. (VIII.) Jo Scot, Mert, Dr. To my encouragement, . '•;>x;£6 ° ° Cr. By bill pd. Jo Wilson, . 12 o o By 2\ ells linnen. By i lisp salt. By i 6 cord bought. By cash, ... o 12 o 1736 By bill to Ja. Peterson, . 5 l8 ° 1737 To a pot 1 8 pints. To a [cow?]. To J firkin soap. 1738 To i small ox. To T anker waters. To 2 sugar loaves. To J anker waters from his lady. (IX.) Ja. Scott, Dr. To cash, ......... 300 Mar. 13, 1736. To cash in Ler[wick], . . . o 12 o Cr. By 3 dozen stockens. Novr. 1739. To i roll tobacco. Deer. 28th, 1739. To an anker waters. [What follows in this account is apparently in another handwriting.] Haifa mart. Half a lispd of butter. Half pound of tea. A yard of sail cloth, & at Crismas a bottle of gin and a half pd. of tea. Mr. Hughson is got 10 shillings since. , Northern Notes and Queries. in (X.) Jas. Sutherland, Dr. 1735. To my encouragement, • . . , ' •" . - •'• To cash, Novr. 1736. To note of Laur. Sinclair, mert. in Northroe, To my sellary for 1736, . . • . ;. .. July 1 7th, 1738. John Hunter, Dr. to Suth. To cash, . . ...» To cash, . . ; -.'... To cash, .... . . To cash, . . . ..-'.. . . . To nails \ pund. Feby. 5. To cash, May. To cash, To i ell linen. Cr. By cash due Mrs. Suth., . By cash due her, By expenses, By 13 \ ells linnen @ 9 sh., By sugar, . By \ lib. pepper. By . . . . for brandy, By cash, . By cash, . By cash, . By cash, . By cash, . By cash, . ' . By cash, . By \ lispd. meal, By lispd. malt, (XI.) Jo. Reid, Mertt, Dr. To my encouragement. Cr. By a Hollander cheese. Novr. i4th, 1737. By one roll tobacco. (XII.) Francis Gray, Dr. To my encouragement. Cr. By cloth from Mr. Farqr. By a new black wigg. By an oyr white wigg. i 8 o 900 500 15 o 12 080 086 060 090 050 3 o 0 i 6 0 o 8 0 6 i 6 0 IO 0 0 6 0 0 16 6 0 6 0 0 12 0 0 7 0 o 8 0 o 5 0 I o o o ii 0 o 16 0 p£i6 13 o ! ! 2 The Scottish Antiquary ; (XIII.) Jo Wilson & Alexr. M'Intosh, Mertt, To my encouragement, . • -. ;66 By cash, .... • 170 By 10 pair stockens, . • 3 ° ° By 7 ells stuff. (XIV.) Wm. M'Gregor, Mertt, Dr. To my sallary, ... 5 ° ° By 4j ells black cloath. (XV.) Rob. Bruce of Sumbrough, junr. To my encouragement, . • " .3° ° ° Deer. 1736. By cash, . .• f 3<> o o Novr. 1736. By 6 geese. By 3 ews. By 12 lispd. bear. Novr. Qth, 1737. By cash, 400 Deer. i6th, 1737. By u geese from Marion Hacro in Vadsgirth. By i barrl oyle. 1738. By 2 lispd. groats. By 10 geese. Novr. 29th, 1739. By cash, . -.1000 (XVI.) Rob. Sinclair of Houss, Dr. To my encouragement, . . . 30 o o 1737. By 2 pints waters. June 27, to cash, 12 o o By 6 Ib. butter. By i cow. By i anker butter. 1738. Nov. i. By i anker butter. By i lispd. Sid's meal. By i cow from Trondra. By James Peterson's accott. Nov. 1739. To cash from ye Agent, . . . . . 8 10 o To an anker butter. June -1740. By cash, o 10 o 392. MONUMENTAL BRASS OF JOHN BETON (vol. v. p. 72). — We have given the inscription on this brass, and are now able to give our readers a reduced facsimile of a rubbing of it and a few particulars extracted from the late Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt's ' Chatsworth,' printed at Buxton in 1872. John Beton was Master of the Household to Queen Mary — there was also an Archibald Beton, who may have been the author of the Epitaph which is signed A. B. Another of the Beton family seems to have suc- ceeded John in his office, for in a list of the members of the captive Queen's household, dated 26th April 1571, we find 'the Mr of the Scotes or, Northern Notes and Queries. 1 1 3 Queene's household, Mr Beton,' and in a list of a slightly later date we find * Mre Betown, Mr howshold,' and further down in the list ' Archibald Betoun.5 DEO OPT MAX.ET POSTERITATl SACRVM loanni BctonioScoto nobilisfc optimi viri loa/misBctonii aJ> AnthnrvTtrthy filio.Dau4dis Betonii IlluftrifT S R E Cardinalis nepofUacobiBctonn Reuercndi/TsAii.d.rxc Archicpifcopi et Rcgni ScofiT Can<rcUafii digniiTp rone pott atmeuntc state m Kunva n i or i bus <Jirciplinis.^.pki)ofopKia c^noJacilior ad! rus Romany ^TUIUJ ipfc Confu Inff .f uit-) aeututs-parcrct ab opfiTrus cmitufcjz preceptor^ &Jiberalit^ r.& mgcixuc.educaro omnibus morum rajcilifafe.fid* pru dentia.Sf conftaixria, cjbaro vndc a ScrcoifT Principe MaxiaSco torn Oallorumqz Rcpina in pryoufrarorisprimu.cnox Ctconomirnunu^ f cr « * r\ ^ • ir • i-- i loltccto, ei uldcracLz SrrcniM. 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PETITION OF ROYALIST OFFICERS. — To the King's Most Excellent Matie the humble Petition of divers officers of your Maties late army from Scotland. VOL. VI. — NO. XXIII. H The Scottish Antiquary; Showing, that your Petit" having (according to duty) in all undertak- ings constantly and loyally adhered to yor sacred Maties service agl the common enemy, by reason whereof, and the many sad providences they have encountered, what by their personall sufferings, imprisonments, and other hardships, are now reducit to a most low and despicable condition, being neither able to subsist here or to transport themselves hence into their native country, much less to subsist there without yor Maties gracious favour and comisseracon. May it therefore please yor sacred Matie to take their necessitous and sad condition into your gracious consideracon, and out of your royall bounty and wonted grace to order such supply for their necessity as your Matie in your Princely Wisdom shall think expedient for them, whereby they may comfortably subsist and be enabled on all occasions to do yr Matie further service. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray for your Maties long and happy raigne over yr people. WHITEHALL, the 10 Sept. 1660. His Matie is graciously pleased to referr the Petrs to Lt.-Gen. Middleton to the end he may certifie their condition and his opinion for his relief. (Singed) LAUDERDAILL. A List of those Scottish officers who petitioned his Majestic. Collonels — William Stewart, to foote. William Keir, to horse. John Burne, to dragoons. Wm Dick, to foote. J.M. Lieutennant-Collonels— Wm Jerdane, to foote. Andro Kear, to horse. Jugerie Melvein, to foote. Johne Cokborne, to foote. David Law, to „ James Innes, to horse. Thomas Mearshall, to foote. James Gordon, to dragoons. Dunkan Cambell, h. Alexr Burne, f. Majors- David ogilbie, to horse. Samuel Stewart, to „ John Stewart, to „ Robert strachen, to „ Rot kear, to foote. James durrand, to foote. David fergesone, „ James Hossock, to horse. James Gordon, „ Williame Moorheid, David Cleark, adjutant, „ Androw forester. J.M. Capttans — George Abercrombie, to foote. John Stewart, h. „ Stewart, h. John Maxwell, h. Nicolas Keir, f. Wm Sunderland, f. Matthow Hamellton, f. George Cambell, h. Dohtrie Cambell, h. James Morrisone, h. Robert Craffurd, h. Lewis Latter, h. Rot Reind, f. Rot Bruce, h. Heugh Montgomerie, f. Henrie Blyth, h. Alex. Innes, f. Thomas Fyffe, f. Mungo Murray, f. Androw Fullertoune, h. James Bleketore, f. James Gordon, h. Robt Rankin, h. John Mitchell, f. John Smith, f. John Finly, h. Rot Carmichell, h. Jon Bruce, f. Walter Scot, f. Charles Stevensone, h. Pattrick Rossell, f. Archibald Sterling, f. or, Northern Notes and Queries. Rot Gordon, f. Heugh Abercrombie, h. James Cuninghame, f. Wm Lyone, h. Androw Wood, h. Leutennants — Rot Lasson, f. Jo11 Keir, f. James Seyors (sic), f. James Broune, f. for (sic], Jo11 Levingstoune, h. Charells Cambell, h. Loudwick Ogiluye, h. Walter Barrone, f. Adame Ross, h. Wm Hardie, h. Mormond Leslie, f. James Leslie, f. James Forsythe, f. Patrick Hamiltoune f. James Leslie, h. James Rewell, f. James Grahame, h. Ro* Mearer, f. James Russell, h. Wm Mogumerie, h George Gib, h. George Cadel, h. James Finly, f. Wm Gordon, foot. Wm Urquhart, h. Wm Drummond, f. heugh Craigh, h. Walter baxter, f. David Mortemer, h. James Hamiltoun, h. James Sinklaer, f. J. M. J. M. Cornnets— Jo11 Banentyn. Jon Muire. Jon Stewart. Jon Strachen. Gilbert Lachlean. Jon Mitchell. James Courlay. Rot Arsken. Jon Murruy. Rot Magumbrie. Henrie Halleburtoune. Wm Mackdougall. Ensehens — Heugh Black. Richard Cokrane. Allexr Leyndsy. Jon Hallyday. Jon Cambell. Allexr Musterd. Rot Mackleanen. Quaytter Meaisters — James Stewart. Allexr Wach. David Cleark. Rot Schuiman (sic}. Daniell hunter. Wm Johnstoune. Thomas Urchard. George Libertoune. Jon Dewar. James Wilkie. John Scotte. J.M. J. M. J. M. These are to certifie and declare that the above written list of officers have served his Majestic in his armies, preston, Worcester, or in the hills, and most of them in all the thrie. LONDON, Sept. 26, 1660. JO. MlDDLETON. 394. ORKNEY FOLKLORE. SEA MYTHS.-— 6. The Fin Folk (con- tinued from vol. v. page 171). — (3.) The Mermaid. — In treating of these imaginary beings, it will be found that my account of them differs from descriptions of the mermaid which have often appeared. Karl Blind, in the Contemporary for September 1881, speaks of the mermaid as assuming the form and wearing the skins of seals. Now, this view would have been regarded as utterly heterodox by the old Orkney peasantry whom I knew forty years ago. To them the idea of a mermaid wearing a sealskin would have seemed as ridiculous as if some blundering newspaper should state that, ' Yesterday Her Majesty the Queen held a Dra wing-Room, dressed in a coat of chain armour.' In the same article, 1 1 6 The Scottish Antiquary ; a Shetland correspondent of the author is quoted, who says : ' Such an idea as a Mermaid I never heard of till I saw it in some English work of fiction.' My experience in Orkney is exactly the reverse of that of the Shetlander. And I have heard a hundred times more about mermaids from the lips of Orkney peasants than I ever saw in books. I do not mention this in any, spirit of controversy. Folk-tales may vary in different localities ; and I 'only profess to give, as far as I can, a correct rendering of the beliefs in my own locality. The mermaids were believed to be the daughters of fin men ; they married in their own race, as women do in the human race. But, by a dire fatality, the marriage of a mermaid to a fin man doomed her to a pro- gressive loss of beauty. During the first seven years of married life she gfadually lost her exquisite loveliness ; during the second seven years she was no fairer than women on earth; and in the third seven years of married life the mermaid became ugly and repulsive. The only way by which the mermaid could escape this loss of her charms was by marrying a man of human race. And this union could only be consummated by sexual intercourse. Hence her frequent attempts, by displaying her beauty on the seashore, and by her enchanting music, to lure a man into wedlock. The offspring of such unions was sure to possess all mental and manly good qualities, and rose to eminence, either on earth as men, or as fin folk in the sea. The mermaid was always described to me as the beau- ideal of matchless beauty. One of my old female gossips used to say : ' The mermaid is the loveliest creature on a' Geud's earth, or in a' the wide sea.' Her face was most lovely, and her form perfect in shape and pro- portion, while her golden hair, descending below her waist, was her matchless crown of beauty, adorning her head, and falling over her snow- white skin in wreaths of golden tissue. With regard to her posterior, all my informants agreed that, when in the water, she had a tail ; the men holding that her tail was an integral part of her body, while the old women declared this tail to be a skirt, fastened at the mermaid's waist, and forming, when its wearer was on land, a beautiful petticoat em- broidered with silver and gold ; when the mermaid was in the sea her petticoat was gathered together and shut up at its lower end, at once concealing the mermaid's feet and forming what foolish men called a tail. I have often heard stiff arguments among the old folk, as to whether the tail was a part of her dress, or was a part of the mermaid's body. The origin of the tail is accounted for in this way. The mermaid was first created^the most beautiful of all creatures, perfect in form and lovely in face. She had no more tail on her fair body than has the daintiest lady in the land. Now, it chanced, one time long, long ago, that a great queen — some say it was mother Eve herself— was bathing in the sea, and as she came out of the water, she saw sitting on a rock near by the most beauti- ful creature that ever she clapped eyes on. It was the mermaid combing her golden hair. The queen was greatly amazed at the mermaid's beauty, and being shocked to see her sitting naked, she sent one of her maids with a gown to the mermaid. Then the mermaid said I am queen of the sea, and the Mermaid 's my neem, Tae shaw my fair body I denno tink sheem, Nae claiths file me skin, nae dress will I wear, Bit the braw braw taets o' me bonnie bonnie hair. The queen was filled with mad jealousy; and she, with all the or, Northern Notes and Queries. 1 1 7 women of the land, raised a great hubbub. They said it was a sin and a shame to allow one in the form of woman to be seen naked on the seashores. They said, moreover, that this seamaid was so fair, and her voice so sweet, that no man seeing and -hearing her could ever care for women. And they said all her beauty comes by sorcery, and her music by enchantment. So the women took no rest till they got it doomed that the mermaid should wear a tail. But the men of the land added a caveat to this doom, that if ever a man fell in love with a mermaid, she should have the power of laying aside her tail. The fact that the mermaid is represented in a nude state should not be looked at in the light of our present-day feelings. The old Norsemen often luxuriated in a state of undress, thoughtless of shame, and without the slightest idea of violating the rules of decency. The Norse warrior would stretch himself naked before the fire, while young women rubbed the backs of the basking heroes. What a picture for Homer ! The old love of undress still lingers to our day in the North. Witness the vapour bath among the Swedish peasantry, as described in the book entitled, Land of the Midnight Sun. And it is said that German ladies bathing at Heligoland were fond of transgressing the Governor's rule, that no female should bathe without a bathing-gown. Doubtless the idea of the mermaid's beauty had in some measure a refining effect on a rude peasantry. I have seen an old withered woman, with grey hair and wizened face, her head in a sooty cap, a sooty square of homespun over her shoulders, a torn dirty petticoat of homespun over her knees, her left foot stretched before her on the hearth-stone, that foot in a stocking through which the big toe protruded, her naked right foot stretched over her left, while she was busy darning the stocking she had pulled off for that purpose ; while, in the midst of her poverty and squalor, she was painting in the most glowing colours, to a group of youngsters, the unequalled charms of the mermaid. The old woman seemed wholly absorbed by the beauty of the being she described ; her hands dropped on her knees, her eyes glowed with the enthusiasm imparted by her description; and from the manner in which she emphasized her laudatory words, you could not for the moment but believe that she had seen with her own eyes the charming creature she described, while we youngsters, with eyes wide open and gaping mouths, sat around her spell-bound, believing every word she said. If the mermaid's form and face were lovely, her voice was still more attractive, and her music enchanting and dangerously bewitching to the human ear. When she sought by her exquisite singing to allure a man into her seductive embrace, the man who heard her had need of all his powers of resistance to prevent his being drawn away by her captivating song. To overcome the power of this siren song, the hearer had to repeat the following : — Geud tak a care o' me ! i' Geud's neem, I hear de mermaid sing ; Hids 1 bonnie, bonnie, bit no sae bonnie, As Geud's bells i' heeven ring. All incantations against supernatural power must contain the Supreme Being's name three times. As the crew of Ulysses were savrd by wax in their' ears, and as the Argonauts were delivered from the song of the 1 Hid = it. 1 1 8 The Scottish Antiquary ; Sirens by the music of Orpheus, so was the reciter of this doggerel freed from the magic power of the mermaid's notes. The mermaid, when on land, was always seen combing her yellow hair with a golden comb ; but I never heard in Orcadian lore mention made of a mirror. Her practice of doing her toilet out of doors may be regarded by modern taste as vulgar; yet I suspect it was not so con- sidered in olden times. Froissart tells of a Welsh prince, commander of a French army, who, while reviewing the fortress he besieged, sat combing his hair in the open air. There were many wild stories of men being carried away by this sea- queen. One of them may be given when I treat of the fin man's home. The following is given as an instance showing that the seamaid was at first the vanquished party. I change the Doric into English, otherwise the tale is given in the words of the old narrator. Any words in paren- thesis are explanatory interpolations. Johnie Croy was the bravest, boldest, and bonniest man in all the broken isles of Orkney, and many a longing glance from many a bonnie lass was cast at him ; but fienty hair cared he for the lasses. Well, it fell on a day, one time long since, that Johnie went to the banks (seashore) to look for drift-wood. The tide was out, and he walked under the crags on the west side of Sanday ; and as he was guid- ing himself through the big boulders there came to him the most lovely sound that ever he heard in all his born days. He stood a little minute fairly dumfoundered, his ears quaking with the beauty of that sound. There was a point of the crag that jutted out before him, and Johnie thought the lovely music came from the other side of that point, and peeped on the other side ; and, by my certie, he saw a sight that might have scared a fainter heart. But I doubt Johnie was a chield that did not care much for good or ill. He saw a mermaid sitting on a tang-covered rock combing her yellow hair, that shone like the brightest gold. She had a silvery glistening petticoat hanging down from her waist, and the lower ends of that skirt were folded together, and lay behind her like a tail. From head to waist she was naked, but her golden locks floated down over her white skin like sunshine playing about a pillar of snow. Johnie went down on his knees and swore by the meur-steen (generally a standing stone or boulder where district Things were held) that he would court the beautiful creature though the wooing should cost him his life. You see, he was fairly overcome with love of her. She sat with her back to the sea, and he only got a glimpse of the side of her face, and that glimpse set his heart beating like the clapper of a water- mill. Though terribly in love, he had all his wits about him. He crept down so as to get between her and the sea, hiding under the big boulders. Sometimes he would glance over the stones at her, and every glance made his heart burn with vehement love. He crept up behind her as quiet as a mouse. He came to about two ells behind her, while she sat unaware of his approach, combing her bonnie hair and humming her lovely tune. Johnie rose, sprang forward, flung his arms around her neck, and kissed her sweet mouth, I do not know how often. Bewitched fool ! he thought himself in Paradise. She sat a little minute fairly stunned. Then she sprang to her feet, flung Johnie on the rock, and gave him a wallop with her tail that made his rigging (spine) smart. Then opening the tails of her petticoat, she ran to the sea as if Satan had been after her. Johnie or, Northern Notes and Qiiemes. \ \ 9 gathered himself up, swearing as he rose it was the first time that any one had laid his back to the ground. When he stood up he saw the maid in the sea staring at him with flaming eyes, burning both with love and anger. She was angry at being so rudely kissed ; yet the kisses had left a mark, not on her lips, but on her heart, and the warm embrace of humankind filled her breast with love to Johnie. As Johnie happened to look down, he saw shining at his feet the mermaid's gold comb. She had dropped it in her haste. Johnie held up the comb and cried, ' Thanks to thee, bonnie lass, since thou hast left me a love-token.' When she saw the comb she gave a bitter cry, saying, 'Aloor, aloor ! (alas, alas !). Oh give me back my golden comb ! To lose it is the sorest shame that could ever befall me ! Aloor, aloor ! Wherever I go the fin folk will call me the lass that lost her golden comb. Oh give me back my comb ! ' Says Johnie, 'Nay, my sweet bonnie buddo (probably bird). Thou '11 come and bide on land with me, for I can never love another creature but thine own lovely self.' * Nay, nay,' quoth she, ' I could not live in your cold land. I could not bide your black rain and white snow. And your bright sun and reeky fires would wizen me up in a week. Come thou with me, my bonnie, bonnie lad, and I '11 make thee a chief among the fin folk. I '11 set thee in a crystal palace, where sunbeams never blind, where winds never blow, and raindrops never fall. Oh come away with me, bonnie man, and be my own loving marrow, and we shall both be happy as the day is long.' ' Nay, nay,' quoth Johnie, ' thou needest not entice me. I was not born yesterday. But O my darling doe (dove), come thou with me ! I have a stately house at Volyar, with plenty of gear, plenty of cows and sheep, and thou shalt be mistress of all. Thou shalt never want for anything. Just come away and bide with me, my darling Gem-de-lovely ' (used as the superlative of everything lovely, and often used in our old lore as the proper name of a lovely woman). How long they stood, what more they said, I cannot tell. Only, the longer they stood the more they admired each other. At last she saw folk coming far away ; for mermaids see far. So she bade him farewell, and swam out to sea, singing, 'Aloor, aloor ! my golden comb.' And he saw her yellow locks shining over her fair body, like sunbeams dancing over white sea foam. Johnie went home with a sore heart and heavy, carry- ing the gold comb in his bosom. His mother was a wise woman ; may be she was a spaewife. Johnie told her all the tale as I tell it you, and asked her advice as to what he should do. ' Thou art a big fool,' quoth his mother, ' to fall in love with a sea lass, when there are plenty of thy own kind that would be glad to have thee. But men will be fools all the world over. So if thou wantest to have doings with her, thou must needs keep her comb as the dearest treasure. While thou hast her comb thou wilt have power over her. Now, if thou wilt be wise and take my advice, thou wilt cast her comb in the sea, and think no more on the limmer, for I can tell thee, though she may make thy summer bright and bonnie, it will end in a woesome winter. But I see thou '11 ride thy own road, and sink in the quagmire at its end.' . Well, Johnie went about his work like one bewitched, and could think on nothing but his sea-doll. Yet he did not forget to lock up the comb in a sure place. Now, it fell out one night that Johnie could get no sleep; he lay tossing about, wearying for a sight of his Gem-de-lovely. In the lighten- j 2b The Scottish A ntiquary ; ing of the morning he fell into a slumber, and in the glimmering of the day he was awakened by a most beautiful sound of music in his chamber. He lay awhile as if entranced, the music was so sweet. And then he remembered that it was the same music he had heard at the shore \ and he knew it was Gem-de-lovely's voice. He sat up and saw sitting before his bed the most lovely creature that ever mortal eye looked on. Her face so bonnie, her yellow hair shining like gold, and her dress so wondrous braw, Johnie took it for a vision, and tried to say an eerisin (a short prayer, probably a corruption of orison). But never an eerisin could he mind on. It was the mermaid. And quoth she, ' My bonnie man, I 'm come back to ask if thou '11 give me back my golden comb ; I 'm come to see if thou '11 come with me and be my loving marrow.' ' Nay,' quoth Johnie, ' my sweet, bonnie buddo ! Thou knowest I cannot do that. But, O my own bonnie darling, thou wilt bide with me and be my own dear wife. O Gem-de-lovely, if thou leaves me again my heart will break for love of thee.' Says she, ' I '11 make thee a fair offer. I '11 be thy marrow. I '11 live with thee here for seven years, if thou wilt swear to come with me, and all that 's mine, to see my own folk at the end of the seven years.' Johnie jumped out of bed, fell on his knees before her, and swore by the meur-steen to keep her bargain. And with that they jumped into each other's arms, and there they cuddled and kissed and clapped, till I wonder they were not sick of it. Well, they were married, and as the priest prayed Gem-de-lovely stuffed her hair in her ears. And folk all said a bonnier bride was never seen ; the gold and the silver shone on her dress, a string of pearls was round her neck, and every pearl was as big as a cockle-shell. Gem-de-lovely made a frugal, loving wife to Johnie. She baked the best bread and brewed the strongest ale in all the island. And she kept all things in good boonie (order). She was the best spinner in all the countryside. Indeed, Gem-de-lovely made the best wife and the best mother that was ever known. And at Volyar all things went merry as a Yuletide. Howbeit, it is a long day that has no ending, and as the seven years drew nigh to end, there was much stir in making ready for a long sea-voyage. Johnie said little, may be thought much. Gem-de-lovely was very brisk and busy, yet often wore a far-away look in her face. By this time Johnie and his wife had seven stately bairns, as bonnie and well-favoured bairns as ever set foot on a floor. Each of the bairns was weaned in Grannie's bosom, and now she had the youngest bairn sleeping with her in her own little house. And on the night before the day on which the seven years were ended, what think ye did Johnie's mother do? It was in the heuld (midnight) when she made a cross of wire ; she heated it in the fire, and she laid the cross red-hot on the bare seat of the bairn, he screaming like a demon. Well, the morning came, and when they were boon (fully equipped), Gem-de-lovely walked down to the boat. And oh ! she was a sight. Stately and grand as a queen. When she came to the beach she saw her goodman and six of her bairns in the boat. So she sent up the servants for the youngest bairn. They soon came back, telling her that four men had tried to lift the cradle wherein the bairn lay, and deil an inch could they budge it. Then there came a cloud over Gem-de-lovely's bonnie face. She ran up to the house and tried to lift the cradle, but could not move it. She flung back the blanket and made for lifting the naked bairn or, Northern Notes and Queries. 121 out of its cradle. The moment she touched him she felt a dreadful burn- ing go through her arms that made her draw back, and she gave a wild scream. She went to the beach and into the boat with her head hang- ing down, and the salt tears running from her bonnie eyes. All the time Grannie sat on a stone with tears in her eyes, and a laugh hanging about her mouth. As the boat sailed away the folk on the shore heard Gem-de-lovely lamenting sore, * Aloor, aloor ! for my bonnie bairn ! Aloor ! for my bonnie boy ! Aloor, to think I must leave him to live and die on dry land ! ' Away, far away, sailed the boat, nobody knows where. Johnie Croy, his braw wife, and six eldest bairns were never more seen by mortal eye. Grannie nursed the little boy that was left, and she named him Corsa Croy (Croy of the Cross). He grew to be a terribly strong and well- favoured man. When his grandmother died Corsa Croy took to the sword, and he went far away to fight the Pagan loons in Guthaland (God's land, that is, the Holy Land). And they said he hewed down the Pagans just as I, with a shearing-hook, would cut down thistles. Corsa Croy gathered great store of wealth from the chiefs he slew. He married a yarl's daughter and settled in the south country (the Island of Britain), and he and his wife had many bairns and plenty of worldly gear. They lived happy, and if not dead, they are living yet. W. TRAILL DENNISON. WEST BROUGH, SANDAY. 395. PROCLAMATION BY JOHN, EARL OF MAR. — John, Earl of Mar, etc., Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Forces in Scotland. These are in His Majesty's name, James the 8th, by the grace of God, etc., our rightful and natural king, to declare, That all ministers and preachers of the gospel, Presbyterian as well as Episcopal, who doe not pray and preach against His Maty, or others employed by him in assert- ing his rights to the throne of these realms, and for restoring him and his ancient kingdom to their just rights, privileges, and independent constitu- tions, shall have due protection in their churches, livings, and all that belong to them, and are hereby required not to remove from their said churches. These are likewise ordering and requiring all His Matys. forces and and loving subjects to give due protection to the said ministers aforesaid, and to keep them from being molested or any way maletreated whatsoever, as they will be answerable at their highest peril. This we order to be published in all the head burghs and parish churches over Scotland, that none may pretend ignorance. Given at the Camp at Perth this 4th of October 1715. MAR. To Mr. John Logan, Minister at Alloa ; Mr. Willy, Minister of Clackmanan, and the other Ministers of the shire of Clack- manan. The seal is apparently the Mar and Erskine Arms quartered, but it is much mutilated. The scroll surmounted by a coronet bears the Scotch motto, * Nemo me impune,' etc., and underneath the shield depends a St. Andrew's Cross. 1 2 2 The Scottish A ntiquary ; 396. BETROTHAL AND MARRIAGE (vol. iv. p. 129).— In 1887 'Extracts from the Records of the Royal Burgh of Stirling ' were privately printed. In an appendix to vol. i. are 'abstracts of some of the documents recorded in Fragments of Protocol Books.' In some of these light is thrown on the mode 'of conducting the marriage ceremony before the Reformation. The betrothal, which took place at a time and place distinct from the actual marriage service, was without doubt the handfasting which was suppressed by the Reformers in Scotland, but which was joined to the Marriage Service in the English Prayer-book, thus avoiding the evils which resulted from the long postponement of the Church marriage, leading in some cases to its omission, and thus depriving marriage of the Church's benediction. ' i4th November 1475. — ^n presence of the notary and witnesses, com- peared Duncan Aquhonane and Agnes Makcalpyn, daughter of Robert Makcalpyn of Camquhil, and were affianced together, per verba de futuro, according to the laws of the church, and for marriage to be contracted between them, giving their oaths on the holy Gospels that they had not formerly made any contract with any other persons, but that they might lawfully be joined in marriage. Done in the chamber of the notary the eighth hour before noon or thereby' (vol. i. p. 255). '15 November 1475. — Marriage was solemized in face of the kirk, between Duncan Aquhonane and Agnes Makcalpyn, by Nicholas Franch, curate of the parish church of Strivelin, within the parish church of the Holy Rood of the burgh Done in the said church the fifth hour before noon or thereby' (vol. i. p. 256). From two other cases reported it would seem that the marriage took place at the door of the church. '21 April 1478. — In presence of Colin, earl of Argyle, lord Campbell and Lome, Gilbert lord Kennedy, and the notary and witnesses, Hugh, lord of Montgumre, on the one part, and Elen Campbel, one of the daughters of the said earl, on the other part, passing to the door of the parish church of Dolor, Sir Patrick Makcleny, chaplain, asked them if they wished to be joined in marriage, who answered they did. . . . Where- upon the said Sir Patrick placed the said Hugh's hand in the said Elen's, and per verba matrimonis de presenti united them in marriage, and Hugh and Elen kissed each other in name of matrimony. Done in the church of Dolar the tenth hour before noon or thereby' (vol. i. p. 264). The Earl of Argyle had a castle at Dollar known as Castle Gloom, which name was changed by Act of Parliament to Castle Campbell. The interesting and beautiful ruins of this castle are well known. 25 Nov. 1479. — William lord le Grahame and Annabella, one of the daughters of John Drummond of Cargill, * past to the door of the parish church of Muthyl' where they were married, p. 266. 397. THE SCOTS IN ULSTER. — A close connection has existed for nearly a thousand years between the west of Scotland and the north of Ireland, and a stream of migration has for eight hundred years flown as strongly from east to west as from west to east. Both northern Ireland and north-western Scotland have possessed much in common in language and specially place- names from very early ages, and this their common property is of Norse origin. Three of the great Irish provinces, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster, are held by Jocey, in his Origin and History of Irish Names and Places, to have the Scandinavian termination -ster= stadr, a 'place.' Connaught, in the west or, Northern Notes and Queries. 123 of the island, like Wales in the west of England, became the refuge of the remnant of the original inhabitants. The Scandinavians were not the only people who troubled the old Irish. The Easterlings, a maritime race com- prising the inhabitants of Denmark and the coast of Holland nearly to the Straits of Dover, planted themselves on the east coast of Ireland, as they did on the eastern parts of England and Scotland. With less ferocity than the Scandinavians or Norsemen, they had more pertinacity in sticking to a spot once visited ; as traders they had keen eyes for a good location, and had no scruples as to the means of holding what they had once seized. Their influence may be gathered from the fact that the word ' sterling, ' as applied to money from the i2th century down to the present time, means the money of the Esterlings or 'Sterlings. As regards civilisation the north-east of Ireland had the advantage of being inhabited by a race of men who still retained the old Norse courage. England had little to fear from the western savages ; she set herself to make herself master of the province of Ulster, and this she never succeeded in doing until the crowns of Scotland and England were united. No long serious wars occurred between England and Scotland after the Bruce planted himself firmly on the Scottish throne, but there was no love lost between the two countries. English statesmen openly averred that Scotland could never prosper till she accepted Eng- lish protection and acknowledged an English king. Scottish statesmen were well aware that England, in undisputed possession of eastern Ire- land from Cape Clear to Lough Foyle, could not only march over the borders but attack her western shores from Ireland. It was, therefore, politic to keep Ulster in a state, if not of independence, yet of restless- ness, and this was the easier done as the ruling families of the province were fierce and ambitious, each in turn glad to receive aid from Scot- land, not only to keep England at bay, but to secure supremacy for the time being to his own family. It was a stroke of policy which led Edward Bruce in 1315 to invade Ireland. It is true that three years later he lost his life with more than 6000 of his countrymen at Dundalk, but from that time down to the Union of the two Crowns the Scots in Ireland were a source of trouble to the English. I have not space to dwell on this ; a few instances must suffice to show the influence of the Scots in the north of Ireland. I have taken my information from the State papers of the reign of Henry vin., and from the calendars of Irish papers. It would take too long to follow the history of the Scots in Ireland between 1320 and 1520. In 1520, a fear was expressed of an enter- prise by the Earl of Argyle. ' The Irish would resist the English, and over and above their own powers undoubtedly they may have three or four thousand Irish-Scots whensoever and as often as they will call for them, and they are not distant from the north parts of this land (Ireland) four hours' sailing.' In 1523 the Scots held castles in Ulster, and in 1535 we read, ' Neal Connelaugh came unto me (Sir William Skeffington, English Governor), and hath shown me and Lord O'Donnell how they (O'Neill and Manus O'Donnell), ever since my arrival into this land, have done their best endeavour to draw the Scots of the outer islands of Scotland to their country for their maintenance and help.' The mention in one passage of O'Donnell and the Western Isles is suggestive. The O'Donnells of Ulster were of the family of the M'Donnells of the Isles. They had been long settled in Ireland, but they had kept up their intercourse with their old home and people. The plan adopted by I2"4 The Scottish Antiquary ; the English to govern Ireland by allowing a chief to obtain semi-royal power, and then having lured him into treason to obtain the result of his labours by his destruction, proved deservedly unsuccessful. It would lie beside our subject to trace the rise and fall of O'Donnell, Shane O'Neill, Turlough Lynagh, and Tyrone, but each and all of these men made use of the Scots, and the Campbells and the M'Donnells were also connected with them by marriage. Indeed the ladies of the house of Campbell had a hard time of it, for they were required to transfer their conjugal obedience — conjugal affection we imagine there was none — to one or other of the rival chiefs as the shifting exigencies of the times demanded. These matrimonial alliances are, to say the least of k, confusing. I only mention them to show that the Scots were very much in Ireland before the accession of King James vi. to the English throne in 1603. Fortunately for James, fortunately for Scotland, and fortunately for Ireland, the last great Ulster chieftain, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, the grandson of Con O'Neill, was defeated in 1601, and his power utterly destroyed in 1602. The estates forfeited were immense, over 500,000 acres. With this vast district at his disposal James was able to try an experiment which if not altogether successful yet completely altered the position of the Scots in Ulster. On the Borders, the mosstroopers, now pressed on either side by James, King of England, and by the same James, King of Scotland, no longer could offer their lances to a rival and hostile sovereign, and were squeezed out, deported to serve in the Flemish wars, or to make their way as best they could as squatters in Ireland, with the promise of a halter if they came back. In Ulster the wild Irish could no longer get the help of the Scots to fight against the English, but had to see the richest part of their province handed over to Scotch and English settlers, who came with but one object, to overawe the native inhabitants. The Planting of Ulster will be found fully described in a work published at Belfast in 1877, written by the Rev. George Hill. The system adopted was as follows : Three classes of settlers were arranged — i. undertakers ; 2. servitors, or those who had served the State in war; 3. (last and least), natives. i. The undertakers were partly English and partly Scots. I shall only refer to the latter. In the first case there had been seventy-seven select Scottish applicants for land in shares varying from 1000 to 2000 acres each, amounting to an aggregate of 141,000 acres, but the under- takers held back from settling on their land. So a new survey was found necessary, and when the matter was again taken up in 1610, it was with-' drawn from the Scottish Privy Council. In 1611 a new list of Scottish undertakers appeared. This consisted of fifty-nine instead of seventy- seven names, and in this only eighteen of the earlier applicants appear. The apportionment of the land was also altered, five Scottish noblemen receiving 3000 acres each. A list of the names of these undertakers is given at p. Ixxx of the preface to the ninth volume of the Register of the Scottish Privy Council. In the calendar of the Carew Papers will be found reports as to the working of the experiment. In many cases the undertakers did little or nothing. In some cases they were content to let their land to the Irish on easy terms, thus acting in direct opposition to the object of their holding the lands at all. On considering the whole subject, we must come to the conclusion that the formal settlement of Ulster did but little, and that other circumstances saved the whole scheme from failure. Amongst those may be reckoned the altered condition of or, Northern Notes and Queries. 125 Britain — now no longer England and Scotland, either divided by open war or by unconcealed mistrust. The English and Scots in Ireland were, from the accession of James to the English throne, working side by side in Ireland, and what red-tapeism could not accomplish, private enterprise soon took up. The position of Ulster was favourable to Scottish settle- ment there. The Scottish people had developed a great talent for foreign trade. The Dutch who had supplied the east coast of Ireland with their goods now gave way to a race in which Dutch blood and Dutch taste for traffic were largely commingled. From the west coast of Scotland small trading vessels were continually passing to Ireland, and they took with them many who remained as settlers. In Charles the First's reign the Scottish population in Ulster was both large and prosperous. The in- crease in the population of Ireland was astonishing — in 1580 it was roughly reckoned at half a million, in which the Protestants were not worth counting ; in 1641 it was a million and a half, amongst whom were 260,000 Protestants. The greater number of the Protestants were to be found in Ulster. The Presbyterians of that province outnumbered the Episcopalian Protestants in the rest of the kingdom. In Charles the First's reign Laud's mania for uniformity was not only felt in Scotland by his attempt to force on a people not disinclined to a mild form of Episco- pacy a Liturgy which was repugnant to their feelings : it was felt dis- astrously in Ireland also. The Irish Protestants were to be made not simply Irish Episcopalians, but Irish Episcopalians of an English type. In the south of Ireland Laud would have found his work easy, but he had to commence with Ulster, the stronghold of Scottish Presby- terianism. The history of his work does not come within the scope of this paper. Suffice it to state that those ministers who did not conform were deprived, and as there were no competent men ready to fill their places, churches stood empty. Ulster had in its earlier days to suffer alike from the jealousy of the native Irish in other parts of the country and of English manufacturers. Weaving, first of wool and then of flax, was the chief industry of the Ulster settlers. The British weaving interest took alarm, and Wentworth, Lord Strafford, to please England and weaken Ireland, did his best to destroy the trade. The Irish them- selves were then as ever averse to let strangers cultivate a virtue they did not recognise — Industry. They boycotted, and finally annihilated, the weaving industry carried on at Waterford by Huguenots ; they tried the same tactics in Ulster, but failed. During the Commonwealth Ulster prospered, as, indeed, did every part of Ireland where Cromwell made his authority felt. It was at this period that the intercourse between Scotland and the Scottish colony became constant ; the small trading vessels of Renfrewshire and Ayrshire were ever passing backwards and forwards. Our public documents — parish registers, kirk-session records, wills — show how the interests of the two places had become one. The frequent inquiries of Ultonians about their Scottish ancestors show that they possess evidence or clear tradition that their people settled in Ulster about the middle of the i;th century. \ The .Restoration did much to trouble the prosperity that existed.' No doubt the Stuarts had a difficult task to perform ; it is enough to- say that as they failed to satisfy their English and their Scottish subjects, so they failed to act justly either to the native Irish or to the Scots in Ulster. With the Revolution an im- provement came, but a new difficulty arose. It had become the policy to j 26 The Scottish A ntiquary ; support the Established Protestant Church in Ireland as a useful weapon against the Papists; but the Church, too weak numerically, and too Erastian in spirit to flourish, was content to leave her more formidable opponent unmolested, and used what energy she possessed to harass the Presbyterians in Ulster. The Bishop of Dromore asserted that the Presby- terians were at heart rebels and Covenanters. We must remember that this took place in the reign not of James n. but of William in. In 1719 a Toleration Act more meagre than that which now stands on the Statute Book was passed in spite of the Irish bishops. It gave Nonconformists a bare permission to meet for worship in their own chapels, while the tests were sternly upheld. This was all that could be obtained. Archbishop King and the Irish bishops complained to the Archbishop of Canterbury that the English bishops had betrayed them. The occasion of the panic, to use Froude's words, ' was the simple permission to the Presbyterians who had saved Ireland from Tyrconnel, who formed two-thirds of the Pro- testant population of Ulster, to open chapels of their own, though they were incapacitated from holding public employment, though their marriages were invalid, though they were forbidden to open a single school, or hold any office in town or country above the rank of a petty constable.' It is asserted on good authority that the effect of this persecution, for such it was, and which lasted till 1782, was that very many of the settlers moved to America, where they became staunch Republicans, and did much to make the War of Independence successful and the United States a free country. Slight as has been the sketch I have been able to give, it may have sufficed to show what energy, industry, and independence can accomplish. In Ulster alone is progress and real prosperity to be found in Ireland. The Scotsman does not lose the vigour of his character. Ulster is nearer to Scotland than ever. The names on the shops in the streets of Belfast are Scottish as a rule. The faces of the people are Scottish. They love Scotland. They are a peaceable, law-abiding race, content with such liberties as their brethren in Scotland and England possess. They are strong, and they know their strength, and are quite able to hold their own. Statistics show the strength of Ulster at the present day, and the fruits of the industry and courage of the Scotsmen who have made it their home. The following figures are taken from Whitaker's Almanack for 1891 : — The whole population of Ireland is, .... 5,174,836 Do. do. of Ulster, .... 1,743,075 Or one-third of the whole. It is not, of course, asserted that all Ulster is Protestant. It must be remembered that the other three provinces contain very many thousand Protestants. Very little reliance can be placed on the statistics of religious bodies. The following figures are, however, from the official returns of 1881 for the whole of Ireland : Irish Church (Protestant), 6™ **>• Irish Presbyterians, . . . \ \ \ 485)503 Total of Protestants, . .' . . . 1,125,077 Whde P°Pulation' Th* number of Protestant Dis- or, Northern Notes and Queries. 127 The following figures will show that the semi-Scottish province of Ulster is more prosperous than the rest of Ireland : — Paupers in Ulster, I per cent, of the population. „ rest of Ireland, 2f ,, of the population. Poor-rates in Ulster, 2s. $d. per head of the population. ,, rest of Ireland, 53. 3d. „ of the population. The Scots in Ulster possess a good record in the past — in the present they are worthy of their sires — and for the future we may safely prophesy prosperity while they stand shoulder to shoulder, and are loyal, industrious, and energetic. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN. 398. SAILOR'S COSTUME IN 1693. — Mr. Johnston, Bookseller, George Street, Edinburgh, has kindly allowed us the use of a reduced facsimile of the title-page of a work entitled 1 England's Safety ; or a Bridle to the French King, proposing a sure method for encouraging navigation, raising qualified Sailors, etc., by Captain George St. Lo, 1693.' The chief interest of the plate lies in the cos- tume of the sailors, which comprises a sort of kilt which looks like tartan plaid. There can be little doubt that the sailors of the Royal Navy were thus clad at the close of the i yth century. ED. 399. SEAL OF BISHOP STEPHEN OF Ross. — I have in my possession a copy of a seal, one and one-eighth inches diameter, of late i4th or early 1 5th century work. A shield surrounded by tracery, quarterly ist and 4th barry of 7, 2nd_"and 3rd a low mitre. Inscription : — >£< SECRETVM STEPANI EPISCOPI ROSSENSIS. I cannot find any such bishop in Keith's Scottish Bishop s, or any other work that I can lay my hands on. I should be glad of any help in the matter. HENRY A. RYE. 400. REBEL PRISONERS AT INVERNESS, 1746. — The following list of rebel prisoners is from an old MS. in my possession, which is apparently a contemporary copy of some official document. It is 'aranged be ye difrent Regements under ye names of ther collonels.' Master of Lovafs Regiment. Pte. Thomas Clerk, Inverness-shire. Pte. Angus Campbell, Inverness-shire. „ Alexander Duncan, do. „ Murdoch Cameron, do. Sergt. David Fraser, do. 128 The Scottish Antiquary ; Pte. Donald Fraser, a dumb man said to have killed seven men at Falkirk. ,, Donald Fraser, Inverness-shire. ,, Wm. Fraser, do. ,, Thomas Fraser, do. ,, John Fraser, do. ., Donald Fraser, do. „ Andrew Ferguson, Cromarty. ,, John Geddes, Inverness-shire. ,, John Grasich, do. „ James Grant, do. „ Charles Irvine, do. John M' Donald, do. \ John M'Vain, do. , George M'Culloch, Cromarty. „ William M'Culloch, do. ,, Donald M'Adie, do. ,, Alex. M'Kintosh, do. ,, Thomas M'Intyre, do. Wm. M'Vain, Inverness. Donald M'Leod, do. Will. M 'Donald, do. John M'lvar, do. John Morgan, do. John M'Leod, do. James M'Pherson, do. William Mackenzie, do. Andrew Monchall, do. William Mackintosh, do. Jascal Mackay, do. Neil M'Goary, do. Evan M'Kenzie, do. Donald Ross, do. Lachlan Ritchie, do. Allan Stewart, do. Thomas Thomson, do. Col. Maclauchlaris Regiment. Col. Maclauchlan, Inverness-shire. Pte. John M'Lauchlan, Argyleshire. ,, John M'Bain, Inverness. ,, Donald M'Lean, Argyleshire. Col. Chisholnfs Regiment. Pte. Rod. Chisholm, Inverness-shire. „ Wm. Chisholm, do. ,, Wm. Chisholm, do. ,, John M 'Donald, do. Pitsligtfs Regiment [Alexander Lord Forbes of Pitsligo] Captain Andrew Spruel, Glasgow, Ensign James Hay, Aberdeenshire. Geo. Adison, ' Bawman,' do. Donald M 'Queen, 'Bawman,' Argyleshire. Appin Regiment [Stewart of Appin]. Pte. Archibald Colquhoun, Aberdeen- shire. „ John M'Lean, do. ,, Duncan Stewart, do. Lord John Drummond' s Regiment. Pte. Donald Cameron, Perthshire. Hugh Fraser, Inverness-shire. ,, John Haggans, Lanark. » J ohn M'Dowgall, Lord J. Drumond's 'Piper's Servant.' Duke of Berwick's Regiment. Pte. Alexander Campbell, Inverness. ,, Alexander Young, do. Lord Elcho's Regiment. Life- Guard Sir John WTedderburn, Augus. ,, Walter Gordon, Midlothian. ,, James Bredshaw, Manchester. ,, James Cassie, Tweed-dale. Lord Lewis Gordon's Regiment. Pte. John Allan, Aberdeenshire. ,, Donald Campbell, Perthshire. ,, Robert Grant, Aberdeenshire. ,, John Simpson, Moray. ,, James Stewart, Aberdeenshire. Lochiel Regiment. Pte. Alexander Cameron, Inverness-shire. *,, Archibald Cameron, do. ,, Donald Cameron, do. ,, Duncan Campbell, Argyleshire. ,, Alexander Macleod, Inverness-shire. ,, Donald Macleod, Argyleshire. John Roy Stuart Regiment. Capt. Andrew Wood, Glasgow. Pte. John Cairn, Perthshire. ,, David Crab, Midlothian. ., William Grant, Inverness. ,, Lachlan M'Lean, Argyleshire. „ William Roy, Lanark. StoneywoocTs Regiment [Moir of Stoney- wood]. Pte. John Beverley, Aberdeenshire. ,, Andrew Catanoch, do. ,, George Gordon, do. John Mason, do. Dougal Mackenzie, Inverness-shire. David Ramsay, Angus. Alex. Thomson, Aberdeen. Donald Ross, do. Duke of Perth's Regiment. Major James Stuart, Aberdeenshire. Capt. Alex. Cuning, Perthshire. ,, 'Alexander Buchanan, do. Sergt. Donald Ferguson, do. Pte. Archibald Colquhoun, Argyleshire. James Drummond, Perthshire. John Drummond, do. William Falconer, Banffshire. Wm. Harrall, Perthshire. Donald Macalpine, do. John M 'Robbie, do. James Macdonald, Inverness-shire. Sir Alexander Bannermaris [of Elsick] Regiment. Pte. David Burns, Mearns. ,, John Campbell, Argyleshire. ,, John Campbell, do. ,, Grigor Farquharson, Banff. ,, Robert Johnston, Mearns. ,, John Morrison, Banffshire. ,, James Ronaldson, Aberdeenshire. ,, John Smart, do. „ James Stephen, Mearns. or, Northern Notes and Queries. 129 Glenbuckef s Regiment [Gordon of Glenbucket].- Lieut. George Gordon, Perthshire. Pte. John Buchanan, Inverness-shire. James Ferguson, Aherdeenshire. Wm. Farquarson, Banffshire. James Gordon, do. James Micldleton, do. John Maclauchlan, do. John Macdonald, do. Thomas Nairn, Aberdeenshire. Macdonald of Keppoch 's Regiment. Pte. John Kennedy, Inverness-shire. ,, Dogal Sentor, Midlothian. ,, John Robertson, Perthshire. Lord George Miirray's Regiment. Pte. John Aldain, Perthshire. Alex. Christie, do. Donald Cameron, Argyle. Duncan Campbell, Perthshire. John Ferguson, do. Robert Farquharson, Inverness. Wm. Mackintosh, Angus. John M'Andrew, Nairn. George Mury, Aberdeen. Peter M'Laren, Perth. Donald Robison, do. George Robison, do. John Ross, Angus. James Skonawa, Irishman. Abochie [Col. John Gordon of] Regiment. Pte. James Campbell, Inverness. George Forbes, Aberdeen. James Guiffoch, do. William Miln, do. John M'Lean, Argyle. Hugh M'Kenzie, Inverness. Robert Mackay, Sutherland. ArdshieVs [Chas. Stewart of] Regiment. Pte. John Buchanan, Argyle. Donald Levistone, do. Evan M'Culloch, do. Archibald M'Innes, do. Allan Steuart, Perth. Malcolm, servant to Col. Stewart. Lord OgilviJs Regiment. Pte. Thos. Armstrong, Angus. William Anderson, do. Robert Bean, Mearns. Wm. Bain, do. Daniel Campbell, Angus. Andrew Geddes, Bar.ff. James Hasben, do. James Mason, Aberdeen. James Laird, Angus. Alexander Mathew, do. David Mitchell, do. James Nicol, do. John Nicol, do. Alexander Piggot, do. Jos. Stair, do. VOL. VI. — NO, XXIII. Pte. Alex. Smith, Angus. ,, John Smith, do. ,, William Traill, Banft. ,, Alex. Trigg, Moray. ,, Alexander Watson, Angus ,, Alexander Wilkie, do. ,, James Wylie, do Crightoris Regiment Qames Crichton of Auchingoull, created ' Viscount Frert- draught ' by * Prince Charlie ']. Pte. John Airth, Aberdeen. ,, John Gollan, Inverness. ,, James Low, Banff. ,, Andrew Mill, Aberdeen. ,, James Smith, do. ,, Andrew Smith, do. ,, William Walker, do. Macgillavrae 's Regiment [Alexander M'Gillivray of Dunmaglass, killed at Culloden]. Pte. Jas. M'Kenzie, Inverness ,, Francis Mackintosh, do. Malcolm Masterton, do. John M'Kenzie, do. Farquhar M'Gillavrae, do. Donald M'Vain, do. Farquhar M'Kintosh, do. Donald M'Leod, do. Farquharson' s Regiment [Col. Francis Farquharson of Monaltrie]. Colonel Francis Farquharson, Aberdeen. Capt. John Farquharson, do. Ensign Duncan Macgregor, do. Pte. John Ague, do. ,, Duncan Catanach, do. ,, William Couts, do. ,, Alexander Davidson, do. ,, William Durrat, do. ,, Alex. Ledderkin, do. ,, George Macdonald, do. ,, George Murdoch, do. ,, John Macandrew, do. ,, John Macaurie, Argyle. ,, Donald Macrae, Sutherland. ,, John Smith, Aberdeen. , , Magnus Young, do. Clanronald's Regiment. Pte. Wm. Munro, Inverness. ,, Roger Macdonald, Skye. ,, John Macdonald, Inverness. ,, John Macdonald, do. ,, Dugwal Macleod, do. ,, Archibald' Macdonald, do. ,, John Macdougall, Argyle. ,, Donald Sutherland, Sutherland Glengarry's Regiment. Pie. James Davidson, Inverness. ,, Alex. Campbell, Nairn. ,, Donald Grant, Inverness. ,, Chas. Graham, Ross. ,, Angus Macdonald, Inverness. I ! 30 The Scottish A ntiquary ; Pte. John Macdonald (4), Inverness. Ensign James Lindsay and Pte.^ Jas. Reid Mackintosh Regiment. Pte. Alex. Campbell, Sutherland. John Campbell, Perth. John Sim, Inverness. Donald Forbes, do. Alex. Forbes, Ross. Lachlan Mackintosh, Inverness John M'Vea, Angus. Alex. Mackintosh, Inverness. George Smith, Aberdeen. Alex. White or Whyte, Inverness. Names not Classified. Pte. John Maclean [Aberdeen — Maclean's Regiment]. ,, Alex. Morrison [Argyle — Maclean's Regiment]. Life-Guard Jas. Dod [Perth— Lord Bal- merino]. ., 4h°M]acdonald [P.rth-Co,. M.n- zie's Regiment]. Tan Boy, native of France [Fitz- J james]t „ James Dyce (Aberdeen), Cadet James Flint (Inverness) Pte Daniel Maquhony (Irish) [Ruth s Picquets]. Pte. John Sim [Perth— Lord Nairn s Regiment]. „ Thomas Gillespie, a boy [Midlothian —Col. Warrant's Regiment]. ,, James Drummond [Inverness— Lord Lewis Drummond]. Geo. Lauder, Esq., surgeon, [Edinburgh]. John Rattray, surgeon, do. )ohn * engineer [Artillery> Edin' - Nairn [Deputy Paymaster, Edin- burgh]. Geo. Law, chaplain [Aberdeen]. John Macintyre [Bawman to Pretender]. John Gray [a native of France, came ex- press from the French King]. D. M. ROSE. 401. PRICE OF GLASS IN 1686. — The following prices are taken from the Accounts of the Burgh of Stirling. The money is, of course, Scottish, but it would represent a sum considerably larger than the same amount at the present day : — ' Beer glasses 2os. the dozen, wine glasses 49. each.' A petition from Sir Robert Mansell, who possessed the monopoly of glass-making, dated 1640, and at present in the British Museum, was printed in Notes c^ Queries for October 24, 1891. In it the price of ordinary beer glasses is stated to be 45. per dozen, ordinary wine glasses 2s. 6d. per dozen, 'Cristall' beer glasses made in England 95. per dozen, ' Cristall ' wine glasses made in England ys. per dozen.