Makyne," an ancient Scottish pastoral, is also reprinted in Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (vol. ii. p. 77; London, 1839; 8vo).

There is a notice of Henryson, too, in Specimens of Early English Poets, by George Ellis, Esq., 3 vols. 12mo; London, 1801.

(P. 314.)-Mr Adam Blackwood, born in Dunfermline in 1539, a Roman Catholic, who settled in France, and became a Senator in the Parliament of Poitiers, is shortly mentioned also at p. 557, as a Professor of Law in the university of that town, and author of Apologia pro Regibus.

(Pp. 314-16, 532-4.)-Mr Andrew Donaldson and Dr John Mackie. These two persons were related, the latter being a nephew of the former, and both were persons of some note in their respective departments; the one as a teacher, and the other as a physician. The account of Mr Donaldson by Kay, whose print (not book) shop in Edinburgh he used to frequent, given in the pages referred to, is a sufficient testimony to his scholarship, while it is curious as a record of his eccentricities; and Dr John Mackie, who was born in 1748, in the Queen's House, which stood between the west entrance to the Abbey Church and Pittencrieff gate, with a pend beneath for the roadway, and who died at Chichester, where he long practised, on 29th January 1831, aged eighty-two years, has a marble tablet in the Cathedral there erected to his memory, with a suitable inscription, which I saw in 1855. He has still one relative in Dunfermline, Mrs Dr Douglas.

(Pp. 316-17.)—Provost Low, here noticed as a gentleman who distinguished himself for his benevolent exertions in the cause of suffering humanity, was in his 85th year at his death on the 19th September 1817.

(P. 317.)-The late Rev. Henry Fergus of the Relief Church, an author and ardent student of physical science, has been again noticed by me at pp. 60, 61 of this volume in connection with his Meteorological Table, given there as kept by him for twenty years, 1805-1824, both inclusive, in Dunfermline.

The Rev. Dr David Black, long an Antiburgher Minister, and afterwards minister of the Associate Congregation in Dunfermline, published soon after his volume of sermons "On Death," previously noticed, a sermon entitled, "The Covenanter's Directory, or suitable Exercise for intending Covenanters on a Day of

Covenanting," preached, immediately before the work of Covenanting, at Milnathort, April 16, 1806-and at Falkirk, May 25, 1808; a sermon, too, on Early Piety, from Zech. xiii. 9.

(Pp. 317-18.)-Ebenezer Henderson, D.D., late Theological Tutor, Highbury College, England (an institution of the Independents), although advanced in age, I found in good health about three years ago, when I paid a forenoon visit to him at his cottage, in the neat little village of Sheen, near Richmond; but he died May 16, 1858, aged 73 years. From the promi nent place which he held for a long time in the religious world, in the cause of Bible circulation in the northern countries of Europe, and latterly in Turkey and adjacent places as an agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and several works which he published, he was a very interesting as well as excellent person. On the 22d June 1817 the German University of Keil conferred on him the title of Ph. D. (Philosophiæ Doctor) for the services which he rendered to Denmark, Holstein, and Iceland, in promoting the circulation of the Scriptures, and establishing Bible societies and associations. In 1841, too, he had the honorary degree of D.D. conferred on him by an American College. Besides the books previously named, of which he was the author or editor, he published in 1845 a "Translation of the (12) Minor Prophets, with a Commentary, critical, philological, and exegetical" (8vo). He has left a widow and daughter, both of whom are authoresses. E. Henderson, Esq., LL.D., St Helens, is his nephew.

(P. 318.)—Mr Robert Gilfillan, whose poetical effusions are enumerated in the first volume, resided latterly at Leith, where he was in a public office, and died in 1850. A neat monument has been erected to his memory by his admirers, in South Leith Churchyard, having a head-likeness at top, encircled with a wreath and a small harp, pen, &c., at bottom, with the following inscription:—

BORN 7 JULY 1798,
DIED 4 DECEMBER 1850.

ERECTED

AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS

WORTH AS A MAN,

AND

HIS GENIUS AS A WRITER

OF SCOTTISH SONG,

The Misses Gedd.-These ladies, not previously noticed by me, were of some consequence of old in Edinburgh society, and according to Mr Robert Chambers,

"Were descended from the family of Gedd of Baldridge, near Dunfermline; and their establishment was chiefly supported by the Jacobite families of Fife." He says, "They kept a boarding-school in Paterson's Court, Lawnmarket, were conspicuous in their day, and are remarkable for having been the sisters of Don Patricio Gedd, the hospitable physician at St Jago, of whom such honourable mention is made in Byron's Narrative, and no less in Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. They were stanch, old, honest Jacobite Episcopalians, and kept a full-length portrait of the old Pretender in their dining-room. Whether they were related to the inventor of Stereotype printing or not, we cannot decide; but they had a near kinsman, who held a captaincy in the Town Guard, as witness Robert Fergusson,

'Nunc est bibendum, et bendere bickerum magnum,

Cavete Town-Guardum, Dougal Geddum, atque Campbellum.'

Dougal was a short, stout man. Campbell, his comrade, was a tall, slender, solemn man, and wore a brigadier wig-i.e., a wig with three tails, the middle one tied with a black ribbon."

The Gedd of Baldridge, near Dunfermline, from whose family Mr Chambers says the Misses Gedd, of Edinburgh, were descended, is most probably the same as Mr William Ged of Baldrig, who, I state at p. 41 of the first volume, was an elder in the parish of Dunfermline in 1643, and who, or his son, nearly ruined himself by his unsuccessful searches for coal in it, and from whom Mr Henry Wellwood of Garvock bought the Baldridge estate about the beginning of last century, discovered coal, and cleared about £30,000 in ten years. The Wellwood family are now represented by A. Maconochie Wellwood, Esq., lately Lord Meadowbank, who, as well as the enterprising and judicious lessee, Thomas Spowart, Esq. of Venturefair and Broomhead, derive a handsome return from these minerals.

Durie Family. The present representative of this family, as proprietors of Craigluscar in this parish, is Mr Robert Durie, the only surviving son of Dr Charles Durie, mentioned at p. 157 of this volume as having died at Malaga in Spain, 1st March 1845, aged 29. He is nineteen years of age, residing with friends in Edinburgh.

* Traditions of Edinburgh, 1825, vol. ii. pp. 48, 49.

There are, however, several elder collateral branches of the family, all brothers, and sons of an old lady who resided in Dunfermline, and died there about thirty years ago, who, having devoted their lives to the service of their sovereign, are deserving of notice.

Brevet Major Robert Durie served in the 24th and 11th Light Dragoons for several years in India, where in action he had his horse shot under him, and died in India, after twentynine years' active service.

Charles Durie served during the Rebellion in Ireland in 1798, and afterwards as Consul-General for Norway; still in life, and lately resided in Jersey.

William Durie was appointed Assistant-Surgeon, Royal Artillery, in 1799; rose to the rank of Assistant-Inspector of Hospitals, was decorated as Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and retired in 1837, after 38 years' service: still alive, and residing in Canada.

John Adam Durie was appointed Ensign in the 92d Regiment in 1803, was in all the actions in which that distinguished corps was engaged during the Peninsular War and elsewhere, in which he was three times wounded. He died at Astleyhall, Lancashire, in 1842.

The niece of all these gentlemen, widow of Captain Hood, recently resided in Jersey.

Mr John Reid, an able and successful teacher in Dunfermline for nearly 50 years, learned in mathematics and navigation, and esteemed for his moral worth, died 23d December 1816.

MODERN AND OTHER BUILDINGS.

Pp. 319-21.-The Town-house or Tolbooth underwent a considerable change a few years since, when a new jail was built at the east end of the town, on the rising ground of the old Town Green. The upper story of the building was converted into two good apartments for the Town (now City) Clerk, and a room in the steeple, on the same floor, all of stone, was made the safe for the public records. At the bottom of the steeple, on a line with the street, there is a waiting-room for the town-officers, having entrance from the Kirkgate. The small court-room, on the same level, at the west of the main street entrance, still remains, immediately above which is the large Council-room, with the various

The clock

portraits and busts described in the first volume. was lately repaired at Glasgow, and the two new excellent dialplates, of modern style, white on the surface, with black pointers, were added, at an expense of about £75, which is found to be a great convenience to the public. The inner works have been encased in glass, to prevent the admission of dust, and thus secure regularity.

The Town-house bell has the following quaint inscription around it:

HENRICK. TER. HORST. ME. FECIT. DAVENTRIÆ. 1654.

In English: "Henry Ter Horst made me at Daventre, 1654."* (P. 320.)-Guild Hall, now County Buildings.—The large edifice near the cross, long known by the successive names of the Cross Buildings, the Guild Hall, and Spire Hotel, according to its situation or the purpose to which it was applied, was, by an arrangement with the county gentlemen in 1849-50, converted into a Court-House for the Western District of Fife, in which the Sheriff of the County and his substitute for the Western District of it hold their courts, and the Procurator-Fiscal has his apartments. Previous to its inauguration for this last purpose, there was held in it, during the holiday week of Handsel Monday, 1849, a grand exhibition of whatever was interesting, useful, or curious, of foreign or home fabric, ancient or modern, that could be obtained in the town and vicinity, voluntarily offered by the possessors, and for admission to which a small fee was exacted. The exhibition gave universal satisfaction, and the proceeds, which amounted to L.21, were intended for restoring to active operation the Dunfermline Mechanics' Institution. The number of visitors exceeded 2000. A list of the most prominent objects exhibited will be given in the Appendix.

About the same period, and in connection with the same event, a young man, named Jas. Duncan Wright, but colloquially Steeple Jack for his astonishing feats of ascending steeples, mounted to the summit of the spire, seated on a bit of board, with suitable tackle, fastened by means of a flying kite and chain at top, and put a newly-gilt ball upon it. He performed the same operation upon the Abbey Church-steeple weather-cock.

Daventre is a town in the Netherlands, long famed for bell-founding.