Is it, then, a forced conjecture that the shipwreck took place off the iron-bound coast of the northern islands, which did not then belong to the crown of Scotland? 'Half owre to Aberdour' signifies nothing more than that the vessel went down half-way between Norway and the port of embarkation."

NOTE Y, p. 498 of First Volume.

The additional improvement on the old and new churchyard, here mentioned as contemplated, has been carried into effect-namely, the widening of the walk from the north-western onward to the eastern gate, so as to admit of a hearse passing through the whole extent of the cemetery, entering by the one and leaving by the other approach. The southern, or new portion, from its being level, and the extensive prospect which it commands, as well as from the adjacent interesting ruins, with the Abbey old and new Church, is a favourite resort for the inhabitants.

NOTE Z, p. 511 of First Volume.

Mention being here made of Mr George Young, servant to the Lord Abbot of Dunfermline, having, with the consent of the General Assembly, been employed, in 1575-6, by Bassandyne and Arbuthnot, printers, in correcting the proof-sheets of the first edition of the Geneva translation of the English Bible ever printed in Scotland, folio, I may state that there was a copy of this edition in the possession of John Alexander Stuart, Esq., late of Carnock, which I saw at his residence, three miles west from Dunfermline, in December 1850.

NOTE A A, p. 567 of First Volume.

The ancient church of Lessydwyn or Lessuden, five miles from Melrose, so named, it has been conjectured, from Lis-Aidan, or the residence of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisferne, no remains of which exist, was situated at the foot of the declivity on which the present village of St Boswell stands. It is said to have been founded by St Boisil (from whom the village of St Boswell derives its name), a disciple of the venerable St Cuthbert, and a monk of Melrose, about the middle of the seventh century, and who was canonised for his great piety. The locality is very retired and lovely.

NOTE B B, p. 568 of First Volume.

The page of reference to the Great Fire in Dunfermline should be 514, instead of 513.

NOTE C C, p. 574 of First Volume.

Presbytery of Dunfermline.-This Presbytery still continues to hold its meetings at Dunfermline; but its members are not so numerous as they were in 1844, in consequence of a new Presbytery having been since formed, with the sanction of the General Assembly, at Kinross, to which three of the Dunfermline Presbytery were given. There are at present only eleven, instead of fourteen as formerly. The following are the names, &c. in December 1858 :

The date of the decision of the House of Lords for a manse to the minister of the First Charge, Dunfermline, was 9th March 1812; but the Rev. Allan M'Lean, then minister, did not get possession till the autumn of 1816.

NOTE D D, p. 305 of First Volume.

"Close by Pitfirren is Cavil," says Sibbald, in his History of Fife, "the seat of an ancient gentleman of the name of Lindsay." Lord Lindsay, in his Lives of the Lindsays, gives some account of the family. The last of them, about a century ago, married the widowed sister of Mr George Barclay, and dying without issue, left the lands of Keavil to his wife's daughter and her husband (a Mr and Mrs Stevenson, it is believed), who sold it to Mr George Barclay. He, again, dying about the year 1730 or 1735, left Keavil (then, as anciently, spelled Cavil or Cavel, a Celtic name derived from the British Cavell, denoting a retired or enclosed place, a retreat), to his grand-nephew, James Robertson of Craigarn Hall and Duthiestone, Perthshire, grandfather of the present proprietor, with injunctions to add the name of Barclay to that of Robertson. The father of the present proprietor was Thomas Robertson, the immediate elder brother of the late William Robertson, W.S., Thistle Court, Edinburgh, none of the family taking the name of Barclay except the one in possession of the entailed lands of Keavil. His late uncle, James Robertson Barclay, M.D., whom he immediately succeeded, was Physician to the Forces serving at Toulon and elsewhere in the south of France in the year 1793 and 1796, and Inspector of Hospitals for the British troops on foreign service. The Keavil family, as already shown, intermarried with the Welwoods, Moncrieffs, &c.

Mr George Barclay, who entailed the estate of Keavil, came of a respectable family long connected with the west of Fife. The following information regarding his ancestors has been procured for this work.

In the beginning of the fifteenth century, David Barclay of Cullerny, son of William Barclay of Touch and Cullerny, obtained a charter to the lands of Cleish and Blair Crambeth, lying along the north-eastern boundary of the parish of Dunfermline, but principally in Cleish (see Robertson's Index to the Crown Charters, p. 159). In the beginning of the seventeenth century, David Barclay, a cadet of the same family, acquired Blair Crambeth, and was infeft in 1614. George Barclay, his son, worked the coal on the property with considerable success. He is described as youngest son to David Barclay of Blair Crambeth in a tack of the coal recorded in the General Register at Edinburgh, 11th January 1622, and also in a bond to Sir David Barclay of Cullerny, to which George Barclay and his father are witnesses, dated at Blair Crambeth, 31st January 1631, and recorded in the same register 21st November 1631. George Barclay had several children, among whom were David, George, Helen, Janet, and Alexander.

The eldest son, David, settled at Georgeton, in the western part of Cleish, which he or his son John ultimately purchased, and of which his descendants continued to be proprietors for several generations.

Mr George Barclay was in 1671 minister at South Queensferry, and in 1704 at Uphall, in Linlithgowshire.

Helen married her kinsman, James Barclay, elder, coalmaster at Keltieheugh, whose son Alexander was the last of the Barclays of Blair Crambeth, that property having been sold to the Adam family after Alexander's death, and from the Adams deriving its present name of Blair-Adam.

Janet married the Rev. William Lamb of Edinburgh.

Alexander Barclay, the third son, died at Georgeton in 1693, leaving a son, Andrew, who was minister first at Linlithgow and afterwards at Tranent.

The son of the Rev. Andrew Barclay was Mr George Barclay, who purchased and afterwards entailed Keavil, as stated at the commencement of this notice. He was a man of very considerable literary attainments, and was in all probability the author of the account of Dunfermline referred to in the first volume of the present work.

In the first volume, pp. 496, 566, reference is made to a "David de Berclay," who, at Dunfermline, in 1329, was "purveyor for our Lord the King's burial." On the authority of Burke, he is stated to have been a David de Berclay of Balvaird, by mistake stated to be in Perthshire, it being in Fife, On investigation, it seems much more likely that he was David de Berclay or Berkeley, Lord Brechyn in the Scottish peerage, who, by his marriage in 1315 with the niece of Robert Bruce, was closely related to the royal family (see Douglas Peerage," Barclay, Lord Brechin"); and who was besides, at the time of the King's death, Sheriff of Fife, his

principal residence being the Castle of Lindores, near Newburgh (see Chartulary of Balmerino, pp. 14, 40, and 41, where he is designed "David de Berkeley," "miles," "Dominus de Brechyn,” and “Vicecomes de Fyff"). He was alive down to 1350, when he was assassinated-as is well known to students of Scottish history—at Aberdeen, on the Shrove Tuesday of 1350, by John St Michael, an emissary of the Douglasses, with whom the Berkeleys had an old feud. His son dying without male issue, the family came to be represented by the Barclays of Cullerny, above referred to, who descended from his nephew, Hugh Berkeley of Kindesleth, in the parish of Creigh, and the son of the latter, William Berkeley of Touch and Cullerny. It was against this William Berkeley that, in 1400, the Scotch poet Andrew Wynton brought an action before the Bishop's court at St Andrews, the curious proceedings in which are printed in the St Andrews Chartulary; and it was David, the son of the same William, who obtained the charter to Cleish and Blair Crambeth, or Blair-Adam, above referred to.

NOTE E E, pp. 254, 283-87 of First Volume; pp. 238-41, 404-10, of Second Volume.

(Mistakes in references at p. 404 corrected.)

Since printing the note here referred to, I had spontaneously sent to me by James Grant, Esq., Provost of Elgin, along with a wax impression of the city seal of the burgh, some notes or heads of a Lecture delivered by the Sheriff of the County, B. R. Bell, Esq., upon the Dunfermline House near the Cathedral; and although several of the facts mentioned have been already noticed in the First and Second Volumes of this work, the communication, from the condensed narrative which it contains and the quarter from which it comes, is deserving of insertion, and will be appreciated by some readers :

"As the ruin near our beautiful Cathedral, known as the Bishop's Townhouse, and more recently as Dunfermline House, was threatened to be thrown down, it occurred to me that it was to be regretted there is no memorial of its history, and therefore I collected the following memoranda, which, meagre as they are, may hereafter be thought of some importance, as they connect together several circumstances, which I have found spread through various authorities.

"That the proud Bishops of Moray should have had their lordly Castle at Spynie, and their Town-house close to the Cathedral, was nothing more than might be expected; but that does not suggest what connection the Lords of Dunfermline had with the town of Elgin, or how the Bishop's Town-house came to be called Dunfermline House.

"It appears, however, that the Priories both of Urquhart and of Pluscarden were dependent on the great Abbey of Dunfermline.

"Urquhart was a Cell of Dunfermline, founded by David I., in 1125, and planted with Benedictine or Black Monks of the order of Fleurie, and it was

endowed with many valuable gifts, and all the rights which the monks of Dunfermline wont to have in Moray.'

"Shaw also says, that the monks of Pluscarden were first independent, but afterwards becoming vicious, the Priory was reformed, and made a Cell of Dunfermline.

"By the munificence of our kings and great men, the Priory became very rich, having the whole valley of Pluscarden, the lands and mills of Old Mills, some lands in Durris, and the lands of Grange-hill.

"It would appear the Abbots of Dunfermline did not lose their connection with the Bishopric of Moray, though Urquhart had got all the rights which the monks had in Moray; for on referring to the roll of Bishops, it is found that James Hepburn, Abbot of Dunfermline and High Treasurer, was Bishop of Moray. He had died before Nov. 1524, when the Earl of Angus made the modest request to the equally modest and self-denying Cardinal Wolsey to solicit the Pope for the Bishopric of Moray and the Abbey of Melrose, whilk are baith vaichant,' for the brother.

"Robert Shaw, Abbot of Paisley, was the next Bishop who died in 1527. Alexander Stuart, son of the Duke of Albany, was next in order, who died also in 1527. His arms are on the east wing of the house.

"He was succeeded by Patrick Hepburn, son of the first Earl of Bothwell, and uncle to Darnley. He alienated the church possessions and braved the Reformation, being the last Popish Bishop; he died in 1573. His arms are also on the east side, but on the gable of the front part of the house.

"There is a curious three-faced head, supposed to be intended as an emblem of the Trinity on the stone, with the date 1557, which most probably marks the date of the erection of the house.

"George Douglas, natural son of Archibald Earl of Angus, was appointed first Protestant Bishop on Bishop Hepburn's death in 1573. At his death the temporality of the Bishopric was erected into the temporal Lordship of Spynie by James VI., in favour of Alexander Lyndesay. It was repurchased from that family, and given to the Episcopalian Establishment in 1606.

"About this time the Seaton family were of great weight and influence in Scotland, and Mary, I am told, had gifted Pluscarden to George Lord Seaton, the loyal and magnanimous.'

"His third son, Alexander Seaton, studied law abroad, according to the fashion of the day, and acquired early distinction as a Scottish lawyer, and was made an extraordinary Lord of Session in 1587, an ordinary Senator of the College of Justice by the title of Lord Pluscarden, having been made commendator in 1561. He was created Lord Fyvie and Lord Urquhart in 1591, and appointed Lord President of the Court of Session in 1593. He was made Chancellor in 1604; Earl of Dunfermline in 1605; and died at his house in Pinkie in 1622. "He had the charge of the education of Charles I., when an infant, up to 1603.

"I am indebted to my friend Mr Sheriff Innes for the information that this distinguished man, who obtained a grant as commendator of the Priories of Pluscarden and Urquhart, sat in the Court of Session under the title of Lord Pluscarden, and also for the following most interesting letter by Lord Dun fermline to Mr Innes' ancestor, Mr John Innes of Leuchars, in 1618, which clearly shows that the house in question was then his Lordship's, and that he