236 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2'"» S. X. Sept. 22. '60. 



of Thomas h Kempis,' translated into English. In his 

 Preface to the second volume of these Pieces, he has in- 

 troduced some addresses to the Virgin Mary ; for which 

 imprudence, as it was deemed in those evil days of calumny 

 and reproach, he thought it necessary to enter into some 

 explanation with his more scrupulous brethren." 



So far as the translation is concerned, the notice 

 in the Scots Mag. is A'ery slight : — 



" Jan. 20. 1757. At Bonnyhaugh near Edinburgh, 

 Mr. Robert Keith, one of the bishops of the Episcopal 

 Church of Scotland. He was born Feb. 7. 1681, was 

 educated in the Marischal College of Aberdeen, and was 

 preceptor to the Earl Marischal and his brother James, 

 Field Marshal Keith, now in the Prussian service. He 

 was about forty-seven years a clergyman, above twenty- 

 nine a bishop. 



" He published a history of the Church and State of 

 Scotland from the beginning of the Reformation to the 

 year 1568, folio, in the year 1734 ; a Catalogue of Bishops 

 of Scotland down to the year 1688, 4°, in 1756; and a 

 translation of Thomas h Kempis many years ago." 



The late Principal Lee had in his library a 

 copy of the early edition of the work, T'he Imita- 

 tion of Christ, the Valley of Lilies, and Soliloquy 

 of the Soul. 2 vols. Edinb. 1721— -1727. 



Bishop Keith lies interred in the Canongate 

 churchyard : a simple pedestal surmounted by an 

 urn near the S.W. corner of the ground marks 

 the spot, inscribed : — 



" Bishop Keith died 



1756. 



Stewartina, Catharina, 



Carmichael, Wife of 



William Douglas, 



died, 20th April, 1793. 



William Douglas, 



March*, in Leith, died 11th 



July, 1814." 



In the Memoir this stone is said to have been 

 recently erected, as a tribute of affection, by a 

 distant relative ; and that the property of Bonny- 

 haugh, after the bishop's death, was inherited by 

 his daughter and grand-daughter. 



His marriage settlement, dated at Bonnytoun, 

 25 Nov. 1752, is recorded in the Sheriff Court 

 books of Edinburgh, 20 April, 1757. He is there 

 designated " Kobert Keith, Minister of the Gospel 

 at Edinburgh." The name of his wife (not men- 

 fioned in the Memoir), is Isobell Cameron ; and 

 their only daughter, Catharine Keith, is .noticed 

 as married to Stewart Carmichael, Merchant in 

 Edinburgh. 



Descended from the youngest son of William, 

 third Earl Marischal, Bishop Keith was named 

 after Robert, second Viscount of Arbuthnott, 

 grand-uncle to the first lady of William Galloway, 

 Esq., my grandfather, his mother having been 

 Marjory, daughter of Robert Arbuthnott of Little 

 Fiddes. William Galloway. 



Separation of Sexes in Churches (2"'' S. x. 

 195., &c.) — Your correspondent's Note reminds 

 me of my neglect of this Query. There are many 



infitatices in our country churches of the practice, 

 but the question at issue is whether the custom be 

 of Genevan origin or not ? A friend has just sent 

 me the following note. In the old title-page to 

 Fox's Martyrs, the reformed congregation is re- 

 presented sitting, the men on one side, and the 

 women on the other ; while the Romish are mixed. 

 It would be a great obligation if your correspon- 

 dents would contribute what they could to the 

 elucidation of this subject, as, pace tanti viri, I have 

 a few words to offer in support of my former con- 

 jecture. F. S. A. 



Richard Woodward, Bishop of Cloyne (2"^ 

 S. X. 210.) — The arms borne by Richard Wood- 

 ward, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, were az. a pale (en- 

 grailed, for difference) between two eagles displayed 

 arg. Crest, on a ducal coronet or, a greyhound 

 sejant arg. Other branches of the same family in 

 Gloucestershire and the neighbouring counties 

 bore the pale plain, and sometimes the tinctures 

 are reversed. The Christian name of the bishop's 

 daughter was Mary ; she married, in 1786, tJie 

 Hon. Charles Brodrick, Lord Bishop of Kilmore, 

 afterwards Ai'chbishop of Cashel, and brother to 

 George fourth Viscount Midleton. The present 

 Viscount Midleton|is the son of the archbishop by 

 Miss Woodward. J. Woodward. 



Shoreham. 



Ghost in the Tower (2°^ S. x. 145. 192.)— 

 Could T, by referring to circumstances of that 

 period, have satisfied myself on Mr. Offor's dates, 

 I would readily acknowledge their correctness ; 

 but on other points he is certainly mistaken. The 

 Jewel House guai'd had been doubled before that 

 fearful night — and, therefore, nee post nee propter 

 hdc — for the surer supervising the phantasmago- 

 rial pranks which some fair neighbours of ours 

 were suspected of playing. When on the morrow 

 I saw the unfortunate soldier in the mainguard- 

 roora his fellow-sentinel was also there, and tes- 

 tified to having seen him on his post just before 

 the alarm, awake and alert, and even spoken to 

 him. Moreover, as I then heard the poor man 

 tell his own story, the "figure " did not "cross the 

 pavement, and disappear down the steps " of the 

 Sally-port, but issued from underneath the Jewel 

 Room door, — as ghostly a door, indeed, as ever was 

 opened to or closed on a doomed man; placed, 

 too, beneath a stone archway as utterly out of the 

 reach of my young friends' apparatus (if any such 

 they had) as were my windows. 



I saw him once again on the following day, 

 but changed beyond my recognition : in another 

 day or two — not " in a few hours " — the brave and 

 steady soldier, who would have mounted a breach 

 or led a forlorn hope with unshaken nerves, died 

 at the presence of a shadow, as the weakest woman 

 might have died. 



A moment's recurrence to my own personal ad- 



