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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. V. 117., Mak. 27. '68. 



to match, ornamental fastenings, &c. Such was doubt- 

 less the hullshop which came with the tapestry in the 

 same consignment. Tlie producer sent all the articles in 

 his shop which were requisite for fixing the tapestr}' to 

 the best advantage. In short, he sent the fixings; just 

 as the upholsterer now sends the rod and rings witli the 

 man to put up the new curtains. ] 



Charles Crawford. — Who and what was Charles 

 Crawford, Esq., the author of Poems on Several 

 Occasions, printed for T. Becket, Pail-Mall, 2 vols. 

 1803 ? C. W. Staunton. 



[Charles Crawford, or, as he is sometimes called, Charles 

 Lindsay, assumed the title of Earl of Crawford andLindsay, 

 and lived for many j-ears at Cheltenham, distinguishing 

 himself by his liberal subscriptions to charities, mission- 

 ary societies, &c. Besides his Poems, be published a few 

 other pieces.] 



^^ Friendship in Deaths — Who was the author 

 of this poem? published some time before 1736. 



Geo. E. Fb£R£. 

 [By Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.] 



CAMERONIANS. 



(2-^ S. V. 108.) 



A correspondent, Glis P. Templ. asks for in- 

 formation in reference to the Cameronians. Long 

 since I believe they have discarded this name, as 

 well as those of Mountain-men, Hill-folk, Mac- 

 millanites, &c., by which they were commonly 

 known, and have assumed the desijinatlon of The 

 Reformed Presbyterian Church. The past and 

 present condition and tenets of the church will be 

 found amply laid down by two of its ministers, 

 understood to be the late Professor Symington of 

 Paisley, and the late Dr. Bates of Glasgow, in the 

 following work, entitled, 



" Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 

 Scotland, Historical and Doctrinal. Glasgow. Published 

 by John Keith, 1842, 8vo., pp. 346.," 



and its status as an ecclesiastical body is detailed 

 in the Edinburgh Almanac of this year. 



There may be mentioned in connection with 

 this subject a family of the surname of Howie, 

 whose ancestors for several centuries past in suc- 

 cessive generations have occupied as tenants the 

 farm of Lochgoin, in Fenwick Muir (Ayrshire), 

 about five miles to the west of the village of 

 Eaglesham. Scarcely any situation could be 

 imagined more unfavourable for placing a human 

 habitation than in the midst of this barren muir, 

 the little thatched farm-house of Locligoin con- 

 sisting of two apartments (a but and a ben) with 

 a byre for cattle attached, and near, some small 

 fields of meadow hay, being approachable only 

 in dry weather by footpaths based on peat mosses 

 and spongy bogs ; such, however, has been a re- 

 sidence of no mean kind in the history of the by- 

 gone Covenanting troubles of Scotland. According 



to some Notes which I took on 6th July, 1822, 

 when visiting this family, it was then composed of 

 James, Thomas, and Gavin, all unmarried, three 

 sons of the celebrated John Howie, author of the 

 Scots Worthies, Cloud of Witnesses, Sermons re- 

 lating to tfieir period, and various religious Tracts. 

 Previous to the Revolution of 1688 the house of 

 Lochgoin, from its remote situation and inacces- 

 sibility, became the frequent refuge of the per- 

 secuted ministers and others. It lies but a few 

 miles from Drumclog and Loudon Hill, and on 

 walking over the muir, here and there are yet 

 pointed out grassy mounds where sleep together 

 the persecutors and the persecuted. 



Relics of those times of fiery trial are still pre- 

 served in the house of Lochgoin, and are agree- 

 ably shown to visitors * by the Howies, who are 

 as much conscientiously attached to the old prin- 

 ciples as were their forefathers. Of these may be 

 stated from my Notes, 



• 1st. A Pocket Bible which belonged to Captain 

 Paton, published at London in 1652 with an en- 

 graved frontispiece. The binding, which has 

 once been elegant, is now somewhat injured. On 

 the back of it are the initials of its owner, Ct. J. P., 

 and on a blank leaf at the beginning of the book is 

 the following Mem. in a round style of writing, 

 nearly resembling printed capitals: — 



" Capt. John Patons Bible which he gave his wife 

 doun of the scaffold when he was executed for the cause 

 of Jesus Christ at Edinburgh May 8 (or 9) 1684. James 

 Houie received it from the Captains sons daughters 

 husband, and gave it to John Houie his nepheu. John 

 Houie his Bible, Loughgoin, II." 



2nd. Captain John Patons sword, a neat blade 

 or shable, with sheep-head handle, 26 inches long, 

 and about l\ inch broad in blade, with which 

 Captain Paton is said to have killed twenty-eight 

 persons in one day; there were formerly on it 

 twenty-eight notches, reported to denote the 

 twenty-eight years of persecution, but these are 

 now partially worn out by rust. Captain Paton 

 used this sword on all occasions. 



3rd. Linen Flag or Stand of Colours. On the 

 left side near the top is the representation of an 

 open Bible with the words " Verbum Dei " in- 

 scribed on it. To the right side, on a line with 

 the Bible, is the Crown supported by a thistle. 

 Beneath is read, in antique Italic Capitals, — 



" Phinigh For Godf Cwntry 



And Covenanted Work 

 Of Reformation.''* 



* Among other distinguished visitors, I have heard of 

 the late Rev. Dr. Chalmers, and of the late Rev. Edward 

 Irving of London. The latter was so enraptured with 

 the relics, that he caused a procession to be arranged, the 

 parties with them marching over the muir to the sound 

 of the drum, and himself waving the flag. 



f The blank in the inscription is significant. I have 

 no doubt it was left to be filled in, if religious and politi- 

 cal changes had occurred favourable to the cause in the 

 royal disposition. 



