18.04, Memoirs of John Coclhurn Efq, 143 



proprietors and their tenantry. He inftituted a club or fociety . 

 compofed of noblemen, gdtlemen and farmers, who m -t month- 

 ly for the difeolnon of fome appropriate queftion in rural econo- 

 mics, fettled upon at their former meeting, on which queiUon 

 all the members prefent delivered their opinions; — an inftitu- 

 tion which fubfifted ior above ten years, and perhaps was end- 

 ed by the circumftanct^s under which the country was then 

 placed. The firfl minute bears date 19th July 1736, and the 

 lad 4th May 1747; the whole proceedings bein^ highly inter- 

 efting to the country, and honourable to the Society who ori- 

 ginated them. In ihort, the fame of this Society fpread far and 

 wide, and occafioned many noblemen and others at a diilance 

 to folicit admiflion as members. A lift of the members of this 

 meritorious Society, as extra£^ed from the minute-book, fliall 

 now be given. Certainly it would be a proud day with the fa- 

 ther of Scotifh hufbandry, when he met with fuch a number of 

 pra6tical agriculturills, all eagerly difpofed to liften to the bene- 

 volent inftru(Slions which he was fo well difpofed and qualified 

 to communicate. 



Liji of Original Members of the Ormiflon Society ^ with Copy of 

 their Minute y Jiily-lf^- I73<^« 



John Cockburn of Ormifton. 



Thomas Anderfon of Whiteburgh. 



William Jamiefon, merchant, Leith. 



James Hepburn, younger, ofHumbie. 

 5 Andrew Broomfield of Duncrahill. 



The Honourable Hew Dalrymple of Drumore. 



Geor^^e Torrence, tenant in Peafton, 



WiUiam Wilfon, tenant there. 



James Walker, tenant in Pardovan. 

 10 James Walker, junior, there. 



Alexander Wight, tenant in Ormifton; 



Alexander Wight, tenant in Coufiand. 



John Wight, tenant there. 



Alc^xander Wight, tenant, Eaftfield of Ormifton. 

 15 Charles St Clair of Hermifton, advocate. 



Patrick Cockburn Efq. aovocate. 



* We, \vhofe names and defignations are above fet down, tak- 

 ing into our confideration that the ereding and inftituting a 

 Society in order to the better improving our country with refpec^ 

 to agriculture and manuf^sdures, would be a laudable undertak- 

 ing, do, for that purpofc, enter and become members of the faid 

 Society, and we are to alTume and receive l^uch other perfons in- 

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