14 Exhibits. 



4. A short note by Mr Hyslop, Langholm, was read, giving 

 reasons for the belief that the remains of an old bridge across 

 the Wauchope, near Langholm Manse, is of Roman origin. 



loth December, 1897. 



Provost Glover in the Chair. 



New Members. — Dr Alexander Dall MacDonald ; Mr James 

 Blacklock, solicitor ; Lord Balvaird (life member). 



Exhibits. 



1. The Secretary showed for Mr George Irving, Corbridge-on- 

 Tyne, two sealing-wax impressions (1) of an Onyx Litaglio of 

 Eoman date, found at Corbridge, and now in possession of Mr 

 T. Blandford, of that place ; and (2) of a Cornelian, found at 

 South Shields, and now in possession of Mr Robert Blair, 

 secretary to the Newcastle Society of Antiquarians — also of 

 Roman date. 



2. Mr Moodie, the hon. treasurer, exhibited a singularly inter- 

 esting sasine, the property of Mr Murray of Murraythwaite, in 

 which it is stated that Andrew Wilkin, bailie of the burgh of 

 Annan, granted heritable possession to an ancestor of Mr Murray 

 of tiie 40 shilling lands of Edneniland. Mr Moodie pointed out 

 that the fact of a bailie beiny mentioned in tlie sasine showed 

 that Annan was a royal burgh before \bd%, the date of the old 

 document being 16th July, 1532. The oldest existing charter of 

 the burgh of Annan, he stated, was that granted in 1539, in the 

 reign of James V.; and Mr Moodie quoted from a paper on "Old 

 Annan," contained in the Society's Transactions for 1894-95, by 

 Mr George Neilson, of Glasgow, evidence corroborative of that 

 given by Mr Murray's sasine in support of the tradition that 

 Annan had been a burgh long prior to 1539, James V. merely 

 restoring a lost honour to the town at that date. Mr Neilson 

 stated in his paper that he had never known of any provost or 

 bailie of Annan being mentioned before the 17th century. 

 Mr Murray's sasine also possessed, said Mr Moodie, an element 

 of human interest in the names of persons who are mentioned 



