ri8 Transactions. 



On the other side is " no . me.enbaines . sin . honor " — 

 " Resheath me not without honour." There are also in 

 the Museum four of the old war scythes with which a 

 number of the inhabitants of Dumfries were armed at the 

 time of the Rebellion in 1715. These scythes are mentioned 

 in the History of the late Rebellion, written by the Rev. Peter 

 Rae, minister of Kirkbride, and published in 1718, as follows : — 

 " And likewise considering that they had not Arms for all the 

 Inhabitants who were tit for Service, the Magistrates and 

 Council bought up 100 Syths, caus'd streight their Docks, and fix'd 

 them sufficiently on Shafts, delivering them to such of the Inhabi- 

 tants as had least skill of Fire-arms, and added a certain Number 

 of these Sythmen to every Company, to be employ'd at the 

 Barricades, and especially in the Trenches, which were now carry- 

 ing on with all Expedition, as we shall afterwards hear."* 



Pottery and Porcelain. 



The Museum possesses a very fair collection of pottery and 

 porcelain from various countries, the greater part, however, being 

 English ware. The latter consists of portions of tea-sets or single 

 specimens of Crown-Derby, Derby-Chelsea, Worcestei', Salopian, 

 Davenport, Lowestoft, and other manufactures, including a con- 

 siderable number of specimens of the elder Spode. A cup and 

 saucer (16) resembling Lowestoft ware are said to have once 

 belonged to Old Mortality. A jug of white stoneware, 6| inches 

 high, bears on the one side the Farmer's Arms and the mottoes, 

 " God Speed the Plough " and " In God is Our Trust." On the 

 opposite side are the following lines : — 



" Let the Wealthy and Great 



Roll iu Splendor and State, 

 I envy them not, I declare it ; 



I eat my own Lamb, 



My own Chickens and Ham, 

 I shear my own Fleece and I wear it. 



I have Lawns, I have Bowers, 



I have Fruits, I have Flowers ; 

 The Lark is my morning alarmer — 



So Jolly Boys, now — 



Here's God Speed the Plough, 

 Long Life and Success to the Farmer." 



* "The History of the late Rebellion, rais'd against His Majesty King 

 George I. , by the Friends of the Po]jish Pretender, &c. By a Lover of the 

 Prosperity and Peace of Great Britain," 4to Dumfries, Muccxvni., p. 272. The 

 second edition, printed in London in 1746, bears' the author's name on the Title 

 Page. 



