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Another jug, 8^ inches in height, bears on one side a portrait 



of Admiral Duncan, and " Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan." 



Below the portrait are the following lines : — 



" Long as the Sea shall fence our envi'd Land, 

 Long as our Navy shall that Sea command ; 

 So long shall Admiral Lord Duncan's name, 

 Be grav'd by Memory on the Rock of Fame ; 

 The Page of History shall his Deeds repeat, 

 With Britain's Triumph and the Dutch defeat." 



On the opposite side of the jug are a number of Masonic 

 emblems, and the words — 



' ' The World is in Pain 



Our Secrets to Gain ; 

 But still let them wonder and gaze on, 



For they ne'er can divine, 



The Word, nor the Sign, 

 Of a free and an accepted Mason." 



Manuscripts. 



The manuscripts in the collection are not numerous, nor of 

 any great importance. The following are the most interesting : — 

 (1) A grant of a piece of land by the Duke of Queensberry for a 

 meeting house in Thornhill, dated 10th February, 1784; (2) a 

 letter from the Earl of Glasgow to the Laird of Dornock, dated 

 August 29th, 1708 ; (.3) a letter of invitation to attend the 

 funeral of one drowned in the Nith on Candlemas night, 1773 ; 

 (4) a letter from David Haggart to his wife, dated at Dumfries, 

 October 6th, 1820; (5) a copy of a Gretna Green marriage 

 certificate, which reads as follows, the names of the contracting 

 parties being illegible"'" : — 



KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND. 



County of Dumfries. 

 Parish of Gretna. 



These are to certify to all whom these presents shall come that 



from the Parish of in the County of and from the Parish of in 



the County of being now here present, and having declared themselves 



single persons, were this day married after the manner of the laM's of the 

 Church of England, and agreeable to the laws of Scotland. 



As witness our hands. 



* The writer of the Old Statistical Account of the Parish of Gretna gives a 



the County of H., and both comes before me, and dec)ayred themsells both to 

 be single persons, and now mayricd by the forme of the Kirk of Scotland, and 

 agreible to the Church of England, and givine ondre ray hand, this 18th day 

 of March, 1703."— OW Statistical Account, vol. ix., p. 532. 



