In AND AROUND BESANCON. 63 
of which have been led into the town, which now has a sumptuous 
baths’ establishment. In connection with this is the inevitable 
Casino, where you may study the feverish effect of the gaming 
table on the human mind. 
I left Besancon about four one morning, and never shall I 
forget that railway journey of fifty miles to Belfort. The line 
lies all the way along. the banks of the Doubs, which is every 
here and there hemmed in by precipitous masses of the ever- 
present limestone. In and out of the tunnels we threaded our 
way, past villages and towns bathed in the early morning mist. 
Every now and then one would catch a glimpse of the angler up 
betimes, for in that part of the world everybody fishes; but the 
picture ever present to my mind’s eye is that of wood-capped 
cliffs just emerging above the sea of mist. And so on to Belfort 
with its rock-cut “Lion ’’ of Bartholdi which keeps watch over 
the town with its teeming garrison. 
DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY MINISTERS IN CUMBERLAND. 
By Mr Henry PENFOLD, Brampton. 
After drawing attention to the ecclesiastical history of Scot- 
land in the seventeenth century and referring to the upheavals 
which occurred in England during the same period, Mr Penfold 
proceeded :— 
It is interesting to note that with the dethronement of 
Episcopacy some of the “rabbled or outed ’’ curates who held 
benefices in Dumfriesshire found a comfortable home in Cumber- 
land, some as parish priests and others as parish schoolmasters. 
At Sebergham, Kinneir, he said, the ejected rector of Annan, 
found a home as curate from 1699-1735. Bishop Nicholson 
refers to him in his “ Miscellany Accounts ’’:—‘“ The present 
curate, Mr Kanyer, an honest and modest Scotchman.’’ At 
Cumrew also a Mr Allen was curate. The writer has reason to 
suspect that he also hailed from Dumfriesshire. Bishop Nichol- 
son’s reference to him is interesting:—‘“ The Register Book is 
only of paper and begins at 1639. It appears in it that a great 
many children of foreigners were baptised here in the time of the 
late civil wars by one Mr Alexander Allen, who, they say, was 
a Scot, and reckoned a more knowing and pretious man (in his 
Way) than most of his brethren.”’ 
