'j& Th£ Drysdales of Dollar. 



The Drysdales of Dollar and their Dumfriesshire Origin. 

 By the Rev. Robert Paul, F. S.A.Scot. 



In this paper the Rev. Mr Paul re(^<junted the legend that 

 the Drysdales of Dollar were descendants of Thomas. William, 

 and James Douglas, .sons of Thomas Douglas of Brushwood 

 Haugh, in the parish of Drysdale, or Drvfesdale, and shire of 

 Dumfries, who, through slaying, in a feud, their neighbour, 

 Johnstone of Greenstonehill, fled to Clackmannan on the 20th 

 day of May, 1503, and assumed the name of Drysdale. He 

 endeavoured to fix the site of their property as near Old Walls, 

 antl traced liriefl)' the history <jf the famih. The paper will lie- 

 found in full in TI/c Dollar Magazine, March, 1909 (Vol. viii., 

 No. 29). 



Communion Tokens, with Descriptive Catalogue of those 

 OF Dumfriesshire. By the Rev. H. A. Whitelaw, 

 Dumfries. 



[The following jjaper was delivered in the form of a lantern 

 lecture on April 21st. It was i.s.sued in separate form, restricted 

 to 170 copies, in Julv, 1911, and, for convenience in re-printing, 

 is inserted here.] 



Introductory. 



" If we could get an account of all the Communions at which 

 they have been used, the names of the places and of the ministers, 

 the number of the communicants with the texts of action sermons, 

 and a taste of the savoury table addresses of that period, it would 

 be very interesting. Could some of these old square tokens^ 

 speak, what a story they would tell ! I have often thought that 

 an excellent book might be made of it. We have the History of 

 a Guinea and of a Shilling, why not of a Communion Token? 

 It would bring out the deepest inner working of the human soul 

 in communion with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ; 

 the night-long wrestling in prayer where there was no eye to see, 



