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General used to say to Henehel. Why doe* 



meaning King George lit) make you Duke 



ti ?" Probably hi* sister thought the name. 



{>ardonable flattery created a bond between 



them, which she doea not seem ever to have forgotten. 



: Glasgow, Heraehel found a pleaaant 



riae awaiting him and bin fn.-n.l, HM new aa it 



waa unexpected. Both of them were to be honoured 



the freedom of the city. Glasgow waa then a 



town, where salmon-fishers dried ih. ir nets on that 



busy centre of trade, the Broomielaw, and waa 



inhabited by not more than a tenth of ita present 



population ; but ita magistrates were far-seeing men, 



who crowned tl j with honour when they 



illy entered on urgesa Roll the name of 



William Henehel. Their Council Records contain 



following: 1 



" GLASGOW, \9tk Jumt 1792. 



iie said day Dr. William Herochel, Astronomer, 

 Homaneuski are unanimously admitted 

 honorary Burgesses and Guild Brethren of this C 



An Edinburgh newspaper 1 recorded the homage 

 thus paid to science by the merchant city of the 

 west, but the Edinburgh Town Council, neither then 

 nor subsequently, followed the example so honourably 

 set by Glasgow. 



1 1 am indebted for this extract to the kindness of S.r J 

 ftUrwick, the Town Clerk of UUsgow. 



There appears to be tome doubt about the spelling of the 

 Dame in the Council Record. 



* JUmfery* Cowrant, June 88, 1792. 



