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have had have liked it so much. Then it is the fate of 

 this College never to be out of some legal or financial 

 botheration and slough of despond : and just as I am 

 seeing daylight through some complicated trouble, I have 

 some new set of ideas to master, and claims to meet. 

 Now it is Teinds ; dreadful word ! with its titulars and 

 tacksman and underpayers and overpayers, its localities 

 and decreets. It is enough to drive one wild, with claims 



uterest exceeding the whole amount of principal, and 

 accumulating with no regard to even forty years pre- 



ption ! 



* I am not very well, and the long consequent confine- 

 ment to the house has told upon me rather severely. 



' Ever affectionately yours, 



' JAMES D. FORBES/ 



To PROFESSOR INNES. 



'ST. ANDREWS, April 3th, 1867. 



' Could you favour me with your opinion of the 

 word " Fermoraria : " I think it is of the first declension. 

 I guess it to mean either " farmery " or " infirmary ; " it 

 was an appendage to the Priory of St. Andrews, within 

 tin- Abbey wall, and might well enough be either one or 

 other. I find no such word either in Ducange or 

 igne's Lexicons. . . . 



* I have now nearly completed my examination and 

 analysis of the old Chartulary from the advocates' 

 library. The notes I have made would materially assist 

 any future searcher/ 



To MRS. FORBES. 



VDON, May 22 W, 1867. 



'. . . Tin- weather is really beyond precedent. I was 



1 in tin- ni^ht, last night, by the cold, and I 



is that tin- parks this morning were as 



white as in January. It is this partly I suppose whi<-h 



"U^h, which is still troublesome, an<l I 



less artive than I <!il a week or two . . 



\rran for a fc\v days : IK- ; 

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