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smith ; George Gibbeson, a very religious day labourer ; 

 Nicholas Davison, a serious and religious herd ; and Robert 

 Bairnsfather, a serious, sensible, and good day labourer. 



1703. John Ditchburu is {valde pius) a miln wright of 

 Longhoughton. 1704. John Robyson is {valde prohus) 

 blacksmith and ferrier. 1707. Robert Bowden is a {probus 

 et pius) cowper. 1711. Cuthbert Renwick, a {prohus et 

 honestus) taylor; and Henry Robyson is ''prohus et sin- 

 cerus." 1726. Buried Katherine, the wife of Nichol Truchet, 

 {filia pice matris et uxor prohi maritis) a collier. Margaret, 

 the wife of John Bowin, {uxor proha maritis prohi) a hinde 

 of Longhoughton. 1711. Buried Mary, the wife of a very 

 honest herd and an old and long oatmeal maker; this oat- 

 meal maker marries again in 1714, and thus runs the record : 

 — " Married William Elliot, a very honest herd and oatmeal 

 maker, now in Harly houses, and Jane Hood of Denick." 

 In the following case the character is a mixture of good and 

 evil : — 1705. Christened Robert, son of William Thomson, 

 {honestus homini sed prophanus Deo) milner of Little Milne. 

 In two cases the registrar lays aside his dogmatism and in- 

 clines to charity : — 1707. Joseph Killgrype, {spero sincere 

 pius) Webster of Longhoughton ; in 1722 he is said to be 

 "prohus et honestus ut spero ;'''' but in 1720 this hope rises to 

 faith, and he is called " a very serious good man." 



The following miscellaneous extracts possess some interest. 

 The registrar praises his wife, of whose pedigree he seems 

 proud : — 1701. Married George Doncan, Vicar of Long- 

 houghton, and Margaret, the youngest daughter of Littleden 

 Ker, a very ancient barren of Teviotdale, near Kelso ; 1723. 

 Buried, Margret, the (best of wives, the sister of Littleden 

 Ker, an ancient baron, in Scotland, near Kelso,) wife of 

 George Doncan, Vicar of Longhoughton. 1711. Buried 

 George Grey, an old innosent and fortunate fisher of Bowmar, 

 (a batchelor) ; Jinie, wife of William Grey, (a quack and 

 warlock doctor,) of Littlehoughton. In 1713, Married 

 Cuthbert Sapit, a lame cobler and schoolmaster of Bowmar. 

 1727. Buried, Isabel, the widow of John Morris, a (very old 

 herd, here and there.) On one occasion the registrar seems 



to lose courage, — 1719. Buried, Mr. Thomas Adam, 



bailiff of Longhoughton ; a space is left for his char- 

 acter, which is not filled up ; perhaps the Vicar, not inclined 

 to say good, had not the hardihood to chronicle evil of so 

 distinguished a personage as the bailiff. 



The most singular of these records, however, are those in 

 which the Vicar evidences his strong attachment to his own 



