S98 Annwersary Address. 



surrounding district. After dinner^ the retiring president, 

 Mr. Jerdon, read his address, and Dr. Francis Douglas was 

 elected president for the ensuing year. 



The spring meeting was held at Denholm on May 30th, 

 1867. Present — Dr. Francis Douglas, president ; Mr. George 

 Tate, secretary; Sir George Douglas, Bart, Sir Walter Elliot, 

 Messrs. F. Russell, A. Jerdon, A. Jeffrey, W. Elliot, John 

 Tiilson, George Ililson, Wm. Bell, John Ord, A. Matthew- 

 son, J. liume, Sholto Douglas, Jas. Small, Jas. Tait, C. 

 Anderson, Jas. Dickson, Drs. W. Mackenzie, and J. Falla, 

 Revs. D. Macalister, J. S. Green, and as visitors Dr. Hume, 

 of Newcastle, and Dr. Walker, of Glasgow, Dr. Blair and 

 Rev. W. Oliver, of Denholm, and Messss Currie and Black- 

 burn. 



After breakfast, the party examined the very tasteful monu- 

 ment in the centre of the village green — to Leyden the poet, 

 antiquary, and oriental scholar, who perished in 1811 on the 

 fatal shores of Java. The members afterwards separated : 

 one party proceeding to Minto Crags, to examine its basaltic 

 heights, v^hich with the grounds were kindly thrown open to 

 the club by the Earl of Minto ; the other party passed up 

 Denholm Dean to Cavers, the ancient seat of James Douglas, 

 Esq., the Lord of the Manor. Here the members were most 

 kindly received by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, who exhibited to 

 them several relics of the battle of Otterburn, fought in 1388, 

 between the Earl of Douglas and Hotspur. These relics con- 

 sisted, first, of a much faded and torn pennon of green silk 

 emblazoned wdth a cross, the lion of Scotland, and the Doug- 

 las crest" Jamais arri/ere," and, secondly, a pair of richly or- 

 namented gauntlets, displaying the Percy crest embroidered 

 in pearls, for the possession of which the battle is said to 

 have been fought. Mr. Douglas also kindly show^ed the 

 original bond or covenant between the Scottish Parliament 

 on the one hand and the nobility, gentry, and clergy of the 

 border counties on the other hand, regarding the Confession 

 of Faith and form of religious worship, a valuable document, 

 lately discovered in the charter chest at Cavers, whose former 



