336 Mr. Robert Embleton's Obituary Notices. 



Nov. 4, 1662. Robert Hoggart at Stichell charged with 

 slandering Margaret M'Call, saying that he saw her appear 

 in the likeness of a cat. He now declares " that he saw her 

 sitting upon ane peise sheif in the fields when it was very 

 dark." 



Sep. 29, 1663. William Rae, Makerstoun, is summoned 

 for consulting about stolen goods with ^' an Englishman in 

 Lothian, who pretends to judicial astrologie." 



August 6, 1672. James Burne denies that he said Helen 

 Young made his kine give blood, but only that his servant 

 said the kine did give blood. 



July 6, 1675. Dand Burn and his wife Isobel in Mor- 

 battle ordered to appear in sackcloth for consultation, and 

 John Hunter to be rebuked for compliance in so far as he 

 spake the words which they desired. 



Obituary Notices. By Robert Embleton, Surgeon. 

 PEIDEAUX JOHN SELBY, ESQ. 

 Since our last meeting, the club has to regret the deaths of 

 two of its members. One, whose name will always be con- 

 nected with natural history as long as the science is cultivated, 

 and whose labours have shed no little honour upon our club 

 during the time of his membership. Prideaux John Selby, 

 Esq., of Twizell House, in the county of Northumberland, 

 was born in Bondgate Street, Alnwick, on the 23rd of July, 

 1788. He was educated at Durham grammar school, and 

 had for his cotemporaries Sir Roderick Murchison, the pres- 

 ent eminent geologist, and Dr. Graham, the late master of 

 Christ's College, Cambridge, and afterwards Bishop of Ches- 

 ter. From Durham school he went to University College, 

 Oxford, where he passed the usual terms kept by an Eng- 

 lish country gentleman who had no intention of following any 

 particular profession. He married, in 1810, the daughter of 

 Bertram Mitford, Esq., of Mitford Castle, Northumberland, by 

 whom he had three daughters, who survive him; and on taking 

 up his residence at Twizell, about the year 1811, he began 

 to show his predilections for those pursuits with which his 

 name is so intimately connected ; and by his taste and judg- 

 ment in planting, and in the subsequent management of his 

 estate, he soon made his abode one of the most picturesque in 

 the county. Possessed of a naturally healthy and strong con- 

 stitution, he entered into and enjoyed those sports which 



