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have dug up two stone coffins, in which the bones were very en- 

 tire, several pieces of painted glass, a silver coin of King Eobert 

 II., and other antique relics. The most remarkable is a tomb- 

 stone (5 feet long and 21 inches broad) in fine preservation, upon 

 which the device is a St. George's Cross, ornamented with fleur- 

 de-lis, and a pair of wool scissors at the right-hand side about the 

 middle of the shaft ; the inscription round the edge in the 

 Anglo-Saxon character, is as follows: — 'Hie jacet Johanna 

 Bulloc que obiit anno Dni MCCCLXXI orate p aia ejus.' She 

 must have died in the reign of Eobert II., the first King of Scot- 

 land of the name of Stuart, who succeeded David II. in Febru- 

 ary, 1370-1, and was crowned in March. It is remarkable, his 

 mother being killed by a fall from her horse, he was brought 

 into the world by the Csesarean operation, and it is said, by the 

 unskilfulness of the surgeon, he was wounded in the eye, whence 

 he got the name of 'Blear-eye.' At his accession the English 

 were in the possession of the Castle of Eoxburgh, and the town 

 of Eoxburgh was burnt in the year 1372, by the Earl of March, 

 in consequence of one of his domestics having been killed by the 

 English in a fray at the fair held at Eoxburgh in 1371, no doubt 

 the same fair now called St. James's." 



A further "find" is recorded in the issue of the Chronicle for 

 the subsequent week, October 24, as follows : — " Several more 

 tombstones have been found in the ruins of the church at St. 

 James's Green, some of them without any inscription. Upon 

 one, which is broke, and a part of it wanting, is a St. George 

 and a St. Andrew's Cross intersecting one another, with a pair 

 of wool scissors on the right-hand side of the shaft, and an in- 

 scription, which, so far as it can be made out, is, ' Hie jacet 

 Alicia — L C — .' On the pavement of the church, which consisted 

 of small bricks or tiles, a small part of which was uncovered by 

 curious people, some burnt wheat and barley was found, which, 

 though reduced to a charcoal state, retained their original shape 

 perfect and complete, and were of a large size. As the search 

 was directed to the discovery of stones, and not of curiosities, 

 now that the foundations have been all traced out, the workmen 

 are employed in filling up and levelling the ground." 



[The Church of St. James, of Eokesburch, was dedicated on 

 the 17th April, 1134. There is presumptive evidence that some 

 of the great Scoto-Norman nobility had been buried there, from 



