Report of Meetings. By the President, 47S 



M.P. for the constabulary of Haddington 1605-6. He was succeeded in 

 office by his son, Sir Archibald Douglas of Whittingham, a favourite of 

 James VI., whom he accompanied to Denmark. He resigned his seat on 

 the Bench in May, 1618. He sat in several Parliaments. He obtained a 

 Crown charter of the lands of Whittingham of date 3rd July, 1616, which 

 was ratified in Parliament, July, 1621. His son, Archibald, died 28th Nov. 

 1660, leaving his sister, Elizabeth, Viscountess Kingston, his heir. She 

 had been married to Sir Alex. Seton, second son of George, second Earl of 

 Winton, a steady friend of Charles I. By her he had two sons and one 

 daughter. His sons, Archibald and James, successive viscounts, died 

 without issue, and the honours became extinct. The estate devolved on 

 Elizabeth Seton, the daughter of the first Viscount, who had married 

 William, only son of John Hay, eighth Lord Tester and first Earl 

 of Tweeddale, by his second marriage with Lady Margaret Mont- 

 gomery, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Eglinton, for whom he 

 purchased the lands of Drummelzier in Peeblesshire. He was 

 succeeded by Alexander Hay, Esq., and he again by Kobert Hay, 

 Esq., who was for 38 years in the East India Company's service. 

 His eldest son, the late William Hay, Esq., of Duns Castle, sold the estate 

 of Whittingham in 1817 to James Balfour, Esq., second son of John Bal- 

 four, Esq., of Balbirnie, co. Fife, who died in April, 1845. His son James 

 Maitland Balfour, Esq., was father of the present owner, Arthur James 

 Balfour, Esq., M.P. — a nephew of the Marquis of Salisbury — whose mental 

 and political abilities are acknowledged by all parties. His third son, 

 Francis Maitland Balfour, Professor of Morphology in Cambridge Univer- 

 sity, was cut off, in the outset of a most promising scientific career, by 

 an accident on the Alps. 



2. Bibliographical List of the Boolcs and Pamphlets printed at Alnwick, 

 with Biographical Notices of the Authors and Printers. By George Skelly, 

 Alnwick. — The main interest of this paper lay in its classifying the publi- 

 cations of Mr William Davison, printer and publisher, Alnwick, many of 

 which were illustrated with the cuts of Thomas Bewick and his disciples ; 

 and also by the list of topographical prints and engravings which this 

 enterprising publisher had issued, which are now much valued by collectors. 



3. On a Funeral Slab found at Alnivich Abbey. — Mr W. T. Hindmarsh 

 made some observations on a photograph, which was handed round, of the 

 monumental sculptured grave-cover recently discovered within the pre- 

 cincts of Alnwick Abbey, in which he had a share in eliciting the proper 

 reading of the name, and the Latin hexameters of the inscription, which 

 is, " Hac iacet in meta vivat redimita q: leta -I- obruta loreta de botry 

 per fera leta," that is to say, "Loreta de Botry overthrown by cruel death 

 lies in this grave, may she live and have a crown of joy." 



Lora or Loretta del Batterie or Boterie has already been commemorated 

 in the Club's "Proceedings," vol. viii. p. 242 (in Mr Tate's History of 

 Alnmouth, parish of Lesbury), there misprinted "Boterie." Eaine's 

 History of North Durham, pp, 182-5, contains her pedigree and all that is 

 known concerning her and her descendants. She was the eldest daughter 



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