4*74 Report of Meetings. By the President. 



of Galfrid de Goswyck, one of the ancient owners of Goswick in Island- 

 shire, who died in 1333, when his daughter Lora or Loretta de Goswick 

 was 15 years old. She married an inhabitant of Alnmouth, surnamed 

 Butterie, and died in 1396. In the Inquisitio post Mortem, she is termed 

 Loretta del Butterie of Alnemouth. She was possessed of lands in Fram- 

 lington, for on 15 Jan., 9 Ric. II. (1385-6) Loreta del Boterie de Alnemouth 

 granted to John de Warton all her lands in Fratnlington. She lived in the 

 reign of Edward II., Edward III., and Richard II., and outlived the second 

 and third Henry Percies, barons of Alnwick, who were both buried in 

 Alnwick Abbey ; and she was alive when the battle of Otterburn (1387), 

 was stricken, and Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), was " lede awaye into cap- 

 tivity." The Lady Mary Plantagenet, daughter of the Earl of Lancaster, 

 and Baroness Percy, had been buried in Alnwick Abbey, four years before 

 the remains of Loreta de Boterie were deposited there. It is evident that 

 Loreta when alive was a personage of wealth and consequence, and after 

 her decease well thought of by survivors, in whatever rank she moved. 

 Alianora her daughter and heir was of full age 1396, and died 6 July, 4 

 Henry VI. (1425). Two days before her death she infefted Edward 

 Manners in 180 acres of land in the vill of Goswyk. Her husband John 

 de Midelham died before 1412 ; and their son Thomas died before 1433. 

 Her grandson John was of full age in 1433. The male descent continued 

 till the reign of Elizabeth (see Club's Proc. ubi sup.) Anne the heiress, 

 not Agnes as Mr Tate calls her (who was two years old in 1597), of the 

 Midlehams of Ailmouth, married 1. William Swinhoe of Goswick, and 

 through her of Alnmouth, who died 5th Nov. 1607, and by whom she had 

 four daughters, co-heiresses ; see Raine pp. 185, 158. And 2. Ephraim, 2nd 

 son of Francis Armorer of Belford, Esq., who had lands in Cornhill. They 

 had two childi'en, Ephraim aged one year in 1615, and Margaret, (Raine, 

 p. 183. Dickson, Ber. Nat. Club's Proc. IV. pp. 23, 24.) Ephraim Armorer 

 of Alemouth, gentleman, appears in the county-rate book of 1628, and in 

 the " Survey " of the fishings in 1649. Two of the daughters of William 

 Swinhoe of Goswick and Alnmouth were married, but nothing is heard 

 of them after 1638. Dr Bruce, in the Archseologia ^liana, vol. X., n. s., 

 pp. 193, 194, has given a notice of this discovery to accompany a plate 

 of the Slab. He has not, however, told anything about the lady who was 

 so honourably commemorated. Mr Skelly was, I believe, the first to 

 detect the connection between the inscription and Loreta de Botry. 



4. Fagus incisa, with foliage of Fag us sylvatica. — This had been sent by 

 the Rev. W. I. Meggison from South Charlton Vicarage ; F. incisa was 

 the tree, and it had sported leaves of F. sijlvatica. It was suggested that 

 the former had been engrafted on a common beech stock ; and Mr John 

 Boyd mentioned that this was the common practice. 



5. Portion of a Human Cranium found near Dunbar. — This was an under 

 human jaw of very powerful frame, with the teeth all perfect, and the 

 f rentals markedly projecting above the rest. It was forwarded by Mr 

 P. H. Hume, who stated that it had recently been discovered in digging a 

 foundation for a wall which is to be raised on the town of Dunbar's pro- 



