50 Report of Meetings for 1879, by James Hardy. 



company then adjourned to the Castle, where the Eev. Canon 

 Ornsby, author of '' Sketches of Durham," read a paper by Mr 

 W. H. D, Longstaffe, F.S.A., which he supplemented from a 

 paper of his own, that appeared in the Archseological Society's 

 Transactions, and he afterwards conducted the company over all 

 the apartments, and round the exterior, explaining their 

 peculiarities most minutely. As a report of the addresses and 

 observations made at the meeting will appear in the '^ Proceed- 

 ings," it is unnecessary to recapitulate further. The arrange- 

 ments were admirable, and every one appeared to be pleased. 

 Many had to leave to reach home that evening, but about ninety 

 ladies and gentlemen connected with the two societies, dined to- 

 gether in the great hall of the castle, Canon Greenwell officiating 

 as chairman.*' 



Although no business meeting could be called, the names of 

 the following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded, were 

 handed to the Secretaries, and were held as having fulfilled the 

 conditions required of new-entrants, viz. : — Eev. Eobert Small, 

 Caddonfoot, Galashiels ; Mr Frank Eutherford, Bank of Scot- 

 land, Galashiels ; Eev. A. Duncombe Shafto, Brancepeth Eectory, 

 Durham ; Mr J. J. Vernon, F.S.A., President of the Hawick 

 Archseological Society ; Mr Eobert Henry Elliot of Clifton Park ; 

 Mr J. W. Barnes, banker, Durham. 



The annual meeting for 1879 was held at Berwick, on Wed- 

 nesday, October 15. Among others present were : — Dr Paxton, 

 Norham, President ; Dr F, Douglas, Kelso and Mr J. Hardy, 

 Oldcambus, Secretaries ; Eobert Middlemas, Treasurer ; Sir 

 Walter Elliot of Wolfelee, K.C.S.I., &c. ; Mr Eobert Grossman 

 of Cheswick; Mr Matthew T. CuUey of Coupland Castle; Mr 

 David Milne Home of Milne Graden ; Capt. David Milne Home, 



* One of the great events in Sir Walter Scott's life, was his dining in this 

 hall, with the Bishop of Durham, ' ' surrounded and supported by the 

 assembled aristocracy of the two northern counties, and in the presence of 

 the Duke of Wellington." " The dinner was one of the finest things I ever 

 saw; it was in the old Castle Hall, untouched, for aught I know, since 

 Anthony Beck feasted Edward Longshanks on his way to invade Scotland." 

 ' ' The bright moon streaming in through the old Gothic windows contrasted 

 strangely with the artificial lights within ; spears, banners, and armour, 

 were intermixed with the pictures of old bishops, and the whole had a singular 

 mixture of baronial pomp with the grave and more chastened dignity of 

 prelacy." — Life by Lockhart. 



