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ment, advocate, a distinguislied literary antiquarian and genealo- 

 gist, who died at his residence in Eoyal Circus, Edinburgh, on 

 the 24th November, 1879. He joined the Club in 1859. 5. 

 The Eev. John Dawson, minister of Makerston, who died sud- 

 denly, 1st December, 1879, aged 47. He officiated for many 

 years in India as an army chaplain. 6. In the same fatal roll 

 we have to inscribe our friend, and the Club's friend, Mr John 

 Clay, who was cut off suddenly at his residence in Eavensdowne, 

 Berwick, January 26, 1880, in his 50th year. Mr Clay joined 

 the Club, October 28, 1857. 7. The Eev. J. S. Green, vicar of 

 Wooler, who died February 15,1 880, who joined the Club May 31, 

 1860, and for that long period was almost a constant attendant on 

 the meetings. Mr Green had attained his 65th year. Of Scottish 

 descent he was born in Huntingdonshire, and was educated at 

 Cambridge, where he took the B.A. and M.A. degrees. He was 

 formerly curate at Stockton and Bishop Auckland, and in the year 

 1842 he was appointed rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, Dvirham. 8. 

 The Eev. Charles Thorp, vicar of Ellingham, died at EUingham 

 vicarage, 17th February, 1880, in his 55th year. He was the 

 son of the late Yen. Archdeacon Thorp, Archdeacon of Durham 

 and Eector of Eyton. Educated at University College, Oxford, 

 he took the degree of B.A. in 1 850, and the degree of M.A. in 

 1853. He was ordained in 1850 ; and became vicar of Elling- 

 ham in 1855, prior to which he was curate of Blanchland. Since 

 he became vicar the church has been completely rebuilt, and it 

 is now one of the neatest country churches in the North of Eng- 

 land. New and handsome school buildings have been erected, 

 and lately, through his instrumentality, a substantial house was 

 built for the schoolmaster. Mr Thorp became a member of the 

 Club, Jan. 31, 1856. 



ADDITIONAL NOTICES. 



From a memorandum made in 1845, it appears that the giving 

 of a field for a horse was not singular on the parts of the lairds 

 of Hillend and Houndwood ; but that a similar bargain was 

 made between the lairds of Fairneyside and Eedhall, both of 

 which farms are contiguous ; the former having given a field of 

 Fairneyside to the owner of Eedhall, as the price of a hunting- 



