Obituary Notices, by James Hardy. 193 



Mr Maidment's publications were very numerous, and only 

 printed in small numbers of copies ; almost every one of them is 

 now out of print. Nearly all his works were publisbed through, 

 the medium of Mr John Stevenson, antiquarian bookseller, — Sir 

 Walter Scott's " True Jock " — or his son, Mr Thomas G. Steven- 

 son. Mr Stevenson drew up and issued in the year 1859, "A 

 Bibliographical List of the Various Publications by James Maid- 

 ment, advocate, Edinburgh, from the year 1817 to 1859, in- 

 clusive," in royal octavo. This has, without acknowledgment, 

 been transferred to the Appendix to ''Lowndes' Manual" — see 

 Bohn's Edition, As Mr Maidment's life is written in his works, 

 I have obtained Mr Stevenson's consent to reproduce the list, 

 with subsequent additions and particulars from his personal ac- 

 quaintance with his writings. Two works, however, are ex- 

 cepted, on the authority of Mr W. H. Logan, as being his pro- 

 ductions, and not Mr Maidment's, viz. : — No. 24 of Lowndes' 

 List, " West Digges' Correspondence with Mrs Ward ;" and No. 

 36, "Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, Dramatist." 



Mr Maidment was a contributor to " Notes and Queries." In 

 one of his notices in particular, I observed that both he and 

 Mr Logan had confounded Burnmouth, a locality in the ancient 

 Ettrick Forest — an old mustering ground for Scottish armies — 

 with the modern fishing hamlet of Burnmouth, near Berwick. 

 The inference deduced from this mistake — that the country be- 

 tween Burnmouth and Berwick was formerly covered with wood, 

 has no foundation whatever. Mr Maidment's books and collec- 

 tions of papers were much enriched by annotations drawn from 

 the store-house of his vast experience. 



Mr Maidment was considered as an authority on genealogical 

 matters. Among other fruits of his labours in this field were 

 " Eeports of Claims preferred to the House of Lords in the cases 

 of Cassilis, Sutherland, Spynie, and Glencairn Peerages." More 

 recently he prepared a statement of the case of Mr Goodeve 

 Erskine, in connection with that gentleman's claim to the Earl- 

 dom of Mar. In the Annandale Peerage case, now being liti- 

 gated, the evidence of Mr Maidment, and of Dr David Laing, 

 both disenabled by the infirmities of age from appearing person- 

 ally, was taken by commission at their own residences. 



In the same line of studies, he had just finished before his 

 death a curious volume, undertaken at the instigation of the Earl 



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