286 Report of Meetings for 1880, by James Hardy. 



preferred by the border-farmers at that period, alleging that 

 they held their allotments by a fixed tenure for border services.* 



The anniversary meeting was held in the King's Arms Hotel, 

 Berwick, October 13th. There were present — the Eev. J. F. 

 Bigge, M.A,, fStamfordham, who officiated as chairman ; Mr 

 Hardy, Secretary ; Mr Middlemas, Treasurer ; Eevs. William 

 Dobie, M. A., Lady kirk ; Ambrose Jones, M.A., Stannington ; 

 Duncan McLean, B.D., Allanton ; and E. Hopper Williamson, 

 M.A., Whickham ; Drs Eobert Carr Fluker, Berwick ; John 

 Paxton, Norham ; and Henry Eichardson, Berwick ; Lieut.-Col. 

 Grossman, C.M.G., E.E. ; Captain Forbes, E.N., and Capt. Nor- 

 man, E.N., Berwick ; Messrs Thomas Arkle, Highlaws ; E. Q-. 

 Bolam and Greorge Bolam, Berwick ; Andrew Brotherston, Kelso ; 

 M. T. Culley of Coupland Castle ; Thomas Darling, Berwick ; 

 Eobert Douglas, Berwick ; James Greenfield, Eeston ; James 

 Heatley, Alnwick ; William H. Johnson, Edinburgh ; Peter 

 Loney, Marchmont ; W. G. Macdonald, M.A., Berwick ; James 

 Nicholson, Murton ; Thomas Patrick, Berwick ; James Purves, 

 Berwick ; Adam Eobertson, Alnwick ; William Shaw, Eyemouth ; 

 John Thomson, Kelso ; William Wilson, Berwick ; Matthew 

 Young, Berwick. 



A number of members from a distance, who had arrived on the 

 previous evening, had enjoyed the advantage of examining Mr 

 Bolam's valuable collection of books and documents relative to 

 Northumbrian history, antiquities and topography. In the 

 morning, by appointment, they went to Spittal to see the artificial 

 manure works of Messrs Grossman and Paulin, and not only ac- 

 quainted themselves with the processes in the manufacture which 

 the various substances employed undergo, but enjoyed the trip 

 by water across "Tweed's fair river broad and deep," when 

 augmented by the full tide. They afterwards assembled in the 

 Museum, where Col. Grossman in explaining the Map of the old 

 fortifications of Berwick, drew attention to the fact, that Berwick 

 had once a " Eottenrow," which passed Eavensdown from the 

 " Palace" towards another notable place in ancient Berwick. 



* Houseliold Book of Lord William Howard, p. 413. At the same period 

 Eichard Carrock was occupant of " Lawe Burdoswald," and John Carrock of 

 Wrigarth. Margaret Carrick, whose soubriquet was " Meg of Mumps Hall," 

 who died 4th Dec, 1717, aged one hundred years, " the last of the iron race 

 of the olden time," was probably of this stock. See more about her ia " Guy 

 Mannering." 



