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30 sat down, the President occupying the chair, and Mr Hardy 

 being croupier. The usual toasts were given, and several urns 

 from Amble were exhibited by Mr G. H. Thompson, Alnwick ; 

 an urn from Berwickshire, b}' Mr E. Renton, Greenlaw ; several 

 specimens of garden and greenhouse flowers, along with a branch 

 of a Siberian crab, by Mr W. B. Boyd of Faldonside ; and an 

 ancient key completely encrusted with sand and gravel dis- 

 interred from the banks of the Tweed by Mr Greet. 



Notices connected with the Parish of Oxnam. By James 



Hardy. 



(1). On Oxnam Parish and some of its Localities. 



Having experienced considerable difficulty in arriving at the 

 history of Oxnam parish, which is not satisfactorily given in 

 Jeffrey's " Roxburghshire," I at last found the deficiency pretty 

 fully supplied in the " Origines Parochiales" of Cosmo Innes, a 

 privately printed contribution to the Bannatjme Club, to which 

 the Roxburghshire historian has been largely indebted. After 

 consideration and consultation with other members, I have 

 thought it would be of advantage to reprint a portion of that 

 account, excluding such places as did not come directly within 

 the sphere of the Club's visit; some of them, of sufficient 

 importance, as would require to have had separate treatment : 

 and adding several particulars derived from other sources of 

 information. This notice then may be considered as a supplement 

 to the Report on the Oxnam meeting, and as a preliminary to 

 some subsequent articles relating to subjects in the vicinity of 

 Oxnam. I give the quotation as a document, with all the original 

 references. 



The name of the parish, Oxnam, may be derived from the 

 agricultural pursuits of the original Teutonic settlers, and is 

 contra-distinguished from that of the neighbouring parish of 

 Hounam, Hunedun, Hunum ; which either may represent the 

 hunting stage of civilisation, from A. 8. hund, a dog, or may 

 have originated from some connection with an ancient deer forest 

 of which there still exist so many indications in the old strong 

 walls in proximity to the Border line hereabout, and which is 

 rendered the more plausible from its contiguity to the forests of 

 Cheviot and Redesdale of a later period. 



