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sextarius being 1£ pint, say 80£ bottles; and made use of for 

 lighting 100 lb. of wax candles.* For the next two days the 

 King was at Horton ; on the 22nd and 23rd, he visited Tyne- 

 mouth, and then removed to Newcastle, where on the 25th it is 

 recorded that the King of Scotia did eat with the King of Eng- 

 land ; and that on the 26th (again on a Friday), "isto die fecit 

 rex Scotise homagium regi Anglise," a dolium (cask, tun, pipe), 

 and 10£ bottles of wine were drunk, and 105 lb. of waxen candles 

 illuminated the festival. All this is connected with Woodhorn, 

 whose lord allowed himself thus to be fooled, the bitter penalty 

 being that afterwards his name and family were wiped out of 

 the roll of honour ; and although rightful king of Scotland, no 

 one, even after the long lapse of centuries, can stand up and 

 approve of his irresolution. 



Mr Thompson and I regained our Inn by a way across the 

 fields, and then betook ourselves to the shore to look at the 

 visitors wandering aimlessly about, or squatted in rows on the 

 sands. 



The dinner party of twenty was presided over by the Presi- 

 dent. The following were proposed for membership : Abraham 

 Burbery Herbert, 13 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh; Rev. Canon 

 R. F. Wheeler, M.A., Rector of Doddington ; Ven. Archdeacon 

 Henry J. Martin, Eglingham Vicarage, Alnwick ; Commander 

 Henry C. Bigge, H.M.S. Devastation, Queensferry ; George 

 Currie, Puckawidgee, near Deniliquin, New South Wales - f 

 William G. Guthrie, High Street, Hawick ; Andrew Waugh, High 

 Street, Hawick ; Rev. George Rome Hall, F.S.A., Birtley 

 Vicarage, Wark-on-Tyne ; Rev. William Ainslie Walton, M.A., 

 B.D., 3 Wellington Terrace, Berwick-on-Tweed; William Evans, 

 F.R.S.E.., 18a. Morningside Park, Edinburgh; Archibald Miller 

 Dunlop, Schoolhouse, Ashkirk, Hawick. 



Among those present were Mr Robert Middlemas, Alnwick, 

 President ; Mr James Hardy, Oldcambus, Secretary ; Sir George 

 B. Douglas, Bart., Springwood Park, Kelso ; Revs. R. H. 

 Williamson, Whickman ; Canon Edwards, Kyloe ; E. H. Adam- 

 son, Felling ; R. E. Taylor, Cresswell ; E. Shortt, Woodhorn ; 

 Messrs. W. H. D. Longstaffe, F.S.A., Gateshead ; W. T. Hind- 

 marsh, Alnwick; W. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Captain Norman, 

 R.N., and Captain Forbes, R.N., Berwick; Messrs. M. H. Dand, 



* Stevenson's Historical Documents, i., pp. 371-372. 



