General Index. 



Bates of Brunton, Ay don, Heddon, 



etc. 414 ; Thomas of Coupland, 



414. 

 Bats farm, Oxnam 30, 91. 

 Bats, swarms of under roof of Stobo 



Church, 368 ; dying out at Broom- 

 house, 239. 

 Beacon Hill, (Simonside) and its 



cairn, 42; Beacon-fires and system 



of Beacons, 426, 44(3. 

 Bead, Glass, ancient, 70 ; at Chester's 



Camp, Reavcley, and Chathill, 



288-9 ; Jet at Castle-hill, Alnham, 



304. 

 Bean Aphis, 122. 

 Beaidey Moor, fortified road at, 48 ; 



North Farm, Stone Celt from, and 



Camp, 283. 

 Bear-hope, 29. 



Beaumont Water, burnt, 100. 

 Bedrowll (Bedrule) burnt by Tyn- 



daill and Rvddesdale, 138 ; burnt, 



139; laird of, 428: Castle burnt, 



449. 

 Bedshiel Kaims, 65-7 ; Owners of 



Bedshiel, 67 ; Peat Lairds of, ib. 

 Bee-hives, 41. 



Beggars-rig and Old Rothbury, 37. 

 Beirne Leig, Bermerrig, Byrnyrigge, 



Davison of, Border thief, 100-1. 

 Belford, Edward II., at, 334. 

 Belford District, Occurrence and 



Migration of Birds for, 1885; 246-7. 

 Belling Moor, 13. 

 Bellingham Chapel, 55. 

 Bells, Oxnam, 18, 19, 120; Jedburgh, 



26, 139, 140; Bell found below 



Cragtower, 120 ; of Lauder, 357. 

 Bell's Hill, 42. 

 Belsay, 213. 



Bemerside Hill and House, 327, 342. 

 Benacies field near Thrunton, two 



Cists at, 307-8. 

 Bents, 437. 



Bercaria, or Sheep-cotes, 16, 17, 40. 

 Berchope, Quarrel and Slaughter at, 



103. 

 Berries and Wild Fruits, 256. 

 Berryhill, 84. 



Berwick-upon-Tweed Garrison of, 

 Raid by, 91; Colvill's lands at, 

 granted to Monks of Newbottle, 



95 ; beseiged by Edward II., 334 ; 

 Old Drove road to from Glasgow, 



at E. Dawyck, temp. Alex. III., 



367; Clifford's Raid from Berwick, 

 435-7 ; Tempest's Sir R., Raid 



from Berwick, 436 ; Letters from, 

 435-6, 448 ; English retire to, 440 ; 

 English Commissioners meet at, 

 April, 1597, 454; Sir W. Selby 

 of, 455 ; Stores from Berwick to 

 Leith, 490-1 ; Lord Grey, governor 

 of takes Dalkeith Castle, 497 ; old 

 bands of Berwick, 498. 



Berwickers-field, 16. 



Bewick, Thomas and his works, 211, 

 216. 



Bickerton, Northd., 48 ; 4 bastles 

 at., 174. 



Biddleston, Selbies of, 128-9; Vis- 

 sards of, 127. 



Biggar Brig, 364 ; Water, 330, 372. 



Bigge, Rev. J. F., Memoir of, 207- 

 217; Mr John Hancock on, 216 ; 

 Papers by, 217. 



Billie mire, 171, 244 ; Pech Stone at, 

 521. 



Birch woods, native, 80, 81, 82, 84, 

 85, 88. 



Birds, sec Index of Birds. 



Birds, Notes on, 242-5 ; Migration 

 of, 236-41,246-7 ; in East Lothian, 

 248-50 ; near Maxton, 251-8 ; Notes 

 on, 258-63 ; Notices on, 542-3; in 

 Dunbar district, 544-6 ; of Stobo, 

 546-58 ; Migration of, 562-75 ; 

 Summer Migrants, 576. 



Birkenside, Oxnam, 16, 17 ; on Lea- 

 der and Birkhillside, 354. 



Birky Hill, Whitton, 39. 



Birling parr, Algae at, 268. 



Blackadder, Robert, Archbishop of 

 Glasgow ; his arms at Jedburgh, 

 142 ; respite to his men for slaugh- 

 ter at, 142. 



Blackbirds, curious nesting place 

 of, 253. 



Blackborough Camp, 275-6. 



Blackburn, Northd., Iron Slag on 

 the, 43. 



Blackburn-mill, (on River Eye,) 

 bronze and iron articles enclosed 

 between two globular Caldrons 

 at, 134-5. 



Blackcastle Hill, 87. 



Black Caterpillar (Athalia Spina- 

 rum), 122. 



Black Chesters Camp, 303; effaced, 

 304. 



Blackcock Hall, 43. 



Blackdyke, 135. 



Blackhouse Hills, 364. 



Black-mail, 426. 



