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" Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old : 

 It is the rust we value, not the gold." 



•" The people's voice is odd, 



It is, and it is not, the voice of God. 

 To Gammer Gurton, if it give the bays, 

 And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, 

 Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; 

 Why then, I say, the public is a fool." 



There were also noticed a 12mo black letter edition of Stow's 

 England, imperfect ; also an imperfect Camden in English, small 

 folio ; the Surtees' Society Publications ; Surtees' Durham, and 

 Paine's North Durham ; a good selection of well-bound modern 

 books, &c, &c. Mr Culley told me, he was editing for the Early 

 English Text Society, a Caxton translation from a French 

 original. There was no time to look at the collection of Greek, 

 Latin and French classics ; nor with so many visitants, was 

 there an opportunity afforded to exhibit his collection of Bronze 

 Celts, and Flint Weapons. 



I did not see the church at Kirknewton. That the chancel is 

 the vault of a mediaeval peel tower may be held in doubt. There 

 is in it a rough bas-relief of the Virgin and the Magi. The Eev. 

 Matthew Culley is engaged with a paper on the history of the 

 Church. The Eev. P. Gr. McDouall, formerly vicar here, sent a 

 drawing of a mediaeval brass key, found near a well among the 

 Kilham Hills, with a short notice of it. There is an open cross 

 on the handle. A reduced representation of it may yet appear 

 as a cut. The key was exhibited in 1875, (Club's Proc. Vol. 

 vii., p. 346). The manorial history of Heathpool, Lanton, and 

 Kirknewton, must for the present remain in abeyance. 



Jedburgh, Minto, Chesters, Ancrum, Monteviot. 



The third meeting of the Club was held at Jedburgh, July 

 27th, when 34 were present. After breakfast the company 

 proceeded in three carriages towards Minto, by the road which 

 passes across the Dunion, whence as the threatening showers 

 cleared away, a bright view of the valley of the Teviot was 

 enjoyed; the hills and woods and fields wearing their richest 

 summer attire. Owing to the moist season, the verdure was more 

 than usually prevalent, and of a more tender hue than the period 

 would warrant. The rivers were in flood, especially Pule Water, 



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