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H visit to Cweeaslde In 1833. being m 



3ournal of John trotter Brockett, 



the pounger, or ReiDcastle* 



By John Crawford Hodgson, M.A., F.S.A., 

 President. 



Introduction. 



The following Journal of a tour on Tweedside, now printed 

 for the first time, was written in September, 1833, by John 

 Trotter Brockett, the younger, of Newcastle, who with his 

 father and mother, in that month and year, paid a visit at 

 Woodside, near Kelso. The writer thereof was a youth of 

 great promise, whose early death, at the age of twenty, on 

 the 23rd November of the same year, dealt such a blow to 

 his gifted father, Mr John Trotter Brockett, author of the 

 well-known Glossary of North Country Words, that, it is said, 

 he never fully recovered from it. 



The MS., illustrated by rough sketches of places visited 

 and objects seen, some of which are here reproduced, belonged 

 to the late Mr Middleton H. Dand of Hauxley, long a member 

 of the Club, and at his death passed to me, with part of 

 his library, by bequest. It was known to, and valued by, 

 the late Dr Hardy, And its publication is a carrying out 

 of his expressed wish and intention. In preparing the MS. 

 for the press, nothing of any moment has been omitted, 

 and words required to make clear the context are placed in 

 square brackets.* 



* The Editor's thanks are hereby tendered to the Ministers of the 

 parishes of Cornhill, Kelso, Dryburgh, Earlston, Ednanj, Stichel, 

 Jedbnrgh, and Birness, for their kindness in collating the monnmental 

 inscriptions in their respective church-yards ; also to the Rev. J. J. 

 M. L. Aiken, B.D., Mr Richard Welford, M.A., and others, for reading 

 proofs, 



