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of which the stock and merchandise of the whole Eastern portion 

 of Berwickshire and East Lothian were exposed, thus represent- 

 ing the business now transacted at the marts of Berwick, Duns, 

 Reston, East Linton, and Haddington, At the church gate the 

 party were received by the venerable minister, Rev. Wm. 

 M. Hutton, who along with Mr John Wilson, the tenant of 

 Stottencleugh, supplied information regarding the building 

 and neighbourhood. The most interesting feature of the 

 church is the traceried window in the East aisle, supported 

 on either side by heraldic panels, already figured,* to which 

 particular reference is made in the Proceedings.! Attention 

 was drawn to the peculiarlj^ shaped sun-dial above mentioned, 

 which differs from that of Cockburnspath in having a rude 

 stone gnomon in place of one of iron, and to the bell and 

 belfry of the church, presented by a member of the cele- 

 brated firm of Broadwood & Sons, London, whose ancestor 

 claimed kinship with the district. Very recently extensive 

 internal improvements have been carried out upon the 

 building, in commemoration of which the following inscrip- 

 tion has been affixed to the wall above the Dunglass family 

 pew in the North transept: — "This church was renovated 

 and restored by Richard Hunter of Thurston, in memory of 

 Sir James Percy Miller, second baronet of Manderston, in 

 the year of our Lord 1907." On the North side of the 

 public road, in a field now marked only by two solitary 

 trees, were unearthed in the course of ploughing the found- 

 ations of a seat of the Hepburns of Hailes, whose name is 

 preserved in that of a hill in the neighbourhood, called 

 Blackcastle. A pleasant saunter through the grounds of the 

 Manse terminated with an expression of thanks to the 

 kindly pastor, whose sojourn of fourscore years, many of 

 which had been spent upon Lammermoor, appeared to have 

 dealt gently with him. 



Resuming their seats in the brakes, the members drove 

 over a rough course to Stottencleugh, a farm situated in 

 the midst of the hills, and facing the stony channel of the 

 stream which issues from the glens named by the late Dr 



* B.N.C., Vol, XVII., Plates XI., XII,, and XIII. 



t B,N,0., Vol, VIII,, Part 3, pp. 407-8 j ancl Vol, xvii., Part 2, p. 24?. 



