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Teviothead, with, selections from other local collections, 

 were exhibited in the Buccleuch Memorial ; and the reference 

 room of the Public Library, containing' a number of interesting 

 books, was open to members. The Tower Hotel, in which 

 the members dined, is one of the oldest buildino^s in the 

 town, and was formerly a fortress belonging to the Douglases 

 of Drumlanrig, and subsequently to the family of Buccleuch, 

 and was for some time the residence of Anne, Duchess of 

 Buccleuch and Monmouth. Hawick Moat and the last of 

 the old bastile houses, belonging to Mr John Turnbull, 

 also visited. 



NO TES. 

 The following notes on Cavers and Denholm have been 

 taken principally from papers read l)efore the Hawick 

 Archsoological Societj^ by Dr J. A. II. Murray, Oxford. 



CAVERS. 



In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it was possessed 

 by the Norman family of the Baliols. Hugh de Baliol 

 swore to the due observance of the peace concluded in 1237 

 between Alexander II. of Scotland and Henry III, of 

 England, and understood to have been signed at Cavers. 

 At his death, his son, Sir Alexander Baliul, obtained Cavers 

 as part of his inheritance, taking from it his title, and is 

 referred to in the Acts of Parliament of Alexander II. as 

 Alexander de Baliol de Cavers. Sir William Douglas, created 

 first Earl of Douglas in 1358, and subsrquently Earl of 

 Douglas and Mar, married Lady Margaret of Mar, and 

 on Thomas de Baliol and the Earl of Mar both dying 

 childless, he inherited their possessions, and the barony 

 of Cavers passed into the line of Douglas. James, 

 second Earl of Douglas and Mar, son of Sir William, was the 

 hero of the battle of Otterburn, and the gauntlets and pennon 

 brought from that well-fought battle and well-sung field 

 still remain in the keeping of his descendants. A brief 

 recapitulation of the prominent events in his career may be 

 given. Born in 1358, he spent his early life at Dalkeith, 

 where at the age of fifteen he married the Princess Isobel 

 Stewart, and he was only thirty when, after distinguishing 

 himself in the wars of the period, and holding the important 



