108 ON A SEAL OF COLDINGHAM PRIORY 



his supplementary volume on Scottish Seals, No. 1125 ; there is 

 a third in the possession of our member Mr C. S. Romanes, 

 Edinburgh ; a fourth, unfortunately much mutilated, was 

 acquired by me at the dispersion of Mr Watson's collection ; and 

 a fifth is described by Laing in his first volume, No. 995. 

 I understand there are others among Colonel Milne Home's 

 papers, but these I have not seen. 



In the Surtees volume already referred to will be found en- 

 gravings of the seals of Thomas de Melsonby, William de 

 Middilton, John de Aclif and William Drax, priors of Colding- 

 ham ; and Laing in his second volume gives examples of the 

 seals of priors Simon and John Oil as well as of those of Melsonby, 

 Aclif and Drax. These differ much in design both from 

 each other and from the common seal of the priory. 



Addendum to Notices of Remains of Early Architectu/re 

 in Berwickshire. 



Lauder. Since my notes were put in type it has been 

 ascertained that the characters on the stone found in taking 

 down the old manse, which were read as a date, '61.' are in 

 reality the missing letters ' gi' of the word Religione. Shortly 

 before his death Mr Romanes sent me a photograph of the 

 inscription, from which this was very apparent. The theory 

 therefore, that the stone was of Pre-Reformation date, and be- 

 longed to the original parish church, falls to the ground. 



