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in a peat moss on Swinnie Moor, Jedburgh, in 1890. This 

 implement is 5f inches long ,• 2^ inches the breadth of the 

 diameter of the cutting edge ; and 1^ inch the diameter of the 

 butt. The extreme thickness of the Celt is 1:^ inch. It is a 

 very neat example. 



Several of the floral experts of the Club had visited the 

 gardens of Miss Dickinson, and Mr M'Creath. where they were 

 rejoiced to find a great rarity, Eryngivni alpinum, which I 

 subsequently saw in its growing state, and was rewarded with 

 a specimen of. 



Appendix A. — On some of the latter Proprietors of Ladyhirh. 



I have made a collection of the proprietors of Ladykirk and Upsetling- 

 ton from an early period, but hitherto, from want of leisure to consult the 

 Edinburgh Libraries, it remains incomplete. The following items, which 

 it is desirable should not be lost, were sent by the late Mr John Turnbull 

 of Abbey St. Bathans, to Mr Watson Askew-Eobertson, by whom they are 

 communicated. 



" The Hogs were proprietors of Ladykirk in the Cess of 1736, when John 

 Hog appears as proprietor of Upsetlington, New Ladykirk, Ladykirk 

 Mains, and Stotencleuch interest ; and it appears from the title-deeds that 

 on 25th May 1739, John Hog senior of Cammo, and John Hog junior, his 

 eldest son, conveyed them to William Robertson, and by contract of 

 marriage between Roger Robertson (only son of William) and Lady Helen 

 Ogilvie, William Robertson conveyed them to Roger." 



"In 1793, Roger's son William, was served heir to him at Ladykirk, and 

 succeeded on the death of his grandfather under his Will dated 1783 to 

 Harcarse, Bogend, etc. etc. Roger predeceased his father William." 



Appendix B. — David Dudgeon. 



It was Upsetlington that Mr David Dudgeon, perhaps the earliest and 

 most noted of our Berwickshire philosophical Sceptics, chose as a quiet 

 retreat to spend the closing years of his life. Mr Dudgeon first comes 

 under our notice, as tenant, of the farm of Lennel-Hill, near Coldstream. 

 He seems to have received a Collegiate education, and appeared as an 

 Author in 1732, when he published a work entitled " The Moral World." 

 In that work he maintains with clearness and ability, a doctrine like that 

 of Anthony Collins, whom he had read. He asserts "that there is no evil 

 in the Moral World but what necessarily ariseth from the nature of im- 

 perfect creatures, who always pursue their good, but cannot but be liable 

 to error or mistake : and that evil or sin is inseparable in some degree 

 from all created beings, and most consistent with the designs of a perfect 

 Creator." 



On account of this work, he was summoned before the Presbytery of 

 Chirnside on these two charges : — Ist. " That he destroys and denies all 



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