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I append a brief series of Notes relating to Duns Castle and 

 its owners, and to the Town of Dans. For some of them I am 

 indebted to a valuable abstract of the contents of the charter- 

 chest at the Castle, drawn up by the late Mr G. Home Drummond, 

 a brother-in-law of Mr Hay, and a gentleman skilled in anti- 

 quarian research. These are distinguished by the initials 

 G.H.D. 



Returning to Duns, the company had tea in the White Swan 

 Hotel, after which some local collections of antiquities and 

 curiosities were inspected. Mr Chai'les Watson, Duns, exhibited 

 the following: — Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum; Works of 

 Duns Scotus, folio, Venice, 1490 ; Dr Home on Dunsspaw, 1751 ; 

 the original Charter by James IV. in favour of the town of Duns, 

 1489 ; Bull by Pope Clement VII. anent Lord Lyndesay, Dec. 

 6th 1577; General Dalziel's dark lanthorn and glass drinking 

 cup ; drawing of Duns Market Cross ; drawing of Duns Tol- 

 booth ; a snuff box presented by Prince Charles Edward Stuart 

 in 1746 to Lady Seaforth, and by her to Mrs Mackenzie of 

 Muirtown ; and an antique brass snuff-box which belonged to Mr 

 Watson's great-grandfather, with the inscription " Prosperity to 

 Scotland, and no Union. God Save King James VIII. E.W. 

 1705." Mr Ferguson, Duns, showed two specimens of old 

 Scottish crusies, one of them found at Bridge End, Duns ; 

 several illuminated books of devotion, written on vellum, and 

 dating from the 13th to the 16th century; a very fine early 

 printed Virgil (Florence 1487) with richly illuminated initials; 

 and well-preserved copies of Timothy Font's Maps of the Merse 

 and Lauderdale, prepared from surveys taken about 1620. Mr 

 John Williamson, Duns, had a MS. copy of Home of Godscroft's 

 History of the Homes of Wedderhurn ; a document on vellum of 

 Acts and Regulations of the Corporation of Shoemakers or Cordiners 

 within the Burgh of Barony of Dunse, 1745 ; a plan of Edin's 

 Hall by John Blackadder, Land Surveyor, Blanerne ; a copy of 

 The Marrow of Modern Divinity, and other rare volumes ; also a 

 large nail found in Norham Castle. The valuable collections of 

 old coins, stone implements and weapons, insects and local 

 fossils, formed by Mr David Patterson, Castle Street, were viewed 

 with great interest. Mr Patterson has been long known as an 

 enthusiastic antiquarian and naturalist. 



