iv Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
had been built and endowed by pious benefactors of former 
times ; and traced, through the bouses in which they took refuge, 
the similarity of the wanderings toward the south coast of 
Charles II. after Worcester, and of his son the Duke of Mon- 
mouth after defeat at Sedgemoor. 
His connection by marriage with Inverness-shire led to his 
writing a work entitled The Charters of the Priory of Beauty , 
with Notices of the Priories of Pluscardine and Ardchattan , and 
of the Family of the Founder , John Bysset (the common ancestor of 
Lovat and of The Chisholm), published for the Grampian Club in 
1877. He also published, in 1889, The Register of Bishop Fox , 
while Bishop of Bath and Wells , with Life , temp. Henry VII. 
and Henry VIII. 
His antiquarian pursuits did not interfere with regular practice 
at the Bar. He wrote A Practical Treatise on the Law relating to 
the Specific Performance of Contracts', and in conjunction with 
Mr Henry Ludlow, A Treatise on the Jurisdiction , Pleadings, and 
Practice of the County Courts in Equity. 
Mr Chisholm Batten was interested in many societies. Besides 
being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was a 
member of the Northern Meeting, the Highland Society of London, 
the Somersetshire Society, the Tithe Redemption Trust, the Somer- 
setshire Discharged Prisoners Aid Society, and the Somerset 
Archaeological and Natural History Society. 
He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1857, was one of the 
early members of the British Association, and was for more than 
fifty years a member of the Athenaeum Club, 1846-1897. 
Mr Chisholm Batten died at Thornfalcon, on Saturday, 13th 
February 1897, and was there, beside his wife, who died in 1883, 
in the forty-first year of their marriage, laid to rest under the 
shadow of the church which he had repaired from floor to roof. 
J. F. C. B. 
