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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1908.

CONTENTS. No. 257.


 * NT)TES: The Barony of Carnousie, 421 The Rev. G.

Plaxton, 422 Shakespeariana, 424 ' The Old-Tirae Parson '-93, Pall Mall, 425 Sir Arthur L. Pigott Henry Halliwell, B.D., 426' The Knight of the Burning Pestle ' Johnson Anecdote "Grisbet "Tobacconists' Heraldry, 427.

QUERIES: "Paradigma" 'Letters left at the Pastry- Cook's 'William Weatherhead as a Child, 427 American Naval Story, 1814 Jacques Babin, ex-NobleDetached Parts of Counties and Townships -Tyng of Dunstable Authors of Quotations Wanted Surnames in -eng Indian Magic, 428 Arms of Married Women Shake- speare Visitors' Book Bishop Sampson of Lichfield North Bungay Fencibles, 429 Bell Customs at Sibson 'Lights in Lyrics' Yew Trees by Act of Parliament The Kent, .East Indiaman Wilbraham and Tabraham as Proper Names Cockburnspath, 430.

REPLIES : The Tyburn, 430 Queen Elizabeth's Day, 431 Pronunciation of Campbell John of Gaunt's Arms, 432 Frost Prints -Sir Matthew de Renzi, 433 Fifth of November Law of Lauriston Edward Morris, M.P. "Dear": "O dear no!" 434 Dr. Pena Queen Anne's Fifty Churches "Moloker," Yiddish Term, 435 Crom- well and the 117th Psalm TH as a Symbol The Lion .and the Unicorn, 436 "Nose of Wax "Commodore Chamberlain Ovoca or Avoca " Portions " : " Pensions" The Eleventh Commandment Military Bank-Note Jesuits at Mediolanum, 437 Jeffrey Hudson the Dwarf Bandy - Leg Walk Salford : Saltersford Persian 'Translation by Shelley Storks and Commonwealths Kniphofia, 438.

NOTES ON BOOKS: -The Tudor Facsimile Texts- Algernon Ashton's Letters to the Press.

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THE BARONY OF CARNOUSIE.

I WOULD add a few notes to my account of Carnousie (10 S. ix. 41, 203), and at the same time thank MR. J. M. BTJLLOCH for his valuable information (ix. 347) regarding the Gordons of Edinglassie and the subse- quent owners of the property. My thanks are also due to Mr. John Harvey, the present laird of Carnousie, who has sent me certain interesting notes and The Banff shire Journal -of 4 Sept., 1852. The latter, besides giving a long summary of improvements made on the estate by Mr. Harvey's father, concludes with an account of its previous possessors. 'This account I have abridged below, and ^shall show presently that certain details of it need verifying.

The " New House " the Journal states, was begun by Capt. Grant, at whose death in 1841 it was not completed, having cost upwards of 5,OOOZ. The " Old House," the walls of which are 3 ft. thick, bears on it the date 1577. The history of the owner- ship of Carnousie is given thus. Alexander Burnard (Burnett), the first of the family of Leys, who accompanied King Robert Bruce from the native earldom of that monarch in Annandale, obtained from his royal master, along with several lands in

Aberdeenshire, a grant of the " two Car- nousies." This charter is dated 28 March, 18th year of the King's reign (1323). The two Carnousies are the Auldton and Newton, which originally constituted the bulk of the estate known as the Barony of Carnousie. Alexander Burnard w r as succeeded by his son Robert, who obtained a charter of con- firmation of his father's lands from King David Bruce, dated at Scone 17 Nov., 1358. His son John de Burnard had held the office of King's Macer, for which he enjoyed an annuity of ten merks, as appears by a charter under the Great Seal, from David Bruce to Richard de Cumine. The latter was directed to pay it " out of the lands of the two Carnousies " ; and the annuity, adds the charter, " fuit Johannis Burnard Clavi- geri Nostri." This charter is dated 25 Dec., 1370.

The estate now went to the Cumines of Inverallochy, and remained with them three or four descents, when it was acquired by the Maitlands of Gight, afterwards of Pittrichie, with whom it also remained four of five descents. It was next acquired by Lord Oliphant, whose family possessed it for three generations, when it passed to Sir Walter Ogilvie of Dunlugas, Provost of Banff 1543. He was succeeded by his eldest son Sir George Ogilvie of Dunlug as in that estate, and by his second son Walter in Carnousie. Walter dying s.p., the pro- perty went to his elder brother Sir George, upon whose death it passed to his second son George, who was created a baronet in 1626.

From the Ogilvies it passed to the Gordons of Edinglassie, who possessed it in 1746, when it was forfeited for the then proprietor's connexion with the Rebellion. The estate was sold, and was purchased by James, fifth Earl of Findlater, who in a short time sold it to Mr. Hay of Mountblairy, father of General Andrew Hay of the same place. The latter sold it to his brother-in-law, Col. Patrick Duff, H.E.I. C.S., afterwards General. He was succeeded by his eldest son Patrick, who sold the property to Mr. Stewart of Belladrum. He held it a few years, and then sold it to Capt. Grant. On the latter' s suicide in 1841 it was disposed of to Mr. Gordon, advocate of Aberdeen, from whom it was shortly afterwards purchased by Mr. William James Harvey.

This account supplies fresh facts as to the possessors before John Burnard (1369 ; see 10 S. ix. 42), showing that Robert and Alexander, his father and grandfather, pre- ceded him. It does not, however, throw