Scottish notes and queries . amount excellenceof Bereanism to the last of his days. He died a few-years ago in Fettercairn. The weekly service wascontinued until about 1S40. Soon afterwardskirk and site were disposed of for the sum of £14sterling. The congregation was speedily reduced totwo aged females. When one of them had gone toher long home, the other remarked with fee ing—Ah, sir! when I ging too, the Bereans 11 be cleanlicket aff. J. F. Leigh ton. Goodlvburn, Perth. J. II. Pratt, who has a Communion token of theBereans, and C also write on this subject. 162. Thf. Gordons of Bin hall (2n
Scottish notes and queries . amount excellenceof Bereanism to the last of his days. He died a few-years ago in Fettercairn. The weekly service wascontinued until about 1S40. Soon afterwardskirk and site were disposed of for the sum of £14sterling. The congregation was speedily reduced totwo aged females. When one of them had gone toher long home, the other remarked with fee ing—Ah, sir! when I ging too, the Bereans 11 be cleanlicket aff. J. F. Leigh ton. Goodlvburn, Perth. J. II. Pratt, who has a Communion token of theBereans, and C also write on this subject. 162. Thf. Gordons of Bin hall (2nd s., 140). I am sorry I can give no information aboutI this family. There seems to be no such place as11 Honhall. ,* in the parish of , is> probably meant. C. K. transcript is now,in all likelihood, lost beyond recall. Hill Rurtonsay>: 11 is collection, with it- long train ->f lejpand associations, came to whit he himself meat havecounted as dispersal. He left it to his housekeeper,. [6o SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. [April, 1902. who, like a wise woman, converted it into cash whileits mysterious reputation was fresh. Huddled in agreat auction-room, its several catalogued items lay inhumiliating contrast with the decorous order in whichthey were wont to be arranged. Sic transit gloriamundi. W. 163. Sir William Gordon, Bart. (2nd S.,III., 141).—Anderson [Scottish Nation, vol. ii.)seems clearly to designate the above gentleman as SirWilliam Gordon of Embo. He says : Sir William[of Embo], 4th baronet, was, in 1741, forCromarty and Nairn. He had 2 sons, John andWilliam, the latter, in 1751, commander of the Ottersloop of war. The dates in Anderson do not quitetally with those in the query, but the discrepancy issusceptible of reasonable explanation. Gordon mayhave commanded the Otter long before 1751. Whatis the inference Mr. Bulloch wishes drawn from theverses quoted ? Is it that Seatons consort was aGordon ! The lines, I think, do n
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