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The Scottish Antiquary ;
the several pieces of bed and table linen and sewed work in the custody
of their said aunts to be divided among my said four daughters, in as
equal proportions as can be, at the sight of the saids aunts, or the survivors
or survivor of them : Item, my said executors are to deliver to
each of my four daughters the books contained in these several catalogues
numbered and signed by me : Item, to my dear brother, Mr. George
Wishart the manuscripts and books out of my library, contained in a
Item, I hereby oblige my said
catalogue numbered and signed by me :
executors to pay, at the first term after my death, to my sister, Cordelia,
twenty pounds sterlin \sic\. And I will that the rest of my goods and
subjects above assigned and disponed shall be brought into one sum or
stock, to be laid out upon annual rent for the use of my said daughters
(my dear wife's jointure, according to the above-mentioned contract of
marriage, being always first paid) and others in the order above set down.'
After some other conditions for the regulation of his property above dis-
the testator continues the settlement of his affairs as follows : 'And
poned,
in case through the decease of all my saids daughters, without issue of their
bodys, my said son shall succeed to my above-mentioned estate, then, and
in that case, I hereby oblige him to pay the sums after mentioned to the
persons following, viz. : to my beloved wife, or her heirs or assignees, three
hundred pounds sterling to ; my sister, Cordelia, or failing her, to her son,
William Moncreiff, two hundred pounds ;
to his aunts, Mrs. Emelia, Janet
and Magdalene Halyburtons, or the survivors or survivor of them, one
and to each of the other tutors and curators
hundred pounds sterlin each ;
after named, fifty pounds sterlin. And for the better guiding of my children
and their affairs, I hereby nominate and appoint my beloved wife, Frances,
my dear brother, Mr. George Wishart, my worthy friends, Mr. Archibald
Murray, advocate, one of the commissaries of Edinburgh, Mr. James
Nimo, cashier to the excise in Scotland, Mr. James Grahame of Damside,
clerk to the signet, Mr. George Young, doctor of medicine in Edinburgh,
Mr. John Stevenson, professor of philosophy in the University of Edinburgh,
Benjamin Avery, doctor of laws, treasurer to Guy's Hospital in
Southwark, and Daniel Scott, doctor of laws, now living at or near Colchester,
in the county of Essex, to be tutors and curators to my said son
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and daughters during their respective pupillarities and minorities, etc., etc.
' And as my son during the course of his education here will certainly
want a governour, and a servant to attend him, my will is, and I hereby
appoint that, while he stays in Scotland, he and they be boarded with my
dear wife, who has been a most tender mother to him, and of whose care
of him I have the utmost confidence.' A holograph codicil is annexed to
the will, brief in its terms, but containing nothing of any great importance.
J. A. R. LYALL.
539. ARTIFICIAL CAVES AT NEWBATTLE AND HAWTHORNDEN. The
following very interesting papers by J. W., which appeared in the Scotsman,
is reprinted by kind permission. ED.
Persons with a feeling for archaeological pursuits have '
to dree their
weird' like other fanatics. One of their necessities is to pester others
with anything new, or considered specially interesting, which comes under
their observation. On Saturday last I had the pleasure of exploring a
cave within the private policy of Newbattle Abbey, and the well-known