INSCRIPTIONS WITHIN S. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The three first inscriptions are from memorial windows, on which are represented respectively SS. Andrew, Paul and Matthias:

(1) In memoriam. Alexander Morison, Esq. of Bognie and Mountblairy. + Born January 30th, 1802. Died February 1st, 1874. + Erected by the members of this church, Easter, 1875. (2) To the memory of James, Vth Earl of Fife, and his wife Agnes. Erected by their son. (3) Dedicated to the glory of God, and in memory of Rev. George Walker, M.A., who died February 24th, 1883. By members of this church and other friends. Easter, 1884. (4) From a mural tablet :-India. To Joseph Bethune of Dornock, a major in the 78th Regiment, in which he served 23 years; sharing in its laurels at Ahmednegus, Assaye, and Java. Born 21st December, 1781, Died 2nd April, 1837. "And now Lord what wait I for? My hope is in Thee." By his widow.

(5) From a mural tablet :-Boar's Head. Motto-I Byde it. To Ralph Compton Nisbet, Esq. of Mainhouse, Roxburghshire, 43 years merchant in Banff, who died at Mainhouse 2nd November, 1863, and was interred in Banff Cemetery. In loving remembrance by his daughter Mary.

Milne, Mills of Boyndie, and his sons James, younger, and Alexander, were the architects of the Banff of their day, and there are many records concerning them, while a family tradition connects them with the King's Mason, Mylnes of Edinburgh. In 1711-13 Alexander was called upon by the Town Council to give his "advyce in architecter" anent the reconstruction of the Tolbooth. From 1708, for about twenty years, that is as far as the earliest records of St. Andrew's Masonic Lodge are in existence, he appears to have been always Master. He was also Boxmaster of the Hammermen Incorporation. A farmer at Mill of Alvah, he was also factor to the Duffs of Braco and to Lady Banff. His brother John, farming at Mill of Boyndie, was the owner of several small houses in Banff, and had his second son Patrick established there as a Notary and Writer 1722 to 1747. This Patrick was cautioned in 1727 for an intended "duall" with William Munro. John's elder son, James, was a farmer at Nether Mill of Boyndie, while his cousin, Alexander Milne, junior, farmed Mill of Alvah. Captain Alexander Milne (Honorary Burgess), the son of the latter, died 1780. His younger sister Isobel married her second cousin James Milne, junior, at Upper Mill of Boyndie, thus uniting the two branches. Mr. James Milne was one of the most notable pioneers of the new Agriculture fostered by the Earl of Findlater. His early growing of turnips, drainage of marsh lands, and successful rearing of sheep, are on record. Mr. Milne was a favourite figure in Banff, and many stories are still preserved regarding him. Of his three sons, James, the eldest? was drowned at eighteen, and the youngest, Lieut.Col. Alexander Milne, died in 1827, while Acting Governor of Demerara. Captain Duncan, son of Colonel Milne, was murdered at Aden. The second son of Mr. James Milne was the late Mr. John Milne, Mill of Boyndie, Honorary Burgess of Banff. He considerably developed his nine farms, and his name became a household word in the North of Scotland for the highest class of farming and for genial hospitality. A resolution of the Head Court of Burgesses in 1800 thanked him and his father for the "very generous and liberal manner" in which they had voluntarily supplied the town with meal, and in 1825 by the presentation of a handsome silver urn his friends in the counties of Banff and Aberdeen expressed their "high estimation" of his enterprise and skill, and their attachment to himself and family. He married Miss Jean Milne of Chapelton. Nine sons represented the family in turn at King's College, Aberdeen, the rest of the family being two daughters. The eldest son James, merchant in Java, was made an Honourable Burgess of Banff, in acknowledgment of his gift of some 2000 Java shells to the Museum. Another son, Alexander, was born in 1803, and died in 1877. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and after serving for some time in the office of an advocate in Aberdeen, became the tenant of Blairshinnoch, with which his name has been associated for half a century. He married Isabella Lumsden, daughter of John Lumsden of Eggie, Belhelvie. One of the daughters, Margaret (see No. 79, supra), married A. W. Gardiner of Greenskares, who died in 1871. Mr. Gardiner's father had acquired considerable means in the West Indies, and latterly settled at St. Ann's, Banff. Here his only son was educated, and about 1835 purchased the estate of Greenskares, which he greatly improved. The estate of Greenskares was mortified in 1875 by James Taylor, Esq., Deputy InspectorGeneral of Hospitals and Fleets, to the University of Aberdeen for the foundation of bursaries. Henry Milne, M.D., the eighth son, after his studies made a voyage to India as surgeon on a large sailing vessel, and thereafter settled in Banff in 1833 as successor to his brother John, a popular surgeon, who died of a fall from his horse in the 26th year of his age. Dr. Milne was once a Manager of the town during a suspension of the Town Council. He retired to Inverichny in 1861, and afterwards to Bridge of Allan, where he died. He married in 1839 Miss Keith, Netherthird. In the family burying-ground at Boyndie are interred other sons, viz. :-(1) Robert, died in 1833, aged 23; (2) John (see supra); and (3) Abercromby, died in 1848, aged 30. One son, Archibald, died in New Zealand in 1842, aged 34; another, William, in Jamaica in 1850, aged 36, and a daughter Isabella at Boyndie Cottage in 1873, aged 73Only one member of the family survives, namely, George Milne of Upper Norwood, Surrey, a retired banker, and merchant of London. The family had intermarried with the Hills, Hackets, Stewarts, Rosses, Frasers, Crichtons of Auchengoul, Ruddimans, Lumsdens, Mitchells, Munros, Wilsons, Milnes of Chapelton, Gardiners of Melrose, Keiths, &c.

(6) From a Brass:-In loving memory of Jessie Duff, wife of Alexander Morison, Esq. of Bognie and Mountblairy, for many years a devoted member of S. Andrew's congregation, and

a generous benefactor to the church, who died July 27th, 1883. “The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance."

(7) "A very handsome window has just been placed in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Banff, in memory of the late Earl and Countess of Fife. It is a gift to the Church by the present Earl of Fife. The memorial fills the window in the south side of the church next to the reading desk. The design is a life size figure of St. Paul, attired in very rich robes. In the right hand, folded across the breast, a book is held, and the left hand rests upon the hilt of a sword. Underneath the figure, a couple of panels bear the crests of the Fife family. One of these is a horse at full gallop, bearing a knight in complete armour, with the motto, "Deo juvante," and the other a demi-lion rampant holding in the dexter paw a broadsword, with the motto "Deus juvat." At the base of the window in old English lettering is inscribed, "To the memory of James, Fifth Earl of Fife, and his wife, Agnes. Erected by their son." The window is by Messrs. Ballantine & Son, Edinburgh. It forms a companion to the window with figure of St. Andrew, placed in the church some years ago in memory of the late Mr. Morison of Bognie. Both these, as well as the window over the altar, are the products of the same artist, and are thus similar in style. The colouring of the new window is very brilliant, and the subordinate decoration of beautiful finish and effect."—(Banffshire Journal, 1881.)

INSCRIPTIONS WITHIN THE FIFE MAUSOLEUM.

The Fife Mausoleum is situated upon an eminence on the north bank of the Deveron, in a spacious park about a mile from Duff House. It was erected about 1790, and is constructed in the form of a chapel, with stained-glass windows, and the figures of Faith and Hope over the entrance door. The remains and coffins of the deceased lords and ladies--22 in number-are placed upon trestles in the vault underneath the apartment in which the family monuments are erected.

An altar tomb in the north end of the aisle built into a recess bears the effigy of a man in long robes, with Eastern cap on his head and crescent in front, a short sword or dagger by his side, and belt with buckles round his waist. The hands are in a devotional attitude. Round the margin of the stone upon which the effigy lies is the inscription in capitals: "Hic jacet Johannes Dvf de Maldavat & Baldavi obiit 2 Jvlii 1404."* Upon the front of the building on which the above rests is the inscription: "This stone with the remains was

Many proofs could be given to show that this date has been tampered with. See Cramond's "Church and Churchyard of Cullen," pp. 14-19. The modern "4" was besides not then in use. The above descriptive notes are from Jervise's MSS.

removed from the burying place in the isle of Cullen, and placed here 1792." An incised effigy, with helmet and in mail armour, with sword by the side, and the hands as in the previously mentioned figure, is upon a flat stone [also removed from Cullen Church] in front of the above. (1) “David Duff of Maldavat, grandson of Duncan 13th Earl of Fife, died in the year 1375. John Duff of Maldavat, his son, died 1404. John Duff of Maldavat, his son, died 1480. John Duff of Maldavat, his son, died 1500. Andrew Duff, his son, died 1519. Sir George Duff, second son of John Duff of Muldavat, died 1549. John Duff, son and heir of Andrew Duff of Muldavat, died 1580. John Duff of Maldavat, his son, died 1624; and Agnes Gordon, his spouse, died 1628. Adam Duff, son and heir of John Duff of Maldavat, died 1674; and Beatrix Gordon, his spouse, died 1640 (?). Alexander Duff of Bracco, son and heir of Adam Duff of Maldavat, died 1696; Helen Grant, his spouse, died 1694, and were buried in the Kirk of Mortlech. Alexander Duff of Bracco died 1705; Margaret Gordon, his spouse, died 1722. William Duff of Bracco died 1718; Helen Taylor, his spouse, died 1780 (?) buried at Mortlech. William Duff of Bracco, father to William, Earl of Fife, died 1722; Helen Gordon, his spouse, died 1706 (?), buried in the Duke of Gordon's Isle at Elgin.”*

The following notes of inscriptions within the Mausoleum is from Mr. Jervise's MSS. :—

(2) William, Earl of Fife, born September, 1697, lineally the 12th generation from the Duffs of Mildavit. He married first in 1719 Lady Janet Ogilvie, daughter of James, Earl of Findlater and Seafield. She died in 1720 without issue. He married secondly, February, 1723, Jean, daughter of Sir James Grant of Grant, by whom he had issue :— William, born 26th of March, 1724, died unmarried 1753; James, now Earl of Fife, born 27th September, 1729 [died 24th January, 1809]; Alexander Duff, born 13th April, 1731, died April, 1811; George Duff, born 21st of February, 1736; Lewis Duff, born 13th of June, 1737; Patrick Duff, born 10th of July, 1738; Arthur Duff, born 30th of April, 1743; Lady Ann, born 8th of June, 1725, married to Alexander Duff of Hatton; Lady Janet, born 7th of April, 1727, married to Sir William Gordon of Park, died in 1758; Lady Jean, born 16th of November, 1732, married to Keith Urquhart of Meldrum, died 1783; Lady Helen, born 11th July, 1739, married to Admiral Robert Duff, died 1780; Lady Sophia Henrietta, born 13th of July, 1740, married to Thomas Wharton, Esq.; Lady Catherine, born 11th of September, 1741, died 10th of April, 1765, unmarried; Lady Margaret, born 22nd of July, 1745, married to James Brodie, Esq., died March, 1786.

(3) In memory of William, Earl of Fife, Viscount Macduff, born September, 1697, died at Rothiemay 30th September, 1763, aetat. 66 years. Jean, Countess of Fife, born 27th of September, 1705, died 14th of January, 1788, aetat. 83 years. This was erected to their memory by their dutiful son James, Earl of Fife, 1792.

*The dates 1640, 1780 and 1706 were legible in Mr. Jervise's time. The above inscription was copied by the present writer from the monument in the Mausoleum which is intended to represent an open book. Like the "Sharp" slab already referred to, which it also resembles in its unreliableness, this monument, from the unsuitable character of the freestone, is fast becoming undecipherable. The writer possesses a photograph of it, taken when in better condition. See Article on "The Earl of Fife" in The Genealogist for October, 1886.

(4) Frigido sub hoc marmore [jacet] Alexander Duff de Bracco ex antiqua familia D.D. Joannis Duff de Craighead et D. Helenorae Hay ejus conjugis filiae legitimae comitis de Enzie ab avo ejusdem familiae filio, necnon ex preclaro McDuffo Fifae Thano ejusdem nominis coryphaeo avita oriundus stirpe qui ope et opera virtute ac frugalitate alto consilio et intrepido corde paternos limites hand paulo ampliavit ob incorruptam mentem, inviolatam fidem, in justo proposito constantiam in eodem prosequendo audaciam ac omnia optimi civis judicia omnibus probis luctuosum sui desiderium reliquit obiit 19 die Decem. A.D. 1705 aetatis 53.

[Translation: "Under this cold marble lies Alexander Duff of Bracco of the old family of John Duff of Craighead and Lady Eleanor Hay, lawful daughter of the Lord of the Enzie, descended from the family through his grandfather as well as from Macduff, the celebrated Thane of Fife, who was chief of his race. By energy, activity, perseverance and economy, profound sagacity, and undaunted courage, he greatly extended the boundaries of his paternal estate and died 19th December, 1705, in the 53rd year of his age, deeply regretted by all good men for the soundness of his principles, for his high sense of honour, for his firmness in a just purpose and his boldness in carrying out the same, as well as for all the sentiments which characterize a good citizen."]

(5) Amantissimae conjugi Dominae Janetae Ogilvie Jacobi Comitis de Findlater & Seafield Scotiae quondam cancelarij filiae honorandus Gulielmus Duff a Braco armiger, Gulielmi Duff a Diple armigeri filius primogenitus, haeres honorum hoc saxum ingentis amoris monumentum posuit. Illa obiit die Christi natali anno 1720 aetatis suae 25. Animae prudentia, generosae indolis benignitate, ingenii acumine, morum suavitate, consuetudinis iucunditate per vitae heu ! nimium brevis curriculum se cognatis & amicis charissimam & marito dilectissimam reddidit: & omnibus quibus innotuerat ingens sui desiderium moriens reliquit.

[Translation: "To his most affectionate wife, Lady Janet Ogilvie, daughter of James, Earl of Findlater and Seafield, late Chancellor of Scotland, the Hon. William Duff of Braco, Esq., eldest son of William Duff of Dipple, Esq., and heir of the honours, erected this monument in token of his deep attachment. She died on Christmas day, 1720, in the 25th year of her age. By her prudence, the kindliness of her noble disposition, the acuteness of her intellect, the suavity of her manners, and her agreeable converse, she rendered herself throughout the course of a life, alas! too short, very dear to her relatives and friends, and died beloved by her husband and deeply regretted by all who knew her."]

(6) Sacred to the memory of James Duff, Earl of Fife, Viscount Macduff, Baron Braco of the Kingdom of Ireland, Baron of Fife in Great Britain, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Banff, Colonel of the Banffshire Local Militia, F.R.S. and F.A.S., born 29th of September, 1729, died 24th of January, 1809, in the 80th year of his age. His lordship was married in the year 1759 to Lady Dorothea Sinclair, only child of Alexander, ninth Earl of Caithness, but had no children.

(7) Agnes (wife of James, 5th Earl of Fife) born May 12th, 1829, died December 18th, 1869. I am the Resurrection and the Life.

(8) Sacred to the memory of Major William Duff of the 26th Regiment, a meritorious officer, a most sincere friend, an affectionate husband, and an indulgent parent. He lived esteemed and respected. He died regretted and lamented in the 41st year of his age in the year of the Lord 1795.