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126586391.23.Pdf ScS. 5WS-I s »*v . ^03i ^ TOURS IN SCOTLAND 1747, 1750, 1760 BY RICHARD POCOCKE BISHOP OF MEATH FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM Edited with a Biographical Sketch of the Author by DANIEL WILLIAM KEMP EDINBURGH Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable, for the Scottish History Society 1887 g)Cotttsl) I^tstorp §100161? THE EXECUTIVE. President. The Earl of Rosebery, LL.D. Chairman of Council. David Masson, LL.D., Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh University. Council. George Burnett, LL.D., Lyon-King-of-Arms. J. T. Clark, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library. Thomas Dickson, LL.D., Curator of the Historical Depart- ment, Register House. Right Rev. John Dowden, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh. J. Kirkpatrick, LLB., Professor of History, Edinburgh University. jEneas J. G. Mackay, LL.D., Sheriff of Fife. Sir Arthur Mitchell, K.C.B., M.D., LL.D. G. W. T. Omond, Advocate. John Russell, Esq. W. F. Skene, D.C.L., LL.D., Historiographer - Royal for Scotland. Rev. Malcolm C. Taylor, D.D., Professor of Divinity and Church History, Edinburgh University. J. Maitland Thomson, Advocate. Corresponding Members of the Council. Osmund Airy, Esq., Birmingham; Very Rev. J. Cunningham, D.D., Principal of St. Mary’s College, St. Andrews; Professor George Grub, LL.D., Aberdeen; Rev. A. W. C. Hallen, Alloa; Rev. W. D. Macray, Oxford; David M. Main, Esq., Doune; Professor A. F. Mitchell, D.D., St. Andrews; Professor W. Robertson Smith, Cambridge; Rev. Dr. Sprott, North Berwick; Professor J. Veitch, LL.D., Glasgow. Hon. Treasurer. J. J. Reid, B.A., Advocate, Queen’s Remembrancer. Hon. Secretary. T. G. Law, Librarian, Signet Library. RULES. 1. The object of the Society is the discovery and printing, under selected editorship, of unpublished documents illustrative of the civil, religious, and social history of Scotland. 2. The number of Members of the Society shall be limited to 400. 3. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by a Council consisting of a Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, and twelve elected Members, five to make a quorum. Three of the twelve elected members shall retire annually by ballot, but they shall be eligible for re-election. 4. The Annual Subscription to the Society shall be One Guinea. The publications of the Society shall not be de- livered to any Member whose Subscription is in arrear, and no Member shall be permitted to receive more than one copy of the Society’s publications. 5. The Society shall undertake the issue of its own publica- tions, i.e. without the intervention of a publisher or any other paid agent. 6. The Society will issue yearly two octavo volumes of about 320 pages each. 7. An Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the last Tuesday in October. 8. Two stated Meetings of the Council shall be held each year, one on the last Tuesday of May, the other on the Tuesday preceding the day upon which the Annual General Meeting shall be held. The Secretary, on the request of three Members of the Council, shall call a special meeting of the Council. RULES. 3 9. Editors shall receive 20 copies of each volume they edit for the Society. 10. The Annual Balance-Sheet, Rules, and List of Members shall be printed. 11. No alteration shall be made in these Rules except at a General Meeting of the Society. A fortnight’s notice of any alteration to be proposed shall be given to the Members of the Council. PUBLICATIONS. Works already Issued, 1887. 1. Bishop Pococke’s Tours in Scotland, 1747-1760. Edited by D. W. Kemp. 2. Diary of Cunningham of Craigends, 1673-1680. Edited by the Rev. James Dodds, D.D. Works in Preparation. Panurgi Philo-caballi Scoti Grameidos libri sex.—The Gramiad: An heroic poem descriptive of the Campaign of Viscount Dundee in 1689, by James Philip of Almerieclose. Edited with Notes by the Rev. Canon Murdoch. The Register of the Kirk Session of St. Andrews. Part i. 1559-1582. Edited by D. Hay Fleming. Diary of the Rev. John Mill, Minister of Dunrossness, in Shet- land, 1742-1805. Edited by Gilbert Goudie, F.S.A. Scot. A Narrative of Mr. James Nimmo, a Covenanter, 1654-1708. Edited by W. G. Scott Moncrieff, Advocate. * PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME I. POCOCKE’S TOURS October 1887 The Right Rev. Richard Pococke, d.d. lord bishop of Meath PREFATORV NOTE When the Scottish History Scan t) was for tour hi SutherhuKU tnmi a mamisci ! i ' leisure hours at < y. But my la have been greatly fadlu.r stan. a »> of gentlemen who have kindly \ r me 1 l . juesin and supplied notes. To these I tender best 1 Th number must be my apology for not ■. onlin imi • Hieir many and valuable services. The text of the ms., in its orthography ami diction, carefully adhered to; and the drawing* >ithstandi th frequent disregard Of perspective and or! ion, h faithfully, if roughly, reproduced. 1) william KEM1 Trinity, Edinburgh, October 1887. V PREFATORY NOTE. When the Scottish History Society was formed last year I was preparing for the press an inedited account of Bishop Pococke’s tour in Sutherland, from a manuscript which I found in the Library of the British Museum. The Council of the Society, recognising in Dr. Pococke’s journal of his travels in Scotland an interesting contribution to our knowledge of the country during the eighteenth century, agreed to publish all the Scottish portion of the ms. under the auspices of the Society, and invited me to act as editor. I felt some misgivings in undertaking a work covering so wide a field of Scottish topography, to which I could only devote leisure hours at the close of a busy day. But my labours have been greatly facilitated by the assistance of a number of gentlemen who have kindly verified for me local questions, and supplied notes. To these I tender my best thanks. Their number must be my apology for not recording individually their many and valuable services. The text of the ms., in its orthography and diction, has been carefully adhered to ; and the drawings, notwithstanding their frequent disregard of perspective and proportion, have been faithfully, if roughly, reproduced. D. WILLIAM KEMP. Trinity, Edinburgh, October 1887. CONTENTS. Prefatory Note, . ..... v-vi List of Illustrations, .... xxvii-xxix Biographical Sketch— Richard Pococke born in Southampton, 1704—His father’s death, 1710—He removes to the parsonage of his grandfather, the Rev. Isaac Milles, by whom he is educated, and where he resides until Mr. Milles’s death in 1720—Enters Corpus Christi College in 1722—Ordained Precentor of Lismore 1725—Re- ceives Degrees of M.A. and LL.B. in 1731, and of LL.D. 1733—Travels on Continent with Dean Milles from 1733 to 1736—Travels in Egypt and the East, 1737 to 1742—Publishes first volume, A Description of the East: Observations on Egypt, 1743—Visits Midland Counties of England—Made Precentor of Waterford, 1744—Publishes second volume. Observations on Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, and Candia, 1745—Appointed Domestic Chaplain to Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland—Opinions of Gibbon, Pinkerton, Dibdin, Jablonski, Stevenson, Mant on his writings—Prices of his volumes at auction sales—Reprints and references published in German, French, and English—Richard Cumber- land’s opinion of him disproved—Receives patent as Archdeacon of Dublin, 1745—Letters to Dr. Stukeley —Letters from Da Costa—First visit to Scotland, 1747—Second visit, 1750—Publishes Inscriptionum Antiquarum Graec., 1752—Letter to Dr. Ducarel— Preferred to the Bishopric of Ossory—Promotes CONTENTS. restoration of St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny—His inscription commemorative of the restoration—Re- places stained glass in Cathedral window—Presents a rich communion-table cover, and a painting of a fGlory’—Replaces old monuments, and collects inscriptions—Communicates An Account of some Anti- quities found in Ireland to the London Society of Antiquaries, 1757—Visits Scotland for the third time, journeying from Portpatrick to the Orkneys— Receives the Freedom of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Perth, Lanark, Forres, Nairn, and Dornoch—Letter to the Duke of Athole—Offers Fifty Guineas for Queen Anne’s bed, in Dunfermline—Preaches on behalf of the Magdalen House Charity, London, 1761 — Preaches on behalf of Protestant Schools’ Society, Dublin, 1762—Kilkenny floods, 1760—Inquiries as to second sight—Retires to his Chaplain’s parsonage for literary labours—Encourages the Rev. M. Arch- dall in the preparation of his Monasticon—Founds a weaving-school, subsequently known as f The Pococke College’—His portraits—Travels in England, 1764— Preferred to the Bishopric of Meath, 1765—Dies same year—Interred in Bishop Montgomery’s tomb, Ardbraccan—Illiterate inscription on tomb—Letter from Bishop of Carlisle to Dr. Ducarel—Elaborate monumental inscription in St. Canice’s—Monument in Chamounix, Switzerland—His first will—Codicil, or later will—His mss. bequeathed to the British Museum—Books, coins, fossils, etc., sold by auction —Letter from Mr. Walker to Mr. Gough—Evidences that Thomas Pennant, the traveller, was familiar with Dr. Pococke’s writings relating to Scotland, xxxi-lxix LETTER I. Richmond—Preaches for Mr. Blackboume—Mr. York’s improvements — Mr. Robinson at Holy Island— Dines at Berwick—A sliving Scot—Laird of Ayton CONTENTS. ix PAGES —Old Cambus — Dunbar — Dines at Beltonford— Prestonpans — Edinburgh—Dr. Grant, Episcopal Minister — Preaches — Inchkeith and Inchcolm — Musselburgh and Dalkeith—-Advocates’ Library— Holyrood and Castle—Roslin Chapel—Hawthornden —Baron Clerk—Lord Provost Drummond—College Library —Visits Lord and Lady Hopetoun—Descrip- tion of breakfast—Stirling Castle—Glasgow Cathe- dral—Receives Freedom of Glasgow—Dines with Professors — Kilmarnock—Sells his horse — Castle Kennedy—Lord Stair’s improvements—Portpatrick —Sails to Donaghadee—Reaches Dublin, 1-5 LETTER II.
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