As for arch-bishops, arch-deacons, deans, rural deans, and all the other worldly machinery which has been superadded to the church, the truth compels us to add, that our divine felt no especial reverence since he considered them as so much clerical surplusage, of very questionable authority, and of doubtful use.

I am once more in the dullest of dull country towns, over which strides the gouty old dean, like a Gothic arch across a cathedral city; and see how the wealthy innkeeper dangles his broad medal (sign of his having been in the yeomanry) that swings to the wind like the banner of his troophow contemptuously he eyes that solid looking overseer, the workhouse, with his right and lefthand men the executioners of the lawStocks and Cageoh!

It is doubtful how it took its origin, whether as a satire against the decanal order in general, or against some obnoxious dean in particular.

There were no chairs whatever in Hall, except the single chair of the vice-master at the head of the table on the dais and that of the senior dean at the table next the East wall.

Above the road-bridge, and to the right of the wooded dean, are the noble trees and parks of Dunglass grounds.