memory in the church of Dundrum, Cashel, County Tipperary, his native place. The following is a copy of the inscription:

SACRED TO THE Memory of

THE HONOURABLE CORNWALLIS MAUDE,

ONLY SON OF

CORNWALLIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT HAWARDEN,

CAPTAIN IN The Reserve of Officers, and

FORMERLY LIEUTENANT, AND CAPTAIN IN HER MAJESTY'S GRENADIER Guards, WHO, BEING IN SOUTH AFRICA, Volunteered for Service IN THE FIELD, AND WHILE ATTACHED TO THE 58th Regiment, FELL IN ACTION ON THE MAJUBA MOUNTAIN,

FEBRUARY 27TH, 1881, IN THE 29TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED ON THE SPOT WHERE HE FELL

AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION AND ESTEEM, AND TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF ONE WHO ENDEARED HIMSELF TO ALL WITH WHOM HE CAME IN CONTACT.

This Tablet is erected

BY A NUMBER OF HIS FRIENDS WHO, HAD IT PLEASED GOD TO SPARE HIS Life, LOOKED FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE TO A CAREER OF USEFULNESS ON HIS PART, AND WHO NOW DEPLORE HIS LOSS

FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY.

The interesting historical estate of Cumbernauld was sold in 1875 to John William Burns, Esq. of Kilmahew, for £160,000. As exposed for sale, the property was stated to consist of 3,807 imperial acres, 2,833 being arable, and the remainder plantations or rough pasture. The rental was put down at £4,692, and the public and parochial burdens at £421. The mansion house, built from designs by Adams in 1731, was destroyed by fire, with the exception of the walls, on the evening of 16th March, 1877, but was restored to something like its former state.

The Cumbernauld estates included the properties of

Wigton or Duntiblae, Biggar, and Cumbernauld, embracing all the superiorities of the parishes of Biggar, Denny, Kirkintilloch, and Cumbernauld, with the patronage of their churches. The superiorities carry the whole minerals of nearly all Cumbernauld parish, of several estates in Kirkintilloch, and of coal within the barony of Herbertshire.

We have now traced the rise and progress of the Flemings, and also, we fear, taxed the reader's patience; but the account of their decay will not take long—indeed, we have no means of giving it in detail.

As regards their lands in Kirkintilloch parish, the process of dismemberment had no doubt gone on for hundreds of years. Portions of land were from time to time given off in forming establishments for the younger branches or connections of the family; in supplying the enlarged expenses required by those new modes of life which have been introduced in the progress of society; and possibly in feeding reckless extravagance. The remainder of it was sold off in 1757, and nothing was in possession of the last heir but inconsiderable feu-duties, and some other casualties of feudal superiority.*

We shall now proceed to show how the present parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld became separated and defined.

* The salmon fishery was at one time important enough to be expressly retained by the family of Cumbernauld, when they dispensed with their property in the neighbourhood.

Kirkintilloch Parish.

THE ancient ruin or belfry which now stands at the Old Aisle cemetery, is evidently built of the stones from the church of St. Ninian, erected by the Roman Catholics about

1140.

Some persons are of opinion that the belfry was built as a guard-house to watch against resurrectionists in the early part of the present century, but after a good deal of investigation we have come to the conclusion that it was built as it now stands about the beginning of last century, of materials got from the old church, and its purpose was to serve both as an entrance to the old burying-ground and a watch tower against resurrectionists, who existed at that time as well as since.

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In the beginning of the thirteenth century William 'Comying," Earl of Buchan, who then held the manor, granted the church with an oxgate of land-or as much land as an ox could plough in the year-to the monks of Cambuskenneth, who held it till the Reformation, when it was worth £80 a-year to them.

"Grant by William Comying, Earl of Buchan, of the church. of Kirkintilloch (Lenzie), with an oxgate of land adjoining the churchyard thereof, to the Abbey of Cambuskenneth. It is not dated, but it was probably granted in the beginning of the thirteenth century, as the donor became Earl of Buchan in the year 1210:

To all the sons of Holy Mother Church who shall see or hear this writing, William Comyng, Earl of Buchan, eternal salvation in the Lord Let all persons of present or future times know that I,