tion between
the two families seems to have lasted until the fall of the Douglas
family. The Gledstanes still continued to figure for many generations on
the border. About the middle of the eighteenth century two branches of
the family--the Gledstanes of Cocklaw and of Craigs--failed in the
direct male line. Mr. Gladstone was descended from a third branch, the
Gledstanes of Arthurshiel in Lanarkshire. The first of this line who has
been traced is William Gledstanes, who in the year 1551 was laird of
Arthurshiel. His lineal descendants continued as owners of that property
till William Gledstanes disposed of it and went to live in the town of
Biggar about the year 1679. This William Gledstanes was Mr. Gladstone's
great-great-grandfather. The connection between these three branches and
Herbert de Gledstanes of 1296 has not been ascertained, but he was
probably the common ancestor of them all.

[4] John Gladstone built St. Thomas's Church, Seaforth, 1814-15; St.
Andrew's, Liverpool, about 1816; the church at Leith; the Episcopal
chapel at Fasque built and endowed about 1847.

[5] Charles Simeon (1759-1836), who played as conspicuous a part in low
church thought as Newman afterwards in high.

[6] See below, pp. 106-7.

[7] XII 58--'Removed from death by four or maybe seven fingers'
breadth.'

[8] The fragment is undated.

[9] One or two further genealogical _nugae_ are among the papers. A
correspondent wrote to Mr. Gladstone in 1887: Among the donors to the
Craftsman's Hospital, Aberdeen, established in 1833, occurs the name of
'Georg Gladstaines, pewterer, 300 merks' (L16, 13s. 4d. sterling), 1698.
George joined the Hammerman Craft in 1656, when he would have been about
25 years of age. His signature is still in existence appended to the
burgess oath. Very few craftsmen could sign their names at that
period--not one in twenty--so that George must have been fairly well
educated. Mr. Gladstone replied that it was the first time that he had
heard of the name so far north, and that the pewterer was probably one
planted out. At Dundee (1890) he mentioned that others of his name and
blood appeared on the burgess-roll as early as the fifteenth century. As
for his maternal grandfather, the _Inverness Courier_ (March 2, year not
given) has the following:--'Provost Robertson of Dingwall was a
descendant of the ancient family of the Robertsons of Inshes, of whose
early settlement in the north the following particulars are known