certainly, An' had in
kepyng all mason wark Sanct Andrays, the Hye Kirk o' Glasgo, Melrose
and Paisley, Jedybro and Galowy. Pray to God and Mary baith, and sweet
Saint John, keep this Holy Kirk frae scaith."

[3] The discovery of the Black Band Ironstone by David Mushet in 1801,
and the invention of the Hot Blast by James Beaumont Neilson in 1828,
will be found related in Industrial Biography, pp. 141-161.

[4] Note to Lockhart's Life of Scott.

[5] This was stated to the present writer some years ago by William
Murdock's son; although there is no other record of the event.

[6] See Lives of Engineers (Boulton and Watt), iv. pp. 182-4. Small
edition, pp. 130-2.

[7] Mr. Pearse's letter is dated 23rd April, 1867, but has not before
been published. He adds that "others remembered Murdock, one who was
an apprentice with him, and lived with him for some time--a Mr. Vivian,
of the foundry at Luckingmill."

[8] Murdock's house still stands in Cross Street, Redruth; those still
live who saw the gas-pipes conveying gas from the retort in the little
yard to near the ceiling of the room, just over the table; a hole for
the pipe was made in the window frame. The old window is now replaced
by a new frame."--Life of Richard Trevithick, i. 64.

[9] Philosophical Transactions, 1808, pp. 124-132.

[10] Winsor's family evidently believed in his great powers; for I am
informed by Francis Galton, Esq., F.R.S., that there is a fantastical
monument on the right-hand side of the central avenue of the Kensal
Green Cemetery, about half way between the lodge and the church, which
bears the following inscription:--"Tomb of Frederick Albert Winsor, son
of the late Frederick Albert Winsor, originator of public Gas-lighting,
buried in the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise, Paris. At evening time it
shall be light."--Zachariah xiv. 7. "I am come a light into the world,
that whoever believeth in Me shall not abide in darkness."--John xii.
46.

[11] Mr. Parkes, in his well known Chemical Essays (ed. 1841, p. 157),
after referring to the successful lighting up by Murdock of the
manufactory of Messrs. Phillips and Lee at Manchester in 1805, "with
coal gas issuing from nearly a thousand burners," proceeds, "This grand
application of the new principle satisfied the public mind, not only of
the practicability, but also of the economy of the application; and as
a mark of the high opinion they entertained of his genius and
perseverance, and in order