T

SKETCH

OF THE

HISTORY OF HAWICK:

INCLUDING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE

MANNERS AND CHARACTER

OCCA

OF THE

INHABITANTS;

WITH

OCCASIONAL OBSERVATIONS.

TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED

A SHORT ESSAY,

IN REPLY TO DOCTOR CHALMERS

ON

PAUPERISM AND THE POOR-LAWS.

BY ROBERT WILSON.

In a town

There lived a cobbler, and but one,

That out of doctrine could cut use,

And mend men's lives, as well as shoes.

HUDIBRAS

HAWICK:

Printed by Robert Armstrong.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 417496

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1908

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF MINTO

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY

INSCRIBED,

AS A SMALL TRIBUTARY OFFERING

TO TALENTS, PATRIOTISM, AND PRIVATE VIRTUE,

BY

HIS LORDSHIP'S

MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.