The case of the old tower, which was fifty feet high, was built in the form of a square, with four turrets like watch-towers on the top. In the annexed view of the collegiate church, a slender steeple is seen rising about thirty feet above this tower, which was built by John Cochran, town-mason, in 1789, and consequently formed no part of the Saxon tower.

As the interior of churches, as well as of domestic buildings, had been much improved within the present century, this edifice had long been found inconvenient for a modern audience. Early in 1818, plans and estimates were taken in for a new church, which was appointed to be built on the site of the old one, and the fate of this venerable fabric was thereby sealed. The last sermon preached within its walls, was on Sunday the 7th March, 1819, by the Reverend John Jaffray, present minister of Dunbar, then assistant to Dr Carfrae, to a crowded audience. The text was in Psalm 84, verse 1st.

In taking down the east part of the church, which is supposed to have been the main body of that founded in 1342, several sculptured stones were found, that had been used in building the foundation and otherwise, which strengthens the supposition, that this was only an addition to the old Saxon church of the eleventh century.

Several sepulchres were discovered near the altar, and in the body of the church; but they contained nothing but a few scattered fragments of their mouldered tenants.

THE NEW CHURCH.

The foundation-stone of the new church was laid on the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th April, 1819, by Provost Hume, in presence of the magistrates, some of the heritors, and a vast assemblage of peo ple. This stone is situated in the north-east corner of the building, in the cavity of which a small bottle, hermetically sealed, is deposited, containing the coins of the realm, and a list of the heritors and magistrates.

Mr James Gillespie, Edinburgh, was the architect. The work was contracted for by Messrs M Watt and Dickson, of Haddington, at L.4990; but it cost about L.1000 more before the burial-vaults and other additions were completed. One fifth of the expense was paid by the town of Dunbar, and the rest by the heritors. The church is a handsome building, in the Gothic style, built with a red stone brought from a quarry near Bowerhouses; and is capable of containing 1800 hearers. From the steeple, which is about ninety feet high, five counties may be distinguished.

The church was opened on the 20th April, 1821, before it was quite finished, for the ordination of Mr Jaffray, by the Rev. David Logan of Innerwick, who preached and presided upon the occasion. The very reverend Principal Baird introduced the minister to his congregation on the Sunday ensuing, and preached two hours and a-half to a highly delighted and excessively crowded audience, from these words: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel ;” after which, the Rev. John Jaffray addressed his parishioners in a discourse from the text: "We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord."

THE MONUMENT.

The first object which arrests the stranger's attention on entering Dunbar church, is a superb monument, immediately behind the pulpit, erected to the memory of George Home, earl of Dunbar, third son of Alexander Home of Manderston. This nobleman was in great favour with James VI., and successively held the offices of high-treasurer of Scotland and chancellor of the exchequer in England; and, while in the latter capacity, he was created a peer of his native land. It was on him that "the British Solomon" chiefly depended for the restoration of prelacy in Scotland; and, at the parliament held at Perth, in 1606, he had the skill to carry through the act for the restoration of the estate of bishops. He was on several occasions high-commissioner to the General Assembly, wherein acts were passed unacceptable to the presbyterians; and, as a matter of course, drew down the rancour of that party. His death took place suddenly, at Whitehall, on the 29th January 1611, when he was

*" Bribery, as well as artifice, was practised on the members of this assembly, which obtained the name of the angelical assembly, in allusion to the names of the coins distributed on the occasion. Sir James Balfour says, the earl of Dunbar distributed among the ministers 40,000 merks to facilitate the matter and obtain their suffrages. Nothing, it was said, was to be seen about Glasgow, for some time after the assembly, but angels. A travelling pauper, named James Read, who had been there in the course of his profession, having heard what a country minister got for his vote, railed on him as a fool for selling his Master for two angels, when he (the pauper) had got three for nothing,”—M‘Crie's Life of Andrew Melville.