To the testimony of these still living witnesses, I have to add that of Dr. Jamieson, who gives the word in his _Dictionary_ as one of common and well-known use in Scotland in his time, 1759-1808; though he may have mistaken in supposing it to be exclusively Scottish. It was for his testimony to this _fact_ that I referred to Dr. Jamieson's _Dictionary_, and not for his etymology, for I am not so much of a "true Scot" as to consider him infallible in that department. I have not leisure at present to search any farther for the word in books, but in the meantime I presume to think the evidence I have procured of its use in Scotland, will carry us nearly as far back as MR. KEIGHTLEY'S for its use in Ireland. I cannot pretend to much acquaintance with the Swedish language, but I was quite well aware that that "is what is meant by the mysterious Su.-G." I was also aware that in the kindred Teutonic tongues the word runs through the various forms of _vogt_, _fogat_, _phogat_, _voget_, _voogd_, _fogde_, _foged_, _fogeti_, with the meaning of bailiff, steward, preses, watchman, guard or protector, tutor, overseer, judge, mayor, policeman; and I doubt not that _fogie_ belongs to the same family, though it has lost its tail. MR. KEIGHTLEY does not need to be told that words frequently degenerate in meaning, falling from the noblest to the basest, from the purest to the most obscene. Is there then anything improbable in supposing that a word once applied to the governor or chief keeper of a castle, came at last to be applied to all, even the meanest, of his subordinates? Dr. Jamieson asserts that the word _fogde_ in the Su.-G. has actually had that fate; can MR. KEIGHTLEY controvert him?