appears in his published works. Alexander Cockburn was a pupil of John Knox, and in 1547 sought refuge in the Castle of St. Andrews. On the dexter base of the brass are engraved the Cockburn arms, and on the sinister base the arms of Sandilands, for the mother of a Cockburn, who was of the family of Sandilands of Calder. These arms are quartered with the arms of Douglas, and show the ancient relationship between that family and the Sandilands.[249] The barony of Ormiston was the property of the Cockburns from the middle of the fourteenth century, when they acquired it by marriage. The monument was no doubt erected not long after the death of the person commemorated, or towards the end of the sixteenth century. It corresponds in style with that of the Regent Murray, in St. Giles’ Cathedral, [Illustration: FIG. 1581.--Ormiston Church. Monument to Alexander Cockburn.] Edinburgh[250] (1570), the inscription on which was also composed by George Buchanan. That at Ormiston is as follows:-- Omnia quæ longa indulget mortalibus ætas Haec tibi Alexander prima juventa dedit Cum genere et forma generoso sanguine digna Ingenium velox, ingenuumque animum Excolint virtus animum ingeniumque Camenae Successu studio consilioque pari His ducibus primum Peragrata Britannia deinde Gallia ad armiferos qua patet Helvetios Doctus ibi linguas quas Roma Sionet Athenae Quas cum Germano Gallia docta sonat Te licet in prima rapuerunt fata juventa Nonimmaturo funera raptus obis Omnibus officiis vitae qui functus obivit Non fas nunc vitae est de brevitate queri Hic conditur Mr. Alexander Cokburn primogenitua Joannis domini Ormiston et Alisonae Sandilands ex preclara familia Calder, qui natus 13 Januarii 1535 post insignem linguarum professionem Obiit anno ætatis suae 28 Calen. Septe.[251] PITTENWEEM PRIORY, FIFESHIRE. Of the old monastery of Pittenweem, which was connected with that on the Isle of May in the Frith of Forth, only some altered fragments survive. The priory seems to have derived its name from its being built close to a cave or “weem” on the shore of the Frith of Forth, with which it had communication by a vaulted chamber in the garden and a long straight staircase. The monastic buildings surrounded a courtyard. On the south side was the prior’s mansion (now restored and occupied by the Episcopal clergyman of the place). On the west side was the refectory, now converted into the Town Hall, and to the north of it the dormitories. Some of the walls of these structures still exist, with two square projecting windows overlooking the courtyard. On the east side is the gatehouse, a battlemented structure with a round archway passing through it, now greatly decayed and covered with ivy. Beyond the courtyard to the north lay some outer grounds and a chapel.[252]