"Nervy, sinewy, vigorous; also having diseased or weak nerves."
Now, by this definition, I am led to believe that the word has two meanings, directly opposed to each other. Is this so?
K. BANNEL.
Liverpool.
Doomsday Book of Scotland.
—In vol. xx. of Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, 1798, the following extract of a letter appears from John Pinkerton, Esq., the antiquarian writer, dated the 23rd February, 1794:
"In looking over the Survey of Scotland accomplished by your exertions, it occurred to me that I could furnish an article, worthy to appear in an Appendix to one of the volumes of the Statistical Account. I need not inform you, that in the third volume of Prynne's Records there is a large but undigested list of all those in Scotland who paid homage to Edward I. in 1291 and 1296, forming a kind of Doomsday Book of the country at that period. Four years ago, I, with some labour, reduced the numerous names and designations into alphabetical order, and the list being now adapted to general use, and containing the names and designations of the chief landholders, citizens, and clergy of the time, it may be regarded as of no small importance to our ancient statistics, topography, and genealogy. If your opinion coincides, I shall with pleasure present it to you for the purpose, and correct the press."
Now the article so kindly proffered by Mr. Pinkerton did not appear in the Statistical Account of Scotland, or in any of Mr. Pinkerton's subsequent publications, that I am aware of. I should feel obliged if any correspondent could inform me if it was ever published.
ABERDONIENSIS.