AN M. D.

_Literary Attainments of the Scottish Clergy in the Seventeenth

Century._--In a deed granted by Andro Andersone, minister of Loth, in

Sutherlandshire, anno 1618, wherein he is designated "Ministro veriti Dei

apud Loithe," the instrument is signed with his mark, after which is added,

"Cannot wreitt myself."