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properly concluded, we desire to be considered (?) and to be inviolably 

 observed. In order that this agreement may remain unimpaired we have 

 confirmed the same by affixing our seals."* 



Besides the two statements by the king of his gifts to Kelso 

 Abbey, we have in the Register an account by the monks them- 

 selves of the same benefactions. This is specially interesting, 

 because it contains a description of a piece of land bestowed by 

 another benefactor, which even now, after the lapse of more than 

 seven centuries, can without difficulty be recognised : — 



Donation of King IVUliam of the Church of Dumfries. 



" King William gives to us the Chiirch of Dumfries with the Chapel 

 of St. Thomas in the said burgh, the toft belonging to the said Chapel, and 

 five acres of land belonging to the said Church ; Therefore, let it not be 

 allowed to us to alienate this Church or Chapel and their revenues in any 

 way whatever from the occupation of our Church and the proper uses of 

 the brethren. Bishop Jocelin confirms the gift of the said King under the 

 same form. Further, Laurence the Clerk, in return for the teiuds of Kars 

 belonging to the said Church of Dumfries, is to pay two shillings each year 

 of his life at Kelso, at the Roxburgh fair. Further, Ralph the son of 

 Dunegal, gives to the said Church a certain piece of land in Dumfries 

 which can be thus known : — -Two roads separate from one another below 

 the town, one of which is the way to the Church of St. Blane ; the other 

 proceeds in an easterly direction, and goes round a certain rock which is 

 called Greneham, and then by a footpath rejoins the road from which it 

 diverged. All the land that lies within these roads belongs to God and 

 the aforesaid Church. Further, Adam, the son of Henry, of Dumfries, 

 with the assent of M. his wife, gives to us those lands expressly, which he 

 acquired by his lawful emancipation (?) in the burgh of Dumfries, viz., the 

 lands which Robert the locksmith, Roger the shoemaker, Walter the 

 butcher, Ralph the merchant, Alan the son of Emma, Adam Summerswain, 

 and Alan of Bodha held of him. And he has resigned into our hands the 

 entire right and lordship which he had in the lands, "t 



The most interesting passage in this document is that which 

 describes the boundaries of the land given by Ralph the son of 

 Dunegal, to the Abbey. There is no Church of St. Blane now, 

 but there is a Kilblane in the parish of Caerlaverock, which 

 occupies the site of one that once existed. Hence, the road to 

 the Church of St. Blane is probably the Bankend road, and the 

 road that leaves it in an easterly direction the Craigs road. 

 Even the footpath joining the two roads is represented to-day by 

 the footpath which runs fi'om the Craigs road past the end of the 

 Maidenbower Craigs and by Ellengowau to the Bankend road. 

 I should like much to know if the name Greneham is still to be 

 met with in the neighbourhood of the Cniigs. Possibly the naiue 

 of some field may still retain traces of it, fieldnames being often 



* Reg. Cart, de Kelso, 324. t Reg. Cart, de Kelso, 11. 



