80 Church of St. .Torix thk 15ArTisT, Dalky. 



Chalmers and others give partial notes of many subsequent 

 visits to St. Ninian's shrine, by King James IV., notably in the 

 year 1506-1507, when in March he made a pilgrimage on foot, 

 and in the following July, in company with the Queen, made a 

 journey in state, which, in going and returning, took a full month 

 to accomplish. 



Notea on ike Record-Uhtor]i of Sf. John's Churcli. 



It is extremely probable that the early history of the Church 

 of St. John merges in that of the Earlston Barony, with which, 

 through all the many changes in the proprietorship, it is so invari- 

 ably associated. 



Many such changes must have preceded the earliest owner- 

 ship with which the registers of the great seal make us acquainted, 

 when in 1511, just two years before both donor and grantee fell 

 on the fatal field of Floddeu, King James IV., calling to memory 

 the many arduous and faithful services of the deceased Patrick 

 Hepburne, Earl of Both well, concedes to and confirms his son 

 Adam in all the wide ranging possessions of his father, including- 

 the lands and barony of Erliston, with the patronage of the church 

 of Dairy. 



Nearly seventy years after, we find King James A^I. at Stir- 

 ling Castle confirming, in relation to the Church of St. John, a 

 still more important document. It is a charter granted by Master 

 John Hepburne, rector of the Parish Church of Dairy, whereby, 

 for the sum of £100 paid in those turbulent times, he, with con- 

 sent of James, Earl of Both well, Lord Halis and Liddesdaill, &c., 

 the patron of the said rectory, in feu ferme set to John Hepburne, 

 the son of his brother, Patrick, Bishop of Moray, his heirs and 

 assignees, the glebe and church lands of Dairy, with the garden, 

 houses, buildings (occupied by Fergus Achannane) lying on the 

 west side of the "torrent" of St. Johns Clachan (between 

 Erlistonn on the north and Grinean on the south) paying to the 

 said rector 14 merks (ancient duty) and 13 shillings and 4 pence 

 of augmentation ; also doubling the feu-duty on the entry of 

 heirs ; requiring also that there be built and maintained on the 

 said lands suitable conveniences for lodging the said rector and 

 his successors, with their servants and horses, at their own ex- 

 pense, whenever they should happen to stay there. In this 

 document we have a wonderfully minute description of the 



