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In this town is a free Grammar fchool, of (^Elizabeth's founda- 

 tion ; who alfo built the bridge over the Tweed. It was carried 

 away by a great flood, 2 K. John, 1200. It was then of wood, and 

 rebuilt by William, King of Scotland (IJ. 



The Town-hall is a neat modern ftructure, of whke freeflonc 

 and hewn work. 



The Tow n-Arms are, A dog paflant by a tree; in fefTe point, 

 two efcutcheons with the arms of England and France quarterly, 

 tied together by an arch ; in chief, a king fitting on an arch, with 

 a fcepter in his right hand, and a mound in his left (m). 



(I) Hoi. Chron. vol. ii. p. 161. (m) Browne Willis. 



