} 
- Giynne 
The population of the town and parish, in 1811, 
HAW 
of earthen ware. There is also a lar: 
isa ufactory 
b fron foundery, from which articles of cast and wrought 
on are sent to Chester, and thence to’ different 
. rts 
the kingdom. Hawarden Park, the seat 
4 
the 
family, is near the town. The house, built in 
is a handsome structure. 
was— 
Number of inhabited houses . . 832 
Number of families . . . . ... 901 
- Ditto employed in agriculture . 398 
Ditto in eand manufactures . . 427 
' Total population in 1811. . . . 4436 
See Pennant’s Tour in Wales, vol. ii. p. 88.92; and 
i Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xvii. p. 672— 
3. 
HAWICK, is a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Roxburgh, situated at the confluence of the rivers Ti- 
viot and Slitrig, on the west road between London and 
Edinburgh. eis distant from Edinburgh 47 miles, 
from Carlisle 44, and from Berwick 42. The river 
Tiviot runs close by the town, and the Slitrig runs 
through it, dividing it into two nearly equal parts, 
which are conn together by two stone bridges, one 
of which bears evident marks of antiquity. - In August 
1767, the Slitrig suddenly rose to a great height, oc- 
casioned by a cloud bursting at its source, and in its 
course swept away fifteen dwelling-houses and a corn- 
mill. Hawick is a burgh of barony of very ancient 
origin. It is independent of the superior, and enjoys 
almost all the privileges of a royal burgh, except that 
of sending a representative to parliament. The date of 
its original erection into a burgh of barony is not known, 
the records of the burgh having been destroyed, and 
the town itself repeatedly burnt, during the Border 
wars between the English and the Scots; the last in- 
stance — occurred in the reign of Queen Eliza- 
beth, in the year 1570, and is recorded by Stowe, in 
his Chronicles of England, who says—“< The seaven- 
teenth of April, the Earle of Sussex, lieutenant-gene- 
yall in the North, with the Lord Hunsdon, lord gover- 
nor of Barwike; and warden of the east marches, and 
Master William Drewry, high marshal of Barwike, 
with all the garrison and power of the same, began a 
journey into Scotland, and the same night came to 
arke, twelve miles from Barwike, and so the next 
morrow entered into Tividale ; and, marching in war- 
like order, they brét, (burnt) overthrew, rased, and 
yled all the castels, towers, and villages of their 
enimies, till they came to the castell of Mosse, stand- 
ing in a strdg marish beloging to the -L. of Buckcluch, 
which likewise was rased, overthrowne, and brent, 
and so marched forward, and brent the whole countrey 
before them till they came to oye After men- 
tioning a great many other places which they burnt, 
Stowe thus—* The nineteenth, the armie di- 
vided into two partes, the one parte whereof passed 
the river of Tivite, and brent the castell of Fermiherst, 
and all other castells and townes belonging to the Lord 
of Ferniherst, Huntill, and Bedrell, and so ed to 
Mint, where both the armyes mette agayne, and so brent 
on bothe sides the river, till they came to a greate towne 
called Hawike, where they intended to have lodged ; 
but the Scottes had unthatched the houses, and brent 
the thatch in the streetes, and themselves fledde with 
most parte of theyr goodes ; but, by the industrie of 
the Englishmen, the timber was also burned with the 
thatch, saving oné little house of stone of Drumlan- 
ricke’s, wherein my lord lay that nighte.” 
Drumlanricke’s little house of stone is supposed to 
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be that which is now the Tower Inn, belonging to his Hawick. 
Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, which has lon ce =—v~ 
lebrated for the excellent accommodation afforded to 
travellers. The walls of the oldest part of this buildin 
are, in some places, no less than seven feet thick rd 
has been lately very considerably enlarged, and is now 
one of the most commodious inns in the south of Scot. 
land. The oldest charter of the town now extant, is a 
charter of confirmation granted by James Douglas of 
Drumlanrick, then baron of the barony of Hawick, in 
1537, which declares the town to have been from of 
old a free burgh of baronie, and proceeds on the nar- 
rative, that « the charters and evidents of the said town 
and burgh, through the inroads of the English and 
thieves in the by times of enmity and war, had 
been lost and destroyed ;” and this charter imposes on 
the grantees thereof the singular burden “ of maintain- 
ing one lamp or pot of burning oil before the great al- 
tar of the parish church of Hawick, in time of high 
mass, and evening prayers, on all holidays 
the year, in honour of our blessed and Saviour 
Jesus Christ, for the souls of the barons of Hawick, 
founders of the said lamp, and their successors.”” This 
charter was confirmed by a royal charter, granted by 
Queen Mary in 1545. The church is beautifully situa- 
ted on a circular eminence in the middle of the town, 
and the church-yard commands a fine prospect of the 
surrounding country. The town is well paved and 
lighted, and has a plentiful supply of excellent spring 
water, which is conveyed to the town in leaden pipes. 
It has a respectable town-house, in which the burgh 
and justice of peace courts are held. A new line of 
road is just now making to the town from the west, 
which will form a fine approach, and already a very 
handsome new street is begun to be built along the sides 
of it.. Atthe west end of the town there is an artificial 
mound of earth, of a conical form, of considerable 
height, called the Mote, which, according to tradition, 
was formerly used for holding courts of justice. The 
mail coach from London to Edinburgh, by Carlisle, 
passes through the town every day, and it is at present 
(181 ae contemplation toestablish a mail coach between 
this place and Berwick. The town is governed by two 
bailies, who, with the advice of the town council, have 
the sole management of the revenues and affairs of the 
burgh. The bailies are chosen annually, by a poll of 
the resident burgesses. The town council is composed 
of 15 standing councillors, so called from their continu- 
ing in office during life, who are elected by the bailies 
and standing council ; and of 14 trades councillors, or 
quarter-masters, who are chosen annually, two b each 
of the seven incorporated trades of the burgh. Its re- 
venue, which consists chiefly of the rents of a large 
common belonging to the burgh, is about £400 per 
annum. The poor of the town and parish are support~ 
ed by a rate, one-third whereof is paid by the Ba 
tors within the burgh, and two-thirds by the heritors 
and tenants of the landward part of the parish. Be- 
sides the established church, there are three places of 
religious worship in the town, vis. the Burgher, Anti- 
burgher, and Relief meeting houses. There is an ex- 
cellent public library in the town, which was begun in 
1760. There was also lately established a subscription 
library, by the tradesmen of the place, and there are 
besides two or three circulating libraries. A branch of 
the British Linen Company Bank has been long esta~ 
blished here, anda savings was instituted in Janu- 
ary 1815, in which there was deposited, during the 
first year, £370, by 183 different individuals. In 
1776, a farming club was instituted in Hawick for 
