Rev. John Walker on Greenlaw. Ill 



cliurch of the parish had been gifted, to have a private 

 chapel in connexion with the residence which he had built 

 for himself, and which was called the " Lord's House." 

 Some remains of this castellated building under the name of 

 the Tenandry, were visible in a field to the east of Greenlaw, 

 about fifty years ago. Indeed its substructions were dug up 

 only a few years since, by the present tenant of the land. 



The son of this Patrick de Dunbar, under the name of 

 William de Greenlaw, married his cousin, the daughter of 

 Waldave, or Walleve, fourth Earl of Dunbar, and received 

 with her the barony of Hume, as her marriage portion. 

 This gentleman appears to have had issue by a previous 

 marriage, and the lady was a widow also, whose first alliance 

 had been in the ancient and great, but dissatisfied and un- 

 fortunate family of Courtcnay.* 



The succession to William de Greenlaw's Greenlaw pro- 

 perties seems to have been for some generations in the 

 children of his first marriage, as we find the names of Roland 

 de Greenlaw and others, attached to deeds of that period ; 

 but subsequently, all his properties seem to have fallen to 

 the children of his second marriage, by which he was the 

 progenitor of the numerous and powerful border family of 

 Hume, and to have continued uninterruptedly in their pos- 

 session up till the time of the troubles which overtook the 

 family in the regency of the Duke of Albany, after the dis- 

 astrous fight of Flodden. 



As a result of these embarassments which would not all 

 be removed in 1522, when the family was restored to its 

 honours and estates, the baronies of Greenlaw and Wliite- 

 side came into the possession of the Humes of Spott. 



Mr. Hume, of Spott, whom James VI., of Scotland crea- 

 ted Earl of Dunbar, obtained from his sovereign, a royal 

 charter (anno 1596) which was ratified by parliament (anno 

 1600) as proprietor of the barony and town of Greenlaw, 

 to the effect that " the town of Greenlaw being a centrical 

 place in the county, and so convenient for holding courts, 

 publications of all summonses and royal letters, &c., should 

 be erected into a free burgh or barony, with privileges equal 

 to the privileges of the royal baronies, and that all such pro- 

 clamations, &c., should be made at the ' Mercut Cross ' of 

 the said burgh of old Greenlaw, as the primary and principal 



* The motto will be recollected which was assumed by this old crusading 

 house, when it found itself on the roll of the English nobility " Ubi lapsus, et 

 quid feci ?" 



