482 On the Border Family of Papedy, by James Hardy. 



Eelkington, in exchange for the manor of Eylley, near Durham, 

 to Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton.* The other northern possessions 

 were also alienated. 



The origin of the Scotch branch (as identified by the coat of 

 arms) of the family is, equally with the English, lost in the mists 

 of antiquity. Nisbet, the heraldist, says that Eustachius Pepdie 

 is a witness in a charter of King Malcolm IY., who reigned from 

 1153 to 1165.-J- The early Merse or East Lothian Papedies are 

 witnesses, in deeds, for the most part, in which the Earls of Dun- 

 bar have interest. One of them, at least, was an officer in the 

 household establishment of one of those noblemen. Stephen 

 being an oft-repeated name in the family, the Stephens cannot 

 be individually separated ; and the deeds leave us in ignorance 

 of the position of their lands. But as we afterwards find the 

 bulk of the property at Dunglas, now in East Lothian, and one 

 of the Stephens, as the head of the house, granting a sub-in- 

 feudation, we are perhaps not wrong in placing those of that 

 name there. An Act of the Scottish Parliament, in the time of 

 Charles I., 1641, says that the barony of Dunglas lay of old with- 

 in the sheriffdom of Berwick, but was then within the constabu- 

 lary of Haddington and sheriffdom of Edinburgh."! 



In the reign of William the Lion (1165-1124), Stephen Papedi 

 witnesses a charter from Earl Waldeve (1166-1182) to the monks 

 of Melrose of a community of pasture in — what is now the East 

 Lothian — Lambermor, along with himself and his men.§ The 

 same Stephen signs a charter from Waldeve, Earl of Dunbar, 

 concerning Edrom, of the date 1166 ; of this Edward de Alde- 

 cambus, a prominent name in that age, is a witness. || During 

 that-period he signs another charter, which is granted by Patrick, 

 the first of the name, who was at the same time Earl of Dunbar 

 and March (1186-1232) relative to Edrom, the chapel of Erchel- 

 dun, and the vill of Nesbit (East Nisbet). Other representative 

 Mersemen testifying along with him are Gilbert de Home, Eoud- 

 land, or Potdand the Steward, William the son of Edgar, Henry 



* Eaine, ubi sup. p. 220. t Nisbet's System of Heraldry, i. p. 349. 



X Acts Pari. Scot., vol. vi., Part i., p. 267. 

 § Liber de Melros, No. 76. This was known long after as " the Earle of 

 Marches muire."— Inquisit. Retornat. Abbrev. Haddington, No. 338, May 

 19, 1680. 



|| Coldingham Charters in Raine's Appendix, p. 26. 



