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



A branch of the Papedies had engaged in trade at Berwick, 

 and to one of these, Thomas Papecle, the monks of Coldingham, 

 in 1399, owed £24. In 1400 they were indebted to Thomas Papedi, 

 in Berwick, £9 12s 9d; and in 1406 to Thomas Papedy, senior, 

 £14 ; and to Thomas Papedy, junior, and his comrades, Eobert 

 Huton and Stephen Pyschewyk, both local names, 60 shillings.* 



If Bishop Keith's conjecture can be confirmed that Stephen 

 Pa or Pai, prior and afterwards Bishop-elect of St. Andrews, was 

 a Papedy,f Pordun, the historian, has pourtrayed the personal 

 appearance, and the mental and moral qualifications of one of 

 this old race ; who was certainly, if he belonged to it, its most 

 eminent representative. The lord Thomas Bisset, Pordun says, 

 having resigned the priorate in 1363, in his stead was elected on 

 the feast of St. Oolumba, the abbot (June 9), the lord Stephen 

 Pai, the sub-prior, a venerable man, endued with all probity of 

 manners ; who obtained the episcopal confirmation and benedic- 

 tion from the bishop, .William Landalls. Bishop Landalls, or 

 Landles, was the last heir male of the Landalls of Hounam ; and 

 being a borderer like his subordinate, would, the more readily, 

 recognise his capacity. The new prior was a tall, corpulent man, 

 with a pleasant blithesome countenance ; generous and munificent 

 in all respects, he drew to himself every one's affection. By mis- 

 fortune the great church of the monastery having been casually 

 burned in 1368, he repaired the damage it had sustained in the 

 roofing and stone work, in the timber and lead, within the subse- 

 quent year ; having expended in this reparation, including the re- 

 edification of two columns, in the southern part of the church, 

 near the altars of St. Michael and St. Laurence, 2,200 merks. 

 He continued prior for twenty years, and was elected by the 

 chapter to the bishopric of St. Andrews, on the death of William 

 de Landalls, in 1385. Purposing to repair for confirmation to 

 Rome, he was taken captive at sea by English pirates, and 

 sickened and died at Alnwick, in March of the same year, j 



* Inventories and Account Eolls of Coldingham. Stephen Fyshwic was a 

 baillie of Berwick, in 1442.— Liber de Melros, No. 550. 



t Keith's Scottish Bishops, p. 17. Aldred, the son of Pae, witnesses a 

 charter of Nes, an East Lothian retainer of the Earl of Dunbar, in time of 

 Alexander II. Liber de Melros, No. 295. He was perhaps Aldred de Popple, 

 No. 63. 



t Forduni Scotichronicon, Ed. Goodal, vol. i., pp. 370, 371, 364. Keith's 

 Scottish Bishops, pp. 16, 17. 



