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



relationship, as brothers, or as father, son, and grandson ; John 

 being the head of the house, and mentioned in a way that betokens 

 him to have been a reliable and influential personage in the 

 transactions of country business, at the age in which they 

 flourished. In a writ of disseizen, by Thomas Purvas of Hund- 

 wode, of Swynwood and Ederham pledged to him for debt by 

 John de Aclyfe, prior of Ooldingham, dated at Coldingham, 24th 

 Feb., 1410, the seal of John de Mandirston, lord or laird of that 

 ilk, is appended along with that of Thomas Purvas. Mander- 

 ston's seal bears a chevron between three popinjays, evidencing 

 that he was of Papedy descent.* On the 20th May, 1422, at 

 Berwick, William Drax, prior of Coldingham, lets to farm, for 

 an annual rent of £10, Scots, to his " der frendes," John of 

 Manderston and William of Manderston, all his lands of Eddir- 

 ham, for the term of five years, " and I sail alow thaim werr of 

 Inglyshmen as nyhtboures and others on fourhalf e about thaim. "| 

 In an indenture made at Ooldingham, 15th Jan., 1425, Thomas 

 Purvas of Swynwod acquits the prior and house of Coldingham 

 ■ of all debts they had contracted with him, on a payment being 

 made to him, of 105 merks ; John of Mandriston being one of 

 the Prior's (Drax) pledges or "boroues." William of Mandris- 

 ton is there as a sanctioner ; and both the parties " has giflyn 

 thar bodyly athis apon the haly euangel and to the mayr witness- 

 ing, the said Thomas has procured with grete instance the seal of 

 John of Mandirstoune," to be placed to the deed before the 

 witnesses present, f In two lengthy Melrose deeds, supplying 

 curious information, which concern the " Depertision of Halsing- 

 ton," in a dispute about marches, of dates 1428, 1431, Willyam 

 of Mandirston and John of Mandirston were on the great assize 

 " of twenty and fyve worthy and notable persons'' who made a 

 proper division; in the second deed John takes precedence of 

 William. £ A Coldingham writ narrates a perambulation of the 

 lands of William Forman at "Kellilaw, in the Estfeylde of 

 Coldynghame," 13th Nov., 1430 ; wherein among the "best and 

 worthy est of the contre," who were selected as jurymen were 

 " William of Mandyrston, John of Mandyrston, and Thorn of 

 Mandyrston ;" and the same worthy individuals acted a similar 



* Coldingham Charters, in Raine's Appendix, p. 104. f Ibid. 



f Ibid, p. 105. 



% Liber de Melros, Nos. 525, 526, 



