On the Border Family of Papedy, by James Hardy. 489 



part in a perambulation between the lands of Brokhole and Her- 

 wode on the one part, and those of Butterden on the other, 14th 

 June, 1431.* On the 16th April, 1434, an assize was chosen at 

 Coldingham to decide a controversy between prior William 

 Drax, and certain free tenants of the monastery, about a right of 

 common pasturage, in some of the priory lands, and of " usche 

 and entre," to their own. William of Mandyrston was one of 

 the thirteen who formed the assize. The seal of John de Mander- 

 ston is annexed to the decision. He was probably either dead or 

 no longer able to attend such conventions.! 



The acquisition of Manderston by one of the Hume family is 

 of subsequent date. According to Godscroft, the ancestor of the 

 Humes of Manderston was Patrick, 6th son of David III., of the 

 house of Wedderburn, and his wife Isobel Pringle of Galashiels. |" 

 This Sir David fell at Flodden, in 1513. 



There is a flat sandstone slab in the Home aisle at Dunglass, 

 with the inscription much defaced, that may possibly mark the 

 last resting place of one of the old house of Manderston, which 

 finally may have merged by inter-marriage or agreement into 

 the family of Home. The inscription is in one long line, length- 

 ways to the stone, and, if I mistake not, reads thus : — " THOME 

 DE MANDEESTON EQVITIS AVEATI SPON" (the stone 

 being broken off abruptly at the close) ; i.e., " Of Sir Thomas de 

 Manderston, knight, a bridegroom." Obliquely to this inscrip- 

 tion on the left hand corner, at the head, are the broken letters 

 TNI, and farther down, but not underneath, the solitary word 

 VINCIT (he conquers). 



From the coincidence of names we are led to inquire if this 

 Sir Thomas de Manderston was identical with the Thorn de 

 Mandyrston of 1431. Of this there is no certainty ; neither can 

 we penetrate the mystery enveloping the close of his life ; nor 

 whether he was the last of the Papeday family. That he should 

 be laid here, seems to imply kinship with the founders or bene- 

 factors of this church. The import of the fragmentary words is 

 dubious ; it may be the Christian triumph to which allusion is 

 made, or it may be merely the frail tenure of human life that is 

 bewailed. Like the story of the family the detail is broken, and 

 cannot in all points be coherently pieced together. 



* Cold. Charters, p. 110. f Ibid, p. 63. 



X De Familia Humia, &c, p. 19. 



