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On Chirnside Parish : the Estate of Edington. By the 

 late Geoege Henderson, Surgeon, Chirnside ; supple- 

 mented by James Hardy. 



[The late Mr. Henderson furnished to the iii Vol., p. 184, of 

 the Club's " History," an account of "Chirnside, its Church and 

 Churchyard." By a reference to his MSS., it is found that he 

 has written the history of the entire parish, as well as of some 

 other parishes in Berwickshire. The present article contains the 

 portion which relates to Edington, one of the localities in the 

 parish visited by the Club in August, and I have inserted other 

 details from some researches in the same direction. Mr. Charles 

 Watson has kindly sent a synopsis of the family descent, and the 

 transferences of property, from materials in his possession. The 

 introduced matter is placed within brackets. — J. H.] 



Edington, or Idington. 

 About a mile-and-a-half from Chirnside, on the road to 

 Berwick, lies the small village of Edington. Mr. Carr, in 

 his " History of Coldingham," derives the name of Edington 

 from a " Saxon called Edwin or Edin," whom he supposes 

 to have settled down here during the period of the heptarchy, 

 or, at any rate, anterior to the Conquest. [It is variously 

 called Hadynton, Hsedentun, Edinton, Edington, Idington.] 

 The manor was for several centuries held of the Priory of 

 Coldingham, to whom it had been granted by King Edgar, 

 by the family of Edington, who frequently occur as witnesses 

 to its charters. Aldanus de Edington and his son Adam 

 successively attested charters granted to it by Waltheve and 

 Patrick, Earls of Dunbar, between the year 1166 and 1289. 

 Robert de Edington also is among the witnesses to a charter 

 in 1193*. On the 27th July, 1749, Jacobus de Edington, 

 with John Ellem of Butterdean, Gavin Home of Manderston, 

 and other twenty-one proprietors or inhabitants in Berwick- 

 shire, were summoned to appear before the Parliament, in 

 answer to the charge of treason in having held out the castle 

 of Dunbar against the king, and for having cruelly put to 

 death some of his faithful lieges and servitors-f-. [They were 

 often called, but never convicted {.] 



[I shall here introduce Mr. Watson's notes. The rest of 

 the remarks will then supply what information can be 

 gleaned concerning the subsequent occupants. 



* Charters in Appendix to Raine's " North Durham." 

 f "Acts of Scot. Pari.." ii., p. 125. 

 % Chalmers' " Caledonia," ii., p. 282. 



