488 Maxwellheugh and Springwood Park, by James Tait. 



great importance, as his signature follows that of " Kinadius, 

 Rex Albania?," and of the royal family, and goes before all 

 the bishops, high as was their position in those times. This 

 was in the year 971. Between this royal Maccus and Maccus 

 the son of Undwin, several generations must have existed, 

 of whom nothing is known ; but Maccus, the son of Undwin, 

 was an active and distinguished person in the reigns of 

 Alexander I., and David I., Kings of Scotland. Besides 

 other public acts, he witnessed a charter granted by King 

 David " to God, Saint Mary of Melrose, and the Monks of 

 the Cistercian Order, there serving God, of the lands of Mel- 

 rose, Eldune, and Dernewick, the pasture, wood, pasturing of 

 cattle for the use of the monks, in the granter's land and 

 forest of Selkirk and Traquair, and fishing in the waters of 

 the Tweed ; and, besides, in augmentation of their revenues, 

 Galtuneshalech and the whole land and wood of Galtunesside." 

 The charter is dated at Erchildon in June, but the year is 

 ■omitted, though it must have been previous to 1152. Maccus 

 likewise witnessed a charter of King David in 1113, found- 

 ing a monastery at Selkirk ; but in 1126, John, Bishop of 

 Glasgow, procured the removal of the monastery from Sel- 

 kirk, to the Church of the Virgin Mary at Kelso, then called 

 Calkow. This was close to " Maccuswell," the territory of 

 Maccus, which he acquired from King David about the 

 same time. 



THE BAKONY OF MAXWELL. 



The lands which Maccus obtained in Roxburghshire from 

 King David the First, were on the south side of the river 

 Teviot, and opposite the castle of Roxburgh, not as Jeffrey 

 says, " between the Teviot and the Tweed ;" but the original 

 charter granting to Maccus the lands, which were afterwards 

 formed into the barony of Maxwell, has not been preserved, 

 and so the precise extent of the lands cannot now be ascer- 

 tained. In the " Maxwells of Pollock," Mr Fraser says, "one 

 grant bestowed upon Maccus, comprehended the lands erect- 

 ed into the barony of Maccuswell or Maxwell, which lies on 

 the south side of the river Teviot, where it flows past the 

 ruins of the famous castle of Roxburgh. On the west the 

 barony was bounded by the Teviot, on the north by that 

 river, and by the Tweed after these rivers unite. The parish 

 of Sprouston formed the eastern and part of the northern 



