Maxwellheugh and Springwood Park, by James Tait. 495 



to £16, with the Kirkland, " to be pait out of the third of Kelso 

 be the taxmen or parochiners of Maxwell."* 



In two other rentals of Kelso, about 1570, the " Cobill foment 

 Maxwell " is also stated at the same sum of £10 ; and in one of 

 these rentals of the kirks set for money, the kirk of Maxwell is 

 entered at £66 13s 4d ; and in the assignation of Kelso, the kirk 

 of Maxwell is entered at the same sum.f 



In the taxed roll of tiends of the lordship of Kelso, granted to 

 his Majesty in October, 1612, the " Kirk of Maxvill" is stated 

 at £10.J 



In an information concerning the kirks of the Abbacy of Kelso 

 prepared about the year 1620, it is stated that the Kirk of Max 

 well is " vnplantit." " Ane litle kirk, and the cure thereof servit 

 be the minister of Kelso. The renttis thereof are small, and in 

 sindrie mennis handis for mony zeiris zit to ryn, and the dutie of 

 the unhibit tax extends onlie to l c mercis, and the same wes set 

 in tak be Erie Bothwell." § 



In a paper entitled " Form of the setting downe the teyndis 

 for obedience of the commission be Mr James Knox, in Kelso," 

 26th April, 1627, the tiends of the Barony of Maxwell are thus 

 stated: — 



1. " Imprimis the nomber of the communicants being examinit 

 according to the buikis of the examination going befoir the last 

 communion, ar fund to be 14 hunder four scoir threteene. Of 

 the quhilk number, twa hunder threttie three did appertaine to 

 that pairt of the parishe quhilk is callit Maxwell. 



2. " This part of the parische quhilk is callit Maxwell past 

 memorie of man, hes bene servit be ministeries of the kirk of 

 Kelso, and wes vnited thereto be the lait erectioun, being ane 

 kirk of the same Abbacie. 



3. " The length of the parische is about twa myll. The breid 

 ane myll. The kirk standethe derectlie in the middis. 



4. " The ministers stipend is aught chalder of wittal, twa part 

 meill, third part beir, Lowthiane met ; ane hundredth merkis, 

 with viccarigs of Kelso and Maxwell. The viccarigs of Maxwell- 



heughe, worth possesst of lait be wmquhill John Ker, of 



Duddingstown, and now acclaimit be ane bastart of his, and 

 Thomas Ker, of Cavers, pretendit tenant to the said Andro Ker, 

 bastart. 



" The towne of Maxwellheugh, with the Manis, "Wester Wod- 

 den and Howden," (paid) " twa chalder and ten bollas, to wit of 

 quheit, sex bollas, of beir ane chalder, of meill ane chalder four 

 bollas. 



* Wodrow Miscellany, vol. i., p. 375 ; Buik of Assignations, vol. i., p. 86. 



f Original rentals in Roxburgh Charter chest. 



X Ibid. § Ibid. 



2 K 



