496 Maxwellheugh and Springwood Park, by James Tait. 



" Pinnekill-Hill nyne bollas, to wit, of quheit ane boll, of beir 

 four bollas, of meill four bollas. 



" Eisteir Woddeu ane chalder three bollas, to wit, of quheit 

 thre bollas, of beir aught bollas, of meill aught bollas. The 

 tiendis of this steiding is led be the possessoris of the ground. 



" Wester Softla ane chalder ane boll, to wit, of quheit thre 

 bollas, of beir sex bollas, of meill aught bollas. 



" Chapell, fourteen bollas, to wit, sex bollas beir, aught bollas 

 meill. The tiend of this roume is led by the possessour. The 

 Hail tiendis of Maxwell parochin are thocht to be worth, com- 

 munibus annis, sex hunder merk."* 



In a locality of stipend made by the Commissioners for Tiends, 

 on 16th December, 1635, in favour of Mr Eobert Knox, minister 

 of Kelso, there is provided out of the tiends of Chappell, and 

 Pinnacle-hill, belonging to the Lord Jedburgh, eight bolls meal, 

 six bolls bear, with £66 13s 4d mone}', and out of the tiends of 

 Maxwellheugh, half Brigendhaugh, Kingshaugh, Easter Wooden, 

 and Howden, pertaining to Andrew Ker, of Greenhead, two 

 chalders, five bolls, two firlots meal, and ane chalder, four bolls, 

 twa firlots, twa pecks bear.f 



From a rental of the Earl of Roxburgh's lands in Teviotdale, 

 it appears that, at Whitsunday, 1682, the lands of Maxwell- 

 haugh, Easter Wooden, Howden, half Brigend Haugh, and 

 Kingshaugh, paid yearly of valued tiend duty sixty bolls of 

 victual, and that the lands of Chappell and Pinnacle-Hill paid 

 yearly fourteen . bolls of victual and £66 13s 4d. Wester Softla 

 and Wester Wooden paid yearly of valued tiend-duty £133 6s 8d, 

 and Easter Softla paid yearly sixteen bolls of victual. All these 

 tiends were paid to the minister of Kelso, as part of his stipend, 

 with the exception of the £133 6s 8d for Wester Softla, and 

 Wester Wooden. 



In the same rental, the fishing of the water of Maxwell is 

 entered as naying yearly six dozen of salmon at 6s per piece, 

 £43 4s.J 



Subsequent to the Reformation, Paul Knox, a nephew of 

 John Knox, was minister of Kelso and Maxwell in the year 

 1574 ; and in the year 1575, John Howie, or Howieson, had 

 the spiritual charge of Sprowstoun, Maxwell, and Lempit- 

 law. William Balfour, minister of Kelso, in 1585, was trans- 

 lated to Maxwell in 1589, but returned to Kelso in 1591. 

 James Knox, probably grand nephew of John Knox, was 

 presented to the vicarage of Maxwell, by James VI., on the 



* Ibid. f Ibid. 



J " This payment must bave been made half -yearly to produce the cumulo 

 amount. No doubt many of the fish were taken out of Maxwheel." 



