Amiiversary Address. 35 



" The Gipsies, wild and wandering race, 

 Are masters of the sylvan chase ; 

 Beneath the boughs their tents they raise, 

 Upon the turf their faggots blaze ! 

 In course profusion they prepare 

 The feast obtain'd, — how, when, and where ? 

 While swarthy forms, with clamour loud, 

 Around the smoky cauldron crowd." 



— (JBayley's Gipsy's Haunt.) 



The early records are few in number : 



A.D., 1296, Maester Walram, the Parson of Yetholm, 



swore fealty to King Edward the 1st, at Berwick. 

 A.D., 1304, Edward arrived at this place, with Earls and 



Barons. 

 A.D., 1379, Robert the 2nd granted to Fergus McDougal, 



the Manor of Yetholm, which Margaret Eraser, his 



mother, had resigned to him. 

 Robert the 3rd granted to Arch. McDougal, 



the Barony of Yetholm, the descendents of whom 



(softened to McDowal) long enjoyed this property. 

 Robert, Duke of Albany, granted to John 



de Hawden, the lands of Yetholm, which had been 

 resigned by William Hawden, his father. 

 About A.D., 1400, William de Hawden, the Lord of the 

 Manor, granted to the Monks of Kelso, the right of 

 advowson to the Church of Kirk Yetholm. 

 Some other scattered notices are to be found in Mr. 

 Jeffrey's book. 



Andrew Wauchope, Esq., is the Mareshall and Superior of 

 the Lands of Town Yetholm, and he favoured the Club with 

 his company at dinner. These hereditary offices on the south 

 side at Kirk Yetholm, appertain to the Marquess of 

 Tweeddale. 



The party assembled at dinner, at the Inn at Town Yetholm. 

 The five gentlemen proposed at the last meeting were elected, 

 and the following were proposed as Members to be elected at 

 the next meeting, viz: John Richardson, of Pencaitland 

 Cottage, Tranent, Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, M.P., Scott 

 Dudgeon, of Spylaw, and the Rev. Delaval Knight, of Ford. 



