352 Mr. Jeffrey on Jedhurgh. 



over Jedworth in 1093, from the fact of Turgot, the prior of 

 Durham, ordering the body of Ealduf, one of the assassins of 

 Bishop Walcher, to be cast out of the church in which he had 

 been buried.* On the ascendency of David I., Teviotdale was 

 annexed to the bishopric of Glasgow, and John the tutor of 

 David was preferred to the see in 1115, by whose advice and 

 assistance canons regular of the order of St. Augustine were 

 brought from Italy and estaWished at Jedburgh. Wynton 

 places the settlement in 1118, and Fordun in 1147. It is 

 thought Wynton is right as to the first arrival of the canons, 

 and that the house, which was at first a priory, may have been 

 changed into an abbacy about the date mentioned by Fordun. 

 In a charter of David I. to Coldingham in 1139, Daniel is 

 styled Prior de Geddwride, and in 1150 Osbert designs him- 

 self Prior de Gedworda. He is one of the witnesses to the 

 confirmation charter (1153 — 1168) of Malcolm IV. to Walter 

 Fitz Alan of Birchinside and Leggardswode, and styled 

 *' Osbert Abbot of Jeddeworde." He died in 1174, and his 

 death is recorded in the Chronicle of Mailros as the first 

 abbot of Jedwood. The dedication of the church was com- 

 memorated on the "vii. Idus Julii."t 



The munificent founder gave to the house the tithes of the 

 two Gedworth's, Lanton, Nisbet, and Creling, the town of 

 the earl Gospatrie, and in the same town a ploughgate and a 

 half, and three acres of land with two houses; also the tithes 

 of the other Creling, the town of Orm ; and of Scraesburgh ; 

 the chapel situated in the forest opposite Hernswinglaw ; also 

 Ulfston near Jedburgh, Alnclive near Alncrumb, Crumsethe 

 and Raperlaw ; the tenth of the game taken in Teviotdale ; 

 the multure of the mill of Jedburgh ; pasture for the cattle 

 in the king's forest and right of taking wood and timber for 

 the use of the monastery ; the village of Rule Harvey, Ed- 

 wordslee, a salt work near Strivilene, a house in the town of 

 Roxburgh, and another in Berwick with a fishing.:^ 



From Malcolm IV. the monks got the churches of Barton 

 and Grenden in England; a toft and seven acres in Jed- 

 worth ; a fishing above the bridge of Berwick and exemption 

 from custom on their wine imported into that town. 



The monastery had also many lands and churches confer- 

 red on them by many barons and others Scots and EngHsh. 



* Hist. Eccles. Dunelm, Lib. iv. cap. viii. 



t Acta. Pari. Scot. vol. i. p. 7. Notice of the Ayr MS. of the Ancient Laws 

 of Scotland. 



X Confirmation charter of Earl Henry. 



