402 Notes on Yarrow. By James Hardy. 



same for a day to carry lime for the said brig, under a penalty 

 of forty shillings." It shows how bridges were in former times 

 " executed by compulsory contributions of labour under magis- 

 terial authority."*' 



7. Yarrow Kirh, and Monument to the Rev. John Rutherford. 

 A statement relative to the parish church was recently obtained 

 by Mr Currie among family papers, and he is of the belief that 

 it was written by his late brother-in-law, Mr Scott, Ladhope, 

 who died 12 years ago at the advanced age of 92. I extract the 

 most of it. 



"Yarrow Kirk was erected in 1640. The parish churcliwas formerly on 

 the north of St Mary's Loch and was called St Mary's of the Lowes, and 

 having subsidiary chapels at Deuchar and Kirkhope (on Ettrick). These 

 chapels were suppressed about 1640. Yarrow Kirk bell was the gift of 

 James Murray of Henderland to the kirk of Deuchar in 16 — ■\, A dial 

 with inscription ' watch and pray,' etc. belonged also to this kirk ef 

 Deuchar. — The Kev. John Eutherford was the first parish minister after 

 the Eevolution, and was ordained in 1691. He was schoolmaster of Sel- 

 kirk before this. A stone tablet at the back of Yarrow Kirk, and in Latin, 

 records his life and labours in the parish. The Rev. John Rutherford was 

 maternal great grandfather of the Sheriff, Sir Walter Scott. — In 1791 Dr. 

 Russell preached the funeral sermon of his predecessor, Dr Cramond. The 

 roof of the kirk at that time was thatched and had no ceiling. In 1826 the 

 kirk underwent a thorough repair and a new belfry was" — ." Here the 

 document abruptly finishes. 



For a copy of the monument I am indebted to the Rev. 

 Kobert Borland, now minister of Yarrow, which I have com- 

 pared with that in Dr. Charles Eogers' " Genealogical Memoirs 

 of the Family of Sir Walter Scott," p. xlix ; and I have also for 

 the most part adopted Mr Borland's translation, as being more 

 literal. 



Memorise 



B. D. Joannis. Eutherfoord. 



Eoolesiee. Yaraensis. Pastoris. 



In tiger- / / Vigilantis- 



rimi. I I simi. 



Et. Eoberti. filii. quadriennis. 



Hoc. monumentum. erigere. curavit. 



Cristiana. Shaw. uxor, moerens. 



* Chambers' Hist, of Peeblesbire, p. 174. 



t There was a Sir James Murray of Deuchar in 1648. (Chambers' Hist, of 

 Peebleshire, p. 454). Henderland was a modern acquisition of one of the 

 Murray family. (lb. p. 361.)— J. H. 



