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Nature of the Human Soul" (1730), and other writings, was 

 buried, none had been found. The memoirs of his life affirm 

 that he died at Whittingham, April 23, 1750, aged 63. It 

 appears, however, that he and his wife (Alice Mabane, the 

 daughter of a Berwickshire clergyman) and three daughters and 

 one son lived at Old Haddington, a place now obliterated, which 

 lay to the west of the present Whittingham church. Of this, 

 apparently a farm place, we have one notice in the Session Book 

 of Hutton parish of date April 26, 1663 :— " Collected 3 lib. 6 sh. 

 for Wm. Wilsone in Old Haddingtoun, who had great losse by 

 burning." It seems also to be named in a Eetourof Sir Andrew 

 Eamsay of Wauchton, of date May 19th, 1680 (Haddington, No. 

 338), when he held the lands of Johnscleuch, the lands of 

 Glints, the lands of " Old Hadding et lie house," the lands of 

 Papill, called *'Lauderlands and Haitlieslands, with the mill of 

 Papill," etc. 



Mr Eobertson also pointed out that in the field below the 

 present factor's house there was a central space with much black 

 soil, which was reputed to be an old churchyard ; the field itself 

 was known as the " Kirk-lands." That it had been an ancient 

 place of sepulchres was proved by its being on one occasion 

 ploughed deeper than customary, when the tops of numerous 

 slab graves were struck on, in which the bodies had been interred 

 at full length. It may, from the character of the graves, have 

 been a cemetery of the early Christians of the district, possibly 

 Saxon descendants of those who settled under Hwite, the founder 

 of the colony, afterwards called after him, according to the Anglo- 

 Saxon usage, Whittingham, the dwelling place of the race of 

 White. 



I subjoin Mr Robertson's remarks from a more recent commu- 

 nication on the subject. 



" The ancient cemetery I spoke of betrays itself by a black spot on the 

 field of red soil just beyond Luggate-burn village. It was first shewn to 

 be a cemetery by the following accident. A former farmer of Luggate 

 employed a steam-plough, and one day in his absence, it laid open about 

 200 graves consisting of unhewn stones for sides and tops, without any 

 bottom except the soil. That the spot had been for Christian burial is 

 rendered almost certain by the fact that the name of the field is the 

 Kirklands." 



It was stated by others of the company that another ancient 

 burial ground with slab graves has been detected on opposite 

 sides of the Tyne above Linton. In this instance the graves 



