94 Notices concerning Oxnam Parish. By J. Hardy. 



Oxxam. 

 ' ' Oxennaru l — Oussnam, Austnam 2 — Oxeham 3 — Oxenliam, 

 Oxinham 4 — Oxingham, Oxinghame, Oxenhame 5 — Oxnam 6 . 



" The Chapelries of Plenderleith and Middleknowes, now included in 

 this parish, were, before the Reformation, a part of the spirituality of 

 Jedburgh 7 . 



Alan de Perci, surnamed ' le Meschin,' whose father, William de Perci, 

 witnessed a charter in the reign of King Henry I., granted to the monks 

 of Whitby a ploughgate of land in Oxenliam, and another in Hetune, near 

 Roxburgh 8 in the barony of Oxenham. 9 About the year 1153 Geoffry de 

 Perci, with the consent of Henry de Perci, his brother and heir, granted to 

 the monks of Kelso, for the souls' health of King David I., and Henry his 

 son, a ploughgate of land in Heton, containing five score and four acres, 

 next to the land belonging to the hospital of Roxburgh. 10 To the monks of 

 Jedburgh, Geoffry de Perci granted the church of Oxenham, and two 

 bovates of land adjacent to the church, with the right of pasture and fuel 

 in the common. Henry de Perci, who succeeded his brother Geoffry, 

 confirmed this grant in the presence of King Malcolm the Maiden, and 

 also gave to the monks the lands of Xewbigginghe in this parish, with 

 common pasture and fuel as enjoyed by the other inhabitants of the 

 village of Oxenham. These grants were confirmed by King William tho 

 Lion, between the years 1165 and 1174. 11 The church was thenceforward 

 served by a chaplain, and at a later period by a vicar pensioner, presented 

 by the canons of Jedburgh. In 1177 Osbert chaplain of Oxenham witnessed 

 a charter to the monks of Paisley byEschina of Molle, the wife of Walter 

 Fitzallan. 12 At the settlement of disputes between Walter bishop of 

 Glasgow and the monks of Jedburgh, 1220, it was agreed that the taxation 

 of the vicarage of Oxnam should remain as it had been fixed by the bishop's 

 charter. 13 Robert vicar of Oxenham witnessed a charter in 1223. u 



1 Circa A.D. 1135-65. Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. i., p. 74, no. 10. (London 

 edition, 1655). 



3 Theatrum Scotiae, Map. 



3 A.D. 1177. Regist. de Passelet, p. 74. 



*A.D. 1220-1329. Regist. Glasg. p. 99. Lib. de Melros, pp. 366-368. 



5 A.D. 1358-1390. Regist Glasg. p. 259. Robertson's Index, p. 30. no. l.p. 

 115, no. 37, and p. 127, no. 23. Reg. Mag. Sig., p. 102, no. 37. 



8 Retours, 1652 and 1659. 



7 Harl. Mss., 4623, vol. ii„ apud Morton's Mon. Ann. Teviotdale, p. 54. 



9 Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. i., p. 74, no. 10. 

 9 Lib. de Calchou, p. 381. 



10 Lib. de Calchou, pp. 286, 287. 



11 Original Charter at Dalkeith. 



12 Reg. de Passelet, p. 74. 



13 Regist. Glasg. p. 99. 



14 Regist. Glasg. p. 10G. 



