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Laird of Hunthill, as to a loft in tlie Kirk of Jedburgh. Dated 

 at Jedburgh, 12th and 13th April 1665." 



Bundle XII., page 88, no. 13. "Agreement between Lord 

 Rutherford and the Laird of Hunthill, his father, on the one, 

 and the Lairds of Crailinghall and Edgerston, on the other part, 

 for settling their dispute about their burial places in the Kirk of 

 Jedburgh, and key of the door entering thereto, and loft or seat 

 in the said Kirk, to the effect that each of them should have a 

 key, etc. Dated at Edinburgh, 27th November 1666. Sir 

 Alexander Urquhart, of Cromarty, Captain John Rutherford, 

 etc., are witnesses." 



As far back as 13th July 1464, there was a "grant from the 

 Abbot of Jedburgh to Robert Rutherford of Chattou and his 

 wife, of lairs in the Abbey." (Pedigree of Rutherfoord, Lord 

 Rutherfoord, p. 23.) This is one of the ancestors of the family 

 of Hunthill. His son Andrew is said to have been first designed 

 de Hunthill (Jeffrey's Hist. ii. p. 285). The probability is there- 

 fore that the Hunthill branch buried at Jedburgh and not at 

 Oxnam. 



(11). Connection oe the Wisharts and Plenderleiths with 

 Plenderleith, Moneylaws, and the Borders. 



In the eventful period of Scottish Histoiy between the calami- 

 tous death of Alexander III., and the Wars of Independence, 

 there were numerous Scotsmen, who from being married to 

 English heiresses, or from having obtained grants of lands south 

 of the Borders, were disinherited, and among other sufferers 

 was a minor baron, named John Wishart of the Carse of 

 Gowrie(?), owing to his having acquired by purchase from 

 King Alexander, the wardship of an heir in Knaresdale, and his 

 subsequent nuptials with the heiress of Moneylaws in Northum- 

 berland, who was of the Plenderleith family. His stake was not 

 so great as that of several others, but the occurrence is a fair 

 example of what happened to all those who at that period pre- 

 ferred their original allegiance to that forced upon them by 

 Edward I. The incidents can be pretty clearly evolved out of 

 the abbreviated entries in the public records. 



From the relation we obtain a kind of explanation as to how, 

 on the principle of kinship, another of the Wisharts obtains 

 from Robei't I. the ownership of Plenderleith, although the 



