On Armorial Bearings, &c. By Walter Lai (flaw. 139 



howsys we burnt, and all the howsys abowt them. We could 

 nott blow up Farnhurst, but have so torno ytt with laborars, as 

 ytt wer as goode ley flatt. We burnt also Bedrowle, which 

 was the first howse that Leoanard Dacres took for hys succor,, 

 when he fled out of Ingland ; and so burnying of eche hand of 

 us, three or four myles we came to Hawyke. I should have 

 wrytten how, apon Tewsday, Sir John Forster, with his war- 

 denry and such forcys as my L. Lieut, putt too hym ; entered 

 att the hed of Kokett, and burnt doune along Oxnam water of 

 eche hand of hym, and so mett at Ged worth, wher we wer 

 promest too be resevyd att Hawyke." The last time Fernieherst 

 Castle was destroyed was by Lord Ruthven, in 1571. 



Sir Thomas died in 1586, and was succeeded by his sou, Sir 

 Andrew Kerr, whose armorial bearings, and also his wife's, are 

 those on the Castle and Chapel of Fernieherst to which I have 

 referred. 



He was the first Lord Jedburgh, and as I have said was 

 created 2nd Feby. 1622, and after his death in 16.31 was suc- 

 ceeded by his brother, Sir James Kerr of Grading, who was thus 

 the second Lord Jedburgh. He married Mary Rutherford, 

 heiress of Hundalee. He died in 1615, and was succeeded by 

 his son Robert, third Lord Jedburgh, who married Christian, 

 daughter of Sir Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick. There is a 

 lintel in Hundalee farm house, with rather an interesting mono- 

 gram, which is difficult to make out ; but having referred it to a 

 good authority on monograms, ho said "there was no doubt but 

 that the initials were R. K. C. H." These stand for Robert 

 Kerr and Christian Hamilton. On it is the date 1667. The 

 lintel was brought from the old house, which stood a little to 

 the south-west of the new one. When at Fernieherst a short 

 time ago, the tenant kindly pointed out to me a stone in one of 

 the vaults, which I found to be the armorial bearings of Robert 

 Lord Jedburgh, on which are the three initials "R L J ? " witlx 

 the chevron charged with three mullets of the field, and also tho 

 coronet. In tho wheel house at Fernieherst Mill are the same 

 initials, with the date 1680. On one of the bells in the clock 

 steeple of Jedburgh is the inscription, " Robert Lord Jedburg, 

 his gift to the Kirk of Jedburg, 1602. 



John Meikll me fecit Edinburgi." 



There are also on it the arms of Robert Lord Jedburgh, the 

 same as at Fernieherst, with the addition of two supporters (which 



