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internal condition of it, and copied the more interesting' memorial 

 inscriptions. Several old tombstones have upon them representa- 

 tions of implements of trade (goose and shears, spades) ; hour- 

 glasses, etc. What remains of ecclesiastical antiquity have 

 survived two successive renewals will he described in a paper 

 preparing by one of our members on the subject of the Berwick- 

 shire Churches. 



The original church was of ancient date, and was subsidiary 

 to Coldingham, as a cell of Durham. The earliest notice of 

 Edrom as a mansion or territory is in the times of King Edgar 

 and William Rufus of England, about 1095. The earliest 

 charter preserved was conferred by Gospatric or Cospatrick, 

 second Earl of ])unbar, who died in 1139. Bis grant and its 

 renewal by his successors was confirmed by King David I. and 

 the following Scottish kings. It was then a vill furnished with 

 church and chapels, so that it had been in existence prior to the 

 grant. At an early period the Abbey of Croyland, in Lincoln- 

 shire, had a claim over it (the origin of which is uncertain) that 

 had to be compounded for in the time of William the Lion, 1167, 

 by an anuual pension in money from Durham to Croyland. 

 Croyland Abbey, built in 71(3 by Ethelbald, King of Mercia, for 

 Black Monks, was restored in 1112, after being burned hy the 

 Danes. The church was undergoing repairs in 1327, 1333, and 

 1367. In 1332 the chancel was new thatched with straw. The 

 straw and the foreign timber for the work were conveyed from 

 Berwick ; the timber unloaded from an " Estland " ship. Bishop 

 Blackadder, who is reputed to have first constructed the Black- 

 adder family vault, was Bishop of Glasgow from 1484-1.508; and 

 it was repaired by Sir John Home of Blackadder in 1696. 

 There is a considerable amount of documentary evidence about 

 Edrom. Its chapels were East Nisbet, Kimmerghame, and 

 Earlston. When Earlston acquired parochial privileges, Edrom 

 was still its "mother church." Latterly, Edrom was a vicarage 

 under Coldingham till the Reformation. 



Filing down by a dean, where there was a dam for the old 

 mill, the wood bottom was full of herbage, especially Anthriscw 

 sylvedris, Saxifraga grauuiata, Doronicumpardalianchcn, and White 

 Coltsfoot (both garden outcasts), the company reached the 

 banks of the Whitadder and its green haughs, which present 

 pools of water and open ditches for exploratory researches. 

 There was much Symphytum tuberosum ; blooming plots of Marsh 



