100 On Bonchester, Mule Water. By Walter Deans. 



Bankendonthe Harwood estate, and after receiving their education 

 at Hobkirk School, went to London about the commencement of 

 the present century, where by industry and steady perseverance 

 in trade, they acquired a large fortune. By their will, they be- 

 queathed and mortified a sum of £1000, for the behoof of the 

 widows and orphans of their native parish of Hobkirk, and also 

 a sum of £100, for the purchasing of books and printing a 

 catalogue for Hobkirk Library. They also contemplated the 

 endowment of a school in their native parish, but as the laudable 

 offer did not receive the countenance it deserved, the matter was 

 allowed to rest. 



At the Reformation, Braidhaugh was tenanted by a family of 

 Turnbulls, whose valued rent was 5 merks. They appear to 

 have remained the occupiers down to at least 1622, for in that 

 year Willie Turnbull was in Braidhauche. At a Jedburgh 

 Justiciary Court, held 28th August, 1622, we find " James 

 Turnebull sone to Willie, of Braidhauche, indytit and accusitfor 

 airt and pairt of the thyfteous steilling, conceilling, ressett, and 

 away takin of twenty-four scheip furth of the landis of Hairrle- 

 syde, (Earlside), at severall tymes about Mertinmes last or yrby, 

 perteneing to William Douglas, fear of Cavers and his tennenttis;" 

 of which he was " clengit." Adie Turnbull of Hartshaugh, and 

 Adie in Hartshaugh M ill, appeared at the court as cautioners for 

 Turnbull, for which they were -freed on producing him. Old 

 Braidhaugh still remained in 1740, and was then tenanted by 

 John Douglas, called a merchant. Probably he was a cadger, 

 though that calling was not so prominent then as it has become 

 now. The farm of Braidhaugh in recent times has been enlarged 

 and improved out of the Community of Mackside ; and a new 

 dwelling house and onstead have been erected on a more 

 convenient site. Old Braidhaugh was removed at the end of 

 last century, for the construction of stone-dykes. Above the old 

 steading, was a good spring called Annie's Well, which still 

 continues. Another spring which was formerly called the Foul 

 Well was situated near the modern farm onstead, and has been 

 recently disused, owing to the water being believed to have a 

 deleterious effect on the occupants of the place. Grood water is 

 now supplied in pipes from Bonchester Hill. A bridle road from 

 Over Bonchester to Hartshaugh Mill and the Kirk, can still be 

 recognised along the face of the hill, especially on a clear morn- 

 ing in spring ; the grass on it being earlier contrasts with the 



