JOURNAL OF JOHN ASTON, 1639 103 



And the dark of the church there, thought hee had done 

 well too, when hee wrote this following of his wife and sonne : 



" An epitaph •'^ upon Esther late the wife of Edmond 

 BreareclifFe of Hallyfax who died June 16, 1629, and 

 upon Favor their sonne who dyed March 5th, 1628. Were 

 heere under buried. 



" Heere rest three saincts, the one a little brother 

 "The Favour of his scarce surviving mother, 

 "Then shee expired bore unto her toombe 

 " An unborne infant coffined in her woombe." 



In passing betweene Barwick and Dunce over the bounde ''^ 

 roade, there is close upon it, Mornington,''^ a small towne 

 Sir James Dowglasse his, and hee hath a prettie house by 

 it, which was allmost right against our campe. 



Neere the roade betwixt it and the Tweede is Etherington,*''^ 

 or Cawe Milnes,*^*^ a small little house remarkable for noething, 

 but that (as I was tould) it was taken from the Scotts the 

 same day that Cales '^'' was lost. 



Next there is the hall of Comelidge '^^ (as they call it) 

 little better than a good farmer's, yet it is the habitation of 

 a laird : and well it may bee acjcounted stately comparatively 

 with husbandmen's houses, which resemble our swine coates ; 

 few, or none of them have more stories to their building 

 than one, and that very low and covered usually with clodds 

 of earth ; the people and habit are suitable to their dwellings. 

 Theire woemen (who at this present were onely visible) goe 



^'■^ These two epitaphs have been corrected with the originals, still 

 remaining in Halifax Charch, by Mr E. W. Crossle}', who has published 

 a valuable volume dealing with the monumental inscriptions of Halifax. 



•••^ I.e. Berwick boands-road, still periodically I'idden by the Mayor 

 and Corporation of Berwick, when they ride the bounders. 



^* Mordington, the first parish in Scotland to be entered on leaving 

 the liberties of Berwick. 



^^ Edrington (still locally pronounced Ethrington) in the parish of 

 Mordington. 



*''' This name survives in Cadderstanes, close by. 



*'■' I.e. Calais. 



^ I.e. Cumledge, a snaall estate on the Whitadder, two miles from Duns. 



