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mouthe [ 1 the Monugenede of Reginald of Durham. See Jerning- 

 ham's Norham Castle, p. 56]. The border lands are p'cell of 

 the manner of Newbiggin which is in ye possession of George 

 Hoorde. From that pointe downe Tweede by the Castle of 

 Norhame to Horkley borne. The border lands are p'cell of 

 the manner of Norhame in possession of the Lorde of Barwike 

 [Sir George Hume, Lord of Berwick, Lord Treasurer of Scotland 

 and under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, afterwards created Earl 

 of Dunbar]. From Horkley borne [Horncliff still called Hurkley 

 by country people. Horclive is the spelling in Boldon Buke, 

 1183] downe Tweede to the Birks. The border lands are in 

 the possession of the Lord of Barwick and the towneship of 

 Horkeley. From the Birks the bounder extendeth downe Tweede 

 to Hoorde borne mouth, and so to a sike at the East end- 

 of Yarra. The border lands are in the possession of Thomas 

 Hoord of West Hoord, John Hoorde of Easter Newbiggin, and 

 others. And from the same sike the bounder extendeth downe 

 Tweede to Barrwicke bridge. The border lands are p'cell of 

 Tweedemouth, and is distant from Laimesike foord 53 miles. 

 (Survey of the Debateable and Border Lands, &c., taken a.d. 

 1604. Ed. R. S. Sanderson, pp. 12, 40-44.) 



MiNDRUM. 



Sir Robert Bowes in a book of the State of the Frontiers and 

 Marches between Scotland and England, written 5 Edward VI. 

 (1551), states: — 



There is, two miles or more West from Warke, a towne 

 that lyeth waste in every war re, Myndrom, which standeth 

 upon the water of the Bowbent, in a very fertil soyle, and 

 might be fortifyed for the suddayne, without it were assayled 

 with a power or great ordynance, with noe great charge, if 

 there were made a stronge tower, with stables beneath and 

 lodgings above, after the fashion of Roclyf, my Lord Dacre's 

 howse uppon the West borders, able to contayne many men 

 and horses, and in circuite aboute it, a large barmekyn or 

 fortylage for savegarde of cattle, which might easily in that 

 place have water, in a ditch rounde aboute. And that towne 

 soe fortifyed might be a savegarde for men, horse, and cattell, 

 of sundrye villages in that quarter, which nowe, for lacke of 



