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Laird of Fairninpftoan,"' and James Rutherfard of Plewelland^'' in 

 Pharningtoun, theis personns sail be anserabill before His Hienes 

 coanaall at [^word illegible'] the xxv of Marche instant thair to abyd 

 thair tryaU quhidder thay be foull or clein. 



Robert Eliot of Glenvourni^ is Buisdaill deteins Thome Store in 

 Myndrum prisonerr still in irons. 



(Endorsed) The fyling of billis at the Stawfarde 12 Marcii 1589. 



No untoward event disturbed the harmony of the meeting, 

 and on the following day Sir John Forster writing from his 

 house at Alnwick Abbey reported to Secretary Walsingham 

 as follows : — 



Yesterday the xij of this instante March the appointed 

 meatteinge was keepte by th' opposite Warden Sir John Selbe 

 and me at the Stawforde and therr the tra bills of the late 

 barneinges commytted within the Middle and Easte Marches wer 

 fylede and sworne, and the barneinges referred to the vewe and 

 survey of four indifferente Englishmen to sett doune the treue 

 valeue theirof by their othes and consciences, within eight daies 

 next followeinge. * 



"^ Pairnington in the parish of Roxburgh, for many generations the 

 property of Rutherfurd of Fairnington. 



" Plewelland=Plough-lands in the parish of Crailing, adjacent to 

 Fairnington. 



^* Arche Eliot of Glenworren in Ewesdale was party to the Assurance 

 of Liddesdale on the 18th December, 1584. Cal. Border Papers, Vol. i., 

 p. 170. The water of Ewes is a tributary of the Esk, rising close to 

 the source of the Teviot. Ex. inf. Rev. C. J. Cowan. 



* Gal. Border Papers I. p. 345. 



