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gave place in 1802 to another on the site of the present 

 building, which through the energy of Mr Burleigh and the 

 generous help of the local proprietors and others, was 

 renovated in 1902-3, and supplied with a suitable vestry. 

 It now presents an attractive internal appearance through the 

 introduction of fresh woodwork and a solid pine-blocked 

 floor. The pulpit, Communion table, and several mural 

 tablets may be enumerated among the gifts lately presented, 

 which enrich the interior. In the charter chest of Kelso 

 Abbey there were six royal charters relating to Ednam. 

 The earliest of them is one granted by David I. In it the 

 King conferred on the abbots and monks of St. Mary's 

 Church, Kelso, certain rights in Ednam. " And in Edinhain," 

 says David's charter, " the monks are to have the right to 

 twelve chalders of malt in each year, and peats suitable for 

 the making a fire from the moor of Edynham, from that 

 ditch which leads down from the other moor, and holds on 

 in a straiglit line in that moor, even to the three great 

 stones standing on the other side." To the Prior of 

 Coldingham David gave, by charter, another gift from the 

 Ednam estate, consisting of a toft with houses in Ednam. 

 David's grandson, Malcolm IV., jjave a cliarter at Rokesburg. 

 in which he confirmed to the Kelso monks all his grand- 

 father's gifts of Ednam peats and barley. William the Lion 

 granted to the Kelso monks the right to use Ednam Mill 

 whenever their own mill at Kelso should be stopped by 

 floods, or frost, or mishap. In another charter he gave to 

 them three carucates of land in Ednam. The locality of 

 these carucates was most minutely described. Two and a 

 half lay to the North of Ednam peatry, being bounded on 

 the North by Newton Don and the river Eden, on the South 

 by the peatry, on the West by Kelso parish, and on the 

 East by the road leading from Ednam bridge to the hospital. 

 The remaining half caracate lay East of the quarry, and 

 close by the road leading from Ednam Mill to Sprouston 

 ford. Before leaving the Church, Mr Henry Rutherfurd on 

 behalf of the members expressed their indebtedness to Mr 

 Burleigh for the instractive account of the Church to which 

 they had listened, and for his collection of so many articles 

 of historic interest for their entertainment. 



