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be the Abbot of Coldinghatne payand 4 lib zeirlie of few maille 

 to the vicar af the said Kirk. Ther lands sette in ferme payis 

 ane hundredth merkis be zeir. The laud possesst be Alexander 

 Lindoris haldine af the Abbacie of Jedworth payand xx 

 schillingis thairfoir zeirlie, by quhat richt this land is possesst 

 we knaw not. It payes presentlie (beand sett) half ane ohalder 

 beir. Besyd thir fyve Kirklandis thair ar threttie fyve landis 

 possesst be the Laird of Lochinvar.'^^ It was apparently in 

 those lands of Robert Hopper's that King James VI., on 27th 

 June 1606, invested George Home of Eccles, as narrated 

 before. 



In Ecclesiastical affairs the Churches in the Lothians and 

 Borders were regarded, in 1020, as in the diocese of St. 

 Andrews, and no longer in that of Durham. In the unsettled 

 condition of the country, these Bishoprics never lost sight of 

 their rights, but exercised them, as the Border counties were 

 respectively in the hands of the English or Scottish King. 

 Stichill was held by the Priory of Coldingham, and was 

 now included in the Deanery of the Merse and Bishopric of 

 St. Andrews. 



What seems to be the earliest notice of its ecclesiastical 

 liistory occurs in David's grant to the Monks of Coldingham, 

 made sometime between 1124-53, and already quoted. The 

 toft in Ednam, which he then granted, was that held of the 

 King by Gilbert the Priest of Stichiil.^^ Raine records the 

 presentation to the Rectory of Ednam (which he regards as the 

 earliest extant) under the title of ' Concessio Ecclesiae de 

 Edenam,' and dates it during the period when Thomas was 

 Prior, from 1158-63.^" In it the Chapel of Stichel, and the 

 Chapel of Neithanesthirne, and the Chapel of Niwetuna are 

 mentioned as the three Chapels of the Church of Aedena, of 

 which Goze or Josceline was the clericus. The presentation is 

 in favour of Robert, son of Goze — with the reservation that his 

 father Goze should hold the benefice as long as he was able to 

 administer it — and be the guardian of Robert and the Church. 

 This is probably the same 'Goze' who signs 'Goscelino' as a 

 witness to an agreement of Bishop Robert of St. Andrews 

 (1122-59) between the mother-church of Ednam and the chapel 



•*» Statistical Acconnt of Certain Parishes in 1627 (Maitland Club.) 

 ^^ Liber de Calchou, p. 5, App. No. xxii. 

 ^' N. Durham, p. 94, App. Dxxni. 

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