124 Mellerstai7i and the Haitlies thereof. 



Grizzel Hume, eldest daughter of the Earl of Marchmont, 

 married, in 1720, Charles Lord Binning, elder son of Thomas, 

 6th Earl of Haddington, and became sole heiress to her 

 father's estates. Jerviswood and Mellerstain were entailed 

 on her, and her second son, George Hamilton, who succeeded 

 to them in 1759, and assumed the name of Bailie. His 

 grandson, George Hailie, became lOtli Earl of Haddington on 

 the death of his cousin Thomas, 9th Earl, and thus Mellerstain 

 passed into the family of the present noble possessors. 



Having attempted a summary of the history of Mellerstain, 

 we shall now turn our atteumon to the family with which 

 it was so long identified. 



The earlier history of the Haitlies is, unfortunately, much 

 clouded. We have seen Sir Robert de Hattely and his wife, 

 Matilda, emerge from the gloom, when the twelfth century 

 was getting old, to be succeeded by his son, William, with 

 his spouse, Emma, whose gift to the Abbey of Kelso rescued' 

 their names, and those of his parents, from oblivion. They 

 are followed by Robert de Hetlye, whose charter of lauds 

 in Faunes and Melockstan, and reference to his son, William, 

 apparently supply two more links in the geneological chain. 

 That Robert is probably the Robert de Hattely who, in 1270, 

 witnesses a charter by William de Alwentum (Alwinton) to 

 the Abbey of Melrose of the lands and town of Halsiuton. 

 Similarly his son may be identical with William de Hattely, 

 who, along with Thomas Rimor of l'>sildoun. witnesses a 

 charter by Peter de Haga of Bemersyde to the Abbot and 

 Convent of Melrose, about the same period. In 1292 John 

 and Alexander de Hetlye appear, and in 1296 Alisandre de 

 Hateleye did homage to Edward I., probably for the lands 

 of Mellerstain. In 1335-6-7 William de Hetley was one of 

 the men-at-arms in garrison at Roxburgh Castle. 



During a period, which embraced from 1390 till after 1440, 

 John Hately, "Squire," held of Sir John Haliburton of that 

 ilk, and his predecessors, one quarter of their lands of 

 Lambden. He died before 7th June 1447, when his sons, 

 Thomas and Alexander, got a ratification of a subsequent 

 lease of the same lands in their favour, whereupon their 

 "brother, John, asked instruments." 



That John, the father, was of Mellerstain seems indicated 

 by the facts that the Hatelys of Lambden were cadets of 



