138 Mellerstain and the Haitlies thereof. 



304, 9th May 1670, Patrick Cockburne of Popill, heir of Alexander 

 Cockburne of Popill, his father, is retoured in the lands called 

 Lauderslands, et Haiiliesland, alias Whytlaweslands, with the mill of 

 Popill; and a piece of land called Boigend, which is part of the 

 aforesaid lands of Popil— Old Value £20; New Valae £53 6s. 8d. 

 Alexander Cockburn of Newhall married his kinswoman, Agnes, 

 daughter of Sir Robert Lauder of the Bass. See " Cockburns of that 

 Ilk," pp. 264, 265. No. 338, 19th May 1680, Sir Andrew Ramsay of 

 Waughtoan, knight baronet, was served heir male to Sir Andrew 

 Ramsay de Wanghtoun in all his lands, which include " the lands of 

 Papill, called Lauderslands and Haitlieslands (Whytelands, sic) with 

 the mill of Papil." Pople, Pople Westmains, Bogend, White Law, and 

 Whitelaw Hill are all marked on Forrest's Map of Haddingtonshire, 

 1799. Pople is near Whittinghara House. 



7. — Detached Notices of the Haitlies. 



The following scattered particulars are given as illustrations, but 

 cannot at present be incorporated with the story. 



In 1544 we find Faunes and Mellerstain, and the effects of the 

 Haitlies, involved in the calamities of Border warfare. The authority 

 is the black catalogue of " Damages done to the Scots by the Inroads 

 of the English, and the Scottish Borders under English Assurance, 

 from 9th September 1543 to 29th June 1544," in " Haynes State 

 Papers," as printed in the Appendix to Mr R. Bruce Armstrong's 

 " History of Liddosdale," Part i., pp. lxvih., lxx., Lxxr. 



"Sir Raff Evre's Lettres, 29th September [1544.] Threscore of the 

 Scottishe men in assurance, with Sir Raff Evre's priest, etc., with 

 Tyndall and Riddesdall, have taken up a town called Faunes, longing 

 to the lard of Mellerstons, and have brought awiy 200 nolt, 80 horses, 

 and muche insight geare ; 30 prisoners taken, and 30 Scotts slayn." 

 " The Lard Fernyhurst's Lettres (7th November.) The Scottishmen 

 and Englyshmen together have burnt Old Melrose, and overrun 

 Buckleugh, brent Langnewton, and ran to Bewellye, Belsys, and 

 Raplaw, and gate the goods thereof, brent Maxton, Saint Baylies (St. 

 Boswells), Lassendon, and gate a gret substance of nolt, besides shepe, 

 horses, and mares. Item, they ran to Koldenknowys, and gate the 

 goods of Reidpath, Borderstanys Crag, Lydgartwod, and ran to the 

 Newton and Stitchell. They gate 600 nolt and 800 shepe. Item, they 

 ran to Havyn, and Mallastanys, and Nenthroun, and gate the goods 

 thereof, and 300 kyen and oxen." 



" The Lord Evre's Lettres of 9th Novembris. John Carr of Wark, 

 with his company, ran a forrey to Smellam town, and gate 123 nolt 

 and 8 naggs. John Carr, Thomas Forster, etc., rode to a town called 

 Liegerwood, and gate 50 nolt, and insight geare worth 100 marks. In 

 the return, burning as moche as wold burn of the said town, thoy 

 burnt a towne called Fawnes, and wan a bastell house at Smellham 



