140 Mellerstain and the Haitliea thereof. 



Mariota Duff, legitimate daughter of the late George Duff, in 

 Edinburgh, her sister. 



Two farms, called the one Meikle and the other Little Haliburton, 

 were early possessions of the Haliburtons, who long remained their 

 proprietors. ("Families of the Name of Haliburton," p. 68.) They 

 lie near Wedderlie, in the parish of Westruther. 



The latest reference to one of the Haitley family, at present obtainable, 

 is one not the least important, as showing what side he took in the 

 oppressive period of Scottish history under the reigns of the two last 

 Stuarts. The parish of Whitsome was distinguished as a Presbyterian 

 centre in that age. With it are associated the names of Mr Daniel 

 Douglas at Hilton, of Mr Henry Erskine at Reveley and Old Newton, 

 and of Mr Thomas Boston in his youth. Mr Alexander Haitly, farmer 

 in Whitsome, was attached to the Covenant, and was staunch to his 

 principles, and as well as his dependents suffered for them, by being 

 fined by the Commissioners of Justiciary in a court held in Duns 

 Tolbooth, 25th September 1684. " Nonconformists of small means, they 

 had held to bonds of 50 or 100 pounds, according to their ability. 

 Others, such as tenant farmers and men of some substance, were 

 subjected to a fine as well, while any appearance of obstinacy was met 

 by requiring those who showed it to take the Oath of Allegiance. 

 Any who refused to swear were ordered to be shipped off to the 

 plantations in America." The following is the record in the " Porteous 

 Roll for Berwickshire," 26th September 1684. 



Parish of Whitsome. 



Alex. Haitly, fermar in Whitsome. Fined £6 sterling, and took 



the Bond of £100 for self and family. 

 Alison Russel, his spouse. 

 Elspeth Purves, his daughter-in-law. 

 John McNaught, his servant, took the Bond of £100. 

 Helen Baird, his servant, took the Bond of £50. 

 Thos. Wood, cottar there, and his spouse took the Bond of £100. 

 " The Covenanters of the Merse," by Rev. J. Wood Brown, M.A., 

 pp. 199, 258. 



Dr Lithgow calls my attention to an entry, in the " Liber de 

 Drybnrgh," of a tack to Agnes Haitlie and John Pringle, her son, 

 of the teind sheaves of Newton and Maxpoffil for 19 years. In " the 

 Monastic Annals of Teviotdale," p. 817, under the head of " Spirituality," 

 we have " Pringle of Fairns (Fauns ?) for his teynds of Southside of 

 Newtoun, worth £40 free"; perhaps the same John Pringle. 



8. — KlEKLANDS. 



" The possessions of the Abbey of Kelso in Melocstan, enumerated 

 in the Rent Roll, are a ploughgate, which paid one mark annually ; 

 four acres and a brewhouse, which paid five shillings; and a tenement 



