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West Reston ; 2, Aldcambus ; 3, Edrom, which had three 

 chapels in the parish, viz., Nisbet, Blackadder and Kim- 

 merghame, and in the south-west of the county, the 

 chapel of Karlston ; 4, Swinton ; 5, Fishwick ; 6, Lam- 

 berton ; 7, Ednam, and its chapels of Stichill, Naythans- 

 thirn and Newton. 



The great Tironensian Benedictine Abbey of Kelso, 

 one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest, in Scotland, 

 held extensive possessions in Berwickshire. The Earls 

 of Dunbar and their retainers, between 1147 and 1190, 

 granted to this Abbey the churches of Hume, Greenlaw, 

 with the chapels of Halyburton and Lambden, and 

 Fogo, and attached to each of them endowments of land.*' 

 About the middle of the same century, Roger de Ov 

 conferred upon the monastery the church of Langton, 

 and his successor in the manor, William de Veteriponte 

 or Viponte, besides confirming the gift, bestowed on his 

 own account the church of Horndean, and the pasturage 

 of Dirrington in Lammermuir.f The church of Simprim, 

 with toft anl croft and 18 acres of land, was given by 

 Hye of Simprinc, about the same time,| and from Robt. 

 Byseth, Lord of Upsetlington, the monks had a donation 

 of the hospital of St. Leonard, near Horndean.§ In 

 1171, as we have seen, they obtained, by agreement with 

 Coldingham, uncontested right to the church of Gordon, 

 and this church was, shortly afterwards, liberally endowed 

 by Richard de Gordon.|| In 13 16 the chapels of Nay- 

 thansthirn (Nenthorn) and Newton, which originally 

 belonged to Coldingham, and had by that time become 

 mensal chapels of the bishops of St. Andrews, were 

 acquired by them from the occupant of that See in ex- 

 change for their church of Cranston.*^' So that, in the 

 centre of the county, an almost unbroken stretch of 



* Liber S. Marie de Calchou, Nos. 71, 72. 



t Ibid., Nos. 138, 139, 140. 



J Ibid., No. 273. 



§ Ibid., No. 240. 



II Ibid., No. 118. 



** Ibid., No. 310. 



