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territory, extending from the western boundaries of Duns, 

 Edrom, Swinton and Eecles, westward as far as the sources 

 of the rivers Blackadder and Eden, was in their hands, 

 besides a smaller, but valuable, tract between the river 

 Tweed, opposite Norham, and the confines of Swinton. 

 They had also lands at Oxton in Lauderdale.* In the 

 upper reaches of the Whitadder they possessed the ex- 

 tensive district lying between that river and the Monynut 

 water, including Harehead and Bothal, in East Lothian, 

 a grange on Spartleton, and a mill on the Whitadder, 

 near Millknowe.f Their neighbours on the other side 

 of the Whitadder were the monks of Melrose, whose 

 pasturage of Panshiel extended from Kilmade and Kil- 

 pallet northwards to Mayshiel, which belonged to the 

 Priorj^ of the Isle of May.j These places, although 

 outside the strict limits of the county, can scarcely be 

 passed over in enumerating the possessions of the several 

 religious houses in the district, and they are interesting 

 for other reasons. The names Kilmade and Kilpallet 

 (the cells or chapels of Modan and Palladius), have probably 

 come down to us from the time when Lammermuir 

 was Christianised by the monks of Lindisfarne, and 

 when " the patrimony of St. Cuthbert," as it has been 

 called, extended as far to the north as the Scottish Tyne. 

 Probably also Abbey St. Bathans is another of these 

 early Celtic religious sites, the dedication to St. Bothan 

 clearly betokening Celtic influence. 



The beautiful and fertile valley of the Leader, in the 

 west of the county, was early appropriated by the great 

 monasteries. David I. and his powerful vassal, Hugh 

 de Morville, on the foundation of the Premonstratensian 

 Abbey of Dryburgh, in 1150, endowed it with numerous 

 gifts of land in Lauderdale, and the churches of Channel- 



* Liber de Calchou, No. 245. 



t Ibid., Nos. 2i7, 248, &c. ; Rofciilus Reditaura in Do., p. 465. 

 X Liber de Melrop, Nos. 209, 210, &c.; Registrnm Prioratps Sangti 

 Andree, pp. 379, 3S1, 



