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and situated in close proximity to Chapel, were at one time 

 kirklands of Ellem. There are documents in the charter-room 

 at Duns Castle, which place this beyond doubt. I cite only two. 



1. — Charter by John Sinclair, dean of Restalrig, to George 

 Home of Ayton, of " Birkenside, Peilheuch and Kidcleugh, 

 called the kirklands of Ellem," 1542. 



2. — Disposition by Alexander Home of Linthill, and Marjorie 

 Home, his spouse, to James Cockburn of that Ilk, for £7,500 

 Scots, of " the lands of Birkensyde and Peilheuch, now 

 commonlie called Linthill and Chappel, being a part of the 

 kirklands of Ellem, held by Alexander Home of Linthill of 

 Alexander Home of Ayton and his predecessors, and now of 

 James Cockburn, who has acquired the barony of Duns from 

 Alexander Home of Ayton, and the old house called the Magdalene 

 Chapel, and four acres of land lying about it," 1681. 



EARLSTON.— Mrs Wood, Galashiels, informs me that a 

 fragment of ancient window tracery was recovered in taking 

 down the old church a few years ago. 



ECOLES.— If Eow [History of the Kirk of Scotland, Wodrow 

 Society Edition, p. 324) is to be believed, the church of Eccles 

 must have been in the unusual form of a Greek cross. He says 

 "Mr Henrie Blyth (anno. 1619) wa^ transported to a ministrie 

 in the Mers, not far from Berwick, called Eckells {i.e. as I 

 conjecture Ecclesiae, for it is two kirks — a kirk and a cross 

 kirk, or four square yles.)" 



I am indebted to Eev. J. Wood Brown, late of Gordon, for 

 this reference. 



EDROM. — Drawings of the fine old Norman arch will be 

 found in Ancient Towers and Doorways, and in Eccles. Arch, of 

 Scotland, vol. i., pp. 317-19. 



The Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers, already 

 referred to, furnishes us with important additional information 

 regarding Edrom. The dedication was to St. Mary, and there 

 seems to have been a hospital at the place to which I can 

 discover no reference elsewhere. I quote some of the entries. 



"Anno 1394, 1 Benedict XIII. Antipope. (Petition of) 

 John de Hawyck, honorary papal chaplain for a canonry of 

 Moray, with expectation of a prebend, notwithstanding that 



