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he has the perpetual vicarage of St. Mary's, Ederham. 

 Granted." 



"Anno 1414. Benedict XIII. Autipope. (Petition of) 

 William Stephani, bachelor of canon law, canon of Moray, 

 rector of Essy, and master of the hospital of Edirham, in the 

 diocese of St. Andrews, whom the pope, as is said, proposes to 

 appoint to the see of Orkney. For licence to hold the said 

 hospital in commendam for a year after he obtains the 

 bishopric. Granted." 



LADYKIRK.— The Rev. W. Dobie contributed a valuable 

 historical account of this parish to the Club's Proceedings for 

 1891, and a fully illustrated description of the church is given 

 in Eccles. Arch, of Scotland, vol. iii., pp. 218-22. Upsetlington 

 church seems to have been manorial, and the statement in 

 my Notices that it belonged to Kelso should be corrected. 



LAUDER. — I am under obligation to our member, Mr 

 Romanes of Harryburn, Lauder, for having called my attention to 

 a ruined building, locally known as " The Chapel," situated 

 in a small park to the east of the farmhouse of Thirlestane, in 

 this parish. I visited and examined it in September 1894. 

 It has been an oblong structure of a very plain type, the 

 masonry being of rough rubble, without ornament or mouldings. 

 The interior length is 78 feet, and the width 17 feet 8 inches. 

 There are evident traces of a fii'eplace in the west gable, the 

 jambs projecting about 2h feet, and indications of a window 

 in the south wall near the west end. The south wall is much 

 broken down, the east gable is entirely gone, and there are 

 only occasional traces of the north wall appearing in the 

 modern boundary dyke. The architectural features afford 

 no clue to the age of the building. 



Mr Romanes has kindly furnished me with the subjoined 

 extracts from the Account Books of the Lauderdale estates, 

 which show that a hospital existed at Thirlestane in the 

 seventeenth century, and the early part of the eighteenth ; and 

 there can be no doubt that the ruins are those of the hospital 

 in question. There is a strong probability that it dates from 

 Pre-Reformation times ; and although I have not been able to 

 find any direct evidence to establish the fact, it is noteworthy 

 that in a precept of clo/re constat granted in 1562 by the 



