114 COMMUNION TOKENS OF SOUTH-EASTERN BORDER 



CATALOGUE OF BORDER TOKENS. 

 Dimensions are given in sixteenths of aft ittch. 



KELSO PRESBYTERY. 



Yetholm. — (1) Lead; oblong; rude; with dotted border; 

 13x10. YT stamped in relief. Reverse, plain. See fig. 



(2) Mixed metal; oval; bordered; 14X13. parish 

 or I YETHOLM | 1843. Reverfie, this do | in remembrance 

 OF ME. In the field, i. cor. | xi. 23-30. Struck iti the 

 incumbency of Rev. John Baird (1829—1861). 



MoREBATTLE.— Lead ; square, 13; with a rim. — mor | bat ( tle, 

 in relief. Reverse, plain. No doubt one of the tokens of 

 which 1200 were struck at a cost of 8 lib. 2 sh. in 1728 in 

 the incumbency of Rev. Jas. Chrystie, A.M. (1725 — 1739). 

 Very likely the older tokens were destroycl when the 

 manse was burnt in 1727, and 4 vols, of the Synod Records 

 consumed. See fig. 



Linton. — (1) Lead; round; rude, 1 1 ; with border and radiating 

 lines. LK in relief, Peverse, plain. See fig. 



(2) Lead; nearly square, 10x11 ; bordered. lk, in 

 relief. Reverse, plain. See fig. 



(3) Mixed metal; square, 13; with cut corners, and 

 bordered, linton in relief. Reverse, an Agnus Dei on St. 

 Andrew's Cross. Struck in 1897. See fig. 



Sprouston. — Mixed metal, round, 14; bordered. sp k | 1782. 



Ornament above. Reverse, R. r. t. m. Letters parted by 



cross lines. "Rev. Robert Turnbull, minister." (1742 — 



1801.) See fig. 

 Roxburgh. — (1) Lead ; oblong, 10x11 ; rude ; cast in a mould ; 



bordered. rox in relief. Reverse^ k ; without border. 



Of very primitive workmanship. See fig. 



(2) Very similar and about the same size ; lead ; with 

 same lettering as above on both sides, but cast in different 

 mould ; nearly as rude. 



(3) Mixed metal; bordered; round, 15. pro christo 

 et patria dulce periculum. In the field, kirk | of | 

 ROXBURGH I 1864. Reverse, The Lion of Scotland on Shield, 

 crowned, with legend marchmond above. Struck during 

 incumbency of Rev. William Lee, D.D. (1843 — 1875). 

 The motto is that of the armorial bearings of the 



