THE CHURCH OF HUME 221 



fnlly enjoyed by Horm the sacerdos. There is no distinction in 

 the office of sacerdos and presbyter, which words seem to 

 have been capriciously and interchangeably used in the charters.* 

 Daring Orm's tenure of office the consecration of the church 

 had duly taken place and its dedication to St. Nicholas, when 

 the second Earl recorded the first gift to the church of the 

 carucate of land (104 acres Scots), the town of Hume, and half 

 of Gordon. As he died in this year (11 47) it is not uninteresting 

 that the charter expressly records the sanction of his wife and of 

 his three sons, Oospatric, Edward, and Edgar. 



His eldest son succeeded not only to his estates, but to his 

 renown as a benefactor of religion. He founded and endowed 

 the Cistercian Nunneries of Eocles and Coldstream.* In 1 159 he 

 also gave to Kelso Abbey the church of Hume with two caru- 

 cates of land and a meadow called Harastrodar with other 

 adjoining churches. 



This gift is duly detailed in Malcolm the Maiden's Charter to 

 Kelso Abbey of this year. Harastrodar means the boundary 

 meadow, and may refer to the easterly slopes of the hill now 

 known as Hairj-^heugh which separates Stichill from Hume, and 

 the north-westerly part of which is still called Kirklands. 



Bishop Arnold of St. Andrews enumerates Hume in his list of 

 the possesions of Kelso Ahbey about 1160.^ 



Earl Waldeve in 1170 confirms these grants on his accession 

 to his estates.'' 



That nothing should be wanting to give them legal sanction, 

 William the Lion as overlord, who reigned between 1165-1214, 

 also records his sanction in a charter.^ There may be no more 

 in it than meets the eye, but this Waldeve took part in a con- 

 vention with Henry II. of England^ for the liberation of William 

 who had been taken prisoner by a party of English barons, and 

 in his charters is the first of his line to be designated " Comes " 

 de Dunbar, and he obtains the royal confirmation to his pious 

 donations. 



^ Liber de Calchon, No. 288. 

 * Do. No. 71. 



^ Do. No. 439. 



' Do. No. 73. 



« Do. No. 12. 



^ Douglas's Peerage. 



