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order, and thought by removing Lord Home to new surroundings 

 and under its own immediate supervision that he might be coerced 

 into the new faith. So he was ordered to reside in Edinburgh.^^ 

 The issue is untold. But it is unlikely that he fell a victim to 

 pressure so directly and obtrusively applied. It is perhaps 

 more than an undesigned co-incidence that Lord Home did not 

 obtain possession of the ecclesiastical lands of Hume until 

 1610. 



Meantime they changed hands frequently. James YL on 

 December 10th 1569, confirmed a Charter of Lord Bothwell 

 commendator of Kelso Abbey,*' in which he granted certain 

 lands, including the ecclesiastical lands of Hume (which were 

 valued at 4 lib. 1 6 sol. ) towards payment of 4000 lib for repairs 

 of the abbey burnt by the English. 



Again in 1602 August 5th, they were granted to Robert 

 Lord of Roxburgh by the king, along with other subjects.'" 



In 1607, January 28th, the king confirms Lord Alexander 

 of Hume in his lands but makes special exception of the 

 patronage of the benefice.'^ 



In 1607, December 20th, Lord Robert of Roxburgh receives 

 a new confirmation from King James of these ecclesiastical 

 lands.^'^^ 



But the alteraations of ownership finally adjusted themselves 

 in 1610, May 20th, when James VI. bestowed them on Lord 

 Alexander Home,'' expressly declaring that they were in partial 

 recompense for his services in peace and war at home and 

 abroad. But even there it is one condition of the grant that 

 a duly qualified clergyman should forthwith be presented 

 by the king to the parish of Hume, and draw a stipend from its 

 teinds. Casual mention is made of the union of the churches, but 

 not of the parishes, thus : quae (ecclesiae) per com missionaries 

 ei unita est quia contigua jacuerunt et pusille parochiae 

 fuerunt ; then follows the provision about the stipend that it 



2» Register of the Privy Coancil of Scotland, Vol. vii., p. 283. 



" Registrnm Magni Sigilli, No. 1905, p. 488. 



»o Do. No. 1342, p. 470. 



" Do. No. 1842, p. 670. 



M Do. No. 2003, p. 729. 



33 Do. No. 290, p. 106. 



