228 THE CHURCH OF HUME 



all the rights and privileges of a Cathedral. In order that 

 it might be worthily endowed he diverted the teinds of certain 

 parishes from their own district and use to its maintenance. 

 Amongst them was the church of Hume. By Charter dated 

 13th May 1637/^ King Charles I. grants to Dean A'Hannay 

 (Hanna of the time of Jenny Q-eddes) of St. Giles and to his 

 successors the Churches of Langton, Nenthorn, Kilmaurs, 

 Simprin, Home, and Fogo, and the rectorial tithes of these 

 parishes which had formerly belonged to the Abbey of Kelso, 

 with their other lands and churches of said Abbey in the 

 temporal lordship of Kelso, the Reddendum asked was Prayers 

 to God for the donor, and the providing of these other churches 

 with suflB.cient ministers and stipends. 



The space of two months sufficed to show that in the temper 

 of Scotland then, the king's aim was impracticable. On the 

 3rd July 1637, occurred the riot of Jenny Geddes, called " The 

 Maid's Commotion" which overthrew the whole fabric of 

 Episcopacy in Scotland and restored Presbyterianism. 



Then the teinds of these churches were again diverted. 

 They were handed to St. Cuthbert's "Sub muro castri de 

 Edinburgum" by a new Charter of Charles I. of date 10th 

 November 1641.^* 



The ecclesiastical lands of Hume were yet again the subject 

 of a Charter." Charles II., on 30th November 1649, grants 

 them to Mr Thomas Courtney, a son of a former minister of 

 Stichill and Hume, and himself minister of Merton. The 

 glebe and the manse of the vicar are excepted and preserved 

 for the use of the church by the rectory of Hume. These 

 lands were now valued at 4lih. 19s. 4d, and were referred to 

 specially as those given to Francis Lord Bothwell on 15th 

 March 1587. 



Finally they reverted to their original destination, and the 

 present holder of the benefice possesses as much of them as 

 his immediate predecessors enjoyed. 



The remarkable ease with which the country passed from 

 Presbyterianism to Prelacy and again to Presbyterianism, (in 

 so far as regards the internal ecclesiastical history of the 



38 i^eg. Mag. Sig., 1634-51, No. 708. 



39 Do. No. 1014. 

 •«° Do. No. 2146. 



