318 JOHN DE RAYNTON 



owe service to the Prior of Coldingham. Sir William de 

 Mordington is a frequent witness in the interesting collection 

 of Coldingham Charters in Eaine's " North Durham," where 

 he is generally placed first in the list of witnesses, usually 

 taking precedence of Alan of Swinton. He carried a bend 

 sinister on his seal. To him seems to have succeeded his 

 son, Sir Peter, also a frequent witness. There are also two 

 references to a Robert, who appears to have been a cleric. 

 To Sir Peter succeeded his daughter Agnes, who married 

 Sir Henry of Haliburton. She was the last of the family 

 who held Mordington ; as in Robertson's Index of Charters, 

 King Robert I. (Bruce) grants to Thomas Eanulph, Earl 

 of Murray, Lord of Annandale and Man, " Nepos Regis 

 Roberti," " the barony of Morthington and Langformacus, 

 whilk pertained to Agnes Morthington and Henry Hali- 

 burton, her spouse, whilk they resigned." The same king 

 grants to Walter Morthington the barony of Crossbie in 

 Vic. de Berwick, probably in lieu of Mordington, to which 

 Walter may have had some claim as heir male of the 

 Mordingtons. The Haliburtons appear to have had a local 

 connection, as David II. (Bruce) grants to Walter Haliburton 

 a charter of East Lamberton, and also a charter of the lands 

 of Nether Lamberton, "quilk Laurence Abernethy forisfecit." 

 Laurence Abernethy had been granted these lands, " whilk 

 was Ingram de Gynes'," hy King Robert Bruce. The 

 charters recently brought to light, and never before printed 

 or described, so far as known, are: — 



(1) Charter of the lands in Over Lamberton by Agnes 

 called of Mordington (apparently in view of the resignation 

 referred to, she was no longer legally entitled to that 

 designation), daughter and heir of Sir Peter of Mordington, 

 and widow of Sir Henry of Haliburton, in favour of John 

 de Raynton,* Burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed, dated 21st 

 November 1325. 



* This was not John de Rayntou's first holding of land in the 

 same locality, as it appears from Douglas' Peerage, p. 83, Ed., 1764, 

 that be received a charter of some lands in the village of Mordington 

 from Adam Hebbarn, anno 1320. 



