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Seal of William Brown in good preservation ; the charge 

 in the shield appears to be three escallops on an indented 

 chief, the arms of the great Scottish family of Graham ; 

 there is no legend as usual round the shield. Apparently 

 William Brune had no arms or seal of his own, and had 

 borrowed the signet of some nei<;hbour pro re nata. Seal 

 of John, the son of Walter, missing — tag only remains. 



Translation. 



Know present and future generations that I, William 

 called Brune, of the l^oroughmuir, have given, granted, 

 and, by this my present charter confirmed, to John de 

 Eaynton, burgess of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, all 

 that land with its pertinents in Kirk Lamberton which the 

 late Henry de Pomerio brought from Richard Cooper, as it 

 lies by its right and ancient marches in the town and 

 territory of Kirk Lamberton : To have and to hold to the 

 foresaid John and his heirs and their assignees of the lords 

 superiors of that fee with all the liberties, commodities, 

 common easements, and their just pertinents, in all and by 

 all, as well not named as named, as well within the said 

 town of Kirk Lamberton as without, near or remote, or 

 which can be held to pertain to the said lands in whatsoever 

 manner or way, as freely, entirely and quietly, in all things 

 as the said late Henry de Pomerio or the late Jurdan, his 

 son, at any time held or possessed the said land with its 

 pertinents, freely, wholly, and quietly, in fee and heritage, 

 without any regress whatever : Pondering therefor to the 

 chief lords of the fee all services of that land used and 

 wont : In testimony thereof, I have appended to the present 

 charter my seal ; and because my seal is unknown to most 

 men, I have procured to be appended to this charter in 

 more evident testimony the seal of John, the son of Walter, 

 then Sheriff of Berwick, and Steward of the Priory of 

 Coldingham : Before these witnesses: — the Venerable Sir 

 Adam of Pontefract, then Prior of Coldingham ; Sir Henry 

 of Prenderguest ; Poger of Lumsden ; William of Rydale ; 

 Henry of Ay ton, called the clerk ; John of Ay ton, Thomas 

 of Heton, Richard of Badby, Henry Cossar, William Usher, 

 and many others. 



