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Meanwhile Prince Edgar returned to his royal mother, 

 and upon him lay the obligation of breaking to her the 

 information of the sad disaster. The saintly Margaret did 

 not long survive the shock caused by the news of the 

 death of both her husband and son, but died a few days 

 afterwards. She was buried in Dunfermline Abbey. Thither 

 was brought the corpse of Prince Edward, in order to be 

 interred in the same place. Here also were entombed the 

 remains of Edmond, Ethelred, King Edgar, Alexander I., 

 and David I. — all brothers of Prince Edward. In this place 

 King Malcolm's body, which had been picked up on the 

 field of battle at Alnwick by two peasants, and conveyed 

 in a common cart to Tynemouth, where it found a resting 

 place for fully three half centuries, afterwards found a 

 place of sepulture. An old chronicler states that the 

 remains of Prince Edward, who, this historian supposes, 

 was buried with his father at Tynemouth, were also 

 removed at the same time ; but this statement is void of 

 support. 



Can the locality where Prince Edward died be other than 

 the place now known as Long Edwardley, near Jedburgh? 

 "We think not. Long Edwardley is the name of a field 

 immediately behind Allarton House, on the boundaries of 

 that old Border town. When John Ainslie, the eminent 

 geographer, made his plan of Jedburgh about 1771, it was 

 then part of the lands of Hyndhousefield. "Edwardisle," 

 according to Fordun, was the place where Prince Edward 

 departed this life, and is described by that writer as being 

 in the Forest of Jedburgh. The name signifies the Lea or 

 Ley, i.e., The Meadow, of Edward, and doubtless was so 

 named on account of Prince Edward having died there. 

 Eidpath, in his Border History * unfortunately splits it into 

 two words, and renders it "Eadward-Isle," thus separating 

 the genitive termination from the parent word, and so 

 converting its meaning. Being situated to the south-east 

 of the town, it is thus in a direct line with Alnwick, 

 which therefore makes it all the more probable that Long 

 Edwardley is the place in question. 



*?. 49, B, 



