EDWAKDLEY 289 



Doubtless the Prince expected to find at Jedburgh a 

 sanctuary in its church or refuge in its castle. That saintly 

 monarch, David I., had such a reverence for the memory of 

 his brother Edward, that he visited the place where that 

 Prince had drawn his last breath, and, having assigned 

 boundaries to it, handed it over to the charge of the Canons 

 of Jedburgh Abbey.* This was some time before the 

 death of his son, Prince Henry, which took place in the 

 year 1152. In the Charter granted by William the Lion 

 in 1165 to the same Canons, to whom he confirms the 

 gyant, it is there termed " Eadwardesle."f The grant of this 

 place to these Canons is also to be found in the Charters 

 of Robert the Bruce. As the result of the Eeformation, 

 the Abbey was robbed of the lands which so long had 

 been her property and support. The Barony of Ulston, 

 which belonged to the monks, and in which the lands 

 of Hyndhousefield were situated, | was then divided amongst 

 geveral proprietors. || Nevertheless, we find both the barony 

 of Ulston and the lands of Hyndhousefield indissolubly 

 mentioned in several charters given under the Great Seal at 

 the commencement of the 17th century. As before stated, 

 there appears on Ainslie's Plan of Jedburgh, which was 

 drawn about the year 1771, the name Long Edwardley, 

 applied to a field in the lands of Hyndhousefield. § It may 

 at first seem that the prefix "Long" is an objection to 

 the theory of these places being one and the same, but on 

 reference to the deeds of this property it is seen in one 

 dated 1741, which is the oldest of the sot, that it was then 

 termed " Edwardslee." The addition of "Long" must 



* Et Edwardisley, sicut earn meus pater peramhulavit et divisas 

 monstravit." — Charter of Prince Henry to the Canons of Jedburgh 

 Abbey printed in Morton's " Monastic Annals," p. 50, and Watson's 

 "Jedburgh Abbey," p. 159. 



" Et Eadwardidey, sicut ego earn peramhulavi et divisas monstravi." — 

 Foundation Charter of Jedburgh Abbey, by David I. 



t Watson's "Jedburgh Abbey," p. 160; Morton's " Mon. Annals," 

 p. 56. 



X " Inquisitorium Rotulorum Abbreviatio," Yol. ii. 



jl Jeffrey, " Hist, of Roxburghshire," Vol. ii., p. 373. 



§ Plan in Jedburgh Museum. 



