128 The Pre-Reforviation Churches of Berwickshire. 



present century, and the stones used in the erection of a march 

 dyke between two coterminous estates in the neighbourhood. 

 The chapel of Kimmeeghame stood near the Blackadder Water, 

 in a field which to this day bears the name of the " Kirk Park," 

 near Kimmerghame Mill.* Between two and three miles 

 farther down the river, and on the same side of it, 

 is the site of the chapel of Blackadder,! every trace of which 

 has likewise long since disappeared, although portions of the 

 wall which enclosed its burying-ground were standing within 

 living memory. 



EYEMOUTH. 



As might have been expected from its proximity to Colding- 

 ham, Ej^emouth was acquired by the monks of the priory at a 

 very early period, and in their hands soon became a place of 

 considerable importance, its harbour being the only one within 

 their territory. The town and district were anciently included 

 in the parish of Coldingham •,^ but they were disjoined from it, 

 and erected into a separate parish after the Eeformation. The 

 pre-Eeformation Church of Eyemouth was a chapel depending 

 on Coldingham, and was served by a priest {preshyter) or chap- 

 lain. The fabric of the ancient church has been, for many years, 

 entirely obliterated, and there are no records known to me 

 from which any information regarding its appearance or dimen- 

 sions can be derived. 



FOGO. 



The Church of Fogo, with one ploughgate of land, and the 

 land and pasture of Bothkilscheles, was given by Cospatrick, 

 third Earl of Dunbar, to the Abbey of Kelso, about the year 

 1159 ;§ and the monks of that Abbey retained it in their pos- 

 session until the Reformation. Originally it appears to have 

 been, like most eaily parish churches, a narrow oblong, measur- 

 ing internally 60 feet by 16 feet; but in the latter half of last 



* The Chapel of Kymbrlngeham, inclusive of a chantry, was conceded 

 by the Prior and Convent of Durham, between 1233 and 1244, to Herebert 

 de Camera. — Coldingham Charters, No. 543, in Raine's North Durham, 

 Appendix, p. 96. 



t The West Mains of Blackadder was sometimes called " Capellanum," 

 or " Chapelland." Reg. Mag. Sig,, No. 1540, Anno. 1604. 



X Coldingham Letters, etc., Surtees Society, p. c. 



§ Liber de Calchou, No. 70. See also the Charters of Confirmation by 

 Malcolm IV., p. iii., and William the Lion, No. 12. 



