The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 131 



Gordun, and it is probable he was the founder.* In an agree- 

 ment entered into between the monks of Coldingham and those 

 of Kelso in 1171, the chapel of "Q-ordune" is mentioned as 

 being retained by the latter ;f and it was subsequently confirmed 

 to them by a charter granted (1178-88) by Hugo, Bishop of St 

 Andrews. In the ancient taxatio it was rated at 30 merks. 

 The original building was demolished upwards of a century ago — 

 the present parish church dating from 1763, and exhibiting the 

 features, or rather want of features, common to religious struc- 

 tures of that period. 



A Chapel near Huntlywood, founded nearly 200 years after 

 the church of Gordon, and dedicated to the Virgin, has also 

 disappeared. In two charters under the Great Seal (No. 3038, 

 28 Jan. 1507, No. 3416, 20 Feb. 1510) it is referred to as "the 

 cliapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Huntlie, commonly called 

 the Chantory •''' and it must have survived the Eeformation, 

 as it is mentioned in a Retour in favour of George, Marquis of 

 Huntlie, dated 2 August 1638.| Its exact location, however, 

 has passed out of memory, although a field about a quarter of a 

 mile to the south-west of Huntlywood still bears the name of 

 " Chapel Lea." 



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Appears in early times to have been one of the most populous 

 parishes in the county. Its Chuech, granted to the Abbey of 

 Kelso by Cospatrick, third Earl of Dunbar, before 1159, had at 

 least two subordinate Chapels— those of Lambden and Haly- 

 BURTON — and there is reason to believe that the chapel of 

 RowESTON (Eollandstoun), also within the parochial limits, was 

 likewise attached to it.§ The Rev. J. H. Walker, in his account 

 of the parish, contributed to the Club's Proceedings for 1864, 

 states that Roweston " seems to have been connected with the 

 Abbey of Melrose ;" but the name does not appear at all in the 

 Liber de Metros, and " Rowistoun " is mentioned as one of the 



* Liber de Calchoa, Nos. 118, 126, 323, etc. 



t Chart, of Coldingham, No. 642. Eaine's North Durham. 



X Retours, Berwickshire, No. 230. See also Gordon's Hist. Sutherland, 

 p. 38. 



§ Liber de Calchou, Nos. 12, 71, 72, 145, etc. Eoweston appears at 

 first to have been a domestic chapel. 



