132 The Pre- Reformation Churches oj Berwickshire. 



Tofts of Greenlaw in the " Eentall of the Abbacie of Kelso," 

 made up about 1567. 



The Parish Church was almost entirely rebuilt, on the 

 ancient foundations apparently, in the closing years of the 17th 

 century, and is now destitute of any details of ecclesiological 

 interest. Its length externally is 82 feet, and its width 

 27 feet. The monumental stone referred to by Mr Walker as 

 haviag been found in the interior of the church about 40 years 

 ago, is still to be seen in the churchyard. It is of oblong form, 

 and has incised upon it a cross, the letters A.H. in the upper 

 left-hand angle, and the letters I.L. in the corresponding angle 

 at the right hand. The form of the chai-acters shows it to be of 

 late date, probably not earlier than the latter half of the 16th 

 century. 



None of the Chapels have survived. There were ruins visible 

 at both Lambden and Halyburton when the Old Statistical 

 Account of the parish was written, but the last vestiges had 

 disappeared before 1840. At Halyburton, traces of ancient 

 foundations and graves were recently exposed in trenching the 

 garden attached to the farm-house, and the farm-steading is 

 known to have been largely constructed of the materials of the 

 chapel. The site of the graveyard at Koweston is still pointed 

 out. 



HUME. 



Although in early times one of the largest parishes in Ber- 

 wickshire, Huuie has no longer a separate parochial existence, 

 having been annexed in 1640, after a succession of curtailments, 

 to the contiguous parish of Stitchfll in Roxburghshire. Its 

 church, which was dedicated to St Nicholas, originally belonged 

 to the Earls of Dunbar, and the third of that family bestowed it, 

 along with two carucates of land and a meadow called " Harad- 

 strodar," upon the monks of Kelso, in the reign of Malcolm IV., 

 who confirmed the grant by a charter given at Roxburgh in 

 1159.*" There was a dependent chapel at Wedderlie, now in 

 Westruther parish. 



The ancient graveyard of Hume, in which the now demolished 

 Church stood, is still in use. It lies on the southern slope of the 

 the ridge on which Hume Castle is situated, about half a mile 

 to the south-west of the castle and village. 



* Liber de Calchou, p. vi. aud No. 71. 



