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with a simple slope above, runs along the E. and N. walls a few 

 inches above the ground. On the south side it is below the 

 ground level. 



According to Chalmers (Caledonia ii. 349), a lazar-house, or 

 Hospital, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. existed in Legerwood 

 parish in pre-Eeformation times. It was situated at " Auldene- 

 stun," and belonged to the Abbey of Melrose. There is a 

 charter relating to it in the Melrose Chartulary, entitled 

 "Carta leprosorum de Moricestuu,"* from which it would appear 

 that the hospital was in the neighbo\xrhood of Morriston. In 

 several old Retours the lands of *' Aldinstoun" are mentioned 

 along with those of Morriston as being in the parish of Leger- 

 wood, and in some old maps of the county, a hamlet called 

 " Addenston," now extinct, is shown to have existed about a 

 mile to the west of West Morriston. It would seem pretty clear, 

 therefore, that those antiquarians are mistaken who have 

 placed the site of the hospital at another Addinston, in Lauder- 

 dale, near Channelkirk. Nothing is known of its history, and it 

 is not mentioned in any of the old taxation lists to which I have 

 had access. 



LONGFORMACUS AND ELLEM 



Were united in 1712, and since that year the church of Long- 

 formacus alone has been used for Divine service, that of Ellem 

 having become ruinous shortly after the union of the parishes. 

 The scanty remains of the latter are situated on the north bank 

 of the Whiteadder, close to Ellemford, about three miles above 

 Abbey St. Bathans. The foundations of tha N.W. and E. walls, 

 covered with turf, can be easily traced, and a small portion of 

 the S. wall, 10 feet in length, 5 feet iu height, and 2 feet 9 inches 

 thick, is still standing. It presents no architectural details, and 

 there is, accordingly, nothing to enable us to fix the date of its 

 erection ; but we know that the church was dedicated by Bishop 

 Bernham in 1243. The chancel seems to have been narrower 

 than the nave. 



From the 13th century till the Reformation, the barony of 

 LoNGFORMAOUs, with the advowson of the Church, was held m 

 succession by Morthington of Morthington, tlie Earls of Moray, 

 the Earls of March, and a branch of the St. Clairs of Roslin. 



* Liber de Melros, No. 80. Retoars, Berwickshire, Nos. 391, 426, 

 etc. Simpson's Arcbseological Essays, ii. 7, 



