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mouldings of this remaining window. Externally, it is of three 

 orders — the two outer a series of hollow chamfers resting on 

 capitaled shafts, the inner continuous, and composed of two rolls 

 with a deep hollow between. A line of the tooth-ornameut 

 is carried down the west jamb between the two shafts ; and over 

 the head is a dripstone or label of two slender rolls, separated 

 by a hollow, and terminating at one end in a finely sculptured 

 head. The mouldings of the interior jambs are similar to those 

 on the outside, but the tooth-moulding is omitted. The but- 

 tresses on the exterior of the north transept and its aisle are of 

 equal projection throughout, but are relieved by the string- 

 courses of the wall being returned across them. A few of them 

 have pedimental tops rising above the corbel-table, which, 

 unlike that of the south transept, rests on mask-heads (Fig. 

 34) ; but the majority have sloping heads terminating at the 

 level of the cornice. (>oM. ' 



Fig. 34. 

 An adequate description of the stone coffins, sepulchral slabs, 

 sculptured panels, inscriptions, and other objects of ecclesiological 

 interest existing at Dryburgh, would require a volume, and 

 cannot be here attempted. A fine lavatory, preserved in the 

 chapter-house, is figured in Morton's work, which also contains 

 engravings of three seals of the abbey. Another seal is engraved 

 in the Liber de Dryhurgh, printed for the Bannatyne Club. The 

 magnificent and venerable yew tree near the abbey — a survivor, 

 prot)ably,of those planted hy the monks in the cemetery — deserves 

 a passing mention. 



The churches held by Dryburgh Abbey, within the county, were 

 Mertoun.*" 

 Channelkirk, with the chapels of Glengelt and Carfrae. 



* " In an enclosure still called the Chapel Field, about a mile west of the 

 ruins of Dryburgh, were found in 1788 the remains of a place of worship 

 concerning which there is no record more than the tradition of the name 

 of the field," Annals and Antiquities of Dryburgh, 1828, p. 6, 



