184 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Beriuickshire. 



A certain maiden, daugh- ^^^ delusa est ut nnius oculi visum auris unius 

 ter of Merlin, who had . . .,.,., ,.,. 



for 15 days lost the siafht anditum lingue pemtus qmndecitn diebus perdidit 



of one%anind'!he'?ow''e? officium : ad oratorium memoratum deducta est nt 



of speech, is taken into si divina pietas permitteret virgo virgini salutem 



watchinlT'rti'erern diTrinl optatam conferret. miroque modo cum noctem 



night, falls into a deep vigilando in eodem oratorio duxerat gravi somno 

 sleep, beholds in vision ,^ i i • 



resting on the altar a oppressa super altare columbam niveam stare 



white dove, and on conspexit que statim lingue solvit vinculum et 



awakening finds herself . . '■ . . . 



freed from all infirmity, evigilans ab omni infirmitate se reperit solntam. 



ADDENDA et CORRIGENDA. 



Page 86. — Line ]9 from bottom, for 'middle,' read 'beginning.' 



Page 93. — Strafontain. If the date of the foundation here given be cor- 

 rect, David I. must have established this convent while Prince of 

 Cumbria, before his accession to the Scottish throne. I have followed 

 Mackenzie Walcott, (Ancient Church of Scotland, p. 380,) but with con- 

 siderable hesitation, as I have not had access to his authorities, and 

 there are numerous inaccuracies in his Work. 



Page 100. — Taxatio of 1176. This date, taken from Page 186 of Vol. in. of 

 the Club's Proceedings, is almost certainly too early ; indeed, it does not 

 Hppear that the actual date of the taxatio anfiqvn, to which the Scottish 

 clergy appealed when Bayamund or Boiamund (commonly Bagimont) 

 was sent from Rome, in 1275, to collect the tenths of benefices, rated 

 according to their real value (uenis valor), can be determined. (Fordun, 

 Annates, c. LXii.) A valuation of church livings in Scotland was made, 

 " in part at least, as early as the reign of William the Lion ;" and it is 

 probably this valuation (which, as Cosmo Innes remarks, "gives us 

 beyond doubt the state of church livings in the beginning of the 13th 

 century, and but little altered since the period which followed immed- 

 iately on the great ecclesiastical revolution under David I.") that is pre- 

 served in several of our ancient Monastic Register.s. See the Origines 

 Parochiales ; Burton's History of Scotland, vol. ii., p. Ill ; and Dr Joseph 

 Robertson's Preface to the Statuta Ecclema' Scoticanw, p. Ixv. et seq. 



Page 123. — Barlston. Of Thomas the Rhymer, known also as Thomas of 

 Ercildoune, and his connection with Earlston, I have not thought it 

 necessary to say anything. The reader may consult Mr Tait's paper 

 cited. Sir Walter Scott's Introduction to the poem of " Sir Tristrem," 

 Mr McNeill's remarks in his Introduction to the Scottish Text Society's 

 edition of the same poem, and, chiefly, Dr Murray's Introduction to liis 

 "Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune," edited for the 

 Early English Text Society. The question whether the stone referred 

 to — known in the district as the "Rhymer St(me " — originally marked 

 the burying-place of Thomas the Rhymer, does not admit of being sat- 

 isfactorily settled, and can hardly be said to possess much interest, now 

 that the ancient lettering has been destroyed. 



Page 123. — Eccr.ES. Ecclesfechan (the church of Fechan) is usually writ- 

 ten Ecclefechan. There are other place-names, both Scottish and 

 English, with a similar derivation. 



Page 135. Ladykirk. Alter plan where necessary, in conformity with 

 description. 



Page 143. — Legerwood. " Nichol de Lychardeswode,'' keeper of the 

 hospital here, took the oath of allegiance to Edward I. in 1296. Prynne, 

 vol. III., p. 661, 



