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Park; The Mayor of Berwick (Captain Norman, R.N.); the 

 SherifE of Berwick (Mr T. Darling); Captain Forbes, E.N., 

 Berwick ; Mr E. G. Bolam, Berwick ; Mr Romanes, Edinburgh ; 

 Mr T. Dunn, Selkirk ; Mr R. Huggup, Hedgeley ; Rev. B. S. 

 Wilson, Duddo ; Mr W. T. Hindmarsh, F.L.S., Alnwisk ; Mr 

 D. D. Dixon, Rothbury ; Mr T. Small, Jedburgh ; Dr R. Shirra 

 Gibb, Boon; Mr G. Veitch, Pitlochry; Mr R. Huggup, Gloster 

 Hill ; Mr E. Thew, Alnmouth ; Mr Greig, Wooden ; Mr J. C. 

 Hodgson, Low Buston; Rev. W. D. Herald, Duns; Mi T. H. 

 Simson, Jedburgh ; Mr G. Sanderson, Warkworth ; Mr J. 

 Dunlop, Norham ; Professor Geikie, Edinburgh ; Mr J. Simson, 

 Oxnam Row ; Mr W. Laidlaw, Jedburgh ; Mr Smith, Ormiston ; 

 Rev. Evan Rutter, Spittal; Mrs Orde, Grindon ; Rev. A. Jones, 

 Stannington ; Mr H. and Mrs Andrews, Swarland ; etc., etc. 

 The company were entertained, on arrival, to breakfast by Mr 

 Watson Askew-Robertson, after which they proceeded to view 

 the beautiful gardens and grounds of Ladykirk House, under 

 the personal guidanoe of the Hon. Mrs Askew-Robertson. On 

 assembling again in the Billiard Room, 



Rev. W. DoBiE of Ladykirk shortly described to the company 

 the neighbourliood of Upsetlington. The name Upsetlington 

 pointed to a settlement in an upland. The Manor of Upsetling- 

 ton was, in the 1 2th century and for long after, in possession of 

 the name of Byset, a patronymic which was still not uncommon 

 in the North-Eastern counties of Scotland. When Duncan, the 

 13th Earl of Fife, died in 1353, he left an only child Isabella, 

 who became Countess of Fife in her own right. She was 

 married four times, three of her husbands being Earls of Fife, 

 and her third husband was Sir Thomas Byset of Upsetlington. 

 They would see that they had had an Earl there, and he might 

 say they would like to see one again. (Applause.) Till the 

 Reformation the church of Upsetlington was a rectory dedicated 

 to the Virgin. In 1331 there existed controversies with the 

 Bishop of Durham, who claimed jurisdiction over Upsetlington 

 as an appurtenant of the Castle of Norham, and they found 

 Edward III. of England writing to David II. of Scotland, de 

 Episcopo Dunelmensi non inquietando, but apparently to little 

 purpose, for they found one. Prior Wessington, giving as one of 

 his reasons for the smallness of the collection in 1420, "that for 

 the last 68 years nothing had been received from the churches 

 in Scotland, the Scots not permitting it." 



