372 Ladykirk Parish. By Rev. William Dobie. 



and it is added " unjustly occupied by the Scots." The supple- 

 mentary treaty of Chateau Cambresis, entered into between 

 Francis and Mary, King and Queen of Scotland, and Elizabeth, 

 Queen of England, was signed on 31st May 1559, in the ancient 

 church of Saint Mary of Upsetlington. 



HORNERDENE OR HoRNDEAN PaRISH. 



This old parish seeras to have existed from a very early date. 

 In the Pontificale Ecclesiae S. Andrese, among the churches 

 dedicated by David de Bernham, Bishop of Saint Andrews, we 

 find Eccl. de Hornerden eodem anno. (1243) 4th April (dedicata). 

 There is considerable variation in the spelling of what is now 

 Horndean, arising from carelessness on the part of the scribes, 

 and also from the difficulty in deciphering very old documents, 

 but upon balancing the variations, we are inclined to think the 

 original name was Hnmerdene. By ' original,' we moan as far 

 back as the documents examined give us any information on the 

 origin of the name. The word '"Horner" applies to persons 

 engaged in a particular occupation, and not to the configuration 

 of ground on which they have pitched their dwelling; and it is 

 the fact that we have in Hornerdene the coal black eyes and 

 raven locks belonging in an intensified hue to the race known 

 as " Horners."'-" 



The parish church of Horndene was in the centre of the now 

 sadly neglected graveyard, about a quarter of a mile east of the 

 village, from which there is a commanding view of the winding 

 of Tweed. The plan and dimensions of the old church, or 

 chapel as it is generally called, as ascertained by actual measure- 

 ments in 1861, were as here shewn : 



*The roots of the word " Horn," are widely spread. Heb., Keren, Chald., 

 Kerna. Latin corn-u. Anglo-Saxon, horn. The Hebrews applied it to 

 the curvature of an ancient harp with a bend somewhat like a sickle. The 

 Eoman Valerias Flaocus speaks of the " Cornua fluminum," i.e. the 

 windings and turnings of rivers. Might not the point be argued whether 

 it is the bend of the stream or the projection of land which has given rise 

 to the names Horndene and Horncliff ? 



