Ladyldrk Parish. By Rev. William Dobie. 377 

 D. 0. M. 



JACOBUS SCOTORUM QUARTUS REX TUEDAM 

 TUTO QUUM TRANSIISSET HANC ^DEM VOTAM 

 MARINE VIRGINI AD DEUM UNUM SOLUMQUE 

 SPIRITU VERITATEQUE COLENDUM MILESIMO 

 QUINGENTESIMO ANNOQUE JUBILiEO FUNDAVIT. 



The above record is not older than the present nineteenth 

 century. 



There is evidence above the main south door, on the outside, 

 that a tablet had been inserted there at some time, but the 

 tablet, with whatever it might have told, has long ago entirely 

 disappeared ; while on the outside, and directly above the north 

 door, and looking to Scotland, there is similar evidence that a 

 tablet had been once placed there, and tradition has it that the 

 Royal Arms of Scotland, decorated with the Order of the 

 Garter, were carved on that now lost stone. It is not disputed 

 that Henry VII. of England did compliment James IV. of 

 Scotland with the Order of the Garter, and in the circumstances 

 of both kings nothing was more appropriate, as James was about 

 to marry "Margarita Henrici, nata major filia"; an event 

 which took place on the 8th August 1503, and in its conse- 

 quences was so important as, in the third generation, to unite 

 the two crowns of England and Scotland in the year 1603. 



The following excerpt from page 276 of the Rotuli Scaccarii 

 Regum Scotorum, vol. XI., a.d., 1497-1501, is proof that James 

 rV., at least aided in the erection of this church. 



" Compotnm Alexandri Lawdir : David Mailville and Johannes Adamson 

 Custnmariornm bur^i de Edinburgh. 



Edinburgh, 17 December 1500, from March 5th 1499. 

 After reciting the charge and its various items, we have : — 

 Discharge ... ... Fees of Accountant £31 5 4 



Fees of Tronar 4 8 9 



Custom, 6 sacks, 12 stone of wool, of Abbot of Melrose 8 13 9 



Et eidem de custuma lane et bonorum spectantium magistro Jacobo 

 Merchamston extendente ad quadriginta libras Assignata Patricio Blakadir 

 Milite ad construccionem ecclesiae de Upsedlington per dictum* Robertum 

 Lundy corapotorum rotulatorem et allocata dicto David XL lib proquibus 

 rotulator respondebit." 



* Robert Lundy merely referred to as rotulator previously. 



