72 Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



Dec. 1613,* and about the beginning of the following year they sold 

 them to Sir John Arnot of Bersuick, Provost of Edinburgh,! who, in 

 1615, bestowed them on his daughter Helen, wife of George Home of 

 Manderston, and her husband, in liferent, and John Home, their son, in iee.X 



" Sir John Home of Crumstane borrowed money from James Stevenson, 

 merchant, burgess of Edinburgh 1650. 



James Stevenson's Seisin, 1653. 



Sir John Home of Crumstane, Knight, borrowed money from Alexander 

 Spottiswood, Advocate 1659. He married the daughter and sole heiress 

 of Sir John Home of Crumstane, by whom he had a son, Alex. 

 Spottiswood, who died unmarried. 



Charter to Sir James Cockburn of that Ilk, 1670." (G.H.D.) 



1605. 18 June. — Charter by James VI. in favour of Patrick Home, 

 junior, of Aytoun, of the lands and town of Dunce, viz., the £20 lands of 

 old extent called Dunce Mains, Cheiklaw, Meikill and Littill Dunce Law, 

 Kaitscheill, Kaitscheilbank, the 4 merk lands of new extent lie Knok and 

 Birkinsyde, on the southern part of the lands of Kaitcheilwode, the lands 

 called Patoun, £12 lands of Coitlandis, in the town and territory of 

 Dunce, the lands called Knowislandis and Nisbittislandis, with the 

 fortalice and Manor of Dunce, with the mills, etc., the lands called Dunce 

 Park and Cauldsydis .... which Wil. Home senior, father of the said 

 Pat, resigned. II By this charter the king ratifies infeftment of the 

 erection of the town of Dunce into a burgh of barony, and of new erects 

 the said town and burgh into a free burgh of barony, with power to elect 

 baillies, etc., to hold a weekly market on Wednesdays, and free fairs an- 

 nually on the Monday next following the feast of the Trinity, after 

 Whit Sunday, etc. This fair used to be held in the road or lane 

 which led from Bridge End to Peelrig and Cheeklaw, and now forms the 

 avenue to Trinity Lodge, and which is still called Trinity Lane, the name 

 being obviously a reminiscence of the original date of the fair. 



^.\^. 1639. — Duns comes once more, for a brief space, into the full 

 light of history in the summer of 1639. Charles I., intent on his rash 

 project of forcing Episcopacy on his Scottish subjects, had advanced with 

 an army as far as Berwick, when the Scots, under General Sir Alexander 

 Leslie, converged on Duns in two divisions, from Dnnglass and Kelso, and 

 encamped on the Law.. The position was admirably chosen. It could 

 scarcely be carried by direct assault, and any attempt on the part of the 

 King to penetrate into Scotland, by way of either Dunbar or Kelso, would 

 have exposed his army to a flank attack. Baillie, in one of his Letters, 

 gives a long and lively account of the Scottish encampment on Duns Law, 

 of which I extract the more interesting portions. § 



* Vol. VII., No. 963. 

 tibid.. No. 1014. 

 X Ibid., No. 1235. 



II Eeg. Mag. Sig., Vol. vi., No. 1628. 

 § Baillie's Letters and Journals (Edinburgh 1841) Vol. i., i)p. 211-214. 

 I have to a considerable extent discarded the obsolete spelling. 



