294 Notes on Newton Don. By C. B. Balfour. 



lands : lie married Elizabeth Logan, daughter of Eobort Logan 

 of Eestalrig/* and was succeeded by his son, Patrick Hepburn, 

 to whom and to his wife Isobel Halden, the same lands are 

 confirmed in life rent, and to his son, Patrick Hepburn, in fee, 

 in 1595 ; and either father or son resigns them, as above, 

 in 1612.i« 



In 1619 Rodolph Ker of D alcove and Andrew Ker, his 

 eldest son, granted a provision to Margaret Merschell, eldest 

 daughter of Edward Merschell, commissary of Lauder, and 

 promised wife of Andrew Ker, over certain lands, and in 

 warrandice over " binam partem terrarum dominicalium de 

 Littill Newton, molendinum de lie cruik ejusdem, ix terras 

 husbandias in Littill Newton, cum molendinis, per dictum 

 Eodolphum conquestas a D. Patricio Hepburn de Wauchton, 

 milite."^' 



In 1642 Robert Ker of Shaw, son and heir of Andrew Ker 

 of Shaw, is served heir in the above lands. '^ 



Soon after this date Alexander Don acquired the lands, 

 but before tracing the history of the Don family, it will be 

 as well to bring up the history of the other part of Little 

 Newton to the same period. 



The Richard of Hanganside of 1^88, who granted Kaimflat 

 to the Abbey of Kelso, is probably the same Richard of 

 Hanganside who was Baillie of the Earls of Douglas' Barony 

 of Dunbar, and to whom, in 1407, a precept is given for 

 infefting John of Swynton in the lands of Petcokkys.^^ 



The next mention of the Hangansyde family I have met 

 with is a confirmation, in 1563, of the charter of Richard of 

 Hangansyde, of that ilk, to his sou, Alexander Hangansyde, 

 and his heirs, of a third part " terrarum dominicalium de 

 Little Newton " — two carueates in the village of Little Newton 

 called Boiswelsland, and one piece of ground called Sutorsland.'^ 



In 1595 Alexander Weddell and Helen Hanganside are 

 infeft "in tertiam partem terrarum et molendini et terrarum 

 dominicalium de lie Maines de Little Newton," in the baillary 



^^ Eeg. Magni Sigilli. 



16 do. 



1' do. 



1^ Retours of Heirs, xvii., 104. 



19 Douglas Book, Vol. iii., 403. 



30 Reg. Magni Sigilli, Vol. iv., 1463. 



