Notes on Newton Don. By C. B. Balfour. 299 



to have consecrated the church of Nenthorn, which probably 

 thea became the parish church, and the chapel of Little Newton 

 the dependent chapel : instead of both being chapels of Ednam. 



Jeffrey says that this took place {i.e. the creation of the 

 parish of Newton) before 1316.^ 



About 1281 William, Bishop of St. Andrews, confirmed the 

 Morville grants to the Abbey of Dryburgh.^* 



In 1316 William of Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrews, gave 

 the church of Nenthorn and the chapel of Little Newton to the 

 Abbey of Kelso, in exchange for Cranston and Preston in 

 Midlothian.^^ 



The charters give us a glimpse of the state of the country 

 after the close of the War of Independence : for in them it is 

 stated that both church and chapel have been ravaged and 

 destroyed in the war. Nor was this the only time the district 

 suffered. In 1523 Lord Dacre gave orders to the garrison 

 of Berwick and the inhabitants of the surrounding country to 

 meet at Howtell Sweyre at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 10th June, to 

 ride into Scotland, and "cast down the tower and great steeple 

 of Ednam, which is double vaulted, the castell of Stichell, betwixt 

 Lambermore and the Merse : to burn Ednam and Stichell — the 

 towns under Stichell Crag — Hassington Mains — Newton — 

 Aynethorne and others on the road — Akles and Mersington 

 etc.^' 



On 26th June, the Stichell and Ednam raid is reported by 

 Dacre to Wolsey as having been carried out. 



In 1642 the English, under the Duke of Norfolk, burnt 

 Nenthorn, Newton, and all the country round : and again in 

 1545 Lord Hertford's expedition ravaged the neighbourhood.^^ 



During all this period the chapel of Little Newton belonged 

 to the Abbey of Kelso : and in the rent roll of the Abbey in 

 1567 the "Kirklaudis of Nenthorne " are entered as producing 

 a rental of forty shillings, and the " lands of Lytill Nutowne " 

 thirty shillings.^' 



^ Jeffrey's Hist, of Roxburghshire, Vol. in., p. 119. 



^* Liber de Dryburgh : Charters, No. 152. 



^6 Liber de Calchou : Charters, Nos. 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315. 



2' Letters and Papers of the reign of Henry VIll., Vol. ni., part 4, p. 

 1299, No. 3097. 



^^ Statistical Account of Scotland. MSS. Trinity College, Dublin, now 

 published. 



^^ Liber de Calchou : pages 491, 494, 506, 



