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perhaps it was omitted from the ‘Testa’ by the compiler. A comparison 
of the documents brings out some points of curious interest. The sec- 
tions (Nos. iv. and v.) of the ‘serjeanties arrented by Robert Passelewe in 
the time of king Henry son of king John’ form a collection of hetero- 
geneous documents of different dates shovelled together and compiled into 
lists. The greatest care will have to be exercised if it be considered 
needful to disentangle them. The list printed by the Master of the 
Rolls from the ‘Red Book’ (ii. 462-3) should be compared with that of 
the ‘Testa de Nevill’ for the purpose of identifying the names of the 
tenants, which have been mauled almost beyond recognition by the 
various scribes. 
Nore A 
The southern boundary of the Brus fief was afterwards declared definitely as ‘aqua de Esk que 
dividit meam terram et terram Cumbrie’ in charters granted by members of that family between 1180 
and 1290 to the abbey of Melrose (Hariian MS. 3911, ff. 1024-5). See also the grant to Ivo de 
Kirkpatrick about 1190 (Drumlanrig Castle MSS., pp. 38-9, Hist. MSS. Com. 15th Report, App. 
pt. viii.). The centre of the stream was the boundary under March Law during the thirteenth century 
(dets Parliam. Scot. i. 416 ; Neilson, Annals of the Sokvay, pp. 42-3). In that case the quadrangular 
strip of territory between the Esk and Sark was stolen from Scotland in 1552. That was not so, for 
the barony of Liddel, created by Ranulf Meschin, extended into Scotland beyond the Esk and Liddel, 
and the owners exercised baronial rights further north than the present boundaries between the two 
kingdoms (Nat. MSS. of Scotland, i. No. 38; Chancery Miscell. Portfolios, No. 423; ; Bain, Calendar of 
Documents, ii. 1606). During the reign of Henry I. the international boundary is very difficult to define. 
A ‘debatable land’ must have existed at this very early period. 
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