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Thus did the canons of Dryburgh acquire numerous possessions, which,
being much dispersed in many places, were less advantageous than the com-
pact estates of Coldingham, which lay all in Berwickshire. The churches of
Dryburgh and other ecclesiastical dues, were, in this manner, placed under the
several jurisdictions of the bishops of St. Andrews, Glasgow, and of Whithorn.
The monastery, indeed, and the greatest part of their property, lay in the
diocese of St. Andrews. Soon after its foundation, Robert, the liberal bishop
of that see, extended his benificence to the canons of Dryburgh, by confirming
their foundation charter with their various endowments, and by receiving them
under the benediction of St. Andrew (a). From his successors they obtained
confirmations of their rights and grants of additional privileges (V). In 1293
William de Lamberton freed the abbots of Dryburgh from attending the synodal
meetings at Haddington (c). From the bishops of Glasgow and Whithorn,
the abbots of Dryburgh obtained similar confirmations of their various rights
with grants of new privileges (d). From the popes also the canons obtained
many favourable bulls (e). During the thirteenth century the monastery of
Dryburgb sent off two colonies of monks to Ireland, one of which was planted
in the abbey of Drumcross, the other in the priory of Woodborn, in the County
of Antrim (f). William, the abbot of Dryburgh, with his monks, swore fealty
to Edward I. on the 24th of August, 1296 (g); and in return, Edward issued
and the meadow which was adjacent to the church. Ib., 26. He gave them also twenty acres of
land in Elbotle ; Ib., 70, and he conferred on them one pound of frakincense yearly. Ib., 22. This
grant was confirmed by his son, John de Vallibus, who gave them in addition two crofts in Golyn.
Ib., 25. He added the lands of Stotfold, and the island of St. Nicholas of Elbotle, and a stone of
wax yearly. Ib., 18, 23, 71. William de Vallibus gave them Stainacre, and two acres of land in
Elbotle near the old castle. Ib., 72. Sir William Abernethy gave them a messuage with a brewhouse
in the village of Saltoun, and two marks yearly, for their lights in celebrating the masses of St. Mary
in the church of Dryburgh. Ib., 191-132. Margaret of Ardross, the daughter of Marleswane, gave
them the lands of Invergelly in Fife. Ib., 13. Henry de Anstruther conferred on them a messuage,
with a garden and an acre of land, in his town of Anstruther, with three booths in the same place.
Ib. 15-190.
(a) Chart, Dryburgh, No. 8.                                     (b) Ib., 12-16-100-104.
(c)  Ib., 177.    If at any time the abbcts of Dryburgh should come to those meetings on urgent
business, the bishop conferred on the abbot a perpetual pension of four marks, to be paid by the dean
of Haddington.    Id.
(d)  Ib., throughout.
(e)  Ib., 12-16-74-97.    Owing to all those encouragements,  they established  a new cemetery in
September, 1208.    " Novem cemeterium de Driburg dedicata est a Willielmo episcopo St. Andrese.
Chron. Melrose.
(/) Ware.    Archdall's Monast. Hib., 6-7.                             (g) Prynne, iii., 653.
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