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murder of Mary Stewart, being too terrible for the ear of her son James, were
made, on the 24th of March 1587, to his commisioners in the church of Foulden,
near Berwick-bounds (y). Mary might have well warned Elizabeth : " When
by thy scorn, murdress, I am dead; then shall my ghost come to thy bed."
The parish of Foulden has not prospered for many years (2). [Its parish church,
re-erected on the site of an older building in 1786, has 148 communicants;
stipend, £260.]
The present parish of HuTTON consists of the old parishes of Fishwick and
Hutton. This name is probably a corruption of Holtun, signifying in the
speech of the Saxon settlers in the south of Scotland, Wood-town. Hutton,
in Dumfriesshire, had probably the same origin, like other places of the same
name in England, where we may see them in the original form of Holt-ton (a).
In the ancient Taxatio, the church of Hutton was rated at 24 marks. Thomas,
the parson of the church of Hutton, swore fealty to Edward I. on the
24th August 1296, and was no doubt rewarded by the restitution of his
property (b). Owing to whatever cause, Hutton does not appear in Bagimont's
Roll. Fishwic probably obtained its name from the site of the kirk town,
on the bank of the Tweed, where fish abounded; and Fishwic, in the lan-
guage of the Northumbrian Saxons, is tantamount to Fish-vill. The Scottish
Edgar granted to St. Cuthbert's monks Fiscwic with its appurtenants (c).
In 1150, Robert, the bishop of St. Andrews, in the presence of the synod,
which then sat at Berwick, confirmed to the monks of Coldingham the churches
of Fishwic and Swinton (d). In the ancient Taxatio, the church of Fishwic
was rated at 30 marks. Fishwic and its church were again confirmed to those
monks by Robert III., who inspected and ratified the original grant of
Edgar (e). The advowson of the church of Fishwic continued in the monks of
Coldingham till the Reformation swept away such establishments. Fishwic
was annexed to the adjoining parish of Hutton on the north. The old church
of Fishwic, which stood on the northern bank of the Tweed below the village,
(y) Border Hist., 669-70.
(z) For other particulars of that parish, the more curious reader may look into the Stat. Account,
xi., 116, and inspect the Tabular State subjoined.
(a)  See Gibson's Regulę Generalis to his Sax. Chron., in vo. Holt.     See the Glos. to Lyndsay's
Poetry, 1806, for the distinction between holt, a wood, and holt, a hill.
(b) Prynne, iii., 662.
(c)  Smith's Bede, App., xx.    The grant was " Fiscwic tam in terris, quam in aquis, et cum omni-
bus sibi adjacentibus."    We, in this very ancient charter, see the name in its Saxon form.    There are
a Fishwic in Lancashire, and a Fishwic upon the Tame in Staffordshire.
(d) Chart. Cold., 41.                                (e) Robertson's Index, 153.