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bar, annexed to it the church of Duns as one of its prebends. This annexation
was confirmed by bishop Landels, who ruled the see of St. Andrews from 1341
to 1385 ; and bishop Henry again confirmed it on the 23rd of October 1429 (p).
In the ancient Taxatio, Duns, as a rectory, was rated at 110 marks; and in
Bagimont's Roll, the tenth of the rectory of Duns was valued at no less than
£10. (q). On the 28th of August 1296, Henry de Lematon swore fealty to
Edward I. at Berwick, and in return had his rectory of Duns, with its rights,
restored to him (a). On the 15th December 1661, Andrew Fairfoul, the minis-
ter of Duns, was consecrated, in Westminster Abbey, Archbishop of Glasgow (b).
A new church of elegant structure was erected at Duns in 1792. Dissenters
of various denominations have their meetings here; the burghers and anti-
burghers, the Seceders of Belief, all quietly pursue their several peculiarities,
as they are all fully tolerated (c). [The parish church was burned in 1879, and
restored in 1881; communicants, 754; stipend, £460. Boston Free church has
340 members ; three U.P. churches, East, West, and South, have 266, 323, and
300 members. There are also Episcopalian and Roman Catholic chapels.]
The parish of GREENLAW derives its Saxon name from one of those detached
hills, which, in the south-east of Scotland, are called Laws, from the Saxon
Hlawe, a tumulus. The hamlet of Old Greenlaw stood on the summit of one of
those hillocks, which, from its superior verdure during times of worse cultivation,
was called Greenlaw. This name was transferred to the town of Greenlaw,
which stands north-west seven furlongs, in a bend of the Blackadder ; and on the
same side of the river, at some distance eastward, stood the castle of Greenlaw,
which has been long disparted by time. The manor of Greenlaw belonged to
the ancient Earls of Dunbar, who were patrons of the church of Greenlaw, and
of the chapel of Lambdene. Earl Gospatrick, who succeeded his father in
1147, granted to the monks of Kelso the church of Greenlaw, with the chapel
of Lambdene and the church lands adjacent (d). This grant was confirmed by
(p) MS. Chart., Sir Lewis Stuart's Col, 58.
(q) The Tax Roll of the archbishop of St. Andrews, 1547, recognizes the rectory of Duns in the
deanery of the Merse.                                     (a) Prynne, iii., 662 ; Rym., ii., 724.
(5) Wood's Athenę, 856 ; Keith's Bishops, 158.
(c)  For other particulars, the more curious reader may see the Stat. Acco., iv., 378, and the Tabular
State annexed.    On the 31st of July 1637, James, Earl of Home, obtained a grant of the barony of
Duns.   Dougl. Peer., 347.
(d)  Chart. Kelso, 70.   The chapel of Lambdene was built by Walter de Strivelin, who held the lands
of Lambdene under the Earl Gospatrick.    Walter obtained from the bishop of St. Andrews permission
to build a church within his village of Lambdene, on the concession and request of Gospatrick, the
Earl, whose fee the said hamlet was.    Chart. Kelso, 423.     Lambdene, the vale of the lamb, was
situated in the south-east quarter of Greenlaw parish.