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26th of April 1209, Radulph, "Sacerdos de Dunbar accepit curam de Heccles (r)."
About the year 1250, when a new church was built here, St. Andrew was
enthroned as the tutelary protector of Eccles in the place of the worthy Cuth-
bert. All those churches and chapels continued with the convent till the
Reformation regenerated the old regimen (s). [The present parish church was
erected in 1774; communicants, 310; stipend, £394. A Free church has 76
members, and a U.P. church at Leitholm has 237 members.]
The parish of FOGO derived its name from the Kirktown. In ancient charters
this singular name was written Foghou. The church of Fogo stands on the
eastern bank of a narrow valley which leads to a ford on the Black water, and
this river runs in a deep channel when it passes Fogo, and indeed throughout
its whole course within this parish. These circumstances suggest the Saxon
name of Fog-hou, the foggage pit, den, or hollow. This parish is ancient.
Under David I. it belonged to the opulent Earls of Dunbar, who were proprietors
of the manor of Fogo. Gospatrick, who succeeded his father in 1147, granted
the church of Foghow to the monks of Kelso with a carucate of land (t), and
the dignified bishop Roger, who ruled St. Andrews from 1188 to 1202, added
his approbation to the piety of Gospatrick (u). Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, who
succeeded his father in 1182, granted to his second son, William, the manor
of Fogo to hold of the earldom ; and William, who had thus become the Lord
of the manor, confirmed to the monks of Kelso the church of Fogo, with the
mansion which John the dean possessed, with the croft adjacent, and the con-
tiguous land reaching southward to " Grenerig;"  and he added to those gifts
that land within his territory of Foghou which John the dean had enjoyed
with the church (x). William, the son of the Earl, who probably obtained
Foghou on his marriage with Christian, the rich heiress of Walter Corbet of
Makerstoun, had two sons by her, who both assumed her name of Corbet,
Nicolas and Patrick. Nicolas inherited his mother's manor of Makerstoun,
and Patrick obtained from his father the manor of Foghou. Patrick Corbet,
on the death of his father in 1253, granted to the monks of Kelso his chapel
of Foghou with the mill of the manor; the monks, in consideration of his gift,
being held to provide either three monks or three secular chaplains to perform
divine service in the same chapel (y). We thus see how many of the manors
(r) Chron. Melrose.    Wo feel above the Saxon aspirate in Heccles.
(s) For more recent particulars of this parish, see the Stat. Acco., xi., 231, and the Tabular State
annexed.
(t) Chart. Kelso, 70. The liberality of Gospatrick was approved and confirmed by Malcolm IV.
and William the Linn. Ib., 2-12.
(u) Ib., 82.                                     (x) Chart. Kelso, 302.                                  (y) Chart., 304.