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Halden, the son of Eadulf (e). It is apparent, then, that some such person
gave his name to the town, ton, or tun, though he cannot now be personally
introduced to the more curious reader (f). Haddington does not much appear
on the face of the national annals during the middle ages. Yet we have seen
that it had acquired the privileges and pre-eminence of a burgh as early as
the reign of David I. Thus much, then, with regard to the shire-town and its
name. The area of this county seems to have been called Bernicia, from the
abdication of the Romans till the epoch of 1020, when the whole district was
ceded by the Northumbrian earl to the Scottish king (g). From the epoch of
1020, the ample country lying along the sea, and the Forth, from the Tweed
to the Avon, was denominated by the Saxon settlers, from their native lan-
guage, Lothian, with an allusion to its peculiar jurisdiction on a litigious
frontier. Lothian was still known as a country, distinct from Scotland, during
the reign of David I. (A). During the reign of his grandson, William the Lion,
the Lammermuir range became the southern boundary of Lothian (i). Soon
after, both in popular tradition, and in public proceedings, the area of this shire
(e) Dal. Col., p. 340. We may see in Speed's map of Northumberland 1610, a place named
Haden-bridge. There are Haden-ham in Cambridgeshire, Haddon-hall in Derby, Haddon in Hunting-
don, and Haddon in Northampton. See the villare of Adams. Adington, which often appears in the
topography of North and South-Britain, is the same in substance with the Saxon aspirate (H)
prefixed ; and there is a place named Hadington in Lincolnshire, as we know from the Inquisitio Post
Mortem, 305.
(f) The writer of the prefatory introduction to the account of Lothian in Blaeu's Atlas Scotiæ,
1G62, supposes the name of this shire-town to be Hadtyn-tourn, as it is situated upon the river Tyne;
yet this form of the word is assumption against the charters of the 12th century, and is moreover
inconsistent with the analogy of the thing.
(g) See Smith's Bede : " Berniciorum a mari Scotico terminata est." Ib., App. ii., and the map
annexed to it. Such then was the Bernicia of Bede.
(h) Caledonia, i., 258-9). Even before the demise of David I. Cockburnspath, which is situated in
the north-west, corner of Berwickshire, appears to have been deemed a boundary. David I., when he
founded Holyroodhouse, granted to its monks the tenth of all the marine animals which might be
thrown ashore " ab Avon usque ad Colbrandspath," with the tenth of his pleas and other dues within
the same limits. These grants were confirmed by David II.. referring to the same limits. Roberts.
Index, 90.
(i) There is a charter of Rolland, the son of Uchtred, who became constable of Scotland in
1196, granting some land in Upper Lauderdale to Alan de St. Clair, which William de
Morville had given him, and settling its limits " de capite langild [the rivulet] usque ad divisas
de Luodonia versus Lamberlauwe," [Lammer-law]. Diplom. Scotiæ, pl. Ixxxi. From the age of
David I. to the reign of David II., the extent of Lothian seems to have been from the Avon to
Cockburnspath.