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An Old Berwickshire Town; History of the Town and Parish of Greenlaw, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
An Old Berwickshire Town History of the Town and Parish of Greenlaw From the Earliest Times to the Present Day Author:Robert Gibson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Oliver and Boyd Subjects: Greenlaw (Scotland) History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get ... more »free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II AULD AND NEW GREENLAW The original town of Greenlaw is first named Auld Greenlaw in the sasine of the lands of William Redpath in 1504, and it is also so named in the rent roll of Kelso Abbey made up in 1567. Down to 1598 it continued to be what we might call the parish town. Sometime previous to that date, however, the Greenlaw kirk town, or new Greenlaw, had been planted in the valley a mile to the north, and in 1598 had become more populous than Old Greenlaw. This is stated in two charters to which reference will be made. In 1503 James Brounisfield was granted by the crown six husband lands of Greenlaw for a term of nine years (Exchequer Rolls, vol. xii.), and in 1528 Stephen Brounfield received grant of Greenlawdean lands with the mill of the same. These lands continued in the family till 1598, at which date they also possessed " tofts, crofts, and gardens in the town of Greenlaw." The circumstances connected with this change take us back to the twelfth century. When the light of this century breaks on the ecclesiastical state of Greenlaw, we see it already formed into a parish having a mother church with dependent chapels. As we have seen, Cospatrick, Earl of Northumberland, whom William the Conqueror had deprived of his earldom, fled to Scotland in 1072. He was graciously received by Malcolm Can- more, who assigned to him "lands in Lothian and the Merse till better times should return" (Dalrymple's Annals of Scotland, p. 205). Cospatrick's second son (Cospatrick) was made Earl of Dunbar, and his ...« less