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Hawick and Its Old Memories; With Appendix. Containing Biographical Sketches, and Other Illustrative Documents
Hawick and Its Old Memories With Appendix Containing Biographical Sketches and Other Illustrative Documents Author:James Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1858 Original Publisher: Maclachlan and Stewart Subjects: Hawick (Scotland) 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 free trial acces... more »s to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Still more recently an Archseological Society has been formed at Hawick, from whose labours much may be expected. II. Early Notices of the Barony. The land territory or barony of Hawick, which included that of Branxholm, appears in record in the reign of King William the Lion, and was known by that name in the two preceding reigns (David I. and Malcolm the Maiden, 1124-1165); between 1175 and 1180 it occurs in a charter by Robert Avenel, of lands in Eskdale which had been granted to him by King David I. before 1153, and were by him assigned to the monks of Melrose between 1163 and 1165. f It occurs again in charters of confirmation of- the same lands by Gervase Avenel, the son of Robert, between 1180 and 1199, and between 1214 and 1218 ; and also in a charter of Roger, the son of Gervase, between 1218 and 1221. J Its earliest possessors on record were a family named Luvel or Lovel. In 1183, or previously, Henry Lovel (Lupellus) granted to the canons of St Andrews two oxen-gang of land in Branceulla (Branxholm), viz., half the land which " Origines Parochiales Scotise," 340, from which work the present narrative is in great part derived. t About the very same period, Reginald, the Monk of Durham, mentions " Villa quadam Hawich," and gives the names of two women from Hawick, Seigiv and Rosfrith, devotees of St Cuthbert, who had come to worship at.,' a chapel dedicated to that saint, situated on the Slitrig, by some persons supposed to be at Humble- knows. The adjoining croft is named Priesteroun, probably Priest- ground (see volu...« less