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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MANSE Manse The Rev [Reverend] W Paterson. Parish Minister
Mr John McGregor Parish Schoolmaster
Mr Crooks, Grocer. Draper etc Cockburnspath
001.14 [Situation] In the Village of Cockburnspath between the Church and the Postoffice and about two chains S. [South] from the cross A large building two stories high with stabling etc. all are in good repair. There are attached a glebe containing 7 1/2 English acres. and a large garden. It is the legal residence of the Parish Minister. and is the [property] of the heritors.
"I have never been able to learn [at] what time the manse was built. The [] part of it, however, is evidently [ancient] It was repaired in 1791 and [again] in 1808." - New Statistical [Account] of Berwickshire. P. 313
SCHOOL [Cockburnspath] School (Parish) The Rev [Reverend] W Paterson Mr John McGregor
Mr Crooks
001.14 [Situation] Fronting the cross and about one chain North of the Church. A large commodious school room in good repair It is well supplied [with] forms, desks, maps etc. The branches generally taught are English reading, [English] grammar, writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping Latin and practical mathematics; [] also Greek, French geography and the [] of mathematics. The salary of the parochial schoolmaster is £30 and the yearly average amount of school fees is about £40. There is the usual residence for the schoolmaster attached to the school,

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