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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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MERSE (DISTRICT) | Merse District | Chalmers Caledonia Fullerton's Gazetteer New Statistical Account of Berwickshire & Roxburghshire |
027.03 ; 027.04 ; 024.06 ; 027.07; 027.08; 027.10 ; 0.27.11 & 027.12 | In ancient times the shire of Berwick seems to have been a separate jurisdiction from the Bailliary of Lauderdale and to have itself divided into the Merse and Lammermuir districts. It is not easy to say what had been the exact boundaries and extent of these three districts and almost obsolete. For the purposes of agricultural inquiry, the whole county may be very consistently considered under two districts-: the "Merse" and the "Lammermuirs": the former including all the comparatively low land along Tweed, Whiteadder [Continued on Page 5] |
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