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HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

Morham, and following on this the king united all the lands of Duncanlaw
to the rest of the barony of Yester. Yester and Duncanlaw were now wholly
the property of the Hays, as Morham was of the Hepburns.
From these Hays came the earls and marquises of Tweeddale. The
Hepburns attained the dignity of Lord Hailes (1451) and in 1488 of Earl of
Bothwell, the last Hepburn Earl being the husband of Queen Mary. The first
of the family on record is Adam Hepburn, who held from Patrick, Earl of
March the lands of " Southalls " and " Northalls." which had been forfeited
by Hugh Gourlay, according to the confirmation by David II. Adam likewise
held Traprain and Dunpender from the same superior. ¹ In 1367 we have Patrick
de " Hebhorn," lord of Hailes. After the forfeiture of the Earls of March, the
Hepburns came to hold of the Crown : in 1451 the King granted to Patrick Hepburn
of Hailes the lands of the lordship of Hailes, the lordship of Traprain and
Markle, the lands of Gamelshiels and Oldhamstocks with other lands and
rights, all of which the predecessors of Patrick had held of the Earl of March
before his forfeiture. Another branch of the family on the same tenure was Hep-
burn of Waughton, to whom also a royal charter was given in 1452 in favour of
Patrick Hepburn of the lands of " Walchtoun " and among others of Athelstaneford
(" Elstanfurde ") with the superiority of the lands of the same place then in the hands
of John de Touris and Robert Bisset. He also by exchange acquired the lands of
Luffness in 1464 (cf. No. 3). Other Hepburns were those of Bolton (cf. p. xxi)
Morham (p. xxiii), Beanston (Beynstoun), Fortoun or Fortune, Luffness, Gilmore-
stoun, Trabroun, etc. It was the most prevalent family in East Lothian. While
Yester was still of the Giffords, Hugh, son of Sir John Gifford conferred on Robert
Maitland, lord of Thirlestane (Lauderdale), the lands of " Levingtoune " or Leth-
ington, and this grant was confirmed by David II. in 1345. After the Giffords
these Lethington lands with the fortalice, etc. were held by the Maitlands from
the Hays of Yester. ² From these Maitlands came the Earls of Lauderdale. The
property passed by sale from the Maitlands to Lord Blantyre about the beginning
of the eighteenth century.
A minor family of long standing in the county was Congalton of Congalton
[Marginal note] Congalton
(No. 34). Walter knight of "Congelton" appears in the early thirteenth century,
c. 1224. ³ A later " Wautier de Congeltone del counte de Edneburke" ⁴ is on Ragman
Roll, and in the same year, 1296, Walter de " Congilton " and Adam de " Congilton"
were jurors on an inquest into the lands of Robert de Pinkeny of Ballencrieff. In
1517 we have on record Henry Congalton of that ilk (de eodem), ⁵ and in 1673 " William
Colgingtoun of Colgingtoun " was appointed one of the justices of the peace for
Haddingtonshire. For the later history of the family and estate down to the late
eighteenth century see Douglas's Baronage.
Another such family was that of Levingtoun of Saltcoats, on which see
No. 28. The Levingtouns were apparently tenants of the holders of
[Marginal note] Levington
Dirleton ; in 1467 George Lord Halyburton granted certain rights to William
" Levinton " of Saltcoats, his armourbearer. ⁶

1 R.M.S. i. No. 265.
2 Act. Parl. iii. p. 319.
3 Lib. de Dryburgh, p. 33.
4 Haddington or East Lothian being merely a constabulary within the Sheriffdom of Edin-
burgh cf. p. xvii.
5 R.M.S. s.a. No. 130.
6 Stodart's Scottish Arms ii. p. 322.

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