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MERSE (District) Merse (District) FullertonsGazetteer
New Statistical Account of Berwickshire __
Chalmers Caledonia
022 ; 027 ; 028 In ancient times the Shire of Berwick seems to have been a separate jurisdiction from the Bailliary of Lauderdale, and to have been itself divided into the Merse and Lammermoor districts _ It is not easy to say what had been the original extent and exact boundaries of these three divisions, now almost obsolete _
For the purposes of agricultural inquiry, the whole county may be very conveniently considered under two districts The Merse

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