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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MERSINGTON: TOWER (Site of) | Mersington Tower (Site of) | John Hood Esqr. Stoneridge Mr. Nisbet. Mersington James Dickson Esqr. Bughtrig. |
022.14 | This Tower, of which no vestige is remaining was situated about half a mile towards the S. W. [South West] from the present farm of Mersington, and was one of those strongholds, which are so often met with in the South of Scotland. _ It was destroyed in the time of the Marquis of Hertford's raid, during the famous burning in 1545, when the Castles of Redbraes, Dunse, Wedderburn, Melrose, the nunnery of Eccles, in all 16 Castles and Towers, 7 monasteries and friarhouses, 3 hospitals, 5 markettowns, 243 villages and 13 mills, in sum total. 287 places in the merse & Teviotdale were either burned or destroyed. _ It belonged originally to the Kerrs, afterwards to the second son of Swinton a Lord of Session in 1688, latterly to the Bells of Wolsington and since 1796 to Mr Thomas Nisbet. _ |
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