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FOULDEN [parish] Foulden (Ph) [Parish] Continued_ approach the Whiteadder, stands the parish church. The nature of this site may probably have originated the name Fulden, and means in the Saxon language, the dirty hollow. An old ruin, bearing the name of the Parish, appears to have been a stronghold in the period of the Border conflicts. On a property called Nunlands was anciently an establishment of Nuns. Two roads intersect the parish from East to West and send off several ramifications. The village of Foulden was formerly of Considerable size , and burgh-of-barony, but has utterly gone to decay. This parish was formerly a rectory in the Deanery of the Merse. On the 25th March 1587 the church of Foulden was the meeting place of commissioners sent from Elizabeth to vindicate her treatment and execution of Mary of Scotland, and of commissioners by James V1. to hear their tale, his own mind revolting - as was pretended - from the terrible communication to be made, & avertly to let the hearers of it pass much within the limit of the Scottish boundary. The only antiquity in Foulden which merits notice is an epitaph in the church dated 4th January 1392. The church was built in 1786. The manse was built in 1772; and addition was made to it in 1813.
There is no portion of Foulden within any other parish. There is no portion of any other parish within that of Foulden.
Fullertons Gazetteer Sco [Scotland]

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