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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CHAPEL (Supposed site of) [Hallyburton] | Chapel (Supposed Site of) | Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Walker. Greenlaw. Revd. [Reverend] Mr Fairbairn Greenlaw Chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey. |
021.06 | The site of this Chapel is supposed to be a short distance East from the present farmhouse of Haliburton in a field, called the "priest field"adjoining the Parish road which intersects the former burial ground. _ There are no vestiges whatever of this building remaining, save some stones, which can still be identified, and have been used in the wall enclosing the above mentioned Park. It was erected about the beginning of the 12th. Century and given by the sons of Truite of Haliburton to the Abbey of Kelso in 1140. for which they received a grant from Herbert, then the first Abbot, who dedicated it to St. [Saint] Mary. This Chapel shared the fate with all the other ecclesiastical property in Scotland, which was seized by the English, but Edward I on receiving the homage of the Abbot of Kelso in Berwick on the 2d Septbr.1296 [2nd September 1296] restored to him all their property. In the chartulary of the Abbey of Kelso p: 250 [page 250] it is also mentioned that about the year 1316. William, the Abbot of Dryburgh was a witness to a grant by William de Lamberton Bishop of St. [Saint] Andrews to Kelso, of the Church of Greenlaw with its chapels "in proprius usus", which are those of Lambden and Haliburton. __ It was destroyed during the time of the Earl of Hertford's raid in 1545. __ |
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