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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site of PRIORY [Hallgreen] | Site of Priory Site of Priory |
Miss Church Park House James Halliday, Shepherd Park House |
053 | [Situation] In the Nn. [Northern] vicinity of Halgreen. This is the site of the monastery referred to in the following quotation from Chalmers's Gazetteer of Scotland. "In the reign of David I., one Turgot de Rossedal, who then occupied the district on the lower Esk, founded a riligious house here for canons-regular. He placed the monastery on the peninsula, which is formed by the junction of the rivers Liddel and Esk, and granted to it the adjoining lands with the church of Kirk Andrews, and its pertinents. He afterwards granted the establishment to the monks of Jedburgh. At this period and in later times, this house was called domus de religiosis de Liddal. In the course of time, however, it obtained the name of Canonby, the canons residence, which it subsequently communicated to the parish church. For several centuries this comfortable little priory formed an excellent and easy object of plunder, to the border marauders. In 1533 Henry VIII claimed this monastery as having belonged to England of old, and on this false plea ordered an inroad to be made into Scotland. Having on this occasion somehow escaped the English sovereign, who would have doubtless soon expelled its pious inmates, and secured their revenues; in eleven years afterwards it was destroyed by the English forces on the scandalous rout of the Scottish army at Solway Moss." |
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[Page] 201Parish of Canonbie -- Sheet 53. No. 16 -- Trace 6
[Faint note] -- [Chambers] should have spelled
[this] word rout. -- [initialled] PMcH
[Signed] P McHugh
Lce. Cpl R.E. [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]
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