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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MOORFOOT CHAPEL (Ruins of) Chapel
Chapel
Chapel
Revd [Reverend] Mr Smith
W.J. Burton Esqr.
Mr Hastie
022 The ruins of a Chapel with a small piece of ground laid to be a graveyard, attached: situated a little South of the farm house of Moorfoot.
OLD GRAVE YARD [Moorfoot Chapel] Site of Grave Yard
Site of Grave Yard
Site of Grave Yard
Revd [Reverend] Mr Smith
W.J. Burton Esqr
Mr Hastie
022 It formerly belonged to the ancient village of Morthwait, all traces of which have now dissappeared [sic]

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Parish of Temple
"After the grant of David I, the monks established at Morthwait a chapel which served their men and the abbot enjoyed the patronage of it till the reformation. After that great change the Commendator Coming in his place enjoyed his right, till the extensive estates of the Abbey were Converted into a temporal Lordship which descended to the heirs of the Commendator Earls of Ancrum and Marquisses of Lothian: Chalmers Caledonia vol II p 8
"The ecclesiastical establishment of this parish consisted originally of three chapels one at Temple one at Clerkington and one at Morphet." Old Stat [Statistical] Acct [Account] vol 16 p 502

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