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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CHAPEL OF EASE AND SCHOOL [between Cramalt and Craigierig] Church
Church
Walter Anderson Cramalt
James Shaw Schoolmaster
024 [Situation] Half distance betwixt Cramalt & Craigierig
A small plain building two storeys high used as the parish Church and School the admittance to the Church is by an outside stair, forming the upper storey, the officiating Minister is the Reverend Mr Walkinshaw of Lyne, the Average attendance is 30 and 12 Communicants.
SCHOOL School
School
Walter Anderson Cramalt
James Shaw
A School forms the part of the building below the Church, the average attendance of Scholars is 9, James Shaw Schoolmaster Megget Head.

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Parish of Lyne (part of) -- Sheet 24 No 4 Trace 5


From subsequent enquiries made in the Country
it appears that this is a Chapel of Ease. See also
New Stat Acct [Statistical Account] of Peeblesshire page 172 see also
account of the School in page 173 of the same volume.

"The School in Megget on account of the State of the
roads the numerous streams which intersect them and
the usual severity of the weather is not Kept during the Winter
the Teacher is engaged, who begins his labours about Whitsunday and continues them till
the martinmas following. The heritors have allowed £7 for the support of the school. The
rest of the scholars furnish the schoolmaster in succession with board & lodging." New Stat Acct [Statistical Account] No. 174.

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