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"The church of Liston was early of great value and in the ancient taxatio was rated at
70 marks. The church with the village, the mill and much of the adjacent lands called
the mains or demesne and KirKlands of KirKliston, were granted to the bishop of St. Andrews
though at what time is uncertain. But Liston was formed into the Seat of the regal jurisdic-
-tion which the bishop and his successors acquired over their estates on the southern side
of the Forth."
"The hall wherein the baillie of this jurisdiction held his courts was standing when
Sibbald wrote." Chalmers Caledonia volume 2 page 884
It appears that the above Hall is the ruin called Hallyards on the South side
of the Almond in the Co. [County] Edinburgh. See Fyfes - Life on Land and Water at South Queensferry
Page 199.