To returne.  From Over liberton saw the byway to St. Catharines Well, a quarter of a mile from Liberton, Leswaid, and Drodden;[518] then came to Libberton Kirk; then came neir to Libberton burne, and turned up to Blackfurd, wheir we saw Braids merches with Libberton moore, now arable ground, bought lately by the President.[519] Also wt Grange[520] saw Sacellum Sancti Marlorati Semirogues Chappell.[521] That burne that runes throw the Brighouse goes by Blackfurd to the Calsay[522] and Powburne, then to Dudiston Loch, out of which it runes again by West Dudiston milnes and is the Thiget burne.[523] Braides burne againe runes by Libbertone toune to Peppermilne, fra that straight to Nidrie by Brunstone and its milnes to the sea, a mile west of Musleburgh:  the Magdalen[524] bridge layes over it their.

    [518] Anciently Dredden, now Dryden.

    [519] Sir John Gilmour.

    [520] Dick of Grange.  See Appendix I., p. 239, note.

    [521] The two names seem to denote the same chapel.  St. Roque’s
        Chapel was on the Boroughmuir, half-a-mile west of Grange House. 
        See Bishop Forbes’s Kalendar of Scottish Saints s.v.,
        Semirookie:  ’Aug. 16, 1327.  Under this corruption we find the
        popular designation of a chapel dedicated to St. Roque, just
        outside the east gate of Dundee.’  The other name, distinctly
        written, looks like a corruption of St. Mary of Loretto.  Besides
        the more celebrated shrine at Musselburgh, there is a tradition of
        a Loretto chapel near the Lady’s Wynd.  Possibly Lauder confused it
        with St. Roque’s Chapel.

    [522] Causeway, highroad.

    [523] So sometimes spelt, more often Figgate or Fegot.  The course of
        the two streams is incorrectly described.

    [524] So called from a chapel to St. Mary Magdalen.

That nunnerie the walls wheirof are standing at the Cheyns[525] was destined most by[526] burgesses daughters, as also that whilk was in the Colledge Yaird called Monasterium Sanctae Mariae in Campis.

    [525] Cheyns, now Sciennes, convent of St. Catherine of Sienna.

    [526] Destined by, meaning ‘destined for,’ hence, ‘occupied by.’

Cheynes holds of the toun:  they ware Robisons that possest it of old; Grange by the Cants; Craigmillar, Prestons, Edmistons, of that Ilk, now Reth,[527] first of that name being Chancellar Seaton his servand and carried the purse before him; Shirefhal, Giffards, then bought by the Earl of Morton, Lord Dalkeith, now it belongs to the Balcleuch; Preistfield (never kirk lands, tho the name would seime to say so), Hamilton, Tam of the Cougates[528] father; before them in the Chopmans; as also in the Cants.

    [527] In 1671 the second son of Wauchope of Niddrie married the
        daughter and heiress of Raith of Edmonston.