Saw Chirnesyde toune standing a mile of Idingtoun, belonging to sundry petty heritors, some of them of halfe mark lands.  My Lord Mordington is superior as also patron of the Kirk:  on Lanty is minister their.  It will be more then halfe a mile long.  At the end of it neir to Whitater stands the Nynewells (corruptly called the Nyneholes), from 9 springs of water besyde it, wheirof on in the fountain is verie great:  are Homes to their name.  Saw Blanerne, belonging now to Douglas of Lumbsdean.  Saw Eist Nisbet, ware Chirnesydes, now belongs to the Earle of Levins daughter:  item, Blacader, ware Blacaders (of which name Tullialen is yet), are now Homes who ware a cadet of Manderstones.  At a greater distance saw Manderston, Aytoun, Wedderburne, Polwart, Reidbraes, a house of Polwerts, Crumstaine, Sandy Spottiswoods; West Nisbet, a most sweit place, ware Nisbets to their name.  Saw Huttonhall, ware Homes to their name, now belongs to Hilton, which was a part of Suintons lands.  Saw the toune of Hutton belonging to sundry portioners.  Saw Paxtoun and Edringtone, a part of Basses[575] lands, and given away to a brother, now belongs to my Lord Mordington.  Saw Foulden, the Bastile, Nunlands, Ramsay—­his grandsire was parson of Foulden.  Saw Mordington and Nather Mordington.  Saw the bound road[576] within my Lords park.  Saw on the English syde of Tuede Ourde the Birkes wheir King Charles army ly, Norame Castle and Furde; the ladie wheirof inviegled King James the 4t when he went in to Flouden:  they have bein leud women ever since.  Ker of Itall got it by marieng the heritrix.  Went to Bervick, wheir they are building ane Exchange.  In the way is Halidoun Hill, wheir on of the Douglasses was slain; Lammerton, in the Chappell wherof was King James the 3d maried on King Hendrie the 7th of Englands daughter.  Their is a great salmond fisching on Tueid:  for the freedome but of one boat on it they pay 100 lb. ster:  per annum.  We was at a kettle[577] on the water syde.  My Lord Mordington had all the Magdalene field, but he could not get it peaceably possessed for thesse of Berwick, so that he sold it to Watsone.  Holy Iland is 7 miles from Berwick.  My Lords father Sir James Douglas was a sone of the Marquis of Douglas:  he maried the only daughter of the Lord Oliphant.  Idington is 5 miles furder in the Merse then Renton.

    [575] Lauder of the Bass.

    [576] Probably a road forming the boundary between the liberties of
        Berwick and the county.

    [577] ’A social party on Tweedside, common during the salmon fishing
        season.’—­Ogilvie’s Imp.  Dict.

Returned that same way almost and came to Auldhamstocks, 9 miles from Idington.  Saw Auldcambus, then came to Eistbarnes; then for Linton bridges; within 2 mile of it saw the land of Nyne ware.  Saw Gourlaybank; came and lay at Wauchton, who ware Moubrayes, and a 2d sone of my Lord Hailles marieing them they became Hepburnes.  Quinkerstaines is a peice of old land of theirs.  They got also Lufnes by marieng the heritrix theirof Riccartoun.  But my Lord Hailes rose by 3 forfaulters:  of the Earle of March, Dumbar, of the Creichton, and of Bothuell, Ramsay, the Laird of Balmayne.[578] Gorgie milne besyde Edenburgh did belong to Balmayne, but by a gift of nonentrie Otterbune of Reidhall, who was at that tyme Clerk Register, he got it.