Mertoun kirk session
A church court that sat within the presbytery of Selkirk, later of Melrose, and from 1613, the presbytery of Earlston, and the synod of Merse and Teviotdale. The church was established following the Reformation in 1560. Ministry is recorded from 1560. Prior to the Reformation, the church belonged to the Premonstratensian Abbey of Dryburgh.