Volume contents
- 1 - East Lothian , Index
- 3 - East Lothian , Dirleton
- 33 - East Lothian , Index
- 35 - East Lothian , North Berwick
- 56A - East Lothian , Extract
- 57 - East Lothian , North Berwick
- 71 - East Lothian , Dirleton
- 75 - East Lothian , Names by Collector
- 77 - East Lothian , Dirleton
- 81 - East Lothian , Names by Collector
- 83 - East Lothian , North Berwick
- 99 - East Lothian , Dirleton
- 103 - East Lothian , North Berwick
- 105 - East Lothian , Names by Collector
- 107 - East Lothian , Title Page
Continued entries/extra info
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Parish of North Berwick
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"At a small distance to the S.W. [South West] of the town there are the ruins of a monastery. The eminence on which
they stand commands a delightful prospect of the Frith of Forth the coast of Fife and several
little islands which lie about a mile or two from the shore. The monastery was founded by Duncan
Earl of Fife who is supposed to have died A.D. 1154. It was governed by a prior and prioress
and possessed a very considerable property in Fife and Ayrshire. A small ruin supposed to have
been a chapel belonging to the monastery. or to an hospital stands a little to the east of the harbour.
The adjacent ground was probably a burial place of the family of Douglass. In 1788 a seal with
the inscription "Sigillum Willielmi Domini de Douglas" was found in one of the vaults. This Lord Douglas lived
about the year 1353. -- Sinclair's Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] vol. [volume] 5 page 443.
"At North Berwick on the south western side of the town upon a commanding height which looks down upon the
Forth and upon the shore of Fife beyond it Duncan the Earl of Fife who died in 1154 founded a convent for Cistertian
[nuns.] The founder gave them some lands in his manor of North Berwick with the Patronage of its Church and various
[lands] and revenues in Fife. And they acquired the advowson of the Church of Largo of Kilconocher Kilbrachmont
[and] St Monance in Fife with some lands that belonged to each of them. The bishop of Dunblane gave them the church
Logie-Aithry near Stirling. Adam de Kilconacher the Earl of Carrick who was their zealous confirmed in 1266 to
[these] nuns the grants of his fathers. And they obtained various lands titles and revenues in East and west Lothian in Fife in
[Ayrshire] and in the shires of Berwick and of Roxburgh. In the ancient taxatiotio the lands which belonged to the nuns of
[North] Berwick were rated at £66.13.4. In 1296 the prioress of North-Berwick submitted to the overpowering Edward I. and
[in] return. she obtained from his policy writs to the several Sheriffs of Fife, Edinburgh, Haddington, Berwick and Roxburgh to restore the estates
of
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Transcriber's notes
Words lost in fold of page.
Ordnance Survey - East Lothian county, OS Name Books - East Lothian county - Volume 25 - Parishes of North Berwick and Dirleton, OS1/15/25
This volume contains place names information in the parishes of North Berwick, and Dirleton.
Ordnance Survey - East Lothian county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of East Lothian, which is in the east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.