Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

THE SCOTTISH BORDER.
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*' dissimo reverendisquc in Christo Patribus Gawino Ar-
" chiepisco Glasguen. Cancellario nostro Georgia Episcopo
« Dunkeldeii. Henrico Episcopo Candide Case nostreque
" Capelle regie Strivilengen. dilectis nostris consanguineis
" Jacobo Moravie Comite ^-c. Archibaldo Comite de Er-
« gile D(y>nino Campbell et Lome Magistro Hospicii nos-
« tri Hugone Comite de Eglinton Domino Montgomery
" Malcolmo Bmnino Flemt/ng magno Camerario nostro
" Fenerabilibtts in Christo Patribus Patricio Priore Ec-
" clesie Metropolitaiie Sanctiandree Alexandro Abbate
" Monasterii nostri de Cambuskynneth dilectis familiari-
" bus nostris Thoma Erskin de Brechin Secretario 7iostro
«' Jacobo Colville de Estwemis campotorum nostrorum ro-
" ttdatore et nostre cancellarie directorc militibus ct Magis-
« tro Jacobo Foulisde Colintoun nostrorum rottdorum Re-
" gistri et Concilii clcrico apud Edinburgh octavo die
" mensis Aprilis Anno Dotynni millesimo quingentesimo
" trigeshno octavo ct rcgni nostri viccsimo quinlo."
From these extracts, which care accurately copied from
the original charters,* it may be safely concluded, 1st,
that Selkirk was a place of importance before it was ruin-
ed by the English ; and, 2d, " that the voice of merchants
" had ceased in her streets," in consequence of the fatal
field of Flodden. But further, it seems reasonable to in-
fer, that so many marks of royal favour, granted within
so short a time of each othei-, evince the gratitude, as well
as the compassion, of the monarch, and were intended to
reward the valour, as well as to relieve the distress, of the
* The charters are preserved in the records of the burgh