Drumlanrig Castle and the Douglases

EARLY HISTORY OF CLOSEBURN & DALGARNOCK. 223
lands and tithes, with a number of other churches which
had belonged to the monastery of Holyrood House
(Keith's Bishops, 3$). Its subsequent fate is found when
it became bound up with the church of Closeburn.
CLOSEBURN CHURCH.
The same veil hangs over the foundation of Closeburn
church which enveloped that of Dalgarnock. It was
no doubt erected for the use of the barony of Kylosbern,
which we know to have been possessed by the Crown in
the reign of David I., but it may have existed at a much
earlier period. We know that Edgar, son of Duvenald,
who lived in the reign of William the Lion (1165-1214),
had inherited large possessions in Nithsdale from his
father, and was a liberal benefactor to the church. To
the abbey of Kelso he gave in presence of his son Gyl-
connel the church of Kylosbern (Gordon's Monasticon,
vol. ii., p. 479), and also the church of Dalgarnock, as
we have before stated, to the abbey of Holyrood. This
donation of the church of Kylosbern was confirmed by
Walter, the bishop of Glasgow, in 1232, the very year
that Ivan de Kyrkepatric received the barony from
Alexander II. (Chart. Kelso, No. 278). The Kirkpatrick
family, however, did not assent to this arrangement,
claiming the right to the advowson. This shows, if we
had no other proof, that the grant had been made by
another family than the De Kyrkepatric, as they would
scarcely have ventured to withdraw from the church what
had been given for the benefit of the souls of their
ancestors. Adam de Kyrkepatric, son of Ivan, disputed
the right of the abbey, and the question was referred to
the Abbot of Jedburgh, who decided in 1264 that the