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keeper of Berwick (p). In 1200, he was at Lincoln with King William,
when the Scottish sovereign did homage to King John for his lands in Eng-
land (q). In this year he lost his wife, Ada, the pious foundress of several
convents (r). In June 1221, this aged earl attended Alexander II. to York,
where he witnessed the king's marriage with Joan, the eldest daughter of King
John (s). In 1232, died Patrick, the Earl of Dunbar, when he had enjoyed his
earldom fifty years. After spending the festivities of Christmas with his children
and neighbours, he sent for his relation and friend, the abbot of Melrose ; and
receiving from him extreme unction, with the religious habit, he quietly expired,
at the extremity of an honourable life. He was buried in the church of the
convent of Eccles, which his grandfather, Gospatrick, had founded (t). By his
countess Ada, he left two sons, Patrick and William, who appear as witnesses
to his charters; and a daughter, Ada, who was destined to be the mother of the
Homes (u).
(p) In 1199, when the bridge at Berwick was carried away by a flood, King William directed.
a precept to Earl Patrick, his custos of Berwick, and one of his justiciaries, to rebuild it. Philip,
the bishop of Durham, on whose lands one abutment of this bridge stood, obstructed the
re-establishment of it; but the prudence of Earl Patrick overcame the obstinacy of the bishop.
Hoveden, 796.
(q) Ib., 811. The English historian calls him Patricius, comes de Lonais. Fordun denominates
him Patrick, comes de Laodensi, 1. viii., c. 33. He is, indeed, said to have been the first Earl of Dun-
bar, who was Comes Marchi�.
(r) Fordun, 1. viii., c. 61, states the death of Ada, the king's daughter, and Marjory, her sister, in
1200 A.D. The countess Ada founded a convent for Cistercian nuns at St. Bothans in Lammermuir.
Spottiswoode's Acco. of Religious Houses, 511 ; Dougl. Peer., 439.
(s) Rym. i., 252. And Earl Patric, which he is simply called in the record, also witnessed her
endowment by Alexander, on the 18th June, 1221.
(t) Chron. Mel., 201.
(u) Ada first married a gentleman of the name of de Courteney, and obtained from her father
the lands of Home, "in liberum maritagium ; " but Courteney dying without issue, she secondly
married her own cousin, William, the son of Patrick of Greenlaw, who was the second son of the
fourth Gospatrick. William, the husband of Ada, assumed the name of Home, and, from this
marriage, sprung the border clan of the Homes. Douglas, the genealogist, indeed, assigns to
the venerable Patrick an elder son Galfrid, whom the Peerage writer marries to Jean, the eldest
daughter of King John. He quotes Rymer, who, indeed, has printed the marriage contract of H., the
Earl of March on the continent ; and to make out his point, Douglas only interpolates P. instead of
the H. in the record. William, the second son of Earl Patrick, obtained from his father the manor
of Fogo in the Merse ; and he married Christian Corbet, the opulent heiress of Walter Corbet
of Makerstoun in Roxburghshire. Christian died in 1241, and William, her husband, in 1253.
They left two sons, Nicholas, who enjoyed Makerston, and Patrick, who possessed Foghou.
[Fogo].
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