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granted the whole revenues of this convent to the monks of Dryburgh, as we
have seen, though the town of Berwick then belonged to England. (2.) Cold-
stream on the Tweed had a convent of Cistercian nuns, founded by Cospatrick,
the last of this name, Earl of Dunbar, and Derder, his countess. The nuns
were brought from the Cistercian convent at Witbow in England. This
foundation was probably made, soon after the end of David I.'s pious reign ; as
the last Cospatrick succeeded his father as Earl of Dunbar, in 1147, and died
in 1166 (b). This convent was dedicated to the Virgin Mary ; and was
endowed by its founders and by other favourers of the monastic orders, so
liberally, as to be one of the richest monasteries in Scotland (c). The prioress
of Coldstream no doubt submitted to Edward I.; as in 1297 he gave her a
writ of protection for her person, her nuns, and her estates (d). After
the battle of Halidonhill in 1333, the prioress, with the master of Coldstream,
submitted to the conqueror, and was received into his protection (e. In 1419,
John de Wessington, the prior of Durham, confirmed the lands of Little
Swinton to the nuns of Coldstream. In the same year, Prior John entered into
a convention with Marion, the prioress of Coldstream, about the lands, tithes,
revenue. There was a house of White friars, or Carmelites, founded in Berwick, 1270, by Sir John
Grey, whose duty it was to officiate in the chapel royal within Berwick castle. Wallis's Northumb.,
ii., 95. There was a house dedicated to the Holy Trinity at Berwick-bridge, whose duty it was to
pray for the passengers, and to profit from their safety. Id. There was also a house of Grey friars
here. Ib., 96. There was a house of preaching friars here, which seems to have boon decayed before
1291 ; and there was a hospital at Berwick, which was dedicated to Mary Magdalen, with an appen-
dant hermitage at Sogden; and there is a field between Berwick walls and the sea which is still called
Maudlinfield, from its being the ancient site of this hospital. Id.
(b) Chron. Melrose.
(c)  Gospatrick granted to the monastery of Coldstream the church of Laynel, with its pertinents,
with a carucate of land, one half of it in Laynel and the other half in Birgham.    He also con-
firmed to those nuns the church of Hirsel, with  a  carucate of land in  the  same  parish,  which
Derder, his countess, had granted them.    Dougl. Peer.,  438, who quotes the chartulary of Cold-
stream, which he seems to have seen.     The grants of Cospatrick and his worthy countess were
confirmed by Waldeve, their son, who succeeded his father in  11(56, and died in  1182.    Ghron.
Melrose.    The intimation of Dugdale, that this nunnery was founded by Eail Patrick and Agatha,
his spouse, is quite erroneous.    Monast., ii., 1057.    At its suppression its revenues consisted only of
money, �201; of wheat, 3 chalders, 11 bolls, 3 firlots ; of bear, 8 chalders, 12 bolls  1 firlot   1 peck
MS. Shaw.
(d)  Her submission is not, indeed, recorded either in Rymer or in Prynne, but her writ of protection
is mentioned in Ayloffe's Calend., 113.
(e)  Rym., iv., 570.    The magister of this convent is specially mentioned as part of this establish-
ment, as well as of that in Berwick town.