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Margaret was married in that kirk; but she was spoused at Windsor and
the contract consummated at Dalkeith. She returned to Lamberton kirk, in
June 1517, a widowed queen, in less felicitous circumstances owing to her
own misconduct In April 1573, Lord Ruthven, on an inauspicious day, met
Sir William Durie, the marshal of Berwick, at Lamberton kirk, where they
made a convention, which encouraged Durie to besiege Edinburgh castle (t).
Lamberton parish after the Reformation was annexed to the adjoining parish
of Ayton, to enlarge the stipend ; and in 1650 it was disjoined from Ayton and
annexed to the still smaller parish of Mordington (u). [The parish church,
erected in 1869, has 155 communicants; stipend, �261. A Free church has 78
members.]
The village and church of FOULDEN parish stand on the lower edge of a
dry height, near the upper end of two ravines or dens, which deepen as they
descend to the river Whitadder. The name was anciently written Ful-den,
which, in the Saxon speech, would signify the impure hollow or dirty den.
The prefix ful is, no doubt, the same as that of Ful-ham on the Thames,
which probably derived its appellation from the moisture of its site. The origin
of the parish is as obscure as the etymon of the name. The church was a
rectory till the Reformation introduced a new regimen. In the ancient
Taxatio, the church of Fulden was rated at 24 marks. In Bagimont's Roll
the tenth of the rectory was valued at �4. It is recorded, in the Tax Roll of
the Archbishopric of St. Andrews, 1547, as the rectory of Foulden in the
deanery of the Merse. The advowson of this church seems to have been always
attached to the manor. Robert de Ramsay, the parson of Fulden, swore fealty
to Edward I. at Berwick, on the 24th of September 1296 ; and soon after
received his property in return (x). Queen Elizabeth's excuses for the
Journey from Windsor to Edinburgh. He conducts the younye quene with great attendance and splen-
dour to Berwick-upon-Tweed : " On the xxx and xxxi days of July 1502, the quene tarried at Barr-
" wyk, where she had great chere of the said cappitayne of Barrwyk. That sam day was, by the cappi-
" tayne, to the pleaseur of the said quene, gyffen corses of chasee, within the said town, with other
" sports of bayrs and of dogs togeder. The first day of August, the quene departed from Baruick for
" to go to Lamberton kerke in verrey fair company, and well appoynted. Before the said quene war,
" by order, Johannes and hys company [of players] and Henry Glescebery and his company, the from-
" petts, officers of arms, and sergeants of masse; so that, at the departing out of the said Barrwyk, and
" at her Bedward, at Lamberton kerke, it was a joy for to see and here." Leland's Collectatanea, ii.
Sandford, in his Genealogical Hist., 522, mistakingly calls the said place of delivery Saint Lambert's
kirk ; but of such a saint I know nothing.                                (t) Spottiswood's Hist., 270.
(u) For other particulars of this united parish see the Stat. Acco., xv., 173, and the tabular state
subjoined to this shire.                                           (x) Rvm., ii., 724.
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