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has become a ruin. In 1765 a new church for the united parish was built at
Hutton, on the site of its ancient church (/). Communicants, 346 ; stipend,
�390.]
The mansion-house and church of EDROM stand on the southern bank of the
Whitadder, whence the place obtained from the Saxon settlers the name of
Ader-ham, the hamlet on the Adder (a); the name being composed of the Cam-
bro-British appellation for the river, and the Anglo-Saxon term for the village.
Aderham was changed to Ederham, and Ederham was contracted colloquially
to Edrom, as Edenham was abbreviated to Ednam. The lands and church
of Ederham, with Nesbit, were granted to St. Cuthbert's monks by Gospatrick,
the Earl of Dunbar (b), and confirmed in 1139 by David I. (c). In 1150
the donation of Gospatrick was confirmed by Robert the bishop of St. Andrews,
in the presence of the synod at Berwick town; and it was also confirmed by
Bishop Richard, who ruled the see of St. Andrews from 1163 to 1177.
Richard also granted, in favour of the prior of Coldingham, the investiture of
the church of Edrom (d). In the ancient Taxatio, the church of Edrom
was rated at no less than 100 marks. Edrom was of course a vicarage till
the Reformation ; and William de Chatton, " vicaire de l'eglise de Ederham,"
swore fealty to Edward I. on the 24th of August 1296, at Berwick town (e).
(f) For more recent particulars of this united parish, see the Stat. Acco., iv., 196, and the Tabular
State subjoined.
(a) The Adders in Berwickshire, the Ader in Wiltshire, and the Ader in Sussex, derive
their several names from the Cambro-British Awedur, signifying running water. Lhuyd's Arch .
233.
(h) Diplom. Scoti�, pl. 71.
(c)  Dougl. Peer., 43.     About the year 1147, David granted those monks another confirmation,
with two material exceptions; (1.) Of thirty shillings  due  to  his  son  and  heir,  "Pro corrodio
regis ; "   and (2.)   " Pro exercito regis."    Chart, Cold., 2.    This  charter  was  confirmed by Earl
Henry, the king's son, and by William, the son of the earl.    Ib., 10-4-89 ; and with a thousand
confirmations  of the successive   Earls   of   Dunbar,   it   was  additionally  confirmed by David  II.
Rob. Index, 82.     We  thus  see  that  David I. was  entitled to  a  corody  (corrodium)  from the
monks of Coldingham.    Carody, saith Blount,  signifies a sum  of  money,  or allowance of meat,
drink, and clothing, due to the king from any religious house; and if withheld, it might have been
exacted by the writ, Corodio IIabendo.    We here trace an obscure particle of the old law of Scotland
during David's time.
(d)  The bishops' Litera was addressed to the prior and convent of Durham, "de investitura ad
ecclesiam de Ederham."    Ib., 42.     Roger,  who  ruled that see from   1188  to  1202,  granted a
concessio ecclesi� de Ederham magistro Alano ad presentationem prioris et conventus Dunelm."    Ib.,
43.     In  the  same  chartulary there are a variety of other precepts, both of the  bishops of  St.
Andrews as diocesans, and of the Scottish kings, addressed to the prior of Durham as to the church of
Ederham.                                                          (e) Prynne, iii., 659.