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whereof were to be seen during late times (q). The parish church stands on
the north side of the village of West-Gordon. The patronage of the church
had long been in the king. Yet in 1767 the Earl of Home claimed before
the Court of Session the same right of patronage, without being able to support
his suit (r). The territory of Gordon, which was anciently of great extent,
appears to have been granted during the reign of David I. to an Anglo-Norman
settler, who assumed from it the surname of Gordon (s). He left two sons,
Richard and Adam, who enjoyed his lands of Gordon during the reigns of
Malcolm IV. and his brother William. Richard inherited the principal part
of the territory of Gordon ; while Adam enjoyed some portion of Gordon, with
the lands of Fans, lying on the southern side of the territory of Gordon (t).
Alicia de Gordon married her cousin, Sir Adam Gordon, the grandson, pro-
bably of Adam, the brother of Richard, and thus united the two branches of
this munificent family, and thereby re-uniting their whole estates (u). Of
this marriage was Adam of Gordon, who inherited all those estates, and died
during the troublous year of 1296, fighting probably for his country's inde-
pendance (x). Adam and Margery left a son, Adam, to inherit their estates,
and to support their country's cause during difficult times. He appears to have
(q) Dougl. Baron., 446.                              (r) Stat. Acco., v., 92.
(s) There appears to have been a manor of Gordon in Normandy, which was possessed during the
12th and 13th centuries by a family who took their name from their lands. Hoveden, 791 ; Rym., i.,
92-411-760. Douglas has absurdly mingled the Normandy Gordons with the Berwickshire Gordons.
Peer., 295-6.
(t) Chart. Kelso, 117-18-19. Richard de Gordon granted to the monks of Kelso some land at
Gordon, near the cemetery, a right of pasturage, an acre of ground at Todlaw, and an acre of
meadow in IIuntleystrother. Ib., 117. Richard de Gordon was succeeded by his son Thomas, who
confirmed the grants of his father. Ib., 125 ; and, dying under Alexander II., Thomas was succeeded
by his son Thomas, who dying soon after 1258, and leaving by his wife Margery an only
child, Alicia, she inherited his estates. Ib., 119. The second Thomas confirmed the grants of
his father, and added his own. Ib., 126. He conferred on them some other lands, with a part of
his peatary called Brun-moss, the liberty of taking timber from his woods, and of pulling heath any-
where within his estates. The monks in return gave the liberal Sir Thomas Gordon the right of
burial in the cemetery of the Abbey of Kelso. Ib., 120-21. He was alive on the 28th of August
1258.
(u) Adam de Gordon granted a peatary in his estate of Fans to the monks of Dryburgb. Chart.
Dryb., 146; and Alicia, during her widowhood, after the death of her husband in the Holy Land,
during the year 1270, granted a confirmation of former charters to the monks of Kelso. Chart. Kelso,
110.
(x) On the 3rd of September 1296, Margery, the widow of Adam de Gordon, obtained restitution of
their estates, having swore fealty to Edward I. Rym., ii., 727.
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