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DIRECTORY.]
EDG-ERSTON is a Tillage, 7 miles south-
east from Jedburgh, and is a quoad sacra
parish erected from the civil parishes of
Jedburgh, Oxnam and Southdcan, and in
the small debt court district and poor com-
bination of Jedburgh. William Edward
Oliver-Rutherford esq. J.P. of Edgerston
House, is lord of the manor and principal
landowner. The population of the eccle-
siastical parish in 1901 was 262.
Post & T. 0. Camptown; Miss Hannah
Turner, postmistress. Letters received
through Jedburgh, which is the nearest
money order & telegraph office, 7 miles
distant. Delivery, 10.10 a.m.; dispatch,
4.5 p.m. Postal Orders are issued &
paid here
Clerk tn Parish Council & Inspector of Poor
& Collector of Rates for Edgerston, Thos.
Smail, High street, Jedbnrgh
Registrar of Births, Marriages & Deaths,
James Lawson
School Board, James C. Stevenson, cleric
Board School (vacant)
Established Church, Rev. Thos. Gordon B.D
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Davidson David, Edgerston house
Gordon Rev. Thus Kl>. (Estab. t.TheMaise
Oliver-Rutherfurd William Edward J.P.
Edgerston house
COMMERCIAL.
Ainslie Thomas, factor to Francis Turner
esq. Brombaulks
Amos Walter, joiner & cartwright.Camptwu
Carruthers Robert, factor to John Elliott
esq. The Arks
Jackson John, factor to Mr. Balfour of
Westerhouses, Stotfield
Johnston Jas. skin & wool dlr. Camptown
Lawson James, registrar of births, deaths
& marriages
Minto George, Edgerston
Scott Andrew, blacksmith
Smith Adam, factor to Robert Bruce esq.
Edgerston Lofts
EOXBUEGHSHIRE.
Stevenson James C. clerk to school board
Telfer Charles, Edgerston Rigg
Telfer Helen (Miss), grocer
Turner Hannah Holland (Miss), grocer, &
post office
Turner Harry Holland, tailor, Camptown
EDNAM (or Edenham) is a parish, in
Kelso poor combination, in the small debt
court district of Kelso, bounded on the
north-east by Berwickshire, south-east by
Sprouston, south-west by Kelso and north-
west by Stdchill. The village is pleasantly
seated on the email river Eden, about 3
miles north-east from Kelso station on the
North British railway. It is celebrated as
the birthplace, 11 Sept. 1700. of the poet
James Thomson, author of " The Seasons,"
his father having been incumbent of the
parish ; he was educated in Jedburgh for
the Church, but came to London in 1725 and
published the poem " Winter," which was
succeeded by " Summer " in 1727, by
• Spring " 'in 1728, and in 1730 by
" Autumn," and among other works was
the " Castle of Indolence ; " he died in
1748 ; a monument erected to the poet
stands on an eminence near the village, and
there is also one in WestminsterAbbey. The
land of the parish ranks among the finest
in this fertile district, and is exceedingly
well cultivated and enclosed. This place
affords the title of "Viscount to the Ward
family, Earls of Dudley. Hendersyde
Park is the residence of Sir Richard John
Waldie- Griffith bart. D.L., J.P. The Earl
of Dudley, who is lord of the manor, and
Sir Richard Waldie-Grifnth and W. A.
Macfarlane-Grieve esq. of Impington,
Cambs. are the principal landowners. The
area is 3,849 acres; rateable value, £6,229;
population, 1891, 581, and 1901, 523.
Post Office; Mrs. Isabella Clark, sub-post-
mistress. Letters received through Kelso.
Delivery, 8.30 a.m.; dispatch, 3.40 p.m.
The nearest money order office is at Kelso
& telegraph office at Stichill, 2 miles
distant
HAWICK, 1307 '
Clerk to Parish Council, Inspector of Poor,
Collector & Registrar of Births, Deaths &
Marriages, David Pringle, School house-
Established Church, Rev. John Burleigh.
School Board, David Pringle, clerk
Board School, David Pringle, master
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Burleigh Ew. John (Estab.). The Manse-
Griffith Sir Richard John Waldie- bark.
D.L., J.P. Hendersyde park
Henderson Miss, Eden house
COMMERCIAL.
Cessford George, miller, Ednam West mitt
Clark Isabella (Mrs.), grcr. & postmistress-
Fairbairn Edward, blacksmith
Hunter George, cart & wheel wright
Pringle David, parish clerk, inspector oft
poor, registrar of births, deaths & mar-
riages & clerk to school board
Shearer William,, miller, Ednam East mill
FARMERS.
Blair John & David, Spring hall
Common James, Ednam farm
Hamilton Gavin, Highridge hall
Hardy William, Harpertoun
Ross Richard, Newtonlees
Rutherford Andrew, West mains
Rutherford Peter, Clifton hill
Shearer William, Ednam East mill
Stevenson William, Eden mouth
Tulley Mrs. Elizabeth, Houndridge
Tulley James, Ferneyhill
Turnbull Alexander B. Hendersyde
GALASHIELS, a parliamentary burgb
and parish, formerly partly in this county,
has been, under the provisions of ths-
" Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 '*
(52 and 53 Vict. c. 50, sections 44 to 50)*.
transferred wholly into Selkirkshire.
G-ATTONSIDE, see Melrose.
HAWICK is a manufacturing town, a free
burgh of barony, police and parliamentary
burgh, head of a poor combination and
parish, 50 miles south-by-east from Edin-
burgh, 20 south-west from Kelso, 11 south
from Selkirk and 45 north from Car-
lisle, on the high road between the last-
named city and Edinburgh, on the Waverley
route of the North British railway, for which
there is a station not far from the centre of
the town. This burgh, together with Gala-
shiels and Selkirk, forms the Hawick par-
liamentary district, constituted in 1868,
and returning one member. The town is
seated at the confluence of the Slitrig with
the Teviot rivers; by the former stream it
is divided into two parts, which are con-
nected by three stone bridges. The village
of Wilton, on the north bant of the Teviot,
is now included within the burgh bound-
aries, the river being spanned by two
stone bridges, one re-erected in 1S65, and
several foot bridges. From its approximate
position to the border of the two kingdoms,
Hawick generally suffered severely from the
incursions of the English, and was more
than once burnt : one of the most destruc-
tive occurred in 1570, when it was set fire
to by the English under Sir Thomas Rat-
cliffe K.G. 3rd Earl of Sussex. The pre-
sent town consists chiefly of one long line
of streets, from which other thoroughfares
diverge on the right bank of the Teviot;
and on the left, or Wilton bank of the
river, of another continuous line of streets
end minor thoroughfares extending from it.
The environs of Hawick are much admired
the banks of the Teviot being extremely
picturesque and delightful. The great in-
crease nf manufacturing establishments,
together with the erection of extensive
mills, and the enlargement of others, have
conduced to the increase of the population.
The town is generally well paved and
lighted with gas and electric light sup-
plied by private companies ; the water
supply was in 1865 considerably increased
by the introduction of the stream of the
Allan, a mountain burn which joins the
Teviot 5 miles above the town, and this
"was supplemented in 1881 by a supply from
Dodburn in the same localitv, at a total
cost of about £32,000. A thorough system
of drainage has since been carried out at a
cost of £28,000. Hawick is a burgh of
barony, independent of the lord of erec-
tion, and appears to have existed free from
a very early period; but the documents of
HAWICK.
the burgh having been either lost or de-
stroyed during the inroads of the English
borderers, a charter was granted in the
year 1537 by James Douglas, 7th baron of
Drumlanrig, confirming to the burgesses
such rights and lands as they formerly
possessed; and in the month of May, 1545,
this was confirmed by another charter,
granted by Queen Mary. Under these
grants the burgesses annually elected their
magistrates, consisting of two bailies and
two representatives of each of seven incor-
porated trades, who. with fifteen coun-
cillors (elected for life), managed all the
municipal affairs of the town. In 1861, the
inhabitants, with the concurrence of the
existing Town Council, made application to
Parliament for a reform of the municipal
constitution, and the result was an Act
which considerably extended the burgh
boundaries, and provided that the coun-
cillors should be elected as in royal burghs,
and have the whole management of the
town property. The town is now divided
into five wards, each of which returns three
councillors, who retire by rotation. The
council elect a provost, 4 bailies, a cham-
berlain, a treasurer and town clerk, and,
besides acting as custodiers of the burgh
property, exercise all the functions of com-
missioners of police. The provost and
bailies are justices of the peace during their
tenure of office. An efficient police force is
established, and a court for petty offences
is held daily; the justice of peace court
being held as required, and a sheriff's
court is held on Wednesdays for the dis-
posal of civil and criminal cases. The
Town Hall and Municipal Buildings were
rebuilt in 1885-7, at a cost of £15,000, and
include a Free Library and Reading Room,
supplied with London and provincial
papers, the Free Libraries Act having been
adopted here in 1878. A new Free Library
is now (1903) in the course of erection,
presented to the burgh by Andrew Car-
negie esq. LL.D. of Skibo Castle, Suther-
landshire, at a cost of £10,000. The Buc-
cleuch Memorial Science and Art Institute
was built by public subscription in 1886,
at a cost of about £3.000, including a grant
of £800 from the Science and Art Depart-
ment; it includes one Museum of the
Archaeological Society, containing memo-
rials of the ancient history of the borders
and other antiquarian relics and curiosi-
ties. The Exchange is a large and hand-
some building, erected in 1865. A com-
bination poorhouse was built in 1857, at &
cost of £4,000, to hold about 103 inmates.
There are two Masonic Halls in the burgh :
Lodge St. John's, No. Ill, which received!
its charter in 1768, and Lodge St. James's,.
No. 424, which had its charter granted in.
1863, and occupies a new hall in TJnioni
street. The Teviotdale Farmers' Club was
established in 1859. There is also the West
Teviotdale Agricultural Society, estab-
lished in 1835, which holds an annual ex-
hibition of live stock. Four banking agen-
cies are in the town, namely, the British/
Linen Company Bank, the Commercial
Bank of Scotland Limited, the National.
Bank of Scotland Limited and the RoyaL
Bank of Scotland. One of the principal
hotels here, called " The Tower," in the-
Market place, was a fortress, belonging to*
the superior of the burgh, and the only
building not destroyed by the forces of
Lord Sussex ; at a later period it was the-
frequent residence of Anne, Duchess of
Buccleuch and wife of James, Duke of
Monmouth K.G. executed in 1685.
Hawick ranks as one of the most
considerable manufacturing and trading-
towns in the south of Scotland. There-
are two branches of the woollen manufac-
ture—hosiery and Scotch tweeds, and for
the production of both the town enjoys a
fair reputation. The market is held on
Thursday, and there are auction sales of
stock every Monday, and at the special
sales during the summer as many as 200, 00O 1
to 250,000 lambs are occasionally sold. The
fairs are held on the first Thursday lib
March, the 17th of May, the 21st of Sep-
tember and the 8th of November ; any of
these days happening on Saturday, Sunday
or Monday, the fair is held on the follow-
ing Tuesday. A tryst is likewise held in.
October, at which horses are exposed for
sale; and there is a wool fair held on the-
first Thursday after St. Boswell's fair in
July. The town is noted for its great
annual festival known as " the common
riding," which has been regularly cele-
brated without intermission for at least-
three centuries ; according to tradition,
some young men of the town, in the year"
after the battle of Flodden (1514), having-
surprised a party of marauding English-
during the night, about 2 miles below the-
town, and slain the greater part of them,.
took possession of their colour. A fac-
simile of this -colour or ensign is now
borne by an unmarried man of the burghs