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PARISH OF EDROM. 227
of the parish, the Kev. ]\Iatthew Dysart and the Eev. Dr. James
Thomson. The former studied at Glasgow College, and was
licensed in 1728, and ordained in 1731. He assumed the name of
Sandilands on succeeding to the estate of Couston in right of his
mother. Having been present in the Edinburgh Theatre at the
first performance of "Douglas" in 1756, he was reproved by the
General Assembly. He died on the 13th June, 1773, in his sixty-
ninth year, and the forty-third of his ministry. Dr. Thomson was
a native of Crieff; he was ordamed at Eccles in 1805. He pub-
lished expositions of the Gospel according to St. Luke, and of the
Acts of the Apostles, with other works ; he also contributed to the
Encyclopccdia Britannica. He died on the 28th November, 1855,
in the eighty-eighth year of his age, and fifty-first of his ministry.
PAEISH or EDROM.
On a portion of ground called De la Beaute's field, on the
estate of Broomhouse, a cairn denotes the grave of Sir Anthony
Darcy, surnamed Le Sieur de la Beaute. Sir Anthony was a
native of France; he was in June, 1517, appointed by the Eegent
Duke of Albany, warden of the Marches and captain of Dunbar
Castle in place of Lord Home. Home was treacherously slain
at Edinburgh at the instigation of Darcy, who consequently
became odious. A dispute arose between him and David Home,
proprietor of Wedderburn, and a conflict between them and
their followers took place at Langton on the 12th October, 1517.
Darcy's party were worsted and put to flight. His horse stuck
fast in a bog in Dunse Moor, and as he was escaping on foot he
was overtaken by AVedderburn and slain. His head was fixed on
the battlements of Home Castle, and a cairn reared upon his
body.
Attached to Edrom Church is the burying- vault of the old family