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ORIGINES
[STOBO.
year 122,5, the same Prince renounced in favour of the see of Ghisgow, all claim to certain men of
Stohhowe, whom Adam the son of Gilbert had quitclaimed to Bishop Walter and his successors,
namely, Gillemil the son of Bowein, and his son Gilleraor, and Buz', and Gillys the son of Eldred.i
The possession of Stobo was yet once again disputed with the church about the year 1233, when
Mariot the daughter of Samuel, by the King's letters, took Bishop William before Sir Gilbert
Fraser sheriff of Traquair. The question was settled by Mariot renouncing her claims, in considera-
tion of a sum of ten merks yearly to be paid from the Bishop's manor of Edulueston, by the hands
of his chamberlain, to herself during her lifetime, and to her heir or assign after her death.^ At
the same time Eugene the son of Amabill (another daughter of Samuel) renounced all claim to the
manor which he might have, in favour of Saint Kentigern and the church of Glasgow.^ Stobo
appears as one of the baronies of the bishopric, in the years 1369,'' 1482,^ and 1486.6 In the
year 1489-90, it was erected by King James IV., along with Edilstoun, into a free regality, in
favour of Bishop Robert and his successors.'
The manor of Hoprew (which, together with Lyne and Meggct, is rated in the tax roll of the
shire at .£20 of old extent,) belonged, at the end of the thirteenth century, to the Erasers.*' It
had an old tower-house ; and at Drevah, which was a part of the Bishop's manor, there was
another place of defence.
The village of Stobo is ancient. It stands, with its mill, on the left bank of the Tweed, on ' a
pleasant and fertile spot of ground, a little above the river, looking to the south sun.' Certain farms
in the neighbourhood retained, in the last century, the name of ' the nineteen towns of Stobo.'"
On a fiat aud barren heath, called ' The Sheriflf-Muir,' are standing stones, cairns, and other old
remains.!"
At the weaponshawing of the shire, in 1627, the freeholders present from Stobo were William
Brown in Wester Happrew, bailie to my Lord Tester, in his lordship's name, well mounted, with
jack, ' plet sleeves,' steel bonnet, pistol, and sword, accompanied by threescore and five horsemen,
and four footmen, all with lances and swords, ' dwelling on noble Lord Yester's lands in Peebles,
Lyne, Stobo, and Drummelzier ;' and David JIurray of Halmire, well mounted, with thirty-nine
horsemen, for his lands in Newlands, Stobo, and Drummelzier.^^
The chapelries of Stobo were five in number, namely, Lyne, Broughton, Kingledoors, Dawic,
and Drummelzier. The advowson of the first between the years 1189 and 1209, was dis-
puted between Gregory the parson of Stobo, on the one hand, and Robert of Line, the son and
heir of David of Line and Waldeve his uncle, on the other side. J. bishop of Whitherne, to
whom the cause was remitted by the Apostolic See, decided against the lay claimants, who there-
upon renounced all right to the chapel in favour of the Bishop of Glasgow, patron of the mother
church, and the parson of Stobo. ^^
Regist. Glasg., pp. 110, 111.
Uegist. Glasg., pp. Ill, 141, 142.
Regist. Glasg., p. 112.
Chamljerlain Rolls, vol. i., p. S09.
Regist. Glasg., p. 445.
Regist. Glasg., p. 4.50.
' Regist. Glasg., p. 467.
" Lib. de Melros, p. vJ19.
y Pennecuik's Descript. of Tweeddale, pp. 2G8, 269.
'» Old Stat. Acet.
" Pennecuik's Descript. of Tweeddale, pp. 304-307.
'^ Regist. Glasg., p. 72. See under Lyne.