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Title: The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Scotland. (Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography and Travels.)
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Publisher: Glasgow : A. Fullarton & Co.
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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s, on the Ale, is deservedly ad-mired both for its architecture and situation.—Theparish of Ancrum is in the presbytery of Jedburgh, andsynod of Merse and Teviotdale. Sir William Scottis patron of the united parishes, and titular of An-crum. Ministers stipend £223 16s. 6d., with amanse, and a glebe of the annual value of £30. Un-appropriated teinds £738 16s. 6d. Church built in1762; sittings 520. Schoolmasters salary £34 4s.4-id., with £29 fees. Average number of pupils 85.There are three private schools attended by about130 children. One of these is endowed with £11 2s.2id. annually, having been the parish-school of LongNewton. The Roman road from York to the frith of Forth,after passing through the north-east part of the parishof Jedburgh, cuts a small part of the north corner ofAncrum ; and upon the top and declivity of the hillto the eastward, on the border of Maxtown parish,vestiges of a Roman camp may still be traced—There is a ridge in this parish, over which the road
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ANC 33 AND to Edinburgh passes, about a quarter or balf-a-milewest of the line of the Roman road, called Lylliards,or Lilyards edge, from a lady of that name, who,on an invasion of the English under Sir Ralph Evre,Sir Brian Latoun, in 1544, during the distracted re-gency of the Earl of Arran, fought with masculinebravery, and fell here under many wounds. The oldpeople point out her monument, now broken and de-faced. It is said to have borne an inscription—re-cast from the well-known lines on a Chevy-Chasehero—running thus : Fair maiden Lylliard lies under this stane ;Little was her stature, but great was her fame;Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, Qstumps.And, when her legs were cutted ofl, 6he fuught upon her Sir Walter Scott, in a note on the ballad of The Eveof St John, gives the following account of the battleof Ancrummoor. In 1545, (1544?) LordEvers andLatoun again entered Scotland, with an army con-sisting of 3,000 mercenaries, 1,500 English borderers,and 700 assur

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