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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Malton or Mantle Walls | Malton or Mantle Walls Continued | the early Bishops practised horticulture were within the present century to be seen at the back of the Castle. In support of these views the editor refers to the "New Statistical Account" and "Mortons Monastic Annals". But on turning to these works it will be found that they contain no warrant for the statement. It is true that Morton quotes the letter of Lord Dacre to his sovereign, in which it is stated that the Castle of Ancrum was burned, but it is not said that the Castle was the Bishop's Palace, and no information is given as to its situation. It appears to me that the views of the learned editor on this part are wholly untenable. The present Castle of Ancrum stands in the territory of Over Ancrum, and never was comprehended in the Bishop's Barony of Ancrum. Over Ancrum belonged in property to the Monks of Jedburgh. The lands and town of Over Ancrum with the mills & cottages thereof formed a part of the grant by King James to Alexander, Earl of Home in 1610. |
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[Page] 57Parish of Ancrum
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