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Melrose Parish
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Blainslie (District) continued

burn flowing out of Threepwood Moss: at where, it takes South along the burn aforesaid to Threepwood Moss; thence skirting the Moss to the source of Moss Burn, and along the Moss Burn to the double fence and wall of the fields South of the Ph. [Parish] road and Old Bluecairn taking these fences bring it to [the] Moor road and little south of Bluecairn at where the ph.[Parish] and Co.[County] boundary thence bring it round east and [North]

Chieldhelles Chapel at Bl [Blainslie]

In a work named "Origines parichialis" 1851 Vol 1 p 285, the following appears describing Melrose Ph. [Parish]

"Its only dependencies" (the Abbey of Melros) [in] " the district appear to have been the Chapel of "St Cuthbert of Old Melros, the Chapel of "Mary of the Park", both mentioned above,[of] " which the latter stood in a detached portion [of] the "the parish of Lauder, locally within [Melros] " and Chieldhelles Chapel at Blainslie"