Master Adam Hepburn, Dean of Dunbar

MASTER ADAM HEPBURN

Dean of the Collegiate Church of Dunbar

Evidence from the Laing Charters

13 June 1448: Notarial Transumpt of a Charter, dated at Halis [Hallos] Castle, 13th June 1448, by Patrick Hepburn, lord of Hailes, granting to John Thomson ('Thome ') of Northhalis, for his service, a tenandry of land in the territory of Northhalis, and a cotland in the territory of Benyston, in the regality of Dunbar and constabulary of Haddington, which lands had been resigned by the said John : To be held for a yearly payment of six merks to the chapel of St. Mary at Merkil, one suit of court at the grantor's court of Halis, with ward and relief. Witnesses to charter, Mr. Adam Hepburn, dean of the collegiate church of Dunbar, the grantor's brother, James Logan, James Cokburne, Alexander Hopburne, Adam Crechtoun, and James Qwhitlaw, the grantor's kinsmen. Transumpt made in the burgh of Haddington, 18th April 1453, at the request of James Thomson, first-born son of the late John Thomson, by Alexander Clerk (notary by imperial, authority), in presence of John Sydserf of that Ek, Andrew Haliburtoun, William Qwhitlaw, squires ; Robert Haliburtoun, bailie of Haddington, and John Aytoun, burgess there. [1992, Box 51 The Laing Charters: charter number 126