This west end of the cross stretched still further westward, as appears from the foundations of pillars found here; and the grand en trance was upon the west end, from whence the principal arch extended to the east, supported by massy columns, and the vestige of it still remains above the eastern window. Betwixt eight of these pillars, nigh the dome, there has been a wall eight feet high, which went from pillar to pillar, the inside of which might have been employed as a vault to bury the dead; it is supposed that the gallery above the wall contained the organs.

Both on the north and south of this great alley of the church, is a clear passage from the one end to the other, called the small aisles of the body of the church. There are just eight aisles, or private chapels, remaining in the south, which have been separated from each other by a partition wall; every one of them has a fontstone curiously carved, having little niches for crucifixes, or for holding tapers to burn for the souls of the departed. There were like

wise altars* adjoining to the font, dedicated to different saints; several gentlemen having mor

* Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, who wrote betwixt the 15th and 16th century, gives a very concise description of Altars and Saints.

Behold in every church and queere,

Through Christendome in burgh and land,
Images made with mens hand.

To whom are given diverse names,

Some Peter and Paul, some John and James :

Sainct Peter carved with his keyes,

Sainct Michael with his wings and weyes:

Sainct Catheriue with her sword and wheele,

An hynde set up hard by Sainct Geele.

It were over long for to descrive,
Sainct Francis with his wounds five.

Sainct Trodwell eke, there may be seene,

Who in a pin hath both her eene.

Sainct Paul well painted with a sword,

As he would fight at the first word.

Saint Appollon on altar stands,
With all her teeth into her hands.
Sainct Roch, well seased, men may see,
A byle new broken on her thie:
Sainct Eloy, he doth stately stand,
A new horse-shoe iuto his hand.
Sainct Ninian, of a rotten stocke;
Sainct Dutho, bor'd out of a blocke;
Sainct Andrew, with crosse in hand;
Sainct George upon a horse ridand;
Sainct Antone set up with a sow;
Sainct Bryde well carved with a kow,
With costly colours fine and faire,
A thousand more I might declare:
As Sainct Cosme and Dominian;
The Souter, or Sainct Chrispinian;
All these on altars stately stands,
Priests crying for their offerands:

tified an annuity called altarage money, for a monk to say mass for their souls, and the souls of their ancestors and successors.

In the first aisle from the west is the burial

To whom we commons on our knees
Do worship all these imageries.
In church, or queere, or in the closter,
Praying to them our Pater noster,
In Pilgrimage from town to town
With offering and adoration.
To them ay babbling on our beeds,
That they may help us in our needs.
Some to Sainct Roch with diligence,
To save them from the pestilence
For the.r teeth to Sainct Apoline,
To Saint Trodwell to mend their eene.
Some make offerings to Sainct Eloy,
That he their horse might well convoy.
They run, when they have jewels tint,
To Sainct Syeth ere ever they stint.
And to Sainct Germane to get remead,
For maledies into their head,

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They bring mad men on feet and horse,
And binds them to S. Mongoe's crosse.
To Sainct Barbara they cry full fast,
To save them from the thunder blast.
Some wives sainct Margaret doth exhort,
Into their birth them to support:
To Saint Antone to save the sow,
To saint Bryde for calf and kow.
To Sainct Sabastian they run and ride,
That from the shot he save their side.
And some in hope to get their heale,
Runs to the old roode of Karreal.
Howbeit these people rude,
Think their intentions to be good,

ground of the Boustons of Gattonside, a very ancient family*.

In the second aisle is the burial-ground of people in the name of Rae,

And in the third from the west, (by clearing off rubbish in the year 1815), was discovered a tomb-stone with an engraved figure upon it, in full length; his hands up in the form of prayer, a gown upon him, a belt around his waist, and the appearance of sandals upon his feet, with an inscription in black letters around the stone.

* There was one of the name of Baston, an English poet, a Carmelite friar, and prior of Scarborough, who was found among the prisoners at Bannockburn. Edward in full confidence of his success had brought him to sing to the praise of his triumph. Being presented to King Robert, he was promised his liberty upon condition of composing a poem, to be sung in honour of the Scottish victory; this he did in a monkish kind of rhyme. From local tradition it appears that he had derived from some of our early Kings the vicarage of Melrose or Gattonside: one of the vicars named Bouston was actually married to the natural daughter of abbot Durie of Melrose. From Baston is thought that the name is corrupted and now called Bouston.

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In the fourth aisle from the west is the burial ground of Alexander Pringle, Esq. of Whitebank, the male representative of the ancient family of Pringle of Gallashiels. It appears from the tombstones that they have been connected with several honourable families, viz. with the Lundins of that ilk, with the Humes of Wedderburn, and one of them with Sophia Shoner, a Dane, maid of honour to Queen Anne of Denmark.

One of the grave-stones contains the following inscription:—

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