(ix) Total quantity of grain and other articles confumed in the parish Wages and price of labour Services, whether exacted or abolished Commerce Manufactures Manufacture of kelp, its amount, and the number of people employed in it Fisheries Towns and villages Police Inns and ale-houses Roads and bridges Harbours Ferries, and their state Number of fhips and veffels Number of feamen State of the church Stipend, manfe, glebe, and patron Number of poor Parochial funds, and the management of them State of the schools, and number of fcholars Antient state of population Caufes of its increase or decrease Number of families Exact amount of the number of fouls now living Divifion of the inhabitants 1. By the place of their birth 2. By their ages 3. By their religious perfuafions 4. By their occupations and fituation in life 5. By their refidence, whether in town, village, or in the country VOL. I. Number Number of houses uninhabited houfes dove-cots, and to what extent they are deftructive to the crops horfes, their nature, and value cattle and ditto sheep and ditto fwine and ditto Minerals in general Mineral Springs Coal and fuel Eminent men Antiquities Parochial records Mifcellaneous obfervations Character of the people Their manners, customs, ftature, &c. Advantages and difdvanaces Means by which their fituation could be meliorated CON It may be proper to remark, that, by some mistake, it was omitted to be mentioned, that the account of Ballantrae was tranfmitted by the Rev. Mr William Donaldfon, minister of that parish, who took a very early and active part in this inquiry. From Materials furnished by the Rev. Dr. THOMAS SOMERVILLE Minister of Jedburgh. IN Origin of the Name. a charter granted by William the Lyon of Scotland, to the abbot and monks of Jedburgh, in the year 1165 *, the names of Jedwarth and Jedburgh are promiscuously ufed; but in modern times the name of Jedburgh alone is retained. The name is fometimes written with a G; and is faid to be derived from the Gadeni, a tribe who antiently inhabited the whole tract of country that lies between Northumberland and the river Tiviot. It was perhaps the capi tal city belonging to the tribe, and hence obtained the name of Gadburgh or Jedburgh. VOL. I. A Extent. A fac fimile copy of this charter was published at Edin burgh by A. Bell, anno 1771. |