The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . or non-paymentof ransom, who, havingon one occasion rescuedthe Earl of Dunbar andMarch from a savagehorse, was rewarded bythe grant of lands inEast Lothian.^ Adam Hepburn had in the reign of David ii. a charterof the lands of Trepren (Traprain) and Southall, of Mersing-toun, and some in Colbrandspath, to be held of the Earlof March; and of the lands of Southalls and Northalls (nowcalled Hailes), at the Earls disposition on
The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . or non-paymentof ransom, who, havingon one occasion rescuedthe Earl of Dunbar andMarch from a savagehorse, was rewarded bythe grant of lands inEast Lothian.^ Adam Hepburn had in the reign of David ii. a charterof the lands of Trepren (Traprain) and Southall, of Mersing-toun, and some in Colbrandspath, to be held of the Earlof March; and of the lands of Southalls and Northalls (nowcalled Hailes), at the Earls disposition on the forfeiture ofHew Gourlay of Beinstoun; with the lands of Rollanstoun, 1 Chalmers Caledonia, ii. 440. Chalmers believed that these lands layin Morpeth ward, where there is a place now called Hebron; but it seemsmore probable that the sirname was taken from Hebburn in the Parishof Chillingham, where a family of the name flourished from the thir-teenth century or earlier till late in the eighteenth, when it ended in anheiress. Their bastle still stands in Chillingham Park (, xiv. 302-3). ^ Hector Boece, Bellendens Translation, 1536, Bookxvi. 136 HEPBURN, EARL OP BOTHWELL Berwickshire. He died before the end of the reigu,leaving two sons :— 1. Patrick (afterwards Sir Patrick) Hephurne, Lord of Hailes, his successor. 2. John. John de Hibburne had a charter of donation dated 9 June 1363, granted by Patrick of Dunbar, Earl of March and Moray (who styles him his alM}WHMs),of the lands of Over and Nether Merkill, to him and the heirs-male of his body, whom failing to Patrick Hibburne his brother and the lieirs of his body; Nisbet identifies the latter with Sir Patrick de Heb- burne (of Hailes) who witnessed a charter of which the royal confirmation is dated 23 February 1368-69.* The great family of Hepburn of Waugliton is said by Sir George Mackenzie to have been the principal cadet house of Hailes ; ^ and this John is held by Chalmers ^ and others to hav
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