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Liberties of Berwick
Sheet 18 No. 2 Trace 5

List of Names as written on the Plan	Various modes of Spelling the same Names	Authority for those modes of Spelling	Situation	Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest
Cumberland Bower	Cumberland Bower	John Logan	On Sheet	A commodious dwelling house with
	Cumberland Bower	Geo. Gilchrist	18.2	extensive offices and a farm of 76 acres
	Cumberland Bower	Wm Marshall		attached the property of the Corporation
				of Berwick upon Tweed and occupied by
				Mr George Gilchrist
				Supposes to have derived its name
				from its being the temporary residence of
				Duke of Cumberland on his xxward Ma[rch]
				in 1745

Bailies’ Burn	Bailies’ Burn	John Logan	On Sheets	A small stream rising about
	Bailies’ Burn	Geo. Gilchrist	18.1	a quarter of a mile north of
	Bailies’ Burn	Wm Marshall	18.2	Cumberland Bower, and flowing
	Baillie }	Jamiesons Scottish Dictionary		in a south westerly direction till
	Bailie }			it falls into ~~the Whiteadder~~ Wheatland Burn at Mordington Brid[ge]. During
	Bailie	New Statistical Account		a part of its course it forms
	Bailie	Fullerton’s Gazetteer		the boundary between the Ph of
	Bailie	Generally adopted system		Mordington & the Liberties of
		in Scotland		Berwick. The fish belonging
	This is correct. if it disagrees { See descriptive remarks			or frequenting this Burn were
	with Mordington please correct { on page 29 – Mordington			at one time constantly watched
	it as the N. list of Mordington [was not Amended]			by Bailies hence the name.

				M. Cottrell Private Royal Sappers and Miners

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