Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... MORHAM, THE BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN KNOX. For a year prior to publishing one word on the Knox controversy I was making strict inquiry in every conceivable quarter, and on completing the article which appeared in the Edinburgh Courant, I submitted it to the late Principal Tulloch in MS., and had a letter from him stating that he considered I had "made a strong case." This gave me some satisfaction, and what follows will give readers some idea of how our united studies have been developed. (From the Edinburgh Courant of December 26, 1882.) "A little spark mak's muckle wark." In the very heart of East Lothian lies a small parish--much the smallest in the county--measuring only three miles in length by one and a half in breadth. It is situated between three and four miles south-east of Haddington, the county town, and its name in all probability is unknown to the bulk of Scotsmen. It is called Morham, and, like most other names of East Lothian parishes, is derived from the Saxon, and signifies the village on or near the moor. Although there are at present (1882) only a kirk and manse and school and schoolhouse appertaining to the parish, there was in former times a pretty considerable village therein, huddled, according to use and wont, around the castle or feel of the lord of the manor, and chiefly inhabited by weavers. The name is variously spelt Moram, Morham, Moreham, Morhame, and Morehame, but the oldest, commonest, and most correct spelling is Morham. It is not till the sixteenth century that the parish emerges into any notoriety historically. At that period Archibald Douglas, brother to James, Earl of Morton (then proprietor of Whittinghame, in the adjoining parish), and James, Earl of Bothwell, third husband to the unfortunate Mary, Queen...