Dryburgh

Dryburgh, a beautiful ruined Premonstratensian abbey, in Berwickshire, 5 miles ESE. of Melrose, on the Tweed, here crossed by a suspension bridge. It contains the dust of Sir Walter Scott and his son-in-law Lockhart; whilst Ebenezer Erskine (q.v.) is said to have been born close by. The abbey was founded in 1150 by David I., and not, as is commonly stated, by Hugh de Morville. It is said to have been more or less destroyed in 1322 and 1385; by Bowes and Latom in 1544, and by the Earl of Hertford in 1545. See Spottiswoode's Liber de Dryburgh (Bannatyne Club, 1847).