During the spring of 1875 the writer spent a considerable time in examining a number of documents preserved in the Eecord Office, London, at which period notes or transcripts were made by him from the letters and papers relating to the feud between the Elliots and Scotts. Prom the transcripts then made the following account of Martin Elliot and the feud between his clan and the Scotts was shortly after compiled. The clan of Elliot occupied a considerable portion of Upper Liddesdale, and also

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... ds in Ewesdale and Teviotdale. Their chief was of Eedheuch, on the Hermitage "Water; during a portion of the sixteenth century, however, they were under the leadership of Martin Elliot of Braidley, perhaps the most important person of the name who figured during that period. He is frequently referred to ill the letters preserved in London, 1 and also in the Records of the Privy Council of Scotland. ' In January 1566-67 he defeated the Earl of Bothwell, who had invaded Liddesdale with the intention of subduing his clan. 2 There is every reason to suppose that he was the Elliot mentioned as having been chosen chieftain of. the rebels of both England and Scotland, and whom all those of Tyndale, Ryddsdale, Tyeydale, and Lyddesdale had "with one consent promised to obey." 3 His influence at this period (1567) was so great that he was able to offer to the English warden, to bind himself to that country, not only for his friends but also for the Armstrongs and the rest of Liddesdale,