they helped him to administer his kingdom successfully. The Church was the patron of law, order and obedience. The monks were peaceable, docile, and above all, skilful farmers and flockmasters, thereby producing wealth for the country. Abbots often built chapels on their distant estates to serve not only as a place of worship but as an office for conducting the affairs of the land. The Chapel at Beuskiag at Morningside may well have been such a chapel, as also the small chapel at Darmead Linn among, the high mosses at the south-eastern corner of the parish.

A third place of worship, the chapel of St Michael was situated at the manor house of the lord of Cambusnethan. The church of Cambusnethan, was founded early in the twelfth century and was under the control of the Abbot of Kelso, who received its tithes and other rights by a grant of William de Finnemunde, the lord of the manor; and these rights were confirmed by Malcolm IV and by William the Lion. From Ralph de Clere. who seems to have succeeded Finnemunde as lord of the manor, the monks of Kelso obtained a confirmation of the church of Cambusnethan, and he granted to them and to the said church the tithe of all multure, the produce of his mills of Cambusnethan, along with the right of priority in grinding the corn at the said mills, in return for which the monks granted him permission to have a private chapel within or near the manor house dedicated to St Michael, but the rights of the parish church of Cambusnethan, which was dedicated to Saint Aidan, were to be safeguarded, that is to say, the people of the district had still to fulfil their Easter obligations at the parish church, bring their children to St Aidan's for baptism, and pay their teinds at the parish church and not at St Michaels.

Before the end of the thirteenth century the church at Cambusnethan with its tithes and other property was transferred from the monks at Kelso to the Bishop of Glasgow and it continued to belong to that See as a mensal church. The Bishop of Glasgow was responsible for the cure of souls in the parish and discharged this obligation, as did the Abbot of Kelso, through the services of a vicar pensioner, who received a house, land and a salary from the income of the parish, the surplus going to the support of the Bishop, who may have received his teinds in person, when he was in residence at Garrion Tower, his summer house.

Although this part of the parish was under the monks of Kelso and later under the Bishop of Glasgow, the district of Allanton and Morningside belonged to the Abbacy of Aberbrothie; the village of Chapel in the Allanton district takes its name from the fact that it was the site of a religious house dependent on the Abbey. The lands of Morningside were held from the Abbot of Aberbrothie in consideration of an annual payment of forty merks and half a ton of wax on the Eve of the Feast of St John the Baptist The monks held these lands, and the old church by the Clyde remained a mensal church of the Bishop of Glasgow until 1560 when the Church property was confiscated and the true religion suppressed.