Waughton is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony in the counties of Haddington, Berwick and Fife. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1452. It also appears in the sources as Wauchtoun, Wauchtoune, Waughtoun and Walchtoun.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS ii, no.588, p.129, 9 July 1452: Patrick Hepburn’s Walchtoun and other Haddington lands, part of Colbrandispeth in Berwick and the superiority of Tolly in Fife incorporated into one free barony. No.2455, 21 September 1498, confirms a conveyance of the same cross-county estate.
Retours and Lyon records
Published Retour index, Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis retornatarum abbreviatio, vol. III (1816): Wauchtoun, Berwick baronia nos.2, 13, 283; Haddington nos.1, 4, 26, 119, 260, 338, 363, 388. Wauchtoune, Fife baronia nos.174, 787.
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