Jedburgh

Burns visited Jedburgh during his Border tour, and lodged in No 27 Canongate, from the 8^th to the 11^th of May. In his Journal of the tour, he relates that he was: 'waited on by the Maagistrates and presented with the freedom of the burgh'. He did not, however, sign the burgess roll, and until 1939 his burgess ticket was believed lost. In that year, however, it came up for sale. Unfortunately, Jedburgh was unable to raise the money to buy it back. According to Andrew McCallum, in the Burns Chronicle, 1942, the ticket recorsds that on 11^th May 1787; 'Robert Burns Esquire was entered and recived into the Libertys of this Burgh, Create and make a free Burges and Guild Brother of the same, who gave his Oath with all Ceremonies used and wont. Whereupon he required Acts of Court and protested for an Extract of the same under the Common Seal of this Burgh.'