The first reference to a burgh or town, King David I setting up Selkirk Abbey in the 12th Century 'And in Berwick one carucate, and one measure below the church on the Tweed, and half of one fishing, and a seventh part of the [produce] of the mill, and 40 solidi [silver pennies] from the annual tax revenue of the burgh. And in the burgh of Roxburgh one measure [of land], and a seventh of the mills, and 40 solidi from the annual tax revenue, and a seventh part of the fishings.'