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powerful family in Liddisdale, -who was ambassador from the 

 Scottish Court to that of France in our early history. There is 

 also a tradition about a battle being fought on the side of a small 

 burn close by, betwixt the Scots and some English Eaiders, where 

 this de Soulis was slain — called " Lipraick's Syke, " — where old 

 Dickson's father was drowned after a raid of a different kind — 

 a hard drinking match — universal in those days." 



The country people have further improved on this story. They 

 say that the burn ran with lappered (congealed) blood for twenty 

 four hours ; and then by an etymological feat they derive the 

 name Lipraick or Lapraick from lappered. * The field of slaugh- 

 ter on the same authority was the "Dead-rigs, " although that 

 name might have arisen from the flatness of the ground, from 

 whose surface water does not readily recede. " Dedrygg " 

 appears in in a Melrose charter dated 1431. (Lib. de Melros, p. 

 524.) 



CAMP AT HARDACEES. 



On the hill of Hardacres, says the more recent Statistical 

 Account (1834), about a mile north-west of the cross, there are 

 traces of entrenchments, and some cannon balls have been found 

 between it and Hume Castle, which stands two miles north west. 

 The latter are, perhaps, remnants of Colonel Fen wick's attack 

 upon Hume Castle in 1650. " The camp at Hardacres, " writes 

 Mr Hood in 1875, *' had a marsh on the north and south, and no 

 access could be had to the top of the hill where the camp was, 

 unless the intruder went in at the east eud of the hill and so up 

 to the very west end, where a double row of trenches were quite 

 visible in my early days. " The camp on the summit of Hard- 

 acres Hill is marked as circular in Armstrong's map of Berwick- 

 shire, 1771. This map places the village of Deadrigg to the 

 west of the obelisk, and close to it, facing in a different direction 

 from the present farm cottages. 



[Since these notes were written I have revisited the pillar, and 

 I am sorry to report that the stone-cutting mania is no longer 



* The original form was probably Liprig, i.e. Leap-rig, from the A.S. 

 hlip, saltus, and hrycg, or rige, dorsum, a ridge. The same word occurs 

 in an old grant of land near Haydon-bridge, near the river Tyne, under 

 the form of Liprig and Liprigs. — (Archseologia ^liana, N. S. x. p. 41.) — 

 Since this note was written, I find the Berwickshire locality written as 

 " Leprieg[8], " in a charter of land near Halsington to Master William de 

 Grenlaw, in the reign of Alexander II, (Liber de Melros, p. 206.] 



