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third of the manor of Shirmondesden, and of a pasture called Butterland," 

 the reversion of which belonged to Sir Gilbert de Umfreville, son and heir 

 of Sir Thomas Umfreville, knight (Hodgson, ubi sup., and Inq. p. M. III. p. 

 243). Here Butterland is the representative of Helme Park. The title 

 of Screnwood Park or Parks still adheres to the steep grassy hill face 

 beyond which Black Chesters camp once stood, rising above the shallow 

 dean by the edge of which the Urn described by Mr Dixon in Club's 

 Proc. x. pp. 544-6 ; and again in vol. xi. pp. 302-4, was found. The name 

 Shirmounddene, Shirmondesden, or Chirmundisden has disappeared. It 

 belonged to the barony of De Vescy, from which it was held by the Lords 

 of Redesdale. Screnwood, in which it appears to be incorporated, is as 

 early mentioned, and had a separate existence when the Testa de Nevill 

 (temp. Henry III. and Edward I.) was compiled. In a valuation of the 

 lands which Robert Umfreville, late earl of Angus, held in capite of the 

 king,made in 1331, respecting the thirds or dower of Eleanor,his widow.there 

 are mentioned " rents of free tenants at Black-helme. 2s ; and lands and 

 tenements in ' Selmesden,' Clenell, and in other townships, 13s. (Hodgson, 

 I. it. p. 110.) Were these helms or helmes clond-collectors, like the helm of 

 Cross Fell ? which covers the summit like a helmet, and the wind that 

 generates in its bosom is called the helm-wind. 



Note on p. 46. Since this was printed off. Major Thompson has revisited 

 Holystone, and sketched the monumental cross on the cottage Avail, and 

 the position of the window head mentioned by Mr Nicholson, which, how- 

 ever, is scarcely cruciform in its aspect. Major Thompson writes: "I see 

 there are other stones in the walls close .to these old cottages, which appear 

 to be incised stones, but the walls would require a good deal of pulling 

 about to get at them." In regard to the stone figure at Sharperton (p. 51) 

 he writes : " I also saw the small stone at Sharperton saw-mill with the 

 head on it ; the accessories, however, were so imperfect, and so little of it 

 left that I could hardly say if they had been drapery or tvinris. The 

 carving of the head was certainl}" in too bold relief to have been portion 

 of a ' head-stone.' May it not have been part of some ornamentation 

 of a building that may in former days have been at ' Our Lady's Well'? : 

 this would account for the drapery." Another source for carved stones 

 was the chapel on the Kirk-hill of Hepple. When it was erased in 1760 

 to build a farm-stead, " the font and the pedestal were in good pre- 

 servation, and many mutilated monuments were found both within and 

 without the walls." (Mackenzie it. p. 75). Any of these could easily 

 have been carried off to Sharperton. Major Thompson made a drawing of 

 the inscription on the door-head at Sharperton (p. 51) from which it 

 appears, as I expected, that in conformity with the Book of Rates, the first 

 letter was G and not C : and that George Pott or Pots was the first erector. 

 The letters are peculiar and can only be represented by an engraving. 

 They are in common capitals. 



G P E P 16 7 5 

 ROGER , POTS 



