16 REPORTS OF MEETINGS FOR 1909 



Though easy of access from Bei'wick and Kelso by the 

 North Eastern Railway, ColdvStream presents considerable 

 difficulty to one approaching it from the North, and in 

 consequence it was found necessary to organize the meeting 

 from more than one point, the Railway Companies granting 

 facilities of booking to Coldstream or Duns, as proved most 

 suitable. To occupy the time of those who arrived from the 

 East, an^angements were made for an inspection of Tillmouth 

 Chapel, situated in a field on the farm of St. Cuthbert's at 

 the confluence of the Till and the Tweed. From Twizell 

 Station the Secretary conducted a small party to the railway 

 bridge which crosses the Till, where descending by its left 

 bank and traversing, with the tenant's generous permission a 

 newly sown field of oats, they reached the site of the old domestic 

 chapel of the lords of Tillmouth, overlooking the 

 Tillmouth junction of the two rivers. Heavy rain which 

 Chapel. had prevailed during the night slightly tinged 



the sluggish waters of the Southern stream, but 

 did not affect those of the Tweed till after mid-day, when a 

 muddy frjshet discoloured, and largely augmented, its shrunken 

 winter volume. The strip of Beech that fringed its banks near 

 Twizell Boat-house, attracted the eye by its rich vernal beauty, 

 and clumps of fragrant Gorse and bursting Lilac added colour to 

 its Northern bank. A profusion of Primroses enlivened the shade 

 of scrubwood, while the Meadow Saxifrage and Mountain Speed- 

 well lent variety to the fresh verdure that clothed both banks to 

 the water's edge. The ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Catherine, 

 a donative in the gift of the lords of Tillmouth, was originally 

 endowed with a carucate of land from their estate. By an 

 Inquisition in 1311, the vicars of Ellingham, Norham, Ilderton, 

 Brankeston, and Chillingham,. jurors, it appeared that the 

 chapel had been vacant from the feast of the Ascension by 

 the death of John de Molveston ; that Sir William Rydel Knt. 

 was the patron ; and that he had presented John de Kelsey. 

 Nicholas de Lessebery was ordained Deacon at Aukland in 

 1337, upon the title of the chantry of the chapel of St. 

 Catherine of Tyllemuth, given to him by Walter Crayk. 

 These are the only notices which have come down to us 

 relative to this small foundation. Being of exempt jurisdiction, 



