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Inedited Material for the History of Pawston, 

 Mindrum, Shotton, etc. 



By the late James Hardy, LL.D. 



[Written in 1889.] 



A mere fragment of histoiy has preserved the names of 

 several of the localities the Club is now visiting. Twelve 

 hundred and nineteen years ago — before the year 670 — Oswy, 

 King of Northumberland, and his nobles gave to the church at 

 Lindisfarne numerous donations of land on the river Bolbenda, 

 with the following stedes or hamlets, viz. : — Suggariple, 

 Hesterhoh, Gistatadun, Waquirtun, Cliftun, Scerbedle, Colwela, 

 Eltherburna, Thornburnum, Scotadium, Bathan and Minethrum 

 (Hist. Sti. Cuthberti apud Scriptores in Ttvysdon, col. 67. 

 Morton's Monastic Annals of Teviotdale, p. 3, note). Some of these 

 are still recognisable ; others have probably perished. Suggariple 

 may be Sourhope Chall ; Hesterhoh appears to be Easternhaugh, 

 and may survive in Elstanhaugh ; Gistatadun may be Venchen ; 

 Waquirtun, unknown ; Cliftun still survives ; Scerbedle, the 

 bottle or vill of the rave or bailiff, is not known ; Eltherburna 

 survives in Halterburn ; Thornburnum may be Thornington ; 

 Scotadium is Shotton ; Bathan is Yetholm ; and Minethrum is 

 Mindrum. [Consult Hoveden for other gifts]. We can trace 

 in Kidland King Oswy's name in Usway-ford and burn ; and 

 Heathored, a bishop of Lindisfarne, had given name to a 

 road in Kidland, whose name is preserved in one of the 

 Newminster charters. Oswy's gift was very old indeed, being 

 antecedent to the bishopi-ic of St. Cuthbert, when Eata was 

 the bishop of Lindisfarne. Heathored was thirteenth bishop 

 (821-830). Nothing is known of his history. He lived during 

 the Danish invasion. Only the name of his x'oad survives 



