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'Lothian.' King Henry II. (1154-1189) granted a Charter 

 of Confirmation to Durham of all its estates and privileges, 

 and included the chapel of Stichill, which is described 

 as 'in Lodoneio.''^ When it fell into the county of Roxburgh 

 is not known. 



Upon David's accession in 1124, Stichill was a fief of the 

 Crown. Urban III. styled him " Princeps Catholicus et 

 Christiani Fidei Ampliator." Among his many grants to the 

 Monks of Coldinghara Church, there is one of a toft with 

 houses in Edenham, which Gilbert the priest of Stichel held 

 of him, the reddendum for which was fixed at 2s. yearly.^ 



There is at Kenmure a document which records the names 

 of three early proprietors in Stichill — Hugh Dundere, the Lady 

 de Moroville, and Julian the wife of Radulf de Braeslaughen.* 

 In it Alexander, King of Scotland, confirms the grant which 

 Johanna de Moreville made to Julian, the wife of Eadulf de 

 Braeslaughen, of the two 'of (ox) gang of land, with the toft 

 and crot't, which Hugh Dundere held in Stitchell. Although 

 Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, appears, by inheritance, in 

 1306, in possession of the Barony of Stichill, King Robert the 

 Bruce is still his overlord. As such, he confirms a charter of 

 these lands from Thomas Randolph to Sir Adam de Gordon and 

 his heirs, on 28th June 1315.^ 



James II., in 1439-40, confirmed Sir William Gordon in the 

 lands of Stichel, resigned by his father, who reserved his 

 liferent." On 19th July 1455, Sir Archibald Douglas of Cavers, 

 Sheriff of Roxburghshire, paid to the Exchequer the Blench-duty 

 for Stichill.' Sir William de Gordon had died some time after 

 1450, and upon his succession Sir John Gordon became liable. 

 The particular Blench-duty was a pair of gilt spurs, ' unum par 

 calcarium deauratorum.' At thi? date (1455) their money 

 value was fixed at 63. 8d. It is interesting that on 9th July 

 1576, the valuation put on them by the Books of the Exchequer 

 was 1 rois nobill, which, in ' The Table of Conversions of 



' Feodaram Prioratus DanelmenaiB (Surteeg' Society) p. LXXXin. 

 ' The History and Antiquities of N. Darham by Eev. James Raine, 

 p. 5, App. XXII. 



■* Lands and their Owners in Galloway (McKerlie) Vol. iv., p. 51. 



* Douglas's Peerage (Wood) Vol. ii., p. 23. 



6 Registrum Magni Sigilli, Vol. 1439-40, p. 53, No. 222. 



' Exchequer Rolls, Vol. vi., p. 95. 



