Anniversary Address. 11 



Under date of 1221, the Chronicon de Mailros narrates the 

 death of Philip of Stichil, as a fact of sufficient importance for 

 record in the monastic annals/^ He is also a witness to a 

 Confirmation of Margaret de Vescy de Lyllescleve, also in 

 the reign of Alexander II. (1214-49.)*' 



When Eadulph was Prior of Durham (1214-83) he granted 

 a Charter to Thomas," son of Eanulph and Juliana, who had 

 erected a chauntry in the Chapel of Stichele.^" Thomas was 

 the grandfather of the great Sir Thomas Randolph, afterwards 

 Earl of Moray." Thereafter the Prior of Durham and David, 

 Vicar of Stichil, had disputes with Sir Thomas and Lady 

 Juliana about a carrucate of land there. The matter was 

 referred to the Pope. Gregory IX. (1227-41) commissioned 

 H. Abbot of Kelso, ^^ and L. H. the Archdeacon of St. Andrews 

 and Glasgow, to adjudicate between the parties.*' They 

 narrate, in the Articles of Agreement which they drew up, 

 that this carrucate of land (or ploughgate, averaging 104 acres) 

 had formerly been in the joint tenure of William de Bosco, a 

 former Chancellor of Scotland, and Walter of Paxton, at the 

 annual payment of a half pete (stone) of wax to the Chapel 

 of Stichil. Sir Thomas, evidently through his wife, had now 

 come into the tenure of this land, and was soon in dispute with 

 the local ecclesiastics about their respective rights. Having 

 heard parties, the Commissioners obtained their consent to the 

 following agreement: — (1) That the Prior and Convent of 

 Durham, and David the Vicar of Stichil shall assign to Sir 

 Thomas and Juliana that half carrucate which formerly belonged 

 to Walter Paxton, who (2) in their turn, should assign to the 

 Prior and David that half carrucate which was William de 

 Bosco's, and in addition ' a culture of the land, with its tofts, 

 for their salvation,' and perhaps to get rid of the payment of 

 the wax, which is not referred to in the new agreement. 



The relation of Stichill to Durham and Coldingham Priories 

 was settled about 1235, when Thomas de Melsautz was Prior of 



*'' Liber Cartarum Prioratus S. Andreae, p. 138. 



•»8 Do. p. 253. 



*' Raine's N. Durham, App., p. 96, No. dxlii. 



5° Priory Coldinghame (Surtees' Society) No. 66. 



^' Douglas's Peerage (Wood.) 



« Raine's N. Durham, p. 112, App. dcl. 



" Chalmers' Caledonia, Vol. li,, p. 195. 



