12 Anniversary Address. 



Durham.^* It was agreed (I) that the Prior of Durham should 

 have the whole rectorial or great tithes of the Church of 

 Hedenham, with its lands and pertinents. (2) That the Prior 

 of Coldingham should have the whole rectorial or great tithes 

 of the Chapel of Stychyl for his own house of Coldingham. 

 (3) After the death of William, the Archdeacon of Lothian, the 

 whole rectorial tithes of Little Swinton should accrue to the 

 proper use of Coldingham. (4) If it should happen, after the 

 death of Richard, Vicar of the Church of Hedenham, that 

 the vicarage teinds shall be augmented, then the Prior of 

 Coldingham, for the time being, shall be answerable for half of 

 the augmentation. (5) And the Prior of Durham shall be 

 answerable to the ' Hostellarius of Durham for fifteen marks 

 yearly, which he used to receive from the Church of Hedenham.' 



Bishop David de Bernham consecrated Stichill Church on 

 30fch March 1242, and dedicated it, in all probability, as were 

 Coldingham and Durham and Ednam, to St. Cuthbert, although 

 Bishop Wordsworth ascribes it to St. Nicholas.^^ To an 

 obligation about lands in Home, Dominus William, Vicar de 

 Stychil, is a witness. 



I mention here two monks bearing the name of Stichill.^^ 

 That, however, does not imply that their name was Stichill, 

 but that after the ordinary monkish fashion they were known 

 from their birthplace, and not by their patronymic." 



Magister William de Stechil, Archdiaconus of VVigorniensis 

 (now Worcester) was so respected that he was nominated by 

 the Prior and Convent of Durham for election to the Bishopric, 

 vacant by the death of Richard de Marisco in 1226. His 

 election was not sustained for certain politic reasons. 



The other Monk named from the Parish was Robertus de 

 Stichill, who became Bishop of Durham on 30th September 

 1260.«8 See Appendix. 



In 1272 Dominus William is Vicar of Stychil." He witnesses 

 an agreement between Melrose and Coldingham, by which 



** Priory of Coldinghame, p. 241, No. ccxxxix. 



"* Pontifical Offices by David de Bernham, by Bishop Chr. Wordsworth, 

 Church of Scotland in the XIII. century, by William Lockhart. 



5^ Lib. de Oalchou, No. 290, p. 235. 



*' Historiae Danelmensis Tres Scriptores, R. de Greystanes (Sarteee' 

 Society) p. 36. 



*^ Do. p. 45. 



** Raine's N. Durham, p. 52, App., No. CCXL. 



