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Melrose paj's 4 marks and one salmon to the latter for its 

 fish teinds at ' Berwyc strem.' 



For some reason W., Prior of the Church and Couvent of 

 Durham, commissions (before 1341) Richard de Quitteworth 

 to sell the tithes of Edenham and Stichehulle for three years. ^" 



A Quit-claim by William de Hattelay, of lands in Favns and 

 Mellerstane, was signed at Stichill before the Chaplain in 1 272, 

 on the feast of St. Nicholas." Jeffrey ingeniously identifies 

 Nicholas and Eustatius de Sticcanel, who make grants to Soltra, 

 with the name of Stichill.''- But he had misread the charters, 

 and mistaken the well-known Stuteville.^^ 



In an account of the teinds, apparently before 1361, it is 

 stated that the Vicarage teinds of Sitchille, verus valor, is 

 xl., and Decima xx«.^* The same items for Edinhame show 

 viij^. and xvjs. respectively. The Ecclesia de Stychehille is 

 valued at xxi^., xiijs., and iiij<^.''^ In the account of Nicholas 

 of Thokerington, Procurator of Scotland, a charge is made for 

 the carriage of 5 stags from the forest* as far as Coldingham, 

 with salt bought for them, and expenses of Adam . . . 

 xj«. iiij^^.*''' This brings to remembrance the old deer forest 

 at the south-east of Stichill Parish, from which a drainer 

 recovered a deer's horn 12 feet below the surface, now in my 

 possession. Another item in this account states that Richard 

 Gloy was paid iJ5., according to the order of J. de Orippynges 

 versus Stychill. Brother William of Bamburgh narrates that 

 xiij7. iijs. \i\]d. were received, in 1631, from the town of 

 Fischewick, with the teind-sheaves (rectorial or great tithes) 

 of Stikel and Lummysden.^^ In 1363-64 Brother Robert of 

 Wall worth received 6 Is. from the tithes of Stychill, Raynton, 

 and Paxton.^^ 



During the Archbishopric of James Kennedy of St. Andrews 



"" Priory of Coldinghame, p. 27, No. xxix. 

 ^' Eaine's N. Durham, p. 66, App., No. cccxliu. 

 «2 History of Roxburghshire, Vol. in., p. 125. 

 63 Reg. de Soltra, pp. 6, 50. 

 6^ Pr. of Coldinghame, p. ex., App. lxx. 

 " Do. p. cxm., App. 



^6 Do. p. cvn., App. V. 



*' Do. p. xxxvii., App. No. XXXI. 



6' Do. p. XLii., App. xxxvi. 



* [N.B.— This was Ettrick Forest. See Club's Hist., iv., pp. 216-7; 

 vni., 285-6.— J.H.] 



