on Report of Meetings for 1890. By Dr J. Hav(^3^ 



on Slitrig Water in a proclamation read at the market-cross at 

 Hawick, May 5, 1684, contains dwellers in Hillhouselaw, Hum- 

 bleknowe mill, Acreknow, the Barnes, Eobert Elliot in Stobs, 

 William Laing in Earlside, Horslie, Edderstoneshiels. William 

 Laing was tried for a second offence, and with 32 others was 

 transported and sold as a slave in Carolina. Most of these per- 

 ished owing to the severity of the climate and ill-usage ; and 

 when the Revolution released them only six returned to Scot- 

 land (Dr J. A. H. Murray in Trans, of Hawick Archaeological 

 Society, 1864, pp. 8-14.) The persecuted ministers sought refuge 

 among the uncultivated moors and black peat mosses and in the 

 secret recesses of the craggy I'avines, or in the guise of shepherds 

 concealed themselves in the moorland cottages. 



About a mile to the north-east of Cog's Mill, standing on a 

 height, is an old cottage [I now follow Mr Deans] called the 

 Chapel Cross, now corrupted into Sheeplaw or Shiplaw Cross. 

 " It is situated between the parishes of Hobkirk and Cavers, and 

 appears to be the oldest named place in the parish. A cross had 

 stood there as a guide to the chapel. Above Cog's Mill is a 

 place anciently called Eingwoode fell. It is now two farms 

 known by the names of the Nortli and South Berryfells, and 

 they are both on the Stobs estate. Contiguous lies a field on the 

 Cavers estate called the Hates. It has kept its name for 700 

 years, being mentioned in the 12th century as Eingwood Hatt. 

 The word Ring applies to the camps on the Berryfell farms, 

 whose remains can be seen on the left side of the road at a place 

 called the Gap, on the farm of South Berryfell. A trail leaves a 

 camp above Wauchope, traverses the Harwood estate in a zig-zag 

 manner, and is partly lost on the south of Stonedge, but again 

 appears on the west corner of that farm, and joins the old road 

 proceeding to the camp at the Gap." 



Ancient British remains have been disinterred at North Berry- 

 fell, and a record has fortunately been preserved in the Trans- 

 actions of the Hawick Arch. Society for 1872, p. 168. 



" December 17th, 1872. Presented. Avery rnde Quern and pieces of 

 pottery from Mr Dryden, North Berryfell. In making extensive improve- 

 ments on his farm, Mr Dryden came upon a great heap of stones three or 

 four hundred yards to the west of the farm-house. On removing part of 

 these an Urn was discovered, but like most structures of a similar nature 

 it broke into fragments on being exposed. It presents the rude orna- 

 mentation common to all such vessels. In the immediate vicinity of the 

 stones the Quern was picked up, but whether it formed part of the heap 



