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The Chapel of St. Cuthherfs on the Slitterick and Chapel 

 Cross, Roxbii'iyhshir^.. By Walter Deans. 



This old church and parocliial district has for many ages 

 remained in oblivion. The church is said by old Monkish writers 

 to have been a ruin 700 years ago. Many Romish legends were 

 anciently rife anent it, which we refrain to enter upon, and it is 

 mainly the historical bearings of the Chapel and its localities that 

 we venture some account of. The site and graveyard of St. 

 Cuthbert's can still be seen in a field a little above Cogsmill 

 School and school-house, and the field in which the locality is 

 situated is on the estate of Addnrstone, and on the farm of 

 Adderstoneshiels. A former proprietor of the estate, to prevent 

 the site and graveyard from being blotted out of existence, had 

 wisely planted it with trees, some of which are of considerable 

 size, and appear to be aged. 



The chapel, which has been of small dimensions, has been erased 

 from the foundations, though the site can still be distinguislied 

 on the green turf. In the graveyard not a single stone can now 

 be seen ; all have been removed, probably to erect stone dykes. 

 The only portion which is a relic, and said to have been a pillar 

 of the churchyard gate, now forms a pillar in the garden gate, 

 of Adderstoneshiels. The pillar is surmounted by stonp, dressed 

 in the form of a vase, around which is carved some delicate 

 tracery. Some rounded eminences near the school are called 

 Cogs Knowes, a corruption of Grod's Knowes ; and Cogsmill, 

 also a corruption of God's Mill, or the mill that was held in 

 sacred use for the priesthood of the chapel. To the south of the 

 chapel is a tract of marshy land called the Shiplaw Bog, which 

 is properly the Chapel bog ; and on the south-east, on the farm 

 of Langburn shiels, is a stretch of heathery land (where three 

 lairds' lands meet, named the Duke of Buccleuch, Stobs, and 

 Harwood) vulgarly called (ioks pairt or Cocks part, which ought 

 to be rendered God's part, as a part or pendicle of the chapel, as 

 the commonty for use and wont, for turf and divot. Standing 

 high on a rising ground, two miles north of the chapel, is the 

 oM cottage of Chapel Cross, corrupted into Shiplaw. This is 

 perhaps the oldest named locality on the estate of Cavers. On 

 its elevated situation a cross was erected in ancient times as a 

 guide to St. Cuthbert's, whicli was at that age necessary, as the 

 way to the chapel at that period would be dense forest, and the 



