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Cuthbertshope, Roxburghshire; with an appended Note 

 on Derestreet By Geoege Watson, Jedburgh. 



More than passing interest pertains to anything connected 

 with St. Cuthbert and his associations with Eoxburghshire 

 and the valley of the Tweed — the district in which he spent 

 his earlier years. In Eoxburghshire his name is perennially 

 associated with the priory at Old Melrose, regarding which 

 much information can be found in the Chartulary of Melrose, 

 the Melrose Chronicle, Origines Parochiales Scotise, Morton's 

 Monastic Annals, and the various histories of Melrose Abbey, 

 in addition to the works of Bede and Symeon of Durham. 



Above Hawick there was a chapel-of-ease founded long 

 before the time of William the Lion, in whose reign Eeginald, 

 a monk of Durham, wrote concerning many miracles per- 

 formed there and elsewhere in the name of St. Cuthbert. 

 Eeginald states that the chapel was erected "in the province 

 of Teviotdale " at an early date by the ancestors of the 

 people in memory of the saint, and that it stood in the 

 vicinity of a river, abounding with fish, which was termed 

 " Slitrith " (Slitrig). This ecclesiastical edifice appears to 

 have been under the supervision of the church of Cavers, 

 of which Dolfin, from whom Eeginald procured his inform- 

 ation, was parson at the time in question. In his day the 

 chapel was ruinous ; the stone walls only remained, and the 

 holy-water stone, with a cavity on the top, stood outside 

 the door of the chapel in the burial-ground. Although 

 the sacred edifice was roofless, numbers were wont to resort 

 to it on St. Cuthbert's day (20th March) for purposes of 



