336 CUTHBERTSHOPE, WITH NOTE ON DERESTREET 



saint's name being given as " Cudbrihteshope." ' In a 

 confirmation of the possessions of the monastery of Melrose 

 by Alexander II. at Edinburgh, there is mention of "all 

 the lands within the feudal territory of Hunura, from the 

 stream of Quindenhope up as far as the ditch between 

 Easchawe and Cudhbrichteshope." * The same monarch drew 

 up a charter at Roxburgh on 7th March 1226 confirming 

 the lands of Easawe, in which the places are specified as 

 Cuidenop and Cudbrihteshope.^ Note how the spelling 

 approximates to that of Cuthbert's name in the place-name 

 "Kirkcudbright." 



In a "charter of Alexander de Chattou concerning the 

 renunciation of Eascaw " there is an obvious clerical mis- 

 spelling of the name. The charter defines certain lands 

 "from the Eastern part of Derstret by the ascent from the 

 Calne (river Kale) by the sike as far as Scolceuescluch, and 

 by the same sike up to the cross constructed by our consent, 

 and thus in a straight line to the head of Seteburn (? Yett 

 Burn), and by the same burn down as far as the burn which 

 descends from Thedbrichteshop (Cuthbertshope), and thus 

 down to the brook of Cuithenop."^ On 8th August 1471 

 James III. confirmed under the Great Seal of Scotland a 

 charter of Thomas de Hume of Crowdy, in which there is 

 mention of these lands in this district — " Berehope, Simalston 

 (Samiestou), Eanaldstoune-rig (Rennieston Eig), Cunyourtoune, 

 Filogir, and Outhbertishope." 



On Stobie's map of Eoxburghshire (1770), "Cuthbertshope" 

 is indicated as being still an inhabited place. On Plate XXII. 

 of Eoy's Military Antiquities there is given a large-scale plan 

 of this locality — obviously drawn in 1774. Curiously enough, 

 he locates " Cuthberts Hope " at the foot of Ettlescleugh, 

 on the site of a long-vanished hamlet of the same name. 

 This was on the other side of Capehope Burn, almost exactly 

 opposite the real position of Cuthbertshope. The house or 

 hamlet was still standing in 1822, as is indicated on the map 



2 Chartulary of Melrose, i., p. 123. 



* Ibid., p. 160. 



* Ibid., p. 246. 

 6 Ibid., p. 248. 



