338 CUTHBERTSHOPE, WITH NOTE ON DERESTREET 



Border, it goes by Chew Green, etc."^ There is, I believe, 

 sufficient evidence to prove that the road in Scotland now 

 designated Watling Street was anciently known as Derestreet — 

 a fact which I do not think any previous writer has pointed 

 out.^ In the grant by Alexander de Chatto, already referred 

 to, Derestrete lay to the West of Kale river ;^° and in the 

 charter of William de Hounam it is specified as lying to 

 the West of Chatto" — thus agreeing with the position of the 

 Roman road. In a charter granted by Robert de Berkeley 

 in favour of the monks of Melrose, again, Derestrete is indicated 

 as running down the Northern slope of Lilliard's Edge'^ 

 (as did the Roman road) ; and in the instrument of John 

 Normanville concerning the boundaries of the lands of Maxton 

 there is reference to Derstret in the same locality. In the 

 same instrument mention is made of the King's Way (Regia 

 Via), *' which goes from Annandale (de valle Annant) towards 

 Roxburgh." " This was an ancient thoroughfare which came 

 up the valley of the Liddel, passed over the ridge which 

 divides Liddesdale from Jedwater (being identical for some 

 distance with the road known in later days as Wheel Causeway), 

 crossed over into Rulewater, which it descended for a few 

 miles, and then struck off towards Swinnie, thence across 

 Swinnie Moor, entering the Castlegate of Jedburgh by a 



^ New Stat. Account— Roxburghshire, p. 259. 



^ Since writing the above I have fonnd that in Origines Parochiales 

 Scotise (i., p. 394) Derestreet is identified at one point with the Roman 

 road. 



'" Chartalary of Melrose, i., p. 247. In each case I give the name 

 of Derestreet as it is in the original. 



1' Ibid., p. 122. 



'2 Ibid., p. 78. It was along this road that the English army was 

 returning from Melrose towards Jedburgh in February 1545, when it 

 was overtaken on the Southern slope of Lilliard's Edge, and defeated 

 by the Scots in the battle of Ancrum Moor. Writing of this shortly 

 before 1578, Lindsay of Pitscottie shows that here the name Derestreet 

 had before his time been supplanted by another ; and states that the 

 road, which at that part was so narrow that the English could march 

 along it only two abreast, was termed the "Sandie Callsay " (Sandy 

 Causeway.) See his Chronicle of Scotland under that year (Scottish 

 Text Soc. edition,^ n., p. 37.) 



'3 Ibid., p. 219. 



