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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
REEDY BANK Reedy Bank
Reedy Bank
Reedy Bank
Rev: [Reverend] Dr. [Doctor] Aitken Minto Manse
Rev: [Reverend] J. Duncan Denholm
Mr Alexander Thomson Factor Hawick
020.06 [Situation] On the East bank of River Teviot. An old established name given to a slope covered with fir wood - on the right bank of the Teviot lying between Spittal Ford and Denholm Village and on the property of J. Douglas Esqr. of Cavers Ho. [House]
RULEHALCH Rulehalch
Rulehalch
Rulehalch
Rulehalch
Mr A. Jeffrey Jedburgh
Mr A. Thomson
James Turnbull Farmer Spittal
Rev: [Reverend] James Duncan Denholm
020.07 [Situation] To the North of Spittal. Applies to a piece of ground lying between the River Teviot & Rule Water "In 1393, a duel was fought here between Sir Thomas Strothers, an Englishman and Sir William Inglis, a Scotchman, at which Archibald, Earl of Douglas, and Henry Percy of Northumberland, the wardens of the marches, acted as umpires. Sir Thomas Strothers was slain. the above is an extract from A Jeffrey's History of Roxburgh. The name is well known in the district.

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Parish of Cavers Sheet 20 No 7 Trace 2

[signed] Thomas Watson 2nd Corp: R.E. [2nd Corporal Royal Engineers]

[Note in Spelling Column below Reedy Bank:]
Bank Bawk -- Dr. [Doctor] Jamieson's Sc. Dicty [Scottish Dictionary]
or
Banks - Balks the grass ridges dividing ploughed lands. -- Brockett's Glossary

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