124 REV. MR CLARK'S ADDRESS. 



the 16th King of Northumberland ; the other of Vigmund, Arcli- 

 bishop of York, recently found, in the course of removing some 

 foundations of buildings near the Snook, on the north side of 

 Holy Island. The coins, which appear to be principally composed 

 of brass, are in fine preservation, with the letters quite perfect. 

 What the buildings may have been there is no record ; and the 

 existence of the foundations was unknown until they were exposed 

 to view by the heavy^ gales of wind having drifted away the sand, 

 which had covered them for so many centuries. It is probable 

 that a village had stood here, and been destroyed in some of the 

 frequent inroads of the Danes, who laid waste the island and 

 adjacent coast for many years.* The remains extend over more 

 than an acre of ground. Mr Selby promised to communicate a 

 more detailed account of this discovery. The party then dis- 

 persed, looking forward with pleasing anticipations to spending a 

 day among the Cheviots in September ; an excursion which, had 

 it taken place in no very remote times, would have been attended 

 with considerable personal risk to all concerned, for although their 

 foray be not against the " redde deere and roo bukke," nor the 

 flocks and herds of their neighbours, we read in Bishop Nichol- 

 son's Leges Marchiarum, " concordatum est quod...nullus unius 

 partis vel alterius ingrediatur terras, boschas, forrestas, warrenas, 

 loca, dominia queecunque alicujus partis alterius subditi, causa 

 venandi, piscandi, aucupandi, disportum aut solatium in eisdem, 

 aliave de causa, absque licentia ejus...ad quem loca. . .pertinent, 

 aut de deputatis suis prius capta et obtenta." — Leges Marchiarum^ 

 1705, 8vo,pp. 27, 51. 



Such, Gentlemen, is the account I have to give you of the 

 transactions of the Club during the past season. That nothing 

 rare has been added to the list from the animal or vegetable world 

 cannot be a matter of surprise, because the district has been so 



* " In the year 793, being the 5th of Ethelred, the Church of Lindisfarne 

 was almost totally destroyed. A fleet of Pagans arriving in the north, and 

 ranging the coasts, landed the 7th of the Ides of June, and coming to this 

 church, they miserably plundered it, defiled the holy places, overthrew the 

 altars, and carried away the treasures of the church, taking some of the monks 

 with them as captives ; and after violently abusing others, turned them out 

 naked." — Grose's Antiquities, vol. iv., p. 116. Again destroyed in 867, by 

 Haldane, King of Denmark, p. 117. 



