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The members started from Alnwick, and drove to Glanton, 
where they breakfasted ; they then drove to Ingram, one of those 
ancient and remote villages, which are almost beyond the limits 
of cultivation, and of which the west and north-west parts of 
Northumberland present many examples. Ingram has been a 
much larger village than it is at the present day; the remains 
of many foundations of houses were observed round the village, 
giving evidence of a place of more importance than it is now. 
This is also shown by the base of the village market cross, 
which still remains on the green, and by the much larger num- 
ber of burials, recorded in the parish register of the seventeenth 
than in that of the nineteenth century. The same register 
contains a curious entry,* showing the operation of a statute 
of Charles I].f for the encouragement of the woollen manu- 
facture. The statute enacts ‘That from and after the first 
day of August 1678, no corpse of any person shall be buried in 
any shirt, sheet, shift, or shroud, or anything made or mingled 
with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, other than is made of 
wool only, on pain of five pounds. The fourth clause of the 
Act orders an affidavit to be made within eight days after 
burial that the person was buried in woollen.” 
Near Ingram, on the green hill called Heddon, to the south 
of the camp on that hill, were observed the traces of several lines 
of terrace cultivation. This system of early husbandry is no 
doubt to beattributed to those tribes whose fortified places of abode 
abound on all the neighbouring hills. The terraces correspond, 
in some respects, with the artificial platforms on which the vine is 
commonly grown on the banks of the Rhine. They usually face 
towards the south, so as to get the full power of the sun, and 
on them were raised the vegetables and cereal crops, which formed 
a small portion of tke food of the British tribes of Northumber- 
* February 6,1682. Isabella Wright, the child of George Wright, of Revely. An affi- 
davit in writing, under the hand and seal of Ann Robertson, that the said Isabella Wright 
was not wrapped up or buried in anything mingled with flax and other materials,but sheep’s 
wool only, as also a certificate under the hand of Arthur Elliott, clerk, before whom the said 
affidavit was made, were brought the day and year aforesaid. ACQUILINA FORSTER. 
#30 Charl. IT., c. 3. 
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