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being " very deype," and stating that there was no horse my hie 

 in the castelle, and if there be one made it wylle cost x^' he 

 concUides: " Summa totalis, cvji- xviij^-" Mr. Hartshorne is 

 of opinion that not only the additions made in 1312 by Lord 

 Henry Percy to his castle at Alnwick, then recently purchased 

 of Bishop Beck (the conveyance is dated 19th November 1309, 

 which was only two years previous to the actual erection of 

 Dunstanborough), were carried out by him, but that they were 

 effected by the very same masons. " The exact observance of a 

 similar style (says he) would of itself fairly allow such an 

 assumption; but the evidence becomes completely established 

 when we see the identical masons' marks incised on the stones 

 at both castles." Nor is the application of this subsidiary proof 

 limited to either Dunstanborough or Alnwick, as the like evi- 

 dence is afforded by the barbican at Prudhoe (referred to in my 

 last year's address) which testifies that the same band of stone- 

 masons carried on their labours in that building also. 



Dunstanborough Castle having been forfeited to the Crown, 

 King James I. granted it to the Greys of Wark, from whom 

 it descended to the Tankerville branch of that family. It is 

 now the property of Baron Ossulston, the heir apparent of the 

 earldom of Tankerville, to whom the Club is much indebted for 

 their courteous reception on the 24th July, 1855, when they 

 visited Chillingham Castle and the wild cattle in the park. 



I would request the attention of the members present to the 

 copy of the volumes from which this account of Dunstanborough 

 is taken, and particularly to the illustrations, which were con- 

 tributed at the expense of His Grace the Duke of Northumber- 

 land. 



At Dunstanborough Astragalus hjpoglottis and other plants, 

 were gathered by the botanists. 



From Dunstanborough the party proceeded, by Craster, to 

 Howick Hall, the seat of Earl Grey, a noble and beautiful man- 

 sion, situated in a spacious park, and commanding a fine sea 

 view. It was erected on the site of the old mansion in 1787. 

 Near the east side of the park are the remains of a Roman 

 encampment, where several broken spears and swords, and some 



