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round -headed windows and heavy mnllions, probably knew the 

 days when the Saxon Tyson was yet Earl of Northumberland, 

 long before the barony of Bywell had fallen into the lap of Guy 

 Balliol for good and faithful service to William Rufus. The 

 Scottish arms may yet be seen in St. Peter's, recently most 

 carefully and beautifully restored under the auspices of the Vicar, 

 the Rev. B. E. Dwarris. To account for these two churches in 

 close proximity, a story was told of two unloving sisters, co- 

 heiresses, who, not agreeing on the joint design, built each 

 her own, side by side. But if it be the President's office to lead 

 the members in the search for truth, he fears he must dispel the 

 romantic myth by the prcsaic remark, that two orders of monks 

 had adjoining manors, and built their churches side by side, for 

 the sake of society for their exiled chaplains. 



From Bywell we proceeded to the Whittle Dean Reservoir, 

 where we saw more of art than of nature, and there visited 

 Nafferton Castle, constructed out of the stones of the neighbour- 

 ing Roman Wall, by Philip de Ulecote, formerly constable of 

 Chinon, in Touraine, and Sheriff of Northumberland in 1213. 

 The erection excited the indignation of Richard de Umfraville, 

 of the Castle of Prudhoe, who obtained an order from the crown 

 commanding the square stones to be taken to Bambro', and the 

 rubbish to Newcastle. After descending Whittle Dean, and 

 botanising by the way, Ovingham church and churchyard were 

 visited, a spot hallowed to every member of the Tyneside as the 

 burial place of Thomas Bewick, and of which a beautiful engrav- 

 ing decorates the fourth volume of our " Transactions." Twenty- 

 three members sat down to dinner, including our venerable 

 patriarch, Mr. John Thompson, who, in his 81st year, had walked 

 and botanised for a dozen miles. Mr. Wailes exhibited a large 

 capture of the rare Coleopter, Clytra quadripunctata, an insect 

 which had not been taken for forty years in England, and many 

 interesting plants collected during the day were exhibited, among 

 them Bird's Eye Primrose {Primula farinosd)^ Herb Paris 

 {Paris quadrifolia\ Arenaria verna, Geum intermedium^ Geranium 

 sylvaticum, Butterwort {Pinguicola vulgaris)^ Globe Flower 

 {Trollius Europcpus), &c. All who were present on this occasion 



