562 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



cxpence neceflarily requires an increafc of rent, 



i the bounds ol 



Ton, humanity, and moral juflice. 'i the rent- 



roll hath increalld f; ool. pi-: 



num, this extraordinary ium is punctually j 

 all parties are fatisficd. It is not paid in kin- 

 formerly, but in cafh or bank notes, at the family 



ry 6 months, when ti its in I 



Sunday's clothes, have an audience of the i 

 who give reo R! take memorandums of r< 



and other works to be done. On thele occafions, a 

 kind of jubilee is held for 1 2 or 14 da; 

 fpits and the kr: kept in full employ ; the 



threat tables groan under the weight of the 

 firloin, the capacious phmnb-pudoing, anil a hu;, 

 articles befides, in butcher's meat, fifh, paftry, &c. 

 which are wafhed down in copious potions of \ 

 punch, or home-brewed ale, ib old and fo powerful, 

 as to conquer cWry man, however ftout, who : 

 it a fair trial. In thcfe particulars wi- \ that 



the an.iient hofpitality and manners, have not intirely 

 fled old England. 



The rlfing ground on the north fide of the river, 

 gives a full view of this princely feat and its plea- 

 iure-grounds. Weftward, the mountains feem to 

 draw towards the fea, of which we have a full view; 

 affording an agreeable variety to the generality of 

 travellers, and a new fight to many. 



The laft Itage is Belford, a modern village, 

 the houfes are regularly built, and numbered on the 

 doors, as in London. To Berwic there is nothing re- 

 markable, excepting Holy Ifland, a fmall fpot, fe- 

 parated by a narrow channel from the main land, 

 whereon (lands the antient caflle of Bamborough. 

 " The ifland was purchaled from the Folters, by 

 lord Carew, bifhop of Durham, and with other con- 

 ible eftatcs, left vefted in truitees, to be ap- 

 plied to unconrined charitable ufes. Three of thefe 

 trullees are a majority: one of them makes this 

 2 place 



