14 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Hall, pad which is a road leading by a pleafant and eafy defcent 

 to the villa of 



Haltwcfel, which was plundered by the &cta&-outlaxvs in the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth ; for which they received fevere correc- 

 tion from the lord warden of the middle marches, Sir Robert Gary, 

 created Baron of Leppington by K. James I, 1621 ; and Earl of Mou- 

 mouth by K. Charles I, youngefl of ten fons of Henry Lord Hunfdon, 

 warden of the eaft marches ; his Lordfhip's fon-in-law, Thomas 

 Lord Scrcfc, knight of the garter, being warden of the weft 

 marches ; both likewife famous for their courage, conduct, and 

 abilities, in defending the borders (z). It hath an inconfiderable 

 weekly market on Thurfdays. There is a manufactury in it of 

 coarfc bays, belonging to two worthy Quakers ; their fulling- 

 mill finifhed, and approved of by trial, lyth September, 1762 ; plea- 

 lure and chearftilnefs appearing in every face on the occafion ; 

 giving a profpect of better bread to the induftrious poor. It is 

 iituated on a rifmg ground on the north fide of the river Tyne, 

 the church and vicarage -ho ufe to the fouth of it; the church- 

 yard forming a terrace, and giving a profpect of the vale, and the 

 winding courfe of the river ; the church confuting of three ifles, 

 pcwed with oak, the roof lofty, as is the acute arch into the 

 chancel, the window above the altar gothic and flately. 



By the river Tyne is a piece of ground, now part of the vica- 

 rage-glebe, called The Church-yard, where it is fuppofed the 

 church andendy flood ; grave-ftones and bones being frequently 

 digged up. 



Lady Cafe I, among other charities at her death, left a fmall 

 fum, at the requeft of one of her domeftics, born in this neigh- 



(z) Monmiutfj's Memoirs, p. 87. 150. 



bourhood, 



