30 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



manour of Rnarefdale* held the manour and hamlet of Chirdon of 

 the crown, 3 K. Edward III. under the manour of Wark, inTyne- 

 dale, by the fervice ef one knight's fee (t). In the reign of Q^ 

 Elizabeth, Knar ef dale-flan, and other eftates near it", were poflefied 

 by William Wallace^ of Copeland-Cajlle, Efq; ( u) ; who married Eleanor^ , 

 the fecond daughter of John Swinburn, of Edlingham* Efq; by Aime, , 

 cldeft daughter of Sir Cuthbert Collingivood, of Eflington, knight; 

 her eldcfl fifter, Anne, marrying William Shaftoe, of Ba<v ington, Efq; 

 His dcfcendant, Ralph Wallace, fold it to the late John Stephenfon, an? 

 alderman of Newcaftle upon Tyne, brother to Sir William Stephenfon Yf , 

 Knight, an alderman, and twice Lord Mayor, of London ; both 

 born at Crofs lands in 



About three miles from Knar ef dale, on the fame fide of the 

 Tyne, is 



Whitley-Caftle, the Roman Ration. AHone (v} t on an. irregular flope r 

 by a rivulet of the fame name, the fouthern boundaries between 

 the two counties of Northumberland and Cumberland; the famous 

 Roman military, way, called, The maiden, way, coming to it from 



(t) Thomas de Swinburn, filrus ethacres Robtrti de Swinburn, tenet manerium <le Knarefdale, 

 in Tynedate, et manerium de Chirdon, cum hamlet, de rege, ut de manerio de Work in Tyna* 

 dale, in manerio regis exiftens, per fervicium unius feodimilitis. 



Mich. Fin. Anno 3 Edvardl III. 



(u) Wattes. 

 Wallafe. 

 Wallace. 



Vid. ATDEN-CASTLE. 



fFiilielmus Walles fuit feifitus de et in Rnarefdale, Knarehope, Elifide-houfe, Burnes, 

 Hanging-fliow, Knare-houles, Lufley, Slagiford,. et Thornhope. 



Efcaet. de Anno 10 Eliz. 



(v) Dean Calif Antoninus. 



Caer- 



