22 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



the middle. Some perfons imagine they were fet up for rubbing- 

 ftones for cattle, but they Hand too clofe together for that end ; 

 and, befides, the fetting up more than a fmgle ftone in one 

 place for that ufe is not known to. have been ever pracYifcd. As 

 thofe at Little Salkeld, in Cumberland, arc 'called .Long Meg and her 

 Daughters, fo thefe here are called the The Mare and her two Foals. 

 The former are acknowledged to be Britiflj. The latter are mod 

 likely of the fame origin, religious and funeral memorials. 



From a riling hill, a little beyond the 32d mile-Hone, we have 



a flight view of 



WiUimotefwick (-x), i. c. the Mote, or Keep, and Villa of William ; 

 built, as ufual, on a rifing ground, to obferve the motions of an 

 enemy. It was die antient feat of the Rldhys--, of Sir Nicholas 

 Ridley, high merifF of Northumberland, i, 2, 3, 23 K. Henry VII; 

 and i, 2, 3 K. Henry VIII (y) ; anceflor to Nicholas .Ridley, Biihop 

 .-of London (zj. 



The bifliop \vas the ornament of the houfc of 

 and of Northumberland. Pic fullered at O. \ford with Bifhop Latimer, 

 \() October, 1 5.3 5', on the a<5t dc Hcretico comburcndo, ' made in the 

 reign of King Henry VII. 1410, againft Wickllff's followers; Wll- 

 lla.n Sautre being the firft who fullered (a) ; the next being John 

 Bcdby, who was burnt alive in parliament-time, and in the face 

 of the whole houfe, in contempt of the commons, who had 



(x) WilKmotef'.vicke. Camdcn. 



Wyllimountfwick. Hifliop Ridley; 



(y) Fuller's Worthies. 



(z) See Bifliop RiJlty's own account of his family, in his Farewe'l Letter. 

 (n) Afta Regis, Vol. 2. 8vo. p. 105, 206, &c. 



petitioned 



