ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND, 33 



in this county, for the like fpace. Among others, is a crag, 

 called, Jw^w's-Crag, well known to hunters, for giving protec- 

 tion to foxes, in their diftrefs by the chace. 



The two Staivards, and the Peel, were in the pofleflion of the 

 crown, 10 (^Elizabeth (rj, and are now the property of John 

 William Bacon, of Ether/Ion, Efq; * 



About half a mile from High Staward, under a hill, the two 

 Aliens pafs in a pleafant flream, immediately after their junction, 

 through a handfome new bridge of three arches, of white free- 

 ilone f- At the oftium of Weft Allen is a lead-refining mill, called 

 The Cupilo, belonging to a wealthy company of quakers. On the 

 weftern, fhady margin of that rivulet, is a handfome road, about 

 two miles and a quarter in length, leading to 



Whitf eld-Hall, the feat of the antient family of the Whitfelds ; 

 of John dt Whitf dd, 22 K. Richard II (s) ; of Sir Matthew Whitf eld, 

 Knight, 1 2 K. Henry VI. then high meriff of Northumberland ft) ; 

 of Ralph Whitf eld, 10 Q^Elizabeth (u) ; held by the annual rent of 

 6 s. ^d. of the prior and convent of Hcxham, Lords of the Ma- 

 nour, to whom it was granted by William King of Scotland (<v ) ; 



pur- 



(r) Efcaet. de anno i 



* Since dead. f Lately carried away by a flood. 



(s) Efcaet. 22 Rif. n. 0.39. (t) Fuller's Worthies. 



(u) R^idulphus Witfield fuit feifitus de et in Witficld-Hall, Hunter-Sheds, Burn-Mouth, 

 Old-Town, Dews-Green, Whittingftaw, Soft-laws, Elme, Mill-Houfe, Hope, Parman- 

 Ice, Parmanlee-Hall, et White- Walls. Efcaet. de anno 10 Eliz. 



(v) Prior et conventus de Hextaldejham tenent et habent dominicum totius villa de IWtt- 



field, et fexdecem folidat. et quatuor denariat. reddit. in liberam, puram, et perpetuam ele- 



VOL. II. F mofinam, 



