3<5 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



A road leads by a gradual afcent from this town, fouthward,. 

 over a moor, to the villa of 



Allen-Heads^ inhabited alfo by miners ; both belonging to Sir' 

 Walter Caherley Blackct, Bart, the alpine country round it reputed- 

 rich in veins of lead-ore. 



To this villa, Mr. Burnand, a Cumberland-clergyman, retired, orc- 

 his being filenced for nonconformity at the reftoration, and em- 

 ployed himfclf in a little farm, till by the favour of Sir William* 

 Blacket, Bart, he was appointed minifter of the chapel here, built 

 for the conveniency of the miners, with a falary of 307. per annum; 

 the mines then profperous and rich fiv). Sir William gave alfo 1 

 10 /. per annum to a fchoolmaftei'j for teaching, the miners children^ 

 to read and ivrite, 



To the eaft of, and only half a mile from, this mineral villa, 

 is the mountain, called Sborn-'Gate, over which the Scots made a 

 road by paring the mofs, and tumbling in Hones, (to which it 

 owes its name) in their precipitate retreat homewards from Stan* 

 hope-Park, i K. Edward III. 1327 ; in fear of correction from the 

 Englifo army, commanded by the king in perfon, after they had 

 made thcmfclves merry at the regimental trim and mien of his 

 foldiers, their cloathing being coats and hoods, embroidered 

 with flowers and branches, very prettily, and their beards un- 

 cut, it being the fafhion then for the foldiery to wear them. 



The boundary-line, called The Scotch^D'ikt, extends from this 

 place northwards by Catton-Beacon, and crofies the Roman wall at 



(w) BiOiop Kennel's Hift. Regift. p. 89.1. 



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