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Farewell-letter with the warmeft affection. A plain monument 

 is erected over him on the north fide of the chancel of Haltivefsl- 

 church. His feat was a caftellated building, of which nothing 

 now remains but a poor fragment, juil fufficient to mew its 

 former ftrength, as if defigned to lafl for ages. Out of its ruins 

 was built a fmall manfion by the late poffeflbr, George MarJJjall, 

 Efq; eminently beloved by his tenants, and the whole neighbour- 

 hood, for letting his lands at moderate rents ; in which he was fuc- 

 ceeded at his death by Mrs. Bacon-, of Neivbrough, and Mr. Hunter, 

 of Dux-Field, in Hexhamjlnre. 



To the eaft of the broken remains of the old tower, in an 

 opening of the precipices, is the Well \vhcre Paulinus is faid to 

 have baptifed King Egbert, and fome thoufands of his fubjects. 

 It feems to have been walled round ; fome drefled ftones lying 

 by it. 



We pafs on with the wall for a mile and a quarter, and then 

 come to the Roman ftation of 



Great Chejlers (p) ; the ruins of which appear at this time 

 very fair, on a fine flope, large and fpacious, nearly fquare, the 

 angles obtufe or rounded. On the eaft fide of it is an altar with 

 a Patera fculptured on one fide, the infcription entirely effaced 

 by the weather. By its fide is another ftone, with the figure of 

 a man in a nich, his head gone, his left hand reding upon his 

 fide, his right on a fhort column ; no appearance of any in- 

 fcription. 



In digging up. the foundations of a building in the upper part 

 of the ftation, in the beginning of the year 1707, a very large 



(p) ^Efica. Horjley. 



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