8 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



is faid to be met with in the cabinets of the curious ; his ranfora 

 alone coiling one hundred thoufand pounds in filver, equal to 

 three hundred thoufand pounds of our prefent money (n). 



Gawen Blenkenfopp, D. D. is on record for being a benefactor to 

 that renowned feminary of learning, Pembroke-Hall, in Cambridge, 

 of which he was fellow (o). 



The caftle of Blenkenfopp is about a mile to the fouth-eafl of 

 'Tbirhvall-ca.ft.le, on the fouthern banks of the Tippal; upon an 

 eminence, and overlooked by another ; the weft and north-weft 

 lide of it protected by a very high ceipititious wall, and a deep 

 fofs ; a vault going through it, north and fouth, thirty-three feet 

 in length, and in breadth eighteen feet and an half ; two leffer 

 ones on the north fide. The facing of the weilern wall has 

 been down beyond the memory of any perfon now living in the 

 neighbourhood. It has been a very ftrong building. It is now 

 in the poffeffion of John Blenkenfopp Coulfon, of Jefmont, Efq. 



We proceed with the wall from Caer-Vorran for half a mile, 

 when we have the pleafure of feeing a piece of it ftanding of the 

 height and breadth of nine feet. We only go half a mile far- 

 ther, before we come to 



Wall-Town, the lordfhip and feat of John Ridley, Efq; in the 

 reign of K. Edward VI ; of the antient houfe of Willemotefwick, 

 and brother to that exemplary and learned prelate, Nicholas Rid- 

 ley, D. D. Bifliop of London, whom his lordfhip mentions in his 



(n) Ail pondus Coion'ne monelx publics? probatae. Rad. ch Dieto, inter decem fcrip- 



to:es. 



(a) Pcrter's Hilt, of Cambridge, p. 49. 



Farewell- 



