ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND, 3 



This famous wall (d) crofles the rivulet of- Poltrofs, the boun- 

 dary between the two counties of Cumberland and Northumberland, 

 at a pla.ce, called The Crooks. About a quarter of a mile farther 

 eaft, a breach was made in it by the Scots, which to this day 

 bears the name of The Gap. From hence it goes for a quarter of 

 a mile, nearly in a ftraight line, to 



Thirlivall-Caftle, the feat of the antient family of the Thirlivalls ; 

 of John de Thirl-walt, fon-in-law to Sir William de Sivinburn, Knt. 

 7 K. Edward III, 1333 ; and of Robert de Thirlwall, 10 (^Eliza- 

 beth (ej. The laft and fole heir was Eleanora Thirlwall, married, 

 1738, to Matthew Stvinburn, a younger brother of the houfe of 

 Cap-Heaton, Efq; who fold it to the late right honourable Henry 

 Earl of Carlijle. The caftle ftands on the weflern banks of the 

 brook Tippaly whofe ftream glides under it in a winding current, 

 guarded by a Vallum, or wall, of a vail thicknefs, which with 

 the brook, and a rocky flope, rendered it on that fide inacceflible. 

 At the entrance, part of an iron-gate is Itill remaining, within 

 which, on removing the rubbim, the flooring of a room was 

 difcovered in 1759, confuting of three courfes of flags one above 



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(4] Gual Sever. 



Gal Sever, f Britannhls. 

 Mur Sever. 

 Vallum Barbaricum. Romanis. 

 Scottis-Waitbt Satis. 

 Pias-Wall. Jnglis. 



Keep -Wall. | j nc j; Septentr. Cumbriens, Northumbritns. 

 The Wall, i 



(e) Robertas 1'kirlwall fuit feifitus de et in maaerio de Thirlwall, Lowbyrc, le Hill, 

 Chappel, Wades-Gapp, Cruke, Wardhaw-hill, Shaw-field, Di;t-houfe, Over-hilj, Brow- 

 houfes, Brunt-walls, Holly-houfe, cum terris in Hexham, Eftree, Newbrugh, Haltwefel, 

 Byddlefle, et Blind-gapp. Efcaet. de Anno 10 Ellz. 



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