48 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Northumberland, -1625; created a baronet, 12 K. Charles II, 

 for his loyalty to K. Charles I j in whofe fervice his brother, Co- 

 lonel George Heron, was flain at the battle of Marion-moor. In the 

 i 9th of X. James I, he built on to the old caflle a very handfome 

 ftructure ; the initial letters of his name, C. H. cut in Hone, on 

 each fide of his coat of arms, with the date of the year, 1621, 

 above the fouth entrance. He married Elizabeth, the third 

 daughter of Sir Richard Graham, of Netherby, in Cumberland, Bart. 

 mailer of the horfe to K. Charles I, and afterwards Lord P re/Ion, 

 by whom he had three fons, viz. Cathbert, 'John and Charles; the 

 two lad of whom lived to fucceed him in honour and eftate. 

 His grandfon, Sir IL-.rry, only fon to Sir Charles, fold Chipchace to 

 George Allgood, Efq; of whom, it was purchafed by the late 'John 

 Reed, Efq; high meri'T of Northumberland, 1732; de fee nded from 

 a younger branch of the anticnt family of the Reeds of Trough- 

 end, by the river Reed. Mr. Reed added much to its beauty by 

 faming the whole building, making gardens, plantations, and 

 cnclofures, rebuilding the chapel, and fmilhing it neatly at his 

 own cxpence. He died, aoth March, 1754, and was interred in 

 his own chapel. He was fuccccdcd by his nephew, Chriftopher 

 Souljby, now Chriftopher Reed, Efq; high fheriff of Northumberland, 

 1764. He married the eldcfh daughter of Francis Blake, of Tivifel, 

 Efq; great grandaughter by the mother's fide to Sir Francis Blake, 

 Kilt, of Ford-Caftle, by the river Till. He hath given many em- 

 belliflimcnts to Chipchace, by buildings ; by laying it open to 

 groves and plantations, and calling the fields before it into a 

 park-like form. It has a very lovely fituation, on a declining 

 eminence, to the cafl of the river of North Tyne ; a. profpcct from 

 it of Nunwlck, and of Simonburn-Caftle^ diverlified with the fight 

 of woods, of moors, of rocks, and of the winding motions and 

 meanders of the Tyne, which oppofite to the houfe forms under 



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