5-6 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



the crown again, was given to Greenwich-hofpiial. An extenfive 

 common belongs to it, carrying the marks of the plow, for the 

 divifion of which an act of parliament paffed 1765. By the river 

 is a hill, called Mote-Hill, exploratory, for obferving the motions 

 of an enemy; on which was a manfion-houfe belonging to the 

 Ratcli/s ; under it, on the north fide, is the fchool founded by 

 Giles Heron ; the matter's falary, .12 /. per annum. 



About four miles north from Wark, on the eaftern banks of 



North 7}'iie, is 



Bellingham, two parts of the manour of which belonged to the 

 archbifhop of Fork, 3 K. Henry V fc}, and the villa and lands to 

 a family of the fame name ; to Robert de Bellinghtnn, 2 K. Richard 

 II (d), 3 K. Henry IV (c) ; to Richard de Bellingham, 33 K. Henry 

 VI (f) ; their feat an anticnt caflle, hard by, now in ruins ; their 

 arms, are 3 hunters horns, fable, ilringcd, gules. 



It hath a weekly market on Saturdays, and two annual fairs. 



It is a fmall, but pretty well built town, belonging chiefly to 

 Chrijlopher Reed, of Chipchace, and the heir of Edward Charleton, of 

 Reedfmoutb, Efqrs. the martour claimed by his Grace the Duke of 

 Northumberland-, the firuntiou pleaf'ant, on the flope of a hill.; the 

 church-yard forming a fine terrace above the river; the church 



(i) Do I'inus Eplfcop. Ebo: ac. obiit feifitus de et in duobuspartibus manerii de Beliiugbam, 

 et Gryndw, infsaTynsdale. fcaet. dc anno 3 Henrici V. 



(c!) Efcaet. de anno 2 Ricardi II. n. 49. 



(e) . 3 Uenrid IV. n. 2 1. 



(f) 33 Henrici VI. n. 17. 



fmall, 



