66 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND, 



rick of Durham, and the parks, waftes, and coal-mines belong- 

 ing to them, faid by Dr. Craddock, Archdeacon of Northumberland, 

 to be then worth 56000 \.per annum (o). Sir Williams, feat was the 

 abbey of St. Edmund, in Gate/head. 



Sir Thomas Ridell, Km. feated at Fenham, was a reprefentative 

 in parliament for Neivcajlle upon Tyne, 18 K. James I, 1620; alfo, 

 3 K. Charles I, 1628, with Sir Peter Ridell, Knt. Sir Thomas, by his 

 active zeal, and ftcady loyalty to his diftrefled fovereign, King 

 Charles I, fo provoked the Oliverians, that they offered by procla- 

 mation loool. for taking him. He narrowly efcaped their ven- 

 geance by retiring beyond fea from Ber-wlck upon Tiveed. His 

 great, great grandfon, Mr. Ridell, the prefent poiTefTor of Sivin- 

 burn-Cajlle, married the daughter and fole heir of the late Horjley 

 Widdrington, of Felt on, Efq. His feat at Swinburn is of his own 

 erection, out of the ruins of the old caftle, after a very neat de- 

 fign. It ftands on the fouthern banks of a rivulet, whofe ftreams 

 after heavy rains pafs in rude majefty, loud and fonorous, be- 

 tween rocks and precipices, on whofe eaftern fummits the 

 mountain-pink difplays its modeft bloom in June and July, alike 

 fearlefs of the tumultuous torrent, and bluftering winds. It is 

 flickered with a few tall foreft-trees to the eaft and weft, and before 

 it is a fpacious field, Hoping and verdant, in the neighbourhood 

 of a wood ; the range of rocks at She < wing-Jheels t and the Roman 

 ftation of Houfe-Jleeds, the mountains of Crofs-Fell, and of Kilhope, 

 the moors and cultivated plains of Hexhamjhire, fo fatal to the 

 royal Rofe of Lancafter, are in full view on a clear day. 



From the fame flqping eminence on the military road we have 

 a flight profpect of 



(o) Gardiner, p. 12, 13. 



Haughton- 



