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fheriff of Northumberland, 1739; father of the prefent pofleflbr, 

 John Errington, Efq. His feat is a modern ftructure, built on to 

 an old tower, in a low fituation, on the brink of North Tyne, 

 upon a rock. 



The large funeral-ftone, in memory of a Roman lady, with her 

 effigies ; the altar, with a female deity, fuppofed to be Cybele, and 

 the figure of a lion gently raifmg up the head of a man, pro- 

 ftrate, at full length; the effigies of a foldier on horfeback ; 

 clefcribed and engraved by Mr. Horjley, in his Romana (V, are ftill 

 at the Grange^ in the face of a wall, on the right hand, in going 

 to it ; brought from Walwick-Cheflers. 



In a field fouth-weft of the Grange, by the road to Ncther-nvat- 

 den, is part of a ftone-crofs, or upright pillar, in a fquare pe- 

 deftal ; upon one fide of it, the figure of a fword, in relief, 

 (heath ed. 



About a mile fouth-eaft from the Grange, by the 21 mile-Hone, 

 we crofs the Tyne, by a flone-bridge of four arches, called, Chol- 

 Jfrford-bridge. A releafe from pennance for thirteen da) r s was 

 granted by Walter Skirla-w, Biiliop of Durham, to all fuch as mould 

 contribute by labour or money to the repair of it, 17 K. Richard 

 II ; as attefted by the following inilrument, to which is an old 

 feal appendant, of white wax. 



" To all Chriilian people, to whom thefe prefents'fhall come, 

 ** Walter, Biftiop of Durham, health in our Lord everlafting. 

 " Whereas the bridge of Chollerford, as we hear, is decayed by the 



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