ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. m 



the eaft of the houfe is a fmall, but neat garden, flickered by a 

 clump of tall forefl-trees. Before it is a grafs-lawn, adorned 

 with fmall clumps of young trees, and extending to a terraced 

 road by the margin of the trout-ftreams of the river Tync. To 

 the north-weft is a fmall pendant copfe, or natural grove, thro' 

 which is a terrace-walk, and at the top of it a feat to re it on. 

 Here the melody and harmony of the birds, the whittling winds 

 through the trees, the voice of falling waters, and the light of 

 the town of Hexham, and of that venerable dome, the church o<-' 

 St. Andreiu, form a moft beautiful fcene, 



At the termination of the terrace-walk, is the church of 



St. "John-he, confiding at prefent only of one ifle, in the jtirif- 

 diction of the fee of York. 



A little farther eattward, on the brow of a hill, lliaded with 

 wood, is 



Beau-front, i. c. belhis Locus, the feat of David Carnaby, Efq; 10 

 (^Elizabeth (o) ; and lately of Thomas Errington, Efq; and now of 

 his fon, John Errington, Efq; of the antient houfe of the Erring- 

 tons, of Errington, by Erring-Burn, on the north fide of the Roman 

 wall, from which he derives his name. His anceftor, William dc 

 Errington, was high fherifF of Northumberland, 47 K. Edward III 

 (p}. Another of the family, Sir Thomas de Errington, was one of 

 the confervators of the borders, 12 K. Henry VI (q). Sir Gilbert 



(o) David Carnaly fuit feifitus de et in uno capitali meffuagio de Bet/front, G'th- ;1 ' .-/>, 

 Beumont, Conck-riding, cum certis terris in Port-Yet^ et Hex/jam. Efcaet. de anno 



(p) Efcaet. de anno 47 Ed. Ilf. n. 84. (q) Bp. Nicbo/fen's Border- Law. 



