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perfon attacked his in trench ments- An arrow met him, and 

 ftruck him dead. Terrrified at his fall, his men in confufion be- 

 gan to retire. King Ofivald feizing the happy moment, muied 

 upon them in their fright with his brave followers, and put them 

 entirely to the rout. His fuccefs was fo much above all human 

 expectation, that the field of battle was called Hefenfelth, i. c. 

 Heavens Field (r}, and Halyden (sj. It is watered by Em';??- bum, 

 called by Bede, Dem/burne, i.e. the Burn in the Den or Valley, 0:1 

 whofe banks, he a flu res us, the battle was fought. A church 

 was afterwards built by the convent of Hsxham, and dedicated to 

 St. Ofivald, on the top of the hill by the public road, to comme- 

 morate the bleflings of that day, and to put paffengers and others 

 in mind of it, and of their own particular obligations to heaven 

 for the daily mercies they receive. It is flill {landing, and was 

 lately repaired, being an appendage to the church of St. John-lee. 

 A large filver coin of St. Ofwald's was found near the place where 

 it was built. His head is reprefented on one fide, fccptered, and 

 the crofs on the other. It was for a long time ufed by the con- 

 vent at Durham as their common feal, in honour of him. There 

 is a good print of it in the appendix of the learned Dr. Smith's, 

 edition of Bede's Church-Hiftory (t). In the fame vale is a village 

 called Halyton, and Hallington (u), i. e. the Holy Town ; in the de- 

 mefnes of which is a neat modern ftructure of white freeftone, 

 called, 



Halyton- Mefnes *, the feat of Ralph Soul/by, Efq; elded brother of 

 Chri/lopher Reed, of Chipchace, Efq; and brother-in-law to Wil- 

 liam Fen-wick, of Byivell, Efq. Before it is a grafs area extending 



(r) Bede. (s) Lei Itin. vol. 7. p 58. (t) Append, p. 221. 



(u) Ibid. Rotulifq; Nortbumb. * Hallyden-Mains. Rot. 10 Hz. infra oi tat. 



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