ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 133 



Many urns, both of fine and coarfe pottery, have been digged 

 up, but all broken by the incautious workmen. 



A little below this ftation, and in fight, is 



Halton-Tower, the feat and manour of the anticnt family of the 

 Haltons ; of John de Halton, in the reign of K. Henry III (c), and 

 part of the reign of K. Edward I (d, ; and of his fon, William de 

 Halton, of Denum, 17 K. Edward I (d), high meriff of Northumber- 

 land, "2.$ of the fame reign (e) ; on whole death a mediety of in 

 came to his fifter, Margaret, who was fucceeded by her kinfman, 

 Robert de Low t her (f) ; the other mediety being po fie fled by a 

 branch of the Carnab/s, of Carnaby, near Brullinjton, in Tcfk/b:,-i', 

 by marrying another fifter and coheir. On the death of Robert 

 de Lowther, in the beginning of the reign of K. Richard II fg), 

 the family of Carnaby had the whole manour, by whom it was 



(c) Johannes de Ha/tan tenet in capite de dom. rege Halton, Clarewood, et Wi.-itt'tngtMi in 

 Dringagium, et reddit dom. regi per arm. x. et debet tallinri cum dominicis regis. ac dcbet 

 Heriotam, et Merchet. Certificat. Hug. de Bolbeck, vice-comit. Nzrtbumbr. 



(d) lyiHielmuS) filius Jubannis de Halton tenet Denum per reddit. x. Baron de Bolam. 



Certificat. ejufd. Baron 



ffillidmus de Halton, filius et haeres jfobannes de Halton, dat regi vi Marc, pio relcvio 

 fuo, pro fex annis quas folvit regi pro manerio de Halton. 



Mich. Fin. de ann. 16, et 17 Ed. I. 



(e) Dugd. Monaft. Angl. vol. ii. p. 92. 



(f) Robertus de Lowthcr, confanguines et hasres Margarita filise Johannis de Httlion, tenet 

 medietatem rr.anerii de Halton et Clarcuicod de rege in capite, pro fidelitate, per fcrviciuru 

 xxxviii. in Dringugio, et vii. ad CornagJum, per annum, pro omnibus ferviciis. 



Trin. Fin. de anno 38 Ed. III. 



(g) Efcaet. de anno 10 Ric. II. 



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