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himfelf headlong from it. It has been a large, and flrong build- 

 ing, but moft of it is now in ruins. It is encompaifed with a- 

 high {lone-wall, pierced with arrow-holes ; within which is a 

 ftable built entirely of Hone, without any timber, the roof o& 

 arch-work, and the mangers of flone. It has a fine profpect of 

 Hexlam> of Beau/rout, and the river Tyne. 



Between the i4th and i3th milc-flbnes, an the military road,: 

 a neat road branches off from a handfome gate on the left hand. : 

 to 



Wejl Matfed, which in the reigns of.K. .John and Henry III, was * 

 the manour of Philip de Ulcote, who held it by grand Sergancy, by? 

 the fervice of keeping the pleas of the crown (z). He was join- 

 ed in commillion with Hugh de Baliol, 17 K. John, 1216, to hold, 

 the caflle and town of Berwick upon Tiveed againfl.the barons (a). - 

 He was high fheriff of Northumberland, 16, 17 K. John (b), and i, 

 2, 3, 4 K. Henry. Ill (c). He died, 15th- of -the laft reign. . He 

 was fucceeded in this and his other eftates by his five fitters, . 

 viz. Alice i Margaret, Juliana, Ifabell, and Conjlance, as was found 

 by an inquifition in that year (d). 



It 



(%) Philippui de Ulcote tenet Weft Matfen et Najfertcn per fetjanc. pro fervicto cuftodiendi 

 placita coronae. Tefta de Nevill. 



(a) Hoi. Chron. vol. ii. p. 189. 



(t) Efcaet. de annis, 16, 17 Jab. 



(c) 1, 2, 3, 4 Hen. III. 



(d) , de anno 5 Hen. III. 



Alice de Ulcote, Hamellne de Buggtkorp and Margaret his wife, Alund de Barneby and 

 Juliana his wife, Thomas ds Strattoa and Ifabell his wife, and Daniel Nicbolftn and Conftanct his 



