150 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND; 



" amerciaments, and all other royalties, cafualties, and profits, 

 " rifing or growing by reafon of the leet." (h) 



By well, after its, forfeiture to the crown, was purchafed by a 

 branch of the anticnt family of the Femvicks, of Fenivick-Toiver 

 (ij ; and was in the pofTciiion of William Fenivick, Efq; high 

 iherifT of Northumberland, 12 Q. Anne, 1713 ; and of the late John 

 Fcnivick, Efq; high fhcrifFof Northumberland, 2 K. George II. 1728 ; 

 and a rcprefentative of it in fevcral parliaments till the time of 

 his death ; father of the prcfcnt porlcflbr of Bytvcll, William 

 Fen-wick, Efq; who married Margaret, fitter to John Bacon, of 

 New ton-dip, in the Bifhoprick of Durham, Efq; (k) ; and was high 

 iherilF of Northumberland, 1752. 



His feat is at the weft end of the village. It is a modern, 

 genteel firi.icr.urc, after a dcfign in Mr. Pains architecture, of 

 white frccflone, and hewn work. It is in a bounded, low, but 

 delightful fituation, beautifully rural, by the banks of the river 

 Tyne, having a grafs-lawn before it to the fouth, with a dwarf- 

 wall, and a high road between it and the river, the fouth borders 

 of which arc adorned with (lately oaks, and other forefl-trees, 

 and fome pieces of fiatuary, which on a funny day are finely 

 imaged by the water. To the eaft it has in view not only a plea* 

 fant garden, noted for early productions, but alfo two churches 

 within fo (mall a diftance almofl as a ilonc's-caft from each other* 

 a falmon-weir, two pillars of ftone in the river which formerly 

 fupported a bridge, the ruin of the old baronial-caftle, and an- 

 other of the domeftic chapel, facing it, on the fouthern margin 

 of the river. 



(I) MS. penes Guliclmum Ftnwict, dc By we/I, Arm. 



(i) S?e Fcnwict-Tovret, (k) See Etkerfton. 



