ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 151 



A perfpe<ftive view was publiftied of this villa fome years ago, 

 before Mr. Fenwick rebuilt his feat, and made all the other agree- 

 able improvements about it. 



One of the churches is dedicated to St. Peter, to the poor of 

 which parifli, Madam Elizabeth Ratclijf, of Dilflon^ widow, by 

 will, dated 18 December, 1668, gave 4 /. per annum out of an 

 annuity or rent-charge ; to be diflributed annually on St. Lode's 

 Day. 



Jofcph Teafdale, of Bromley, by will, dated i6th Feb. 1695?, gave 

 to the poor of the fame parifli, i /. per annum. 



Mr. Thomas Brown, of Newton-Hall, by will, dated 1 3th Septem- 

 ber, 1703, gave io/. to the poor of the fame parifh. 



The other church is dedicated to St. Andrew ; to the poor of 

 which parifli, Mr. Thomas Brown, by will, gave 5 /. One of its 

 vicars, the Rev. Mr. Hutton, afterwards vicar of Warden, augmented 

 the vicarage by the donation of a tenement in Bywcll, called, 

 Three-Quarter-Land, which he had bought for the term of fixty 

 years, of which about forty were then remaining. His fucccf- 

 forinthis parifli, the Rev. Mr. Hall, made it perpetual, by pur- 

 chafing the fame tenement of Sir John Femvick, of Wallingttn, 

 Bart, the indenture bearing date, ^th July, 1651. In 1713, it was 

 valued at 8 /. per annum (I). 



In the year 1760, as one Robin/on, a maibn, was angling in the 

 river Tyne at By-well^ after a fall of rain, he took up a fmall illver 



(I) Account of the Charities in Tynedale by the Rev. Mr. Riffdd, Mitiifte; cf Hex 



cup, 



