i S 2 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



cup, as it was rolling on the waves, full of earth, of Roman fa- 

 bric ; the following infcription round the brim, 



DESIDERI VIVAS. 



He fold it to Mr. Longlands, a goldfmith in Neivcaftle upon Tynt, 

 for 15 j. of whom it was claimed by William Fenwick, Efq; as Lord 

 of the manour, who now has it. It was probably warned out of 

 the banks about Cor bridge, where other Roman veflels of filver are 

 /aid to have been formerly turned out by the floods. 



The Romans were very curious in their drinking-cups. Some 

 of them had the portraits of their friends in enamel-painting an 

 the bottom, which they ufed in the hours of good fellowship 

 to drink to their memories. This cup feems to have been for 

 fellivals, and birth-days, when it was cuftomary Genio indulgere. 

 DefiJcri is the name of the perfon to whom it is infcribed. 



On the other fide of the Tyne, near the river Derivent, is 



Ilolbcck (m), the Barony of John de Bolbeck, in the reign of K. 

 JLmy III (u) ; and of Hugh dc Bolbeck, i K. Edivard I (o) ; who 



dying 



(n) Bo!b,-ck. 

 ' Bulbeck. 



(n) Johannes <lc Eolbcck tenet in capite de Dom. rege Baroniam fuam dc T$,ibcck per fervi- 

 ciiim quinque food, milit. Et ornnes anteceflbres fui per eund. Servicium pod tempus dom. 

 regis Henri ci primi tenuerunt, qui eos feofFav. Et de tenemento illo nulla eft alienado, &c. 



undc dom. rex minus habeat de fervic. fuo. 



Tefta Je Nevift. 



(t>) Hugo de Bolleck tenet in capite de dtim. rege BJhct, Stiford cum Spercden membra 

 fuo, Brome-haugh, Heley, Shotley, Heddcn fuper murum, Hedwyne weft, Hedwyneeaft, 



Whit- 



