j 5 5 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Right Honourable and Rev. Lord Crew, Bifliop of Durham, his 

 uncle, who left it to charitable ufes (w). 



Between the isth and nth mile-flones, on the right hand, by 

 We /ton-burn, a road branches off to 



Welton-Tower, a corruption of Wall-Town, i, e. the Town by the 

 Wall (x), where Sigebert, King of the Eajl Saxons, and Penda, King 

 of the Mercians, with all his great Lords and attendants, -were 

 baptized by Finan, Bifhop of Lindisfarn (y). It was the feat of the 

 antient family of the Welton's; of Simon de Welton, 10 K. Henry 

 IV (z), 9, 10 K. Henry V (a), and 14 K. Henry VI (b) ; of Thomas 

 de Welt on, 25, 35 K. Henry VI (c) ; of Simon de Welton, 5 K. Edward 

 IV (d) ; of Michael Welt on, 19 K. Charles I, 1643, who was then 

 one of the parliament-commiflioners for fequeftring lands in 

 Northumberland, an aft being pafled the year before, in June, that 

 this and the other northern counties mould be on the fame foot- 

 ing as Ireland, and the lands and eflates of many great families 

 fliared among fuch as would advance money to bring them under 

 their power. 



(w) See Bambrough. 



(x) Welton. EiQiop Kennefs Hift. Regift. 



Walton. Camdcns Britan. Burton's Itin. 



Ad Murum. Bede. 



Weltden. 



Welden. 

 (y) Bed. Hift. Eccles. Ed. Smith, 1. 3. c. 21. 



(z) Efcaet. de anno ioHen.IV. n. 26. 



(a) 9, 10 Hen. V. n. 54, et, n. 28. 



(b) ' . . i \fHen. VI. n. 34. 



(tl) _ 25, ct 35 Hen. VI. (d) . . 5 Ed, IV. n. 30. 



The 



