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*4 K. Charles I (s), afterwards Sir Thomas Widdrington, Knt. founder 

 of Stamfordbam-fchool, above-mentioned , brother-in-law to Thomas 

 Lord Fairfax ; for fome time recorder of York ; alfo Lord Keeper 

 of the Great Seal of England, 1647, with a falary annexed of 

 looo I. per annum-, fpeaker to the parliament, 1656; and Lord 

 Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1658. He wrote the hiftory of 

 Tork, of the MS. copy of which the ingenious and learned Mr. 

 Drake hath given us a particular account in the preface to his 

 hiftory and antiquities of that city (t). He left four daughters 

 and coheirs, one of whom, Mary, married Sir Robert Markham, 

 of Sedgebroke in Nottingham/lire, Bart, defcended from the famous 

 Judge Markham, difplaced for his integrity by K. Edward IV. His 

 eftate and feat of CheeJburn-Grange are now in the pofteflion of 

 Ralph Riddel> Efq; brother to Thomas Riddel, of S-winburn-Cqftle, Efq. 



A mile and a half from Weltoi*-\)mn, is 



Harlow-Hill, corruptly for Hare-low or Here-low, that is the hill 

 or ftation of the army (u), a fmall village on an eminence ; at 

 the fouth-weft end of which a road branches off' to 



Ovingham, a village on the banks of the Tyne, where was a re- 

 ligious houfc of the foundation and endowment of Humfran- 



*vil, Baron of Prudboiu, for three black canons, fubordinate to 

 the priory of Hexham. He gave it the appropriation and advow- 



(s) Taamas Wtddrlngian, Arm. filius Lodo>. ici, tenet in capita per fervic. militare Cheef- 

 birn-Grange. Ex Lib. Feed. Pctrl Qfborne, mifitis. 



(t) Inuto. See Wood's Athena; Oxonienfes. 



(u) See Thcrcfbj's Topogr k of Leeds, p, 143. 



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