ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 163 



Was happy in his wife, his children feven : 



Of which the prime-did follow him toheav'n: 



A virtuous girl, above her age was fhe, 



Of fin's foul deeds, and vile contagion, free. 



With credit great, whilft he Lord Percy ferv'd*, 



Of high, of low, of all he well deferv'd. 



He could get wealth, but got, he cared not for it. 



And to conclude, he us'd things tranfitory, 



As means to bring him to eternal glory. 



William Ourd, Efqj departed this life the lyth of April, 1630; 

 and his daugher the soth of December, 1631. 



To the poor of this parifh, Edward Fletcher, of Ovington, by 

 will, dated 29th May, 1699, gave 2 /. per annum; one half to be 

 diftributed, i ft March, his birth-day ; the other half, 1 3th June, 

 the day of his death. 



John Blacket, of Wylam, Efq* by will, dated ipth September, 

 1707, gave 61. per annum, to be paid out of his lands in Weft 

 Denton, to the poor of this parifh, to be diftributed by the mi- 

 nifter and churchwardens on All Saint's Day. 



On the fouth fide of the Tyne, and on the brow of a hill, oppo- 

 fite to Ovingham, is 



Prudhoiv-Caftle (x), the Barony of the antient family of the 

 ffumfranvils (yj> in which Robert de Humfranvil was infeoffed by 



* A furveyor and commiflioner of all the honours and eftates of the Right Honourable 

 Henry Percy, Earl of Nsrthumlerland, in the reign of King James I. 



(x) Prudo. Lei. Itin. Vol. vii. p. 50. 

 Prudhow. Camden. p. 855. 



(y) Umfranvil. Camd. Madox. 

 Humfrevile. Hoi. Chron. 



Y 2 K. 



