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l8th, i6<;4. Mary, wife of Edivard Dulaval, Efq; daughter of Sir 

 Francis Blake, ot Ford-CaJlle, buried Dec. 7th, 17:1, aged 17. The 

 aforefaid Edward, eldeft of Ge orge Delaval, Efqr.'s fons, who died 

 Auguft the sd, 1744, aged 80 years, and left 50 /. to be diftributed 

 amongft the poor inhabitants of the four following parifhcs, to 

 Neivburn 20 /. to He d don on the wall io/. \aStamfordham io/. and 

 to Pant-Eland io/ 



Copfi, one of the favourite Lords of K. William I, was llain as he 

 entered this church, by Ofulf, his competitor for the government 

 of Northumberland, who was foon after run through with a fpear 

 and killed by a thief, as he was endeavouring to fcizc him 5 

 which hcws how fpeedily murder is often punifhed by a jufl 

 providence, and by the mcancil instruments (it). 



The living of this parifh being reprefented to Dr. Smith, Bifhop 

 of Carlijle after the restoration, as an infufficient maintenance for 

 a minifter, his Lordfliip, among his other excellent charities, 

 augmented it 25 /. per annum fi>). 



At this village, Lord Contvay, at the head of 1200 horfe and 

 ijooo foot, oppofed the pafTage of the Scots over the river Tyne 

 under General Lefley, S7th Augud, 16 K. Charles I, 1640. The 

 foot by a fmart fire from under a bread-work forced 300 Scotch 

 troopers to repafs the river, but on the playing of nine pieces of 

 ordnance, concealed the night before by Le/lcy in fomc bruiTi- 

 wood, they cad down their arms* and ran away, leaving the 



(u] See an account of this charitable anJ good prehiu in Browne Willis's Survey of ths 

 'Cathedr. Vol. I. p. 301. 



ft>) Hal. Chron. Vol. ii. p. 13. 



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