ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Efq; the prefent poflefibr, lately a fludent of Chrift-Churcb, in 

 Oxford. His feat is a modern brick-ftrudture, after a genteel de- 

 fign ; near it is another handfbme feat, built by his uncle, Thomas 

 Bigge, Efq; both on a-fme flope, in view from the Shiehfs road. 



A mile north from Little Bent on, on a hill, is 



Long Bent on, a plcafant village, one of the manours of the Ba-> 

 rony of Morpeth (ej. The church ftands near a quarter of a mile 

 north-eaft from it. It was given, with certain lands in the parifh, 

 to J5fl//0/-college, in Oxford, by Sir Philip Somerville, of Wickmore* 

 in Sta/brdftire, for the perpetual maintenance of fixfcholars. 



We now leave the two Bentons, and continue our courfe on the 

 SbiehFs road about a mile, when a neat winding road branches 

 off on the right hand, to 



Carr-vil/, once the feat of the Cofens, the E-wbanks's, of Sir Wil- 

 frid Laivfon, of Braiton-Hally in Cumberland^ Bart, father of Sir Gil- 

 frid, of Mr. Cari\ brother of William Carr, of Etall, Efq; and now 

 of Mrs. Proflor. It bore the name of Cofens' s Houje, till new- 

 named Carr-vill, by Mr. Carr, who rebuilt it, to which Mrs. Proftor 

 hath added new ornaments and conveniences. 



In a field adjoining, to the eaft of it, Hoping to the Tyne, called, 

 The Well-Laws, belonging to Matthew Waters, of Lincoln's /% 

 Efq; is the ruin of a Roman villa and fort ; the latter in the ufual 

 .form, a parallelogram ; the laft garrifon the Romans had at this 

 end of the wall ; the river ferving for a defence to Tyne'mouth t 

 being navigable for their Naves lufori<e y or light frigates, deftined 

 for fcouring the coafts, and chaftizing praedatory rovers. The 



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