ANTIQJJITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. z6 9 



1547 (g), a reprefentative in parliament for Neivcajlle upon Tyne 

 in that year, alfo, i, 2, 3 Q^Mary, and 5 (^Elizabeth (h) ; of Sir 

 Robert Brandling, Knt. high fheriffof Northumberland, 15 K. James I, 

 and a reprefentative in parliament for Morpeth, i8th of the fame 

 reign ; of Sir Francis Brandling, Knt. a reprefentative in parlia- 

 ment for Northumberland, 21 K. 'James I, 1620, t and I K. Charles I, 

 1625, of which he was high fherifF, 6th of the fame reign fij. 

 It is now in the pofleflion of Charles Brandling, Efq; whofe feat is 

 a mile north from it, on the fame fide of the road. It is a large, 

 modern ftructure, of white freeftone, and hewn work, after a 

 defign in Pain's architecture. It Hands on a riling ground, from 

 which the villa of Neivbiggen, of Kenton, of Long Bcnton, and an 

 opening between two diftant hills into the biflioprick of Durham, 

 are in view. 



Three miles north-eail from it is the villa of 



Seghill (k), fuppofed by Camdcn and others to have been the Ro- 

 man flation Segedunum, fincc fixed at Carr-vill. It was a feat and 

 manour of a younger branch of the antient family of the Mit- 

 fords; of John Mitford, 6 K. Ed-ward VI (IJ, and 10 Q^ Eliza- 



(g) Hol.Chron. vol. ii. p. 991. 



(b) Robertus Brandling, miles, fuit feifitus de et in villa de North Gosforth, Jefmont, et in 

 villa de Had/Ion, Darres-Hall, et High Callerton. Efcaet. de anno 10 Eliz. 



(i) Francifcus Brandling, miles, tenet in capite maneria de South Gosforth, et North Gos- 

 forth, et Hadjltn, &c. Ex Lib. Feod. Petri OJborne, Militis. 



Efcaet. de aim. li Ja<, I. et, i, 6 Car. I. 



(k) Seghill. Camd. Brit. p. 858. 

 Sighall. Autograph, perantiq. 



(1) Bp. Nitbolfm's Border -Laws, p. 332. 



be th ; 



