278 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Henry Delaval, Knt. 12 K. Richard II, his family afterwards pofief- 

 ling the whole (y) ; now belonging to Sir Francis. It is a well- 

 built and improving marine villa, populous and induftrious, on. 

 a bold and rocky more ; the harbour to the north of it, by a fpa- 

 cious fandy bay. Four great works are carrying on at it -, a coal- 

 work, a falt-work, a copperas-work, and a glafs-work ; the latter 

 a handfome building, 220 feet in front, the fide-walls to the roof 

 36 feer, the property of Thomas Delaval, Efq; fourth brother to 

 Sir Francis and Sir John. 



Near the <5th mile-flone, a road branches off, on the right hand 

 to 



Bedlington, a large, well-built, and pleafant villa on an emi- 

 nence, the manour of which belongs to the See of Durham, as 

 part of the patrimony of St. Cuthbert, including all that fpace on 

 the fea-coaft between the rivers Blyth and Wan/beck, known by the 

 name of B/dlingMn/hire (a). Out of every plow-land in this ma- 

 nour, the hofpital of St. Giles, near Durham, received a thrave of 

 corn, for the relief of poor ftrangers and travellers, till it was 

 agreed to pay nine millings in lieu of it at a certain time, within 

 fifteen days after the feaftof St. Michael, and in cafe of failure to 



pay ten {hillings (bj. 



When 



(y) Efc. I2R. Ric. II. 

 Efc. jo R. EKz. 



(a) Spearman's enquiry into the antient and prefent ftate of the county Palatine of Dur- 

 ham, 410. 1729. p. 2, 3. 



(b) De-novum folidisjjro trais carucarum de "Bedelynjlonjlnrt hofyitali S. EgiJii datis per 

 inhabitantes ejufdem. 



Omnibus, &c. Willielmus Halcor, Rolertus Cnawald, WdUelmui Birilsf-, TJjomas filius Rs- 

 fire^e. Becttlyntan, Waittrus et Rubertus filii Roberti de Neddtrton, Adam et Elyas frater ejus de 



Cbavynton^ 



