3 i2 ANTIQJJITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



granted, 7 K. James. I,' V). Robert Brandling (p). It now belongs to 

 William Ord, of Fenham, Efq. Its very foundations are erafed and 

 gom , and not a ftone left to fpeak its antiquity, only a fragment 

 or two remaining of the portal or gate-way leading to it. Coffins, 

 both of lead and ftone, have been turned up by fome labourers 

 in digging for limeftone. 



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A mile weft from New-Mincer, on the ftiady banks of the fame 

 river, is 



Mitford (qj, which at the Conqueft by K. William I, was the 

 villa and Lordfhip of -Sir John Mitford, Knt. His only daughter 

 and heir, Sibil, was given in marriage by that king to Sir Richard 

 Bertram, Knt. (rj, a Norman, by whom me had two fons, William 

 and Roger. Her eldeft fon, 



Six William Bertram, Knt. inherited her manour of Mitford, with 

 its appurtenances, which was ere<5ted into a barony by K. Henry I. 

 He married Alice the daughter of Sir William Merlay, of Morpeth t 

 Kru. by whom he had two fons, Roger and Robert, and was the 



Highley, Loninghead, Ulgham-grange, Newton-grange, Stoyke, Trqthenvyke, et Mor- 

 peth. Efcaet. de anno 10 Eliz. 



(p) Tanner's Notitia Monaft. fbl. p. 392. 



(q) Mytford. ,'(r) -Bertram. 



Mydford. JSartram. 



Mitford. Barthram. 



founder 



