ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 325; 



this infcription below it, in capitals of a middle fize, fair, and 

 well cut.. 



Herejyeth interred with- 

 in this molde a generous and 

 virtuous wight, whofe 

 dewe deferte cannot be 



told, from flender fkil unto 



his right, He was defcended 



from a race of Worlhipful 



Antiquitie. Loved he was 



in his life-fpace, of high 



eke of low degree. Reft 

 Eartram in this houfe of clay 

 reufley unto the latter day. 



Underneath is his effigies cut on the f!oi:^--rover of his tomb, in 

 relief; his hands lifted up, in a praying poiture, ana on the edge. 

 of it thefe lines, in capitals. 



Bartram to us fo dutiful a fon, 

 if more were iit, it fhould for 

 Thee be done, who deceafed 

 the 7 of October, Anno Domini, 

 1622. 



The villa is parted by the river, and is crofled on the north 

 fide, near the turnpike-gate, by a new ftonc-bridge, of one arch. 

 It was antiently crofled by one higher up, leading to the church 

 and caftle, called, the South bridge, and Foufebrigg, for the watch- 

 ing of which on the eve and on the day of the Afeenfion of our 



