340 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



county, formed by two promontories of freeftone-rocks, fpacious, 

 the bottom of fand ; corn-fhips, of about fixty tons burthen, 

 coming up to the town ; large fhips, farther in, riding in five, fix, 

 or feven fathom water, in fecuriiy from tempefts, from, the 

 north, and north-eaft. 



On the northern point of the bay, is the veftigies of an old 

 pier ; many of the ilones y and fome of the piles of wood, con- 

 ipicuous at low water. 



On the north-eaft fide of the harbour is the church, dedicated 

 to St. Bartholomew ; the middle ifle and the fpire only now re- 

 maining ; a fmall gallery at the weft end ; at the eaft end, above 

 the altar-table, is the AVn^-'s-arms, cut in wood, in high relief, 

 faid to have been the ftern of a mip caft away in a ftorm uport 

 the rocks ; one bell in the fpire j the church-yard fmall ; a de- 

 lightful profpect from it. 



On the north-eaft fide of it, about 100 yards from the fea- 

 banks, in the cavity of a rock, is a frefh- water fpring, called 

 St. Mary's well, acceflibLe only at ebb-tides. 



Two miles north from Nenvbiggen t is 



Crejpwell) one of the manours of the barony of Bywell (u) y of 

 which it was held by the antient family of the Creffkvells ; by 

 Robert de Creffwell, and Simon de Crejpwell, in the reigns of kings 

 John and Henry III ; by Roger de Crejpwell r 21 K. Edward I (v) ; by 



Robert 



(u) Vid. Eywett. 



(v) Jurafores dlcunt fuper facrum, quod quidam Rolertus de CreJJuiell, avus prsedi<Si Ro* 

 gtri dc Cnjjwdl, tenuit praedicta tenementa,. dc quibus vifum fecerunt, in fuo fefl". et inde 



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