346 'ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



and perfonal eflate, valued, as fct forth in his petition to the - t ..^ 

 liament, 4th December, 1722, at above 100,000 /. came to the 

 crown by his attainder in 1715, and was fold for the public ufe. 

 He did not fuffer with Lord Der-went-water, but was moft graci- 

 oufly pardoned. He left one fon, Henry, now living ; his feat at 



Stella, by the river Tyne, in the bifhoprick of Durham. 







H r iddrington-ca.ftlc is now in the poffeflion of Sir George Warner 

 Knight of the Bath. It is about a mile and a half from the fea. 

 on a pleafant'fhady eminence-; from which is adiftant profpecT: 

 to the nonh-eaft of 



Coquct-Jfland, in which was a cell of Benedictine monks, fubordi- 

 nate to Tynemouth-priory (o). At the dhTolution it was granted tc 

 John Earl of Warwick (p). It now belongs to his Grace the Duke 

 of Northumberland. It was taken by the Scots, 19 K. Charles I, 1643, 

 together with about 200 men, with their arms, feven pieces of 

 ordnance, and provifions. They refcued and reftored to the 

 owners a great herd of cattle taken away by the king's forces. 

 Colonel Grey, brother to William Lord Grey, came in to them with 

 a regiment of horfe, and took the covenant (q). 



The ifland is about a mile in circumference, and a mile and a, 

 quarter from the main land, ftored with rabbets. It hafh pit- 

 coal, as mentioned by Leland (r) ; alfo white free-ftone, and 



(o) Monacorum caetibus infignis. Bed. Hift. Ecclef. 1. 4. c. 24. 

 Lei. Collelan. vol. iii. p. 4?. 

 Itin. vol. vii. p. 55. 



(p) Tanner's Notir. Monaft. fol. p. 360. 

 (q) PffiithcFs Memorial?, p. 77. 

 (r) Lei. Itin. vol. vi. p. 60. 



ilates . 



