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effigies of an hermit, in the attitude of prayer ; by him a Bull's 

 head ; all in high relief. Over the entrance into the chamber, 

 is a 'fcutcheon of arms, now effaced. Next the river is the ruin 

 of a i'mall building, with a fire-place ; probably the kitchen ; 

 above, there feems to have been a chamber, from the appear- 

 ance of holes in the rock for the timber. On the fouth-eaft fide 

 of the rock, is a door and winding flairs cut out of it, leading 

 to their little olitory or garden. The range of rocks eaflwafd are 

 of a confiderable height and length ; a fountain of foft and 

 pleafant water under them; above them, fpreading oaks and 

 brufhwood ; the river paffing by in a filent flream. 



Near the icth milc-ftone, we crofs the river Coquet by aftone- 

 bridge of three arches, on the north fide of which is 



Fclton, a pleafant, well built villa, on a gradual flope. Here 

 the Barons of Northumberland did homage to Alexander, King of 

 Scotland, 1 8th of K. John, 1216; who in refentment laid it and fe- 

 veral other places in afhes. It was one of the rnanours of the 

 Barony of Mitford. It was pofTefled by the Bertrams (c) ; by the 

 Earl and Countefs of Pembroke (f) ; by the Earls of Atholl, by Sir 



Thomas 



(e) See Mhford. 



(f) Dicunt juratores fupcr facrum fuum, quod Adomarui de faleniia, comes Pembrockite, 

 tenuit in dominico fuo, ut de feodo, die quo obiit manerium de Felton, cum pertinentibus, 

 una cum quibufdam tenements in Thri/lon, in com. pradidto, de dom. rege in capite. 



Item, dicunt juratores fuper facrum, quod Johannes de Ha/lings, aetat. anno xxx; Johanna, 

 uxor comitis de Ath-ll, aetat. anno xxvi j et E'.lzaltiba Cumen, foror ejufdem Johanna;, aetat. 

 anno xvi ; funt confanguin. et propinquiores haiedes prsedifli Adomari. 



Inquifit, capta apud Novum Cajlrum, 14 die Septembris, deanno 10 Ed. II. 



Dicunt 



