ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 391 



James I, was in the poficilion of John Salkeld, Efq; (ej, and now 

 of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. His Grace has repaired 

 the tower, made a handfome road to it from his calllc through 

 the park, by the margin of the river, edged with flowering 

 Ihrubs and plantations, ftored with game, and fong-birds, or' 

 various kinds. The odours of the flowers, the play and paftime 

 of partridges, of hares, the cooing of turtles, the joyous har- 

 mony of the little fongfters of the grove, all confpirc to render 

 it a charming walk. To the weft of the abbey, are the rocky 

 hills, called, Brifsley-hiils, containing about 200 acres, planted 

 by his Grace with foreft-trecs, of the beft kinds, \\hich in a few 

 years will add greatly to the beauty of this his facred Carmel. 



At the north end of ^/?jw/V-bridge, a road branches off on the 

 right hand, to 



Ho-wick, one of the manours of the barony of Aln-wlck, a me- 

 diety of which was held by the antient family of the Greys of 

 Chillingbam ; by Sir Ralph Grey, Knt. in part of the reign of King 

 Henry VIII, in the reign of King Edward VI, and in the beginning 

 of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and by his fon and heir Sir 

 Thomas Grey (f) ; the other mediety belonging to Robert Heron, a 

 younger branch of the baronial family of the Herons of Ford (gj. 



The 



(e) Cart, penes ducem Northumbr. 



(f) Radulpbus Grey, de Chillingham, otiit feifitus de et in medietate villae de Howhk, per 

 dimidium feodi milit. veteri feoffatnemo, baronia de Aln-uilck. 



Thomas Grey t de Cbillingham, filius Radulpbi^ eft in minorhate, et in manu reginse. 



Efcaet. deanno le Eliz. Vid. ffark* 



(g) Rd-crtus Heron fuic feifitus de et in medietate villse de Hewick. 



Efcaet. de anno 10 Eliz. 



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