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Si quceris mores, mulier nee sequi amantior 



Nee pietatis erat, nee probitacis erat. 

 Hsec pro te triftis fubfcripfit carmina natus, 



Qiix. funt officii figna fuprema fui. 



Per me Pet rum Jones. 



The village is chiefly inhabited by fifhermen. To the north- 

 eaftof it is a garrifon commanding the harbour. At ebb-tides both 

 horfe and foot may come from the main land to the ifland. It 

 is well delineated by Speed (sj. It has its name of L'uuJisfani from 

 its fit nation by the ojlium of L/.7-rivulet, and the Celtic Fabrcn, 

 Receffiis. Egelivine, bilhop of Durham, to efcape the vengeance of 

 K. William I, after the defection of Northumberland, retired to it 

 with his clergy, the church-treafure, the jewels, and the body 

 of St. Cuthhrt, for fecurity, in the year io6y; where they re- 

 mained upwards of three months (t). It gives its name of Holy 

 Ifland, to a confiderable tract of country on the coaft, called Holy 

 Jjland-Jhire (u). 



We next pafs by the village of Fenivick, and Fetrwick-Park, on 

 the left hand of the pod-road, in the jurifdiction of Lindisfarn ; 

 alfo the village of Beat, on a pleafant flope, half a mile from the 

 more (v), and in the fame liberty. It has its name from the 

 famous Irljl) female faint Begogh, the patronefs of Kirkby Begogh, 

 and of a town called Beal in York/hire (ivj. 



Near the yth mile-done, on the left hand, by Lind-iivulet, . 

 crofTed by a fmall bridge, is 



(s) Speed's Maps. (t) Hoi. Chron. vol. . p. 7. 



(u) Lei. Itin. vol. vii. p. 61. 63. (v) Ibid. 



(m) Stripe's Life of Archbifliop Grindaly p. 291. 



Haggcrjlon, 



