ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 437 



wife, children, and fervants, were permitted to depnrt on pro- 

 mife of paying sooomarks within three weeks, or yielding them- 

 felves prifoners again ; but on the ninth day after, it was retaken 

 by the Earl of Northumberland, and his fon, Henry Lord Percv, 

 with 400 men in two hours. Sir Matthew Redman, who married 

 Johanna, the widow of William'Lor'lCreyJisck, and afterwards of An- 

 thony Lord Lucy, was made conftable of it (3). Sir Matthews or- 

 ders to guard the town were fo Uriel, thru even the great Duke of 

 Lancajler was refufed admittance on his return from an embailage 

 in Scotland (t) . . 



After the battle of Tow ton, 1461, King Henry VI, refigned it to 

 Barnes III, King of Scotland, as a reward for his protection ; from 

 whom it was taken, 22 K. Ediuard IV, 1482, Auguft 24 ; and con- 

 tinued in the pofTeffion of the Engli/h crown ever fince (u). 



For fettingthe boundaries and limits of it, commiflioners were 

 appointed by K. Richard III, in the ad year of his reign, and 

 K. . James III, of Scotland, 1484; when it was agreed, that the 

 debateable ground mould remain in its antient ilate, without 

 culture, buildings, or inhabitants. The names of the Engli/h 

 commiflioners were Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, Lord Grey- 



(s) Nobiliflimus Baro, Willlelmus de Greyflock, filius Radulpbi, cepit in uxorem Jobahnam t 

 filiam Henrici Fitzhugh, domini de Ravenfwatb. Dia 'Johanna poftea defponfata fuit Antonio, 

 Domino de Lttcy, qui infra breve obiit in terra fanfta. Deinde autem fuper feftum S. Bar- 

 naba, Apoftoli, anno Edvardi tertii quinquegeffimo primo, Matthew Redmayn cepit diftatn 

 dominam Johannem in uxorem. Ex Autographs perantiquo. 



(t) Hoi. Chron. Vol. ii. p. 439. 



( u ) . Vol. i. p. 283. 



M i. i Vol. ii. p. 705-6. 



Jock, 



