ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



days he attempted to take it, but in vain, being forced with d i f- 

 grace to raite the fiege. After his death, a parliament was fun> 

 moned to meet at Norbam, loth May, 19 K. Edward I, 1291. The 

 king refided in the caflle. The nobility, prelates, and knights 

 of both kingdoms, alTembled before him on a green plain, on 

 the banks of the Tweed, directly oppofite to the caflle, fays the 

 record, to confider of the fucceffor to the Scotch fcepter, to which 

 he put in his claim ; his title being hiflorically declared and pu- 

 bliflied by the Bifhop of Durham (d). 



In the following reign it was befieged by the Scots, who erect- 

 ed two forts againfl it, one in the church of Norham, and the 

 other at Upfitlington, but by the bravery of its captain, Sir Thomas 

 Grey, of Heton, and the arrival of the Lords Percy and Nevill with 

 a body of forces to its relief, they were forced to defift from 

 their enterprize, and retire (e). 



They laid fiege to it again in the fame reign, and took it. K. 

 Edward came before it with a large army, 1322, and recovered it, 

 after a fiege of ten days (f). 



It was befieged by James, King of Scotland, 13 K. Henry VII, 

 1497, but was refcued by the Earl of Surry, with an army of 

 20,000 men (g). 



(d) Congregatis ex oppofito caftri de Norham, ex alia parte fluminis Tivedee in quadam 

 area viridi, epifcopis, prselatis, comitibus, et baronibus, aliifque nobilibus viris, jus ad 

 diftum regnum vindicantibus, &c. Rot. tie Superioritate Regis Angl'ia in Turri Land, 



Biady's Compl. Hift. of England, vol. ii. p. 19. 



(e.) Hoi. Chron. vol. i. p. 222. 

 (f) vol. ii. p. 332. 



.(f) P- 782-3- 



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