450 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



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long to Robert Fenwick, of Lemington, Efq, in right of his wife, 



Mrs. Fenwick, one of the daughters and coheirs of the late William 

 Ord, of Sandy-bank, Efq. They are held of the lord of the manour, 

 paying only the caftlc-rent. 



A fifhery in the Tweed, near the caftle, called Halyivell, for one 

 night and one day in a legal manner, was adjudged by the com- 

 miflioners appointed to fettle all claims and differences on the 

 borders, 1.^53, to be the property of Lord Hume, his heirs, and 

 afligns (I). 



A mile below Nor ham, the Tweed forms an ifland of fourteen 

 acres, by a den, called St. Thomas's Den ; the Tweed mufical by a 

 fall from a mill-dam, in the border-idiom, named The Call, from 

 its murmurs, as from a cafcade. 



A little to the well of it, is a lofty terrace above the Tweed, 

 where it forms a kind of ferpentine canal ; the feat of James Ker, 

 of Kers-fald, Efq; on the other fide, and a craggy cliff, inaccef- 

 fible by human feet, the folitary recefs of Cormorants, and feveral 

 fpecies of Hawks, particularly in the breeding-feafon. 



Near half a mile further down the river, on the left hand of the 

 road, two fmall Urns were found in a gravel-pit, called The 

 Crooks, and feveral human bones by them. One of them is now in 



the pofleffion of Francis Blake, of Twizell, and the other of Henry 



Collingwoocl, of Cornhill, Efqrs. 



About ico yards from it, is a pedeftal of a crofs, with fome of 

 its broken fragments ; alfo another about 200 yards in a direft 



(I) Bp. Nicbalfcns Border-Laws, p. ICQ. 





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