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line from it, and a pleafant mount with a courfe of ftone-fteps 

 round it, an antient fepukure, or barrow. The crofTes were 

 eredtcd by the road formerly leading from Tihnoutb-cha.pc\ to the 

 villa, church, and cattle of Nor ham. 



Half a mile from the Crook, is 



Twizell (m), which was the lordfliip and villa of Sir William Ri- 

 dell, 4 K. Edward III, who had alfo the hamlets of Dudhoiv and 

 Grindon, which he held of the bimop of Durham by the annual 

 rent of twenty marks, and doing fuit and fervice to his court at 

 Norham (nj. It was afterwards in the pofleffion of a branch of 

 the antient family of the Sclby's ; of Sir John Selby, a commiflloner 

 for enclofures of the eaft marches, 6 K. Edward VI (oj, and de- 

 puty-warden of the eaft marches under Henry Lord Hunfdon in the 

 reign of Q^EHzabsth (f) ; Sir William Selby, of Grindon, being at 

 the fame time matter of the ordnance at Berwick (q). Sir John 

 claimed a fithery in the river Tweed, called 7z/#/0ft&4iaugh iifhery, 

 but by the commiffioners appointed to adjuft and fettle all claims 

 and differences on the borders, 1553, it was adjudged to be a Scotch 

 fifhing, belonging to the priory of Coldjlream, leafed to Alexander 

 Hume of Udders-town, and that the lord of the manour of Twizell 

 had only a right to ufe and occupy a ring-net, and to ftand on a 

 place, called Fillijpotte, upon the fouth fide of the river (r). His 



(m) Twizell. Rot. Efcaetr. Nirtbumbr. 

 Twifle. Lei. Itjn. vol. vii. 



(n) SeeTilmoutb. 



(a) Bp. Nicholfon's Border- Laws, p. 337. 



(p) Afonmoutb's Memoirs, p. 113. (tj) Id. p, 131. 



(r) Border-laws, p. no. 



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