452 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



fon William Sclby had the manours of Branltfton, Moneylanvs, Shotton, 

 itQiv'ick, and half of the foreft of Cheviot fs). Tivizell is now the 

 feat of Francis Blake, Efq; F. R. S. fon of Robert Blake, Efq; by the 

 third daughter of Sir Francis. Blake, of F&rJ-caftle, Knt. lately re- 

 paired, with handfome additions, chiefly in the Saxon-Gothic ftile ; 

 the river Till in a winding current gliding under it, croiTed by a 

 {tone-bridge of one flrong and beautiful arch, as defcribed by Le- 

 Iand(t), and fa id to have been built by a lady of the &7/-family, 

 nearly femicircular, 90 feet, 7 inches, from bafe to bafe, .in 

 height iTor.i ihc top of the battlement 46 feet, 2 inches. Under 

 the houfe is a range of rocks, cavernofe, fringed with various 

 petrifkations of mois, and other fmall plants, formed by drip- 

 pings of water from the roof and crevices ; a natural alcove in 

 one part of it, the mofs-plants on its fides variegated and gilded 

 by thofc petrifying drops, a fhort, upright ftone in the center 

 in party-coloured lapideous cloathing, and hollow at the top by 

 their continual falling ; a fine view, through the arch of the 

 bridge, of a fioping bank of hawthorn, in bloifom beautiful ; 

 the north-weft fide of the bridge adorned with large quantities of 

 P-ellitory of the Wall; an upright rock, of a great fize, and taper- 

 ing to the top, about twenty feet high, a little below the bridge, 

 on the edge of the Till ; a fountain near it, confecrated to St. 

 Helen, and by it an antient fepulture, faid to have belonged to 

 the family- chapel. 



The two noble brothers, Sir Thomas Percy, thejixtb Earl of Nor- 

 thumberland, and Sir Henry Percy, defeated the Scots at Grindon, 5 



(s) fFilliflnws elby, arm. filius Jobannis Srtt-y, militis, tenet in capite manerium de 

 Erunxtm, ac manerium five cap! tale mefiuagium vocat. Mone^laivs, ac manerium five domi- 

 nicum de Shottox, ac manerium de Lcwhk, ac me^tietatem foreftae de Cheviot. 



Efcaet. deanno 14 Car. I. 



(t) Lei. Ijin. vol. vii. p. 62. 



