ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 457 



the fame caftle in the reign of K. Edward III, taken prifoner in 

 too eager and forward a purfuit of the Scots, 1355 (e) ; of Sir Tho- 

 mas Grey, a reprefentative in parliament for Northumberland, i K... 

 Henry IV, and captain of /r^r^-caflle, taken by the Scots in his 

 abfence, who, after plundering it, pulled it down to the ground; 

 the borders then afflicted with a great mortality (f). He was 

 in great favour with K. Henry V, the glory and pride of the Eng- 

 liflj nation, and the fcourge of France, for confpiring whofe death 

 he was executed. His confederates were Richard Earl of Cam- 

 bridge, Edward Duke of Tork, and Henry Lord Scrape of Mtijljam, who 

 were alfo executed. The largeft fhare of difgrace fell upon Sir 

 Thomas and Lord Scrope. Sir Thomas was a privy counfellor. Lord 

 Scrope svas lord treafurer, and admitted into the highefl confi- 

 dence, and ncareft intimacy \vith the King. The folemn gra- 

 vity of his countenance, the attractive graces of a modcft and 

 chafte converfation, full of zeal for virtue and goodnefs, fo won 

 the king's heart, that lie placed him the neareft of all men to his 

 bofom and perfon, and was for the moil part fwaycd by him in 

 xrvery thing of moment (g). 



Heton afterwards came into the pofleffion cf Sir Ralph Grey, 

 who, with K. Henry VI, Henry Lord Percy* the Earl of WeJImorland, 

 and others, was inverted with the high and honourable Order of 

 Knight of the Garter by the Duke of Bedford, regent of Eng-? 

 land (h). He was captain of the caftles of Wark and Roxbrough j 



{e) HoL Chron. -vol. i. p. 242. 



j(f) vol. ii. p. 514. 



(g) P- 548. 



: (h) p. 595. 



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