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the laft of which he defended with an eminent courage for 

 twenty days, 15 K. Henry VI, 1436, againft the forces of James, 

 King of Scotland, till the arrival of fuccours under Henry Percy, 

 the fecond Earl of Northumberland, on the fight of which the Scots 

 fled with precipitation ; many of them flain and taken prifon- 

 ers (i). He was appointed captain of Bambrough-ca&bt by the 

 houfe of Lancvjler, in which he was taken prifoner after his retreat 

 from the battle of Hexham, and beheaded at Done after, his fword 

 being firft broke over his head, &c. for breaking his oath of 

 fealty to the houfe of York (kj. 



In the reign of K. Henry VIII, it belonged to Sir Edward Grey 

 (I) ; and afterwards to William Lord Grey of Wark (m). It is now 

 in the polTeffion of the Earl of TankervilL The caflle was a ftrong 

 building, nearly fquare ; a court on the weft fide, called The 

 Lyorfs Court ; on the north fide, a vault that roo horfe might 

 (land in. It is now in ruins. King James IV, of Scotland, inveft- 

 ed it with his army before the battle of Floddon-fald., but could 

 not take it. In digging for ftones, two wells were difcovered by 

 the workmen, in which were found four pewter plates, with 

 part of the arms of the Greys engraved upon them ; alfo one bow 

 made of yeiu. They came into the pofleflion of Mr. Gregfon, of 

 Wark upon T-weed. 



Below Tilmouth, by the confluence of the Till into the Tweed, is 



Tilmouth-Chapel ; fmall, and in ruins ; the altar-window re- 

 maining, and a bafon in a nich of the fouth wall j on the north 



(!) Hoi. Chron. vol. ii. p. 615. 



(k) p. 666. 



(1) LeL Itin. vol. vii. p. 6r. (m) See Wark upon Tweed* 



fide, 



