4<So ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Northumberland 1766, and to Francis Blake of T-w'izdl, Efq; The 

 church {lands nearly in the middle of it ; lately rebuilt, fmall, 

 but neat, the roof cieled ; dedicated to St. Helen, a fpring hard 

 by carrying her name. In digging up the old foundations two 

 fmall urns were found by the workmen, the genuine contents not 

 certainly known, being muffled out in a ftruggle by the finders 

 of them, thinking they had got a treafure. 



In the church-yard is the following infcription on the tomb of 

 an old man, an empyric, at Tivizell. 



Ehcu ! quis mortis jam retardabit fa'lcem ? 

 Archiatcr ille inclytus, ad pontem Tivifili, 

 'Jacobus Purdy, non vacat segris. 



Obiit ipfe 4to die Dccembris, A. D. 1752, et astat. 81. Et cum 

 conjuge Jana, neptcque Eleanor a, fub hoc lapide tenetur. 



At bono fis animo viator fortafTe vivas. Superftes 



Jacobo viget natus Samuel, fub patrio lare artes exercens 

 patria?^ Si quceris fanitatem, hunc adi. 



The ftreet from the church forms a wide avenue, at the foot 

 of which is Mr. ColttngwwcPs feat ; on the top of a large flope ; 

 the gardens to the weft ; a fine view from a terraced lawn of the 

 fertile vale below it, through which the Tweed takes its courfe 

 in a winding current ; of the market-town of Coldftream, on its 

 oppofire banks, at which Margaret, the Queen Dowager of Scot" 

 land, fifter to K. Henry VIII, was met by Lord Dacres, lord warden, 

 of the marches, and conducted to Harbottle-ca&lz, 2 6th Auguft, 

 1515 (o) ; of the handfome modern feat of Mr. Pringle, with an 

 ocTangular template, on the banks of 1 the river j of the baronial 



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