466 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



the Garter, 2.6th February, 1720-21. His fon, the late C&arles 

 Earl of Tanhrviilf, was lord lieutenant of the county of Northum- 

 berland, and of the town and county of Newcaftle upon Tyne, and 

 Knight of the Order of the Thiftle. He died in March, 1753 ; and 

 was fucceeded by his fon, Charles Earl of Tankerville, the prefent 

 poiTeflbr of JYark-ca.ft.le, &c. his feat at Chillingham. His lordfliip 

 married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir John Aftley^ Bart, in October, 

 1742. 



The caftle is at the weft end of the village, on a high mount of 

 difficult accefs, circular, feemingly raifed by art with earth and 

 Hone ; part of the foundations ftill remaining, and a fragment of 

 the building, looking at a diilance like a column j fome courfes 

 of the outer-wall entire on the north fide, of afhler-work; under 

 it a walk, called, The Maiden-\vs.\k. ; i. e. the Military way, or 

 walk under the Maiden or fortrefs ; five yards broad, and forty- 

 eight yards long. It is a beautiful terrace, edged with a fleep 

 precipice, fhaded with trees j the Tiveed gliding under it in deep 

 and hollow murmurs. 



On the weft fide are the outworks, now called the Kemb ; i. e. 

 the camp of the militia dcfigned to kemb or fight an enemy - f Kemb 

 being a word often ufed by the borderers when they threaten in a 



paffionate tone to beat an afTailant They will kemb him i. e 



drub him heartily. 



This intrenchment is half a mile long, meafured ; the breaft- 

 works and covered ways ftill fair and confpicuous, the ditches 

 deep, and the rampier high, of earth and ftone; two fmall 

 mo'unts at nearly an equal diftancc, one about midway, and the 

 other at the extremity, a linear trench through them at top ; an- 

 other 



