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Queen's College, in Oxford. At the eaft end of it is a fmall, but 

 fertile glebe. 







On the fouth fide of the village, is a fmall hamlet, belonging 

 to Mr. Compton, on a hill, called 



Shidlaiv, a contraction of Shield-law ; a guard-hill, and explo- 

 ratory ; from which is an extenfive and beautiful profpect into 



Scotland. 



A mile above Carbarn, a flrcamlet, called, Ry ding-burn, empties 

 itfelf into the Tweed, which is the boundary between the two 

 kingdoms of England and Scotland to the weft. 



We now turn fouth ward on the E fall-road, from Cornhill, about 

 two miles from which, on the right hand, in Brank/ton-vreil-field, 

 is a large upright pillar, of whinftone, fix feet, feven inches high, 

 and thirteen feet in diameter towards the bafe ; a memorial of 

 the great victory obtained over K. James IV, of Scot/and, by the 

 Earl of Surrey, on Friday, pth of September, 5 K. Henry VIU, 



This battle is called, The battle of Brankfton, from the chief 

 fcene of action being near that village ; alfo the battle of FlodJon, 

 from the &ro/cMntrenchments being on Floddon-\\\\\, out of which 

 they were drawn forcibly, as it were, to an engagement, by the 

 Earl of Surrey's cutting off their retreat homewards. Among the 

 flain was their fovereign, with his natural fon, Alexander, Arch- 

 bifhop of St. Andrews, who had the learned Erafnnis for his tutor ; 

 alfo two other Scotch prelates, four abbots, twelve Earls, feven- 

 teen lords, a great number of knights and gentlemen, and about 



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