474 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



It is now the villa and feat of William Carr, Efq; father-in-law 

 of the right honourable the Earl of Errol ; by a countefs of whofe 

 family the county of Buchan, in Scotland, is defcribed, and all its 

 remarkables accounted for (y). His feat is at the eaft end of the 

 village, lately rebuilt, after a genteel defign ; the fouth front 

 appearing to great advantage through an avenue of trees on the 

 approach to it from the caftle of Ford; a flower-garden, lawns, 

 gravel-walks, edgings of flowers and fhrubs before it, encom- 

 pafTcd by a dwarf-hedge of holly ; the ftreet of the villa form- 

 ing an avenue from it weflward to the ruins of the old caftle on 

 the banks of the Till, part of two large towers ftill remaining, 

 the coat-armorial of the builder, Sir Robert de Manners, above the 

 entrance of one of them, obfcured by the weather and age. 



The vale by the Till appears in great beauty to the fouth and 

 fouth-weft, many hills and mountains in fight ; the hills of 

 B rank/I on and Floddon ; the two mountains confecrated to the Saxon 

 god Ton; and carrying his name ; the hill called Yevering-Bell, 

 from its bell-like fliape ; the two Cheviots, Akdd, and Humble to- 

 hills. 



and accordingly ordered, That the faid Mrs. Carr, and William Carr, together with thefaid 

 manour of Etall, be, and is henceforth acquitted and discharged, and his majefty's auditor is 

 hereby defired and required to difcharge tho faid manour of the faid composition, and, to 

 grant a Quietus for the fame unto the fee-fermer thereof: Is difcbarged, and the above named 

 Mrs. Carr and William Carr, together with the faid manour of Etall, and the tenants of the 

 fame, from the payment of the faid arrcar of 539 /. 8 s. id, are accordingly freed and abfo- 

 lutely acquitted, xxi April, 1673. Francis Alhuorth, Auditor. 



[Ardeaconry of Richmond.] 

 MS. penes Gul'ulmum Carr, Arm. de Etall. 



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