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Within the manour of Etall arc coals, freeftone, flate, marie ; 

 alfo limeftone, and a fmall machine, moved only by an inch and 

 a half of water, to preferve it from drowning ; great improve- 

 ments, by enclofing and planting, by Mr. Carr ; the plantations in 

 a variety of fituations, nine on eminences ; oaks remarkably vi- 

 gorous and healthy on a fandy Hope, eaft of the village. 



Four miles eaft from Etall is a remarkable hill, called The 

 Watch-Law, exploratory, as the name imports, to obferve the 

 motions of an enemy, and to alarm the country by fire from a 

 beacon ; of a regular and pleafant flope on all fides ; a fea and 

 land profpect from it very extenfive, to all points, particularly of 

 Scotland; part of five Scotch counties feen from it on a clear day, 

 and mips at fea at a great diftance. 



A mile eaft from the Watch-law, is 



Barmore, which was the villa of William Mufchampe, i K. Edward I (z) ; 

 of George Mufchampe, 10 Q^ Elizabeth, high IherifF of Northumber- 

 land, 38, 43 of the fame reign (a) ; and of William Mufchampe, 

 high fheriffof Northumberland, 20 K. James I (bj. It was lately in 

 the pofreilion of Colonel Bladon, the ingenious tranflator of C<e/ar's 

 Commentaries, and uncle to Sir Edward Hawk, firft lord of the 

 admiralty. 



At this village the lords marchers of the northern counties 

 were arTembled, JT K. Henry V, 1417, with 100,000 men againft 



(z) Willielmus Mufchampe tenet Bar-more per quartam partem unius feodi veteris feoffamenti 

 baronia de Cooler. Efcaet. de anno i Ed. I. 



(a) Efcaet. de annis, 10, 38, 42, i'/r'z. 

 (b) anno ^oJac. I. 



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