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fevering, a mean village, which that learned antiquary Dr. 

 Gale, imagined was the Roman ftation Glanoventa (t), but no Roman 

 antiquities have ever yet been difcovered at it, of any kind, to 

 favour fuch an opinion ; which is grounded only on its fituation 

 by the Glen, which gives its name to the vale of Glcndale. It was a 

 royal manour of the Saxon kings, called, by Bede, Ad Gcbnn, at 

 which they fometimes redded, till they removed to Melmin or 

 Milfehl (u). It was the refidence of King Edwin and his Queen 

 Ethelburga for thirty days after their converfion to the Chriftiaii 

 faitli by the addrefs and preaching of Paulinus, who attended 

 them hither, and converted great numbers of their people, who 

 were baptized in the neighbouring river. Edwin was flain by 

 two tributary princes, Penda and Cedivall. His queen fled for re- 

 fuge by fea to her brother, Eadbald, King of Kent, who took her 

 under his protection, and made Paul'ms bifhop of Roche/lir. 



At thjs village the Scots, after a long engagement, were de- 

 feated on St. Mary Magdalen's day, 3 K, Henry V, 1415, by Sir Ro- 

 bert Humfrarwil, captain of Roxbrovgh-Cajllc ; the Earl of Weftmorland 

 then lord warden of the marches. Above fixty Scotchmen were 

 fluin, and one hundred and fixty taken prifoners. A thoufand of 

 them were purfued upwards of twelve miles (v). On the fouth 

 ilde of the village, midway between the hill and the road from 

 Kirk Newton to Wooler, is an unwrought column of whinftone 

 erected in memory of it, of a vaft magnitude ; in height fourteen 

 feet, and four inches ; in diameter at the bafe as many ; and to- 

 wards the middle, eleven feet, and feven iaches. 



(t) Gale's Ant minus i p. i ! 6. 



(u) Bedc, \. ii. c. 14. 



Camden, p. 861 2. (v) Hal. Chron. vol. ii. p. ^48. 



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