4 8 4 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



battle of Nifiety in the Merfe, in which fell moft of the Lothian- 

 youth. A great part of them were either ilain or taken pfi- 

 foners. Among the latter were the Earls of Fife, Murrey, Angus, 

 Atholl, and Monteitb. Earl Doug/as received five wounds, xnd loft 

 an eye. Five hundred Scotchmen in the purfuit were drowned in 

 the Tweed. The field of battle is called Red-Riggs, from the bldod 

 fpilt on it (xj. By the fide of the road, under Humbkdon-Bauks, 

 is an upright pillar of whinftone erected in memory of it - r in 

 height, fix feet, fix inches, and a half; in diameter, twelve 

 feet. 



By Htiwbledon-burn, on the flope of a hill, is an intrenchment, 



called, Green Cajlle. 



On a hill, called Humbkdon-Hugh, is a circular intrenchment, 

 and a large karn ; both Dani/h. 



A poor woman of this village, wife of Thomas Eutlidge, a day- 

 labourer, was delivered of four children, three girls, and one 

 boy, on Saturday, sift March, 1764; all baptized. She had two 

 children at a birth the year before. 



Two miles fouth from Humbledon, is 



Wooler (y), a fmall market-town, which was the barony of the 

 Mufchampes ; of Robert de Mufchampe in the reign of K. Henry III 



(x) Hoi. Chron. vol. i. p. 254, 255. 

 vol. ii. p. 520. 



(y) f fooler. Bp. Gibfen, in Gamden. 

 Waller. Bp. Kennel. 



