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villGrey, Efq; I K. George I. It is now in the pofTeffion of Sir 

 flurry Grey> of Howick, Barr. 



A mile fouth from /for/o-caftle, on the weftern banks of the 

 Till t is 



Foivbury, a fmall village, which was the manour and feat of 

 William de Fowbury, I K. Edivard I f/jj ; of Sir Robert de Foivbury, 

 6 K. Edward IV, in which year he and Sir George Lumley were re- 

 prefentatives in parliament for Northumberland, who arc ftiled in 

 the writ, Milites gladiis cincji (ij; of William de foivbnrv, 16 K. 

 J&wry VIII, 1524. In that year his fon and heir took two hundred 

 Scotchmen prifoners on their return from plundering the country- 

 people going to Berwick-fair, on Trinity Sunday, 20 May (k). In 

 the 24th of the fame reign the Scots plundered the village (I). It 

 afterwards came into the pofleffion of the Strothers of Kirk-Newton. 

 It now belongs to John ti trot her Kerr, Efq; high IherilF of Nor- 

 thumberland, 1741. 



Two miles fouth from Fovubury, is 



Chillingham-Cqftle, which was the feat and manour of the Greys 

 of Wark (m) ; and is now in the pofTcilion of the right Honour- 

 able the Earl of Tankerville. It Hands on a rifiug ground, and is 

 kept in good repair. In one of the ground-rooms is a marble 



(b) Wittielmus Fowbury tenet Fowbnry t Caldmarton t et Hezelrlggc, per unum feod. milk, 

 veteris feoffam. baronia de Alnwlck. Efcaet. de anno i Ed. I. 



(i) Efcaet. de anno 6 Ed. IV. 



(k) Hoi. Chron. vol. ii. p. 883. 



(/; p. 928. (m) See Work. 



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