ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 491 



By Harup-burn, half a mile to the eaft of it, is a fmaller, femi- 

 <Srcular alfo. It feems to have been a kind of an out-guard on 

 that fide. 



A mile fouth-eaft from lid er ton, is 



Rodham, the feat and manour of the antient family of the 

 Rodhams; of William de Rodham, 49 K. Henry III (y) ; of William de 

 Rodham, 30 K. Edward III, who married the daughter and fole heir 

 of Thomas de Efplee (z) ; of Sir John de Rodham, who was flain at the 

 battle of To-wfon, I K. Edward IV, 1461 ; of John de Rodham, 6 K. 

 Edward VI (a) ; of Jfofor/ de Rodham, 10 (^Elizabeth (bj -, of Js/j/z 

 de Rodham, in the reign of K. Charles I -, of the late Rodham, 



Efq; and now of his fon and heir, Edivard Rodham, Efq; brother 

 of Robert Rodham, Efq; a captain in the royal navy, born i^th 

 March, 1719-20, who married Lucy Mary, eldeft daughter of the 

 Honourable George Clinton, uncle to Henry the prefent Earl of Lin- 

 coln, 24th April, 1749, at Stenivich, in Neiu England. She died, <?th 



* 



(y) Efcaet. de anno 49 Hen. III. 



-- 10 Ed. I. n. 18. 



(z) Dlcunt juroterti fuper facrum fuum, viz. Rlcardus de Cramlington, Ricardus del ParJi, 

 Robertus de Eland, et alii, coram WilUtlmo De la vale, efcaetore dom. regis Edvardi iertii, 

 in com. Nortbumbr. quod Thomas de Efplee obiit die Jovis xx, praeterit. xxx ^/. III. Et di- 

 cunt quod uxor Wlltielml de Rodham eft lia et hseres praedifli Thorn*, et eft aetatis xxx ann. 

 Ct ampliu?, 



Inquifit. capta apud caftrum de Nova Co/fro fuper 73'<7w die Sabbati in fcptimaua 

 pafchae anno regis Edvardi teriii xlvii. 



Ex bundello efcactr. Turn Land, de anno 48 Ed. III. n. 23. 



(a) Bp. Nicbilfon's Border- Laws, p. 337. 



(b) Bobertus Rodham fuit feifitus de et in Rodham et parva Houghton, cum terris in Rennlng- 

 Jon, et Broxham. Efcaet. de 10 Ellz. 



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