5 io ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



40,000 men, one half confiding of veterans, and the other half 

 of militia, raifed by the towns and boroughs, for their inexpe- 

 rience, called Hoblers ; Sir Walter being beheaded after it was 

 taken for refufing to furrender (e). In 6 K. Edward VI, his villa 

 was in the poffeflion of Percival Selbye, who was one of the com- 

 miffioners for the enclofures upon the middle inarches in that 

 year. It now belongs to Thomas Selbye, Efq. His feat is at the 

 head of a gradual flope ; a ftreamlet behind it, falling at irregu- 

 lar diftances from large rocks in a winding courfe through a 

 deep gill, overlooked by the high hills of Sowndon, Sifoerton, and 

 Hanlon, from the two laft of which is a view of the fea on a clear 

 day ; a garden to the eaft, with a new-wall of brick, no yards 

 in length ; a fine profpec~l from it of the pleafant vale of Coquet, 

 terminated to the fouth-eaft, the fouth, and fouth-weft, by a femi- 

 circular ridge of hills ; Simon/ide-hill {landing nearly in the cen- 

 ter, overlooking the reft, of an oblong figure. 



Three miles from Bittlefdon, on the banks of the Coquet, is 



Clenell, the feat and manour of the antient family of the de- 

 ne! Is ; of Thomas Clenell, 18 K. Ed-ward I; in which year he ob- 

 tained a grant of free warren in this manour, and his manour 

 of ElJ'dcn (f) ; of William Clenell, 1 2 K. Henry VI (g) ; of Percival 

 Clenell, 6 K. Ed-ward VI (h) ; of Luke Clenell, high flieriff of Nor- 

 thumberland, 1727; of the late Clenell, Efq; on whofe death 

 it came to his two daughters and coheirs. 



A mile below Clenell, on the fouth fide of the Coquet, is 



(e) Hoi. Chron. vol. i. p. 240. (f) See Elfden, 



(g) Fuller's Worthies, p. 310. (b) Bp. NicfjoJfon's Border laws, p. 330. 



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