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Col. Ceo. 

 Pen-wick of 

 Brenkhurn, Efq; 

 governour of Berwick 

 in the year 1652, was 

 a principal inftru- 

 ment of caufing this 

 church to be built, 

 and died March, ijth 

 1656. 



A good man is a public good. 



The lad male-branch of this family was George Fen-wick, Efq; 

 whofe daughter and heir, Elizabeth, married Roger Fenivick, of 

 Stanton, Efq; by whom he had four children, the eldeft of which, 

 John Fen-wick, marrying Margaret one of the daughters and co- 

 heirs of William Fen-wick, of By-well, Efq; occafioned the union 

 of the two antient houfes of Brinkburn and Slant on to that of By- 

 well, now all three poffefTed by William Fenivick, of Bywell, Efq; 



Brinkburn-Priory {lands under a hill, on the extreme point of a 

 peninfula, by the north margin of the river Coquet, which in 

 murmuring rills waflies part of it, and the garden-walls; edged 

 on the other fide with a femicircular ridge of fhaggy rocks, 

 covered with ivy, and a variety of plants and mrubs ; among 

 them the mount ain-qflj, and wild gudder-rofe, which with their 

 white flowers, and fcarlet fruit, add greatly to the beauty of this 

 agreeable folimde. 



This venerable pile, and part of the church, in the cathedral 



form, have been entirely demolished, and the ftones converted to 



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