ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Near the Roman catifway, in fight from the road by Shortjlat, 

 and from Cap-Heaton, is 



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Harnhanr, or Hernbam, i. c. the hamlet by the military way ; 

 If am or Hern being a contraction of the Roman Hermcn, from Her- 

 vies, Mercurius, the god of travellers, and Cujtos Manium and high- 

 ways ; and of the Saxon Hereman or Hareman, a military road, rt 

 Hands on an eminence, and has be'en a place of great ilrcngtfr 

 and fecurity ; a range of perpendicular rocks of rag-ftone on 

 one fide, and a morafs on the other ; the entrance by a narrow 

 declivity to the north, which in the memory of fome perfons 

 now living had an iron-gate. The manour-houfe is on the 

 fouth-wcft corner of the precipice, built on to an old tower. In 

 the reign of K. Charles II, it was the feat of Colonel Philip Babing- 

 ton, governor of Berwick upon Tweed. ' He married Catharine the 

 widow of Colonel George Fetnt'iek, of Brinkbnrn fm). She was the 

 eldeft daughter of Sir Arthur Hezelrigge, of Nofely, in Leicejlerfljire, 

 Bart, by Dorothy Greenville, filter to Robert Lord Brook. She was 

 born at Br&oke-houfe, in London, in November, 1635. She was 

 interred in a lead-coffin, the next day after her death, in a vault 

 cut out of the folid rock below the old tower, now belonging to 

 Mr. Thomas Leighton* by whofe favour I faw the fepulchral grot> 

 in company with the Rev. Mr. George Fenivick, vicar of Bolham, 

 1760 } moft of the coffin then remaining, and fome of the bones. 

 On a pane of glafs in the middle window of Mr. Leighton's houfe 

 her name and the colonel's, with the date of the year, are writ- 

 tea with a diamond. 



Philip Babington, Sept. j-, 1 668. 

 K. Babington, Sept. 7, 1668. 



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