ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



On another : 



How vain is the help of man, 



'.** fflirn .->.;,'*.'; 

 K. Babington, 



Omnia Vanitas. 

 June ^th, 1670. 



It is faid, fhe was denied Chriftian burial by an excommunication 

 for contempt of eccleiiaftical cenfure, which was the reafon of 

 her fepulture in the curious grot in the rock. The colonel fur- 

 vived her, and marrying again, had feveral children ; the youngeft 

 of whom he named after her, Catharine, who married a gentle- 

 man in York/hire, in whofe pofleflion is the pedigree of his family, 

 wherein are portrayed the chiefs of it in full length, and among 

 them Sir John Babington, one of the fix young knights chofen by 

 K. Henry IV, when in France, to go upon a defperate enterprize, 

 which by his own petition he undertook himfelf, ufmg thefe 

 words on his taking leave of the king, Foy eft tons, i. e. Faith is 

 ally brandilhing his fword. Having performed it, beyond all 

 human expectation, the king gave him for his creft, a flaming 

 dragons head, with this motto, Foy eft tous, proceeding from its 

 mouth ; with which he ftands diftinguifhed among his family- 

 chieftains, in armour. 



Two miles from Harnham, on the right hand of the road, near 

 the i3th mile-ftone, and in fight, is 



Belfay (n), the feat and villa of the antient family of the Mid- 

 Aletons ; of Sir John d Middleton, in the reign of K. Edward If, 



(n) elfew. i 



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