

GENERAL INTRODUCTORY DESCRIPTION 



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NORTHUMBERLAND, &c, 



With fbme HISTORICAL ANECDOTES. 



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HE County of Northumberland is of a triangular form, bounded! 



by the German Ocean to the eaft, the river Tweed to the north,. 

 Cumberland and Scotland to the weft, the river Tyne and the bifhop- 

 rick of Durham to the fouth. Its length between the Tyne and* 

 Tweed, from Newcajlle to Berwick, is fixty-two meafured miles- 

 aa4 three quarters. Its breadth from Tyne-mout'h to 7>/fl/r-bridge, 

 fctiyond Ghnvoeti, is forty-feven^ meafured. Under the Saxon 

 heptarchy it was part of a large kingdom, founded in the year 

 547, by Ida,- a moft accompliflied prince, containing all the 

 country between the two feas north of the Humber to the Frith of 

 Edenburgh in Scotland. Hence it has its name. Sometimes it was 

 divided into two^ Deira and Bernicia. Deira, i. e. Ferarum Habita* 

 culum, extended from the Oftium of the Humber to the river Tyne ; 

 Bernicia, from the Tyne to Edinburgh-Frith (aj. By civil- diflen* 

 tions, and the frequent alarms and depredations of the Danes, it 

 was conftrained to fubmit to the fuperior power of Egbert,. King, 



(a) Hoi. Chron. vol. i. edit. opt. 1586. p. 59. 

 Lei. Itin. vol. vii. ed. ii. p. 64. 



Hift. of Engl. vol. i. p. 34. 45 1534 



