1611-1G76.J SIR JOHN FENWICK. 199 



successor of opposite views and interests mounting the throne, 

 it is not to be wondered that disappointment and revenge 

 should advise desperate means of escaping from ruin. In 

 exchanging owners, the place, however, had none of its former 

 magnificence abated. An old rhymester, alluding to the festal 

 habits of the place, and the re-building of it says — 



" The wine of Wallington old songsters praise, 

 The Phcenix * from her ashes Blacketts raise." 



But to return to the famous Turfite, Sir John Fenwick, 

 Knight of Wallington, who was thirty-five years old on the 

 14th of September, 16 14, when the inquest after the death of 

 his father. Sir William Fenwick, was taken, and from whom 

 he inherited Fenwick, East Matfen, Wallington, Camboe, and 

 many other manors, royalties, etc. He sat in Parliament 

 for Cockermouth and for the county of Northumberland, once 

 in the reign of James I. and six times in the reign of Charles I., 

 which last named king, in 1628, created him a baronet. As 

 a member of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament, 

 his loyalty was so conspicuous that with some other members 

 he was, on the 22nd of January, 1643, discharged and disabled 

 from sitting and being any longer a member of the House 

 during that Parliament, for deserting the service of the House, 

 and being in the king's quarters and adhering to that party. 

 He died about the year 1658, and was succeeded by his eldest 

 son, William, who died in 1676. The fate of his son and heir, 

 Sir John Fenwick, the last of this branch of the family, was as 

 above stated. He v/as Stud Master to Charles I., with a salary 

 of i^200 a year. A collateral descendant of Sir John Fen- 

 wick now carries the horn in the Tynedale county. 



"If you give your horse the bridle, he'll carry you to 

 Wallington" — a proverb in the north of England, with refer- 

 ence to the hospitalities of Wallington, by which it is implied 

 that the Fenwick kindness extended not only to man alone, his 

 beast also partook of a well-filled rack and manger. 



* Alluding to the Fenwick crest which is a bad pun upon the name. 

 The last of the old Fenwicks was beheaded on Tower Hill, January 27, 

 16c 7, when the property passed to the Blacketts. 



