148 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



rapidly to a point, which terminates at Berwick. It 

 forms, as a whole, a large and picturesque valley, nearly 

 surrounded by the noble Cheviots or their outlying 

 spurs ; it is watered by unnumbered burns or rivulets, 

 which rise in its lovely glens. The Caldgate, Lear- 

 mouth, Hetton, Chillingham, Carey, Pallins, Beaumont, 

 and College burns, or rivulets, are some of the principal ; 

 the river Till crosses the ward from south to north, and 

 the Tweed, for about three miles, washes its north- 

 western limits and divides it from Scotland. Every 

 part of the district is replete with historical associa- 

 tions. Elodden Field is within its limits ; Otterburn, 

 which gave rise to the celebrated ballad of " Chevy 

 Chase," is nigh at hand; and down its romantic glens 

 has many a troop of Scottish marauders passed, for 

 Glendale was the favourite road for their incursions. 



Its only town was Wooler, formed into a powerful 

 barony by William the Conqueror, and Chillingham 

 Castle, on the southern side of Glendale Valley and 

 Ward, has always been the residence of Wooler's 

 lord or baron. During the Norman period it was 

 held by the family De Musco Campo, or Muschampe ; 

 but after various changes, both Wooler and Chilling- 

 ham came, in the reign of Henry III., into the pos- 

 session of the heroic family of the Greys of Wark 

 Castle. Sir William Grey, of Chillingham and Wark, 

 was created a baronet in 1619, and Lord Grey of Wark 

 in 1623; and his son Eorde, Lord Grey, was created 

 Viscount Glendale and Earl of Tankerville * in 1695. 



* This was only a revival of that title, for we find that Henry Grey, 

 seventh Lord Powys, was, by King Henry Y., a.d. 1414, " created Earl 

 of Tankerville in Normandy, to him and his heirs male, by delivering 

 one basin of earth at the Castle of Rouen every year, on St. George's 

 Day." 



