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These titles expired at his death, without issue male, 

 in 1701; but Chillingham, Wark, Wooler, and their 

 dependencies were inherited by his only daughter and 

 heiress, Lady Mary Grey, who had married, in 1695, 

 Charles Bennet, second Baron Ossulston. This noble- 

 man was re-created Earl of Tankerville at the corona- 

 tion of Greorge I., on October 19th, 1714; and in his 

 descendants, by the heiress of the Greys, these titles 

 and estates still continue. 



Chillingham Castle is situated on the south side of 

 Glendale, and was, during the whole of the period we 

 have been recapitulating, one of that line within line of 

 strong Border fortresses, like JSTorham, Ford, Alnwick, 

 Warkworth, and a dozen others ; where England's great 

 Northern barons stoutly held their own, and protected 

 their neighbours against the perpetual predatory excur- 

 sions of Scotland's moss-troopers, and against the still 

 more formidable attacks of her kings and nobles- 

 Wooler lies about four miles distant in a south, 

 westerly direction as the crow flies ; due west you 

 arrive at the Scottish border at about eleven miles ; 

 but the elevated moors which formed part of the great 

 Caledonian Forest are at little more than four miles 

 distance in the same direction, having, as Sir Walter 

 Scott pointed out, Chillingham at its one extremity, 

 Hamilton (or Cadzow) at the other. Intermediate 

 between these (for the Cheviots take, from Chillingham, 

 a south-westerly bend before they trend north-westerly 

 through Ettrick Forest to Lancashire, and so form a 

 semi-circle) was Naworth Castle, on the moors around 

 which the " white wild cattle " roamed unreclaimed as 

 late as two centuries ago. Intermediate also was Drum- 

 lanrig, where they were also kept. A scarcely outlying 



