300 OX THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF 



later than the original building, then the Pele-Tower may have 

 been first erected by the husband of the heiress of the De Insulas 

 or Lisles, about that time. 



Cecily, daughter of Sir John Lisle, Knight, married Walter 

 Heron, brother of John Heron of Ford Castle in North 

 Northumberland, and of Sir "William Heron " the blind," of 

 Simonburn on the opposite bank of the North Tyne. Sir George 

 Heron, then keeper of Tynedale and High Sheriff of Northum- 

 berland, 13 Queen Elizabeth, was slain in the Border fight of 

 the "Raid of Reidswire," in July, 1575, when some of the 

 English prisoners received falcons as presents from the Scots, who 

 said that the English were nobly treated, since they got live hawks 

 for dead herons* A branch of the same family of Heron, f it 

 may be mentioned, resided also at Birkley Castle, which is about 

 a mile and a half distant to the north, where, on a stone in the 

 castle wall and on the oaken framework of a panel, John Heron 

 has carved his initials, with those of his children, and the dates 

 1611, etc. The new owners of Chipchase were descended from 

 the Hairuns or Herons of Chilton, in this county, J who give a 

 single noble heron of the Skerne on their seals. The family 



* Godscroft, quoted by Sir W. Scott in Notes to "The Raid of Reidswire," ('■'■Border 

 Minstrelsy''). Probably " Sir George Heron, of Chipchase," who figures in the 

 " Monastery," chap. 37, is intended for the same person. 



t From Mr. Hodgson's transcripts, taken from an old manuscript book in the possession 

 of "the late Mr. R. W. Grey, of Backworth," giving the " Rentals and Rates for North- 

 umberland, with the Proprietors' Names, in 1663"; we find that the Chipchase estate in 



Sir Cuthbert Heron's time was verv extensive. It included 



£ s. d. 

 Chipchase, Rochester, Chipchase Mill, and Birkley Tythe 220 



West Whelpington, Ray, and Blackhalls 120 



Ravenshaugh, Ninwick, and Pundershaw 75 



Gof ton and Blackbourne 28 5 



Sueing Sheels, Hallbarnes, Over Town, Sharperley, and Tepper Moor 175 



Simonbourne Castle and Bournhouse 44 



Hindbridge, Hall Hill, Over Rag, Nether Rag, Shitlington, and Over 



High Ridges 26 10 



688 15 



Snapdaugh, Newbrough Tythe. 



East Broken Haugh Tythe, Corbridge Rectory. 



Hodgson's Hist. Part iii., Vol I., p. 336. 



X See "Magnus Rotulus Pipae," or Pipe Roll for Northd., Anno 1196-8, Richard I. 

 Hodgson"s Hist., Vol. III., Pt. iii., p. 58. Also "Preface," p. xvii. 



