Rev. J. W. Dunn on Warkworth. 49 



I may first mention the unfinished traces of a collegiate 

 church. It is not known for certain who of the Lords of 

 Warkworth was the founder of this work, but only that its 

 date is later than the other parts Avhich I have briefly at- 

 tempted to describe. Masons' marks may be traced on every 

 stone in these cryptal arches, and imperfect guides though 

 they be, they are worth observing. They do not identify 

 themselves, so far as I can decide, with any of those in the 

 dungeons or keep, where such marks abound, nor yet with 

 those of the south aisle, or porch of the church, which are 

 both of the perpendicular era, and, without doubt, the muni- 

 ficent gifts of a Percy. 



Passing under the postern arch by which you entered, and 

 puzzling yourself meanwhile to derive the name " Cradyfer- 

 gus," which is given to the south-eastern quarter, you will 

 hurry towards "myn Armytage belded in a rock of stone 

 within my Parke of Warkworth," down the steep bank of 

 the castle, between old old thorns, in spring time one mass 

 of redolent snow, and at a landing place near by, you will 

 find a boat awaiting your latest leisure.* 



And whilst our pilgrim is embarking for his short voyage 

 among stony shallows, and anon, between green flaggy banks, 

 deeply reflected in soft flowing water, he may be told that 

 here it was that a predecessor of mine, about the year 1684, 

 Vicar of Warkworth, and as such possibly inheriting many 

 privileges of its hermit, made his claim, in person, from the 

 lessees of the fishery of the day, for his '* Satturdaie troutes." 

 The claim was at once acknowledged and the fish counted 

 out. But upon his proceeding to remove them, " Crawford, 

 a lessee, struggled with him and threwe him downe, and 

 gave him two strookes on the face with his hand, which made 

 his face blede, and shaked him by the beard, and he layed on 

 still upon his bodye until one Finche pulled him off"." 



But Crawford received his deserts. He was adjudged " to 

 make publique acknowledgment of his wrong done to the 

 vicar, in the parish church of Warkworth, on some Sondaie 

 forenoon, in time of divine service, in his usual apparell."t 



* " The Parke of Warkworth lyeth on the west parte of the castell, within 

 one half myle of the same, well replenished with fallow deere, which for the 

 most part lye ouc of the parke, in great wasts, overgrown with furzes and 

 whynnes, by reason that the pale ys not well mayntened, and the parke ys well 

 replenyshed with tyraber and ys in compas one myle and a half, " — Humhertson''s 

 and liaU's Survey, 



t The Vicar above mentioned, John Heslehead, held ofhce at the time of the 

 rebellion. " He was turned out of his church by violence when he was 



