64 Rev. R. W. Bosanguet, A.M., on Rock Hall 



his family papers), trie second son of Edmund Lawson, Mar- 

 gery's first husband, and became his father's heir by the 

 death of his eldest brother James. He married Elizabeth, 

 sole daughter and heiress of Roger Burgh of Brough, and 

 appears from the family papers to have had four sons, of 

 •whom the eldest, Roger, married Dorothy, daughter of Sir 

 Henry Constable, of Burton, in the County of York, and the 

 fourth, Marmaduke, joins in the conveyance of Rock. 



The man to whom the Rock estate is conveyed by the 

 Lawsons is described in the deed as " John Salkeld, of Hull 

 Abbey, in the County of Northumberland, gent. ; " and I see 

 in the schedule of " Rentals and Rates " of the year 1663, 

 given in the fifth volume of Hodgson's Hist, of Northumber- 

 land, p. 339, a John Salkeld answered both for Rock and 

 Hull abbey, paying upon £200 a year for Rock and £60 for 

 Hull abbey. However, this is not the man who bought the 

 estate of the Lawsons ; for we learn from a brass in the 

 church, which is unfortunately all that remains of his monu- 

 ment, that John Salkeld died on the 10th of November, 1629, 

 nine years after the date of the conveyance, at which time, the 

 man who- was known afterwards as Col. Salkeld, and who is 

 represented in the inscription upon his monument as having 

 been an active soldier until ten years after the Restoration, 

 was a boy of only 13 years old ; for we learn from the same 

 source that he died at the age of 89, in the year 1705 ; he 

 must, therefore, have been born in the year 1616. As the 

 inscription on the monument of Col. Salkeld, to which I 

 allude, is of rather a quaint character, and states one or two 

 facts which may not be generally known, I will transcribe it 

 in this place: 



" Here lies in hope of a blessed Resurrec the body of ye truly 

 valiant and loyal Gent. Col. John Salkeld, w° serv'd King 

 Charles y e 1st with a constant, dangerous, and expensive loyalty 

 as voluntier Captain and Collonell of horse. And for the service 

 of his King and Country he took in Berwick-upon-Tweed and 

 Carlile, which was a rice to the warr of 48. He afterwards 

 served in Ireland under King Charles, and King James y e 2nd as 

 Lieutenant Coll. He was Justice of y e Peace 35 years, and aged 

 89 he departed this life June the 2nd, 1705." 



Now, with regard to the taking or taking in of Berwick- 

 upon-Tweed and Carlile, which the inscription seems to claim 

 as the colonel's own doing, and which is said to have given a 

 rice, or a rise as we should call it, to the war of 1648, it is 



