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Manners, who died in 1350, seized of this estate. Soon after 

 we find Sir Thomas Grey in possession of two-thirds of the 

 manor of Kyloe, which continued in possession of his 

 descendants for two centuries. He was of Heaton, and the 

 ancestor of the Chillingham and Howick Greys, and died in 

 1369. Another branch of the family of Grey, John Grey, a 

 burgess t)f Berwick, held lands in Kylay in 1386, and his 

 descendants have been owners of more or less of Kyloe down 

 to the present time. According to a survey, one-third of 

 Killhowe belonged in 1560, to Thomas Grey ; but the whole 

 of it was in possession of Ralph Grey in 1630, when he 

 sold it to his uncle, Henry Grey, of Morpeth, who subse- 

 quently resided at Kyloe ; but who, having no sons, left it to 

 be divided amongst his six daughters. One of them, 

 Catherine, married Bryan Grey, of Wark, who was connected 

 with the Greys of Howick, and he became, by right of his 

 wife, owner of one-fifth of Kyloe, and subsequently, by pur- 

 chase, acquired other two-fifths. The last male descendant, 

 Marmaduke Grey, died on February 3, 1823, unmarried, and 

 his nephew, Charles Bacon, who took the name of Grey, son 

 of Dorothy Grey and Charles Forster Bacon, succeeded to 

 the three-fifths of Kyloe under his uncle's will. At that 

 time the other two-fifths of Kyloe belonged to Sir Carnaby 

 Haggerstone, Bart. 



Kyloe pele tower, the ancient residence of the Greys, is at 

 West Kyloe, about a mile and a half from the church, and is 

 a roofless ruin, but with the under story in good preserva- 

 tion. It belonged to David Grey, who died in 1450, and in 

 the survey of 1560, it is said to be " in good reparacions." 

 It was a small fortified tower, but of great strength, the walls 

 being eight feet in thickness, and well built with large 

 stones. The entrance is on the south, through a pointed 

 archway into a vaulted chamber, only twenty-three feet long 

 by seventeen broad, in the walls of which, at the spring of 

 the arch, are inserted stone corbels, whereon joists might 

 rest to divide the place into an upper and lower chamber. 

 It is lighted by two narrow long slits, splaying inwardly to 



