332 Notes on Bamburgh and Blanchland, by W. Dickson. 



Durham ; and she being the only remaining child of the 

 family, erected the monument in Bamburgh Church to the 

 memory of her brothers and sisters. 



Wallis also states, that Thomas being the general of the 

 rebel forces in 1715, his manors and estates of Bamburgh and 

 Blanchland were, in consequence, forfeited to the Crown, 

 and that Lord Crewe, his uncle, purchased them. 



Grose states his version thus : This castle " remained in 

 the Crown to the 10th of Elizabeth, when the Queen ap- 

 pointed Mr John Forster, of Bamborough Abbey, governor 

 of it. His grandson, John Forster, Esq., afterwards had a 

 grant of it and the manor ; whose descendant, Thomas 

 Forster, Esq., of Etherton, engaging in the rebellion anno 

 1715, his estates were confiscated, but afterwards purchased 

 by his uncle, Lord Crewe." 



Pennant writes that " the castle and manor belonging to 

 it was once the property of the Forsters, but on the forfeiture 

 of Thomas Forster, Esq., in 1715, for having joined the 

 Pretender, it was purchased by his uncle, Lord Crewe, 

 Bishop of Durham." 



Next in succession comes Hutchinson, and in his History 

 he reiterates the same errors ; indeed he is rather more 

 inaccurate (vol. II., 174), for he says, that Lord Crewe 

 purchased the forfeited estates of the Forsters, and that 

 Dorothy Forster, the only child of William Forster, Knight, 

 having married Lord Crewe, brought with her the estates of 

 Bamburgh and Blanchland. 



Instead of her being an only child, she had several 

 brothers and sisters : see the monument before referred to. 



Mackenzie in his History varies the mis-statements a little, 

 by mentioning that Thomas Forster forfeited the whole of the 

 family property, then valued at £1315 per annum; they 

 were purchased by his brother-in-law, Lord Crewe, who 

 settled the whole for charitable uses. (Mack., I., 408). 



Now, he was not Lord Crewe's brother-in-law, but the 

 nephew of his wife. 



We come lastly to a writer, the late Wm. Sydney Gibson, 

 who is in general a very accurate historian. In his visit to 

 Bamburgh Castle (p. 204), he states, that Lord Crewe pur- 

 chased the extensive property of the Forster family, which 

 had been forfeited in the rebellion in 1715 ; also, that one 

 of the consequences of that rebellion was the forfeiture of the 

 Bamburgh estates, the property of his wife's unfortunate 



