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out danger to all concerned ; one energetic member displaced 

 with his feet a block of the sandstone rock, which fell with 

 a mighty splash into the river, the boat at the time fortu- 

 nately being some yards off. These rocks were covered 

 with impressions of Lepidodendrons. 



The company now proceeded up the river, crossing in 

 boats, kindly provided by Mr Dand and Mr Tate, and had a 

 delightful walk up the banks, which were beautifully 

 wooded and rich with blossoms, among the gayest of which 

 were the Lychnis dioica and Geranium sylvaticum in great 

 profusion. There were besides noticed among other plants, 

 Veronica montana, Sanicula Europea, Lysimachia nemo- 

 rum, Campanula latifolia, Equisetum Telmateia, Garex 

 pendula, Betonica officinalis, Asperula odorata, Garex 

 axillaris, Habenaria albida, Anagallis arvensis, &c. On 

 arriving at Barnhill, beautifully situated on the banks of 

 the river, of a reach of which it commands a fine view, we 

 were most hospitably entertained by Mr Tate, after which 

 we again descended to the banks of the Coquet to inspect 

 the ruins of the chapel of Brainshaugh. I am indebted to 

 the Rev. G. Selby Thomson for the following notice of this 

 chapel, from the pen of Mr Seymour Bell, with some ad- 

 ditions by Mr Thomson. 



The following notes respecting Brainshaugh Chapel and 

 Guyzance are taken from a communication made to a local 

 newspaper in 1865, by C. 'Seymour Bell, Esq., of Carlton, 

 near Darlington, a member of our Club. A survey of the 

 Percy estates was made by Mr Thomas Clarkson, in 1567, 

 thirty years after the suppression of the Monastery of Aln- 

 wick, and consequent secularization of its estates, who ex- 

 pressly states, that the chapel of Brainshaugh was the parish 

 church of Guyzance, and writes thus respecting 

 " Brainshawghe cum suis pertinenciis." 



"To the westward of the town of Guysnes is situate one 

 chapell with certaine other good buyldyngs unto the said chapell 

 apperteining called Braynshawgh, which chapell was foundit by 

 , then lord of Shilbottell, Guysans, and other townes 



