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to be held by them, by Knight Service ; these are called the 

 Manors in Service, and were in number about sixty. 



Their services consisted in guarding the Castle of Alnwick 

 and winding a horn to give notice of the approach of an 

 enemy and to alarm the country, besides all the other duties 

 incident to Knight Service. Many of these services, were in 

 very early times commuted into a money payment ; such as 

 "For cornage, Is. 8d., for Castle Guard Rent, 6s. 8d. or 

 13s. 4d." according to the size of the manor. 



These sums are paid by the Lords of many of these manors 

 to the present day, and others have ceased to pay for reasons 

 not now easily discovered ; probably when the Percy estates 

 were in the crown, on attainders, they may have been granted 

 away, and thus released from their allegiance. 



In any future history, it will be a curious and interesting 

 chapter to trace the descent of these manors, and how some 

 of them have ceased to be connected with the Barony. 



The inspection of the Cartoon leads me to note the erection 

 and endowment of the church of St. Paul. It was one of the 

 many noble and public acts of Hugh the 3rd Duke of Nor- 

 thumberland. It is a perfect model of an early English 

 church ; the light tapering columns are chaste and pleasing, 

 but I am not sure it is so suitable to our cold northern climate 

 as the 



" Massive arches broad and round, 

 That rose alternate, row and row, 

 On ponderous columns, short and low, 



Built ere the art was known, 

 By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, 

 The arcades of an alley'd walk, 



To emulate in stone." 



The length of St. Paul's church is 128 feet, breadth 59 feet, 

 has 2 side aisles and clere story windows, a square tower, 

 embattled, of 100 feet high. It was consecrated by Edward 

 Maltby, Bishop of Durham, on the 16th of October, 1846, 

 and cost above .£20,000. 



His Grace died in 1847, and since then Her Grace his 

 widow, at a great cost, purchased the mansion and grounds 

 of Croft House, in the immediate vicinity of the church, and 



