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left in obscurity. It may be out of compliment to the great 

 northern baronial family of " De Bos," who were extensive 

 proprietors of manors in this part of the country ; one of whom 

 was the owner and builder of Wark Castle, on the Tweed. 

 There are no erections upon it, and it is only called a 

 Castle, or ''Bos Castle," from its high commanding and 

 almost inaccessible situation. This family take their name 

 from the manor of Bos, in the adjoining parish of Belford. 



Another curious object in natural history, is that of the live 

 toad, which was discovered in the centre of a block of marble, 

 in preparing it for a chimneypiece in Chillingham Castle. — 

 (Wallis's Northumberland.) It will defy the members of 

 our Club to say how it got there, and for how many ages it was 

 immured, without air or food, in the depth of the solid rock. 



The Hurle Stone is about a mile west of Chillingham, near 

 the public highway, built on an eminence in a field. I do not 

 know the meaning of its name. In the endowment of Chilling- 

 ham Vicarage, it is referred to as the " Stone Cross," and may 

 have been a road-side cross when these things were common 

 in the land. 



The party assembled at 4 o'clock to dinner, after which, as 

 president, I read a communication from Philip Hardwick, 

 Esq., relative to the Chapel of Bewick, which I do not further 

 notice, as it will be printed in our transactions. 



I also produced for examination, a series of drawings of the 

 Chillingham Tomb, made forty years ago. 



F. Wilson, Esq., the resident architect, at Alnwick Castle, 

 pronounced it to be of the perpendicular character, and of the 

 date of about 1450, and of which he said there are many 

 examples in different parts of England. 



Some portions of a long paper prepared by the Rev. James 

 Raine, for the Mechanics' Institute, at Durham, were read. It 

 related to the life of a distinguished member of the Chillingham 

 family, and therefore I made the following short note of it. 



Dr. Robert Grey was the eldest son, by a second wife, of 

 Sir Ralph Grey, of Chillingham. His mother was daughter 

 of Sir Thomas Mallet, of Enmore, in Somerset, and had 

 been previously the wife of Sir Thomas Palmer. 



