30 Anniversary Address. 



at the base or, a chief of the last^ and in the third and 

 fourth quarters are the coat arms of Marmion, ' Vaire, afess 

 Gules.' 



Along the edge of the slab are alternately, a scaling ladder 

 and a cloke, but the chief crest of the Greys is the Barn's 

 head placed above the arms. At the back of the tomb against 

 the wall appears an erection of later date, above which are 

 the Grey arms (Lion) and crest (Ram's head) with a place 

 for an inscription quite vacant, except at the* bottom the 

 family motto occurs " de hon vouloir Servir le Roy.'' 



It is clear this tomb was erected to the memory of .sir Ralph 

 Grey, of Warke, who was born at Chillingham, knighted 

 in 1425 by the Duke of Bedford, and who died in 1443. 

 He married Elizabeth Fitzhugh, and she assumed the arms 

 of Fitzhugh from her father, and those of Marmion from her 

 mother, the latter being a co-heir of that ancient Barony. 



It is impossible to do justice to this beautiful monument 

 by any description, and it is to be hoped that the Right 

 Honourable the Lord Ossulston, of Chillingham Castle, will 

 cause careful drawings to be made, engraved, and coloured^ 

 he being the direct lineal descendant of Sir Ralph and Lady 

 Grey, and the present possessor of Chillingham and Wark. 



This noble inheritance having descended to him, in regular 

 succession, from the parties who now rest from their labours 

 in the silence of this tomb, it is his sacred duty to protect 

 those valuable specimens of monumental affection. 



In addition, let me refer the Club to the account given of it 

 by the Rev. James Raine, of Durham, in his elaborate and 

 valuable History of North Durham. 



I must not leave Chillingham, without recording the fact 

 that King Henry the 3rd was at that place in the 39th year 

 of his reign. 



The King was at Durham on the 22nd of August ; New- 

 castle, on the 24th and 28th of August, and 1st of September ; 

 Alnwick, on the 3rd of September ; Chyvellingham, on the 

 5th of September ; Wark, on the 6th, 7th, 14th, 16th, and 

 21st of September ; and on the latter day (21st of September), 

 he issued a writ from Wark, to the Mayor and Bailiffs of 



