S66 Mr. Can- o?i the Northumbrian Dialect, &c. 



Crailing. One of these had been occupied at a comparatively- 

 recent period as a hen-house in connexion with an onstead 

 called Kiddochbraeheads or Crailing caves. The row of nests 

 running along the back of one of the caves is still to be seen. 

 When this cave was cleared out by Mr. Paton, the owner of 

 the estate, there were found the skull of a fox, a tobacco pipe, 

 and part of the blade of a knife. It seemed to me that the 

 cave had been partly roofed to protect the poultry, and in 

 front there are the remains of a stone and lime wall, which 

 must have been built in modern times. Although these caves 

 have been so used in recent times, they are of the same kind 

 as those on the banks of the Jed, Aln, Cayle, and Teviot. 

 In 1545 Crailing caves was burned by Sir Ralph Evers, Sir 

 John Hetherington, and Sir John Delaville. I regret my 

 limits will not allow me to follow this interesting subject at 

 greater length.* 



On the right bank of the Jed, nearly opposite to Lintalee, 

 stands Fernehirst Castle, in early times the stronghold of the 

 Kers, the vassals of the Douglas and the bailies of the 

 abbey. It occupies the site of a baronial fortress, erected in 

 1410 by Thomas Ker, a person distinguished in Border war- 

 fare. According to Earl Surrey it " stode marvelous strong 

 within a grete woode." It was destroyed by Lord Dacre in 

 1523, the day after Surrey burned Jedburgh. The besieged, 

 commanded by Ker, defended themselves with great skill 

 and courage. In 1549 the English were besieged in it by the 

 Scots and French, and after a stout resistance, taken, and the 

 garrison put to the sword. In 1569 the Earl of Northumber- 

 land, Sir Egremont Ratcliffe, and other leaders of the English 

 insurgents found shelter at Fernehirst. Next year it was 

 laid in ruins by the Earl of Sussex. It was rebuilt in 1590. 



* Caledonia, vol. i. pp. 96—98. Roxburghsliire, vol. i. pp. 202—207. 



On the present participle in the Northwnhrian Dialect, and 

 on the verbal nouns, or nouns of action, terminating in ing. 

 By Ealph Carr of Hedgeley. 



It is impossible to speak or write with precision about the 

 several sub-divisions of the Anglian speech, which are met 

 with between the county of Suffolk, and the Firth of Forth, 



