D. Milue Home, Esq. on Ancient Camps. 455 



this inference. George Home, (of Wecldcrburn,) about the 

 year 1510, with the view of approaching a person of the 

 name of Garner, " goes to Graden, early in the morning, and 

 surrounds his house. He being in the fields, and seeing so 

 many horsemen, and to whom they belonged, thinking that 

 they were seeking him, he takes his flight into England : 

 but finding that passage (across the Tweed) stopped by David, 

 George's brother, who had been sent there with a few attend- 

 ants for that purpose, he changes his intention, and directs 

 his course to a House of his superior's in the neighbourhood, 

 huilt within a small fortification called the Snuik ; and hav- 

 ing shut the door, he endeavours to defend himself. George 

 pursues him ; and as he refused to come out, he sets fire to 

 the doors. Terrified with this, he surrenders himself, and is 

 brought to Wedderburn Castle." 



Sir E-ichard Bowes, in the account Avhich he gives about 

 the year 1542 of the middle marches, on the English side, 

 refers to the " forde called Graydon forde, enteringe into the 

 water of Twede in the feldes of Twysle upon the south syde, 

 and stretcheth unto the feldes of Graydon upon the northe 

 syde." 



That it was the practice in ancient times, to have the fords 

 across the Tweed narrowly watched, appears from " the 

 Order of the Watches, made by the Lord Wharton, Lord 

 Depute General of all the three marches under my lord of 

 Northumberland, in the month of October in the 6th year of 

 the reign of King Edward VL," viz. in the year 1552. Li 

 specifying " the watches upon the water of Twede, from Tyll- 

 mouth to the Belles," — near Berwick, — there is an order for 

 Gradon ford to be watched with two men nightly, of the in- 

 habitants of Gryndone." 



On the south side of the river, opposite to Snuke, which 

 here forms an isthmus lying between the rivers Tweed and 

 Till, there are many remains of military works. This was 

 evidently an important position, not only because of its com- 

 manding the passage of the River Tweed, but because of the 

 protection to troops afforded by the contiguous high banks of 

 the two rivers. Here stood the Castle of Twizel, — the old 

 walls of which may still be seen, inside of the colossal fabric 

 which bears the same name. In the Border Survey taken in 

 the year 1542, and quoted in Baine's History of Durham, 

 (page 314,) notice is taken that " at Twysle, nere unto the 

 said ryver of Twede, there ys standing the walls of an old 

 fortresse or castell, razed and caste down by the kinge of 



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