366 On the Gross at Crosshall. By James Hardy. 



Thomas Swinho, gentleman, of Mowlfen was one of an inquest on the rights 

 and liberties of Bamtmrgh Castle. "South Mowlsfen '' was one of the places, 

 "which pay yearly severall rents into the s^id Castle, which rents be commonly 

 called Urimgage (sic). And the same townes alsoe do make appearance at 

 head courts, or in default thereof lye in f yne or be mercyed. ' ' * 



Henry Swinhoe of Mowson, son of Henry Swinhoe of Burton, a son of 

 William Swinhoe of Cornhill and Goswick, was comptroller of Berwick, and 

 was living in 1610. The will of his son Thomas Swinhoe of Mousen, Esq , 

 is dated 13th January, 1641, and proved 1642. His son and heir Thomas 

 Swinhoe of Mousen, Esq., was below age, 1641 ; he was owner of Mowsen, 

 and Whittle in the parish of Shilbottle in 1663. There was a Gilbert Swinhoe 

 of Mousen, 1671, who had numerous descendants, t 



Mousin estate was purchased by the Rev. John Shaftoe, A.M., vicar of 

 Netherwarden, who endowed with it a Free School and Almshouses at Haydon 

 Bridge, by deed of gift bearing date the 16th and 17th of June, 1685. 



* Hutchinson's View of Northd, pp. 169, 170. 

 t Eaine's North Durham, p. 184. 



X Mackenzie's Hist, of Northd, ii., p. 258 Parson and White's Northumber- 

 Durham, ii., p. 627 ; Sopwith's Alston Moor, p. 12. 



On the Ancient Cross at Crosshall, in the Parish of Eccles, 

 Berwickshire. By James Hardy. 



One of the best preserved of the ancient historical monuments 

 of the Merse district is the cross or obelisk at Crosshall in the 

 parish of Eccles. Hitherto it has remained intact, and it is 

 highly creditable to the people dwelling near it, to have pre- 

 served it unmolested. As the late Mr John Hood of Stoneridge 

 remarked in a letter on the subject: " One of the most extra- 

 ordinary things about the cross is that successive generations of 

 cottagers for hundreds of years have lived just in front of the 

 cross, and that none of the children have ever destroyed it." 

 One of its proprietors, however, did not exercise the same pre- 

 servative forbearance, for Sir John Paterson in 1788 wished to 

 remove it to the front of Eccles house, and employed workmen 

 who dug several feet into the earth to try to lift it, but were 

 unable to raise the stone on which it stands. 



In connection with the Club's visit to this monument it is 

 desirable that an account of it should appear in the " Proceed- 

 ings." There have been various observations published at differ- 

 ent periods relative to this cross. It is described, or referred to, in 

 both the Statistical Accounts; figured and annotated on in Muir's 

 " Notes on Eemains of Ecclesiastical Architecture," p. 35. ; and 

 again pourtrayed by Mr Drummond in the ** Proceedings of 



