246 Report of Meetings for 1880, by James Hardy. 



Bambrougli, like Tughall, Lucker, and Beadnell. It was for 

 many years in ruins, but rebuilt by contributions. It did 

 formerly belong, as tbe tithes of the wbole parish of Bambrougli 

 did to the Priory of Nostell."*' At the dissolution it became an 

 impropriation in lay bands. f The chapel of 1700 was thus a re- 

 newal of a much older structure on the same site. Similar is the 

 testimony of Mark's Survey, 1723. "The church is small, but 

 handsome, and well built. It was repaired but lately in the 

 year 1701 by the pious contributions of the following honourable 

 contributors : — the Hon. Charles Montague, who gave £50, and 

 the Eight Hon. the Lord TuUibarden £40, towards the repairing 

 or rebuilding the church of Belford. The rest was done at the 

 charge of the parishioners or inhabitants of the parish.":}: 



The history of the lords of the manor of Belford as given by 

 the late Mr Dickson, in the Club's Proceedings, vol. iv., is in- 

 complete after the year 1663 (p. 24), and has been supplied by 

 Mr Hodgson Hinde.§ " In 1663 ' the Lady Forster of Blanch- 

 land,' widow of Sir Claudius Forster of Bamburgh, is returned 

 as the proprietor, but shortly afterwards it was in the possession 

 of Francis Forster, of Easington Grange and Belford, a member 

 of the Adderston branch of the Forster family. See Forster 

 pedigree in Eaine's ' North Durham.' He left an only daughter 

 and heiress, Elizabeth, married at Durham (see Cathedral 

 Eegister), September 3rd, 1685, to Charles Montague, fifth son 

 of Edward, first earl of Sandwich, afterwards the husband of 

 Sarah, daughter of John Eogers, of East Denton, near New- 

 castle. The issue of this marriage was an only son James," who 

 in 1727, sold Belford to Abraham Dixon, a merchant of New- 

 castle-on-Tyne. It was his son, Abraham Dixon, Esq., that 

 raised Belford into consequence. 



* Nostell or Nestelhoo Priory near Pomfret, Yorkshire, was founded in 

 1 120, by Ilbert de Lacy and his son, for St. Austin's Canons. In 1137 a cell 

 subordinate to Nostell was founded at Bamburgh, and the churches of 

 St. Aidan and St. Oswald there were conferred on that priory, which was 

 dedicated to St. Oswald, a Northern Saint. Belford, as dedicated to St. Mary, 

 appears to have had a Norman founder, but there may have been an earlier 

 chapel there appropriated to Bamburgh. 



t Inedited Contributions to the History of Northumberland. By J. 

 Hodgson Hinde, Esq., p. 63. 



i Ibid, p. 72. 

 ^ Inedited Contrib. to Hist, of Northd., p. 72, 



