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laid in the cloister at the entrance of the chapter-house ;*' while 

 of Eoger the third, who died A.D. 1265, it is recorded that he 

 was entombed near his father ;f and with him departed the male 

 line of the de Merlays. The barony came to his daughters and 

 co-heirs, Mary and Johanna. Mary married Thomas, Lord 

 Greystock ; and Johanna, Eobert de Somerville. John, Lord 

 Greystock, succeeded his father Thomas, but having no issue, 

 Ealph Fitz- William, his near kinsman, was his heir, and assumed 

 the name and title. His grandson, Ealph, Lord Greystock, who 

 was poisoned by the contrivance of the accomplices of Sir Gilbert 

 de Middleton, at Gateshead, 13th July, 1323, was buried at New- 

 minster.j His grandson, Ealph the III., Lord Greystock, was 

 taken prisoner in 1380, at "Horsridge in Glendale," along with 

 William de Aton, and many potent men, by George, Earl of 

 Dunbar, and carried prisoner to Dunbar. His brother William, 

 being exchanged as a hostage for him, caught a pestilential dis- 

 ease there, died and was buried at Dunbar, but after two full 

 years his body entire in the flesh and skin was translated to 

 Newminster, and buried before the high altar beside Margery, 

 lady of Ulgham.§ The historian, Wallis, has preserved the 

 original of this information, and both Mackenzie, Hist, ii,, p. 

 198, and Mr Eowler, Introd. Chart. N. M, p. xix., have mis- 

 understood it, so far as to make Ealph the victim of the fever ; 

 whereas he was ransomed, and died in 1417. The Lord Eobert 

 deUmfravill, Earl of Angus,, died on the 12th of April, 1327, 

 and was buried near the high altar. || In the year 1436, on the 

 27th January, died the Lord Eobert de Umfravile, knight. Lord 

 of Kyme and Eedesdale ; and in the year 1438, on St. Silvester's 

 day (Dec. 31), died the lady Isabella, wife of the aforesaid Lord 

 Eobert Umfravile, and they lie together at the altar of St. Mary 

 Magdalene.^ This is ^'Eobin-mend-the-Market." He married 

 the widow of Sir Eobert Umfraville, brother to Gilbert Earl of 

 Angus. The monks accorded to their great benefactor, Patrick, 

 the son of Edgar called Unniying, the son of Cospatrick, who 

 had gifted them with Werihill or Wreighill, in Coquetdale, 

 along with his body, a letter of fraternity to him and his wife, 

 to receive them to be buried when they died, and they agreed to 



* Chart. Nov. Monast., p. 271. 1 1^-, P- 281. 



X lb. pp. 294, 305 ; not Newcastle as Mackenzie has it, ii., p. 198. 



§ Chart. Nov. Mon. p. 298. || Ih. p, 304. H lb. p. 303. 



