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Ruth and even to Funt, where Buedeslei Burne falls into Flint, 

 and thence by Vulueleiburne (Woollyleaburn), even to where 

 the forge was, and thence by the march between rue and Bobert 

 de Withum (Witton), even to Oselei," (Useley or Ewesley) etc., 

 (Chart. Nov. Min. p. 183). 



There is still another instance preserved of iron smelting with 

 wood from the parish of By ton on the south side of the Tyne. 

 It is quoted by Mr T. John Taylor in an article on the " Archae- 

 ology of the Coal trade," communicated to the Newcastle Meet- 

 ing of the Archaeological Institute, August, 1852. Mr Taylor 

 remarks, "The Collier originally implied a charcoal burner; for 

 in a grant from Bishop Langley to Bobert Kirkhouse, Yron- 

 brenner, in 1430, of woods between Stanlawe Burn and Crawcrook, 

 for the purpose of making charcoal, we find the oak, ash, hollin- 

 wood, apple tree, and crab tree excepted, and also all wood fit 

 for fellyes or beams, which shall always be felled ' before the 

 colyers make cole.' How strange, we may add, it now appears, 

 to find wood growing upon a coal field, thus appropriated to the 

 making of iron!" (Proc. Arch. Inst. Newcastle, i , pp. 190-1). 



Besides being connected with old smelting works, Fallowlees 

 has an interest attached to it as affording a temporary respite to 

 Mr William Veitch, one of the outlawed Covenanters in the time 

 of Charles II. He was an active preacher among the Non- 

 conformist Presbyterians both in England and Scotland. His 

 brother John was minister at Weststruther, and he himself before 

 the Revolution had the oversight of several of the Border 

 parishes, Oxnam being one of the number. His most celebrated 

 exploit was conveying the Earl of Argyle, who had escaped from 

 the Castle of Edinburgh, safely through England to London, 

 whence he reached Holland. The picture that Veitch presents 

 of the manners and the state of feeling in the wild outlandish centre 

 of Northumberland, about 1671, is an interesting contemporary 

 record, but is too long to quote. Prevailed on by the Bedesdale 

 people, he removed his wife and two sons in creels from Edinburgh 

 ''into a village called Falalies, farming a piece of ground from 

 Charles Hall, who was owner of that place and village, within 

 the parish of Bodberry in Northumberland." "But they were 

 not well settled there, though in a moorish retired place, " when 

 their Boman Catholic neighbours, who abounded there " did stir 

 up the Lord Whiterington to mar some small meetings he had." 

 The attempt to interfere with him failed as he had procured a 



