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stable near it without any timber in the roof, arched with stone ; 

 also a domestic chapel, now in ruins." About ten years later, 

 Hutchinson, in his History of Northumberland, i., p. 177, gives 

 it but a brief notice, and says: — "This castle is chiefly dis- 

 mantled, some few apartments only remaining habitable — among 

 which is one [already referred to] made in an aperture of 

 the wall, whose thickness affords a chamber capable of receiving 

 a bed and some other furniture. This has been an extensive 

 fabric, immensely strong in its structure, but now no otherwise 

 remarkable, than for those circumstances mentioned, and the 

 fine grove in which it stands embowered." 



Bishop Pococke in 1760, in his series of letters to his sister, 

 entitled "A Journey Round Scotland to the Orkneys, and 

 through part of England and Ireland," (the impublished MSS. 

 are in the British Museum), mentions various places of interest 

 as he passed from Redesdale down North Tynedale from 

 Bellingham to the Boman Wall. But though he refers to 

 the ancient but then ruinous chapel of St Michael of Wark, 

 with its "two arches supported by a sort of Doric octagon 

 pillars" (now utterly obliterated, the name of " the Kirkfield " 

 alone denoting its former site) ; Chipchase Castle, Swinburne 

 Castle, "Ninwick," and Simonburn Church, the noble baronial 

 fortress of Haughton seems to have entirely escaped his 

 observation. 



One more historical notice — a veritable curiosity of history 

 — remains to be mentioned concerning Haughton Castle. 

 Near the close of last century there is one remarkable incident 

 which connects Haughton Castle with European, and especially 

 Anglo-French history, and which has formed the subject of 

 considerable discussion, although it may, perhaps, be new to 

 many here present. I mean the peculiar transaction of the 

 manufacture of the paper for the forged French Assignats, or in- 

 convertible paper currency of the French Republic, at the 

 Haughton Castle Paper Mill. The late Mr Doubleday', of 

 Newcastle-oii-Tyne,'* seems to have decided by careful inquiry 

 the correctness of the facts, which so many have doubted — 



* "The Political Life of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart." 

 — An Analytical Biography. By Thomas Doubleday, Esq., author of 

 " The True Law of Population/' etc., etc., vol. i. Introduction, pp. 38-40, 

 and see Notes. See also Murray's " Handbook to Durham and Northumber- 

 land," p. 266, where a reference is made by Mr Hare, the writer. 

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