28 Report of Meetings for ] 887. By J. Hardy. 



iEliana." He sent also a copy of translation of the "Minister's 

 Account " at the Dissolution, which has apparently never been 

 printed. 



I merely add a few adjuncts, about which Mr Cadogan had 

 written some remarks. Everything from his pen is precious now. 

 Before doing so, I must not omit to note that Parietaria diffusa 

 was frequent on the walls, as well as tufts of Asplenium Tricho- 

 manes. Clematis and Ivy added their graceful tracery. Herberts 

 vulgaris, Cheiranthus Cheiri, Chelidonium major, and JDoronicum 

 Pardalianclies, were also noticed at Brenckburn. A very diligent 

 colony of hive- bees has long had possession of a chink of one of 

 the walls. On the N.W. side of the church is a leaping-on stone, 

 for people who attended the services mounting their horses from. 

 The top stone of it is a large square sandstone block, with a 

 square aperture in its centre for adjusting a pillar — brought 

 from glebe land, which had had crosses or square pillars to mark 

 the boundaries. There used to be throughout Northumberland 

 a kind of saddle or pad for the mistress to sit behind her 

 husband, provided with an adjustment to fasten her feet in. Some 

 fragments of old pillars are placed about the entrance on this 

 side, with other miscellanea, among which was a recently cut 

 white sandstone vase, decorated in compartments with oblique 

 hatched lines like those of a British Urn ; also a rude effigy of a 

 female with a crown on her head, as if she were dragging herself 

 out of a wide old-fashioned petticoat, of which only the upper 

 part was visible. Both are of recent execution. In regard to 

 to them Mr Cadogan wrote: "The figure was brought by me 

 from an old cottage on the Moor Edge, where a family named 

 Grey lived for three or four generations, until these times snuffed 

 them out. The old man brought, on the last occasion when he 

 paid any rent at all, half a sovereign, when my father said ho 

 should sit rent free for the remainder of his life. His descend- 

 ants in the third and fourth generation are still living in two 

 cottages, and one of them works for me. The stone image was 

 always said to have been prayed to by one Mary Gray, who 

 nourished about 1820, and it used to be called 'Mary Grey's 

 God.' The urn-shaped vessel was no doubt a ' creeing-pot.' 

 There used to be also the upper stone of a quern found not far 

 off on the Cockshot farm." 



Mr Cadogan states further: "I have given Canon Greenwell a 

 stone -axe which I picked up about twenty years ago, when out 



