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stock met a ready mart ; and horse and other races were contested. 



" Horn'd cattle, and horses, mules, asses and swine, 

 And sheep of all kinds kept 'twixt Tweed and the Tyne ; 

 A skilful collection of choice Cheviot rams, 

 And also the best breed of bleak-border lambs ; 

 Hard hogs from the Highlands, some long and some short, 

 And some sightly samples of Leicester sort, 

 Some South Downs, some Dishleys, some Dorsets and Harts, 

 Some Bedford* and Bakewells, grace mayor Millar's marts. 

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A caravan crowded, came here from the east 

 With Bengal bred bipeds, and Bot'vey Bay beasts; 

 Stage-tumblers and walkers upon the slack wire, 

 And, dancing dogs deck'd out in harlequin 'tire ; 

 Eke, eight British badgers brought back in a box ; 

 The big and the beautiful Berwickshire ox," etc. etc. 



" Long Framlington Fair," in Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards, Newcastle, 

 1812, pp. 245-6. 



The fairs or trysts were established on July loth 1803. The 

 village was entered from the west, and a pause was made for 

 refreshment. The small nave of the chapel here is old, but part 

 of the rest of the structure is very much composed of stones from 

 Brenckburn Priory. "The chancel arch, the porch, and the 

 doorway," says Mr Wilson, " Churches of Lindisfarne," p. 147, 

 "from the porch into the nave are of Transitional Norman work- 

 manship, corresponding with that of the Priory church. The 

 chancel arch is enriched with three slender detached columns on 

 either side ; and the nave-doorway has two on either side in 

 square recesses of the jambs, made to receive them ; their caps 

 are carved." There are three marble tablets on the walls of the 

 nave, to members of the family of Fen wick, of Long Framlington. 



There is a commanding view from Hall Hill of the well-wooded 

 country beyond the Coquet framed at its outer edge by a bound- 

 ing ridge. Close at hand by the Swarland burn, and backed by 

 the Swarland Plantations, lie the several farm steadings, some of 

 them brightened by their red tiled roofs, of New-moor-house, 

 (Nimmer-house) Small-dean (Smaden), Long-Row, and Swarland 

 Fence ; and onwards in advance in an open space, Old Swarland, 

 beyond which the woods again close. In the depression at the 

 south-western end of Hall Hill, is " Hedderick's "Well," once 

 famous for contributing a supply of soft water for infusing tea. 

 It is protected by sandstone slabs, There used to be a swamp 



