Notices of Heath pool. By James Hardy. 407 



In 1570, it and most of Glendale, and the country even to the coast at 

 Bednell, and Sunderland were spoiled by a Scottish raid. The English 

 wardens reported that among the towns and steads wasted and pillaged by 

 the Scots before the 10th of March: — " Learmouth, Mindrurn, Belem, (?) 

 Hethepoole, Ewart, Humbleton, West Newton and Lanton were spoiled 

 and partly burned."* 



The principal ownership continued for at least a century, in the Grey 

 family. In the Book of Rates for 1663, as Lord Grey's share he was rated 

 for Land and Mill at £70 ; Mr Arthur Grey's part was £20, and the Mill 

 10 shillings ; Mr Richard Forster's proportion was perhaps too small to 

 enter.f 



At a short distance above Heathpool Linn is what was Heathpool Mill 

 and a piece of land adjoining it,which long remained attached toChillingham 

 estate as a remnant of the Grey property. The old over-shot mill wheel 

 blackened with age, mosses and Conferva?, which so picturesquely caught 

 the eye of the visitor among the green pastures and scattered trees and 

 bushes on the S.E. bank of the Colledge, has now disappeared. The 

 occupant of the mill had the right of cutting hay or grass on the Heathpool 

 estate, but it became inconvenient, and the piece of land near it was given 

 in exchange for this privilege. Not being a profitable holding, there was 

 only an annual tenancy of the place. It was sold by Lord Tankerville in 

 1874 to Mr Alexander Thompson of Kirknewton. 



VII. Reed, Rodham, Blackett, Carlyle, Collingwood, &c. 



The Reeds probably acquired Heathpool by purchase. They were a 

 branch of the Reeds of Troughend, who were the chieftains of this ancient 

 and once powerful clan. Their history may more or less be ascertained 

 by reference to Hodgson's Hist, of Northumberland, Part II., Vol. i., pp. 

 133-138, Burke's Landed Gentry, 2nd Edit., s. v., " Reed of Heathpool and 

 Hoppen," p. 1010. Of Percy or Percy Reed of Troughend, the tragic fate 

 is told in the notes to Robert Roxby's " Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel," 

 Newcastle, 1809 ; and from it Sir Walter Scott in his " Rokeby " (1812) 

 borrowed his allusion to the tale.]; The "tragic song," " the Death of 

 Parcy Reed," which James Telfer, the poetic schoolmaster of Saughtree, 

 Liddesdale, alleged he took clown from the chanting of an old woman who 

 lived at Fairloans at the head of Kalewater, is to be found in Richardson's 

 Table Book, Legendary Div. II., pp. 361-9.|| 



* Cotton MS. Calig. C. TL, in Morton's Monastic Ann. of Teviotdale, p. 42. 



f Hodgson. 



X Scott's Poetical Works, Royal 8vo. Edit., pp. 295, 352. 



|| Music to this song, I recently received from Mr Edward J. Wilson, 

 Saughtree school, and now of Bolton school, East Lothian. Mr Wilson 

 sung it to the accompaniment of the harmonium, when I visited him at 

 Saughtree in June, 1889. The tune has only one part. I may here 

 mention that James Telfer was one of my correspondents in times long by 

 past. 



