440 Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



teyninge, and then Rouge Crosse was deliuered, and came to the 

 Englishe armye.'' (I.e. p. 344.) An ancient road probably 

 passed Mile. 



The back of Grlanton Hill, once a boggy tract, is now drained 

 and subdivided into fields. It is called Whaup or Curlew moor 

 — a name still attached to the gamekeeper's house, which has 

 marks of age about it, in the crop of Bishop-weed, and Doronicum 

 Pardalianches outside of the garden fence ; and some large (jean 

 trees at this date in full blossom. 



Opposite are the green hills of Fawdon, and the farm-place 

 itself, and what is now the shepherd's house, but once a separate 

 holding, the Clinch, near a water gulley or ravine. Fawdon was 

 one of the Umf ramville fees, in the Barony of De Vescy. In the 

 reigns of Kings Richard and John, it belonged along with the 

 moiety of Nedderton to Henry de Batail, whose ancestors had 

 been enfeoffed in them at the Conquest by Robert With-the- 

 Beard. Near the end of the reign of Henry III., it was in pos- 

 session of one of the ancestors of the house of Douglas, William 

 de Douglas called " the Hardy," from the gift to his father and 

 him of Edward I., then Prince Edward. This same William was 

 nearly wounded to death and cut to pieces by another claimant 

 of the property. The history of Fawdon must be reserved for a 

 separate article. 



Branton was the next place, a flourishing farm village, with a 

 flower ornamented farm-house. The ancient name was Bromton 

 or Brombton, the broom town, from the quantity of broom pro- 

 duced in the gravelly soil thereabouts. Breamish Water, despite 

 its alleged Gaelic derivation, is as likely to be a word in plain 

 English — the Broom-edge water. So Colledge Water is the 

 water that washes the wintry edge of the Cheviots. Field-Marshall 

 Lesley's invading army of Covenanters encamped in Branton field 

 on the Breamish, 21st February 1641. 



" On the 22nd of August, they marched to Middleton Haugh, near 

 Wooler, where they were attacked by some of the King's troops from 

 Berwick; but these were speedily repulsed, and some of them taken 

 prisoners. Next day being a Sunday they marched to Branton Field, 

 after sermon ; and next day encamped on a hill between the New and 

 Old towns of Edlingham." (Eushworth.) 



At Branton there was a chapel and churchyard, latterly annexed 

 to Eglingham, to which parish it belongs. Some particulars 

 about it may bo gathered from the documentary volumes of 



