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front a range of buildings, never finished in the interior, was 

 afterwards added by Lord Derwentwater. The Western facade 

 was ornamented in the upper storey with nine windows over- 

 looking the vale of Hexham, and was raised on a terrace 

 above a formal garden which reached Westward to the edge 

 of the cliff above the river. This stately home no sooner 

 passed into the possession of the Gx-eenwich Hospital Com- 

 missioners than orders were issued for its dismantling, that all 

 memory of its late kindly disposed and hospitable lord might 

 be effaced. In illustration of the life and domestic economy of 

 Sir Francis Radcliffe a few extracts from the house-steward's 

 accounts, extending from Martinmas 1G81 to Pentecost 1682, 

 may be of interest. His domestic establishment seems to have 

 consisted of thirty-three servants at money wages scarcely 

 exceeding £60 a year altogether. Mrs Anne Jackson, the 

 brewer, received yearly wages to the amount of only .£3, though 

 in the space of nine months 975 bushels of malt were supplied 

 to Dilston Castle, for which <£137 10s. was paid. "My Lady 

 Radcliffe " and her daughter, Mary, received a yearly allowance 

 of c£200 for clothes, and Mr Francis Radcliffe and his sisters, 

 Katherine and Elizabeth, each £40. Among payments to 

 players and musicians at special seasons a gift of 10s. was 

 made to an old man, named Howard, " an organist, who 

 tuned the virginals at Dilston." By order of Sir Francis 

 £1 was paid to Mr Palmer, organist at Newcastle, and 14s. 

 to Jerry Kinleyside -"for his wages for piping." A poet that 

 came out of Scotland received in charity, through Madam 

 Catherine, 5s. about Candlemas. "Mr Roger Garstall in full 

 for all sorts^ of wine, and all other accounts whatsoever, from 

 the beginning of the world, £36 Os. 7|d." ! * A saunter 

 round the lawn in front of the modern mansion built for 

 Mr John Grey, who in 1833 was appointed resident land 

 agent of the Commissioners, and a brief visit to the romantic 

 glade below through which flows the stream whose upper 

 course had afforded a few of the members a pleasant excursion 

 on the previous day, filled up the time allotted by the ofiicial 



* For most of the above particalars we are indebted to Mr Robert 

 Forsber's History of Corhridge (1881), pp. 150-180.— Ed. 



