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hood, whose handiwork had evoked their warm admiration. 

 At 1-30 p.m. a start was made for Felton by the same 

 route followed in the morning as far as Thirston, where 

 descending to the Coqiiet and crossing by a quaint 15th century 

 bridge, the party reached the old-world village on the North 

 bank of the river. In addition to the Parish Church and 

 vicarage, it contains a Wesleyan Chapel and a Roman Catholic 

 School, while immediately to the West lies the mansion-house 

 of Felton Park, and adjacent to it a Roman Catholic Chapel. 

 The feudal history of the manor and vill is to a great extent 

 that of the barony of Mitford. The parish is associated with 

 several historical events of importance. Here on 22nd October 

 1215 the barons of Northumberland, dissatisfied with the rule 

 of King John, did homage to Alexander, King of Scots, while 

 in the rebellion of 1715, Thomas Forster lay at Warkworth 

 on 9th October, and on the following day led his men to 

 Felton, where their number was augmented by a contingent 

 of seventy horsemen from the Borders. Through Felton also, 

 in 1745, the Duke of Cumberland marched his troops to 

 Scotland to quell the rebellion, and was entertained by 

 Mr E. H. Widdrington, then owner of the place. During 

 one of his missionary tours in 1766 John Wesley here broke 

 his journey from Morpeth to Alnwick, and delivered one of 

 his stirring addresses, the result of which he describes in his 

 Journal as being that " very few seemed to understand anything 



of the matter." On a crest of land rising from 

 Felton the bank of the Coquet on one side and from 



Church. a ravine formed by the Back-burn on the other, 



stands the Church of St. Michael, an Early English 

 building which dates from the 13th century. At the entrance to 

 the churchyard the party was met by the vicar. Rev. G. A. Brown, 

 who explained the complicated alterations which have from time 

 to time been made upon the fabric. It consists of a chancel 

 and nave with North and South aisles, and a South porch. The 

 earliest workmanship is confined to the chancel and nave, the 

 latter having been originally without aisles. The builders of 

 the 14th century, who were responsible for the addition of the 

 latter, did not remove the 13th century porch on the South side, 

 but enclosed it in their plan of reconstruction, throwing out a 



