66 Report of the Meetings for 1894. 



It was an adaptation, slightly abridged, of one of those 

 ballads with which Surtees deceived Sir Walter Scott. 



The Chapel was built by the first Lord Oglo about the 

 middle of the 15th century, and in the perpendicular style of 

 architecture. In the time of William Turner, the father of 

 English Botany, who was bjru at Morpeth about the beginning 

 of the 16th century, it was still called "The New Cliapel." 

 It was well and beautifully planned and built, with true 

 orientation, which was tested by a member who always carries 

 his pocket compass. It had a stone roof, the covering slabs 

 being laid upon stone ribs, as at Ladykirk, and Bellingham 

 Parish Church. Masons' marks are still visible on many of 

 the outside walling stones. For what reason or special 

 purpose it was erected is not known. Local tradition says it 

 was used as an oratory f»y a Lady Ogle. Captain Grose said 

 it was "a spot admirably calculated for meditation." It was 

 dedicated to the iilessed Virgin, and hence the name given 

 to the wood in which it stands, and by which it is embowered. 

 Two lines, slightly altered, from Robert Burns have already 

 been quoted ; let these complete the picture and associations 

 of this lovely place, with its interesting ruin, round winch 

 imagination is allowed full freedom of play. 



" Poetic ardours in my bosom swell, 



Lone wandering by the hermit's mossy cell; 



The sweeping theatre of hanging woods, 



The incessant roar of headlong tumbling floods. 

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Here Poesy might wake her heaven-taught lyre, 



And look through nature with creative Are ; 



Here to the wrongs of fate half reconciled, 



Misfortune's lightened steps might wander wild ; 



And Disappointment, in those lonely bounds, 



Find balm to soothe her bitter rankling wounds ; 



Here heart-struck Grief might heavenward stretch her scan, 



And injured Worth forget and pardon man." 

 " Our Lady's Chapel " cannot be left without additional 

 reference to Dr William Turner. In 1538 he published a 

 small tract upon botany. In an address to the reader he 

 speaks of himself as a beardless youth, very slenderly skilled 

 in the science of medicine. In it he tells, under the head 

 "Bellis," that the Bellis perennis or daisy was, amon:j^ the 

 Northumbrians of his day, called "Ban wort," and that they 



