Ifi Report of the Meetings for 1894. 



Philip of Yalois remarked that he did not object to his 

 brother of England using the arms of France, if so it pleased 

 him, but he was ashauied at his ignorance of the rules of 

 heraldry, in placing the arms of the more important kingdom 

 in the lesser place of honcjiir. Edward III. immediately 

 altered the position of the quarters. The fact of his having 

 made the mistake has been denied ; but there it is, and it 

 fixes the date of the building at the very beginning of 

 his reign. 



On the south side of the gateway is a mullioned window, 

 which came from Cockle Park ; a peel towei-, about 3 J miles 

 N.N.W. from Bothal, which can be seen from the top of 

 the tower, and which forms one link of a chain of foitified 

 buildings which stretch from Harbottle Castle, near the 

 Border, down to Tynomouth. 



The coat of arms by its side came from tlie Lady Chapel, 

 in the woody bank of the Wansbeck, about IJ mile west 

 of Bothal. 



On the west side may be seen what is supposed to have 

 been the banqueting hall. 



In the time of Cromwell, the property belonged to the 

 Marquis of Newcastle, the Royalist general in the nortli. 

 After the defeat of Marston Moor, he had to fly to Holland ; 

 his property was devastated and the Castle destroyed. 



The property has descended by heiresses, from the Saxon 

 times, through a Bertram, Ogle, Cavendish, Harley, to the 

 Bentincks. 



III. — List of Trees, Shrubs, etc., groivn at Bothal Haugh By 

 Arthur Thos. Bowles, Gardener. 



Abies alba aurea, with Tropseolum climbing it. 

 ,, Alcoquiana. 



,, Canadensis aurea (Hemlock Spruce.) 

 ,, Williamsonii argentea (Hemlock Spruce.) 



Alnus imperialis (Alder, cut leaved.) 



Acer negundo variegata. 



Castanea argentea variegata. ) ^ 



„ heterophylla. {Chestnuts. 



Cerasus Juliana pendula. 



