242 Report of the Meetings for 1895. 



private individuals (what we should now call a land company) 

 which speculated in the buying of some of the estates 

 forfeited to and sold by the Crown at that period. The 

 estate has since passed through many owners, one of whom, 

 in 17 . . , pulled down that splendid castle, whose appearance 

 has been preserved to us in one of Buck's drawings. The 

 shooting box of carpenter-Gothic, which replaced the older 

 castle, was demolished in 1862, and all that can now be 

 seen is the great hole in which was built its basement storey. 

 Hard by is the very pretty, new, and commodious chapel 

 of the Presbyterian Church, erected some couple of years ago 

 to replace the building in which that congregation had 

 worshipped since 1765, as shown by the old doorhead which, 

 with admirable taste, has been removed from the superseded 

 building and replaced in similar position in the new. The 

 Nonconformists of Widdrington have been ministered to by 

 some eminent men, chief of whom is the distinguished and 

 learned John Horsley, the forerunner and leader of the 

 historians of the county of Northumberland. His magnum 

 opus is : — 



Britannia Eomana 



OR THE 



Roman Antiquities 



OF 



Britain 



In Three Books. 



■»■»■» 



The whole illustrated, with above a hundred Copper Plates. 



By John Horsley, M.A. and F.R.S., 



London. 



Printed for John Osborn and Thomas Longman, at the Ship 



in Pater-Noster Row. 



M. DCO. XXXII. 



28tli 1855, ag-ed 78 years. Eobert, their son, died March 9th 1858, 

 aged 83 years. Also Thomas Clavering, died March 24th 1782, aged 

 101. Also Mary, his wife, died November 26th 1788, aged 84 years. 



Thomas Clavering (who subsequently farmed at Hemscot hill) was 

 the body-servant of the attainted lord, and was used to declare that 

 his lord would never have taken arms had it not been for Lady 

 Widdrington' s importunities. Mr M. H. Dand had this tradition from 

 Mr Robert Fenwick of Hundalee, who had conversed with Clavering. 



