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deputy warden of the Marches. ** Here lyeth the body of 

 Mr Roger Widdrington, of Harbottle, dyed the 30th day 

 of December 1671." The Widdringtons were the owners 

 of Linsheels Farm, 2 miles above Alwinton, and in the 

 " Harbottle Rentals of 1618 " we find under " Rents of Assize 

 of Freeholders" that Koger Widdrington, Esq., pays xviiid. 

 for Linsheels with Lathalghe, to be paid at the feast of 

 St. Cuthbert in summer and St. Cuthbert in winter. The 

 feast of St. Cuthbert in winter is held on the 20th of March, 

 being the date of his death. The feast of St. Cuthbert in 

 summer is on the 4th September, the date of the translation 

 of his body from its temporary resting place to the stone 

 church built at Durham by Bishop Aldune in 999, and 

 dedicated to St. Cuthbert. 



Flora. 



Amongst the many plants of interest found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Holystone, the following may be worthy of note. 

 On the slopes of the sandstone hills that surround the village 

 Myrica, Sweet Gale or Bog Myrtle — the Fleawood of the 

 Northumbrian housewife — grows in great abundance, with 

 here and there clumps of handsome Junipers; also Genista 

 anglica, Trientalis, Bog Asphodel, Grass of Parnassus, 

 Butterworts, and Sundew. In an old pasture on the ramparts 

 of a pre-historic camp the sweet-scented Gymnadenia, as well 

 as Hahenaria chlorantha,, is found amid a fine show of Wood 

 Betony ; while in a ravine below, the Oak and Beech Fern, 

 and erstwhile the Harts Tongue, Cow Wheat, Melancholy 

 Plume Thistle, and Marsh Valerian, Honeysuckle, and the 

 lovely blooms of the Cranesbill, Geranium sylvaticum, are 

 seen in endless profusion. Down in the gravel beds of the 

 Coquet we find the Yeilow Mimulus, Reseda luteola, Vicia 

 lathyroides. On the banks and on the haughs are Saxifraga 

 granulata, Comarura palustre, Pyrola media ; Malva moschata 

 and Myrhis odorata are also found in the immediate vicinity. 

 As for the two latter — Musk Mallow and Sweet Cicely — in 

 Coquetdnle I have only found these plants near to the sites 

 of religious houses — Holystone, Brinkburn, and Warkwortb 

 Hermitage. 



