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Morpeth Documents. 



cloth of tynsell, sent by Henry, to be made at this time, and b'kes the 

 fashion so well that she will send for them and have them held 

 before her once or twice a day to look at. She has within the castle 

 22 gowns of cloth of gold and silks, yet has sent to Edinburgh for 

 more, which have come this day. She is going to have in all haste 

 a gown of purple velvet, lined with cloth of gold ; a gown of right 

 crimson velvet, furred with ermine ; three gowns more, and three 

 kirtles of satin. These five or six dayes she has had no other mind 

 than to look at her apparel. 



Dacre must have written of the death of the Prince of Scots, fears 

 if it came to her knowledge it would be fatal to her, for these four 

 or five days of her own mind it hath pleased her to show unto me 

 how goodly a child her younger son is, and her grace praiseth him 

 more than she doth her elder son the King. 



Garney to Henry VIII., Morpeth, 28th December 1515. 



1G16, April 8th. Queen left Morpeth Castle attended by Lord 

 Uacre, Lurd Ogle, Sir Henrj Widdriugtou, and others. 



Dacre to Henry VIII. 



Rainfall at Glanton Pyke, Northumberland, iii 1892, 

 Communicated by Fredk. J. W. Collingwood, Esq. 









INCHES. 



January 





l-25'5 



February 







2-82'0 



March 







l-56'O 



April 







o.yi'O 



May 







3-25'0 



June 







4 26'0 



July 







l-90'5 



August 







3-81'5 



Septeuiber 







l-72'O 



October 







2-87'5 



November 







l-08'O 



December 







0-46'5 



Total 



25-7r5 



Rain Gauge: — Diameter of Funnel, Sin. ; Height of Top, above 

 Ground, ift. S^in. ; above Sea-Level, 517ft. 



