the conduct of a desperate young | further W., amid the wilderness of Scotchman, who, having a grudge Thirlmoor. Near Coquet Head was against a Scotch judge on the Fifeshire coast near Burnt Island, gagged him, dressed him up as an old woman, tied him on horseback behind a servant, and carried him off through the Lothians into Northumberland, where he consigned him to the keeping of one Radcliffe, who then held the castle of Harbottle. Here the poor man was detained for some months in a dungeon, and at length was carried back as secretly as he came. (The story is given correctly in Chambers's Domestic Annals of Scotland.')

Harbottle was the birth-place of Gen. Handyside, whose regiment is noticed by Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.'

m. from Harbottle is the Drake Stone, a very interesting relic, being the Draag Stone of the Druids. By the small tarn near it is a Druidical rock bason. The custom which still prevails in Harbottle of passing sick children over the Drake Stone may be a relic of Druidical times, when they were probably passed through the fire on the same spot.

N. of the Coquet is Hetchester Camp, with a triple entrenchment, 140 yds. by 90; S. is Harehaugh Camp, guarded by a triple rampart, with water on three sides, 130 yds. by 90.

20 m. Alwinton, beautifully situated on the confluence of the Alwine and Coquet. The church is very curious, on a steep hill, the chancel separated from the nave by a high flight of steps.

[N. E. 3 m. Biddleston (Walter Selby, Esq.). This place was, jointly with Chillingham, the original of the Osbaldiston Hall of Rob Roy.' It is situated on the wild moors, at the foot of Selverton, one of the southernmost of the Cheviot range.]

The Coquet rises about 10 m.

the Roman Stat. of Ad Fines (mentioned by Richard of Cirencester), whence the Romans commanded an extensive view not only of Teviotdale and both sides of the Tweed, but likewise over all the S.E. of Scotland, as far as the sea on the E. and the Lammermuir and Soutra hills directly before them. Hence the Watling Street went through a pass in the hills from Bremenium, and by the entrenchments on Woden Law to Agricola's Camp at Twyford towards Trimontium. W. of the Roman way, between Redesdale and Chewgreen, at about 1 m. from each other, are five of the antiquities known as the Golden Pots, being pedestals 2 ft. in diameter, apparently intended to receive a column. These relics are fully described in Roy's 'Roman Military Antiquities, 1793.'

At Chew Green, near Coquet Head, is an extraordinary_camp, or rather series of camps. Each successive Roman army that occupied the ground seems to have made a fresh camp for itself on the old ground, but never seems to have used the old earthworks.

The whole of Coquetdale will be found to be replete with beauty and interest.

"O freshly from his mountain holds
Comes down the rapid Tyne;
But Coquet's still the stream o' streams,
So let her still be mine.
There's mony a sawmon lies in Tweed,
An' mony a trout in Till;
But Coquet-Coquet aye for me,
If I may have my will."

ROUTE 21.

ALNWICK TO WOOLER, BY BEWICK
AND CHILLINGHAM.

18 m.

Leaving Alnwick, the road crosses the Aln, passes 1. Alnwick Abbey, and skirts the 1. side of the Hulne Park.

7 m. Eglingham. A picturesque village on the rocky Eglingham burn. The church had once three chapels dependent upon it, Brandon, Lilburn, and Bewick; of the first two only the ruins remain. At Wooperton was a burial-ground, and probably a chantry. Below the village is Kin-mere, or Kelmer Lough, a lake of 10 acres, with excellent pikefishing.

9 m. 1. Harehope (Oswyn Cresswell, Esq.), a large Elizabethan mansion, built in 1848.

called Druidic circles, one of which has been explored by the Rev. W. Greenwell, and found to be a British burial-place.

10 m. Bewick. In a lonely situation on the rt. of the road, nearly under the Camp Hill, is the

Chapel of the Holy Trinity, which are of the highest architectural interest. The apse is probably Saxon, but its exact date is unknown. The Norm. Ch. was probably built by the prior of Tynemouth, between 1110 and 1120, just after Queen Margaret had made a grant of this, which was part of her dowry, to Tynemouth Priory. Two of the Saxon windows in the apse were blocked up, and a squareheaded window of two lights inserted in temp. Ed. II.; at the same time the string-courses were drawn out from circular to angular forms, and an attempt was made to make the whole apse appear square instead of round. The ch. was ruined in the Great Rebellion, during the occupation of the army under Leslie, but was rebuilt by the then proprietor, Ralph Williamson, Esq., in

almost within the memory of man. After being allowed to become a complete ruin, it was restored in 1867. On the N. of the nave is a recumbent figure, under a Dec. canopy. A beautiful foliated cross has been partly covered by the foundations of the porch, which is evidently later than the rest of the building. Grey tombstones lie scattered around.

A path, which ascends the hill above Harehope, crosses the moor to a stream which runs through a nar-1695, and used for occasional services row gorge of grey rock, and tumbles over some huge orange-coloured stones in a tiny cascade. A large stone, quaintly poised on the rock above, is known as "the Grey Mare." 1 m. further up the burn, reached by a path over the brow of the hill, is Corbie Crag, a precipitous cliff, frequented by ravens till within the last few years. Within the last 50 years the Peregrine Falcon also used to build here, but both have been driven away by the game-preservers.

rt.m. is the Blaw Weary, so called from its exposed situation,-a herdsman's house strangely perched upon a pile of rocks in the moorland. The scenery here reminds the traveller of the Roman Campagna, especially when flocks of white goats are grouped upon the rocks. The trenches of a British camp remain among the heather, and there are several so

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Bewick is mentioned in the visitations of 1577 to 1587, as served only by stipendarie Preestes;" and a process was issued against the Vicar of Eglingham for his neglect. The Curates of Bewick, Lilburn, and Brandon appear in later records.

Nothing remains of Bewick Tower but the foundations, which are traversed by the road. A fine singlearched bridge crosses the river, which here receives the name of Till instead of that of Breamish, by which it is

the Roman Stat. of Ad Fines (mentioned by Richard of Cirencester). whence the Romans commanded an extensive view not only of Teviot dale and both sides of the Tweed

the conduct of a desperate young further W., amid the wilderness of Scotchman, who, having a grudge Thirlmoor. Near Coquet Head was against a Scotch judge on the Fifeshire coast near Burnt Island, gagged him, dressed him up as an old woman, tied him on horseback behind a servant, and carried him off through the Lothians into Northumberland, but likewise over all the S.E. where he consigned him to the keeping of one Radcliffe, who then held the castle of Harbottle. Here the poor man was detained for some months in a dungeon, and at length was carried back as secretly as he came. (The story is given correctly in Chambers's Domestic Annals of Scotland.")

Scotland, as far as the sea on the I and the Lammermuir and Sout hills directly before them. Hen the Watling Street went through pass in the hills from Bremeniu and by the entrenchments on Wod Law to Agricola's Camp at Twyford wards Trimontium. W. of the Rom way, between Redesdale and Che green, at about 1 m. from each oth are five of the antiquities known the Golden Pots, being pedest 2 ft. in diameter, apparently inten to receive a column. These re are fully described in Roy's 'Ro Military Antiquities, 1793.

At Chew Green, near Coquet H is an extraordinary camp, or rat series of camps. Each succes

Roman army that occupied ground seems to have made a f camp for itself on the old ground never seems to have used the earthworks. The whol found to interest. O fresh

called in the upper part of its course. | burn Tower, a peel of the better class, According to an old Northumbrian with a fine Gothic window. A large rhymetree now grows beside its ruined hearth-stone.

12 m. The road passes under Hebburn Wood, a tangled wilderness of rock and fern, with old birch-years, it was at length rediscovered trees, and Hebburn Crags, crowned by a Camp. A lane on the rt. leads towards Dunstanborough over the moorlands. Just within the gate at this end of Chillingham Park, is Heb