'Tis of the PERCY's deathless fame, That died in murmers faint away, Seemed laden with a feeble wail, Dim through the mist could there descry Each wielding in its cloudy hand The semblance of a spear or brand, As if the spirits of the brave, Who found on Hedgley Moor their grave, To mourn above the vestige came, That bears their chieftain's honoured name. Vide Service's Reminiscences. THE LOCAL HISTORIAN'S TABLE BOOK, OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, Historical Facts, Traditions, LEGENDARY AND DESCRIPTIVE BALLADS, &c., &c., CONNECTED WITH THE COUNTIES OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. BY M. A. RICHARDSON, AUTHOR OF "A DESCRIPTIVE COMPANION THROUGH NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE." LEGENDARY DIVISION. VOL. III. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M. A. RICHARDSON, 44, GREY STREET. AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. MDCCCXLVI. The Old Hostelrie: a Tradition of Seventeen Hundred and Fifteen. By William Sunken Treasure in Broomley Lough. By Robert White A Biographical Notice of Mark Akenside, M,D. with some Observations on his The Conservatorship of the Tyne. ... ... Ovingham Fair. By John Jackson ... ... The Reverend John Wallis, A. M., the Historian of Northumberland She Holly, a Northumbrian Superstition. By James Hardy ... Illustrations of the Character of Sir Burn," of Kidland, Coquetdale. By Robert ... ... 225 234 235 239 254 257 The Family of Leake of Bedlington, in the county of Durham, and the Charity of ... The Murdered Traveller: a Tradition of Weardale. By William Pattison Memorials of the Life of Henry Atkinson. By Robert White Sonnet on the Memory of Thomas Bewick ... The Legend of the Tapestried Chamber, a Border Tradition. By James Henry St. Gregory the Great, and the Northumberland Captives. A Legend. By James The Castle of the Seven Shields. By Sir Walter Scott ... La Belle Assemblee; or, the Tynemouth Bathers. A Poem, Humbly Inscribed to the Ladies of Newcastle, &c. By G[abriel?] K[ay?] Stanzas on the death of Geo. Coughran. By J. Richardson, Yarm |