Montagu was so encouraged with this success that, while a numerous reinforcement was on its march to join him by orders from Edward, he yet ventured, with his own troops alone, to attack the Lancastrians at Hexham; and he obtained a complete victory over them.

The Duke of Somerset, the Lords Roos and Hungerford, were taken in the pursuit, and immediately beheaded by martial law at Hexham.

All the banished Lancastrians flocked to her, and, among the rest, the Duke of Somerset, son of the Duke beheaded after the battle of Hexham.

Queen Margaret invades England; her adherents are defeated at Hexham.

"The Battle of Hexham" and "The Surrender of Calais" were by George Colman the Younger; "The Children in the Wood," a favourite play of Lamb's, especially with Miss Kelly in it, was by Thomas Morton.

was driven from his kingdom; and Eanbert, Bishop of Hexham, died.

Gibson, who was born in Hexham in 1878, sings of the struggling oppressed work-a-day people: "Crouched in the dripping dark With steaming shoulders stark The man who hews the coal to feed the fires.

And coffee went cold, and bacon fat congealed, from the Isle of Wight to Hexham, while the latest rumours were being swallowed.

BAMBURGH CASTLE (From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham.) TYNEMOUTH PRIORY (From photograph by T.H. Dickinson, Sheriff Hill.) HEXHAM ABBEY FROM NORTH WEST (From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham.)

BAMBURGH CASTLE (From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham.) TYNEMOUTH PRIORY (From photograph by T.H. Dickinson, Sheriff Hill.) HEXHAM ABBEY FROM NORTH WEST (From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham.)

BAMBURGH CASTLE (From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham.) TYNEMOUTH PRIORY (From photograph by T.H. Dickinson, Sheriff Hill.) HEXHAM ABBEY FROM NORTH WEST (From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham.)

THE RIVER TYNE AT NEWCASTLE (From photograph by T.H. Dickinson, Sheriff Hill.) NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE NORTH GATEWAY, HOUSESTEADS, AND ROMAN WALL (From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham.) ALNWICK CASTLE (From photograph by J.P. Gibson.

Hexham.) WRECK OF THE "FORFARSHIRE" (From illustration kindly lent by B. Rowland Hill, Newcastle.) SKETCH MAP OF NORTHUMBERLAND (From a Drawing by C.H. Abbey) INTRODUCTORY.

The names of the chroniclers are Simeon of Durham, John of Hexham, Richard of Hexham, Ailred of Rieval, Ralph De Diceto, John Brompton of Jorval, Gervase of Canterbury, Thomas Stubbs, William Thorn of Canterbury, and Henry Knighton of Leicester.

The names of the chroniclers are Simeon of Durham, John of Hexham, Richard of Hexham, Ailred of Rieval, Ralph De Diceto, John Brompton of Jorval, Gervase of Canterbury, Thomas Stubbs, William Thorn of Canterbury, and Henry Knighton of Leicester.

] HEXHAM AND HADRIAN'S WALL

Hexham has a beautiful position, surrounded with woods and hills on three sides, while the broad Tyne flows past the historic town.

The history of Hexham begins with the granting of some land to St. Wilfrid in 674, on which he built a monastery and church.

A few years later Hexham was made a See, and the "Frithstool" still remains from the time when its cathedral received the right of sanctuary.

Its wealth and numbers gradually increased until, at the end of the thirteenth century, an entirely new building replaced the Saxon one, and Hexham became exceedingly powerful.

Three miles north of Hexham, at Chollerford, one may see the remains of the piers of a Roman bridge over the North Tyne, and close at hand is one of the best preserved forts of Hadrian's Wall.

It was not one nor two visits to Hexham which completed these arrangements; however Mr. Dymock, after the first visit, no longer refused to permit Shanty to open out every thing to his aunt, and to prepare her to descend into a cottage, on an income of forty or fifty pounds a year.

Jacob returned to the Tower, and old Shanty trotted off to Hexham, to put the money in a place of security; nor did he fail in his object, so that before he slept, the Laird had the satisfaction to think that this dirty work was all completed, and that without his having in the least soiled his own hands in the process.

HEXHAM (6), an interesting old town in Northumberland, prettily situated on the Tyne, 24 m. W. of Newcastle; has a fine cruciform abbey church, portions of which belong to the 12th century, and beautiful remains of a 7th-century monastery; the staple industries are glove and hat making; the river is spanned by a stone bridge of nine arches.

MARTIN, JOHN, English painter, born near Hexham; was an artist of an ardent temperament and extraordinary imaginative power; his paintings, the first "Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion," characterised as "sublime" and "gorgeous," were 16 in number, and made a great impression when produced; engravings of some of them are familiar, such as the "Fall of Babylon" and "Belshazzar's Feast" (1789-1854).