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XIV. Particulars of the Discovery of some ancient Gold Coins at Fenwick Castle in Northumberland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Owen Salusbury Brereton, esq. exhibited February 1, 1776, a very fair noble of Edward IIId. rendered curious on account of the particulars of the discovery, and other circumstances attending it.

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Archaeologia , Volume 5 , 1779 , pp. 166 - 168
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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page 166 note [a] Fenwick tower, the seat of the ancient family of the Fenwicks, is in Stamfordham parish, on the North side of the Roman Wall. One of the Fenwicks has an old cross-legged figure in that church. Of this family Thomas held it t. Henry III. Robert 33 Edw. I. John high-sheriff of Northumberland, 32 Rich. II. It continued in the family till the beginning of the reign of William III. when it was sold to Sir William Blackett, of Newcastle, bart by Sir John Fenwick, who was beheaded for the assassination plot 1696. Wallis's Hist. of Northumberland II. 157. 159.

page 167 note [b] There is a mistake in the chronology of this MS. David was taken prisoner 1347, released 1358, on condition of a ten years truce between the two kingdoms, and he died 1370. (Rapin IV. 270. 290. 329.) The ravages which he committed in Northumberland, for two months, were about 1342. Ib. 254. Buchan. IX. c. 32.