This volume closes the History of one of the Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of
Northumberland, a district which extends throughout the heart of the country from
the border of Scotland, on Carter Fell, to the German Ocean; and comprizes nearly
the whole of Morpeth Ward, and considerable portions of Castle, Coquetdale, and
Tindale Wards. I had hoped to complete it in less room; but to keep the work in some
degree of uniformity, and to finish the district with the volume, I have been compelled
to be at more expense than the impression can repay me : for the great quantity of small
types used in the notes, and especially in the pedigrees and Latin authorities, has made
it chargeable to me far beyond my first calculations.
The accompanying lists of Plates will serve, in some degree, to show the point of
support and patronage to which this work has arrived, and for which the author is
indebted, and has now the pleasure of requesting the several contributors of them to accept
his best and most grateful thanks; but besides these, he is under obligations for other
gratifying tokens of approbation. Immediately after the publication of the volume of Paro
chial ...
A History of Northumberland, Part II
