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Bamburgh Parish Sheet 16-7

List of Names as written on the Plan	Various modes of Spelling the same Names	Authority for those modes of Spelling	Situation	Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest
Laidley Worm’s Trough	Laidley Worm’s	Mr. J Gillie,	On Sheet	This is Merely a Common Stone
	Trough	Mr. J. Bolam	16.7	trough, placed at the bottom
		Mr. George Robson		of a Small precipice, on the top of
	Laidley Worm’s	Hutchinson’s View of		which is a small spring, with
	Trough	Northumberland		a trickling Stream flowing from
				it into the trough to supply the
				Cattle with water.
				The spring is like the outlet
	of a drain, and of small dimensions, altho’ tradition gives it as the place, where,
	the "Laidley Worm" used to lie after taking her breakfast, which was the
	Milk of 7 good Cows, which had to be put into the trough every morning.
	The Legend, respecting the Laidley Worm, is Somewhat as follows.
	Viz- At the time of the Second Marriage of King Ida, and when he
	brought his Queen to his Castle of Bamburgh, his daughter Margaret,
	Caused the nobles assembled on the occasion, to speak in very high terms
	of her, for the Kind Manner, in which, she Received her Father, and Stepmother,
	which so enraged the latter, that she transformed her into a Ó¿Laidley Worm, And
		(Ó¿"Laidley" is a Northern term for Loathsome)

				John McCabe

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Transcribed by HL and DW