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| where the tenants of Hepple and the demesne | ||||||
| annually convene to this day. | ||||||
| In erecting a few farmsteads some | ||||||
| time ago an attempt was made to demolish | ||||||
| the remaining fragments of the strong | ||||||
| tower but the scheme after repeated | ||||||
| trials was relinquished by the workmen | ||||||
| who found it easier to cut stones from | ||||||
| the hardest Quarry than to seperate | ||||||
| those from the sement [sic]. This castle | ||||||
| was probably the first of the chain | ||||||
| of forts which extended from thence | ||||||
| to Warkworth and which was intended | ||||||
| to form a barrier against the | ||||||
| incessant and destructive incursions | ||||||
| of the warlike borderers." McKenzie’s history of | ||||||
| Northumberland. | ||||||
| Charles Payne c/a |
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Transcribed by CTW and PW
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