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Old Halls, Battle Fields,

AND

SCENES ILLUSTRATIVE OF STRIKING PASSAGES

IN HISTORY AND POETRY:

CHIEFLY IN THE COUNTIES OF DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND.

BY WILLIAM HOWITT,

AUTHOR OF. "THE RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND " "BOY'S COUNTRY BOOK,'
" ETC.

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WITH UPWARDS OF FORTY HIGHLY FINISHED WOOD-CUTS FROM DRAWINGS
MADE ON THE SPOT FOR THIS WORK,

BY MESSRS. CARMICHAEL, RICHARDSONS, AND TAYLOR.

LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

1842.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY MANNING AND MASON, IVY-LANF,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

DA
625
•H86

v. 2

STATE UNIVERSI

LIBRARY

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE great success of the former volume of Visits has justified all my expectations, and incited me to fulfil my pledge, in that case, to continue the work. There are still many glorious views and subjects in England, to some of which we may yet devote another volume or two, if the public continues to express the same gratification in the prosecution of this object. In the first volume I gave a miscellaneous collection of visits, with the purpose of rather shewing the variety of matter which the field offered, than of indicating the general plan to be pursued in occupying it. I have now taken one particular portion of the kingdom as the subject of the present volume; a portion which seemed to me too rich in scenery and legend-in poetry and manners-in history and historic sites-not to fill a volume with the most interesting matter. Northumberland and Dur

ham, with all their Border fame-with their battles and their ballads,—are the very strongholds and native ground of English popular poetry and romance. The Douglas and the Percy— Chevy-Chase and Otterburne-are names which not only stirred the heart of Sir Philip Sidney, but are charmed sounds in the souls of us all, in our youngest and most imaginative years.

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