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This, however, was not Foster's business, and after lunch he caught a train to Hexham and, finding he could get no farther, spent the night in the old Border town. It rained and the light was going when Foster sat in a window seat of the library at the Garth. He was alone, but did not mind this.
To these the opening of Stephen's reign adds the "Gesta Stephani," a record in great detail by one of the King's clerks, and the Hexham Chroniclers. All this wealth of historical material however suddenly leaves us in the chaos of civil war.
He felt sure Hexham had heard of his lurking about General Rolleston's premises. However, he prepared to defend himself to the uttermost. Hexham came into his room without ceremony, and looking mighty grim. "Well, my lad, so we have got you, after all." "What is my crime now?" asked Seaton sullenly. "James," said the officer, very solemnly, "it is an unheard-of crime this time.
The town of Hexham, standing on hilly ground overlooking the Tyne, immediately below the point at which the North and South Tyne unite, and spreading from thence down to the levels all round, is one of the most ancient in the kingdom.
To the great monastery of Hexham he granted protection in the name of "the leaders of the army of Scotland", although he was not successful in restraining the ferocity of his followers. The document in question is granted in the name of John, King of Scotland, and in a charter dated March 1298, Wallace describes himself as Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland, acting for the exiled Balliol.
The name of Hexham is generally understood to be derived from the names of two little streams, the Hextol and the Halgut, now the Cowgarth and the Cockshaw Burns, which here flow into the Tyne; or, as Mr. Bates suggests, it may have been the "ham" of "some forgotten Hagustald," which the name perpetuates.
Gibson, who was born in Hexham in 1878, sings of the struggling oppressed work-a-day people: "Crouched in the dripping dark With steaming shoulders stark The man who hews the coal to feed the fires." His poem, The Machine, awakens sympathy for the printer of Christmas story books and reveals Gibson as the twentieth-century Thomas Hood of The Song of the Shirt.
There were a bundle of papers here, too, which no doubt had been left at Holt's last visit to the place, in my Lord Viscount's life, that very day when the priest had been arrested and taken to Hexham Castle.
The army lay for a week in tents on the Moor. Winter had set in, and the snow lay thick on the ground; but intelligence arriving that Prince Charles, with his Highlanders, was proceeding southwards by way of Carlisle, General Wade gave orders for the immediate advance of the army on Hexham, in the hope of intercepting them by that route.
Matth. West. Beda. lib. 4 ca. 12. It was séene euerie morning for the space of thrée moneths togither. Hexham. Eadhidus. Lindesferne. Also one Eadhidus was ordeined about the same time bishop of Lindsey, the which prouince king Egfrid had of late conquered and taken from Vulfhere the late king of Mercia, whome he ouercame in battell, and droue him out of that countrie.
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