aid
Be with them openly displayed._

Naworth Castle, at the head of the vale of Llanercort, in the Gilsland
district of Cumberland, was the seat of the Dacres from the reign of
Edward III. George, Lord Dacre, the last heir-male of that family, was
killed in 1559; and Lord William Howard (the third son of Thomas, Duke
of Norfolk), who was made Warden of the Borders by Queen Elizabeth, and
did much to introduce order and good government into the district,
married the heiress of the Dacre family, and succeeded to the castle and
estate of Naworth. The arms over the entrance of the castle are the
Howard's and Dacre's quartered.

VI. (See p. 137.)

_... mitred Thurston--what a Host
He conquered!..._
_... while to battle moved
The Standard, on the Sacred Wain
That bore it...._

The Battle of the Standard was fought in 1137.

"One gleam of national glory broke the darkness of the time. King
David of Scotland stood first among the partizans of his kinswoman
Matilda, and on the accession of Stephen his army crossed the
border to enforce her claim. The pillage and cruelties of the wild
tribes of Galloway and the Highlands roused the spirit of the
north; baron and freeman gathered at York round Archbishop
Thurstan, and marched to the field of Northallerton to await the
foe. The sacred banners of St. Cuthbert of Durham, St. Peter of
York, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfrid of Ripon, hung from a
pole fixed in a four-wheeled car, which stood in the centre of the
host. 'I who wear no armour,' shouted the chief of the Galwegians,
'will go as far this day as any one with breastplate of mail;' his
men charged with wild shouts of 'Albin, Albin,' and were followed
by the Norman knighthood of the Lowlands. The rout, however, was
complete; the fierce hordes dashed in vain against the close
English ranks around the Standard, and the whole army fled in
confusion to Carlisle." (J. R. Green's _Short History of the
English People_, p. 99.)

VII. (See p. 153.)

_High on a point of rugged ground
Among the wastes of Rylstone Fell
Above the loftiest ridge or mound
Where foresters or shepherds dwell,
An edifice of warlike frame
Stands single--Norton Tower its name--
It fronts all quarters, and looks round
O'er path and road, and plain and dell,
Dark moor, and gleam of pool and s