CHAPTER m.
 

HER ZEAL ATT METON FROM HER FIRST COMING THITHER TILL
HER  HUSBAND'S  DEATH.
 

URTON and Winge are remarkable and
famous for rare women ; and the all-working
hand of God was not here abbreviated, but
dilated, heaping s^^ore of benedictions uppon
her, both teraporall and spirituall. Shee
produced as a fruitful vine in the side of this house,
(for so were her lodgings situated at Brongh)o so many
fair branches as it was neccessary either to enlarge
the old habitation or to provide a new. To enlarge
it by addition of more roomes did not stand with
sir Ralph's greatness ; his house, though of great
structure, scarce serving for ordinary resort of friends,
wherefore her husband resolv'd uppon Heton, in
Northumberland,  nigh Newcastle ;jo and  because his

n This was probably a collateral building or wing to the westward,

which was pulled down when the house at Brough was almost en-

ytirely rebuilt bv sir Henry Lawson between the   years 1772 and

p By deed 1st June 3rd James I., 1605, between sir Ralph Law-
son, knight, dame Eliz : his wife, and Roger Lawson, esq., son and
heir apparent of the said sir Ralph, of the one part; and sir Thomas
Fairfax, of Qilling knt., and sir Henry Constable, son and heir of |