In the year of our Lord, 1562.
N.B. The above John Ridley is supposed to have been brother to Bishop Ridley, who was burnt at Oxford, October 16th, 1555, he was the possessor of, and lived at Wall-town, and was one of the ancestors of the present Sir Matthew White Ridley, of Blagdon, in Northumberland, M.P. for Newcastle.
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Written at an Inn, in that very retired and romantic Part of Northumberland, the Banks of the ALLAN.
BY GEORGE PICKERING.
November, 1787.
Howl on ye winds, and beat ye rains,
Ye torrents roar o’er yonder linn,
And Allen swell thy rapid stream,