Deposition – Robert Armstrong – 28 Nov 1757

Robert Armstrong of the Herbert Law, Alston, gentleman, 70, said in 1732 he rode the boundary with Sir Walter Blackett (Hardrigg-Long Cross- Blue Snab – Standing Stone in Millstone Bottom- etc)…At the time he lived in Coalcleugh in Allendale and was steward to Sir Walter Blackett there and had been employed as a steward by the Blackett family since 1717.. He said that at the corner of the new Millstones enclosure made by Mr Whitfield, his brother John Armstrong and others pulled down the fence….. Said that he and his brother met Mr Whitfield and his company at the Long Cross and told him that if he rode to the South or Southeast he would ride into the Manor of Hexham and discharged him from doing so. Notwithstanding which, the said Mr Whitfield rode from the Long Cross to the Hardrigg Currock.