Diary of Thomas Bellingham, An Officer Under William III (1908)

The writer of this diary was one of a cadet branch of a family which took its name from Bellingham, a small market town in Northumberland, about 16 miles N N.W. of Hexham. Here the Bellinghams were lords of the manor from a very early period, and down to the latter part of the lyth century manorial quit rents were paid to them after the actual estates had passed into other hands. In 1715 these were held by the ill-fated Earl of Derwentwater, on whose attainder and execution they passed, by ...