LUMLEY-CASTLE and PARK, (Durham) on the E. side of the r. Were, opposite to Chester-in-the-Street, was the ancient seat of
the Lumleys, and now of the Earl of Scarborough, to whom it gives title of Baron. The castle has very curious paintings of
several ancestors of this noble family for some hundred years past, in the habits of the times wherein they lived; and
they say, that K. James I. lodging in this castle, when he came from Scotland to the throne, and seeing a fine picture of
the ancient pedigree of the family. which carried it very far beyond what he thought credible, said, in a jest, to the Bp.
of Durham, who shewed it, That be did not know before that Adam's surname was Lumley. There is a ferry to this seat over
the Were, rented at 6 l. a year, by a man and his wife, who have a little house in the park, and carry over persons for a
half-peny. This park abounds with the best coals in the country, which, with the r. near it, that is some times navigable,
whereby they are carried down to Sunderland, makes the park an inexhaustible treasure to the Lumley family. At Lumley T.
is an hos. erected by Sir John Duck, for twelve poor women, and a chaplain, to which the inh. being far from the p. Ch.
have the convenience of resorting for divine service.