NEWBORN, (Northumberland) on the W. side of Newcastle, was anciently granted by the crown to the Claverings; but K. Edw. I. gave it to Hen. Piercy, the ancestor of the Es. of Northumberland; in whose family it continued, till by the attainder of one of them, in the R. of Edw. IV. it vas granted tc Sir Rob. Ogle.