BOLTON, a chapelry, in the parish of EDLINGHAM, northern division of COQUETDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 6 miles (W.) from Alnwick, containing 144 inhabitants. On the 5th of September, in the" 5th of Henry VIII., a short time previously to the battle of Branxton, a congress was held here, at which several noblemen and other distinguished persons, with a train of about twenty-six thousand troops, were present. An hospital for a master, three chaplains, thirteen lepers, and other lay brethren, was founded and endowed prior to 1225, by Robert de Roos, Baron of Wark, in honour of St. Thomas the Martyr, or the Holy Trinity, and made subordinate to the abbey of Rivaulx, and the priory of Kirkham, in Yorkshire. Several stone chests and urns, containing ashes, charcoal, and fragments of human' bones, together with a celt, have been discovered at a short distance from this place.