--See _Mirror_, vol. xiv. p. 305.
[2] The barony of Werke was given to the family of Ros, Barons of
Hemsley, in Yorkshire, by Henry I. for the service of two
knights' fees, and was in their possession till 1399; but in
the next year was found to belong to Sir Thomas Grey, of
Heton. It gave title of baron in 1622, to Sir William Grey,
who died in 1674. The village of Werke, and its ruined castle,
are all that remain of the possessions of the barony; the
former consisting of a miserable cluster of thatched cottages;
the latter of mere fragments of ashlar work, near its
foundations and lines of its moat. The village stands on the
margin of the Tweed: and the castle is celebrated in the
border annals. Heton, of which we have just spoken, in Edward
the First's reign, belonged to William de Heton; and in the
next reign, to Sir Thomas Grey, captain of Norham Castle. Sir
John Grey, of Heton, in 1420, was graced with the order of St.
George, or the Garter; and from him the estate descended to
the Tankervilles.
The father of Earl Grey was Sir Charles Grey, who entered the army at an
early age, had a command in the American war, and commanded in chief the
military forces in the expeditions against the French West India Islands,
the successful result of which was the annexing of Martinique, St. Lucie,
Guadaloupe, &c. to our empire.
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