Nicholas Lowes is from Standfordham.
Although he is 35 years old he has walked the 13 miles to Hexham because he spends his life on the road.
He is a travelling physician, more accurately he is a quack!
Meaning he travels from village to village selling potions and treatments he claims will help people who are unwell.
More often than not, the potions are mixtures of plants, dirt and the nearest river water. By the time the patient has realised the medicine is not working, Lowes is long gone and walking to the next village.
He was in Hexham on market day procuring plants and vegetables to make his dinner and also create some bottles of his special elixir.