m ^4IH . m n « 'w « I 'niM IV^fe To the Right Worfliipful Walter Blackett, E/f; Mayor, John Isaacson, Efq; Recorder, William EUifon, Efq; \ Matthew Fetherftonhaugh, Efq;\ Richard Ridley, Efq; Francis Riidfton, Efq; Nicolas Fenwick, Efq; William Carr, Efq; Nathanael Clayton, Efq; Cuthbert Fenwick, Efq; Robert Sorsbie, Efq; Matthew Ridley, Efq; John Wilkinson, Efq; Sheriff; i Aldermen, AND TO THE COMMON-COUNCIL OF THE Town o£Ne7jDcaJile u^ponTyne: This Work is moft humbly Dedicated, By the A u t h o k's Children, Henry Bourne^ Eleanor Bourne. i A LIS OF THE SUBSCRIBER ALLEN Thomas, %j Allen, Mr. Richard Allgood, the Rev. Mr. Anderfon, iV/r. Jofeph Aneflcy, Mark, Efq; Anefley, yVfr.William Armftrong, Mr. John Askew, Dr. Adam Atkinfon, Mr. Henry B BELL, Mr. James Bell, Mr. Matthew Biggs William, Efq; B'nks, Afr. Thomas Blackctt, the Right War- flnpfulW^Xtcr, Efq-^ Kiackllon, Mr. John Bland, Dr. Dean of Durham J" Mayor Blinkinfop, Mr. William Bolton, Mr. Silvefter Boulby, Mr. Adam Bowes George, Efq; Bridgman William, Efqr, Brooke Philip, Efq-y Browell, Dr. Browell, Mr. Mark Buck, the Rev. Mr. (York) Butler, the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Butler, Mr. Benjamin. CALEY, Mr. Samuel Chambers, Mr. Robert Campbell, the Hon. Alexander Hume, Clark, Mr. James Clavering James, Efq; Clayton Nathaniel, Efq-y Alderman Clennell Percival, Efq-y Clennell Thomas, Efq-y m Colpits, Mr. George Cooper Subscribers ' lVJICS. Cooper, Mr. Challoncr Coullbn, Mr. Henry Cunningham, Mr. 0/ Beadalc, Surgeon Cuthbert, the Rev. Mr. Cuchbertfon, Mr. George D DAWSON, Mr. Chriftopher Dawfon, Mr. John Davifon William, Efq-^ Dcnnec Robert, Efq^ Dick, Mr. Andrew Dockwray, the Rev. Mr. Thomas Dmin, Mr. Anthony Hobfon, the Rev. Mr. Vicar of Bofall Holden, the Rev. Mr. 0/" Morpeth Hopkins, Mr. Laucaftcr Huddlellon, Mr. jolm Hudfon, Mr. John Hudfpeth, Mr. Robert Hull, M-.John Hunter, Dr. Chriilopher, of Diivhim Huntei-, Mr. Hutchinfon, Mr. Hylton John, £7^5 of Hylton J J E N N I S O N Ralph, E.'f; rWalworth) Johnfon, Mr. Richard Johnfon, Afr. Robert EDEN, Sir Robert, Bart. Eden, the Rev. Mr. Ellifon Henry, £/^} K K E M P, Sir Robert, Bart. Kennedy, Mr. Archibald FA I RLE SS, Mr. Edward Farrington, the Rev. Mr. Firebrace, Sir Cordell, Bart. Fcnwick Cuthbert, Alderman Fenwick, Mrs. Efther Fenwick theRev. Mr.George, Vicar o/Bolam Fcnwick John, E/^j of BywelJ. Fenwick, j|/r. Thomas Fofter, Mr. Henry Fofter, M-. Timothy Fofter^ Mr. 'Jun. of Alnwick GAPE, The. £/f} 0/ 5/. Alban'5. Gent, M. Thomas (York) Graham, Mr. William Grey George, £/^i H XT ALL, the Rev. Dr. Prebendary of LI. Durham Hall Charles, Efq-y Hall, Mr. James Hanby, 7l/r. William Harle, Mr. Edward Harper, Mr. William Hawdcn, Mr. Thomas Hcdworth John, Efq; Hendcrfon, Mr. WilUam Hcnzell, Mr. Peregrine Heron, Mr. 0/ London Hildya/d, Mr. John, . ^th. ' the Ifland, went as far as Walls-End, a Village about 3 Miles Eaft oi Newcaftle. h Cambd. A *> Fifth Wall was built between the two Arms or Bofoms of the Seas for many Miles together, that where the Waters did not defend them, the Wall might be a Security againft the Incurfions of the Enemy. This Wall was made by Carauftus, Governour of Britain, in the Reign of Dioclefian, and flood in the flime Place where Lollius Urbictis had built his. This being finifhcd, the Romans left the Br i tains to their own Valour and Conduft, being cdled away for the Defence of Gaul; But no fooner were they gone, than their Enemies returned, and flew all before them : Up- on this they fent Ambafllidors to Rome to follicite the Afliftance of the AV fftans, which was granted them. For Falentinian fcnt three Companies under the Conduct of Gallio of Ravenua, who routed the Enemy and relieved the Province. After this • they made a Wall of Stone ( not raifed at the pub- lick and private Cofts, as the other was) with the Help of the poor Natives, built after the ufual Manner, quite crofs the Country from one Sea to ano- ther, by thofe Cities which were perhaps built there for fear of the Enemy : They exhorted them to be couragiou^, and left them Patterns to make their Weapons by. Upon the Southren Shore of Britain alfo, where their Ships lay, i Cambd, p. 86. ex Gild'. Of the Roman Walls. 3 ky, ( becau(c the barbarous Enemy might enter there ) they built Turrets at fome Dillance from one another, that lookt a long Way to the Sea. And i^o the Romans intending never to return more, about the Four Hundred Seventy Sixth Year from the coming of Julius defar, took their lall Farewell. This laft Wall, according to Beck, was eight Foot broad and twelve Foot higli, and ftood in the Place where the Walls of Hadrian and Severus had Hood, k It had great Number of Towers or little Cafiks, a Mile one from •= Cambd. another, called, now Cafilefteeds -^ and on the Infide a Sort o£ fortified little Towns call'd Cbefters. The Inhabitants tell you there was alfo a Brazen Trmn- pt or Pipe, (whereof they now and then find Pieces) fo artificially laid in the Wall between each Caflle aiid Tower, that upon the Apprehenfion of Dan- ger at any fingle Pkce, by the founding of it, Notice might be given to the next, then to the Third, and fo on. These are all the Walls of the Romans ; and that three of them went through this Town is fomething more than probable. For Severus's Wall was in the Place of Hadrian ^ and the laft Wall mentioned, in the Pkce of Sevefjis's, and that laft Wall went through this Town. Mi*. Camden is fo fure of this, that he declares, '7/.f mofl certain that the Rampier, and afterward the Wall pajfed through this Town j and that at Pandon-Gate there fiill remains^ as Uis Thought, one of the little Turrets of that very Wall. There is indeed to this very Day a Part of that Turret in being, above Pandon-Gate, which, as the fame Authority juftly obferved, is different from the Reft both in Fafhon and Mafonry, and undoubtedly carrys along with it a very great Age. Near this Turret is the Wall-KnoU, a very ancient Place, which our Hi- ftorian Grey fays pofitively. Was a Part of the PiSls-Wall; and indeed the very Name of it fpeaks as much. For the Word /^«// upon the Knoll, which fignifies an Hill or Eminence, cannot be underftood of any other than the Ro- man-Wall; Becaufe it had this Name from very ancient Times, long before the Building of the Town-Wall, to which it almoft adjoins. A little above this Pkce is a Tower, commonly call'd the * Carpenters-Tower. ' Vide Wall- This was one of the Roman-Towers, as was very Vifible, before the taking ^''"^^ "^ower, down of the Upper-part of it. ^ For it was of the fame Size, Model, and ■" Lib. de Stone with the Tower of " Rutchcfler in Northumberland, which was undoub- rebusNovo- tedly one of the Roman Towers, by the Pi£ls-Wall. "^^:^ ^,.^^^ is now in the I T muft alfo not be omitted, that there is an ancient Tradition among the Pojj'effion of Inhabitants of this Town, that the Roman-Wall went through the Weft-Gate, J"''" ^°- and the near" s Garden,^\or\g that Ground where St. iVzV/.;o/^5-C^arc/^ now ftands, IfewMftle along Nether-Dean-Bridge, by the Wall-Knoll, Sally-Port, and fo on to Walls- who has tur- End. ned the inner Part of the Now to thefe Reafons and Authorities let us add what « HollinJIiead fays, ^^^^^J"'" where he gives an Account of the Courfc of the Roman-Wall. It begins he Kooms, lut lays at Bolnefs upon Burgh, and fo he brings it from Place to Place, 'till he ieft the Walh brings it to Rutchefter, then to Heddon, then to Wallbottle, then to p Denton, "/"/''' "»- and to Newcaftle, where it is thought St. Nicholas Church fiandeth on theflime. 'oHolimf.Be- fcrip. oj Hrk. To this I fhall add the Authority of a Manufcript, I am obliged to a p- '^.a. vCry worthy q Gentleman for> Hadrian built a Wall of Turff or Sods, from J ^/"f''''''^- the Sea-Side beyond Carlifte unto Tinmouth. It was demoliflicd after he was AiL^'^"e& gone, and after him Severus built near the fame a Wall of Stone, and made /,v)?»Newcn- Towcrs and Watching Places at every Miles End, and a PafTage all along by iWeJelongwg the Help of an Horn, or fuch an Inftrument, that they might fpcak through " ^°'^£^°" the Wall, and tell where the Enemy was. This ended attheRiverof ?>«(? near f^joi,n miI- Walls-End. This Authority goes on, I my felf have feen it at Thirlwall, and bank, Efq-, it Cometh by Portgatc, near Stamhebank, by Halton, near the Long-Lane, where both the Walls are Apparent 5 as alio at Denton, over Benwell-Hill, down to B a the Of the Roman Walls. •■ This Honfe the JVefigatc. And he alfo adds, you may fee it down the Hill by Mr. ^Leonard -j;a$inV\\- Qart's Houfc* and over Walker-Moor to ' Walls- End. grim-ltieet ' on the Weft- fide, a little Thus I think it very clear that thefe Roman-Walls went through this before yoit Town. Let us now fee what this Town was in thefe ancient Times. « Mr. cow w Sil- Cambden gives his Opinion thus : Gatefide is commonly believed to be of grea- t "' haTbeen t^r Antiquity than Ncivcajlle it felf. And if I ihould fay further, that this a Vulgar Er- and Newcajlk (for they fecm formerly to have been only one Town parted rorin many, by tj^g River) Were that Frontier-Garrifon, which m the Times of the later l^frnvTalu: Emperors was called Gabrofentnm^ and defended by the fecond Cohort of the end, have i- thraces } and that it retained it's old Name in a due Senfe and Signification, maginedthat notwithftanding this Nezvcafile has changed it's Name once or twice, I hope the Wall did [^ y^-y[\ ^g no ways inconfiitent with Truth. For Gaffr is ufed by the Britains ''It that v,f. f°'' ^ ^^^^ ^""^ ^^"y *" Compofition for Pf», which fignifies an Head: And lage; but it in this very Senfe and Meaning it is plainly called Cap\€ Caput, or Goats- Head could never by our old Latin Hiltorians. have been fo, placfV'ha]/ T H u s far this learned Antiquary. But notwithftanding this his Judgment, a Mile from and that no tollerable Reafon can be brought againll the two Places having theRiverSide. beeil but one j yet fome will ftill have it, that Gatefide, cxclufive of Newcajlk, It IS therefore jg ^\^^ ancient Gabrofentim, becaufe of it's Name. For my Part I cannot help Tll^that"'thc being of Mr. Cambden's Opinion, and for this, among other Reafons ; that if Romans the Name of Capra Caput difcovers the Gabrofentum, then it is more probable ■would have that the principal Part of it lay on the North-fide of the River than on the ^d"h'"'w'*u' South: Becaufe Gabrofentum was one of thefe Frontier Garrifons, which lay ad lut at the Lineam Falli, within the very Range of the Wall. For all thefe Garrifons side of the ad Lineam Falli, were placed on the fame Side of the River with the Wall it faid River, felf^ confequently Gatefide could but at moft have been a Part of Gabrofentum^ ^"'"h "e *a ^"'^ ^^'^ meaneft'Part of it too} a Sort of Suburbs to it, as it adually was to w' of this this Town of Neivcafile, in the Reign of Ed-ward the Sixth, as fhall be ihown Place, the Ri- hci^aftcr. ler was the Continuation onheTZ" But if this is not allowed, (and yet it muft be allowed, i£ Gatefide has it's tentura or Name from the Gabrofentum) yet moft certainly it was a * garrifon'd Fort in jence, from thcfe very Times. For ftill there is the Remains of a Roman Turret, and the hindring the under Part of one of the Roman Towers to be feen, and the Name of Pandon Tttr'pom The ^^ "° ^'"^^^ Corroboration of the Tmth of it, as may be feen in our Account frfi Track is of that Place. half a Mile \^'\\t°7 T H u s I think whatever is boafted of the Antiquity of Gatefide, it plainly near Cou- ^ppc^rs, that if Capr^ Caput, or Gatefide Points out the ancient Gabrofentum, fins'j Hoitfe, Nezvcaflle muft be lier elder Sifter j forafmuch as a Town muft be earlier than beginning a it's Suburbs. And if it does not " Point it out, it will then be a certain Con- little to the clufion, that there is an indifputable Account of this Town in thcfe very at the side Times of the Romans, which was fome Hundreds of Years before Capra Ca- cf the River put, OX Gatefide is mentioned by the moft early of our Latin Hiftorians. Tyne,4«^ CHAP. here certainly the \ft Station of Segedunum was originally placed. Tor 161 Paces a faint Track of the Wall appears running north twelve Degrees and a half Weflerly; then forms an Angle, Pointing [out h wefterly for 13s Paces to the above- mention' d Manli on of Cousins' s Hon fe. About i;i Paces Well of this, the Foila begins to appear pretty diftinif, rneajuring about 20 Foot in Breadth, and a little beyond it, is the Foundation of the Stone Wall, from hence it faffesby a few Houfes called the Bec-Houfes, next through a (mall Village called Walker: Here the Fofla is 40 Toot broad, beyond which the Foundation of the Stone- Wall appears plain, then it afcends the Byker-Hill, run- ing betwixt the Village of Byker and the Windmill, thence going down the Hill, pajfes through the Euesburn, crofing the Rivulet there; then I found it afcend the high Ground to the Weflward of it, pajfing by the Manfion Houfe and through the Garden to the Red-Barnes ; frotn thence it is vifible through the Fields, going Streight to r/je Sally-Port Gate 0/ Newcaftle. Gordon. Itincr. Scptent. p. 70. This Place wffere the End of the WalWi, Wo»5J/i> Air. Henry Waters o/Newcaftle. " p. 779. " Vide Chap, of the upper Parts of the Town. « Kewcaftle is by Mr. Cambden called the oUCabrocentum where the 2d Cohort of the Thracians lay; but according to the Courfe of the Forts in the Notitia Imperii, Gabrocentum is the feventeenth Station on the Wall; if therefore we follow the Noticia flriftly, Newcaftle would rather feem to be the Pons-Mlii, the 2d Station on the Wall, where t\\e Cohort oi ihtCornovii lay. In this I have the concurring Opinion of the learned and judicious Antiquary Dr. Hunter of Durham. Cord. Itin. Septent. pag. 71. The ancient Orrhea, mentioned by P/<»i«w> has beenthousht by Come to bave been the Oi'igiual of this Town, but for what Reafon 1 know not. CHAP. 11. Of this TOWN, after the Time of the Romans. F T E R the Departure of the Romans, it feems to have chau" ged it's Name, as I fhall ihew immediately i and probably by the latter Part of it's after Name Monkcbcfler, it was ^ Place of Defence, or Garrifon'd Fort, during the Times of the Saxons and Danes. This Name of Monkchefter it retain- ed 'till after the Conqueft. Thus we are told from Simeon Dundmenjis, a Monk of the Church of Durham, that iVew- caftle upon 7'yne was anciently called Monkchefler, ck'itai Monachortm, or the Town of the Monks, not becaufe it belong'd to the Monks, but becaufe the Monies of thofe Parts dwelt there. » «ExCoii«a Mr. J. DoK S o M E are of Opinion, that Neivcajlk got it's Name of Monkchefter, becaufe gis;. the Monks in Time of Danger came "for Protefbion to it, and not from their inhabiting it. This is quite contrary to the Authority above-mentioned, and all others that I have met with. Mr. Eachard in his Hiftory of England fays, that Monkchefter was fo called from certain Monks who Hved there in gveau C Au- MONKC HESTER Aufterity and Retirement ; and the Monaftkon gives us the following Account. In the Year 1074, there was a certain Man in the Province of the Mercians^ a Presbyter and Prior of the Monaltery of JVinchelefcumbe^ who was a Monkj whofe Name was Aldixi'm : This Man preferr'd a voluntary Poverty and Con- tempt of the World to all it's Honours and Riches j and having learned from the Hiftory of the Northumhers^ that that Land was formerly famous for Mul- titudes of Monks and religious Men, who tho' in the Flelli, lived not accor- ding to the Flefh, but whilft they were on Earth, had their Converfation in Heaven : He defired greatly to vifit the Monallcnes of thefe Places, (tho' He knew they were forfaken and left del'olate) and there to lead a poor Life in Imitation of them. Coming therefore as far as the Monallery of Evcjlmm^ he made known his Purpofe to certain of the Brethren j upon which, two of them aflbciated with him j one of them was named Elf-wie.^ who was a Dea- con, and after that a Prieftj The other's Name was Renifrid; he was igno- rant of Letters. Thefe the Abbot gave leave to accompany him, but not 'till he had fet Aldivin over them, and committed to him the Care of their Souls. After this, they fet forward on their Journey a Foot, having an Als to carry their Books, Necefllxries, and their Sacerdotal Vcltments, to celebrate divine Service in. At length they came to Tork^ defiring of Hugb^ the Son of Bal- B Ut eis du- drkk^ who was then Sheriff", •> that he would procure them a Guide to Monk- cem itineris chefter^ that is, the City of the Monks, which is now called Nnvcafile^ whi- miVlocum " ^^^^ being brought by their Guide, they ftaid a- while, but found not any quiMonkce- Remains of it's former San£tity, no Footfteps of the Religious People who fter, i. e. had formerly dwelt there. Wakher Billiop of Durham hearing of this, fent Monacho- f^j. ^^g^^ ^„j g^^^g \}ntm the Monaftcry of Jarray^ which at that Time was appeUatu" unroof'd, and had fcarce any Thing remaining of it's ancient Grandeur. nunc Nov- um-Caftel- A N D HOW how loDg it had been in this defolate Condition we may gather namr"°Quo ^^^^ " HoUmgJhead. By the Invafion ot the Danes^ fays he, the Churches per"duftimj ^nd Monafteries throughout Northumberland were fo wailted and ruined, that venientes, a Man could fcarcely find a Church Handing at this Time in all that Country > ad tempus and as for thofe that remained, they were all covered with Broom or Thatch: ibidem (unt^_ And as for any Abby or Monaftery there was not one left in all the Country} ru°lum anti- neither did any Man, for the Space of Two hundred Tears, take Care for the quum San- repairing or building up of any Thing in Decay > fo that the People of this ftorumChri- County knew not what a Monk meant. And if they faw any, they wonder- Veftieium "' ed at the Strangenefs of the Sight. One Place there was in this County, fa- Hugd.Mon. mous for being the Habitation of Monks, from whence it was called Monk- Tom. i.f.4i. chejler, but that alfo was fo minated and deftroy'd, that when the Monks of cMag^rit. Mercia (the Monks mentioned before) came to it, they found no Token or tiq'^ex Hoi- Rernnant of any Religions Perfons who had had an Habitation there j all was linf. defaced and gone. Now with refpe6l to Monkchejler this feems to be punctually true. For as HoUingJhead obferves that it was about zoo Years from the Ruin of the Mo- d Anno 1074 nafteries to this Time after the Conquell:<* > fo it muft be taken Notice of, « Holl'm. that the Danes, in the Year « Syf, which was the 4th of the Reign of King Aluredy divided themfelves. So that King HaUon with one Part there- ^He fat down of went into Northumberland, and lay in the Winter Seafon neart to the River ■with his Men of Tyne, wherc he divided the Country amongtl his Men, and remained there at Tames- for the Space of two Years, and oftentimes fetched thither Booties and Preys Zlkh'is he- °^^ °f ^^^ Country of the Scots and PiSts. tween Gut- Rde and It appears then from this, that the Monafteries of Monkchejler had been in Whickham. Ruins about 200 Years, that is to fay, from the Year Sjf to the Year 1374, S,m.Du«r. ^jjg rp-j^g ^^^^^ Coming of the Mercian Monk. L E T us now fee if w^c can form any probable Conjefbure when it was firft inhabited by Monks, and got the Name of Monkchejler. And this 1 imagine happen'd towards the later End of the 7th Century. For in the Year 6if, theMonaftical Life was brought initmongthe Northumbers by Aidan, who was that MONKCHESTER. 7 that Year made Bifhop of Northumberland, and had his Seat at ^ Lindisfern. ^ Lindisf^rnt C 2. % Hexam 'i " l"'"^' /" jhitid on the Church of Lindisfern. He was fticceeded by Pin an a lVlo?ik of the Monajlery ofHy, who died Feb. 12, in the Tear 6Gi. /'Durliam or Dunhelm more properly ''which takes it Name from Dun, which fignifies a Mountain, and Holm aRiver-Ijland in the Saxon Lr!n^ua^e becaufe the RiverWcre, with it's circling Stream, wapes the Hill on which it flands on all Sides 'fo that it makes It almojl an Ifland Aldwin diedtn the year loi 7, and was fucceeded by Eadnnind' who was e- lededthe year 1020, ajter the See had been vacant about ^years, he died Anno 1040, and zuas buried in the Churchoj Durham. E&dicd fucceeded htm, butcnjoyedthat Honour nogreatwbile ; jor m 10 Months time he died, He wasj'ucceededby E^dxk, Annoi049, whobuilt aChurch at Cheller uponthe Street inMe- mory that the Bipops of Lindisfern hadreficdtbemfelves there, together with the Body of St. Cuthbert 1 1 8 years, durtnglheTime of theTf^m^hlfars : He rejign'd in the year 10^6, and was fucceeded by Eeichvyn who died in the year IQ-Ji. 'WaUetorWalchcvfucceededbim, who was jlain «/■ Gatefide (as is jbeivn m our Account of that Place) May i^h, 1080. After this the See was voidfor 6 Months ; and then on the gth ft/ November uw_/j7/e^z//' /;'_)/ William Kairlipho, who died Anno 1095-. This Man, as Godwingoeson pulling down to the Ground the Church 0/ Durham, tu/j/V/j Aldvvinus had firjl built, began to ered ano- ther jar more magmjicent, butiivednottofnifhithimjelf, Malcolme, A'.v/^o/ Scots, and luvpot Prior of Durham, laidthe^jirfl Stones, July 30, or (as fome deliver Aug. U.) 1093. This BiJhop, ajter the See- had been vacant ^years, and ^Months, was fucc ceded by Ranulii'lAmhird, Anno 1099, who died Sept. f 1128. GcoffryRufaswas his Succeffor, who diedM-iy the 6th, 1140. After him fucceeded, William'dc banda Barbara, who diedNov. 14, 1 1 5-3. He was fncteedcdby Hugh Pudfey . T/W. /» Regn. Reg. An 1 195- 8 MONKCHESTER. g nexamisa 6 Hexatfi was made a Bifhoprick in the Year 678, and had Eata for its firft Tewn about Bifliop j Churchcs and Monalleries were built in feveral Places, and Religion 16 Miles Weji «/ Newcaftle. It was in the Times of the Romans, as CAmhdsn fays, J»s Axelodinuni, -where lay the ift Co- hort of the Spaniards. It had among the Saxons the Same of Hextoldcfham, from the Rivulet *Diigd.Vol.lI. Hextold, which runs by it. In the year * 674, Etheldveda, VAfe to King Egfrid, ajfign'd it for ^'^''^°' an Epifcopal See to St. Wilfrid, who built here a Church, and dedicated it to St. Andrew the Apo- file. The Order of it's Bifl'ops is as follows; jji Eata, who is alfo rechon'd the }d or rather the ^th of that See, he was ordained BiOjop 0/ Hexam at York, by Theodore, Archbifjop of Canterbury, Anno 678, and gover- ned that See three years whilfl he was Bijhof 0/ Lindisfern. In the year 6S1 Tumbert the rd Bijhop was conje- f rated ; but he was depofed the fame year, St. Cuthbert was chofen into his Place ; but bei>ig better pleafed with * the Situation of 'L\tiA\s{ttn; Bifliop Eata, in refpe^ to him, left the S« »/ Lindisfern, and became the 4th Bi- fjop of Hexam. The %th was St. John of Ueverly, who was hijhop about the year 6S5, He continued Bifliop about one year, and was then tranflated to York. After the Tranflation of John, King Alfrid reftored the Church of Hexam to Wilfrid the 6th Bifliop, who died Ai\no 70$^^ St. Acca fucceeded him, who was the -jth Bifliop, he was depriv'd in the year 733; he died Nov. 20, Anno 740, and was buried, as is faid, near the Conjiflory of the Church 0/ Hexam. Fritliubertus the %th Bifliop fucceeded Acca, and came to the See Anno 735 ; he died Anno 766. Alkmundus //>£ <)th Bifliop fucceeded him. Anno 767, anddied Sept. the yth, 781. Tilbert the \oth was the next Bifliop; he died 789, and was buried in his oivn Church. To him fucceeded Ethelbert the nth Bifliop; he ^icJOftober 16, 797, and was buried in the Church of Hexam. Heardred 1-2. fucceeded him; who died in the year 800. To him fucceeded Eanhttih i^th Bifliop; who died Anno 806. To him fucceeded Tidferth, the i^th Bifliop; who died about the year 811. After this, the See 0/ Hexam, becauje of the DaniQi Wars, lay negletled for above 63 years together. But at length it was united with Lindisfern, «»i/fr Eardulph, the i^lh Bifliop 0/ Lindisfern. This happened in the year 885. Under this JurifdiHion it continued 'till tht Reign of King Henry the ift, when theTown of Hexam and the Church, Anno 11 15, were taken from the Diocefs »/ Durham and given to that of York, the King be- ing highly difpkafed with Ranulph Bifliop of Durham. f This Church at the Timett was built, was fuppofed to exceed all the Churches on this Side the A\ps, } Ex Mag. Brit, y,,;.,,'^ piUars, Porches, and Allies leading round it ; afterwards in the Time of Bifliop Acc3, that Bi- ^■''^'^' fhop fuperadded to the Buildings of his Church many Decorations and curious Works ; he got from all Parts fome Relicksofthe Apoftles and Martyrs, and ereiied feveral Altars in Reverence to them, and for that End made diftinil Porches in the Walls of the Church. Be alfo with great Diligence and nofmall Charge, gathered the Hiftories of of their Sufferings, with many Volumes of Ecclefiajiical Wriiers. and of them he made a very large Library. He alfo provided feveral facredUtenfils, the the following Account. That Privilege which I thcRomiaWAii.'Kich. read to have been granted unto the Church of the once eminent Monaflery c/ Hagulftad tsveryre- *» Stav.p. 17J. ex Ri- tnarkable : That is, there were ^Crottes fet up at a certain Diftance from the cTiurch, in the four &«"'e<5'' "'^""*' ^'^ ^"y^ leading thereto. Nozv if any MalefaClor flying for Refuge to that Church, was taken or Ap- prehended within the Ctodes, the Party that tonk or laid hold on him there, did forfeit Two hun- dredh; (in Hundredhviii. Libra: continentur) Ifhetookhim within the Tozvn, then he forfeited Four Hundredh ; if within the Walls of the Church Yard, then Six Hundredh ; if within the Church, then Twelve Hundredh ; if with- in the Doors of the §luire, */;«» Eighteen Hundredh ; befides Penance, asincafeofSacriledge; butifheprefum'dto take him out of the Stone Chz'tT near the Altar, called Ixiddo], or from amongft the Holy Relicks behind the Aliat, the Of- fence was not redeemable with any Sum; but was then become Gne cmendsitione iiot.o\os {i.e. Booties, vid.Glofs. W. Somner) and nothingbut the utmoftfeverity of the offended Church was to be expected, by a dreadful Excommuni- cation ; beflde what thefecular Power would impofe, jor the prefumptuous Mifdemeanour. The Canons W Regular of this Church, which were appointed by Thomas the zd, Archbifliop of York H PyS" """• about the year I \o<), continued 'till they were difplaced by King Henry the ith. Anno 1539. when the Revenues of the Monaflery was valued at 112 1. 1 1 s. id. It wasofthe A\x'2,ni^\neOrder. Several Henti were paid to it out of the Town of Newcaflle. ■ It is ftill very ftately and magnificent, and by far exceeding any Thing in that Town. It is now inhabited by Sir Edward Blacker, Bart, but is the Property <)/ Walter Blacker, Efq; Amongthe eminent Perfons of this Place, I meet with two in particular. %% The \ft is ]ohn of Hexain W Stephen, aj homin that Place, and firft Monk, then Prior of the Monaftery there. He was a Man, grave, modeft, 101.° '' meek, courteous, arable, yet fevere and rigid in punifliing the Faults of thofe under his Charge ; learned and eloquent, and a diligent Searcher of Hiftory and Antiquities, and tho' he taught Philofophy and Divi- v'tty pubitckly in his Monaftery, yet in private He, as much as Time would permit, read Hiftorians, and particularly venerable icde. He made an Addition of z% Tears to the Hiftory of Simeon of Durham, beginning at the 9th Tearof KingHenry thezd, and proceeding to the firft of KingKkhard, calling it an Hiftory of zi; Years. Hcalfowrit of Sign f andComets : A Difcription of the Scottifh War : Sermons, and fome 01 her Things ; and flourifli'd in 1190. The other is Kichard of Hexam, firft Monk, and then Prior of that Monaftery, educated there in Monafticaland School Learning, andin all Sorts of Piety ; fo diligently imitated his Mafter, John, Prior of that Place, that he fuc- ceeded him in that Employment , and in Teaching. When made Prior, he in all Things mo ft exactly copy'd after his faid Mafter ; for tho' he in publick taught his Brethren Philofophy and Divinity ; yet in private he read Hiftory, and accu- rately writ the Affairs of hisTime, efpecially in£ng\and, by the Titles, The Actions of King Stephen ; Tlie Acti- ons of King Henry the 3d, and proceeding to the ift of King Richard ; The War of the Standard ; A fhort Chro- nicle from Adam to H,enrv the Emperor ; Of the State and Bidiops of the Church of Hexam. He died and was buTKd in his Menafiery, about the ytar 1 1 9 j. flouriflied • «..-.«-^v»'^ MONKCHESTER. flourillied in this whole Kingdom. This Account HoUmgJJ)ead gives in the following Words : Great Niambers of Perfons daily offered themfelves to be baptized, infomiich that within the Space of 7 Days (as is left in Writing) Aldan chrillned if Thoufand Perfons, of the which no fmall Part forfaking the World, betook themfelves to a Solitary kind of Life. Thus by continual Preaching the Gofpcl in that Country, it came to pafs in the End, that the fuith w;is generally received of all the People; and fuch Zeal to advance the Chriftian Religion daily incrcafed amongll them, that no where could be found greater. Hereupon were no fmall Number of Churches built in all Pla- ces abroad in thofe Parts by Procurement of King Ofisold^ all Men liberally confenting (according to the rated Subilance) to be Contributors towards the Charges. By this Means the Kingdom of the Northumbers flourifli'd^ as well in Fame of Increafe of Religion, as alfo in civil Policy and prudent Ordinances. When now it is confidered that the Bufinefs of Religion went on fo Brisk- ly throughout the whole Kingdom of the Northimibers -y it is rational to fup- pofe that this Place, as it was not only convenient for the monalHcal Life as to Retirement, but alfo a Security to it too, (being at that Time a garrifon'd Fort) was certainly as early inhabited by the Monks as the abovementioned Time ; and befides if we confider the Veneration it is mention'd with by many Hiftorians for the fevere rigid Lives of it's Monks 3 how it was the moft emi- nent Place in the North, tor the monaftical Life, fo very famous on that ac- count, as to change it's former Name to th'xx.oi Monkchefler : There can fcarce be allowed it a later Time to arrive at fuch a Pitch of Eminency and Glory. Before the Name of Monkchefter^ I imagine, from it's being a Place of For- tification, that it had the Name of Chefter^ as Weremuth was the original Name of that Place, but was afterwards called Monkiveremuthj from the Monks inha- biting there. It feems all along to have been a Place of Defence and Fortifi- cation. It was the Ancient Gabrofentuffi^ according to Mr. Sambden; or as o- thers more juitly imagine the Pons jEUi of the Romans -j was a garrifon'd Fort, 'till inhabited by the Monks j and was fuch from the Time of the Monks 'till the Conquell. The Name of Monkchejler continued 'dft the Building of the Caftle, and after that, from the Building of it, it got the Name o^ New-cajlle: TheOc- cafion of which was this. Makohne King of Scotland having entrcd with his Army into the Confines of England^ came with it into Northumberland^ and waifted and plundered the whole Country as far as the River 'fyne-y the Con- queror being all the while in Normandy^ and alfo his Son Robert Curtois. But no fooner were the King and his Son come into England^ tlian Robert was fcnt with an Army againft Maholme to drive hirn out ot the Country. The Scots being appriz'd of this, retir'd into their own Countiy, and Robert with his Army encamp'd upon the Banks of the Tyne, where he built the Cajlle t6 de- h Mag. Brit, fend thcfc Northern Parts from thelncurfions of the j'fo/j-, for the ^ Future, p. 6og. P0I7. The Chronicle of Mailros fays, that the Conqueror fent his Son Robert into ^'^' ^^u Scotland^ againft Makohne, in the Year 1080, who, having done nothing, iip- ni,-„j j^lxxx on his return, built the Ncw-caftk. From hence it is eafy to conclude, that Rex Wiliiel- the Gaftle was founded the fame Year, towards the latter End of it. For >""? Autum- Dugdale tells us in his Monafticon^ that ^ King fVilliam'irithe Ycar 1080, abput "^ '^'^bT/''" the Time of Autumn, fent his Son Robert into Scotland againft Makolme. But mni Fillium having got as far as Egglesbretb, he returned (having done no Exploit) and (uum contra built the Ne-w-caftle upon the River Tyne. Malcomum mifit ; fed Thus theTo-wn loft it's Name of Monkchefler for that df Ne-wcajile^ which it niflet ad Ect- retains to this Day. But however by the building of theCaftle it loft nothing glesbreth, '^ elfej for the Building of the faid Caftlcdidnot dcftroy or takeaway the Right """o'^onfe- orlntereft which the Towns-men had before 3 but that ftill remained as before. ^'^, ?r.^.°r'' ftellum No- A FTER this the Town grew more populous, and increas'd in Trade and vum fuper Wealth; had great Privileges granted them by the Kings, built Churches, 1"men Ty- Monafteries, Walls, Bridges, ^c as {h^W be Icen in the following Treatife. "ZtMcr D c H A P. r.4',.^;;. lO CHAP. III. Of the Wa L L s of this TOWN. EWCASTLE is feated on the Northern Bank of the Ri- ver Tyne J and is bounded on the Eaft by the Land of By- ker y on the Weft by the Lands belonging formerly to the Prior of Timmouth-f on the North by the Lands of Kenton^ and Cuxlodge.^ and on the South by the County of Durham. It is furroundcd with a Stone-PFall., which at the Time it was built, and for many x^ges after, was undoubtedly of very great Strength. This has feveral Gates belonging to it, Round Towers, and Square Turrets, which ihall by and by be confidered. On the Out-fide of it is a Ditch or Trench, and on the Infide it is ramper'd with Earth. f Grey; 'The Caufe of Building this great Wall was the often Invafion of the Scots into this Place and Country ; they continually infefted it and the rich Monafteries in thefe N(^thern Parts i the rehgious Houfes of this Town, and the adiacent Places being above Forty. Some are of Opinion, that the Walls were begun in the Reign o^ King Henry the Third. But the Author juft now mentioned, imagines Them to have been earlier. King John, he fays, gave great Priviledges to this Town, and probably the New-gate, and Walls thereabout, were built in his Time; the North Part of the Wall being the oldeft, and of another Fafhion than the other Walls. I N the Reign of King Henry the 3d, the fame Author fays, the Weft part of the Wall was built j but I am rather inclined to believe, that that Part of the Wall was not built 'till the Reign of Edvj^rd tbi \fi. The Wall from the The TOWN Wall. n the Time it was begun, went on but flowly 'till this Reign, when an Acci- dent hapned, which revived the former Fears of the Towns-Men, and put them in Mind of the neglefted Wall, which, 'till that Time had got no far- ther than Ever-Tower, as appears by the old Part of the Wall, ending there- abouts. The AccidenC was this, ^ in the Reign of Edward the ift, a very '' CambJen: rich Burgher being carried ofFaPrifoner by xhzScots^ out of the Middle of the Town, firft paid a round Ranfom himfclf, and afterwards began the ill: For- tifications of the Place. It is true, that this Accident was the Occafion of carrying on the Wallj but Mr. Cambden is miftaken in Hiying it occafioned the Beginning of it. For it was begun fome Years before the Reign of Edward the ijl. For from A^fw- gate to the Ever-Tower as has juft now been obferved, is a Work older, and vaftly different from what .I'le Wall is from Ever-'Tower towards the Weft-gate. This Wall, leading to the Weft-gate^ was it which was begun in the Reign of Edward the ilt, for in this Reign it was, (when Leave was granted to the preaching Friers to break out that Little Gate which now leads into the fVardens-Clofe^ then their Garden, that this Wall was called the '^ New- <" Vid. Dur- fVall; and furely a New- Wall, will imply that there was an Old one before, ham-To wee was the thing itfelf not ftill a Matter of Fad as it really is to any Obferver. V'.^ Black- H o w long the Walls were a Building, or who they were in particular that contributed towards the Building of them, is a Matter pretty much in the Dark. However, 'tis '^ fuppofed, that King Edvjard the ift, was a Contri- ^ Gardinci-, butor to them. The Names of fome of the Round-Towers alio give us fome '^'"P-4- Light, which to this Day do feemingly bear the Names of their ancient Foun- f^^^ "wtoii ders, which may in fome Mcafure occafion a Guefs at the Time of their Buil- N.ime was ding. Ralph Gar* diner, tiv'd The Town, after the compleating of the Walls, was divided Into 24 avma^^Elji iFardSy accordmg to the Number of the Gates, and round Towers in the of Newca- Wall, which Towers and Gates were wont be defended in Times of Hoflili- A'^, nearthi ty with the Scots, by the particular Wards appropriated to them. s^^-'^iV'^ ,., - . ^ vjhuh Village T H E I ft Gate I mall begin with is the Clofe-gate, which is fo called, be- is now in tht caufe it llands in a narrow Street called the Clofe, it had in Ward, from the Pojfeffion of Clofe-gate upon the South-rawe, fo going Eaihvard unto the Javil-grippe, but f^n'^'^Tj nothing oi Javit-grippe, then going Weftward upon the North unto theClofe- wa"d"col- ' K"'^^' lingwood, Efyrs. He From the Clofe-gate there are Stairs leading up to -x Round-Tower called the ''^^^^ ^'^"^-^ White- Fryer-Tower. This Tower had in Ward, from the Ealt-end of Bailiff- jown, 'and. gate, oppofite to the Javil-grippe, with all that dwell upon the High-Stairs in dii ail the the Clofe, unto and with the Well-fide of thefe 5/«;V\f that lead unto the South- M'f'hiefto it Poftern of the Cafile, with all Javil-grippe Eaftward, and from the Javil-gri^pe 'l]1'p2,T to the South-rawe of the Clofe, and with all the Bridge-End. as appears' in- every Page of This Tower, with the Wall leading to the little Gate, (commonly called '"^^o"''- -^* the Poftern-gate, but originally the Gate of the White-Fryers, or IVloite-Fryer- ]^.„'^ter7'/ gate) were together with the Gate itfelf, probably built by the White-Fryers -^ i-.li'ptk?. for the White-Fryers were fituated in the South-weft-end of the Street of Weft-gate, in the fune Grounds were are now the Houfes of Mr. Andcrfon, George Grey, Efq; and others. And as it is rcafonable to believe, that what- ever Religious Houfe, or Nobleman, built a Tower or Piece of the Wall, that it would be built chiefly for their own Security j fo the Buildings now * mentioned, being fo fituated as I have juft now .obferved, are a Proof that the Wlnte-Fryers were the Founders. And if it be confidered that the White-Fryers were « founded by King Edward tht ift, in whofe Reign the « toWliitS;: above-mentioned Accident happened, which occafioned a frefii Beginning of f'-yers. Building of the Wall j it will appear ftill more probable, that thefe Fryers '.vere the Builders. It may indeed be faid, that as they were founded in this D i Reign, 12 The TOWN Wall. Reign it can't be imagin'd they had fufficicnt Riches for fuch an tJn- dertaking. This is readily granted, but when it is confide red, that thefeFry- ers were newly founded by King Ed'ivard the ill, that they were the firft of that Order that had been in this Place, that they were Cm-mlites, or original- ly coming from Mount Carmel in S)ria^ and that the Prayers of all Monafte- ries were thought more particularly available for the Souls in Purgatory j it will follow I think rationally, that they were more ?ible then to do Juch a Thing by getting the Contributions of others, than t'ney could have been of themlelves ioo Years after. The Name given to thcfe Walls is alfo another Argument ; it is more probable, that the fFlnte- Fryer-Tower, the /^Fall and Gate now mentioned, were fo called, (as other Tower? were) from their Foun- ders, than from their bare Situation. For the Walli behind the Black-Fryers are not called after their Name, becaufe they were not built by them, but by King Edward the ift, as Ihall be fliewn below. This Tower is now the Meeting- Hotife or Hall of the Company of Ma- fons. ! GRET'nx mentioning the Ports or Gates of Newcaftk, fays, there were be- fides Thefe, Pofiern-Gates belonging to the Religious Houfes ; I have met with no more than three, and this White- Friers-gate is undoubtedly one of them. It feems to be much of the fime Kind with that which leads into the /Varden's- Clofe. It has been an Out-let to the Fryers, that they might walk to the Forth and the neighbouring Fields j and that it might be of Ufe and Service to the Caflle, in Times ot Hoftility with the Scots. I imagine it was out at this Gate, that the Townfmen made that famous Sally, mention'd by Grey, who -' See a more fays, that in the Reign of £^w«r;/ the 3d, f Three hundred valiant Men iflued ferfeflAc- Qy^ of j.]^e Town through a Pofiern-gate, and came fuddenly in the Night up- Tarlfth! on a great Army of the Scots, which lay in the Weft Part of the Town, and lil-jfrs', ' railed the Army, put them to flight, and took Earl Murray Prifoner in his 1341. Tent, and others. The next Round Tower to PfHiite- Fryer-gate is Denton-Tower, or Nevil- T'ower, which had in Ward all the Hairy-hugh, on the South Side of the White- Fryers, with all the Houfes ftanding there, upon the Burn-hank, betwixt the Fryer-Kirk,vcA aBume, unto the Stone Bridge vcv Bailiff-gate, with ^ClX Bailiff- gate, upward that fame Rawe unto Denton-Cbare, with Denton-Chare. Why it was called Denton-Tower, I can give no Reafon, unlefs it was from it's having in Ward the Lane called Denton-Chare ; but it has the Name of Nevil-Tower, from the Ncvil Family of Rahy who built it, which Family was honoured with the Title of Earl in the Reign of Richard the 2d, Ralph Ncvil Lord ot Raby, being created Earl of Wejimoreland, in the zift of that Reign : His Houfe in IVefi-gate, called Weftmoreland-place, which fhall be con- lidcred when we treat of that Street, had this Tower built behind it for it's Security and Defence. The Tower is now the Hall of the Wallers, Brick' layers ^nil Plaifterers, and was rcpair'd by them Anno Dom' iji\, Richard Flet- cher, and William John/on, Wardens. The next Round Tower is Wefl-fpittle-'Tower, which had in Ward the Side upon the Weft Rawe under the Caftlc Moat, from the Cajlle-gate, fo down- ward on that Rawe, to and with a great Wafte belonging to Laurentius A£lon, oppofite to a Corner Shop of a Chauntery in St. John's Kirk, next the Panti nlfo from that Pant upwards upon the Eaft-Rawc in the Side, with * the South Kirk-Style of St. Nicholas, by the Eaft-Side of St. Nicholas. This Tower has it's Name from Si. Mary the Firgin's Hofpital, which was otherwifc called Weft-fpittle, to which it almoft adjoins ; it mull have been built by the Mafter and Brethren of that Hofpital for the fame Reafons that the other two Towers before-mentioned were built by their fuppofcd Founden. The The TOWN Wall. ij 9 The Tower next to this has the Name of Stank-Tower. It had in Ward all * Galloivgate, oppofite to the Caftle-7'ates, fo going Northward, from the * Nowc.rikd Eall-end oi GallozvgKe, upwards that fame Rawc, unto the Eail-cnd of Dra- Back-raws. ton-Chare, with the Iron-market, with all the Houfes oppofite to the Iron- market, down to St. Nicholas Pant, as their Doors open tov/ards the Iron- market, or towards the Pant, or towards St. Nicholas Kirk-Tard'. GUNNER-TOh^'ER, is the next} it had in Ward, from Jll- Hallow Pant, befide Cordmer, fo gping downward the iame Rawe towards Cale-Crofs, and fo going upwards I7 that Flefier-Rawe, unto Painter-hugh befide Siiin- burne-place, unto a Place called Pencher-place, beyond Painier-Hengh, as it ftan- deth beyond Lorkbiirne. V Between this Tower, and one next to it, is a Pojlern which leads to the Forth. It was made jinno ijof, when T'homas M^afs, Efqj was Mayor; Mattheiv Matfin, Efq; Sheriff. There is alfo another Paflage from i,u into Wejlgate. P INK-tOJVER. This Tower had in Ward in the Clofe, from the High- Stairs that lead from the Suuth Pojlern of the Caflle towards tlie Clofe, fo g-^iiig Eadward on that fime Rawe, by the North-fide of Sandhill, unto and with St. Mary-lane, with the Houfes upon the Corner, called St. Mary- Lands in Jll-hallow-kirk, and fo going upwards all the Well-rawe in the Side, to a great Waile upon the dijlle-hngh, iometimes call'd old Laurentius ^Ron's Wafte, oppofite to the Pant at Lorkburne. WESt-GJTE, is the ne.^t, which is the High-way Weflxwto the Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, and is e faid to have been built by Roger de s Grey. Thornton, in Memory that hd' came from the Weft-country, according to the old faying, At the Weft-gate came Thornton in. With a Hap, and a Half -penny, and % Lamb- skin. This Gate had in Ward from the Vennel that leads into White-Fryer- Kirk, fo going upon the Weft Rawe of Wcftgate, unto the Weflyate, with all that dwell without that Yate. Alfo from the Well-end of Denton Chare, fo going upward upon the Eafl-Rawe of Weftgate unto the Weftyate, with all that dwell in St. John's Kirk-yard, and with all that dwell from the fa'id Kirk unto the Weft-gite. It is now the Hall of the Iluufe-Carpeut^rs. DURHAM-TOWER is the next, and it had in Ward from St. John's Chare to going upward by Urd-place, upon the Well-Rawe of Beer-market, unto the Shod-Frier-Chare, with all the Shod-Frier Chare. HE B E R-TO WE R is the next ; it had in Ward all the Meal-market from" Denton-Cbare, to Pudding-Chare,wkh. all Pudding-Chare and St. John's Chare. This Tower is now the Hall of the Armourers, Curriers and Felt-makers, who were made one Fellowfhip in the 36th of Henry the 8th. They were order- ed to aflociate themfelves in the Feaft of Corpus Chrifti, and go together in Procelfion, as other Mylleries, and fuftain the Charges of the Lights Pageant, and Place, on the fame Feaft j according to old ancient Cuftom. And the Ordinance therein was to be devifed by Their Wardens when the Hour was aftigned, upon P.iin to lofe and forfeit one Pound of Wax, to be applied to the Ufe of the whole Fellowfhip of the faid Occupations. Thebeft Account I have met with of thcle kind of Plays, is of one that was play'd in the City of Coventry. ■» Before the Suppretfion of Monafteries, the City oi Coventry ^step. ift V was very famous for the Pageants that were played therein upon Corpus Chrifti p- >3«- Diy, which occafioning very great Confluence of People to it from far and near, was of no fmall Benefit thereto-, which Pageants being a6tcd with migh- ty State and Reverence by the Francifcan- Fryers, had Theatres for the fevcral Scenes very large and high, placed upon Wheels, and drawn to all the emi- E tient 14 The TOWN Wall. r nent Parts of the City, for the better Advantage of Speftatcjirs : and contain'd the Story of the old and new Teftament, compos'd into old Englifh Rhimes, as appears by an ancient Manufcript, entitl'd Ludus Corporis Chrifti, or Ludus Coventria, that is, The Play of Corpus Chrijii, or Tbe Play ojf Coventry, in Bibl. Cotton, fub Effigie Vefp. D. S. A Specimen of them is as follows j' Vexillator i. ^^\ <©1© 45jac!.'t)U:;i oBoD groun&jib of all (i5oobnetV, 31!^ t^p flrcte iblaut nennr beotinnprg ijaD ; ;S)0 ioii fuccour ana \'a'at a[( tf)ofe tlj^it fptt anD fefe 3IlnD lii'icnntl) to out vZtatfting tait'jj ^ulen^ ftiUe ants fab F $02 toe purpafe no perti? ^StjIIe in pj^ P2eff^ Septembris, An- no Regni nofiri OSlavo. > MO RDE N-TO WE R had in Ward both the Eaft-Raw of Spurrior-gate, Sadler-gate, and over FleJh-JIjambles., from the North- Weft Kirk-Stile of St Nicholas unto Fijh-fljambles.^ and the fiid Raws opened either to the Cloth~ market., or the Meal-market. This Tower was granted to it's Companies Aano 1619. The Ordinary was granted them if?(S. In that it is order'd, that they fhall go in ProcclTion on Corpus Cbrijli Day, and maintain the Play ot the Three Kings of CoUeign. In the Year 1700,' this Tower was by the Plumb- ers, Glaziers, &c. made a beautiful Hall. EVER' The TOWN Wall. fy EFER-TOIFER, which is now the Hall o( Colliers and Carriage-Men with Pavers, had in Ward the Sbud-Frier-7'ate, fo going up that Raw befide White-crojs unto Newgate, witli all the Darnecrook, and with all the Gallow-'^ate without Newgate, unto the Barriers, as Men go to the Gallows. AND REW-TOJFER, fo called, becaufe it is almoft contiguous to St. Andrevfi Church, had in Ward from the Great Nun-gate, fo upwards upon that Eail-Rawc, unto a Burn, befide Lam-place that runs to Lorkburne witU all the Cockliak-Booths, and with all the Weft-Rawe oi Sidgate without A^ew- gate from Gallows-gate unto the Water-Mill befide St. James's Kirk. N EWG A'tE had in Ward all Ratten-Rawe, as it opens towards the Pil- lory in Cloth-market, with them that dwell in the North of St. Nicholas upon that Eaft-Rawe of the Cloth-marhet, unto the Over- dean-bridge end. This Gate of all the others is not only the ftrongeft, but alfo the rnoft ancient. It is of the ftme Mafonry and way of Building with that Part of the Wall which leads to JVejlgate Weftward, as far as Ever-Tower, which is vifibly the oldcft Part of the Wall. From this Gate is a Caufey that lead- eth to the Town-moor, and towards the No7-th Parts of Northumberland and Scotland J it is now, and has been many Years a Priibn for Debtors and > Fel- ; n Ions. The new Buildings on each Side of it were built, the one Anno ijoz IVilliam Ram/ej, ECq; Mayor, M-^illiam Boutflower, Efqj Sheriffi the other yf/;«o 1705, Sir Ralph 6'^; ;■, Mayor, William Eliifon, Efq; SheriflF. BER TRA M-M UMBOUCHER-tO IV E R. From Newgate towards the Eail we pafs to the Tower of Bertram Miimboiicher, which was fo called from Bertram Mwrnboucher the Founder of it, is who was High-Sheriff q£ the 1= Ex Fuller County of Northumberland, in the 4pth o£ Edvjard the 3d, and in the lil zd Woi-. and 3d of the Reign of Richard the 2d. '-/''/'^' This Tower has to Ward all the Weft-end of Over-deati-hridge with the Shops between the Fip-fiambles and tht Beer-market, and from the fame Brid"e- end unto the Great Nun- gate. FICKET-TOWER had in Ward from Uljelpinglm-barn, befide the Great Crofs Handing within Maudlin- Barras withctut the New-yate, Jo com- ing upon the Eaft-Rawe of 5'/fl'^a/f, without the iWw-j^/f, unto the New-yate, and alfo within the New-yate, and fo going up the Eaft-Rawe Southward imto a Burne befide Lam-place, that runneth towards Lorkburn, with all Grey- Frier-Chare from the Barras over againft Fickct-Tower, and their North Kirk Door of the faid Fryery Weft- ward, and no further Eaftw^rd in that Lane. PILGRIM-STREET-GATE had it's Name from the Pilgrims who were wont to lodge in that Street, and go out of that Gate when they came to vifit the Shrine of the Virgin Mary at Gejmunde j to which Place with great Confluence and Devotion they came from all Parts of this Land inthefe Times of Superftition. It is now the Hall of the Company of Joy- •ners, who repair'd it 171 <5, Thomas French and Paul Cook being Wardens. This Gate had in Ward without the fame Gate beginning at the great wafte Barn, call'd F.meldon-barn, oppofitc to the Maudlins, coming downward and inward upon that Weft-Rawe o£ Pilgrim-ftrcct-yate, within thz Tate, and with- in the Tate nnto All-Hallow-Pant, befides Cordinefs-placc befide the South- Kirk Stile of All-Hallow's Kirk, with all Painter-hugh, and with all Neitber-dean- bridge, and with all the North-end of Upper- dean-bridge, both Sides thereof from Lorkburn Eaftward to Pilgrim-Jlreet, with Pencher-rent, and in Grey-Fryer Lane from Ficket-Tower Eaftward. The Tower next to this Gate is that in the Corner of the Carliol Croftj now the Hall of the Weavers who repair'd it Anno 1682. It got it's Name very probably from it's Founder: For the Carlills or Carliols were feve- ral i6 The TOWN Wall. rAl of them Magiftrates of Newcaftk : and aS' tliis appears probable from the Name fo it is alio equally probable that the Founder of this Tower had his Houfe'fomewhere at the Head oiPilgrimjircet, nigh his own Tower, as A''^- i>?/'s Tower was behind his Houfe j and that the iweld called vulgarly CarUng Croft, had it's Name ot Carliol Croft, being at that Time of Day the Property of th'is Founder. The kit Mayor of this Town of that Name, b.-fore the Completion of the Walls, was Nicholas de Carliol in the zd Year of Edward the 3d, fo that this Tower could not be much later in Building, to lay the leaft of it's Antiquity imaginable; but it is rather probable it was built a good while earlier. It has to Ward all the Eall Raw of Pilgrim-freet within the Yate, and without the Yate, from and with the Maudlins^ fo coming inward upon the Eaft-Raw, unto the Jtifiin-Chair. CARLIL L-C R FT-TO ^E R, otherwife called Plummer-To'wer, it has in Ward from the Jaftin-Chare in Pilgrim-ftreet, upon that Eart-raw of Pil- grim-jlreet, unto the Kirk-Garth of All- Hal lows, with all Temple-Gate, other- wife Called M-Hdllows-Gate, beneath J! I- Ha I low Kirk, unto a Burn called Ct^^o, with all Cowgate and other Places between Cogo and the Ki^ig's Wall unto the Stone-Brigg over Pandon-Burn, alio upon the Sandhill on the Eaft Side of Lorkhurne, beginning at the Barber's-Shop upon the Corner, in Bootlfs-Rrnt, over-againft the Majon-Dieu, fo going up that Eaft-Side of Lorkburue, all that Rawe towards Cale-Crofs, to and with the Corner called Oliver-Rent, and lb upward, all that Corner unto the North-End ot Grindon-Chare. JUS TIN-TO fFE R ; this Tower was built by the Fryers of St. Augu- ftinc, commonly called Jufine-Fryars, and has its Name from them. It Ifands oppofite to the Monalfry that built it, as the IV hite- Fryer-Tower znd fFall does to that of the JVhite-Fryers, and Weft- Spittle-Tower to that of St. Mary the Virgin, or the JVefl-Sfittle. It feems to have been built in the Reign of Ed- ward the firft. It has in TFard from the North-end o? Grindon-Chare, fo up that Sonth- "Raw of the Neither jlll-Hallow\-Bank unto Galeway-Rent with them that Dwell in Brown-Chare, Grindon-Chare, Tod's-Chare, Norharu-Chare, Philip's' Chare, Shipman's-Chare, Oliver-Chare, Galeway-Chare, with half of the Fryer of Juflin. This Tower is now the Hall of the Ropers, and was rcpair'd at the Charge of the Company, i6p8, JohnLanglonds, and John Dawfon being Wardens. CORNER-TOTVER had in Ward all the Houfe-fide upon the Key, as their Doors open Southward towards the King's Wall upon the Key-fide fr im the Stone Stairs befide the Common ; fo going Eaft-ward upon the Key-fide, to .the South-end oi Broad-Chare-Tate, in the laid King's Wall. PAMPEBEN-TATE is fo called from the Ancient Town of Pampeden, where was the Pi£ls-Wall, and a Roman Turret, part of which is frill to be , ^jiif.end ^ccn. Out of this Gate is a Caufey that goeth into a Place of Recreation and is a Village Perambulation, c2\\ediX.he Shields- Field, and a Way to a Village called i/Ta^rart', Eafl jrvn Newcsftle ahut three Miles; nigh it was the Station of the \ft Cohort of the Fraxagi as the Liber noiitiarum fays, mhich calls the place itfelfViadoho]A, or as Antoninus names it, Vindomora, u-h^cb lafi jcems in the Pro- vincial Laniuagi of the Biitons to haxefignified the Walls-end, as the later does the Rampier's-end. For they anci- ently named aWallViwc, and a Ditch or RampierG\X3.\, or Val, or Bal. Cambden. iut with th:s a late ingenious Author cannot agree, becaufe Mr. Cambden brings no Proof from Infcriptions, and alio be-.aufe Pancirolus, in the fame "^onn^ places Vindomora at the ninth Station per Lineam Valli, where the fourth Cohort of the GiUilay, and which appears by Infcriptions to have been the Little Cliellers upon the \X' all ; He con- eludes therefore, thai where the IVall begun, wh:ch has already been Iheun, the jirft Station «/ Segedunum was cer- tainly placed. G.Kd. Itinerar. Septention. p. jo. Theprefent Walf-end;j a -very aireeable Place, having abontit very gord Grnunds, and in it fame beautiful Houfes andGarJens. Some of the Pojfejfjrs of which, » and lb into Timmouth-JInre. This Gate had in "* rhUUccr- Ward from Gak-ivav-Rent in Crofi-gatc, befide Ail-Hallow Pant, both the '''j'^ " ^^'' Rawcs of that Crofs-gate^ fo going- Eail ward down to the Pant called Broad- aul'rdm°''to Chare Pant, with Bell-place that rtandeth upon the Pant ; and with all the Mr. Camb- Broad-Cbare, and Narro-iv-Chare^ othcrwife called Collier-Chare, with Michael- '^'="' '^"^ place., cutting upon the Weft-fide of Pandon-bourne. '^"^ '^^^}' , ■* ' o 1 town, which from the a- IVALL'KNOWL-fOWER mdi HJBKlN-TOfFER, are noy^gr^abUr.efs but one Ward, and they have in Ward from the Broad-Chare part, beiide "-^'^^ Nam;, Bell-place., fo going to a Burn called Cvgo., both the Towers unto- the South- ""f^ \^s y fide Co^s-Burn, as it runneth befide the Stone Brig unto Pandon-Burn, £rom i^AijUsDifl- PandoH-yate, to the Sand-gate either \r\ Pandon or Fijloer-gate, or in other Places ame from the from the laid Burn Eaitward, with the Wards, with all that dwell upon North ^^P"'* ^"^' Rawe in Sandgate. ■l ■^n.d v^^i^^^^J- This Tower commonly called the Carpenters Tower^ becaufe' the ■ tJolrP-' c'^^ ad mu- pany of Carpenters or Ship-wrights meet in it, was one of the Towers of '""'• the Old Romans. This Company in the Year 1.716, built upon the uriHer UafnedDr Part of It a very grand and llatcly Square-Tower., adorn'd.ar' tlre:T.op Cbi*- Smith a^ow ners with 4 fair Turrets built in the form of a Lanthorn. this Pajj'age of Bede is of "But before the taking down the Top of the old Tower, it was much of 1"°l '"^j"' the fame Size, Model, and Stone with the Tower of Routchefler in Northum- fays', it is her land., which was certainly one of the Towers belonging to the Pi^s-Wall. commonly fitfipojed to be There is under it an ancient Poftern-gate, which leads' into the Field b,uthh' he called the Garth-Heads, the moft part of which was lail Year enclofed and adds, c'an't turned into Garden-ground, by Richard Ridley, Efqj the Owner of it. lie true, rop^ it anfzvers From Sandgate, which is fo called becaufe, it was built upon the Sand, "jianuat '" or the River-fide, is a Wall, having many little Gates in it, extending itfelf which Bede as far as the Merchant's Hall, along the Street called the Key-Jide. t''^"^ '^« ^i n\Man-\from It muft not be forgot what is mentioned ;n-the Manufcript of Mr. John Walfbottle" Milbank, that between every one of thefe Towfei's, there were for the moft both as to it's Part z IFatcb-Towcrs made fquarc, with the Effigies of Men cut in Stoneup- i^^me, and on the Tops of them, as tho' they were watching, and they were called Gar- "J '" "'\F'l ret, whicli had Square Hole's over the Walls to. through Sones down. ,; not far"' ^ '•'-■. • I . from New- When ihcfe Walls were finifhedjis not fcXa£Hy found. Grey ° feems to <^^^^e, and. think they were finifhcd fomc little;- 'time-before the Reign oi Henry the 6th. ■^^bo''n!'^M^ vT ■■ . 'fJ. will an- il u T this I imagine is a Date tootfefc for the finifhing of them j for Henry fwer exailly the 4th, in the 4th Year of his Reign, Aug. 16, granted at theCaftle oi Pon- "''''^• lefraSl, that all Fines, Redemptions, Amerciaments, IfTues, Forfeitures and ^ ^»i be this Profits, as well of Pleas as thatof Julticcs of the Peace, ^c. be received by the certain 'it'h Mayor and BurgcjJ'es of this Town and their Officers, for fupporting, amending, that the ad and repairing the PFalls, Bridges and Gates of the Town. The Walls then in muium/i/rf- this Reicn muft have been complcated, forafmuch as they then probably wan- """" "? '^f' , „ o. * ■' J I J count that Si~ ted Rcpau-S. gebcit King of the Eaft- B u T further had Grey remembered his own Story abovc-mcntion'd, of the Saxons,^^»i 3^ vfjiamMnf, that ilTucd out at the White-frycr-gatc, and put the Scottifh of'^heMe"^ Aimy'it) ni'ghf^ he would furcly have concluded that the Walls were finifiicd cians, w^e- before that Accident, which hapned in the Reign of £i^'Zc-vt?y/ the 3d. Certain- ther with his iy the Scottifh Army, which is laid to have been a "reat one, would not have "'^"'^ ^''''"* •'•'■" o J of Courtiers and Atten- d.'.nts were baptifed in it by the Bijl'op Finanus. — One Matilda, of this V'.lUge of Walls-end, had Jome Lands in PaiiipeJen confirmed to her at a Court held at Bykcr, Anno 1285. ' In a Charter 0/ William Je Cai-ilcpl'.o, HiJIiop (>/ Durham, wbich he q^r.intcd to the Ate?il;s, we have mentis Oil made of this Place. For the BiJIiopis [aid to have £ivcn this and W\\\inc.tQn to the Monks. Ultra gmpnemTi- nam duas villas Wyllynton & V/MeJIiend cum fuis Appcndiciis, " Lit', de Reb. Novocaft'. o Gvey 7, F lodged 1 8 The TOWN Wall. t Grey 17. lodged without the Town if they could have lodged in it, and what lliould hinder their lod'^ing in it, but the Walls of the Town well guarded ? I con- clude therefore that the Walls of the Town at the latell were compleated in the Reign of King Edward the 3d, before the Year i 342, for it was in this Year that this Tranfaftion hapned. After they were finlfhed, it p was famous for being a Bullwark againft the Scots, all the Power of Scotland could never win it, but of late, viz.. in the Time of the Civil Wars, being aflliled by the EngUJlj, it was ilormed, and our Churches and Houfes defaced, and the Ornaments of both taken away. I T is now going faft into Ruins, feveral of the Turrets and fome of the round Towers being fallen j but the Towers which fland, together with fome lit- tle Parts of the Wall adjoining to them, are kept in good Repau- by their refpedive Companies. The Circumference of this Wallj from the Clofe-gatc, to the fame, is two Miles and 176 Yards. CHAP. 19 CHAP. IV. WEST-GATE. HIS Street has it's Name from it's being on the Weft Part of the Town. From the Gate Eaftward is a Little Street called Ratten- Rawe^ at the End of which is a narrow Paflagc, turnuig up to the North, which leads to the Monaftery of the Black-Fryers. Sea. I. ' Fuller C. Hift. Gf the B L A c K-F r y e R s.' TH E Dominicans commonly called Black-Fryers^ Preaching-Fryers^ and jfa- cohine Fryers., came over into England in the Year-of our Lord » liii, or as others fay, izi7, and had their firft Refidence in Oxford., they were a Prior and 12. Brethren; their Prior's Name was Gilbert dc Fraxineto; the Name of the Order was taken from St. Dominick., born at Cologona in Spain: Of this Order were no fewer than fourfcore famous Englifh Writers. ^ This Monaftery was founded by Sir Peter Scott, who was the firft Mayor ^ De reb.^ o^ Newcaftle., Jnno\zfi, and Sir Nicholas Scott his Son, who was one of the Novocain. 4 Bailiffs of the T6wn, izf4, lifj, £ind Capital Bailiff.,^ 1169; but the Site of it was given by 3 Sifters, whole Names have long ilnce been ingratefully buried in Oblivion. When was the particular Time of it's Building, I have met with ncf Ac- count } but it is not difficult to give a probable Guefs ; the Order itfelf of the Dominicans or Black-Fryers came into England, as is mentioned above, in the Year itii ; confequentiy it mull have been founded after that Time: And that it muft have been founded fome Years before the Year liSo, is plain to a Dcmonftration. For in that Year, which was the Eighth of Edward the Firft, the Black-Fryers had Licence from the King to break a Door through this NeiuTVall, = into their Garden; which proves them a regular fettled Body at that Timcj and therefore that their Priory was built fome Year-} before that Licence. We c ViJ. WaW. Town 20 Weftgate-Street. Blac':-Fryers. V^'^V""*-^ d W E are told, that this Monafteiy was in old Time called the Gr^jz-Try^rj j G'^y ^°- which in my Opinion is a Thing highly lniprobabIe> for the Grey-Fiycrs, or FrancifcanSj came not into England 'till about the Year i zi^ j and if as I have proved above, the Black-fryers were a Settled Body fome Years before the Year 1280} how is it poilibleto have been called of old Time the Grej'-Frj^'i ? This is therefore a Millake, and bcfide, the Dominicans came into England be- fore the Francifcans or Grey-Fryers^ and therefore more probably were looner in this Place. I T has been a very ftately and Beautiful Building, as appears by the prefent Remains of it. The Jrea or Grafs-plat is about 87 Foot in Length, and as many in Breadth j on the Eaft Side of it w:is the Chapel^ which is now the Hall of the Company of Smiths in this Town. On the Weft-fide of it is a curious Old IVcll, which fcrved the Monailery with Water, called our Ladfs JVell. On the South may ftill be 'ittw the Ruins of a curious Front, on which Side is the Hall of the Cordwainers, in which I law a Pair of winding Stairs, which they told me (before they were walled up) led by a Vault as far as the Nunnery of St. Bartholomew. On the North of it were their Gardens.^ a Part of which was the Warden's Clofe, before the Building of that Part of the ^oivns-ivall. This appears by the Charter granted to this Monaftery in the Reign of Edward the firft^ about breaking out that Narrow-Gate in the Wall between JVeJigate and Newgate; in which Grant it isfaid, that the Wall went through the Middle of their Garden. This Monaftery was dependant upon the Priory of 'Tinmoiith. I N the Reign of Edward the id, the Brethren of this Monaftery had Li- cenfe granted them for the Building of a Drawbridge,, beyond the New Ditch of the Cafile. Wh o were the Priors of this Monaftery, what eminent Men belonged to them, or what Things were tranfacted by them from their Beginning 'till their Diflblution, were Things undoubtedly preferved among themlelves whilft they were a Bodyj but, after their Surrender, were either dellroy'd, or have not yet come to Light. O N E of the Priors of this Monaftery was one Richard Marfliall. I take this Gentleman to have been the laft Prior of this Monaftery, for in the 28th oi Henry the 8fh, a Grant of a Tenement, nigh the White-Crofs, (figned by 'Fryer Richard AlarJljAl, Dr. and Prior; and Fijcr David Simp/on, and Fryer John Sowrby) was given to Anthony Godfave^ upon his paying to the laid Pri- ory or Monaftery p^. per Ann. This Grant is now in the Pofleffion of Mr. Thomas Marjhal,, oi Newcajlk,, Joyner, who purchafed this Tenement, and has lately rebuilt it. He pays the fume Rent to the Town of Newcajile,, which the Tenement pay'd to the Monaftery. About 2 Years after the Signing of this Deed, in January the 30th of this Reign this Monaftery furrcndcred > it confiftcd of a Prior, and Twehe Fryers. The Nature of furrcndering was this, according to Biftiop Burnet, who e Burnet's fays, « at the furrcndring of Monafteries and Abbies, i^c. there was generally Records, p. .^^ Confeflion along with the Surrender. Few of them arc remaining, the fol- ''*''■ lowing one is one of the Si.x the Bifhop had fccn, and is a Copy from him, Pag. I f o. Coll. Rec FO RAS MUCH as we the Prior and Fryers of this Hotife of Carmelites in Stamford, commonly called ^/jc White-Fryers, in Stamford, tn the Coun- ty of Lincoln, do ^■ofoundly tonfidcr, ib.it the PcrfeUion of Chrijlian living doth not confid in fotne Ceremonies, wearing of a White Coat, difgutfixg of our fclves after ftrange Fafljions, Dockying and Becking^ wearing Scapulars and Hoods, and VVeftgate-Street. 21 and other like papijlical Ceremonies^ wherein zve have been mo ft principally pra£fifed^ and Black-Fryers. Nofe-kd in Time pafl > but the very true Way to pleafe God, and to live a true Chri- ^ jlian Man.^ ivithout all Hypocryfte and feigned Diffimulation, is Jincerely declared to us by our MafterChrijl, his Evangelijis and Jpojlles ; beingminded hereafter to follow the fame, confurming ourjclvcs to the fVill and Pleafure of our Supreame-head, under Gody on Earth, the Kings Alajcjiy, and are not to follow henceforth the fuperflitious Traditions of any Forenfecal Potentate or Power, with mutual Affent and Confent^ do fuhmit ourfclves unto our faid Sovereign Lord, and with the like AJfent and Coh- fent do furrender. Sec. Sign'd by the Prior, and Six Fryers. What became of the Brethren of this our Fiyery, after their Surrender, what they had allowed them annually for a Maintenance, ,or whether they had any Thing allowed at all, I have no where met with. Some Account indeed I meet with afterwards of the Prior himfelf, but none of the Fryers. It is this which follows. uer f RIC FIJRD Marfloal, Prior of the Black-Fryers in Newcaftle, about the f colhV. Year iffi, went into Scotland and prcach'd at St. Andrews, that the. Pater Eccl. Hi'ft. Nojler ihould be addrclTed to God, and not to the Saints. Some Doftors of V°'- ^^- P* the Univerftty being difgulled at this Aflertion, prevailed with one Tofts, a '°^" Grey-Fryer, to undertake to prove that the Pater-Nofter might be faid to the Saints ; whofe Ignorance in doing the fame was fo manifeft, that he became the common Jeft, and quitted the Town. After the Surrender of the Monaftery on Jan. the loth, 30th o£ Henry the 8th, the Black-Fryers was granted to the Town of Newcaflle, in Confide- racion of f3/. js. 6 d. The annual Value of it, was zl. ips. 6d. The King fays in the Grant, that He gives to the Mayor and Burgeffes of Newcaflle, the whole Houfe and Site, lately a Priory, or a Houfe of Bre- thren, called vulgarly the Black-Fryers in Newcaflle upon Tyne-y The Chapel^ HouJ'es, Edifices, Gardens, &c. the Hall, two Chambers, a Chamber called the Crofs-Chamher, and the two Gardens, with their Appurtenances, and the whole Clofe within the Wefl-gate, and another Clofe near the Site of the (iiid Priory on the North. And a Clofe containing 3 Acres, and a Houfe in the fame Clofe without the Walls of the faid Town, and a Houfe called the Gate-houfe, fituated near the Street. I T alfo appears from the Grant, that the King referved to himfelf and Suc- ceflbrs, the Bells and Lead that was upon the Church belonging to this Frycryj and the other Buildings of it-, the Lead in the Gutters, together with the Stones and Iron of the Church, (^c. The Nine Crafts of this Town had their Mceting-houfes ox Halls in it, and ftill have, except two of them, the Taylors and the Gordwainers, who have be- llowed thefe upon fome poor Widows, and got themfelves others in other Places. Thcfc Halls arc of great Service to this ancient Building, in preferv- ing it from an intire Ruin. Such rs the Hall of the Smiths, which was re- paired by them in the Year 1709, John Kellet, Thomas Turner, Jonathan Gib- fon, Roger Haddock being Wardens j The Hall of the Dyers, The Hall of the Bakers and Brewers, which was repair'd Ann 171 1, Chriflopher Rutter, Lionel Dixon, JVilliam Dove, John Make-piece, being then Wardens : Thefe Halls are on the Eail-fide of the Fryery. Such alfo are thofe on the Weft-fide of it, ^ viz. the Hall of the s Sadlers, which was repair'd by them in the Year i7Zp, g ^^-^ ^^^ Cuthbert Berkley and Matthew Anderfon, Wardens j and the Hall of the Skinners pany has be- and Glovers, which was repaired by them in the Year, 171 z, John Emmerfon, longing to tt, Robert Barnes, Robert Shutt, Philip Smith being Wardens. Such are thofe al- "" ""<:•'"' fo on the South-fide of it, viz. the Gordwainers Hall, which was turned into flauufult^* Appartments for three Widows, in ihe Year 172,9, John Wheatley and George wrote, ;» OU hngiifl, Rhime; it relates to oar Saviour's Sufferings. I ta'ie it t» be the ^tay they were obliged by their (Jrdirntry tp maint.iin on the i'eaft 0/ Corpus Chiifti. G Aldet^ 22 Weltgate-Street. Black-Tryers. Jldcr being Wardens > the Hall of the Butchers^ and the Hall of the Tamers, \^/^-V^ — ' was repair'd in the Year 171 7, Thomas Andcrfon, JVilliam Harrifon, Thomas Dixon, JVilliam Slaiter then Wardens. B Y Means of thefe Halls, there is ftill fome Vifage of the Fryery remain- ing, which had otherwife been intirely in the Dull. 'Tis a Pity that thofe People who are permitted by the Companies to refide in fome of thofe Rooms are not thrcatned into more Cleanlinefs, and that the Companies themfelves are not at the Expence of repairing the Area ; were thefe Things done, it would be a Beautiful Piece of Antiquity, and an Entertainment to the Cu- rious, from whencefoever they came. Sea. II. The Vicarage. IN coming back by the narrow Lane which led to the Black-fryers, we free a little Street called Fennel Street, which leads into Weftgate ; a Street more retired than any other in this Town > there being no Artificers or Me- chanicks in this Street, nor any Market. It is chiefly nihabited by the Clergy and Gentry ; and indeed it feems all along to have been inhabited by fuch more than by others. In fome Writings above 400 Years old, wc meet with the Names of fome Clergy-men who lived in this Street, v/z. Robertus de Goniuerton, Thomas Ahclot, ^c. not to mention thofe who belonged to the Monaileries and Hofpitals; and Grey tells us, that the Men who lived in this Street in his Time, had Employment for both Town and Country, he fays alfo that in old Time the Earl of Weflmoreland had his Houfe in this Street. A T prefent feveral of the Houfes in it, are large and beautiful > fuch are the Houfcs of the Lady Clavering, of Utrick Wlntfield, Efq-, Thomas Ord, Efq; Mr. Abraham Dixon, Sec. in the Upper Part of it j and of George Grey, Efqj and others adjoining to him in the lower Parts of it. O N the North Side of this Street, a little above St. John's Church, is the Vicarage Houfe, the Dwelling of the Vicars of Nezvcajlle. It ftands, at leaft e- qually pleafmt with the other Houfes in this Place, being lituatcd in the mid- dle of Fields and Gardens, and more retir'd, being at fome Diltance from the Street. Who it was that built this Houfe, I have not been able to learn ; but 'tis not improbable that it was the Town of NeTJUcajlle, who has been al- ways ftmous for it's Gcnerofity to it's Clergy j as the Vicanige itfelf in par- ticular mull: always acknowledge. It is at prefent more beautiful and conve- nient than it was wont to be, having been repair'd and enlarged in the Year i6p4, by the Rev. and Worthy Dr. Ellifon, the then Vicar. T H E R E is a Hall belonging to this Houfe, built in a very grand and {late- ly Manner, according to the Hofpitality of the Times it was built in. In particular, it was the Place where the Vicars of NCiVcaJlle were wont to en- tertain the inferiour Officers of Churches, the Clarks, Sextons, ^c. at the Seafon of Chrijlmas. If I am not very much millaken, there are many Hill living, who remember this laudable Cuftom. The Garden belonging to this Houfe, tho' beneath fome others in this Street for Art and Cuiiofity, and Beauty of Flowers > yet in this it glories above all the others, that the Roman-Wall, which was undoubtedly one of the great Works of the Roman Empire, is faid to have pafled through the middle of it. Sea. Weftgate-Street, 25 Sea. IIL of St. JOHN'S Church. THIS Chinch is fituated almoll clofc to the Vicarage. It is dedicated to St. John the Baptift , but who was the Founder I never met with : I am inchnable to beheve it was founded by the To-wns-people^ notwithftanding a Conjefture ot an Ayionymoiis Gentleman^ which is, that Robert Rhodes was the Builder of this Church. But this I think is impoffible j for the earlieft he can be fuppofed to have lived, is about the Year 1430, in the Reign of //c»ry the 6th, when John Rhodes^ who was perhaps his Father, was Mayor; whereas it is certain this Church was built at Icalt an Hundred Years before. For the Grant of Ada?n of Durham^ to the the Prieft of St. Thomas the Martyr's Chan- tery in this Church, bears Date the zdth of March, i^iPj in the Reign of Edward the id ; confequcntly then the Church mull have been in being at this Time, and fo could not have been built by Robert Rhodes. Nay, in a Charter dated 12,87, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Smith oi Mclfomby, to whom I have been obliged for a Sight of a great many Writings, I meet with thefe Words, Venellum quo itur ad Ecclefiam San^i Joannis. So that this Church was ftill earlier in Being, viz. in the ifth oi Edward the ift. However, it is fuppofed that the Steeple of this Church was either built, or at leaft beautified by him, as alfo the South-Crofs of the Church > for his Coat of Arms, as alfo thefe Words, Orate pro Anima R.oberti Rhodes, are upon both of thein j which indeed makes it fomewhat probable. This Church, as Grey informs us, was commended by an Arch-Prelate of this Kingdom, becaufe it refembleth much a ^ Crofs ; which indeed it does "" churches more than any other in this Town. f"'''« «/««"y btidt in form rr\ 1 I • t^i • 1 1 • of the Crofs, There were three • Chantertes belongmg to this Church, one of which to rcf>refent was the Chantery of' St. Thomas the Martyr, which was founded about Anno and comme- 1319, in the Reign of Edward the zd. For Ada7?i of Durham, Burgefs of ^"V' '^^ this Town, (according to the Opinion of the Times he liv'd in) for the Sake whichTur of his own Soul, and the Souls of his Father Roger, and Agnes his Mother, ^c. Lord died. gave an annual Salary to • Sir Roger de Burnet on, the Chantry- Prieft, for cele- 'Chanteries brating Divine Service every Day, at the Altar of St. Thomas the Martyr, in '^°"l'^f "^ this Church. I take this Chantry to have been fituated on the North Side of lowed" to one the find Church, extending as iar as, and adjoining clofc to, the North-Crofs ormorePnefls of the Church. to fay daily Majjes for the When this Prieft of the Chantry dyed, another was to be chofen (after Td'affd' '"^ the Deceafc of the Benefactor Adam) by the Mayor and Bailiffs of this 'f own Founders, for the Time being, together with four of the moll difcreet, and judicious ""'^ '^"'' Men of the Parifii of St. lohn elefted for thatPurpofe. The Mam- '^c had ^"""^'■J^''/' ^ y 7 *-^ zijere Adjett- iies, notable io ftand of themfclvn, and therefore united (for their better Support) to fome parochial. Collegiate, or Cathedral Church. Ful. Cli. HifV. p. 3^0. ^ Sci.mt pi-erentes. Sec, quod Ego Adam de Dunelm', Burgenfis VilU Novi Caflri fuper Tynam, &c. pro fa- lute Amm& men, (j- fro ammabus R ogevi /i the yearly Value of which was 4/. 4^. 4^. which arole out of Tenements in the Sandhill and fVeflgate. The 3d Chantry was that of the Holy Trinity, founded by John Dalton, William Atkinflmwe, and Andrew Accliffe, Clerks j the yearly Value of which was ^l. 13 J. 4^. which arofe out of Tenements in JVefigate, Side, without tfejlgate, and a Clofe without JVejigate. I have been told, that the Painted Glafs on one of the South Windows of the Quire of this Church, had on it the Reprefentation of the Trinity. It does indeed ftill refemble fome fuch Thing, but, if the Knowledge of it was need- ful, it might be Queried whether it ever was any fuch Reprefentation. There is another Thing at the Top of this Quire, which tho' little known, is yet of greater Certainty j and that is, the Funnel, or IVood Box, in the Form of a Spout, which hangs from the Top of this Quire. This was a Conveyance for an Artificial Dove, on the Day of Pentecofi, in the Times of Popery, to reprefcnt the Defcent of the Holy Ghoji. That there were fuch Things in Churches, tho' in none that I know of in this Town, but this j is *o Bee- Hive Matter of Fa(5b. For thus we are told, that ^ on JVljilfunday the Pnpiils be- •/ '*' f "'"'■^ S'*^ '■^ P^'^y ^ "^^^ interlude. For then they fent down a Dove out of an Oto/'s Geo'^Geld- ^^fti devifed in the Roof of the Church. But firft they caft out Rofm and ing, f. 207. Gunpowder with JVild-firc, to make the Children afraid j and that muft needs be the Holy Gholf, which cometh with Thunder and Lightning. There was formerly an Organ in this Church. This appears from the laft Will and Tcftament of Mr. John Wilkinfon, Merchant of this Town, who was one of the Anceftors of the prelent Mr. John Wilkinfon Merchant, to whom I am obliged for a Sight of this Will. It bears Date Feb. i, 15-70, and has thefe Words. 3[ gioljn IDiilIunfon, o-c cominenD mn .€>ou[c unto Himpgfitie eE))ice at t!)C ©ape of m 2ciurjial, accessing to tijc 5tavDc.s ana 4Iuf!omc tf tfjis; lieahnc %itm '% topll tjabe oclt ano gttjnn to tlje pao;c tfte 3^ai?£ of m? -^urpal, fonpc ^fjitting^. Stem gi topU tijat mnnc €rccuto_jjS ffjad in tlje 5&anc of mu burial maftc a ©pnner to? mp 23^ctl)j£n tfte 3Il&ermen, ano fo^ mn Bcigfjbour; [jeaoe in tijc ^linDtilc-^trecte, cc "M.S. Mil- n I N the Year 1639, when the Scots fought to deface the ancient Monu- ments, and faid they were Papillry, and Superitition, they began with the Spoon of this Church's Font, and broke it all to Pieces. It had been given. by one John Bertram. For there was written about it j For the Honour of God and St. John, John Bertram gave this Font Stone. Cutbbtrt Maxwell, a i Maion, Weftgate-S tree t. d s Mafon, obferving the Barbarity of the ^y^rW/, came in Haile to St. Nicholas^ ^'- JOHl^'^ and iavcd the Spoon of that Font in it's Veltry, and alfo that of All-hallo'ws. ^^'*"^- He lived, after the King return'd, to fet them up again. *■ "^-"^^ The Porch of this Church was rebuilt in the Year 1710, Thomas Fletcher' Robert Percival, John ^liiicy^ John Fairlarn being then Church-wardens. In the Year ijt^-, the Steeple was new pointed at the Expence of the Corpora- tion, Matthew Featherflonc^ Efq> being then Mayor j and the fame Year was the Body of 1 the Church pointed at the Charge of the Parilhioners. There are two Galleries in this Church j one on the Weft- End of the Church, and the other on the North-Side. The Latter Gallery was built in the Year 1710, for 53 Perfons, by Mr. Robert Pereival, Pin-maker, of this Parifh, who was a great Lover of the Church, and an induftrious Promoter of every good De- fign towards Her. In the Year 1707, when the Pariiliioners took down the 3 old Bells belonging to this Church, and contributed to the 6 they have at prefent ; Mr. Perchal contributed three Pounds. In the Year 1710 he beau- tified the Jltar at his own Expence. He dyed on the 8th of February, 172.9, and left by his laft Will and Teftament to the Parifh of St. John for ever j a Houfe which ftands in the Wool-market, which is let at the yearly Rent of 20 T w F. Communion Table of this Church was given by Mr. Robert Crow, Mer- /% t,j 171 i. 'ert Rymer of this Town left to this Church in the Year 1722, a ..-- ^ - ■ ^„^c/^, a Chalice, and a Plate, all of Silver, valued at 60 1, to be ufed at the Fioly Lbmmunion. Legacies left to the Poor of this Farifh^ are thefe follo^joing. IJENRY Hilton of Hilton, Efqj left 4/. Yearly for Ninety Nine Years. He dy'd in February, 1640. Si in. PFilliam Blackett, Bart, left il. yearly for ever, to be paid oh the ifl oi December, out of a Houfe at the Tyne Bridge-end : To be dillributed by the Miniller. /. s. d. Sir Alexander Davifon ' ' ot 00 00 Mr. William Carr 01 00 00 Sir Thomas Davifon 01 00 00 Sir Mark Milbank : . 05 00 00 Mr. John Runmey 'Oj 00 00 ID GO 00 All thefe are paid out of the Town Chamber, the one half at Michaelmas and the other half at Lady-day. ISABEL the Wife oi William PFrightfon, Efqj left fo/. the Intercftpaid yearly out of the Town's Chamber on the 30th of September. Mr. Aldworth left i /. to be paid out of Lands in Oakwell-gate, yearly, for Ever. N ICHOLAS i2/V//(?)'j Efqj left i /. to be paid out of Lands in //ei^/oK, year- ly^ for Ever. H Mr. 0.6 Weftgate-Street. 5/. JOHN'S Mr. Tloomas Da'Vifon left i /. 6s. Sd. to be paid out of the Merchant's churcJK Company, yearly, for Ever. M R. Timothy Davifon left i /. ^ s. to be paid out of the Merchant's Com- pany, yearly, for Ever. MATTHEW Wlo'tte.^ Efqi left i /. to be paid out of a Houfe in Pilgrim- fireet, yearly, for Ever. Mr. William Carr left i/. zs. ^d. to be paid out of Houfes m fJTeJlgate^ yearly, for Ever. Mr. William Harrifon left fo/. the Intereft paid out of the Town's Cham- ber, yearly, for Ever. MJRGJRET Percival, Widow, left a Houfe in the Back-row (in the fame Parifh) Lett at the yearly Rent of 3 /. js. 6d. Mr. Robert Percival left a Houfe in the Wool-market, (after the Death of his Daughter in Law) Lett at the yearly Rent of zo /. Buried iu this Church. I Near the Altar Table. SEpulchrum Roberti Fenwick Mercatoris, & Dorotheas vxoris ejus Suo- rumque Filiorum & Filiarum, lUe Obij' Sept die Oitav. A* D. i68p. iEtatis Sux 61. Robert Filius natu maximus Obi'i' i? die Martii i5po Ilia Obij* If Julii 1701 Petrus Potts Gener' Annam Filiam eorum natu maxi- ma Duxit Vxorem Exqua Liberos Sulcepit Quorum Sex Sibi Fuere Superftites (viz) Dorothea, Jana, Maria, Petrus, Robertus, Johannes j Ilia Obij' 5° April A. D. ijip. vEtatis Sua; 63. • The Burial Place of Mr. John Bell, Merchant Adventurer, and Margaret his Wife. Margaret Bell dy'd the nil o{ November, 1710 j Aged ff. John Bell dy'd the iid of June, 17165 Aged 61. Scpulchrum Radulphi Scourfeild Gennerofi qui obij« Februarij i6th i6jf Et Jane Uxoris ejus qux obij' Maij iz" 1689. Qiionim filius Radulphus Scourfeild Armiger de Comitatu Northumbrix quondam Vicecomes Obij* Sep- tcmbris lil I7i8. The Burial Place of Johtt Clutterbiick, Gent, and Barbara his Wife, and their Children. Hannah buried July the 16 th, 1683. Catherine buried July 23, 1683. James buried Jpril 3d, i<5p2. Barbara his Wife buried Sept. zd, l6pf. Richard their Son departed the pth oi Nov. 1702. He departed the 3d of ^a/y 1717. In the Chancel. THIS is the Burial Place of Thomas Errington, Merchant Adventurer. Thefe Words are writ about the Arms cut upon the Stone j Remember Death God's Word ne^er JJnin With Wings Time flieth Wloiljl Glafs doth run. The Burial Place of William Wallas Mercer, and Merchant Adventurer of Weftgate-Street ^-j o( England^ He departed this Life the ijd Day o^ Sept. i66^. IFilliam Wallas st. JOHN'S Son ot the (nA IViUiam^ departed this Life the iixhli^Y d£ January y Anno ^^'"'^f'- 1688. iEtatis Su;c 23. - i -^ The Burial Place o{ Charles C/i^r^ Barbar Chyrurgeon ; He departed the 2d of Atigufly 1667. Margaret his Wife departed this Life the joth Day of March 1683. At the Bottom of the Arms, De P ret lent Dei. The Burial Place of the Rev. Matthew Forfter^ Ld6turer of this Church, who dy'd Oilober the z3d, 1723. Aged 46. OS WOLD Chayter, Lining Weaver, 38 Year Clerk of this Church, de- parted to the Mercy of God July 21, J. D. 1623. Aged 68 Years. Here lieth the Body of Jolm Dixofi, Plummer, who died Jpril the 12th, 1728. Aged 42. L North Isle. YES the Body of John Wilkinfon^ Merchant Adventurer. ' (I and the Foun- der Weftgate-Street; 29 der of that School was not known 'till aftef his Death. He gave towards St. JOHNV fupporting it a large Cloje without PilgrirH-Jlreet-gate, called Great Magdalen church C.'d;?, alias the Mill-Clofe, which is held by Leafe of the Mafter and Brethren ' ~ of St. Mary Magdalen Holpital, under the Rent oi ^l. per Annum. TheClofe is Lett at z^l. lo that the neat Rent to the School is only zi /. Mrs. Margaret Allgood^ Widotv^ by Will dated the ifth of July 1707, deviled to this School 100/. to be put out at Intereft, and which is accord- ingly put out at Intereft for the Benefit of this School. And tliere is annually raifed by Subfcription towards the Maintenance of this Sehool 33/. 14 .r. The Mafter's Salary is 24 /. per Annum and 40 5. for teaching the Boys to fing, and \6s. per Annum for Pens, Ink, and Paper. The Subfcriptions were raifed to cloath the Boys, and to bind them out Apprentices ; but the Endowment being fhort of paying the Mafter, part of the Subfcriptions are applied that Way. The School-houfe was provided by, and is repaired at, the Expence of the Corporation. The Boys are fupplied with Hofe, and Shoes twice a- Year, (to wit) Mid^ fummer and ChriftmaSf and with a Coat, Shirts, Bands, and Cap, once a- Year only, at Midfummer. The Ariiiiveriafy Sermon is preached on the Sunday next after the 24tH Day of June, being the Feaft of St. John Baptifi. The School is to be governed by the Heir of Mr. John Ord^ the Mayor o^ Neivcaftle, the Ficar.^ the Forenoon Lecturers of All-hallows, St. John's, and St. Andrews, and the Afternoon Lefturers of St. Nicholas and All-hallows, or any five of them, and they have the chufing of a Mafier. The Rules and Orders for the better governing of the School, and dire- fting the Choice of a Mafter, and his (Nullifications, were made by Mr. Ord the Founder, and approved by Dr. -Thomlinfon, to whom he communicated his Thoughts from Time to Time by Letter, and thofe Letters, with the Do- ftor's Anfwers, are tranfcribed in the School-Books. Subscribers Names. LADY Clavering ■ Mrs. Swinbourn- Georgs Grey, Efqj — John Bacon, Efqj — Thomas Ord. Efqj — Mr. Charles Clarke - Mr. Richard Coates, by Will Mr. Janies Bell The Lady of Cuthbert Fenwick, Efq> Mi-. James Ilderton Mr. George Anderfon Mr. William Wharton The Rev. Mr. Fetherfton-haugh Mr. Henry Wilkinfon Mr. Ralph Fet her (lone Mr. Anthony ProSidr /. S. d. 02. 02 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 oa 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 12 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 10 [Carried OO over] The J o Weftgate-Street. S/. JOHN'S /. s. d. Church. Brought from the other Side if 04 00 ~ The Kev. Mr. Edmund Lodge 00 05* 00 The Rev. Mr. James Feme ■ ———00 of 00 My. TImnas Milboum ■ • 00 of 00 Mr. Lionel Dixon ■ ■ 00 of 00 Companies. Bakers and Brewers ■ ■ 01 10 00 Taylors 01 00 00 Burber-Chirurgions 01 00 00 Sadlers ■ ■ oi 00 00 Plumbers and Glaziers, i^c. • •■ 01 00 00 Skinners ■ — -oi 00 00 Cordvvainers '• 01 00 00 Tanners 01 00 00 Houi'e- Carpenters 01 00 00 Rope-makers ■ — 01 00 00 Smiths ■ 01 00 00 Joyners 01 00 00 Slaters 01 00 00 Butchers 01 00 00 Bricklayers ^ 01 00 00 Hatters 01 00 00 Weavers ■ ' 01 00 00 3i L4 00 O' Sea. IV. St. Mar yV UofphaL ^PPOSITE to St. John's^ on the other Side of the Street, is the Hof- pital of St. Mary the Virgin., which contains two Foundations, an Old o Lib. Cart, oncj and a New one > as they were call'd upon the Founding of the latter. The old one mull; have been founded, not many Years after the Nunnery of St. Barthu/omezu, which was founded by King Henry theFirft: For in a Char- ter granted by King Henry the Second, to the Nuns of St. Bartholomew, there is mention made of St. Afary's in this Town, as may be feen in our Account of thefe Nuns. But this Conjcfture will be more confirm'd, if it be conlider'd that a Charity was beitow'd on this Hofpital by the Lord JValter de Bolbeck.^ pGib.Camb. (as is mcntion'd below) who, as wc are told, in a Charter dated the firll Year p. 855. of King Stephen, convey'd fome Lands to the Church of IVinchefler. If this was the fame JValter with him below, and there appears nothing to the con- trary J then it is a ftrong Reafon, that this Hofpital was founded in King Henry the Firft's Reign. The latter Hofpital and Chapel, were founded by one q £<»© kU- 1 Afelack ot Killinghotv or KiUingworth, as he himfclf acknowledges inhisChar- laclTde K.il- ter for that Purpofe : I Afelack of Killinghowe have founded the Hofpital and lynghowe Chapel of St. Alary the Firgin, upon my own Land, for Two Brethren to be f"kaWSa"-' K^g'i^^^h ^"'i °"^ Chaplain to ferve God and take Care of the Poor. Vir^inis W E learn alfo from the fame Charter, that the Founder devoted himfelf to & c.ipcll.-»m God and Religion, as he himfelf lays, (according to the Way of that Age) I lupeiTer- j-ender my fclf to God, and the Bkncd Virgin Aiary; and the Brethren of i,i'N"'rc!i'- '^'"'^ ''""^ Hofpital there fervingGod j to do Works of Hofpitality to the Poor, ftello fuper the Tynam, & ibi polui duos tiatres regulares & iinum Capellanuin ad ferviandum Deo & pauperibus ; reddidi meipfum Deo & Beata; Maria: & Fratribus cjuldem Holpiialis ibidem Deo lerveiitibus, ad Hofpiianduni Pauperes, Sc cenos Clericos, Sc Pcregrinos tranlcuiues pro Saluie anima;, Patris mei, Matris meae, & omnium per- linentium, 6c pro taliite animaruin Omnium Hofpitalis Benefartonun. Lib. Cart. Weftgate-Street. 31 the Needy Clergy and Pilgrims. And this, he fays, he does for his own Soul, st. MARY'j for the Soul of his Father and Mother, and his other Relations 3 together with ^iofp'fi- the Souls of all the Benefactors of the Hofpital. Some of the Witncfles to this Foundation Charter, ^eve Gilbert, Parfonof Eland, Richard, Parfon of Standfordham, fFaldon Parfon of Newburne, Eufta- chias, Parfon of Benton. The particular Time when it was founded can't be exaftly learned > there being no Date at the Charter. But it is probable from a Charter of King Richard the Firll, that it was founded fome little while before he began to Reign J for when he confirms the ' Foundation of Jfelack, hefpeaks of him as then living, otherwife he would not call him his Burgefs of Newcajlle, as he does in the Charter. W E meet alfo with an Account of a Third Foundation belonging to this Hofpital^ which Account is this. The Hofpital of our Lady, called Weflgate Spittle, was founded by the Inhabitants of Newcadle, for a Mafter and Chaplain to fay Divine Service for 6 Bede Folks in the Alms-boufe, and to lodge Poor and way-fari'tg People, and to bury fuch as hapned to die there, and to diftribute yearly Nine Chaldron of Coals among poor People. The yearly Value of this was 33/. i^s. De Rebus Novocafi\ After the founding of this Hofpital and Chapel, there were feveral Dona- tions and Charities beftowed upon it, as had been before upon the old one j fome of the Benefactors of both which, and Mafters among a large Number which might be mentioned, are thefe following. "^ Sciatis me dedifle & conceflifle Domino 8c Sanftx Ma- ris 8c San- (Sinioniali- bus de Novo Cafiello, pro falute Ani- mae meae 8c antecello- rum meo- rum, Aselack Burgeum me- um dt Novo Caftello, &c. Lib. Cart. Benefactors. Tiohirt de HrJJon, Clerk, gave by the Will and Coii- lent of his Loid Walter de Solheck, a yearly Sum, on Condition that the frAier- Tiity would pray for the Souls of his Lord and his Ance- ftois ; and alfo for his own Soul and his Anceftors : This was confirmed by the faid Lord to this Hofpital. Mayors. It is no (mall Confir mation of the ConjeSure ibove-mentioned, the An- iquity of this Hofpital, ttom the Donation of W'l/- ter de Bolhe\, that there is no mention made here of the Mayor of Kevjctjlle ; which is a Proof that this Donation was before the Time of Mayors, and con- lequently that this Hoffita! was founded at the Time fuppoled, Other IVitneffes. ■Kffmali it Btnviell. John Morrefi, And feveral others. Majlers. Julian, Daughter of.^^- nes Bhmh, gave a Charity to this Hofpital, that her Soul and the Souls of hei Anceftors might be pray'd for, and that flie might be entit'led to a Lodging in the faid Hofpital when llie came to Town. Henry de Carliol, Mayor, about the Year 12S7> in theB-eign of Hen. }d. ^dam Clericus. Thomas de Carliol John Flemmynge. John Sante. Bailiffs of the Town. "Hobert Lacy was now B-eftor of the Hofpital. Martin Coyman gave a Meffuage to it for the Sake of Charity, as he himfelf fays in his Grant, and for the Sake of his Soul. To this Writing was an- nexed the Seal of the To-ujn ^f Newcaftle, Henry o/Car- Itol inta^ Mayor that Tear, which probably was the Year 1259, the 6th Year of his Mayoralty, for he was Mayor 10 Years toge- ther. T{ohert de Mitford, who was probably one of the Morthumberland Family of that Name, wasWitnefsto this Deed ; as was alfo ^dam de Blakedene. '^ger de G^iintiu^httyyi. Nicholas Scatt, 1169. Gilbert de Tindale. 'Kohert Scott. NichoUu Efot. Htt^o de Carliol, ripi. William de Oggel. Walter de Covjgate. Hugo de Pandon Magijier, rzjiz. T^iiert Tttnniliyjiman and Matilda his Wife. reter le Oraper, 1305. Nicholas Scott. Walter de Covjgate. H^bard Emmelden. Hugo de Pandon. William Herrinre. I Tt^chard de Emmelden. I Thomas de Morpeth. \ja Magifitr, I3t7. ' There J 2 Weltgate-Street. St. MARY'/ Hojpitah There were a great many more Benefactors which would be te- ^ ' dious to mention here, fuch as Jlan de IVylam^ Alan de Gatefide^ John Potter^ Thomas de Gosforth, Radutphus de Cauft, William Son of Robert de Corbriggj Gilbert de Mora, (s^c. Besides the Mafters already mentioned, I meet with one Radulphus^ Mailer, but at what Time is not laid. S I MO N was Mailer i zf i . Another Simort was Mailer in the Year 1 164. RO BERT Lacy being Mailer between them. JOHN Norrys was Mailer about the Year it6j. JJMESy Mailer 133J. RO BERT Morden was Mailer about the Year 1 J71 . WILLIAM de Burnham, 1401. JOHN Cvlman, 141 f. JOHN Fitzherry was Mailer about the Year 1444. BO BERT Davell was Mailer about the Year if 34. JOHN Raynes was Mailer if7f. HENRT Dethicky L. L. D. if 81. HENRY Ewbank, Clerk, ifpo, he refign'd l5if, 06i. 18. EDWARD Wigham was Mailer 162:7. JOHN Bewick was Mailer i(56p. EDWARD the Third fcnt Letters Patents to this Hofpital, to Compen- Tate for the Loircs it had fuilained by the frequent Incurfions of the Scots in thcfe Days ; and therefore gave therti Liberty to receive to the Value of a hundred Shillings j tam in Feodo fuo quant in alieno. RIC HARD de Bury Bilhop of Durham^ granted a Confii-mation of all Lands, Rents, Rights, Privileges, t^c. belonging to Sr. Mary's in Wejigatey it was given at Gateftde, Jan. 8, I33fi in the Second YearofhisConfecration. In the Year 1444, when William Hirdingwxs Mayor, we have an Account of the Things belonging to this Hofpital, fome of which were as follows. Imprimis., Tres Calices Deaurati, 8cc. Three Chalices gilded with Gold, one intire Feflment of Bloody Velvet, woven about with Golden Fringe, with one Cap, one Cafule, three Albs, for the Principal Fejlivals. Also omCap of Cloth of Gold of red Colour, wrought with Golden Ima- ges, with one Cafule, three Albs. Item, One Cap, of a Black Colour, woven with Dragons and Birds in Gold. Item, Weftgate-Street. 3 3 St. MARYV Item^ One Single Fejiment wrought in with Peacocks with a CorporalhdonP- ^"fp'"^^- ing to the fame. — v^. Item, Another Single Fejiment for the Prieflr, only of White, border'd about with Rofes, and with a Corporal belonging to it. Item.^ another Single Fejiment for the Presbyter of a Bloody Colour, with a Corporal belonging to the fame. Item, another Fejiment for the Presbyter of Cloth of Gold. Item, another Fejiment of Cloth of Gold interwoven with Leopards and Birds. Item, One Hood or Cap, one Cafule, one ^Ib, with a Stole. Item, One Single Fejiment for one Prieji in the Hands of John Fitzherry the prefent Mailer. Item, One Single Fejiment for the Pricft of St. Nicholas, Item, One Hood. Item, A Cover of Bloody Velvet for a Sepulchre. Item, Two Cafules, the middle Part of the Cafidc of white Colour. Also one Hood of a red Colour for an Ornament to the jiltar of St. Ni' cholas. Also Two L/«(?;^ Cloaths of a red Colour for the Side Ornament of the Altar. Also One Front de of Sathan of a Bloody Colour, woven with golden I- mages for the Altar. Item, One ^ladrigejfimal Vale of Linen Cloth of white Colour, with a red Crofs below in the lame. Item, One Table fet apart as an Ornament for the Linen of the Altar. ■ Item, One Table gilded, with the Image of the blefled Virgin Mary. Item, Two Tables with the Pax, one of them gilded and befet ■v^'ith pre- cious Stones, ^c. I N the Z4th of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Hofpital of St. Mary in JVeJigate, and St. Mary Magdalene witliout Pilgrim-Jircct-gate, were granted to Theophilus Adams and James JVoodJlmiu, under the yearly Rent of 5 ;. 4 d. I N the pth of King James the Firft, a Charter was granted for the Hofpi- tal of St. Mary the Virgin. The Grammar- School of this Town, which is now at JFejl-fpittle, was ori- ginally founded by Thomas Horjly, who was Mayor of Newcajlle, in the Year of our Lord if if. By his kit Will he devifed all his Lands mNcwcajile, af- ter the Death of him and his Wife, to erect a Grammar-School, which was to be free for any one within and without the Town, in the Manner directed by the faid Will. K But ^ 4 Weftgate-Street. St. MARVi Hofpital. But in'thc Year iffp it was removed from St. Nicholas's Church-yard, ^^"V"*^ (from that Houfe which is on the North Side of the Church, over that Place M. s. Mil. -where the Privy now is, where it had been from the Time of it's Inllitution) tank. to the fFeft-fpii fie. The Rcafon of which was this. Queen Elizabeth ordzin- ed and granted, that within this Town of Ncwcaftk^ and the Liberties tliere- of.y there ihould be erefted, and for ever there be, one Free Granmar School, which fhould be a Free Granmar-School of Qiicen Elizabeth in Ne-wcaftk, and ihould confift of one Mafter and Scholars^ to be inftrudted in the fame, and that they, the Majler and Scholars of the fame, fhould for ever be one Body Corporate in Law., Fa6i^ and Name, hy the Majler and Scholars of the Free Gram- mar- School, of Queen Elizabeth in Newcajlle upon Tyne, i^c. and by that Name fhould have perpetual Succeffion, and fhould be in perpetu.il Times to come able and capable in the Law, of having, purchafing, l^c. Lands, Tenements, £s?f. to them and their SuccefTors, in Fec-fimple, or for Term of Years, fo they exceed not the yearly Value of 40 /. and lb they were not holden of the faid ^een, her Heirs and Succeflbrs in chief, nor by Knight-Service. And that the Mayor and Burgeffes of Newcaftle, and their SuccefTors, or the greater Part of them, ^c. fhould have Power to make an honeft, learned and dilcrcet Man to be the Firjl and Modern UJher in the faid School, there to continue during the good Pleafure of the faid Mayor and Burgeffcs, (3c. and that if the faid Ma- fter and UJlier fhould die or leave the fiiid School, ^c. then they might chufe other Men to be Majler and Ufier, (^c. I T is very probable that the Town of Ncwcaflle, who always prefented a Mafter to this Hofpital, as it did to St. Mary Magdalen's and St. tbomas the Martyr upon Tyne-Bridge, did at this Time make the Mafler of the Grammar- Schosl, Mafter alfo of the Hofpital. Grey tells us, that the firft Mafter of the Head School, was the Rev. Mafter Robert Fowberry, a learned and painfull Man, to indo£trinate Youth in Greek and Latin : To be fure he was the lirft Ma- fter after the Removing of the School to the IVefl-fpittle. For undoubtedly there were Mafters before that, as the School was fo much earlier founded j And accordingly in the Manufcript above-mentioned, 'tis faid, that Avhen Mr. hurras gave over the the Free-School in St. Nicholas Church-yard, the Mayor and 24 more fent for Mr. Fowhcrry to Hull, and he came and firft taught in the Writing-School, until the Chapel of St. Mary's Hofpital was made into a School-houfe, and the EkElion-houfe was at the Eait-end of it, whicli had been the Feflry j But Sir George Selhy who was then Mayor, fet up his Arms on the Eaft-JVindoiv, made a Traverfe over it, and fent to London for 24 Chairs of Muftinie Leather, and there is the Election, tho' the Mayor lays down his Staff in the old School. The Maflers of this Hofpital and School fince Robert Fowberry, M. A. ifPP, are EDWARD JVigham, Clerk. FRANCIS Grey, Clerk, 1630. * Walk. * AMO R Oxley had the Free- School of Newcaftle upon Tyne, in the Time suff. Clergy, of the Great Rebellion, and was both Sequeftred and" Plunder 'd. NICHOLAS Hall, B. D. 1649. JOHN Bewick, Clerk, i66p. RIC HARD Gar thwaite, M. A. 1671. JOHNCotterell, M. A. 1690. THOMAS Rudy M. A. i5pp, now Re<^or of Wajhington, in the County oiDurhm. JAMES Weftgate-Street. 3 5 Sf. MARY'i yJME S Jiirifi, M. A. i/fjj now M. D. and F. R. S. ^ -^^'^ The prefent Mafter of this Hofpital is the Rev. Dr. Tbomlinfon, D. D. Prebcndavy of St. Paufs in London^ and Reftor of Whickham in the County of Durhavi, near Ncwcafile upon "fyne ; who is alfo ^^lafter of the Chapel of St. nomas the Martyr.^ upon the Bridge-end, and the Hofpital of St. A/ary Magdalen^ at the Barras-bridge. He became Mafter in the Year, 171 f. The prefent Mafter of the School is the Rev. Mr. Edmund Lodge^ who has under him Two UlTiers > the Rev. Mr. James Feme, and the Rev. Mr. George Carr. The three laft mentioned Gentlemen have each of them Appartments where the Hofpital was > which is a pleafing Situation, and in feme of the bcft Air of this Town. There is alfo in this Place a IVriting- School, erefted by the Town for the Children of Freemen : The prefent Mailer, Mr. Henry Ben/on^ h■^s alfo an Appartment here. The Town allows to the Mafter f o Pounds per Annum. To the firft Uftier 3f Pounds /;«• Annum. To the fecond Ufher 31 Pounds 10 Shillings per Annum. The Writing Mafter is allowed 3 f Pounds per Annum. This Town allows to every one who goes from the Grammar-School^ to cither Univerfity, f Pounds per Annum. In our Lady's Chapel, which ftill carrys it's Name along with it, having the Effigies ot the Virgin Mary, with her Son upon her Knees, at the Eaft- end of it, is now the Place of EleBing Mayors, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and the o- ther Officers of the Town, and is therefore now called the Ele^ion-Houfe-j but formerly the Mayor was chofen in the JVriting-School. This is conftant- ly done the Monday after Michaelmas Day, which is therefore in this Town called Michaelmas Monday. ^i^MlMMg Sea. V. Earl 0/" Westmoreland'/ Mioii^e. NEXT to ^t.Marfs, on the fime Side of this Street, is a very old Buil- ding, which was lately the D welling- houfe of Sir Robert Shaftoe, K^. Recorder of this Town, now the Property and Dwelling-houfe of Mr. Charles Clark, Junr. It has the Magnificence and Grandure of Antiquity in it's Looks; but what it has been formerly I could never find out. Grey tells us, That in this Street the Earl of Weftmoreland had his Houfe, which indeed is true. It was built by the Baron of Byivell and Bolbeck, about the pth of Edward the Third. Much about the fame Time he built a Houfe within the Bounds of the Caftle, for the Defence of it, as may be Iccn in our Account of the Caftle. This Houfe in JVeftgate was called Bolbeck- Hall; but afterwards, upon it's Founder's being created Earl, which was in the Reign of Richard the Second, in the Year 1 398, when Ralph Nevil, Lord of Raby was created Earl Maf- Jhall, it got the Name of IVeflmoreland-Place in Wejlgatc. Some have conje- ctured, that Sir Robert Shafto's Houfe, above-mentioned, was part of it , and indeed 36 Weftgate-Street. E.Weftmor- indeed it looks much liker a Part of fuch a Building, than any other Thing linA'shoiife. i-emaining thereabouts. I am fure much more fo than the Houl'e which is ^*^'"^''''""'*^ fuppofed to have been it, which I am told Was the Houfe oppofite to the Weft End of Denton-Chah; which the Rev. Mr. Cowling lately lived in, and which belongs to Mr. Ord. However, be this as it will, whether it was this Houfe now mention- ed, or whether Weftmoreland-Place reached from this Houfe to Sir Robert Shafto's^ including it, which fome have conjeduredj yet this is certain, that it muft have been hereabouts ; For Nevil Tuwer is directly behind this Piece of Ground we are fpeaking of, which is a fure Token this muft be the very- Place} becaufe, whoever in the Town built a Tower at their own Expence, it was generally nigh them for their own Security. Thus the H^ bite- Fryers; the Brethren of St. M.irfs Hofpital j the Brethren of Sc. Aiijlin, &c. Built their Towers over againft their Monafieries^ for their own Safe-guard and Se- curity. But what 1 think puts it out of Difpute, that Sir Robert Sbafto's Houfe was no Part of it, is that in the Eleventh of Queen Elizabeth^ upon the Attainder of Charles^ Earl of IVeflmoreland^ this Houfe where Mr. Cow- ling lived, was in Charge, which the other never was, before the Auditors j and in the Third of Charles the Firft, was fold to the Citizens of London. I T was afterwards in the Tenure of James Bertram.^ and after that in the f Lib dere- Tenure of Robert Bertram. <" bus Novo- Opposite to this Houfe, is a Chair or Lane, called Denton-Chzw^y which leads into the Groat-Market^ Middle-Jlreet^ &c. This Street is continued 'till you come to the Street leading Weftward to the Poflern^ andEaftward to the Back-raw : From thence the Street changes it's Name, and is called Tuthillf 'till you come to the Tutbill Stairs., which lead into the Clofe. Sea. VI. BailiffGate. ON the Eaft-Side of this Street, is a Street ficing the Weft-fide of the C«/?/,f, called Bailiff Gate., which is faid to have got it's Name from the Coming o( the FellonSf of the County of Northumberland, along that Street at- tended by the County Bailiffs. They came, as is faid, to the IVefigate., then down an old Way, clofe by the Out-fide of the 'Fown-JVall^ and lo in at the White-Fryer Gate., from whence they went along Bailiff Gate, and fo were conveyed in at the Poftern-Gate, on the Weft-Side of the Cajlle, oppofite to this Street of .B.-z///^G.'?/e. This is only Traditional, and has been therefore deny'd by the Town of Newcaftle. Grey's Account is, That at this Gate the Prifoners were brought in, who were taken in Times of Hoftility with Scot- land, and carry'd from thence privately into the Cattle, where the Goal for the County is now. The fame Author alfo tells us, that this Street of Bailiff Gate, formerly belonged to the Cajlle and County of Northumberland. But I imagine, had this been true, the King would long ago have had his Right. The Town of New- Weftgate-Street. j -7 Newcaftk indeed has fometimes been made uneafy about that, but ftill had it Bailiff -ate. furer fixed to her, as her undoubted property. In the Year 1549, the Year after the King was beheaded j there was a Sur- vey taken of Bailiff Gate, &c. I N the Year following, Jpril if th, i5f 0, an Order was fent down for an- nulling and vacating the Survey made, ^c. which was as follows j 2fth Jpril, 16 fO. At the Committee of Parliament in removing Obftru6tions, in the Sale of the Honours, (^f. of the late King, ^teen, and Prinie, WHEREAS the Mayor, Burgefles, and other the Inhabitants of the Town of Neivcaftle upon Tyne, did ptefer their Petition unto this Committee^ co?nplaining, that certain Perfons employed for the Common Wealth, han}e returned a Survey to their Trujlees, for Sale of the late King's Lands, of and concerning di- vers Lands, 'Tenements, and Hereditaments within the [aid Town of Newcaftle^ and PretinUs thereof, to the Value of 2000 1. 5 s. 4d. per Annum, /or w'&V/j they have paid only a Fee Farm Rent to the Crown 3 and in which the Petitioners declare, they had an indouhted Inheritance : Further complaining, that the Premijfes in ^teflion, were not in the Pofleflion of the Crown, Anno 16J5, neither was there returned any fpecial Matter in the Survey, whereby to entitle the late King to the fame : The Petitioners being the undoubted Proprietors and Owners of the Things in Qiieftion. And whereas upon reading of the [aid Petition^ and the Certificate of the Truftees and Survey, made in purfuance of an Order of this Com' mittee, grounded tipon the faid Petition, and the hearing of this Caufe this Day he- fore the Committee, concerning the Premijfes in ^eftion, in the Prefence of CoUncit for the Common Wealth, as alfo the Council in behalf of the faid Town : The Coun- cil in behalf of the Common Wealth did acknowledge, that the faid Survey wai returned without any juft Grounds ; And forafmuch as the Council for the faid Town of Neivcaflle were ready to produce their Charters and Evidences, whereby to make it evidently appear, that the Inheritance of the Premijfes in ^ue- fiion, have been for 300 Years and upwards in the Poffeflion of the Petitioners and their Predeceflbrs. It is therefore this Day ordered by the Committee, thai the Original Survey returned of divers Mejfuages, Lands and Tenements, and Here- ditaments, within the Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne, and PrecinEls thereof, held by the faid Town, now remaining with the Truftees, Surveyor, and Regifier, for Sale of the Jaid Lands, be annuU'd and void j and is hereby vacated, and that no fur- ther Sale, or other Proceedings be had, or made thereupon j and that an Entrance of this Order be made upon the Jaid Survey, and a Memorandum be made thereupon: That the faid Survey is vacated, to the Intent that the Mayor, Burgefles, and 0- ther Inhabitants of the Jaid Town of Newcaftle, may not for the Future be quefli- oned or mole [led concerning the Premijfes mentioned in the faid Survey ; and the Tranfcript of this Order be likewije entred with the Jaid Truflees, and ContraSlers for Sales of the faid Lands. John Garland, James Chaloner, Tho. Lister, Nath. Rich. jo. Jones. A T the Eaft-End of this Street, upon the Right Hand, is a Way to the Long Stairs, which lead into the Cloje, and on the left you go to the Side, and St. Nicholas Church, i^c. The South Side of this Street is moftly the Property of Mr, Jojhua Douglas. L Sea. 38 Weftgate-Street. white-fryers. t Fuller's Hift. of Ab- bies. » Speed. w P. 15. de Reb. Nov. Sea. VII. LOWER down a little, almoft at the Eiid of the Street, on that fame Side of the Street, where are the Houfcs of George Grey, Eiq; Mr. yin- derfon, ^c. was the Houfe of the Carmelites, or fVbite Fryers. The Carmelites are fo named from Vionnt Carmel in Syria: They were firft brought into England by Ralph Freeborne, and by him placed near yllnwitk, at a Place called Holm in a Wildernefs> which was in his Opinion likelt to Mount Carmel in Syria, the Place they came from. The firil Provincial of this Order was Ralph Frechorne himfelf, who began his Rule in the Year 1 240, nnd ruled 14 Years. He lies buried at Alnvjick. « "This Monaftery was founded by King Edward the Firft, and dedicated to St. Mary. I have met with little elfe relating to them, except that they were a Prior, feven Fryers, and two Novices, and that they furrendred Jan. icth, 50th of Henry the Eighth: It was valued at p/. 11 ;. 4 J. There are not now the leaft remains of this Priory to be feen, except a fmall Part of the ancient Building facing the White-Fryer Toiver Walls. King Henry the Third, by his Letters Patents, dated the zoth of No- vember, in the f ift Year of his' Reign, at the Inftance of Robert de Bruce, de- dit Fratribus de Penitentia, I Chrifii qtiandam Placeam Vocatam Conftable Cal- garth, in Villa Novicaftri fuper Tinam, 13 quce contigua erat Claufo y Placea Diitorum Fratrum in eadem Villa. This Place called Calgarth, which the above-mentioned King gave to the Brethren of the Pennance of Jefus Chriftj otherwife called Brethren of the Sack, was fuppofed by Sir John Fenivick, to be in the Clofe of the White- Fryers, late in the Holding of Sir Ralph Delaval, then called by the Name of Domus Fratrum de Penctentia I Chrifii. « From the White-Fryery, this Street leads to the 1'utbill Stairs, which is a Paflage into the Street called the Clofe. CHAP. 39 ^gMMm CHAP. V. NEWGATE-STREET. Of the upper and higher Parts of this Street ^ towards the North, H E old Part of Newgate^ together with that Part of the Wallf leading as far as Ever- 'Tower, being vifibly older than the other Towers, and the Reil of the Wall; is a fure Sign that when the Walls, were began, this Part of the Town was then inhabited. I T is probable that hereabouts was the ancient Monkche- fter, where the Monks and religious Men inhabited. This appears from a Place in this. Street, wz. That Row of Houjes which ftands almoft in the Middle of the Street, called to this Day the Httckfter^s Booths : For the People who dwelt in thefe Houfes, were Huckfters, and fupplied the Religious Houfes with Provifions. There is a Tradition ftill among the Inha- bitants of this Part of the Town, That in old Times there were many M-x\-~ kers between' the iVeic',e;«^e and the //^&>c-Cro/} J nay, fomeofthem, according to the Tradition they have received,- will Point out the 'very Ground where fuch and fuch Markets were. Now this, I think, is a fufficient Proof that thefe Upper Parts of the Town were firft inhabited by the Monks, the Lower Parts, as far as the Ca- ftle Tard, were the Habitations of the Towri's People : The CaJIellum, or For- tification having been thereabouts, from the Beginning o£ Hadrian's Wall, as we are intorm'd, by a ^ late ingenious Author. He fays there mull have been a Station in this Tu-ivn, for thefe Rcafons : If we confider the Importance of this Place, it's Dillance from the firft Station at the End of the Wall, and the Turns the Wall makes, (efpecially at the Eaft Side of the Town) in Or- der to it's pailing through the Heart of itj we can icarce Qi.ieftion but there has been a Station here: And it's old Name oi Monk-Chefler Iccms to put it out of Doubt. The former Part of the Name is taken from the Settlement of the Monks in this Place, and the latter Part from the Word Cajlra, which is a pretty fure Mark of a Stati^ : Befides the Name Ncivcdjllc, ( given firft to the Publick Grammai'-Scliool of tins Town, and aftervjardi Jludicd In one of the Scotch Colleges. fier of Arts there, md Fellow of the Royal Society. He is jiijifofei to h"-' ("■>t "-/-t'/- Knovjtng his Time, in the Britifh Roman Antiquities. Rom. Btitt. )3i. * A/r.Horfe- ly of Mor- peth, -Ji-ho dy'd a fe'Jj Months a^o, a little before thcp::blifi>ing of his Roma- na Britannia, the hjok re- ferr'd to. This Centle- }nan was of He was Ma- wiih any :n 4 o Newgate-Street. to the Caftle it felf, and then to the Town) has been thought to imply (as yVid.cliap in other Inftances) that there was an old y Callle or Fort there before, and oftheCMe, near the Place where the ne^v One was erefted. And as this Newcajlle was built by Robert^ Son of IVilliam the Conqueror, the old Caflle muft have been undoubtedly Roman. And fome Years ago, a Coin of Vejpafian was found near the Caftle, as I was told by the Perfon himfelf that found it. The fame learned Author goes on thus: The next Thing is to determine the Boundaries and Situation ot this Station, which I pcrluade my felf may be done. 1 hinted before that there was a Traditionary Account of the Walls paffing through St. George's Porch, near the North Weft Corner of St. Ni- cholas Church. But it is certain that the Line of the Wall lies a little to the North of this End of the Church, and I think has not touched this Porch, tho' it comes near it. And therefore I conjecture, that the Wall which has pafled through this Porch, muft have been the Eaft Rampart of the Station ; for the Suppofition will reconcile thefe feemingly differing Accounts : And if a Line be erefted Perpendicular to that of Severius's Wall, fo as to pafs thro' that Porch, and be continued along the Brow of the Hill, at the Head of the Side, 'till it meet the Line of Hadrian's Fallum^ near the Eaft End of Balygate, and not far from the Caftle. This Line feems to anfwer fo well in Reipcfts, that I cannot much Doubt it's having been the Eaftern Limits of the ancient Station : For this bnngs the Station near to the Caftle, which probably has been built a little more to the South Eaft, in order to bring it nearer to the Top of a Steep Hill. And fixing the Eaftern Boundary of the Station here, leaves a Plain and Level Area for the Station it felf, and with- out it, a Defcent towards the South and the River, for the Town to ftand upon, which might extend it felf to the Bridge, fuppofing the ancient Bridge to be near the fiimc Place where the prefent one ftands : From which Bridge the ancient Town and Station might probably take the Name of Pons-jElH This Eaftern Boundary of the Station muft at that Time have been near- er the River, than it is now now j fince 'tis certain, that the River formerly flowed farther up towards this Part of the Town. The Pofition of the Ea- ftern Rampart of the Station being thus determined, the other Boundaries may be alfo defined j for the Diftancc here between the Lines of the Walls feems to be about fix Chains i and it is not much to be queftioned, but the two Walls here, (as in other Cafes they frequently did) have fallen in with the Northern and Southern Ramparts of the Station j fo that thefe fix Chains have been the Breadth of the Station. And if we fuppofe the Station to have been of a middle Size, we muft make it a Square, and allow fix Chains for the length of it. If at this Diilance another Line be drawn equal and Parallel to the foiTner, and between the Lines of the Wall, it will be the Weftem Boun- dary of the Station, as the two refpe£bive Parts of the two Walls make the Northern and Southern Limits. And upon this Suppofition, a Line drawn from the Foot of the Flefi-market to Baily-gate, near the eaft End of it, will be the Eaftern Limits of the ancient Station. That Part of the Vallum which reaches from Baily-gate to Mr. Ord's Houfe, will be the Southern Limit ; and a Line drawn from hence, to that Part of the Line of Severus's Wall, which is about thirty Yards Eaft from the End of Rofemary-lane^ muft be the We- ftern Boundary, and the Part of Severus's Wall included between this and the Foot of the Flefi-market, remains for the Line of the Northern Rampart. Sea. I. oy^ St. Andrew's Church. I G H to Newgate., on the Weft-fide of the Street, is St. Jndreius Church. This is queftionlefs the oldeft Church of this Town, not only from it's Sicua- N s Newgate-Street. 41 Situation, which is that Part where was principally the ancient Monkchejler -j s;. Andrew". but alfo from the Model and Fafhion of it's building, it appearing in thefe chiirch^^ Things older than the others. <.^^>r^^ « I T is fuppofed to have been built by one of the Kings of Scotland. David ° ReReb.^ King of Scots is mention'd in particular as it's Founder > but for what Rea- ^°'^°<^^^ • fon I know not. Indeed, that David., who dy'd in the Year iif^, was a great Benctaftor to Churches and Religious Houfes^ and he is faid in particular to have founded in this Town i" two Religious Houfis^ but there is not a Word ^ Collier Ec- of his being the Founder of St. Andrevfs^ which in all Probability would as '^'^'^■ foon have been taken Notice of, and handed down to Poilerity, had it been true } as the Building of two Religious Houfes. But befides, if St. Andrew's be the oldelf Church in this Town, and this I think ought to be allowed for the Reafons already given, as alfo from the conllant Tradition of it's being fo, then it is undoubtedly older xhxnSx.. Nicholas' s., and if fo, it mult have been built before the Time of Henry the Firft > for St. Nicholas's was built in that Reign, atlateftj and therefore it will follow, that this Church of St. .^« which ftievvs the Chapelhxs been added to the Church } and as Sir Adam and his Lady are buried in it, is pretty clear that They were the Founders. It may alfo be prefuincd, that He built it, bc- caufe it leems to have been built when Sir Adrm liv'd : For it is faid in the Indulgence to want Boolis, Chalices, Veftmcnts, £s?r. which implies it, at that Time, to have been a nevj Chapel. And bcfides, Indulgences were gran- ted towards the adorning of Churches or Cliapcls, immediately a.^ter they were built. This Chapel was therefore built a little before the granting of this In- dulgcnce, which was when Sir Adain was living. And as his Wife was then dead Newgate-Street 4 j dead and buried in this Chapel ; fo fhe feems to have been the firft that was s». Andrew'* buried in it, and confequently her Husband muft have built it. '^'""^^ILj B IT T my laft Reafon, I think, makes it amount to a Demonftration. It may be obierved in all Indulgences of this Kind, that it was not only requir'd of the People to offer Church Ornaments, but alfo to put up Prayers for the Founder. Thus for Inllance > in an Indulgence granted in the Reign of King //r;??7 the Eighth for the Repairing and Maintaining of the Chuixh and Convent at Kirhy Bclers in the County of Leicefter, it was not only required that Money fhould be given, but that they Ihould alfo fay a 8 Pater Nofter ^ Stavely with an Jve for the Souls of Sir Rosier Bekr and Jlyce his Wife, Founder ^''- ^'fi-'?^- and Foundrefs. 100. Now from hence it is plain, that Sir y^dam and his Lady mufl have been the Founder and Foundrefs of this Chapel, becaufe they alone are men- tioned in this Indulgence, and Prayers were to be put up for them, as they were for Sir Roger and his Lady juft now mentioned. T H u s I think I have found out the ancient Name of your Chapel, and who was the Founder it. It may perhaps be fomewhat Satisfaftory to thofe who are curious in thoi'e Things, may retrieve the antient Name of your Cha- pel, and eftablilh the defcrved Remembrance of it's Founder. But be this as it Willi as I have only thefe Things in View in making thefe Obfervations j, fo I hope you'll be fo good as to accept of them, and allow them a Place a» mong the Parchments of your Church. I aniy Geatlemen, Silver-ftreet, Oft. 27. 1726. Tour moft humble Servant^ Henry Bourne. ■ T**! fe Iw^algencfi! on which thefe Obfervations are founded are granted by G/Wi^W, the Bifhop of Cmdi/ta eafa, which is in Gallaivay in Scotland; it is dated at York 139-2, the 12th Year of his Confecration. :"The 3d Chantery belonging to this Church was dedicated to St. Thomas. This I learn from an Account I have met with of a Houfe in this Street, which is faid to have belonged to the Chantery of St. Thoinas, in the Church of St. Jndrew's. ,.l\ "i i.v.'. 0\'\'T I T boundcr'd on the Weft by St. Arklrew^ Church end, and on the North by a Houfe^ which in the Reign of Q^ Elizabeth was in the Poffcflion of Richard Jtkinfon^ and on the Ealb by the High-fireet., and on the South againft the Church-Style. It was valued at ten Shillings per Annum. That there was fuch a Chantery in St. Andre^v's (notwithftanding the two former are fuppofed to be all belonging to this Church) is further evident, becaufe I meet alfo with an Account which ftxys, that the Chantery of St. Thomas in St. Andrew's., had an Orchard belonging to it, which paid a yearly Rent of Three Shillings and Four Pence to it j but where it ftoodis not men- tioned. It was occupied by Sir Robert Brandlin. That there were Lands belonging to the Chantery of St. Mary in this Church, which were lituatcd in this Street, is certain. But where to fix them at this Time of Day is pretty Difficult, But whei'cver they were fiiua- ted, 44 Newgate-Street. 5/. Andrew'/ ted, there was an Houfe fituated near them, which paid to the Priory of Hex- church, fj^ff^ gjx Shillings per Annum. This is mention'd when Rowland was Prior, in the Year 1490, in the 1' DeReb. Reign oi Henry the 7th. ^ Novocaft". I meet with no account of the Lands belonging to the Chantery of the T)/- w/Vy, except that of an Houfe, fituated in a Place called le Cow-garth in this V Newgate-Jireet, which paid one Shilling per Annum to this Chantery, and a Tenement in Wefigate which paid \s. ^d. The Altar of this Church is very pretty and decent, it was beautified a few Years ago at the Charge of the Parifh. Th E RE is at the Wefl-end of this Church a Beautiful Gallery, which was built in the Year 171 1, at the Charge of the Parifh. In the Year 1726, the Old Porch was taken down, and the prefent one built, Mr. Chrijiopher Rutter ? "i S S Mr. Thomas Shevil Mr. Fenwick Lambert S^ ;= « / Mr. Percival Bell In the Year 17^6, the old Bells were taken down, and the prefent 6 were procured by a CoUeftion made in the Town for them. The Corporation gave towards them fo/. They are exceeding Tunable, and have a lort melodious Sound. The Floor of the Body and the Ifies of this Church, were flagg'd in the Year 1707, which before they never had been. Buried in this Church. /;; the Chancel^ near the Altar, J A ME S Ogle of Cau/ey-Park, Efqj upon whofe Tomb-flone, which is of Marble, is the following Infcription. Hie Jacet Jacobus Ogle de Caufey-Park in Comitatu Northumb. Armiger. Antiquitate Domus, Ut pote ex prenobili Baronia Ogle, de Ogle Stirpe Red:a Linea Oriundus, vere clams 5 Bed invifta in perdueiJcs, Graflentibus nuperis Civilibus Bellis, animi Magnitudine, Conftantia in Regem etiam in Triftiffimo Authoritatis Deliquio Fideiitate in Superioies Obfervantia, in Pace Comitate, in Inferiores Benignitate, qua; omnia Juftiffimo Titulo fua vocare poterat, Multo lUuftrior. Obij Dec. 4 die Annoqj Dom. 1664. THOMAS Harrifon, Barber Surgeon, who died Feb. 24th, 1679. THOMAS Bednel, 14 July, 1701.. CHRISTOPHER Barker, O£tob. z6, 1718. ROBERT Tod, Oa. f, 1730. In T R I N I T y-C H A P E L. SIR Adam de Athol, and his Wife Mary, under a very large Stone j which has originally been plated very curioufly with Brafs. The Remains of their Effigies are ftill to be feen. He is piftured at length in Armour, having a Sword on his left Side, and a Dagger on his Right. Her Effigies hath no thing remaining of it, but from the Shoulders upwards. The Arms of both their Families are ftill to he feen on the Tomb-llone. What Newgate-Street 45 St. Andrew'^ What remains of the Infmption^ is this, Hie Jacent Doinmis Adamavus church, de Atholl, Miles, 6? D'n.i Maria, Uxor ejus qu^ obiit ^arto decimo Die Men- ~ (is Anno Domini Millejimo T'ricentefimo Ammarum propitietur. The remaining Part of the Date is broken of: However Grey.^ in his Ac- count of this Stone, tcils us, It was in the Year 1 387, which is very proba- bly the Time that his Wife diedj for it is a Millake that he died then, as appears l:y the Indulgence above-mentioned. • JO SHU A Tivizdl, June 23d, 1718. 7" HO MAS Winjlnp.^ Tanner, September 2d, i5pf. CHRISTOPHER Riittcr., Baker and Brewer, March 17th, 1714. ' Mrs. Elizabeth Daiifon, Mother of Mr. Thomas Davifoit.y January 20th, 1724, aged 84 Years. NIC HO LA S Fer.tvick, Merchant, 14th December., U^f- M R. John Daivfori., Taylor. Mrs. Barbara Davifon., January 8th, 1730. NORTHlSLE. ROBERT Millsy Houfe-Carpenter. South Isle. DOROTHY Harrifon, May zyth, 1702. Legacies left to the Poor of /fe. hrifi of M. Andrews. .•:uT LEFT by %\r William Blacken, Bar't, One Thoufand Pounds, the Profitsj {3c. of the Whole, in three Parts, equally to be divided, and yearly to be difpofed off at Chrijlmas, as followeth, viz. One third Pait to binding of Apprentices to Trades. One other third Part to poor Houfe-holders. The remaining other Third to a School-Mafter to teach 30 Children. i. s. 4. Left by Madam Margaret AUgood, in Moneys, now in? the Hands of Mr. John Ord, the Sum of S^°° °° °^ Paying yearly to the Church- Wardens at Chriflmas the? ^ ■ ^ Sum of -— i ^^^"^ °° ^ Left by Mr. Thomas Davifon, to be yearly paid in T)e- 7 fm^^r, out of the Merchant's Company 5:°°^ °° °° Left by Mr. Timothy Davifon, to be yearly paid at Chri- -\ Jlmas, for if poor Freemen or Widows, not Merchants > out (001 00 00 of the Merchants Company, the Sum of ( N Left 46 Newgate-Street. 5r. Andrew's *• ■J- d. Church. Left by Mr. Jndrew Aid-worthy to be paid at the Fcaft of t St. ^«^rfw yearly, out of a Houfe in ^^^wf/Z-^^/f, in thePof-^ooi 00 00 fefhon of Edward fFetherly, the Sum of ^ Left by Henry Hilton^ Efq-, to be paid yearly at Chrifi-l maj's, for four poor Widows, the Sum ot i "+ Paid out of the Town of Newcaftle^ at two Payments,? •viz. hs^S Jit Michaelmas, ■xndihAi ■Xi Lady-day • 5 ^ ^ The Names of fuch laho pay out Kents. CfO HN Barnes J Mrs. Harrifo-a Robert Bell Mary Bell John Davjfott Robert Bell — 1 o 1 . o — o o W\dov, Oliver ?D,„,Crook^° Widow Dtxon 5 ^ o Anthony Htxon, Huxter -Booths o JoJbn Stobbart ? ,,. 1. > 5° Joh» Makepeace ^^'^-"^^'^^'io Mrs. Cooke, Groat-Market o Mr. Pigg o s. d. 00 00 03 04 04 00 10 00 16 GO 04 ID 03 08 05- 04 02, 08 04 09 04 09 13 04 CO 06 Robert Davifon 1 r,-i • n. - fO Nuholas l^iugb^^'^^''"'^''^'{o 14'tlliarn Varey o Mrs. t'etherJto-/te, Pilgrim-gate — o Nicbol:is Kobfon o Richard Ktrkhoufe o IVilliarn Stcpbeufon., Sidgate o Widow Tate . . o Widow torfler - Robert Armjirong. Richard Rubinfon John Ste^henjon - O -o -O s. d. 02 GO 04 GO 02 00 G2 GO 03 00 03 CO 02 GO 02 06 02 06 03 00 03 G4 04 GO C H A R I T T-S C H O O L. THE Charity-School of this Parifli was founded by Sir TVilliam Blacken, Bart, and the firft Boy entred the School in January \-jo\: The Num- ber of Boys it was founded for is Thirty. About the Year 17IP, the late Sir William Blackett, the Son of the Founder, began the Cloathing of them. The Vicar of this Town, and the Church-Wardens have a Power of putting in the Mafter of this School, if their Choice is approved of by the Heir at Law. The Sallary of the Mafter is 20 /. per Ann. but out of it he pays School- Rent. Ministers. THE Minifter of this Church is, as the Minifter of St. Johnh, Curate and Lecburer. As Curate, the Vicar pays him 5 /. per Amtm, and as Lefburer he is paid by the Town 100/. per Annum. The other Minifter is the AJftfiant, and is paid by the Minifter of the Parifh. The Rcgiftei- of this Church has been fo badly kept, that I meet with the Names oi none of it's Minifters in it but one, viz. one Stephen Dochxray, An- no i6f6> who fucceeded him I know nor, but owe Potiiuger was Minifter here, and I remember Mr. Richards and Mr. Shadford. JOHN ElUfon, A. M. oi Univerfity-Collegc, Oson. the prefent Minifter. Curates I am told, were Mr. Perkins, Mr. Straghan, Mr. Stoddard, Mr. Lyon, Mr. Simkoe. IVIL- Newgate-Street, 47 WILLIAM IVilkinfon, the prefent Afliftaiit Curate, A. M. of Chrijl- s^AndrewV College J Camb. chirch. The Crown pays to the Minifter of this Parilh Five Pounds two Shil-' lings and Six-pence per Annum. The Town was wont to give to this Church 1 2. Gallons of Wine every Year at Eajler. The Town allows the prefent affiftant Curate of this Church 10 Pounds />5f Annum for reading Prayers to the Prifoners in Newgate. The Prayers of this Church in the Worky-days are on Wednefday and Fri^ day in the ^■lorning. The Sacrament is adminifter'd here every 4th Sunday in the Month. Sea. II. ON the Eaft-fide of this Street, near the Neiv-gc.tc, is a Tenement which was given by Mrs. Alice Belayjj's to Unh-erJity-College in Oxford. The Site of it IS thus defcrib'dj Situatum eft infra pr^diSlam villam juxta Novam Portam ejujdcm villie in quo quidem 'Tenemenf Thomas Gray Lidfter mode inha- bitat^ {viz.) Inter 'Tenementum Roberti Daunt ex parte Boreali, (^ vicum Ducen- teni ad fratres minores ab Ecclefia SanSli Andrete ex parte auftrali; But the fiime Writing goes further, ac Tria Tenementa £5? duo Tofta, inde in fimul fituanttir in eodem "vico ducente a dicta Ecclefia SanSli Andrex tifiiue Fratres pradiBoSj (3'c. Opposite to St. Andrew's Church is a Lane, which leads to Pilgrim- fircct Gate, called the Higb-fryer-chare.^ becaufc of a Fryery which was in it, and becaufc it is higher up in the Town than the other Fryer Chare. I N coming down this Street Southward from the Church of St. Andrew's., on the Right-hand, is an ancient Street called Darn-crook j in which Street were fome Waftes and Houfes belonging to the Nuns of St. Bartholomnv., as there were in almoft eveiy Street in the Town. Oppofite to this Place, on the Eaft-fide of this Street of Newgate is a little runnmg Water which goes into Lorkburne. This little Bourn is taken Notice of in the Account of the Ward belonging to Ficket-'Tower., and is called there, a Bourn hcfide Lam-place^ that runneth towards Lorkburne. To this Bourn it is, that the Prifoners belonging to Newgate, have Liberty to walk during the Time they are not confin'd to the Goal. From thence, going ftill Southward, the Street changes it's Name from Newgate to Huxter's- Booths ; for thereabouts it was that the Huxters lived, as has been obfcrvcd above, who fupply'd the RcUgious-bvufcs, and the other Peo- ple of this Part of the Town with Provifions. A Part of thefe Houfes arc lUU to be feen, they ftand by themfclves almoll in the -middle of the Street, nigli the White-crofs. Grey lays. That this Part of the Town was in his Time called the Hu.xters- Booths -j that is, :is I undeiltand him, from the iJow« above- mentioned, to thofe Houfes. Opposite to the Booths was a great Gate that led into the Black-fryers. It was fituatcd between the Houfe of William TVilkinfon, Smith, and the Houfe o^ Elizabeth Bell, Widow. The Place now is the Entrance of a Garden be- longing to Mr. Nicholas Bally of Newcaflle. This I think is evident from a Gv:int of a Tenement from i\\c Black-fryers^ now in the Hands of Mr. J'/'p. M^r- Pall, ^8 Newgate-Street. St. Andrew"; pall of this Towiij wherein in defcribing the Situation of the Tenement, are church. thele Words > Sicut jacet in villa aiiteditla p-ope crucem vulgariter vocatam \V hy tt- ^'^^'''""*^^ crofs inter magnani portam priedi^or/im Fratriim c Regione pnccliBte crucis ex parte Boreali., &c. The Tenement defcribed is the Houlc lately rebuilt by Mr. Mav fliall aforefaid. Since this Conjcdurc from the Writing above-mentioned, I have met with the Manufcript of Mr. Milbatik^ which very much corroborates it. The Words arc thefe> the Gate-way to this Houfe was from the White- crols, and was called when our Author liv'd, Wind's-hole. The way was a narrow Lane to the Fryery, which in his Time was joining to Mr. B-randlin^s Ground, thereupon there was, (and ftill is) a Mill. The Bufinefs and Trade of this upper Part of the Street, is chiefly that of the Tamers. White-Cross. FROM the Huxters Booths to .-ilmoft the Nun-gate.^ the Street changes it's Name again, for the Name of the TVhite-Crofs., becaufe oi -x Crofs which ftood there j to which, from the Huxjler's Booths.^ was the ancient Market of this Town, as there is at this Day at the Cale-Crofs. This Crofs was pulled down that very Night after Sir G^w^^ Selby dyed, and King James.^ of Sacred i Milhank, Memory, March Z4. ' M. S. O N the Place where the Crofs ftood was a Ciftern for receiving of that Water, which goes by the Name of the Neiv-JVater. This was lately pulled down, and there is now in the Place where the Crofs was, a Pillar of Stone- work. The Street hereabouts is wide and fpacious, and having in it feveral good Buildings > fuch are the Houfcs of William Can:, Efqj Thomas Clemelly Eiqj (^c. There are four Fairs kept in this Street in the Year, one at Lammas for Horfes, and another at St. Lukefmafs for Horfes : The other two are for Black-Cattle, the one on Jll-Souls Day, and the other at Martinmas. Near the Crofs is a Lane called the Loiv-fryer-chare y it got the Name of Fryer-chare from it's being iituated near the Black-fryers, and of the Low- fryer- chare; becaufe it is not fo high up the Town as the other Fryer-chare. I T was alfo called formerly Shod-fryer-chare, becaufe the Black-fryers were alfo called Shod- fryers. Sea. III. Nun n-G ate. FR O M the ll^ntc-crofs Southward the Street leads to the Nun-gate, which gives Name to a fmall Part of the Street thereabouts. This Gate was not the Great-gate of the Nunnery, but a back PafHige to it; for ihe Nunnery was ficu.ared lower down, as may ftill be feen by the Ruins of fome old Walls in their Garden : Prob.ably it was fituated about the Place where Mr. Hebdon, a few Years ago built a large Houfe, which is built upon the fame Ground where the old flone Houfe ftood, inhabited by Mr. Green, which feem'd to have been built out of the Ruins of this Nunnery. Here it k Speed n4. was that King ^ Henry, the Firft founded the Hofpital oi' St. Bartholomew the iH.Rex,&c. jpojiie for the Nuns of Neivcajile. In > a Charter granted them fome Time Sciatis me ' -^ ' " a. conccfllfleSc *"^^r Charta confirmafle monialibiis SancVi Bartliolomci dc Novo Ciftello fupcr Tynam omnes Donationes, quae eis rationabiliter factx luni : Videlicet, Ecclcliam Sanfti Banliolomei, .5c Ho/pitale Sanft.x Maria; do prae- ditto Caftello & Ten-am, &c. Et XX acias de fcala & IX Tofta 5c Horfeyol, 5: duos Solidos de Gatif- heved & omnia alia cjiia; eis Ration.ibilitcr data luiu vel Dabuiuur. Qiiaio volo & tirmitcr precipio, &c. Ted' Will, de Mandavilla, Reginald, de Curtnay, WillkUm de Sititstvilla, Thcr/ias de B.irdulf, Robert de Scute- lilla, Rich.ird Gosfard. Newgate-Street. 49 after they were founded, which I take to be a Charter of King Henry the ^""' "f ^f' Second's, they had all the Things beftowed upon them, confirmed : The io Ba"l^«|5^ jiaes mentioned in the ([Charter 1 have not been able to find out. A Manu- *''-'''^^^''*""'^ fcript of Mr. Jufiiia Douglas's (iiys, that probably all that Side of the Street, from the Nuns to Neivj^^ate^ belonged to xhde Nuns, for their Garden reaches to High-fryer-chare. This indeed is highly propable, for the nine Tofts or Crofts confirmed to them in this Charter, feem to be a good Proof of the Truth of it. I N the Garden which belong'd to them, call'd ftill the Nunh-Garden^ is a loiv Square Vale^ at the South Well Corner of which Tradition fayv, there, is a Faulty which leads to the Black-fryers. Mr. Richtnond^ the prefent Stew- ard of Mr. Blackett^ told me, he had feen the Entrance into it} but that now it was fill'd up with Earth. 1 STELLA.^ an ancient Village, fituated on the South of the River fyne^ ' De rebus belonged to the Nuns of this Holpital, Novocaft'. O N September the i ith, zd of Charles th^ Second, after the Death of Sir Nicholas Tcmpeft., of Stella^ of the County of Durham^ Knight and Baronet it was found that he dyed poflefled of the Manour of Stelh, in the Parilli of Ryton^ in the County oi Dtrham^ which had been Part of the Lands of the Houfe or Monafiery of St B irtholomczv in Newcaflk upon Tync. The following- Writing, for which I am obliged to the worthy Dr. Hunter., o£ Durham, and from which I had this Confirmation, is as follows. i!o Die Septemb. Jmw 1° Caroli Regis Compertum poft Mortem Nicholai Tempeft, de Stelley, m Corn' Dunelm' MiUt" (j Baronet' ^iod fuit Seijfatus de y in Manerio de Stellingley, afs Focat' Stelley, fituaf Stanf ^ e.xifiea* prope aquam de Tyne in Parvchia de Ryton, in Eftu Dunelm' cum fuis Juribu's Mernbris ^ Perlinenciis Univerfis: Ac de omnibus tetris arabilibus Pratis., Pa/- cuis, Pajluris, Bofcis, Subbofcis, Communiis, Pi/cationibus, Mineris Carbonum, infra folum (^ Fundum ibidem comoditatibus, Proficuis, emolmmntis, 6f aliis adi-antagiis, eidem Manerio de Stellingley, al's Stelley, pertinenjibus Vel Ulio modo SpeSlanti- bus Nupcr parcello PofJ'cJJionum Domus five Momfterii S. Bartholomei infra Fillam Novi Caftri ftiper Tinam DiJJ'oluti. There were, as is obferved above, Waftes and Houfes, in the Slde^ in Pilgrim-fireet, in the Flefa-market, Oat-market, Darncmk, and almoft all the Town over, which belonged to the Nuns. The Piece of Ground above the 'Tuim-mom, called from them the Nun-moor, belonged to them. Mr. Riddled Houfe and Chapel in Gatefide, (commonly called GrJ^e/?^/- Marfs was dependant on it. 1:^" '"■'^'^ . ■ ' lanctinioni- ... alium No- vocaftientium, hcet e|us Hiftonam apud Autores vix inveneris. Smith in Not" Bed. lib. 3. C. ii, O And 50 N e wgate-Street. Huns of St. Bartholow. A N D it's faid in Leiand, that the Hofpital of St. Mary in Newcajllc upon Tym was given to the Ufe ot ^Z?^/^ A^«w. It appears alfo from the Charter juft above-mentioned, that among the other Things confirmed to this Hofpital^ the Church of St. Bartholomew was one. I may be ask'd therefore where this Church was Situated. In anfwer to this I dare venture to fay, that there never was any fuch Church in this Townj I mean aParifh Church : And therefore it mull have been the Church or Chapel belonging to this Hofpital i and confequently mull: have been feated where the Hofpital was. And this appears to be the rather true, becaufe we have no other mention made of their Chapel^ and becaufe when it is mention'd in the Charter it is faid to be given them, that they may ferve God in it. In the Year i?ff, TJoomai HatfieU^ Bifhop of D/^rZ'rtw, confirmed to the Nuns of this Houle, the Abbefs they had ele.5Ved j her Name was ^//VfZ).7077/. She had been not duly eiecbed, and therefore he made the Election void ; bat however, as. fhe was a Perfon the Convent very much approv'd of, the Bilhop of his fpecial Favour ordcr'd her to prelide over them. This was granted at Aukland^ May the pth, in the Tenth Year of his Coniecration. ' Dr. Hunter of Durham obliged me with the following Copy of the Bilhop's Grant. THOMAS permijfione divina Dunclm' Epifcopus RellgtoPg muJieri Doming Alicia^ Davill lalutem grattam ^ Benedi^ioncm. LLet EkElionem quamdi- JeBa FiU£ moniales t3 Conventus Drmus feu Prioratm S. Bartholomei in villn Novi Caflri fuper Tynam nojlne D-ocef de Te in Prioriffam earundcm 13 Domus fua pt £dyats fecerant -y propter peccatum in forma ejufdem Caffaverimm^ juliitia Ria- dente. Confiderantes tamen quod pnediHa moniales in Te tanquim ha'>'!!cm ^ idoneam ad regimen Prioratus pradiSli Direxerant vota fua, Tc in Priorif'am Domus pradi- U(S de noflra fpeciali gratia prafciaraus £j? ordinamus^ Tihiq; curam ^ regimen ejuf- dem committimus^ cum fiiis juribus i^ pertinentiis unlverfs^ In cujus Rei, ^c. Daf in Minerio no fro de Aukland die mm Menfis Maii jiano Dam' I3ff, Et nojira C'jujeirationis Decimo. • Madov. Tm the Year » 1485, the Priorefs and Convent of St. Bartholemeiv, granted Firm. Burg. Land to Thomas Lokwood and his Heirs, ad Feodi Firtnum. p. 4. AGNES Lawfon^ the laft Priorefs, furrendred up this Convent the jd of "January^ ir4') Jift Henry 8th, and had a Penfion of 6/. per Annmn allowed. It was valued 2,6th of Henry 8th at 36/. \os. per Ann. Dugdale 37/. 4/. zd. I T was after this in the Hands of the Lady Gaveere^ who fold it to Mr. Robert Anderfon^ who pulled down all the Houfes therein j it being a Recep- ticle for Scots and Untreemen, and he bought it on Purpofe to dillodge them. He alfo bought the Garden, and after having raifed the Dean that went thro* it, he made it a very pleafant Place j it was from Corner to Corner Eleven pMHbank Score Yards, p M.S. I T is now the Property of Walter Bkckett^ Efqi and is a very delightful Meadow. Sea. Newgate-Street. 5ft Sea. IV. Scotch Inn. 1 OPPOSITE to this Nunnery, on the Weft- fide of the Street, is an an- (tent Building with a large Gate, which has formerly been a Piece of ftately Workmanfhip. or the Gule of Augiiji from that Part of the Virgin whereon the Miracle was wrought. Blount in verb. A F T E R this Fair granted by King John, it was by a fucceeding King, or- dered to begin at the fame Time, and to continue 28 Days. When it was reduced to the Time above-mentioned I have not met with. The other Fair held in this Market is at St. Lukcfmas, it was granted to the Town in the Reign of Henry the 7th. During the Time of thele Fairs there is a Court of Pyc-potvder. All the Privileges and Power that a Court Lcct can have, is granted to this Court. Grey 17. T o WA R D s the South-end of this was a large Crofs, with a lead Ciftern at the Top of it to hold the Water, called the New-water , which was pulled Ci wn about 3 Years ago. Beyond this, at the End of this Street is the Cor- au.ciS Meeting-hoiije. CHAP. 56 CHAP. VII. Of J>. N I c H o L A s Church, T the End of the Fkjh-market^ on the South-fide of the Cor diners Meeting- houfe, iull now mentioned, itands the Church of St. Nicholas. It is a very grand and magnifi- cent Building, being in length 79 Yards, two Foot, three Quarters i in breadth 24 Yards, two Foot, three Quarters 5 and of an Height equal and proportionable. Who it was founded by I have no where met with, but if a Conjefture may be made, it was perhaps founded by Henry the Firft : But be this as it will, it is certain it is as old as his Days. For ^ it was this King that gave it to the Church and Canons of Sc. Mary's of Carlijle j and al* fo at the fame Time the Church of NcTuburn. I N a Book belonging to the Veftry of St. Nicholas., it is faid to be founded in the Year 1091 } but what Authority this Account depends upon, I know notj however it is fomewhat probable. ' Henrkus Rex, Angliae Archiepilco- po£W& E- pilcopo Du- nelm' 8c Vi- cecomiti de iicrthnmber- laniia Salu- tem. Sciatis '"^'^^ffiir*^ The ordering of the Vicarage was not 'till fome Years after. The King Deo'^&; San- i"deed in his Charter makes a general Provifion of what is neceflary for the fti Mam de Minifter of this Church, but does not % what that is. This was done by Cairlelia Sc Hugh Pud/ej^ Bifliop of Durham, as Thomas Hatfield, one of his Succeflbrs C.inonicise- g^yg jj under his Epifcopal Seal at Auckland, June 6th, 1560. For having ^^^^{^^"{^^'^^^ ienrchcd the Regiller of Hugh, his PredecefTor, he found, that he with the Con- NovoCafteilo fent of the Prior, and Convent of Carlifle, order'd the Vicarage of St. Nicholas fupezTynam in Ncwcaftk upon 7>'W, on the Day before the Converfion of St. Paul, or ^n'^wII^^™ y^""^''y ^4'^hj *IP4» ^"d gave the Ficar, for the Time being, a Portion, or & Ecclefia Maintenance, viz. all the Fruits, annual Profits, Oblations, Obventions whatfo- quas Ricar. ever, of what Kind or Thing foevei- they were, belonging to the Church of St- dusde aurea Nicholas, except the great Tythes belonging to the lame Church. Valle de me a a obiiumc)us This Account I am obliged to Dr. Hunter of Durham for, who favoured & Ricardus, me with the following Tranl'cript from Bifhop Hatfield's Regiiler. & Clerici crefiisdef«! Ordinatio Vicariae B. 'Nicholai^ de No'z/o Cajlro, viunt.recog- Can"nicis* TVJOi'mw/ Univerfi quod Nos Thomas, Permifflone Divina Dunelm' Epifcopui ipfius & fa- -^^ infpeSlo Regiflro BoKie Memorise Hugonis dudum Dunelm' Epifcopi Prade- ciant eis fer- cejforis Noftri, comperimus in eodcm quod di&us Hugo, Epifcopus Vicariam Fillte vitium quod Novi milii facere folebant & Pod obitum eorum icdigantur Ecclcfix in M.inus Cmonicoium, Iti quod Clerici qui eis De- ferviant, habeantindc Ncceflaiia 6c Canonici liabcaiu rcliquum. Dugdal. Monaft. P. ^. p. 73. ■ft ■■aiijMin^tf Of St. Nicholas s Church. 57 Novi Caftri fuper Tynam, Nofir^ Dioces^ Ordlnavit^ ^ Portionem, pro fetflenta' _ tione Vicar'ii ejtifdem qui pro tempore fiierit in eadem de fruStibus ad diitnm Ecclefi" am pertinentibus taxavit Statuit (^ Limit avit^ fub hac forma. Hugo Dd Gratia Dunelm' Epifcoptis omnibus SaiiSl^ Matris Ecckfics Filiis ad quos Litera ijia pervenerint Salutem. Noverit. Univeritas Veflra quod Nos Anno Dum' 1 1 94. Pridie ante Converfionem Sancli Pauli, Vicariam Ecckfhv Beaii Ni- cholai de Novo Caftcllo /?//'«• Tynam, Nofira Dioccs' alias in eadem Ordinatain de Unanimi confcnfti DileSictrum Filiorum Noflrortim Prioris &* Coh-ventus Karliol* Di^am Ecckfiam Beati Nicholai in Ufus fuos dinonice obtinentium^ Portionenijk- fra fcriptam pro fuflentatione Vicarii ejufdem^ qui efl^ et pro tempore erit in eaderii ex Nojlri Pafioralis Officii Debito taxamus^ Statnimus^ (^ Ordinamus ; viz. quod quilibet Vicar ius illius Ecclefne qui pro tempore fuerit^ pro fuflentatione fua i^ Por- tione congrua pcrciprat l^ Habeat omnes FruSlus^ proventus^ oblationes^ obventiones qunfctmq; ad Di^am Ecclefiam qualiterctinq; pertinentes de quibufcunq-y rebus exifteh-i tes, Decimis Garbarum DiSite Ecclefics duntaxat exceptis. In quarum Inf^eSlioni^^ fi? Cotfipertionis tefimonium Sigilhim Noflrum fecimus hiis apponi. Daf in Mane- rio Nofiro De Auckland, Sexto Die Menfis Junii, Anno Dom' i 360, ^ Nofir for two of the Gentlemen prefent -were Roger Thorn- Ion, the Son of the famous Benefaftor of that Name, zxiA Robert Rhodes, and they were alfo firft mentioned after the Mayor. "In the Year I4fi, we meet again with the Hime Perfon, who tqgether " Lib. ck with the laid Roger Thornton, by an Inftrument bearing, the fame Date^ con- ^^'°- "• veyed fome Houles for the XJio. of a Cbantery Priefl to pray for the Soul of I 58 Of St Nicholas s Church. WilUam Johnfon. We have alfo a further Account of this Gentleman in the Year i f oo, for an Inftrument bearing that Date informs us, that the Mayor and Inhabitants of Newcaflle, gave a Tenement to a Priell to live in, who was to pray for the Soul of Robert Rhodes and Jgncs his Wife, at the Altar of St. John the Baptift, and John the Evangelift in St. Nicholas Church. Now when it is confidered that this Robert Rhodes^ I am fpeaking of, was fo great a Man in this Town, that he lived in the fame Reign in which Grey acknowledges the Lanthorm to have been built, namely in the Reign of Hen. the 6th, and that he was fo commemorated by the Mayor and Inhabit.ints af- ter his Deceafe, I dare fay it will appear much more probable that he was the Builder than either of the others. There might indeed be, and probably there was a Robert Rhodes, Prior of Tmmouth, in the Reign of Hen. the 6th, but 1 never met with any Bene- fa£tions of the Priors of Tinmouth to the Town of Neivcajlle. They were on the contrary mortal Enemies to this Place, and always jealous of it's enci eaf- ing Glory. As to the other Robert Rhodes, one of the BiJhop''sJuflices, he was alive in the Year if 57, which was the zpth of Henry the 8th, and fo comes too late to build a Steeple in the Reign of Henry the 6th. I have been told by a worthy Gentleman, and one who is curious in thefe Things, that this Robert Rhodes, fo taken Notice of by this Town, was Efcbeatur. There is a traditional Story of this Building I am now treating of, which may not be improper to be here taken Notice of In the Time of the Civil Wars, when the Scots had beficg'd the Town for fevcral Weeks, and were ftill as far as at firft from taking it, the General fent a McfTenger to the May- or of the Town, and demanded the Keys, and the Delivering up of the Town, or he would immediately demolifh the Steeple of St. Nicholas. The Mayor and Aldermen upon hearing this, immediately ordered a certain Number of the chiefeft of the Scottilh Prifoners to be carried up to the Top of the old jTo^w , the Place below the Lanthorne, and there confined j after this they returned the General an Anfwer to this Purpofe, That they would upon no Terms de- liver up the Town, but would to the laft Moment defend it : That the Steeple of St. Nicholas was indeed a beautiful and magnificent Piece of Architecture, and one of the great Ornaments of their Townj but yet fhould be blown into Attorns before ranfom'd at fuch a Rate : That however, jf it was to fall, it fhould not fall alone > that the fame Moment he deftroyed the beautiful Strudture, he fhould Bath his Hands in the Blood of his Countrymen > who were placed there on Purpofe either to preferve it from Ruin, or to die along with it. This MefTage had the defired EfFeft. The Men were there kept Prifoners during the whole Time of the Siege, and not fo much as one Gun fired againfl it. There were only five Bells originally belonging to this Church, but of late Years the Number is encreas'd to Eight. The great Bell, call'd the com- mon Bell, was fent to Colchefter to be new caft in the Year 161 f, it weighed 3 up lb. They are very large ones, have a bold and noble Sound, and yet exceedingly fweet and Harmonious. The three latter Bells were given to this Church by the Corporation. In the Year 1713, William Ellifon, Efq; Mayor, and Robert Sower sby, Efqj Sheriff, the Steeple was repaired at the Expence of the Corporation. A T the North Door of this Church, it is obfervable, that the large Fla^ig which is the firfl Step into the Church, is cut all along the Surface with un- even Lines, in Imitation of the Waves of the Sea. This is a filent Remem- brancer of the Saint the Church is dedicated to ; for St. Nicholas, the Bifhop oi Myra, who lived in the Time of Conjlantine the Great, is fo famous among fome for his Miracles and Apparitions by Sea, that he has merited the Title of the Patron of the Sailors. There Of St. Nicholas's Church. 59 There were no fevvei- than p Chanteries belonging to this Church, which are valued at 48/. 4;. 6d. per Annum. The Chantery of St. John the JBaptift, and St. John the Apoftle, was on the " North-fide of the Church. It is faid to have been founded by Robert '" I" Ecde- Rhodes and Aines his Wife, and licenfed by King Henry the 6th. If there be ^'^ f^"f ' j- any Truth in this, it is that he was a tliird Founder. He allowed a Prieft a^ villa No- yl. J s. 10 d. per Annum to pray for his Soul, and the Soul of his Wifej and vicaftri ad the Town of Newcafile^ as it is Hiid above, out of Refpeft to his Memory, al'ai^e Bore- gave the Prieft a Houfe to live in ; but it's a Miftake that this Chantery was ^'^ ^°l'^^^ not founded before, for Richard de Emcldon who had been above 12, Times ^oannisA- Mayor of Ne-wcaftle^ was permitted by Letters Patents from King Edward poft. & E- the 3d, to build upon a Piece of vacant Ground, over againft the Chapel of vangel. lib. St. fbcmas the Martyr, that he might prefentit to Three Chaplains.^ to procure Cart. p. iir. their Prascrs for him whilft he was living, and after he was dead, andalfofor the Souls of his Wives and iiis Father and Mother, ^c. every Day at the Al- tar in St. Nicholas^ which was dedicated to John the Baptift, and John the Apoftle and Evangeliit. This Gentleman died about the 6th or 7th of the Reign now mentioned, as is clearly gathered from the Authority above > and the Letters in which this Chantery is mentioned bear Date the 6th of thi^ Reign: and therefore it is a Miftake to fuppofe this Chantery founded in the Reign of Henry the 6th, which was almoft an hundred Years after. The Priefts fet a-part to attend this Altar, were every Day to pray for his Soul, and the others above-mentioned ; and by an Order from the Then Ri- chard^ Lord Biftiop oi Durham^ the Chaplains for the Time being, were obli- ged on the Anniverfary Day of his Death, every Year for Ever, to celebrate his Memory with a Solemn tolling of the Belh^ and devoutly fmging by Note in the £vening of the Anniverfary^ and on the Annivcrfary itfelf^ and lolemnly to fing Mafs for the Soul of Richard hinifelf, and the Souls above-mentioned, and the Souls of all the Faithful departed. And after Mafs, one of the Chaplains waS: to diftribute among an hundred and fixty poor People.^ the Sum of Six Shilling*, and Eight- pence, and this annually for ever. This, together with feveral o-. ther Things, was ordered by Richard^ Bifhop of Durham^ in the 3d Year of his Confecration, Anno I33f, which was, with all other Things mentioned in the Charter, confirmed by Edward the 3d, in the^ioth Year of his Reign. Thus then it appears that this Chantery is of a much older Date than the Reign of Henry the Sixth. But this is not all j Richard de Emeldon was but a fecond Founder of this Chantery : It boafts ftill an higher Antiquity, and is faid to have been founded by Laurence of Durham^ who was Prior of Durhatn in the Year 1149, which, by the way, is a further Proof of our Conjefture of this Church's being founded by" King Henry the Firft, or in that Reign at lateft. 2. The Chantery of St. Catherine was founded by William Johnfon and /- fabel his Wife, m the Reign of Edward the Third > it's yearly Value was 6 /. I f J. Roger Thornton^ the Son of Roger the great Benefactor, in a Deed dated December the loth, I4fi, is made, together with fome others, a Truftee by a Feoffment of Roger Booth., the furviving Feoffee of William Johnfon., who gave the Lands and Tenements therein mentioned, for the better Support of a Perpetual Chaplain to attend the Chantery of St. Catherine, which is faid to be ab Alano-Durham ab antiquo fundat : In the Reign of King Henry the 6th, one Robert Mitford was the Chap- lain of this Chantery, who fuccecded Peter Angram, a former Chaplain. 3. Another Chantery of St. Catherine., was founded by Nicholas and John Elliker. The Deed of Foundation is faid to have been imbezclcd by Richard Wallas^ late Incumbent there: The yearly Vvilue 3/. 14.?. '^d. which arofc out / 6o Of St. Nicholas s Church. out of certain Tenements fituated in the Clofe, Cajlle-mote, in the Side^ and in SandgatCi. 4. The Chantery of St. Peter and St. Paul, was founded by J/fnin Henro- ther^ and Allan Hilton, and hcenced by King Henry the Fourth j the yearly Value 4/. 1 3 J. 4 Giey 10. paflcth all the Reft in Height, Largenefs, and Beauty. This Author fays, that there were in this Window the Twelve Apoftles, and the feven Deeds of Charity : I fuppofe he Means, painted upon the Glafs. He tells us alfo, that this Window was built by the Beneficent Roger Thornton, the Elder, and that there was this Infcription on it. Orate pro anima Rogeri de Thornton, £«? pro animabus Filiorum i3 Filiarum. At prefent there is nothing remaining of thefe Pi£tures, but two Heads, which, if we may Judge of the Reft by them, will fpeak them to have been very Tall, and curioufly done ; The Infcription is intirely gone. An Indulgence of 40 Days was granted by twelve Foreign Bifhops, i3fPj and confirmed by Thomas Hatfield, Biftiop o*^ Durham, to all Gich (having re- pented and confefled their Sins) as performed the following Things, viz. If R they 62 Of St. Nicholas s Church. they came to this Church to Mafs, to Prayers Morning or Evening, or other Divine Offices, on the Feall of it's Patron, and the others below written, viz. on the Feaft of Chrijlmas-day, the Circumcifion, the Epiphany, EaJIer-Evc, the Afcenfion, Pentecojl, Trinity, Corpus Chrifii, the Invention and Exaltation of the Holy Crofs, St. Michael the Arch- Angel, the Nativity and Decollation of John the Baptijl, the blefTcd Apoltles Peter and P^«/, and all other Apoftles and £- vangelijis ; the Commemoration of All-Souls, and on the Fealt of the Dedica- tion of the faid Church of St. Nicholas ; and alfo on the Fearts of St. Stephen^ Lawrence, George, Martin, Dionyfius, Blaftus, Mary Magdalen, Catharine, Aga- tha, Margaret, and in the Octaves of all Feaft s, and on every Lord's- Day and Sabbath through the Year. They alfo were intitled to this Indulgence who follow'd the Body of Chrift, and the Holy-Oyl, when they were carryed to the the Sick ; or who went round the Church-yard, praying all the -while for the Dead; Thofe alfo were intitled who alTifted in the Repairing ot the faid Church, or Gifted it with Lamps, Books, Chalices, Veftments, or any other neceJJ'ary Or- naments ; or gave, or left to it by Will, Gold, Silver, or any Part of their Subilance: Thofe alfofhared in it, who on the Sunday sirndthcix: Prayers when the Bell rung at High Mafs, at the confecrating of the Body of Chrift j and laftly thofe who di&vou.i\y prayed for the Soul oi Catherine de Camera, whofeBody was buried in the faid Church, and for the healthful E{\:a.te of John de Camera, Gilbert de Dukesfield, and Agnes his Wife, as long as they lived, and for their b St. Nicho- Souls when they were dead. ^ Us Veftry. Some of the Infcriptions o?i the Tombs^ Monuments a^id Graves of this Church. The Eafl-Etid. ON the North-Eaft Corner of the Church, is the Tomb of Sir George Selby. His Effigies and that of his Lady are at length, refling upon Pil- lows, with uplifted Hands. On the South of the Tomb are the Effigies of his Children in a Pofturc of Prayer, kneeling with raifed Hands. Upon a Marble Stone, placed in the Wall, a little above the Tomb, is the following Infcription, Georgius Selby Eques auratus ab antiqua & clara Selbeiorum de Selby in Comitat' Ebor. Familia oriundus, quater hujus vilte pra:tor, Vicecomes Co- mitat' Palat' Dunclm'. Sereniflimi Regis Jacobi Hofpitio & Servitio Nobilita- tus. Ob Lautum certe & affluentem perpetuo apparatum, & Liberaliflimac Menfie communicationem merito paffim celebratiffimus. Margarets: Uxoris Joannis Selby de TwifcU Militis filiic confortio apprime Ftelix. Ex qua fuf- cept' quinque filios, inimatura morte Sublatos Sc fex filias fuperftites j Quatuor ante illius obitum nuptas> Margaretam primam Gulielmo Babfys de Morton, Elizabetam Secundam Joanni Delavale de Diffington, Equitibus Auratis ; Bar- baram tertiam Roberto Delavale H.-eredi Radulphi Delavale de Seaton Equitis Aurati, Ifabellam quartam Patricio Curwen de Workington Armigero, Scduas innuptas Dorotheam &: Mariam, per totum Vita; Curfum Lautiffima ufus fortuna. In hoc vere bcatus, quod fub indubitata Spe plcn;E peccatorum om- nium remiffionis, 8c fux ad etcrnam vitam Rcfurreftionis, fpiritum in manus Domini commendavit in eoque placide obdormivip jQoMartij igif An' iEtatis 68. Corpus Sepultum jacet in Crypta fub hoc Tumulo charae uxoris cura cxtrufta. Amoris, Honoris Sc Memorix ergo. Under the Coat of Ar?fts. Mortuus vivo. Within the Pallifadoes, upon a Flat Marble Stone It^u have Mercy of the SowUe of George Selbe Merchant Adventurer fometimc Alderman of this Town, and Margaret his Wife, and their Children. /« Of St. Nicholas s Church. 63 lit the Margin on his Side Anno if 42. on her Side Anno if 61. I N the North-fide of the Middle Porch^ under the grand Eaftern Windowj arc the N itches of feveral pulled out Statues j on the South-fide of it is the Monument of George Carr^ with this Infcription Orate pro Anima Georgij Car quondam Majoris iftius villas qui obijt Anno Domini Alillcfimo CCCC Cujus anima; Propitietur Deus. The Effigies of him and his Wife are at length, refting on Pillows with their Hands raifcd. Above them is an arched Canopy, with a defaced Infcri- ption ; but a Manufcript in this Church tells us that the Words were Jroj Ofo:ac «CarV .^avoll \}i^ IDnffc^ aiiD Cfji'iactiS .tiatolliS all anb to mafec a folem SDi'Jfli' M^fi taitlj all (ji.^ ^J^ucljern in t|)c ij^top;e am ©irfie to Ting a.^ apetptfj in \yi ©Jiting of lii'.nc<-\ A T the Feet of the Effigies are the Ruins of a large Image of our Saviour upon the Crofs, with an Infcription equally dark as the other, but (aid to be this <©ut 5taDn pzaj"^ ^iiti to fa? at tfjc 5^a?. W HEN the Scots took the Town they plundered the Churches, and thefc and many more were defaced -, for they broke down the Cai^ved Work thereof with yfxesand ILimmei's. I N the North- fide of the South-Eafl-Porcb, is a very pretty Monument commemorating the Wife o£ fVilli^^ni IVrightfon^ Efqj Near this Place lies the Body of Ifabel^ the Wife of JVilliam Wrightfon, Efq-, one of the Burgcfles in feveral Parliaments for this Town and County of Nexvcaftle upon Tyue^ fhc died the 13th oi March ^ iji6. Almost contiguous to this, is the beautiful Monument of IVfr. Matthews the III Husband ot Ifabel bcfore-mentioii'd, he dy'd Jpril (5, 16^7. The Burial Place of Timothy Davifon^ Alderman, fometime Mayor 6f this Town and Governour of the Merchant's Company, and Elizabeth his Wife, by whom he had Illiie i5 Children, of which furvived them 6 Sons and four Daughters; {he departed this Life the icth Day oi September, I<5p4, and he the zoth Day oi December i6p6, in the ffth Year of his Age, Here lyeth the Body of Robert White, Merchant^ he departed OSlober, 1644. The Burial Place of Sir Ralph Jennifon of El/wick, in the County of Nor^ thtimberland, Knt. fometime Mayor of this Town. Obijt tertio die Aprilis An^ no 1701, Mtat.fua 88. The Burial Place of Mv. fohn Stephenfon, Merchant Adventurer^ who died the 10th oi April ijif. ROBERT Bulman, Feltmaker, 16 May, 171 6. Rachael his Daughter, who was Wife oi William Render fon, Upholfter, died izd oi Aug. 1730. The Burial Place ot John Ogle, Efqj his Daughter Mary Lijle^ Relift of Robert Life, ot Hazon, Efq; dyed ipth December, 1718. ROGER Rawe, twice Mayor of this Town, Ifp6. RO B E RT Barker, fometime Mayor of this Town, and his four Wives j he departed the 4th of Augti/l, 15-88. RALPH 6 A Of St. Nicholas s Church. RALPH Cocke, Efqj Alderman, and fometime Mayor of this Town, zj Jan. i6fi, his four Daughters furvived him, and Judith his Wire, viz. Do- rothy Jane., Am., Barbary : The Wives of Mark Milbank, William Can:, Tho- mas Davifon, Henry Marky, Merchants. RO B E RT Jennifon, Merchant, ij October, 1668. FRANCIS Brandling. WILLIAMCarr, Merchant Adventurer, and ^aw his Wife, by whom he had IflUe II Children j he departed April 14th, 1660 jfhe departed Jan. 31, 1 666. BARTRAM Anderfon, Merchant Adventurer, June i^ i6of. Jesu have Mercy of the Sawlles of /fe«^0' ■^«''^y^»> M.A. fometime May- or of this Town, If 52. ISABELL Andeffon, his Wife, was buried utider the next Stone to himj Ihe dyed in Augufi, ffSz. BERTRAM Andcrfon, Merchant Adventurer, Augufi, 1606. MARK Shafto, Merchant Adventurer, fometime Mayor ot this Town, April J ij'P3. Under the fame lye • Shafto., who dyed December., ifSi, and Robert Shaft 0, Alderman, of this Town, who dyed September, 16Z3. Jesu have Mercy of the Soul of Mark. Si K Peter Riddell, Knight, Twice Mayor of this Town, iSth April, 164.1. LANCELOT HodgJIwn, 1667; Margaret, his Wife, Daughter to Sir Thomas Haggerfion, Baronet, departed 1663. South-Isle. IN this Ifle, oppofitc to the Altar, againft the Wall of the Church, is a beautiful and curious Monument of William Hall, Efqj fometime Mayor of this Town, and Jane, his Wife, which was erefted in Commemoration of them, by Sir Alexander Hall, Knight, their only fui-viving Son. At the Top of the Monument is the Arms of their Family, with an Angel on each Side of them. The Body of the Monument has on each Side of it a Pillar, of the Coiinthian Order j between which is the Rcprefentation of a Desk, with open Books upon it, and he on the one Side of it, and his Wife on the other, in the Pofture of Prayer, kneeling before it, with their folded Hands upon the Books : Below this are the Effigies of thcii- Children, in the fame Pofture j one of which is reprefented kneeling alone, at one Side of a Desk, with an o- pen Book upon it ; and other Five on the other Side of it, kneeling one af- ter another : The Former, I take to be defign'd for their Son, the other for their Daughters. Below thefe again, is the following Infcriptioni Gulielmus Hall, Armiger quondam Major hujus vilte & Jana Uxor ejusChariffimaj fae- lice prole ditati, Juxta hoc Monumentum in Domino requiefcunt. Ille vicefimo Oftavo die Julii Anno Domini 16} i, iEtatis fu2E 6}. Ilia duodecimo die Augufti Anno Domini 16 1 3, .^tatis 36. In quorum Memoriam Alexander Hall cqucs auratus unicus eorum filius fupcrftes hoc merito pofuit. W I L L lA M Bonner, fometime Sheriff of this Town, Jan. 22. 1626. JAMES Coward Gh.^itT. rriL LI AM Grey, Efqj 1707. GEORGE I I Of St. Nicholas s Church. 6 s GEORGE Datvfon, Alderfnan. EDM^ARD Johnfon^ Alderman, and fometime Mayor, March ii^ 1715, aged 69. Jesu have Mercy on the SowUe o£ Edward Surtis^ Merchant- Adventurer. THOMAS Gibfon^ Mafon, Feb.-j\.h^ 1699. Pray for the SawUe of John Todd, Mer. Ad. and Elizabeth, his Wiyf, Daughter was unto Wm. Merchant, and his Children. I N this Ifle againft one of the Pillars is a Marble Monument with this In- fcription. Memoria Patricii Crowe olim de Afhlington Armigeri. Cujus Corpus haud procul Marmore lilo Scpultum Jacet. Obijt die Januarij Triccfimo Primg Anno Domini M:D:CXC1V. Mr. Chap-mail's Stone, Mr. l^F'ilkinfofi'sVhce, Henry Chapman, Merchant Ad- venturer, Alderman, and 4 Times Mayor ot this Town j Alderman likewife of the famous City of London, and one of the Commiflioners for the Realm of England to treat with Commiflioners of Scotland for the Wealth of both Kingdoms J departed to the Mercy of God the ift of April, K523. ROGER, Jane, Sufannah, and Thomas, the Children of James Clevering, Merchant Adventurer, and fometimes Mayor of this Town: iSijger departed ifpz, Jane 15*92, Sufannah if 99-, Thomas 1602. MICHAEL Kirlair, Mer. Ad. 31 July i6zo. THOMAS Bowes, Mer. Ad. he departed ifpj, his Wife Agm, 1624. HENRY Bovjes, Mer. M. ROBERT Bower, Mer. Ad. i6t\. WILLIAM J ohnfon. Alderman and fometime Mayor, departed 1678. ROBERT Ledgard, Draper. WILLIAM Sheerwood, Mer. Ad. , This is the new burial Place of Aldennan Sovierbie. • HUMPHRY Pibus, Mer. Ad. April 1691. His Drnghter Elizabeth, was the Wife ol John March, Vicar of this Town, flic departed in Ap-il 1680 j he the zd ol December 169Z. ROBERT Heffilrigg, March 28, 1728. RICHARD Wright, SherifF, 1671. Th IS is now the burial Place of Mr. Roger PFiIfon, Merchant. S A 66 Of St. Nicholas s Church. A Stone dated if 51. IFILLIJM Jackfon, fometime Sheriff, 1630. On the North-fide of this South-Ifle, at the South-end of the Organ Gal- lery is the Monument of the Family of the Maddifom. It is very bcautifull, fumptuous, and magnificent. The Statues arc fo devoutly pollur'd on bended Knees, with uplifted Hands, that whilil wc view them with our outward Eyes, we are inwardly llruck with a Religious Awe, and lecrcc Wiflies after Piety and Devotion. A T the Top of it, which is pretty high, are three Statues j that oh the Well in a fitting Pollure, with a Crofs in the left Hand, and a Book in the Right, is the Reprefentation of Faith ; that on the Eali in a fitting, expeft- ing Pofture, with an Anchor at her Feet, is the Reprefentation of tlope^ and that in the flanding Pofture, with a Flammg Heart in her Hand, (the Emblems of A6lion, and Fervency and Love) is the Reprefentation o'i Charity. Above th°e Statue on the Eail, is Mcmorc.re NoviJJlmd, and above that on the Well, Meinoride jacrum. Below thefe three Statues, is the Body of the Monument, having in it 6 large and beautiful Statues, three Men and three Women, on their bended Knees, with folded Hands in the Polfure of Prayer j who thefc are defigncd for may be eafily learned from the Infcriptions below j the Lady on the fFeJl- end, which has on the right Hand of her a Pillar of the Corinthian Order, is '£- lizaheth the Wife of Henry Afaddi/bn; The Gentleman next to her is Henry her Husband > for he is cloathed in the Scarlet-Gown of the Aldermen of New- caftle, becaufe he was fometime Mayor of this Town. Next to him is his Fa- ther Lionel Maddifon, cloathed in the fame Manner (for he was thrice Mayor of this Town) kneeling before a Desk, with an open Book on it > on the o- thcr Side of this Desk is his Wife Jane, kneeling in the fame Manner, with her Face to him ; next to her, is their Son John, who died in the Expediti- on to Cadix^ and who is therehore cloathed in Armour. Then we have the op- pofite Pillar ot the Corinthian Order, on the other Side of which is the Effigies of one of Henrfs, Daughters, probably Barbara, who dyed at the Age of 17 Years, as is faid on an adjoining Stone. The Infcription. Here refts in Chriftian Hope the Bodies of Lionel Maddifon, Son of Row' land Maddifon, of the County of Durham, Efq; and of Jane his Wifej fhe died July the pth, 161 1, he having been thrice Mayor of this Town, depar- ted December 6th, 1614, aged p-j. Years, he lived to Ice his only Son Henry Father to a fair and numerous Illuej here interr'd alfo are the Bodies of Hen- ry Maddifon, and Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter oi Robert Barker of this Town, who lived together moft comfortably 40 Years, he was fometime Mayor of this Town, and having lived in good Name and Fame 60 Years, deceafed in the true Faith of Chriit the 14th of July 16^4. Elizabeth his only Wife, had Ifiue by him ten Sons, {viz) Sir Lionel Maddifon, Knight, Ralph, Robert, William, Henry, Peter, George, Timothy, and Thomas, and Six Daughters, 7^«^> Sufan, Elizabeth, Barbara, Eleanor, and Jane, all the Sons at his Death were living} but John who died in his Expedition to Cadix. She lived his Widow ip Years, died i6f 3. Beiow the Infcription, under Elizabeth is Anima; fuper iEthera vivunt. Under Henry and Lionel, Decus vitiv eft Honorata Mors. U»dtr • 0/St. Nicholas's Church. 67 Under ^2Sit and J ohn^ Beati mortui qui in Domino moiiuntur. j^nd under Barbara, Serins aut citius metam properamus ad unam. The fmaller Statues furrounding the Tomb^ are defigned for the Children of the Family. The whole is furrounded with a ftrong Iron Rail, as being one of thfc greatell Monumental Ornaments of the Church. This Tomb was about two Years ago clean'd and beautified at the Ex- pence of Mr. Robert Pcrcival, whom wc have commemorated amonglt the Benefactors of St. Johri's Church. LIONEL Maddifon^ Mer. Ad. Mayor of this Town, July i6z^. JANE 'Tempeji^ Wife o£ fniliam Tempeji, Efqj fecond Son of Sir Nicholas TempeJI, Knt. and Bart, and Daughter to Henry Maddijori, fometime Mayor, departed lyth December i6i(5, Mfxt. to. BARBARA Maddifon, Daughter of the faid Henry Maddifon, i6zy, aged 17 Years. On Mr. ForfterV Stone. Ive kept the Faith a good Fight fought have T, My God and Sovereign ferv'd here quartered liej With Dull: disbanded 'till the lall: Trump hence^ Rally thefc Atombs by it's Influence, Then with the Loyal Bands received I may A Crown of Glory for the general pay. THO MAS Loraine, Efqj his Epitaph. About the Border^ Hie Jacet Thomas Loraine ohm dc Kirkharlc Armiger qui obijt viceflimo quarto die 0£tobris, ^Etatis fux 3f Anno Domini MDCxLlX. Vpon the Copper Plate, Ite precor, Mufce, vos & Dolor ifte requirit Ifte Labor circum tempora Taxus eat Plangite Solicitis Mcerentia Pedbora Palmis ., , Rumpat 8c Ornatus quique fu03 Publica quippe vocat clamantia publica virtus Hujus erat hie Dolor minoi' Fata Magilfratum rapiunt cum ferrea Regnum Dcbilltant Mundum cum rapuerc bonos Et bonus & Laurus modo cum deceflerit -orbis Non facis ad Flclus, fi Lacbrimaritj crit. Sf. \ 6S Of St. Nicholas s Church. Sf. M A ryV Porch. p. M j1 LEXANDRI Davlfon Equitis Aurati ScAnn^ Filix Radulphi Cocke, ejus Conjugis Chariflirnce. Ex qua Filios quinque, Thomam equitem auratumj Radulphum Davifon de Thornley, Samuelem Davifon de Wingatc Grange, Jofcphum Centurioncm cordacum (in hujus oppidi contra Scotos Rebelles propugnacionc Itrenui ad mortem ufq> Dimicantem hie juxta tumulatum) Edwardiim Mercatorem Cshbem deFun6lum, Filias ctiam Binas Barbaram prime Radulpho Calverley deinde Thomas Riddcll de Fenham in Comitatu Northumbrise Equitibixs auratis, ac Margaretam Henrico Lambton armigero Enuptas, Sufcitavit. Qui quideni Alexander Graflante tunc conjuratione perfidiffima, Optimo Regi, Caufxq; Regia; Temper Fideliflimus Gravem rei fxmiliaris Ja£turam Maximo animo perpefTus, tandcmq; in hujus Novicaftri obfidione cum Scotorum Rebellium cxercitu irruenti magnanimiter Confligens, Noviffimum Spiritum (o6togenarius fere) fortitcr effudic. Undecimo die Menfis Novembris anno ab Incarnatione Domini 1644 hoc mo- numentum pofuit Thomas Primogenitus Eques Auratus M. S. Egregio Adolefcenti Thomre Hamiltono, animi Indole, forma Corporis Sc robore priECXteris infigni, Domini Patricii Hamiltonii a Preilon fiho dignilli- mo a nobiliffima familia Hadingtonia oriundo, Centurioni fub D.)mino Alex- andre Leflaro Exercitus Scoticani Foederis Imperatore, excellcntiHimo Domino Alex. Hamiltonus Rei Tormentaria; praefeftus, Avuunculus Marrcns pofuit, Cum totius exercitus Pan£tu Maximo obijt Anno Domini 1640 Oftobris jiEtatis fu£E 10. The Motto of the Coat of jirms above, Mihi Palma CuprefTus. S I R Richard State's Burial Place. Quinto Die Februarii Anno 161 f Richardus Stote quondam hujus Villjc Mercator obijt. Dccimo fexto Die Aprilis Anno i f 8p Hellinor Uxor ejus z, ex hac vita deccfljt. In Sacra Memoria Parcntum fuorum Edvardus Stote hoc Monumentutn pofuit. Richardus Sch (who dy'd in his In- fancy) and Dorothy who furvives. • Upon Of St Nicholas s Church, {g Under the South Window of this Porch lies the Effigies of a Man, at his full length with his Legs acrofs, and his Dog at his Feet, having his Efcuccheon of Arms and Sword. This we are intorm'd was the Fafhion of burying thofe only, who took upon them theCrofs, and were mark 'd with the Badge of the Crofs, for facred Warfare, ,m recovering the Holy-Land from the Turks. H E is fuppofed to have been one of the Family of the Scrooges. y HN LaivfoKj Efqi of Cramlington in the County of Northumberland^ j-th Nov. 1680. .; ""■■ ANTHONY Ifaacfon^ Efq> ROBERT Roddara^ Alderman, and fometime Mayor of this Town, July 1682. JONJTHANh'is Son, fometime Mayor o£ Newcajlk, dyed lift Angujl^ 171 1. he left lilue by Jdne his Wife a Son and a Daughter. The Burial Place of Paul Cook, Joyner. J O HN Emmerfon, fometime Mayor, dy'd T HO MAS Jmnifon, fometime Mayor, departed, December^ Anno i6j6. ISABEL Riddel, 1665. RICHARD Huddlejlon and Elizabeth his Wife, he dy'd June 1707, fhe 1730, aged 82 Years. CHRISTOP HER Nicholfon, Alderman, departed 2pth Sept. 1670, in the 68th Year of his age. Against the Wall {lands a Monument of Michael Welden, Son of Mi- chael Welden of Welden, Elcji and Sarah his Wife, who departed this Life 3d Ap. 1680. St. M A R G A R E tV Chantery, The Burial Place of the Family of the Bewicks. iVefl-Lnd of the C H u R c h. The Burial Place of William Errington, Mailer and Mariner. JOHN Gill. WILLIAM Boiitjlower, Merchant Adventurer. In the M I D D L E-I S L E. The Burial Place of William Ratter, Merchant Adventurer. At the Eaji-End of the Middle-Isle. RICHARD Wright, Merchant Adventurer, and fometime Sheriff, depar* ted this Life, fth May 1671. T The yo Of St. Nicholas s Church. CUTHBERT Ellifon, Merchant Adventurer. Now the Burial Place of Mr. Richard Wall, defcendcd from the Elder Brother of Robert and Benjamine Elllfon. The Burial Place of Robert ElUfon, Merchant Adventurer, fometime She- riff, hedyeAJan. 12th, 1677. The Burial Place of Benjamine EUifon, who departed this Life 25-th June, 1676. ylBRA HA M Anderfon, Merchant. JOSEPH Ellifon, Merchant, who dyed 21 ft oi Jan. \6U. In the North-Isle. THOMAS Partis, Tobacconift, who died pth May, 1684. The Burial Place of Roger Ive, Citizen and Stationer of London, who died 6th Augufi i67f. ROGER Pro6ler, Merchant Adventurer, who died 2cth A'oi;. 1664. Now Mr. Malliburne's Burial Place. JOHN JVinpip, Tanner, 1607. Against the North-wall a Monument of Major Robert Bugg, Citizen and Habberdafher oi London, who died 22d May 1688. GEO RG E IVinfield, Merchant Adventurer, Alderman, and twice Mayor, died 1 8th Nov. 1684. MICHAEL Hall, Gentleman, 2f th 7«/y 1647. NICHOLAS Strieker, who died Aug. fth, i68p. BARBARA Riddell, Wife to William Riddel!, Merchant, and fometimes Mayor, 1627. St. G E o R G e'x Porch. SAMUEL Gill, Efqj who died 26th 051. 1720. fFIL L I A M fVarriner, 1706. Marlay, Efqj 1676. Now Mr. Perith's. Another o£ John Marlay, Merchant, who departed OElober if6i. Under which lyes alfo William Marlay, who departed i6th Jan. 1609. And alfo S'. John Marley, Knight, Son of William, who had been f Times Mayor, and departed Anno \6j2„ aged 8 3 Years and 3 Days. Jesu have Mercy on G^w^e ^jr^e's Soul, is on the Border of iVf^//>w's Stone. MATTHEW Matfen, Merchant Adventurer, died ift OElober 169J. TIMOTHY Robfon, Alderman, twice Mayor, departed 30th Dec. 1700.- *^ The Of St. Nicholas^ Church, 71 The Burial Place of George Heron, Merchant. On the Top of winch Stone is, Jefu have Mercy on the Soul of Jo/m Ord. O N the Wall a handfome Marble Monument, on which is the following Infcription } Hie SitJe funt exuvia; Robeiti Shafto Equitis aurati. Nee non ad legem Servientis Et hujus Municipij Propr^etoris In Delideratiffimi Patris Memoriam Hoc Mamor Pofuit Unicus Defundli filius Marcus Shafto de Whitworth In Comitatu Dunelmen Arm. Obijt Mai) XXI A.D. M:DCCV Vixit annos Lxxii. MATT HEW Jefferfon, fometime Mayor of this Town, departed March I ft, 1687. In the Q.UIRE. The Burial Place of Nicholas Ridley, Efqj twice Mayor of this Town, and Governour of the Merchant's Company, znd A'lartha his Wife, by whom he had Iffue p Children, viz. John, Mary, Richard, Ann, Nicholas, Echvard, Am, Martha and John: He departed this Life the zid. of January 1710. John their eldeft Son dyed April the 14th, \6%6. M. S. Janse Yeldardi Alvey Hujus Ecclefia; Vicarii Uxori LectifT. 6c dileftiff. Decern Liberorum Utriufqj Sexus aequaliter Fxcunda; Matri Cultu in Deum, Obfequio in Maritum Pietate in prolem, dilectione in Proximum Charitate in Pauperes, ad exemplum celebri. QiVJe Poftquam 34 Mx%K.. Ann. Compleviflet Pie & Placide in Domino Obdormivit Denata eft tempore Antelucano Magni Pafchatis fefti 1645 Maritus maerens hoc in amoris x'ternum Duraturi Tcftimonium Merito Pofuit. Radulphus Jennifon quondam Major hujus Oppidi qui tempore Pr£efc6turas fuse e vivis decefilt Anno Domini ij-pj hoc tumulo fepultus Jacct. Prudciis, Pacificus Largus juftufq; piufq; Sydera qui qucent, fis Ubi quivrit Ubi Jacet & hie Robertus Filius ejus, quandam Theologiie Doftor 6c Minifter verbi Dei, Mr. 72 0/St. Nicholas s Church. M R. Thomas Robinfori's Burial Place. Here Lyeth burled under this Stone Of John Bennct both body and bone Late of thefe North Parts, Mailer of the Ordinance, Which deceafed by God's Providence, The Eight Day of the Month of Jitly^ In perfeft Faith Love and Charity j A thoufand five hundred fixty and Eight Whofe Soul to Hcav'n he truftcd went (Ireight Through God's great Mercy, Bloodflred and Death Which only he trufted to during his Breath, So truft we bis Wife and Children that caulcd this And Captain Carvel, a Friend of his. Here lyeth the Body of Sir JVilUam Blacket, Bart. Alderman and fome- time Mayor of this Town, and Burgcfs in Parliament for this Corporation, and Dame Elizabeth his Wife, by whom he had Iffue 9 Children, of which furvived him 3 Sons and 3 Daughters, viz. Edward, Michael, JVilliam, Eli- zabeth, Ifabel and Chriftian; flic departed this Life the 7th of yf/r/7, 1674, and he the i6th of M;i!y, 1680. Alichael his Son, fometime Alderman, depar- ted this Life the 26th Day oi April, 1683 j who had Elizabeth only, flie de- parted this Life the 12th Day of January, 1677. The Burial Place of John Riimney, Merchant. The Burial Place of William Jennifon, Merchant Adventurer. WILLIAM, Ifabel, Edward, Chrijiian, Michael, John, William, and Chri- Jlopher, the Children of William Blacket, Alderman, and Elizabeth his ^Vife. John buried the 4th of May, i6f4, William buried the pth o£ Jugtifl, ipf^, Chrijiopber buried the 8th Day oi July, 1678. In this North Part of the Church of St. Nicholas was a Shrine of Henry Earl of Northumberland, who in the 4th of Hcmy the 7th was Lieutenant of Turkjlnre, and being commanded by the King to levy thofe Monies which were then extorted from the Country to carry on the War of Britany j the Vulgar conceiving him to be the Caufe of that Task, tumultuouily murdered him at Cockledge, near Threskc, eighteen Miles north oi 2~ork, upon the Day of St. Fitalis the Martyr ; whereupon he was buried at Beverley, where he hath a ftatcly Monument, but much defaced. This is Shrine at prcfcnt much more fo, being no where to be met with ; but Grey tells us, that in this Part of the church there was fuch a Monument in his Time, that was made in Memory of him in his own Country j he having a Houfe in this Town and Parifli, and that Part of the Infcription upon it was. Orate pro anima Henrici Percy 4 Northumbria qui per Rebellium manus occubuit, &c. The Milbank Manufcript fays it was in the north Corner of the Church ; That it was a Monument of Wood } on which was painted an old Man, our Saviour on his right Haud, and the Virgin Mary on his Left. There came a Labil from her Mouth, but what it was this Authority had forgotj but that from our Saviour's was ^afo Patri fac, quod rogat mea Mater. Then followed fome Latin Verfes, done in the rhiming Way of the Monks, but they are fo dark and obfcure, that little can be made of them, the Manufcript goes on ; When Mr. WilUa>n Selby was buried, this Monu- ment was ,1-emoved out of that Corner, and Sir George Selby did fet his mag- nificent Tomb there. After that it was placed againil the Wall, next to Sir George's Tomb, and fo continued 'till Mr. Lane. Ilodfion got leave of Vicar Nailor to remove it and place his Father. Where it is now I know not. Grey Of St. Nicholas s Church. 73 Grey tells us, thiit the Par/on of the Town is the Bifhop of CarliJIe, who hath his Ficar or Subjiitute. How this Bifhop came to have this Living in his Gift, I have fhewed in the Beginning of our Account of this Church. Upon this Church depend the other Churches j for the Ficar has Dues from them all : And yet they are each of them a diflinft Parifh from St. Ni- cholas. This Vicarage is reckoned i f o /. per Ann. and the Corporation makes an anmuil Addition of po /. per Ann. to it, which was granted by this generous and worthy Body, that the Vicar might live in a more plentiful and hofpitablc Manner than he could otherwifc do. The Ficar's Affiftant in this Church is the Curate of itj who is llilcd in an ancient Writing the Parijli Priefi., abfque Impedimenta /^ifrtrii ««/PresbyteriParochialis. Lib. Cart. it^. He receives from the Vicar 4/. per Ann. from the Town 55-/. per Ann. and from the Crown 61. \6s. Sd. befides the ftated Fees of the Church. In the Year 1724, the upper Clerk of this Church dy'd (for it had been the Cuflom to have two) Upon which it was thought more beneficial to the Parilh to have an Aflillant to the Curate, which was accordingly done in the Month of October, the lame Year. His Salary arifes from the Fees of the Clerkjhip. The Lefturer of this Church, whofe Duty is to preach on the Sunday Afternoon., h;is a Salary of 100/. per Ann. paid him by the Corporation. All the Ficars, Curates, and Lecturers of this Church, that I have met with, are thefe following, ■ Magifier Joannes de Hirlaw Ficarius in the Reign of Edward 3d. MAi:t HEW Bolton, 1374. NICHOLAS de S. iJ[.o\. ROGERUS dc thresk, 141 ^. JOHN Heyworth, 1435. WILLI AM Clym, 1438. THOMAS Harelred, pth Hen. 7th. JOHN Samlerfon before the Year if 32. JOHN Heron, Ob. if43. he alieaited the Tythe of Cramlingion, for a Ghecfe, and a Couple of Capons to be tendred May the pth, in St. Nicholas Church Porch. HENRY Aglionby, if 43. WILLIAM Purge, if 49. WILLIAM Salkeld, A. M. Sepult. Auguft Zf, if(S8. JOHN Magrey, if 68. RIC HARD Holdfworth, ifSf, he was buried at St. Nicholas, Sept. f, I f 94- Th E Worfhipful Dr. Morton, Archdeacon of Durham, and Vicar of New- cajlle, was buried At Newcaftk, July i8th, 162.0. U HENRT 74 Of St. Nicholas s Church. HENRT Pool, Vicar, was buried at St. Nicholas's, Sept. 3d, 1623. Dr. Jackfon, Vicar, he left the Vicarage, and dyed in i\\cSo\Mh.oi England, Anno 1640, Eachard the Hillorian gives this Charafter ot" him. *' D R. 'tbomas Jackfon, the Oraamcnt of the Univerfity of Oxford, was *' Prefident of Corpus Chrifli College, and Dean of Peterborough, he was a *' Man of great Piety and Worth, Induftry and Ability, a great Mafter of " the Fathers, and profoundly read in Theology, as appears from his many *' learned Treatifes. YEILDARD Alvey, Vicar, was buried at St. iV/c^o/^jy, 1648, hefucceeded in the Vicarage of Ne-wcaflle in the Year 1630, when the moll learned Dr. Jackfon was elected Prefident of Corpus Chrifli College, in Oxford, his Suf- o Vide Ann. ferings began very early in the Troubles, as I find by a Letter of his, writ- J64S. ten to his Grace the Archbifhop oi Canterbury, and dated from York, Oti. 16, 1640, wherein he fets forth what he then had fuffer'd, in the following Manner. / am for the prefent outcd of all my fpiritual Promotions, to the yearly Value of 300 1. and have mofl of my moveable Goods feized upon by the Rebels, be- ing forc'd {upon fome threatning Speeches given out by them, that they would deal more rigour oufly with me than others) fuddenly to defer t all, and to provide for the Safety of my felf. Wife, and feven Children, by a fpeedy Flight in the Night-time ; bow they would have dealt with me they have fince made evident, by their hatflj dealing with two of my Curates, whom I left to officiate for me in my Abjence j who have not only been interrupted in reading Divine Service; but threatn'd to be FifloVd, if they would not dcfift from the Execution of their Office: And whereas I had lately pur chafed 60 Pounds per Annum in Northumberland, and hoped to have been fupplied that Way in thefe calamitous "Times, 'till I might with Safety re- turn; they have, fince I prefented my Petition to his Majejly, feized upon that alfo, and commanded my Servant to be accountable to them for it : This is my Cafe at this Time. Afterwards, as might be expefted, it was far worfe, for, as 1 am orherwife inform'd he was not only puU'd out of this Pulpit by two Holy Sifters, but imprifon'd at Newcaflle, at Holy-Ifland, and at Norwich; his Fa- mily increas'd under his Troubles, if 1 miftake not, to ten Children, (for fo many I find his Wife bore him in all) which were reduced to great Streights, and fubfifted in good meafure by Charity > I perceive by the Letter above- mentioned, that he had been a£tive as well as pafiive in the Service of hisMa- jefty •, by both which Means he had fo far recommended himfelf to the Fa- vour and Efteem of that Prince, that he had defign'd fome Reward for him, which in all Probability the Rebellion prevented the King from bcftowing. Nor did Mr. Alvey live to receive it from his royal Son, on the Reftoration, for his Death happened in the Year, 1648, and was haftencd, as 'tis thought, by his Sufferings. He was a very Honeli Good Man, and a true Son of the Church of England; as, I am told, appears by a little Traft which he wrote, »nd which I have not yet been able to get a Sight of, intitled, Tht Humble Confeffion and Vindication of them who fuffer'd much, and Jlill fuffcr, under the Name of Malignant s and Delinquents, Publifli'd in 1 647. Dr. Robert 'Jenifon, i64f, buried at St. Nicholas, November %, 16 ft. SAMUEL Hammond, i6fz, he left the Vicarage upon the Reftoration J O HN Knightbridge. THO MAS Nayler, \66t, buried at St. Nicholas, April ifth, i6j$, J O HN March, Vicar, B. D. he was born in this Town. He was an ad- mirable Scholar, a Man of ftrift Piety, and a moft powerful Preacher. The laft Sermon he preached was in the Epiftle to the Hebrews, zd Chap, f 3d. How fhallwe efcape if we negleEt fo great Salvation? He preached it on the Sun- day Morning, and on the Sunday following was buried. This I 0/St. Nicholas s Church. 75" This Sermon, together with eleven more, were pubhfhed nnd recommen- ded to the World by Dr. Scot^ the Author ot'the Cbrijlian Life. There were Icverul other Sermons of his published in his Life-time, (viz.) one intitled the falfe Prophet unmask'' d^ or. The Wolf firifd of his Sheep's Cloathing^ preached on the 33th ol 'Ja>:uar}\ 1683, before the Mayor and Aldermen of this Town, and dedicated to them, another on the 50th Jan. 167^, dedicated to the May- or and Magiilrates. Another upon the zpth May, 1684, dedicated alfo to them, (s'c. He was buried at St. Nicholas.^ Dec. 4, i6p2. LEONJRD JVelftead, Vicar, was buried at St. Nicholas's., Nov. ifth, 1694. NATHAN lEL Ellifon, D. D. Vicar, diedMz>'4thi, i7ii,andwasburied at St. Nicholas's. He was born in this Town. He was a Man of good Lear- ning, and an exemplary Life -, and was look-ed upon to be one of the bcft of Panlh Priefts, for his Conftancy and Ufefulnefs in Preaching ; he was bcfidcs Vicar of Neivcajlle., Archdeacon of Stafford., Re£bor of fVhitburae, in the County of Durham., and Prebendary of Durham. T N the Year 1700, he Publirti'd at London a Sermon preached before the Mayor and Magiftrates of this Town at St. Nicholas's Church, OElober 8th, i6p9, being the Sunday after the Elcftion of the Mayor. It was Entitulcd, The Mctgijirates Obligation to punijij Vice. In the Year 1701, his Sermon of Confirmation., pi-eached June 25, I7 and very much lamented at his Death on account of thefe, and his many other good Qualities. He was fucceeded in the Vicarage by THOMA S Tumor, A. M. of St. John's CeUegCy in Cambridge, the prefcnt Vicar. The Curates. CHRISTOPHER Forjler, Curate, i6zp NICHOLAS State, 1663. RALPH Aftell, 1667. WILLIAM Drake, 1678, A.M. FRANCIS IVoodmas, M. A. afterwards Vicar o( Sedlington, famous for his Skill in the Greek Tongue. MICHAEL Fenivick, M. A. afterwards Re£tor of Long- Newton, in the County of Durham. ED' -j6 Of St. Nicholas s Church. EDMUND Lodge^ removed to the Mafterfhip of the Grammar School of this Town, 1716, and was fucceeded by JOHN Cowling, M.A. o( Si. Peter's College, Cambridge, theprefent Curate. Lecturers. ^HO MJS Stephen/on refigned 16^9. JOHN Bewick, i6}9. Dr. George Wijlmrt, 1645. C UI'HB ERT Sydenham and iniliam Dnrant, r54f . C U THE ERT Sydenham, alone, 1 648 . J O HN Tylejley removed. J O HN Knigbtbridge, 1 6f6. Dr. Wijhart again i and having been a Prifoner, he was always careful at each Dinner that he made, to fend the firft Dilh from his Table to the Prifoners. He wrote the Compleat Hiflory of the Wars, &c. under the Mar qui fs o/Montrofs. J O H N Bewick ■a.gxm, i66z. WILLIAM Mair, 1671. JOHN March, afterwards Vicar, 1676. JOHN Rawlet, M.A. \6-j9. He was a very pious and Charitable Man. He feem'd to have imitated the Example of Onejiphorus to St. Paul, iu mak- ing it his Bufinefs to find out the Sick and Needy, that he might have the Pleafure and Happinefs of affilling them. For he Jought them out very diligently and found them, and therefore the Lord will fJ^ew Mercy unto him in that Day. He printed feveral Things. In the Year 1681, \\\i Sacramental Covenanting, at London. His Solomon's Prefcription again/} the Plague, in the Year i68f. His Dialogue between two Protejlants, in anfwer to a Popilh Catechifm, called a Short Catechifm againft all SeSlaries. A Book of Divine Poems, &c. JONATHAN Davifon, i6U. GEORGE Tully, M.A. 1687. ROBERT Tomlinfon, D. D. i fipj- j Now RccT:or oifVbickham. ftHO- Of St. Nicholas s Church. 77 'THOMJS Dockivray, M. A. of St. John's College^ Camhridge^ ^7H-> ^^'^ prdcnt Letcuier. The Leclarer of this Church is alfo the Holyday LeSiurer, for which this Town allows to I. per Annum. I N thefe Weeks in which are no Holydays, there is a Catechetical Le5lure in this Church, for the Inftruftion of the Boys of the Grammar School, and thofe of the Charity Schools, who are examined in their Turns. This is done by the Vicar, the Morning Lecturer of All-hallows, the Le- cturer of St. John's, and the Lefturer of St. Andrew's, in their Order. This Cathechetical LeEltire ceafes during the Seafons of Advent and Lent, becaufe during thefe Times, there is a Sermon in this Church twice a Week, on the Wcdnefday, and Friday, which is preached by the whole Clergy of Town, every one preaching in his Turn and Order. Morning and Evening Prayers are every Day read at this Church, at 10 in the Morning and 3 in the Afternoon. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is adminiilred here every firft Sunday in the Month. The Town was wont to make a Prefent to this Church of 1 5 Gallons of Wine every Year at Eailer. Legacies left to the V o o k of the farifh of St. Nicholas. L E F T by 1'bomas Davifon, Efqj yearly to be paid in December, as follow- eth, viz. 1. s. d. Out of a Houfe at the Foot of the Side, the Sum of ■■ 01 03 00 Out of a Houfe near the Sandhill Corner • 00 07 00 O UT of a Houfe on the Sandhill — -■ 00 09 06 Out of a Houfe on the Long-Stairs • 00 04 00 02, 05 06 Left by William Can; Efq; to be paid at 1 Payments, (viz.) St. Eleanor Day, being the 3d Day of May, and St. Martin's Day, the Bifhop, in Winter, as foUoweth, Out of a Houfe in the Bigg-Market, ■ 01 06 08 Out of a Houfe in G«;zKfr-ward . 00 i j 04 ot 00 00 Left by Mr. Andre-w Aldwortb, to be paid at the Feaft of St. Andreisj. Out ot a Houfe in Akc-joclgate ■ 01 00 00 L E F t by Sir William Blacket, Bart, to be paid in December, O u T of a Houfe at the Bridge-end > — . . oi 00 00 X Left ng Of St. Nicholas s Church. /. 5. d. 1 L E F T by Mr. Robert Ellifon the Sum of 55 °<5 o8 The Intereft yearly to be paid to the Vicar and Church- wardens. This was put into the Hands of John Bourne upon his own Bond, who failing, both Principal and Intereft were loll. The lail Intereft was paid J. D. 1708. L E F T by Henry Hilton^ o( Hilton, Efqj by his laft Will, dated 7 ^^ ^^ ^^ Feb. i6th, 1640, yearly to be paid at Michaelmas, the Sum of ^ Reduc'd by A£t of Parliament to 04 00 00 Left by Sir Alexander Davifon, Sir thomas Davifon, William Carr, Efq; Mark Milbank, Eiqj John Rummy, Efqj and Sir Mark Milbank, to be paid at two Payments, viz. Lady-day and Michaelmas, as followeth. Lady-day Payment. Sir. Jlexander D.ivifon or 00 00 Sir 'Thomas D-ivifon 00 10 03 W I L L IJ M Carr, E(qi 00 if 00 MARK Milbank, Efqj ■ ci 10 00 JOHN Rumney,YSa^y 01 of 00 Si K Mark Milbank 0} 00 00 Michaelmas the fame Payments for each. Left by John Jefferfon the Sum of ■ oz 00 00 T H I s is paid yearly in March, by his Executors, as followeth, viz. Mr. Matthew Bowes 00 13 04 Mrs. Mary Farnel • 00 15 04 Mrs. Elizabeth Brumell ■ ■ 00 13 04 Left by Timothy DaviJ'on, Efq; yearly to be paid in December, O u T of the Merchant's Company • ——01 Of 00 L E F t by Mrs. Jane Brokesby a Quit-rent of 20 s. per Ann. out of Houfes in Trinity-Chare, now held by Mr. temvick and others. A'i>so fo/. diit of her Lands in Forefl-hill, to fecure the Payment of }/. per Jnnum; thefaid Sum of4/. per Anmim to be diftributed at zos.per Quarter. Left by Nicholas Ridley, Efqj yearly to be paid in December, Out of- Grounds in Heaton, the Sum of 01 10 00 L E F T by Jo[eph Atkinfon, Efqj the Sum of f /. The Of St. Nicholas s Church. 79 /. s. d. The Intereft yearly to be paid on Sept. 30th • oi 10 00 L E F T by Matthew White., Efq; yearly to be paid in December^ Out of a Houfe in Pilgrim-flreet, lately in the Poneffion of thomas Marfially the Sum of 01 10 00 L E r T by Ifakl Wife of William Wrightfon., Efqj the Sum of fo/. The Intereft yearly to be paid on Sept. 30 . . oz 10 00 L E F T by Leonard Wetherly, Gent, the Sum of zo /. The Intereft yearly to be paid on Sept. nth ■ 01 00 00 Left by Mr. Richard Randal the Sum of 7/. Left by Mrs. Jnn Davifon the Sum of zoo /. The Intereft: of which to be dillributed at two Doles, f /. each^ (viz.) on St. TImnas's Eve, and on the 7th of February. L E F t by Mr. William Harrifon the Sum of fo/. The Intereft yearly to be paid on St. A/idreiv'i Day > oz 10 00 Left by Mrs. Margaret Ramfey the Sum of 10 1. The Intereft to be yearly diftributcd for ever 01 00 00 Left by Mr. James Coward the Sum of zo /. The Intereft to be yearly diftributcd for ever 01 od 00 Mrs. Eleanor Allan of the Town and County of Newcaftle upon 7}«?, Widow, did by a Deed of Gift, bearing Date Feb. zoi\ 170$-, affignaFarm- hold and Tenant-right, in Walls-end, in the County of Northumberland, held under the Dean and Chapter of Durham, of the yearly Value 61 /. i^s. f d. to Truftees, in Truft to hcrfelf for Life, and after her Death (which hap- pened Jan. zift 1708) for fctting up a School for teaching 40 Boys and zo Girls, of the Parifli of St. Nicholas, and Chapelry of St. John ; which was accordingly done, .//. D. 1705. The Boys arc taught to read, write, and caft Accompt ; and after they have for that End been a fufficient Time in the School, they are, by the Truftees for the faid School, put out to fome Trade, or put to Sea, and have 40 s. a-piece allow'd them for that Purpofc, as alfo a Bible and Common-Prayer bound up together ; a whole Duty of Man, and Mr. Lewis's Explanation of the Church Catechifm. The Girls arc taught to read, write, few and knit, and when they are perfe£t therein, they are put out to Trades, or to Service; and have 10 s. allow'd them, with a Bible, Whole Duty of Man, and Catechifm, as the Boys. The Boys are taught by a Ma- tter, who has a Salaiy of zf I. per Ann. and zo j. for Coals. The Girls are taught by a Miftrefs, who haii 10/. per Ann. and 10 j. for Coals. A. D. 1718. The Inhabitants of the Parifti of St. Nicholas refolv'd upon an annual Subfcription for Cloathing the poor Children belonging to the faid School, and they are accordingly cloathcd new every Year upon the firft Day of May. This Charitable Foundation hath received fome Addition, by the gene- rous Bencfaftion of fome other well difpofed Chriftians ; for A.D. 17x3. Mr. Gil' 8o Of St Nicholas s Church. Gilkrt Campel, Inn-holder, in the faid Parifli, left by his Laft Will 20 /. and Mr. Samuel Nichols, Organift of the Parifh Church of St. Nicholas, left in the fame Year 10 /. both which Sums of Money are order'd to be put out at intercft, for the Benefit of this School. Mrs. Chipolm, Widow of the Rev. Mr. Chipolm, o'i Woolcr, in the County of Northumberlandi, did A. D. , pay to the Corporation of Newcaftk, the Sum of foo /. to receive the Interefl of the fame to hcrfclf for Life, and after her Death to go to the Ufc of this School for ever. N E T H E R-D E A N-B RIDGE. DIRECT L Y oppofite to the Eail Window of St. Nicholas Church is the Nether-dean-bridge, which you defcend into by fome Stairs, that lead from the Church-yard. I T is called fo, becaufe it goes over the Dean or Syke lower down the Town than the other Bridge j for ;is the Higher-bridge has the Name ot the Upper- dcan-bridge, becaufe it is higher in the Town, fo this being lower in the Town, has the Name of the Nether-dean-bridge. It is a little narrow Lane which leads into Pilgrim-flreet. Formerly, when the Merchants had their Shops and Ware-houfcs in the Flejh-market, the River ebb'd and flow'd above this Bridge, and the Boats came under it with the Wares and Commodities of the Mer- chants. But it is chiefly Famous becaufe the Roman TVall went along it. It came from the Vicar's Garden, through the Body of St. Nicholas Church, then along this Street, and fo on into Pandon. A s you defcend the Stairs afore-mention'd into this Lane, there is an Alms- boufe on the left Hand for two or three poor Women, but it has no Allow- ance. CHAP. 8i CHAP. VIII. Of PILGRIM-STREET HIS Street got it's Name from the Pilgrims^ who came from all Parts of this Kingdom to worfhip at our Lady's Chapel at =• Gefmond. , Gefmand, er Jefu- The R E was an Inn in this Street, which the Pilgrims munde. '"■^^ in their Journey were wont to call at, which occafioned '/ " ''''^^'' '" their conitant commg up this btreet, and fo it got it s wntmts Je- Name of Pilgrim-fireet^ as the Inn did that of the Pilgrims fumuth, is a. Inn. As you defcend this Street, you have on the left Hand a PafTage to the /'W""' ^'^: Carliol- croft, which is a large Field (formerly the Property of the Carliols, '^f/thtlff now oC John Rogers, Efq;) bounded on one Side with the Town's Walls, and «', one of the Three Coheirelles to Mmmadukc ill Thvtnii, and left lllue Two Daugh- ters his Heirs, vi^ Ifaiil, mmied to Wfliir U Pfo- wurJtn. and Muni to Velltam. Alter this, thcte is mention made of Al lord Nml, and had Sum- mons to Failiament in the 6th and 9th of tiv'rd the Third, but no longer. This is in all Ftobability the fame Mcxmin with him above meiltioned. The prclem Gentleman, Je*» Hi/t»», Efq; a regular Defcendant of this ancient Family, lives in the Flace of his Anrcftors, which he has adorned and Ecautificd beyond what was done in pail Ages; in particular the chafti, famous in this Country for it's lr,0>Wttd, is (o furnifhed with plutt and Bcob. and other Ntctjfmiti, that it Merits the Char.iacr of a very beautiful cl,a- frl. This Family is the ancienteft in tngfand, that bears a Coat of Arms. UNiverfis S. Matris filiis, ad quos prifentes Liters pervene- lint. Thomas peitiiiirone Divina Dunelm' Epifcopus falu- tem in amplexibus Salvatoris. Noverit Univeifitas Veftra quod nos dilectum nobis in Chrifto Dom' Willielmum de Heiijhyngton Capellanum ad Libcvam Capellam de Jefmuth infra Parochiam Novocaftri Dunelm' Dioccs" fituatam, ad quam per Dom" Alex- andrum de Hilton Militem & Matildam Uxorem ejus veros Pa- tronos ejufdem nobis prelentatus exiftit, admilhmus & ip'um in capellanuin perpetuum ejufdem Canonice inftituimiis in eadem, ipfumq; in Corpovaleni poflefTlonem ejuldem induci fecinuis, cum fuis juvibus 8c pertinentiis univerfis. In cujus rei Teftim>Mii. um Sigillum noftrum fecimus hiis aponi. Dat' apuJ Auckland, 11° Die Menfis Junii AoDom' );5i, & noftrae confecrationis TepMrno. Memorand' quod 17 die Menfis Julii Anno Dom' 1351 infra Manerium de Auckland, Diftus Dominus Willietmus renunciavit omni Juri 5c omnimodi auftoritati quod & quam in praedifla Capella vel ad earn haUuit, leu quovis modo habere poteric in futurum, aflerens I'e nullum habuifle unquam nee habere titulum in hac parte. To this Village it was that a great Number of the People of Newcaftle, headed by fome of the Aldermen, and principal Men of the Town, came to kill the Prior of Tinmouth, in the firfl of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth ; as may be [een tn that Tear. In the ',d of Edw. 6th, the Town got a Grant of the Chafe\ of the Ble/fedHivy o/Jefmond, and fome Mejfuays and Lands m}e'imot\J ; under an annual Rent ofs s. 4d. payable out of fome Lands in old Heaton, and the Ch3pe\ or Chantery of St. Laurence, with the Mejfuages called St. Laurence U3S- The Grey- Fryers^ or as they are properly called the Francifcans^ received their Name irom St. Francis^ born in the Dutchy of Spoletum in Italy ^ who was canonized by Pope Gregory the Ninth -y about two Years after whofe Death the Francifcans came into England,, and one Diggs, (Anceftor of Sir Dudley Diggs) bought for them their iirft Seat in Canterbury. This Order for School Divinity beat all other Orders, and had a Curious Library in London (built by Richard Whittington) in that Age, cofting f f o /. They afforded in England no learned Writers. Fuller. Wh I l s t this Order flourifh'd in England., this Province was divided into 7 Pa£ls or Diftricls called Cuftodies^ becaufe each of them was governed by the Provincial, who had charge of them all, by a particulai- fuperior, called Cuftos, or Keeper, who had the Power over all the Convents within his Diftri6i or Cujlody. The 7 Cuftodies are as follows. The Cuftody or Wardenfhip of London had nine Convents, That of Tork feven Monailenes, That of Cambridge fcven Monalleries, That of Newcaftle nine Monafteries (viz.) The Cuftody or Wardenfhip of Netvcaftle of the Englifh Province of the Francijcans, Grey'- Fryers, or Fryers Minors, had nine Monafteries. NEWCASTLE Monaftery in Northumberland dedicued to St. Francis. DUNDEE, DUMFRIES > Monafteries in Scotland. IlADDINGtON CARLISLE Monaftery Cumberland. HARTLEPOOL Monaftery in the Bifhoprick o^ Durham. BER- ^4 Of Pilgrim-ftreet. b Obfervant, is a Branch of the Fran- cifcans, which are Mmorei tarn Obfervantes quam Con- ventuales V Capuchmi. Thefe we find fpoken of Anno 15. Hen. i.e. II. who are cal- led Objer- ■vanis, be- caufe they are not com- hin'd together in any Cloi- fler. Con- vent or Cor- poration, as the Conven- tuals at which Time there arofe at Cologne the Controverfy about the Conception of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, whether fhe was conceived in original Sin or not? All the followers q( JIhertus Magnus <\\- firm'd, that fhe was j Scotus and his Adherents pofitively afTeited the contrary. Here it was that he gained the Title of Dr. Subtitis ; he pubiifli'd a Lcfture on Genefts. Commentaries on the Gofpels in 4 Books. Several Books on the Epi- flles of St. P«»/. Sermons of Saints, and of Particular Times. Two or three Pieces on the Mafter of Sentences. Quodlibets. Theological Difputations, Of the Knowledge of God. Of the Perfedrion of States. On all A,iflotk's Works J and many other Things. Jddit. Seph. Fol. I. p. p8. H E dy'd miferably, 1 509, being taken with an Apopleftick Fit, and too haftily buried : For, Nature having too late wrought through the Dillemper, he vainly mourn'd for Afliftance, 'till, at laft, beating his Head againft the Tomb-ftone, he dafli'd out his Brains, and fo expir'd. Whereupon a certain Italian wrote thus of him > ^ being afterwards fent to Ihidy Philofcphy and Divinity at Oxford, he acquired notable Knowledge in both, and was made Do>Slor of Divinity, and Reader of the fame amono- his own Brethren i he writ Difputations on the Mafler of Se?itences, and died in the JMonaftery at Newcaflk. He flourilhed about 1 3 36, ift Addit. Vol. P. pp. The Francifcans of Neivcaflle were prevailed upon to furrender (for the Ab- bics above the Value of two hundred Pounds, were not within the Statute of Suppreffing, as were the lefler Abbies) on January the pth, in the 30th /ff«. 8th, it confillcd of a Warden, eight Fryers, and two Novices. Sea. II. TH E Houfe Grey mentioned, was built out of the Ruins of this Fiyery j , except the North and South Ends of it, which were built by Sir IVm. Blacket, Bart, the Grand Father of the prefent PofTefibr Walter Blacket, Efqj The Authority above (iiys alfo, that it is a Princely Houfe, and indeed it is no Icfs than very ftately and magnificent} being fuppofed the moft fo of any Houfe in the whole Kingdom, within a walled Town. It is furroundcd with a vali: Qiiantity of Ground > that Part of it which Faces the Street, is thrown into Walks ajul Grafs Plats, beautified with Images, and befet with Trees, which afford a very pleafing Shade : The other Part of the Ground on the Weft Side of it, is all a Garden, exceedingly neat and curious, adorned with many and the moft beautiful Statues, and fcveral other Curiofities. But this Houfe is not more remarkable or memorable, upon any Account, than for it's having been the Lodgings of King Charles the Firft, whilft he was Prifoncr at this Town. O N this fimc Side of the Street, a little below the Houfe now mentioned, is tlie Upper- Dean- Bridge, which leads into the Middle-ftrect, Pullcn-market, Flejh-markct, &c. From hence downwards is the moft beautiful Part of the Street, the Houfes on each Side of it being moft of them very pretty, neat, and regular} llich arc the Houfes of Mv. Edward Har I, Mr. Thomas Biggs, JohnRogeis, Efq} Thomas Clennell, Efq} Nicholas Femvick, Efq} Nathaniel Clay- ton, Efi-i} Edzvard CoUiiigivood, Efq} Mr. Pcrith, Mr. John White, John Ogle, Efqi Mr. Thomas Waters, Matthew White, Efq} &c. But there is one Houfe in particular, which muft be diftlnguiihed from the others for it's great Anti- quity, and that is the Houfe above-mentioned, called the Pilg) iru\ Inn : It is on the Weft Side of the Street, and adjoins to the North Side of the Houfe Z of 86 Of Pilgrim-Street. o( Mr. Edward Colling'wood, juft now mentioned, and is cxaftly 116 Yards one Foot, from the Southmoil Corner of Upper- DeanrBridge : It is holdcn of the Dean and Chapter oi Durham, and belongs at prefent to Mv. James Hargrave. Sea. m. B E L O W this Houfc, on the other Side of the Street, is a Lane called, Manotir Chare, which leads from PUgrim-flreet to St. Jujlin Fryers. A little below the Eafl-end of this Chare, on the Right Hand, is the Tay- lors Meeting-houfe : It was formerly at the very End of the Chare, in that Houfe which Fronts Pilgrim-flreel, which by the Marks Hill remaining of a large U^rndo'w, (eems to have been a Chapel, as well as by the Tradition of the People thereabouts. There is a Writing in the Cullody of this ancient Fraternity, which I have copied for the Curioiity of it, and is as follows. To THE Worship of GOD, and the Siiftentation of the Procejfion of Corpus Chrifti Plays in the Toivn of Newcaille upon Tyne, after the laudable and antient Cuflom of the faid Town ; and for the avoiding of Difention and Dif- cord that hath been amongfi the Crafts of the /aid To'wn, as of Manjlaughter and Murder, and other Mifchiefs in Time coming, ivhich hath been lately attempted a~ mongfl the Fellowfhip of the faid Crafts of the Taylors of the faid Town : Jnd to in- duce Lo've, Charity, Peace, and right amongfi the faid Fellovofloip from henceforth, the Eight Day 0/ Oftober, in the Tear of our Lord GOD if3<5, it is ajfented, agreed, and fully concluded, and accorded by all the whole Fellowfhip of the faid Craft of Taylors then being, and tljat in Time to come, pall abide and dwell in the faid Town of Ncwcaflle, Robert Brandling, then Mayor, John Wren, Sheriff, Thomas Horlley, James Lawfon, Gilbert Middlcton, Henry Ainfley, Peter Chater, and Andrew Bewick, Aldermen, and Sir Thomas Tempeft, Knt. Re- corder of the faid Town ; that is to fay, Firft, it is agreed and ordained, that every Man that has been an Appenticc in the [aid Town, and has fully ferved his Tears of Apprcnticehood, by the Purport of the Taylors regifter and record of his Mafter, Jhall be admitted to fet up Shop of Taylors Craft and Work, paying at the Begin- ning, after the old life and Cuflom to the Fellowflnp of the [aid Craft, a Pot of Oyl to the faid Fcllowflnp, aud 7'early to the Stewards of the faid Fellowfhip, Thir- teen Pence to our Lady Light, whilfl he fliall be of Power, and Dwelling in the faid Town, or within 12 Miles of the fame -^ Thirteen Pence to the Play every Year, when it pall be played ; and that every Steward, Apprentice, Journeyman, or Hircman, working by the Week Four Pence a Tear ; and that evay Hireman by the whole Tear, or half Tear, Three Pence to the Play every Tear, when it pall he played. Also, it is ordained, that every Man of the fame Craft, Born and Free with- in the faid Town of Newcaftle, that was never an Apprentice in the faid Town, Pall be admitted to fet up Shop of Taylors Craft within the fame Town, for Forty Pounds, and to pay one Pound of Wax to the Fellowfljip of the faid Craft, and a Pot of Oyl at his firfl Admittance ; paying alfo Thirteen Pence to the Lady Light, Eight Pence to the Play, as is aforefaid: And if any of the faid Fellowflnp would take excefs for their Hand Labour, or if any will not give them a reafonable Rate for their Eland Labour, the faid Twelve Sworn Men flmll ponder and affefs, duly and truly the Hand Labour, at reajonable Prices for their Work j And that none of the faid Fellowpip Work in their Craft upon the Saturday after Eight of the Clock at Evening, and hep Eloly the Sunday, the Vigils, and Feltival Days, upon Pain of Six Pound of Wxs.for evety Default. Also Also, it is ordained^ that every Man of the [aid Fellowjhip, upon Corpus Chriili Day, Jhall come to the ProceJJion of the Time afigned, and if he come not to the Fclloivpip before the Proceffion paft, to pay a Pound of Wiixj and if he come not before the Procefion be ended, to pay t-wo Pound of Wax. Jlfo that he come in his Livery, if he be warned Jo to do, upon Pain of a Pound of Wax : And alfo that none of the [aid Craft fJjali have Livery, nor go in Procefjion with the faid Fellowf.np, before he hath holdcn Shop in the Jaid Town by a whole Tear j to the intent, that his good Conditions and Demeanours pall be known. Also, it is ordained, that he that pays not his T'early Thirteen Pence to our Lady Light, upon St. John's Day in May, he pall pay a Pound of Wax to the iamc Light, over and above the faid Thirteen Pence > and if he pay it not by Corpus Chrilli Day, then we and Fellowpip following, if he be of Power fo to doy and that amongft the Fellowpip well known, he to be difcharged of his Livery, or to make reafonable Fine for it. Also, it is ordained, that all the Taylors now in Being, and that in Time com- ing, pall be dwelling as Fellows in the faid Town, pall every Tear, at the Fcafi of Corpus Chriili Day, go together in a Livery, and play their Play, at their own Cofs, after the Ordinance of their Stewards. A L a^, it is ordained, that every Brother of the faid Fello ivfnp come in his Li- very, when he fjall be warned by their Beadle ; that is to fay, to the Proceflion upon Corpus ChrilH Day, St. John in May, the Day that the Plays flmll be plafd, and upon the Day of their general Meeting ; and that the Fellotvfjip difpofc them to have a Mafs and a Dirge for the Brethren of the faid Fellowfjip, and other Meetings to he ajjigncd -y and that at the Even of the Day of the making of the fame, fmll a Dirge be done, and a Mafs for the Brethren of the faid Fellow- flnp-y and like wife flmll a Dirge be done, and a Mafs upon the Morn for all the Brethren and Sifters of the faid Fellowpip, paffed, prefent : And that he that is of the faid Craft, and not admitted to their Fellowftiip, who for any Caufe induceing him, will have the Fellowflnp aff'embled, Poall pay to their Beadle Two Pence for aJJ'emhling them. Also, // is ordained, that when any Man of the Livery of the faid Fellowpip dyes, their Light ftjatl go a-fore him to the Church at his Burial, and abide in the Church lighted the Majs Time, and whilfl he be buried -, And if there be a Dirge done, the Light not to be lighted at the Dirge Time : And when a Man's fVife of the faid Livery dyes, the half of the Light pall go before her, in the faid Form ; and if the whole Light go a-fore her, then to pay Forty Pence to the faid Fellowftnp, for the burning of the Light and warning it, and that the Steivards piall he there to govern the Light: And if any of the faid Felloivfnp, reafonably warned to he there, abide not while the Mafs he done, he fj all pay a Pound o/Wax, if he has not a reafonable excufe, to be allowed by the Stewards. And when any of the faid Li- veries ftoall be fVedded, if any of the faid Fellowftnp, reafonably warned to be there, comes and abides not while the Mafs is done, he ftjall pay a Pound of Wax, unlel's that he have a reafonable Excufe to be found, at the Difcretion of the Stewards. Moreover, if it happens that any of the faid Fellowftnp, being in the Li- very, do Dye, and his good Friends will caufe a ^'iafs and a Dirge to be done for him, of their proper Coft, every Tear of the Day of their Burial : If it pleafe the faid Friends of the faid Brother, fo Dead, to warn the Stewards ; then the Beadle ftnill go to all the Brethren of the faid Craft and Livery, and warn them to he at the Mafs and Dirge, if it be done on one Diy of their Livery, and there to abide the Dirge and Mafs Time, upon Pain of Three Pence, without a reafonable Ex- cufe provable ; and if the Dirge he done the Night a-fore, io be at the Mai's on the Morrow, and at the Dirge at their Pleafure. In Witness whereof to the faid whole Fellowftjip and Brethren of the faid Craft, fever ally have fet their Seals, and the faid Mayor and Sheriff have fet their Seals of Oftice, dnd Hkewi/e the faid Alderman to this Ordinance have jet their Seals 88 Of Pilgrim-Street. Seals, and written their own Names with their own Hand, the Jaft Day of Janu- ary, and in the Twenty Eighth 2ear of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry, after the Conqueft of England, the Eighth. A little below this Hall of the Taylors, and the Appurtenances thereof, was probably the Houfe of Laurentius Jclon, which border'd on the South, upon the Houfe of the prefent Mr. Thomas Waters. This Laurentius was Mayor of 7V(?wc«7?/^ 1433, H3f5 H3<^» H375 in the Reign of i^wry the (Jth, Oppofite to this Houfe of Laurentius Ailion, is the Market for Wheat and Rye, every Tuefday and Saturday. Below this again are three narrow Lanes, two on the Weft-fide of the Street, and one on the Eafl : Thofe on the Weft are the Nether- Dean- Bridge, leading into St. Nicholas Church-yard, which has been fpoken of before, and the Painter- Hugh, or as it is called in a Writing, as old ;xs jE^war^ the Third's Reign, Payntourhogh, which leads into the Street called the Side. It is from Pilgrim-Jireet a very great Defcent into the Side; but it is made tollerably eafy, by having Stairs on one Side of it. It feems to have got it's Name from the River flowing by the Bottom of it up to the Nether- Dean- Bridge, &c. For Hugh fignifies a Steep-Hill, or Bank, and Painter is a Term made ufe of by the Sailors for a Rope, which they fallen the Boat with. This Street therefore was called the Painter-Hugh, becaufe it was the Hugh which the Painters were made faft to. One William Porter had a Houfe at the End of this Street, which he granted to John de Chambers, a Burgefs of this Town, in the Reign of King Edward the Third, j^nno 1361, on Condition that he paid to the Priorefs and Convent of Lambly, eighteen Shillings per Annum. The other Lane or Street, on the Eaft of this Street, is Silver-flreet, clofe by the North-fide oi All- hallows Church-yard; it leads into Pandon. It is faid, but very improbably, to ha\-e got it's Name of Silver-ftreet, becaufe of the Tifh-markct, which was kept a little below it, at the Stock-Bridge. It was anciently called All-Hallowgate, for All-Hallowgate is faid to be £.v parte Boreali Ecclejiie omnium SanSlorum ; it was alfo called Temple-gate. Mr. Nicholas Lamb, whofe Houfe is in this Street, finds it called Jewgate, in his Writings; but when, or for what Reafon it bore that Name, I know not. W E come now to the Church of All-Hallows, which ftands a little below Silver-ftreet, and on the iame Side of the Street with it, viz. at the very Bot- tom of this Pilgrim-ftreet. Sea. IV. 0/ ALL-HALLOWS Church. H O this Church was founded by, I have met with no Account, nor any of the Time it was built in ; only this is certain, it mull hav^e been built before the Year 1 286, but how long before, I know not. For in c Mr. Smith, x}\-xt Year I meet with an Account of ' the Church-yard of All-Hallows, which P- ^+'- is a plain Proof that the Church was then in Being. w GRET is of Opinion that it was dedicated to All-Hallows, or All-Saints, from the ancient Name of that Part of the Town Pampedon, which he fays was fo called from itSy inurSt i(ilt and fniped by the Trinity-houfe in Newcaftle upon Tyne, in the Tear 1618, John Holbnurne //; another, our Saviour's beivg ajleep in the Stormy then there is the Arms of the Trinity-houfe; another Draught is that of our Saviour's taking Peter by the Hand when he was Jinking in the IVaves-y and the other is that of Jonah vomited up upon the dry Land. The Chancel of this Church ftands upon a large Fault, which confifts of a pretty long Entrance^ arched at the Top, and ot a pretty large Square Room, with a curious Pillar in it, which is the grand Support of eight large Stone A'ches. The Entrance into this Vault is in the Church-yard, on the North-fide ot it. A s you enter into the Chancel from the Nave of the Church, you have on the left Hand of you, an old Pair of Stairs, to which are adjoining the Stairs of the Butchers Gallery : Thefe Stairs formerly led into the fame Place, but then it was into a Gallery different from what the Butchers Gallery is now. They led into a Loft or Gallery called the Rood Loft. The Rood was an Image of our Saviour upon the Croft, made generally of ^ood, and placed on a Loft made for that Purpofe, juft over the P.ilTage out of the Church into the Chancel; out of this Myftery, they fay, that the Church reprefents the Church Militant, and the Chancel the Church Triuviphant j and who will pafs out of the Former into the Latter, muft go under the Rood Loft, that is, they muft go under the Crofs, and Juffer AffiiSlion. This Image was wont to have the Firgin Mary on one Side of it, and St. John on the o- ther. Stavely, C.Hift. P. ipp. A few Years ago the Chancel was beautifyed. It is pannel'd round with Wainfcot. The Table is a large curious Marble Stone, which was given to the Church for that Ufe by an unknown Hand. On the large Pannel, im- mediately above the Altar, is this Figure j I .t. :>. or, Jefus Hoininum Salvator : Above that again is the Pifture of a Dove, cu- rioufly carved in ^ood ; and above that again, in a Golden Glory, is the great Name of God ^\^], which fignifies his moft abfolute fclf Exiftence; He was, and is, and is to come. This is to point out, by way of Emblem, the Perfons of the Trinity. God the Father, by the Word J E EOF AH, he having order'd il/o/fj, when he he went to the Iraelites^ to bring them out of Egypt -j to fay, /<• AM hath All-Halio\V4 Jent thee, or the Lord Jehovah, who exifts eternally, or always is. ^hcDovc ^'""''^■ is the Emblem of the Holy Ghoft j for he is faid to have defcended in a bodily Shape like a ^ Djvb. And the Letters with the Crofs in the Middle of them, Point out the fecond Pcrfon oi xhe glorious Trinity, who dyed upon the Crofs for «^Mark iii. the Sins of the World. i6. ^ Exod. iii. >4. O N the Top of the Eaft-end of the Altar, above the Things now menti- oned, are the Reprefentations of Tliree large Candles, which are an Emblem of the Light of the ^ Go/pel, which either is, or ihou'd be read at the Altar. ^ Vid. Vulg4 Antiquit' P, On the South-ftde o£ the Jltar is a Prothefts, or Side- Altar, that the I^rieft, wleadey according to the Rtibrick, may more conveniently Place the Elements upon Com. Pray- the Jitar. er. Pa. loj. Plate hdonghg to AL L-H A L L O W S^ and their Itjjcriptions. The greater Flaggon. TN v/um Ecclefi£ Omnium SanSlorum apud Novicaftrenfes Lagena7n banc dom dedit Michael Midford Mercator, in Tejlimonium Pieatts erga Deum £s? Patriatn. An. Sal. Mdcxcviii. Underneath that, Calix Benediftionis cui Bcnedicimus, nonne Communicatio Sanguinis Chrijli efi ? The lefler Flaggon. D'^o O. M. 6? Omnium SanHorum Sacello Dicat Confecratq-y g H. Atherton, g This Geni M. D. Dec'r if, 1697. tleman was g^ the Town's Two Challiccs mark'd A. H. with Covers. ^^fTV. and had a Salaryallow- Robert Blenkinfop, ") ed him from Laurence Carr, (/-t, ^. xxr a ^ st *^' Corpora- - - - ' >Church Wardens, 1610. twn. He was Wm. Duxheld, J Man icy J, J J kn w:>iz /» Two other Callices, which have been gilded with Gold, with Covers, if7i. *'- f "/#''»» ^ ° ' J ; / and oj great A Silver Difh, Weighing 54, 14. Gilded with Gold. l^ion. The Rev. Mr. T. Dicavit Deo Eccleftx O'ium Sanilorum infra Villam Novicaflri fuper Tinam, ^'^^""0',* Anno Salutis, 1718. .^i,^ ^^, o ■ born in this Two Salvers mark'd A. H. with this Infcription, Town, and EJucaied at Corpus meum hoc ell. '^' '''^l* Schuol here, ' r>, r X 'Fellow of Neman Shafto, ^ ci.nft Col-' Robert Young, C /-t 1 tT r j ^ '^'^^ '"■ Cam- Hen. Rowcaftle, >Church Wardens, 1619. bnd.e. .„i Tho. Roderforth, ) There -JT^.^ chief lutorof that Society, 'is now Reftor of Little Canfield in Effex. The Place of Town's Phypcian, was after -he Death of Dr. Atherton difpofed of, ami ftill is, to fuch a Number of Surgeons to attend the Poor, as the May ot for the Time being thinks proper. Whdji 1 am upon this, and commemorating a worthy Phyfician of l his great Town, I muft not omit io obfer-ve, that ihis Plate tv.is probably never better ferved this Way, than at prefeiit. ihe loLoWing ijcntle>> er>, viz.. )oiia Lowil.ci-, Elij; U.V). «/ Sidney College ;« Cambridge; Ad.im Askue, M. D. 0/ 5r. John'; College ;» C.im- briJ.ie; William Cowper, M. D. o/Lcyden ; CutJibeit Lambert, M. D. f(^«M/fi^ af D way;;; France; are Men eminent m their Profeljicn, and fms f.mong the Crowd of fhtfe who always frequent a Place jo fopulotii. 92 Of Pilgrim-ftreet. All-Hallows Church. *i Vide Toun- dat'wn of St. Catherine's Hofp'ital. Licentiam Sediinus prxfato Ro- ger* quod ipfe quan- dam Canta- riamde Uno Capellano Divina ad Aliare Beati Petri in Ca- ^ella omni- um Sancto- rum celebra- luroj Sec. T p E R E were S,even Chanferies belonging to this Church. The Chantcry "St. Thomas; The Chixntery of our Lady, The Chanterv of St. John the Evaugelift ; The Chantery of St. Peter ; The Chiuuery ot St. Catber!>2e ; The Chantery of St. Elgie or St. Loye^ and the Chantery of St. Jobu the Baptill and St. John the Evangelift. 1 . T H E Chantery of St. Thomas was founded by John Puthore, Clerk, the Yearly Value 4/- 8j. 4^. 2. The Chantcry of our Lady, no Deed of Foundation to be fhewnj 4/. j; s. 10 d. 5. The Chantery of St. John the Evangelift, founded by Richard WiUisby and Richard Fijhlake ; the Deed of Foundation is loft j which arol'e out of feme Tenements fituated in the Sandhill and Sidej 4/. ij-j-. 4^/. 4. T H E Chantery of St. Peter is that wafle Place above the Veftry, oppo- lite to the Tomb of Roger de Thornton. This was founded by the faid Roger de Thornton^ as appears trom the Licence granted to the laid Rng^r ^ by King Henry 4th. It was erefted about the Year 1411, that he might be pray'd for whilft he liv'd, and his Soul when he was dead (by a Prielt let a-pait for that Purpofc) together with the Souls of his Father and Mother j and Jgnes his Wife, and alio of his Anceilors and his Children, and the whole Company of the Faithful departed, as is mentioned in the King's Grant to him. O N the Eaft-end of this Chanteiy there are ftill remaining the Pictures of St. Lewis^ St. Barbara, and St. Elilabeth. The yearly Value of this Chantery was 6 1. f. Th E Chantery of St. Catherine was founded in the Reign of E^wflr^f the Third, by Robert of Chirton, Burgefs of Ne'wcaftk, and Marriot his Wife, who was the Daughter and Heireis of Hugh Hanky n and Beatrix his Witej The yearly Value of it, f /. 3 J. 8 ^. Jll-Hallows Feft. In the Book above-mentioned, belonging to the Church of All-H.iUo%vs, we are told, that there is at the South-Eail End of the Church, upon the Out-fide, a fair E and F, and on each of them half a Catherine- VV heel; but what they fignify no Man living knoweth. At prefent there is no fuch Thing. Whole Name the Letters werc-placed for, I believe it is indeed impofTible for any Man living to tell; But as for the Catherine- Wheels, it is eafy to conclude that they are plac'd on the South-Eail end of the Church to fignify that St. Catherine's Chantery or Altar was under the South-Eaft Window. < 6. T H E Chantery of St. Loye or St. Elgie.^ founded by Richard Pickering in the Reign of Eclivard the 3d, the yearly Value 3 /. 8 s. ^d. JOHN Dent, Efq; by Deed dated 12th of Feb. in the 3fth Year of Hen. the 6th, granted an annual Rent of 8 s. ifiuing out of his Houfes, to Richard Doxforth the then Priell of this Chantery. ^ 7. T H E Chantery of St. John the Baptift, and St. John the Evangelift by John Ward. jl. ifs.Sd. Amongst the Chanteries of this Church we meet with none of the Holy Trinity; but in the i6th of the Reign of King Hen. the 8 th, after the Mari- ners became a Body, and their Houic was called the Trinity -honfe, we find an Altar in it dedicated to the Trinity; for in one of their Writings 'tis faid, that Thomas Hcbborne ftiould be Partaker of all Maffes, Good-Prayers, aud Suffrage, which ftiould afterwai'ds be celebrated, f^id, and done by the Chaplain aud Prieli of Of Pilgrim-Street. 93 of the faid Fi-aternity within the Trimty-honfe, and at the Trinity- Altar within All-Hallows the Church of All-Halloivs for evermore. chjtrch^ I know not where to fix the Place of this Altar, any more than I can fix particularly the Places of ionic ot the ancient Chanteriesj except it was, as fome will naturally Conjecture, in the Porch behind their Gallery. And yet there are fome Rcafons againll this Suppofition > For this Porch was a Chan- tery^ they had only an Jltar ; and as a Chantery^ it muft have been filled with a Priefty who had an Altar to himfelf, and confcquently ihtiv Altar muit have been fome where elfe. If it be faid that they perhaps built this Porch, I an- fwcr, that if they had done fo, it would have been called a Chantery, not on- ly an Altar. Befides, the Building is vifibly older than their Chapel, thei;- Priefl, or their Altar. For they can fcarce be fuppofed to have had any one of the force, before the Beginning of the Reign of King lienry the Eighth, and that's a Date too late for fo old a Piece of Building. Of the Burial Places and Monuments in the South-Ifle • jo me oj-rjoh'ich are thefe following. NIGH the Church Porch is a large Blue Stone, the Burial Place of Mr. Wmiam Milbourne, Hoaftman, who dyed in the Year 1662. This Stone formerly belonged to St. Aujlin's Frycry, and was removed from thence by Thomas Ledger, when he was Mayor, in the Time of the Civil IVars. He brought it to St. Nicholas Church, and ordcr'd one Milbournc, a Mafon, to e- rafe the ^ancient Infcription. But finding no Room to lay it where his Fa- ther was buried in St. Nicholas, he fold it to the Mafon, who fold it again, to the Perfon whofe Name it llill bears. ■ HENRT Milbourne,iio-;\.9ivam, i<5p8. »■ ' JO PIN Binks, Mafter and Mariner. Dorothy, his Wife departed, March the nth, 1722. MARCUS Brotvellus, Gencros' Attornat' de Banco, Soc' Hofpit' Furni- val, Lond' Hoc filh ct fuis pofuit, et carlis Parata Sterna Manfio. Jpfe Obiit fecuudo Die Novembris, Anno Domini, 1729. STEPHEl^ Coulfon, Merchant Adventurer, married Mzry, Daughter of Mr. Henry Waters, Hoallman: She departed, July the 6th, 1728. He the above named Stephen Coulfon, Efq; Alderman, and fometime Mayor of this Town, departed this Life, OSiober ifth, 1730. S E p u L c R u M Wolftani Pafton. JV I L L I A M Harrifon, Hoaftman, July lotb, 1721. A s you go from the Scuth-Ifle into the Body of the Church, there is a ^ 'large Blue Stone, which was the Stone of Chriftopher Elmer, as appears from W the Beginning of the prefent Infcription. T Another Authority in this Church, calls this Stone an ancient Stone, J^ and fays the ancient Infcription was, Jefus have Mercy of the Souls of Chri- Jlopher Elmer, his Wife and Children, and of all Souls, Mercy, xMercy, Lord. There was on it the Elmer\ Arms, the Merchants Arms, and his Skin Mark, which was >^ 4 JOHN Henzcll, 1725-. B b The 94 Of Pilgrim-Street. All-Hallows c.h:!rch. The Burial Place of Johft Morris, Hoaftman. Sub hoc Marmore tumulantur Exuvix Edwardi Collingwood, de Byker, Armigeri Northumbrx Vice comitis Anno 1699- Qiu obijt ii»o Aprilis, 1701, Annoq> vEtatis 71. Una cum Uxoris Annx Exuvijs, Qqs obijt 5* Novembris, I6p4, per quam Hos habuic libcros, Radulphum, & Martinum Mortuos, Edvardum & Dorotheam Superllites. Dorothea Collingwood, Vita deceflit duodecimo die Decembris, 1701. & hic Sepulta. Gulielmus Filius Secundus difti Edvardi Filij obijt Secundo Die Marti], 1705;. Edvardits Filius obijt primo Die Martij, 1710. Maria Filia Natu Prior Dicti Edvardi Filij obijt Decimo Die Junij, 1724. Maria Filia Giilielmi Bigg Generofi Uxor difti Edvardi Filij obijt duodecimo Die Oftobris, 172,7, Qiiinque Enixa Liberos, viz. Edvardum, Mariam, Annam, Ifabellam, & Guliclmum, Ifabella Filia Natu minima didi Edvardi, Filii obijt nono die Oftobris, 1728. A T the Eaft-end of this Tomb of the Family of the Cullingtvood's, under a Stone with a Latin Infcription on it, which formerly belonged to one Blount, lies interr'd the Body of Margaret Bourne, Wife of Henry Bourne, Curate of this Church of Jil-Hallows. She dyed Juguft the 8th, 1727, in the 30th Year of her Age. Can d'JTH Kvfiof lyfw iXtoi awg^ Kvfiv ew/m rn i)f«£jt. D. O. M. M. S. Thom^ Hoc kin, Gen' & RoGERi Clarke, Proponetis ejus Devonia nati una Eodemqj die Sept. SciU. Oclo Salutis Anno Mdclxviii. Gratis Autem Thomx LXX. Rogeri XIX. Novocaftro fuper Tinam, Invicem morierc. Johannes Clarke, Pofleriori patruus Utrique charus. H. M. M. Hic cecidere duo, queis Non Separa'.'it amata Sors eadem vivis thalamo Morientibus Urna. Near to this Monument of 1'homas Hockin, is an old StonCj with this In- fcription upon it. Here licth Buried under this Stone, The Right AVorfhipful Mr. Robert EUifin, Merchant Adventurer, of this Town Twice -% Right Mayor he was ^ All worldly Pomp for ever thus mufl pafs. C Eli fa, his Wife, his Children, and Friends him by, With all Avail rife at the lail Cry. One Thoufand fix hundred fevcnty and fcven, The laft of January he went to Heaven. Several Years ago the Church Wardens were dcfired by one Matthew Blount, to fell this Stone ; but they loathed the Requcfl', bccaufe it bore the Name of a Mayor of A^e^c^ni/Zc", which they knew, after the Sale of it, would not be long there. JOHN All- Hallow's JOHN Armorer^ Hoaftman, chunh. CHRISTIAN Bulman, 0£l. 8. 1723. RALPH Soursby, Merchant Adventurer. Near the Qiiive-Door is an old Stone, which formerly belonged to Mr. Robert BrancUingy upon which was the Brandlings Arms, with this Infcripti- on. Here lyeth laid under this Place, . Robert Brandlings Merchant Adventurer, by God's Graccj Margaret^ his Wife, and Children dear. In fear of God they lived here. Like as the Brand doth flame and burn, So we from Death to Life muft turn. Mr. Nicholas Femvick had this Stone given him by one Mr. Brandlim^^ who lived at Ipftvich, and caufcd the faid Inicription to be obhteratcd > after that he fet upon it the Arms of the Fenivicks. Nigh to this is another Stone belonging to the fame Family of the Fen- wicks. CHARLES Atkififon, Hoaftman. T H E R E is an old Stone which lies between the Fejlry and G)uire-Door, with it's Infcriptlon erafed. It belonged to Alderman Leonard Carr., who gave f I. yearly for ever to the Poor of this Parifli, and appointed it out of divcrsr Houfes in the Batcher-bank. He was an Alderman of the Town before the Rebellion, and turned out by the Rebels. H E deferves a better Monument. _ O p P o s I T E to the Fepy, on tf,e ScUth-fidc of the Altar, is a large Stone of that Kind call'd Totuh-Jione, railed above the Level of the Church. It is covered with Brafs on the Top of it, which has cut in it the Effigies of Ro- ger Thornton, and his Wife, and alfo the Piftuvcs, of the Apoftlcs and other Saints, together with the Arms of his own Family, and that ol: the Family of the Lumlcys. ' ' ' ^^^'/^ <^'* The Infcriptlon upon the Stone is as folloivs. hixmhVare on the Tombi Hie jacet Domifella Agnes quondam Uxor Rogeri Thornton, qux obijt in '''""^ '^'^th Vieelia fan6tas Katerinse, Aniro Domini MCCCCXI propitietur Dcus. Amen. Thornton's ° ^ jj- , Arms, tthas ■""- Leen conclud- ed, that the t)aughter oj this Roger married into this Tamily ; but this is a grand AiiJlaU. This Roger died in the Tear 1419, in the Reign of Hen. the 6th. IVhere.ts Sir George Lumley, who married Elizabeth, the Daughter of Roger Thornton, died in the ziil of Hen. the jth, 1508. It was therefore Roger Thornton'j Grand-Daughter, the Daughter of his Son Roger Thornton, that was married into this Family. Dugdale in his Bar. Lumley, gives the folloioing Account. Thomas Lumley, having been fummoned to Par- liament from the firjlof Eiiv/3Lt6i^th to the nth of Hen. jthinclufivc, by Reafonhe had married a Baflard Daugh- ter of King Edward the ^th, departed this Life, leaving IJfue (jeorge /;;; Son and Heir, which George tool; to Wife Elizabeth, one of the Daughters and Heirs o/ Roger Thornton, Ejq; a very wealthy Merchant of New- eartle upon Tyne, by whom he had the Lordfitps of Witton, in Com' Northumbr' Lulwonh and the IHe in the Bifhoprick. This Roger founded the Houfe of White-fryers in Newcaftle. But after this M.irriuge, popffing thefe Lands in the Right of his Wife, there happened great Suits, and fltarp Contcfis, between Giles Thornton, a Baflard Son to the faid Roger, and him, conccrninz the Inheritance of them: In wh:ch SUiarrel this George l:ill'd the fame Giles, in the Ditch at Windror-Cnftic. "^ This George lies interred amongft his Anceftors in Chefter Church, in the County of Durhnm ; He had IJfuc ly the Daughter 0/ Roger Thornton, Sir Thojiias Lumley ; he died Anno 13 Hen. 7. John Thornton »/ Netherwittton, Kfj; is a Dcfcendant of this Family 0/ //;£ Thor.Tton'.< w" Ncwcadle, and 6 -very regular Pcjfefor and Proprietor of the Mancur of Wirton. 96 Of Pilgrim- Street. All-Hallows Church. j^j(, jjcet Rogcrus Thornton Mercator Novicaftri fuper Tinam qui obijt -^•"^^ Anno Domini Millcfitno CCCCXXIX 5c iii Die Januaiii. As he was in his Life-time a great Benefaftor to Churches, Religious Houfcs, the Poor, 8cc. fo he forgot them not in his laft Moments, -.is appears by his laft Will and Teftament. Vide Anno Chrift. 1419. JOHNGibfon, Merchant Adventurer, dy'd 17th of />^, iyp4, WILLIAM RoUnfon^ Goldfmith, i6fZ. WILLI AM Ramfeyy fometirae Mayor of this Town, itffj. WILLIAM Ramfey, Jun. fometime Mayor of this Town, 1715. Vivimus y Fita Mors mala Faufia Subit GEORGE Btilman Balcer and Brewer. 1710. Nought can exempt from Death's Imperial Hand, When it arrcfts the Soul at God's Command j Each State and Sex, as well the High as Low, Muft once falute the Grave and thither go. RALPH Grey Merchant Adventurer, fometimes Sheriff of this Town, May 50, i66 yet upon his Stone Mr. Pringle (as they fay) cau- fed this to be written, A Confcience pure, unftain'd with Sin Is Brafs without, and Gold within. But fome took Offence and Hiid thus, A Confcience Free he never had. His Brafs was naught, his Gold was bad. Milbank. The Burial Place of Henry Waters, Hoaftman, and Dorothy his Wife, flic departed 24th of Feb. 171 p. GARRET Cocke, 1637. ROBERT Yotmg, Merchant Adventurer, 1670. Pofi mortem ^et emit as. JOHNJohnfcn, Hoaftman. -j /?05£i2?" C00/& Matter and Mariner, iVo-y. 1573. ., -, Sepulchrum Thoma Potts, Gen. et Margarettse uxoris, WILLIAM Liddd, if 80. C c tHQ- 98 Of Pilgrim-ftreet. AlUHallows Church. ^ T HO MAS Brown, Nonmortuus fed Dormio. W ILLIAM Daivfon, 1 707. THOMAS Crawforth, i<5po. MICHAEL Clerk. THOMAS Dawfon, Ropemaker. The Burial Place of Thomas Monkhonfe, Tin-Plate Worker. JOHN Cohil, Baker and Brewer, i68p. TIMO THY Ravjlet, Hoaftman. Jesus have Mercy on the Soules of John Hodfion Taylor, Margaret his Wife, and their Children j he departed the nth oi Nov. lyof. JO S EP H Cokpits Hoaftman., zj May., ijzs>i aged 41 Years. ROBERT ^aifon, 1724. CUTHBERT Snow, 16 Aug. 1694. S E A M E n's Torch. JAMES Brankftoncy zj Nov. 1727. IV I L LOUGHBT Hall, Shipwright. JACOBUS Metham Gcnc\:o^Kxs vitam pro a;ternitate mutavitzj Apr. 1684. JVilUelmus Bigg Generolus, ct Johannes Hindmarcb, Aimig: Humanif fortis et fragelitalis memores, hoc iibi fuifquc Deo volente fiiprcmum in Terris pofue- runt domicilium, ufque Fellum Reiurre6tionis mortuorum alta Pace Gauden- dum Maxima nofce mori vitiE eft Sapientia, vivit Qui moritur, fivis vivere, Difce mori. 23 April 1684. The Burial Place of Thomas Airey, Hoaftman. The Burial Place of Richard Hinkfter, and Jane his Wife, JO HN Green, Confectioner, 13 May, ioo 12 00 to the Mamur Chare-head, the Sum of • j Left by Mr. Robert Anderfon, per Ann. which has not been? ^ paid fince i6j-i, the Sum ot 5 > L E r T by Sir Alexander Davifon, yearly for Ever, to") be paid out of the Town's Chamber, at two Payments, viz. soi 00 oo"^ Michaelmas and Ladyday^ the Sum of ^ Sir Thomas Davifon —^ 01 00 00 Mr. Mark Milbank 03 00 00 Mr- William Carr ■ ■ ■ — 01 10 00 S I R Mark Milbank • 06 00 00 Mr. John Rumney > ' 02 10 00 \6 GO 00 Left by Mr. Andrew Aldzvortb, cut of Houfes in Akeivell-'? gate, due on St. Andrew''s-day, the Sum of ■ ^ L in the E F T by Mr. Leonard Carr, per Ana. out of feveral Houfes? le Butcher- Bank S Left by Henry Hilton, Efq; 61. per Ann. now reduced by? ^^ A6t of Parliament to ^ S Left by Mr. William Carr, yearly for Ever, to be paid at? ^ ^ Eajier, out of feveral Houfes — 5 Left by Mr. William Gibfon, Merchant, per Ann. out of al Houfe in Coivgate, now in the Poffefllon of Mrs. Carr, not been ^01 00 00 paid for fcveral Years — ■ ■ 3 Left by Mr. John Cofyns, Draper, the Sum of two Shillings • per Week, which is Weekly to be dillributed in Bread to fuch/ poor People of the faid Parifh as come to hear the publick Or-5i°' ^ °° dinances of God every Lord's-day, which he charg'd upon the^ Fleece Tavern by the Key, and amounts ^rr Ann. to——— — Left by Mr. David Sheavil, Surgeon, per Ann. out of fc-? veral Houfes ■ Left by Mr. Tho. Davifun, to be paid yearly in the Month < of December, out oi tlic Merchants Company • < ^04 00 00 ■01 10 00 Left Of Pilgrim-Street. loi /. s. J. All-Hallows . Church. 02 00 00 V-Z'V"*'^ Left by Sir PFiUidm Blacket^ Bar', per Ann. out of a Houfe at J'jKc-Bridge-End., the Sum of Left by Mr. John Collier^ Shipwright, per Ann. to be paid? at Chripnas^ the Sum of • ■ 5"°3 °° °o Left bv Mr. Richard Hutchinfon^ Rope-raakef, per Ann. out? of an Houfe on Sandhill 1°^ °° °o Left by Mr. George Cullingwood^ Houfe- Carpenter, per Ann. •< to be given to two poor Widows, who are to have it but once,r lb th-.it :i\\ the poor Widows in the Parifh may in turns enjoy ?02 oo oo the iiinic ; due at Martinmas, and diftributed by the MinifterL and Church- wardens • .J Left by Timothy Davifon, Efq> paid out of the Merchants . Company, to be diftributed amongll credible Freemen, or Free-/ men's Widows (not of the Merchant's Company) yearly in De-r°^ ^^ °° ceniber ^ ——— • — i Left by Henry Holmes., Efq; per Ann. to be made at two-j feveral Payments, viz. three Pounds the Monday after Chrijlmasl Day, and'three Pounds the Monday after Eafter Day, theSumr*^" °° ^'^ of > Left by Nicholas Ridley, Efqj per Ann. and charged upon? his Lands in Fleaton, to be given eight Days before Eafter y^ °° °*^ Left by Robert Fenwick, Efqj per Ann. and charged upon? the Angel Inn, to be paid at Chriftmas J<^4 0° oo Left by Mr. John Bee., Mafter and Mariner, per Ann. char- t gcd upon his two Mefluages and Shop, by the Key, to be di-Co(S 00 oo llributed by the Miniller, for the Time being, at Chriftmas — C Left by Matthew White., Efq} per Ann. and charged upon -) an Houfe in Pilgri>n-ftreet, to be di llributed upon Chriftmas Dnyy Co i ro oo or the Day after, among ten poor Houfe-keepers C Left by Mrs. Ifabel, Wife of TVilliam Wright fon, Efqj per") Ann. the Intereft yearly to be dillributed on September 30th —y'^ °° °^ Left by Mr. William Harriftin, Hoaftman, per Ann. the? Interell yearly to be diftributed on ^i. Andrew's Day ^^S^ 00 00 Left by Mrs. Margaret Ram fey ^ per Ann. the Intereft yearly? to be diftributed LJ.J^° 0° 00 Left by Mr. Edward Potts^ Shipwright, per Ann. the In- ? tereft yearly to be diftributed S^° °° °° Left by Mrs. Anne Handcock, per Ann. the Intereft to be 7 diftributed by the Church- wardens to fuch poor People as are>fO 00 00 conftant frequenters of divine Worfhip — — — — -^j D d All- 1 02 Of Pilgrim-Street. All-Hnllows Church. All'Sams C H A R I T Y-S C H O O L in Newcaftlc upon Tyne, was fet up by a Volufitary Subscription^ in the Tear of our Lord J 1709, a^2dhasbeencontimedei'er^//ceonthe fame Footing'^ and further fupported by [e'veral acciden- tal Contributions. The NAMES of the SUBSCRIBERS, and Sums fubfcribcd when the School was Founded. I- s. (!. ROBERT Fenwick^ Efqj Mayor, per Annum — 4 oo oo John Cuthkrt^ Efqi Recorder 2 00 oo Mrs. Phabe Blakiflon 2 00 00 Matthew PThitey Efqj ■ . 2 00 oo Mr. William Wrightfon 2 00 00 Mi. Henry Milburn • 2 oo oo Mr. Henry Reay ■ 2 00 00 Mr. John Baxter ■ i 00 00 Mr. Thomas Robinfon ■ ■ ■ i 00 oo John Rogers, Efqj 5- 00 00 Mr. George Nixon ■ • • i 00 00 Mr. William Raper • i 00 00 Mr. Jofeph Green ■_ • i 00 00 Mr. IVilliam Harrifon, Senior ■ ■ i 00 00 Mr. Lionel Dixon o 10 00 Mr. John Anderfon • • o 10 00 Mr. Lionel Forfler • ■ • o ro 00 Mr. Edward BrtunweU • ■ r 00 00 Mrs. Jane Sinks • • • ■ o 10 00 Mr. Robert Fipont '^ o 10 00 Mr. John Maddifon ■ < i 00 oo Mr. Edward Grey i 00 00 Mr. Henry Waters ■ • ■ i 00. 00 Mr. John Johnfon ■ i qq 00 Mr. Francis Armorer — i 00 00 Mr. Luke Conyers ■ o 10 00 Mr. John Story — •■ ■ — • i 00 00 M,. Jeremah Cook — ■ ■ i 00 00 Mr. Thomas Turner i 00 00 Mr. Thomas Campion • • ■ i 00 00 Mr. John Sinks ' o 10 00 Mr. Jonathan Tyzack ■ ■ o 10 00 Mr. Perigrine Henzell ■ — o 10 00 Mr. Bartholomew Kent • — • o lo 00 The Reverend Mr. Leonard Shafto • 2 00 00 The Reverend Mr. Charles Ward • — • • 2 00 00 Mx. Robert Web fier o 10 00 Mr. Lionel Colepits ■■ ■ i 00 00 Mr. Thomas Wallis ■ o 10 00 Mr. Matthew Bell 1 00 00 Mrs. Dorothy Dawfon • i 00 00 Mrs. Julian HindmarJJj —' • ■ i 10 00 fr 10 00 mI Of Pilgrim-Street. 103 /. s. d. AlUHallows Brought over j-i lo oo ^ churchy Mr. M'.irk Broivell — • ■ i oo oo Mr. Edward Cohill ■ i oo oo Mr. Richard Bardies — o lo oo Mr. Gcoig; Hinckjier • — . o lo oo Mr. Gerrard Robfon — • • — « — i oo oo Mr. M^ttkciv Dak • o lo oo Mr. I'f'^iUiam Harrifon, Junior' i oo oo Mr. Jobii Simpfon • ■ i oo oo Mr. Thomas Allan^ Senior . x oo oo Mr. I'hoiihis Allan^ Junior • ■■ ■ i oo oa yiw Henry Atkinjon • i oo oo Mr. Timothy Raivling • » i oo oo Mr. William French . . o lo oo Mr. Ellis Inchhall ■ ■ o lo oo Mr. R^ilph Rsed ■ ^ i oo oo Mr. Charles Atkinfon ■ — • Z QO oo Mr. William Green — ■ .-.^- — • ^. — . i oo oo Mr. 'Tobias Blakijloa • ^ • i oo oo Mr. Johti Sivaddell • ■ — — . i oo oo Mr. 'James Taylor — • — . i oo qq Mr. Samuel Joblin • : \ oo qo» Mr. Jaynes Daivfori., Yarmouth i oo oo Mr. Janathan Rodam ■ '— i oo ocj Mr. Robert Sbafto ■ o lo oc» Mr. Iliovuis Elliot — • o lo oo Mr. George Hankin •— — o l o oo Mrs. Frances Reed o lo oq Mr. Henry Dent ■ ■ o lo oo Mrs. Mary Harrlfon • ■ o lo oo Mr. George Iley • ■ ■ i oo oo Mrs. Barbary Nicholls ■ ■ z oo oo Mr. John Campbell • i oo oo Mr. Lancelot Cramlington ■ i oo oo Robert Eclen^ Elq> — z oo oo 83 00 00 "Xhe Names of the S u B s c r i b E R s^ and Sums by each paid m the Tear 1731. WALTER Blacket, Efqi Nicholas Fenivick, Efq} Matthew White., Efq; Henry Reay^ Efqi John Rogers., Efq> Mr. William Dixon Mr. John Maddifon Mr. Thomas Bitiks Mr. Henry Waters Mrs. Mary Johnfon Mr. Francis Armorer.^ Senior Mr. John Story- Mrs. Andrews The Reverend Mr. Farrington I s. d. r 00 00 7 oo 00 z 00 00 z CO 00 S 00 00 10 op I 10 00 Of 00 3 00 00 I 10 00 I 10 00 I 00 00 10 00 z 00 00 3i If 00 Mr. George 104 Of Pilj Tim All-Hallows Church. The Revci-end Mr. Shafto Mr. George Colepitts Mr. Ralph Soiverby Mr. Mattbeiv Bell Mr. Thomas Wallis Mrs. yiilian Hindmarch Mrs. Jane Rodam ■ Two Mrs. Browells Mr. John Simpfon Thomas Allan^ Elqj Mr. Lionel Allan Mr. Henry Atkinfon Mr. John Morris Mr. Charles Atkinfon Mr. John Colvill The Trinity Houfe Matthew Fetherfton^ Efqj- Mr. Henry Coulfon Mr. Thomas Dennet, London ■ The Butchers Company The Shipwrights Company ■ The Surgeons Company — The Rope-makers Company. Mr. Tloomas Wafs Edward Collingwood^ Efqj Mr. Jofeph Smith — ^ Mr. John Anderfon Mr. George Simpfon — — — Mrs. Anne Harrifon - Mr. Cuthbert Nicholfon Mr. Thomas Shafto . The Reverend Mr. Maddifon - Mr. John Burfield Mr. Chriftopher Dawfon ■ Mr. Jofeph Liddell Mr. Francis Armorer, Junior - Jofeph Ledgard, Efqj Brought over 31 — I — 6 — z — z — I — 6 — 3 — I — I — I — I — I — I — I — o — o — I — o — o — I — I — I — I s. 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 00 10 00 ro 00 io 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 If 10 If If 10 10 10 10 97 00 d. 00 GO 00 00 CD 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 oo 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Money colleBed at All-Saints Church ^when the annual Ser- mons (Were preached for the Benejit of the Charity- Chil- dren. Anno 1709 1710 171 1 I7ii 171 5 1714 i7if 1715 1717 THE Rev. Dr. Ellifon- Mr. Shafto- Mr. Charles IVard- Mr. Wilcox Mr. Cuthbert Ellifon Mr. Shadforth Mr. Browell Mr. Farrington Mr. Chilton /. s. d. If 10 05 I(J 02 00 2? 09 00 H 07 02 21 16 04 if 17 00 16 19 it 20 12 00 i? 01 09 198 14 Hi Brought Jnm 171 8 IJUJ IJZO IJZl IJIL 1724 f72f 1726 172.7 1728 1729 1730 I73I ^71^ Of Pilgrim-ftreet. The Rev. Mr. John Ellifon Mr. Cowling lAr. Dockiiray - Mr. R. Cutbberts Mr. Sharp Dr. Mangcy Mr. Bourne Mr. Bradford Mr. M'tUiam Hall Mr. FctherHon Mr. Thotnpfon — Mr. Tumor Mr. Sacker Dr. Banfon Mr. Turmr / s. d. Brought over 198 14 11 : • 21 06 o6| 20 02 Of • • 19 14 0(5 17 II 08 ■ 27 03 00 • 22 04 06i 21 10 08 17 14 oz If 05 06 17 19 09? 16 04 10 17 08 Ofi • 2 J 04 09 r 25 18 Ofi '— 16 16 o-ji 49<5~'i8 III 105: All-Hallows church. Accidental Contributions. /. Amio\-jo9 T7ROM unknown Hands, by the Rev. Mr. Char. '? r^ jVard . — 1— 5-°3 171 1 Mr. Akicrman WbinfieW^ Legacy yearly 03 171 2 The Town oi Ne-ivcaftlc towards Building a Gallery? for the Cliarity Children in all Saints Church — \ ^^ From unknown Hands by the Rev. Mr. Char. TVard 02 171 3 Mr. Thomas Campion's hc2,Acy zo Mr. IVilliam Harri fen's ditto — io 1714 Madam R'.gcrs • fo Mr. Thoi.ms fFafs of Mr. Michael Bind • 02 The Coopers Company 00 171 f Mrs. Mayor's Legacy 02 The Surgeons Company 01 Edward Collingwood., Efq; ■ • 00 The Rev. Mr. Farrington • 00 1716 Madam Nichols Legacy 10 Mr. Edvjard Slater ■ 00 The Rope-makers Company 01 Mr. Alderman Ranifefs Legacy fo Mr. Alderman Atkinfon's Legacy yearly of 1717 From Stockholm and Tarmoiith, by Mr. Ja. Dawfon— 11 From a Perfon who defircd not to be Nam'd f o 1718 Mr. Samuel Green's hcs^icy — loo Some Company at the King's-head by Mat. White., Efq-, 00 1719 Mr. Thomas Elliot's Legacy— • • — ■ 100 1720 Mr. Thomas Biirdus's ditto — — 10 Mrs. Ramfefs Jitco — — • 2f 171 1 Mr. fames Clay's ditto ■ of From a Perfon which defii-ed not to be Nam'd • 20 Mr. Tyzack's Legacy ■ — of 1722 Capt. fames Taylor's Legacy fo Mrs. Mary Lane — . ■ — of 1724 Mrs. Mary CoUingwood's Legacy 01 r77_ E c 03 09 1 5 04 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 If If 00 If 10 od 14 00 00 00 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 II Dl Brought io6 Of Pilgrim-ftreet. All-Hallows Church. 1724 Mrs. Mary Jackfon's ditto Mrs. Chriftian Bulmari's ditto- Mrs. Spearman'% ditto 1728 Mrs. Ifabel Collingwood ditto - 17ZP Mr. Jofeph Colpitis ditto Mrs. ReerTs ditto- Mr. T'homas Bates ditto Mr. Alderman Couljon's ditto- /. s. Brought over 5-77 1 1 Of 00 20 00 ■ 10 00 01 01 20 00 . j-o OD fO OD :^ fo_ 00 785 12^ 01 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 or There are 41 Boys taught to read, write, and caft Accounts, by John Davenport^ the prefent Mafter: And 17 Girls are taught to read, knit, few, maicc, and mend their own Cloaths, by Hannah Jobnjoii^ the prelent Miftrefs. These Children have Coats and Caps once a Year, and Shoes, Stock- ings, Shirts, and Bands twice a Year : And at their leaving the School, they have Forty Shillings each to put them out Apprentice, or equip them for Services, and each of them a Bible, with the Common-Prayer, a Whole Duty oF Man, and Lewis's Catechifm. The Magiftrates of Newcaftk gave a Room, wherein the Girls are taught, and contributed towards Building a Gallery in M-Saints Church for the Chil- dren, and likewife gave Ground, whereon to build a School for the Boys, and a Houfe for the Mafter : The Charge of which was defrayed out of fe- veral Legacies left to the School. Two Hundred Thirty Four Boys and Girls have been in all put out fincc the School wasfet up. In the Year 1728J fome Gentlemen of this Parifh founded a Le£hire by Subfcription, for the Inftruftion of the People in the Rubrick and Liturgy of the Church. It was fettled upon Henry Bourne^ the Curate of this Church, and was opened on Loiv-Sunday the faid Year. It is held eveiy other Sunday in the Summer at d-o'Clock in the Evening, and continues from Low-Sunday.^ 'till the Sunday ^her Holy-Crofs, or the 14th o{ September. The Founders and Benefactors Names at the opening of it. cut HB E RT Fenwick, Efqj Mayor. Sir IVILLUM Blacket, Bart. RICHARD RIDLEY, Efqj NICHOLAS Fenwick, Efqj HENRY Reay, Efq> STEPHEN Cotilfon, Efqj EDWARD Collingwoody Efq> The Rev. Mr. Bradford, Vicar of Newcaftk. M R. John Simp fan Mr. Charles At kin/on Mr. Jofeph Liddell M R. Henry JVaters M r. George Hinkfier M r. Jofeph Colepitts Mr. John Morris Mr. Jofeph Smith M R. James Har grave THO' Of Filgrim-ftreet. 107 I Ol 00 THOMAS Hindmarfi, Efqj Mrs. JHce CoJepitts M R. Ralph Soiverby M R. TVilliam Sdby All-Hallows M R. John White churchy M R. Francis Armorer Mr. Thomas AUifan Since then Mr. Henry Coulfon^ Mr. George Mit for d^ Mr. Richard J ohnfon, Mr. Thomas Hall, Mr. William Trotter have encreafed the Number of Sub- fcribers. The Curate of this Church is the Miniftcr of it. The Ficar ■pays him 4/. /)er Aumim, and the Crown f /. The reft of his Income arifes from the Sur- plice Fees, Regifter, &c. Ic was formerly the Cuftom to have two Clerks for this Church. But in the Year 1708, it was thought more convenient for the Parifh, and iefs Burthenfomc lo the Alifiijier (who had one of the largeft Cures in the Kingdom to manage) to have an Afllftantj accordingly Abraham Wil- cox^ M. A. was put into the Clerk's Place, which was vacant by the Death of John Pinkney^ and was allow'd the Fees of the Clerk for Weddings, Bu- rials and Chrilinings J which amounts to fo/. per Annum: Mr. Wilcox was lucceedcd by Arabrofe Fenivick^ M. A. afterwards Vicar o£ Standfordham ; He by William Hall^ Sec. T H E R E arc other two Clergymen belonging to this Church, which are Lecturers, and paid by the Town > the one for Preaching in the Morning has tool, per Annum^ and the other for Preaching in the Afternoon 100/. per An- num. All the Miniflcrs of this Church I have been able to coUeffc are thcfe fol- lowing. ^he Curates. SAMUEL Barker, 1617. ROBERT Bonner .^ 1639. He was both fequeftred and imprifon'd for hi j •Loyalty in the Civil Wars. rROWLAND Salkeld, 1660. TIMOTHY Fenwick, i6jt. .RALPH Grey JOSE PH Bonner, afterwards Vicar of Bolam. PETER Straugkan, i(5pf. ANTHONY Proaer, 1697. < RICHARD Mufgrave, A. B. 1705. CUTHBERT Ellifon, A.M. of Lincoln College, in Oxford, the prcfent Vicar of Stannington. HENRY Bourne, M. A. of Chrifi Col. Cambridge, ijzz. The prefent Curate. Morning io8 Of Pilgrim-ltreet. All-Hallows Church. Morning LECTURERS. R. iJSS in the Tunc of the Civil Wars. LEONARD Shafto, A.M. WILLIAM Mair. NATHANIEL Ellifon^ M. A. afterwards Vicai- of St. Nicholas. NATHANIEL Chilton., A. M. LEONARD Shaft 0., A. M. He was alfo Reftor of Gatejliead., he was a v^ery ufeful Preacher, a Man of great Generofity and HolpitaUty, a hearty and Jinccre Friend, and one of extenfive Charity and Benevolence. He died Au- gufl Z7, 175 1, and was buried in Gatejljead Church. Sept. 27, 1751 . Hugh Farington^ M. A. formerly Fellow of St. John's Col. in Camb. fucceeded him, who is the prefent Lefturer. Afternoon LECTURERS. THOMAS Kmggs, A. M. RALPH Emmerfon, K. M. CHARLES Ward, A. M. an excellent Preacher. HUGH Farrington., A. M. HENRT Fctherjionhaiigh., B. D. late Fellow of St. John's Col. Camb. the prclent Aiternoon Lefturc. Th E R E are Prayers at this Church every Day at lo-o'Clock in the Mor- ning, and 4 in the Afternoon. The Sacrament is adminillrcd at this Church every fecond Sunday in the Month. It was formerly ufual for the Town to prefent this Church, at the High Fejlival of Eafier., with twenty one Gallons of Wine. Opposite to the IFefl Stairs of this Church is an Alms-Houfe, which was in good Repair, as we are informed by the Milbank Manufcript, about I 00 Years ago, at which Time the Church- War dens allowed them 10 s. per Annurjjy for Coals for four Women. It is now in very bad Repair, and go- ing fait into Ruins. At prefent the People in it, are allowed eight Chaldron of Coals /»«• Annum., and three Shillings /»frQiiarter by the Church- wardens. On the South-fide of this Church are two Pair of Stairs > thofe oppofite to the ^ire-Door lead into a narrow Street called the Dog-hank ; but former- ly, as appears by fonic ancient Writings, Siivcr-ftrcet : The other Pair lead into the Butcher- Bank., which is a narrow Street, and a great Delcent. It is mnftly inhabited by Butchers, who have their Shops and Honfes there. . Iti this are many narrow Lanes called Chares, which lead into the Key-fide. This leads into the Street called , the Side, and into the Sand-hill. It was called i'ormcrly All-Halloivs Bank. CHAP. 109 >H I— M il M ■ CHAP. IX, Of the CASTLE'YARD. the Beholders with N order now to go regularly down into the lower PArts of the Town, let us let oft' from the South- fide of the Steeple of St. Nicholas^ which leads dire- ctly to the Top of the Street c:\lled the Side. Whilll I am here 1 can't helpobfcrving, that were the Hou- fcs belonging to Mr. Partis.^ &c. which arc fituated from the Porch Door of St. Nicholas., to the Hiid Street, ^J taken away, the Belfry and Steeple would look much more grand and magnificent ; and whereas this (ircat Ornament of the Town is now almoft hid as a :omc3 up this StrcCt, it would then be wholly expos'd, and Ibike Awe and Wonder. A r T r, R you have croHcd tiic upper Part of this Street, there is a PafKige Jeading to B"Alijf-Gatc^ whicli Iv.is w Turn upon the Lcft-liand, that goes into the Cajllc-y.vd^ the Phvcc whrrc is fituatcii the Cajll'.' of this Town. 1' f Be- no Of the Caftle-yard. Before the Conqueft the old Round Tower was probably in Being, and Was the old Cajilc, or Fori of Monkchefler ; and after tlic Conqueft, when the other Caftle was built, it was called, (to diftinguilTi it from the i;^ Caftle) the Ne%v-Cafile, which in a fmall Time after gave Name to tho whole Piace. Some- thing to this Purpofe are thefe two or three Words about it, in the Manu- fcript of John Milbank^ Efqj That this new Caftle may be difthguijioed from the old one. The Ufe of this Tower, as the fame Authority informs us, was made to fecure the Pafs to the Bridge in former Times. This new Caftle was built by Robert CurthoiSy the Son of fFilliam tlie Con- queror in the Year 1080 as has been before obfcrvcd. But notwitli (landing this, and that it gives a new Name to the Place, yet whatever PrivilcMgcs be- longed to Monkchefler (for fo the Town was then called) continued with it, nor did the Caftle impair them in the leaft. = De reb. * I T has been a Buildmg of vei7 great Strength, and very fit for what it Novocaft. was defign'd, and yet in the Reign of King John we have an Account of it's being repair'd by that King, and that he was obliged in the making of li. Ditch ■ to deftroy divers Houfes, for which he fatisfied the Owners, as may be ken in our Account of that King's Charter to this Town. The firft Account we meet with of it after it was built, is of it's being be- fiegedby PFilliam Rufus. Foy Robert Mowbra)\YjZx\o'i Nortbumherland, having oppofed him, he came down and laid Siege to the Caftle, and coa- quer'd Newcafde-y upon which Robert fled, and abfconded in Bamburgh-Cafile ^ but was afterwards talcen by the King's Party, and carried Prifoner to ^indjifr. Among feveral Rents and Revenues arifing to this Caftle, the following were fome. h William The Barony of the t Herons^ vvhich contain'd «= Hdddefton, Chirton, ^ Lit- Herron. tle-Benton^ Cold-welL ^ Swinburne, and Flatford paid for Caftlc-ward and Cor- Hen. \. eum ' ' ' ■' '■ Peoft: n;ige> «:0««Wil- Is. d^ li.-imrf^«/47-- For Caftle-ward ■ ■ OD 13 OO lyderce>:Jed For Cornage OO of lO W \\\\Am died in the is'^"/ Edward «/:'f i/?, and left no Male IJfue ; fothat EmcVm, bis only Da:;gbter^-ji-as the Heir of the Barony. She married into the Family oj JohiiLsri^ D'Arcy, and transferred tins il?a»oaro/ Haddcllon and a-.vers others into that Family. LordD' Axz)' abovementioncd., dy d pofJ'efs''dof this Manour at'Fkox- ton in Lincolnniire, ^oth Edward the ^d. In the iji o/Hcn. IV. Thomas Lora Lumky died fof- fejj^dofit, and left it to Sir JohiiLumlcy his Brother. This tamily is fo named from homlcy aTuwn fiiuated on the Bank of the River Were, where their Seat vj.is. They arc dcfcnJed from Liulph, a Perfon of great Nobility in the Time of Ki}:g Edward the Confejfor., who married K\'sf\'Ci\'X the Daugh- ter oj Aldrcd, Earl oj Northumberland. Sir George Lumley, Knight, he that married the Grand- daughter of Roger 'I'honuon of this Town.^ was in great repute in the County of Durhain, in the Reign oj Edward the ^th, being High Sheriff in the id of that Reign j in the 6th, Knight of the Shire ; in the Tear 8, }iigh Sheriff again, in whiih Ojficc he continued three Tears more. But none oj this great and ancient Family was ever higher in the Efteem of his Prince, none i* greater Repute in his Country, than is the prefent noble SucceJ/'or, Richard, Earl of Scarborough, 2vh» is alfo yifcauat Lumlcy and Watcrford, B.iron Lumley cf Lumley, Mafler of the Horfe to his Majefty, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties 0/ Durham rt;.'./ Northumberland, Knight of the moft Noble- Order of the Garter, one uf his Majefty'' s moft honourable Privy-Council, &c. d This tillage is about two jhort Miles diftant frora the Tovjn of Newcaftle. How it came out of the Hands uf this tamily of the Herons, is not known. B:n in the nth 0/ Edward the id, it was the Lordjhip of Jeffrey de Scropc, of Malliam m Yorkfhire. After him Ralph, Lord Grayftake„ was Lord of it. In the Reign of K. Henry the 6th, this Manour v/aJ in the Pofejfion of William Fiti Hugh, who dfd and left it to his Son Henry. It is now in the PoJJ'eJJion of Mr. Tho. Bigg and Mrs. Jane Sandcrlbn, who have there a Houfe and Garden, at which they refidc in the Summer Seafon. r This Place in latter Ages was the Seat of the Wodrlngton'x, who in the Reigns of Henry 6th, Edward 4//', and Henry hth, were Hitrh Sheriffs of Northumberland. The \ Of the Caftle-yard. 1 1 1 T H E f Barony of Dilftone^ containing e Devil^ or Diljlone^ (> Corlrigg^ ^ rfen. I ' ^^ '^' Simon Devil Feof: Togeflon^ &c. paid to the CalHe} Simonemde D evilftune. For Caftle-ward OD i j 04 -^ /"-'"'^ '''' / ^. OD n 03 10 '^^ 6 Dilfton, FdrCornage 03 10 00 J^f ;,!"'- South-fide of the Tyne, cnll'J in old Boohs and ancient Records, Devilftone, from a [mall Brook running on theWefi-fide of it wh'ofe Name Bede fays was Devilsburn, aud emptfmg itfelf into Tyne. The Barony in which it flands takes it's Name from it, and is at this Day called the Barony oj Devilftone. We have not yet met with the Origi- nal Barons of it. We olferve a Family in our ancient Hijlories, hearing the Surname of Deivill or Deiville, ■uih.cb might frobably be Owners of the Manour of Devilftone, ;. e. the Town of Devils, for John Deiville was Go-Lcrnoitr of Scarboroiigli Cafile in 'lorkfhirCj and built a Caftle of his own at a certain Place called the Hole m that County ; but having no ground for this Conjedure in Hijtory, we pall leave it to the Reader tt accent, or re]tSl it, thj' the Name being a little Uniijital, and looking as if its Original^ wire derived from the Evd iipirit that bears that Name, we thought fit to give feme Account of it. Bede in the fame Place, viz.. lib. 3. c. i. tells us, that here it was that S. Ofwaid; armed with theChri- ftian Faith, fieii. in a fair Field Cedwell the Briton, a wretched Tyrant, who had before flam Two Kin^s of I>)ortluimbe.land, Ofiick 'King of the Deirans and Eantrid of the Bernicians, and mijerably w.ified their Coun- try : But the Author of the\Additions of Canibden contradicts Mr. Cambden, and tells us, that all the Latin Copies of Bede, that he had feen, fay. That Ofwald'j Vitiory was cbtam'd in loco qui Lingua Analoruni Deniiesburn vocaitir, i. e. in the Place called by the Englifii Deniesburn, and the Snxon Copies of Kmq Al- Ired'j Paraphrafe have Deni;7 ef, Deni;ce;- and Denij c)' bu'^na, A>2d the Saxon Chronicle hash not made any Mention of this Story. Sir Francis RatclifFe, er Radelive, Bart, dcfctnded of the ancient Family of R.Ttcliff's Earls o/'Sufiex, who ■was made a Baron of this Realm, March 7; 1687-8 did bear the Title of Baron of X)\\&on, Vificount Rafcliff and Laiigley, and Earl of Derwentwater in Cumberland, he died anno 1696-7, and was buried m the Chtrch of this Place. The lafi Earl of this Family was James B.atclift'e. He was beheaded on Tower-Hill. Anno 171 5. for being concerned in the Rebellion of that lear. ^ Corbidge, a Town fitaated upon the North Bank of the River "Tinci-ivhich ta'.-es it's Name from tbeBrilgc laid there o-.cr that River for Trajfick into the Southern Parts of the County, and the reft of England, and the ancient Roman Name jotind in Aiuonine'j Itinerary, callsd Corftopitum or rather Corftopflum {as it is read in the Edition of H. Surita) which, ns Henry of Huntington tcftifies 'Mas for Brevity Sake called CiU'e er Cor. Hire, according p the Dijcription o/Ptoloniy xcas the Curia Ottodinorum, ;. e. The Court of the Ottodini or Nonluimbrians. The Manour of this Town, 8 Ed. 2. or fioon after, vjas purthafed by Heiirv Percy, a weal- thy Northumbtian, who vias then in great favour with that Prince. He, making a Settlement of his Great Efiate in the yth of Edw, the ;d, gave two Parts of this Manour to his Son and Heir Henry Percyj which he then was in Poffejfion of, and the third Part after the Death cf Hawife, the Widow of Jolin Clavcrin Whalton, T H E Barony of > Walton given by King John to Robert Son of Roger^ and oiTahon" T confirm'd by his Charter, contained Walton^ R'^pplinghit^ Ni^vbam, Denton^ UrgeMa'nour Neivbiggw^ ^ Kefitofi, 1 GosforJ, and Fawdcn ; and alio ^ OggJc^ Burndon^ Hor- ixjith many Tees thereunto belonging, as the Manoui-s of Lington, Linton, 5cf. It v.:is the F.jiatc .Tr:cic::ily o,'" Robert de Cramavil, -Ji.-hkh he held for htmfelf and his Heirs by the Service of three Knight's Fees ; i-K/ becaufe he did not make Performance to King John of what he exfeflcd, the K!n% feized his Efiate, and IVej. 7. be/towed this Manour upon Roberc Fitz Roger, in whofe Po/lerity it continued 'till Tolin Fitz Roberr, ti'>fe {leaving the old Tajhion of framing Sirnamcs out of the Chrijlian Names of their Fathers, as his jinccjl^n had done, and was hitherto ufed by many Families) laid ajide the Name o/Fiiz Robert, and at theComma;id of King Edward//;^ tjl took the Name De Clavering, dying without any Legitimate Ijfue, he fettled great Part ■■>f his F.fiaie on Kin^ Edward the }/l, and his Heirs i and the reft was either Jold in his Life-time, or left to his own Heirs. This Ma- nour, by what Title we know not, is found to be in the Family of the Scroops o/M.illnni, /iir 13 Ed. ^d. Sir GefFery Scroop, Banneret, died feiz.ed of this Manour of Whalton, with mavy other Iftates, which he left to his Son and Heir Henry, in whofe Pojlerity (who were fiimmoned to Parliament fro/n the »ih 0/ Henry IV to the 9th 0/" Henry Vlll.) It continued 'till Geffrey Lord Szcoop dying in ih.it Year wah^ut iffne, his three Si- Jlers became his Heirs. Ex Mag. Brit. Mr. John Shaw, Minifler of St. John'j in Newcaftlc, was Reflor of this Place in the Times of the late Re- bellion. He was irifiituted and indulged into his Living in 1645, but not permitted to e;ijo_i it; hjwe-oer he was allowed to have the Church 0/ Bolton in Yorkfhire, and held it 'till the Rejioration of King Charles, when he came into Poffejfion of Whalton. He was a Perfon of Eminency for his Condud as -.veil as Lcaryiini, and 'Mas feveral Times chofen to reprefent the Clergy of thofe Parts in the Convocation. He died in a good old Age in 1689. His Writings jhou'd have been cotnmemorated before, they are thefe folhv/ing. The Pourtraiture of the primitive Saints in their A£liii,xs .ind Siifferln-j^s, according to Saint V.tu\'s Canon, Heb. xi. one Part whereof, to Verje 23. was preached at Newcaftle 16^?.. The other, fro:') Vetfe 21 to the End, was preached at the fame Place in 1659. Both which were afterwards publijlied in Q^:arto. Origo Proteftantium, or an Anfwcr to a Popifi Manitfcript of N. Ns. that would fain make the Proteflant Catholick Religion bear Date at the very Time when the Roman Popip commenced in -the World, wherein Pn- teftancy is demonjirated to be elder than Popery. Lond. 1677 and 79. Quarto. Anfvier to the Jefuit's Letter ■ •■■ Printed with the former Book, and the Jefuit's Letter with it. No Reformation of the eflablified Religion. Lond. 1O8?. Oclavo. ^ Kenton is a pleafant Villaze about two Miles Wefl of Newcaftle. It fetms to have got its Name from its Situation; for it ftands upon a Hill, and fo is a Town that one may l^cn from far, or jee Or a good Dijlance. In the Reign of Edward IL in tke Year 1313, when the BiJfi/cc/BannockDurn was fought, one Sir John dc Kenton Knight, was High Sheritt of Nortliumberland. It has been in the Poffejfion of jev.ral good F.tmilies, and is now chiefly belonging to Walter Blacket, £/^; The Road to this Village from the Town-moor, has on each Side of it Fields fo well cultivated, and Hedges fo adorn'd with Plantations, that in the Summer-feajon it is a moft pleajing IVatk. ' Gosford, the Barony of Richard fur Tees, or upon the Teas, becaufe his Scat wiis upon the Bank of that River, a Perfon of great Repute in the Reign of King Henry 1. "> Ogle, or as we find it in old Writinis, 0;gil or Oggle, the Lcrdfiip and Seat cf a. T.tm.ly that too': their Name from it, being called de Oggle. O/ this Family our Hiftories mer.tion John de Oggil in 49 Hen- ry 111. who, for adhering to the relcllious Barons of that Reign had his Lands extended; tut his Dejcendants recovered their Eflate, and Robert de Oggle in t$ Edward III. obtained a Licence ti ma'ic a Cafile of h s Manour-houfe at Oggle, and to have free Warren in all his Demefnc Lands within his Lordjliip oy' Oggle, &c, in this County. This Robert married Helena Bertr.nti, the jolc Daughter and Heir of Sir Rjbcrt Bcrtr.ini Knight, Baron of Bothail, by whom he had iffiie Robert, ^vho died before his Father, but left a Son Robert, who after his Grandmother's Death doing his Homage had Livery of her Lands and Caflle at Bj1l1.1l. }!e in his Life-time fettled his Inheritance defcended to him from his Anceftors, upon his eldeji Son Sir Robe/t O jg!e, and his Heirs, ; and for Want of them, upon his younger Son John, whom he Jirnamed Bertram, to -vlimn he gave his Barony of \ioihz\-Caftle. His Grandfon Robert being a firm Adherers to the "iovk-lniereft, -vas by King Edward IV". advanced to the Dignity and Degree of a Baron of this Realm, by a Sum:nons to his firjl Parliament, Reg. i. His Pofterity being Jurther enriched by the Marriages with the Heirejfesof Alan, Heton, and Alexander ICirby, for feveral Generations enjoyed his Honouiir and this Manciir, vAth his other Eftaies; but Iffiie-male failing in Cuthbert Lord Ogle, Katharine, who at length became his foie Heir by the Death of her tlder Sijier Joan, who was married to Edward Talbot, a younger Son of G-.-orge Earl of Siircwsbury, but died without Iffue, and was married to Sir Charles Cavendifn of Welbeck Knight, is 4.'/? Car. I. made by Letters Patent Baronefs of Ogle cf this Place. Her Son William havingbeen made Knight of the B3th;« 1610^ at the Creation of Henry Prince of Wales, was afterwards advanced to the Degree of a Baron,- by the Stiie and Title of the Lord Ogle, in 1620. He in the great Breach bciween X;;;^ Charles 1. and his Parliament ^ tndeavoured to fupport his Royal Mafier in his Authority and Power, and did many fignal Things for that End, as raifing Forces, fortifying the Town of Newcaftle and Tinniouth, defending York, C'f. wh.ch Ser- vices, tho' not crowned with the dejircd Succefs, yet were of fo great Merit with King Charles iL ct his Re- jioration, that he created him Earl of Ogle and Dnke of Ncwc.iftle in 1664. The Title of the eldeji Son of this Family in his Father's Life-time, is Earl of Ogle, by tke Coiiru/y of Kn^^land. M;V;!. Brit. Nathaniel Ogle, Efq; whofe beautiful Seat is at Kirklaw in Northumberland, is a Defctndant of th:t an- cient Family of the Oijles. ton. Of the Caftle-yard. ,i i ^ ?«;/, with Stkklaw and Hereford and " H^odrington, paid for Caftlcward and n widdring^ Cornagcj ton, Wid- rington- / s. d. ^f''. !"■ Woddnng- For Caltle-ward ■ oi oo ©o ton, theseai ForCornage lo oo qq "f ■^■"""'^ O » ^ vj^j wkj j^ ^„ ancient and Worthy The Barony of ° Bolheck, containing Stifford^ Bnimball, Slavely^ Shotton^ Family of p Heddon of the Wall, Hcdwin Eaft, Thornton^ Whitchefter^ Haiigbton^ q Ben- '^^' f^f^' ivell, ' Elfivick, J>igerton, Hertbourne^ Middleton, Morel, Burmton, Beril, f Fen- "^fun p^^ali. zed their Va- lour in the War againft the Scots, and long floarijh' din great Repute in thefe Northern Parts, for Kooerde Wid- drin^ton, -U'as High Sheriff of this County, 36 Ed. ^d, as was John de Witherington, it Hen. j^th, and the fam^fOranotherof his Name,4.ilen. 6. Roger Wodrington /^e loth and z&th of the fame Reign ; Gerhard Wod- unoxon, i^thEdvf. ^th, ]o\-inde '^odi-inntonnineYears to:,cther inthefame Reign, and )o\m de Wodn'ngton, 31 Hen. Sth, 6th Edvv, .^th, and if Eliz. But the Psrfon zi'h:ch hath the mofi enobledlhis Family, was Sir WilhamWod- ungton, Knt. who hazing l/em High sheriff in this County, jzthC^r. jji, was created a Baronet, ]u\y t)th, 1641; anit ha'^mgby the breaking out of the Civil War, or foon after, raiftd a confderable Power for his Majejty's Service, which he put under the Coxdiitf c] Wilh'am Cavendifli then Earl {but after Duke) 0/ Ne'.vcaftle, as General, whereby ha had his Share in the Honour of thoje many Vinories that General obtained at TaJcafter, Yarm, Seacroft, Tan- kei'ily, Leeds, Hallit'ax, Rotheram, Sheffield, Cheftcvfield, Gaynsboi'ough and Lincoln, but chiefly at Bradiord in Yoi'kfhiie, againfi the numerous Forces of the rebellious long Parliament ; he vjas in Confideration of his good Services thus done for the Royal Caufc, advanced to the Honour of a Baron of this Realm, by the Title of Lord Witherington c/Blankncy, the Eftate which came to him by Mary his Wife, the fole Heir of Sir Anthony Thorold, }^nt. of that Place m Lincolnfhire. He left feveral Sons, of whom ^iWiim fucceeded in hit Eftate and Honour, and his Grandfon William now enjoys them. Ihis Place was forfeited to the Crown Anno 1715, the Lord of it being concerned in the Rebellion that was that Year raifed againft the King. He fiiffer'd not along with the Earl «/ Detwentwater, Lord Kenmuir, O'c, but was gracioufly pardoned, and is alive at this Day. ° Henzerus. Primus Hugonera de Bolbeck, Feof. P Heddon on the Wall, Part of the Man our s/" Hugh de Bolbeck, who defcended by the Mother's Side from tht JSIoble Barons of Montfichet. He had no Iffue Male, but left four Daughters, Coheirs of his large Barony and Eftate, viz. Philippa married to Roger de Lancafter, Margery to Nicholas de Corbet, and afterwards to Kalph Lord Greyftock, {as Mr. Camhdcts fays) But Sir William Dugdale, Baron, 451. tells us, that it was Ralph, the Son 0/ William Lord Grimthorp ; Alice to Walter de Huntercumbe, and Maud, fome Years after to Hu"h de la Val, or as Cambden, J. Level. In an Original Charter, dated i Steph. whereby fame Lands are conveyed to, and fettled on the Church of Winchefter, fubfcribed by a great many Barons, ive have Signum Walteri dc Bolbec, Bar. Seld. Tit. Hon. Par. 2. c. 5. p. 571. one Ifabel de Bolebec, firft Countefs oj Oxford, foun- ded a Convent u/ Dominicans m that City. q 0/ B E N W A L L. Mr. Canibdcn y/)e.iy«^ o/Chefter on the Srrcet, fays, he fuppofcs it to have been the Condercum, where upon the Line of the Wall, the firft Wing of the Aftitres l~ept Carrifon in the Roman Times, as the Notitia tells us. And this he conjeiiares, becaufe in the Saxon, Cheftrei; called Conce)'^ep, andbecaufe it is but a few Miles from the Wall. But others are of Opinion, that Bentt'all, a Village about two Miles Weft o/Nevv- caftle, was the ancient Condercum, becaufe of the Antiquity of the Place, and its Nearnefs to the Wall; the Notitia dcfcribing the Condercum, as upon the Line of the Wall. This indeed feems rather probable. For if a Place is faid to be fttuated ad lineani valli, one wokld think it ftjoutd not be far from the Wall, hovjever not on the wrong Side 0/ Tine. The Places of the Roman Garrijons ad lineam Valli, as far as I can judge, have always b:cn in thefe Counties which the Roman Wall paft thromh ; but no Body ever yet found out the lea ft Footfteps of it in the County of Durham. In"this Village were' lately found feveral Urns with Coins in them, which zvere moft of them broken and fquander'd about by the ignorant Diggers ; but one of them being prejerved, was given to the Library at Dur- ham, zfhere it remains very intire. The Prior of Tinmouth was wont to fpend fome Part of the Summer tit this Village. It is now the Property of Robert Shafto Efq; and has been of his Anceftors for many Years; the old Tower u/ Benweri-H.ili was the Place where the Prior refded, and the Chapel, which Mr. Shafto opens, and fup^lics, for ihe Good of the People of his Village, was the Prior's domeftick Chapel. This Place is much frequented in the Summer-Seafon for its pleajing Situation and agreeable Diftancc from the Town, and at all Scafons jor the Hofpitality of the wor- thy Proprietor. " Elfwick is a Village diftant a ftiort Mile from Newcaftle ; it is Jituatedon the North-Jide of the Tyne, up- en the Brozv of an Hill, not far from the River. It is exceedingly agreeable and pleafantin the Summer, having about it fome of the richeji Grounds, whofe Hedges are moftly befet with Trees. It is a Place much frequented in the Summer -"^eafon by the Town's People. Ralph Jenifon, Efq; Member of Parliament for the County of Northumberland, ;; the prefent Poffeffor of it. ^ Fenwick, the Manoiir and Eftate of the eminent and valiant Family of the Fenwicks, whofe Seat is here called Penwitk-Hall. Many of this F.tmily have been Men of Note in the Rci'jis of our jirft Norm.in Kiimsj for John do Pcnwick vjas High Sheriff for this County, 48 Edw.ird HI. and again ( or it was another of "the fame Name) zid Richard 11. Henry dcFcnwick, 6 Henry VI. Roger de Fenwick, 9 Henry VII. Ralph de Fenwick, ILjq; jlh Henry Vlll. William Fenwick, zaih 31// of Elifabeih, and 5;r John Fenwick, Knight, the i^th Year of King James I. Sir John Fenwick his Grandfon, ii'.i; beheaded in the Reign of Ki»^ William. G g wkk 114 Of the Caftle-yaid. wzV/C', Matifin-Eaft-Haivkivell^Sbalo'iv^ Middleton-Soutb^ Cdmbho'W^ Hert-fFcigh- Hawick, Kirkher/e, Rocheky, Neiuton-Graiige^ anii the Moiety oi Byaell^ paid /. S. (I. For Caftlc-ward - • oj c5 08 For Cornage — — — ■ -oi li co t The Barony of ' Bolani^ containing BoLim^ Liiedov^ Burnetor.^ Thornlury^ Bolam, Cupum^ Parvatn^ ffiitington, Ilayden^ Betjon^ Biadeford, Dcmuv.^ I'rewitk and « [mall vtl- Ticnflal, paid /. s. d. l^e.ofwhtch p . caftle-ward ■ ■ . 02 00 oo Mr. George _ ^ ,, Forfter w?j For Cornage ' co cJJ 00 Mtntfter. He was turned The Barony of " Gaugye, containing EUingham^ '" C}a}n!:;:g;c", ^ Heater, 1646, and ' "''■^' feverely fined fir not rejignmg without Oppofitlon ; but zi\is allow' d for fifths 4 1. 6?. 8 d. which was ill fAii y Joan Rex but not being fiifficient to maintain his F.imily, he too'< a Farm, and hi v.;is plander'd ol'h:s Hay and Jeefalio. Corn, and had been imprifoned, but he got Sail. He lived to 1 O60, when he w.is rejiored,and d:ed aged $ i . The Reverend Air. Geoi-ge Vsnv/ick.of Chriji College Cambridge, // the prejent Vicar. " Heniy 1. Ricliardiim de Gaugye Teof. ■w Ciamlington, the Manour and EJiate of Robert de Gauji, a great Man in the PSign of King John, and by him entrufted with the Government of divers Caftles at Times, to de'end them ayinfi the rebellious Barons, •which he did faithfully and to his own Advantage \ for ji Henry 111. it vJas cert:;ied, that the Barony of this Robert ( now as we conceive, called the Barony of Caugif, for Gaugi ) in this County, conjijied of this and divers ether Manours, which he held of the King by the Service of three Knights Fees, This Manour is nozvthf k Property «/ Robert Lawfon, Efq; of Cliirton. ' * Heaton is a [mall Village dtjiant from Newcaftle about a Mile and a Half Eafiward. It has been handed down by Tradition to the prefent Day, thai it was a Place of Retreat for King John xvhen he came into this Country, and there are fiul to be feen the Ruines of an ancient Building, tiovj in the PcjfejJ^Mno/Rlcliard Ridley, £/"^; which carries the Name of Kin^ Jthn's Palace. Whatever Truth there may be in this Tr.idition, this is certain, that there is in the /aid Gentleman'/ Ground on the Norili-fide of this old Building, the Remains of a Fortification, which 'tis natural to conjecture, was built for the Safety and Security of this Hoii'e, and, con- fequently this Houfe mufi have been of fome great Difiinilion. And when it is further conjtdered, that this Village of Heaton ;; a Part of the Barony oi Robert de Gaugy, it may not be improbable to conclude, that this ancient Budding has in fome Meafure been what Tradition fays it was. For Robert de G:iugy was a great Man in the Reign of King John, and vjas entru/led by him (as has jujl now been obferved) with the Government of divers Caftles at Times, to defend them againft the te-hcXWows^Axows, which he did faithfully and to hisown Advantage; for in the ^d of Henry III. it was certified, that the Larony of this H.obevc in this Coun- ty, conjifted of this and the other Manours, which he held op' the King by the Service of Three Knights Fees. This Robert therefore might have had his own Houfe here upon this Par: of his Barony ; and as he vjas fo faithful a Servant to King John, and entrufted by him with Matters of fuch great Concern, it is not impro- bable but when the King came to thefe Parts, he lodged at this Ho:ife ; and this perhaps was the Reafon of4ts getting the l;i>;f Morpeth. The prefent State of this ToW/i is this : /; is a Corporation , governed by two Bailiffs, annually chofen by the freemen, and fend Burcejfes to Parl:a?i!c»t, but not o/ many Tears flandin;. It hath a very lood Market on Wcdncfday weekly, for Corn, (.'attle, and all neciJJ'ary Provijions, and a Fair yearly on It IS a PoJ^Tiwn, and a good Thcrougb-fare, lying about 4 furlongs on the Road. The Caflle is in Ruins, as xicji of all the other Cajilcs in the Nation are. Here was anciently an Hofpital for injirni People, on which William dc Morley, a great Man in his 'lime, bcftovted a Canicata of Land ; but net p.nding any Mention of it in the Monafitcon, nor in Mr. Specd'i Catalogue from Lclaud, we juppofe it was diffolved long before the gene- ral Stipkrcljion by King Hcn.y Vlll. Nothing more is recorded of this Place, fo far as we can difcover, but that Elilabcth, the Wife of William Lord Grayftock, had for her Dowry an Affignation of this Manour of Morpeth, among other Eftaies; and that in the Tear cf our Lord 1215, the Towtifmeii themfeives burnt it la p/tre Spue to Kim^ Jolm. This Place is famous for Lein'; the Birth-Place of tVJo eminent Phyficians, viz. William Turner, bred in the Vniverfity a/' Cambridge, where he became an excellent Latinijf, Grecian, Poet and Ora:or; he being a very z.eaious I'rotefiant, and writing fevtral Books in Defence of the reformed Doclrine, Tvas very m.ich vtoleflcd for the fame by Bifliop Gardiner, and others then in Power, who kept him lont; in Pri- fea i but having efcaped by a wouderful Providence, he fled beyond Sea. At Ferrara in Italy he commenced Do- iiof of Phyjick, gaining his Daree there with general Applaitfe. He went afterwards into Germany, and there livsd in gre.tt Credit and Pr.iClice, and died there {as is conjeffured) in Sjiueen M.iiy'i Reign. He zvrotea "real Herbal, a Book of Phyfick for the Eiiglifli Gentry; as alfo feveral Treaties about Plants, Fifties, Stones, Metals, ice. He was worthy ( fays Dr. Fuller ) of our jpecial Notice, becaufe he v:as both aSZonfefjor and a Phypcian, t^.alifications zvhich we obfcrie not to meet every Day in the fame Perfon. And Thomas Gibfon, who flourijhed at the fame Time, and was fo eminmt in his Profeffion, that Bale gives h'm an higher Cbara:Ur than the former, viz. that he did ^^gritudinuni fanationes Incredib.'les, i. e. incredible Cures of Difcafes. He w.is a z.eaious Oppofer of the Popifh DoClrines, and wrcte feveral Books againji them-, itnd among others, one tritituled. The Treafons of the Prelates fince the ConqncfV ; yet not forgetting liisiwn Proftfipn, for he wrote upon the Nature of Herbs. He was alive in the laft tear of i^ieen Mary ; for Bale feiideth forth a hearty Prayer to God fyr the ConlinHance of his Health and Happinefs, he being not only his tiiend, but fo ufcfd in bif (itncration. Grim- ii6 Of the Caftle-yard. /. s. d. oz 00 13 07 04 08 Gr'mnejl Membrum fuum, Neivham, Hebfcot, ShiU'mgton^ TuyfeU^ Saltwick^ Dud- bBlakedon ^ew-Eaft, Dudden-We% Clyfton, Caldivell^ Stannington, Shotton^ ^ Blakedcn, is a fmall ff^gtteflade North, IVetteJlade South, KilUngivorth, « Benton and Walker paid village feven ■' ' '^ - Miles North y-, ni j «/ New- For Caltle-ward ■ — _— ■ caftle. It For Cornage ■ — — — flands upon R.oad7oXiQx. The Barony of '' BothaJ, containing Bothal cum membris juls^ viz. fFIoet' peth; what tvorib, NeivmurCj Oldmore, Pcggcfajortb., Hebborne^ Fenrothcr^ I'rickUngton, E- n was jor- refdcn, Longhirft am membris Juis^. l^ Nifienden veteri mor r 7 c J ledge. In the '• ■*• "* Reign of King For Caftlc-ward 02 00 00 Henry III. For Cornage • 00 08 08 nnd Ed w aril with'ln^T- The Barony of Delaval containing Blackalladay, ^ Seton cum membris fuis, dam de Blakedon, and John de Blakcdon, who were Bailiffs oj Newcaftle. At prefent it is the Seat of Matthew White, Ufa; Son of Matthew White, £/ij; who zvas twice Ma'jor of Newcaftle, and Governor of the Merchants and Hoafimans Companies. Since the frefent Gentleman was the Pojfeffor of it, it va/lly furpaffes what it ivas formerly ; and whether we conjider the Statelinefs of the Houfe, the Grandeur of the Avenue, the Be.mty of the Gardens, or the Art and Ornaments of the curious Fifh-Pond, we pall find thtm ex- ceeded by few in the whole Country. « Benton was formerly the Manour and Eftate of Sir Philip Somerville e/Wickmore in StafFordfliire, 29 £dward 111. and was fou'.id by an Inquifition taken of his Ejiate at his Death, which happened in that Tear. The Church with certain Lands in this Parifli he gave to Baliol-College in Oxford, for the perpetual Mainte- nance of jix Scholars there, to be eletied out of it and the neighhotirmg Towns. He being dejirous to have all the Fellows fibje'i to one Form of Government, made them new Statutes in fome Things, contradiCling the old ones eiven them by Devorgilla, the Relict of 'John Ealiol their Founder. About' the Reign of Tv-icnard 1. one Euftachius, Par/on u/" Benton, was one of the Wttnejfes tothe DeedofFoun^ dation to the Hofpital oj St. Mary the Virgin in Wsftgate. * Roger Bertram de antique Feofamento. d Bothal, the Lordpip of Richard Bertram, who heing a devout Man {as thofe Times went) gave two Sh.^res, i. e. two third Parts oj the Titles ef it to the Monks o/Tinmouth. His Son Robert obtained of Rich- ard I. that this Manour and its Dependants fliould be m.ide a. Barony, by the Name of the Barony of Bothal, as it is at this Day called. It lies upon the German Ocean on the Eaft-diore, between the Rivers Lyne ani Wentsbeck. This Robert held this Barony of the King in Capite, by the Service of three Knights Fees, as his Af..eJtori had done formerly for the f aid Lands, being de vcteri Feofamento, and paying yearly for the Guard of the Caflle at Newc.iftle upon Tine, for Coinage 5 1. 15 s. 4 d. To this Robert fticceeded his Son Roger, who obtained a Charter for free Warren for all his Demefne Lands here ; and at Hepburn in this County his Heirs enjoyed this Barony for Jome Siicceffion;, without making any Addition to its Grandeur; but Robert Ber» tram, being in thelieign of King Edward 111. confiitutcd Sheriff of Northumberland, and Governor 0/ New- caftle upon Tine, obtained Licence of that King to make a Caftle of his Manour-Houfe at Bothal, zvhtch ac- cordingly he did ; and there are fome conjiderabie Remains of it to this Day. This Robert left no Iffue-male, ,:nd therefore his Daughter and Heir Helen being married to Sir Robert Ogle, Knight, tranferred this Barony to hisFamily. His ion Kolert after the Death of his Mother obtained this Barony, and fettled it foon after upon hisyoun%cr Son John, whom he Sirnamed Bertram, from his Mother, being dejirous that his own Ejiate fhould no in his own Name, .tnd fo gave it to his eldeft Son Robert Ogle. He ftiffer'd his Brother John to enjoy "the '&e\u'im-Eftate quietly; but his Son Robert having obtained Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance, by Colour thereof , did forcibly, with two hundred Men, po(fefs himfelf of the Caftle and Manour of Bothal; but upon Complaint made to the Parliament by John Bertram, it was ordered that a Writ ftioiild be fent to the Sheriff of Northumberland, to require all thoj'e who were in the Poffefion of the Caftle to depart from it, that it might be reftored to John the Complainant , and commanded Robert to appear at Weftminfter on a certain Day, to m.ikc Anfwer to the King for his Mijdemeanoiir. This John Bertram, who was afterwards Knighted, was fevcral Times Sheriff of Northumberland, in the Reign of Kin^ Henry VI. and his Pofterity fiourijlied, and had the Title of Lords Ogle, 'till the latter End ' of Queen Elilabeth'/ Reign, when Male-lffiie failing in Cuthbert Lord Ogle, Katharine, his Daughter and Heir^ married to Sir Charles Cavcndidi, Knight of Walbeck ;;; Nottinghamfhire, and carried the Eftate and Title of Ogle into that Family; but the Name of Bertram is not forgotten, for it is a common Chriftian Name in. thofe Northern Parts.' Some think the Name c/Fcrdinando is derived from it. c Seton, a principal Manour of the Barony o/" Delaval, held of Kin% Henry III. by Euftacc Delaval, by the Service of tv.'o Knights Fees, de veteri Feofamento ; his Heir was Hugh Delaval. , lam told, the prefent Pcjf/fjforFrancis Blake Delaval, Efquire, is obliged to ftnijJi, or expend fo much yearly to- wards the finijliing of the fumpiuous Building in that Place, which is Jo much the Wonder and Admiration of all the Country. It was begun by the late AdmiralX)c\i\3.\, Anno It feems for Grandeur and Magni- ficence, for Strength and Continuance, to vie with the ancient Northumbrian Cafties, and to laft the Days of the moft diftant Ages. Newfum Of the Caftle-yard. 117 Neivfim, and DlJJington paid /. s. d. For Caftle-ward ——— ■ oi 06 08 For Cornage • ■ 00 03 03 The Barony of ^0^, containing ^ Wet% Mindram, Karham, Preflfen^ Ma- iWerke.the nihiiue^ Dnnum^ Palwijier^ Shotton^ Killom^ Holthall, Newton^ and the other CaflUand Newton^ Langeton^ Lilkburn^ Hilderton^ JVeperden^ Rujfinden^ Tithington^ But- ;*^;'"f"' "^ Ufden and the Moiety of Glattendon. held in^he Reign of King The Barony of g i?>'iw//, containing Neivbigging, Woodhorn^ Lynmouthe^ Hen.il.Re^. Hyrfle.^ Hallywcll, Lynton Ellington^ cum Creffwell 6? Jyden Membris fuis. By- d'*M'*'^"|'* chefield, Ligiym, Blackheddon^ Samfordham^ ' Newton-^' ci?c^ Ncwton-e^xtt, Schecl- the Name of Ungc^ Ovington^ Ovingbam^ Milkylleye^ Whitlye^ Falderlye, Bromley^ Appleby, the Honour the Moiety of Bywell, Slokefield, Swinburne-eAii, SzviMburnc-yfett. Ryhill. ^^, Werch, • who accoun- ted to that »• S. a. King for the The Barony de Copun paid 00 i ? 04. ^!""" "f "^ J ^ r if that rear, at 5 1. 10 s. 6d. Thus far the Baronies. But bcfides thefc Rents, there were Houfes, and in the Yards and Gardens, i^c. which paid to it. 54'^» year of that King at I N the 9th of Edward III. an Inquifition was taken at this Town, where- J ^.^,V^ by it was found. That at the Time of the Battle of '^ Banmckburn, which was Time by that in the Year 131 3, when John de Kenton Knight was EI;gb Sheriff oi Northum- King's Com- ber land, the Cape and all Edifices about it were in good Repair > That after ""^"f^"^ ^^' that Time, l its common Name now is the three Bulls Heads. 21 ft September \mo Hen. VII. per Lit. Pat. then date(f at Weflminfler^ the Office ol Conllable of the Callle ot Newcajile was granted to JVilltam Cafe., Efqj during Life, with the Wages and Fees then belonging, and of ancient Time accuitomed, de reb. 47. ifth February^ pth Hen. VII. per Lit. Patent, then dated at Weflminfier^ this Office being then void, by the Death of Sir Robert Million Knight, the fame was granted to Roger Fenwick^ Efqj for the King's Body for his Life^ together with the Wages and Fees of zo /. per annum., to be yearly received out of the Iffues, Profits and Revenues of the faid County oi Northumberland, coming by the Hands of the Sherift'of the laid County, with all Manner of Profits, ^c. deReb. P. 47. Ibid. Not any Letters Patents of the Office of Conftable fince the laft above mentioned i for the Cullody of the Callle (as fuppofed) was committed to the Sheriffs of Northumberland for feveral Years. In the 51ft Elizabethy the fame Power and Liberty was given to the Afa- giflrates Of the Caftle-yard. 119 giftratcs of Netvcaftk^ in the Cajile-Gartb, as in other Parts of the Town of Nsivcajlle. A N Inquiruion in the Reign of Jafnes I. fays, that the ancient Caflle^ be- longing to the King, fituated within the Walls of Neivcaflk upon Tine^ be- longs to the County of Northumberland^ and is furroundcd with a great Stone- Wall. That below the Caftle there is a great K?//, where the County of Northitvtberland holds their Afllzcs. There is alfo a great 1'ower^ full of Chinks, under which arc two Vaults, which are the Places where the Pri- foners of the County oi Northumberland are kept, which are within the Circuit of the CalHe itfelf. And that there is in Being the exterior Wall of the Caftle, which begins North of the Callle, about fix Yards from the Great Gaie^ which leads into the Caftle-yard ; and fo goes on eiftward and fouthward by the Back of fome Houfes in the Side. Then it goes weilward by the Back of fome Houfes ia the Sand-bill; then it croffcs the Caflle-ftairs., which lead to the Street called the C/o/'?, and from thence behind the Houlcs, even to the upper Pinion-Ga- V.'! of the Houfe of James Clavcriiig Alderman, which is about nine Yards diilant from the long Srairs, where the f\id ancient Wall, on account of its Decay, does no farther appear; but yet the Bounds and Limits of the Caftle go thio.'gh the middle Part of a Houfe, extending itfelf even to the Channel in the inug Srairs. Then it goes along the Channel upwards on the Outfide of t'-^e new Wall, which was built to enclofc the ' Dunghill. From thence ' The high it cr«r-s to the Comer of the Houfe of and thence by ff ^"".^ 1 ^ ■« 1 1' L T T ,- /- 11 • Heap, VIZ. the Back-part of- the Houte or where the ancient the Dunghill outward Wall begins. This ancient outward Wall of the Caftle contains by on the weft- Mcafure three Acres of Ground and one Rood. /"^« "ftf'^ Caftle, -was In the i.Sth of this King's Reign, another Inquifition was held at New- ty sir 'joha caftle about the Caftle, wherein Complaint was made of the Dunghill men- M.iiley tioned in the Bounds of the Caftle, that it had increafed to fuch a Bignefs, ^'"yr, and that it was in Length p8 Yards, the Depth of it was lo Yards, and tTie '"^ ■^'^^^- Ti 1 1 r- 1^ J • ■ 1 1 • r 1 J- ■ iTr ■ 1 i rents, to ram- Breadth of It ^z Yards; wnich being luch a prodigious Weight upon the p^^t the Wall on the Weft- fide of the Caftle (which Wall was in Length 40 Yards, To-wn-Walh in Height lo Yards, in Breadth z Yards) that a great Part of it is intirely is'''i''ft the thrown down and fubvcrted. to the ffreat Detriment of the Strength of the P'^'j'^'"'"' /- 11 r,M -rx J J and Com- Caftlc. 1 he Damage was computed at izo /. mnwealth. It was alfo by this fime Inquifition complained of, that the great fquare Tower was full of Chinks and Crannies; and that one Third of it wasalmoft taken away: That all the Lead and Covering which it had of old was im- be/lcd and carried of, infomuch that the Prifoncrs of the County o( Northum^ berlaml were moft miferably lodged, by reafon of the Showers of Rain falling uponthem. They computed the Charge of repairing it would beSop/. 15 J.orf. I T has been a Building of great Strength, and no little Beauty ; the vaft Thickncfs of the Walls fpeaks the one, and the Ruines of fome curious Workmanfliip fpeaks the other. The grand Entrance into the Caftle was at the Gate facing the South, which leads up a Pair of Stairs (which ftill fhew the Magnificence of the Builder) to a very ftately Door of curious Mafonry. The Room this leads into, has its Floor broken down clofe to the Caftle- Wall, as indeed all the other Floors are to the Top of the Caftle; fo that ex- cepting the Floor above the County-Goal, there is not one left, tho' there have been five Divifions or Stories of the Caftle befides this. 'Oiis floored Room which I was told was lately flagg'd by the Order of William Ellifon, Efq; Alderman, when he was laft Mayor in the Year 1723, fcems to me without any Doubt, to have been the common Hall of the Calilc, becaufc on the North- fide of the lame Room there is an Entrance by a Defcent of fome Steps into a Room, where is the hirgeft Fire-place I faw in the Caftle, which plainly fpeaks it to have been the Kitchen. At the End of this there are l"e- vcral I20 Of the Caftle-yard. veral Stairs, which lead into a Place under the Kitchen, which I think goes down as low as the Bottom of the Caftle. This I take to have been a Cel- lar, as I do alfo that little dark Place on the right Hand coming up again, to have been a Sort of a Pauntry. The Door I mentioned juft now on the Eaft of the Caftle, which leads to the firft broken down Floor, is becaufc of it's Grandeur and Beauty, an Argument that this Room has been the moft ftately one in the whole Caftle j another Reafon for it's being fo, is becaufe of the Windows which gave Light into it. Thofe of them that foce the Eaft arc the moft beautiful of the whole Caftle i befides, on the South of this Room there is an Entrance into a Sort of a Parlour or withdrawing-Room, which has a Fire Place in k; which has been a Piece of curious Workmanfhip, asisvifible tothis Dayj and this Place has no Communication with any Part of the Caftle but this Room. On the North-fide of this Room, is a Door leading into an Apartment, where ilands a Well of a confiderable Depth, it was i8 Yards before wetouch'dthe Surface of the Water ; which feems to have been placed there on purpofe for the more immediate Service of this Room : There are fome little Bafons on the Top of the JVell^ with Pipes leading from them, which conveyed Water to different Appartments of the Caftle j This is plain from what may be obfer- ved in the County Goal^ at the Bottom of the Caftle j the round ftojie Pillar in it, Jiaving an Hollow in the Middle, of a Foot wide, with a lead Spout in the Side of it. I N the Inquifition made in the pth of Edivard 3d abovementioned, among other Things that were complained of for being neglefted, one was Capella Do- mini Regis infra Cajirum. This Chapel I have been told, ftood on that Part of the C?ftle Yard, where the Moot-hall is j but upon Searching, I found it in the Caftle itfelf according to the Account of it juft now mentioned. The Door of it is at the Bottom of the South Wall of the Caftle, adjoining to the Stairs which lead into the State Chamber. It ha? been a Work of great Beau- ty and Ornament, and is ftill in the midft of Duft and Darknefs, by tar the moft beautiful Place in the whole Building; the Infide of it being curioully adorned with Arches and Pillars. It is eafy to obferve the different Parts of it, the Entrance^ the Body of it^ and the Chancel; on the left Side of the En- trance you go into a dark little Room, which undoubtedly was the Veftry. The full Length of it is if Yards, the Breadth of it is 6 Yards and half. It had 3 or 4 Windows towards the Eaft, which are now all filled up, nor is there any Light but what comes in at a little Cranny in the Wall. Nicholas de Byker 'tenet terras fuas tit faciat difiri8iones adJVarcP Novi Ca- jielU fuper Tynam faciend' ^ pro deb' Domini Regis inter Tynam l^ Cocket, ^c. And then my Authority goes on to fay, that the Manour of Byker was Sir * Ralph Laivfon's Knight, deceafed, after of Henry Laivfon^ Efq; his Son, and nov/ of his cldeft Son, who without all Queftion is Bailiff" by Inheritance of the faid Caftle, and is to levy thefc Caftlc-ward Cornagc, and other Rents, Ifllics, Fines, and Amerciaments, belonging to the faid Caftle. And as he goes on, the Conftable of the Caftle, when that Oflice is fettled, may ap- point the learned Stewards to keep Courts, and then the Officers for the faid Caftle will be compleat. Befides the Rents above-mentioned, a great Num- ber of Houfes, Yards, and Gardens paid to it. In the 17th of James I. i6ip, a Grant was made of the Scite and De- mcfnes of the Caftle to Alexander Stephenfon, Efq; who was fucceeded by one Patrick Bl^k, who died, and left it in the Pofleffion of his Wife. After that one James Langton, Gent, claimed Patrick Black's Right, but by Virtue of what is not known. The Liberties and Privileges of the Caftle extends Northwards to the Ri- ver of Tweed, and Southward to the River of Tees. • It Of the Caftle-yard. 121 I T is reported, that underneath that Honfe which was anciently the Coun- ty Goal, is a Fault which leads to the Callile. Tliere is indeed a large Door Itill to be feen, which perhaps was the Entrance into itj and Mr. George Grey^ the prelent Poffcnbr of the Houfe, told me that it was certainly fo, be- caufe he had put down thro' his own Floor a Bailiff's Rod to the very Endj and could lind no Bottom. A Manufcript I have often hadOccafion to mention gives us the following Account of the Gallic- Yard. The Way thro' the Yard begins at the Caflk-Tatc, and when I was young, there wiis no Houlcs in it bat the Houfe of one 'Thomas Southern^ and the Houfe of one Green; thele Houfes were near the Gate before you came into the Ca- ftle-yard j and there was in the Garth a Houfe, wherein the Go^^/cr of the Ca- ftlc dwelt, and a Houfe wherein William Rohinjon dwelt, who was Deputy Herrald under Norroy^ King at Arms. This Man wrote in a Book the Arms of all the Mayors of this Town, from Laurentius AStofi, until his Time. And when I was Chamberlain of the Town, which was about the Time of Sir Nicholas Cole's being Mayor in the Year 1640, it was then in the Town's Chamber; when Trollop built the Town-Court^ he borrow'd it, but would ne- ver reltore it. These were all the Houfes at that Time j but fince then Mr. Bulmeff. he took a Garth behind his Houfe in the Side, and built a Stable in it, and had a Garden in it; and alio George Hayroy took from thence to the Moat-hall^ and built i loufes upon it : He was a Butcher, but not a Freeman, and thefe took their Lands and Houfes of Alexander Stephenfon, a Scottifh Man, who came in with King James, for he bcgg'd the Caftle of the King. He was one of his Clofe-Stool. This Man began to build the Caftle-Gate, but it was finiflied by one John Pickle, who made it in the Fafhion it is now, and kepc a Tavern in it j and then one Jordan a Scotfman and Sword- Kipper, built the Houfe on the South-fide ot the Gate, and lived in it; and Thomas Reed^ a Scotch Pedlar, took a Shop in the North-fide of the Gate. A T prefent there are a good many Shops and Houfes belonging to it, in and about it. I i CHAP. 122 CHAP. X. Of the lower Parts of the TOWN. , HAV I N G now confidered the Cajlle, and what belongs to ir, we return back to the Side^ the Street from which we entred the Cajik-yard. Sea. I. T^he Side. HIS Street is from the Head of it, to \\\c Stairs on the left Hand, a very great defccnt, and lies narrow, untill you come to the middle of it, from which Place it opens in a fpacious Breadth, and fo continues to the Sandhill. It is from the one end to the __ other fiird with Shops of Merchants^ Goldfmi/hs, Milliners, Uphol- Jler7^^c.~ The Eall-fide of this Street, from the Upper Part of it to uill- hallow Panfy was called Cordiner^ or Corchvainer Raive. Above the middle of the Street are Stairs leading up to the CafHe-yard, which was the Eaftcrn-Poftern of the Caftlc^ and after called the Wafte of Laurentiiis ASlon, as appears from the Account of Gunner Tower; and our Towns-man, Grey, fiys, that in the Middle of this Street is an antient Stone- Houfc, an Appendix to the Gallic, which in former Times belonged to the Lord Lumley, before the Caftlc was bxiilt, or at leaft coetany with the Caille. • O N the other Side of this Street, oppofite to the Wafle now mentioned, is a Corner Shop, which formerly belong'd to a Chantery in St. ^o/^w's Church. On the fame Side of this Street, almoft oppolitc to this Eattern-Pollern of the Caftle, is a fhort narrow Lane, (which formerly fcems to have gone by > Vk'.eGun- jhe Name of » Swinburn-place) which leads by Stairs into a dark narrow Lane ner-Tower. ^y^jj;}^ hce^ the Painter Ilcugh that leads into Pilgrim-flreet. On the North- fc Vide Gun- end of this Lanc there was a Place called ■> Pencher Place, peihaps the whole ner-Tower. Lai-,c ^y^s called fo. It goes as far as the Nether-dean-bridge, under which is now a Ware-hou(e of Mr. James Moncajlcr, Merchant. Under this I am told Of the Side; told the Ri'igs are ftill to befeenthat the Boats were faftned to, which brouf^ht up the Merchant Goods, when the Merchants had their Shops, in the Fk/b- markei. On the South it leads to the Side. The Pant {landing near the Shop of Mr. Rokrf Mahpeke, is undoubted- ly that which went by the NAme of JIl-Hallow-Pafii ; The other Side of the Street from AU-HallGiv-PaKt to the Cale-Crojs, was formerly divided by the coming up of the Ri\-er, which was called Lorkburn, and the Eaft of it had the Name oi'FIeJ/jet-Ra-j;, becauie I fuppofe the Butchers had their Shops there, as well as on the Butcher- Bank: The Well bore the Name of the Side. Af- ter that, Lorkburn was cover'd with Flags at the Top, and made one Street,' which all goes by the Name of the Side. In the Year 1696 Lorkburn was arch'd at the Top, and pav'd over. W E come now to the Cale-Crofs, Co called becaufe of the Cak or Broth which was fold there in former Times. This feems to have been it's original Name, for I meet with it in the Reign of King Richard the Second, as may be fccn in the Account of St. Margaret's Chantery in St. Nicholas^ and alfo in a Writing dated Edivard the Third. What Grey fays of it is ftill juft, that it is a fair Crofs, with Columns of Stone Hewn, covered with Lead: There is at the Top of it a Ciftern which holds the Neiv-lVatcr. Here is fold Milk, Eggs, Checfe, Butter, t^c. From the Crofs the Street has the Name of Cale-Crofs,, 'till you come to the Sandhill which leaving the Buuhcr-Bank th-xt leads to jill-Halkzv'' s Church on the left Hand, you come immediately to 123 m&mM^^^m^m '«^v •Qi%dfij^''%2 S' Sea. IT. Sandhill. TH E Sandhill is fo called, becaufe it was formerly a ///// of naked Sand.; when the Tide was out. For formerly the Tyne overflowed all this Place. After it was taken in it became Part of the Town: That Part of it on the Weft-fide of Lorkburn^ was a Place of Pleafure and Recreation for the Townf- People. For in the Reign of Richard the 2d, a Proclamation was made, com- manding to remove all Merchandife from a certain Common Place, in Nnvcaflle called Sandhill, where the Inhabitants were Wont to aflemble for their Recrea- tion. It is a fpacious Place, and adorned with Buildings very high and ftate-. ly, whofe Rooms fpeak the jincient Grandeur, being very large and Magni- ficent. It is now that Part of the Town where the chief Affairs of Trade nnd Bufincfs are tranfiftcd. The Shops in this Street are almoft altogether .thofe of Merchants, which have many of them great Convcniencies of Lofts, Garners and Cellars. Here is the Market for Fiji:, Herbs, Bread, Cloth, Leather, 8cc. which for the one Part of Things, ztz. thofe to be wove, is kept every Tuefday and Saturday; for Thing? to be cat, every Day, On 124 Of the Sandhill. 1 cHofpitnle O N the South-fidc of the Street, is the ancient Hofpital called the "Maifos Novicaftri Dieu, or, the Hoiifc of God. It was founded by that great Benefaftor Roger fuper Ty- Thornton, in the Reign of King Henry the Fourth, upon the Death of his nam '"Co- -YVjfe^ for a Chaplain to pray for the Soul of the iaid Roger, as long as he jhumbriaT'" lived, and after he was dead, and for the Souls of his Father and Mother, vocatum and jignes his late Wife, 13 c. This Priell was called the Guardian or Keeper Thornton's of the faid Hofpital, bccaufc of the Care he had over nine poor Men and/o«r Hofpital. pg^^ IVomen, who rctidcd there. Thefe poor People were called the Brethren HfwnaRe- ^"d Siflers of St. Katharine'?, Holpitalj for to this Saint was the Hofpital gis Quaiti dedicated . Rogero de Thornton^ In the 34th o? Henry VI. Roger Thornton gr:inted to the Mayor and Com- fund" iorl'e munity of Ne--Ji'cajile, the Ufe of the Ha/l and Kitchen belonging to the Hof- ejufdem. pital of the blefled Katharine the Virgin on the Sandhill. ■ Rex, Sec. ' de''"raiiT'°o- ^^ ^^^ ^^''^^" "^^^J ^"' ^''^^^''^ Limky, in Confideration of loo /. con- fiia'fVecialis vey'd to the Mayor and BurgefTes oi Neivcaftle, and their Succeflors forever, 6c confi.ieia- all that Building of Stone covered with Lead, flanding near to the Water of tione cujiif- Tine, and to the Eaft-part of the Town's Chamber, being about 16 Yards in recunix nT- Length, and anciently Part of the Hofpital of St. Katharine the Firgirt. bis in came- ra noftiM, d Upon this Building ftands the ftately Court of the Merchant- Adventurers petdilcaiim of the Old Staple, refident at that flourifliing City of Antvierp in Brabant; ^'^y^^ ^■^\.°otl lince removed to the more northern Provinces under the States. Their Char- rohitx, con- tcrs are ancient, their Privileges and Immunities great ; they have no Depcn- ceii.mus 5c dence upon London, having a Governor, twelve AlHibints, two Wardens and Licentia de- .^ Secretary. The preicnt Governor is Richard Ridley, Elqj Alderman of this prafa'o Ro- Town, who has been Governor of this Company for many Years. gero, quod ipfe quod- This Room in ancicnt Times, as we are inform'd by the Milbank Ma- dam Hoipi- ymj'Qyipt^ ^as given to the Town for a young Couple, when they were mar- norc^Sanai '"''^'^> '^° make their Wedding-dinner in, and receive the Offerings and Gifts Kathaiiniv, of their Friends > for at that Time Houi'es were not large. 'Tis true indeed, in quodam the Houfcs in the Fleflj-market, which were built many Years before this up- Mefluagio ^^ fuo per ip- ium ilo^erum In parte nuper edificato in quodam loco VQcato, X.t San,!hill, in villa noftro Novi Caftri luper iynam, coniinente C. Pedes in Longitudine, XL Pedes in Latiiudine de uno CapeUano divina in- fra Hofpitale prKdiftum, pro Sahibri ftatu ipfius Rogeri dum vixcrct, 6c pro aiiima fua cum ab hac luce migraverit, ac aniniabus patris &: matris ipfius Rogeri, & Agneiis nuper uxoris ejus j necnon anteceflorum & libeiorum fuorum, ac omnium fidclium defunftorum (ingnlis diebus celebraturo ; ac de novem viris Sc quatuor Fxminis pauperibus in eodem Hofpitale continue refidentibus juxta ordinaiionem ipfius Rogeri vel cxccutorum (uorum in hac parte faciendani, de novo (aceie, creare, fundare, &: rtabilire poffit in per- petuum : Et quod Hofpitale ilkid, Hofpitale per fc privatum & incorporatum exiftat in perpetuum, ac etiam qujd capellanus Hofpitalis pra;dicti, qui pro tempore fuciit, iu ciiftos ejufdcm Hofpitalis ; ac quod idem CapclUnis Cuflos & prxdidi viri & Fa;min3:, Fratrcs & Sovorcs Hofpitalis Sanfla; ICatherinae, vocati Thor/iton's Hofpiud in Novo Cailro fuper Tinam, nuncupatur quodque cullos Fratres & Sorores 6c eoruni SuccelTores per nomen cuflodis Fratruin & Sororun\ Hofpitalis Sandx Katherinx, vocati Thornton's Hofpital, in Novo Caftro fuper Tynam, fint perfonx capaces 6c liabiles ad omnimoda terras, tencmenta, redditus 6c fervicia ac alias pollelTiones qnafcumque de quibuldam pertonis adquirendas, capiendas 6c recipiendas, te- jiendas (ibi 6c fucceflbribus fuis, cuftodibus Fratribus, 6c Sororibus, Hofpitalis prediifli in perpetuum, Li- centia Regia inde primiius optenia. Necnon quod idem cuftos, 6cc. lint perfonx h.abiles ad alios impla- ciandos 6c ab aliis implacitaii 6c ad defendeudum in quibufcunque placitis 6c querelis per nomen cuftodis Fratrum 6c Sororum Hofpitalis Santlx Katherinx vocati Thornton's Hoffital in Novo CatVro fuper Tynam. Et quod licet unum commune Sigillum pro ncgoiiis 6c agcndis cjuidcm Hofpitalis deferviturum in perpe- tuum, Et ultcriu';, 6cc. Liceniiam dedimus, 6cc. pr.vfaio Rogero quod ipfe quandam cantariam de uno Ca- ptllano divina ad altarc Beati Petri in capella Omnium Santtorum in villa prxdicta pro ftatu 6c animabus prxdiclis (ingulis diebus cclcbratur fuxta ordinationem ipfius Rogeri vcl cxecutorum fuorum in hac parte • iaciendam, (cilicet facere fundare 6c (Vabilirc pollit in perpetuum. Concellimus etiam, &c. prxfato Roge- ro quod ipfe mefluagium fuum prxdiftum cum pcrtincntiis, quod de nobis teneat in Burgagio, poftquam Hofpitale prxdia«m, fie factum fnndatum 6; itabilitum fucrit. dare poflit 6c allignarc prxtatis cul^odi Fratribus 6c Sororibus Hofpitalis prxdifti habendum 6c tenendum fibi 5c fuccelloribus fuis, tam pro Inha- bitationc fua, quam in [auxiliiim] fuftentationis fux in perpetuum concefTimus infupcr, 5cc. eidem Rogero quod ipfe Hercdes allignati, vel exccutores fui terras Tencmenta 6c redditus cum pert' ad valorem x/. per Annum tam ea qux de nobis tcnentur in Burgagio quain ca qux de nobis non tenentur acquirere 6c prxfatis Cuftodi Fratribus 6c lororibus Hofpitalis prxdicb ac capellano Cantarix prediclx cum Cic fafta fundata 8c ftabilita tuerit, juxta difcrctionem 6c limitationcni fuam divifam. 6c proportionabiliter dare allignareSc con- cedete poliint habeod' wc. in perpttuiim, cjc. T. Rcgc apud Weftm. x junii. <* Grey. li Of the Sandhill. 125 on the Sandhill^ had moft of them Rooms near as (lately, if not altogether as llately as this Room is j but then they were the Houfes of the Great Mer- chant's and Aldermen of the Tovjn. So that the Tradition of this Room maybe true enough. This Hall is adorn'd with the Arms of feveral generous BenefaElors^ and fome of the moil curious carv'd Work in Wood. Here it is that for fome Years bypaft, the annual Fcafl of the Sons of the Clergy has been held. Adjoining to the Weft End of this ancient Building, was the Toivn- Court^ which was built by that worthy Man Roger Thornton. This was pull'd down and the prelcnt one erected Jnno i6f8. Alderman Weimoth by Will, dated the nth oi Jpril., gave lioo /. towards it, and the Town was at the rell of the Charge, which amounted to above loooo/. Mr. JoJInia Douglas the Town-Clerlv accounts for it in this Manner. /. s. d. \ -a ihcYsM- \6^ 9^ m Onoher, thtT own fxi(^ Robert Trollop 2 ■■ for building the Court \ ^77^ °° °^ In the Year i66d, there is order'd more in Full i j-oo oo oo The Purchafe- Money paid Phineas Jllen^ for Part of the -> Ground where the Court is built, which had Houfes on it C but were then puU'd down. — ■ — ^ ^ TROLLOP had, as Mr. Doughs alfo acquaints us, fo /. for fetting up the King's Arms in the Court and Bridge, and fo more for finifliing them, and making the Conduit on the Sandhill. This Building, as to its Form and Model, is of great Beaut}', and withal very fumptuous . That Part of it, which is the Court itfclf, is a very (lately jF/rf//, whole lofty Cicling is adorn'd with various Painting, and its Floor laid with checker'd Marble. On the Ea(l end of it is a Dial, and the. Entrance into the Merchants Court. On the Well are the Benches.^ where the Magi- ilratcs fit, raifed confiderably above the Floor of the Court ^ above which are the Piftures of King Charles II. and King James II. large as the Life. On the North a Gallery for Spectators •, and on the South the Windows, which are very pretty, particularly that Window which is a Katharine-Wheel.^ in which is a large Sun-dial of painted Glafs, with this Motto, Eheu Fugzces ! Under this is a large Balcony., which overlooks the River. Here it is that the Mayor and Sheriff keep their Courts, and the Judges at Lammas hold the Aflize. Here is kept the Guilds., the Court of Admiralty., &c. On the North-fide of this Hall is a magnificent Entrance into a PalTitge, which leads ruto a large Room called the Town's Chamber. Here it is that the Mayor traniafts the common Bufincfs of the Town. Here the Common Council is held, where the Mayor fits on a Bench diftinguifliable from the others, the Aldermen on each Side of him, the Common Council below upon Chairs placed on each Side the Room, and ieparated from the Benches, as the Court itfelf is ieparated from the Benches there. And hereupon the Days o{ Rejoicing, the State Holidays, the Mayor not long ago entertained the A^a- gijlrates and Burgeff'es with a Banquet of Wine, (^c. to which they were wont to come from the Mayor's Houfe with great Pomp and Solemnity. At the Weft-end of the Room is a fmall Apartment, or withdrawing Room, where the Magillratcs upon Occafion retire, where the ancient Records of the Town are kept, i3c. Under this Court and Chambers are the M-^eigh- houfe and Toivn-houJ'e. The former is for weighing all Sorts of Commodities j f ( r in the Reign of King Henry VI. Brafs Weights .according to the Stand- art were lent to this Town. The latter is the Place where the Clerk of the Chamber and the Chamberlain arc to receive the Revenues of the Town lor Coal, Salt, B'.dlaft, Grind-jlones, &c. f f ^^ K k Before 126 Of the Sandhill. Before I leave this Street, I muft by no Means omit the Effigies of King James II. which ftood here, as I have been told, on that Side of the Bull-ring next the Court-ilairs. By the Account I have had ( for I never faw the Statue itfelf, nor the Pifture of it ) it mull have been a very curious Work. The King's Picture on Horfeback was caft in Copper large as the Life; the Horfc ilood upon his Hind-Feet, railed upon a Pedeftal of white Marble^ which was furrounded with Iron-Pales. It coft the Town 1700 /. and was confcfs'd the moft beautiful and curious of its Kind that was in the whole Kingdom. Certainly it was a great Ornament to the Town, and 'tis therefore great Pity it is not ftill in Bemg, tho' it was the Statue of an un- fortunate King. But there is no Bounds to the heady Proceedings of a fu- rious Mob i it drives all before it, without either Reafon or Reflccbion, and bears no Regard to Things either Civil or Religious. Such a one I am told was this, that puU'd down the nohle Statue; a few Soldiers, as drunk with Loyalty as with Liquor, affiftcd by the bufy hot-headed Genius of Sandgate, having provided Ropes for that Purpole, puU'd it down, dragg'd it from thence to the Key, and threw it into the River. This was in the Year 1688 ; it was afterwards taken up again, and Part of it call into a Set of Bells, which now belong to Jll- Hallows in this Town. Sea. III. Jhe Close. ON the Eaft of this Street is the Entrance to the Key-fide, which fhall be fpoken hereafter. On the Wefi is the Clofe,- to which as you go along, you pals by the North-fide of the Chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr; and on the other Side oppofltc to this Chapel, an ancient Houfe which is faid to be built by Richard de Emmeldon, Mayor of Newcajlle, for three Priells to pray for his Soul. I take it to be nigh thofc Stairs which lead up to the Half-Moon, the ancient outward Fortification. From hence going on flill Weftward, you crofs over the North-end of the T'ine-hridge, and fo pafs into the Street called the Clofs. It anfwers its Name exaftly well, for it is but narrow and dole too. It was formerly that Part of the 'Pown where the principal Inhabitants liv'd. Sir John Marly, Sir William Blacket, Sir Mark Milbank ; and the Houfcs of many other Gentle- men of Figure are Hill remembred by the ancient Inhabitants. And indeed however the Street itlelf may be, however mean the Fronts of the Houfes are, within they fpeak Magnificence and Grandeur, the Rooms being very large and (lately, and for the moll Part adorn 'd with curious Carving. The Earl oi Northumberland's Houfe was in this Street; it was that Houfe which has at its Entrance ^ great Gate, befidcs which there is a large round Ball of Stone, the Houfe on this Side Mr. T'horp Stewart's. In the lower Part of this Building, towards the Water, arc very minifeil Tokens of its Antiquity O F late Years thefe Houfes have been forfaken, and liieir wealthier Inha- bitants have chofen the higher Paits ot the Town. O N the right Hand as you enter the Street from the Tine-Bridge, are Stairs which lead into the Callle-yard, which were the Southern Poftern of theCaftlc, and are called the Caftle-Jlairs. On the fime Side a little further along, are other Stairs, which are cilled the Long Stairs, which lead up to the Bailiff- Gate, Biickraw, Cafle-yard, Side, Sec. almoll oppofitc to which is a fmall Keyy Of the Clok. 12 j Key, called Javd-Gripp. Somewhat further along are other Stairs on the nime; Side of the Street, leading to IVeft-gate^ which are called Tudhill- Stairs. Perhaps it is not amifs to tell you what I have been fomewhere inform'd of, that the pro- per Name of it fhould be •Tuui-biH, from the touting or winding of a Horn upon it, when an Enemy was at Hand. What makes me the more incline- aHfe to believe this Tradition to be true, is, that Cornage was paid to the Caftle, as may be fecn in our Account of it. Now Cornage comes from the Word Cornagium, (from Corm a Horn) and was a Kind of grand Serjeanty : The Service of which Tenure was to blow a Horn, when anylnvafion of the Scots was percei\'ed j and by this many Men held their Land Northward, a- bout the PiSIs fFall. Cambd. Britan. 6op Pag. and Littleton, ¥01. 3f. Almost oppofite to thefe Stairs is the Houfe of the Mayors of New- caftle, where they refide during the Year of their Mayoralty. It is a Build- ing grand and ilatcly ; and coniidering the Place it ftands in, is very orna- mental. As the Mayors of Neivcajlle have fuch continual Bulinefs at Court, tho' the Situation is not fo pleafmg as that of the upper Part of the Town, it is yet more advantageous, as it is nigher the Court. Beyond this Houfe a little Way, fliill going on Weftward, is the Gate belonging to this Street, called the CIofe-Gate. The Town-wall defcends from the Weji- Friar Tuiuer, down a dangerous Pair of Stairs, upon a very ileep Bank, to this Gate, from which it goes Southward to the Water-fidCj where is an old Tower, now the Hall of the Sail-makers. Without this Clofe Gate is a AVay to the Forth, a Place of Recreation. 1 N the Clofe were many Houfes, which pay an annual Rent to the Mailer and Brethren of St. Mary the Virgin. This Street is commemorated in many ancient Writings for a Mill, which (in ancient Times, long before thefe were drawn) was wont to (land upon the Hoga, that is, upon the B^nk without the Clofe-Gate. In a Grant from the Mafter and Brethren of St. Mary's in PFeJi-gate, it is permitted to the Parties conccrn'd, that they have quandam placeam terras in Vico qua: vaca- tur le Clofs, fic'dt fe extendit in longitudine de Hoga, tihi antiquum molidinura folebat flare, tifque ad aquam Tin*, i3 quantum de Tina acquirere poterit. Sea. IV. T I N E-Bridge. TN coming into the Clofe, we crofs'd the End of the g 7/>;?-Bridge, let us trhe Bridge now return and confidcr it a little. It has been a Query, whether the is of great Bridge was originally of Wood or Stone > but I think it is altogether need- '^"j^'!"'^/, lefs i all the Bridges in England were originally of Wood. In the Reign of "" //^ /^ -/^^ Times of tht Romans. There mud have been a Communication between this and the other Side of the River; and therefore there was a Keceffwi for it. The ingenious Mr. Horfley, f. 104, fa'^s, I tliink tliere are (ome certain and vilible Remains ot a military Way on Gate/liead-TeW, pointing diredly towards tlie Part, wiiere 1 fuppofe the Station has been at Ne'JucaJile, and coming, as I apprehend, from Chefter le Street. Dr. Hunter af- fured me, lie had alfo obferv'd vifible Remains of luch a Way. And it is the common Opinion, that there has been a military Way from Chefter to Newcaftle ; this Way tends towards tlie Place where tha Bridge now is. There miift then have been a Bridge in ;hs Roman Times oyer the River Tmc, near ths Place where the prefent Bridge ftands, Richard 128 Of the Tint'Bridge. Richard I. Philip Bifliop o£ Durham fcnc to theBurgenes of Gate-Side a Grant oi For eft age ^ in which are thefc Words: Jnd it pall be laivful for every Bttr- gefs to give PFood to 'whomfoever he ivill, to be Jpcnt about the River of Tine, without any Licence. This I imagine has been for the building of Keys, and efpecially "for the repairing of the BifJjop^ Part of the Bridge, which is a fur- ther Proof, that this Bridge, which was the original one, was fFood. Bjjt what I think puts it beyond Difpute, is, that according to Matthew Paris, it was burnt in the Year 1148, together with a great Part of the Town. After this Misfortune hapned, the Town, who repairs two Thirds of h Thomas j|^g Bridge, and the ^ Bilhop the other, laid out their Endeavours to raife up ft"p'!,/ bur'- another Bridge of Stone. Accordingly the Bifhop of Durham fent out Indul- ham! in the gences, and the Town procured other Biihops to do the fame, to all thofc B.eign of that would afTift either with Money or Labour in the erecting of it. By Henry VII. ^T^jch Means they got fuch a Sum as was fufficient. built or re- ■' '^ third Part of The Archdeacon o( Northumberland wvoic to the Clergy of his Archdea- the Bridge o- coniy, and defiled them to affill the Work of the Bridge as much as they ver the River ^-Qyij^ telling them, their venerable Father the Lord Billiop of Durham by "wan! the '^is Letters Patents, had commanded them without any Let or Delay, to go Se»;^.Good- about the Affliir of Indulgences, and that they were to prefer the Epifcopal ■v^'in- Indulgences to others. And what arofe from them was to be given to the M.ifter of the Bridge.^ who was then Laure/itius, for the Ufe .of the Bridge. • Lib. Cart. In like Manner the Official of CarliJIe promifed an Indulgence of 10 Days to any one, that would allii^ the repairing of Tmc-Bndgc. WJLTER Bifhop o£ Rochefter on the Sth o^ the Idcso? September, in the Year of our Lord 1 277, granted an Indulgence of zo Days to all that bellowed Part of the Subftance GOD had given them, to the repairing of the ?7«e-Bridge, or would affilt the repairing of it, by working at it with their own Hands. It is fuppofed by fome, that William St. Barbara fent the following Indul- gence j but that can't be, for he liv'd a great while before the Bridge was built. It was therefore IValter Bifhop of Durham, who in the 8th Year of his Pontificate fent it, dated at IVeremouth. i w^he. ' " TVJLTER, by the Grace of GO D, to his beloved Sons in Chrifl, rus Dei gr.t- « to the Jrchdeaco>is, Officials, Dean, Parfons, Ficars, and to the other Pre- li^'^r^k"" " /«^" of Churches in the Diocefs oi Durham, eternal Health. Epil.oileais ' in Clinfto liliis, Archi- " FoRASMUcH as the Apoftlc fiys, that Tl^e 'muft all ft and before the diacon. Of- « Judgment-feat of Chrift, to receive as ive have done in the Body, 'whether it be ficiahbus, cc ^^^^ ^^. y^^ _^ ^^ ought to prevent the Day of the lait Harvelt, by doing fo'nis Vica- " ^Vorks of Mercy, and looking towards heavenly Things, and to low on riis, ceterif- *' Earth what we fhall reap in Heaven, with manifold FVuit, holding a firra que Eccle- x- f^ ^^j^ latis, per Dioc.Dunel- menl. conftitutlsj .Salutem xter-nam. Qiioiiiam, ut ait Aportoliis, omncs ftabiimis aiuc iribunal Domini noflii Jefu Clirifti, receptare prout in covpovc gcdimus, five bonum five m.iliiin : opoitct iios diem medlonis extreme, mifericordix operi- bus prxveniie, ac asternorum intuitu feminarc in terris, quod, reddente Domino, cum multiplicato iiuftu recolligeie debcamus in Coelis, firmam fpem lidaciamque tenentcs. Quoniam qui feminat in pace, pace & metat, & qui feminat in beneditlionibus, de bencdiflionibus & mecat vitam xternam. Cum igitut Pons de Ttna nimia indiijeat repaiatione, ncc fine Largitionibus Taleat fuftentari; vobis mandamus, fubdiiis veftris moneati', fc cfficacitcr inducatis, ut de bonis .» Deo colla- tis, pias Eleemofynas ac grata Caritaiis fubfidia ad liuc ihideant ciogare, ut per fubventionem fuam opus liu|ufmodi vaiebat confemina.i. Hos autem de Jei omi)ipoten;is niilericordia, ac bcatorum Petri & Pauli Apoftolorum eius meritis 5c intercclTIone contici, qui ad dicti Poiuis reparationem & fuftentationem de bonis a Deo coUatis pic contulerint, viginti dies diminuta fibi pei-.itcntia milerccorJitcT Rslaxamus. Dat' apuJ Wearem' xiiij" Kalend''Oftob' Poniil ' nod' anno octavo. I % Of Tine-Bridge. 129 *' foweth in BleHings, fliiill of Bleffings alfo reap, and ihall reap eternal Life. *' Seeing then that the 7/«(?-Bricige wants Abundance of Repairs, and cannot *' be luitained without large Ahns, we command to admonifli thofc that arq *■'■ under you, and cffi.cacioully bring them to give Alms of the Things which "GOD hath beflowed on themj and that for the Sake of Charity they " would bellow on the Work what they can, that by their own Aid and *' Affillance a Work of this Kind may be reftored: And relying on the " Mercy of the Omnipotent God, and on the Merits and Interceffion of *' the bleficd Apoltlcs Peter and Paul, we releafe all thofe our Parifhioners, " truly repenting and confcffing, who fhall pioufly contribute of the Things "GOD hath lent them, to the repairing and fultaining the faid Bridge,, we *' mercifully releafe them from the imalleit Penance, for twenty Days to come. S E IV ALDUS Archbifhop of Turk, on the Ides of September, in the Year of our Lord I2.f7, granted an Indulgence of 50 Days to come to every one that bellowed any Thing towards the Building and repairing of 27/z^-Bridge. AND R E TV^ BilTiop of Cathncfi in Scotland, gave Liberty by a Grant to col- left Alms throughout his whole Diocefs, for the repairing of the 23'«e-Bridge. The -Billiop of IFaterford in Ireland granted alfo to thofe that would aflifl: the repairmg of the ^«c-Bridge in Newcafile upon Tine, a Promife of being pra)e.i for m the Cathedral Church of the Holy-Trinity in JVaterford, and ia the other Churches of his Diocefs, and alio an Indulgence for lo Days. Amongst the many Benefafbors occafioned by thefe Means, are thefe following. JOHN the Son of Decanus, and Bartholomew the Soil of William, Son of Benediff, Guardians of the Alms coUefted for the Support of the Tinc-Bridgc, with the Council and Aflent of the Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgeffes, confirmed to G'rvajius the Son of Ralph, that whole Land with every Thing belonging to it, in the Fields of Jf/f^i^i/W^, which. Henry de Bulmar, M\d Ralph gave, and by their Carts confirmed to the faid Tine-Bridge, ^c. on Condition that he ren- dcr'd to the faid T:ne-Bv\dge, one Plank, or Six Shillings annually at the Feaft ot St. Michael. Adam de Jefumuihia was the firft Witncfs to this Grant. AD AM of Jcfumuthia granted to GO D, and to the 77w-Bridge, on Ac- count of the Soul of William de Greenville and the Souls of his Anceftors, part of the Ground in the Land of Jefumutb. Some of the WitnefTes to this Chart were Gilbert de Valle, Adam de Plef- fy, Gilbert de Oggell, William de Byker, Elge de Gosford. RICHARD de Nor the fold, and Hugh of London, gave nine -Shillings -xwd fix Pence, out of certain Lands lying in the vico fori to the repairing of the Bridge. One Stephcyi of Benwell is mention'd in this Grant, as having Land adjoining to that out of which this Money is granted. Some of the Witncflcs to this Grant were Thomas Carliol, then Mayor of the Town, &c. J. Lindifay, Bail' Robert de Mitford, Adam de Blakedon. NICHOLAS de Sanvs gave to the Reparation of the Bridge, when Ni- cholas Scot was Mayor, ■xndAdam de Biakedon, Laiirentius Cu(los pontis, {§ San- £li Thome, 12.65. Some other Benefactors occafioned by the lame Means, viz. P E TE R de Graper, Adam Son of Henry de Carliol, Burgefs of Newcafile, Nicholas Son of Adam de Carliol, Burgefs of Ncvucafle, Henry Leivyn, Joannes Aurifakcr, Robert dc Falenccvcs, -xwd Emma hhVfifc, HenricHsGervafius, Johnde L I Bur- i^o Of Tine-Bridge. Sf.Thomas's Burneto^ JohnBrune^ Joannes Page^ Richard de Crofnclif^ Roger Amy as ^ Anno\zr,z^ ^■•"M ^ JViUiam oi Salisbury^ I3ifj R;«, a'l'i* TKaasa- In the Area, opppofite to this, is the Figure of Hippocrates^ who bears an open Book, with thcfe Words in it nEplTiiN AFMATflN, and on theone Sidcof thePedeftal h r.i®- b^j^- yii, « 6 7ixy»f^>^?» Aip:«:TKa:, Thefe were fct up in the Year 171 0, 7&/:?« Shaw. juid Robert Goligbtly Stewards. On the other two Grafs-Platts are the Figures oi Medicus Pergamcus ov Galen, and Medicus Spagyrkus or Paracclfus, which were erefted 171 2, Robert GoUghtly and William Handby Stewards. I am inform'd by one of this Com- pany, that in a little Time, the Wall at the Foot of the Garden will be taken away, and inftead thereof will be Iron-Rails. It will fliew the Hall and Gardens to fome Advantage, but be rather too great an Ornament for luch a dirty Part of the Town. There are befides this Square two other Gardens for Herbs, which to- gether with the Hall and Garden we have been fpcaking of, are attended by a Gardner, who lives there for that Purpofe. Sea. V. of WardV Alwi-houfsy AlveyV Ijland^ Pandon HalL WE now turn to the right Hand, and defcend the Chair towards Pan- don, and pafs by Mr. TVaters's Garden, at the End of which was fFard's Alms-houfe, above mentioned, of which I have lately met with the following Account from the Milbank Manufcript. " The chief Alms-houfe *' in the Town is the Ward's, near the Manour-y the Mills at Pando7i-gate *' fhould give them, as I remember, zo s. per annum, to buy them Coals; *' but old Mr. Brandling pulled off the Lead, on purpofe to expel the poor <' People, which he did. The Mills are now fiillcn into one Homers' s. ** Hand, and fo is loft for ever. I have feen the Writings, and know it. Below this is a narrow PafTage which leads into the Carliol Croft. Below this again is a Place, which was formerly callai the If and, as fays Tradition. It was fo called, becaufe in former Times, when the Tide flow'd up to the Stock-bridge, there was thereabout a Hill of Sand, which at the Tide's leav- ing of it, appeared like an Illand. They call it at prefent jlhefs Ifland, be- caufe it belong'd to one of that Name. It is the very Place, on which Hands the Houfe, Cellars, and Malting of Mr. George Hinkfler, which are bounded on the Weft, North and South by the King's Street, and on the Ealt by a wafte Piece of Ground, of the Lady Goldsburgh, which was formerly called the Stones. Opposite to the South Front of this Houfe was the ancient Building, viz. Pandon-ball, above mentioned, but now rebuilt in fome Meafure. There are ilill remaining many ancient Walls and Parts of this Building j it was of con- fiderable Bignefs, having been according to Tradition, on its North-front in Length from the Stockbridge to Cowgate; and on its Weft-front in Length from its North-weft Corner, beyond that Lane that leads into Blytlfs Nook. It is of great Antiquity, being built in the Times of the Heptarchy ; for it was the Houfe of the Kings of Northumberland, who liv'd in it, for which Reafon it was call'd Pandon-halL Sea. I 1 I i 0/ Fifhergate, ^c. ' 139 Sea. VL OyPlSHERGATE and Wa LL-KNO\Vt. FROM hence we go Eaftward nnx.o Pandcn-Bridge^ which is called the Stock- Byiogs. Ic was undoubtedly of Wood in ancient Times, tho' we meet with an Account of its being Stone, when T'botnas de C«r//o/ was Mayor, which was in Edivard I. Time at lateft. To this Place it was that the Tijlocrmsn brought up their Fifh, and fold them here, as Grey obferves from Tradition. But to confirm this beyond the Force of Tradition ; it muft cer- tain! v have been true, tliat the Fifo-market was here, becaufe the Street you go into when you ha\'e paft Pandon- Bridge^ was formerly called FiJJoer-gate. Now this is plain from an ancient Writing, which was drawn when Henry le Scot was Mivor of this Town, about the Year 1187. I fliall give my Au- thority at large, becaufe there depends upon it fome other Things befides this. The Writing is a Conveyance of fome Land which is thus defcribed. <^U JE extendi t in longitiidine a communi via fuper le Wall-Knoll^ in aiiflralem Partem domus Fratrum de monte Carmel.y ufque ad communem "viam q^iia folebat du~ cere vcrfus Filliergatc, /. e. Which Land extends itfelf fi-om the Street of the Wall-Knoll^ to the South-fide of the Monallery of the CarmeliteSy even to the High-way, which formerly led to FiJljcrgatcK Now it is certain, this Monaftery was at the Top of the Wall-Knoll^ the Remains of it are Hill in Being, and Ihall be by and by further confider'd. It is alfo certain from this ancient Writing, that a Way led from the South- fide of the faid Monafiery to Fifiergate v therefore this Street muft be Fifiergate, becaufe the common Way here fpoken of could lead to no other Place. I take this common Way to have been thofe Stairs befide Mr. Green's Houfe at the Stockbridgc, which lead up to the Gardens there, and which, were it not a Wall^ would lead diredly from this Street to the Remains of this Mo-' najtery. A s we go along from the Stockbridgc, we meet two Streets, one on the left Hand, and the other on the right. That on the left Hand is called the Wall-Kfio/l, which, as it is a very great Afcent and high Hill from Fijljergaie, fo it feem's to me to have this Name from the Roman Wall going along itj for the Word Kiwll fignifies an Hill or Eminence^ as I gather from the Lord Bilhop of London's Note in Cambden upon Sevcnoke in Kent, who fays, On the Eaft-fidc of it (landeth Knowll, fo called, becaufe it is feated upon a /////. And Grey fays alio pofitively, that it was Part of the PiSls Wall. At the upper End of the Street above mentioned, towards the Carpcniers o Tower, are ii:ill to be fcen the Remains of the Hofpital of the Carmelites or ^ . ^^j_ White lowing Pl.iy coming too late to my HanJs to be infcrted in iis pi-opet Pl.ice, I am obliged to mention it here. It is intituled,' NO A H's ARK; ov, The S m p w r i o h t s ancient P L AY, or DIRGE. Deus incipitiii'. PRE wm this World that 1 have xvioiight, JSa M.uvd it is if I do fiio'Ju ; Their Folk in Earth I made of Nought, No'lV are they fully my Foe. Vengeana now will I do Of 140 The Shipwrights Dirge. of them that have grieved me iil. Great Floods Jliall over them go, jind run over Hoope and Hill. All Mankind dead Jliall be. With Storms both ftiff and fleer >, All but Noah my Darling free. His Children and their Wives, Ever more yet they trow'd in me. Save therefore I will their Lives. Henceforth my Angel free. Into Earth look -what thou vjould. Greet -u'ell Noah in this Degree, Sleeping thou flyalt him find : ]Sid him go make a Ship Offliff Board and great. Although he be not a Wright. Therefore bid him not lett. Be fiall have Wit at Will, £e that he come thereto ; All Ihings 1 him fulfill. Pitch, Tar, Seam and Rozve. Bid him in any Manner of Thing, To ship -when he fliall walk. Of all kine Kind of Beajl and Fowl, The Male and Female v.'ith him he take. Bid htm go provey, fay fo. In Ship that they not die. Take with him Hay, Corn and Straw, For his Fowl and his Fee. Henceforth my Angel free Tell him this for certain ; My Blelfing with thee be. While that thou come again. Angelus dicat. Waken Noah, to me take tent. Noah bid, if thou hear this Thing, Ever •whilfl thou live thou fliail repent, Noah refpondir. What art thou for Heaven's King, That wakens Noah off his Sleeping, Away I would thou went. Angelus dicat. It is an Annl to thee fen t, • Noah, to tell thee hard Tiding ; For every ilk a Wight for Warks wild. And many fowled in Sins fair. And in Felony fowly filled ; Therefore a Ship thou dight to fleer. Of true Timber highly railed. With thirty Cubits in Defence. Look that flie draw when flie is drefl. And in her Side a Door thou fiiear. With Fenefters full fitly fefl. And make Chambers both more and Icfs, For a Flood that up fltall burft ; Such a Flood in Earth (l>all be. That every like Life that hath Life-ward, Beafl and Body with Bone and Blood, They fliall be flormed through Strefs of Storm ; Albeit thou Noah and thy Brood, And their three Wives in your Hand, For you are full righteous and good, Tou fliall be faved by Sea and Land, In the Ship ere you enter out, Tou take with you both Ox and Cow j Of ilk a Thing that Life has lent. The Male and Female you take with you. you fetch in Fother for your Freight, And make good Purveiance for you prove. That they ptrifli not in your Sight ; Do Noah as I have liidden thee now. Noah refpondit. Lord be then in this Stead, That me and mine will fave and fliieid; I am a Man no worth at Need, For I am fix hundred Winters old, Unlufly I am to do fuch a Deed, Worklooms for to work and weeld For I was never fince I was born. Of Kind of Craft to burthen a Boat t For I have neither Kyf nor Rujf, Spyer, Sprund, Spront, no Sprot. Chrifl be the Shaper of this Ship, For a Ship need tnake I mufl. Even wo worth thou fouled Sin, For all too dear thou mufl be bought, God for Thanks he made Mankind, Or with his Hands that he them wrought ; Therefore or ever you blind, you mind your Wife, and turn your Thought, For of my Work I will begin. So well were me were all forth brought. Deabolus intrat. Put off Harro, and wele away. That ever I uprofe this Day ; So may 1 fmile and fay, I went, there has been none alive, Man, Beafl, Child nor Wife, But my Servants were they ; All this 1 have heard fay, A Ship that made fliould be. For to fave with owten Nay, Noah and his Meenye ; Tet trow I they fliall be. Thereto I make a Vow, If they be never fo flee. To taynt them yet I trow. To Noah'j Wife will I wynd. Care her believe in me ; In Faith flie is my Friend, She is both whunt and flee. Reft well, reft well, my own Dereday. Uxor Noah dicat. Welcome, fewfthere, what is thy Name, Tyte that thou tell me. Deabolus dicat. To tell my Name I were full loath, I come to warn thee of thy Skaith, I tell thee ftcretly. And thou do after thy Husband read. Thou and thy Children will all be dead. And that right haftily. Uxor dicat. Co Devil, how fay, for Shame. Deabolus dicat. Xes, hold thee flill le Dame, And I fliall tell how ; I fwear thee by my crooked Snout, All that thy Husband goes about Is little for thy Profit ; Tet fliall I tell thee how. Thou fliall weet all his Will ; Do as I fliall bid thee now, Th'ou flialt wtet every Deal. Have here a Drink full good. That is made of a mightful Main, Be he hath drunken a Drink of this. No longer fliall he learn. Believe, believe, my ev/n dear Dame, •M 1' / tatly The Shipwrights Dirge. 141 / ma'j no longer bide. To Ship when 'thou fiall fayre, I Pi all be thy Side. Noah dicat. Tht! Labour is full great yor like an old Man as tne, Lo, lo, faft Iftveat, It trickles at our myn ee ; ] alfo four Tenements and a Garden, in this Town, belonging to the Monaftry oi Jlmvick; alfo three Houfes belonging to the Nuns of q Halyftone ; alfo fix Houfes, in this Town, belonging to Ncwminftcr j alio a Houfc, in this Town, belonging to the Monaftry ot Blanchland; toge- ther with evci7 Thing belonging to the laid Monaihies in this Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne. In the 24th of Queen Elizabeth, this William Dent, Alderman, and Wil- liam his Son, conveyed this Priory, together with an Hcufe and Orchard, and a Garden, containing an Acre of Ground, to William Jenifon, then Mayor of Ne'wcaftk, and Richard HodgJJjon, Alderman. Sea. VIII. (yCROSSWEL L-G A T E^ B Y K E R-C HARE. ABOVE when we went from Fiftjergaie-ftreet, we met two Streets, that on the Left Hand we have already treated of: The other, I imagine, is that which formerly went by the Name of CrofsTtcll-gate, which is often 'mentioned in ancient Writings. It is reported that the Dwelling-houfe of Roger Thornton was in this Street. Whatever Truth is in this, it is certain, that many Houfes in this Street pay an Annual Rent to the Lord Scarborough . to this Day, into whofe Family the Grand-daughter o£ Roger Thornton was mar- ] ryed. There are in this Street feveral Z,rt;;a or Allies, the firft we meet with 1 in going along from Fiftjcrgatc, is a Place called, at prefent, Blyth's Nook : It ' '■ is built over Pandon Burne. The next is a narrow Lane leading to the Burnc Bank, a Place by which Pandon Burne ruiis into the Tync. It lies very low, and before the Heightning of the Ground with Ballaft, and the Building of the Wall and Key, was often of great Hazard to the Inhabitants} once in particular a moft melancholy accident happen'd in this Place, in the Year 1320, the 13th o'c Edward the jd, the River of Tyne over-flowed fo much, that lio Laymen, and feveral Priejls, befides Women, were drowned; and as Grey fays, 140 Houfes were deftroycd. Complcat Hift. Eng. Vol. \ft. P. 23^. Beyond this again is a Chare called Bylicr Chare, which feems by the a- ged Look of feveral of the Buildings, thofe efpecially at the North-end of the Chare, where is the Houfe of Mr. Henry Atkinfon, Hoaflman, to be of great Antiquity : Perhaps it got the Name of Byker-Chare, from one Robert de \ Of Byker-Chare, &c, 14 j ^c Bykcr and Laderine^ his Wife, who had Lands in Pandon, ^c. See Anno 1199- Beyond this again is Cods Chare, Love-lane, 6cc. where are fome Houfes which delcrve a better Situation. Sea. IX. CowGATF,^ Trinity-House^ BROAD-CHAREi WHEN we came to Pandon-Hall, we went Eaftward into Pandon-y it remains now, that we go Southward from the fame Place. Leaving then SHver-Jlreet on the Right Hand, we come into Cotvgate, which has been a P.irt of the Town wlicre fomc eminent Men have Uved in> fuch as Gilbert dc C-j-vjj^a'e, fFaltcr de Cowgatc, &c. who were Men of Fortune and Ertate. Going forward, we pafs by Blytbe Nook on the Left Hand, and the Dcg- Bank on the Right, and then we come to the Broad Chare; a Httle bdow the En- traucc of which, is the Trinity Houfe; which according to fome was a Mo- naflry, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. This Order of the Trinity Houfe was founded by St. John de Matha and St. John de Falois, in the Year 1198, ia the Popedom of Innocent III. The End of its Inftitution was the Redemp- tion of Captives. In the Year 1124, a Monalfry was founded for this Order in Kent. What Tiine this Monaftry of the Trinity (if there was fuch a one) was founded in this Town, we arc intirely in the Dark : Only it was fii^l by fome, that Laurentius of Ne'u:cafile, was its Founder. If this be true it is not improbable but it was Laurentius ASlon, who was Mayor of this Town in 1435 and 1435, i^c. We arc alfo equally at a lofs as to its Situation: For Bifhop Burnet, in his Collection of Records, P. 146, fays, It was on the TVall-knoll, in Nezvcajlle; 5lnd that they furrcnder'd January loth, 30th o£ Henry the ^th. If it was here, I know of no Place to fix it in, but where the Carmelites were, and this could never be. I am therefore inclinable to believe, that this Monaftry means that of the Carmelites^ and through a Miftake is called that of thd Trinity. But be that as it Will, it is^ certain that this Place called the Trinity Houfe was no Religious Houfe: For it is laid in our Account below, to have been called of old Time Dalton's Place. And befidcs, had it been this Religious Hoiife, the Mariners could not have got Pofleflion of it 'till its Suppreflion ■ which was on the loth oi January, 30th oi Henry the 8th j whereas it w.as conveyed to them the 20th of Henry the 7th, as the following Account tefti- fics. A Writing In thd Cuftody of the Brethren of the Trinity- Houfe, dated the 4th Day o'^ January, the 20th of the Reign of Henry the 7th, which gives an Account of a Mellungc and Garden, which was convcy'd by one Ralph Heb' borne, of Hchhorne, o\ Northumberland, Eiq-, to the Fraternity of the Mariners. It is the Place where is now the Trinity Houfe, which was in old Time called Dalton's Place. In the fime Writing it is ordcr'd, that the aforefiid Mefiuagc, (^c. fliall be repaired for Ever by the common Purle of the Brotherhood > that in fomc convenient Part of it fliould be an Hall tor the Felloivfnp to meet in, at all Times 144 ^f ^^^^ Trinity-Houfe. Times convenient, for the obferving of their Rules, (^c. and that in the Re- fidue of the fame, there fhould be certain Lodgings order'd for fuch of the fliid Fcllo'wfiip, as afterwards fhould fall into Poverty, or be not able to fuftain themfelves : Thofe they held during the Term of their Lives, and tlien were fuccceded by others in the like ncceflitous Circumftanccs. It was alfo order- ed in this Writing, that within the fiid Mefluage, there fhould be a Chappel and a Prieft, to fing and fay Mafs, and other Divine Service therein, as Ihould be appointed by the Aldermen, and Wardens of the faid Fraternity^ for the Time being. That the Prieft and the faid poor Perfons fo admitted, fhould pray for the good Eftate ot the faid Ralph Hcbhorne^ Mailer 'John Hebhorne, George Hebborne^ and for the Mailers Souls, and for the good Eftate ot the laid Fellotvfljip^ and for the Souls of fuch of the fame Felloivpip as be depar- ted, or hereafter fhould depart to the Mercy of God j and alfo for the Souls of John Dalton^ fometime Owner of the faid Meffliage, his Anceftors Souls, and all Chriftian Souls. One Part of this Writing was to be put in a Cheft, belonging to the FelhivJJjip, and kept by them > the other w;ts to be kept in a Cheft for that purpofe, in the Veftry of JU-IIallo'ws in this Town, in the Cuftody of the Church- Wardens, for the Time being, for Ever. This was further confirmed to the Fratcrniiy of the Trinity Hotife^ by Tho- pias Hebborne, Son ot the laid Ralph Hebbornc^ on the pth of September^ in the i6tli of the Reign of King Henry the 8th, upon the Conditions following, 'viz. That the FclloioJIAp fhould pay to the faid Thomas Hebborne^ his Heirs or Afligns, within the Town of Ne-ivcaftk^ on the Vigil of the Apoftles, Peter and Paul^ in the Month of June^ a Pottle of Wine^ if it be demanded yearly, for Evei'more. That the fiid Thomas Hebborne fhould be made a Brother of the Fraternity^ and Partaker of all Maftes, good Prayers and Suftrage, which Ihould afterwards be celebrated, fliid and done by the Chaplain and Prieft of the Fraternity^ within the Trinity Houfe^ and at the Trinity Altar within the Church of Jll-Halloivs^ for Evermore ; with fuch Obfequies and Funeral Ce- remonies, as ufually were done at the Burial of any Brother of the fame Fra- ternity^ if the faid Thomas departs within this Town o£ Neivcajlk. The Prieft of the Trinity Houje at this Time, was one Sir Robert Ellifon. To this Writing was anncx'd the Seal of the Town of Ncwca^k, and the Names of the Mayor, Sheriff", and 'Aldermen. ' On 0£i. the ^ KiNG James the ift, in the third Year of his Reign, granted to the Ma- ^th, ;S Hen. Jlcr^ PylotSj and Seamen of Ncwcajlle, a Charter. 8. Li^ht- permittetl to SEVENTEENTH o( OHober 1664, King Charks the id, granted them an- ie built hytht othcr Charter. Tiinity- )h,wd' Idif And a Third was granted them z6x.\\ of July i6Sj, by King James the 2d. make and build two * I N a Manufcript I have frequently mentioned, it is fiid that the Trinity Towers; Jloufe in the Broad Chare, was held by the Maftcrs and Mariners of this Town ''"'^cn\"he' °*' '"'^'^ jinderfons, by giving them a red Role at Chriftmas, which Bartram Korth Part Andcrfon turned to Wine, and then fold it to Sir Ralph Jenifon, and it adds, 0/ shields, ;« how they agree I know not. It is at prcfent a very pretty Building, confift- the Kntranct.\^g of ^ handfomc Square, very MonaiHck in it's Afpeft, having it's Appart- 'h 'and' a- ^^^^^ o'' Lodgings for the Inhabitants, a very neu Chappel, and a magnificent noth'er upon flail. It maintains 14 Perfons, allowing every one a Chamber, eight Shillings tht Hill. per Month, Coals and Clo.ithing. There arc alio i f extra Perfons, which have allowed them, fomc more, fome lefs. Leaving this Houfe of the Marrincrs, we go down the Broad Chare, without any Thing remarkable, 'till you conic to tlie Key-ftde-y about the Middle of it is a Square, wlilch goes by the Name of Stony-hill, nigh it a Lane, called Spicer-lane, which alfo leads on to the Key. CHAP. I 14? CHAP. XII. Of the Suburbs, and other out Places, Sea. ■ L Of the Forth. ITHOUT the Clofe-Gate is a pretty long Street, with Houfcs on each Side 5, which goes as flir as a Dike called Skinner- Bourne, where are of late Years aFaftory belonging, to Mr. Thomlmfon, a F'-'-Houfe to Mr. Jofeph Bknkinfop and Ralph Harl, and a > 'afs-Houfe to Mr. Dagney, and Company ; from thence t> "thward at the Top of the Hill is the Place called the /br;'^', anciently called the Frithy which lies without the Walls of the Town, and abutts on the South on a certain little Clofe called Geofe-green-Clofe, then it extends it- felf to a Clofe called Dove-cote-Clofe, and from thence Weft ward by the fur- theft Ditch of the Clofe, which lies contiguous tr rhc Corner of the Hedge, which is next to the Common Way which leads ,'nto the Forth. Then by and over the Common Way to the little Rivulet or Syke of Water in the Bottom of the Valley, and fo palling the Syke, you go upwards to the Clofe called Goofe-green-CloJe. The Forth contains 11 Acres of Ground. It was furveyed by Order of the Parliament, in the Year 164P, and valued at 12I. per Annum. It was valued Tythe-frcc. The Town pay'd 4I. per Annum to the King for it. How it comes to be called Forth or Frith, I can only conjeclure. The Word f Forth or Frith, as it is anciently called, comes from the Saxon Word f ^ Frithy which fignifics Peace. For the Englifh Saxons held feveral Woods to Law piftio- be ftcred, aud made them SanSimries. From this Definition of the Word, '^^';>' ' " . , it may be no improbable Conjcfture that the ancient Saxons inhabiting alx)ut the Parts of the Wall where the Town now is, gave the Name of Frith to' P p this jjlount I4<5 Of the Forth. this Place, as it was perhaps endowed with gloomier Shades and darker Re- cefles, the awful Exciters of Heathen Superltition, than other Places about the Town were. In the Reign of King Henry III. a Licence was granted to the Townfmen o( Newcaftk^ bearing Date Dec. 13d of his Reign to dig Coals and Stones, fjff. in this Place called the Forib. And here it was as fome think, or rather as others, in the Cajile Leafes that the firll: Neivcajile Coals were wrought. I T feems to have been all along a Place of Pleafure and Recreation. For it vas an ancient Cuftom for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriff of this Town, accompanied with great Numbers of the Burgefles, to go every Year at the Feafts of Eafter and iVloitfuntide to the Forth.) with the Maces, Sword and Cap of Maintenance carried "before them. Undoubtedly the vail Concourfe of both young and old at this Place at thefe Seafons of the Year, rather than at any other about this Town, is the remains ot this ancient Cuftom. After the building of the Cajile it is faid (but without any juft Autho- rity) that the Forth was anciently a Fort belonging to the Cajlk. 1 N the Year , Part of it was turned into a pretty large Bowling-Green j which was adorn'd with a broad Gravel Walk and a double Row of Trees around it. It is at prefent a mighty pretty Place, exceeding by much any Common Place of Pleafure about the Town. On the Eaft-fide of it, you have a Profpedt of Part of the Town's Wall, through which is the Common Paflage po and from this Place under a fhady Walk of Trees j on the Weft you View the Grounds of the Village of Elfwick^ which have a gentle afcenc to the Village itfelf j a Place at the proper Seafon of the Year much frequen- ted by the Town's People, for its pleafmg Walk and rural Entertainment. From this Quarter we view alfo as we do from the South, the Banks of the River Tyne, together with their Villages. On the North is an Houfe of Accommodation. G RET lays that it was given to the Townfmen for their Sei-vices, by Edward III. Whereas it feems to have been theirs in the Reign of Hen'. III. However if the other Conjefture be true, I verily believe it was given to the Town for that memorable Victory obtain'd by the Townfmen, when the Earl of Murray was taken Prifoner, which is commemorated in Jnno Chrijli, 1342. I Sea. II. of W A R D E nX lose. FROM hence we proceed to the Weft-gate, which gives Name to a little Village within the Bounds of the County of Northumberland., from whence ftill going on by the Out- fide of the Town's Wall, we come to the Warden^ s-clofe. It feems to be called the PFarden's-clofe.f becaufe it belong'd to the Wardens of the Priory of Tinmouth. For Grey tells us he had his Houfc, Garden, and Fifti-Pondj &c. here. This indeed is not improbable, for the Monaftcry of the Black-Fryers was dependant upon the Priory of Tinmouth: And we are fure that this Clofe was Part of the Garden belonging to the Black- Fryers in former Times. And there are ftill the feeming Remains of Fifh-Ponds, Gar- dens, i^c. At Of Warden-Clofe. A T the Top of this Field towards the North, is a Field call'd the Shoulder of Mutton Clofe^ becaufe it is in the Shape of a Shoulder of Mutton^ which tnufl formerly have been Part of the Warden" s-clofe. In this is a Ciftem of Water, which a curious Friend of mine imagines, fupplyed the Black-Fryers. This perhaps may be true enough. The Well belonging to this Mo^aftry may pro- ceed from it. But I take its grand Ufe to have been to fupply wkhWater the Fifh- Ponds and Gardens juft now mentioned. Sea. III. 0/" N E w G AT E Suburbs. TH F. Suburbs out of Newgate Grey informs us, were ruined in the late Civil Wars. However the Street Gallowgate, (fo called becaufe of the Way that the Malefaftors of the Town of Newcafile go to the Gallows, which is fituatcd in a very low Place called the Gallows-hole) Is become again a very toUcrable Street, and a very pleafant Placcj having in it fbme good Houfcs, which are fituated in Gardens and Fields. At the Top of this Street is a Lane which leads to the Weft-gate, Quan-y-houfej ^c. it borders upon a Field called the Shoulder of Mutton Clofe. Sea. IV. of the Castle Leases^ Town Moor^ &c. 47 OPPOSITE to this Lane is the Cajlk Leafes^ called anciently the Cadle Fields a large Piece of Ground belonging to the Town, containing 141 Acres 11 Perches: Grey informs us, that Tradition fiiid it was the Gift of King Johyi to the good Men of Nezvcafile. However this be, it is certain that it had been the Town's immcmorially or Time out of Mind, in the Reign of King Edward III. For in the 31ft of that Reign the Town of Newcafile took an Inquifition in the Caftle Field on a P^Aa Sunday Eve, the jift Year of King Edward III. defiring the Confirmation of the Caftle Moor and Field, and the Privileges belonging to them :' And the King by his Letters Patents dated at JVeftminfter., confirmed to the Burgefles of Nezvcaftle the other Charters they had obtain'd, and alfo confirmed to them the Pofteflion of the Caftle Moor, » and Caftle Field ; they having belong'd to this Town immemorially at this Time : He alfo, as appears by the faid Charters, confirmed to the Burgefies ot this Town, and their Heirs, the Liberty of digging Coals, Stone, and all other Advantages arifing from the fiiid Caftle Moor. This Place was formerly the Inheritance of divers Perfons, Owners there- of, who were accultomed from ancient Time, to take the fore Crop thereof yearly, at or before Lamtms-Day., and after that, by an ancient Cultom, all the Burgefles of this Town ufed to put in their Kine, and ufed the fime in pa- fturing of them 'till Lady-day in Lint yearly," and then to lay the fame for Meadow again 'til! Lammas. In t Concefli- mus pro no- bis 6c here- dibits noftrio quoJ predi- ftiBiir;a,enrc; & eorum lie- redes h.ibc- aiu& te- neant mo- ram & ter- ras predidas Lib. Cait. p. ti. 148 Of the Caftle Leafes, Town Moor, &c. I N the Year 1679, when George Morton was Mayor, the Town purchafed the Swcepagc vi th« Caltle Leafes for the Benefit of the Durgefles. I N the 5 Jd of Charles II. a Licence was granted the Mayor and Burgefles to purchale the Sweepage of the Caftle Leafes. The Grounds of it abut on the faid Caftle Moor on the Eaft and North Parts, upon the Highway leading to Kenton on the Weft, and on the other Way leading to the faid Caftle Moor on the South. When the Parliament took an Inquifition of it, the Forth and Town Moor in the Year 49, were valued at 2.7!. per Annum. The Mill in the Caftle Leafes^ commonly called Chimley Mill^ upon the Syke or Rivulet called Bailiff- Burn^ and the other Mill called Little Mill, were at the fame Time valued at 10 1. per Annum each. This Ground was always valued Tythe-free. On the Weft and North of the Caftle Leafes lies the Town-Moor. It is a very fpacious Piece of Ground, containing 1037 Acres, one Rood, two Per- ches. It was originally a Wood, very famous for Oak Trees, out of which have been built many hundred of Ships, and all the Houfes of the old Town of Newcaftle. This Moor, together with the Caftle Leafes, or Caftle Lizards, called an- ciently the Caftle Moor, and Caftle Field, were the Right of the Town of Newcaftle, and had been fo Time out of Mind, as has been juft now obferved in the Reign of King Edward HI. who in his Charter of the Town, dated the Tenth of May, in thQ 3 1 ft Year of his Reign, confirmed the Holding and Pofleffing of it, and the Working of Coals, Stones, (^c. in itj together with all the Profits arifing from it ( m the fame Manner he had confirmed all the Immunities and Privileges, which had been granted by the Kings, his Predeceflbis ) to the Burgefles of Newcaftle. The ancient Bounds of the Toivn-Moor, which are the fame to this Day, and anfwer ftill in every Particular, are thus delcribed in the Charter above- mentioned. E 't quia ex parte Dile&ortrm Nobis Burgenfitim ejufdem FilU Nobis eft SuppU- catum, ut cum Mora ^ Terra Fecata Caftle- Field t3 Caftle- Moor, ex parte Bore- ali DiB and no doubt, had this been true of Ada/U dc AthoJ^ it wou'd at Ic-ill have been mention'd upon his Turtih-Stone^ but we find no i'uch Thing. Nay, fliould we allow, for the Sake of making him the Donor, that he really lived no Years j yet after all, this grand Abfurdity would fol- low, that if the Town., when this Difputc happen'd, had had it immciiiorially, he mull have made a Prefcnt of it on the very Day he was bom. For thcfe Reafons therefore it's impoflible lie fhoiild be the Ddnor of ir,* but fbme of his ylnccfiors of the fame Name might: And this is the rather to be imagin'd, becaufc Tradition fiys, it was Adam dc Atboly oi Jefumund, hand- ing down the Name to this Day. As then he was of the fame Name, and undoubtedly a great Benefactor to this Town, fo the good Deeds of feme of his Anccltors mi."ht have been afcribed to him throu"h Miftake, and lb be handed down to this prcfent Day. There was one Adam de Jefiimtithia, or Gcfmund., who order'd that one Good-Plank^ or Six- Shillings., fhould be given annually (as may be fecn in the Account of the Tyne-Bridge) for the Repara- tion of the Bridge. Perhaps it was him, for the Bridge was burnt in the Reign of Henry 111. in the Year 1248, and immediately they fet about the Repair of it, and this Adam was one of the Benef^idtors to it. If then Tra- dition fays true, that Adam de Jefmund was the Donor of the Town- Moor to the Town, this is probably the very Man, and whether he gave it before the Burning of the Bridge., or at the Time of his Benefiiftion to the Bridge ; yet in the Thirty firft of Edward III. it would undoubtedly have been the Town's immemorially, which is a good prefumptive Proof of this Conjun- cture, that this was the very Man. Be this as it will, it is certain that it had been the Town of NewcaJIk's Time out of' Mind in the Thirty firft Year of Edward III. and was then confirm'd to them, as has been obferved above, in our Account of the Cajlle Leafcs. Two Fairs arc kept upon this Moor, on the Fh-ii o£ Augufl., and Eigh- teenth oi October., of which ihc Tolls., Booths., Stallage., Pickage^ and Courts of Pie-powder., to each of the Fairs, were reckoned worth communibus Annis i i 1. in Oliver's Time. I N the Survey made of the Town-Moor., in the troublefome Times, it was reported that the Coal Mine., or Colliery., in the Town-Moor., extended it felf under the Superficies of the Town-Moor one hundred Acres, and that the Value of it was to the Town 3f/. per Annum. 150 0/ /^Z?^ Town-Moor, Caftle-Leafes, Gc. 1 T is the Pafturc for the Cows belonging to the Freemen of Ncwcajlle. I T is much frequented by the Gentry of this Town, and others for Exer- ciie and Health ; it being ( that Pait of it efpecially call'd the Cow-bill^ ) a Place of the moil wholcTomc Air about the Town. Of the N u N-M o o R. The Nun-Moor is that large Piece of Ground that lies on the Weft of the 'To-oJn-Moor^ between the Thorn-BuJJ} and the Hedge that feparates from it the Grounds of Kenton. RICHARD I. confirra'd to St. AA^r/s and xXvtNttm oi Newcaftky what- focver had been given them by Jfalack^ the Founder of that Hofpital; (as is obfervable in his Charter of the Founding of St. Mary's) whatever belonged to him, as well in Land as in Money, or Houies j whatever he had acquhcd and obtained, both within and without the Town of Newcaflle^ all thefe he confirmed ; and he himfelf alio gave them two Carucates of Land of his own, that they might pray for his Soul. This is iuppofed to be the Charter for the Confirmation of Nun-field^ or as it fecms to ha'/c been otherwife called Nun-houfe^ in the 'toivn-Moor. And if this Conjcfture be true, it is clear that this Ajalack gave the Nun-Moor to the Nuns of St. Bartholomeiv^ and not as is commonly reported Adam de Athol. Thefe Ntim were the Occafion of it's being intituled Nun-field^ or Niin-houfe^ or the Nun-Moor, as it is called at this Day. 1 N the Fourth of the Reign of Henry VIL Dame Joan, Priorefs of the Monaftry of St. Bartholomew the Apoftle, in Neivcafik upon Tyne, and Con- vent of the fame, granted a Leafe of the Nun-Moor for an hundred Years to the Mayor, Sheriff, Aldermen, and Commonality of this Town, under the year- ly Rent of one Pound three Shillings and four Pence. Hence it is plain that this Moor belonged to thofe Nuns, and took it's Name from them. I N the Eleventh of Henry VIII. there was an award between the (aid Priory and Convent, and William Bennet, Efq; Owner of Kenton, about the Bounders of it. I N the Thirty fixth of the fame Reign, it was granted to John Broxholm, in Confideration of 1 1 zz /. i f x. 6 d. and was conveyed by thole claiming un- der him to the Mayor and Burgejfes of Newcajile upon Tyne. Thirty Seventh Hen. VIII. upon an Inquifition then taken and returned into the Exchequer of Lands, belonging to Religious Houfes, Nun-moor is cer- tified to be within the County of Northumberland. The other Parts of the Suburbs out of Newgate is a Street that reaches as far as the Barras-bridge, called Sidgatc, which confifts of Houfes very indiffe- rent, moft of which are inhabited by poor People j but very fweetly fituated, havmg the Leafes or Gardens behind them. Seer. Sea. V. of the Suhurhs of Fi'lgki m-s t r e f. t. WE come now to the Suburbs of Pilgrim-flreet gate.; which were alfo ruinated in the late Civil Wars. But at prefent it is a very well built Street, having in it fome very pretty Houfes, llich as are the Houfes of Ml-. John Stcpbenfon, Merchant, Mr. John Morris, Hoallman, and fcvcral be- longing to Mr. iViiliam Graham, &c. This Street is the moft Plcafant Situation of any within or without the Town. It ilands as it were in the rniddle of Gardens and Shady Fields, which make it a delicious Place in the Summer Seafon. I N the upper Part of it, nigh the Barras-bridgc, are to be fcen the Remains of the Hofpitul dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, which was vulgarly called the Maidkui's. It was fcated at the Summit of an Hill, beneath which is the Well called St. Mary Magdalen's Well, fo named from theHofpital, as are al- fo feveral Fields which to this Day are called the MaidUn Meadows. It was founded by King Henry 1. for a Mafter, Brethren and Sifters to re- ceive Leprous Folks, and fince that Sicknefs abated, for the poor of the Town in Time of Peitilcnce. Fourteen within the Houfe were allowed every one a Room, 8 s. per Month, Coals, and Fifteen without, fome 8 s. per Month, fome ^ s. fome ts. 6d. One ^John Bland was the Maflcr of thisHofpital in the Reign o£ Edward 'Jolmnnes III. he was a Man of a fiir Charafter, and good Reputation. It is recorded de E'^"'! of him, that he died the Day before the Feall of St. Michael the Archangel, "j'J^Cis"' or on the 2.8th of September, in the ninth Hour of that Day, in the Year of proximo our Lord 1574. His Body was buried nigh the High-Altar, on the North .une fcftmn lide of the Chancel, in St. Mary Maudalens Chapel. S.mai Mi- * cliaelis arcli- He was a great Bcncfaclor to this Hofpital, as appears from his Charity nona illius and Generofity in the firil Year of his Mallcrlhip. For whereas Laiirentius dici, anno Acton had the C\id Hofpital in perpetiam, for himfelf, his Heirs and Afligns, i^o'"'""' mi'- this worthy Man paid tor his own Right 40 Marks to the laid Laurentitts, ccn't'ciimo'" and the laid Laurenlius had the firil Fruits belonging to the fiid Hofpital, reptuancd- which yearly amounted to the Sum of 200 Marks. mo qu.iito. Cujus coi- O N E Richard Sperman had an annual Penfion from the Htid Hofpital of 8 P"_^^ ^"[\\^^x~ Marks, which Pcnfion the abovementioned Gentleman in the zd Year of his ta i'mnmum Malterlhip bought out tor the laid Holpital. altarc ex parte Bore.a- He alfo the fame Year freed the (iiid HofpitaltVom an annual Pcnfion, which rji.^'nCa'-" was payable to Hugo dc Mitford. peila lieatx Mar'ii Aliii;- T H E fame Mailer of this Hofpital, in this fame Year following, built in '^"j^|"- ^'^■ the laid Hofpital a Confittory, a Stable, and a Bier, and made in the Qiiire two New Windows facing the South of the laid Chapel, bcfides a Number of other good and generous Charities which he bellowed upon this Holpital. The 152 Of the Suburbs of Filgvim-Hi'cet. The flime Gentleman proves judicially in the King's Court, that the Mayor and Commonalty of Neivcajllc upon TVwr, did aflign, prefcnr, and in- duft the Maftcr of the faid Hofpital. He was Mafter of the faid Hofpital about five Years. ^ 1 I N the Reign of our Lord 1 5-64, in the (5th of Queen EUzahetb, one Edmund IVifeman^ Servant to the right Honourable Sir A^^t/>o/rti ^aro^, Knioht and Keeper of the Great Seal of England^ obtained by the Procurement of one Cuthhert Bewick^ a Burgefs and Merchant of this Town oi Ne-wcafile^ a Pre- fentation from the Queen, of the Hofpital of St. Mary Magdalen, . lying with- out the Wall of Nevjcafllc ; of which Hofpital the Mayor and BurgefTes of this Town were the true and very Patrons, and had till then prclcnted Time y The Weft- out of v Mind. By Virtue of this Prefentation from the Queen, ya?fies Bi- spitile, the fhop of Durham would have indufted the laid Wl'hnan ( in the Year afore- fef^iT^i^Uo ^""^J betwixt Lammas and Martinmas ) into the Poffeflion of the f lid Hofpi- dnlens, and ^'i' > but the Mayor and Jldermen of the Town having Refpectto the Defence the chapel 0/ of thcir Patronage, would in no wife permit the faid Biiliop to give Induftion St. Thomas therein : For the Hofpital of St. Mary Magdalen was a Donative, and not a the Marty. Benefice induclible by any Bifhoo. have been ■' ■' i gnen Oy the Mayor and In the Year If 69, ifth February, "the Mayor and BurgefTes of Neivcaftle -Bui^ejjes of granted the next Prelentation of St. Mary Magdalen, commonly called the T;^r^«t »'■ ^^'^^"'^'^"^^y to Henry Jnderfon, Robert Mitford, and Chrijlopber Mitford. Mind. I N the Account of Fkket-l'ower, there is Mention made of a Great Crofs, Handing within Maudlin-Barras; and in the Milbank Manufcript it is Hud, At the End of the Barras-5r/^^f before the Chapel flood a flately Crofs firm and 'T^isPigg compleat, and « John Pigg in the Time of the Rebellion took it down, and -was a Rebel, called it Idolatry, and thought to make his own Ufe of it j but it was broke Endmfiaft"'; ''^ ^^""^ ^^^° hated it ftiould be prophaned. This Hofpital at the Supprcf- Munument'of fio" was Valued at p /. 1 1 J. 4 ^. his vjhimfi- tal Head is L E A V I NG St. Mary Magdakns, \vc go forward to the End of this Street, PiUar'^riJ/- ■^^hich together with the End of the Street leading from Newgate, meets at tie North of the Barrai- Bridge. the three ^^''.*^''"^S^» How it comes by the Name of Barras-Bridge, Grey gives us no Account. defervedly' Others have imagined it to be fo called, from a I?erlon of that Name, who to this Day, was its Builder or Benefactor. This Conjefture in my Opinion is a grand hears the Millakc } for wc have jull now mentioned the Maudlin-Barras, and therefore rule of PigV ^i^g Word Barras muit imply fomething elfe. The Manufcript above men- ^' tioned fpeaking of the Antiquity of St. Andreiv's Church, gives this as a Rcafon of its being the oldell in Town, becaufe it is next the Barras, which hath been the ancient Barracado of the Town. So then according to this Ac- count, it got its Name from the Word Barracado. This alfo in iny Opinioa is a Miftake. For the Word Barrows ( for fo it fliould be fpell'd ) fignifies the fime as Timudi, Hillocks, and fometimes Graves and Sepulchres : And when it is confidercd, that the Hofpital of St. Mary Magdalen was founded for the Reception of Leprous Folks, it is cafy to fee, that the Maudlin-Barrows are the T'o?nbs or Burial- Places of thofe that died of the Leprofy in that Hojpi- tal; and fince the Burial-place it fclf was nigh to the Bridge, the Bridge got thence the Name of the Barrows- Bridge. The Barras mentioned in the Ac- count of Ficket-Tower are the lame Thmg j nothing elfc but the Burial-place of the Francifcan Friars. The Place of the Maudlin Barrows I take to be the fick Man's Clofe -, for as after the abating of the Leprofy, this Hofpital was obliged to take the Poor ofthc Town in during the Time of thcPcflilencej fo I qucilion not, but thofc that died were buried in the ancient Burial-place or Barrows of the Hoipital. And fince we are certain they were buried lu the ftck Man's Chjc, we may be OftheSiihirhofVilgYim'fnQet 15^ be therefore almoft certain, that the fick Man's Clofe was the Barrcws of thid' The Barrows- Mill belong'd to the black Friars; and in the Year iff?, paid a Rent to the Town of Ncivcaftle of z s. per annum. Lib. Cart. p. 43. The Chapel on the other Side the Barrows-Bridge was dedicated to St. James the Apollle,^ and was anciently called St. ^ James's Kirk. I fuppofc it ^ See An; was a Chapel of Eafc to St. Andrew., for Jefmond and Sandiford., and other <^"w r«-u-«r. Out-parts of that Pariih. Sea. VI. 0/' //j^ Subnrhs o/' P A n D o N. THE Suburbs out of Pandon-Gate are but very few Houfes; but there are Gardens all the Way up the Caufewayj two of them are thofe of Mr. John Simpfon and Mr. Charles Atkinfon. This Way was within thefe four Years the plcafanteft Entrance into the Town of Newcaftle., having Gardens on each Side, befet with "Trees of fo large a Size and Shade, that they covered the Street itfclf in feveral Places. Thele were cut down for a little unpoflcft Money, and the grcatell Beauty of the Street loll. .There are in this Street two or three PafTages, leading to different Places, which it may not be amifs to mention. After you are out 6f Pandon- gate^f there is one on the left Hand leading to Pandon-Uean^ a very Romantick Place., full of Hills and Vales, through which runs Pandon-Burn. It is a very entertaining Walk in the Summer to Magdalen-W c\\. A little above this is another very narrow Paflage on the right Hand, bordering upon Mr. Harrifon's Garden, which leads to a Place called the Garth-Heads., which was a Place of Plcafure and Recreation j but of late it was taken in, and made a common Gar- den of, by Richard Ridley, Efqj the Proprietor of it. Having part this Lane, we proceed till we come to the Top of this great Afcent (for fuch indeed is this Street) and there we meet with two Waysj the one leads to the Shield-Field, the Property of Mr. Charles Clark of New- caflle, which has been already mentioned > and the other to Owfe-Burn, which is at prefcnt a large Village, occafioned by the Coal-works of Richard Ridley and Matthew White, Efqsj i^c. I T takes its Name from the Burn that runs through it. The Banks of this Burn arc in many Places terribly high, in all Places beautifully Roman- tick. Before we come to the Suburbs of Sandgate,- we mufl not omit to men- tion the Keelmens Hofpital; it is fituatcd fomc Diilance Eaft of the Town's Wall, between the Carpenters Tower and Sandgate. It i's a fquare Building, done in the Form of Alonajieries and Colleges, having its low Walk round ir, in Imitation of Cloyjlers. The Area in the Middle of it, is about 83 Foot broad, and about py^ Toot long. There arc upwards of fifty Chambers in it. Who it was built Ijy, may be learned from the Infcription above the En- trance of it, which is as follows: The Keelmens Hufpital, built at their own Charge, Anno Domini 1701, Matthew White, Effj; Gcvernour, Mr. Edward Grey, Mr. Edward Carr, Stewards of the Hoajlmens Company for the Time be- R r ing. 154 Of the Siihurhs of Paiidon. ing^ and Truftees for this Hofpital. I have been told, that Dr. Moor^ oneofthe late Bifhops of £/>', upon going down the River in the Town's Barge with the Magiftraces, obferved it, and made Enquiry after it. And being told, that it was built by the Keelmen themfelvcs (every one allowing towards it a Penny a 'Tide ) he (aid, that he had heard of, and fcen many Hofpitals, the Works of rich Men; but that was the firft he ever fiiw or heard of, which had been built by the Poor. 'Tis a' great Pity that the Defign of its Building is not throughly anfwer'dj but there are fome Mifcreants, who would rather ftarve in Sicknefs or old Age, than not guzzle a Penny in their Health and Youth. Sea. VI. Of the Suburbs of S a n D g a T E. '-|->HF, Suburbs oi Sandgate (excepting fome Houfes nigh the Walls of the X Town) we are informed efcap'd the Fury of the Civil Wars. This Street has it's Name from it's Situation, which is upon the Sand. For this I whole Street as well as the Sandhill, and all the lower Parts of the Town in ^ Street wh ancient Times was the Common Sand or Shore of the River. This Street has in it a vaft Number ot narrov^ Lanes on each Side of It, which are crouded with Houies. It is chiefly inhabited by People that work nnon the fFater, particularly the Kcelmcn. The Number of Souls in this Street and the Lanes belonging to it, is computed to ievcral Thoufands. About the middle of this Street is an open Place called the Squirrel, from a little Brook of that Name, which runs thrcTUgh it into the River 7)Kf, which •was the ancient Bounds of the Town of Ne-ivcajlk. From this, as far as the Houfe of Mr. Jeremiah Cook, Shipwright, is the Street of Sandgate, then we enter St. Jlnns Street, (fo called from the neighbouring Chapclj which leads us on to the Ropery, which is a long and plealant Walk, giving an agreeable Profpe6l of the River, and a great Part of the Town and "Neighbouring Places. What this Ropery was formerly. Grey gives us the beft Account. Below Eafl:, fays he, is the Ballafl-Hill, where Women upon their Heads car- ried Ballaft, which was taken forth of the fmall Ships which came empty for Coals } which Place was the firft Ballall Shore out of the Town > fince which Time, the Trade increafmg, there are many Ballaft Shores below the Water, on both Sides of the River j much the fame Account is given of this, in the Manufcript fo frequently mentioned ; the Hoailmcn got Leave at firit to lead Coals above the Bourn, and that occalioned their Delivery of Ballall: upon the Lime- Kiln Road, and the Women bore the Ballait upon their Heads, and made the Ballail-Hillsj for the Town had procured all that Shore of the Lords of Byker for that Ufe, and to build Lime-Kilns upon. O N the North of this Ropery Hands the Chapel of St. Ann, which is a a Chapel of Eafe to the C'Inirch of Jll-hallons, which tho' pretty large is yet much too little for the Parilli, it being perhaps one of the largcll Pariihes in the whole Kingdom. Wh e n it was originally built I have met with nothing that gives any Ac- count. After the Reformation it was neglcfccd and came into Decay ; but the Town in the Year i68i repair'd it, and fettled a Lecturer there, to preach in the Morning, and to expound the Catechi/hi every Sunday Afternoon > which the Town allow'd 50/. per Annum forj at the Opening of it, after it w.is repaired, the Rev. Mr. March, then Vicar of the Town, preached the firil Ser- * Of tJje Siihir Is of Smdgate. i$^ Sermon in ir, which was Printed, and Imltled, 77/ Encjenia but in the Year 1669^ "when Ralph Jemjon^ Eiqj was Mayor, it was made of Sionthy Thomas IVrang- ha-in^ Ship- Wright, on Account of Lands which the Town let him; The PaHage however over it was very difficult and uneven 'till the Year 17^9, when Stephen Cvulfhn^ Efqj was Mayor, it was made level and commodious both for Horfe and Foot. On the other Side of the Bridge arc the Glafs-houfes, which in Gre/s Time fervcd mofl Part of the Kingdom with Window-Glafs. Sometime in the Reign of Queen Elizaheth came over to England from Loirain^ the Henzcls^ Tyzacks and Tytorys. The Reafonof their coming hither was the Pcrfecution of the Protcftants in their own Country, of whofe Per- fuafion they were. They were by Occupation Glafs-makers. At their firft coming to this Town they wrought in their Trade at the Clofc-gate, after that they removed into Stajf'vrdjbire^ from whence they removed again and fettled upon the River Side at the Place called from their abiding in it the Glafs-hoiifcs. Defervedly therefore have fo many of thefe Families been named Peregrines from the Latin Word Peregrinns which fignifics a Pilgrim or a Stranger. Having at lafl: fettled here they became very numerotis, and generally married into each others Families to preferve the three Names ot Henzel, Ty- zack and Tytory. But the latter of them within this Few Years became ex- tinft. There arc Fenhatn was hereto- fore a VUUge ver'j pUafant and beaunful tn Account of it's much Wood ; but now much more [0 be- caufe of the very fine Houfe and Gardens of ThomasOrd f/^i This Vtllage, or the Royalty of it, belong- td to the Pri- try of St. John of Je- rufalem, for •we meet with of William Of the Town's Bounders; TH E Town Bounders by Land from a fmall Brook, or Courfe of Water, called the Swerle, in Time paft in the County of Northumberland, and now in the Town of Neivcafile, on the Weft-fide of the aforefaid Town, along by the Shore of the Water of Tync, unto the Fields of the Town of Elfwick, in the aforefaid County of Northumberland, by and along the Fields of the Town of Elfwick, aforefaid, unto the Fields of the Town of ^ Fenham, in the afore- faid County of Northumberland, and fo toward the North unto the Fields of the Town ot Kenton in the aforefaid County of Northumberland, and along by thofe Fields unto the Town of = Coxlodge, in the aforefaid County of North- umberland, and fo towards the Eaft of the Fields of the Town of Jefmund in the aforefaid County, and by and along the fame Fields of Jefmund towards the South, unto a certain Bridge called Barras-bridge, in the aforefaid County of Newcaftle upon Tyne, and from the fame Bridge in and through a certain Lane in the aforefaid County of Northumberland and Newcaftle, leading towards the Eaft to another Bridge called Sandiver Bridge, in the aforefaid County of Northumberland y and from the fame Bridge towards the South, in and through a certain Field called Shield-Field, in the aforefaid County of Northumberland and Newcaftle, unto a certam Lane or Street in the fame County, leading to the aforefaid Water or River of Tyne. The additional Bounders are mention'd in the fecond and third Years of King Edward VI. The Circumference of the Town's Bounders is ro Miles and fo Yards. a Receipt from the Prior to the Town 0/ Newcaftle, for the Coal Mines of Fenham. "= The E/late Can-, £/f; CHAP. IW Tt- A P. XIIL Of the River T y n e. T remains now that wefpcak of the River <^ Tyne, which a r/;eTyiie is indeed a River to be out-done by few in the whole feems to have Kingdom, whether you refpcdb it's Haven, it's Com- ^'f" onpnaU modities, it's Privileges, which have been frequently '^^^'^ 'V^^ mentioned, the Profpcd: of it's Fields, it's Woods and v'edia. for Villages, (^c. As to the Haven, it is fo deep as to carry theRiverVs- VcfTels of a confiderable Burthen, and of that Security, '^'■'^ '' 'J'" that they are not in Danger either of Storms or Shallows, ""j^ ^'^Z''- lave that withm a little ot the Bar or Tinmoutb (v/hich ^f by Ptolo- jire called by the Sailors the Black-Middens, which are very dangerous;) but to my m thefe prevent any Mifchicfs which may happen to Ships in the Night Time from ^"''"i ""■'^ them, there are two Light-houfes maintain'd by the Trinity-Houfe, in New- H^J i„ X^e cafile, and near them in the Year 1672, was built a Fort, called CV//"w^'s Fort, Parfs thiRl- which cffcftually commands all the VclTels that enter the River. Mag. Brit. I'cr Tyne h Fol.^.p.Coj. _^-W^_- Mr. Cambdcn obfcrve!; that this Town of Newcajile for it's Situation and deed, a Tyne plenty of Sea-Coal, fo ufeful in itfclf, and to which fo great a Part of Eng- mentioned by land and the low Countries are indebted for their good Fires, is thus com- J'"'oni}> mended by Johnjon in his Poems on the Cities of Britain; Utiuued het-vsen the Tny and Fovtli, ;;; Scotland; but neither can that be it, it is too inconfiderMe : Nor laftly can it be the River Were, tho' there is a nighcr Affivity in Sound betivcet: Vedrn iind Were, than letv:een Vcdra and Tyne. For the Vedra is mention'd by Ptolomy as the ?nofi conjider.ible River, and 'tis confefj'cd that the Tyne ;'; more ft> than the Were, or if the Were has any Claim to the Name of Vedra it is only in Conjunction zvith the River Tyne. Perhaps, fays Air. Horflcy, p. 103. Vedra has been the Name of the Tyne and Were. I'lje Traii thai now lies between the tivo Riven, and is bounded on eaeh Side by them, 11 now called WcrewickQiii'tf, S f Novum 158 Of the River Ty7tc. Novum Caftrum J^upe fedens Celfa, rerum atit miracuU fpcclat NatuYie^ aut folers diHrahit ilia aliis. Sedibus JLthereis quid frujlra quieritis ignem? Hum alitf hunc terra fufcitat ifta finu. Non ilium torvo terras qui turbine tenet j Sed qui anima'M Terris^ detque animos animis. Eliquat hie ferrum^ as^ hie aurum ductile fundit. ^uos non ami illex conciet umbra animas ? ^in (aiunt) auro permutat Bruta metalla j f^ Aichimus hunc igitur pradicat ejfe Deuni. Si Dens e/?, ecu tu diSlas., Dizine Magiflcr^ HiCc quot alit? ^lot alit Scotia nojlra Decs. I Newcaftlc From her high Rock great Nature's Works SurveySj And kindly fpieads her Goods through Lands and Seas. Why leek ye Fire in fome exalted Sphere? Earth's Fruitful Bofom will fupply you here. Not fuch whofe horrid Flalhes Icare the Plain, But gives enliv'ning Warmth to Earth and Men. Ir'n, Brafi and Gold it's melting Force obey j (Ah ! who's e'er free from Gold's almighty Sway?) Nay into Gold 'twill change a Bafer Ore, Hence the vain Chymiil deifies its Power: If 't be a God, as is believ'd by you, This Place and Scotland more than Heaven can flicw. I T is obfervable in this Place when the Coal Trade is brisk, that all other Bufinefs is fo too ; and when it is otherwife, through the Contrafts of the Coal Owners, or of the Mafters, that there is a certain Dcadnefs in all Tra- fick. It is the Money arifing from the Coal Trade, that almoll entirely Cir- culates in this great Town and adjacent Country. e Pleetwood ^ "^ '^^ '^^^^ obferved by « fome, that Sea Coal has not been in Ufe above Preciolum I f o Years, at leaft not in London; and that when we meet with Coals in old cluonicon Accounts, it js meant of Charcoal. I can fcarce be of this Opinion, if it was J 18- P- but for what the faid Authority himfelf acknowledgeth, viz. that Carbo Ma- rinus, or Sea Coal, is mentioned \n Mattbeiv Paris. And in the iH of Edward III. there is mention made de Carbonibus maritimis, of Sea Coals and the Mea- fure of them. However this be, nigh this Town of Ncwcajlle Coals were work'd very early > in a Charter of King Hen. III. dated Dec. i. Z3d of that King's Reign, Licence was granted to the Town of Newcajlle to dig Coals in the Cajlle-Field and the Frith. In the Year 1411, the 9th oi Heii. V. Two-pence per Chaldron being paid to the King for all Coals fold at the Port of Ncivcaftlc, to People not en?ran- chifed ; it was enaftcd that the Keels fliould be of the Burthen of zo Chal- drons, and no more, according to Cullom ; fome being of the Burthen of 22, and fome of 24 Chaldrons built, to defraud the King of his Culloms, and that the Keels fliould be fcaled by the King's Officers. De. reh. 59. Queen — g Of the River Tyrie. 159 Qjj E E N EUzaheth demanding of the Town ths Arrerlr oiid. per thaldr6n, which had been ncglccircd for many Years > the Town begg'd her Majelty that thcfc Arrears might be forgiven, and to grant them a f Charter to incor- f Gardner poratc a new Fraternity or Brother-hood, to be called Free HoaftmirU^ for the gl£'ee» Eliz.- iclling and vending of all Coals to Shipping. And in Confideration thereof c^-""'"''- they would pay to her Majefty and her SuccefTors, i z d. for every Chaldron exported iVom thenceforth to the free People of this Nation j this was taken into Confideration arid granted. 1 N the Year i<)44, in the Time of the Civil War, the City of Londbn it- ceivcd a great Advantage by this Town's being taken j for almoft two Years by-pall, the poorer Sort of People had been ahnoll llarved, Coals hav- ing rifen to the Price of 4/. per Chaldron, a Price never known before xh.ix. Tmie. This Place is generally computed to vend upwards of 300,000 Chaldrons a- Year. There arc likcwife valt Exportations of Lead, Salt, Salmon, and Grindftdnes, which laft Commodity, as Grey fays, and is IHU true, are con- veyed to moft Parts of the World j according to the Proverb, A Scoit, a Rat, ami a Newcafils Grindjioni you may find all the World over. I T is not in my Power to defcribe the Number of Arts and curious Ma- chineries that are ufed in this Aflair of the Coal Buiinefs; the finking of Pits, Winning of Coals, Fire-Engines, Waggon- Ways, the Waggons, their ma- naging of them, the Staiths, ^c. dcferve a more skilful Pen. Thus much however I may venture to fay, that thofe Waggon-Ways, a fmall Part of the \vhole Coal Works, may vie with fome of the great Works of the Roman Empire. The Ri^bt and Title of the Mayor andBurgeffes of thetonjon and County of the 'Xo^din of Newcaftle iipon Tyne, to the Solly and aljo to the Conjer'vation of the Ki'ver of Tync. I ft. By Prcfcription. The f.iid Mayor and Burgefles have time out of Mind enjoyed the Soil of the faid River ol- 'fync : And all Shores or Keys built upon the faid River, are by Virtue of Leafcs from the faid Mayor and Burgefles. And thcv the fiid Mayor and Burgefles have alfo time out of Mind enjoy ed the Confcrvation of the faid River of Tync. And for Confervation and Prefervation thereof, there has alfo time out of Mind been holden before the Mayor and Aldermen of the faid Town every Monday a Court, in which Court Enquiry is made after the due Confer- vation and Prefervation of the fiid River of Tync., by a Jury fworn to prefent all Nufances done therein, who make Prefentmcnts thereof in Writing j whereupon the Offenders are fummoned, and if Guilty are punifhed by Fine or Imprilonment. But formerly there has been another Cuflom for punifhing fuch Offenders as appears by the following Teflimonial. /f fejit' i6o Of the Kixer Tyne. A Tejilmonial of John PhilipsV and William GoodwinV cutting each a Purje in the Towns Chamber^ for cajihig Ballaji in the Kfver of Tyne. Filla Novicaftri? " VT 7 HERE AS Information upon Oath was given, fv.per Tynam. S " VV that John Philips Mallei- of the Mary of Hull, *' and William Goodwin^ Mailer of the Elizabeth *' oi Wifebidge.^ did the fth of this Inftant caftBallaft within the 14 Fathom *' deep, between Sowter and Hartley, to the Damage of the River. They the " faid Perfons being called before us, the Mayor, Aldermen and Chamberlains, *' with the Mafter of the Trinity-houfe, who was then prcfent in the Town *' Chamber, and did there acknowledge and confefs the faid Offence, and did *' lay down f /. a Piece, which was put into two Purfes, which they cut, ac- *' cording to the ancient Cullom of this Corporation in fuch Cafes. Henry Daivfon, Mayor. Ralph Fell, Mafter of the Trinity-houfe. Leonard Carr Phineas Aliin Robert Shafto Chamberlains. Tloomas Ledgard lljomas WeljJj Thomas Bonner Thomas Toung William Davjfon Chrijlopher Ellifon George Daivjon "Thomas Goftyn This ancient Cuftom of cutting a Purfe, ^c. was confirmed Jnm 1616, by an Order of the King and Council. They the faid Mayor and Burgefles have alfo Time out of Mind had a Water Bailiff, who is a fworn Officer, and other Officers whofe Offices are to fearch out Offences done in and upon the faid River of Tyne, and to exe- cute the Orders of the faid Court. And they the faid Mayor and BurgefTes have alfo always cleanfed the Port from Rubbifh, Ballall, and Sand, either brought in by Storms or otherwife, into the fiaid River of Tyne. The Trinity-hotifc of this Town (which is a Fraternity of Mariners, Free of the faid Town) arc alfo frequently employed in difcovcring Offences done to the faid River of Tyne; and where there are dangerous Places in the faid River, Buoys and Lights arc fet, and Perfons employed and paid by the i;iid Trinity -Houfe, for looking to, and taking Care of them. zdly. By Aiis of Parliament. Im an A6t of Parliament made in the 21 fl Hen. VIII. Chap. 18. there is an Exprefs Claufe, which gives the Mayor and Burgeffcs Authority to pull down all Wears, Gores, and Engines, in the River of Tyne, between Spar- ro-w-Hawk, and Hed-win- Streams, and in the Preamble of tlic laid A6b, it is de- clared, that the Soil of the River of Tyne, ^c. has been Time out of Mind, enjoyed by the Town oi Ncwcajik in their Dcmefnc as of Fee in Right of the Crown. And alfo in another Aft of Parliament made the zd of Edioard VI. (not printed) It is declared, that for the Maintenance of the faid Town of New- caftle upon Tyne, and for the Prefcrvation of the Port and laid River of Tyne, all the Sands, called Shores are fc:tlcd on the Town, And i Of the River Tyne. i6i And alfo by Letters Patents, 51 Eliz. which confirm to the Mayor and Burgcfles of the {iiid Town of Newcajlk upon Tj^^j their Cuftoms which they had by Prefcription or othferwife. It is in particular granted to them, to have Jurirdiftion ot a great many Statutes mention'd in that Charter, and amongft other Statutes, the Statute 54 Hen. VIII. chap. p. which concerns the Con- {ervation and Prelervation of Rivers. jdly, By Judgments, Records, Inquifttions, Judgment in ^10 Warranto, Verdi6is at Law, Decrees in the Court of Exchequer j and Upon one Decree there is a perpetual Injundtion, which was afterwards confirmed in the Houfe of Lords on an Appeal. Judgment in Parliament 34 Ed. I. where the Prior of Tinmouth having Lands adjoyning to the laid River of Tyne at North-Shields, and having built a Shoai- there, within the Flood Mark > it was adjudged that it fhould be re- moved at the Coft of the Prior. It may not be amifs to give fome Account of this Trial. Ihe Contents mefitloned in a flea at Weftminfter^ /';/ the '2.0th Tear of Edward I. Between the King, and the Burgejfes of Newcajik, and The Prior of Tinmouth. The King's s ift. The whole Port in the Water o^Tyne; id. His Ovens at Newcaflle; f^^oj d^. 3d, For every Qiiarter of Corn there baked j 4th, OfCuftomj fth, the King minus Rex loofeth at North-Shields for the IfTues of Baking per Annum 10 1, and by the li.ibeie de- Forellalling of the Market there 20 /. The faid Prior alfo taketh the Wreck J^^^'^ J°'"^ of the Sea, which fpecially belongs to the King. aqua"de Tywe a maii The King could alfo take two Tunn of Wine to be chofen behind and uique ad before, and every Tunn of Wine for zo s. of every Ship of Herrings 100 Her- '?*^."'" '^"' rings, {^c. all which the laid Prior takes at Shields and elfe where, by which ^.-^^'.^^.f^Vf, Means the King loft his Prifes and Cuftoms due to him > becaufe the fame &c. Merchandizes came not intirely to his due Port of Neivcaftk. The Prior alfo built 4 Ovens at Tinmouth, which were rented at f /. « of tlie /^«^, from the Sea to Heddo» Streams^ is the free Port of the King and his Heirs with it's Prifes, Cullomsj Towages, Tonages, with all other Profits and Commodities incident and belonging to the fime, t^c. and that neither at Timmuth nor at Shields Ships are to be laden or unladen. It was alfo ordered that 4 Ovens ^x.'TinmoutJj fliould pay Damages f Marks, and thofe that took Tonnage and make Foreftal, (^c. and as to the Wrecks of the S^a, l^c. that the King and his Heirs fliould have them for ever here- after i as to the Markets and Fairs, that there be not at Tinmouth or Shields any Market or Fair, and that neither at Tinmouth or Shields there be any Sale of Things faleable, as in Meats, Drinks, or any other Things whatfoever, whereby the King, his Heirs and Succeffors may be made the Worfe. I T was alfo ordered, tliat the Keys and other Things levied and raifed by the faid Prior within the Flood Mark on the King's Soil, fhould be removed at the Colls of the faid Prior. Clofe Roll, It Ed. II. Memhran. 16. It is recited that the King had given Power and Authority to John Earl of Hamjlead, to examine and remove Nu- fances done to the River of Tync, and was pleafed to recal it, becaufe it was a Prejudice to what the Mayor of Newcajile claimed and enjoyed in the Time of his Predeceflbrs. B Y an Inquifition 4th Jan. if Hoi. VI. the Jmy upon their Oath found, that beyond the Memory of Man, the Town o£ Newcajile upon Tyne, had, and held of our Sovereign Lord the King, and all his Predeceflbrs, as Bur- geffes of the faid Town (when there was no Mayor), and as Mayor andBur- p-cfTes of the faid Town (when there was a Mayor), the faid Town and Wa- ter of Tyne, and the Soil of the faid Water of fyne, wherever it was covered, from a Place called Sparrow Hawk in the Sea, unto a Place called Hedwin Streams ; and that the fame, with the Appurtenances were Parcel of the Li- berties and free Cuftoms of the faid Town, and were held under a Fee-Farm, faving the Kmg's Rents, Prifes, and Aflefirnents in the Port of the faid Town. Then they find and fet forth Kng John^s Charter, and Confirmation. And divers other Cuftoms and Privileges belonging to the faid Town, are there mentioned, exprelfed and fet forth. In a ^io H^arranto, f Car. I. Michaelmas Term, in the King's Bench, the Prcfcription for Conlervation of the River Tyne is allowed. By the Pleadings in a Decree in the Exchequer^ Michaelmas Term, f Car. I. Mayor and Burgefles oi Newcaflle upon Tyne.^ Plaintiffs, Robert JohnfonOt- fcndancj and another 10 Car. I. Mayor and BurgcfTcs of Newc.zjlle upon lyne Plaintifts Of the River Tyne. Plaintiffs and Hilton, Defendant, the Confen'ancy of the faid River o(Tyne is acknowledged to be in the laid Mayor and Burgefles, between Spar- row-Haivk and Hedwin Streams. Michaelmas 12 Car. I. Decree in the Exchequer againfl one Anthony Erring- ton., for erefting certain Buildings on certain Waitc Grounds on the South Side of the Street called Sandgate., within the Flood Mark of the River of ^ Tyne. . | Trin. 1694, Bill in the Exchequer., Mayor and Burgefles of A^ewAt/?/?, Plain- tiffs, againil Dean and Chapter of Durham., and Samuel Shepherd., Defendants, a Trial at Law on the faid Bill was direfted by the faid Court of Exchequer, on thefe two Iflues following ; that the Defendants could not lawfully erect and ufe a Ballall Key or Wharf, at Wejloe or Jarrovj-Slake, without the Li- cence of the Mayor and Burgefles of Newcajik. That the erecting a Ballafl: Key at fi^ejloc, or Jarrow-Slake by the De- fendants would be a Damage to the River. 18 Junii, 1697. Verdidb on both Ifllies for the Plaintiffs. 16 Jan. 1697, after this Trial, the Court of Exchequer did order, adjudge and decree, that a perpetual Injunction fliould be awarded under the Seal of the Court, to quiet the Plaintiffs in the Poflcflion of their Franchifes, Liber- ties, Powers and Privileges, and to ftop the Defendants from erefting any Bal- lad Shore or Wharfe in IVeJtoe or Jarrozv-Slake, unlefs cauie ftiouid be ihewn on Monday if 1697, which Caufe being continued on the Paper of Caufes from Time to Time, after feveral Debates and Hearings, Fel). 10^ i<597, the whole Court delivered their Opinion at large, that the Bill was a proper Bill, and the Iffues apt and proper Iflues in this Cafe, and declared they were fully flxtisfied with the Trial at the Bar: Thereupon it was finally ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court, that the Defendants, and every of them, fhould be, and were thereby conftraincd from making and erefting any Bal- lafl; Key or Wharf at fVeftoe or Jarrow-Slake, and that a perpetual Injunfti- on fhould be granted to flop the Defendants, and every of them, their Suc- ceffors. Executors and Afligns, and all Pcrlons claiming under them, from making, fetting up, or erefting any Ballall Key or W kirf there, at any Time or Times hereafter. 17 Martii, 1697, Dean and Chapter of Durham, and Samuel Shepherd, pe- titioned and appealed to the Houfc of Lords againfl: this Decree. 7 Afaij 1698, On hearing Council at the Lords Bar, on the Petition and Appeal, it was ordered and adjudged by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in ParUament affembled, that the faid Petition and Appeal of the Dean and ' Chapter of Durham, fliould be difmiffed the laid Houfe, and that the Order and Appeal from which they appealed fhould be conlirm'd. In the izd James I. a Perfon was fucd for Building fome Houfes in Sand- gate, within tlie Flood-Mark of the River Tyne, the Confequcnce of which was, the Defendant was obliged to pull down the faid Houfes at his own Ex- pence. In the Year 165 1, the Sheriff of Durham was ordered by the King and Council to apprehend Offenders damaging the River Tyne, and carry them be- fore the Mayor and Aldermen, Confervators of the faid River. September 9, l66f. Sir Francis Anderfon had granted to him aLeafefor 1000 Years, from the Mayor and Burgcffes of Newcaftle upon Tyne, of all that Par- cel of Ground within the Territories of fF'inlington, between High and low- Water Mark, in length from Enll ro Well iif^. Yards, and in Breadth from low Of the River Tyne. 165 lo\v-W:Uer Mark, in length from Eaft to Weft One Thoufand Two Hun- dred Fifty Four Yards, and in Breadth from low- Water Mark One Hundred and Twenty Yards, with Liberty to build Keys and caft Ballaft, upon paying zd. per Ton for all Ballall call thereon. The Bounds of the River Tyne^ belonging to the Town of Neivcaflle^ have been from the Day they had any Charter to this Day, from the Sparrow- Hciivk to Hcdwin Streams^ which is about 14 Miles. To begin at Iledimn Streams^ and fo go down the River, taking Notice of the Villages, i^c. 'till we come to the Bridge. Hedivin is a Village fituated on the North Side of the River feven Miles : It fccms to have been original- ly a Rovian Station, for the Word in the Saxon fignifies a Military Wing, and the Roman Wall goes clofe by it. RYTON, a Village fituated on the South fide of the Tyne, diftant about 7 Miles from Neivcaftle, is adorned with a fair Church, which had the Ho- nour to have for its Reftor the very learned Dr. Cave, wTio was fucceeded in it by Malin Sorsbie, Mailer of Arts, a religious Man, and an excellent Scho- lar. He was Father to the prcfcnt Alderman 6'o?\fZ'/>, late Mayor of this Town. The next Incumbent of this Church was Dv. Finny, who built the ftately Par- fonage Houfe there j and the prefent one the Rev. Mr. Seeker. NETVB URN is a Village diftant fron Newcaftle about 4 Miles, and fitu- ated on the North fide of the Tyne. It is of great Antiquity, as appears from the following Relation. CO PS I, the firft Earl of Northumherland, after the Conqueft, was confti- tuted fuch by the Conqueror, for that Part of the Province that lyeth Noith of the River: Whereupon he drove Ofulph, whom Merker, the younger Son to Jlgar, Earl of Cbejlcr, the laft Earl of Northumberland had fubftituted there. At length Ofulph, whom he had fo driven, being neceffitated to betake himfclf to the Woods and Deferts for Refuge, gathered fome Strength, and forcingCnpft, for Safeguard, to fly to the Church of A^i?w^«r«c, fct it on Fire, and when Copfi (to lave himfelf from the Flames) came out, did cut off his Head at the very Door, on the 4th of the Ides of March, in the fth Week after he had the Adminiftration of thcfe Parts i but the very next Autumn this Ofulph was himfelf flain by the Hands of a Robber. Bar. Dugdale, p. f4. Vol. I. King Henry I. granted the Church of this Place to St. Marfs. of CarliJIe^ and the Canons of the lame. PFJLDENU S Parfona de Neixihirm, was one of the Witnefles to the Foundation Charter of St. Mary\ in IVcjlgate, about the Reign of Richard HI IS Manour bclong'd to the Crown, 'till Robert Fitz Roger, firnamed I'vcring, from his Manour of Clavcring in E£ex, obtained a Grant of it Th de Clai from ¥J\r\^fjohn, Reg. f. To hold to him by the Service of one Knight's Fee, which upon levying the Scutage ol JValcs, i 5 John, he paid. His Po- fterity enjoy'd this Manour long after, for Robert de Clavcring, who had Sum- mons to Parliament from the 23 of Edward I. to 5 Ed. II. died pofTefled of this Manour of Ncwbimie, and left it to his Son and Heir John de Claveringy who deipairing of having any Iffue Male, fettled this Manour, and fome o- thers, by Way of Feoffment, upon one Stephen de Trafford, to the Intent that the laid Stephen fhould reconvcy them to the izidjohn, to hold for Life, with the Remainder to King Ed. I. and his Heirs. The King foon after it came to hmij gave it to IJenry Percy, the Anceftor of the Earls of Northumberland, U u ia 1 66 Of the River Tyne. in whofe Family we find it 4.1 Edw. III. for Henry Earl of Nortbu-mberlarJ died about that Time feized of this Maiiour, with divers otlicr Eilates, and leaving his Wife Joan furviving, this Lordfhip with its Members, was alllgn- ed to her for her Dowry among feveral others. After her Decculc it continu- ed in the Percy's Family divers Succeffions, and was in the f Hen. V. fettled upon Elizabeth^ the Reli6b of Henry Earl of Nortbumberhnd furnamcd Hotfpur for Life, and after her Deceafc palfed to her Son Henry^ who died i'cizcd ot it and other great Eftates, 35 Hen. VI. fighting for whom he loft his Life at the Battle of St. Albans in Hertfordjlure. King Edward IV. having by this Viftory gained a fare Pofleffion of the Throne, Henry .Earl of Northumber- land^ his Son and Succeffor, loft his paternal Eftatc, by being attainted in Parliament, i Edward IV. and as the major Part of his Eftate was gi\en by that King to his Brother George Duke of Clarence^ as is above fpecified, lo this Manour of Newburn., and Netvburn-W-xvcn.f were granted to Sir Robert Ogle, in Confideration of his many fiithful Services, bemg foon after made a Baron of the Realm. Dr. Smithy late Biftiop of Carlijle, finding the Vicarage of this Place to be fmall, and not able to maintain a Minifter, made an Augmentation of if /. a Year to it fince the Rcftoration of King Charles II. Magn. Britan. Vol 3. />. 673. This Manour is now Part of the Eftatc of his mofl noble Grace, Charles Duke of Somerfet. The next Village to it is Stella, a little below Newburn, on the other Side the Water. Here is a magnificent Houfe and Gardens, which belonged to the Lord TViddrington, which became forfeited to the Crown in the Year 171 f, for his entring into the Northumberland 'R.chiAWon. This Place origi- nally belonged to the Nuns oi Ncwcajlle -y it is now chiefly inhabited by Coal- Workers, and has Staiths in it. There are many other Villages on the Sides of this River, fuch as Blaiden, Lemmingtoii, Swalzvel, Delaval, Redbeugb, Sec. Several of them have Staiths belonging to them, ilich are the Staiths of the Lady Claz-ering, Sir Henry Ltddel, Baronet, Richard Ridley, Efqi George Liddel, Efqj Edward Worthy Montague, Elqj George Bowes, Efqj George Pitt, Efqj George Maliiber^ Efqj Mr. John Simp/on and Mr. Jo/cph Ledger. There is a little Uland in the Midft of the River, called, 'The King's Meadows, which is a delicious Place, and a great Ornament to the Ri- ver. L E T us now come below Bridge, to take Notice of a fevv' Things there. Gatefiead prcfents itfclf firft, a Town in the Billioprick oi Durham y it Hands on the South-fide of the Tyne, oppofite to Newcaftle, and is a Place of great Antiquity. Mr. Cambden thinks it a Place of equal Antiquity with Newcaftle, becaufe ot it's ancient Name Gabrofentum; but I have already proved it moie rational to believe it to have been only it's Suburbs. There was an ancient Monaftiy here in the Time of Bedc; which was the Monaftry of Utamis, it was wlicrc Mr. Riddle's Houfe, or Gatefiead Houl'c is as it now ftands. On the 14 o£ Afay, 1080, Walter Bifliop oi Durham was murdered at this Place. The Occafion of it was, this Walter attending more worldly Affiiirs than the Charge ot his Flock, gave himfelf altogether to Temporal Bufinels, wherein he wholly occupied himfelh He bought of the King the Earldom oi Northumberland, and then making himfelf a Vccular Judge, took upon him to fit in the Court, and to determine all Caufcs at his Plcafure, dealing withal very corruptly, and taking ftill the Courfc that might be moft for his own Gain. Of the River Tyne. 167 Gain. Hereupon he greatly enriched his own Coffers, but purchafed unto him- fclF extreme Hatred amongil the Common People, which was his Deftrudion in the End. There was a certain Gentleman, of great Account, named Lcul~ ffiSy that married y//^'/V/;«, the Daughter of Aldrcd, fometime Earl of Nor- ihumherland^ from whom the Lord Lumky that now liveth is lineally defcend- cd. This Leulfus^ to the end he might live near the Church in his latter Time, and for very Devotion, came to Diirhafn to dwell there, and kept Company very much with the Billiop, who loved him entirely, for many good Parts he faw in him, as namely, his Wifdom in difcerning, his Equity in deciding, and his Difcretion in ordering and handling fuch Caufes as he committed unto him ; in which Rei'peft alfo he ufed him very familiarly, employed him often, and gave him what Countenance he could. Now, you ihall underlland, that unto the fime Bifhop belonged two Men, uiito whom for the moll Part he committed the ordering ot all his Affairs; Leofwyn or Lcobxvyn his Chaplain, whom he trufted with all Houfliold-Matters, and Gil- bert^ a Kinfman of his own, that dealt in his Caufes of Temporal Govern- ment. In their Offices they behaved thcmfelves fo, as the Bifliop had Caufe to commend their Diligence, but to blame their Raihnefs and Wilfulnefs in many Things, which notwithllanding he bore withal, either becaufe their Indullry and Care of his Affairs, fo blinded his Eyes, as he could not efpy their Misbehaviour otherwife, or elfe being loath to deteil them whom he had once advanced. Thefe Men, and efpecially Leofwyn, did greatly envy the Credit that Leulfus had gotten with the Bilhop, and every where oppofed tjiemlelves againft him, not only in Words, traducing his A£lions, but in Deeds alio, thwarting and crofling his Endeavours, whereby it came to pals, that many. Jars fell out between them. One Day amonglt the rclf, a Court being held in the Prefence of the Bifhop, Leofwyn or Leobwyn ( for fo alfo I lind him called ) according to his wonted Manner, gave Leulfus ill Speeches, which he not enduring to bear, as heretofore he had done { furor fit ft;epm Ite- fci patientia ) anfwered this fawcy Chaplain fomewhat more roundly than he had been accuftomed. Whereupon he rofe flraight from the Court in great Indignation ( Leofwyn I mean ) and calling Gilbert afide, with little ado per- fuaded him to carry a certain Number of armed Men to the Houfe where Leulfus lay, and in a Night to kill him ; which indeed he performed with great Cruelty, murdering not only the innocent Gentleman himfelf, but alfo his Scrv^mts and whole Houlhold. The News of 'this horrible and outragi- ous Cruelty coming unto the Ears of the Bifhop, amazed him very much, and fufpeccing it was done by the Advice of Leofivyn, turning about unto him : O Leofwyn, faith he, thou haft already fain me by thy Tongue. So not doubting it would breed much Danger unto him, he got into his Caftle, and prefently difpatched MelTengers unto the Friends and Kindred of Leulfus that was flain, protelling, that the Fact was committed without his Knowledge j that he was marvellous forry for it j and if any Man fufpefted him, would be ready to fubmit himfelf to any Order of Law, whereby he might clear him- felf. Herewith they fcemcd to be fitisfied ; but for Conclullon of a firm Peace amonglt them, it was thought fit they l"hould meet and confider of the Matter. They met at a Place called Goats-Head ■■, the BilTiop for his better Safe-guard betook himfelf unto the Church with his Company; the People (whereof an infinite Number were gathered together) abode without. Mef- fagcs a while pall between them ; but the more the Matter was debated ( be- ing very odious of itfclf ) the more the People were incenfed. At lall it was told them, how not only Leofwyn, but alio Gilbert had been harboured in the Bifhop's Houfc, and afforded Countenance by him fince the Murder; which being once heard ( and it was true enough ) they all cried out, it was mani- feli that the Bilhop was the Author of this Fa£t. It is furthermore delivered by Matthew Paris, that the Billiop not only before this, amongil many intol- Icrable Exa£lions laid upon the Country by him, had commanded the Sum of 400 /. to be levied at this Time. That being alfo remembred, while as all the People Hood in a murmuring, doubting what Courfeto take, one of fome fpecial Regard amongil them llept up, ufing thefc Words, Short read. Good read, flay ye the BifJjop. Hereupon, without more ado, they ran all unto the Church, i68 Of the Kiver Tyne. Church, killed ib many of the Bijbop's Recinuc as they found without Doors, und with horrible Noife and Outcries, bid him and his Company to come out unto them. Too late then he repented, that he had committed himfclf unto the Fury of a difcontented Multitude, with whom he knew himlblf before that Time nothing gracious. But to make the bell of a bad Match, and to try all Means of ridding himfclf from the Danger imminent, he perfuadcd his Kinfman Gill/eft, there prefent, to go forth unto them, if happily his Death (which doubtlefs he had deferved) might fatisfy their Fury, and purchafe Safety unto his Lord and Mafter. Gilbert was content, and iffuing out, with divers of the Bifhop's Company, were all flain, except only two EngVijlmicn^ Servants unto the Blfliup ( all the reft were Normans ). They being not yet fatisfied, he befought Leofxvyn ( whofe Life he knew well was principally fought) to go out alfo. But he utterly refufed fo to do. The Bifliop there- fore going unto the Church-door, entreated them not to take his Life from him, protelting himfelf to be utterly guiltlcfs of the Blood of Letdfus', and fhewed them at large, how dangerous it would be to them in particular, and what Inconvenience would follow to the whole Country in general, if they fliould defile their Hands in fhedding his Blood, an unarmed Prieil, a facred and confccrated Bilhop, their Ruler, their Governor, their Magiftrate. Hoping, Lajily^ That his very Countenance, his Gravity, his Age, and the Sight of his Perfon might move them to Compaflion ( for he was indeed a very reve- rend Man to fee to, very tall of Stature, Head and Beard as white as S now, his Face frcHi and well coloured, and every Way very perfonable, he went our, carrying a green Branch in his Hand, that fo he might tefhfy his Defire of Peace. When he faw that all this availed not, and the People ran furioufly upon him, he call his Gown over his own Head, in like Sort as we read Ju- lias Ccefar did in the like Cafe, and permitting himfelf to their Fury, with in- numerable Wounds was pitifully maflacred, together with all his People and Retinue, to the Number of an hundred} only Leofivyn yet remained within the Church, and being often called, would not come forth j fo they fet the Church on Fire. Not enduring the Fire, he leaped out of a Window, and was immediately hewn into a thoufand Pieces. The Monks of larrozv came and fetched away the Billiop's Body (which they found ftark naked) and could hardly know it for the Multitude of Wounds ; they carried it to their Monailcry, from whence it was conveyed to Durham^ and there buried oa the South-fide of the Chapter- houfe, but fecretly, for Fear of the Murderers, that ro\'cd up and down the Town, and once affiiulted the Caftle. When they found that they could not prevail there, they difperied themfelves, and for the mod Part came to evil and unhappy Ends. The King in the mean Time hearing of this Tumult, lent his Brother Odo Bifhop of Bayan, with many of his Nobles, and a great Army, to take Punifliment of this Murder, which while they fought to revenge, they brought the whole Country to Defolation. Thofe that were guilty prevented the Danger toward them by Flight, fo as few of them could be taken} of the relt that flayed at Home, fomc were unjuftly executed, and the rell compelled to ranfom themlelves to their utter impoverifhing and undoing. The chiefeit Doer in this Outrage, was one Eadidfus^ firnamed Rus^ delcended of the Earls of Northumberland^ who (as fome fry) flew the Bilhop with his own Hands, and afterwards by the juft Judgment of God, was himfelf flain by a Woman, and his Body, tho' once buried in the Church of Gedivorth^ was taken up by the Command- ment of Turgojlj Prior of Durham^ and forbidden Chriftian Burial. At this Time Odo took away from the Church oi Dtirbam certain Ornaments of great Value, amongft which is efpecially remcmbred a certain Crofier of ineftimable Price. In this Biflrop's Days, and by his Endeavour, fecular Clerks weredif- placed, and the Church of 'Durham repleniflied with Monks, the Pope, the King, and the Archbiflaop allowing this Alteration, GoodivyHf FoL 637. Afterwards this Church was new built, and placed where it now •ftands: For, according to Tradition, it flood before in the Field below where Brick-Kilns now arc. This Of the River Tyne. i6g This Church of St. Mary's, GateJIicad, is in the Gift of the Bifljop of Durham -, but once, during the Vacancy of the See, it was given to Robert ■de Plefuys j the Value of it then was Z(S MarJis per Annum. It is at pj-efent a very neat pretty Church, being ejccecdipg well peyy'\inQ\mcwCisEpiJcopHS, falutem in Domino fempiternam. Etfi afcripti obfequiis Creatoris ipfius proferre laudcs in pace deberent (^ quiete, inimiciis tamen, qui huic adverfatur nomini, zizaniam twn ceJJ'ans fcminare per minifiros fuos, £i? excrejcentem malitiam fecularem ad hoc fedulo Juas "vires ponit ingenii, ut, quod ad laudem Dei y Divini nomini s cultum fide Hum de- •votio ordinaverit, ad nihilum redigat, £$? irremediabili confujione pcrfundat : Hujus Nos aftut<£ calliditati occurrcre cupientes remedio falutari, ne intertus aut inordina- tus Vivendi modus fempiternum inducat torporem, ftatuimus y ordinavimus, ut in Capella, quam apud Gatefheved ad honorem Domini noftri Jeju Chrifti^ in numine ieati'EAmundiConfeJforis, (^ gloriofi pontiftcis Cuthheni, fundavimus, dedicavimus, Cff dotavimus, pro falute anim^e mftrii Domus ■ fraficiatur. Si vero cuftodum aliquis qui pradiile Domui laudabtliter preefuettt in . ■ tai.tam Of the River Tyne. iyi tantam debilitatcm morho incidiat vel ALtate^ quod propter ipfttis impotentiam Alius i- bidem pr^fJciatur ; Jmottis a Rugimine ex caufa honejla de bonis Domtts in vita ne- ceJJ'aiiis luficntetur, dtim tamen aliunde non babeat wide pojfit Jujlentari^ 6f hoc ideth de Sicerdoiibus ob.er'vetur^ qui cafus inciderint MtediEtos. Si autem bona ad fufien- tationem prcelibatara a nobis ajfignata eidem pia Fidclium confideratime pradiSlo lo- co ajfjignanda, ad uberiora bona facienda fuffecerint in Elemofinis y operibus mi- fericordia. ^ti Rcgimini domus deputatus fuerit tali'tcr fludeat erogare^ tit in di- ferati judicii examnatione at fidelis Difpenfator a Judice fupremo cum eleSlis ek frutlu bonorum operum vitam capiat fempiternam. Nulli ergo homini lic'eat banc Ordinationevi noflram infringere^ vel ei aufu iemcrario contraire; Si qtiis autem hoc attemptare prafumpferit indignationem Omnipotentis Dei 13 San£l£ Genetricis ejufdem^ £s? Sanctorum confeJJ'orum Edmundi ^ Cuthberti 13 omnium SanSlorum noverit fe incur fur utn. Et ad majorcm Sccuritatcm hiijus tenor is, Nos Ergo diSiam Ordinationem di£li venerabitis Patris Dom'i Nicholai divina gratia Dunelmenfis Epif'copi gratam (3 ratam in omnibus babentes ipfam ftgilli noftri fKunimine duximus confirjJiandam. Tejle Capitulo Nojlro. Crcatlo Jo. do. Appilhy in Magiftrum Hofpitalis S. 'Edmmtdi per T.ho. Hatjjeld Dunelm' Epifc. THomas Pcrmiffione Divina 'D\.\nc\mt\\(\s Epifcopus^ dile&o nobis inChriflofilio Magijlro Jolianni de Apilby Jurifpcrito falutem, gratiam (3 benediSlionem. Tuis meritis exigentibus Nofq-y ad id movcntibus Virtutum gratiis quibus te novimtis inftgmri, I'c in Magiftrum, Rc£lorem, (3 Cufiodem perpetuum Domus feu Hofpitalis de Gatefhcvcd noftra Diocef. vacantis (3 ad Collationem feu Proviftonem nojiram pleno jure fpcBantis pr^fecimus, T'eq; per Annuli nojlri traditionem prafentialiter in- vefiimus de eadem, Adminiftrationem tibi omnium bonorum diSla Domus plenam £3* liber'am committcntcs. In cujus. — 6cc. Daf in manerio nofiro de Aukland die zo mcnfts Augult, A. D. I3f3. 13 Confecrat. n'oflriS f): Compert'' quod Ifabella qua fuit Uxor Job. dc Birklcy ohiit feifata in Dominio fuo de uno raeffuagio 13 Sexaginta acras terra i«Kyoleche qua tenetur de magijlro Hof- pitalis S. Edmundi m Gateflicvcd. PHILIP Bifhop o? Durham, in the Reign of Henry II. granted to the Burgcfles of Gatefiead fcveral Privileges, as appears by what follows. P Hi LIP by the Grace of God Bifhop of Durham,to all Men of the whole Biflioprick, and ot his Brotherhood in all England, he faluteth. ' Know yc, that we luve granted, and by this prcfent Deed have granted to our Burgelfcs of Gatcficvcd, full Liberty of Foreftage, yielding in every half Year, from Pcntecoft to the Fcaft of St. Martin y for a Wheyc or Ox, the which goes to Grafs, id. and for a Horfe id. and for every Hog id. in re- fpcft of all Things that they have to proper and necellliry Ufesj laving th'efe prohibited. Neither fliall it be lawful for any Forefter within the Meats dijfc are appointed within our Forell and Burrough to Tax Lands upon any Burgefs, Or upon any Manner of Thing of the faid Borougli, or upon any Oxen, or ai|y other their Cattle, or by any Ways to hinder them, either of their Wood, Titri- bcr, or any other Things. And if any Suit or Trouble fhall be between the Forefters and Burgeflcs, it fhall be determined in the faid Burrough, if it may be J if not, then in our Prefencc it fhall be determined. And the Cattle of any Burgefs fhall not be carried out of the (aid Burrough, but there fhall be reple- vied, if the fame tday be replevied. To the fame Burgeflcs it fhall be lawful to have Herbage, and lying Turfs and Bruery to their own proper Ufes, whcrc- foever they arc acciiffomcd to have the fame, fo that they fell us Part thereof. And if any Burgefs do dig Turfs for his Chimney, not having Oxen 5 if for the Leading of Turfs they fhall be forced to have Oxen, neverthclefs in giving for all or every Ox, which they fliall need zd. of Foreftage^ they fhall be freed. And it fhall be lawful for every Burgefs to give Wood to whorafoever he willj ■ " to 172 Of the River Tyfie. to be fpepc about the River oi T'yne, without any Licence j but not to fell any without Licence of the Forefters. And no Forefter iliall difturb any Mer- chandize that cotrieth Within the fiiid Meat. And every Burgefs of Gatefieved Ihall have of his Burgage the fame Liberty, which the Burgefles of Ne-wcxlik have of their Burgages. And whitherfoevcr the Burgefles of G.-t/e/2?ci;f and Mr. Robert Brand- ling with much ado got Leave to build a Shore upon his own Ground at Eel- lin. In the mean time, the Tenants of the Dean and Chapter at Durham, took Liberty to throw their Afhes into the River, which did much Damage to the Bar. Upon this Mr. Leonard Carr, and Mr. Cuthbert Bewick com- plained, and the Town caufed them to lay them upon the Land, of which they have made mighty Heaps. When Of the River Tyne, 17 j When King James I. came to the Crown, he was pleafed to be bounti- ful to his Countrymen} -^imongn: the reft, Sir Henry Gibb being one of his Officers, he beftowed upon hiiu the Lordfliip of Jarrozv^ and he would have procured a Shore there to caft Ballad > but altho' he had the Favour of the King, yet the Town ufed fuch Means, and gave fuch Reafons to his Majefty and the Council, that they found it detrimental to the Town, and efpc- ciilly to the River, fo that he was utterly hindred and difappointcd. But after the Death of King Charles I. Thomas Bomer, and Robert EUi- fongotm to beMagiftratcsi and thefeMen having gotten Wealth and Increafe by the Rebellion, did purchafe Jarrow j and what could not be done before in a lawful Time, they did bring to pafs at this unlawful Junfture, building a Shore, and cafting Ballail", to the great Detriment of the River : And hav- ing the Town at Command, Mr. Bonner bought St. Anthony^s^ and Robert EUJfon bought Hebbourn^ and there they both built Shores, and got the Allowance of the Common Council, when they were beyond Reiifting : And lince that, Mr. Carr^ a Man that defervcd well of his prefent Maje- fty [CHARLES II.] and the Town, hath procured, that his Brother ElUfon (for old EUifon"?, Son married his Sifter) ftiould have Liberty to e- n"6b his Shore to a great Length, which in Time will utterly overthrow our Navigation ; for they will damn out the In-draught, which maketh Rivers far off the Sea be walled out; it will go by, and not come in: And fomc ancient and difcrcct Maftcrs of Ships have fxid, They have not left a Birth to fave their Ships i/?, ivhoi any Land-flood or Storm happens in the River. Mil- bank. The next Place Jarroiv^ or Girwy, as it was anciently called, which is a fmall Village on the South Side of Ty?ie, about 4 Miles diftant from Newca- flle, famous for a Monaftery of learned Men, but more fo for the Birth, Life, and Death o? venerable BEDE; fo named for his fingular Sanftity, who was born of mean Parents, and at feven Years of Age dcliver'd to the holy Abbot St. Benedict to be educated in his Rule, and being come to Age he profeffed a Monaftick Life in the Abbies of TVeremouth^ ;Rid Girwy^ where he became by his conrtant Application to his Studies, fo compleat a Scholar, that fevy in that Age, (which bred many very learned Men) were to compare to him, for he was perfectly knowing in the Greek and Latin Tongues, and no lefs perfcft in Poetry, Rhetorick, Logick, Phyficks, Metaphyficks, Aftronomy, Arithmetick, all Ecclefiaftical Calculations, Mufick, Geometry, Cofmogra- phy, Hiftory, Philoibphy, and Divinity. In fhort, he had an exaft Know- ledge of all commendable Sciences, infomuch that William of Malmsbury thus delcribes him. He was a Man that may more worthily be admired than com- mended J for he was born in an extream Corner of the World, yet the Light of his Learning fpread over all Parts of the Earth, he continued a moft dili- gent Learner 'till he was thirty Years of Age, after which being ordained Prieft, he betook himfelf to Teaching and Writing. All the Hours he had to fpare from the Monaftical Exercifes of Prayer, and Singing in the Choirs by Day and Night (in which he was conftant and very devout) he moft dili- gently fpent in his Studies, fo that his Life was a continual Intercourfe be- tween Devotion and Study, he never repairing to his Study 'till he had been at Prayers, nor ever went to Prayers but from his Studies, by which continual Application he penetrated into all Sciences. In his continual Deportment he was fo grave and ferious, that the Title o{ Fenerabk was beftowed on him while he lived, and ever continued to him after his Death. It appears from Hiftory that he had at one Time thofc great Lights of the Church, Jlcuinus, Preceptor to the Emperor Charkmaign., and Claudius and Clemens., the Foun- ders of the Univcrfities of Paris and Pavia for his Scholars. This Character is fully verified by the Books of all Sorts of Learning writ by him. At the End of his Works he gives us a modeft account of his own Y y Life 174 ^f ^^^^ Rii^er Tyne. Life, together with a Catalogue of his Principal Works. Henry of Hunting- ton gives us alfo a large Catalogue of his Writings, too long to be let down here: Yet we cannot omit fome of the Principal Works, viz. A N incredible Number of Treatifes upon all Parts of the Old and New Teftament, many of which arc lUll to be found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Above an hundred Homilies, and many Pieces of Divinity and Devotion. A Small Book of the Holy-Land. A Chronicle from the Creation. A Book of the Writers of the Church. A Martyrology. An Epitome of the Englifli. Hiftory. Of the Scituation and wonderful Things of Great Britain. The Lives of many holy Men and Abbots, with many others of all Sorts of Learning. This moft excellent Perfon, being grown old in the Study of Learning, and all Chrilliin Virtues, grew weak and dccripit for a Time, and at length on the Tuefd.ty before Jfcciifwi., his Diltcmpcr grew fo heavy upon him, that Nature yielded to it, and he died on^fcenfion Day, in the fcventy fecond Year of his Agej But others fay the Ninetieth, Jnno 734, and was burled in his Monaftery, but afterwards his Body was tratiflatcd to VurhaKi. Magn^ Erif vol id, p'. 7fO. N o R is it to be admired 'that he fliould becorae fo learned In his Monaftery, for in former Ages the greater Monallcrics were like Univerfities, wherein not only Humanity, but all the Liberal Sciences, Philofophy, and Divinity were taught j in the Year 697, he received Deacons Orders from the Hands of John Bilhop oi Hexham afterwards called St. John o£ Beverley, and in the Year 706 he was ordained Priell by the fame Bifhop. Among the feveral Ways of accounting for hi? Epithet of Fenerabk, it has always been cileemed the moft pleafing, though perhaps not the moft true Account, of what is faid to have happened after his Death, viz. that one of his Scholars defigning to make his Epitaph in Hexameter Verfc, which began thus, Hac fitnt in FoJ/'h, and was willing to make it end Preshi.'eri ojfa-., But it would not do, at lall being tired out he fell ailccp, and in the Morning to his great Surprize he found it ftand thus, Hac funt in Fojfa, Bedse venerabilis OJfa. Here lies entomb'd within thcfe Stones, Of Venerable Bede the Bones. I Portus ^ ANNO Higbaldi 7. (viz. 788.) Dtim Pagani port urn Ecfridi Regis, boe EcfriJi finus ejl Girwi, vafiantes, monallerium ad ofiium Tini amnis depr^danttir, dux eo- qui aT<»-»ad ^^^ ^-^^-^^^ ^^^^^,- ^^^^ interih. LelandV CoUedions, Vol. IL p. 318. trat. Pene- trabat & interius ufquc ad Bilton, pene tres Pafl. millibus {uper G'irwi, quo Antiquitus & Naviculae per- Tcneiunt. Fluviolus )iunc (inum inuac. In A Ri- vulet enters Of the River Tyne. 17? /« Englifh tbus. * In the Seventh Year of ///^^^W, (viz. 788.) whilft the Pagans laying waftc the Haven of King Ecfrid, that is Ghvi [Jarro-d!~\ Pillage the Monaltery at *Ecfdd'sHa- thc Mouth of the ivivcr Tyne [T'memouth']^ their General there fuffered a cruel vemsaGulf Death. -whuh^ene- t rates Jrom the Tyne to DUG DJ LE \n his Munajiicon, fpcaking of 7'"'''''^ Monaucry, and of the Girwi. it Abbot St. B:nedi6l allov>;s venerable Beds to be educated by him, but complea- penetratedal- teJ his holy Works und Ceolfrid: He fays too, that this Monailery was ib rui- -^ "'^'"^ '":^ ned by the Dmcs entering the Tjnc^ that fcarce the Footlleps of it remained. asM\.on,dl- mojl 3000 This Monaftry was valued at the Suppreffion at ?8/. 14.?. A.d. Pacesabove ^ ^'- :^ T T Girv/i, where There are flill fome Ruins of the Monaftery to be feen, and upon the sloops or i>hips Church Wall, when and by whom ioundcd, may be learnt from this Infcrip- formerly tion, which is legible to this Day in the Church Wail. «'»' -^ vulei -n, A- ■ r> rv this Gulf. Dedicatio B.ililic.'E S.Pauli Vlll. K. L. Mail Ann. XUI. Ecfridi Reg. Ccofridi A BB. Ejurdcmq; Ecclef. Deo Auctore Conditoris Anno IlII. Now the great Churches when the faving Light of the Gofpcl began to : le abroad m the World (for it is not impertinent to note thus much) were .■* Bj^/ic^e, becaufe the BaftUccC of the Gentiles, namely thofe ftate- iiiiildings where the Magiftrates held the Courts of Juftice, were converted lu Churches by the Chiiifiansj whence Aufonhn., Bajilica olim negotiis plena^ nunc votis^ i. e. the BafiUca full of Bufmels heretofore, but now of De- votion or elfe, becaufe they were built in an oblong Form as the BaJUka were. In the Infcription the XUI fhould be XU. for King Elfrid reigned no more than i f Years ; and ib (indeed) Sir James Ware has given it in his Note' upon Bde\ Hiftory of the Abbots o't Wercmouth. But it ought not from this Infcription to be inferred that Ceolfrid was the Founder of this Monaftry, finLC It appears from Bcdis Account, that he was only conftituted firft Abbot of the Place by BemdiSins Bifcopus who fent him hither (with a Colony of Se- venteen Monks) from Weremouth. CamhderC% BrltarC p. 780 and 784. t N this Church is to be feen a very ancient Chair which (Tradition fays) was the Chair of venerable Bede. The prefent Vicar of Jarrow is the Rev. Mr. Robert Wilfon. Some Years ago, upon the Banks of the Tyne was difcovered a Roman Altar, the Figure and Defcription whereof take here as it was delivered to the Royal Society, by the ingenious and learned Dr. Lifier. Fig. i7<5 Of the River Tyne. Fig. I. f 'g- 5- Fig. 2. IS MAP.^ B l^EOSAiy ANTONINI AVG IIM LV B3JSM OBREDJTV 1 3 AV-^y-y^^JV-r^^ F'g- 3- Fig. 4. I have, fays he, in his Letter to the Royal Society, with much Trouble, fot into my Hands a Piece of Roman Antiquity, which was but a very few 'ears ago difcovered upon the South-bank of the River Tyncj near Sbeilds, in the Bifhoprickj it is a very large and fiir Roman Altar, of one intire Stone j but after all my Coft and Pains, I am very forry to find the Infcription very ill defaced, and much of it is not legible, and I believe it has been alfo much mifliandled by thofe who have endeavoured to read itj whereas if the Remain- der of the Letters had been exaftly meafured, and the Face blacked, and light- ly wafhed off again, as in Prints, fome Things more might have been fpelled. A s to the Nature of the Stone itfelf, it is of a coarfe Rag, the fame with that of the Pyramids at 5«/row-5r/?^^> it is four Foot high, and wasafcended to by Steps, which appearcth in all the Sides ; but the Front has two Square- holes near the Bottom, which let in the Irons that joined it to the Steps. I have carefully defigned it on all its Sides, and given the Plan of the Top alfo, which if you plcafc, we will furvey in Order. I. The Back-fidc, oppofite to the Infcription, on which is engraven in Bafs-Relief, a Flower-Pot, furniftied I fuppole, with what bell pleafed the Stone- Of the River Tyne. 1 7 7 Scone-Cutter J for tlicfe Men needed not be more curious than the Pricfts themfelves, v/ho were wont to make Ufe of Herbs next Hand, to adorn the Altars, and therefore Fcrhaia is put for any Kind of Herb j yet if we will have it rcfembie any Thing with us, I think it is moft like, if not truly Nym- pb^-ea^ a known and common River Plant. 2. One of the Sides, which is fomewhat narrower than the Front or Back, On this are engraved in Bafs-Relief, the cutting Knife {Cccefpha} and the Ax (featris); the Knife is exaftly the lame with that on the other Altar, formerly by mc mentioned in thePhilofophical CoUcftions of Mr. Hook; but the Ax is different, for here it is headed with a long and crooked Point, and there the Head of the Ax is divided into three Points. 5. The other Side, on which aie engraved after the fame Manner, an Eurc {Urceolus) and a Ladle which icrvcs {ov -x Syjnpulhim. This I call rather a Laddie than a Mallet, it being perfcclly Difli-wife, and hollow in the Middle, altho' Crmbdcn is of another Opinion in that elegant Sculpt of the Cumberland Altar ; and the very fame Utcnfil I have fccn and noted on the Ickley Altar, which is yet extant at Middlcton-Grangcrvz'w that Town -, but the Stone which Camhdcn fiVs fupports a Pair of Stairs there ( as at this Day it does in the very Road ) is but an ill Copy of it, and not the Original. 4. T H c Plan of the Top, which is cut in the Figure of aBafon {Difons or Lana) with^fw/^ on each Side, conli fling of a P;yr of Links of a Chain, which rcil upon, and tall over two Rowles > and this was the Hearth. f . T H E Front, which hath an Infcription in nine Lines in Roman Letters, each Letter a little more than two Inches deep of our Meafure, now remain- ing as in the prefi.xed Sculpture, Fig. f . which I would read thus : Z)/j, De- ahiifque Malribiis^ fro Salute M. Aurclii Antonii Augujii hnperatoris votum fol- vit labcns merlto ob rcdhum. The Decs Matres are well interpreted by Seldon. It is much his Safety and Return both vowed, iTiould be fo fcpar.ated in the Inicriptionj but I have not Grutcr by mc, to compare this with the like. Caracalla fay the Hiifo- rians, i after his Father's Death at Tork, took upon him the Command of the iz,pi,j|ini,s Army alone, and the whole Empire j he went alone againll the Enemy, who Hcvodianub', were. the Calcdonii, inh.-ibitlng beyond the Wall which his Father had built, &c. he m.adc Peace with them, received their Hoftages, flighted their fortified Places, and returned. And this feems to be confirmed by the Infcription ^ for undoubtedly, upon this laft Expedition alone, without his Brother Geta, atid Mother, Vv'as this Altar erected to him alone, at a Place about two Sta- tions on this Side the Wall > ib that the Vow might be as well undcrflood of his Return from this Expedition, as for his Safety and Return to Rome^ which methinks fliould be true, or his Motherand Brother Geta would fcarcc have been left out, at leall fo early, for yet the Army declared for them both, according to their Father's Will. Further, it feems alfo to have been creeled by thofe who flattered him, and who were afterwards killed by him ; aud for this Reafon, the Per- fons who dedicated it, fccm to me to be Purpufcly defaced, the fixth and feventh Lines of the Infcription being defigncdly cutaway by the HoUowncfs of them, and there not being the leafl Sign of any Letter remaining. And this I fup- pofc might be Part of their Dilgracc, as it was ufual to deface and break the Statues and Monuments of Perfbns executed, of which this Monfter made llrange Havock j and fince worn Lifcriptions admit of various Readings, be- cautc fome Letters are worn out, and lomc more legible, whereby unpreju- diced People mav conceive them diverfly ; I will therefore tell you another reading. Part of thefe two firll Lines, which I do not difallow, but that it will agree well enough with the Hlflory of SeveruSy tho' his ApotheoJIs or (b- Z 2 1cm n I -yg Of the River Tyne. lemn Dedication was not performed till he came to Rome, in the Manner of which funeral Pomp Herodian is very large j it was of that excellent Antiqua- ry Dr. lohnfonoiPomfret. ^ CONSERVATO RI. B. PRO SAL. &c. Which fhews the Height of Flattery of thofe Times > fo that they paid their Vows to the lately dead Father the Confervator of Britain^ for the Safety of the Son: And the Story tells us, how gladly he would have had him made a God long before, even with his own Hands. Cambden Britan. in the Addi- tions to Durham, p. 784. Below this are the Towns of Shields, one on the North Side of tlie Ri- ver, and the other on the South. That on the NorthS'idc in the Reign of Ed- ivard the ill, (when the Contell was between the Town of Ncivcajlle, and the Prior of Tmmouth) was a Place where only f or 6 Fifhcrmcn had their Cottages, and it's but of late Years that it became a large Town and ib popu- lous. The Church belonging to this Place was begun to be built in i6)-p. South Shields is more famous for making Salt than North Shields, there being much the greater Number of Salt Pans 5 it is alfo a pretty large Town, and has a Church which going to decay, is about to be rebuilt. It is aCha- pelry to Jarrow, and dedicated to St. Hilda. ft W E come now to the Mouth of the River Ty-iie, which is a Haven fo deep as to carry Veflels of a confiderable Burthen, and of that Security, that they are not in Danger either of Storms or Shallows, fave that within lefs than half a Mile of the Bar of Tmmouth, (which is a Sand that lies crbfs the River's Mouth, not above 7 Foot deep at Low-Water) you meet with many Rocks which are called by the Sailors the Black Middens, which are very dangerous, but to prevent any Mifchiefs which may happen to them in the Night TimCj there are two Light-houfes, maintained by the Trinity-houfe in Newcaftk, and near them in the Year 1672, was built a Fort, called Clifford's-Fort, which effe- ftually commands all the VefTels that enter the River. LELJ ND in the 4th Volume of his Colleftions, gives us the following moll valuable Remark of a Roman Station on the South Side of the Tyne, the Place of the Birth of King Ofwyn, for fays he. E Regione Tinemutba fuit Urbs vajlata a Danis Urfa nomine, Ubi natus erat Ofwinus Rex. TINMOUtH called by the Britains, Pen Ball Cragg. i. e. the Head of the Rampire upon the Rock, from whence fome maintain, that the Ditch reached as fvr as this Place, if the Wall did not} Mr. Cambden fays, that he will not gainfiy this Opinion, but adds, that he dares confidently Affirm, that this Place in the Time of the Romans was called Tunacellum, which fignifies as much as the Promontory of Tuna or Tina, where the firll Cohort (called Mlia ClaJJica, becaufc it was firft raifed by Ailius Hadrianus, as the Name (eems to import) was in pay for Sea Service} for the Romans had their Naves Luforite, or light Frigates in their border Rivers both for the fuppreffing the Excurfions of the neighbouring Enemy, and making Incurfions upon him, as may be fecn in the Codex Theodofii, under the Title De Luforiis Danubii, i. e. Light Veffels on the Danube. Under the Saxon Heptarchy this Place was called Tunacele;!;-, not as Bede affirms, from the Abbot Tunna, a mere romantick Stury, which, if we recommend to the Reader, it mufl be only for his Diverfion, and not for any Truth in it, but from it's Situation on the River Tyne. Here Vv as anciently a lit- Of the River Tyite. ijg a little Monaftery, which was frequently plundered by the Dancs^ while the Saxons ruled. Magn. Britan. p. 6P3. After the Deceafc of Opwyn^ thofe that had killed him brought his Bo- dy to the Mouth of the River Tyne, and there buried it in the Oratory of St. Ahrfs^ in the Year 631. I N this Place a Nun:ibcr of illuftrious Pcrfons had gathered together, who in a regular Order attended divine Worfhip> who thereby acquired fuch Ho- nour and Eftccm, that when any one died of more than ordinary Reputatiotlj ,", whofe Funeral was to be folemnized with more than common Honour, -he'^' was ufually buried here. '^" This Monailery was deftroyed by Hingnar and Hiibha. The Monks through Fear of Pcrfecution, Hed to a certain little Church of their own, which St.' Ciithbcrt had dedicated j but the Danes finding them out, bxirnt it and all thafiA were in it. After that William the Conqueror had given to Robert Mowbray the County of North:>',nbcrlaml^ the Earl flicwed a deal of Refpeft to St. Ofwyn, and the Church he was buried in (for the Church was founded within the Precincts of his Caftle). He gifted it with a Number of Lands, and placed, in it Monks which came from St. Albans^' -i-wA yet it is fiid by fome thacToy?^' Earl of Northu-mberland laid the Foundation of this Monallery ; but it's, much more probable it was the former, bccaufe he brought the Monks from St. Albans ; but it'jv'ill appear a great deal more likely when we come to the following Grant or (ZXwxxcx oi tVilliam Rufus^ for making of it a Cell to ^ St. kwiiiielmus A bans^ bccaufe that he fays, cu/n o??«2/Z'«j ^zi^f Robertus Co«?w Northumberland Rex Anglo- y Homines fill dcdorant fanclo Olwino, (^c. ''um T. Ar- chiepifcopo King Henry I. confirmed all that had been given to this Monaflery, that menfi Epif-" is, what had been given by Robert Moiubray, namely, thzTsxhcsoi Colebridge^ copo,&;om. Ovington^ V/ylam^ Nenjbuni, Difington^ Caherdon, Elfiwye^ Bothall, Werk- nibusBaio- ivorih, Anebel/, Roubyr, -md mcllota: - ■ . • . nibus fuis Anglis falu- DAFID King of ^^oi'.f in a Charter dated in the Year 1138, granted to tem. sdatis the Churcli of St. Mary and St. Ofitiyn, the Martyr oi Tyncmouth, and all be- medediireSc longing thereto his Peace for ever, the Peace of his Son, and that of all his Ser- ^""'^'^i!''!^ vants, thveatning all thofc who fhould aft otherwife with the Lofs of his Fa- a^ Albana' vour for ever ; on Condition the Religious of this Monafleiy pr.ayed for the Ecclefiam de Souls of his Father and Mother, and of King Alexander his Brother, who tfo Tynmo;ha & this Church had granted a f^rm Peace, and for the Soul oi Matilda Qiieen of "j""^^^"!"^ England^ his Si iter, and for the Souls of all his Anceflors and Succeflbrs. tincmin'ter- lis fc Deci- KiNG Hciuy II. gave to it Eglerii'gham, Bewick and Lilleburn. m\s & con- luctiidiiiibus King John confirmed to this Church all their Poffeflions, being the 3y„/&:in'^ Town o( Tin?nouth, Scaton, Pre/la-i, Chirton, and another Cbirton^ /Wllifigtok, suthdcTyne, TVhitley, Erdefmi^ B.ickzvell, and another Back-well, Seghal, Morton, Bcbejetc, ^ i" Anglia, Difflir.gton, arid another DijJliHgton, U'lilfington, Bewick, EgcUngham, Lilleburn, ^"'^ ^° s'k'o- Anibel, H.,v:;kJla'w,'Efl%vick, /Vylum, V/cltedane, and Half the Town of Cop- ^"/;„'']comes un, Carleberry, and Morion in Haliwcrkftock, and the Land of Roycly, and De- Konhnmber- muni ; alio the Churches of Tmmouth, IVodeburn, JVhalton, Bolum, Bewick, i^'^d, & fui Egcliiig.bam, Kcrtbtirn, and Cunejlme; likcwifc Hereford upon Blytb, and the |j^"3,'"p^„''*^' Tithe of /ijvw?.!-, Middleton upon Tbeyfe, Corbigg, Roaber,' WcrkeivufiJ^'lVof ^^oof~^-ino iour, an4 h(ewbnrn^ with all the Mills. '' ' " amiquam niilii loii. was Abbot here in his Time, moft learned, a Lover of learned Men, and kind to them. He did not connive at any Faults in the Clergy ; he was as zealous as Phineas againft lewd Pcrfons, and as John againft Adulterers, and even as Pe- ter againft Simoniacks. He was fo great a Repairer of old tatter'd Houfes and Marks, that none paft exceeded him in that Particular, or is there any equal to him. He is recorded to have left behind him Ten thoufand A'larks clear. Do you the Convent of St. Albans hourly pray for the Soul of him that loved you. This famous Monaftery, which was of the BenediHines Order, and con- fiftedofaPrior and fifteen Monks, was fupprefs'd Jan. 12th, in the 30th Henry VIII. It was valued at 597 /. 10 s. f d. per annum. King Henry VIII. converted the Caftle into a Defence and Fortification againft foreign Invafions. The Ruins of the Monafteiy are ftill to be fecn in the Caftle, near which alfo was the Parifti- Church; but that being gone much to Decay, and the Pariftiioncrs in the late Civil Wars being often debarred of the Liiberty of a free Rcfort to it, another was begun to be re-built in the Year i6j-p; and be- ing afterwards finiftied, was conlccrated by Biftiop Coftns in the Year 1668. In the former Church we may fuppofe it was, where Malcom King of Scots, flain with his Son Edward Prince of Scotland, by Robert Mozvbray Earl of Northumberland, was buried. This King Malcom had barbaroufly plundered and ravaged thefc Northern Parts five Times, once in Edward the Confef- for's Days, twice in the Conqueror's, and twice in M'lUiam Rufus's; in the laft of which Invafions he met with his Fate, by that juft Providence, who often retaliates Wrongs in the Place they are done, as he found ; for he was killed in this Country, where he had flain and deftroycd many : But King mUiam Of the River Tyne. i8i W~iUiam did not profecute his Revenge further, as he might have done with Succefs, but eilablifhcd his Son on his Throne, notwithftanding the Endea- vours and Defign of his Uncle Donald to deprive him of it, whieh he had done, had not King WiU'iam aided him to obtain it. 'J O HN of Tinmoutb was born in this Town, and is faid to have been the Vicar of it, but afterwards became a BcnediSline Monk in the Abbey of St. Albans ; he was a moft virtuous Perfon, and excellently learned, entirely ad- dicted to the Study of the Holy Scriptures, and of facred Hiftory. He ga- thered the Lives and Actions of the Saints of England,, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with great Judgment and indefatigable Labour, which Work he en- tituled, Sandilogium Jhvorum Dei, i. e. The facred Hifiory of the Servants of GO D. Nor did he defervc lefs Commendation for his Expofitions of the Holy Scripture, in which he not only explains the literal Senfe, but the mo- ral, allegorical, and tropological j his Commentaries were upon all the Books from Gene/ts to the Kings inclufive. He wrote alfo other Books, as Church- Leffons, The Golden Hiftory, and a Supplement to the fame, an Appendix to his Martyrolcgy, 6cc. He flouriflicd about the Year 1366. The Church has perhaps been a Building of as much Art and Curiofity, as any one in tlic whole Kingdom j nay, when we behold it at prefent, ia the Midll of Ruins, we arc Itruck with Aw, and the utmofl: Veneration j whether it is a Reflection on the extenfive Charity of ancient Days, the fur- prizing Finencfs of the INlafonry, or whether there is fomething naturally moving in thofe ancient Remains ; but fo it is, that it never fails to command a folemn Aw, and a filenc Commiferation. TIN MOUfH at prefent is a pretty large Village, and is much refbrted to in the Summer-Seafon, it having the Prior's Haven in it, which is a moft convenient retired Place for Bathing. A a a CHAP. l82 1066. CHAP. XIV. i Of the Government of the Town. I H AT EVER Government was in this Town in the Times of the Saxons and Danes j it is certain, after the Conqueil it was governed by Bailiffs} for tho' the Ca- ftle had Privileges of its own, yet it left thofc of the Town as they were, and without any Damage, as fhall by and by be fhewn. In the mean Time let us confider a few Things relating to this Place. TO S TO N^ Earl of Northumberland, Son of the great Earl Gor/a'i», and Brother of iXzro/rt', having by his great Cruelties and many x'\fts of Injuftice highly exafperated the Northumbrians, they took up Arms againft him, and expelled him Northumberland, in 1063, in the Reign o( Edward the Confeflbr. Harold being ordered to go and chaftize them, and reftore his Brother, and underftanding that they had no dcfign of withdrawing their O- bedicnce from the King, but only from an unjuft and cruel Governour, who exercifcd over them a Tyrannical Power, he not only interceeded for their Pardon, but procur'd them Morkard, Son of Jlfgar, Duke of Mercia, for their Governour. Toflon, highly incenfed at his Brother's Proceedings, and not having it in his Power to vent his Fury on him, he turned it on iome of his DomelHcks, whom he ciufed to be cut in Pieces, then to be barrel'd up, and fent to his Brother for a Prefent. After fo barbarous an Aftion, not da- ring to flay any longer in England, he retired into Flanders to Earl Baldwin his Father-in-law. Upon HaroW^ being made King, after the Death of Ed- •ward, Tofton, in 1066, with fome Ships, probably given him by the Earl of Flanders, infefted the Eyiglifl) Coalls, and plundered the Ifle of Wight. From whence he went and landed fome Tioops at Sandwich; but being inform'd the King was marching towards him, he fet fail for the North, and entring the Humber with his little Fleet, he made a defcent on Torkfiire, and committed vaft Ravages. But Morkard coming upon him unawares, being then got into Lincolnjlnre, put his little Army to Flight, and compelled him to betake him- fclf to his Ships: Being drove by contrary Winds on the Coafts oi Norway, he applied himfelf to Harold Harfager King of that Country, and by many Argurnents reprefcntcd to him how eafy it w.as to conquer England, and add that Crown to his own. The King of Norway, whofe Ambition was eaCIy perfuadcd by the other's Arguments, accompanied with Earl Tofton, put to Sea Of the Government of the Town; 1 8 3 Sea with a Fleet of foo Sail, and entered the Tj>ie. After having fack'd the Countries on both Sides the 2j;;c, they put to Sea, and entring the Humber^ landed their Forces on the North Side, and ravag'd the Country with inex- preifible Cruelties. Harold march'd againft them with all the Expedition pof- iible, and came up with them at Stanford-bridge^ on the River Derivent, a lit- tle below I'ork. Here a moft bloody Battle was fought, which lafted from feven in the Morning 'till three in the Afternoon, wherein Harfagcr and Tojlon were both ilain, and Harold obtain'd a compleat Victory. This Battle was fought Onober fth, 1066, but nine Days before the Battle at HaJImgs. Vide Malmfbury and M. Paris. WILLL^M the Conqueror laid waftc the whole Province oi Northumber- 1069 land. Sax. Cbron. p. 174. sMJ LCOLAIE^ King of Scots, came into England wkh a great Army, and 'O/P laid wafte the Land of the Northumbrians, as far as the River Tyne, and Hew many Hundreds of Men-, and carried ot them to their own Country a great deal of Riches and Treaiurc, beiide Captives. Gib. Sax. Chron. p. 180. The Caftlc vv^as founded as has bccil before obferved by Robert the Son of logo the Conqueror. RO B E RT Moivhray Earl oi Northumberland, revolting againft King JVil- 1095 Ham Rufus, the King went and befiegcd him in Banborrougb Caftle. Some- time after, Moivbray going out upon a falfe Information, had the Misfortune to fall into the Hands of the Beiiegers. Odericus Vitalis lays. Some Soldiers belonging to Ncwcafile upon Tyne promis'd to give him Entrance into that Town, if he would come thither privately with a few Followers. Upon which he went out one Night with 30 Soldiers, but being betrayed by his own Men, was purfued and taken by the Garrifon of Malvotjin, i. e. bad Neighbour, be- ing a Fortrefs built by the King near Banborrougb, and fo called by him, be- caufe it took away all Poffibility of throv/ing any Succours into the Calllc. In this King's Reign, Makohae III. King oi Scotland, catne to Gloucejler to the King, to commune with him about fundry Matters, that related to the Peace of botli Reah^is j but not being received and entertained in the pom- pous Manner he expected > he returned into his own Nation In Difpleafure^ and immediately getting his Army together, entred England, and deftroyed the Country as far as Alninick Caitlc, which he befieged and fo ftraightned^ that it was upon the very Point of Surrendering} a Soldier having promi- fed to deliver up/ the Keys upon the Top of his Spear, which while he pre- tended to do, he ftabbed the King with it. At the fame Time Robert Mow' bray. Earl of Northumberland, lay in Ambufh for the Return of the Scots, who upon the Lofs of their King, left the Siege, and being going home- ward fell into the Ambulh, and were many of them flain, and amongfl: them Edtvard Prince of Scotland. Thus did Providence revenge upon King Mal- colme, the many Ravages and Cruelties he had excrcifed upon the EngliJJ}, in this King's, his Father's, and the Confeilor's Reign. He was buried at Tin- mouth, and his Son by the Aid of IFilliam Ri'.fus obtained his Throne. Magn' Britan. Fol. lU. p. 625. AGJS, Mother to Margaret, Qiieen oi Scotland, and Chrijlian, her Sifter, became Nuns at Ne'wcajlle upon Tyne, after that King Makolme was killed at jilnwick. PVILLIAM King of Scots entred into England, having many Flemings with him, and won the Caftles oi Appelby and Burgh, and after hcvfonPrudc- how Caftle, Robert de Stoteville, Randolph de Mandeville, Bernard Baliol, (pi whom Bernard'^ Caftlc took it's Name) and William de Vefy, came to Ne%v- caftlc, and took King IViUiam Prifoncr, and fent him to London j and King Henry took William with him into Normandy, and imprifoned him in Ro- ^n. ' King 1 84 Of the Government of the Town. i King William was afterwards delivered at Tork for the Rnnfom of 4000 /. Souldiers of the King's going with him again towards Scotland^ fought with the Commons of the Town of Newcajlk at the Fery Bridge for certain Difpleafures j and there was Sir John Perith^ Knt. flain, and other Efquires belonging to the Conftable and Marfhal. Leland's Coll. Fol. II. p. fji, flh Slh f fo- il 36 I N the Second Year of King Stephen^ many of the Englifi out of hatred to him fecretly invited David King of Scotland^ to revenge the Injuries done to the Emprefs Matilda^ who was his Neice, and to whofe Succeflion both Ste- ■ fhen himfelf, and he, had fworn in the Reign of her Father, Henry the firft, upon which David fuddenly invaded the Frontiers, and as the Chronicle of Mailrofs acquaints us, miferably waifted all Northumberland^ and took both Car- lijle and Neivcaflle^ which he filled with Garrifons. Againft thofe King Stephen marched with a powerful Army > and concerning this War, there are divers Reports, yet all agree, that in no long Time, a Peace was concluded, by which David ftill enjoy'd Carli/le, and his Son Henry the Earldom of Huntington, for which he did Homage to King Stephen; but his Father refufed to do the fame, alledging, that he had already given his Faith to the Emprefs Matilda. Eachard. Oil. 2f th, 1 1 f 4, the King dy'd, and was fucceeded by Hen. II. , , 56 This King made at Chefter a very Advantageous Treaty with Malcolmy King of Scotland, who yielded up to him Carlip, Neivcaftle upon Tyne, and Bamborough-Cz^\c, refting fatisfied with the Earldom of Huntington, which Prince Henry his Father had held. Paris. Hovden. The Reftitution of thefe Places, fays Rapin, was doubtlefs no more than what was juft j fince David, Grandfather to Malcolm, had caufed them to be adjudg'd to him by Treaties, at a Time when Stephen minded more his own private Intereft, than the pub- lick Good of the Kingdom ; but in all Appearance, Henry's great Power con- tributed more than any Thing elfe to the bringing the King of Scotland to this Temper. After thefe Things, we meet with fome Accounts of this Place j for we are told, that King Hemy II. confirm'd their Eftates to them, and ex- empted them from Tolls and Duties: It is therefore a Miftake in fome, who fay, the Town had no Privileges till the Reign of King John. And befides, in the third of King John's Reign, which was above ten Years before the Town had a Charter from that King, the Town had great Privileges j for the Men of Newcajlk upon 7'yne ( as is mentioned in that Year in the great TLoW o? Northumberland) paid ico Marks and z Palfreys: So having the Town in their Hands by the old Farm, to wit (as is there faid) fo /. and ID 5. of Increafe, for Confirmation of their Liberties, which they had by the Charter ot Henry the King's Father. De reb. Novocaft. 1173 I N the Controverfy between King Henry II. and his ungrateful Son Henry^ Roger Mowbray and Hugh Bigot procured William King of Scots to invade England; upon which the Scots King laid Siege to Carltfle; but not taking it in (o {hort a Time as he expefted, he paft into Northumberland, which (as the Mailrofs Chronicle inform us) he deftroy'd in a great Meafure, and butcher'd Numbers of its Inhabitants. After this he fat down before Jlnwick, with a Defign to take it ; in the mean Time, Robert de Stateville, Ralph Glanvel, William Vefy, Bernard Baliol, and Ordinet Umfreville, who lay then at NeW' caftle with a Force of 400 Men, heard that the iVo/i King befieged this Town ; whereupon they refolved to try the Chance of War, and raife the Siege ; but before they could arrive there, the Scots King defpairing to take it, broke up the Siege, and fufFer'd his Men to plunder the open Country. Whilft they were doing this, the Englijh came fuddenly upon them, and after a fhort Re- fiftance, took the King of Scots himfelf, and fome others, and returned to Newcaftle with a triumphant Joy. Mag. Brit. Fol. 5. p. 614. The Of the Government of the Town. 185 The King dy'd July 6th, and was (ucceeded by his Son Richard. ii«9 HUGH de Piidfey Biihop o£ Dnrb.vK, created Earl of Northumberland^ the "9J- 8th of that Honour. This Bifhop died il/«n7j the 3d. 1,5^ PHILIP d2 Pi£la'V!a, ov oi Postkrs, a Favourite 01 King Richard, was "?5 elected in liis Stead, December 30th, i ipf, and was this Year, May the lith, confccratcd by the Pope. O N April the 5th, the Ki-ng died, and was fucceeded by his Brother John. rigg PHILIP Bifliop of Dm-hciin died > he was a great Hcartner of the King \io-j againil the Pone, for which the Pope excommunicated him, together with the King. He died before he was abiolv'd, April iid. This Biihop by the Licence of King Richard, i'et up a Mint at Durham 1196, and began to coin Monev. King John commanded TViUiam King o'i Scots, to meet him ■xtNeiiocaJile, '-'^s and they met each other at Boyelion. Then the King of Scots went on, and the King of England came as far as Norham j and in going and returning, bore his own Expcnces at Akimck. A little after they both came to Newcaftle, where they had a Cont'ercnce ; but they parted, without doing the Bufincfs they came about. This King in the 14th Year of his Reign, granted and confirmed to the ma Bargeffcs of Nciscajik upon Tyne, •-•..id to their Heirs, the Town artd all Things belonging to it, to Fee-farm ( on Condition that they paid him and I'l'^jteie his Heirs an hundred Pounds /)fr amiv.m, viz. at Eaftcr fo 1. and the other fo gjj^ & char- at the Feaft of St. Michael) except the Rents, Prizes, and Leafes, in the ta noftra Part of the faid Town, which he rcfcrved for himfelf. He * alfo granted to .confii-ma- thcm an hundred and ten Shillings and Sixpence of Rent of Efcheat, to be ^"^^.if '1^3,"^] divided amongft thofe People who loil their Rents, on account of the Ditch jji^y^ nofti-is and the nsw Work, which was carried on under the Caftle towards the Ri- centum &: ver. This was order'd to be lb divided, that they were to receive of it in decern folid. Proportion to their Lofs ; thofe who had received the greater Lofs, were to f^'^j^jl/^^'' receive morcj and thofe lefs, who had lefs Damage. affi^nanium illis ^\m re- Tnr fame Charter alT) exempts the good Men of the Town oi Newcaftle dims fuosia- from the Power of the Sheriff or Conftablc, in Matters relating to them- "J'^^'„''^"'V^fI felves. He gave them alfo many other Immunities and Privileges for their {^^\ 5. ^q^^ faithful Services to him (as his Charter to them expreffes) among which this Opeiationis -was one, that no Burgcfs of the Town of N'eivcaJIlc fhould be feizcd without ''^'"^^^ '""btei- the faid Burgh for the" Non-payment of any Debt, unlefs he was the capital ^c^*}^"'^. Debtor. quam, O'C. Lib. Cart. p. ALEXANDER King o? Scots with his whole Army, on the 17th Ca- i- lends of November, began to befiege Norham-CzMc ; they continu'd the Siege m, 40 Days, and then returned Home re infecfd. If Kalends this fimc King took Homage of the Barons of Northum- berland zl Felton, which was fo refented by the King, that he came with an ,,,c. Army, and wailed Northumberland with Fire and Sword, and fomc of the Southern Parts of Scotland. On the 3d of tlic Ides of January, he burnt the Village of IVcrk, on the fth he burnt Alnivick; on the 7th he burnt Mitford and Morpeth; on the«-vh Kxlcnds of Febrtiitry, hchMrnx. Roxburgh, 6cc. Chron. de Mailrojs. This Year the King died, after a very troublcfome Reign, and was fuc- B b b ceeded ^ 1 86 Of the Government of the Town. ceeded in the Throne by Hcfiry his eldeft Son, who was only nine Years old when he was crown'd at G/ouceJier, which was on Ollober the 3d. Henry III. The See of iJarZ/'z^? was long void after the Death of P/v7//> j but Richard 1217 de MarifcOy Lord Chancellor of England^ Dean of Salisbtiry^ and /irchdcacoa of Northumberland^ an old Courtier, was this Year thruft into the Sec by Gtialo the Pope's Legate, and confecrared by the Archbifhop of J w/c, Jane 22. 1226 He died at Peterborrow- Ahhey May the ift, as he was travelling to London. 1128 RICHARD Poor^ Bifhop of Salisbury^ was tranllatcd to Durha}!/; he was a Man of rare Learning in thofe Times, and of notable Integrity for his Life and ConverHition. Being appreheniive of his Death, he preached to his People, and acquainted them with it for 2 Days together, and then fetting his Houfe in order he went to his Prayers ; and as Afat. Paris tells us, when he came unto thefe Words, in pace in id ipfeun Dortniam ^ Reqaiefcam^ he gave up the Ghoft. He dy'd Jpril ij-, 1237. 1134 The King confirm'd to the Burgefles of this Town, whatfoevcr had been granted to them by his Father King John. His Charter to them is dated at Weftminfler.^ July the 2d. ,,3(5 The King o£ England and Alexander King of Scots had a Conference at Ncwcafile. Chron. de Mailros. ,139 The King by his Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England^ dated at Wefiminfter., Dec. i, upon the Good Men of the Town oi NeivcajUc's Sup- plication, gave them Licence to dig Coals and Stones in the Common Soil of that Town, in the Place called Cafllefield and the Frith. This King was petitioned again by the Burgefles of this Place, to grant them all the Stones and Coals belonging to the Frith.y which was granted them. ii4t NICHOLji S de Farnham made Bifliop oi Durham. ,144 At this Time there were in the Court of England many fcditious Perfons, who endeavoured to break the Peace of the 2 Sifter Kingdoms, particularly one Walter Bijfet., who infufed the Poifon of DilTention into the Breall of King Henry .y and the Lord Ingelram^ whofe Daughter Alexander King of Scots.^ f Chron. de ^^^ married. The t King oi England had got as far as this Town with hisAr- Mailros. ■ my and the King of Scots as tar as Pontijland with his Army. But they came to no Battle : For at the Inilance chiefly of the Archbiflaop of Tork.y and fomc of the Nobility, a Peace was agreed upon at Neivcajlle upon Tyne., on the Eve of the Afllimption. Before we leave this, it mufl not be forgot what Rapin takes Notice of, that Alexander fubmittcd to the Hxme Homage, that he hira- felf and his Ancellors had paid, and a good Underilanding between the two Kings was perfeftly reltor'd. Before they parted, a Marriage was agreed up- on between Alexander's eldeft Son of the fame Name with himfelt, and Mar- garet, Henry'^s eldeit Daughter. The King's Letter upon it. J^ E X omnibus., &c. Saltttem. Noverit Uniiierjitas 'vefira qubd Sacramen- tum, quod dileUus Frater 6? Fidclis nofler RichardusCo?w.f Piftavia- £5? Cor- V nubia; fecit apud Novum Caftrum fuper Tinam, pro paEtionibus, inter nos (^ Re- gem Scotia:, faSlis, ibidem confirmandiSy idem Comes pradittum Sacramentum fecit per pfteceptttm noflrum. Et ei firtniter pr.^cipimus quod di£ium facr amentum Jiium ireviolabiliter obfervet. Tefle Rege apud Novum Caflrum fupcr Tinam, 13 die Augufli. Rvmer Feeder. Tom. i. p. 42P. The Of the Government of the Town. 187 The Tyns Bridge and a great Part of the Town was burnt. Mat. Paris. 124$. , NIC HO LAS Farnbam obtain'd Licence of the Pope to refign his Bi- 1249, fnoprick . WAL T E R de Kirkham made Bifhop in his Room. 1250. MAT OR S md BA ILIFFS. Anno Clmjli Henry III. I2fl. Mayors. Petrus Scott Bailiffs. Hen. ^/(? Karle ^STho.fli? Mcrchingle rhh rem Stcph.de Lindefey ^^Robt. ^^ Galcfmith the Town of Newcaftle had it's firfi Mayor, viz. Peter Scotr. The Word Mayor pgnifies the chief Mtigifirate of a City. It was anciently called t,ic)'v, from the BritiJJ) WordM.itex, i.e. CuHodWe to hep or froteil. Richard I. Anno 1189, chang'd the Bai- liffs of London into a Mayor. The Bailifs of this Tozvn were not changed 'till this rear. The \ft Mayor, Sir Petei- Scott, was a very wealthy Perfon. He was the Founder, together with his Son, Sir Nicholas Scott, of the Monajlery of the Black- Fryers, in this Town. llfl. The {Ixmc. The Hmie. izr?. The fame. !?^^"'T f f^'l^ l\V}°- 1^""'^^ Roger de Fmdtor 5 ^ Adam Chrcus iij-4. Hen. Carleiol. Robert de Waletus ^ ^Tho. de Carlcol Nich' r/e Wainford ^"^ Nicholas Scott I2fj-. The Hime. ^^^'^^ f^ LayhayeMBarthol' Clncus Tho. de Jvarlc, Jiin'5? Walter de Ponte izf6. 1 The lame. ) The fame. IZfJ. The fame. Nich. Scot ^3 Adam Clircus Tho. de Miirchingle^'^Johan. Sant I If 8. j The fame. ] The ftme. I159- The fame. Tho. de Karle ;_5,Joan. Withowle Ada. dc Blagcdene 5 (^ John Sant The lame. Walter de Kirkham Bi- (liop of Dur- ham dy'd in the Month of Auguft. He was Bifliop ji Tears, and was fucceeded by Robert Sticheli, 12.60. I The flmic. | lifil. The fame. The fame. I26Z. The fame. Ada. Clircus 7 3 Ada. de Blagedene Nich. Scott S IWiUiam Tunock 12.61. The fixmc t The fame. This Year a Blazing Star appeared, and continued for the Space of three Months. In a Charter dated the ^()th of Henry III. we have an Account that the Town's Seal was imprefs'd upon Green-Wax, and that the Infcriftion was, SVP TINAM Hb" COMMVNE SIGILLVM NOVI CASTRI. ■" Smith, M. S. 1264. Tho. Carlcol Rob. Mitford Hen. de Scott 3 Joannes d'ljFlemming ^Hen. de Burncton. ii6j-. 1 The fxmc. The fame. iz66. I The fame. | The fime. 1267 1 88 Of the Government of the To\Fn. ^»' Cbrifti 1167. j Mayors. The fame. BrJHffs. Joan. Filius Rogeri 7 SJohn Flemming Hen. Scot ^^Hen. de Bunoii 12(58. I Thenune [ The ftmc. iz6p. ■XT- u c ^. Hen. ifkare ? ^ Ada. rfj? Bias;cdcne Nich. Scott ,ri J L^ 1 .--^'ru J I- 1 .-f rho. iie Kar c v, ^ 1 ho. do K.irle Jun. 1270. 1 The {iime | The fame. 1 271. Tho. ^(7 Karlc Hug. de Merchlnglc? 5, Robert de Lindfay Tho. de Karle Jun. ^l JhisSri'nd ^^7^- I The fame. 1 The llunc. Princi Edw. who was juft return'd from the Holy Land was crowned in AuguQ: following. Edward I. 127;. The fame Hugo de Merchingle ^ ^Hen. de Burncton Tho. <^fjun' ^ >Rob. c'l? Lindifay 1274. The fame. Robert Sti- chell, Bifliop of Durham died Auguft the i,th, and was fuueeded the fame Tear by Robert de Infula. John de Flemming ? SJo. Santmarays Ad. de Blagedenc ^ ^Rich. de Lay- hay ^ ^7f- I Joan.fiUus Rogeri Rob. de M it ford Joan, de Darnton s Great Earth- quakes, Lightnings and Thunderings with a Blazing Star, and a Comet in the appearance of a great Dragon, which maii many Men afraid. Town's Lift. hS'i '^7<5- ITho.^5('ardis Marita- giis, Releviis, Efchactis Finibus, Amerciamentis, arreragiis firmarum & Reddituum, qua; tempore (eifina: jioftrx ejufdem terra; acciderunt. E: Salvis nobis 5c Hxredibus noftris cognitionibus placitorum 5c Aniculorum Qiiorumcunq; de Ballivis 8c miniftris ibidem de tempore prasdifto, una cum cognitione Tranfgreilionis, impolitx Duncano de Malefly, & Judiciotum fuper iifdcn reddendorum executionibus. Et fimiliter quod omnia judicia Seifini noftro tempore, per Ballivo.'; & miniftros noftros, in eadem ter- ra reddita, teneantur, 6c executioni demandentiir. Vobis Mandamus, quatenus prxfaro Regi feifinam terrae praedida:, cum fuis pertinentiis, in forma prae- difta, liberari faciatis; faivo jure noftro 8c alterius cujufcunqj Tefte Rege apud Novum Caftrum fuper Tynam, quinto die Januarii. lip?. I The fame. J The fvioje. c c 12.94' 190 Of the Government of the Town. An' Chrifti. Mayors. Bailiffs. ^^^ I ^ I William r/i' Ogle S ^Joannes ^^Heaton I29f. & William rf^ Ogle S^ Walter de Cowgate Edward had declared War again/l Scotland, he advanced to'^evra&U, andmade it the chief Rendezvous of his Forces. Rapin. The Story at large is this. King John 0/ Scotland having m Contempt of King Edward dijjeifed Magdulph Earl of Fife, and impnfon'd him-, Magdulph comftam'd to King Edward, who order'd King John to appear before him; hut upon. this Summons he appeared not. Upon this the King fent out a fecond Writ, ordering him to appear before him 1 5 Days after Michaelmas, which was obey'd. Being come before him, he feem'd not fo fenpble of the King's Su~ feriority, as he had been before ; which was judged a Contempt and Difobedunce, and that thne of his principal Cafiits in Scotland _/7;»«i^i ie feized. But before the Pronunciation of the Sentence, He came before the King and his Council, and made Supplication to the King with his own Mouth ; the King receiving this, with the Advice of his Council, and the Confent e/ Magdulph, granted his Prayer, and gave him Day iintill his Parliament af- ter Eafttr. But that Parliament was not holden that Day ; however the Suit between the King of Scots and Magdulph was continued, and prorogued to the next Parliament, which was fummoned to be holden at St. Ed- xnund'i-Bury, on the Feaji of St. Martin in the Winter, in the year 1195. The Day being come, the King was prefent, andM.3S,da\ph ftrenuou/ly profecuted his Plea. But the King of Scot- land infiead 0} appearing in Perfon, fent the Abbot 0/ Abirbrothock, and other Koblemen of that Kingdom, with Tiot only frivolous excufes, but to demand Satisfatlion of King Edward for many and great Injuries, Opprejfions. and Grievances, fuftamed by the Scots from his Siibjefls. King Edward's Anfwer was. That for certain Cau- fes he was coming toward the North Parts, and that the King of Scots fliotdd then have fujfcient 1 ecomye.-ce to his own Content. And then appointed him a Day to meet him at Newcaftle upon Tyne, viz.. The ift d.ty of March next following, and ordered the Abbot and thofe with him, to give Notice to their King that he JJioiild then perfonally appear. In the mean Time the King had certain Intelligence that the King of Scots with his Pre- lates, Earls, Barons, &c. had entred into a Confederacy with France; fo that the King of England upon this Account alfo, toward the Time appointed prepared for his Journey to Newcaftle, and fent before him the Abbot c/Newminfter and Wellebeckw the King of Scots, to give him Notice of the Adjournment and Time of his ttming. On the \fi «/ March, 1196, the King was at Newcaftle, and fluid there many Days, expeP^ing the King of Scots; he came not; the King 0/ England removed nearer to Scotland, and came to Bamburgh, where he alfo fummon'd him and expelled him ; He neither came, tor fent to excufe him/elf, but returned the Homage and. lealty for Himfelf and all his Kingdom to King Edward, by an Inflrument or Writing, and defied him. After this he Jummon'd him again, but he would not appear; nay infteadof that they proceed to Arms, enter £nglaad> plunder, burn, wafte, kill and deftroy wherever they come. To obviate theft Infolencies, and chaftife them accerding to their Deferts, King Edward entred Scotland on Wednefday in Eafter Week, bepeged and took Berwick Caftle with a great Slaughter of the Scots ; from thence he fent Part of his Army to reduce the Cajile of Dunbarr, lately revolted, which was done, by the Death and T)eftru£lion of a great many Scots. Ten thoufands, fays my Author, feven Barons, an hundred Knights, and. thirty one Ffquires were taken in the Caftle ; the Army coming to relieve it. Twenty two thoufand of them were fiain. From thence King Edward marched to Edinburgh, which Caftle he took in eight Days. From thence he marched to Stcrlin, where the King of Scots, and many of his great Men, fent to beg his Mercy. He order'd them to meet him fome few Days after at Brechin, where they fubmitted to his Mercy aud Favour, without making any Terms or Conditions whatever. This done. King Edward caufed the Stone ufed by the Kings of Scotland as a Throne, to be brought to Weft- jninfter, appointed John Warren Earl of Surrey and Suffex, Governour of Scotland, Hugh de Creflfinghatn, Trtafurer, and William Ormsby, Jufticiary, fent King John Baliol to the Tower of London, where he was decently attended ; and the Noblemen of Scotland, which he brought into England, were forbidden to pafs the Eiwr Trent, under forfeiture of their Heads. Brady. Contin. Hift. Eng./i. 3S. _, - . ,,„^ I T .„ c^ ^ I Tho. de Tindalc 7 S William 7. I Joan, Scot T £1 A 4 J U1 J ?-^r> ,. rk fpifing their I 1 J. fil. Ad.^^BlagdcneS ^Pct. Draper. Oaths of Ho- mage and Fealty enter' d England, Burning and wafting the Country, (laying the People, and deftroyittg all before them, upon which the King fent his Summons to ioo Earls, Barons, Knights, Abbots and others, to be ready at Newcaftle upon Tyne on St. Nicholas Day, or the 6th »/ December, with their Service of Horfe and Arms to go with his Son againft the Scots, to fufprefs their Rebellion, and defend his own Kingdom. Brad. Contin./. 6i. This year dy'd at Newcaftle upon Tyne, William Heron, Son of John Heron, zuho in the ^id Hen. III.' •was conftituted Governour of Bamburgh Caftle ; and foon after of the Caflles of Pickering, and Scarborough in Yorkftiire. He held a Barony in the County of Northumberland by the Service of one Knight's Fee, as his Anceftors had done Jince the Conqueft. I2p8. Of the Government of the Town. 191 An' Chrijii. Mayors. Bailiffs. iZ9^. 1 The fame. I The fame. ] The fame. r^,scots«». der the cotn- W(7n(i (?/ William Wallas, a»(/ Robert Bruice, laid Wuns-Scot,.s ,, , , . diedamifer,t- ble Death, being taken vjith an Apople6lic Fit, and too hafiily buried. He was t Northumbrian born, and took ufen him at Newcaftle the Habit of St. Francis. Vide Francifcan Fryers. 1309. I31O. The fame. W^,?' ^^ 5:^^^^°\ l^T^°- ^^,T}^'^^^'^ I Gilbert Flemming ^ /Adam 1^1? Dunelm ijn. I Rich. Emeldon Th. fil. Hu. de Carliol ^^ Ad. de Dunclin Th.rfe Frifmarifco '^i' Anthony Beakc Bifl/ofi of Durham dyed March tht zSth and was futceedtd by Richard Kellow. I312 192 Of the Government of the Town. Anno Chrifii. 131Z. Mayors. The fame. Bailiffs. j Tho. Carliol j Gilbert Fleming ^ SJoan. Pampden '2 Hen. lelSicwton The Lords and other" great Men of the Realm Leing highly frovok'd at the Pride and Infolence of Fierce Gavefton, the King's great Va- ijourlte, whom he had rals'd to the hlgheft Honours and Preferments, entred into a Confederacy to remo-je him from the King's Perjon, and banijii him the Kingdom. The great Earl of Lancafter, {Son of Prince Edmund and Grandfon 0/ Henry HI.) was cho/en their General; who by common Confent fenf to the King then at yotk petitioning him either to deliver Eari Gavefton to them, or oblige him to quit the Kingdom, according to the late Ordinances. The King took fmall Notice of their Supplications, left York, and repaired to Ncvvcaftle, xfA/re he continued for a conjiderable Space. Upon which the Lords, with what forces they could raije, march' d with all Speed towards Newcaftle, not that they would offer Injury, or create 'Irouble to their Sovereign, but omy Earl Gavefton, and judge htm according to the Laws they made by common Agreement. Upon their Approach, the King and Gavefton Immediately fled to Tinmouth ; and tho' ttie S^ueen, then great with Child, with a Flood of Tears, begg'd of him not to leave her in that Place, he without any Pity took Shipping, and fall' d with his favourite to Scarborough, commanding the Garrifon of the Caftle to protetl him, while he repair'd Into War- wickftiire. The Earl of Lancafter having poffeffed hlmfelf of Newcaftle, fent Meffengers to the <^een at Tin- mouth to comfort her, faithfully promlfmg That he would not give over his Purfuir, 'till he had remov'd Gavefton from the King; excujing hlmjelf from not coming to her In Perfon, left tor iier Sake he fhould incut the King's Indignation. The Barons who had enter'd Newcaftle the fame Day the King went from thence, hadfeized all that he and his Favourite had left there, the Hurry wherein they -went off not having given them leave to take any Thing with them. In Gavefton's Baggage were found a great many Jewels, which for the moll part belonged to the Crown, and of which an exaU Inventory was taken, that an Account might be given of them hereafter ; They were accordingly reftored to the King after Gavefton was beheaded. Rapin. It appears by feveral Records, that there has been an ancient Cuflom within the faid Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne, of acknowledging Fixes In the Guildhall of the jaid Town, between the four Benches therein; and that the Jame has been continued and ufually praHijed, and Is now frequently done. A Fine fo acknowledged for Lands or Tenements within the (aid Town, being by that Cuflom of the fame Force and Validity as a Fine acknowledged In any other Manner ; and it Is done fo publickly, and lefore fo many Per- fons, that the Cognlz.ors muft be known to fome of them, which allows no Opportunity for a Fraud. And when a Fine Is to be acknovAedged by a Wife, flie Is not c.ly particularly examln'd in open Court, but alfo makes Oath, that what Jlie does is freely and voluntarily, without any Force or Compulfion of her Husband. 1313. Ricli.Emeldon Jo. //. Hen. Scot Tho. Frifmarifco m William Burneton oannes Ellickar TheKingpub- 13^4- llflied his Writs for Vi- eiuals to be fold at a certain Price I Tho. fil. Hugo j Cailiol de i3if. 'Another ^atuorBaU' CO, In the Manner aforefaid. Rich. Emeldon Gilbert Flemming Joan, de Pampeden I Tho, Frifmarifco I^SHen. de Newton ^2 Ad. de Dunelm I Rich. Adon 7 5 Ad. Dunelm Sljoh: Johan. de Pampeden 1316. Rich. Emeldon Richard Kel- I low, Bifliop «/ Durham died, and was fucceeded by Lewis Beamont 1 317. ] Rich, de Emeldon j Tho. de Frifmarifco ^S William de Burneton Rich, de A- Nich. (^^ Carliol Tho. ^ff Carliol Roger Heckam w Tho. de Frifmarifco Hen. de Newton 13Z0. 'About this Time jiourtjh- ed Hugh of Newcaftle. Yid. frandfcan Tryers. 1 ^T- ,. J ^ 1- 1 1 John ^f Thorald ^^Tho. Rog. de Angreton King Ed. II. was cruelly murdered in the Caftle of Berkley, by the Pracfifts of the Slueen his Wife, and the Lord Mortimer. This firlh Year of the Reign 0/ Edward the ^d, nctwithftanding the Care 0} the Barl MarlViall at Newcaftle, and the Lor^ Mowbray at Cirlifle, the Scots pajfed the River Tyne with an Army confifting of 4000 Men at Arms, Knights and F.fquires, well mounted, and 1000 others, armed after their Country Tafliion, upon fm.ill incmfiderable Horfes, befides their Forces on Foot. They incamped in Stanhope Park, m the Bifi)oprick d/ Durham, again/i whom the King came himfelf in Perfon ; but not being able to come at them, by Reajon of their Advoiitageous Situation, they, after having been zvatched 1 5 sr io Days took the Advantage of a dark Night, and retired with Haflc into their own Ctuntry. tachard. 1328. Nirli ^.r-,rlin] I Th.^/. Hu.fl'fCarllol? jTho. (/c Frifmarifco . ^,„,. iNicn. rt(? v^auioi I ,-, _ ,1 71 J"ju / Tk.T KwjEd.Iir. I Roger Heck ham 5 I Hen de Newton pinioned and remitted to the Burgclfc! of Newcaftle upon Tyiie, all the Debts and Arrears oj Debts which they owed to him or his Progenitors. Madox. Firm. Burg. p. 9S. 132P. Rich. Emeldon Wm. dc Biu'ncton ? ^Jo. de Denton Hugode Heckham UJo.de r^Rob. de Halliwell 1330. Wm../rBunieton I Hugo^.Hankyn MRo../. Halliwell 1 Jo. Denton S ^W alcranus LumJey D d d 1331. 194 Of the Government of the Town. An" Chrifti. 1351. Alayors. Rich. Emcldon Bailiffs. Mugo de Hecham ^ i^^ob. de Halliwell "Sc W'llerauLis Lumley Jo. de Denton Carta Vriortjf.t S. Bartholoraei <« yilla Novj Caflri jfe(^o« Tyne, Greeting in the Lord. Know ye, that I have granted, and by the prefent Writing have confirmed to Peter Son of Peter Draper, of the aforefaid Town «/ Newc.iftlc, a::d Cecily his Wife, and to the Heirs from their Bodies lawfully begotten, all my Right of the Patronage of the Chantry belonging to the Altar of the blejfed Virgin Mary in the Church u/All Saints in the forefaid Town of Newcaftle, for me and my Heirs : Granting that whenever it fhall be vacant, then the forefaid Peter ar.d Cecily, and the. Heirs from their Bodies lawfully begotten, m.ty give, confer and af- jign the forefaid Chantry to fame fit Chaplain, to celebrate for ever the divine Offices at the forefaid Altar, by doing and finding at the aforefaid Altar all Burthens belonging to the faid Altar, as the other Predecejfors have ufed to do. Saving never thelefs to me for my ~J:hole Life, the Right of prefenting to the forefaid Chantry, if it flialL happen to be vacant any Time of my Life. And be it known, that if the aforefaid Peter and Cecily fliall die without Heirs from their Bodies lawfully begotten, I Will that the Right of Patronage of the Chantry aforefaid- fliall after their Deceafe, their Ifue failing, as is aforefaid, for ever return to my right Heirs. In Witnejs where- of I have put my ieal to the prefent Writing, and have caiifed the Common Seal of the forefaid Town of New- caftle to be put. Witnefs Jolin de Denton then Mayor oj the Totvn d/ Newcaftle^ aforefaid, Hugh (/cHaliwell, Richard de Aclon, Robert de Caftro, John de Karliol, John de Galeway, John de Frifraaro, Richard de Galeway, and others. Given at the Town «/ Newcaftle aforefaid the zi^th Day of the Alonth of Si^temher, in the year of Grace 1354, and the eight year of the Reign of King Edward III. from the Conqiiefi. I , T J T T 1 I Gilbert Hankvn ? S Joh" de Galloway ^>) I fa I Rich. Scot S ao-^Fnimaiuto ^^ncthe^tth a Letter viae dated at Newcaftle, per ipfum Rcgem & Concilium. Rim. Feeder. Vol. 4. p. 651. Another, de Orando pro kege. Another July the \fi. Another from this Town, Nov, 16. Two more the fame Dayi zoth Day ano- ther. Another the z^d. Sec. p. 677 c?" 678. I T T. T-i 1 Gilbert Hankvtl 7 Sjo. Woodman 1336. j John Denton | ^^^^^.^ Shilviligton S"Z William Adon Martin Alo. wick a Tran- (ifcan Tryir of the Monaflry of Newcaftle fourifli'd about this Time. Vide Francifcan Prycvs of this ToKn. 1 -^,. , „ I Robert t- '^^^ • Lumlcy | Gilbert Hankyn 5 /Rich.Gallaway Water at Newcaftlc bore down Part of thi Town's New Wall where 120 Pcrfor.s were drown'd: This- is al/e faid to have haffen'd in the year 13: 5iO. Vide Pandoa Buin. JVhilJ! the KingwaJ 1340. William Fclton Miles. Robert Mufgrave Jo. Woodman ^5 Hug. Carliol ^^Joan. Emeldon viarring a- gainfi Tournay, the Scots in feveral Bodies entred England, where the-j dejfrofd the Country as far as Dur- fiam, retiirnini all fjfe again <, faving that the Earls of March and Soutiierland being encountred by the Lord Thomas Grey o/ Werk, Sir Robert Manners, and John Copeland, a -valliant Bf^; »/ Nonluimbcrland, were utterly difcomjited. i'd/w. Hift. Ed. III. Lib. i. chap. 17. I 341. Joan. Denton I Gilbert Hank)Ti 1 Thomas Burneton 5Jo. Galleway >Petrus Graper 'It is granted that no Goods Bejold 'till a- Tlank be laid to the Ship, on Forfeiture of the Goods. Kini Edward HI. refolding to invade Scotland both by Sea and Land, repaired to the Frontiers, where he waited for his Fleet, which was to join hint at Newcaftle. B'lt a violent Storm, which lajied feveral Days, ren- dered his Ships unfit for. Service during the reji of that -year. This unlucky Accidest hindered him from entering Scotland, being dejtitute of Provijions and Ammunition, which his Fleet was bringing to him. Rapin. indentiira inter Priorew Dunelm' b' Mujorem Fill.e Novi Caftri fn^er Tynam, cie redditu de Fame Elaud. CEft Endenture faite entre '^ohan Trior 5c le Convent de Hurefme d'une part & 'Johan de Denton Mairde Neof Chujiell -hxr Tyne d'autre part tefmoigne que nous le ditz Prior & Convent avouns refceu parmy les maines le dit John trees Marcs & diz Soutz d'Argent du Terme de la Seint Michell I'an de Grace Mllle, n.^.:r .-. ^..■.,^n, ^y,mt.r Ap !inp annuel recut oue nollie Seigneur le Rov Nous a mmandeii his Captains to put all to Fire and Sword. There were Men, Women, and Children, old and yottn", Men of the Church, as Monks, Priefts, Canons, and others, holy and prophane, all without Pity or DiflinHion put to Death, neither Cliurches, Monafteries, nor Shrines, no not that of St. Cuihbert^iwj- felf Lifter It had repofed there for more than 500 years) could reconcile the incens'd Mind of the Soldiers to Pi- ty ; not fo m^ich as one Soul ivas left alive within the Place. So implacable and unmerciful is the Sword of War ■when fl)arpen'd with unchriflian Cruelty. Before the Scottith Army got back to its own Country, the King of England was upon their Heels; hut there were ffr William de Adton William de A6lon Hugo de Carliol ^ Jo. de Frifmarifco "^Robt.^^Pentrith i?4r. I Robt. deYos\\-x\c I t. , i^ugu «c- W.UU01 ^ c^""'-"'^^^^"^'^"^ Richard de Bury, Bifljop e/ Durham died at Auckl.ind, April the i.\th, and was fucceeded by Thomas Hatfield, Secretary to ;^e King, who vjas conjecrated ]a\y the loih, this fame Xear. 1346. Robt. r/^Fogh ill William de Acton Hug. de Carliol Jo.de Frifmariro Robt. de Pentrith 1347- Peter Graper William Aclon,/J«' Hugo de Angreton Jo. Emeldon Hugo de Carliol when King Edward III. was abroad in Trance, warring againfl that Kingdom, David King o/ Scotland took that Opportunity to ravage the Borders 0/ England, and penetrated as far as Durham, which he took, facked and burnt; but the Englidi coming fliort- ly after to an Enga^ementivith him, he had the Mortification not only to lofetheDay, but alfo to be taken a Prifo- ner. Rapin. The Scotch King, tho' he had two Spears hanging in his Body, his Leg almofl incurably wounded, and his izvo'd beat out of his Hand, difdaining Captivity, provok'd the Englilh by opprobrious Language to kill him; and when John Copeland, Governour of Roxborough Caflle, advifed him to yield, he flruck him on th* Face w.ih his Gauntlet fo fiercely that he knocked out two of his Teeth. But however Copeland conveyed him a- way out of the Field a Pnfoner. Upon his refujmg to deliver him up to the gwecw, {who flayed at Newcaftle during the E.ittle) the King fent for him to Calais, where he excus'd his Refufal fo handfomely, that the King fent him Lac'.; vAih a Reward of 500 1. a-Tear in Land, where he himfelf fl'ould chufe it near his own Dwelling, and made him a Knight Banneret. Aft. Pub). V. p. 542. as quoted by Tyndal, Rapin's Tranflator. This Battle is faid by Hollingfhead in his Hiflory «/ Scotland, p. 241, to have been fought OHohes the ijth, the year before. E e e iTie 198 Of the Government of the Town. The following Letter I am obliged to Mr. Alderman R e a y of this Town for. S I R, " TjUrfuant to your Rcqueft and my Promife I've been with Mr. Harle, and liave met with the P.iflaoe " JT you mentioned relating to Kewcajlic, in the ii9ih Page of the tirft Vol. ot Ha'duyt's Enjijh Voya- " ges, fee. printed at London, i <;9y, Fol. by which it appears that the Town oi KewcaJtU ailift;d K. EJ-jl\ " III. with 17 Ships and 314 Men aj;ainft the trench; a moft authentic and convincing Pruot of the "reat " Naval Strength of that Town in thole Days. " Another earlier Inftance of its being a Town famous for Trade in Edward II's Time, is to be found " in p. H^' a"..» — ---j , - ^c ^ " fubfcribe my felf, SIR, Tour very much ohlig'd Humble Servant, This is all 1 can find upon ave, in the mean Time, to Alnwick, Dec. 15, 173 1. John W il son. An" Chrifti. 1548. M4i'- Mayors. Bailiffs. _ _ I Wilham ^^ Afton ^SHugo a'^ Carliol Peter Graper | Hug. ./^ Angreton \l]o. de Emeldon The fame. I The fame. The fame. Extraila e Tejlayncnto Johannis Cragg de Novo Caftro die Martis proximo poft t'efiur/i Nativitat. B. Johannis Bapcillje. Po&Lego, I. /-CORPUS meum ad fepeliendum in Ecclefia omnium Sanftorum infra novam Cancel- V^ lam. 2. In cera circa Corpus mcura combutenda, fc.vSolidos. ;. Sum- Of the Government of the Town. 199 DoScLs'o, 3. Sutnmo Altari Ecclefia: B. NichoUi, pfo Decimis & Oblationibus meis noi\ bene folutis. Sex Solidos. 4. Faoiicx Ecclefii pisJlclx Omnium Sandoium, viginti Solidos. 5. C.ipellanis ad execjuiaj nicas vcnieiitibus, quaiuor SoliJos. 6. Ad omnes oidines Fratiuni de pixiiicla Villa No~ji Caj'iri, tiefdecim Solidos Sc quatuoi- De- narius per a;quales povtiones. 7. Ciiid.im Capellano idoneo pro Anima mea apud pra;diftam Ecclefiam omnium Sandorum celebr.uuro duos Annus, decern Marcas. S. Cuidani liujuhiiodi eunti apud S. Jacjl/um, quinq; Marcas. 9. Capellano Parochiali eiufdsm Eccl-fia; Omnium Sandorum ttesSolidos& quatuoi'Denarios. 10. Clerico ejuldcm Ecclefise, unum Soliduni. An Extradl from the Will of Joha Cr.^g^ of Newcifth on Tucfday next after the Feaft of the Nativity of ijc. Juhn the B^iptijl. iGivi ar.dBe.iueath, \.'\,TY Sody to be btir:ed in the Church «/ AU-Saints, beneath the neiv Chancel. 2. In Wax to he burnt about my Body, Jix Shdlm^s. 5. To the High Altar of the Church of St. Nicholas, for my Tythes andOblat'tons not duly paid, jix Shihinis. 4. To the Fabric of the aforefaid Church of All-Saints, tzventy Shilling.'. 5. To the chaplains •io'in' to my Funeral, four Shitlims. 6. To all jrders of the Brethren of the fore/aid Town of Newcaftle, thirteen Shillings and four Pence, by e:jii.il Portions. 7. To a nt Chaplain to celebrate for my Soul in the aforefaid Church o/AH-Saints two years, ten Alari:s. 8. To another ^oin<^ before St. James, five Marks. 9. To the Parochial Chaplain of the jaid Church of kW-S^MS, three Shillings and four Pence. 1-0. To the Clerk of the jaid Church, one Shilling. Ari' Chrlfii. , Mayors. Bailiffs. i5ro. 1 Peter Graper 1 William ^. Adon 7^Hugo ^. Carleol Affifa per Priorem DuKcim' contra majorem & Ballivos Novi Cafiri pro redditu annuo Domus dft taraeiuUii. AS S I S A capta apud Novum Caftrum fuper Tynam coram Thoma de Fencotes; Thoma de Seton, Sc Fiogero dc BlayKtf.on, Jufticiaviis Domini Regi'^ ad Allifas in Comitatu Korihumbru capiendas Adignatis die Mercurii in tenia Septiniana (TLiadragcfiniae Anno Ile^^ni Regis hdvj.irii An-iu tertii, a Conqueftu vicefimo quinto, & U^egni f'ui Francis duodecimo, virtute ciijurdjra Commifl^onis Eis hcWiilelmo BaJJet diredx, pra;- feniia iplius Wiiielaii non expecV.ua, Virtute cuiuld.mi brevis Domini Re^is, Quod fi non omnes, &c. AlFil'a vcnerunt recognofceie fi Petrus Craper Major Villae Novi Cajtri fuper Tynam, Johannes de tmeldon Bu^o dc An-erton, Hugo de Carlel,^S<. WiUielinus de Aiton Ballivi ejul.dem Villi Noi-i Caflri injufte dilTei- fierint Jihannem Priorem T>:tnelm. dc libero Tenemento fuo in Villa Kovi Caftri (upev Tynam puft pof- fellioneni, &c. Et unde quiritur quod dilleifierunt Eum de treldecim Marcis & decern folidatis reddiius cum penineniiis, See. Et Petrus & alii non vcnerunt: Et Vicccomes moJo mandavit quod pri-didi Hugo de Angerton, &: Hugo de Carlel monui funt: Et prx-diclus Pcirus ai'.achiatus eft per Henricum Glaffen Wright, & Thomam dc Nezvbi'Tging; 5c pixdidus Johannes dc Enieldon per Thomam de Kewbtgginr &: Thomam Stele, & prx-didus Wid.elmus per Thom.im de Ncivbigftng 6c Henricum Clajfen Wright: Ideo ipfi in m/fericordia, & pracdida Alll- fa capiatur verfus Eos per'Defaltam, &c. Et luper hoc prardiihis Prior per Attornaium fnum dicit, quod Dominus Rex nunc Regnans, per Cartara fuam, quod ex Tcftimonio lllorum quibus fiduciam adiiibuir, accepit quod Dominus 'Edwardus nupcr Rex An lis Paicr fuus, in vita fua verbo tenus conccllit Monachis in Infula de Farneland juxia Bambur h, qua: quidem Infula Celia eft Priora:us Dtinclm. commorantibus decern quartetia Frumenti 6c duo dolia vini per- cipiend.i fingiilis annis per manus Majoris 6: Ballivorum de Novo Caftro fuper Tynam de Elcraofina ipfius Patris fui in pcrpeiuum. Et quod conceHio ilia in Viia ipfius Patris fui non fuit Execution! debire dcman- data, ncc Literis fuis aliquibus roborata. Idem DominusRex nunc pro (alutc Animi- ipfius Patris, volens Voluntatcm fuam in hac parte aJimplere 6c continuare, conceflit Monachis pntdidis in Recompenfatio- nem Frumenti 6c vini pr.T.didon:m trefdecim Marcas 6c dccem folidos percipiendos fingulis annis ad Feftum S. MichacUs per manus Majoris 6c Ballivorum didx Villx dc Novo Caftro fuper Tynam, qui pro tempore fucrint de Firma cjuldem Villcc, viz.. quinq; Marcas pro quolibct Dolio Vini, 6: quinque Solidos pro quo- libet quarierio Frumenti, habendos cifdem Monachis 6c Succefloribus fuis Monachis in Infula pra:dida com- morantibus de Elcmofina fua in p-rrpetuum ; Et profert hie in Curia pra:didam Cartam Domini Regis nunc qu.^ hoc teftaiur, 6cc. 6c petit Athfam : Inde capiatur Affifa, 6cc. Rcco^nitione Aillfx prxdidx- dicunt fuper Sacramenium luum quod prxdidus Prior fuit feifitus de pri- dido redditu cum periincniii'., quoufq; prxdidi Petrus 6c alii ipfum inde dilFeifierunt ad damnum ipfius Prioris quadra^ima 6c unius Libraruni, trefdecim Solidorum, 6c quatuor Denarionuii. Idco Confequens efl quod pra.didus Piior recuperet inde feifinam fuam verfus Eos per Vifum Recogniiionis Affifx prxdidx j & damna (ua pradida ; 6c iidem Pttrus 6c alii in injuria. Et Vicecotncs non omittetur propter Libcrtateni Villa; pr3;did.e co quod alias, c^r. 200 Of the GovermTient of the Town. An Affife by the Prior oi Durham againft the Mayor and Bailiffs of Newcaftle, for the yearly Rent ot tiie Houfc of tarnelaad. j^ N jifife tahn at Newcaftle upon Tyne before Tlionias de Fencotes, Thomas di Scton, and Roger de Blaykefton, Juftices of our Lord the Kin:, a: the Afftjei to be held in the Cou/ity of Nortliumberlarid, af- figned on Wednefday in the third iVeek of Lent, in the iv.emy fifth year of the Reign of King Edward m Eng- ■ land, the Third from the Conqueft, and the twelfth of his Reign in France, by virtue of a certain Commijjion di- rei'led to them and William Baifet ; the Prejence of the faid William not being txfeiled, by virtue of a certain Brief of our Lord the King, But if not all, 6c c. The Ajfifes came to conjider and know, (/'Peter Graper, Mayor of the Tovm of Newcaftle upon Tyne, John de Emeldon, Hugh de Angerton, Hugh de Cailel. and William de Afton Badiffi oj the faid Town 0/ New- caftle had unju/ilj diffeifed John Pr.or of Durham from his free Tenement in the Jaid Town of NewcaftJe upon Tyne after Pcjjefion, 8cc. Jind it is enquired why they diffeifed him from thirteen Marks and ten shillings, the Rent with the Appurtenances, &c. And Peter and the others did not come: And the Sheriff declared that the forefaid Hugh de Angerton, and Hugh de Carlel are dead: And the forefaid Pcier is attached by Henry Glaflen Wright, and Thomas ,•/(; Newbigiinu; and the forefaid John de Emeldon by Thomas de Newbigging and Thomas Stele; and the forefaid William by Thomas de Newbigging and Henry Glaflen Wright : Therefore they are in Mercy, and let the aforefaid Affife be ta';en againji them by Default, Sec. And upon this the aforefaid Prior by his Attorney fays. That our Lord the King now reigning, by his Charter, becau'e he heard from the Teftimony cf thofe whom he credits; ihat our Lord Edward, lately King 0/ England, his Father, had in his Life, by Word of Mouth, granted to the Monks dwelling in the IJland of Farneland near B.uiiburgl , which IJland is a Cell of the Priory c/ Durham, ten Quarters of Corn and two Tuns of H'ine, to be recei\td eiery Year by the Hands of the Mayor and Badiffs «/ Newcaftle upon Tync, as an Alms of his Jaid Fa- ther for ever. And that this Grant was not duly put in Execution in the Life-time of his faid rather, nor con- firmed by any of his Letters. Our prefent Lord the King for the Health oJ' the ioiil of his Father, being witling to fuL d and continue his Will in this Part, hath granttd to the ajorejaid Monks as a Compevfation of the afore- faid Corn ar.d Wine, thirteen Mar' s and ten Shillings, to be received every year at the Feajl of St. Michael by the Hands of the Mayor and Bailiffs of the jaid Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne then being, from the Fee of the faid I own, namely. Five Marks for every Tun of Wine, and five Shillings Jor every Sjuarter of Corn, to be paid to the jaid Monks and their Succeffirs dwelling in the forejaid Ifiand as his Alms for ever; and he prod.ues in Court the forejaid Charter of our prefent Lord the King, which tefiifies this, &c. And he prays Affije : Let an AfftjC theretore be taken, &c. By a Recognition of the aforefaid Affife, they fay upon their Oath, that the aforefaid Prior was feifed of the fore' ad Rent w.th the Appurtenances, 'till the forejaid Peter and others diffeifed him, to iheLofso* i he j'a.d Prior forty one Pounds, thirteen Shillings and four Pence. It follows therefore that the aforefaid Prior may thence re- co- er his Seifne a:ainfl thofe by a Sight of the Recognition of the Affife aforefaid; and his Loffes aforejaid; and the [aid Peier and others ate' in the Injury. And let not the Sheriff be omitted becauje of the Liberty of the afore- faid Town becaufe that otherwife, &c. -<^«' Chrifii Mayors. Bailiffs. i-3fi. I Gilbert Duxfield | ^J'^E'rWo^^"'^'"" l]^"-^'^-^^^"^^"' I \ii7^ir c. .u I Richard Scot. ? SJo- "'^ Camera x.i,Tohn de '^^'^ I ^^'^^'^"^ Strothcr 1 j^ £^^^,^„ ^^^,,^^ ^^^^^^.^^^ Camera here mentioned, and fo often below, together with Gilbert Duxfield the Mayor of the year before, are undoubtedly the •very People mentioned in that famous Foreign Indulgence whoji Original is in St. Nicholas Veftry, the Subflance of which I have given in our Account of St. Nicholas Church. f^^t '^^^* I ^"''^^'^'P" rwm.am^.S:rothcrhwm.^.Aaon,>«. fed with the Flemings, who had withdtaivn from his Alliance and married their Earl {who was contralied to one of his Daughters) to a Daughter of the Duke of Brabant, removed the Staple of EngliQi Wool, which had been fet up in their Country, into England, to their great Damage, but to the as great Benefit of the Englidi. New- caftle was then midea Staple-Town; the reft being Weftminfter, Chichefter, Canterbury, Lincoln, War- wick, York, Exeter, Caerinarthen, Briftol and Hull. Echard, Rapin. N. B. Staple Jignifics this or that Town, whither the Merchants c/ England were by Ail of Parliament to carry their Wool, Cloth, Lead and Tin, for the Selling of them by the Great. What ivere the Staple Commodities of this Realm may be feen in the Statue of of -Or R-i<:li- H- <^- '■ "' Wool, Leather, Wood, Fells, Lead, Tin, crc. Joan Gjueen of Scots, having got Leave of King Edward her Brother to vifit her Husband, David Bruce King «/ Scots, then King Edward's Prifoner, came into England -Mith a moderate Attendance; and upon the Media- tion o/Joan the <§ueen, the Prayer «/ David the Prifoner, the Prelates, great Men, and Commons of Scotland, the Kin% granted to ticat with them about his Deliverance. And thereupon fent to Newcaftle upon Tyne the Bifliop erDurefme, William de Eohun F.arl 0/ Northampton and C(j»//! a gre.n Army towards Scotland, and ke{t his Chriftmas at Ncwc-affile u}on Tyiie. Brad. Contin. 156. 135-5. The fime. Nich. Barrot ^ Q i?r7- 135-8. The fimc. The flmic. I Jo. Emeldoa I Jo. (k Camera J? \ Nich. Banot S 2 Nich. Afton. Caftle-field and Caftle- moor confir- med to the Town of Newcafllc. Vide our Account of ihefe Places. Jo. cic Emeldon Nich. Bavrot 7 ^]o.(ielCnimbcxs Mfp- The Himc. Jo. (!e Camera Jo. dc Emeldon 7SWill. ^e Afton S'^Nich. 1360. . Wm.i^(?Sti'othcr. Jo. (ie Camera Jo de Emeldon I^Wm. de Afton 5"? Nich. I36I. Jo. Chambers. Jo. Emeldon Jo. Stanhope [ ^Jo. de Ruffen i^Elias de Frawhitt A great Dearth and Peflilence in England. I 562 Tiic fame. ^ ^Elias de Frawhitt S I Robert de Duxfield jhis Tear the King ^ave to this To:':n a Grant for 10 yCiin of certain Duties upon Goods and Merchandizes for Repiaring of Brides. [ Jo. dn Emeldon I Jo. de Stanhope 1363. Rob. Angreton Jo. Emeldon ^3J"- Stanhope Wm. Afton ll]o. Byker ^ j,„yj in England from the midft 0/ September to the Month d/ April. 1364. The lame I Wm. 1^1? A£bon, I Jo. de Stanhope Byker fSepteml VjJo.Ruffan •i56r. Rich. ^(? Stanhope Wm. de Afton ? JJ'^- '^'^ Emeldon Jo. Stanhope ^U°- '^'^ RufFan 1366. Wni. dc Afton Jo. ^f Stanhope P^Tho. Grapcr Jo. rt'(? RufFan 3 cJ°- ^'^ Byker 1567. The fame. Jo. c/t^ Emeldon ^5Jo- ^^ Pieiton Jo. c/c Byker ^ cjo- Houghell 1 568. I The fame. ) The fame. The fame. Fff i3 u A ^ I Tho.' Grnper To. Bulkham 136P. I Rob. Angreton jj^.R^ff^^^ Steph. Whkgravc £ Tcjiamento Nicholai Coke Villee Novi Caftri ^u^er Tynam data tertto die Septemb. Do & Lego, I. "IT'Ratribus Carmelitanis Novi Caftri fexaginta Petras Ferri. 2. \j Fratribus Prxdicatoribus e'lufdem Vills, viginti fex folidos, & ofto denarios. 3. Fiatiibus minoribus viginti folidos. 4. Fratribus Anguftininis viginti (elides. 5. Summo Altari B. Nicholai viginti folidos. 6. Altari B. Marii Ecclefinc prsdiftx fex folidos, & ofto denarios. 7. Fabrics Capella: S. Johannis trefdecim folidos &: quatuor denarios. 8. Fabricx Feneftrx in Ciioro S. Nicholai viginti foliJos. 9. Capeilanis ad celebrandum pro anima mea in Ecclefia S. Nicholai triginta Libras. From the Will of Nicholas Coke of the Town of Newcaftlc upon Tyne, dated the third Day of September. I givt and btq-Aiath, i. 'J'O the Carmelite Brethren o/Newcaftle Sixf^ Stone of Iron. 1. To the freachittg Brethren of the [aid Town, twenty fix Shillings and eight Pence. J. To the Minor Brethren twenty Shdlingt. 4. To the Auguftin Brethren twenty Shillings. 5. To the High Altar of St. Nicholas twenty Shillings. 6. To the Alar of St. Mary's in the forejaid Church fix Shillings and Jour Pence. 7. Te the Fabric of the Chapel of St. John thirteen Shillings and four Pence. S. Te the TaJiric of the Window in the Choir of St. Nicholas Twenty Shillings. 9. To the Chaplains to celebrate for my Soul in the Church of St. Nicholas thirty Pounds. About this 1^60. I The fame. [ The fame. | The fame. year fiourifii- td Nicholas Durham, born in the Northern Parts, Carmelite-rryfr at Newcaftle, and Doflor of Divinity, a learned and conftant Oppofer of the Errours «/ John Wickleif. He writ on the Mailer of the Sentences; Ori- ginals of Doftors; Refolutions of Queftions; and againft Wicklief's Articles. Steph, Addit. 1. Vol. in Carm. 1 371. 1 The fame. I The fame. | The fame. Carta Hugonis Makfon de NovoCaftrocj'Chriftianje Uxoris ejus de tinoMeffuagio in Ballio boreali Dunelmi/rtt7^ Ricardo de Caftro liernardi Clerico. OMnibus ad quos pra:rentes Literx pervcnerint Hugo Makfon de Novo Caftro fuper Tynam Sc Chriftiana Uxor e)us Salutem in Domino fempiternam. Noveritis Nos dedilTe, Concedifle, 5c hac prsfenti Carta noftra confirmafle Ricardo de Caftro Bernardi Clerico uniun Mefluagium cum Peninentiis in Ballio boreali Dunclm. ficut jacet inter Tencmentum Magiftri Hofpitalis de Kepyer ex una parte & Tenementum quondam Cilberti Clerici ex altera. Habendum & tenendum pr.xdiftum Mefl'uagium cum pertinentiis prsedifto Ricardo, Hxrcdibus, 6c Allignatis fuis de Capitalibus Dominis Feodi iilius, per fervitia debita & confueta ia perpetuum. Et nos vero prsdicti Hugo & Cri/lina Ha:redes & Aflignati noftri prsdiftum MelTuagium cum pertinentiis pra;di6to Ricardo, Kxredibus &. Allignatis fuis contra omnes gentes warantizabimus & iu perpetuum Jefenjenius. In cujus Rei Tcftimonium liuic prifenti Carts figilla noftra appofuimus his Te- ftibus Ad.imo labcicr Capeliano, Williehio del Orchard Clerico, vc. Datum Dunelmi die Mercurii proximo poft Feftum S. Lucix Virginis Anno Domini 1571. A Charter of Hiejrh Makfon of Newcar- ham, as it lies between the Tenement of the Mafter of the Hofpital c/" Kepyer on the one Part, and the Tenement formerly c/ Gilbert Clerk o» the other i To have and to hold the aforefaid Mejfuage with it's Appurtenances to the aforefaid Richard his Heirs and AJfigns from the Capital Lords of that Fee, by the due and ufual Services forever. And We the aforefaid Hugh and Chriftian, our Heirs and Ajftgns, the forefaid Mejfuage with us Appurtenances, to the forejaid Richard, his Heirs and Ajftgns, will warrant and for ever defend againft all Mankind. In Witr.efs whereof we have placed our Seals to this prefent Charter. Witnejfes Adam Tabeler Chaplain, William del Orchard Clerk, Sec. Given at Durham on Wednefday next ajter the Feaft of St. Lucy the Virgin, in the year of our Lord 1571. 137Z. I The fume. | The fame. 1373. 1 The fume. I Thcfime. I J74- Of the Government of the Town. 203 An" Chrifti. n74- 1375. 1377- Mayors. The fame. I Bailiffs. The fame. Jo. Stanhope Jo. de Ruffan Tho. Grapcr Jo. de Bykcr T D 1 u I Laurence A£bon JcBulgham |r„,,p,„„^, „...„__ ,^„.^ Jy(i Junezi «»<< Richard II. w45 crown'd in July foilewlng, whtn he was 9 y«]q. (le Horron 1387. The fame. The fame. 1388. I The fame. 1 The fame. There hap- pened this year at Otterbourne in Northumberland, a flout Engagement between the Scots and Englifh, ViHory 3 or 4 Times changing Sides, and at ia/l fixing with the Scots, (for Henry Percy for his youthful forwardntfs By-named Hotfpur) who commanded the Englifh, was himfelf taken Prifoner, and loll fifteen hundred of his Men-, and William Douglas the Scotch General fell with the grealeft Part of his Army, fo that never was there a greater Inftance of the Martial Prowefs of both Nations. Camb. Brit. ;>. 8?o. The Annotator upon this has the following Words, " We may be allowed to remark here what a Perfon of great " Honour and Skill in our Englijl) Antiquities has held before, that the old Ballad »/ Chevy Chace, (S;r'Philip •' Sidney V Delight) has no other Foundation for its Story, fave only the Battle of Otterburne. There was ne- " tier any other Percy engaged againfl a Douglas, but this Henry, who was indeed Heir to the Earl tf Nor- •' thumberland, but never lived to enjoy the Honour himfelf. Sir John Fioyfart {who lived at that Time) " gives the fulleft Account of this Battle; but fays 'twas Earl James Douglas who was the Scottilh General. See Eachard, Rapin. John Nevil, Lord Raby, dy'd at Newcaftle, pojfefed of the Barony and C.iflle o/Bywcll ; Walter Slrirlaw, Biflwp 0/ Wells was removed from thence to Durham, in the room o/John Fordham, in the Month 0/" Septem- ber. I38P. The fame. The fame. 1390. 1 Wm.Bifhopdale j This Tear was granted to this Mayor, that he and his Siiccejfors Jhould have a Sword born before them. The fame. r3Pi- The fame. ILaurentius Afton John de Aukland 'S William Johnfon '^Hen. (le Carliol 1392- I The fame. | The fame. 1393- 1 The fame. I The fame. 1394- 1 The fame. [ The fame. M^r [ The fame. [ The fame. 1396. 1 Sampfon Harding | The fame. i3i>" The fame. I The fame. 1398. The fame. The lame. 1399. I The fame. ] The fame. The King was fent to theTower and , , t n 1 • j t^ ■ depofed. He «/<."»■.' his Crown on Friday September ^<)th, and Henry Vme of hinzMcx was proclaimed King by the Hame «/ Henry .iih. ' 1 400 Of the Government of the Town. 205 Aii" Chrijli. Mayors. Bailiffs. 1400. I Roger Thornton j The fame. Henry W. This Kinz, Mayzj. inthe \ft Tear of his Reif^n, was humbly petitioned by the Suriejfes of Nevvcaftle, that his Majefly would be ^racioufly pleajed to divide the Town and Corporation from the County of Northumbciland, and gr.tnt them a i-hertjf with more Liberties and Immunities ; which was granted, and that the Corpor.ition of Ncwcaftle Jhould be a dijiinfl County of itfelf disjoined from the County of Northumberland, which was not to meddle in the [aid new County, as by the Charier appears more at large, upon Record in the Tnver of London. Gardener. He granted by the fame Charter, that aShcviff was to be annually chofen in/lead of Bailiff's, that he fiiould keep a Court o» Wednefday /row Month to Month, in the fame Manner as the other Sheriffs of the Kingdom held theirs. The Sheriff was to account before the Barons by an Attorney deputed, v.'hich fiould be authentic, and to have Return of all Writs, Sec. Afterwards William Redmerfhall was eleSled the firfi Sheriff. The Jame Kin^ alfo, of his more abundant Kindnefs to the Burgefles of this Town, as appears by the fame Charter, gave them a Power of chufmt from amoni themfelves ^, _,.,.._ . „ ^ ^J,x Aldermen, each of which had given him the full ^\ "1"=;'"^ uber.or, Grat.a noftra conceffimus, &c. Power of a ^uftice of Peace. T^°, 'P' ^S" ' ann.s de feipfis el.gcre poffint fex Aldermannos tones queues neceile merit. Lib. Cart. After Kings confirmed to the Mayor and Commonalty all the Royalties of the RiverTyne /ror» Sparrow-liawk to Heddin Streams, and that no '^hip load or unload any manner of Goods, Wares, and Merchandi2.es in any Place ef the River but only the Key of Newcaftle. Grey. This is mentioned in the Charter where the Contefl is mentioned between the Town and the Prior of Tia- moutli. Lib. Cart. p. 87, 88. ^»' Chrijii. Mayors. Sheriffs. 140 1. I The fame. J' WiUiam Redmarfhaes This rear our eminent Roger Thornton tranfaHed the following Leafe with Walter Skirlaw, then Bifhop of Durham ; a Piece to be valued for fame not impertinent Exprefftons. CET Endenture faite par entre Wauter Tfit la Grace de Dieu Evefque du D«re\\c Aidwode-clo;ih, & un autre place 3ppe\\e Hardera';e, a avoir & tenir a I'avauntdit Ro^fr & fes A(Ili;nez a terme de duCze ans procheyn enfuants aprcs les Fell de Seynt Afycfce// darrein patTe, rendant ent par anal'a- vantdit Evefque 8c a fcs Succeffburs le neut lade de eour de plumbe tantoft come il eft gaine 8c demaunde par a'cun miniftre de I'avauntdit Evefque ace aflignes de recevir. Et le dit Ro^cr avera une convenable Sliela en le Forcft de Wtrialc pour la fultinaunce de fes chivalx cariants le eour provenant de les dits groves, paiant ent annuelment a le meiftre Forefter la aunciene terme. Et le dit Roger ovcra 8c maynuvra bien 8c fuffirauntement par vieu de Surveiour de nos mynes illoques tous les groves 8c place avantdits, 8c chefcun ium '^ohannis Roughed, una cum omnibus aliis & fingulis terri.s, redJitibus, 8c tenementis, qux 8c quas die conteftionis prKfentmni habuimus, feu nobis ex done, feofFamento, five jure hcereditario provcniebant aut defcendebant infra villam de Gateflitx-ed five in terri- lorio ejufdeiii, habenda 8c tenenda diAo Dom. Rogero dt Thoringten 6c fuccefioribus luis Capellanis addiftum altare divina, ut fupradiftum eft, celebraturis de Capitalibus Dominis Feodi illius per ferviiia inde debita 6c conlueta libere, quicte, iniegre, bene 8c in pace in perpetuum. Et volumus quod poft deceflum noftrum comniuniias villa; de Gatejheved habeat jus patronatus di£la; Cantaria:, ita quod duodecim, dectm, vel ofto, de probioribus 6c dilcretioribus liominibus dift^e comraunitatis ad hoc eligendi pofllnt ad diftam Cantariam, quoiielcunq; ipfara vacare contigerit poll deceflum Rogeri de Therington Capellani, unum Capcllanum idoneum & hoiieftuni cligere, Sc in didaCantaria cum omnibus fuis juribus 8c pertin. in corporalem poflcflionem in- duccre. Et quod fie fiat eleftio 6c inftitutio in perpetuum, voliunus etiam quod ptxhxas Rogerus de Thoringlon Capclhnus per nos fie eledus, Sc onines fui fuccetTores ft.itim a tempore fua; admiffionis 6c elcflionis ad eanJem Caniariam, continu.iin Sc perfonaleni faciant refidentiam, divina, ut fupra diflum eft, fingulis die- bus per annum a Canone licite provifis, celebrando : Qiiam quidem refidentiam, fi canonico ipfi Capella- ni inipcdimento facere nequiverint, ccflante illo inipedimento, ad cam redeant faciendam, unufquifq; fuc- ceflive pofl alium. Volumus etiam, qnod finguli Capellani ad didam Cantariam, ut primittitur, fie elefti Reftori Ecclefia; parochialis de Gateflieved, qui pro tempore (uerit, de obfervando Ecclefi.im (uam de fuis junb'.is univerfis 6c fingulis indemnem corpo;ale facient juramentum. Et nos Alanus filius Rogers Prefter, & Alansts dltlus PreJIer, 6c hiredes noftri omnia pracdifta terras, redditus, 6c tenenienta, cum omnibus edificiis 8c pertin. fuis pra;difto Rogero de Thonngton &<. fuccefloribus fuis Capellani^ ut pracdiclum eft con- tra omnes gcntes vvarantizabimus 5c defendemus in perpetuum. In cujus rei Tcftimonium tarn nos Ala- nus 8: Aiaiius, quam diclus Ds. Rogerus huic Cartse cirograpbatac Sigilla noftra appofuimus, &. ad majorem Adem Sigilluni Communiiaiis villac de Catcflieved apponi procuravimus : His Teftibus Petro de Lewe tunc Ballivo de Gatcjlieved, Jch. Gategang, Jacobo Gategang, Wdiielmo filio Hmrcdi, Rogero Rede, Roberto Home, Thoma Vanx, Steph. Nedcier, Thoma de Bowes, Waltero Potter, Radulpho Brydok, Johanne lardener, Ricardo de Tefedall, li'illiehno Horner, 6c alii.';. Dat. sp^id Gatejlieved d\e Dominica in Fefto Matthii Apoftoli, Anno Dom. 1550. Qtia; omnia 6c fingula in prxdifta Carta conientn, data, concefla, 8c lafta fucrunt, Licencia noftra feu predcccflorum noftrorum fuper hoc non obtenta. Nos cnim ad Honorem Dei, S. Marix Virgi- nis, 8c in augmentaiioncra divini fervitii, ad fupplicationem limWilliclmi de Norh^wi nuncCuitodis Cantarii pra;Jic1x, quam Conimunitatis villi pndiftae, creationem 8c fundationem pridiclas, necnon donationcn» 8c conccnionem de pra;diftis icrris, tenrmenris, 8c rcdditibu?, cum fuis pertin. prxdifto Romero Sc fiicecllo- ribus fuis in forma pra;ditta faftas, 6c omnia alia in difta Carta contcnta, rata, habcmes &i grata, eaq; pro Of the Government of the Town. 207 pi-o nobis & fucceflbribus noftris, quantum in nobis eft, approbamus, ratificamirS, & tcnore prarfeniiunj concedijiuis & CKnfirmamus, ftatuto de terris & tenementis ad ni.inum moi'tuam non poneiidi'i eJito non obftante. ConceJimus etiam per praefentes tarn ad fupplicationem praedifti WMitlmi de Ncrh.im. nupc Cu- ft . lis, quam piidictac Cominuniratis, quod prasdiclus WilUelm-.is ilc Norhjm, Capellanu5 nunc Cuftos prs- tiidx Caniaiiae & fuccefTores Cui Capellani habeanr omnia prsdifta terras, tcncmenta, 6t redditiis cum p?r- lin. habenda 6c tenenda prxdicto WilUeimo de Norham 5c fucceflbribus fuis Capelianis Cuftodibus Cantaria piEdidx, Divina ad altaie piaEdictum pro anima noftra, 6c pro animabus patris& matris noftroruni, & prcr animabus diclorum Alam & Alani, & pio animabus patrum 5c matruni eoium, 5c pro animabus omnium fidelium delunftoium in perpetuum celebraturis ut pridiftum eft. Concedimus etiam pi-xdiclx Communi- tati ad fuppl'cationem ipfius Communitaiis, quod ipfi 5c lucceflbres fui labeant £c pcd deant jus paironatus Cantaris prxdift^, 5c quod duodecim, decern, vel ofto de probioribus 5c difcrctioribusbominibus Commu- ritaiis prxdiclac ad boc per Comraunitatem pra^diftam eligendi, poffunt ad di£lam Cautaiiam puft deceflum prxtaii Wiiielmi de Norham, quandocunq; ipam vacare conti^erit, unum Capellanum idoneum 5c honeftum nobis 5c fucceffuribus noftris prajfentare, qui cum per nos aut fucceflores admidus 5c iuftitutus tuerit pec Reftorcm Ecclefii parochialis deGjteJIieze.i, qui pro tempore fuerir, Sc feu eo abfcr.te, aut ipfa Ecclefia va- cante, per Capellanum parochialem ejufdem, in corporalem poffeftioncm diftcc Cantarioe cum omnibus fuis juribus 6c periin. auftuntate noftra inducarur, 5c continuam refidentiam faciat, ad aUare pra;diftum Divina cetebrando fecundum formam, vim, 5c eff"eftum Caria; pridiiflae. Ita tamen quod di£tus IVilHehnus de Sor- ham nunc Cullos diftae Cantariae, 5c fucceflores fui C.ipellani diets Cantariae, in eorum admiffione corporale pnftent juramenium de orand j pro anima noftra, 8c animabus patris 5c matris noftrorum, 8c pro animabus pr*diftorum Ala>n Ic Alani, ac pro animabus patrum 5c marrum eorum, 8c animabus omnium fidelium de- iunctorum in ^orma fupradifta ftaruto de terris 8c tenementis aJ manaiii mortuam non poneiidis edito non obftante. In cujus rei Teftimonium has Literas noftras fieri fecimus Patentes. Dat. D.»;e/OT. per manus Ri.i«r:< de IVycliff Cancellarii noftri, fecundj die Novem'j. anno Poniif, noftri quinto decmio. Quas quidem Literas nos Prior 6c Capitulum memorati ratas habentes 5c gratas eas pro nobis 5c fucceflb- ribus noftris ratificamu', approbamus, 5c lenore praefentium confiimamus. In cujusi rei Teftimonium Si- gilium noftrum commune praefentibus eft appenfum. Dat. in domo ngftra Capiiulari oftavo die Aii^ujli, Art.Dom. 1403. A'i^ Chrifti. Mayors. Sheriffs. 1404. ] The fame. j The fame. Reginaldus Porter ^icarius Ecclafi,e Paroch. de Pittington , conjliiutus C/tfios Hoffitalis B. Ed- mundi /» Gatelheved. Tf/'A LTERUS Permiffione Divina Dunelm. Epifcopus, dileAo filio Rejina!do Porter perpetuo Vicario pa- rocliialis Ecclefiae de Pittngion noft x Diocef. falutem, oratiam 5c benediftionem. De tuis i;;iiur fideli- tate, prudentia, 5c confcientia puritate plenius confidenies, Cuftodiani Hofpitalis B. Edmttndi Regis in Gate- Oieved noftrorura Patrona'us 6c Diocef ad totam viiam tuam committimus 5c concedimus per prxlentes, tuara exprefle onerantes confcientiam, ut bona ipfius Hofpitalis diligenter conj,reijes 5c conlerves, ac in uus dcp.i- tatos fideliter facias ercgari. Per boc autem no'.umus nee intendimus naturam (eu fundationcm difti Hoipitalis in aliquo immutare, quin te decente, feu diftum Hofpitale quovis modo dimittente Holpitale prxdiduni alter! perfoni idoneae, in natura Holpitalis, 5c forma Clemeniini ^«ij cintingn liber, committi valcat, hac noftra commifl^ione feu conceftione penitus non obftante. In cujus rei Teftimonium, S .jillum noftrum feci- mus his apfioni. Dat. apud r«»an»r;.»«n ouftium Uc jtHktimJ, iciiiu die menlis Decemb. noftra; tranflationis anno undecimo. I40f . [ The fame. [ The fame. 1405. I The fame. | The fame. j.^„ ^^^^ died Walter Skirlaw Bifrof of Durham : Thomas Langley [ucceeded, and -was confecrated May the -jth. Confirmatio fitper quibufdam Redditibus amortuatis ad CaMtariam in Ecclefia Omnium SanSorum in Novo Caftro. UN I VERS IS Chrifti fidelibus pnfentes Literas inlpefturis, J?l)^^»»Wf; Prior 6c Conventus Ecclefix ca- thedral. Dunelm falutem in Djm. fempiternam. Noveritis nos Literas venerabilis in Chrifto Patris 6c Domini, Dom. IValtert Dei gratia Epifcopi Dunelm. fub tenore qui fequitur, infpexiflc. Waltertts Dei graiil Epifcopus Dunelm. omnibus ad quos prsfcntes literas pervenerint, falutem. Quia accepimus per inquifiiio- nem quam per Robertum Conyers E'caetorum noftrum in Comitat. Dunelm. fieri fecimus, quod non eft ad damnum vcl prejudicium noftrum aut aliorum, fi comcdiiaxxs Ricardo FyJJchlake Capellano. qiiod ipfeunum mefl"ua'. cum pertin in Gatejheied, quod jacet inter tenementum A^netis Lutter ex parte boreali, quondam itt unwi3°i:hon,i (le Modtrhy, &(. xzwemcmnm NeU de Chaiton, quod quondam fuit in tenura T/»(j»Jdi Sarrey; Militis,. ex parte auftrali; 6c quendam annuum reJditum novem folidorum 5c fcx denariorum cxeuntem de tenemento iiupcr Johannii Cuke defundi, modo in iin\ixA Marg.xretn uxoris ejus in eadem villa, qux- de nobis teneniur in c.ipite, dare poflit 8c aflignare dilefto nobis in Chrifto RicardoWdlesby Capellano Cuftodi Cantaria: S.Johan- ms Evanithfti in Ecclefia Omnium Sanclorum in viWn No-viCaftri fuperTynam, habenda 8c tenenda fibi 6c fue- ceftbribus (uis Capelianis 5c Cuftodibus Cantaria; pracdifta;, in fubventionem fuftentationis fux de nobis ac fuccefloribus noftris per fervitia inde debita 6c confueta in perpetuum : 6c eidem Ricardo Wtllesby quod ipfe prsdifta meftuagium 5c redditum cum pertin. a prxiito Ricard^ Fy/fhUsC recipere poflitSc tenere fibi 5t fuccef- foribus fuis prxdiftis Capelianis Cuftodibus Cantari.T; pridiftx in perpetuum, ficut prxdiflum eft, tenore prxfeniiumfimiliter liccntiamdcdimus fpecialem, ftatuto de terris 8c tenementis ad manum mortuam non po- nendis edito non obftante, Nolcntes quod prxdiftus Ricardus Fylfhlahe vel hxredes fui, aut prxhuMRtcardus Wtiieiby vel lucceflbres fui ratione prxmiflbrum per nos vel fuccefl'ores noftros, Tufticiarios, Eicaetores, Vicecvjmiics, aut .ilios Ballivos, feu Miniftros noftros quolcunq; occafionemur, moleftcntur in aliquo, feu o r 1 _ gra- 2o8 Of the Government of the Town. graventui- : Salvis fetnper nobis 8c luccelToribus noftris, 5c aliis Cipitalibus Dominis feodi illius, reddiiibus & (eivitiis inde debitis & confuetis. In cujus rei Teftimonlum has LIteias noftias fieri fecimus Patentes. Dat. Dunelm. per manus Rob. de IVycliff Cancellarii noftri, viccfimo die OChb. anno Pontif. noftri fepnino dccimo. Qua? cjuidem Literas nos Prior 5c Conventus memorati ratas liabentes pariter 5c acceptas, eas pro nobis 8c fuccefloribus noftris ratificamus, approbamus, 6c tenore praelentium confirinamus, ju.ibus 8c libcrtatibus Ec- clefia: !>«»«/«?. in omnibus femper falvis. In cujus rei Teftimonium Sigillum commune Capituli noftri pra;reii. tibus eft appcnfum. Dat. Dunelm. in domo noftra Capiculati, decimo die menfis 2*oi/«w^. AnnoDom. 1406. jln Chrifti. Mayors. Sheriffs. 1407. 1 The fame. 1 The fame. 1408. 1 The fame. | The fame. I40P. 1 William Aughcon | William Middlecon I4I0. 1 The fame. | The fame. I4II. 1 The fame. | The fame. ,.r- The King 141 2. I The fame. | The fame. died Match thezoth, and the next Day his Son K;»2 Henry V. was proclaimed King, and Crowned A^iil the 9th. Henry v. 1415. J The fame. 1 The fame 1414. I Robert Hebborn | William Middleton mthisYear ^if- 1 Thc fame. | The fame. rvhen King Henry v.-as preparing to lead his Forces into France, a Confpiracy at home againft his Life was difcovered, theCon- fpirators teing Richard Earl of Cambridge, Brother of the Duke of Vork, the Lord Scroope, Lord Treafurer, and Sir Tliomas G^ey of Werk in Northumberland, Privy Counfellors, at the Infiigation of the French, viho particularly corrupted Scroope durin<;;W;?;. per progenitores Dom. Regis de elcmollna fua concellk, per.! dpenJa: annuatim ad Feftum S. Mich.uiis Archangel! de feodi firma vill;c pvxdicl.v per manus liominum eiufdem villx. De quibus ciuidem novem libris, tribus fulidis, &. quaiuor denariis prxdic'tis fatemur nos fore folutosy diftjfq; Dom. Rcgem, Majorem, Communltatem, ac Homines dida: villa;, hxrcdes & fiiccelVorcs fuos, inde acquietamus per pra;reii:es. Datas tertio die Oil/l/r. anno regni Reiiis Hcnrici quinti poll conqueftum^/;j/;« oftavo. i4ii. I William Eflington | Laurence A£l:on Dotatio Cafttari^e Johannis Dolfamby itt Ecdejia de Gatethcved. SCI ANT Prxfentes & Futuri quod ego 'Johannes Dol^hamby dc Gatejlieved dedi, conccITi, & hac piifent! Carta mea confirmavi Johanni Vefci Capellano Cantarii Sanftor. Johannis Apoftoli t't Evan^elilhr, & S. Johannis Bapiillx, nuper per me fundatx in Ecclefia B. Marii de GatefieveJ, & fuccctloribus fius Cjpellanis ejuldcmCantatia;, quatuordecemtenementa cum omnibus (uis pertin. in difta villa de Catejhezed: De quibuj quidem tenenientis unuM jacetin Akewct^ate iniec tenemenium Johannis Wermouth ex parte boriali,& tenement, pe.tinens Cantaria: B. Marid in Ecclefia pndida ex parte auftrali, & cxtendit (e a via B.cgia ante ufq; ad terras Dominicales Epilcopi £)«»?;»». retro, i. Item aliud tenementum cum omnibus ftiis periin. liiper le ifiTir.iM^'f, ficut jacet inter tenementum £«;i/?4»;.i: Co/'/'cr ex parte auftrali & tenementum Koier/; Hciiiorr^ ex parte boriali, & extendi: a via Regia ante ufq; ad \e Hokhare retro. 3. Item alia duo tenementa pariter jacentia cum omni- bus (uis pertin. ficut jacent IxipetlelVeJiravjt inter tenementum Jhoms. Fliskeii'ere\ parte auftrali & tenementum .Agnetis iurres ex parte boriali, &: extendunt fe a via Regia ante ufq; ad gardinum cujuidam tenementi quod Chri/lophorus Charles tenet de me in fcodo retro, cum uno gardino ficut jacet inter tenementum pridiLli Chriftophori 5c tenementum meum ex pane ortentali 5c croftum quod Wiilitlmiis Buhner tenet de me in feodo ex parte occidentali, & extendit fe a gardino RobertiWhelpyngton ex parte auftrali ufq; ad gardijiura nicuni ex parte boriali. 5. Item aliud tenementum cum omnibus luis pertin. fuperle (-Ff/Zrdz/.f ficut jacet fupcr comeinm dz Pi[-ewelgatc inter tenementum Agnetis Surres ex par'te auftrali 5c venellam de Pipewclgate e\ pane boreali, 6c extendit fe a via Regia ante ufq; ad tenementum Rogeri deThornetonxtuo. 6. Item aliud tenementum emu omnibus (uis pertin. fuper le Ejirazve ficut jacet inter tenementum nuper Johannis B.tnl-e ex pane boriali Sc tenementum quod WiZ/if/OTWiCoj/iyw^ tenet de me in feodo ex parte auftrali, & extendit ie a via Regia ante u(q; ad \e Ground Ebl/e deTyne retro. 7. Item aliud tenementum cum omnibus fuis pertin. ficut jacet fupcr le iJ/njit/e inter venellumvocaiumHe/^ii/f ex parte boriali & tenementum (f^/W/e/wi 5irrcu'd»c ex parte auftrali, & extendit fe a via Regia ante ufq; ad tenementum nufer Johannis Stohdale retro. 8. Item aliud tenementum cum omnibus fuis pertin. ficut jacet fuper Ic EJlrawe inter tenementum nuper WilUelmi Langeton ex parte boriali 5c le O'jerkirlig Chare ex parte auftrali, Sc extendit fe a via Regia ante ufq; ad diftum Kirkc Chare retro. 9. Item aliud tenemen- tum cum omnibus fuis pertin. ficut jacet fuper le K/?r4ti'e inter tenementum nuper Hw^onijBijrio^r ex pane bo- riali 5c tenementum Robert! Whelpyngton ex parte auftrali, 5c extendit fe a via Regia ante ufq; ad le Common Gutter retro ; cum duobus felionibus terrx ficut jacent inter terram 'Dom.Thoma.Surtays Militis, ex parte auftrali ic terram /4'//i/c.';«; Hi/ru?; ex parte boriali, 5c cxtendit fe ab alta via Regia ante ufq; ad viam qua: ducit verfus X)«- nelm.ruto. 10. Item quatuor tenementa pariter jacentia fuper \t EJlrawe inter tenememum Ads. del Granngc ex parte boriali Sc tenementum 3'''i"'»»" C«i/or(/ e:c parte aulhali, cum omnibus fuis pertin. 1 1. Item aliud tene- mentum cum omnibus fuis pertin. ficut jacet fuper le E/irawe inter tenementum nuper Roberti Galefore ex parte boriali 5c tenementum Johannis Sutton ex parte auftrali, 5c extendit fe a via Regia ante ufq; ad Akezvelgate retro : Habcnda 5: tenenda omnia pracJiifla 5c fingula quatuordecim Tenementa, cum omnibus fuis pertin. prxfato Johanni Vefcy 5c fuccefloribus fuis, CapcIIanis ejufdemCantaiix, dc Capitalibus Dominis feodorum illorum per fervitiaindedebita 5c de jurcconfueia in perpctuum. Et ctjo prsdiftus Johannes Dolphamby 5c h;trcdes mei om- nia prxdicia 5c fingula quatuordecim tenementa, cum omnibus fuis peitin. ^\x{AioJohanuiVefcy5<.(\icceffo-\- bus fuis, Capellanis ejufdem Cantarii, contra omnes gentes warantizabimus 5t iii perpetuum dcfcndemus. In cuius rei Tcftimonium prxfeiiti Cartx mcx SigiUum meum appofui, his Teftibus Henruj Eton Reftore Ecclefix d:Q..KdeGateJ})eved, Roberto Helton, IVitlieimoGaiegang, Johanne Gilford, Williftmo Bottby, Roberto Cok, Thoma. Hidlam, Sc aliis. Datum apud Gaieflxved in Fefto Apoftolorum Petri 5c Pa:ili, A" Dom, 142 1. 5c A" Regis Henrici quinti poft Conqucft. Angiu ilono. 1412. j The fame. | Thomas Chirdon Hemy VI. The K/nj died Aug. ;i. His Son i'iw^ Henry ,'/;f VI''', in the ninth Month of h:s Age, vjas proclaimed, 1413. j William Ellerby ] The fame. Hhh 1424. ^lo Of the Government of the Town. jiin' ChriJIi Mayors. Sheriffs. 1424. ( The fame. ( The fiimc. O' Co'/jfirmatio CaKtaria Johannis Dolphamby i» Ecchfut da Gatcflicved. lMNIBUS Chrifti fidelibus prifentes Litems infpeifluiis Johannes Piiov Ecciefix Caihcdfalis VnKelm. & _r e|u(dem loci Capitulum, falutem in omnium Salvatoie. Novcriiis nos Litcias Reveiendi in Ciirifto Pa- tris & Domini, Dom. Thomn Deigratiaj Diinelm. Epifcopi, fub tcnoie qui fcquitur, infpcxiire. Thcmas Dei ;;ia- lia Epifcopus Dunelm. Omnibus ad quos pracfentes Litera: peivencrint, falutem. Scintis quod de gvatia noftia fpeciaii conceflimus & licentiamdedimus pro nobis & fuccelFoiibus noftris, quantum in nobis elv, 'Joliannt Dol- fhamhydeGateJIieved, quod ipfe quandam Cantariam de uno Capellano divina ilngulis dicbus in Ecclclia paio- chiali ii. Marid de Gate/heved, pro falubri ftatu noftro wc ipfius 'Johannis dum vixcrimus, 6c pro animabus nolhis, cumab iiacluce mi^raverimus, ac animabus Willielmi Johanfon nuper burgenfis vilix NoviCaftri JtiperTynam, ac patrum, matrum, uxorum, liberorum, fratrum, fororum, parentum, benefaftovum nolh'orum, & om- aiium fidelium defunftorum, juxta ordinationem ipfius Johannis in bac parte faciendam, celebraturo in pcr» petuum. facere, fundare, 6c ftabilire poflu ; & quod idem ^ofejinnej, poftquam difta Cantaria fie fac'Va, fundata, & ftabilita fuerit, dare poflit & afiignare pra;fato Capellano quatuordecim mefluagia cum pcnin. iaGaielheved, qux de nobis tenentur in burgagio, habenda, tenenda, & percipienda cidem Capellano & fucceffbribus luis, CapellanisCantaria: prxdiftx, in auxiliuni, fuftentationis (ux in perpetuum : Et eidcm Capellano quod meflu- agia prxdifta cum pertin. a prxfato^o/)«»e/»7. in Dome noftra Capitular), feptimo'die menfis Of/oi. A" Dom. 1414. 1415-. I The fame. I John Tray. 142(5. j Roger Thornton | The fame. 1427. [ The fame. [ John Jay. 1428. 1 John Rhodes | The fame. This rear 1 429. 1 The fame. { John Clark. died that no- lle Benefaclor Koaer Thornton, whofe laft Will and Tejlamenl is a good Proof of the JItining Worth of this cminint Magijirate, and well deferves a Place here ; for which the World is indebted w John Thornton of Nether Wittoft i» Northumberland, Efq; a worthy Defcendant of this Per/on. E Regiftr. Thomx Langley Epifcopi Dunehti. fol. 163. a. UNIVERSIS S. Matris Ecclefix Filiis prifentes Literas infpefturis Thomas Pcrmifllone Divina Viineim. Epifcopus, falutem in Domino, 5c fidem indubiam prxfentibus adhib. Noveritis quod nuper infpedo Re- "iftro noftro, inter cxrera Teftamentum Kogeri Thornton fenioris, nuper de villa NoviCaJiri JitperTynam, no- ftrx Diocef. Mercatoris, 5c per nos probatura in forma juris in eodem invenimus contineri: Qiiod quidcni Teftamentum ad humilem 5c inftantem fupplicationcm dilcfti nobis in Chrifto filii Roi^eri Thornton, tilii prxdifli liogeri Thornton Teftatovis, 5c Executoris unici diclo Teftamento nominati, exemplificari tenorem 6c vcram copiam cjufdem Teftamenti de Regiftro noftro extrafti fecimus tranfcribi, cujus tenor de verbo in verbuni fcquitur fub hac forma. In Nomine Patris, 5c Filii, & Spiritus Sanfti, Amen. The Thurfday next before Yole-day in the Tear of our Lord 1429. / Roger Thornton the Elder makes and ordains my Tejiament and my lajl Will inthis Form following: That is to fay, I commend my Soul to the Mercy of GOD, and my Body to be buried bejide my Wife in Alhallowcs Kyrl; of Ncwcaftle, Alfo I will, that every Prieji Secular being at mine Interrmeni haze to pray for my Soul and to be at my Dirgies and Jorth bringing one Noble. Alfo I will, that one hundred Pounds be fpcnded and delt at mine Interr- ment, th'Ams of Roger my Son. yllfo I give to the Vicar of S. Nicholas Kirk Jor forgotten Tends five Pounds. Item, To the Kirh »/ S. Nicholas Reparation and Enormcnts thereof fourty Marks-, alfo to A\hMov/ in like Form twenty Pounds. Item, To S. John's Kirk four Pothers of Lead. Item, I'o S. Andrew's Kirk two Fothers of Lc.id. Item, Ttf the tepermen of Newcaftle two Pounds. Item, To the Chappcl of S. Thomas upon Tync-Bridgc Ji:< Fothcrs of Lead. Item, To Reparation of Weft Spittel two pothers of Lead. Item, To the Walknowl Reparation of their Kirk tivo Po- thers of Lead. Item, To the Reparation of the Nuns of Newcaftle two Pothers of Lead. Item, To the Lepremen of 'HzWQi^Xf: two Pounds. Item, To the Reparation of Tyne-Bridge of Newcaftle one hundred Marks, if fo that the Mayor and Commons will retcafe me all Adions, as I that never hindred them, nor nought av:e them a: my witting, but this Idejire for ef chewing oj Clamour. Item, To the Melondieu of S. Kathcrin* o/wj Foundation, for their Enor- ments, twenty Pounds. Item, To my Chantry of S. Peter in Alhallow Kirk, for the Enorments thereof, ten Pounds. Item, To the Chappel of Witton by the Water jix Marks. Item, To-every Hoiifeoj Alms ordeyncd for Bedrydcns in Newcaftle one Mark, which fliall be Parcel of the f.iid Summe that (l>Mi be fpvn uHn mine Interment. Item, To the Raa' Of the Government of the To^xqi. in Rcfarat:on oC thofe Tenements that I have given to the aforefaid Mefondieu and to the fa':d Chdntrj forfj Pi^undi. Item, / zvdl that thirty Pricfis fing fir me two Tears next after my Deccife. ilk Pricjl having forhisSouldi by lear eight Mar'ns. Item, / -Mill that fiur hundred Marks whilh that the Priour and Coze>!t Hcxhany awe mc Oe di/p,:nfcdy l'y?S'"S of f '"''"' *-'"'^'. '/ they will make agreeable Seurtes that it fiall he duely do/ic. Item, 1 give lo the Houfi of Bljncliiand tv.-o Mothers of Lead. Item, To Bi-inkboui-ii twoFothers of Lead. Item, To Cqckct Eland one t'other of Lead. Item, To Rei-aration of Tarn E\ind one Pother of Lead. Item, To the 'i!luns of H.\\\yi\3acso>.e Fother of Lead.' Item, To every ilk of the four Orders Mendicnnts of Nevvc.iftle to pray for my Sajile ten Marks, to be defaitcd to ewry Frier Conventual by the Ams of my Son. Item, Itvill that fie lleclufc c/Nevvcalllc, Henry Lincoln owu AftirJt. Item, To Wil- liam Mawe, if he make true Recomng, twenty shilling. Item, To Thomas Gentleman one Pound. Item, Vo Joha Tinmouth twenty Shillings. Item, To Emery Hecring five Pound. Item, To William Desbrougli five Pound. Item, Ti9 Henry Thornton /^'c/'o»«op of Sarum, Jan. 27. 1438. I Rob.Whelpington j John Caftle OJficium Parcarii ac Cuftodis Turris de Gatcihcvcd conccjfum Roberto Prcfton. T? OB£RTt/S Permiflione Divina D«»e/»;. Epifcopus omnibus ad quos praefentes Liieix pervcnerint falu- teni. Sciatis quod de gratia noftra fpeciali, ac pro laudabili ferviiio quod dileftus nobis Rohertus Prtfl/tn nobis & Ecdefix noftri Vunelm. impendit, & in futurum. annuente Domino, impendet, dedimus 5c coiicellimus eidcm Roberto Prefton officium Parcarii noftri de Guteflieved, cum lierbagio infra eundem parcum, una cum curto- dia turris noftrx ibidem, Habend. tenend. ac occupand. officium procdictum cum lierbagio & cuftodia pri-diftis per fe, feu per fufficientem deputatum fuum, pro quo refpondere Toluerit, ad terminum viii fua:, percipiendo de nobis Si fuccefloribus noftris per manus Magiftri Foreftarii noftri ibidem, qui pro tempore tuerit in officio prardifto, pro cuftodia dicii parci unum denarium 8c obolum per diem ad duos anni terminos, viz, ad Fefta pafchs, Jc S. Jll/fAje/(i Archangeli annuatim durante vita prxdifti Roherti Pre/Ion xqualiter (olvendos ; ac pro cuftodia turris noftri unum denarium per diem per manus Ballivorum, Minillrorum, feu quorumcunq; aliorum occupatorum infra dominium noftrumdeG4/(!/7;*i;crf pridift. pro tempore exiftentium, pra:6\ Ao Rrberto Preften finoulis annis durante vita fua ad terminos diftos arqualiter folvendum ; una cum omnibus aliis proficuis, cuftubus, feodis, & commoditatibus eifdem officio flc cuftodix qualitercunq; fpeftantibus. Dedimus infuper & conceflimus pro nobis &: fuccefToribus noftris eidem Roberto Pre/ion durante vita (ua unam robam defcda va- lefta vel ofto folidos nomine ejufdem roba: quolibet anno :id?cAum Satalh Domini (ibi foivendos. Incujus vei Teftimonium Siglllum magnum Cancellarix noftrie Vitnelm. fecimus his apponi. Dat. oftavodicmenfts Afriiis, Anno Domini 1438. & noftra: Tranflat. primo. i4?9- I John Clark | William Harding Conccjfio Nomi»ntionis ad Ecclefiam ParochiaUm de Gateftievcd CaHccllario Oxon. catuiq; Regeittium O* '(ton RegeKtium in eadem. KOB E R TVS Permiffione Divina Dunelm. Epifcopus Venerabih'bus Sc prxdilcftis viris, Cancellario llnivcr- fitatis Oxon. ciiuiq, Regentium &. non Regeniium in eadem, falutem, & per augmentum profcc'lus fcho- lafticide virtute crefcere in virtutera. Laftati in uberibusAlmx Matris noftra; Univerfitatis antediclx rcfeftione fcientii falutaris ipfius ftudium in prole frcunda per falutiferos palmites cupimus ampliare , ut dilataio fui tentorii loco funiculos faciat longiores. Hinc eft quod de veftris circumfpeAione & prudentia confidcntes no- min.nionem Ecclefii p3rochialisdeG4/«//;£(/e noftrorumPatronatus, Coliaiionis, 6c Dioce(. cum iplam proxl- me (impliciier vacare coniigerit, vobis ilia unica vice duntaxat, concedimus Ipffcialem : fic quod pertonam per vos nominandam infra tres menfes poll vacationem Beneficii hu'iufmodi nobis aut fuccelFori noftro no- min.irccurecis ad eftci^uni, ut eidem nominato nominationis veftra; pra;tevtu ea viceEcdcfinm hujufmodi con- feramus, fuccellorve noftcr conferre valeat in eventu, citerum fafturi vel fafturus qu.T noftro aut Cixo in liac parte incumbunt officio paftorali. Data nonodiemenflsOr/dt. A" Dom. 1439. & noftrx Tranflat. fccundo. 1440. 1 John Chambers | John Mufgravc Commijfio Domini Regis faSla Roberto Rodes fupcr Officio Contraroiul.itoris vilLe Novi Caftri fuper Tynam. fJ r. S R ICUS Dei Gratia Rex Art;lii & Franciit 8c Dtominus Hibernii, omnibus ad quos prxfcntes Literae pcrvenerint, falutem. Sciatis quod conftituimus Robertum Rodet Contrarotubtorem nolVruin tarn magna: Jv parv.c Cuftumx, quam fubfidii lanarum, corioruni, & pellium lanatarum, nee non fublidii trium folido- rum do dolio, 6c duodecim denariorum de libra in portu villx KoviCafln fuperTy>i;J»», 5c in Tingulis portubus 6c locis eidem portui adiacentibus, Habendum 6c icncndum illud officium quamdiu nobis placuevit ;, percipi- endo in illo officio fcoda6cvadia confueta, ita tamen quod idem /?oJer/«j rouilos fuosmanulua propri.i I'ciibat, £c coniinuo morctur ibidem, ac omnia alia officium illud tangentia in propria perfona fua, 6c non per fubfti- tutum fuum, juxta formam ftatuiorum in hac parte ediiorum, facial £c exequatur -, V'olentes quod alicra pars Si^illi noftri, quod dicitur Coket. in portu pricdifto in cuftodia ipfius Roberti remancat, quamdiu officium ha- buerit fupradittum. In cuius rei Teftimonium has Literas noftras fieri fecimus Patcntes. Tcftc Msipio apud Wejiifioniiji. Jccimo fexto die Jid'.i, Anno Regni nofhi deciino no.To, \'..'.. U4-. e Of the Government of the Town. 2 1 3 CommiJJio f^clu Priori Dunclni, ad recipiendum S.KramcHtt'.i» llobcrti Rbdes Contmrotitlaierii FilL-c Novi Caftri. J^E S KICUS DciGr.Tti.t Rex ^x;.';< & FrJHfM, & Dominus H/Jrrn/f, dilefto fibi in ChiiHo Priori tmndm. f.ilutcm. Scintis i]uoJ Jedimus voLns potellatem recipieiidi Sacraracntumdilecli nobis Roberti Roiies, Coiura- ro:ulatori^ nolbi t.im mngnx & parvx Cullumx, quain fubfidii lanarum, coviorum, & pellium lanaranim, nee non fuLifidii trium fohdorum de dolio, &: diiodecim denarioium de libra in portu villx NoviCaftri jitter 'lyn.im, 5c in linJulis portubus 6c locis eiJcm portui adjacentibus, de officio illo bene &: fidclitcr taciendo juxtd foiinni« c'li'.ildam Iceduki; pra-fentibus interclufi. Et ideo vobis in fide Sc dilcftionc, t^uibn? nobis tenemini, iJijiini^inius S: nuind.imus, qnod Sacramentum prxdiilum lecipiatis, & cum illiid recipcriiis, eidem Roberto Lite- ras noftras Paientcslibideorticio iUofaftas, qujs vobis mittimus per larorem prifentium, libeieiis : Et nobis de Sacramento illo, cum fie captum fuerit, in Canceliariam noftram fub fiwillo veftro diftinfte & aperte fine dilatione cojil^arc facialis, remittcctes nobis hoc breve. TefteMcipfo 2^adWcJlmonaJi. decimo fcxto die 2«'"< Anno Ke^ni noftri 19°. Jiirar/te-atiim Roberti Rodcs Cofitraroiulntoris Vill fccundum formam cujufdam Scedulx adtunc huic Brevi indufx. 1440. jlfi" CImfti. Mayors. Sheriffs. 1441. I William Harding [ Simon Weldotl ^^^ 1441. I Thomas Wardell | William Jay 1445. I John Mufgrave | Thomas Hcdlam 1444. 1 William Harding [ Thomas Bee i44f. I William Jay | John Ward 1445. 1 William Harding | John Winton 1447 I The fame. | Robert Baxter Marmaduke Lumley^nrii Sifhop of Carlifle made Lord Trtafurer, Deccmb. 18, 144!?. I John Ward [ John Richardfon Apfropridtio Capella S. Edmundi Epifcopi in Gatefhcved fa£la IVIomalibus S. Bartholomaoi it* Novo Caltro per Robcrtum Epifc. Dunelm. "r tNIVERSIS Chrifti Fidelibus prxfentes Literas infpe£tutis Robertus Permiflione Divina Dunelm. Epi("co- V^ pus, falutem in Aiidore SaUuis. Matris Ecclefix circumfpecla benignitas illorum gravaminibus libcniius compatitur & mifcriis promptius providet, quos prx cxtcris vitx Sc morum excellentia prxfuigentes virtuoiis niorum pr.Tiniis dignos reJdunt potioribus attoUi favoribus 6c majoribus bencficiis honorari. Sane exhibit* nobis nupcr pro parte Religiofarum Mulierum PriorilTx 6c Conventus Monafterii five Prioratus S. ^jr'/'i'DW^i in Novo Ctflro fuper I'ynam noAxx Dunelm. DioQcf. petitio continebat, Qtiod licet ipfum Monafterium fuum ex: fua prim.tva f'undatione in fruftibus, ledditibus, & proventibus ad fultcntationem PriorifTx 6c Conventu* ibidem, ac aliorum ferviiorumdegentiumin eodem, rcceptionem hofpitum, ac alia incumbentia onera debite fupportaiida fufficicntcr dotatum luerat : at pofteadecrefccntibus proventibus ejufdem Monafterii cum annua peufionc decern marcarura de Ecdelia de Weffyngtor) exeuntc per felicis lecotdationis Kicardum quondam Dunelm. 1 i i ' ■ Epifco- 214 Of the Government of the Town. |, I^pifcopum relevatum extitcrat, jamq; tcmporis curfu in detcrias dibbentur fruftu";, reJditus Sc provrntus fl ip(ius Monnftarii pev ignis incendin ac alia myndi infoirunia, Sc pr.xfcnim non foluiioneni diclx annua- peti- fl lionis, <]ux propter notoriam cxilitatcm d'lAx 'Ece\e(ix ie IVeJJynpoii Mvi non potuit de eadeni, itatenuesoc *' exiles exiftiint in piaffenri, quod pro honcfta fua luftcnt.uione & leivitarum luovum, ac hofpitum receptione, cum idem Monafteiium fuum in diQ.3 \'dh NoviC'iftri muitumfamofa fit conftiiiituin, nee non dumuruni 6c sdificioium eidem penincntium lepaiatione, & aliis oncribus ipfi Monaftcrio fuo ncccllario ineumbeniiju,-: debite fiippoitandis non Tufficiunt nee futficere poterunt vciifimiliter in futuium, nifi de aliciijus (ubvcniioiits , remedio cidcm fuccuiratur ; quodq; pvimiiTorum prastcxtu dicta EcelefiadelVij/ynj/D;? a foUuione difta: pcn- fionis cxoneiatafuic, &. in recompenfam diftaeanniia; penfioiiis dc poft iifdcm Prioiilli 3c ConvcntuidcfruflU bus, redditibui, & proventibus Ecclefixde R^/on diflx noftrx Dioccf. vnloieni Ecclefia: dejrfj^^v:^fo«antedicli jiotoiie excedentis, juxta oidinationem noftiam in ea parte (aftam peiTolvcndi provifiofada tuit. Etconfid^- rato infupcr quod lites & litigia ex verifimili ijiter Cuiatum Ecclcfia: de Ryton mL-moraix qiix cuiata exiftit & diAas Keligjoras Mulieres occafione penfionis huiufmodi oviri poterunt in futurum, (iciit inter Reftorcm Ec- cleiK-E de Welfsngton & ipfas Religiofas Mulieres liujufniodi litigia fipius evenerunt tcmporlbus rctroaftis, unio, ;innexio, incorporatio, & appiopriatio CapcUa; S. V.dm:indi Epi(copi in C/itcJIievcd noftrarum Collaiicnis& Diocef. eis & earum iMonafterio fupraJi£lo facicndoe pietati conJonx merito cenfeantur, cum ex his ficunitit flatus utriufq; iiberius poterit fupportari, unde pro parte earundem RcligiofarumMulicrum PrioriiTi ik Con- ventus nobis liumiliter extitit fupplicatum & inftantcr petitum per eafdem, quod, praemiflisdiligenter attenth, in earum Sc (ui Monallerii (uccurfum & relevamen, futuramq; exonerationem diilx Ecclefii de Ryton & eiufdem Jlcftoris a folutione diftrc penfionis decern marcarum qua plurimum pra:gravatur, diftam Capcllam S. Ed- miindi B^iicopi inGate/heved noftrarum CoUationis&Diocef. cum iuis juribus 6c pertin. univerfiseisSc eavum Monafterio flipradifto, ac fibi in eodemfucceduris quibufcunq; unire, anneftere, incorporare, & appropriare in ufus fuosprbprios peVpetuO podidendam, ulteriufq; pronunciare, declarave, ordinare, ftatuere, & decernere jn liac parte quod eft jultum Sc confonum pietati dignaremur. Nos igitur Regularis vita: lioneftatem, diviniq; cultus fomentum, liofpitum receptionem. Si alia caritatis opera, & vigentia graiiarum muncra, quaeindifto fuo Monafterio haftenus abundarunt, nee non verifimilia litigia inter ipfas Religiofas Mulieres & Reftorem de Ryten in exaftione diftoe annuae penfionis decern marcarum futuris temporibus eventura, cxteraq; alia per eafdem dedufta diligentius attendentes, ac ipfarum Religiofarum Mulierum veto circa appropriaiionem, unio- nem & incorporationem pridiftas quantum de jure pofiumus fatisfacere cupientes, fuper praemiflis omnibus & fingulis pro parte ipfarum Religiofarum Mulierum Prioriflx 5c Conventus nobis fuggeftis, ac carieris in ta parte nccellariis & de jure requifitis inquiri fecimus diligentius veritatem : Et quia tam per hujufmodi inquifi- tionem in ea parte ta^am quam etiam per alia documenta coram nobis exhibita, allegata, & probata inve- nimus di£la fuggefta &c petita fuilTe 8c efle vera, 5c quod evidens utilitas, urgenfq; neceftltas unionem, an- jiexionem, incorporationem, 5c appropriatlonemdifts Capellae S. HJwaniii Epifcopi in Caiejlitved ipfi Mona- fterio S. Biirtholoma 6c ejufdem Prioriflac 8c Conventui ac fibi fucceffuris faciendam expolcunt; nos ipfarum ^Religiofarum Mulierum Prioriflk 8c Conventus virtutum merita quibus invenimus eas infigniri, earumq; 8c tui Monafterii fupradiSi exilitatem 8c penuriam, ac litcs 8c litigia qux ex verifimili inter Curatum Ecclefii de Xy/o» memorara;, diftafq; Religiofas Mulieres occafione penfionis antediftje oriri poterunt in futurum, ficut alias in 6c pro penfione EccleCs de Wejfyngton inter Reftorem 8c diftas Mulieres orta 8c mota novimus ab ex- perto, ac etiam fuggefta 8c petita prout juri convenit (ollicite ponderantes, earumq; neceftliati &<. indigentiz pio compatientes affeftu, habito in hac parte cum Priore 8c Capitulo Ecdefiae noftrac Catliedralis D«»Wot. dili- genti traftatu, corumq; confenfu ad pra:mi(ra concelTo pariter 8c obtento, omnibulq; aliis, quae in hujufmodi approprijtionis, unionis, 8c incorporationis negotio, de jure requiruntur, concurrentibus 8c obfcrvatis, in- vocata Spiritus Santli gratia hujufmodi caufas unionis, annexionis, incorporationis five appropriationis in dida petitione contentas, 8c alias pro parte earundem Religiofarum Mulierum nobis expofitas & cxprcflTatas, veras, Icgitimas, 8: luffii-ionres. ac rite 8c legitime .probatas fuifle 8c efle pronunciamus, decernimus, Sc de- claramus : Ac diftam Capellam S.^JirofWi/iEpiIcopi inGateflieved cum ruis )uribus 8c pertinentiis univerfis, ex caufis pra-'diftis 8c propter eas, difto Monafterio S. Bartholomii 8c ejufdem PriorilTaE 8c Conventui fibiq- in eodem luccefliuis quibulcunqjdeexpreflb confenfu 8c voluntatediftorumPrioris8c Capituli D«»f/wj. jure tamen alterius cujufcunq, in omnibus fetnper falvo, annexuimus, univimus, incorporavimus, 8c appropriavimus in ufus fuos proprios perpetuo poUidendam ; ficq;anneftimus, unimus, incorporamus, 8c appropriamus per pra;rentes. Ita viz. quod cedente, decedente, refignante, dimittente, vel amoto Magiftro five Cuftode ejuf- dem Capelia:, qui nunc eft, feu ipfa Capella quomodolibet vacante, liceat Priorifli 8c Conventui, cjui pro tempore fuerint, ipfius Capella: ficvacantis realem pofTeffionem auftoritate propria apprchendcreSc eamlicite retiiiere, noftris aut fucceflorum noftrorum quornmcunq; Dundm. Epifcoporura licentia, anftoritate, con- fenfu, aut voluntate in ea parte minime expeftatis. Poft cujus quidem Capellx S. Edmundi Epifcopi inGate- y/jcic/adcp'.am pofleftTonemdiftam penfionem decern marcarum de fruftibus, redditibus, Sc proventibus drftx Ecclefia: de Ryton excuntem 6c eildem Prioriflk 8c Conventui juxta vim, formam, 8c cfteftum ordinationis Tioft\'a: in ea parte fafta, annuatim perfolvendam, ftatim 8c incontinenti ceiTare volumus 8c cafTamus, ac ipfam Ecclefiam 8c ejufdem Reftorem quemcunq-, pro tempore exiftentem ab ulteriori folutione hujufmodi penfionis in ipfo eventu exoneramus 8c exoneratos efie decernimus 8c declaramus per prifentes, pra:faiaq; PiioriftaS: Conventus extunc in perpetuum in recompenfam ejufdem penfionis decem marcarum, cum hujuf- modi poflcfiloncm diftae Capellae natlx fuerint, ut pnfertur, 8c non aliter, reputabunt fe contentas, 6c ab omni exaftione, petitione, profccutione, 8c reclamatione difti penfionis in ea parte omnino fint excltifi in perpetuum. Et ne, quod abfit. prxfentis unionis, annexionis, incorporationis, 8c appropriationis nego- tium ultra dcbitum prorogetur, aut noftra intenfio in ea parte quovifmodo fruftretur, Magiftro fiveCuftodi diftacCapelix S. /:'^WK»(^( Epifcopi moderno facultatem permutandi eandem interdicimus, & ipfam Capellam ad cundem efFcftum refervandam fore decernimus, 8c atficimus per decretum. Volumus infuper, ftatuimus. ordinnmus, 5c decernimus quod pra:fata Priorifla 8c Conventus, 6c eis in dido Monafterio fucceftura: fumpti- bustuis propriisSc cxpcnfis invenient duos Capellanos bona: vita: U converfationis honeftx MilFas 6c alia divina officia in cadei.i Capella S. ZTi^OTrwi; Epifcopi pcrpctuis futuris temporibus pro animabus fundatorum ejufdem quotidie cum diipofiti fuerint cclebraturos, ipfamq; Capellam 8c citera xdificia tam infra quam extra eidem pcrtinentia rcparabttnt £c naanutcnebunt fumptibus fuis 8c expenfisut prifertur. Nee non alia oneraordinaria & cxtraovdinaria eidem Capella: qualitercunq; incumbentia (ubient Scfupportabunt debiie utdeberent. Prjc- tcrea pro indemnita:e noftra 5c fucceftorum noftrorum Vtinclmcn. Epifcoporum quorumcunq; ac Ecclefix noftra; Catliedralis Vi/nthn. PriorisSc Capituli in prxiiiiftis falvanda, in recompeniationem emo'iumcntorum quz Of the Government ofth^ Tow^n. 215 rus nos & fucceflores iioftri prxfatiq; Prior & Capitulutn potcrimus (cu poteiiiu de diAa Capella S. EJm:i-;di Epifcopi, fi hiijurmodi unio, aiinexio, incovporatio, 5: appropviacio dc cadem f'aftr iion efleiit, percipere & li.iberc, ipfam CapcUam lie unitani, aniiexam, iiicorpoiatam, Sc appropiiatam cum annua penfioiie iex folidorum&oaodenariorum nobis &. fuccefloribus noftvis, cum alia etiam penlloiie trium folijorum Sc ciua- :uor denariorum prxt.itis Priori & Capitulo port naftam poffellionem ciufdem Capellx per prilatam PrionflTam & Conveinum, Sc fihi in codem Monafterio perpetuis futun's temporibus fuccelTuras in Veilo NativitatnS. Jo- hannis Eaptifts snnii Cins,u\h perfolvendis oneramus & oneratam elledecernimus per pvifentes. Turibus noftris Epifcopalibus & Ecclelia; noftra; Cathedralis Dunelm. libertatibus, priviiegiis, & dignitate, jurcq; alterius cuiufcuncj; in omnibus feinper (alvis. In quorum omnium & fingulorumTcftimonium atq; Fidem Sigillum noftrum ad caufas pra;fcniibus duximus apponendum. Data feptirao die menlls Octobr. A» Dom. 1448. & nodrx Traiidaiionis uiidecimo. Ad p. 49. Obligatio Monali:itn de Novo Caftro de annrta Pewfione. PATEAT Univerfis per prxfentes Nos Margaretam Prioriflam domus S. Monafterii S. Bartholomel in Novo Cajho fuper Tyna;n , Diinelm. DioceC & ejufdem loci Conventum concclliHe & hac pvxfenti carta noftra confirraarte vencrabilibus & religiofis viris Priori Sc Capitulo Ecclefii Cathedralis Dunetm. eorumq; fucceiro- ribus in pcrpetuum unam annuam Pendonem trium folidocum 5c quatuor denariorum cxeuntcmde omnibus terris &; tenemeiuis noftris pertinentibus ad Capellam S. Edmandi Epifcopi in Gateflieved, ratione indempnitatis eorundem Prioris & Capituli ac fua: Ecclefia: Cathedralis Dunelm. praediftae, confirmandam in annexione, unione, incorporatione, S: appropriatione prsfatx Capelli S.Edmundi EpiCcofiinGatefieved domai noftrs, five difto Monafterio noftro auftoritate ordinaria nuper dcdiftorum Prioris & Capiruli confcnfu faftis : Ha- bendam Sc percipiendam pra;diaam annuam Perifionem trium folidorum Sc quatuor denariorum prxfatis Priori & Capitulo Sctuccedoribus fuis de nobis Sc fuccertoribus noftris. ac de omnibus terris Sc tenementis difta; Ca- pellx S. Edmiindi in Gatefliede qualitercunq; provenientibus annuatim, ad Feftum Nativitatis S. Johannis Baptifi& tantum, juxta vim, formam, Sc efFeftum ordinationis Tuper difta unione, annexione, incorporatione, 8c appropriatione per Reverendum in Chrifto Patrem Sc Dominum, Dom. Rij6frr«w Dei gratia D«nc/?«. Epifco- pum habitx Sc ftatuta;. Provilo quod fi contingatdiftam annuam Penfionem trium (olidorum 8c quatuor dena- riorum vel aliquam ejus partem a retro fore non folutam per menfis fpatium poft Feftum pridiftum, quo (olvl debeat, quod tunc bene licebit diftis Priori 8c Capitulo Sc eorum fuccelToribus in omnibus Sc finguiis terris 6c tenementis ad diftam Capellam S. Edmundi Epifcopi in Gateflieved quomodolibet fpeclantibus diftringere Sc diftriftiones inde captasabducere, afportare.Sc penes fe retinei'e quoufq; eisde difta annua Penfione, una cum arreragiis Sc expends in ea parte fadis plenarie fuerit fatisfa£li. In cujus rei Teftimonium Sigillum noftrum commur^e prxfentibus duximus apponendum. Datum in domo noftra Capitulart zo. die menus Ot'lo^. Anno Don). 144S. /lit Obligation or Bond of the NuHs of Newcaftle, concerning an annual Penfton, JRE it known to all by thefe Prefents, That we Margaret Priorefs of the Nunnery of 5. Bartholomew'^ in NeW- caftle upon Tyne in the Dwcefe of Durham, and the Convent of the fame Place, have granted and by this our frefent Writing have confirmed to the Venerable and Religious Men, the Prior and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of ' Durlum, and their Succe/fors for ever, one annual Penfion of three Shillings and four Pence ijfuing from all our Lands andTenemems belongingto theChafelof St. Ldmand the Bijhop (»Gate(head, iy reafon of the Indemnity of the faid Prior and chapter and their Cathedral Church of DMvh:im aforefaid, to be confirmed in the Annexion, Union, Incor- poi ation and Appropriation of the aforefaid Chapel of St. Edmund the Bifliop in Gateftiead '" """^ Houfe or our faid Mo- riaflery lately made hy tU. <.rA,n—'y-t'itl'«i'"j «"t'o./«/ir.. „/-,/.. yu„j t-iiuj ana Chapter: Tobehad and to be paid the aforefaid annual Penfion of three Shillings and four Pence to the aforefaid Prior and Chapter and their Surceffors by us and our Surceffors from all the Lands and Tenements of the faid Chapel of St. Edmund in Gatelhead however arifing •yearly, at the Feafl of the Nativity of St. John the Baptift only, according to the Force, Form and EffeSl of the Ordi- nation had and eflabliflied upon the faid Union, Annexion, Incorporation and Appropriation by the Reverend Father inClnift and our Lord Robert by the Grace 0} God BiJIwpof Durham. Provided that if the faid annual Penfion of three Shillings and four Pence or any Part of it be not paid in a Month's time after the Fea/l aforefaid, wherein it ought to be paid, that then it Jhall be lawful to the faid Prior and Chapter and their Succejfors to diflrain in all and every the Lands and Tenements belonging to the [aid Chapel of St. Edmund the Bifhop in Gatelhead, and the Diflraints thence taken to carry away and keep in their Cuflody, till full Satisfadion be made for the faid annual Penfion, together with the Arrears and Expences made in that Part. In Teftimony whereof we have thought fit to affix our commoa Seal to thefe Prefents. Dated in our Cha^ter-houfe Oftob. 20. An. 1448. Jn' Chrifli. Mayors. Sheriff's. 1449. 1 William Harding | Allan Bird Hfo. ( John Ward ] George Carr Hj-i. 1 Robert Baxter [ John Baxter i4fi. 1 William Harding | John Penreth Hr?- 1 John Carliell | Nich. Wetwang Hr4- 1 John Richardfon | William Roddam i+rr- 1 The fame. [ Thomas Cuthbert I4f5. I The fame. | John Nixon ai6 Of the Government of the Town. Hf?- i.th>,7th I4f8. I John Penrith \ Henry Fowler rv v'l'^ Jol'ii ri/ta«»» Beaumont ■ivas conftituted one of the Cotnmiljioners to meet u-ith thofc fromScoiUndat iJey. - caftle upon Ty ne touching Satisfatlion for fitch Injuries as had been committed by the Suhjeils of euher Realm ag.iinft the other, contrary to the Arttcks'of Truce formerly concluded between thtm. Du-dale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 54. i^c(^. I John Richardfon 1 Richard Sccvcnfon EdwardlV. 1460. I John Baxter | Nicholas Hayning King Henry VI. defofed. -Tins rear I4<5i- I John Richardfon ] Nich. Wetwang yie'en of Ki"!, Henry with ?oo Frencli Soldiers came to the Coafl of Scotland, and thence failed to Tinmouth, zflierc ifie landed, but was foon compelled to embark again, and in aTempefl driven bach to Bivwick : IVhence with the Addition of fome Scots, and accompanied by the King her Husband, flie advanced into the BiJJioprick of Durham. ( the Prii'cc remaining at Berwick) and in their Pajfage thro' NortliumberlanJ gained fo7»e few Volunteers. To them \fort Henry Duke of Somerfet and Sir Ralph Piercy. who a few Weeks before had voluntarily fiibvutted to King Edward tozether with many of King Henry'; firm Devones, fo that toiether ,hcy made Shew of a c,m;etent Army. %ir,weve'r their diforderly burning and ff oiling i^^hcrcfoc^cr they went, whatjoever they could come at, lofl them the Aijeaion of many, and purchafed the ULwill of many more. X.Edward i4«z- 1 Allan Bird [ Henry Fofter tn t e p g ^^^^^j ^^j^^ Nevil Vicount Montacute into Northumberland, with Commifpon to raift forces, hii of M - ty the Way atHeMey Hoot encountered the Lord Hungerford, who with the Lord Rofl'e upon the Hrfl Attack ran JwaN leavin" Sir Ralph Piercy alone with his own Regiment, who there with them died valiantly fighting. Animated with this Succefs, Montacute, having certain Intelligence that Kin^ Henry was encamj'ed in the Levels near the R;wr Dowell in Hexhamftiire, tnarched thither by Sight, and af lulled his Camp: The Northern Men ufed to Inch Attempts upon the Borders, rejtfl with an undaunted Refolution, but were foon defeated, andfiiftained a treat Slawhter, and the Lofs of the whole Camp : iCi«^ Henry and hisSlueenefeaping narrowly, leaving their befi yrtends to Montacute'j Mercy ; the Duke of Somerfet, the Lord Rofle, MoUins, Hungertord, Wentwortb, lluffey, and Sir lohn Findern, Kf. with many others, were taken Pnfoners : The Duke of Somerfet at Hex- ham -Jai fcon beheaded, as afterwards the other Prifoners were ferved at Newcaftle. Afterwards Ki,-^ Edward came to Durham, thence detaching the Earl of Warwick and others ;»/<> Northumberland, to reduce fuch Cajltes and Forts as yci held out for King Henry. 1465. I Allan bud | •WilliHin Blaxton 1464. 1 John Nixon | Nich. Hayning This rear I4<5j-. 1 Allan Bird | William Thompibn tiTsegottation between King Edward IV. and the King »/ Scotland, a Treaty of Pacification was concluded at Newcaftle, whereby the Truce for 15 Tatars, agreed on the preceding Tear, was prolonged for i^^i years, viz. to 1510. IJ[66. \ John Nixon ] Robert Chambers 1467. I "William Blaxfton | John Efington 1468. I John Nixon | John Cook 1469. I Rich. Stephenfon ] John Fiiher 1470. I William Blaxfton | Thomas Lockwood King Edward fed into Holland. 1 471. ) John Nixon [ John Carr \^jz. I William Blaxfton | Thomas Snaw ■^i Jn'Chrifti. Mayors. Sheriffs. . J(; I The fame. | Richard Stcvcnfon ^ 1475. I The fame. | Robert Harding 1474. I Nich. Hayning | William Hodgfon Litcra Of the Government of the Town. q i 7 Lhera Fratemieatis conceffa Johanni Robynfon vilLi: No\iCa(\.Ti^Mercaiori, cs' Johanna uxori futc, ^cr Priorcm is" Capuulum Eccleji^ Dunelm. cum Annuhate fex marcartimpro tsrmino -jitus de medio (ublatis confueta orationum fuffragia perpetuis futuris temporibus Altifliimo perfolvemus. Prx- «erca propter primiiTa, & alia veftra mcrita riobis 5: di£lo noftro Monafterio caritative impenfa, quandara Annuitatcm fex marcarum monetx Angln a nobis 5c fuccefToribus noftris fingulis annis futuris temporibus lub niodo 5c lorma fubCequentibus percipiendam 5c habendam, quamdiu vixeritis aut alter veftrum vixerit, vobis 5c uiriq; veftrum diutius viventi ex gratia noftra uberiori damus 5c concedimus per pracfentes, ita viz. quod in partem (olutionis diftx Annuitatis fex marcarum vos 5c uterq; veftrum pro tempore vitx veftra: 6c alterius veftrum diutius viventis percipietis 5c habcbitis, ficq; percipiet 6c habebit alter veftrum omnimodas decimas garbarum in villa & campis de Symondfyde annuatim crefcentes ad veftros ufus proprios pro quatuov marcis, tribus folidis, 8c quatuordenarlis, quamdiu terra; ad ipfam villam 5c tenentes ejufdem pertinentescultx fuerint 5c feminatar, 5c refiduum di£lx fumms non folutum de nobis feU deputatis noftris ad hoc afllgnatis annis fingulis fimiliter percipietis 6c habebiiis ; fi autem hujufmodi terrx ex cafu fortuito incultx, vel aA pafturam jaceant 5c feminatx non fuerint, tunc vobis 6c veftrum alteri diutius viventi, per manus noftras aut deputaii noftri hujufmodi de difta Annuitate fex marcarum pro termino vita; veftrx, ut pritertur, ple- iiarie erit fatisfaftum in moneta Anglix per xquales portiones ad Fefta S. Martini in hyeme 5c Peniccoft. per- tipienda. Ad qux omnia 5c fingula fie, ut prxmittitur, per nos 6c fucceffbres noftros bene 5c rideliterfacienda obligamus nos 5c Monafterium noftrum prxdiftum firmiter per pracfentes Sigillo noftro communi roboratas. Data Dtir.elm. in domo noftra Capitulari ibidem feptimo die menfis Junii, Anno Dom. 1474- jiti' Chrifti. Mayors. Sheriffs. H7r- f John Carliel | John Ramplc I47($ . I The fame. I Pptpr Rewick 1477. 1 John Cook I John Heaton William Dudley Bijhop of Durham. I Pet'ttio Imraunitatis Ecclefue Cathedralis Dunelm. per Chriftophorum Holme. MEMORAND. Quod quarto die menfis Junii Anno Dom. 1477. Chriftophorus Holme coram Com. Thoma C.ily, Sub-priore Ecclefix Cathedralis Dunelm. Notario etiam 5c teftibus fubfcriptis in Ecclefia prxdifta jcrfonalitcr conftitutus, conteflus eft quod ipfe Chriftophorus una cum Henrico Stobbes Sc HttmfridoUJ})er,vige- Tmo quarto die menCis Aprilis ultimo priteriti, apud villam Nov; C(i/?ri /«^«r ry»4»j, obvium habuit quendani WiiUehnum Mtirlee, in quern idem Chriftophorus adtunc 6c ibidem infultum fecit, 5c ipfum IVillielmum cum quodam baculo vocato Wallflibyll graviter percuftit 8c vulneravit, ita quod inde 8c de aliis plagis in ipfum Willielmum per ipfum Chriftophorum 6c alios adtunc 8c ibidem impofitis, mors fecuta fuit di£fum IVillielmum ut dicitur : unde idem Chriftophorus immunitatem Ecclefix prxdiAx, juxta privilegia 8c libertates ejufdem, cum omni contritione 5c humilitatc cordis inftanterob honoremDei 6c S. C«//!^cm petiit 6c obtinuit prxfen- tibus tunc ibidem Roberto Bartram publico auftoritate Apoftolica Notario, Roberto Holburrt deGaieft/eved, 6c Johnnne Lawefon de Hilton teftibus ad prxmiffa vocatis 5c fpecialiter requifitis. Chriflophcr HolmeV Petition to be admitted Partaker of the Immunity of the Cathedral of Durham, upon his taking Saniiuary therein. MEMORANDUM, That upon the /^th 0/ June, Anno Dom. 1477. Chriftopher Holme /ier/i»/i//y /irf/fs^ »» the jiiid Church before Thomas Caly, Sub-prior of the Cathedral of Durham, a Notary, and the Witnejfes named below, made ConfeJJion, that he the [aid Chriftopher together with Henry Stobbes and Humphrey Ufher, upon the i.^th of April lull paft, meeting one William Marlce in the Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne, whom the faii CUrii^ofUcr did then and there ajjiiiilt and grievoufly beat, and wounded the [aid ^ iW'mmwith a ctrtamClub called a JValljhbyll, fo that thereby, as alfo by other Hounds then infin'led upon him by the [aid Chriftopher and others. Death feitrd the /aid William, as uas reported ; whereupon //;«/4ji Chriftopher with great Penitence and Humility inftai:tly begged the Immunity of the [aid Cathedral, according to the Privileges and Lib'^rties thereof, fort he Honour " K k k ecialicer & requiGtis. 1490. Perer Bewii.k Thomas Morpeth 1491. George Carr Robert Harding 1492. The lame. Earth. Young Pag. iSj". par. 8.] Confirwatio Henrici Vll. fuper Carta Henrici IV. cle RedMtu Novi Caftxi cenccffb Monacois de Farne. H ENRICVS Dei Gratia Rex Anglu 8c Trancii, & Dominus Hibernts, omnibus ad quos prxfentes Liters pervenerint, fahttem. InTpeximusLiteras Patentes Domini Henrici quarti nuper Regis >1?;^;!^, piogcnito- lis noftti, faftas in bacc verba. Henricus Dei Gratia Rex Angiu Pc Traucii, Si Dominus Hwernis., & Dux Aqui- tanii, omnibus ad quos prjefentcs LiterE pervenerint, falutem. Infpeximus LiterasPatentcs Domini fif-tMrz/i nuper Re;.^is Anglii, progenitoris noftri, ia&is in ha:c verba. Edwardus Dei Gratia Rex./i»j/M 6c Dominus Hihirn4».,i^'D\K AcjMtanu, omnibus ad «)uos prsefentes Literae pervenerint, falutem. Qiiia ex tcftimonio ijlo- lum, quibus fiduciam adhibemu?, quod 'D. Ed^vardus nuper Rex^»^/;,«, pater nofter, in vita fua verbo tenu.^a Citj'irv (uptr Tynam qui pro tempore fuerint de firma ejufdem villa:, viz. quinq; m.ircns pro ouolibct dolio vim, ic quinq; folidos pro quolibet quarterio humenti, habenda eifdem Monacliis & I'ucccf- ■foribus Aiis Mon;icKi?, in Infula 'piidida coramorantibixs, de ejemofina noftra in perpetuum. In cujas rei Teftimonium lias Litcras noftras fieri fecimus Patentes. Tefte Mcipfo ^^\xi Roleesburgh 51. die y.tru.uii, anno Rc'ni noftri nono, viz. 1515. Nos autcm concedionem priediAam ratara habentesSc gratarr. cam pro nobis & litfredibus noftris, quantum in nobis eft, acceptamus & approbamus, ac nuncMonacliis in Infula pridifta coin'.-iirj;K:kus, 5c corum fucccfloribus, Monachis ibidem commoraturis, .conccdimus 5c ccnrfiiTDamus prout Liierx Of the Government of the Tovn. 219 l-itci'x priJift.T latlonabilitcr teltnntur, 5c prout iidem nunc Mona<;lii fc prxdeceffores'Tui Monaclii, qui ibi- cicm moiMiii ti-.Txea\!it didns trefdectm mni'cas 6c decern foJidos ann-uos a tempove conleftionis Literarum pia:diitariim iMiion.ibilitcr pcrcipcre confuevefiint. Incujus rci Teftimoniuni lias Literas'Tioftras fieii feciyiius I'Atentcs. Telle Mcipfo apuJ Wcftinon.ifier. io. die Febru/iril, Anno Regni i\ofl:ri i"ecundo, vi?;. iji-, Nos autem Liteias pri-dict.is ac omnia i?c fingula in eiidem contenta, rata, liabentes & grata, ea pro nobis &, hireJibus iioftris, ciuantum in nobis eft, acceptamus & approbamas, ac nunc Monachis in Infula prxdifta tommorantibus, &: eoriim fuccedoribus Monachis ibidem commorantlbns, latificamus 5c confirmamus, prouc LitcrsE pra.-dift.te- •vinjm )axt3 pircum de Doteland in CocahAt. Hagufialdtaf. ac ipCam Alexandrum cum uno ie da^tr, aho nom'ma Ic -tuhynzard, in peftore fclonice percuflit, ex qua percuiEone praefatus Alexander incontinenter obiit. Pro qua quidem felonia prxdiftus Johannes Boner inftantidime petiit Immunitatem & Libertatem S. Cuthberti Sc EccleliiCatljedraiisprasdiftK prjcfenabus ibidem honeftis Tiris Stephane Byris, &\ic)ier. Has"" fVtUl, Sc WA' iielmo Jilyth de Dunelmo. 1496. 1 The fame. j William Hayning 14P7. I Robert Haiding 1 William Davell ■ n ; 1498. I George Can* | John Penrith 1499. J Robert Brigham | John Snow L'iiera traernit.itis concejfa WiUielmo Richardfon villce Novi Caftri fuper Tynam, Mercatiri^ ^ Jans uxori fucs. 'J'HOMAS CASTEL Permiftione Divina Prior Ecdefiac Cathedralis Dunelm. & ejufdem loci Capitulum, dileftis nobis in Chrifto WiUielmo Rychardfen villze Novi Caftri fuper Tynam, Mercatoti, Sc Jam axon i'uxt falurem in Domino fempitcrnam. Mentis devotio 6c finceti cordis a£Pedus, quos erga gloriofillimum Conte!i'a- nim Si.Cuthbertum Patronum noftrum ac Monallerium noftrumDanWw. habuiftis 5c habetis merito nos excitaftt o/' of Durham. If 08. 1 Robert Baxter | Thomas Lcighton Tht King died April ta. and Henry VIII. was prodaimtd King. Hen YWl. If op- I John Brandling | Edward Baxter Thomas Rutball Bijlwf of Durham. Commijfio Domini kegis fada Johanni Dalton /^Z-^r Officio Colleiions ^^ Cufiumatorh Lanarimi^ Curiorum ^ Pellium Lanatar«)n in portu villx Novi Caftri lupcr Tynam. HENRICUS Dei Gratia Rex AnglU 8c Tranci<,Sc.Dom\nu^Hihernu, dilefto fibi Johanni Dalton falutem. Sciatis quod nos de fidelitate &. circumfpeftione tuis plenius confidentes, affignavimus te ad Cuftumam noftram Lanarum, Coriorum, 8c Pellium lanatarum nobis de hireditate noftra debitam in portu vil!x A'ofi Cafiri fuper T'jnam, & in fingulis locis & crecis eidem portui adjacentibus levandam & colligendamSi adopus noftrum recipiendam ; ac adSigillum noftrum quod dicitur Coket in portu pridifto cuftodiendum, ita quod de denariis nobis inde provenientibus nobis refpondeas ad Scaccarium noilrum. Habendum & occupandum oflficium prsdiftum quamdiu nobis placuerit, cum vadiis, feodis, 8c regardis eidem officio debitis & confu- etis. Et ideo tibi praecipimus quod circa praimifla diligenter intendas, ac ea facias 8c exequaris in forma prr- difta. In cujus rei Teftimonium has Literas noftras fieri fecimus Patentes. Tefte Meipfo apud IVeJtmonafl.^ vioefimo fecundo die Novemb. Anno Regni noftri primo. Litera fratcmitatis in Ecclejia Cathedralis Dunelm. conceffa Georgio Bird, ylUerr/iafiso vilU Novi Caftri fuper Tynam. r HO MAS Permiflione Divina Prior Ecclefiac Cathedralis Dunelm. 5c ejufdem loci Capitulum, dilefto no- bis in Chrifto MagiftroGcoi^;*!);-.*, Alrl.rmannn villy Kitmi r.ajlri fuper Tfnam, falutem in Domino fempi- tetnam Mentis devotio 8c finceri cordis affeftio, quas erga gloriofiflimum Confeflbrem S. Cuthbertum Patro- jium noftrum, nos 8c Monafterium noftrum Dunelm. habuiftis, habetis, 8c credimus in futurum habebitis, merito nos excitant 8c inducunt ut vobis gratitudinis vicem rependamus : unJe vos in Confratrem noftruju fpiritualem Capituli noftri Dunelm. admittimus per praefentes, 8c quantum in nobis eft, omnium Miirarum, ■Vi^iliariura, Jejuniovum, Orationum, Pra:dicationum, Divinorum Officiorum, cxterorumqjopeium pietatis, qux per nos Sc fuccefTovcs noftros, tarn in difto Monafterio noftro, quam in Cellis ab eodem dependentibus, ^unt aut fient in perpetuum. Domino largiente, participationem vobis concedimus fpecialem : cumqjabhac luce per mortem Deus vos evocaverit, 8c hoc nobis certitudinaliter intimatum fuerit, pro vobis ficut pro aliis Confratribus noftris defunftis confueta orationum fuffragia (ingulis annis futuris perpetuis temporibus per- folvemus. In cujus rei Teftimonium Sigillum noftrum commune Capituli noftri praefentibus eft appenfum. Data Dunelm. in domo noftra Capitulari nono die menfis Afrilis, A" Dom, 1 509. Letters of Confraternity in the Cathedral of Durham granted to George Bird, Alderman of the Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne. THOMAS b'j Divine Permijfion Prior of the Cathedral of Durham, together -with the Chapter thereof, fend eternal Health in the Lord to our beloved in Chrijl Mr. George Bird, Alderman of the Town of Newcaftle upon Tync. The imvard Devotion, and that unafeffed Sincerity of Heart you have entertained, do foffefs, and, at uc believe, fl'.dl afterwards harbour tozvards the glorious Confejfor St. Cuihbert our Patron, us, and our Mi- Tiaftry of Durham, do jujlly require us to offer you our Returns of Gratitude ; wherefore by thefe Prefents wi admit yon a fpiritual brother of our Chapter of Durham, and to the beji of our Power, by the Divine Ajfiftanc* vrant you the efpeci.U Participation of all Maffes, Vigils, Tajls, Prayers, Sermons, Divine Offices, and other IVorks of Piety, -vhich at prefent afc, or afterwards fiall be performed by us and our Succejfors, as well in our Monaftry . aforesaid, as m the Cells depending upon it; and ivhen it jiiall pleafe GOD to call you from this Life, and certain ■Jntiir.afion thereof Jltall be given us, in futurity we Jliall annually offer up in your Behalf the ufual Suffrages of Prayer, as hitherto has been done for others of our fpiritual Brethren deceafed. In Tefiimony whereof the com- mon Seal of our Ch.iptcr is affixed to thefe Prefents. Dated at Durhanj in our Cha}ter-houfe this ninth Day of April, 1 509. ifio; Of the Government of the To^ai. A,i' Cbrifti. Mayors. Sheriffs. If ID. I Thomas Riddell I Roger Dent 221 ifii. I George Bird | John PaOopp ifii. I John Brandhng J Thomas Horfley Petitio Immumtatis Ecclefix Cathcdralis Dunclm. /ro Roberto Lee. UNdecimo die mcnfis O6lobris Anno Dom. 1511. venit ad Ecdefiam Catliedralem Duv.-lm. Rfllertui let, ibi^li pulfata campana, ut moiis eft, inftanter petiic Iinmunitatem diftx EccIcIut; & Libertaiem S. CKf/!j- It't'i, pro eo & ex eo quod x^trnKobertui (Imul cum aliis, inter muros villa: Nox'iCd/Fri/M/icr Tysj^j & aquam de T^nt deorfum ponteni de T-^ne, erat perfonaliter, quando quidam j?"^*""'" '^r'lM liraliter perculllt queii- dam IVJlielmum Wright, cum uno diiggar fuper dorfum inter fcapulas nono die menfis praedifti, de qua per- cudione di£tus W.llielmus eodem die oljiit : & quia idem Rolertus Lcc, ut afferit, dedit opem & auxiiium diito Johanni homiridi ad evadendum manus circumftantium ideo petit pro diftofafto inftantillime Immunitatem & Liberiatem prsdiftas, pra:rentibu$ Jthannc IVatJon, Literato, & Jacobo JohnfoK, Lilco, tellibus ad prs- milTa vocatis Sc fpecialiter rogatis. If 1 5. I John B.-ucton | William Harding onthecfth of Sepiemb. this rear ]3meslV. Kii?g 0/ Scothnd being /lain in the B«M/if 5/ Flodden Field, Thomas Howard EjWo/' Surrey, General of the Englifh Army, having taken care that the dead Body Jliould he embalmed, carried it Jirjl to Newcaftle, whence it was conveyed to Shene in Surrey, when it was interred. Ld. Herbert. Echard, Litera t'ratermtatis in Ecclejia Cathedrali Dunelm. concejfa Edwardo Baxfter, Aldermanno vilLe Novi Caftri fuper Tynam, {3* Aliciae uxori fua. 'J'HO M A S Permiflione Divina Prior Ecclefix Cathedralis Dunelm. & ejufdem loci Capitulum, dile^i* nobis in Cluifto Edwardo Bax/ler &c Aiicu uxori fua:, falutem in Domino fempiternam. Mentis devotio & finceri cjrdis afteftio, quas ergi gloriofiilimum Confeffotem S. Cuthhertum Patronum noftrum, nos, ac Monalleriura noftrum Dunelm. habetis, & ut firmiter credimus, in futurum liabebitis, merito nosincianiSe inducunt ut vobis graiiiudinis vicem rependamus; unde vos in ConfratremSc Confororem fpiriiuales Capiiuli ntjftri Dunelm. admittimus per pra;fentes, & quantum in nobis eft, & AltilTimo placuerir, omnium Miflaium, Vigiliarum, Jejuniorum, Orationum, Praedicationum, Divinorum Orficiorum, ca'terorumq; operum pieta- tis, qua: per nos 8c fucceflbres noftros, tarn in difto noftro Monafterio Dunelm. quam in Cellis ab eod.-m depen- deniibus, fium aut fient in perpetuum. Domino largiente, participationem vobis concedimus fpeciaiem ; cumq; ab hac luce per mortem Deus vos evocaverit, & hoc nobis ceititudinaliter intimatum (uerir, pro vobis, iicut pro aliis Con(ratribus& Confororibus noftris fpiritualibus defunftis confueta orationum fufTtaj,!.! fingulis annis (uturis perpetuis temporibus perfolvemus. In cujus rei Teftimonium Sigillum commune Capi'.uli noftri prxfentibus eft appenfum. Data D^ne/;;?. in domo noftraCapitularidecimo die menfis .<4»j»/?i> A* Dom. 15 13. If 14. I Thomas Horfley [ Robert Watfon Petitio Immunitatis Ecclefix Cathedralis Dunelm. fro Jacobo Horfley de Novo Caftro. Vlcefimo fecundo die menfis Mali, Anno Dom. 1514. venic ad Ecdefiam Cathedralcm Dunelm. quidam Jacobus Horfley de villa Novi Caflri fuper Tynam, 8c ibi pulfata campana, ut moris eft, inftanter petiit ImiTiunintem Ecclefije Cathedralis pridifts &: Libertatem S. Cuthberti, pro eo & ex eo quod idem Jacobus decimo die menfis Decembris, A° Dom. M13. apud Sandhill in difta villa Not;; Cajlri, ex infuliu fuper eum fafto, ut afferuit, per quendam Johannem Taytte, eundem Johannem Taytte cum uno dagario in dextra parte pectoris felonice 8c la:taliter perculTlt, imponendo ei plagam mortalem ; de qua quidem plaga fie impofita idem Johannes Taytte incontinent! obiit. Pro qua quidem felonia fie pei petrata I'i&m Jacobus Horfley C3^t.\x% S< im- chiatusfuerat per officiarios five miniftros Domini Regis in hujufmodi villa exiftentes, ic in prifona vocata If If. 1 Roger Dent ] Robert Bubell Petitio Immunitatis Ecclefia Cathedralis Dunelm. pro Rolando Hall de Marley fuper Montem. N Ono die menfis Septemb. A° Dom. Mi?, venit ad Ecclefiam Cathedralem D«»£/w. c\\x\Aim Rolandus Hall _ de Marley fuper Montem parochix de Whikham, 8c ibidem pulfata campana, ut moris eft, inftanter peiiit Imnuinitatem Ecclcfia; Cathedralis pra;di£tje 8c Libertatem S. C«/^ifr//, pro eo 8c ex eo quod xAtm Rolandus ex. infuhu (uper eum latlo, ut airerit, quendam Thomam Hcry [on ic Whikham pra:di£la 3^\iAClofe-yate infra villam novi Caflrt futer Tynam cum uno gladio percuflit in Fcfto Nativitatis Domina: Mari<, Anno Domini fupradicVo, imponendo eidem Thomt plagam morralem inventre, de qua quidem percuflione idem TAo?», fend greeting in our Lord GOD cverlafting, and to whom apftrtainilh due Honour and Reverence : We inimati, fievi, and declare to your Vniverfities, that John Chaytour, Bearer hereof, was at this Time th'Apprert' tice and Servant of Peter Chaytour, Merchant, whilft he lived, late of the faid Town of Newcaftle upon Tyne, deceafed, hound by Indenture for the Space of feven Tears, after the accuftomid laudable Manner iijed and obfervtd in femblable Cafes heretofore within this Realm of England, as by the Purport of the fame Indenture of Apprtr.ticehtod more at large it doth appear -, and fithence the Departure of the faid Peter Chaytour hath ferved Robert Hordfon, Merchant, of the King's Town of Newcaftle afortfaid, being of honeft Converfition and vertuotis Dsmeanour, with- out Of the Government of the Tow^n. out eny finijler Iinpedimtnt , but that the faid John Chaytour may with your l.zvjful 'Fxvour te adin'nied to li'.i Freedom, and loertjoy the Libir tics of the fame accoid.iijy, for th'acc:ijhmed D:it:es paying. In tVitiufs ■whcrttf m theje Prejer.ts we have put th'acaijiomed Seal of the fame Fellowjliiv. Given at NcwcalUe afortfaid. Aii Chrifli. Mayors. Shcrifs. ifip. 1 James Lawfon ( Bartholomew Bcc Vfficiunt Clcrici M:ncraricm Epifcopatus Dunelm. conccjfitm Willielmo Tlioinlyngfoil, Parcario Parci Uc Gateftevcd, i^ Thorns Thomlynglbn _/*//ietm. Epifcopus, Omnibus ad quos prxfenies Litera: nortrx perveneriiit, l.iluiein. Sciatii quod nos de gratia nuftra (peciali, ac pro bono & laudabili fervitio quod dileftus fcrviens noftcr IV::i:e:n:!is Thomlyn^fon de Gatiflied nobis luftenus impendii, & in futurum nobis Sc fuccelloribus noftris ac Ecclciia: Dunilm. fideliter iinpendet, ordinamus & conftitiiimus [yiamWiUitlmum Jhomlyn^fon icThomamThcn.iyn-fo* jpfius filium naiuraiem Clericum omnium Minerarum noft.arum tam plumbi & ferri quam carbonum cxilten- tiuin in quibufcunq; locis infra Dominia noftra Epifcopatus DKne/w. nee non officium Clerici Mineiaium prs- diclaruni eifdem iViilJtlmo Sc Thome conjundim & divifim damus & concedimus per prxfenies. Habendum, cxercfndum, & occupanduin officium illud per feipfos aut eorum (ufficicntcm dcpui.itum, pro quo nobis Si. fuccelTjribus noftris reTpondere voluerint, durante termino viti eorundem S; alterius eorum di'.itius viventif, percipiendo annuaiim in eodem otficio de nobis Sc fuccelToribus nolhis durante termino viix eorundem 'tVit- lielmi & Thorns, & alterius eorum diutius viventis, decern marcas moneix Ant^ha, ad Fcllum S. Aiichaehs Arch- angcli, ad Scaccarium nollrum D»»e/OT. per manus Receptoris noftri aeneralis pro tempore cxifteniis lolven- \x{3UsJVill:elmo 5c Thomn, Sc eorum alteri in faciendo, exercendo, & occupando officium pixdic>uin lint intendentes. obedienies, Sc auxiliantes prout decet. In cujus rei Teftimonium has Literas noftras fieri fe- cimus Patcntes. Tefte Wiliielmo Frankeleyne Clerico Cancellaiio noftro apud Dunelm, primo die menfis Oilob. Anno Pontif. noftri fexto A<» Dom. 1529. Cardinal Wolfey'x Patent, conftitutiug William Thomlyngfon, thett Keeper 0/ Gatofide Pari, and Thomas Thomlyngroii his Son, Clerk of the Mynes belonging to the iiipofnck (//Durham. THOMAS, by Divine Mercy, Presbyter Cardinal of the Title 0/ S. Cecilia in the holy Church of Kome, Archbifhop of York. Legate born, as alfo de Latere of the Apojiolical See, Pnmate and Chancellor of En^. land, and Bifliof of the Cathedral Church of Durham, to all to vhom thefe our prejent Leilers jhall come, greeting. Know ye, that we, of our ehecial Grace, and in Return for the good a^d ccmmendable SerLt:es hitherto terf.rmed for «. ty our helo-ued Ser-vant '^'^i^^'-"' -rUo^Iy^af^- ./ GarofiJc, ^„d henceforth fliall fanbfMy ex- ecute for us, our Succejfors, and the Church of Durham, do ordain, and have confiituted William T!;omIynjfon him.'elf, and Thomas Thomlyngfon his natural Son, Clerk of all our Mynes, as well of Lead and Won, as of Coals, being wherefoever within the Demefne Lands of our Biflioprick of Durham : And by the,e Prefects we give and grant the /aid office of Clerk of the Mynes to the faid William and Thomas )oinily and feparattly, to ha- e, exercife, and enjoy by themfelves perfonally, or ihctr Jufficient Deputy, for whole Sihaviour they fliall be anjwcr- able. during the Term of their Lives, or of the Survivor, receiving yearly in the faid OJjIce of us and our Succef- fon] during the Term of Life of the faid William and Thoma?, and the Siirviver of them, ten Marks f/ Eng- lifVi'A^o»eyi to be paid at our Exchequer c/Durham, at the Feajl o/ i'. Michael the Archanyl, ly the Hands of our General Receiver who fliail then be in Office. We likewife give and grant to the faid William and Tl omis, and to the Survivor of them, one Chalder of Coals of each Coal Myne belonging to us and our Succeffors wihiit our Dcmefnes o/Gatefide. Whikeham, awrf Lynne-deane, to le daily paid and delivered, together with all other Profits, Advantages, Rights, Cofls, and Expends of old accuflomed and pertaining to the faid Office, atj in as txtenjive Manner and Form as in the faid Office any Clerk formerly had and received, or ufed to have and re- ceive. And we firmly command all and jingular our Bailiffs, Farmers, and Officen in the faid Mynes, that they Jliall be obfervant, obedient, and affiflant to the faid William and Thomas, and to each of them, in the Performance, Execution and Pojfeffion of the aforefaid Office, as in Decency they ought. In Teflimony whereof, ■we have commanded thefe our Letter to be made Patent. Witneffed by William Frankeleyne, our Chancellor of Durham, this fixth Day of OCtohcr. in the Jixth Year ef our Pontificate, and the Tear of our Lord 1529. If 20. 1 Gilbert Middleton. I Roger Mitford. ' -' ' 1 a Cuthbcrt Tunftall, Majler of the Rolls, Sijliop of Durham, If 51. I Hem-y Anderfon. | John Andcrfon. ifji. I Robert Brandling. \ Ralph Carr. 15-33. I Thomas Horllcy. | William Pent. If 34. 224 Of the Government of the 1 own. M' Chrip Mayors. \ Ralph Carr. I Sheriffs. Peter Bewick. ifjf- 1 Thomas Baxiter. | Thomas Bewick. Ifj6. Robert Brandling. | John Ord. ir?7- John Sanderfon. | John White. ir?8. Andrew Bewick. | George Sclby. If39- Henry Anderfon. | John Hilton. If 40. James Lawfon. [ Robert Brigham. ir4i- 1 James Hilton. | Robert Cowin. This Year War being de- clared againft Scotland, William Titz-Williams, Earl of Southampton, Captain of the Toreward, d.ei at Newcaftle ; a trave Lord, and jo much ejleemed, that his Standard u-as torn in the Foiewaid in all this Exfedition. Lord Herbert. TA« Scotch If 42. I Henry Anderfon. ( Mark Sh:\ftoe. Arm'j leing routed this Tear by an inconfiderablt Number of the Englifh, and the Earls e/Glencarn and Caflilh, the I^rds: Maxwell, Somerville,01ipl;ant, Gray, and Oliver Sinclair, being taken Prifoners.and carried to London, m(< of Somerfet, Lord Proteifor. The Army firfi ajfembled at Newcaftle, and were there mujler'd by John Dudley Earl 0/ Warwick t Here they fojourned three Days, in which Time the King's Fleet arrived, confi/ling 0/65 Bottoms, whereof one open Galley and 34 tall Ships were well appointed for Fight : The rtfi Jerved firC.ir- r'tate of Ammunition and Vi6luals. Of the Fleet Edward Lord Clinton was Admiral, and Sir V/illiam Wood- houfe his V.te- Admiral. In this Time alfo a General Mufter was taken, the whole Army conjijling of heiwien 1100 and 1300 Toot, and 1300 Men at Arms, zooo Light Horfe, being fuch Men for their goodly Pcr[on.iges, their ready Horfes, their brave Apparel, their Armour, and Weapons, as never before was an Army fet forth m all Pointf better appointed. Sir ]. Haywoodv if48. ( Mark Shaftoe. 1 Cuthbert Blunt. If 49. 1 Cuthbert EUifon. 1 Richard Hodgfon. IffO. 1 Robert Brigham. 1 Cuthbert Mufgravc. iffi. 1 Barthol. Anderfon. 1 Chridophcr Mitlord. inihelafi iff^- I Robert Le win | John Law. re:ir of King Edward VI. pajfed an Acl for fuppreffing the fiiJl>opritk of Durham, the fame being void of a Prelate by the Dt- privation Of the Government of the To^x^n. 225: y-.vation ofBifiop Tunftall, /» that the Gift thereof was In tht King's Pltafure. mi the Compafs ef it being fi :.7r:e, cxtendwj, to Jo murfj Shires Jo fur itly Jerved by one hifi'iop, and the Kmg hein^ '^-dung to have twa Bijliai'ric-s for that Dwcefe, the one ttt Durham, which fiieuld have looo Markf Kiventie, ar.i another at Newcjftle, which JbouU lea\e looo Marks Rezenue, and alio to found a Cathedral Church ^f Ncwcaftle, v.uth a Deanry and Chtifter out oj the Re'uenues of the [aid B./hof^rick. Then ore the $:;hofr;ck is iiilerly exti»?,ififl>ed and diffotted, and Authority Jven, by letters Patents, to trell the two > tvu BifliKricb, te^eihir with the Dea„ry and Chapter at Newcaftle, with a Provijo, that the Rights of the Dean Und chapter oj Durham fliouli juffer nothing by thit AB. Burtiet Hift. Rtform. (art II. Book I. pag. 104. The King died, Mud Mary eldefl Daughter »f King Henry VIII. frotlaimed ^ettn. j-i'CbriJIi. Mayors. Sheriffs. Iff 3. I Cuthbert Blunt. | Robert Ellifon. Q. Miry. In the id Selfwn of the P.irli.zmcnt ef lie Srfi rear of S^ueen Mary, Kiteg Edward'tXi? to difolve the Bijhof rick oJ DuiHanj zvas repealed, a>ti Sifiep Tunrtall rejiored to his B'Jhopritk. ifr4. I C uthbert Ell ifon. { Wn iiam Dixon, ifff. I Richard Hodgfon. | John Wilkinfon. iff6. I Chriftop. Micford j William Dent. Iff/- I Bartram Anderfon. | William Cftrr. iffS. 1 Ofwald Chapman. J Andrew Suretie. The ^.een dy'd Nov, 17. and v-'a; fucceede4 by hgr Sijltr Elizjbethi younger Daughter «/K, Henry. VIII.' iffP. ! Robert EUifon. | Robert Anderfon. QJSlizaheth. If 60. 1 Cuthbert Mufgrave. I Francis Anderfon. James Pilkington gijhof of Durbam. If 61. I John Willjamfon, | Stephen Southeren. if6i. I William Dent. | George Selby. iffij. I Bartram Anderfon. i Thomas Lidle. If 64. I Robert Brandling, i W. Soby. if(jf. ! William Cam J Anthony Swinburn. If 66. i Richoi-d Hodgfon. | Henry Brandling. Qriginol d ail reaJtnal/U Proportions to eonvince tht Puricans, Rome ojjert openly to abet that Separation, in a Way f» flaujibie, that had not Heaven detefled the firji Agent, the Anab.ipiifm <>/ Germany muft have rooted in Eng- l.uui iwdtr fo gifted a Teacher as Faitiiful CiMnmin, a noted Dominican, whoje Hifiory I tranfcr,be from Stry pe'» ii;(f ef Arehl>ilhop P.uker, f the Maidenhe.id Inn there, with divers ethers his Fotloweri; where, as Gu/fts, they bejpake a " Dinner : Divers others rejoriid hither, enquiring Jor this Man, whoje Name was Faitlful Cummin. Thefe " wen hiiC»M-rt-atien. Bti»i ihui met in the Room they had taken up. Cummin exereifed extemporary Prayer " lor tibout two Hotirt, groaning and xvecping much. The hxerctfe bein^ over, moji of tht Company departed; " ftrtti fi'u tarried ami partook- with the Exereijtr ef the Dinner provided. " Of th.s Mee.'in^ Joiin C|ail»'•- iict, he would he a-jeiit nil the Divine .'service were over {Jor the Enolifh Liturjy he could not az'.:iy v.iih] ' and then he could come irtio the Church and preach. " After his former Examination, and living had for his farther Appearance, he found Opportunity to efcape beyond iea -, teilmi his Congregation, that he uas warned of God to travel abroad, to inJlruH Protef'.ants in the other Parts of the Horld, and would come a^ain to them: Leaving theje as h^s laji Wards to them, Tha; fpirituat Prayer was the chief le/limony of a true Proteftant ; and that the Set Vorm of Prayer w.%s hut the Mafs tranjlated ; and fo praying with them, and getting Money jroin them to be.ir his Expenccs, in f/ja>iy lear) he pan ed from them j and was afterwards Jeen in the Low Countries, went to Rome, and upon -de- claring his i-eriices to the Pope, who, after commending him, tave him a Reward of Two Thousand Duc&r..' Ihis is more amply related in the Firfi Part 0/ Foxes and Firebvands, pa2. 13. Jn- Chrifli If 67 Mayors. Robert Anderfon. I Sheriffs. John Watfpn. lj-68 Henry Brandling. William Jennifon. Nov. 3. this tear d.ed Ni- choKisCjir, a Sative of this Town, eminent not only for his Learning, but alfo for his great Succefs in the Prac- tice of Phyjick at dmbcidge. If<59. 1 Chriftoph. Mitford. ] George Simpfon. If 73. 1 Robert Ellilbn. | George Briggs. IfTI. 1 William Jennifon. \ Heniy Anderfon. If/Z. I Thomas Liddetl. | Robert Barker. If 7?- I William Selby. | tr"'4. John Watfon. Mark Shaftoe. Roger Law. Iff- Hcniy Brandling. William Ridlc. If 76. Henry Brandling. Chriftophcr Lewen. if 77- I Robert B.ikcr. Richard Barnes B:/})of of Durham. I f78. [ Mark Shaftoe. Edward Lewen. I Henry Leonard. ir7P- 1 Roger Rawe. 1 lames Can-. ifSo. 1 Richard Hodglbn. | Robert Atkinfon. if8i. ! William Jennifon. [ Henry Chapman. ifSi. 1 William Riddel. | Henry Mitford. « ifS3. 1 Henry Anderfon. | Roger Nicholfon. If 84. I Henry Mitlord. | Lionel Maddifon. ifSf. 1 Robert Barker. | George Whitfield. If 8(5. 1 Henry Chapman. | Robert Dudley. If 87. ) Edward Lewin. | Robert Eden. if88. I Roger Nicholfon. | Geoige Farnaby. ifSp. William Selby. John Gibfon. Matthew Hutton Bip>op of Durham. ihis rear, being the 3 tfi ofSi^ Elizabeth, Newcaftle was made a Tree Town of itfelf, and for ever ta be known iv the Name of the Mayor aQhurgejj'es of the Town of NeWMllle uponTyat, in the County of Newcaftle upon Tyne, '-cnh Licence to purchafe Lands and Tenements by that Name, to them and iheir Succeffors, in Fee and ferpttiiity : and to give, grant, and demife the fame; and to have a Common beal for tranjathng their Affairs. Of the Government of the To^rn. 227. and the f.ime to Ireak, change, or ahir; and to pay per Annum loo 1. and to havt the Ton-n granted in fit, Ai:i u'ed to ha'.e the Goods, Chattell, i'.aves, HJireys, at d Trea are I'our.d. This Tear likewise vjss granted to the Twii an Admiralty Jiir:jd.fliin -jiith':n their own li'ftrtiei, toztthir zt'ith Coniimation of the Dec'.ar.ition k" 19 K. Heti.VlU. frcn A il.ui PUntagcnet VijCoiiitt Djfiey Lord Hi^h Adr:i':ral, That NewCiftle H^on Tyne ti'.i; txemit Jmtn his Jurijdithon. Jii' Chrifli. Mayors. Sheriffs. ifpo. I William Riddel. | Ralph Jennifon. ifpi. I George Fiirnaby. | William Greenwell. ifpi. I R>ger Ravve. | Thomas Lidle. ifpj. I Lionel Maddifon. | William Jennifon. ifP4. 1 Henry Anderfon. | George Selby. M.-itthew Hutton Bi- fiop of Durham tran fated to York, runs Jucceeded in the Bifliofrick of Durham by Tobias Matthew D George Selby. | Hugh Selby. Tobias Muthi;w Sipop (>/ Durham was tranflated to York, and fuccteded ijf William James Dm» o/Dutham. 1 607. I lames Clavering. | Robert Shaftoe. i(5-S\ I Henry Chapman | William Hall. l<5op. j Thomas Lidddl. | 'I'homas Lidle. 1610. diS Of the Government of the Town. J.i' Chrifti. Mayors. William Tcnnifon. Sheriffs. Timothy Draper. i(5ii. I j'/r George Sciby. | Alexander J)avuon. i6i; Francis Anderfon. Roger Anderfon. I 5';r Henry Anderfon. | Henry Chapman- I'trs to an wer to any but a Jutlge o}' Controvtrjies m if-eliskn, the Pope, or oat of bis Authority, i. Whether tho Pope hts tails ; but the People exclaim at the Siglets, that fuch Images were to be fit up ; tht Organs wtre comt beiore, and after comes the Mafs. The King was angry at their Ignorance, and fent them word to d-.ftingu fh be- twixt' Pictures intended for Ornament and Decoration, and Images ere^ed for IVorftiip and Adoration. So the Scots Kirk can endure Dons, Bears, and Bulls, nay Devils-Drejfmgs, to be figured in Churches, but not the Pa- triarchs.. norApoftles. Frankland'j Anoals. /.. i8. i 0/ London, and many other Perjens of SJria- lity ; who were all entertain'd by the Magifirates and Town. Echard. i5H- I Ralph Cock. | John Marley. I6jf. 1 Sir Peter Riddell. | Leonard Carr. 1636. 1 Thomas Liddell. J Henry Lawfon. 1637. ( John Marley. | Peter Maddifon. This rear Card. Rich- liea's fecret Attempts againft England, in Return for our Help to the Rochellers, took EffeSl, in Confequence of innumerable fecret Plots and Undertakings parallel to thofe we have mentioned above, viz. 1566 in England, and 161 1, 1617 in Scotland : Since July the z-}d, a zealous Woman kindled the firji Firebrand, in the Prefence of the Privy-Council, Archbifhop and Bifliops, at Reading the Liturgy in St. Giles'/ Church m Edinburgh, Jl)e firfi cafiing a Stool at the Reader thereof, with mofl opprobrious Language, whereby the Mob becam. exafperaied to fa great a Height, that after innumerable Citrfes, they endanger' d the Life of that BiJhop with Stoms, Seats, Stools, and Cudgels, vjho attempted from the Pulpit to allay their Fury. Frankiand'j Annals, p. 609, i6}8. I Alexander Davifon. \ Mark Milbank. /„ confe- quence of iaft rear's InfurreHion at Edinburgh, the Solemn League and Covenant was univerfally accepted in Scotland, the Snare into which England was foon after drawn, to its own general Ruin, Nevvcaftle being the firft Victim fa- crtficed to that Idol. Oftob. 31. A Declaration publified in Scotch againjl the Service-Book, and Aid fhllicited from France. 163P. j Robert Bewick. j John Emmerfon. Hi, Maje- fty, at the Jiead of a gallant Army, marched from York againft the Scotch Covenanters, and Duke Hamilton with the Englidi Fleet, and 5000 Foot on hoard, enters the Frith, which ftriick a general Terror in the Rebels, they hav- ing fo many fajl Fr:c,ids about the King, were not Jo apprehenjive of the Army, thereby procuring a pacifick Dif- foi.it'ior. of their Emmies while their own Officers were retained in Pay, and the Men fccured, to be ready at Cotnmand. Afterw.irds, in the Aff'embiy, they ccnfure the King's large Declaration of thofe Troubles, and upon Surmize only, r.ame Dr. Bakanqu.ji, Di'aa of Durham, Author thereof, and demand he tnay be Jent Jo Scotland to abide his Trial, which would have been more than Ordeal. Frankland'j Annals, /. 7S7. 1640. j Sir'^.CoXe.fKt.Bar. \ Francis L idle. The Scot- ifh Covenan- ters Letter of Sitbmiffion to the French King, prefented by his Majefty to his Parliament of England. In this Mayor's Time the Scots, under the Command of General Leflcy, Montrofs, and others, upon Friday Au^uft II. invaded the Kingdrm (»f England without any Oppojition ; and, to give the greater Uncouragemtnt to the Soldiers, the Earl a/" Monro's i.tdirg the Van, alighted ojf hit Horje, and went through the River Twe;d N n n on 230 Of the Government of the To wrti I vn Foot, fo x.eahiis did ke fiill jecm for tht Cauft. The Army aJvaKcin^ unraolefied through Nnrthumberland, :arat to Ncwburne upor. the River Tyne, f out- Miles above Newciftlc, hppvjitl to which the Lord Conway v.'as advantapouf.y fojied -uiih 5000 Foot and 1500 Horjt, able to have made a juffc.ent Rejijiance. Jhe Armits be- ^^ ji.j in VifiV, Lefley feut .1 Alcjj'enzer to the Lord Conway, defiring Leave to fajs, -juith a Petition to hit Majefiy. To which Anfu'cr iWJ returned. That he might have Liberty to pafs utih a few, but not with hit Army, \fiiit which Lefley ccmmanded 500 Horj'e to ford tht River, which they did, but were foon forced to retire by the Uufquetetn from behind an Intrcmhment ; which Lefley perceiving, play'd fo funoufly upon it w.th his Cannon, J^ that the ioUiers foon abandoned their Pcft, threw down their Arms, and fied -. Whereupon the Scots Cavalry ,^ advance again, and are entertain'd by Commiffioner-Gencral Wilmot, who gallantly charfd them back into the » River; but theft were overpower' d by Suinbers of the Scots, and iemg withal gall'd and annoy' d iy .*w Scoiifli Ordnance, were forced to retire in Diferder, 200 Englifli if in^ Jlain and tai:cn Prifoners. The Lord Conway retired to Norili-Allcrton, where the Soble Earl c/ Strafford was very fevert upon him, becaufe of this Defeat, ivhuh my Lord Clarendon calls an infamous and irreparable Kout. The immediate Confequence was, Sumlers of People fed, with their TatniUcs and Goods, /Wa Yorkflilrc, Miflicf Morton to his Caflle at Stockton, and thence into the South Dr. Balcanqual theinCountrym.j'-, theDean, made kafle 10 jecure himfelf, the Scots threatning to treat him as an Incendiary for Penning the King's large Declara- tion. Ihe next Day the Scots were attended by Commiffioners from Ncwcnftlc, Sir Jacob Aflilcy, their Gover- nor, iudgini the Town not tenable, and jinking his Ordinance in the Rizcr, thought fit to dejcrt it, to treat for the Surrender of that important Town. On Sunday the -,aih of Auguft the Scotch Army enter'd Neivcafliie, where they took Poffelfion of the King's Magavnes of Arms, Ammunitions, and Victuals, and an Opportunity t} enlarging Mr. Colvil, who had been fer.t by the Covenanters into France with Letters to the French King a'n.l Cardinal Richlicu. The fame Day Mr. Henderfon prcach'd in St. Niclolas Chur-ch, and after Sermon the Ge- neral and Nobility was treated by tht Mayor. The Earl of Lothian was made Governor of the Place, with ,' Camion of 1000 Men. Which Truft they thought he well dejervtd, Juch was his Zeal to the Caufe, that the' both his Father and himfelf owed all their Wealth ar.d Greatness to the King's Bounty, yet he -was one of the firjl that engaged againji him. At the fame Time a more diimal Fate attended the Lord Haddington, who, having avowedly fallen from the Ktnu's Side, and lifted under Lelley, was left at home with his Regiment t« attetid tht Motions of the Garrifon of Berwick. For that purpofe, he kept his ^tarttrs at Dunglal's, where funding at Nooa-day m tht Court-yard with about Jixty Gentlemen, the Caftle having a Magazjne of Powder, which "fud- denly taking Fire, was blown up, and in a Moment buried him and all his Company, fo that they were never more feen. This Tra'jcal Event being reported at Court, the Royalifts were not fo moderate in their Cenfures as the King himfelf, who only faid, that he had been very ungrateful to him, yet he was jofry he had not Time to repent. I'nder ihefe difcouraging Circumftances the Earl 0/ Strafford met //« Englilh ^r>»y J/ Durham, where he highly blamed the Lord Conway for the late Diflionour. After that, he found it neccffary to retire to the Skirts of Yorkfhire, leaving all Northumberland, and the Bi/lioprick of Durham, to the Plea fure of the Con.'jutrors, who befides Provijion of Coals and Forage, JeJJcd theje Parts at a Contribution of S50I. per Day, that is, 500 1. tt he paid out of Northumberland, 350I. out of the Bifhoprick, »nd lOO 1. out of tht Town of Mewcafile. Echard'j Hift. Lib. \. Cap. 3. Ihe Agreement between the Scots and Newcaftle, relating to the Payment of the 200 1. per Day, is as follows^ taken from the Original. AT Keweafile the Twenty-Third Day of September, the Year of God One Thoufand Six Hundredth and Forty Years. It is appointed and agreit, betwixt them of the Committe of Eftates of the Kingdome of Scotland under fubfcribed on the one Part, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the (aid Town oi Sewcajiit upon Tyne under fubfcribed, for them(elvcs .md in the f3amc of the rcmcinam Burgclles, and other Inha- bitants of the faidTown, on the other Part, in manner following (that is to fay) the faid Mayor and Al- dermen, at the Requeft of the faid Committe, and tor clchewin" further Inconvemencies, have condefcend- edit to lend the Somes of Money following in manner; vi:.. the Some of Two Hundred Pounde Sterlinge dayly, bcgining the fiift Day's Payment thereof at the Fourteenth Day of September Inrtant, and fwaforth ilayly hereafter duringe the Abode of the Scottijli Army at Kewcaftie ; and becaufe here is already nine Days fueiit, they oblidge them to pay the whole ten Days, upon the Tweniy-third and Twenty-fifth Days of September Inftant, and fwaforth daylye, at lead weekley thereafter, bcginninge for the Week following on Tuefday the Twenty-ninth of this Inftant, and fwafonh weeley thereafter, with fpecial Condition, that aftct the faid firll Some for the faid firrt Ten Days is paid, that what Neceffarics for the Entertainment of the Army of any Kind of Viffual or other Proviiion, is or lliall be received by the General Commijftoner, the fame fhall be allowit in Payment either in Whole or in Part of the faid Some dayly to be lent, as faid is for the quhilks C.iu'es, Thefe of the faid Committe under fuufcribed, bynds and obliJgcs them for ihemfclves, and in the Name of the Ellates of the faid Kingdome of Scotland, to refound and pay the faid Somes, at teaft fo much thereof as fnall be received by the General Comitiifioner, either in Money, Victual, or other Proviflon, at the Prices condefcendit upon to the faid Mayor, Aldermen, and their Sf.ccelTors, betwixt the Daite thereof and the laft Day of Sovemier, in this Inftant Year of God One Thoufand Six >fv.ndrith and Forty Years, together with the Some of Ten Pounds Money for ilk Hundred Poundes, toge- ther .ilfo with the orJinavy Interert thereof, fwalong as the fame fliall vemaine unpaid, after the laft Day of Sovimbcr next. And further, the (aid Committe, for themtelves, and in the Name of the General anj others of the Scottifi Army, docs hereby oblldgc tl;em, that neither the f.iid Mayor, Aldermen, nor any of the faid nurnefl"es, or otlier the Inhabitants foreCaid, fliall be troubled in their Perions, Trades, Houles, Lands, or PoiVclHons, but ftiall have a full and ample Safeguard for any H.trm can come to tiicm, or any of thcra. Providing every one of them pay their feveral Proportions according as it fliall be fet down amongfl thcmfelvcs, with Declaration always, that none of thofe who have cariycd Arms .nd appeared againft the Scoitijh Army, (liill have any Bencti: of this Agreement. And in Cale any of the faid Biirgcire s, or others ihe Inhabitants, fhiU be retractory, and refufe to lend their Proj^oriions, the Under-fubfcribed fnall be free of lb much of :h- jorcfaid Somes as comes to '.heir Part, the faid M.iyor and Aldermen giving, up a e Lift Of the Government of the To^rn. 2 3 1 Lift of theif Names nnd Somes, and make it good that they are refponfable Perfons, and has Goods or Land witliin the faid Town able to pay their Proportion. After this Agretmer:t v.as Ji^neJ, they feated themfelves in the Town. -Juhere {as the Authority mentitined fays) they viert indulged -with good Provifions, and better Entertainment than they enjoyed in their own Country, ■which cofi the Tovjn a ziafl Sum of Money, for they continued too bnj a Time before the People were rightly eafed of them. Befides the 850 I. a Day, they feized the Rents of the Bijhop, Dean, and Chapter, and Papijis, as Enemies to their Dejigns ; and Leflcy fufered his Soldiers to rifie ar.d break open Shops and Hoiifes, and likewife feized on four great Englifh Ships laden vjith Corn as lawful Prize. Echard. Jii' Chrifti. Mayors. 1 641. ( The fame. Sheriffs. I Francis Anderfon. May II. There was a Mejfage fent to the Lords touching the disbanding the two Armies, if not totally, yet Part and Part at a Time : Upon which Majler Treafurer made a Report that there was an Arrear to the Scots of 1 10000 I. befides the 300000 1. In the Afternoon the Commons voted it, and it was confirm' d by the Lords, that both Ar- mies fliould bt fatisjied and disbanded by the fecond oj the next Month. June 19. There was a great Debate about the Payment of the 300000 I. allowed the Scots; at length it was concluded, that they fliould have looooo!. of it paid at Michaelmas come Twelve-months, and the other zoooool. at Midfummer Two-years after. June 22. // was voted, that eight of the Lords, and fix of the Commons, fhould be appointed as Commijfioners to pay the Scots the Money of AJfiflance allowed them. July 7- At a Conference betwixt both Houfes, there was a Debate about, disbanding the Armies ; and it was concluded on, that there fliould be 50000 1. prefently fent down for the disbanding the En^lith Army , and the Scots to havt 60000 1. to disband theirs, to be paid by the Earl i:irm:fies had no other Ejje6l, than to gam Jome little Time for Sir Thomas Glenlmm to draw his Torces and ArtitUry to Newcnftle, /or Alnwick was not tenable; bejidcs, he found fcTcral o) the Gentlemen of N M-thumbei-l.ind,f//if«ed in Parties-, the Field-Word given by the Marquis being prophetically enough. Now or Never; and by the Scots, m their affitming Wnrreuder of tie Tovili before Monday the ii 0/ October. Inftaad of wliich, they fent out to us a bittci- Inve£live Letter, tho' they knew all our B.itteiies and J^ines were ready ; yet they boldly drew JVom us thefc brvforcenients : Therefore, this Morning the icots make three Breaches, and to fpring four Mines, and i'o to fall on : The Breaches were made re.ilbnabl* low before 1 hree a Clock Afternoon : All Mines played well, and yet tlieTown ftood out obftinate : My Lord Chancellour's Regiment and BacUlou^h'i enter'd a Breach at Cloj'eiate : The General of the Artillery his llc;4imcnt and that other of F.dinlmr^h's enter'd at Nine under the H-lite Tower : Cul. Stuart's and (Jdik's H.c;4inients enter'd at a Mine, but with hot Difpute, at Wefliate ; this was our CUiarter : Lieutenant-General B>:hy had another Qiiarter at Newaie, with five Regiments, his pwn, Wnti^htoit'i, Ceix'^ir'i, Dunferhng's, and Diidhofi, who enter'd by a Breach, many of our Olliccvs kill'd, M;i)or Robert he}burn much laiucnted. Cajiles, Keihead, Wedderburn, Marflmll, and the Mafter of Xeflers, they had the third Qjiarter. i>ihcUtre, Alton, Siddery, the Mafter of Cranjion, and the Lord Niddcry, had the lourtl. Q^iarier, who ente 'd at two Mines. Tliey within made their utniofl Oppofition, with great E.vecution on us, but we forced themj and the M.iyor, with others. Gentlemen of (Quality, got to the Gallic. More you OliII have witluu a Day or two. OSloher ig. TCoHr Lordpip's HunMe Scrvavt, ,644. A. HUME. And prefentXy upon this letter, Thanhfgi-ving was made at London, zvlth hearty Thanks to God for bis ;rtar Mercy in givin« up the Town 0/ New-Cartle ;;; England to our Brethren <>/ Scotland ; and the zyth of Ociuber the Caftle iikeivije furrendcred, with three hundred Pcrfons; the Lordt Crawford, Ren, and Maxwell, were fent to Edinburgh to be executed; and the Town being taken by a great Slaughter, was plundered to the full i and the Scots excufed themfelves, that therein the Parliament of England vjould be the belter fleafed. Thus ■was the Town taken from the King ajler an objlinate and ga.lant Defence, and v:^ll may ajfmne the Motto it- fiowed upon it, FORTITER DEFENDENDO TRIUMPHANS. Newcaftle, the tyth of Nov. 1644. T/jc Committee'^ Declaration. T 'HE Committees of both Kingdoms, after many Meetings and ferious Debates amongft themfelveJ, and the hearing of fundry Perfons well experienced in the Collieries and Coal-Works about the Town. ot Newcajlte, and having taken into their ferious Confideration fundry Propofitions for the Good of tholo Works-, and the driving on of that Trade for the Benefit of the Parliament, and the Pay of the \rniy, have at length concluded and agreed amongft themfelves, that fome of the mofl notorious Delinquents and Ma- iignants, late Coal-Owner.s in the Town o( Newcajlle, fhould be wholly excluded from intermeddling with any Shares or Parts ot Collieries, or Intcreft in any Coals whatfomcver, that formerly they have laid Claim unto, and that the reft of the faid Delinquents deferve not to have any Benefit of the faid Coals or Col- lieries : But in regard the Delinquents and Malignants belonging to thofe Collieries were very many ia Number, they did not conceive it for the Service of the Parliament, or the Army, to put them all out at once, and fo to hazard the retarding of the prefent feiting on of the Works, and ruining of the lame, in regard they were furnifhed with Materials and Utenfils, and had Things ready at hand, and did beft know where to find Workmen, which Strangers would have had Difficulty to find, and could not poflibly un the fudden fuflficiently provide themfelves to fct on the Works; and having made Trial to leti fome Delin- quents Collieries, and, for this Purpofe, having treated with fome well-afFecled Perfoii.s what Profit might be railed, and how they might be lett for the mofV Benefit to the Parliament, were conflrain'd for the prefent rather to make life of thofe Delinquents in wor'uing their own Collieries as Tenants and Servants to the Parliament, than to engage our Friends upon Incertaintics, and hazard their Lofs, as our own Hindrance in fetting forward the works, for the Vfe and Benefit of the Parliament. Wherefore theConn- mirtees of both Kingdoms, feeing theNeceflity of difpatching away the Ships that every Day call upon us fop ihei- Lading, and lie at Charges in Expeclation of getting Coals for their Money, have thought fit to make the following Declaration to all, but fuch as are excepted as before-mentioned, and whole Names arc hereafter written. I ft. That for the prefent Time there be allowed, on the behalf of the refi of the late Coal-Owners, los. Sterling upon every Chaldron of Ship-Coals, for defraying tite Charges in the I'Vorks under-ground. Carri- age thereof to the Staiths, and frotn tifience in i:cc\s to the Ships, paying the Town-Hues, as was formerly paid (viz.) 3d. for the Town, and 3d. for the Garr{fcin per Chalder, and the ufual atui accuJlomeJ Rents for the Pits ; and as a competent Confideration for the Support of the faul late Owners thcmfekts, and this Allowance is made, as well for the Coals at the Staiths and Pits ready wrought, as thofe to be wrought, the faid Owners, Collieries a»d Workmen, being always obliged to jet on Foot with all D.li- gence, and mahitain their Coal-Works, make ready their Keels, and all other Necejfaries fit for the fame ; and the Coal-Workers zvho are to receive the Benefit of Paynent, as ah-jef.iid, for their Work out of the Coals already above ground, arc obl:^ed to continue in working the faid Coats at the ordinary Rate and Conditions, as was formerly accufiomed. And whatfoever more Price the faid Chalders of Co.iis {being fold to Merchants or Mafters of Ships) fliall yield above the [aid 10 s. per Chalder, topther with what Ciiftom and Impoft is or fliall be put upon the fame ; and the old Citfiom of i s. upon the Chalder for- merly paid by the Owners to his Ma'efty, to he employed for the Pa,y and Ma'mte»ance of the Army, upon Account, to the Parliament of England, or their Committees. idly. That the Coals already wrought above-ground, either at Pits or Staiths, belonging to Vriends, have ti'ic Allowance of tos. upon the Chalder, th:y paying the faid Town's Duties (viz.) s i. to tire Town, and Of the Government of the ToA7n. 235 uted into fo much Reafon- and Underjianding, that heing cominced ty the King, he fell into fome Diflemper at Newcaftle, and therefore zvas fent home to Scotland, where he died ferfeSlly reconciled to the Kind's Affairs, and an Afojlaie from the Sco\s Arniy and their Proceedings. Sanderfon's Hift. o/K. Charles 1. j). 904, 905,911. rhe King gives Earneft of his Jintere InteKtions of holding a ferfonal Treaty with the Parliament of London, by jending the following Warrant. HAving dcfigncd to comply with the Defigns of our Parliament, in every thing tVat may be for the Gotid of oui Subjects, and leave no Means unattempted for removing of Diffeicnces between us ; therefore we iiave thought the more to evidence the Reality of our Intention of fettling a happy Peace, to require you, upon Honourable Conditions, to quit the Towns, Caftles, and Forts intruded to you by us, and to disband all the Forces under your feveral Commands. Given iiSd'cafite the isih of ^ttWf, 1646. To our Trttjly and IVell-belovcd Sir Thomas Glenham, Sir Thomas I isby, Colo»el Wafhington, Colonel Bhgue, Governors of our Cities and Towns of Oxford, Wor- cefter, Litchfield, «»«/ Wallingford ; and to all other Commanders of any other Towns., Cajlles, or torts vjithi» >^ the Kingdom of England, or Dominion of Wales. The Scots vow in fome Jealoii/y how mightily the King Complies with his Parliament, and that they Pould not he able, perhaps, to effeH their Defigns by Force, endeavour it by Fraud and Cunning, by injmuating to the Parliament, that their Confcietice hears them Witnejs, of their conjlant Endeavours to preferve the Union of both Kingdoms; yet never more than Jince the King's coming to their Army, by effcilmg fuch Meffages from his Ma- jefty as mti,ht be a jure Ground of Peace to his People, and Happinejs to himjelf. And although we have not as yet prevailed over his Principles, deeply rooted in him, as to obtain the titmoji of our Dejires, which we hope in a (liort Time to ejjeil ; and we hope that accordingly the Parliament will be pleafed to fend their Propojitions of Peace to him, upon whofe Anfwer we fliall clearly know hoiv to proceed in the intended Pacification, and to fatisfy the Parliament in disbanding our Armies, delivering up the Garrifons pojjejfed by us, and retiring home for the Good of both Kingdoms. This was dated at Newcaftle the 10th of June 1646, and figned by General Levens and all tht Scotch Cew- mijfioners, and dtreiled to the Parliament. After many Alterations and Difputes between the Scots and the Parliament relating to the King, it was at lafl agreed to deliver htm up, upon their being paid 400,000!. for their Arrears. Whereupon the two Houfes at VC eftminfter fent, of the Lords the Earls of Pembroke and Denbigh, and Lord Montague ; of the Commons, Sir John Holland, i"/r Walter Earl, Sir James Harrington, Sir John Cook, Mr. John Crew, and Major. General Brown ; together with fome private Gentlemen, and two of their Chaplains, Mr. Marfliall and Mr. Ca- ryl, to receive the King. Thefe arrived ar Newcaftle the i3