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"len fir George Lancaftre hath don unto me the faid "Erle, and alfo for the goode and vertus difpofition that "I do perceive in him: And for that he hall have in "his daily recommendation and praiers the good estate "of all fuche noble Blode and other Perfonages, as be "now levynge; And the Soules of fuch noble Blode as be departed to the mercy of God owte of this "fent lyve, Whos Names are conteyned and wrettyn "in a Table upon perchment figned with thande of me "the faid Erle, and delivered to the cuftodie and keap. ynge of the faid fir George Lancaftre: And further, "that he shall kepe and faye his devyn fervice in celebratyng and doynge Maffe of Requiem every weke "accordinge as it is written and fet furth in the faide

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Table: HAVE geven and graunted, and by these "prefentes do gyve and graunte unto the faid fir George, myn Armytage belded in a Rock of stone within my Parke of WARKWORTH in the County of "Northumberland in the honour of the bleffed Try"nete, With a yerly Stipende of twenty Merks by "yer, from the feet of feint Michell tharchaungell

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laft paft afore the date herof yerly duryng the natu

rall lyve of the faid fir George: AND alfo I the faid "Erle have geven and graunted, and by these Prefents "do gyve and graunte unto the faid fir George Lancaftre, the occupation of one litle Gresgroud of myn "called Cony-garth nygh adjoynynge the faid Harmy. tage, only to his only ufe and proufit wynter and fumer "durynge the faid terme; THE Garden and Orteyarde "belongyng the faid Armytage; THE Gate † and "Pafture of Twelf Kye and a Bull, with their Calves "fuking; AND two Horfes goying and beyng within "my faid Parke of Warkworth wynter and fomer; "ONE Draught of Fiffhe every Sondaie in the yere to

*This would be equal to £100 per annum now. See the Cronicon Pretiofum.

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"be drawen forenenst the faid Armytage, called The "Trynete Draught; AND Twenty Lods of Fyrewode "to be taken of my Wodds called Shilbotell Wode, "duryng the faid term. The faid Stipend of xx Merks "by yer to be taken and perceived † yerly of the rent "and ferme of my Fiffhyng of Warkworth, by thands "of the Fermour or Fermours of the fame for the tyme "beynge yerly at the times ther used and accustomed "by evyn Portions. In wytnes "whereof to thes my Letters "Patentes I the faid Erle "have fet the Seale of myn "Armes: YEVEN undre my

Allowe in recompence herof yerly x" ‡. Richerd Ryche.

"Signet at my Caftell of Warkworth, the third daye "of December, in the xxiiith Yer of the Reigne of " our Sovereyn Lord kyng Henry the eight."

On the Diffolution of the Monafteries, the above Patent was produced before the Court of Augmentation in Michaelmas-Term, 20 Oct. A. 29. Hen. VIII. when the fame was allowed by the Chancellor and Counfel of the faid Court, and all the profits confirmed to the incumbent fir George Lancafter; Excepting that in compenfation for the annual Stipend of Twenty Marks, he was to receive a Stipend of Ten Marks, and to have a free Chapel called The Rood Chapel, and the Hofpital of St. Leonard, within the Barony of Wigdon, in the County of Cumberland.

After the perufal of the above PATENT it will perhaps be needlefs to caution the Reader against a Miftake, fome have fallen into; of confounding this Hermitage NEAR Warkworth, with a Chantry founded WITHIN

* Qr fore-anenft: i. e. oppofite. † Sic MS. So the MS. The above Sir Richard Rych was Chancellor of the Augmentation at the Suppreffion of the Monaf

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the town itfelf, by Nicholas de Farnham, bishop of Durham, in the reign of Henry III. who appropriated the Church of Brankefton for the maintenance there of Two Benedictine Monk: from Durham *. That

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fmall monaftic foundation is indeed called a CELL by bishop Tanner + but he must be very ignorant, who fuppofes that by the word CELL is neceffarily to be understood a Hermitage; whereas it was commonly applied to any fmall conventual establishment, which was dependant on another.

As for the Chapel belonging to this endowment of bifhop Farnham, it is mentioned as in ruins in feveral old Surveys of queen Elizabeth's time; and its feite, not far from Warkworth Church, is ftill remembered. But that there was never more than ONE Prieft maintained, at one and the fame time, within the HERMITAGE, is plainly proved (if any further proof be wanting) by the following Extract from a Survey of Warkworth, made in the Year 1567, ‡ viz.

"Ther is in the Parke (fc. of Warkworth) alfo one "Howfe hewyn within one Cragge, which is called "the Harmitage Chapel: In the fame ther haith bene "one Preaft keaped which did fuch godlye fervices as "that tyme was ufed and celebrated. The Manfion "Howfe (fc. the fmall building adjoining to the Cragg)

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ys nowe in decaye: The Clofes that apperteined to "the faid Chantrie ys occupied to his Lordship's use."

Ang. Sacr. p. 738. + Not. Mon. 396. ‡ By George Clarkson, MS penes Duc. North.

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Of them who, wrapt in Earth fo cold,
No more the fmiling day fhall view,
Shou'd many a tender tale be told,
For many a tender thought is due.

LANGHORNE.

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