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Author: Brand, John, 1744-1806.
Title: The history and antiquities of the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne: including an account of the coal trade of that place and embellished with engraved views of the publick buildings, &c. ... By John Brand, ... [pt.1]
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Brand, John, 1744-1806.
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title page
dedication
PREFACE.
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
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HISTORY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.
ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS, STREETS , CHURCHES, MONASTERIES, BRIDGES, AND OTHER PUBLICK EDIFICES, IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.
FOSS.
TOWERS AND GATES.
HOUSES, STREETS, &c.
QUAY, OR KEY-SIDE .
SAND-HILL.
TYNE-BRIDGE.
THE CLOSE.
WEST-GATE .
HOUSE OF CARMELITES, OR WHITE-FRIARS .
WEST-GATE.
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL.
ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL.
ADDENDA CONCERNING FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND EXHIBITIONS THAT MAY BE ENJOYED, AT BOTH THE UNIVERSITIES, BY SCHOLARS OF NEWCASTLE-SCHOOL.
No I.
No II.
No III.
No IV. Dr. Smith's Exhibition.
WEST-GATE.
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
LEGACIES LEFT TO THE POOR OF ST. JOHN'S.
CHARITY-SCHOOL.
MONUMENTS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
South isle and cross.
Cross isle.
North isle.
West end and middle isle.
CLERGY OF ST. JOHN'S, MINISTERS, LECTURERS AND CURATES.
WEST-GATE.
BLACK FRIARS.
CASTLE OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.
NEWGATE-STREET.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.
CHANTRIES IN ST. ANDREW'S.
THE ALTAR.
THE STEEPLE.
PARISH REGISTER.
CHARITY-SCHOOL.
ORGAN.
LEGACIES LEFT TO THE POOR OF ST. ANDREW'S.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH AND CHURCH-YARD.
CURATES, LECTURERS AND ASSISTANT-CURATES OF ST. ANDREW'S.
ST. JAMES' CHAPEL IN THE PARISH OF ST. ANDREW'S.
ST. MARY'S CHAPEL AT JESMONT IN THIS PARISH .
NUNNERY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.
ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH.
CHANTRIES IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH.
ST. GEORGE'S PORCH.
ST. NICHOLAS' STEEPLE.
GALLERIES AND PEWS.
CHANCEL OF ST. NICHOLAS.
FONT.
WINDOWS.
ORGAN.
LIBRARY.
CHURCH-YARD.
LEGACIES LEFT TO THE POOR OF ST. NICHOLAS.
CHARITY-SCHOOL OF ST. NICHOLAS.
SHRINES, MONUMENTS, AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, FORMERLY IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, MOST OF WHICH HAVE BEEN REMOVED BY THE LATE ALTERA∣TION IN THE INSIDE OF THAT EDIFICE.
South Isle.
ST. MARY'S PORCH:
Sir Richard Stote's burial place.
ST. MARGARET'S CHANTRY.
ST. GEORGE'S PORCH.
VICARS OF ST NICHOLAS IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE .
AFTERNOON LECTURERS AT ST. NICHOLAS'S.
CURATES OF ST. NICHOLAS' .
CHAPELS OF EASE TO ST. NICHOLAS. BRIDGE-END CHAPEL.
SOUTH-GOSFORTH, OR GOSFORD, A CHAPEL OF EASE TO ST. NICHOLAS'.
NORTH-GOSFORTH CHAPEL.
CRAMLINGTON CHAPEL .
CHARITY OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.
MIDDLE-STREET.
SILVER-STREET.
CHURCH OF ALL-SAINTS, OR ALL-HALLOWS.
CHANTRIES.
STEEPLE OF ALL-SAINTS.
GALLERIES AND PEWS .
CHANCEL .
FONT.
WINDOWS .
ORGAN.
LIBRARY.
LEGACIES LEFT TO THE POOR OF ALL-SAINTS.
CHARITY SCHOOL OF ALL-SAINTS.
PARISH REGISTERS.
MONUMENTS AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN THE LATE CHURCH OF ALL-SAINTS.
In the chancel of All-Saints.
South isle.
In the north isle.
LECTURERS OF ALL-SAINTS.
CURATES OF ALL-SAINTS .
PREACHERS AT ST. ANN'S, A CHAPEL OF EASE TO ALL-SAINTS.
ST. LAURENCE'S CHAPEL, IN ALL-SAINTS PARISH.
DOG-BANK.
PANDON.
SUBURBS OF NEWCASTLE.
INFIRMARY.
FIRTH II.
SUBURBS OF WEST-GATE.
THE SUBURBS OF NEW-GATE.
THE SUBURBS OF PILGRIM-STREET.
NUN-MOOR.
SUBURBS OF PANDON.
SUBURBS OF SAND-GATE.
OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF NEW∣CASTLE UPON TYNE.
GATESHEAD IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM.
GATESHEAD-CHURCH.
CHANTRIES.
(1) ST. MARY'S CHANTRY.
(2) ST. LOY'S CHANTRY.
(3) ST. JOHN'S CHANTRY.
(4) TRINITY CHANTRY.
STEEPLE.
GALLERIES, PEWS, AND ORGAN.
THE CHANCEL.
REGISTER—VESTRY—CHURCH-YARD.
CHARITY-SCHOOL.
MONUMENTS AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN GATESHEAD CHURCH. In the choir.
RECTORS AND CURATES OF GATESHEAD.
APPENDIX TO THE FIRST VOLUME.
APPENDIX, P. 20. (No. 1.) Anno tertio Georgii III. Regis. An Act for lighting the streets and other places, and maintaining a regular and nightly watch within the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne; and for regulating the hackney coachmen and chairmen, cartmen, porters, and watermen, within the same.
APPENDIX, P. 20. (No. 2.) Anno vicesimo sexto Georgii III. Regis. An Act for widening, enlarging, and cleansing the streets, lanes, and other publick places, and for opening new streets, markets, and passages, within the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the liberties thereof, and for removing and preventing annoyances therein; and for regulating the publick markets, and common stage waggons, drays, and carts, carry∣ing goods for hire.
APPENDIX, P. 25. Hospitale Novi Castri super Tynam in comitatu Northumbriae vocatum Thornton's Hospital. Licentia Henrici Regis Quarti Rogero de Thornton concessa pro fundatione ejusdem.
APPENDIX, P. 50. Anno duodecimo Georgii III. Regis. An Act to enable the Lord Bishop of Durham, and his successors, to raise a competent sum of money, to be applied for the repairing, improving, or rebuilding, such part of Tyne-Bridge, as belongs to the see of Durham.
APPENDIX, P. 51. Anno duodecimo Georgii III. Regis. An Act for building a temporary bridge over the river Tyne, between the town of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, in the county of Durham.
APPENDIX, P. 52. (No. 1.) Anno decimo nono Georgii III. Regis. An Act for enlarging the term of an act, passed in the twelfth year of his present Majesty's reign, for building a temporary bridge over the river Tyne, between the town of New castle upon Tyne and Gateshead, in the county of Durham; for completing the new stone bridge over the said river; and for making the avenues to, and the passage over the same more commodious.
APPENDIX, P. 52. (No. 2.) An Act for enlarging the terms and powers of two acts of the twelfth and nineteenth years of his present Majesty's reign, made for building a temporary bridge, and completing a new stone bridge, over the river Tyne, between the town of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gates∣head, in the county of Durham, and making the avenues to and the passages over the same more commodious; and for removing and preventing nuisances and annoyances in the streets, lanes, or avenues leading to the said new stone bridge, within the town of Gateshead, in the county of Durham.
APPENDIX, P. 83.
APPENDIX, P. 122. An Act to enable the Vicar of the parish church of St. Nicholas, in the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, to demise or lease part of the land belonging to the said vicarage, to William Lowes, Esquire, for the purposes, and upon the conditions in such lease to be mentioned. A. D. 1774.
APPENDIX, P. 132. From the original in the archives of the corporation of Newcastle.—The great seal lost.—It is in bad preservation. Dorso—10o Marcii 35 Hen. 8. Grant to the mayor and burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne of the Black Fryers with the houses and ground thereunto belonging, which was of the yearly value of 2l. 19s. 6d. in consideration of 53l. 7s. 6d.
APPENDIX, P. 133. From the original, much defaced, in the possession of the Tanners company—By favour of Mr. Storey, steward.
APPENDIX, P. 135. From a Book of Inrolments in the Archives of the Corporation of Newcastle upon Tyne. Licence to Sarah Hudson, Widow, to keep the Lying-in Hospital in Rosemary-Lane, New∣castle upon Tyne.
APPENDIX, P. 142. ROMAN WALL.
SEGEDUNUM .
BEES-HOUSES.—WALKER.
CONDERCUM —BENWELL or BENWALL.
DENTON-BURN.
RUTCHESTER .
HARLOW-HILL.
HALTON.
WALWICK. CARRAWBRUGH. HOUSE-STEEDS.
CARRVORRAN.
BURDOSWALD STATION.
CAMCK FORT.
WATCH CROSS.
STANWICKS.
BRUGH.
DRUMBRUGH.
BOULNESS .
APPENDIX, P. 178. ST. ANDREW's CHURCH.
Licentia concessa ad aedificand' in Coemeterio Capellae S. Andreae Villae Novi Castri. Reg. Hatfeld, p. 119.
Commissio ad restituend' Parochianum Capellae S. Andreae Villae Novi Castri super Tynam dis∣samatum. Reg. Hatfeld, p. 135.
Officium Domini Cancellarii contra Thomam Akenside et Janetam ejus Uxorem, et Robertum Akenside Parochiae S. Andreae Villae Novi Castri detect. They are presented of Witchcrafte and Sorcerie. Die Sabbati, viz. 23 die Mens. Junii, A. D. 1582.—Acta Curiae Consist. Decanatus Novi Castri.
Curious Extracts from the Register of St. Andrew's.
On an upright stone in St. Andrew's Church-yard.
APPENDIX. P. 198. JESMOND—BOURNE'S ACCOUNT OF.
APPENDIX, P. 236. CORRECTIONS, AFTER-INSERTIONS, &c. MADE IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, JUNE 24, 1788.
APPENDIX, P. 328. An Act to enable his Majesty to licence a Play-house in the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne.
APPENDIX, P. 360. ALL SAINTS CHURCH. An Act for pulling down and rebuilding the Church of All Saints, in the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne, and for enlarging the Church-yard, and making convenient Avenues and Pas∣sages thereto.
APPENDIX, P. 364. ALL SAINTS CHURCH. FOUNDATION OF ST. CATHERINE'S CHANTRY. (From a Parchment in All Saints Vestry.) (Dorso) "The Copie of the Fondacion of Saynt Katreyn's Chauntre in Allhallows Church."
APPENDIX, P. 366. From an original old Deed, a little mutilated in some Places, which had been used as a Wrapper to some old Writings, the Property of the Brandling Family, communicated by N. Clayton, Esq. (Dorso) "Gosforth old Writings."
APPENDIX, P. 402. Confirmatio Ordinationis Hospitalis de Walknoll, infra Villam Novi Castri.
APPENDIX, P. 430. 28o die Martii anno R. Regis Jacobi nunc Angliae Franc' et Hiberniae &c. nono et Scotiae 43o annoque Domini 1611.
APPENDIX, P. 437. Anno decimo quarto Georgii Tertii Regis.
APPENDIX, P. 454. An Act for establishing a permanent Fund for the Relief and Support of Skippers and Keelmen employed on the River Tyne, who by Sickness, or other accidental Misfortunes, or by Old Age, shall not be able to maintain themselves and their Families; and also for the Relief of the Widows and Children of such Skippers and Keelmen.
APPENDIX, P. 475. The refoundation Charter of the Hospital at Gateside in the County of Durham, formerly called St. Edmund's, now King James's Hospital. 4th January, 1610.
APPENDIX, P. 473 and 479. An Act for the writing and the Town of Gateside to the Towne of Newcastell vpon Ti.
APPENDIX, P. 497. (From an attested Copy, communicated by the Rev. Mr. Thorp, Rector of Gateshead.)
ADDENDA.
ADDENDA, P. 21.
ADDENDA, P. 106. ST. JOHN's CHURCH.
ST. JOHN'S REGISTER.
ADDENDA, P. 120.
INDEX TO VOL. I.
ERRATA.
Directions to the Binder for placing the Cuts.