302 Account of an ancient Monument 



Account of an ancient Monument in Huln 

 Abbey, Northumberland j by John Fer- 

 RIAR, M. D. 



READ MARCH z8, I783. 



TH E monument here exhibited, was dug 

 up, a few years ago, from among the 

 ruins of the church of Huln Abbey, now in pof- 

 feffion of the Northumberland family. The table 

 is broken, as marked in the drawing. 



No account of this curious monument has yet 

 been publifhed, and it is fo covered with ivy, in 

 its prefent fituation, at the weft end of the 

 church, as to efcape the obfervation of tra- 

 vellers J who are generally attrafted to vifit the 

 remains of the abbey, by the uncommon beauty 

 of its fituation, more than by antiquarian zeal. 



Huln abbey, the firft Carmelite monaftery 

 founded in England, was built in 1240, by 

 Ralph Frefborn, under the patronage of Wil- 

 liam de Vefcy, then Lord of Alnwick, and of the 

 immenfe poffefllons of the Tyfons, granted to Ivo 

 de Vefcy by the Conqueror. During the laft of 

 the Croifades, Vefcy, with fome other Northum- 

 brian Gentlemen, vifited the monaftery on mount 

 Carmel. They found there Frefborn their coun- 

 tryman. 



