48 An Enqury into the Name of 
On which Bishop Gibson observes, that there never 
was any convent or monastery founded at Alnwick 
or near it by John Vescy; and that the first convent 
-of Carmelites was founded at Huln, near Alnwick, 
by. Ralph Fresburn*. The editor of the last edition 
of the Britannia seems likewise to think, that Huln 
Abbey was founded by Fresburn. T 
You will readily allow, sir, that in endeavouring 
to illustrate obscure remains of antiquity, every cir- 
cumstance should be minutely as well as deliberately 
examined; and that reason and truth ought, as much 
as possible, to predominate over partiality and pre- 
judice. Had this been altogether the case in the in- 
stance before us, Fresburn would never have been 
for them the Monastery at Huln, on his return from the 
Holy Land, 1250, 34 Hen. 111, Here it is observable, that 
Dugdale differs from Leland and most other authors, who 
assign 1240 as the year in which that abbey was founded. 
Dugdale refers to Matt. Westm. who, I find, only says, 
** Ordines multiplicabantur in Anglia, prater ordines pra- 
dicatorum et minorum, videlicet fratres de Monte Car- 
meli,” p. 348, in an. 1250. By which we are not to un- 
derstand, that the Carmelites came into England in the 
year 1250; for M. Westm. mentions also the Augustines 
et multt alii, And that the Augustines, with many other 
orders of friars, all came into this country A.D. 1250, is 
not very credible, even if such a supposition had not been 
contradictory to the best historical information, 
* Gibson’s Camden, 11, 1094. 2d edit. 
+ Gough’s Camden, 111, 258. 
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