.ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. .19 



1 8 j. granted by William Porter to John de Chambers, a burgefs of 

 that corpoi-ation (p}, \ 



At the fuppreffion, this priory had fix nuns, when its annual 

 revenues were valued at 5 1. 15 s. 8 d. It was granted, 7 K. EJ~ 

 ward VI. to John Duke of Northumberland (q) ; and was in the pof- 

 feffion of Sir Albany Fttherftonhangh, of FetherJlon-CaJlle, Knight, 10 

 '(^Elizabeth ; and now belongs to Sir Lancelot Allgood, of Nunivick, 

 Knight ; the fite of the convent warned away by the river Tyne. 



Two miles from Lambhy, on the fame fide of the river, is 



Knar efd ale- Plall, which, with the manour, was taken from John 

 Prat by the crown, 8 K. Edward I. for his difloyalty ; and given 

 to Sir Robert de Swinburn, knight ; the grant fealed in council with 

 a large green wax- feal (r) ; the manour of Williamfton, held of the 

 manour of Knarefdale, being alfo given to Sir William de Stvinbuni, 

 knight ; its owner Bartholomew Prat, confirming the title by a 

 relcafc, in tle fame reign, and 3 1 of Alexander, King of Scotland (sj ; 

 a year remarkable for a grievous peftilence in that kingdom. 

 'The heir to Sir Robert, was Thomas de Sivinburn, who, befidcs the 



(/>) Bourne's Hill, of Neivcaftk. 

 (y) Compend. compertum. 

 (r} Co'lins's Baronage. 



(f) Omnibus hoc fcriptum, &c. Bartbalomam Prat, faiutcnv, &c. Noveritis me remiiillo, 

 ^t relaxafle, &c. Dom. Jl'illieltno a\- Swinburn, &c. totum jus et clamum, &c. Mancrio de 

 Williamflsn, in feodo de Knar tf dale, &c. Sigiliat. his tcftibus, Dom. Thorn. Ranulph. Simon. 

 fratres, tune jufticiarii itinerantes ; Jahamte Cumyn, Johanne de Sw'-nburn, Roberto de Infula 

 ' de Chipcbes, Milit. Jobannc de Sfjutli.-igton, Gilberts tic Grindm, Odarda de Ridley, et aliis. 

 Bat apud- Work in TynedaJe, anno regni Alcxandri regis Sulife tricefimo prinio. , 



,, D 2, manour 



