ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 51 



Beck, then Bifhop (TV). We find it afterwards in the poiTeffion 

 of the Darcys. In the reign of K. Edward III, John Darcy left it 

 at his death to that king's amiable confort, Queen Philip pa, who 

 gave it to the college of Windfor (x). The Ratcliffs of Diljton, Earls 

 of Deriventivater, had it in later times. By the attainder of the 

 laft earl it reverted to the crown ; on whofe prefentation Mr. 

 Stainsforth was fucceeded at his death, 1719, by the prefent rector, 

 the Revd. Mr. Henry Wajlell, A. M. Fellow of Peter-Houje^ in Cam- 

 bridge -, to whom the rectory-houfe, garden, and little glebe, owe 

 their neatnefs and culture ; the fouth front being entirely built 



(w) Provocatus rex contra .Antonlum Epifc. Dun elm. eo q'jocl pa&a inter ipfum et prioiem 

 Dunelm. Ricardum, rege mcdiante inita non obfervaret, et ex aliis caufn, callrum Hernardi 

 cum pertinen. ab eo abftulit, et comiti de li'arvoick contulit ; licit, et Hertnefs^ Roberto As 

 Clifford; Kcverjlon, Galfrido de Hertlifolc, qua: epifcopus habuit ex forisfa&ura Jahan.de 

 Ballot. Roberti de Brtts, et Chrijlophiri de Seton. Abftulit eo c'iam rex JVcrke in Tynedafe, 

 Penretb, et ecclefiam de Symcxdiiurn, quam appropriavit menfae fax. 



Monaft. Angl, Vol. ii. p. 846. 



Camd. Biit. Ed. 1722. p. 1020. 



(x) Edvardus, &c. Sciatus quod cum Pbilippa, Reginn Angl'us, confers noflra chanffima, 

 advocationem eoclefise de $ymcndsfbttrne t quam ipfa nupcr habuit ex dono, & concciilonc 

 'jfohannis Darcy. Chivaler. dcfunfti ; & Edvardus princeps WaUiis & Dux CirnulLr, filius 

 nofter chariflimus, advocaiionem ecclefiae Sanfti Stepbani de SaltcJ!^ quam nuper habuit ex 

 conceffione noftra, nobis dederint & conceflerint, habend. nobis & hacredibus noftris in per- 

 petuum : Nos de gratia noftra fpeciali dedimus, conctfilmus, & aflignavimus dileclis ir.bis 

 in Chrifto cuftodi & collegio capells noftrae de Wyndefare advocationes fuperad iotas ; haben- 

 <Jas fibi & fuccefloribus fuis, de nobis & hneredibus noftris, per ftrvicia iiulc debita & ccn- 

 fueta in perpetuum. Concefiimus infuper & licemiam dedimus, pro nobis & hwredibus 

 noftris, quantum in nobis eft, eifdem cuftodi & collegio, quod ipfi ecclcfias illas appropriare, 

 & eas fie appropriatas in proprios ufus tenere pofiint fibi & fucceffjribus fuis in perpetuum, 

 ftatuto de tcrris & tenementis, ad manum mortu.im non ponendis edito, r.oii ob(T"r.te. In 

 cujus, &c. T. meip r o apud Jl'cjlm. ix. Die Mali, anno rr^ni noftri Angles xxv. regni 

 vero Franc'ne xxii". 



Pat. 25 Eduardilll, p. I. m. 14. 



Monaft. Angl. Vol. iii. dc Collegcat. Ecclcfiis. p. ^o. 



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