ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 95 



* x couragement to any -fueli promoters and informers, but rather 

 'to aid and affift your petitioners in making their jufl defence to 

 ' fuch hard and vexatious dealings and pleadings, and your peti- 

 tioners, as -in duty bound, ftiall ever pray, 8cc.' '(bj ' 



On the weft fide of the market-place, are the remains of that" 

 celebrated and admired ftructure, the priory-ehurch or old ca- 

 thedral. The heft view of it is from the north-eaft. In the 

 center, on four ftrong pillars, is a fquare tower ; in which were 

 lixmufical bells, dedicated to 



The BlefTed Virgin Mary, . 



St. Andrew, 



St. John, and other faints. 



St. Mary's bell was the largeft. It was commonly called, The 

 Fray-beU, being never rung alone, but on occafion of fire, the 

 approach of an enemy, to raife the Pojft Comitatus, or Fray, as it 

 was filled. 



St. Andrews bell was the next in fize. It was called, The Haly 

 bell, being ufed for funerals. 



Eight new bells have for fome time fupplied their place. 



The roof of the middle hie is lofty. It is lined with oak-pan- 

 nels within, and covered with lead without. The fide ifles are 

 arched with ftone. The nave and crofs-ifles are fupported by 

 pillars. In the walls are two rows of galleries, one above the 

 other. At the entrance into the quire is a gallery, in which flood 



(.b) Colleftan. Warburton.MS.^ 



the. 



