ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 109 



defacing his coat armorial, and breaking his fword over his head. 

 The Marquis of Mont acute was made Earl of Northumberland for his 

 fervice. 



Oppofite to Hexham, on the north margin of the Tyne, is the 



Hermitage, formerly belonging to the priory of that town. It 

 was then called Hamc/halg (k), i. e. the hamlet in the Halg, haugh, 

 or vale. It was furrounded with wood, and was the favourite 

 recefs of St. John of Bevcrley, to whom the church on the hill 

 behind it is dedicated. On the diflblution of that monaflery, it 

 came to the crown, and was not granted away 10 Q^EHzabeth (I). 

 It was in the pofleffion of John Coatjkvorth, Eiq; 1724; then high 

 IherifF of Northumberland, on whole death it dcfcended to his 

 eldeftfon, Edivard, who, dying fome years after, left it by will to 

 his brother Michael and his heirs, and failing them to Dr. Jurin 

 and his heirs. Michael dying without heirs, 1 754, it came to 

 James Jurin, Efq; fon and heir of Dr. James Jurin, fellow of Trinity 

 College, in Cambridge, 1711, and afterwards an eminent phyii- 

 cian in London, well known and efteemed in the learned world for 

 his curious experiments and indefatigable pains in promoting 

 natural knowledge. He was editor of Var emus' s geography (m), 

 and author of many learned difTertations in the Philofophical 



(K) Hedd'ius. Pr. Rlc. 



(I) Domina Regina Elizaldha fuit feifita de certis tern's in He.xham, villamque Dalion, 

 Echwick, Halyden, Warden, Carraw, Bingfield, Todderlcy, Grotington, Acome, Sand- 

 how, Wall, Hermitage, Chantry-clofe, Weft-wood, Chollerton, Kirk Helen, Gunnerton, . 

 ut de poffeflionibus monafterii de Hexham. Efcaet. de anno 10 Eliz. 



(m) In 2 vol. 8vo, Land. 1711. publiflied at the requeft of Dr. Eentley, to which is added 

 an appendixj containing the difcoveries fmce that author lived. 



