,iso ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Cor-bridge is a large, populous, well-built-village. The church 

 is an antient ftruclurc, dedicated to St. Andrew. Under an arch, 

 at the end of the north ifle, is a grave-flone with the following 

 infcription. 



C IACGT. IVL T6RRIS ASLIMI FILIUS KuGO. 



K. Henry I, gave the impropriation and advowfonof this church 

 and of the churches of Warkworth^ I! 'bit ting ham, and Rothbury^ 

 to his chaplain, Richard de Aurea Valle, and after his death to the 

 .church and canons of St. Mary in Carlljle (I). 



To the poor of this parifli, Madam Elizabeth Rat cliffy widow of 

 Sir Edivard Rat cliff, of Diljlon, Bart, and mother of Francis, Earl of 

 Derti'cntivfiter, by will, dated, i8th December, 1668, gave, out of 

 an annuity or rent-charge of 20 /. per annum, which 1'he then had 

 of Mr. Francis Button of Green-Croft, Jo /. to the poor of this parifli ; 

 -to be diftributed annually on St. Luce's, day, or thereabout. 



Mrs. Urfula Mount ney left 20 s. per annum, for the fame ufe. 



.Mrs. Anne S-winburn, of Diljlon, by will, gave 46 7. to the poor of 

 this parifli, to be diftributed at Dil/lon, upon St. Thomas's day be- 

 fore Chrijlmas. 



(I) llenr. Rex /ftig'ia Ran. Dunelm. Epifcopo & Rogero Photo & omnibus fidelibus fuis 

 'Francis & Anglli & miniftris de Northumberland, falutem. Sciatis me dedifle Rtcardi de Aurea 

 Valle Capellano mco, quatuor ecclefias de quatuor meis maneriis ; fcilicet TPerehearda, & Co- 

 hbruge, & in Witingham, 5c in Rodeberia, tarn in terris quam in decimis & in hominibus qus 

 ad terras harum ecclefiarum pertinent, cum Seca & Scca, & 7/& Tean & Infan~ettttcph t cum 

 omnibus fuis confuetudinibus volo ut ipfe habeat & teneat : tu vero Rogere Picat. . . . cum 

 inde, aut Alur'uus de Colebruge, aut Hamo Baliftarius pracpofitus, aut Eraewinus prajpofitus. 

 T. Roberto Epifcopo Lincoln. & JVillielmo de Wcrlewafl, & Eurardo filio comitis, & Tkomn 

 c?pel!ano apud Circrflriam, in natale S. Jcb. Bf>[ti/1ic. 



Carta Regis Hcnrid I. Monaft. Angl. Vol. ii. p. 73. 



Madam 



