ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND.', 



Blanchland (u), founded by Walter de Bo/beck, 1175-, and dedi- 

 cated to the Blefled Virgin, for twelve Praunonjlratenfien canons, with 

 liberty to exceed that number, witli the confent of the Bifhop of 

 Durham, He gave it the Lordfliip, and dcmefnes, and advowfon 

 of the church of Blanchland, the appropriations and advowfons 

 of the churches of Herelaw and Byiuell, of Stifcnl, of Shotley, of 

 slpperley, and of the church of Heddon on the Wall, dedicated to 

 St. Andrew, the tithes of the village of Wuhvardhope, and ten 

 fifties for their table out of his fifliery of Stiford, in lieu of tithe- 

 fifhes (v). 



The abbot was fummoned to parliament, 23, 24 K. Edward I. 

 At the fuppreffion it had fourteen canons. Its annual revenues 

 were then valued at4o/. os. yd. Dugd. 44.!. $s. id. Speed. It 

 was granted to John Bel/ow and John Broxholm, 37 K. I-L-nry VIII. 

 It came afterwards into the pofTeffion of Sir John Forjier, knight- 

 baneret, and of Sir Claudius Forfter, created a Baronet, 17 K. James I, 

 March 7th 1619- It was forfeited to the crown by the attain- 

 der of Thomas Former, junior, Efq; in 1715 ; and purchafed by the 



(it) Blanca-Lancla. 

 Abba-Landa. 



(v) Tanner's Notitia Monaft. fo. p. 393. 



Vid. in Mon. Angl. Vol. ii. p. 611, 612, Cart. 54 Hen. III. m. 13. per infpex. recit. 

 Cartas duas JValt. de Bolbcck fundatoris, unam de fuu, fundatione, et donationibus fuis Ab- 

 batise ; alteram de ecclefia de Hcddon ; cartam Huganh de Bolbcck, dedivcrfis terris et pafturis 

 juxta flumen Derwcnt, &c. conceffis. 



Confirmat. Cart. Abbat. de Blanca Landa, n Eil. II. n. 72. 



Claus. 31 Ed. III. m. 36. de ad^ocatisheabbatia?. 



Stev. Append, p. 5. 



'Bourne's Hift. of Newc. p. 142, of a Houfe jn 



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