ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 175 



it, mixed with judgment; to the eaft is a park-like inclofure, 

 with fmall clumps of trees ; to the weft, a winding walk through 

 a fhrubbery and plantation to a Chinefe cottage, and near it a tem- 

 piato, from which is a fine view of the vale below, and of the 

 river Tyne, and of the little ifland formed by it, called the King's 

 Meadows, and of the handfome feat of Sir Thomas CL-ivering, of 

 JxiiW/-park, Bart, on the fide of a fliady hill. Before the fouth 

 front is a grafs-area, from which the towering pyramid rifmg 

 through the trees of Gibfide, above the banks of the river Der- 

 went, is in view, a beautiful obje<5t ! , 



"We now pafs on to BenwjfH-hill, where the military road goes 

 through the ftation, and on {he left hand is that part of it called 

 Chapcl-hi\\, lately digged up for the fake of the ftoncs, as before- 

 mentioned ; a little beyond which a road branches off, on the 

 fame fide, to 



Fcnham, the rhanour of which, with the manour and lands of 

 ThrepetvooJy near Hoyden-bridge, belonged to the priory of the 

 knights Hofpitallen of St. John of JeruJ'alem (h) ; remarkable for 

 acquiring by an act of parliament, 18 K. Edward II, 1324., the 

 large poflcflions of the knights Tempers, diffblved ad of that 

 reign (I). It was alfo diflblved by an act of parliament, 31 K. 



(b) As appears by a receipt from the prior to the corporation of tfewcaflle upon Tyne for 

 the coal-mines within the manour of Feiiham, mentioned by their late chorographer, Mr. 

 Bourne. Prior hofpitalis fancli Johannii tenet Thrtpcwoid de manerio de Lanj/ry, pro homagio 

 et fidelitate, et ftila curis. 



Inquifitio capta apud Langley in Tyntdah^ in comit Narthumbr, Die Jovis ante feftura 

 S. jfndr. apofloli, 42 Ed. Ill, coram Jcbanne Henderjkelf, efcaetor. dom. regis in 

 comit. prasdifro. Ex bundello cfcaet. No. 37. Turri Lcndinevft. 



(i) Hoi. Chron. vol. ii. p. 335. 



Henry 



