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flrength, and is fuppofed to be-the-moll antient. On the north 

 - fide of it, in a nich, is the Hone effigies of K. Charles II. crowned, 

 with a fcepter in his hand; -the nich adorned with a pediment, 

 entablature, and chartoons ; below, the arms of England, and 

 the arms of the corporation; which are, gules, thr"ee caflles ar- 

 gcnr ; the creft, out .of the battlements of a caftle, argent, a 

 dcmi-lyon ifTuing ; the fupporters, two fea-horfes, argent (e)+ 

 Two new wings have been added on the fouth fide ; one in 1 702 ; 

 William Ramfay, Efq; mayor, William Bout/tower, Efq; fheriff ; the 

 other in 1706; Sir Ralph Carr, mayor, William EHifon, Efq; fheriff. 

 .It has been for many years the town-jail. for debtors and felons. 



Bertram Mon&oucber-tower owes its name to its founder, Bertram 

 Monboitcber, high fheriff of Northumberland, 49 K. Edward III. and 

 I, 2, 3 K. Richard II. 



PILCRIM-STREET-GATE is at the north end of a fpacious, 

 handfome, plcafant flreet of the fame name ; fo called from the 

 great refort and entertainment of pilgrims in it, in the monaftic 

 times, in their way to perform their devotions at the mrine of 

 the Bleiled Virgin in the neighbouring villa of Jefmont. It is a 

 ilrong gate, flat-roofed, and embattled ; has a port-culice, iron- 

 gates, &c. It is the hall of the company of joiners, who repaired 

 it in 1 716; Thomas French, and Paul Cook, wardens. 



CWzo/-towcr owes its name to the antient family of the CarUols t 

 eminent merchants of this town, of which Nicholas dc Carliol was 

 mayor, 2 K. Edward II *. A field near it alfo bears their name, 



(c) Browne Willis. 



* Againft whom, and the reft of the burgeffes of the merchants gild, the poor burgefles of 

 Ntwcaftle recovered 50^. damages in the exchequer. 



Placita corara baron. 2 Ed. II. Ret. 16. a. MaJox's Firma Burgi, p. 96. 



called 



