204 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



be fealed by the king's officers (dj. Small {hips, loaclen with' 

 merchant goods, only come up to the key at Neivcajlh. It is 

 efleemed one of the beft keys in England. It is in length, from 

 cad to weft, 103 rods. 



Great contefts were antiently between this^ corporation, and 

 the priors of Tynemouth, and the biihops of Durham, concerning 

 the jurifdiction of the river Tyne. A decifive decree was obtained 

 againft the prior of Tynemouth, 34 K. Edwardl (e) ; and another 

 againft the bifhop of Durham, 8 K. Richard II (f). 



A grant of the confervation of the river Tyne was given to John 

 Earl of Hamjiend, 12, K. Edivard II ; but was recalled in the fame 

 year, on the king's being informed that it was an infringement 

 of the liberties of the corporation (g), 



The town is well fupplied witli provifions both by land and 

 water. It hath two excellent weekly markets. They are held. 



(d) Nmi Co/lti fuper Tynam de tuftuma regi dcbita pro quolibet quarterio carbonum mari- 

 timorum ibidem vendcndo gentibus franchefiam non habentibus, et de vafis vocatis Keels ibi- 

 dem menfurandis. Pat. 9 R. Hen. V. p. 2. m. 19. torn. 4. Rot. Turri Lond'tn. 



(.e) Bourne, p. 161. 



(f) Quod gaudeant major et communitas Novi Ca/Jri fuper Tynam libertatibus et privile- 

 giis concefiis, prasceptum eftepifc. Dunelin. 



Clauf. 8 R. Ric. II. in initio Rotuli & in dorfo. in 51. intus inter epifc. p. 100. et 

 in 42. dorfo. 



(s) ty"* ac l u:1 concefla jfohanni de Hamfted. Pat. 12. R.Ed. II. p. j. rn, 2. 7. 



De cuftodiaaqua de Tyw concefTa pridem Jobanni de HamJIed, revocata, quia rex intelligif, 

 quod commiflarius prsdiitus agtt in prejudicium libertatis burgenfium Novi Ca/iri. 



Clauf. 1 2 Reg. Ed. II. m. 26. 



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