206 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBEHLAND. 



St. Bartholomews, The St. Aujliris, 



The Frfincifcans, The Domus Fratrum de Penitentla\ 



'.The Domus Fratrum Prcdica- The Domus Fratrum Carrneli Monte. 

 torum, 



St. Bartholomew's was founded by K. Henry I, for Benedictine Nuns. 

 It was in Newgate-facet. A back-gate leading to it ftill retains 

 their name ; as does their garden (h), which is in a fquare vale, 

 and reaches to a place called High-Fricr-Charc. Befulcs other pof- 

 fcfilons, not now certainly known, they had the pleafant village 

 of Stella on the fouthern banks of the river Tync, in the bifhop- 

 rick of Durham, afterwards in the poileffion of Sir Nicholas Tem- 

 pejt, Bart, as attcftecl by an antient writing, in the cuflody of the 

 late humane and judicious antiquary, Dr. Hunter, of Durham (i). 

 It is believed they had a very large property in Neivccijlle, in 

 wafles and houfes. The garden of the pofc-houfe was one of thefc 

 .wailes (k). A plot of ground adjoining to the town-moor was 



{/.') Bourne, p. 48, 49. 



(;] i iir.o die Scptembris, anno 2c!o Cai'tlt regis comperium poft mortem Nicbolai Ttmpeft t 

 de StiUfj, in com. Dunelm. mil et baronet. Qi^ird fuit feifuus de et in mp.nerio de Stellitiglcy, 

 > alias vocat. Ziett-y, fituat. et exift. prope aquam de Tyne, in parochia de Rytm t in epifcopatu 

 Duneim. cum fuisjuribus, meinbris et pertinentiis univerfis : Ac de omnibus terris arabili- 

 bus, prati?, pafcuis, pafturis, bofcis, fubbofcis, communiis, pifcaticnibus, mineri;, carbo- 

 num infra fohim et fundain ibidem commoditatibus, proficuis, emo'umcntis, et aliis .dvan- 

 tagiis, ckiem manerio de Sielling'ey, alias Steluy, pertinentibus, vel ullo modo fpefl; .:tibus, 

 nuper parcello pofitflionum domus five monafterii S. Bartbulomei \nftz villam Novi Caflii fuper 

 Tynam diflbluti. 



(k) Ubi nulla remanent antiqui monafterii Utani : Veftigia receniioris quidem, pulcherri- 

 mam videmus capellam vix adhuc minis fuccumbentem. Traditio eft cellam fuific fancStimo- 

 hialium Novocaftrentium, licet ejus hiftoriam apud autores vrx inveneris. 



Smith in Not. Bed. 1. 3. c. 21. Bourne, p. 213, 214, 215. 



their's, 



