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their's, and ftill carries their name, that of the Nun-Moor. The 

 monastery and chapel in Gate/head, called GateJloead-Houfe, is laid 

 to ;have been a cell to them, and paid an annual rent of 2 j. 

 St. Marys, hofpital, in Weftgate-ftrQe.t, was alfo dependent upon 

 them (I). Their annual revenue, 26 K. I-IcnryVlil, was valued 

 at 367. ioj. D'ugd. 37 /. 4-c. 2 </. 5,-^v/. They furrendered Jan. -\. 

 1540. The abbefs was allowed a pcnfion of 6 I. per ann. for life. 

 Her name was Agnes Laivfon. The monaftcry came into the pof- 

 feffion of Lady Gaveere> of whom it was purchafed by Mr. Robert 

 Anderfon, who, to diiloclge itinerant, peclling traders, and ftrollcrs, 

 (for whom it was become a kind of fcttlemcnt and a home, and 

 a grievance to honeil freemen and tradcfmen of the town) pul- 

 led it down, cleared the garden of rubbiih, and made it a very 

 pleafant fpot, being reputed from corner to corner eleven fcore 

 yards : which is now a meadow, and belongs to Sir Walter Culver- 

 ley Elacket, Bart (m). 



The monaftcry of the Francifcans, Grey Friers, or Friers Minors, 

 was founded in the reign of K. Henry III, by the Carliols, wealthy 

 merchants in Neivcajlle (n), whofe great eftate went by marriage 

 to the family of the Thurgills of the Wolds in YorkJInre (o). It was 

 fituatccl by a lane, now called High Frier Chare, Vicus qni ditcit 



(!) ffenricus rex (II.) &c. Sciatis me conceffifTe, et chr.rta confirmaffe monialibus fanfli 

 Banhnlmel ilc N vo Ca/ltlia-fuper Tynan omnes donationes qu:e eis rationabilitcr fadlas fuiu : 

 videlicet, ecckbutn Sanfli Bartholotnci, et hofpitale de Sanclae Mai if do prsdiao calk-Mo, ct 

 terram, &c. Et xx acras de fcala, et i:: tofta E: duos folidos c'e Gatisbeadj et omnia alia 

 qu;-e LIS ra:ior,abiKtcr data funr, vcl dabuntur. Qiiare vo!o ct fcrmitcr pi-ecipio, &c. TefK 

 jyjl. dt Mand.-.vlh, Reginald de Curt nay, Will, cl- St/tthv;ila, Thomas di Bardu!f, Rdei t, de 

 Stuttei'iila, Richard de Gosford. 



(m) MS. of John Uliliank, Efq; cited by Bourne. 



(n) Bcurns, p. 19. () Lcl. Itin. vol. 6. p. 55. 



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