3:8 ANTIQJJITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



adfralres minor es ; near Pilgrim-fir set-gate, and oppofite to Ficke't- 

 Toiver, in the garden of Sir Walter Caherley Blacket, Bart. (p). It 

 confuted of a warden, eight friers, and two novices. It furren- 

 .dercd 9 Jan. 30 K, Henry VIII, 



The Domus Fratnim Predicatorum, or the monaftery of the Preach- 

 mg Friers, Black Friers, or Dominicans, was founded in /honour of 

 St. Dominic, born at Cologna in Spain, by Sir Peter and Sir Nicholas 

 Scott, father arid fon, both merchants in Neivcajlle, and owners 

 . of the lordfhip of EJJjet, near Felton (q), on a piece of ground 

 given' by three fifters in Weftgate (r), whofe names are not now to 

 be learnt from any records. Sir Peter was the iirft mayor of Ne-to- 

 cajlle, 1251. He was mayor three years. Sir Nicholas, his fon, 

 was one of its four bailiffs, 1254., 1257, and 1269. Its remains 

 mew it to have been a very handfome ftructure. The grafs-area 

 is about 87 feet in length, and as many in breadth ; on the eaft 

 of which was a chapel, now the hall of the fmiths company ; and 

 on the weft, an antient well, called our Lady's Well; on the fouth, 

 is the Cord-wainer's hall, turned into apartments for three widows ; 

 .on the north, were the gardens (s). It confided of a prior, and 



(p) MS. of John MMank, Efq; (q) Lei. Itin. vol. 6. (r) IbiJ. 



(s) Edivardus Dei gratia, rex Anglics, dom\nusHibernice, dux jlynitanice, omnibus ad quos 

 prefentes literae perveniunt, falutem. Sciatis quod de noftra gratia fpeciali conceffimus dilec- 

 tis nobis fratribus predicatoribus de Neva Cajlro fupcr Tynam, quod per medium Nnvum Mu- 

 rum circumagentem villarn pracdilam, quem per medium gardini prjedictorum fratrum fieri 

 oportebit, ut di>Sti facere poflint quandam Jlrifiam portam ad ingrefl'um in gardinum fuunr ha- 

 bend. porta:n fuft. fibi et fuccefibribu 1 ) fuis tenere in pcrpctuum. Dum tamcn porta i-tta ad 

 voluntatem noftram, vicecomitis Noithumbris aut conftabuli noftri ibi.l. qui pro tempore 

 fuerit, obflruatur. Pat. 8 R. Ed. I. 



Frafres Predicatores monafterii in Nova Cajlro f'upef Tynam habent licentiam faciendi quen- 

 dam pent m vergatilem ul;ra Novum P'oflatum, &c. Pat 5 R. Ed. II. p. 2. m 5. 



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