212 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 

 The hofpitals were 



St. Mary Magdalen s ; The Holy Trinity \ 



The BleJJed Virgin's ; The Maifon Dieu, or St. Catharines. 



St Mary Magdalen s hofpital was founded by K. Henry I, for a 

 matter, brethren, and fitters, to receive leprous people. After 

 that ficknefs abated, it was an afyltim for the poor of the town 

 in time of peftilencc. Fourteen within the houfe were allowed 

 every one a room, 8 /. per month, and coals. Fifteen without 

 the houfc had a different allowance : Some 8 /. per month, fome 

 5 s. and fome 2 s. 6 d. In the reign of K. Edward III, Laurentius 

 Acton had the firtt fruits of it, amounting annually to 200 marks. 

 John Bland, who was then matter, paid him for his own right 40 

 marks. He is upon record for being a confiderable patron to it. 

 He freed it foon after his acceifion to the mafterfhip of two an- 

 nual penfions ; one paid to Richard Spereman, and the other to 

 Hugh de MitforcL He built the confiftory, and ornamented the 

 chapel. He alfo raifed fome other buildings at his own charge. 

 He died 48 K. Edward III, 1374, and was interred in his own 

 chapel, near the high altar fgj ; after having prefided over the 

 hofpital five years. It was a donative, in the patronage of the 

 corporation. It ftaod without Pilgrim-ttreet-gate, near the Bar- 

 row's bridge, on the fummit of a hill, under which was a -well 

 of its own name, and feveral meadows about it, now called The 

 JVfruV///-meadows ; one of which was the Barrow, or burial- 

 ground, belonging to it, and gave its name to the bridge. 



Hard by, on the other fide of the bridge, was a chapel, dedi- 



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(s) Joannes de Eland obiit die mends proximo ante feftutn SanH Michaelis archangeli, 

 hora nona illius diei, A. D. 1374. Cujus corpus humatum eft juxta fummum altare ex 

 parte boreali cancellarii, in capella Beatae Marits Magdalence, Lib. Cart. 



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