216 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



The vcttry, at the eaft end 'of it, is ufed for the election of the 

 mayor, aldermen, fheriff, and other officers of the corporation! 

 The matter of the grammar-fchool is generally matter of the 

 hofpital. A writing-matter has a fchool, and an apartment in it, 

 fupported by the corporation. It is fituatcd in the pleafant ftreet 

 of Wiftgate, and is now called, the Weft Spittle (o), 



The hofpital of the Holy Trinity was founded 37 K. Edtvard III, 

 1363, by William de Afton, mayor of this corporation in 1366, 

 ^367, 1368. It flood on the Wall-Knoivl. The firft matter of it 

 was William Wakefeld, chofen on the dillblution of a houfe of the 

 fame order in Berwick upon Tweed by Anthony Beck, Bifhop of 

 Durham, over which he alfo prefidcd fqj. It furrendered 10 Jan. 

 30 K. Henry VIII. 



The hofpital of St. Catharine was founded in the reign of K. 

 Henry IV, by that great patron of Neivcajlle, Roger Thornton, the 

 elder (r). It was fituated on the fouthfule of the Sand-hill. The 



chaplain 



(o) Ibid. (q) Lei. Itin. Vol. viii. p. 23. 



(r) Rex Henricus IV. &c, falutem, Sciatis quod de gratia iloftra fpcciali et confideratione 

 ciyufdam fummje pecunias nobis in camera noftra, per dileflum nobis Rigerum nuper folutae, 

 conceffimus et licentia dedimus, &c. praefato Rogero, quod ipfe quoddam hofpitale in honore 

 San&as Katharine, in quodam meffuagio fuo per ipfum Rogerum in parte nuper edificato in 

 quodam loco vocato Le Sand-hill, in villa noftra novi caftri fuper Tynam, continente C. pedes 

 in longitudine, xl. pedes in latitudine, de uno capellano divina infra hofpitale prasdiclum 

 pro falubri ftatu ipfius Roger! dum vixerit, et pro anirna fua cum ab hac luce migraverit, ac 

 animabus patris et matris ipfius Roger;, et dgnetis nuper uxoris ejus ; nee non antecefforum 

 et liberorum fuorum, ac omnium ridelium defunftorum, (ingulis diebus celebraturo ; ac de 

 novem viris etquatuor fceminis paupeiibus in eodem hofpitale continue refidentibu? juxta or- 

 dinationem ipfius Rogcri, vel executorum fuorum in hac parte faciendam, de novo facere^ 

 creare, fundare, et ftabilire poflit in perpetuum : et quod hofpita}e illud, hofpitale per fe 

 privatum et incorporatum exiftat in perpetuum ; ac etiara quod capellanus hofuitalis praedidli, 



qui 



