2i3 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



life of the hall and kitchen by leave of the founder for a very 

 charitable and laudable purpofe, viz. for young married people 

 to have their wedding-entertainment in it, and receive the offer- 

 ings and gifts of their friends (sj. For fome years the fons of 

 the clergy had their annual feaft in it. The hall is adorned with 

 the arms of feveral generous benefactors, and fome very curious 

 carvings in wood. In 1620, Sir Richard Lumley, for ioo/. fold to 

 the corporation that part of the hofpital ftanding to the eaft of 

 the town-chamber, on the edge of the river, fixteen yards in 

 length, and covered with lead, over which was erected the ftately 

 court of the merchant-adventurers of the old ftaple, before- 

 mentioned, firft refident at Antwerp, in Brabant, and fince in the 

 more northern provinces under the flates (t). 



To thefc eminent houfes of charity, I mall add two others of 

 inferior note, commonly called after their founders, Chriftopher 

 Brigham, and John Ward, merchants of this corporation, 



m's 1 

 fs ) 



Brighanfs 



and J Alms-houfes. 



Ward" 



The firft ftood near the monaflry of the Franclfcans ; the latter in 

 the Manour-Chare, at the bottom of the garden belonging to Mat- 

 Pro fundatione hofpitalis vocati hofpitale Santas Katbarinet, in loco vocato Le Sand hill, 

 in Novo Cajlro fuper Tynam; et pro cantaria ibidem ad altare Sandli Petrl in capella Omnium 



Sanfiorum. 



Pat. 13 R. Hen. IV. p. 2. m. 14. 



(s) MS. of "John Mllbank, Efq; cited by Bourne, p. 124. 



(t) Cnfs Chirograpbia : inter collectanea Oxfordiana, 410. Vol. iii. 



thciv 



