sao ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



and yet they are three diftinct parifhes. The vicar receives dues 

 from them all. It is faid to have been founded in 105)1. In the 

 grant to the church of CarJiJle^ mention is made of a fuitable 

 maintenance to be given to the minifter, but it is not fpecified 

 what it was. This was fixed in the reign of K'mg Sfephen, 24 Jan. 

 1194 by Hugh Pudfiy, Bifhop of Durham, with the approbation 

 of the prior and convent of Ccirllfle (x) -, who affigned him all the 

 fruits, annual profits, oblations, and obventions whatfoever, 

 belonging to his church of St. Nicholas, except the great tithes. 

 It (lands in an advantageous elevated fit nation, almoftin the center 

 of the town ; its length 79 yards two feet, and three quarters ; 

 its breadth 24 yards, two feet and three quarters ; of a propor- 

 tionable height. Four ftone-imagcs, at full length, adorn each 

 corner of a fquare tower; out of which rifes a curious fleeple ; 

 in height 64 yards, one foot, three quarters ; decorated with 13 

 pinacles ; two bold ftonc-arches fupporting a large and beautiful 

 lanthorn, on which is a tall and flately fpire ; the whole much 



(x) Hugo dei gratia Dunelm. epifcopus omnibus fan&ae matris ecckfiae filiis ad quos literae 

 ifta; pervenerint falutem. Noverit univerfitas veftra quod nos anno dom. 1194, pridie ante 

 converfionem Sanfti Pauli, vicariam ecclefiae Beati Nicholai de Nova Cajlello fuper Tynam t 

 noftrze dioces. alias in eadem ordinatam de unanimi confenfu diledtorum filiorum noftrorum, 

 prioris et convcntus Karllol. didtam ecclefiam Beat! Nicholai in ufus fuos canonice obtinentium, 

 portionem infra fcriptam pro fuftentatione vicarii ejufdem, qui eft, et pro tempore erit in 

 eadem ex noftri paftoralis officii debito taxamus, ftatuimus et ordinamus ; viz,, quod quilibet 

 vicarius illius ecclefiae qui pro tempore fuerit,pro fuftentatione fua et portione congrua percipiat 

 thabeat omnes fruftus, proventus, oblationes, obventiones, quafcunque ad di&am ecclefiam 

 qualitercunque pertinentes de quibufcunque rebus exiftentes, dccirais garbarum diftae ecclefiie 

 duntaxet ex-ceptis. In quarum infpeflionis et compertionis tcftimonium figillum noftrum fe- 

 cimus his apponi. Dat. in manerio noftro de Auckland, fextodie Junii, A. D. 1360. etnoftrae 

 con.'ccrationis 15. Ordinat. Vicar B. Nfeboiai, de Nova Caftro. 



Vicar. Eccle?. Sanfti Nichitai in Nova Coflro redditus 135. 4d. exeund. dc qui'oufJam 

 . in eadem villa. Pat. 10 Ric. II. p. 2. m. n. 



admired. 



