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St. Mary Magdalen's, hofpital has been annexed to it, which con- 

 fifts of a mafter and three poor brethren, free burgefTes of Neiu- 

 caftle-, each brother allowed 3!. 6s. 3d. per annum ; the curate for 

 reading prayers, and one fermon annually, 4!. 6s. 8d. the col- 

 lector of the rents about il. 173. 6d. the whole rental, 29!. 

 7 s. 8 d (n). 



It was made a chapel of eafe to St. Nicholas, loth Sept. 1732, 

 by the corporation ; at whofe expence it was then repaired, who 

 allow very handfomely to a morning and afternoon preacher Co). 



Cramlington-chzpel is fix or feven miles north-eaft from Neiv- 

 caftle -, nothing about it remarkable. 



All Saints church is at the foot of Pilgrim-Rrect, on an emi- 

 nence j its length, 55 yards, one foot; its breadth, 25 yards, 

 two feet; a low fquare tower at the weft end, with one fpire 

 ruing from it ; adorned with a clock, and fix good bells, caft out 

 of the flame of K. James II, ftanding formerly on the Sand-hill. 

 In fome of the windows were antiently feveral curious pour- 

 traitures, painted on glafs ; one of our BleiTed Lord, at full 

 length, in the fouth-eaft window, at the eaft end of the chancel ; 

 his twelve Apoftles, in the window next the porch-door, but one ; 

 the pious family of Roger Thornton, two fons, and three daughters, 

 kneeling at altars, in the window above the fouth door, leading 

 into the quire, towards the porch. Moil of thefe were taken 

 away, or defaced, in the late civil wars. At the weft end of it 

 is a handfome gallery, built in 1712; an organ in the middle ; 

 the north end accommodating the children of the charity-fchool. 

 At the eaft end is another for the ufe of the Butchers. There is 



(n) Ib. (i) Ib. 



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