ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



vacancy above the veflry, oppofite to the founder's fepulchral 

 monument. 



St. Catharine's had the fame pious founder, the annual value, 

 1. 3 s. 



St. John the Baptift's was founded by John Ward; the annual 

 value, 7!. 153. 8d. 







St. Lyra's was founded in the reign of K. Edward III. by Richard 

 Pickering, the annual value, 3!. 8s. 4d. 



The minifler of this church is paid 4!. per annum by the vicar, 

 and 5 1. per annum by the crown. The reft of his income arifes 

 from the furplice-fees, regifter, &c. To leflen the weight of his 

 parochial cares, an affiftant was appointed, 1708, on the death 



(q) Cantaria San&a; Catharines^ vocat. Thornton's Chanttry, in ecclefia Omnium Sanfiorum 

 in Neva Ca/tro, pro quibufdam mefluag. et terris in eadem villa, Pat. 20 R. Ric. II. p. 3. 

 m. 12. et pro 2 mefluag. ibidem, Pat. 5 R. Hen. IV. p. i. m. 8. Tom. 4. Rot. Turri 

 Londlnenfe. 



From the authority of an old veftry-book, Mr. Bourne gives the honour of the foundation 



of it to Robert de Chirtox and his wife. See p. 92. 



Vide Pat. fubfcript. 



Cantaria in ecclefia omnium San&orum Nova Caflro, concefs. per Hen. Petlyng, Pat. 4Z 

 R. Ed. HI. p. 2. m. 9. 



Et cantaria in ecclefia omnium fan&orum ibidem, pro tenem. in eadem villa, Pat. 44 R. 

 Ed. III. p. 2. m. 7. 



Et cantaria in capella omnium fan&orum ibidem, concefla per R. D. Pat. 42 R.Ed. III. 

 p. 2. m. 22. et pro ten. ibidem, anno 43. p. I. m. 2. 



Et pro cantaria in ecclefia omnium fan&orum ibidem, et terris in eadem villa, Pat. 39 R. 

 Ed, Ed. III. p. i. m. 4- Tom. 4. Rot. Turri Londinenji. Nortkumbr. 



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