230 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND* 



of John Pinkncy, one of the parim-clerks 5 it being then cuftomary 

 to have two. He is allowed the clerk's fees for weddings, bu- 

 rials, chriflnings, &c. reputed about 50 1. per annum. Here are 

 alfo two lecturers, allowed each lool. per annum by the corpora- 

 tion. On the high feftival of Eafter, they antiently pre fen ted this 

 church with 21 gallons of wine. The facrament is adminiftred 

 every fecond Sunday in the month ; prayers every day, at ten 

 o'clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon. 



St. Anns chapel {lands in the fuburbs of Sand-gale, on the flope 

 of a hill. After the reformation it was neglected and fell into 

 decay. It was repaired, 1682. A lecturer was then appointed. 

 He was to preach every Sunday-morning, and expound the cate- 

 chifm in the afternoon, for which he was allowed 30!. per ann. 

 At prefent, it has two lecturers ; one allowed 40 1. and the other 

 50!. per annum, by the corporation; by whom it was lately re- 

 built, after an elegant defign. 



In the fame fuburbs was antiently another chapel, dedicated 

 to 



St. Laurence. It is faid to have been built by one of the Earls 

 of Northumberland. It was dependent upon the priory of St. John 

 of Jerufalem. In confideration of 144!. 133. 4d. it was granted, 

 among other things, to the corporation, 3 K. Edward VI (rj. 

 Out of the ruins of it, arofe St. Laurences bottle glafs-houfe. 



(r) The rental, as follows, 1558. /. s. d. 



St. Laurence held by leafe, by John Laverock, - - 7 10 O 



The fifhery of St. Laurence, leafed by Mitford, - - I 13 4 



A clofe, called, St. Jnn's clofe, - 0120 



A clofe, called, The coney-clofe, - i 13 4 

 A cottage in Kiliingwarth, in the pofleffion of John de Kiltingworth, and certain lands 



in Hetan, juxta Nav . Cajtrum y belonging to St. Laurence. Lib. Cart. 44. 



St. 



