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ment agreed to give them 200,000!. to be raifed by the fale of 

 the bifhop's lands. One half was paid at Topcliff, and the other 

 after their leaving Neivcaftk ; except 40,000 1. ftopt by their de- 

 fection, and changing fides. .;. 



I have only two things more extraordinary on record to raen r 

 tion concerning Netvcqftle. 



It was almofl wholly confirmed by Fire, 33 K. Henry III. 1249 ( n )- 



It had a great misfortune by -Water, 13 K. Edward III, 13395 

 being furpiized in the ft ill hours of the night with a rapid, im- 

 petuous flood, which made its way through the town-wall, bore 

 down fix perches of it, and fwept away above 120 perfons, both 

 men and women, who on their going to bed, had not the leaft 

 expectation of any fuch difafter (o). Thefe were alarming and 

 aftonifhing accidents to this antient town, which might be in- 

 tended by a wife providence to preferve their more valuable 

 ftores and acquilitions, to rouze and awaken the {lumbering vir- 

 tues of fome, to keep alive and cherifh thofe of others, and to 

 make all intent upon internal excellence and perfection, before 

 the tinfel elegance, and fleeting embellishments of life. 



We now pafs through Panden-gate, by the courfe of the Pifl's- 

 wall on the right hand, over the hill and village of P and en, crofs 

 the ufe-burn by a new ftone-bridge of one arch, and entering 

 the Shield's road, afcend the hill through the turnpike-gate for 

 about a quarter of a mile, when a road branches off, on the left 

 hand, from a porter's lodge, to 



(n) Hoi. Chron. rol. ii. p. 241. (o) Id. p. 355. 



Heaton 



