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Their annual revenues, feparate from St. Albans, were valued, 

 16 K. Henry VMl, at y)6l. los. $d. ob. Dugd. 51 1/. 4..-. r d. ob. 

 /></. The prior and 13 canons furrendered mh January, 1539. 

 They had all penfions. The fite of the priory and moft of the 

 lands were granted, 5 K. Edward VI, to John Dudley, Duke of 

 Northumberland (s) ; but by his attainder in the next reign revert- 

 ed to the crown, in which they remained, 10 QJElizabeth (t). 



The manour of Tynemouth is now in the polfemon of his Grace, 

 Hugh, Duke of Northumberland. 



The priory-church appears by its ruins to have been a moft 

 magnificent ftructure. At the caft end is an oratory very entire, 

 eighteen feet long, nine feet broad, and nine feet high ; the 

 roof arched with ftone, with fculptures in relief of the Blefled 

 Virgin, and the twelve apoflles. 



The gate-way, with a tower over it, belonging to the priory, 

 is ftill (landing. 



It is fo far from being an unfit place for devotion, that few 

 can exceed it for prefenting the mind with a variety of folemn 

 objects, capable of raifmg it to an adoration and awful reverence 

 of the Deity. The very precipice it (lands on, lofty and almoft 

 perpendicular, whofe femicircular bafe withftands the fury of 



(s) Tanner's Notitia Monaft. fol. p. 390. 



(t) Domina regina Elizabetha fuit feifita de et in caftro et manerio de Tynemouth nuper 

 monafter. Sheles, Eaft Chirton, Prefton, Monk-feton, Whitley, Murton, Erefdon, Back- 

 worth, Wellington, South Diffington, Elfwick, Benwell, Demon, Wylam, Hertford, 

 Cowpon, Hauxley, Ambell, Eglingham, Bewick, Lilburn, Flatworth, Middle Chirton, 

 Weft Chirton, Billimill, Whittingham, et Framlington* Efcaet. de anno 10 Etiz. 



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