266 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



John de Tynemouth, an eminent facred biographer, was born at 

 Tynemouth, and is faid to have been vicar of this church (x). 



The prcfcnt church of Tynemouth flands a mile weft from it, 

 near the flexure of the great road to Shields, It was confecrated, 

 20 K. Charles II, 1668, by Bifliop Co/ins. 



(x) Cat. Libr. MS. in Bibl. Cotton, per 77;o. Smith. 



