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NORTHUMBERLAND, &c. 



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v yJ 4 *P U R N E Y II. 

 From Newca/}fa\u^Q\\ Tyrte, through Morpetb, Alwwkk^ 



'Belfordy to Berwick upon Tweedy on the great Poll- Road. 



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A MILE from NewcajHe, a road branches off, on the right 

 hand, to 



Jes'-monty i. c. the Mount of Jefus, famous for its chapel and 

 liofpital, dedicated to the Blefled Virgin, which were granted, 

 3 K. Edward VI, to the corporation of Neivcajlley and by the cor- 

 poration the year following to Sir Robert Brandling, knight-ban- 

 neret, and his heirs ; the former now a flable, and the latter a 

 dwelling-houfe, 



The manour of Jes^-mont belonged to the barony of Cuagyy of 

 which it was held, i K. Edward I, by Adam de Jes'-mont (a), who, 



(a) Adam de Jefmont tenet Jtfmont et Hardawe per unum feod. milit. vet. feoffam. Baron, 

 -de Guagy. Efcaet. de anno i Ed, I. 



M m 2 after 



