a8o ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



complying with, that he granted a commiflion for enquiry after 

 all fuch purchafes (e). 



The village confifts of one long and wide flreet, and forms a 

 kind of Hoping avenue to the river Blyth, which is the fouthern 

 boundary of the mire, and glides paft it between two fleep 

 banks, in broken murmurs, and fupplies a large iron-work with 

 water. The church is a fmall ftructure, covered with lead, with 

 an old tower. The Rev. Mr. Francis Woodmas, fellow of St. John's 

 College, in Cambridge, and author of learned notes on St. Chry- 

 foftvn, was vicar of it. 



On the fouth fide of the river Blyth, and in fight, is 



ficbfuk (f), the manour of which bejonged to the priory of 

 Tynemouth ; which, with their manour of Coivpon, on the banks 

 of the fame river, were afligncd as fecurities to Ralph Lord Grey- 

 Jlock for the performance of certain conditions on their part, on 

 his lordfhip's founding a chantery in their church of Tynemouth) 

 8 K. Ed-ward II, 1315 (g). It belonged to John Ogle, Efq; i 



(e) Printed at Lond, and iruit'ed, His Majefty's Gracious Commiflion to divers of his 

 loving fubjects to fcarch into and examine the pretended fales and purchafers of the honours 

 rnanours, lands and hereditaments, of and belonging to his Majefty, his royal mother, the 

 Archbifhops, Bifhops, Deans, and Chapters, Prebendaries, and other ecclefiafrical perfons ; 

 granting to the faid commiflioners fuch powers and authorities as are necefTary for the ends, 

 intents, and purpofes, in and by the f&id commiflion fpecified and exprefled. Witnefs our- 

 .felves at lVeflniinfter t the feventh day of October, 1660, in the twelfth year of our reign. 



,{f) ,Bebfet. liutigrapho perantiquo. 



'JBebbeflet. Carta Fundat. Cant, de Tymmsui-h. 



(g) Vid. Tymmouth-priory. 



Elizabeth ; 



