3 o2 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



expence of the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlljle, whofe court 

 is kept in it, alfo the quarter-feflions for the county. 



At a fmall diftance from it, is a neat tower o^ white free-ftone, 

 wherein is a good ring of bells, and a large clock. 



Between the town-hall and the bridge, is the county-gaol. It 

 is a modern and decent ftruilure. 



At the north-eaft end of the bridge, is a fmall, but neat chapel, 

 of modern erection, of white freeftone, and hewn work. At the 

 weft end of it is a grammar-fchool, an antient building; which 

 was founded by King Edward VI, and endowed with the lands 

 of two diflblved chanteries in Morpeth, and one at Nether Witton. 



The parochial church (lands on the fouth fide of the bridge, at 

 a confiderable diftance from the town ; on a hill, called AzV^-hill, 

 in the weft park, on the weft fide of the poft-road. One of the 

 chanteries in it juft mentioned was founded in honour of the 

 Bleflcd Virgin, of which "John Anderfon was chaplain, 8 K. Henry 

 VII (z). It has three good iflcs, a gallery at the weft end, and 



another 



(z) As appears from the following leafe which he ami others took in that year of John 

 Lord Grey/lock, of the wood, called Ccttingwoed, near the town, containing 284 acres, ac- 

 cording to an antient furvey. 



Thefe indentures made at Aftrpetb, the xth dai of the month ofO&ober, the viiith yeareof 

 the reigne of our fovereign lord king Henry the viith wittneffeth, that John Lord of Graijlock 

 and Mi/rpath hath divifed & letten to farme to John Aiidtrfon, chaplain of the chantrie of our 

 Lady in Mcrpatb, John Recd t and Thomas Norton of the fame towne, marchants, all the grafting 

 and herbage that my fervant, William Lancqfter, late held of me within the wood of Cotting- 

 wood, to the faid John Andtrfon, John Reed, and Thtmas Norton, and to their affignes from the 

 feaft of St. Michael .the Archangel laft pad to the end and terme of xx years next following 

 the date hereof} giving yearly to the faid Lord, his heirs, and his affigncs xxxiiix. \vd. at 



two 



