3 o 4 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Conditus hicjaceo quartus genitore Radulpho 



Filius ex Graio milite fie jaceo. 

 Nupta fuit mihi Woddrmgtwua chara Maria, 



Militis ac clari nata Johannis ea. 

 Una dies pavtus nos, ut Baptifmata una, 



Junxit fie una lex hymenea toro. 

 Annos bis feptcra fociale federe juncti, 



Ruperunt tetrici vincula noftra dea% 

 Bis binos pueros mihi, trefque Lucina puellas, 



Prasbuit extindi pignora chara niei. 



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The rcctory-houfe flands on the eaft fide of the poll-road, and 

 is little better than a ruin. 



The baronial caftle is near the church, in the fame park. It 

 has been long in ruins. Only an old tower of it is ftanding, with 

 part of two Speculating turrets, on an eminence, commanding 

 a fine view of the town, and of the winding courfe of the Wanf- 

 bcck, , crolled by a bridge of two arches, and edged with hanging 

 woods. 



Half a mile weft from Morpeth, on the margin of the Waii/beck t 

 is the abbey of 



Neiv-minfter, founded by Ralph de Merlay, Baron of Morpeth, and 

 his lady Julian, 3 K. Stephen, 1138, for Ciflertian monks, from Foun- 

 tains, \nNormandy, in honour of the BlcfTed Virgin fa). They 

 endowed it with the Lordfhip of Ritton, part of the woods of 

 Witt on, and all the ,vale between Morpeth and Hebre, by the brook 

 of Fulbeck to its fall into 'Cotingburn, and by Cotingburn to its fall 



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