384 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



are exempt from paying toll for 12 months, for their attendance ; 

 but if they do not attend, they muft pay the fame till the next 

 year. 



In the upper end of Potter-gate-Jlreet, is a grammar-fchool ; the 

 following infcription over the entrance. 



H?c fchola primo in ufum municipum 

 Alaunenfmm sedificata AnnoDom. 1687. 

 Nunc demum inflauratur Anno Dom. 1741. 



There is a neat fafhed houfe and garden joining on to it for the 

 accommodation of the mafter ; the endowment reputed 25 /. or 

 30 /. per annum, arifing chiefly out of the tolls of the town. 



The town was burnt by the Scots, 1448, in rcfentment for the 

 burning Dunfries by the Engll/Jj (r). 



It gave its name to William de Alnnvick, L. L. P. Confcllbr to 

 Henry VI, 1424, and keeper of the privy-leal, recommended by 

 his Majefty and his miniflry for the Bifhoprick of Ely, on the 

 death of John Fordham, who held both that See and Durham, but 

 miffed of it by the Popes intcrpofition. 



Alniuick-church flands at the end of Railiff-gate-Jlree t. It is large ; 

 has three iiles, extending through as many arches into the chan- 

 cel ; has four galleries, twenty-feven windows, great and fmall, 

 and three bells which are fmall. It is a good church, kept neat ; 

 the chancel cieled ; and the whole covered with lead ; a neat 

 tower for the bells. 



(r) HoL Chron. vol. ii. p. 272. 



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