ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



In itinere ad Splenduir. 



Thermas Somer- Bene merenti viro 



fetenjls obiit Monumentum fida 



x Kal. Mail, A. D. Pofuit uxor, 



MD CC XXX VII ^tat. LII. Maria Car/lairs. 



Above, is the effigies of the dcceafed on a brafs plate, over which 

 is his coat armorial, a wheat flieaf and three thirties, and under 

 it thefe lines ; - 



Di cclant homines, et vivere durant, 

 Quam fit dulce mori. 



A fmall houfe and garden in Clayport-Jlreet, lately lett at 7 /. per 

 annum, was given by Mr. Grey, a merchant in Alniuick, for the 

 life of the incumbent. The dtffenters have built one for a mi- 

 nifter of theirs near Bond-gate, both handfome and convenient. 

 They have two meeting-houfes ; and a people, ufually called Me- 

 thodifts, have another. 



Here was an Hofpital, dedicated to St. Leonard, of the foundation 

 and in the patronage of the noble family of the Percies. Henry 

 Lord Percy, afterwards Earl of Northumberland, gave it, to hold in 

 pure alms, to 



Alnivick-Abbey (s). This abbey was founded, 4 K. Stephen, 1 157, 

 by Eujlace Fitz-John, for Premonflratenfian canons, and dedicated to 

 the Blefled Virgin (t). He endowed it with a great parcel of 



his 



(s) Pat 50 R. Ed. III. p. i. m. 24. pro hofpiuli S. Leonard ibidem anne&endo. 

 (t) Cronicon Mailros. 



Ltland's Colle&anea, vol.iii. p. 73. 



