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fouth end, beyond which is a building feemingly of a later erec- 

 tion, not correfponding with the grandeur of monadic ftruc- 

 tures, anfwering better the ufe it is now put to, viz. a ftable, 

 than any other. Adjoining to it, is an antient and flrong tower, 

 with four turrets, two at each end. 



The fituation of the abbey is extremely pleafant, at a finall 

 diftance from the caille, in view from the church, and under a 

 hill, on the extreme point of a peninfula by the eaftcrn margin 

 of the river Aln, croiied by a bridge of two arches ; whofe wind- 

 ing trout-ftream, in pleafant murmurs, glides paft it ; {haded on 

 the oppofite fide with a bank of wood, and here and there a 

 broken ro.ck vifible through it, variegated with ivy and wood- 

 bine. 



There is a flreet between the bridge and the church, a fort of 

 fuburbs to the town, called Connon-gate ; from its leading to the 

 abbey, or houfe of Canons ; a fmall manour belonging to them,\ 

 and now in the pofTeflion of Sir Lancelot AUgood, of Nuniuick, Kt. 



About three miles from the caftle of Ahrwick, nearly in the 

 middle of Huhi-park, higher up the river, on an eminence, is the 

 abbey of 



Huln (bj founded by Ralph Fresborn, a gentleman of Northum- 

 berland, for Carmelite friers (c), and endowed by 'John iord Vefcy, 



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(b) Holme. Camden. 

 Holm. Tanner. 



Hulne. Rot. Mag. Northumbr. 



(c) Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 567. . 

 Stevens Addit. vol. ii. p. 184. 



with 



