4 o6 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Preachers (q). This is the fair college faid by Leland to be " a 

 ' little without Bamborro-w (r). n The fite of it was granted to 

 Thomas Reeve and Nicholas Finder, 2 Q^ Elizabeth (s). 



The church of Bambrough was of K. Oswald's foundation, as 

 well as St. Aidan's. K. Henry I, granted them both to the priory 



otNoJlill (t). 



It is a neat church, confiding of three broad ifles. Within a 

 nich of the fouth wall in the chancel, is the effigies in ftone of a 

 knight templer, in the ufual habit and attitude. 



On the north fide of the chancel, is a fmall mural monument 

 erected to the memory of Sir Claudius Forfler, with this infcription. 



Scio quod Redemptor meus vivit in Coelis. 

 Claudius Forjlerus^ eques auratus et baronettus, antiqua, 

 numerofa, et nobili Forfterorum familia in Com. Northumbr. 

 oriundus, Domini Nicholai Forfteri, filii fortifiimi illius viri, 

 Johannis ForJIeri, qui 37 annos mediarum marchiarum Scotiam 

 verfus Dominus guardianus extitit, filius et hasres: honora- 

 tiflimis etiam Dominis Cumbrite et Bedfordie comitibus, nee 

 non infigni et illuftri Fentuickorum progenie, totique genero- 

 forum genti inter Tinam et Tiveedaw celeberrimo fanguiiie 



*fy) Hot. Pat. 50"/f/. III. n. 14. n. 125. 



Cart. 51 Hm. III. m. 4. pro dccem acris terrae ad oratoriutti conftruerulum. Pat. 

 51 Hen. III. pro eifdem. Pat. 22 Ed. I. Bp. 'Tanter's Notit. Mdnaft. Fol. p. 396. 



(r) Lei. Itin. vol. viii. p. 130. (s) Bp. Tanner. 



(t) Confirmo donum quod fed ecclcfrc <k Nojila, juxta caftellum Pmtisfrafii^ et carnoni- 

 eis ejufdem loci, videlicet ecclefias fan<fli Ofwaidi et Aidant de Batnburch, ficut Algorm prefbl- 



ter unquam eas melius tenuit. Cart. Hen. I, Monaft. dngl. vol. ii. p. 34. 



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