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Farn-IJland, the recefs of St. Cuthbert. Here was afterwards a 

 priory of fix or eight Bcni'dittine monks, fubordinate to Durham 

 (y). They received annually five quarters of wheat from the 

 manours of T ugh all and Swinhoe (z). The corporation of Neivcajlle 

 upon Tyne paid them an annual rent of 13 marks, and 10 s. fa). 

 At the difiblution it was valued at 12 /. 17 j-. 8 d. Dngd. and Speed. 

 It was granted to the dean and chapter of Durham, 33 K. Henry VIII 

 (bj. It ftood on the mo ft romantic part of the ifland, on 

 a pleafant lawn, edged with rocks, by a frefh-water fpring. Near 

 it was a fort, built for its defence by the laft prior of Durham, but 

 one, Prior Caftle (c). On the north-cad fide are five other fmall 

 iilands, confiding of bleak, barren rocks. 



A mile north from Eambrough^ is 



Budle, one of the manours of the barony of A/nivick ; of which 

 a medicty was held by the three daughters of Sir George Bo<wes, 

 of Stretlam-Caftlct in the bifhoprick of Durham, Km. 14 K. Charles I. 



(y) Lei. Itin. Vol. vii. p. 61. 



(z) Clauf. 10 Ed. II. m. 25. de quinquc quarterns frumenti fingulis annis e maneriis de 

 Tugbali et Swinhse, 



(a) Vide in Bourne's Hift. of Newcastle, p. 199. Affifam per priorem Dunclm. coi>tra ma- 

 jorem et ballivos Nov: ' Caflri pro redditu annuo treo'ecem marcarum et decem folidorum con- 

 ceflo domui de Farmland anno 25 Ed. III. p. 205, requictantiam prioris Dunelm. pro redditu 

 prsedicto debit, ad fefium S. Michaelis anno 5 Hen. V. p. 218, Hen. VII, confirmationem iftius 

 redditus anno regni 7. 



Clayf. 2 Hen. IV. p. i. m. 13. de xiii. marcis annui redditus conceflis de redditu Novi 

 Co/In per rcgem Fdvardum. 



(b) Bp. Tanner's Notit. Monaft. fo. p. 394. 



(c) Lei. Itin. vol. v. p. 108. 



viz. 



