ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 443 



Another monaftery was founded by the bridge, dedicated to the 

 Holy Trinity. It is faid by Lei and. to have been diflblved by An- 

 thony Beck, Bifhop of Durham (a) ; but that learned antiquary 

 muft be under a miftake, as that prelate died, 5 K. Ed-ward II, 

 1311, and mention of it is afterwards made as exhting, 2 K. Ed- 

 ward III, and of its being founded fro Mini/fro et Fratribus Sancfie 

 Trinitatis Pont is Berwici (b). 



There was alfo one founded for the Grey Friers, or Friers Minors, 

 who had a grant for twenty marks per annum out of Wetherbum, 

 for the payment of which K. Edward l\\. gave orders in the i3th 

 year of his reign (c). 



Mention is made in the Efcbaet-rolh of Northumberland, and 

 by Bimop Tanner, of an hofpital, or free chapel, dedicated to 

 St. Mary Magdalen, fituated near Berwick, but not prccifely laid 

 where (d) ; to which was united an Hermitage, at a place called 



Segdon (ej. 



The town {lands chiefly on the brow of a hill ; the river Tweed 

 to the fouth ; the fea to the eaft ; large barracks for foldiers at 



(a) Lei. Itin. Vol. viii. p. 5. (b) Clauf. 2 Ed. ITT. m. 16. 



(c) Mandatum R. Ed. III. anno reg. 13. de folvendo guardiano et fratribus ordimim mi- 

 norum in villa de Berwico commorantibus viginti marcas per annum de ferma diSss villab, 

 dc elemofina regum Scotia de antiquo conftituta. 



Rym. convent, torn. v. p. 104. 

 Notit. Monaft. fo. 397. 



(fl) Rot. Pat. 29 EJ. I. m. prope finem. 

 Rym. Feed. torn. iii. p. 786. 



Rex dedit Nicholao Nuton cuftodiam liberac ca;,ellx S. Manx Mag ic.lln &, juxta Bfftwt't et 

 hermitagii de Segdon eidem anex. Pat. 16 Hen. VI. ex colleclan. cl. M. Hiitton. 



(e) Rot. Pat. 41 Ed. III. n. 39; where is an inquifition of the lands belonging to it. v 

 Tanner's Notit. Monaft. fo. 397. 



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