ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Near a mile weft from Warkon the banks of the Tiveed,,'is 



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Carbarn-Halt, the feat of Anthony Ccmplon, Efq; a modern build- 

 ing, to which he hath made large and handfome additions, and 

 great improvements about it by planting. 



A little higher up the river, and in fight, is his villa of 



Carbarn ; at the weft end of which, almoft on the brink, by a 

 flexure of the Tweed, and at the eaft end of the church, was an 

 abbey of Black Canons, fubordinate to the priory of Kirkham, in 

 YorkJJjire. The villa, lordfhip, advowfon and impropriation of 

 the living, belonged to that priory; as did the villa and manour 

 of Titling ton, two parts of the tithes within the lordfhips of Min- 

 drum and Bolt on, a manfion-houfe in H r ark, the advowfons and 

 impropriations of Ilderton and Kirk Ne-ivton, 8cc. (i) The abbot 



of 



(!) Thar/lino Die gratia Ebor. Archiepifc. et Ga'frida eadem gratia Dunelm. epifcopo, ct 

 fucceflbribus eorum, Walterus Efpec, et Adelina uxor ejus, falutem. Sciatis nos conceflifle 

 et dedifie Deo et ecclefiae S. Trinitatis de Kirkham, et canonicis ibidem Deo fervientibus, con- 

 fenfu Henrici regis Anghrum, et confenfu noftro et auxilio, &c. in liberam et perpetuam ele- 

 mofinam; videlicet, in. Northumberland, totatn villatn de Carram fuper Twedam fluvium, et 

 ecclefiam ejufdem villae, cum omnibus eidem villas et eidem ecclefne pertinentibus in terris et 

 aquis, in pratis et pafcuis, in pafturis et molendinis, in divifis et confuetudinibus : et unam 

 manfuram in Wark ; et toram villam in Titlington, cum omnibus eidem pertinentibus in Bofco 

 at Piano, in pratis et in pafturis, et molendinis, in divifis, et confuetudinibus ; et ecclefiam 

 de Ildertm cum omnibus eidem pertinentibus ; et ecclefiam de Nuton in Glendale, cum omni- 

 bus eidini ecclefise pertinentibus : Et omnes meas dominicas decimas, et nominatim decimam 

 denariorum de cenfu terrarum mearum in Northumberland: Et duas partes decimz de Dominio 

 de Mmdrum et de Bolton, et de molendino de Bohon, et fi dedero alicui homini aliquam d 

 tcrris/upra nominatis, femper decima remanebit ecclefiae Sanftae Trinitatis de Kirkham. 



Carta fundat. prioratus de Kirkham, in agro Eboracenfi, 

 Ex regiftro de Behoir, citat. Monaft. Angl. vol. ii. p. 105. 



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