ji8 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Archdeacon of Northumberland. It was alfo repaired by the pre- 

 fent reftor, the Revd. Mr. Birdmore, canon-refidentiary of York. 



Three miles below Rothbury, is 



Brinkburn- Priory, founded in the reign of K. Henry I, and dedi- 

 cated to St. Peter (a), by William tie Bertram, baron of Mitford t with 

 the approbation of his Lady and his three fons. 



His lordfhip placed in it Black Canons or Canons Regular, of 

 the order of St. Aujlm, from the monaftery of St. Mary de Infula, 

 and endowed it with lands out of his wafles, confirmed both by 

 -his Lady, Haivys and Roger, his cldeft foil and heir. He gave it 

 Thornhaiigh, Forderhaugh, Papivirthhaugh, Heley, and Over-He ley, 

 and the woods belonging to them, alfo a wood to the eaft of 

 Heley, extending from -Linchburn to the river Coquet. To this gift 

 he added another, viz. an annual prefent of twenty fifties out o'f 

 ;his fifhcry of Coquet (b). 



His grandfon, Roger, gave it 140 acres in his wane-lands in 

 Even*- id, with a large ihare of his waftes near Framlington, alfo 

 liberty to cut timber out of his woods in the forefts for its necef- 

 lary ufes, with the privilege of having game. Prince Henry of 

 ScottnJ. Earl of Northumberland, gave it a falt-work at Warkijuorth. 

 He and his fon, William dc Warren, of the family of the Earls of 

 Warren, by the mother's fide, and named after them, confirmed 



(a) St. Peter and St. Paul, in Pat. 15 K. Henry VI. 



(b) Monaft Angl vol. ii. p. 203. Vide Cartam citat. ex regiftro hujus prioratus de Rrixk- 

 lurn penes Dom. Will. Howard de Nawoiih caftro, 23 Jan. 1638. Sol, i. 



Carta 2 Jab. p. i. m. li. etPat, Hen. VI. p. i. m. 7. 



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