ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Qux fupererant interea, 



Ita domi componebat omnia, 



Ut non inopinunti tandem, vel trepidanti, 



Sed expectant! ultra, 



Mors arnica obvenirit, 



Anno astatis Lxi mo . 



Salutis MDCCLX1. 



On the weft fide of the church-yard is a Sarcophagus or {lone- 

 coffin, digged up in making a grave ; fix feet and four inches 

 in length within, and feventeen inches over at the ihoulders. 



A little beyond the ^th mile-ftone, a winding road branches 

 off on the left hand, from a porter's lodgCj to 



Woffmgton (nj, which was one of the manours of the priory of 

 Tyitemoutb, and was in the poffeffion of the crown, i o Q^ Eliza- 

 beth (<fj. It was afterwards in the pofTeflion of the family of the 

 Jennifons -, and was the feat of Ralph Jennifon, Efq; high fheriff of 

 Northumberland, 1717. It is now the feat and manour of Matthew 

 Bell, Efq; an alderman of the corporation of Newcajlle upon Tyne, 

 of which he was mayor, 1 757. 



Four miles and three quarters more bring me to the end of my 



journey to Ne-wcajllct the Pans jEiii t as has been before ob- 



ferved,,of that brave people, the Romans : A people, but for whofe 

 coming, we might for ages, perhaps, have lived without the 



(n) IVolfmgten. Rot. Nortbumlr. 

 Wlffmgton. Vulgo. 



(o) See Tyrumtutk. 



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