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which afterwarde was the inheritance of the Baron Hilton, by 



marriadge of the dowghter and soylle heire of the f orsaid , 



then lord of Shilbottell and other the premises. It was first a 

 nonrye, and after changes* at the last brought to the master and 

 his f elowe who then was accomptant to the monasterye of Alne- 

 wyke of all the yssues and profits which yerely did encrease 

 above the fyndynge of the sayd mayster and f elowe and their 



f amy lie. , then lord of Aclyngton, did graunte that 



parcell of grounde wherein the scite of the sayd chapell and 

 other buyldyngs standith to the abbott and convent of the said 

 lait dissolved monasterye of Alnewyk for the same was parcel of 

 Aclyngton in the old Ynglish tonge called Brainshawge ; all the 

 other land meadowes and pastures thereunto adjoyning was 



gevyn by the said , lord of Shilbottle to the mayntenance 



of the said religious personnes in puram elemosynam as by the 

 register book of the same at length is declared with all other • 

 parcells of lande apperteyning to the said howse of Brains- 

 hawghe." 



" The chapel ruins, from the best information now to be ob- 

 tained, have been in the present dilapidated state, without 

 material change, for the last sixty years. Previous to that 

 period, from the division of the tithes among several lay impro- 

 priators, the ownership of the graveyard and site of the ruin was 

 undefined, and consequently the materials lay at the mercy of 

 those around ; great quantities of stone were then taken away 

 for buildings at Brainshaugh," &c. "The outer fence was a 

 broken down wall, perhaps as old as the church, so dilapidated 

 that the cattle from the surrounding pasture could graze over 

 the graveyard. The present enclosure wall was built by the late 

 John Tate, Esq., of Bank House, after he had acquired the sole 

 property of the area." The district had been treated as the 

 "Extra Parochial Chapelry of Brainshaugh," as shewn by 

 County Records, more than two hundred years. John Tate, 

 Esq., of Barnhill, is now the sole tithe owner, and proprietor of 

 the freehold of the ruin and graveyard. 



" The late Mr Tate remembered service being performed fre- 

 quently under the shade of a large thorn tree, which still stands 

 outside of the gate. When the old hall at Gloster Hill was burnt 

 down on Sunday, January 7th, 1759, his parents were at the ser- 



[ * " Chanones." — Arch. JEliana."] 



