134 Annkersanj Address. 



The right of sepulture mthin the chapel is still claimed, or per- 

 mitted, to some properties in the \acinity. On the 24th May, 1828, 

 Fenwick of Brinkheugh shot his son, the bullet used being the 

 top of a brass extinguisher. He was tried and acquitted on 

 the ground of insanity. The young man was interred in the 

 family burial place belonging to Brinklieugh, in the south transept 

 of the Priory church. Brinklieugh has since been purchased by 

 Mr. Oadogan. 



In clearing away the rubbish inside the church, a coped coflEin 

 lid was found ; in the centre is a cross with trefoils, on the right 

 side is a Bishop's mitre, on the left of the shaft of the cross is a 

 pastoral staff. An inscription in well cut letters runs round, one 

 word of which seems to have baffled all attempts to read it. It is 

 the tombstone of Prior William, who was a suifragan under the 

 Bishop of Durham, and who died in 1484. Dr. Raine conjectured 

 that the word was the name of a Scottish or foreign see, of which 

 he had formerly, "quondam," been Bishop. He never saw the 

 tombstone himself, but investigated the matter, having a copy of 

 the inscription supplied to him by the Eev. John Bigge. They 

 found a regular Kst of the suffragans of Durham, subsequent to 

 1484 ; and in the rolls of the Bishop of Durham, there is an entry 

 of certain sums paid as a salary to William Prior of Brinkburn, 

 as suffragan to the Bishop of Durham. 



Pellitory-of-the-waU {Parietaria officinalis) was observed in 

 abundance about the ruin, as is usually the case near monastic 

 buildings, forming as it used to do part of the materia medica of 

 the monks. 



The Pev. C. Vernon Harcourt on our return to Eothbury 

 politely invited the members to visit Whitton Tower, one of the 

 ancient Border Peel Towers ; had time permitted, I am sure it 

 would have afforded us much gratification to have availed our- 

 selves of the Pector's kindness. It was with regret that we found 

 his health prevented his joining our dinner party. After dinner 

 Mr. F. E. Wilson showed some carefully executed drawings of 

 Chibburn near Warkworth ; a religious house of the fourteenth 

 century, and explained the peculiarities of its structure. He then 

 read an excellent paper on Brinkburn Priory, which was accom- 

 panied by a highly finished wood cut, 23resented by him to the 

 Club, and which appears in this number of the transactions. The 

 members proposed at the last meeting were elected, and the Eev. 

 Aislabie Procter of Alwinton, and Dr. Lewis George Broadbent 

 of Bamburgh were proposed. 



