298 Notes on Newton Don. By C. B. Balfour. 



an old stone lion, which I have had restored as a sun dial, and 

 placed on the south front of the house, which bears a shield, 

 impaling the arms of Mary Murray with those of Sir Alexander 

 Don, whom she married in 1750. 



This lion is described in a MS. Journal of John Trotter 

 Brockett, Esq., F.S.A., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the well-known 

 antiquary — shown to me by Dr. Hardy. Under date 19th 

 Sept. 1833 he gives a sketch of ''the supporter of the dial in the 

 grounds of Newton Don," with a square or hexagonal mass of 

 stone on his head, in which were probably several gnomons — 

 and he gives a motto at the back of the dial — 



" Come what may — J.N.E. 



" The hour runs through the roughest day." 



The stone dial and motto are no longer in existence, and I 

 was unaware, when I restored the lion, that it had been a 

 dial before. The present bronze dial on the head of the 

 lion bears the name of Richard Carr, 1665, and had been 

 stowed away among some lumber at the joiner's shop. 



II. — The Chapel and Village of Little Newton. 



The chapel of Little Newton, alluded to above, has a 

 long history. 



The chapels of Little Newton, Nathansthyrne, and Stitchell 

 were originally chapels of the Mother Church of Ednam. 



In 1 158-63 Thomas Primus, Prior of Durham, presented 

 Eobert, son of Goze, the priest, to the Rectory of Ednam, and 

 in the document mention is made of these three chapels as 

 the three chapels of the church of Ednam. ^^ 



The church and chapels at this time belonged to Coldingham 

 Priory, which was a dependency of Durham. 



Jeffrey quotes a confirmation by Arnold, Bishop of St. 

 Andrews, towards the end of the 12th centurj', of the church 

 of Edenham, and the chapels of Newton and Naythansthorn 

 to the monks of Coldingham. ^^ 



In 1204 the monks conceded to William, Bishop of St. 

 Andrews, both the chapels of Newton and Nathansthorn.^^ 



David of Bernham Bishop of St. Andrews, 1238 — 1252, is said 



^' Raine's N. Durham. 



^"^ Jeffrey's Hist, of Roxburghshire, Vol. in., p. 119. 



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