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passed the two last years of his life. Here was afterwards 

 established a Priory of Benetlictines for six or eight months, 

 subordinate to Durham." On the Fame St. Cuthbert built him- 

 self a cell and a small oratory. In Leland's Itinerary, V. 6, 

 Fol. 67, the Fame Islands are quaintly described thus. '' There 

 ly certen Isles adjoining to Fame Isleland bigger then Fame 

 it self. But in them is no Habitation. Certen bigge foules, 

 caullid S. Cuthbertcs Bp'des, brede in them, and Puffins, Birdes 

 less then Dukkes, having grey Fethers like Dukkes, but withoute 

 paintid Fethers, and a Ring about the Xek, be found breding 

 ther in the cliffy Eokkes." 



The Tjiikd Field Meeting was held at Stawai-d Peel, on 

 Thursday, the 13th of July. There were about one hundred 

 and twenty ladies and gentlemen, compnsing fully one hundi'ed 

 members, one sixth part of the Club, present. 



The pai-ty left Newcastle by the 11,30 a.m. train, arriving at 

 Hexham at 12.27, where a detention of forty-five minutes oc- 

 curred before they were able to proceed by the Hexham and 

 Allendale Railway to Staward Station, where they arrived at 

 1.47. The time at Hexham, however, was very agreeably spent. 

 Some Wsited the Abbey Church, while others strolled quietly in 

 the enclosures of the market gardens, which are common. Neces- 

 sarily the Club numbers amongst its members a proportion who 

 do not profess to be versed in scientific lore, but who veiy gladly 

 avail themselves of the excursions, and find much interest and 

 diversion in viewing the ecclesiastical and other ancient struc- 

 tures in the localities visited. 



To join advantage to amusement, to gather profit with plcasiue, 

 Ih the wise man's necessary aim, when he lieth iu the shade of recreation. 



He.xliam is a town of great antiquity. It was the metropolis 

 of a famous Shire of that name. The Abbey Church, the pride 

 of Hexham, is a relic which preserves the memory of a dignified 

 past. Here, in the reign of Egfrid, King of Xorthumbria (674), 

 it was erected into an Episcoi)al See by St. Wilfred, Archbishop 

 of York, and afterwards confiraied by Theodora, Archbishop of 

 Canterbury. Seven Bishoi)s luid theii- seat here until the Danes 



