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MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES

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ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, NEWCASTLE.

A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTOEICAL ACCOUNT

MONUMENTS & TOMBSTONES

CHUECH OF ST. NICHOLAS,
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
COMPILED EY
RICHARD WELFORD,
AUTHOR OF "A HISTOKY OF THE PARISH OF GOSFORTH," ETC.,
AND ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY-TWO FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS.

' The boast of heraldry, the pomp of po-w'r.
And all that beauty, all that -wealth e'er gave,
A-wait alike th' inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."— GRAY.

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNR : M. & M. W. LAMBERT.
1880.

M. & M. W. LAMBERT, .50, GREY STREET.

INTRODUCTION.

In the year 1824, proposals were issued for publishing by subscription, in six parts : " A Ne-w and Interesting
Historical Work, entitled 'Saint Nicholas' Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and its Monuments,'
Illustrated by a series of Engravings, representing exterior and interior Vie-ws and Plans of that venerable
and ancient Edifice, and all its Monuments ; beautifully executed by Messrs. Lambert and Collard, from
original dra-wings of eminent artists ; Dedicated by permission to the Reverend John Smith, Vicar ; and
to the Reverend the Clergy ; to the Right Worshipful Henry Cramlington, Mayor ; and to the other Members
of the Corporate Body ; and to the Inhabitants of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; by
M. A. Richardson."
Each part was to contain " Five Plates, comprising, on an average. Eight Monuments, from drawings
by Baily, Harvey, and other Eminent Artists," and the printing of the first part was to commence as soon
as 250 copies, or as many as would cover the expense were subscribed for.
It is not known whether a history of the Church and its Monuments was written for the projected
publication ; if so the MS. has been lost. But, in due course, Thirty-Two Plates were prepared, and then,
sufficient support being withheld, the project was abandoned.
St. Nicholas' has recently been restored to something like its ancient beauty, and, as it will shortly
become the Cathedral Church of a new Diocese, it seems a favourable time to issue the plates,
accompanied by so much letter-press as is necessary to make them intelligible.
The engravings range themselves into three classes. In the first are such monuments as, from their
magnitude or the peculiar beauty and elegance of their composition, deserve a plate to themselves ; in the
second class two monuments form one plate ; and, in the third class, each engraving contains three or
four monuments. The inscriptions have been, it is believed, faithfully copied, and especial care has been taken to
reproduce such of them as are written in Latin. But, in reading these, the exigencies and ignorance of
the stone cutter, and the difficulty of deciphering ancient epitaphs, must not be forgotten. The
translations are by Henry Jefferson, Esq., M.A., a native of Newcastle, who has endeavoured to give a
strictly literal rendering of the originals.
For the letter-press description the Editor is indebted to many authorities : inter alia to the
Archceologia .^liana ; Richardson's " Armorial Bearings " ; the Thomas Bell Library in the Castle ;
papers by Mr. W. H. D. Longstaffe ; the Newcastle Baily Journal ; and numerous essays contributed to
the Newcastle Chronicle by Mr. James Clephan and Mr. William Brockie.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1880.

LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS.
Plate 1. St. Nicholas', S.E. View  Frontispiece PAGE
2. The Old Font  27
„ 3. Ancient Mural Monument  28
„ 4. Monument of the Maddison Family  29
„ 5. „ „ Hall Family  32
„ 6. „ Sir Robert Shafto  33
„ 7. „ Henry and Dorothy Askew  35
„ 8. „ Matthew Ridley  37
„ 9. „ Sir Matthew White Ridley  40
„ 10. „ William Peareth  42
,, 11. „ William Jennens Peareth  43
„ 12. „ Rev. Hugh Moises  44
„ 13. „ Lord Collingwood  47
„ 14. „ Calverley Bewicke  49
„ 15. „ Elizabeth Greenwell  52
„ 16. „ Joseph Bainbeidge  53
„ 17. Ancient Figure, and the Tombstone of Sir Richard Stote  54
18. Tombstones of the Anderson Family  56
„ 19. Monuments of William Peareth and Sarah Blackett  59
„ 20. „ Ald. Mosley and Nicholas Ridley  63
„ 21. „ Major Anderson and Rev. John Smith  65
„ 22. Tombstones of the Ellison Family  69
23. Monuments of Robert Buggin, Francis Burton, and Michael Weldon  71
24. „ Patrick Crowe, Isabel Wrightson, and Joseph Hudleston  73
25. „ Sir Alexander Davison, Thomas Hamilton, and Edward Man... 76
26. „ Edward Collingwood, Alice Ingham, and William Smoult  84
27. „ James Bell, Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, and Rev. J. S. Lushington 88
28. „ The Cuthberts, Rev. T. Dockwray, and Barbara Dawson  92
29. „ Ald. Stephenson, Matthew DuANE, and Mary FuRYE  95
„ 30. „ John Hodgson, John Atkinson, and B. K. Wilcox  98
31. „ William Lloyd, Susan Peareth, Margaret Clavering, William
Ingham, and Jane Ellison..  101
.^ 32. ., Lieutenant Thornton, Major-General Skerrett, Major Werge,
Mary Wilson, and Rear- Admiral Charleton  ...104

ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH.

I HE origin of this stately edifice is attributed, by recogaised authorities, to the middle
of the fourteenth century,* when it replaced a smaller structure that is said to
have been built in the time of William Rufus, and is known to have existed
during the reign of Henry I.
In the scattered pages of local history, the reader may trace St. Nicholas' through the vicissitudes of
time, law, and custom. He may see it filled with glittering shrines and richly-decked altars, before which
kings and queens, prelates and nobles, knights and dames, wealthy burghers and the common people alike
bent low the knee. He may visit it when all the pomp and glitter had departed, and its bare walls and
benches echoed with the thunder of Covenanter and Puritan. Or he may contemplate it smitten and
afflicted by eighteenth century " restoration," and see the work of the destroyer veiled by the mask of
improvement. It is not necessary here to follow the sacred edifice through all these changes, nor to trace the career
of its Godly -Ministers and pious benefactors. The building is, so to speak, only the framework or setting
of our design. As an introduction to a simple necrology, minute historical survey appears to be less
appropriate than ordinary descriptive narrative.
Bourne describes St. Nicholas' as " a very grand and magnificent Building," and adds, that the steeple
is " supposed as to it's Model, to be the most curious in the whole Kingdom : It is adorned with thirteen
Pinnacles, and a large and beautiful Lan thorn, which stands upon two very bold Arches of Stone, and at
the Top of the said Lanthorn stands the tall Spire. On the Corners of the old Tower, upon which stands
the said beautiful Structure, are four Images, one at each Corner, cut at length in Stone."
Rickman, the well-known writer on Gothic Architecture, describes it as " a large and handsome
Church, mostly of Decorated character, except the steeple, which is of later date.-|- This Church is a
cross Church, but has no tower at the intersection. The steeple is the most beautiful feature of the
buildino-, and is a most excellent composition. It is Early Perpendicular, not much enriched, but
producing a very fine effect. It is the type of which there are various imitations ; the best known are
St. Giles's, Edinburgh ; the Church at Linlithgow ; the College Tower at Aberdeen ; and its modern
imitation by Sir C. Wren, at St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, London ; but all these fall far short of the original.

* Under date August 20, 1368, ia a document preserved in the archives of Carlisle Cathedral, sho-wing that the Episcopal authorities
instituted proceedings against the clergy and parishioners of St. Nicholas for rebuilding the choir of their church -without leave. They sent
an inspector to Newcastle, -who found Robert de Merlay, one of the clergy, hard at work in the church yard cutting stones for the building
like any ordinary workman. He ordered Merlay to desist, throwing pebbles at the parts that were not to be touched, aud afterwards meeting
two ex-Mayors Robt. Angerton and John Chambers, on the Sandhill, he protested against their unauthorised operations. It is to be
presumed that the parishioners made due submission and obtained leave to proceed with the work.
+ Sir Gilbert Scott was of opinion that, although the original plan dates from the fourteenth century, much of the existing architecture
is of the fifteenth, and parts of later date ; and that the structure was in the main a single scheme, though its execution occupied a consider
able space of time, and many alterations were in later times effected.

The tower is engaged and opens to the nave and aisles by beautiful arches ; the corners are bold buttresses
crowned by octagonal turrets with pinnacles ; from the base of these turrets spring four flying buttresses,
on the intersection of which is placed an elegant lantern, crowned with a spire. The flying buttresses are
crocketted, and are peculiarly graceful in their forms. This steeple is as fine a composition as any of its
date, and the lightness and boldness of the upper part can hardly be exceeded. The Church has some
singular and curious portions, and the whole edifice deserves attention."
The steeple was erected, it is believed, by Robert Rhodes,* an eminent lawyer in the reign of
Henry VI., and is probably an addition to the original tower. The latter is most substantially buUt ;
it measures at the base 36 feet 9 inches by 35 feet, and the whole structure is 193 feet 6 inches high from
the pavement to the top of the lantern. And thus, as Grey, writing in 1649, declares : " It lifteth up a
head of Majesty as high above the rest as the Cypresse Tree above the low Shrubs."f
The lower story of the tower gives three entrances to the Church ; the second contains the belfry and
clock ; and the third the bells. The third story is set within the lower ones, which adds to the lightness
and elegance of the superstructure. Up the corners of this story run flat buttresses, which rise above the
battlements and are terminated by figures representing Adam, Eve, Aaron, and David. The figure of
Adam occupies the north-west angle, and represents him in the act of conveying an apple to his mouth ;
at the north-east angle Eve is depicted as having just presented the fruit to Adam ; Aaron, at the south
west corner wears the mitre of the high priest, and carries an open book ; and David at the opposite or
south-east corner is crowned, and in the act of striking a harp. With this third story commence the
decorations which have excited the admiration of many generations. Each face of it is di-vided by a
delicate buttress, rising up square as far as the battlements, and then is ingeniously continued as an
octagonal turret crowned by a pinnacle. On each side of the central buttress are elegant -windows divided
by a transom across the centre, and perpendicularly by a muUion ; through these, being unglazed, passes
the sound of the bells. The tower terminates with perforated battlements, and from thence rise eight
turrets and pinnacles of matchless elegance. The pinnacles are crocketted, and each finishes with
a lofty vane, ornamented with the fleur-de-lis at the angles and sides. From the base of the four
angular turrets spring four segments of arches, elegantly curved and cut into mouldings. At their
intersection, twenty feet above the battlements, they support a very elegant and lofty square lantern,
which has an open window on each side divided by a mullion and cross bar. There are small buttresses
at the angles, surmounted by ornamented pinnacles, each of which supports a vane, and from the top of the
lantern rises a lofty pinnacle, which crowns the work. This pinnacle is hollow within, and is composed of
stones only four inches in breadth.
Of this famous tower Bourne relates a tradition, which is copied into all the local histories, as
follows : — " In the Time of the Civil Wars, when the Scots had besieg'd the Town for several Weeks, and
were still as far as at first from taking it, the General sent a Messenger to the Mayor of the Town, and
* Robert Rhodes represented Newcastle in Parliament in 1427, 1428, 1432, 1434, and 1441. In the latter year he was Henry VI. 's
Comptroller of Customs in Newcastle, and his to-wn residence was in the parish of All Saints. He married Joan, daughter and heiress of
Walter Ha-wyok and lady, of Little Eden, who died childless. In 1447 he presented to St. Cuthbert's shrine at Durham a handsome cross of
gold, containing portions of the pillar to which Christ was bound, and of the rock in which his grave was he-wn. His second -wife, Agnes was
evidently a lady of some social position, but she also brought him no children, and he died without issue in April, 1474. Agnes sui-vived
him, and in 1495 the grateful monks of Durham issued their letters of fraternity "to the honourable woman Agnes Rodys, once -wife of
Bobert Rodys, for your weU-known deeds, your gifts also and precious presents conferred upon us." She also was dead iu 1500, when the
Corporation of Newcastle gave to the priest of the chantry of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist a house to live in out of
respect for the memory of Robert Rhodes. — W. H. D. Longstaffe's Notes to the Life of Ambrose Sarnes.
t August 28, 1788, Thos. Morton, one of the guards of the Royal Mail Coach, undertook for a considerable wager to throw a stone over
the highest vane of the steeple of St. Nicholas' Church in Newcastle, which he accomplished with ease at the fourth throw, the stone being
seen several feet above the highest pinnacle of the steeple, which is 194 feet high. — Local Papers.

demanded the Keys, and the Delivering up of the Town, or he would immediately demolish the Steeple of
St. Nicholas. The Mayor and Aldermen, upon hearing this, immediately ordered a certain Number of
the chiefest of the Scottish Prisoners to be carried up to the Top of the old Tower, the Place below the
Lanthome, and there confined ; after this they returned the General an Answer to this Purpose, That they
would upon no Terms deliver up the Town, but would to the last Moment defend it : That the Steeple of
St. Nicholas was indeed a beautiful and magnificent Piece of Architecture, and one of the great Ornaments
of their Town ; but yet should be blown into Attoms before ransom'd at such a Rate ; That however, if it
was to fall, it should not fall alone ; that the same Moment he destroyed the beautiful Structure, he should
Bath his Hands in the Blood of his Countrymen, who were placed there on Purpose either to preserve it
from Ruin or to die along with it. The Message had the desired Effect. The Men were there kept
Prisoners during the whole Time of the Siege, and not so much as one Gun fired against it."
Down to the beginning of the eighteenth century the church possessed only five bells ; it now
contains nine. The first bell is dedicated to the patron saint of the church, and as deciphered by Mr,
John Ventress, who has written an admirable paper on the subject, bears the following rhyme in black
letter : — " Cunctis modulamina Promans
Sura Nicholaius Ovans."
which may be translated — " Bearing modulations to aU I am Nicholas, rejoicing."
The second bell is dedicated to the Virgin, and has the following legend : —
" 0 mater dia me sana Virgo Maria."
[0 Divine Mother, Mary the Virgin, heal me.]
On the third bell is an inscription to St. Michael, which apparently reads : —
" Campana vocor Micaelis dulcis sisto melis."
The fourth bell is called the Common, or Great Bell, because it was tolled to convene the burgesses,
and for other municipal business. It was also known as the Thief and Reiver Bell, from its being rung at
the commencement of the annual fairs to indicate that thieves, cattle reivers, and banished persons
generally might enter the town to trade without fear of arrest. In times when public holidays were not so
common as they are now, it proclaimed every Shrove Tuesday at noon a half holiday ; and it still rings on
that day, though the half holiday is no longer kept. This bell has been recast at leE^st three times ; on
the last occasion in 1754. It bears the names of Cuthbert Smith and William Rowell, Mayor and Sheriff
in that year, and of the founders, Lester and Pack — a Colchester firm.
The fifth bell bears the arms of the town, and a curious inscription, which is supposed to read
" When caught to this height you see when this tower it was built,"
and the date 1658.
To these five the Corporation, in 1717, added three ; completing the octave as we hear it. Above
one of the latter hangs, in solitary grandeur, the ninth bell, the largest in the steeple. On this bell
the hours are struck, and it is called " The Major," from its donor. Major George Anderson (see Plate 21).
The diameter of the Major across the mouth is six feet five inches ; its length inside from top to bottom
is four feet ten inches ; its thickness, in the thickest part, four inches and a half, and its weight seventy-
two hundredweight. The belfry contains the machinery of the clock, and four large mural tablets of wood commemorating
as many achievements of the ringers.*
* The inscriptions upon these tablets are as follows : —
" Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1808. — Joseph Forster, Esq., Mayor; R. Hopper WiUiamson, Esq., Recorder; Thos. Eurdon, Esq., Sheriff.
November 15th was rung in St. Nicholas' steeple by the Union Society of this town, a true peal of Holt's Grandsire triples, consisting of 5,040

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The interior of St. Nicholas is lofty and imposing. Mackenzie describes it in glowing language : —
" On entering the west door the spectator finds himself beneath the lofty dome ofthe tower. The bold
height of the groined roof, the stately and massive pillars by which it is supported, the blended light and
shade of the arches that divide the aisles, the distant chancel, all combine to produce mingled impressions
of solemnity and delight. The interior of the nave measures 109 feet 10 inches in length, and 74 feet
2 inches in breadth. The width of the transept is 24 feet 10 inches, and the length of the choir to the
great east window is 110 feet 4 inches. This measurement makes the total length of the interior 245
feet.f The breadth of the choir is 63 feet 6 inches. The strong clustered columns that support the
tower at the west end of the nave are singularly majestic. Each measures above the base 36 feet 2 inches
in circumference. Slender shafts of the main cluster support the springers of elegant groin arches, which
branch out and intersect each other in a manner the most fanciful and beautiful. The centre fe of an
octagon form, ornamented with arms. The space between the tower and the transept is divided into three
aisles by two rows of arches, supported by firm elegant octagon pillars, the eight sides measuring 10 feet
8 inches. The arches, though acute, are open, and remarkable for symmetry and beauty. They seem to
approach to segments of a circle, including an equilateral triangle from the imposts to the crown of the
arch. The extradoes of the arches are joined by small ornamental heads. The cross arching of the middle
changes, in three hours and twenty minutes. This peal was never before rung upon these bells. The bobs were called by John Stephenson,
jr., who rung the observation bell. The tenor, which weighs 36 cwt., was rung single-handed. The following are the names of those
members who rung the peal : —
1. John BeU. I 3. James Ireland. I 5. James Preston. I 7. John Buokham.
2, John Stephenson, jr. | 4. James Shipley. | 6. Wm. Stephenson. | 8. Edward Smith.
D. Preston, Secy.
Artes liberales ab omnibus nisi imprudentibus diliguntui-."

"Newcastle-upon-Tyne, October 2otli, 1809. — Isaac Cookson, jr., Esq., Mayor; B. H. Williamson, Esq., Recorder ;
Job Bulman, Esq., Sheriff.
Jubilee.
On this day was rung in St. Nicholas' steeple 5,040 of Holt's Grandsire triples, by the Union Society of this town in three hours and
twenty minutes, being the only peal rung in England in commemoration of his Majesty King George III. entering into the fiftieth year of his
reigii over a free and loyal people. The names of the members who rung the peal. Tenor, 36 cwt."
[Same ringers as before, with "D. Preston" as secretary.]

" St. Nicholas, 1842.— Rev. R. C. Coxe, M.A., Vicar. Churchwardens— Messrs. Thos. BeU, Wm. Robson, Johu Waller, and John
WUson. On March 27th, Easter Monday, the Union Society of Newcastle and Gateshead Change Ringers, in company with J. Cox and J
Freeman, two members of the Society of St. James' Youths, London, rung on the bells of this tower a true and complete peal of Holt's
Grandsire triples, consisting of 5,040 changes, in the unprecedented short period of two hours and fifty-nine minutes. Tenor 36 o-wt The
harmony produced by the skill and talent employed on this occasion displayed an imequalled specimen of the sublime, beautiful, and intricate
ait of change ringing. The following are the names of the artists who rung the peal : —
Chas. Walker, treble. I J. Allen Stephenson, Srd. I John Cox, 5th. I 6 James 7th
John EUiot, 2nd. | John Freeman. 4th. | Robt. Balmbra, 6th. | Eichd. w'anless, tenor.
John Cox, conductor ; James EUiott and George James, stewards ; Robt. Balmbra, treasurer ; John Graham, secretary.'"
"St. Nicholas, 1848. -Eev. R. C. Coxe, A.M., Vicar; Rev. T. C. Smythe, A.M., Curate; Rev. J. Reed, A.B., Afternoon Lecturer.
Churchwardens-Messrs.Wm. Young, Henry Ingledew, Wm. Nesham, and John Robinson; Mr. Thos. Marshall, Sacristan. On Friday
evening, December 8th, eight members of the Ancient Union Society of Change Singers of Newcastle and Gateshead rung upou the beUs of
this tower a true and complete peal of Grandsire tiiples, consisting of 5,040 changes, which was accompUshed in the unrivaUed short period
of two hours and fifty-five minutes, being the quickest peal on record. Tenor weighing 36 cwt. This ingenious peal is the composition of
Mr. Thurston, of Birmingham. It consists of 177 singles and 75 bobs, and was ably conducted by AUen Stephenson. The following are the
names of the ringers : —
Wm. Pitt, treble. I G. W. Dodsworth, Srd. I John Graham, 5th. | George James 7tb
Josh. Cook Pearson, 2nd. | Andrew Lowrie, 4th. | Allen Stephenson, 6th. | Wm.H. Washington tenor
It is but creditable to say that this is the first peal that has been rung on these bells since the jubilee of George III. by native talent seven of
the above being ringers of this church, and Mr. AUen Stephenson, of St. Andrews. G. James, J. Graham, stewsirds ; A. Stephenson
treasurer ; A. Lowrie, secretary." ' '
t The Building News of December 26, 1873, gives the dimensions rather differently ;— " Greatest internal length 243 feet, greatest width
74 feet ; transept 127 feet ; vault 46 feet ; steejile 194 feet."

transept is bold and lofty. Four arches on each side of the middle aisle of the choir divide it from the side
aisles. The middle aisles are lighted at the top by modern windows."*
Beneath the north transept is a small crypt 23 feet 6 inches long from east to west, and 11 feet broad
from north to south, which, there is reason to believe, formed a part of the Church that preceded the
present edifice. The crypt was approached by a pointed door- way in the western exterior of the transept.
It was lighted by four apertures on the north side, and by a window looking into St. George's Chapel,
which latter still remains, consisting of a single round stone, perforated by a central star and five encircling
apertures, like a St. Catharine's wheel. In the south wall is a piscina, and the roof is semi-circular,
composed of flat stones and strengthened by five bold longitudinal ribs.
Previous to 1783 the Nave was chiefly used for divine service and was pewed with oak, ornamented
with cairvings. On the north side was a large gallery, erected in 1620 for the use, chiefly, of the boys
belonging to the Grammar School. The reading desk and pulpit, with its pinnacled canopy, were placed
against one of the pillars on the south side of the centre aisle facing the north, and the font, with its
beautiful cover, stood between the two columns that support the tower. At the east end of the centre
aisle was the entrance to the choir and chaneel by an ascent of two or three steps, immediately in front of
the organ gallery, which occupied the space between the four great arches of the transept. On the top of
these steps in the centre of the aisle was the brazen eagle, and on the north side of the same aisle,
opposite the pulpit, was the Corporation pew, raised above the level, and having a lofty ornamental
covering supported by pillars. The screen separating the nave from the choir was in three divisions of
pointed arches filled with tracery, and rising to the bottom of the organ loft. The choir was stalled as in
cathedrals, and separated from the side aisles of the chancel by traceried screen work ; the altar stood
forward from the great window, and thus there was a free passage quite round the east end of the Church.
The front of St. George's porch was also screened like the choir, and a similar screen extended across the
north transept. Grey wrote of it in 1649 : —
" In the Quire and walks about it is many faire Monuments, Tombes, and Marble-Stones of Maiors of
this Towne, their names and armes engraven in stone, with their title of (sometime Maior of Newcastle)
honours ; not one word of their good deeds ; their generations and names are worne out. Onely that
* A local antiquary, Mr. Edward Thompson, has written in the Newca.stle Weekly Chronicle the following imaginary sketch of St.
Nicholas in the time of Eobert Rhodes : — " And now let us give the reins to our imagination, and take a walk into the church -with Robert
Rhodes. On entering we make due use of the holy water stoup at the door, and step over the threshold of the western entrance. Before us
(spanning the easternmost arch of the intersection), is the rood-loft bearing the crucifix in the centre, and on either side the figures of the
Blessed Virgin and St. John, whUst at the foot of the crucifix gleams the rood light. Rich curtains hang in massive folds about the loft, and
under its beam is a screen of open tracery, through which the eye catches a gUmpso of the high altar, covered -with an altar cloth, decorated
-with its rich frontal, and enclosed at the sides by costly hangings of ' damask and velvet,' the colours of which are changed to mark the
recurrence of the different holy seasons of the Church's year. Ujion the altar itself — or rather upon a low narrow shelf resting upon its inner
edge, where it touches the wall — stands a crucifix of silver, and a pair of candlesticks bearing the two tapers, or lights, afterwards enjoined to
remain at the Reformation ' for the signification that Christ is the very true light of the world.' Upon the altar, too, we see the rich plate
required in the various offices of the Church shining in profuse splendour : the chaUce and paten, the pix containing the Host, with the lamp
before it ; a ship for frankincense, a saoring-beU, a chrismatory for oil, the pax for the kiss of peace, censers, cruets, and offering basons. All
these find their appointed place. At the back of the altar, upon the waU, appears a table or picture, as a reredos, with a subject from Scrip
ture or the lives of the saints. And, near the entrance to the chancel, stands the brass eagle, from which the Epistle and Gospel are read.
The different chapels are enclosed by carved screen work, richly executed, and their altars present a gorgeous and impressive appearance. In
addition to all this the floor shines with many a stone inlaid -with brass, or incised -with curious and elaborate ornamentation ; the Ught pours
through windows radiant -with colour ; and the walls are covered with paintings iUustrative of incidents mentioned in Holy Writ ; whilst on
brackets are sculptured figures of saint and martyr, bishop and confessor, under richly carved tabernacle work, before which Ughts
continu&Uy burn, and at the feet of which are stools or hassocks for the use of the devotee. It is service time. The priest officiates at the
high altar in rich vestments of ' tissue' of blue, green, or red velvet or silk, curiously embroidered and enriched, attended by his acolytes, or
by his deacons, who now and again s-wing the censer to and fro, from which ascends a fragrant scent, typical of the prayers of the faithful
worshippers. Then the ' organs' sound, and the voice of song wafts heavenwards ; now, in strains slow and plaintive ; now, with the fuU
gushing flood of sound speaking of thanksgi-ving and jubilation."

thrice noble Maior, Master Robert Anderson,* whose memory will continue untill there be no more time ;
^re vel marmore perennius [more lasting than Brass or Marble], viz.: His gift of twenty pound per annum
for ever, to the foure Churches in Newcastle.
Dignum laude Virum, Musa vetat Mori."
[A man worthy of praise the Muse forbids to die.]
At the date mentioned, 1783, the church had become so dilapidated that immediate repairs were
necessary. The churchwardens and a committee of inhabitants determined to do the work thoroughly, and
they did it in a style that has found no defender. Their work has been described by another pen as
follows : —
" The pulpit was torn down, the pews sold by auction, the screens removed, and all the monuments
occupying the pavement of the aisles wantonly destroyed. The church being thus cleared, it became
necessary in order to the levelling of the pavement, to take up the whole of the tombstones in the choir and
chancel, and a resolution was taken not to permit any burials in that part of the church in future. Those
persons who claimed burial places there were generally satisfied with others assigned to them in the nave,
whither their respective gravestones were removed. Numerous other fine sculptured stones which were
not then claimed were most unjustifiably sold by the churchwardens. In short, the stalls of the choir, the
altar screen, the school galleries, the font, and a few of the monuments are the only erections which survived
the general wreck."
This work of destruction having been accomplished, the " restoration" commenced. The nave was
cleared of all erections, and devoted to purposes of sepulture.f It was divided from the chancel by a
wooden screen that will not bear describing, and the latter was set apart for worship, while the nave
remained empty and desolate. The altar or communion table was removed back to the great east window,
the font was taken to the north transept, a new set of pews was introduced, the Mayor and Corporation
were consigned to the north wall, the organ was turned round to face the east, and St. Mary's Chapel was
fitted up for occasional services out of the old stalls from the chancel.
Haifa century passed away, and in 1832 fears were entertained for the safety of the tower. There had
been alarms before ; indeed in 1801 a fabricated account of its fall had been published in a London
newspaper. But now ominous looking cracks appeared in the pillars and roof beneath, and the tower was
thought to have a decided bias towards the river. Public spirit was invoked, and a handsome subscription
raised for the purpose of repairing it. Buttresses were erected on the south front, the porch on that
side was reconstructed, and the wall was repaired as far as Bewick's Chapel. A similar operation
was performed on the north side,| and it was expected that the tower had been made safe for a
hundred years.
But, in less than a quarter of that period, very extensive repairs became necessary. The tower was
leaning to the north this time, and there were serious apprehensions that while discussions were proceeding
as to the liability of the Corporation to repair it the entire structure would topple over. Sir Gilbert Scott
was consulted, and eventually sufficient funds were forthcoming to justify a commencement of the work.

* In St. Nicholas' Eegister of burials, under date May 12th, 1640, Eobert Anderson's interment is recorded -with the addition of the
words " a good benefactor." He was Sheriff in 1619, and Mayor in 1630.
t Up to this time the church contained a number of escutcheons recording the charities bequeathed to the poor by deceased benefactors.
Brand notices some of them, but like other things they were improved away, and have never been rej)laced. They used to be .kept in
repair by the churchwardens, and were a sort of reminder to the affluent to bestow some of their goods in charity.
J " Tenders wUl be received for the erection of a New Porch, at the north side of St. Nicholas' Church, and facing the north aisle of the
nave with ashlar stone, putting new windows in the same, with other additions, alterations and repairs to the north side of the church.
Plans, elevations, and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr. Green, Architect, Northumberland Place, Newcastle, after Tuesday
next, th3 20th iasV—Neiocastle Press, May 17th, 1834.

An influential committee, with the late Mr. Alderman Dodds as Chairman, and Mr. Councillor C. H
Young as Secretary, worked indefatlgably in conjunction with the Vicar to secure, not only the reparation
of the tower, but a thorough renovation of the whole Church, and they were eminently successful. The
Corporation subscribed £2,125, Sir Wm. Armstrong, Mrs. Abbot, and Mr. John Henry Burn, J.P., gave
£1,000 each, and eventually a most substantial repair was effected. Strengthening the tower cost £8,368,
and then the body of the Church was taken in hand. All the plaster and whitewash were removed ; the
altar was brought forward again from the east window, the windows in St. Mary's Chapel were opened out,
the organ loft, which divided the nave from the chancel, was taken away and the organ placed on the top of
the crypt in St. George's Porch, while, as in the olden time, the whole of the nave, from the altar to the
arches of the tower, was rendered available for public worship. The cost so far has been £21,400 ; but
much remains to be done, especially in the chancel. The work is suspended for want of funds, but private
munificence occasionally helps to complete some special portion of the unfinished scheme, and, in a few
years, it is hoped that St. Nicholas' will assume something of its ancient beauty and grandeur.
During the restoration some traces were found of the Church that is said to have stood on the same
spot in the thirteenth century. In the south transept, or St. Mary's Chapel, were seen the moulded shafts
and caps of the previous erection, and, in removing the organ loft staircase, a cutting in the north west
pillar disclosed one of the pillars of the older fabric.
Before the reformation St. Nicholas' possessed several fine wiadows. Grey, in the Chorographia,
mentions them as "sumptuous." The east window, built by the munificent Roger Thornton, and
surpassing all the rest in "height, largenesse, and beauty," represented, in brilliant colours, the twelve
Apostles and the seven deeds of Charity, and bore the inscription, " Orate pro anima Rogeri de Thornton,
& pro animabus Filiorum & Filiarum." Bourne states that in his time the north window of St. George's
Porch contained "the Head of the King, the Father of the Lady which St. George delivered from
the Dragon," and, on the east window, " the Picture of St. Laurence, and some Skin marks, and Coats of
Arms ; " to which Brand, writing a few years later, adds the arms of St. Oswin, Edward the Confessor,
and St. George, with, on the north window, a mermaid combing her hair, and a female saint below
with a whip in her hand treading on some angry beast. At present the only fragment in the Church
of the original coloured glass is an oval in one of the windows of the south aisle representing the
Virgin and Child, very delicately treated.
All the present stained glass windows are memorials, and as such may be held to justify a detailed
description in this book.
The great east window, which after its destruction by the reformers was filled with plain glass, received
in 1827 a moderate amount of ornamentation. In that year a single light figure of Christ bearing his Cross,
the work of Mr. John Gibson, a local artist, was placed in it. So it remained until the year 1860, when
the entire window was taken down and reconstructed in memory of Dr. Ions, for more than twenty years
organist of the church. It now contains seven large compartments filled with stained glass by Wailes, of
Messrs. Wailes and Strang. The principal subject is the Crucifixion, which extends over five bays. Christ
on the cross with a malefactor on either side forms the central figure. On the spectator's left are grouped the
Virgin, St. John, and other disciples, and Roman soldiers casting lots for the Saviour's garments, while on
the right are Scribes and Pharisees mocking, and the centurions. Below the Crucifixion is a representation
of the Last Supper, resembling in its general design the famous fresco of Leonardo da Vinci at Florence
Christ in the centre is depicted in the act of benediction, and the apostles are grouped in the four lateral
lights. In compartments I. and VII. of the window are life size figures of the four Evangelists, bearing
their gospels. All the subjects are treated under rich architectural- canopy work. The tracery panels
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which are numerous but not large, contain at the apex figures of the archangels Michael and Gabriel, and
lower down are the sixteen prophets. At the base of the window is the following inscription : —
" To the honour and glory of God, for the adornment of his house, and in memory of James Ions, Mus.
Doc. Oxon— 22 years organist of this Church, who died September 25th, 1857, aged 40 years, this stained
glass -window was erected by public subscription, A.D. 1860."
On the north side of the great east window, forming the eastern end of the north aisle, is a central
light of stained glass, also by Wailes, representing the Resurrection of our Lord, with Roman soldiers
guarding the tomb. In a niche below is an angel with a scroll bearing the words " Trust in God." In the
tracery ar6 two others with a scroll inscribed " I am the Resurrection and the Life saith the Lord." An
inscription at the base states that : —
" This memorial is erected by Edward Spoor, to the glory of God, and in affectionate remembrance of
his deceased parents Ambrose Spoor, of this town, and Ann his wife. He died the 14th of January, 1850.
She died the 6th of February, 1851. Their remains lie within a vault in St. Paul's Churchyard.
On the other side of the great window, forming the eastern end of the south aisle of the chancel, is a
window by Wailes, consisting of five large lights, erected in memory of James Dale, Esq., shipowner, and a
member of the Corporation. The subject is the Ascension, which fills tbe entire space. The ascending
figure of our Lord is accompanied by a choir of angels with harps, while the apostles are variously grouped
below. The inscription is as follows : —
" This window is erected to the memory of James Dale, Esq., of Newcastle, who died on the 31st of
December, MDCCCLXI., aged 52 years."
Adjoining it, on the right, forming the first window in the south aisle is another composition by the
same artist — Christ blessing little children. In the bases of the canopies are niches containing angels
bearing scrolls, with the text, " Suffer little children, &c." In a panel of the tracery is the Dale crest — an
arm embowed, holding a scimitar, all proper. The inscription states that the window was
" Erected by James Dale, of Newcastle, in affectionate remembrance of his beloved children, Anne
Elizabeth, John Hall, Jane Sibella, and Jessie Malcolm."
Lower down the south aisle, and near its junction with the transept, is a window of four openings,
also by Wailes. It represents the sixx corporal acts of mercy — " Hungry and ye gave me meat ; Thirsty
and ye gave me drink ; A stranger and ye took me in ; Naked and ye clothed me ; Sick and ye visited
me ; In prison and ye came unto me." In the upper portion of the two side openings are angels bearing-
scrolls, with the text, " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto me."
The principal figure in each of the six groups is the donor, Mr. Joseph Garnett, chemist, by whose executors
the window was erected. At the foot is an inscription : —
" In memory of Joseph Garnett, of this town, during many years a communicant in this Church, who
died the 14th of December, 1861, aged 90 years."
About the centre of the north wall of the nave is a window of three lights, by Wailes, erected in
memory of the officers and men of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, who fell during the mutiny in India.
The principal central subject is St. Michael slaying the Dragon, which is also the badge of the regiment.
This latter is displayed in the panel below surrounded by the Garter bearing a wreath inscribed with
Corunna, Vimiera, Toulouse, Nivelle, Vittoria, Salamanca, Badajoz, Ciudad Rodrigo, Roleia Busaco, Orthes,
Peninsula, Wilhelmsthal, Lucknow. In the side lights the figures are John the Baptist preaching to
soldiers, and the angel appearing to Cornelius. Under each of these is a subordinate group in the base of
the canopy work, namely, 1st. The song of Moses and Miriam after the overthrow of Pharoah and his army
in the Red Sea, with the text, " Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and
his rider hath h^ thrown into the sea." 2nd. The lament of David at the death of Saul and Jonathan :
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perished ! " All the subjects are surmounted by foliage canopies, into which are worked fac-similes of the
two flags which stained, faded, and pierced with shot, are suspended from brackets at each side
of the window. The inscription on the glass is " In memory of their comrades who perished during the
Indian Mutiny of 1857-9." And on a brass plate below is engraved the following : —
" To the glory of God, and in memory of their undermentioned comrades who perished during the
Indian Mutiny of 1857-9, this window is erected by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the
Fifth or Northumberland Fusiliers. [Here are inserted the names of 6 officers, 10 non-commissioned officers,
and 121 privates.] Also in memory of Assistant Surgeon Cameron, 1 sergeant-major, 13 sergeants, 2
drummers, and 209 rank and file, who died during the subsequent service of the Regiment in India, which
it left early in 1861."
Mr. Wailes, the artist of the windows described in the foregoing paragraphs, presented a window to
the church in 1842. It stands over the south entrance, and consists of four openings with perpendicular
tracery, each opening containing a single figure under a canopy, namely : — ] st, St. John the Baptist ; 2nd,
St. Nicholas, patron saint of the church ; 3rd, The Virgin and Child ; 4th, St. John the
Evangelist. The large -window in St. Mary's Chapel was erected by subscription in memory of the Rev. Clement
Moody, M.A., Vicar of St. Nicholas from 1853 to 1871, and is filled with stained glass by Messrs. Powell
Brothers, Leeds. The subjects illustrated are the Sermon on the Mount, and Christ Weeping over
Jerusalem, to each of which a row of five of the ten principal lights is devoted, with appropriate
enrichments. In the centre light of the upper row Christ is seated on the Mount, with extended hand,
addressing his disciples and the multitude. In the distance are the towers of Capernaum and the hills
and blue sea of Galilee, and the precise period of his discourse is indicated by the scroll, " Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin." In the lower tier Jerusalem is
represented, and Christ, surrounded by his apostles and the crowd, is lamenting the coming destruction of
the city in the tender apostrophe beginning " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and
stonest them that are sent unto thee." The upper part of the window is filled with . tracery, and
surrounding the central subjects on the left of the spectator are Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, and
on the right Hosea, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah. The inscription is as follows : —
" This window was erected by Public Subscription as a tribute of respect to the memory of Clement
Moody, M.A., Mag-^- Hall, Oxford. Born May 26th, 1811. Died Sept. 23rd, 1871. Eighteen years Vicar
of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Elected Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene in this town, A.D., 1856."
On the east side of the same chapel is another window by Messrs. Powell Brothers, erected in memory
of Margaret Coates Gibb, who died in 1870. The subject is Christ meeting Mary Magdalene and Mary
the mother of James, after his resurrection. Our Lord occupies the central position, and is represented
with the cross, no longer as a burden, but as a standard with a banner indicating victory over sin, death,
and hell. Both Maries are depicted as rising from prostration at the Saviour's feet, Mary Magdalene, the
most lowly bending of the two, clasping in one of her hands the alabaster box of precious ointment with
which she had intended to anoint the body of her Lord. In the background are the open tomb, the piled
up grave clothes, and an angel watching. The tracery and foliage work disclose angels holding the sacred
monogram. Facing this latter, beside the Maddison monument, is a window by Baguley, in memory of Mrs. Nichol,
a sister of the Rev. Clement Moody. The same artist designed the window at the upper end of the north
aisle in the chancel, commemorating the wife and three children of Edward Spoor in a series of scenes
relating to the crucifixion.
There are three oil paintings in St. Nicholas'. The largest, which measures 17 feet by 7 feet, is by
Tintoretto ; subject, Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet, and was presented to the church in 1818 by Sir

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Matthew White Ridley. On either side are paintings of the Flight into Egypt, and the Adoration of the
Magi, presented in 1879 by Hugh Taylor, Esq., of Chipchase Castle.
The organ of this church was originally built by Renatus Harris, in 1670. Additions have been
made by Snetzler (who added the swell) in 1749, Donaldson in 1798, Wood and Small in 1814, Bruce in
1839, and Nicholson, later. It is thought that the oak case may have been designed by Sir Christopher
Wren, and the carving executed by Griniing Gibbons. The instrument has twelve stops in the great, six
in the choir, nine in the swell, four in the pedals, and six couplers^ but it is nearly worn out and can with
difficulty be used for public worship. In its prime it was played for thirty years by the skilful fingers of
Charles Avison,* a musical critic and composer of eminence, whose " Sound the Loud Timbrel" is nearly as
well known as the Old Hundreth Psalm. Another able musician and composer was Dr. Ions, who held
the post for twenty-two years, and whose brother, Mr. W. J. Ions, is the present organist.
Attached to the church, on the south side, is a modern excrescence, erected by Sir Walter Blackett in
1736, to accommodate the old church library and sixteen hundred volumes of books bequeathed to the
town by Dr. Thomlinson, who, from 1695 to 1724, was afternoon lecturer here. The lower part of this
building forms the vestry, and the upper part contains the library, which is rich in divinity, and comprises
some valuable editions of the fathers,! an illuminated MS. copy of the Bible, supposed to have belonged
to the abbey of Hexham, and other Ancient MSS. dating back as far as the reign of William Rufus.
In the vestry are kept the various appointments of the service,! and on its walls are several interest
ing pictures and memorials of former days. There are, for example, portraits in oil of two Vicars — John
March, B.D., Vicar from 1692, and John Brown, D.D., who entered upon the living in 1766, and died by
his own hand in London ; and a similar portrait of Thomas Thompson, organist from 1797 to 1834,
together with silhouettes of Bp. Van Mildert and the Rev. John Smith, Vicar from 1804 to 1826; engraved
portraits of the Rev. John Rawlett, M.A., lecturer from 1679 to 1686, the Rev. R. C. Coxe, M.A., Vicar,
1841-53, and the Rev. Clement Moody, M.A., Vicar, 1853-71, and drawings of the interior of the church
prior to 1783, of the exterior from two or more points of view, and of the old Vicarage in Westgate Street.
The table in the vestry is the sounding board of the pulpit erected by the " restorers" at the end of the
last century. The living of St. Nicholas' is an ancient. Vicarage, valued in the Clergy List at £633 per annum. - The
present Vicar is Canon Martin, M.A, of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was appointed in 1871. In the
Vicar is vested the right of presentation to the livings of St. Andrew, St. John, St. Peter, St. Ann, and All
Saints, within the borough, and of Gosforth, in the northern, and Benwell, in the western suburbs. The
curate is the Rev. J. S. Sharrocks ; afternoon lecturer the Rev. John Reed, M.A.
Various efforts have been made during the present century to obtain a division of the diocese of
Durham, and the establishment of a bishopric of Newcastle ; but no adequate means existed of endowing
* Mr. Avison started a series of Subscription Concerts in Newcastle, which developed into Musical Festivals, aud after his death some of
these latter were held in St. Nicholas'. Mr. Avison died in 1770, and was buried at St. Andrew's Church, where a table monument com
memorates him and his son and grandson, all of them organists.
t " The chains by which these books were fastened to the reading shelves are preserved; they have portionsof the boards adhering to
them. Little use has for many years been made of these libraries, and unless they are committed to the care of some pubUo institution whose
arrangements admit of free access being had to them at all reasonable hours, the only purpose they are ever likely to subserve is the breeding
of successive generations of most unmetaphorical book worms." Dk. Bedoe — Handhooh to Newcastle.
X The Church plate in 1704 is inventoried in the Vestry Cash Book as foUows : — " 2 Silver Flaggons ; 8 Chalices with SUver Covers ; 2
Silver Salvers ; 3 Pewter Plates." In 1819 it had increased, and is thus described :— " 1 large Silver Flaggou, engraved onthe side, 'Nicholas
Cole, Esq, Mayor, Thomas Pain, Esq, Sheriff,' -with the arms of Newcastle, but no motto ; 1 large Silver Flaggon, engraved on the side, ' St.
Nicholas' Church, in Newcastle '; 3 Silver Cups or Chalices and Covers ; 2 Salvers, engraved 'Nicholas Cole, Esq, Mayor,' &c., as above, -with
the date ' 1686 ' ; 1 Salver, plain ; 1 SUver Wine Gurgler aud Spoon ; 1 large Silver Dish for Baptisms ; 2 SUver Basons, engraved ' St. Nicholas'
Church, Newcastle, April 16th, 1805. Thomas Young, Hugh Shield, James Reid, Thomas Potts, Churchwardens.' "

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the new see, nor until the year 1877 was there any reasonable prospect of raising the necessary funds to
provide such an endowment. But in that year, Mr. Thomas Hedley, coalowner, died, and by the provisions
of his will, a handsome sum became available for the purposes of the proposed division. During the next
session of Parliament, an Act, known as the "Bishoprics Act, 1878," was passed, which enabled the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners to receive contributions for the endowment of bishoprics at Liverpool, New
castle, Southwell,, and Wakefield, and to transfer to the new dioceses certain portions of the income of the
sees from which they are taken. In the schedule attached to the Act, the Bishopric of Newcastle is
described in manner following : —
" 1. The bishop to be Bishop of Newcastle.
2. The diocese to consist of the county of Northumberland, and the counties of the towns of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and to include such detached parts of any other county as are under
any Act of Parliament deemed to form part of the county of Northumberland, or have been or can be
transferred to the county of Northumberland by the justices in general or quarter sessions assembled, and
to include also the ancient common law parish of Alston with its chapelries in the county of Cumberland.
3. The parish church of St. Nicholas at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, subject to the rights of the patron and
incumbent of such church, to be the cathedral church.
4. Subject to the rights enjoyed by any person at the passing of this Act, there shall be transferred
to the endowment fund of the bishopric of Newcastle such portion of the endowment or income of the
bishopric of Durham as would, if no deduction were made for first-fruits and tenths, yield a net annual
sum of one thousand pounds, but such transfer shall be subject to the payment by the Bishop of Newcastle
of a proportionate part of the first-fruits and tenths payable by the Bishop of Durham.
5. The bishop to be subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York."
A special efl'ort is shortly to be made with the object of completing the endowment, and when that
is accomplished, St. Nicholas' will become the Cathedral Church of a new diocese, for which purpose its
size, construction, and imposing appearance would appear to qualify it.

NECROLOGY.
fONSIDERING St. Nicholas' as the Necropolis of Newcastle— which is the more immediate
object of this book — it may be stated that for five hundred years the interior of the sacred
edifice was the burying place of most of the Mayors, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and other leading
inhabitants of the town. From the east window to the western entrance their tombstones covered the
floor ; and even now, surviving the axe of the Covenanter, the mattock of the Puritan, and the auctioneer's
hammer of the last century Restorer, they remain thickly spread over the nave.
The following is a tolerably complete list of the noteworthy persons buried in the Church, compiled
from the parish registers. A few interments in the churchyard are included, and here and there is an
entry selected because of its peculiar phraseology. Burials previous to 1574, when the present registers
commence, have been obtained from various sources. The years prior to 1752 are assumed to begin on the
first of January, as they do now, and not on the 25th of March, as they did then.

SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

15— Sir George Carr. Mayor 1481,* 1486, 1489, 1491, 1492, 1498, 1500, 1502.
1522 John Brandling. Sheriff 1505. Mayor 1509, 1512, 1516, 1520.
153- Thomas Horsley. Sheriff 1512. Mayor 1514, 1519, 1524, 1525, 1533.
1541 Peter Chaytor. Sheriff 1516.
1542 George Selby. Sheriff 1538.
155- Mark Shafto. Sheriff 1542. Mayor 1548.
1558 Henry Anderson. Sheriff 1520. Mayor 1531, 1539, 1542, 1546.
1563 Robert Lewin. Sheriff 1541. Mayor 1544, 1552. M.P. 155.S, 1557, 1559.
1566 Oswald Chapman. Sheriff 1545. Mayor 1558.
1568 The Rev. William Salkeld, M.A., Vicar of Newcastle.
,, John Bennett, Master of the Ordnance.
1571 Bertram Anderson. Sheriff 1543. Mayor 1551, 1557, 1563. M.P. 1553, 1554, 1557, 1563.
1572 William Carr. Sheriff 1557. Mayor 1565. M.P. 1572.
1574 " Old William Clark buryed."
* The elections of Mayors and Sheriffs formerly took place on Michaelmas Monday — the first Monday after September 21st in each year,
and in this list the year is given in which the choice was made. "Mayor, 1481," means from Michaelmas Monday, 1481, to the same date in
1482, and so of the rest. Duration of office is indicated by a hyphen — " 1585-96" means that the person indicated held the office assigned to
him from 1585 to 1596.

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1575 " Roberte the Sotheren man."
„ William Brandling.
1576 Robert Hodgson of Hebburn— " doctor of phisick."
^ 1577 Thomas Liddell. Sheriff 1563. Mayor 1572.
EUinor -wife of Robert Barker, Mayor that year.
1578 Henry Brandling. Sheriff 1566. Mayor 1568, 1576.
1581 " Robert Stott ; kinsman of Thomas Stotte, merchaunte, being lost in the water of Tyne."
Christopher Mitford. Mayor 1656, 1569.
Cuthbert Ellison. Sheriff 1544. Mayor 1549, 1554.
1582 Isabella Morland,* wife of Henry Anderson, afterwards M.P.
„ John Lassells, merchant, swordbearer to the Corporation.
„ " Ladie Agnes Hilton, Mr Baxter his mother."
1584 The Rev. John Magbray, formerly curate of St. Nicholas.
1585 Richard Hodgson. Sheriff 1549. Mayor 1555, 1566, 1580.
Margaret, first wife of Thomas Liddell, afterwards Mayor.
„ Robert Lamb, lessee of the coal mines of Gateshead.
„ Robert Haythropp or Hagthropp, " preacher of the word of God."
1586 Thomas Kaye, curate of St. Nicholas.
„ Agnes, widow of the Rev. John Magbray, " preacher, and sometyme curatt."
Henry Mitford. Sheriff 1582. Mayor 1584.
John Watson. Sheriff 1567. Mayor 1574.
„ The Rev. Thomas Pearson.
1587 George Whitfield. Sheriff 1585.
„ Gilbert Heron, " gentleman ; prisoner in the high castel."
William Jennison. Sheriff 1568. Mayor 1571, 1581. M.P. 1572, 1585.
1588 " Ladie Bowes, wife to the Rt. Hon. Sir Wm. Bowes, Knt.''
1589 The Rev. Bartram Cowghram, minister of St. Andrews.
William Selby, Sheriff 1564. Mayor 1573, 1589. M.P. 1572.
1590 Robert Barker. Sheriff 1572. Mayor 1577, 1585.
1591 Roger Nicholson. Sheriff 1583. Mayor 1588.
1592 Robert Mitford, merchant and coalowner.
„ Mrs. Errington, " ladie of Butterley."
„ " Annes Manna, wife to the Fleming which is Mr. of the house of correction."
1593 " Dame Hall of the Tute hill" [Tuthill].
Robert Anderson. Sheriff 1559. Mayor 1567.
„ James Carr. Sheriff 1579.
„ Humphrey Gray, " scolemaister."
1594 Mark Shafto. Sheriff 1573. Mayor 1578.
1596 Henry Mitford, alderman.
„ The Rev. Richard Holdsworth. Vicar of Newcastle 1585-90.
Robert Atkinson. Sheriff 1580.

* The temptation to give short biographical notes of the leading persons included in this list, aud their intermarriages, has been resisted
-with difficulty. But such information would have sweUed the book beyond reasonable limits, and it has been considered sufficient to supply
the maiden names of married ladies as a help to further genealogical investigation.

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1596 Roger Rawe. Sheriff 1574. Mayor 1579, 1592.
„ Ralph Rawe, swordbearer to the Corporation.
1597 Thomas Kirsopp, " merchaunte, and sometyme serjiante at ye mace.'
„ Ralph Jennison. Sheriff 1590. Mayor 1696.
„ William Greenwell. Sheriff 1591.
„ John Baxter, la-wyer ; " buried before ye Library Door."
1599 Anne, wife of William Jennison.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
1601 George Farnaby. Sheriff 1588. Mayor 1591, 1598.
„ Robert Ellison. Sheriff 1553. Mayor 1559, 1570.
William Huntley. Sheriff 1597.
1602 Jane, second wife of Thomas Liddell, sometime Mayor.
1605 Ralph Carr, " esquier."
„ Henry Anderson. Sheriff 1571. Mayor 1575, 1583, 1594. M,P. 1585, 1586, 1588, 1592.
1606 Matthew Chapman. Sheriff 1603.
1607 Adrian Hedworth. Sheriff 1696.
1609 Hugh Selby. Sheriff 1606.
„ Felix Morton, " one of the King's Customers" [Collectors of Customs].
1611 Jane Seymour, wife of Lionel Maddison, sometime Mayor.
1613 Jane Cock, wife of William Hall, afterwards Mayor.
1614 William Selby, father of Sir George Selby.
1619 Thomas Liddell. Sheriff 1592. Mayor 1597, 1609.
Edward Lewen. Sheriff 1577. Mayor 1587.
1620 The Rev. Wm. Morton, D.D. Vicar of Newcastle 1596-1620.
Michael Kirkley, father of Lady Blackett.
1623 Francis Anderson. Sheriff 1595. Mayor 1601, 1612.
„ Robert Shafto. Sheriff 1607.
„ Christopher Mitford, owner of collieries in Gateshead and Elswick.
The Rev. Henry Power. Vicar of Newcastle 1620-23.
Timothy Draper, one of His Majesty's Customers.
„' Henry Chapman. Sheriff 158L Mayor 1586, 1596, 1608. M.P. 1597, 1604.
1624 Henry Bowes. Sheriff 1623.
Lionel Maddison. Sheriff 1584. Mayor 1593, 1605, 1617.
1625 Sir George Selby. Sheriff 1594. Mayor 1600, 1606, 1611, 1622. M.P. 1601, 1604.
1626 William Bonner. Sheriff 1617.
1627 William Riddell. Sheriff 1575. Mayor 1582, 1590, 1595.
1628 " Mr. Robert Slingsbie,* preacher."
1629 Thomas Surtees of Newcastle and Over Middleton, lessee of Benwell coal mine.
-*- Query — The Rev. Charles Slingsby, B.D., rector of Rothbury.

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1680 William Jackson. Sheriff part of 1624.
James Clavering. Sheriff 1599. Mayor 1607, 1618.
1631 William HalL Sheriff 1608. Mayor 1624.
163a Henry Chapman. Sheriff 1613. Mayor 1620, 1627.
" Lady Ratcliffe, wife to Sir William Ratcliffe."
1634 Henry Maddison. Sheriff 1605. Mayor 1623.
William Jennison. Sheriff 1593. Mayor 1699, 1610, 1621.
Margaret, wife of Thomas Stephenson, afternoon lecturer at St. Nicholas'.
" EUinor Alvey, d' to Mr. Vicar."
1635 Nicholas Raine, " pursuivant" ; messenger of the High Court at Durham.
¦M636 Elizabeth Liddell, wife of Sir George Baker, afterwards Recorder of Newcastle.
The Rev. John Willis, " clerke."
1638 « Edward Fenwick, slayne."
1639 Sir Henry Hayes, " a stranger."
1B40 Robert Anderson. Sheriff 1619. Mayor 1630 — " a good benefactor."
„ Captain Thomas Hamilton of the Scottish army.
1641 Sir Peter Riddell. Sheriff 1604. Mayor 1619, 1635. M.P. 1624, 1626, 1628.
Robert Bewick. Sheriff 1615. Mayor 1628, 1639. High Sheriff Northumberland 16.37.
1643 Peter Maddison. Sheriff 1637.
1644 Sir Alexander Davison. Sheriff 1611. Mayor 1626, 1638.
Captain Joseph Davison, son of the above.
„ Major Hebborne.
Captain Robert White.
Lieutenant Robert Kirkley.
„ Lieutenant Ambrose Appleby.
„ Quarter-Master Dixson, " a gentleman and kinsman to the Generall."
1645 Margaret Lindsay, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, Governor of Hartlepool.
1646 Sir Lionel Maddison. Sheriff 1624. Mayor 1632.
„ Lieutenant-Colonel George Markenny.
„ Major Archbold.
Lieutenant Thomas Henderson.
,, Lieutenant-Colonel Carr.
1647 " Ladie Ann, late wife to Sir Alexander Davison."
„ Samuel, son of Mr. Edward Man.
„ Ninian Shafto.
John Clavering. Sheriff 1618. Mayor 1629.
„ " John Taillor, maister of the house of charity."
1648 The Rev. Yeldard Alvey, Vicar of Newcastle 1630-44.
1649 Thomas Loraine of Kirkharle.
1650 Colonel Henry Sanderson of Hedleyhope.
Sir Thomas Riddell.*

* Two Sir Thomas RiddeUs — father and son— flourished during the reign of the Stuarts. The former was Sheriff in 1601, Mayor in 1616,
aud Recorder from 1622 tUl after 1637. The latter was To-wn Clerk from 16— till 1645.

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1652 Ralph Cock. Sheriff 1626. Mayor 1634.
1653 Elizabeth Barker, widow of Henry Maddison, formerly Mayor.
1654 Edward Man. Town Clerk of Newcastle 1645-54.
1655 Sir William Riddell.
1656 Samuel Bawling. Sheriff 1649.
„ Sir Nicholas Tempest. Sheriff 1620.
1657 Henry Horsley, "justice of the peace for the countie of Northumberland."
„ Sir William Blakiston.
„ Christopher Nicholson. Sheriff 1645.
Mr. Thomas Dent, " Solissiter-at-law."
1658 Lady Elizabeth Delaval, widow.
„ Lady Katharine Riddell, widow.
1660 Lady Mary Riddell, widow. ,
Thomas Bonner. Mayor 1648, 1651, 1659.
1662 " Rowland Burden, gentleman."
1663 Jonathan Devereux. Parliamentary Rector of Gateshead 1645-47.
Anne Hall, widow of Sir Lionel Maddison.
„ Margaret Haggerston, wife of Lancelot Hodgson of Hebburn.
„ Richard Walker, attorney, under sheriff.
1664 Anthony Errington, " sargiant at mace."*
1665 Elizabeth Grey, wife of Robert Ellison.
, 1667 Dorothy, widow of Edward Man, formerly town clerk of Newcastle.
„ Richard Trotter of Skelton Castle.
„ John Clark, M.A. Curate of St. Andrew's 1641-47, and 1662-67.
Anthony Westgarth, " sargiant at mace."
1668 Sir George Selby of Winlaton.
„ Roger Willy, " practissoner in physick."
1669 " Kath. Errington (daughter to Geo. Errington, Taylor), scumfishd in a pan of water."
„ The Rev. Amor Oxley, vicar of Kirknewton ; head master Newcastle Grammar School,
1637-45, 1662-69.
„ Lancelot Stevenson, " priest."
1671 Richard Wright. Sheriff 1670.
The Rev. John Bewick, M.A. Afternoon lecturer at St. Nicholas' 1639-43, 1662-71.
„ The Rev. Richard Tempest, " minister."
1672 The Rev. Henry Leaver, deposed minister of St. John's.
„ Adelin Cholmley, second wife of Lancelot Hodgson of Hebburn.
„ The Rev. Henry Anderson, " minister."
1673 Barbara Davison, wife of Sir Thomas Riddell.
John Emmerson. Sheriff 1639. Mayor 1660.
Sir John Mariey. Sheriff 1634. Mayor 1637, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1661. M.P. 1661.
1674 Elizabeth Kirkley, wife of Sir Wm. Blackett.
* The same entry occurs in the Register in 1667 ; and, if it be not a mistake, an unusual mortality must have occurred amongst the mace-
bearers, for in that year Anthony Westgarth, " sargiant at mace," was buried. Three Anthonys in three years ?

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1674 George Dawson. Mayor 1650, 1652 (a part of), 1657.
1675 William Carr. Sheriff 1665. Mayor 1670.
William Delaval, gentleman. Nominated to be Town Clerk 1662.
„ Elizabeth Grey, widow of Sir Francis Brandling.
1676 Thomas Jennison. Sheriff 1661. Mayor 1674.
„ Thomas Davison. Mayor 1669.
Ralph Grey. Sheriff 1667. Mayor 1671.
Robert Mallabar. Sheriff 1672.
Catharine Widdrington, wife of Sir Robt. Shafto, Recorder.
The Rev. Leonard Shafto, M.A. Lecturer of All Saints' 1671-76.
Barbara Cock, wife of Henry Marley.
1677 Lancelot Hodgson of Hebburn.
Robert Ellison. Sheriff after the siege, 1644. -M.P. 1660.
MarkMilbank. Sheriff 1638. Mayor 1658, 1672.
1678 William Johnson. Mayor 1653, 1654.
1679 The Rev. Thomas Nailor, M.A. Vicar of Newcastle 1662-79.
1680 Sir William Blackett. Sheriff 1660. Mayor 1666. M.P. 1673-80.
,; Elizabeth Pybus, wife of the Rev. John March, B.D., vicar.
„ William Lilburn, " lawyer."
1682 Sir Richard Stote, serjeant-at-law.
„ Peter Sanderson. Sheriff 1651.
„ Francis Burton, " swordbearer."
Robert Roddam. Mayor 1677.
1683 Henry Maddison. Sheriff 1642. Mayor 1665.
Michael Blackett. Sheriff 1676.
1685 Susanna, wife of Tristram Fenwick of Kenton.
„ William Greenwell, B.A.
1686 Dorothy Cock, widow of Mark Milbank, formerly Mayor.
„ The Rev. John Rawlet. Afternoon lecturer at St. Nicholas' 1679-86.
1687 Matthew Jefferson. Sheriff 1671. Mayor 1678.
Joseph Newton, counsellor-at-law.
Sir Henry Brabant. Sheriff 1662. Mayor 1667, 1685.
„ Thomas Palmer, organist.
1688 Ralph Elstob. Sheriff 1685 ; father of William and Elizabeth Elstob.
1690 Richard Garthwaite. Head Master of the Grammar School 1669-90.
Thomas Bewick. High Sheriff Durham 1655. Nominated Knt. of Royal Oak.
1691 Jane Hall, widow of the above Ralph Elstob.
1692 The Rev. John March, B.D. Vicar of Newcastle 1679-92.
1693 The Rev. William Drake, M.A., Curate of St. Nicholas'.
„ Catherine Widdrington, spinster.
1694 The Rev. Leonard Welstead. Vicar of Newcastle 1693-94.
„ Elizabeth Blackett, wife of Timothy Davison, formerly Mayor.
1695 JohnRumney. Sheriff 1688.
,, Joseph Bonner. Sheriff 1680.

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1696 Timothy Davison. Sheriff 1666. Mayor 1673.
„ Benjamin Davison. Sheriff 1692.
1697 Margaret, wife of Sir William Creagh.
„ Ann Cock, widow of Thom.as Davison, formerly Mayor.
1698 " Lyonell Maddison, Saltwellside."
„ William Robson, water bailiff or sergeant of the water.
„ " William Riddle, Esquire, brought from goal."
„ The Rev. William Pell, M.A., " a dissenting minister, Closegate."
„ " Thomas Shaftoe, Hamburg merchant, brother to Sir Robert, Westgate."
1699 Jane, wife of Sir Ralph Jennison, formerly Mayor.
„ The Rev. Timothy Manlove, M.D., " preacher at Closegate."
„ Madam Jane Clavering, " daughter of Sir James Clavering, Close."
Ralph Grey of Backworth.
Dr. Henry Atherton. Town's Physician 1682-99.
„ Lancelot Thwaites, " head clerk of this parish."
1700 Timothy Robson. Sheriff 1677. Mayor 1681, 1695.
„ Major Alexander Hamilton, " a stranger from Mr. Huddleston's.''
Sir Ralph Jennison. Sheriff 1648. Mayor 1668.
„ Henry Marley, clerk of the Town Chamber.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
1701 Robert Gray, M.D. The last Town's Physician 1699-1701.
„ Ralph Milbanke, " Esquire, burgess for Northallerton."
„ John Errington, Serjeant at mace.
1702 John Blakiston. Town Clerk 1655-60.
„ Sir William Creagh. Mayor by mandamus 1687-88.
Richard, '' son to Joseph Barnes."
„ Ann Butler, widow of the Rev. John Rawlet.
1704 Robert Bewick. High Sheriff Northumberland 1695.
1705 Sir William Blackett. Mayor 1683, 1698. M.P. 1685, 1689, 1695, 1698, 1705. High
Sheriff of Northumberland 1689.
Lancelot Allgood, attorney.
Sir Robert Shafto. Recorder of Newcastle 1660-85, 1088-170.').
Matthew Matfen. Sheriff 1705.
1707 Elizabeth Lilburn, widow of the Rev. Wm. Pell.
1709 Margaret Delaval, widow.
George Whinfield. Sheriff 1693. Mayor 1696, 1709.
1710 " Ambrose Barnes, merchant."
Robert Eden. Sheriff 1694. Mayor 1699.
1711 Nicholas Ridley. Sheriff 1682. Mayor 1688, 1706.
1712 William Jennison. Town Clerk 1675-99.

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1712 Jonathan Roddam. Sheriff part of 1705. Mayor part of 1710.
„ Joseph Barnes. Deputy Recorder of Newcastle 1687-88. Recorder of Berwick 1710-11.
Joseph Atkinson. Sheriff 1691. Mayor 1694, 1707.
„ Elizabeth Isaacson, wife of the Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, D.D., vicar.
1714 Sarah, widow of the Rev. Timothy Manlove.
„ William Grey of Backworth.
1716 George Cuthbertson, Sheriff 1697.
Isabel Burton, wife of Wm. Wrightson, M.P.
1717 Roger Matfen. Sheriff 1714.
„ The -Rev. John Potts, B.A., curate of St. John's.
1718 Matthias Partis. Sheriff 1688 ; ejected at the Revolution in that year.
1719 Samuel Nichols, organist of St. Nicholas',
Wm. Proctor. Sheriff 1684.
1720 Matthew Dawson, sergeant at mace.
„ The Rev. John Penrith.
1721 Thomas Bewick, Esquire.
„ The Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, D.D., Vicar of Newcastle and Archdeacon of Stafford.
„ Ralph Jennison, Esquire.
1722 " Humphrey Anderson, non compos mentis."
1723 Frances, wife of the Rev. Dr. Hartwell.
1724 John Cuthbert. Recorder of Newcastle 1706-24.
1725 Wm, Musgrave, physician.
1726 Edward Johnson. Sheriff 1708. Mayor 1714.
John Douglas, Town Clerk of Newcastle 1699-1709.
1728 Calveriey Bewick, Esq.
„ Sir William Blackett. M.P. 1710, 1713, 1715, 1722, 1727. Mayor 1718.
1730 Mary, wife of the Rev. Thomas Dockwray.
Edward Bell, Esq., LL.B.
1734 Margaret Stote, widow of the Rev. John Tonge, M.A., rector of Brancepeth.
1735 Jane Maddison, widow of Sir James Clavering.
„ Robert Bewick. High Sheriff of Northumberland 1725.
„ Florentia Gyll, widow of Jonathan Hargrave, formerly Mayor.
1736 Thomas Powell, organist of St. Nicholas' 1719-36.
1737 John Isaacson. Recorder of Newcastle 1725-37.
„ Robert Lawson of Chirton, Esquire.
„ Robert Ellison of Ravensworth, merchant.
1738 James Moncaster. Sheriff 1724.
1739 " Sebaster le Sac, dancing master."
Richard Ridley. Mayor 1713, 1732.
„ The Rev. Hugh Farrington, Lecturer of All Saints' 1715-39.
1740 The Rev. Jeffery Richardson.
1741 Mary Akenside.
„ Hannah Barnes, first wife of Matthew Ridley, M.P. and Mayor.
1744 The Rev. James Allgood, rector of Ingram.

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1744 The Rev. John Aynsley, M.A., chaplain to Lord Talbot.
The Rev. Cuthbert Ellison, M.A., vicar of Stannington.
1745 Thomas Wasse.* Sheriff 1725.
1746 William Cuthbert. Recorder of Newcastle 1739-46.
" Aert Mulders, general doctor to ye Dutch troops."
1747 William Ellison. Sheriff 1705. Mayor 1710, 1722, 1734.
„ Aynsley Newton, Lieutenant in Col. Dej can's Regt.
1750 James Wilson, Lieut. R.N.
1751 The Rev. William Wilson, assistant minister of Hanover Square Chapel.
Nicholas Ridley, Esq. of Link House.
1754 John Huddlestone, " doctor of physick."
1757 Miss Timothea Davison, one of the founders of Davison's Hospital.
1758 Anthony Rapha, " a Romish priest."
1759 Elizabeth, wife of Sir Walter Blackett, M.P.
William Fotheringall, " nonjuring minister."
1760 The Rev. Thomas Turner, M.A. Vicar of Newcastle 1728-60.
The Rev. Thos. Dockwray, M.A., Afternoon Lecturer at St. Nicholas' 1726-52.
1761 John Stephenson, Sheriff 1728. Elected Mayor 1750, but refused to serve.
1762 Jane, wife of Henry Partis, sometime Mayor.
„ Richard Ridley, Esquire.
1763 The Honble. Charies Colvill, Captain Royal North British Fusiliers.
Daniel Walters, " Agent to Esq-^ Crowley."
Isabel Ellison, wife of the Rev. Hugh Moises.
^, " John Blair, a blackamoor."
1764 Elizabeth White, second wife of Matthew Ridley, sometime Mayor and M.P.
„ Robert Sorsbie. Sheriff 1722, Mayor 1731, 1741, 1749.
Margaret White, widow of Richard Ridley, formerly Mayor.
1765 Henry Eden. Sheriff 1746. Mayor 1753.
1766 Henry Partis. Sheriff 1745. Mayor 1752, 1760.
1767 Thomas Payne, serjeant at mace.
„ William Teasdale, captain in the armv.
„ Richard Hodgson, Esq., of Lintz Hall.
Robert Ellison. Sheriff 1734.
„ Cuthbert Smith. Sheriff 1729. Mayor 1745, 1754, 1762.
„ Timothy Phillipson, Parish Clerk of St. Nicholas'.
„ Hilton Lawson of Chirton, High Sheriff of Northumberland.
1769 Timothy Phillipson, attorney at law.
1771 Sir Robert Bewick, High Sheriff of Northumberiand 1760.
„ Edward Aitkin, " Dissenting Minister" [Scotch Relief, Castle Garth].
1772 Alan Hodgson- of Tone.
* Two persons of this name received municipal honoui-s. One was Sheriff in 1690 and Mayor in 1692 and 1704, and the other was Sheriff
iu 1725. The Mayoralty foUowed the Shrievalty in the majority of instances ; and as the Sheriff of 1725 does not appear to have attained to
the higher dignity, and there is but one entry of a Thomas Wasse in the Register at this period, it may be inferred that he is the person who
-was buried in 1745.

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1772 The Rt. Hon. Henry, Lord Borthwick.
„ George Grey of Southwick, " counselor at law."
The Rev. Richard Brewster, M.A., Lecturer at St. Nicholas' 1756-62.
The Rev. Thomas Sharp, B.A.
1773 The Rev. John Ellison, Vicar of Bedlington and Lecturer at St. Andrew's.
„ John Welsh, " Romish priest."
1775 William Peareth, Clerk of the Town Chamber.
„ Sarah Roddam, wife of John Erasmus Blackett, sometime Mayor.
1777 " George, supposed son of Andrew Robinson Stoney, Esq''."
1778 Matthew Ridley. Mayor 1733, 1745, 1751, 1759. M.P. 1747, 1754, 1761, 1768.
„ The Rev. Joseph Wilson, Curate of Lamesley.
1779 The Rev. Henry Creagh Isaacson.
„ Deborah, wife of Calverley Bewick.
„ Lieut. Richard Rose, 25 th Regt.
1780 The Rev. William Wilkinson, M.A., Curate of St. Nicholas' 1739-56.
The Rev. Samuel Lowthion, Minister Hanover Square Chapel 1752-80.
/ 1781 Joseph Barber, bookseUer.
„ " Joseph, son of Joseph Munden, comedian."
1782 Margaret, wife of James Thos. Loraine, formerly Sheriff.
„ Johu Bover, Captain R.N.
„ Christopher Ord, Lieut. R.N.
1784 Hannah Campleshon, wife of Edward Mosley, sometime Mayor.
1785 Matthew Duane, F.R.S., F.R.A.S.
1786 Ralph William Grey of Backworth.
„ Ralph, son of Ralph Heron.*
1787 Sir Henry Elwes, Bart.
Wetwang March, Major 79th Regt.
Matthias Hawdon, organist of St. Nicholas' 1776-87.
1789 Lieut.-Col. Richard Ridley.
1796 William Smoult ofthe Asiatic Society.
1797 Charies Atkinson. Sheriff 1765. Mayor 1775.
1798 Edward Mosley. Sheriff 1758. Mayor 1767, 1774, 1781.
The Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, M.A,, Vicar of Bolam, and Afternoon Lecturer of St. Andrew's
1800 Jane Ellison, widow of the Rev. Mr. Mills, Curate of Jarrow.

* This is the only entry of any length in the Register. It reads as follows : — "Ralph, son of Ralph Heron, Attorney-at-law. Tliis
amiable young gentleman and several others were assisting Mr, Lunardi in filling a Balloon in the Sintall, On the Gass issuing through the
Platform they were alarm'd and -without his knowledge let the BaUoon go, he unfortunately had the cord which opened the valve tied round his
arm and was in an instant carried up into the air many feet higher than the Spire of St, Nicholas Church, falling upon his feet into Lord
Mount Stewart's garden he died about two hours after."

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NINETEENTH CENTURY.
1801 The Rev. James Stephen Lushington. Vicar of Newcastle 1782-1801.
Ralph Heron, attorney. Deputy Sheriff of Northumberland.
1803 Cuthbert Reavely of Kenton, coalowner.
„ Anne, wife of the Rev. John Ellison, Curate of St. Nicholas'.
1805 The Rev. Atkinson Hird, Assistant Curate of St. Nicholas' 1793-1805,
1806 Edward Collingwood of Chirton.
„ The Rev. Hugh Moises, M.A., Head Master Newcastle Grammar School.
Sarah Colborne, wife of Sir Matthew White Ridley, M.P.
1807 The Rev. John Ellison, Curate of St. Nicholas' 1757-1807.
1808 Richard Thomas Peareth of Heddon House.
1809 Calvert Clapham, " gentleman, late of London."
1810 Francis Johnson. Sheriff 1774. Mayor 1786, 1794.
„ William Peareth, Clerk of the Town Chamber.
1811 The Rev. Robert Wilson, B.A, Lecturer of St. John's 1796-181 1.
1812 Ralph William Grey, of Backworth.
„ " Sebastian Kruppell, wooden clockmaker."
1813 Sir Matthew White Ridley. Mayor 1774, 1782, 1791. M.P. 1774, 1780, 1784, 1790, 1796,
1802, 1806, 1807, 1812.
1814 John Erasmus Blackett. Sheriff 1756. Mayor 1765, 1772, 1780, 1790.
1815 Rear-Admiral William Charleton.
Calverley Bewick, M.P.
1816 Elizabeth, widow of Edward Mosley, sometime Mayor.
1817 Wm. Ingham, surgeon.
1818 George Pawson Hargrave of Eslington.
1819 Sarah Blackett, widow of Admiral Lord Collingwood.
„ The Rev. Wm. Ellison of Lintz Green.
1821 Margaret, widow of George Clavering of Greencroft.
Joseph Forster. Sheriff 1787. Mayor 1801, 1808, 1818,
„ Susan, widow of Wm. Peareth of Usworth.
1822 Robert Story of Arcot.
„ Elizabeth, wife of Robinson Robert Greenwell.
Ralph William Grey of Acton House.
1823 Henry Forster, barrister-at-law.
1825 Jane, widow ofWilliam Ingham, surgeon.
1826 The Rev, John Smith, M,A., Vicar of -Newcastle 1804-26.
1828 Jane, widow of the Rev. Nathaniel Ellison,
1831 Major George Anderson, F,S,A,
1836 The Rev, Robert Wasney, M.A., Lecturer of St. Thomas' 1808-36.
Thomas Smith. Sheriff 1797. Mayor 1803, 1813.

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1837
1839 1840 1844 1853

1859

John Daglish, chemist. Sandhill.
Richard Hoyle of Denton Hall.
Sir Robert Shafto Hawks.
The Rev. John Dodd, Vicar of Newcastle 1826-40.
Sir Leonard Greenwell, K.C.B., K.C.H., &c.
Robert Henderson of the Trinity House. This is the last interment entered in St. Nicholas'
Register until by special leave of the Home Secretary the Bewick vault was opened
to receive in
Margaret Spearman, widow of Calverley Bewicke, M.P.

THE MONUMENTS.

PLATE 1.
(frontispiece).
EXTERIOR VIEW OF ST. NICHOLAS' FROM THE S.E.
^^'HE frontispiece represents St. Nicholas' as viewed from the Churchyard opposite the Vestry. Since
^&f the plate was prepared, the porch to the left, known as Bewick's Porch, or St. Margaret's Chantry —
shown here with a square top — has been improved by the addition of a pediment and cruciform finial in
harmony with the southern entrance further west, The wooden paling has been replaced by iron rails,
and an illuminated dial has been added to the clock ; but, in other respects, the engraving gives a faithful
representation of the sacred edifice.
Three of the four principal windows in the plate are now filled with stained glass. The largest, at the
end of St. Mary's Chapel, commemorates the Rev. Clement Moody ; the square-headed one, in the corner,
Margaret Coates Gibb ; and the adjoining window in the aisle, James Garnett. See pages 10 and 11.
From this point an excellent view of the famous third storey of the tower, and its elegant crown, is
obtainable. We see in the engraving six of the beautiful turrets and pinnacles that rise from the
battlements ; the fiying arches that support the lantern ; the lantern itself, with its lofty spire, and two of
the figures at the corners, viz., King David with his harp at the south-east corner, and Eve in profile at
the north-east.

PLAT-E

mwr IN S^WlCHOlAS'CHTUIiCH.MEWCASTlE.

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PLATE II.
THE OLD FONT.
fN the north aisle, near the entrance from the Town Hall, stands the ancient font of St. Nicholas . It
is an octagonal marble vase, supported by a fluted octahedral column rising from a similarly formed
base, elevated on a broad stone pedestal two steps high. The eight faces of the vase are sculptured with
shields of arms, six of them being the arms of Robert Rhodes, which at one time were properly coloured,
and added greatly to the beauty of the whole. The principal shield in the plate is azure three annulets or,
on a chief argent a greyhound current gules, collared of the secoud for Rhodes. On the shield to the
right is argent, a chevron gules, between three rooks or, within a bordure engrailed, supposed to be the
arms of Agnes, his wife. It is conjectured, from the occurrence of these arms, that Robert Rhodes;* the
munificent benefactor of this and other churches of the town, and the reputed builder of the upper tower,
-was the donor of the font, or, at least, that it was constructed as a memorial of his liberality.
Over the font is a lofty and elegant canopy, rising tower upon tower, surmounted by pinnacles, and
exhibiting most curious and delicate workmanship.
* "The font of St. Nicholas, which bears Rodes' arms on all its sides except two towards the east, dates probably after his death. On the
dexter side of the whole coat of Rodes, which occupies the centre position, is Rodes quartering -within a bordure engrailed a chevron between
three birds rudely executed, certainly not martlets, and apparently choughs." — W. H. D. Longstaffe, Life of Ambrose Barnes.

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PLATE III.
ANCIENT MURAL MONUMENT.
©N a stone of considerable size, built into the east wall of St. George's Porch, are these arms: —
Quarterly, 1st and 4th ermine on a canton gules an orle or [arg ?], for Surtees. 2nd and 3rd .
a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed, .... supposed for Grey. The crest is defaced, but appears to
have been a lion passant.
The arms are flanked by supporters — a practice that was introduced into heraldry about the time that
St. Nicholas' was rebuilt. On the dexter side the supporter is a mermaid with flowing hair holding a
mirror ; on the other side is a savage wreathed about the temples and waist, and bearing in his left hand
a club. It has been already mentioned that in the latter part of last century there were remains of a stained
glass window in St. George's Porch, representing a mermaid combing her hair. There is, therefore, clearly
a connection between the window and the monument, and in all probability both of them commemorated
the founder of a chantry in that part of the building. Pious and wealthy men frequently built chapels to
serve as family burial places, either within or as adjuncts to their parish churches, and endowed them with
sums of money for the maintenance of priests to sing masses for the repose of their souls. St. Nicholas'
contained nine or ten of such chantries, and St. George's Porch, though Grey says that it was built by
" some of the kings of this land," was no doubt one of them. In the list of chantries published by Bourne,
and copied, with more or less augmentation, by Brand, Mackenzie, and Richardson, no mention is made of
a chantry endowed by a Surtees.* But in Hodgson's History of Northumberiand is a copy of an inquisition
taken after the death of Matthew Bolton, vicar of Newcastle in 1379— twenty years after the present
edifice is reputed to have been built — when, among other things, it was found that " the ancestors of the
lord of North Gosford gave two messuages and two bovates of land in North Gosford" to maiatain a
chantry in St. Nicholas'. Now, the barony of North Gosforthf was held from the twelfth to the middle
of the sixteenth century by the Surtees family, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that this stone is a
memorial of a Gosforth Surtees, and that the chantry of the family was in St. George's Porch.
Along the base of the monument has been cut the words : — " En Diev est mon Esperance" [In God
is my Hope.]

* Various members of the Surtees family were interred in St. George's porch, and in course of time it became the burying-place of the
RiddeUs, Birds, Matfens, and others with whom the Surtees' intermarried. Amongst them was Thomas Surtees of Over Middleton, and
lessee of the coal mines at Benwell, who died in 1626, and was commemorated by a stone with this inscription :—
"Thomas Surteis, Armiger, juxta hunc tumulum suum sepultus est. 30 die Man, 1629. JEt. 63."
[Thomas Surtees, Esquire, was buried near this monument May 30th, 1629, aged 63.]
His wife Jane, widow of Matthew Matfen, predeceased him in 1626, and was interred here, as was afterwards two of her descendants by
lier first marriage, and both named Matthew. Theu- death was recorded upon the stone that covered the remains of George Bird, Clerk of the
Town Chamber, whose arms impaled quarterly Ist and 4th Surtees, and 2nd and 3rd the Uon rampant of the old monument.
Here also was buried Sir Peter Riddell, Sheriff in 1604, Mayor in 1619 and 1635, and Member for Newcastle in the ParUaments of 1624,
1626, and 1628, and his wife Mary Surtees. The coat of arms on his tombstone impaled Surtees and Grey quarterly.
t In Robson's British Herald, vol. 2, the arms of the Gosforth Surtees is described as follows :— " Surteys [Gosford N'umb] erm. on a
quarter gu an orle ar. " Quarter and canton are sometimes used synonymously.

PLATE III

PLATE IV

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PLATE IV.
THE MADDISON MONUMENT.
'HIS famous monument ranks after the font as the greatest adornment of the interior of the church.
For many generations it was aflixed to a pillar in the south aisle of the chancel, but during the
restoration in 1873-77 it was removed to St. Mary's Chapel, and attached to the west wall, where it receives
the dim religious light of the Moody and Gibb windows, and is much better seen. At one time the whole
structure was blackened ;* at another time it was decorated in barbaric splendour with paint and
gilding ; but on its removal to St. Mary's Chapel all these accumulations of dirt and defilement were
carefully removed, and the monument, which is of marble, was restored to something approaching its
original grace and beauty.
Bourne, who was fond of sermonising, describes this monument as being " very beautifull, sumptuous,
and magnificent. The Statues are so devoutly postur'd on bended Knees with uplifted Hands, that, whilst
we view them with our outward Eyes, we are inwardly struck with a Religious Awe and secret Wishes
after Piety and Devotion."
The monument is, as will be seen from the engraving, a somewhat elaborate composition. At the top
are statues of Faith, Hope, and Charity ; Faith, on the left, being represented in a sitting posture holding
a book in one hand and a cross in the other ; Hope, to the right, reclines on her anchor in an attitude of
aspiration ; and Charity, in the centre, stands erect, holding in her right hand a flaming heart. Over the
statue of Faith is the inscription " Memorise Sacrum" [Sacred to the Memory], and above Hope are the
words " Memorare novissima" [To relate the last words].
In the body of the monument are six kneeling figures — three men and three women. The central
effigies are those of Henry Maddison — Sheriff of Newcastle in 1605, and Mayor in 1623 — in his robes as
an alderman, and Elizabeth, his wife, the latter a daughter of Robert Barker, who had been Mayor of the
town in 1585, and was buried, with his four wives, in the east end of the church. Behind Henry is the
flgure of his father, Lionel Maddison, who was Mayor of Newcastle in 1593, 1605, and 1617, and his
mother, Jane Maddison, of the family of Seymour. On the other side of the monument are Sir Lionel
Maddison, eldest son of Henry, with his wife Anne, daughter of William Hall, of whom more hereafter.
(See Plate 5.)
Below the central effigies are sixteen smaller ones, representing the sixteen children of Henry and
Elizabeth Maddison, and a series of small shields of arms indicating their respective marriages.

* In the Church Books, under date 1690, appears the following entry : — " Newcastle, Junij 3, 1690. Timothy Tully, Wm. Johnson,
Robt. Webster, and Christ. Moody were ye above set day most of ym sworn to serve as churchwardens. Memorandum'yt ye above set church
wardens pfl Peter Edwards and compn flftn Shs sterling for whitening and red ooUering scaffolding and lathers, and sizing and all other
things, except Blacking the Monuments, for which we paid seven shilling, but they might have done yt weU enough into the bargain, for six
men did yt in about 14 working days, and they had only one HgshJ Whitening gr yst, for which they paid 2s. 6 pence, and the Red coUerg cost
21 • they like-wise plastered or patched the church porch and Vestry in aU places needful, aud whitened them intojthe bargain. This is set
do-wn to be a president to those yt succeed us. (Signed) Wm. Johnson."

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Sons :— 1st, Sir Lionel, and 2nd, Ralph (afterwards knighted), who married sisters of the family of
Hall. 3rd, Robert, who married a Draper. 4th, William, whose wife was a Grey. 5th, Henry, a bachelor.
6th, Peter, whose wife was one of the Durham family of Tonge. 7th, George; 8th, Timothy; 9th,
Thomas; 10th, John, who married one of the famous local family of Cock, and died in the expedition to
Cadiz.* Daughters : — 1st, Jane, who married William Tempest. 2nd, Susan, who died in infancy. Srd,
Elizabeth, wife of William Bewicke, and afterwards of Thomas Loraine. 4th, Barbara, who died a
spinster. 5th, Eleanor, married to Sir Francis Bowes. 6th, Jane, the youngest of the family (born after
the death of her elder sister of the same name), who appears to have been unmarried when the monument
was erected. She became the -wife of Sir James Clavering in 1640.
Besides the small shields, the monument displays the arms of the central figures as follows : —
Over the heads of Henry and Elizabeth Maddison : — Quarterly, 1st and 4th argent two battle axes
in saltier sable foV Maddison ; 2nd and Srd argent, on a chevron between three martlets sable, a mullet of
six points or, for Marley. Also a shield containing Quarterly as above impaling sable, a rere-mouse [or bat]
displayed argent, on a chief gules, three roses or, for Barker. Over the head of Lionel Maddison a shield
displaying the arms of Maddison and Marley quarterly, impaling, gules, a fess ermine between three pair
of wings conjoined in lure argent, for Seymour. Over Sir Lionel are Maddison and Marley quarterly as
before, impaling argent a fess engrailed between three griffons' heads erased sable, for Hall. The arms at
the feet of Faith and Hope are the family arms of Maddison and Marley, described above.
INSCRIPTION.
" Here Rests in Christian hope ye Bodies of LIONELL MADDISON, sone to Rowland Maddison, of
Vnthanke, in ye Covnty of Durham, Esq., & of lANE, his Wife. Shee Died Ivi : 9. 1611. Hee having
Been Thrice Maior of this Towne Departed Dec. 6. 1624. Aged 94 Yeares. Hee lived to see his onely
sonne, Henry, Father to a fayre & numerous Issue.

Here Interred Also are the bodys of HENRY MADDISON & ELIZABETH His Wife (Davghter
to Robert Barker, of this towne, Alderman), Who lined together most comfortably and louingly in true
wedlock y^ Space of 40 yeares. He was somtyme Maior of this towne, & having lined in good name &
fame 60 Yeares Deceased in the trve Faith of Clirist the 14*^^ of Jvly, 1634-

Elizabeth His only Wife had Issve by him ten Sonnes, S'' Lionel Maddison, K*, Raphe, Robert,
William, Henry, Peter, George, Timothy, and Thomas And Six Davgters, Iane, Svsan,
Elizabeth, Barbara, Elenor, & Iane. All the sonnes at his Death were lining but lohn, who died in
the late Expedition to Cadiz. She lined his Widow 19 Yeares, and being Aged 79 yeares Dyed the 24 of
September, 1653."
Brand supposes that Sir Lionel Maddison, who was elected Mayor in 1632, and was knighted by
Charles I. in June following, when that monarch was on his way to be crowned in Scotland, erected
* The pedigree of the Maddison family in Surtees' Histo,-i, of Durham diifers from the above, which is taken from Richardson's Armorial
Bearings. Surtees, whose pedigree of the Maddisons was carefully compiled by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, gives parish registers for most of his
dates. He states that the sons followed each other, and married as foUows : 
1. Sir Lionel to Anne, daughter of Wm. HaU. 2. Sir Ralph to EUzabeth, daughter of the same. 3. Robert, to  Draper. 4 John
apparently unmarried. 5. WiUiam to Rebecca Grey. 6. Henry, Sheriff 1642, Mayor 1665, to Gertrude, daughter of Sir Geo. Tonge. 7.
Peter, Sheriff of Newcastle 1637, to Elizabeth Marley. 8. George ; 9. Timothy, both probably unmarried. 10. Thomas to Jane Cock.

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this monument, leaving a compartment blank on his side of it for his descendants to fill up.* Sir Lionel
withdrew his support from the Royal cause during the civil wars, and it is supposed that after the
Restoration his successors did not care to honour his memory. The space remained blank for above two
hundred years ; but when the monument was removed to St. Mary's Chapel, Mr. Henry Maddison, of the
Lindens, Darlington, caused it to be filled with a suitable inscription, as follows : —
" In this church are also interred the mortal remains of SIR LIONEL MADDISON, Kn* (descended
from the ancient and worshipful family of Maddison of Ellergill and Vnthank, co. Durham), who was
Mayor of this town in 1632, and died in Nov. 1646, aged 51 years ; and of ANNE, his wife, who was sister
and co-heiress of Sir Alexander Hall, Kn*, and died in April, 1633."
Below the inscriptions are four Latin mottoes : —
Under Lionel's wife : " Animse super .^thera vivunt." [Souls live above the sky.]
Below Henry and Lionel : " Decus vitse est Honorata mors." [The glory of life is an honoured
death.] Beneath Sir Lionel and his mother : '' Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur." [Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord.]
Under Sir Lionel's wife : " Serins aut citius metam properamus ad unam," [Sooner or later we all
hasten to one goal.]
A stone in the nave marked the resting place of Lionel Maddison the elder, with the inscription : —
'¦ Lyonell Maddison, Merchant Aduenturer, sometime Maior of this Towne, & Jane, his wife. She
departed to the mercie of God y" 9 of July. 1611.
Lionel Maddison, Mer. Ad., Mayor of this Town. July 1624."
Beside it were the following inscriptions : —
" Jane Tempest, Wife of William Tempest, Esq., second Son of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Knt. and
Bart., and Daughter to Henry Maddison, sometime Mayor, departed 29th December, 1616, ^tat. 20."
" Barbara Maddison, Daughter of the said Henry Maddison, 1627, aged 17 Years."
* The Maddison monument appears to have been erected between 1635, when the Maddison arms were revised, and 1640, which is the
date of the marriage of the younger Jane to Sir James Clavering. If this be so, the inscription to EUzabeth, wife of Henry Maddison, was a
later insertion in a place left blank for the purpose. We know that such spaces were reserved. One, as already pointed out, was reserved
for Sir Lionel, and there are still blanks in the smaUer coats of arms for children who were unmarried at the date of construction.

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PLATE V.
THE HALL MONUMENT
(^OMEWHAT resembling the Maddison monument, and erected about the same time, is the memorial
J^ set up by Sir Alexander Hall, the brother-in-law of Sir Lionel and Ralph Maddison,* in honour of
his father, William Hall, Sheriff of Newcastle in 1608, and Mayor in 1624, and his mother, Jane Cock.
" The Body of the Monument," writes Bourne — and Brand, Richardson, Mackenzie, and all other
local historians have been content to copy Bourne's description — " has on each Side of it a Pillar of the
Corinthian Order ; between which is a Representation of a Desk, with open Books upon it, and he on the
one Side of it, and his Wife on the other, in the Posture of Prayer, kneeling before it, with their folded
Hands upon the Books. Below this are the Effigies of their Children, in the same Posture ; one of which
is represented kneeling alone at one Side of a Desk, with an open Book upon it ; and other Five on the
other Side of it kneeling one after another. The Former I take to be design'd for their Son, the other for
their Daughters."
To which may be added that the two principal effigies are kneeling in arched recesses. In the spandril
over the lady is a figure of Time with his scythe and a skull, and in the corresponding spandril a hoofed
figure blowing bubbles. Between are the family arms : Argent, a fess engrailed between three griffons'
heads erased, sable, for Hall, impaling, azure, a plate between three cocks, argent, for Cock. Above, at
either corner, is an angel or cherubim, and between the figures three shields of arms, the Hall shield
occupying the centre, surmounted by the crest — a griffon's head erased between two wings sable.
INSCRIPTION.
" GVLIELMVS HALL, Armiger, qvondam maior hvivs villse, et lANA, vxor eivs charissima : felici
prole ditati, ivxta hoc monvmentvm in Domino reqviescunt. Ille vicesimo octavo die lulii, anno Domini
1631, aetatis svae 63. Ilia dvodecima die Avgvsti, anno Domini 1613, setatis 36. In qvorvm memoriam
Alexander Hall, Eqves Avratvs,-)- vnicvs eorvm filivs svperstes hoc merito posvit."
Translation.
William Hall, Esquire, formerly Mayor of this town, and Jane, his dearest wife, enriched with a happy
offspring, repose in the Lord near this monument. He died on the 28th day of July, A.D. 1631, in the
63rd year of his age ; she on the 12th day of August, A.D. 1613, aged 36. In whose memory Alexander
Hall, Knight, their only surviving son, has deservedly set this up.
The monument was cleaned in 1877, when the mutilated figures in the engraving were restored.
* The intermarriages of Newcastle families in the seventeenth ceutiu-y would form an interesting chapter of local history, from which we
should learn how the Maddisons, Marleys, Cocks, Halls, Davisons, Milbankes, Blacketts, and Carrs — the most notable names associated -with
municipal affairs on the Tyne at that period — were related by family ties, maintained themselves at the head of society, and passed the reins
of government backwards and forwards from one to another.
f " Knights, or equites aurati, who have spurs of gold." — Camden.

PLATE V

PLATE VI

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PLATE VI.
THE SHAFTO MONUMENT.
C^FFIXED to the east wall of St. George's Porch is a monument in raemory of the knightly
j^^ representative of the famous local family of Shafto.
INSCRIPTION.
" Hie sitise sunt exuviae ,
ROBERTI SHAFTO, Equitis Aurati,
Nee non ad Legem servientis
Et hujus Municipij Proprsetoris.
In desideratissimi Patris memoriam
Hoc marmor posuit unions defuncti filius
MARC CIS SHAFTO de WHIT WORTH,
in comitatu DUNELMENSI, Arm"^.
Obijt Mali xxi.
A.D., MDCCV.
Vixit annos LXXII."
Translation.
Here are deposited the remains of Robert Shafto, Knight, Sergeant at Law and Recorder of this town.
In memory of his most lamented father, the only son of the deceased— Mark Shafto of Whitworth, in the
county of Durham, Esquire — has set up this marble. He died May 21, a.d. 1705. He lived 72 years.
Arms : Gules, on a bend argent, three mullets azure for Shafto. Impaling quarterly argent and gules,
a bend sable for Widdrington.
Mark Shafto or Shaftoe, third son of Edward Shafto of Bavington, was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1542,
and Mayor in 1548. His son Mark received like honours — the shrievalty in 1573, and the mayoraltv in
1578 — and dying April 9, 1593,* was buried beside his father in St. Nicholas', where a flat stone, now
almost undecipherable, bears his name, with the inscription, ''Jesu have mercy of y^ soul of Mark."
Ninian Shafto, his brother, who married Anne, daughter of Henry Brandling, was buried in St. Nicholas'
in December, 1581, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert, who was judge of the Newcastle
Admiralty Court in 1602, and sheriff of the town in 1607. Robert Shafto had several children. His
eldest son, Robert, succeeded him in the family estate at Benwell, while his third son, Mark Shafto,
became in 1648 Recorder of Newcastle, and purchased the estate of Whitworth, in the county of Durham,
where his descendants have since resided.
* By his wUl, dated Nov. 8, 1.592, from his house "in a streete called the Side," he left a house in the Cloth Market, and "a miU
standing in a certaine place called the Painter Heughe," to his nephew Mark, son of his brother Thomas, and afterwards an alderman
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Sir Robert Shafto, whose monument is engraved on this plate, was the son of Mark Shafto of
Whitworth, and succeeded his father as Recorder at the Restoration in 1660. Ten years afterwards he
was knighted by Charles II., and in 1674 he became serjeant-at-law. At the accession of James II., in
1685, Sir Robert resigned his Recordership, was reappointed at the Revolution, and died in 1705. He
married Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thos. Widdrington, who predeceased him, and was interred
in St. George's Chapel, where a stone with a Latin inscription marks her resting place.
Sir Robert's descendants, commencing with his grandson, have one after another, down to our own
day, represented the city or county of Durham in Parliament. First comes his grandson Robert, M.P. for
Durham city in 1727, who, dying soon after, was succeeded by his brother John, who sat for the same
place from 1729 to 1742. John's son Robert, was M.P. for the county from 1760* to 1768, and
afterwards represented the borough of Downton, in Wiltshire. On his death his son, Robert Eden
Duncombe Shafto, succeeded to the family estates, and was elected M.P. for Durham city in 1804. Lastly,
Robert Duncombe Shafto, son of the latter, sat for the Northern Division of the county from 1847
till 1868. Surtees, the historian of Durham, states that " Sir Robert was a steady and consistent Whig ; he was
displaced from his office of Recorder in 1685 on the accession of James II., but was restored to his office at
the Revolution. Sir Robert is said to have made considerable genealogical and antiquarian collections
relative to Northumberland ; these are not, however, in the possession of his descendants."

Of this Robert Shafto, great grandson of the Recorder, was written the local nursery song-
" Bobby Shafto, bright and fair,
Combing do-wn his golden hair,
He's my ain for ever mair,
Bonny Bobby Shafto ! "

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PLATE VII.
THE ASKEW MONUMENT.
C1|'LTH0UGH this beautiful piece of sculpture adorns the south aisle in the chancel of St. Nicholas'
JJm^ Church, the remains of both the deceased whose memory it perpetuates were deposited in the
family vault at St. John's, Newcastle.
Henry Askew of Redheugh was a descendant of the Askews of Cumberland, one of whom named
Hugh, had been yeoman of the cellar to Queens Katharine and Anne Boleyn, and to King Edward VI.
Henry's father, Dr. Adam Askew,* bought the Redheugh property from Lady Mary Radclifie, in 1748.
Local records describe the doctor as one of the most eminent physicians in the kingdom, who, by his
practice for fifty years in Newcastle acquired an immense fortune, which descended to his son Anthony.
The latter was physician to St. Bartholomew's and Christ's Hospitals, London, and Registrar of the Royal
College of Physicians, and died in 1774, a few years after his wife, leaving twelve orphan children under
twenty years of age. His brother, Henry Askew of Redheugh, became the guardian of these orphans,
and the elegant monument or cenotaph, by Henry Webber, which forms the subject of our engraving, was
erected to his memory by one of his nephews.
In the centre of the monument is an urn, raised on a pedestal. On the face of the urn are profile
portraits of the deceased, whose ashes are supposed to be deposited within. A figure representino-
Gratitude is directing two children, a boy and a girl, to present -wreaths of flowers to Benevolence, who
stands on the other side of the urn, which she embraces with one arm, while with the other she enwreathes
it with the children's offering. At the children's feet a dove nestles ; behind Benevolence is a pelican
feeding her young, and beside Gratitude a stork, emblem also of parental care and afl'ection.
Arms : Eight Coats Quarterly : 1st, sable, a fess or, between three asses argent for Askew. 2nd gules,
two bars engrailed ermine, on a chief or, a lion passant gardant of the first for Storrs. Srd or, a chevron
between three mullets pierced azure for Crakenthorpe. 4th gules, two bars gemels, between three escallop
shells argent, for Rawlinson of Cark. 5th or, three lozenges conjoined in fess azure for Rawlinson of
Garthwaite. 6th argent, fretty gules, a chief azure, for Curwen. 7th azure, a lion rampant ermine for
Monck. 8th sable, on a chevron argent, between three cross-crosslets or, as many cinquefoils gules for
Mottram. On an escutcheon of pretence. Quarterly, 1st and 4th sable, three hinds' heads couped argent
for Boulby. 2nd and Srd ermine, on a bend azure, three mullets or, for Spencer.
Crest : On a wreath an arm couped, grasping a sword, en filed with a Saracen's head, all proper, hilt
and pomel or.
Over the crest is a scroll inscribed " Fac et Spera" [Act and hope].
-* 1773. January 15.—" Died at his house in Westgate Street, Newcastle, in the 79th year of his age, Adam Askew, Esq. * -* * On the
19th his remains were deposited in the family vault in St. John's Church -with great solemnity, the paU being supported by Sir Walter
Blackett, Matthew Ridley, Christopher Fawcett, Ralph WUliam Grey, Matthew Waters, Edward Collingwood, Gawen Aynsley, and Charles
Thomas Bigge, Esqrs." — Stkbs' Local Becords.

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INSCRIPTION.
" To the Memory
of HENRY ASKEW of Redheugh, Esq.,
Who Died x March MDCCXCVI.
Aged LXVI.
Also of DOROTHY ASKEW, His Wife,
Who Died xviii March, MDCCXCII.
Aged LII.
The protectors of twelve orphan nephews and nieces.
In Gratitude
To the Best of Guardians,
George Adam Askew of Pallinsburn House, Esq. ;
and Ann Elizabeth Askew, His Wife,
Erected this Monument.
MDCCCI."

In the Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, of Inveresk, who married a Miss Roddam of
Hethpool, Northumberland, mention is made of Anthony Askew, father of the twelve orphans, who was
a fellow-student in Holland in the years 1745-46 : — " There were at this time about twenty-two British
students at Leyden, of whom were * * * Dr. Anthony Askew * * * -who, as a learned man of twenty-
eight, had come over to Leyden to collate manuscripts of JJschylus for a new edition. His father had
given him £10,000 in the stocks ; so that he was a man of importance."

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PLATE VIII.
THE RIDLEY MON UMEN TS.— No. I.
'N epitome of the career of Matthew Ridley, in whose memory this monument was erected, appears in
the Inscription. (See also Plates 9 and 20.) Descendant of a family that has occupied a
prominent place in the annals of Northumberland for six hundred years, Mr. Ridley was at his death senior
alderman of Newcastle ; had been Mayor in 1733, 1745, 1751, and 1759, and represented the town in five
successive Parliaments, resigning at the general election of 1774 in favour of his son, the first " Sir"
Matthew. During his mayoralty in 1745 he particularly distinguished himself in preparing the to-wn to
resist the Pretender, and for his services was warmly thanked by the Duke of Cumberland in the name of
the King. A local historian writes of his patriotic conduct on that occasion the following warm eulogy :
— "While memory or record last, the great, the important services Mr. Ridley did Newcastle in the
rebellion of 1745 can never be effaced ; when by his watchful conduct, counsels, and stratagems he
diverted the intention of the rebels from taking their route to the south, and from his own fortune
expended a large sum in providing for the safety of that town and county, at that critical time threatened
with rapine and plunder."
Another writer describes him as " a gentleman of excellent natural parts, improved by a very liberal
education. He had a quick and clear perception of business, and a peculiar address in the execution of it.
These talents he early and successfully employed in discharging the first offices of honour and trust in this
Corporation, where he since continued an active, well-informed, and incorrupt magistrate. By a diligent
attention to his duty in the Senate, he had acquired a consummate skill in the forms and business of
Parliament ; to this he united a more general knowledge of the constitution, applying both with a manly
and disinterested spirit to the general welfare of his country. These eminent qualities of the mind were
adorned with a graceful address and polished manners, and endeared to his family and friends by an
hospitable, generous, and affectionate temper."
Mr. Ridley died at Heaton Hall on the 6th April, 1778, and on the 13th he was buried in St.
Nicholas' Church — the pall being supported by the Rev. Dr. Fawcett, vicar ; Christopher Fawcett,
Recorder ; Aubone Surtees, John Erasmus Blackett, Edward Mosley, John Baker, Francis Forster, and
Charles Atkinson, aldermen.
The monument, which is attached to the south wall of the chancel near the vestry entrance, is by
Bacon, and is thus described in the Newcastle Courant of September 8, 1787 : —
" A figure in statuary marble, as large as life, bearing a resemblance of the features and person of the
late Mr. Ridley is represented in a Roman habit, sitting in the curule chair, the seat of magistracy, with a
serious but placid countenance, as considering of the general welfare of the people over whom he presided.
Under the chair are placed the scales and fasces as emblems of justice and authority ; beneath this is the
entablature containing the inscription.
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by a female figure crowned with turrets, having a shield by her bearing the arms of the town ; near her is
an urn from which are seen issuing salmon, the peculiar attribute of the river Tyne, attacked by RebeUion,
who treading on the crown and sceptre, ensigns of royalty, bears in one hand the torch of sedition, in the
other the sword of destruction. In an attitude of supplication she inclines herself towards an armed figure,
who protects her with his shield, and with a sword in his right hand resists the figure of Rebellion. On
the shield are represented the arms of the family of Ridley; the helmet is ornamented with a bull, which
is the crest. As a finishing, under the medallion two cornucopias are introduced, representing the general
effect of plenty (attendant on the care of active magistrates) connected by a civic crown, the reward amongst
the Romans of civil virtue. The figure is placed against an obelisk of white marble, eight feet high, on
the top of which is a very elegant urn bearing the family arms emblazoned."
On the foot of it is the motto, " Constans Fidei" [Steadfast to the faith].
Arms : Quarterly, 1st and 4th gules, on a chevron between three hawks argent, as many pellets for
Ridley. 2nd and Srd argent, three cocks' heads erased sable, combed and wattled gules for White.
INSCRIPTION.
" To the Memory of MATTHEW RIDLEY, Esq»'^ of
Blagdon and Heaton, in the County of Northumberland,
Senior Alderman of the Corporation of this Town,
and Governor
of the Company of Merchant Adventurers.
He four times served the Office of Mayor, in which Station in the Year 1745 he rendered essential
Service to his Country ; averting by his Prudence and Activity, the Attack meditated against this Town
by the Enemies of the House of Brunswick ; and thereby materially checking the Progress of their Arms.
He was unanimously elected by his Fellow Burgesses to represent them in five successive Parliaments,
And retired from that Situation when the declining State of his Health rendered him incapable of
conscientiously fulfilling the Duties of it.
He lived respected, and beloved. He died
unfeignedly lamented April 6th, 1778, Aged 66
Years."
A stone in the nave commemorates the grandfather and father of the above named Matthew Ridley.
The former, Nicholas Ridley, was a son of Major John Ridley of Hardriding, Northumberland,* who early
in life commenced business as a mei'chant in Newcastle, acquired a considerable fortune, and may be
regarded as the founder of the present Blagdon family. He was sheriff in 1682, mayor in 1688, the year
* other notable members of the Ridley family are the foUo-wing : —
Sir Nicholas Ridley, "the Broad Knight," High Sheriff of Northumberland 1507, 1508, 1509, 1510, 15U.
Robert Ridley, D.D., rector of Simonburn, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, Fulham, &c., who died in 1536.
Lancelot Ridley, D.D., 1500.
Nicholas Ridley the martyr, 1555.
Sir Nicholas Ridley, High Sheriff of Northumberland 1572.
Richard Ridley, High Sheriff of Northumberland 1587.
Cuthbert Ridley, rector of Simonburn, 1625.
Sir Thomas Ridley, LL.D., died 1629.
Dr. Gloster Ridley, author and poet, died 1774.
James Ridley, son of Dr. Gloster Ridley ; author of " Tales of the Genii."
Henry Ridley, D.D., Master of St. Mary Magdalene Hospital, Newcastle, died 1825.
George Ridley, M.P. for Newcastle 1856-60— Uving.

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of the Revolution, and again in 1706, and died in January, 1710-11. The inscription on his tombstone
reads as follows : —
" The Burial Place of NICHOLAS RIDLEY, Esqr., Twice Maior of this Town, and Governor of the
Marchants' Company, & MARTHA, his Wife, by Whom he had Issue Nine Children, viz. lOHN, Mary,
Richard, Ann, Nicholas, Edward, Ann, Martha, and Iohn. He departed this life ye 22nd of
January, 1710. Iohn, their Eldest Son, Died April ye 14th, 1686. Martha, Wife of the said Nicholas
Ridley, died April 13th, 1728."
Matthew's father, Richard Ridley, second son of Nicholas, was Mayor of Newcastle in 1713 and 1732.
He built Heaton Hall, and marrying Margaret, daughter of Alderman Matthew White of Blagdon, united
the two families of White and Ridley in a bond which Matthew Ridley himself perpetuated, in 1748, by a
^marriage with his cousin, Elizabeth White. Matthew Ridley's son, the first Sir Matthew White Ridley,
whose monument forms the subject of Plate 9, was the offspring of this latter marriage, and the heir to
both houses.
On the tombstone of Nicholas Ridley are these lines, in memory of his son Alderman Richard, who
died at Heaton Hall, November 2nd, 1739, and was honoured by a public funeral,* in which the whole
town participated : —
" RICHARD RIDLEY, Esq'', Twice Mayor of this Town, and Governor of the Merchants' Company,
died November 2nd, 1739."

* " On the 5th, in the evening, his corpse was interred in St. Nicholas' Church. The hearse, which was covered with escutcheons and
drawn by six horses, was preceded by eighty-six of the deceased's tenants and agents on horseback, two and two, -with mourning gloves, and
three servants ; the hearse was foUowed by a retinue of mourning and other coaches. In this manner the corpse was conveyed from Heaton
to Mr. Ridley's house on the Quay, Newcastle, where the company were invited, and where the corpse was taken out of the hearse, and from
thence carried to the church, the paU being covered -with escutcheons, and supported by the eight foUo-wing gentlemen : — Sir James Clavering,
Bart., Walter Blackett, Edward CoUingwood, William EUison, Nicholas Fenwick, Hilton Lawson, Thomas Bigge, and WiUiam Coulson, Esqs.
The master of the charity school, -with a scarf, &c. , leading the charity boys of St. Nicholas', went foremost in the procession ; after whom
came five beadles, who were foUowed by twenty men in cloaks, walking two and two ; betwixt these and the corpse walked three couple of
servants in mourning ; behind the corpse walked twenty-four chief mourners two and two ; these were succeeded by the regalia of the to-wn in
mourning, borne by the proper officers, who were foUowed by the mayor, aldermen, &c. , -with scarfs and black gloves ; next to these
walked the clergy, with scarfs, who were foUowed by the relations of the deceased in scarfs ; to these .succeeded the wardens and secretary of
the Merchants' Company, "with gloves, two and two, and closed with the beadle in a scarf, &c. Then foUowed a multitude of gentlemen and
tradesmen, with gloves ; after these came the eighty-six tenants and agents on horseback, as before. During the procession through the to-wn
half -minute guns were fired, and a solemn silence was observed by the vast crowd of spectators ; and also the rejoicings of the day (being the
5th of November) were suspended. When the corpse entered in at the west door of the church, a piece of solemn music was performed upon
the organ by Mr. A-vison. After the funeral ceremony was over, the bells rung a mourning peal, which closed the solemnity of the day." —
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PLATE IX.
THE RIDLEY M 0 N U M EN T S.— N o. II.
^IR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY, M.P., son of the Matthew Ridley whose patriotic achievements
J^ are recorded in the preceding pages, was Mayor of Newcastle in 1774, 1782, and 1794. He died at
his house in Portland Place, London, April 16, 1813, and the monument by Flaxman here engraved was
erected in the church seven years later. It stands in the nave, and represents the deceased, life size,
dressed in a Roman toga, with his right hand grasping a roll and resting upon a pedestal. At his feet
leaning against the pedestal is a volume inscribed " Magna Charta." Behind the figure of Sir Matthew is
the curule chair with the scales and fasces, as in his father's monument, and leaning against it a military
standard surmounted by a lion. Above the standard hangs a shield bearing the family arms, before
described, and on an escutcheon of pretence argent, on a chevron between three hunting horns sable
stringed of the same and garnished or, as many mullets of the last for Colborne. The face of the figure is
said to be a correct portrait. INSCRIPTION.
"To the Memory of
SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY,
of Blagdon and Heaton, in the county of
Northumberland, Baronet,
who died April the 16th, 1813, in the 67th Year
of his age.
He three times filled the office of Chief
Magistrate in the Corporation of
this Town.
He was returned Member for the Borough of
Morpeth in 1768.
On the resignation of his Father in 1774 he
was elected Representative for
Newcastle upon Tyne,
An honour conferred upon him during Eight
successive Parliaments.
In 1812 he declined again soliciting the
suffrages of his fellow Burgesses,
when they afforded him
A testimony of their approbation and regard
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By transferring to his son the confidence
they had reposed in him for a period
of Thirty Eight years.
In 1798 he was appointed Colonel of the
Loyal Newcastle Associated
Volunteer Infantry,
And had the honour of commanding that
Regiment
During the whole period of its service.
In 1778 He was chosen Governor of the
Company of Merchant Adventurers
of this Town,
And received in his Re-election for Thirty
five Years the strongest proof of the
uninterrupted esteem of his
Brethren.
In his Parliamentary conduct Active and
Independent,
The firm supporter of those genuine
principles of Liberty which
form the
Basis of the British Constitution.
In private life he united with the greatest
urbanity of manners those qualities of
the heart and understanding which secure
esteem and adorn (while they dignify)
the character of man.
To those endeared to him by the nearest ties
he was ever most kind and affectionate.
To his friends warm and sincere, honourable,
amiable and benevolent.
He lived respected & beloved.
He died universally lamented."
Sir Matttiew married in 1777 Sarah, daughter and heiress of Benjamin Colborne, Esq., of Bath, and
had issue five sons and one daughter. Lady Ridley died in London on the Srd August, 1806, and on the
18th the body arrived in Newcastle, and was buried in the family vault at St. Nicholas'. Their eldest
son, the second Sir Matthew, represented Newcastle in Parliament for twenty-four years, and died at
Richmond, in Surrey, in 1836, in his 58th year, leaving by his wife Laura, daughter of George Hawkins,
Esq., six sons and six daughters. The third Sir Matthew married a daughter of Baron Parke, afterwards
Lord Wensleydale, and was M.P. for North Northumberland from 1859 to 1868. On his retirement he
was succeeded by his son, the present Sir Matthew, who was an Under Secretary of State for the Home
Department in the Beaconsfield administration. Mr. Edward Ridley, brother of the present Sir Matthew,
sat from 1878 to 1880 as one of the representatives of the Southern Division of Northumberland.

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PLATE X.
THE PEARETH MONUMENT S. — N o. I.
J||KR. WILLIAM PEARETH, whose monument, erected in St. George's Porch, is here engraved, was
Pl|5 the son and heir of William Peareth, Clerk of the Town Chamber,* and an Alderman of Newcastle
for nearly fifty years. (See Plates 11, 19, and 31.) He succeeded his father in the Usworth property in
1775, and during the wars with Napoleon raised the Usworth Volunteer Cavalry, which was one of the
first corps embodied in the North of England. INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory
of WILLIAM PEARETH, Esq-^^
Late of Usworth House in the county of Durham. He departed this life August XI, MDCCCX
Aged LXXVI Years.
His Remains are Deposited near this place.
He was Religious from the true principles of
The Christian Faith,
Possessing in an eminent degree all those
exalted Qualities
That can only be derived from that
Hallowed Source.
He was of the strictest Honour and
Integrity.
Benevolent and Liberal, without ostentation,
His private charities were numerous.
Though known only to his particular Friends
And the immediate objects of his bounty.
His afflicted Widow,
who well knew and justly appreciated his Virtues,
Has caused this Monument to be erected
as a tribute of Affection and Respect
for a beloved Husband."

* The Clerk of the Chamber was an officer who administered oaths to pUots and others concerned in navigation, and his salary at the
beginning of tliis century was £400 per annum.

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PLATE XI.
THE PEARETH MONUMENTS. — No. II.
'HIS Monument was erected in St. George's Porch to the memory of the son of the preceding William
Peareth, who died during his father's life time. His parents are represented as weeping over the
urn which is supposed to contain his ashes. INSCRIPTION.
"Sacred to the Memory of WILLIAM JENNENS PEARETH, Esquire, only son of William
Peareth, Esquire, and Susannah his Wife, of Usworth House, in the County of Durham, whose earthly
Remains Lie Interred in this Porch. He was at the time of his Death Gentleman Commoner of Christ
Church, Oxford ; where alike in his Moral, Religious and Literary Character, he Distinguished himself
and gave early promise of becoming a worthy and useful member of Society. He was a most dutiful &
Affectionate Son : and from Infancy possessed a goodness of Heart, and Firmness of Character Rarely to be
found in Manhood ; with a Liberality of Mind which had already begun to exert itself in acts of private
Charity and Benevolence. He died at Penzance in Cornwall on the 26th Day of March 1804, in the 20th
year of his Age, after a long and lingering Illness, which he bore with exemplary Patience and quiet
Resignation to the Will of his Creator ; Leaving to his deeply afflicted Parents, who had fondly looked up
to him as the joy & comfort of their declining Years, the great and only consolation, arising from the
Assurance of his having Acted his part well on Earth ; and from the humble hope of being found worthy
when summoned from this World of Sorrow to be united to him in the blessed Regions of Eternity."

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PLATE XII.
THE MOISES MONUMENT.
fHIS elegant monument, which is placed in the east wall of the south transept, was erected by a
subscription among the pupils of the Rev. Hugh Moises, M.A., who was for many years head master
of Newcastle Grammar School. It is of marble, by Flaxman, and represents Religion in the form of a
woman with her eyes fixed on heaven, leaning on a cippus, which bears a medallion portrait of the
deceased, and is surmounted by an urn.
Mr. Moises was the second son of the Rev. Edward Moises, incumbent of Wimeswold, in Leicestershire,
at which place he was born April 9, 1722. In 1741 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where four
years later he took his B.A, degree. Having distinguished himself as a classical scholar, he was invited
to Peterhouse, and shortly afterwards was elected a fellow of his college. For a time he acted as
assistant master at Chesterfield Grammar School, where, in boyhood, he received a part of his education ;
but in 1749, having taken his M.A. degree, and the head mastership of Newcastle Grammar School
becoming vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Richard Dawes, he was appointed, on the recommendation
of Bishop Keene, to that important office. The school was almost deserted, for Mr. Dawes, although a
profound scholar, was of a peculiar disposition, and seems to have been in perpetual hot water. But Mr.
Moises soon raised it to a fiourishing condition, and the Corporation rewarded his industry, first by more
than doubling his salary, secondly by appointing him, in 1761, morning lecturer at All Saints', and lastly,
in 1779, by conferriDg upon him the mastership of St. Mary's Hospital.
In 1787 Mr. Moises was presented by Dr. Askew to the living of Greystock, in Cumberland, but
through some caprice of his patron he was after a few years abruptly requested to resign. He returned
to Newcastle, and died at his house in Northumberland Street on Saturday, July 5, 1806, at the ripe old
age of 85.
Mr. Moises was thrice married. First, to Margaret, sister of Matthew Ridley, Esq. of Heaton ;
secondly, to Isabel, daughter of the Rev. John Ellison, vicar of Bedlington ; and third, to Mrs. Ann
Boag.* Of his children, only two survived him — the Rev. Hugli Moises, M.A., rector of Whitchurch,
Oxon, and vicar of East Farleigh, Kent, who died in 1822 ; and the Rev. W. B. Moises, vicar of Felton,
Northumberland, and Owthorne, Yorkshire, who died in 1826.
Among the boys who passed through the Grammar School while Mr. Moises was head master, were
Admiral Lord Collingwood, Sir Robert Chambers, the Indian judge, and Lords Eldon and Stowell.
Between the two latter and their old master a life-long friendship existed, and though Mr. Moises would
never accept any honours for himself beyond that of chaplain to Lord Eldon, he was able to promote the
interests of his sons in the substantial manner indicated by the foregoing paragraph. His reputation as a
* On Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Moises, M.A., head master of the free school, Newcastle, and lecturer of All Saints' Church, was married
at St. Andrew's Church to Mrs. Boag, a polite and agreeable young widow with a fortune of £10,000."— Newcastle Chronkle, August, 1764. /

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teacher extended far beyond the northern counties, and he was respected and honoured wherever classical
-•scholarship was admired, and the value of sound practical education was understood and appreciated. In
Twiss's Life of Lord Eldon it is related that King George III. expressed his surprise how a naval officer
could 'write so excellent a despatch as that which contained CoUingwood's account of the battle of
Trafalgar. " But," added the King, " I find he was educated by Moises."
Lord Stowell is the writer of the subjoined INSCRIPTION.
" Juxta Requiescit
Reverendus HUGO MOISES, A.M.,
Collegii Divi Petri apud Cantabrigiensis
olim socius.
Postea perlongam Annorum seriem
Ludi Literarii in hoc oppido Fundati
Prsefectus ;
Atque ibidem in Ecclesia omnium sanctorum
Verbi Divini Praslector.
Vir erat ingenio eleganti et exculto,
Literis Humanioribus apprime ornatus
et in iis impetiendis
indefessus ac felLx.
In Regendis puerorum animis
Leni usus imperio sed constanti
Moribus facillimis nee inficetis
Sed ad vitse et officii sui sanctimoniam
Rite compositis.
Omnium quorum studiis dirigendis invigilaverat.
Commodis in omui Genere promovendis
Amicissime semper ssepe utiliter intentus.
Religionis Patriae institutis stability
Cultor observantissimus.
Et in concionibus sacris
Explicator Diligens Doctus Disertus.
Hoc Monumento Memoriam Nominis
Consecrari voluit
Permultorum Discipulorum
Amor et veneratio
Favente et Pecunia coUata juvante
Novacastrensium municipio
Viri de suis omnibus optime meriti
Grate mem ori.
Obiit Anno Salutis MDCCCVI., iEtatis suae LXXXV.
Filiis Hugone et Gulielmo supersritibus."

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Translation.
Near this place rests the Rev. Hugh Moises, A.M., formerly Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge ;
afterwards, for a long series of years. Head Master of the Grammar School founded in this town, and
preacher of the Divine word in the church of All Saints' in the same place. He was a man of elegant and
cultivated mind, highly accomplished in classical learning ; unwearied and successful in imparting it. In
governing the minds of boys he used a gentle but firm authority. His manners were most affable and
cheerful, and in due consistency with the sanctity of his life and office. In promoting the best interests of
all those whose studies he directed and watched over he was ever intent in the most friendly and useful
way. He was a most observant supporter of the religion established by the laws of his country, and in
sacred oratory a diligent, learned, and eloquent expounder. The love and veneration of many of his
pupils, assisted by a contribution of money from the town of Newcastle, gratefully mindful of his merits,
desired to perpetuate by this monument the memory of a man who has deserved well of all his fellows. He
died in the year of our salvation 1806, in the 85th year of his age, leaving his sons Hugh and William to
survive him.

A stone in the nave, with this inscription, covers the remains : —
" The Burial Place of the Rev. HUGH MOISES, who died on the 5th Day of July, 1806, in the
85th Year of his Age."
And on the roof of St. Mary's Chapel are the family arms : Gules, a fess ermine between three bulls'
heads couped argent.

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PLATE XIII.
THE COLLINGWOOD MONUMENT.
fN the year 1821 a cenotaph by Rossi was erected in the nave of St. Nicholas' Church to the memory
of Admiral Lord Collingwood, the hero of Trafalgar, who was a native of Newcastle, his birth-place
being the house at the Head of the Side now known as the Meter's Arms. The monument consists of a
bust of his lordship placed upon a pedestal, surmounted by three wreaths encircling the words " 1st of June,"
¦" St. Vincent," and " Trafalgar." Overhead, from a sword, hangs a shield containing his lordship's arms,
which are thus described : —
Arms : Argent a chevron between three stags' heads erased sable, with an augmentation, viz., on
a chief wavy gules, a lion passant gardant navally crowned or, with the word " Trafalgar " over the lion
of the last.
Crests : 1st. On a wreath the stern of the Royal Sovereign man-of-war in waves between a branch
of laurel and a branch of oak, all proper, being also an augmentation. 2nd. On a wreath a stag at gaze
under an oak tree proper.
Supporters : On the dexter side an eagle proper, navally crowned or ; on the sinister side a lion
holding in his dexter paw a slip of oak fructed proper.
Motto : Ferar unus et idem [I am borne along, one and the same].
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of
The Right Honourable CUTHBERT Baron COLLINGWOOD,
Vice Admiral of the Red & Major General of Marines,
Who was born in this Town of an ancient family.
He served with great Bravery in the action of the 1st of
June 1794, and bore a most distinguished part
in the victory off Cape St. Vincent in 1797.
In the memorable battle of Trafalgar he led
the British squadrons into action,
and pressed forward with a single ship
into the midst of the combined fieets of France and Spain.
On that day, after the death
of his illustrious Commander and friend Lord Nelson,
he completed the most glorious and decisive Victory
that is recorded in the naval annals of the World.
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during which he never quitted his vessel for a single day,
displaying unrivalled professional skill
and conducting many difficult and important negociatious
with great political sagacity and address.
At length, on the decline of his health,
he became anxious to revisit his native land,
but, having learned that his services could ill be spared
in those critical times,
he replied that his life was his Country's,
and persevered in the discharge of his arduous duties
till, worn out with fatigue, he expired at sea
on the 7th of March, 1810, in the 61st year of his age.
In private life he was generous and affectionate ;
a pious, just, and exemplary m.an.
A monument has been raised by Parliament to his Memory
in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's,
where he lies by the side of the Hero
whom he so worthily succeeded in the battle of Trafalgar.
His widow, Sarah, daughter of
John Erasmus Blackett, Esquire, of this Town,*
and his two daughters,
had caused this cenotaph to be constructed.
And after her death, on the 16th day of September, 1819,
it was inscribed to both their revered and lamented parents
by their grateful children."
In the floor is a stone to the memory of Lady Collingwood, -with the following lines : —
"The Rt. Honbi- SARAH BARONESS COLLINGWOOD, widow ofthe Rt. Hon"- Vice AdmiraE
Cuthbert Lord Collingwood, and Daughter of John Erasmus Blackett, Esq"- She died the 16tb ot
Sept. 1819, Aged 57."
Newcastle cherishes the name of her illustrious son. A full length portrait ofthe hero, painted by
Lonsdale, was presented to the Corporation in 1812 by the Newcastle Volunteers, and now hangs in the
Town Hall. Furthermore, his name is perpetuated in a street near his birth-place which connects St.
Nicholas' Church with Neville Street and the Central Railway Station. (When this street was formed a
number of houses which stood near the north porch of the Church were pulled down, and the area known
as St. Nicholas' Square was thrown open.) Lastly, a colossal statue of his lordship, placed on risin»
ground at Tynemouth, overlooks the entrance of the Tyne, as if keeping watch and guard over his native
river and the shores he knew and loved so well.

* Marriage.— "Thursday. Captain Collingwood, of H. M.'s frigate Mermaid, to Miss Blackett, daughter of John Erasmus Blactet^
Esq., the Right Worshipful Mayor of this Corporation." — Newcastle Chronicle, Juue 18th, 1791.

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PLATE XIV.
THE BEWICKE MONUMENT,
fHIS beautiful Gothic monument is erected in the projection, on the south side of the church,
known as Bewicke's Porch, or St. Margaret's Chantry, to the memory of Colonel Bewicke of Close
House. The sculpture is the work of Bailey, from a design by Theed. The deceased is represented as
reclining, supported by a female figure, whose hand he grasps. Before him is Hope, resting one hand on
her anchor, while with the other she points to an angel bearing a scroll on which is inscribed the text,
" Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted."
When the monument was exhibited at the Royal Academy, a London newspaper published the
following eulogium upon it : — " It is of a female sunk on the shoulder, and holding the hand of her
husband, who is looking up as if in a silent soft address he was invoking a blessing upon the disconsolate
mourner. The performance touches the heart to its centre. It has much of the rhetoric of actual life,
when the bitterness of parting in death occurs between friends."
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of CALVERLY BEWICKE, Esq"
of Close House, in the county of
Northumberland.
He served the office of High Sheriff for
that county in 1782 ;
Commanded the Durham Militia for many years
as Lieut.-Colonel ;
And at the time of his death
Represented the Borough of Winchelsea,
for which He had been returned in three successive
Parliaments.
He was born the 26th of June, 1755,
And died the 24th of October 1815.
Margaret Bewicke, his widow, daughter of
Robert Spearman, Esq"" of
Old Acres, in the County of Durham, raised this Monument as a tribute to his Virtues,
And a Memorial of her Affection."
Arms : Argent five lozenges conjoined in fess gules, each charged with a mullet of the field between
three bears' heads erased sable, muzzled argent for Bewicke. On an escutcheon of pretence azure, a
chevron ermine between three tilting spears argent for Spearman.
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In the floor is a stone inscribed
" CALVERLY BEWICKE, Arm. Obt. Oct. 24th, 1815. Ann. ^Et. 60."
with the arms as above, the crest : A goat's head erased argent gorged with a mural coronet gules ; and
the motto, " In caelo quies" [There is rest in heaven].
Beneath are the words
" MARGARET BEWICKE, His Widow. Obt. March 8th, 1859. Ann. ^t. 97."
This lady, a posthumous daughter of Robert Spearman, of Old Acres, Durham, was the last
person buried in St. Nicholas'. The church had been closed against interments for several years, but
special permission was obtained from the Home Secretary, in order that her remains might be placed
beside those of her husband.
The name of Bewicke, or Bewick, occurs in the list of Mayors and Sheriffs of Newcastle as early as
the fifteenth century. Peter of that ilk was Sheriff in 1476, and Mayor in 1490. William Bewicke was
appointed to the Shrievalty in 1480, but did not attain to higher honours. Andrew Bewicke was Sheriff
in 1528, and Mayor ten years later; another Peter was Sheriff in 1534, and Thomas Bewicke succeeded
him, so that in the space of seven years three members of the Bewicke family passed the Sheriff's chair,
although only one of them reached the Mayoralty.
In the Porch which bears their name, the Bewickes for many generations found their last resting
place. It is railed off from the nave, and, thus protected, the tombstones are in a good state of
preservation, and the epitaphs are clear and legible. The oldest of them commemorates William
Bewicke, who died a few years after his marriage with Elizabeth, one of the six daughters of Henry
Maddison. This lady afterwards became the wife of Thomas Loraine of Kirkharle, and was buried in the
church with both her husbands. William Bewicke's tombstone is inscribed as follows : —
" Hie Sepulta lacet Corpus GUILIMI BEWICKE, filij Roberti Bewicke, Armigeri, primogeniti
Qui cum ELIZABETHA, Henrici Maddisoni, Armigeri, Filia Matrimonia Coniunctus. Binos filios filiasq :
tres ex ilia Suscepit : Et Post quam ad tricesimum octavum setatis, suae annum pervenisset animum suum
22 die Februarii religiose expiravit anno Domini 1636."
Translation.
Here lies buried the body of William, eldest son of Robert Bewicke, who was united in marriage
with Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Maddison, Esq., and had by her two sons and three daughters. After
reaching the 38th year of his age he breathed his last piously on the 22nd day of February, 1636.
Arms : Argent five lozenges conjoined in fess gules, each charged with a mullet of the field between
three bears heads erased sable, muzzled argent, a label for difference ; impaling quarterly 1st and 4th
argent, two battle axes in saltier sable, for Maddison ; 2nd and 3rd argent on a chevron between three
martlets sable, a mullet of six points or for Marley.
Crest : a goat's head erased argent and gorged with a mural coronet gules.
Adjoining it is a stone indicating the resting place of Robert Bewicke, a Puritan, whose election in
1639 as Mayor of Newcastle for the second time Sir John Marley vainly attempted, in the Royal interest,
to prevent. His town residence, named after the family, was " Bewicke's Entry" in the Close ; but in
1620 he bought an estate near Wylam, and transferring to it the name of the great thoroughfare into
which his residence opened, and in which he was probably born, became the founder of Close House.
He was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1615; Mayor 1628 and 1639; and High Sheriff of Northumberland
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" Heere lieth Buried the Bodies of ROBERT BEWICK, Marchant Aduentuerer, & twice Maior of this
Towne, & also high Sheriff of the County of Northumb., & ELLENOR, his Wife. He Depted this life the
15th Day of March, 1641. She depted this life the 1 day of June, 1661."
On the same stone are recorded names of later date, thus : —
•' IANE BEWICKE, the Wife of THOMAS BEWICKE, Esq'. She Depted this Life the 9th of
August, 1682. Thomas Bewicke, Esq., Depted this life ye 7th of November, 1690. ROBERT
BEWICKE, Esq'., Departed this life ye 9th of lanuary, 170i"
There is also in this Porch a monument of variegated marble, commemorating Sir Robert Bewicke,*
high sheriff of Northumberland in 1760, who received the honour of knighthood on presenting an address
from the county at the accession of George III. It bears the following inscription : —
" H. S. E.,
Vir moribus integer, Fide Christianus,
ROBERTUS BEWICKE
de Close- House, in Agro Northumbriae, Eques Auratus ;
Qui Provinciam publicam, Favore Regie insignitam, et sibi
Et Patrise honorifice administravit ;
Qui Domesticse Officiis vitas tam aequo benignoque
animo satisfecit,
ut omnibus esset in vit^ carus, post mortem desideratus,
Uxori aut en I desideratissimus
Quae Marmor hoc parvulum quoddam amoris sui Pignus
Pie et mserenter
P.C.
Filius duobus Filiabusque septem
Superstitibus, Ob. 3 Die Septembris, A.D. 1771,
^tatis 44."
Translation.
Here is buried a man in character upright, in faith a Christian, Robert Bewicke of Close House, in
the county of Northumberland, Knight ; who discharged honourably to himself and his country a public
office distinguished by the royal favour ; who fulfilled the duties of domestic life so patiently and kindly
that in life he was dear to all, and after death lamented ; but most lamented by his wife, who erected this
marble, dutifully and mournfully, as a small token of her love. He died, leaving two sons and seven
daughters surviving, on the 3rd of September, 1771, aged 44.
Arms : Bewicke as before impaling quarterly 1st and 4th argent on a bend azure three fishes
haurient of the first. 2nd and third argent a fess of four lozenges azure between two cotices gules.
* " Monday Afternoon, Robert Be-wicke, of Close House, Esq., High Sheriff for the County of Northumberland, went from the Moot Hall,
accompanied by a great Number of Gentlemen, to Sheriff Hill, to meet the Hon. Henry Bathurst, Esq., one of the Justices of the Court of
Common Pleas, and the Hon. Sir Richard Lloyd, Knight, one of the Barons of the Com-t of Exchequer, Judges of Assize.— On their Return
they were met on the Bridge by Matthew Steplienson, Esq., Sheriff of this Town, attended by the principal Gentlemen here. Theu- Lordsliips
went to the Courts and opened their Commissions, afterwards to the Mansion House, where an elegant Entertainment was pro-vided.
Tuesday, the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Judges, and Magistrates, -with the Regalia in Form, went to St. Nicholas' Chm-ch." — Newcu.Htle
Courant, 1760.
" 1771 — Sept. 8. The remains of Sir Robert Bewicke, Knight, were interred in St. Nicholas' Church, Newcastle. The pall was supported
by Sir Thoraas Clavering, Bart., Thomas Charles Bigge, Matthew Ridley, William Fenwick, Thomas Riddle, John Simpson, Edward
Collingwood, and Henry Askew, Esquires."— ioc«Z Records.

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PLATE XV.
THE GREENWELL MONUMENT.
fN the north aisle of the chancel, over the site of the old Corporation Pew, is a pedestal bearing a
broken column, with this text at the foot : —
" Yea though I walk through the valley of
the Shadow of Death I will fear no evil,
for Thou art with me."
And below it comes the following INSCRIPTION.
"In the Family Vault in this Church lie deposited, in
Blessed Assurance of Resurrection to Immortality,
the Mortal Remains of ELIZABETH GREENWELL, Wife
of Robinson R. Greenwell, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
second son of Joshua Greenwell of Kibblesworth,
in the County of Durham, Esquire. She died in
childbirth, the mother of a lifeless Babe, on the
seventh of January, MDCCCXII, aged xxxix Years."
The "family vault" here referred to is that of the Green wells of Kibblesworth, a branch of the
ancient Norman family of that name — said to be one of three in the county of Durham, and of about fifty
in all England that retain in the male line the estates which formed their original patrimony. Jacobus
de Grenewelle is returned in Boldon Buke (compiled in 1183) as holding land at Greenwell, in the parish
of Wolsingham, which land to this day is the property of the head of the family. Branches of the
Greenwells settled in various parts of the county of Durham, and some of them figure conspicuously in the
history of the Palatinate. About the middle of the seventeenth century William Greenwell of Greenwell
Ford acquired the Kibblesworth estate by marriage, and his son Robert married Phillis, daughter and
coheir of Alderman Aubone, of Newcastle. Second in descent from Robert was Joshua Greenwell who
married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Robinson, and became the father of Robinson Robert named
in the epitaph, and of Major-General Sir Leonard Greenwell, K.C.B., K.C.H., &c., a Peninsular hero whose
achievements are recorded hereafter.
To the Ford branch of this family belong Miss Dora Greenwell, a well-known authoress and the Rev
Canon Greenwell, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., &c.
The arms of the Greenwells appear on the monument of Sir Leonard, and it is said that a o-rander
device than theirs, excepting, perhaps, that of the Claverings, is not known in the North of Eno-land viz -
Or, two bars azure, between three ducal crowns gules.

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PLATE XVI.
THE BAINBRIDGE MONUMENT,
fN St. George's Chapel, consists of an um partly draped by a pall, standing on a pedestal containing a
medallion portrait of the deceased, who was a solicitor in extensive practice in Newcastle, and
father-in-law of the late Sir John Fife. Mr. Bainbridge acquired the estate of Newton, near Stocksfield,
which at his death was purchased by William Hedley, father of Thomas Hedley, the generous benefactor
of Newcastle Bishopric Endowment Fund. INSCRIPTION.
" This Monument
is erected to record the regret of many
Professional and other Friends
for the untimely Death of
JOSEPH BAINBRIDGE, Esquire,
Late of Wellington Place in this Town,
Who, after undergoing a severe operation
for an Aneurism in his Arm,
Expired on the 15th day of December, 1823,
Aged 53,
And was buried in the Church of St. Catherine Coleman,
in the City of London. He was
In his Domestic Relations kind and affectionate ;
In his extensive practice as a Solicitor
Acute and indefatigable ;
And in his intercourse with the World
A benevolent, just, and valuable Man."

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PLATE XVII.
STONE FIGURE.
'HIS figure lies in Bewicke's Porch. Bourne describes it as " the Effigies of a Man at his full length
with his Legs across, and his Dog at his Feet, having his Escutcheon of Arms and Sword. This we
are inform'd was the Fashion of burying those only who took upon them the Cross and were mark'd with
the Badge of the Cross for sacred Warfare in recovering the Holy Land from the Turks. He is supposed
to have been one of the Family of the Scroopes."
Brand adds : " Some have supposed this to have been the effigies of the founder of the chantry —
Peter de Mauley, a noble baron who bore, according to Guillim, or, a bend sable, and was in the 42d of
Edward III. joined with the Bishop of Durham and some others for guarding the east marches ; also 43d
Edwd. IIL, and in the 3d of Richard II. with the Earl of Northumberland and others. He died March
19th, 6 Richard II. [1383]. As warden of the east marches he would probably reside in Newcastle, where
also he might die and be buried in this church. However that may be, his arms correspond exactly with
those on the shield of the cross-legged figure."
The figure is habited in a hauberk of chain mail and surcoat, with a sword and shield of arms. The
animal at the feet is thought by some to be not a dog, as described by Bourne, but a lion. On the left
side the arms are expanded — the right hand being held up to the sword, and the left, which is much
mutilated, stretched towards the shield. This figure narrowly escaped being built into a house in Mosley
Street, along with other monuments and tombstones.

TOMBSTONE.— /Sror^.
The stone here engraved covers the vault of the Stote family, who had extensive possessions in the
county. Their residence at Jesmond — Stote's Hall — still exists in a habitable condition. Sir Richard
Stote, at his death, left three daughters. The eldest married the Rev. John Tong, rector of Brancepeth ;
the second Mr. Wm. Shippen, a well-known Jacobite ; the third Dixie, son of Lord Windsor. The latter
outlived her sisters, and claimed the inheritance of the family. She died intestate in 17.57, and the
property became the object of protracted litigation, but it eventually passed into the hands of Mr.
Calverly Bewicke of Close House, and Mr. Daniel Craster of Craster.
Arms : Gules a lion rampant double queued argent for Stote, impaling an orle azure for Bertram.
Crests : 1. A demi lion rampant double queued. 2. A bull's head erased gorged with a coronet.
The above appear in the upper compartment, and at the foot the arms are quarterly as before, and a crest
bearing the demi lion.

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INSCRIPTIONS.
1st Upper Arch : " Qvinto Die Febr: Anno 1615, RICHARDVS STOTE, Qvondam Hvivs Villse
Mercator Obiit."
2nd Upper Arch : " Decimo Sexto Die Aprilis, Anno 1589, HELLINOR, Vxor Eivs 2 Ex Hac vita
Decessit. In Sacra Memoria Parentvm Svorvm Edvardvs Stot, Monvmentvm Hoc Posvit."
1st Lower Arch : " RICHARDVS STOTE, Miles Serviens Domini Regis Caroli Secvndi Ad Legem,
obyt vicessimo qvinto Die Decembris, Anno Domini 1682."
The second lower arch is left blank. Translation.
On the 5th day of February, in the year 1615, died Richard Stote, formerly merchant of this town.
On the 16th day of April, 1589, his wife Eleanor departed this life. In sacred memory of his parents,
Edward Stote* has erected this monument.
Richard Stote, Knight, sergeant-at-law of our Lord King Charles II., died on the 25th day of
December A.D. 1682.

* " Edward Stote" was one of the members of the Council who signed the memorable reply to Lesley, when he demanded the sm-render
of the town in 1644. He married Jane, daughter of Cuthbert Bewicke, and died in 1648. His relict occupied, in 1651, a house in Tuthill
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PLATE XVIII.
TOMBSTONE.— ^iV^D^iJ/SOi^.
fN the centre are the arms of the family of Anderson of Newcastle and Haswell, viz. : —
Quarterly : 1. Three oak trees erased or for Anderson. 2. Three martlets argent. 3. On a
chevron between three escallop shells argent, a mullet for difi'erence impaling quarterly in the first a rook
for Craster. INSCRIPTIONS.
" BARTRAM ANDERSON the Elder, Marchant Adventvrer, and IANE and ANNES, his two
Wyifes. He Depted the 29 of Avgvst, 1606. Iane Depted the II of Apriil, 1600. Annes Depted the 18
of Avgvst, 1621. And ther children Henry and Francis."

' GEORGE ANDERSON, Esq'•^ died August 18th, 1798, Aged 72 years."

TOMBSTONE.— J. NDERSON.
Another tombstone belonging to the Anderson family of an earlier date. The arms are those of the
Andersons of Newcastle and Bradley.
Arms : On a chevron between three falcons' heads erased sable, as many acorns with leaves slipped
argent ; on a canton azure three martlets argent for Anderson, impaling sable a leopard's head or jessant
de lis argent for Morley. INSCRIPTIONS.
" heare lieth burned the corpes of ISABELL ANDERSON, late Wyf of Henry Andersonn, Marchant
& Alderman of this towne. Who deceased the xiv daye of august, an. dni. 1582. Bewayled of the poore
that tasted much her renowined vertue."

" MARY ANDERSON, wife of George Anderson, Esq., died August 4th, 1804, aged 84 years."
These ancient stones mark the resting place of various members of the wealthy mercantile family of
the Andersons of Newcastle, Jesmond, Bradley, and Haswell.
Bartram, or Bertram, Anderson, whose name appears on tombstone No. 1, was the grandson of Henry
Anderson, who was Sheriff" of Newcastle in 1520, and Mayor in 1631, 1539, 1542, and 1546. Henry
Anderson was buried in St. Nicholas', under a stone which was inscribed —

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" Jesu have mercy of the sawUe of HENRY ANDERSON, M.A. [Merchant Adventurer], sometime
Mayor of this town. 1562."
^nd his will, published in the second volume of the Surtees Society's publications, shows that he was a
coalowner, merchant, and shipowner of great wealth and infiuence.
Bertram Anderson's father, who also was named Bertram, was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1543, Mayor in
1551, 1557, and 1563; one of the Overseers of the Watch from the Tyne to Hartford Bridge, a Commis
sioner of Inclosures upon the Middle Marches, and M.P. for Newcastle during the Parhaments of 1554,
1557, and 1563.
Henry Anderson, the eldest son of Bertram, M.P. — brother to the Bertram of tombstone No. I., and
husband of the lady whose epitaph covers tombstone No. II. — was Sheriff" of Newcastle in 1571 ; Mayor in
1575, 1583, and 1594; and M.P. for the same place in 1585, 1586, 1588, and 1592, while his son Sir
Henry Anderson was Mayor of Newcastle in 1613, and M.P. in 1614, 1623, 1625, 1626, and 1640. In
1644 Sir Henry was disabled for deserting the service of the House and repairing to the army against
Parliament. Bertram Anderson, therefore, although he did not aspire after municipal Or pariiamentary honours
himself, was the son, brother, uncle, or other relative of eminent men who, with their descendants for
nearly two hundred years, were rulers in Newcastle. For, in addition to the more immediate relatives
whose names and kinship are enumerated above, there appear in the list of Mayors and Sheriffs of
Newcastle several Andersons, at least four of whom were his contemporaries.
Robert Anderson was Sheriff" of Newcastle in 1559, and Mayor in 1567. He bought the old
nunnery of St. Bartholomew and the priory of the Grey Friars, and, uniting the properties, erected
in 1580 the stately mansion of " The New House," celebrated in after years as the temporary prison of
Charles I.
Francis Anderson appears to have been Sheriff in 1560, and as it was not usual to elect the same
person twice to the Shrievalty, it must be presumed that the Francis Anderson who was Sheriff in 1595,
and Mayor in 1601 and 1612, was another person — perhaps his son.
Robert Anderson, Sheriff in 1600, was followed by another Robert Anderson, who having passed the
Shrievalty in 1619 became Mayor in 1630. This latter is the Robert Anderson eulogised by Grey in the
CJiorografhia — see page 8 — and whose burial is recorded in St. Nicholas' Register, May 12, 1640, with
the addition, " a good benefactor."
In 1612 Roger Anderson was Sheriff". He was the eldest son of Francis — the Mayor of 1601 and
1612 — and by his marriage with Anne, daughter ofWilliam Jackson of Newcastle, became the father of
Francis, afterwards Sir Francis Anderson* of Jesmond and Bradley, Sheriff in 1641, Mayor in 1662 and
1675, and M.P. several times. Sir Francis was an enthusiastic cavalier, and suffered fine, imprisonment,
* The old Burial Book in St. Nicholas' Vestry contains the following order on the subject of funerals, signed by Francis Anderson
during his second mayoralty : —
" Upon a general complaint that much time hath been needlessly spent in attending uijoii Funerals, to the great hinderance of all sorts of
persons in their more needful employments. It is ordered by the Right Worshixrful the Mayor, Aldeimen, and Common Council that from and
after the second of February next no longer time shall be allowed for any Funeral than two hours at the utmost, commencing from the horn-
that an Invitation was made thereunto ; of which all persons concerned are to take notice and conform accordingly, upon Penalty of such
Fines and Forfeitures as by the said Act are limited and appointed, and the Curates of the several Churches are required the next Lord's Day
to publish the same to their respective Congregations. Given under my hand the twenty-ninth day of January, 1675. — Feanois Anderson."
A century later the delays at funerals had become intolerable, and a blank form of notice was kept in the vestry to send out before an
interment took place, as foUows : —
" The friends of  , deceased, are desired to take Notice, that it is now determined that every Corjise intended to be buried in this
Church or Church Yard, must be brought to the Church within Half an Hour of the Time appointed, or else, after the Half Hour is elapsed,
the officiating Clergyman shall be at Liberty to leave the Church, and no other Clergyman will be permitted to perform that Office that Day."
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and degradation in the Royal cause. At the Restoration he was reinstated, and one of his first
achievements was to compete witb Sir John Marley for the Mayoralty. It was a hard struggle, and the-
electors " sat up all night, and Sir Francis carried it." In the last year of his mayoralty he sold the family
mansion, " The New House," to Sir W. Blackett, having previously parted with his Jesmond property to-
an ancestor of the Blenkiusopp-Coulsons.
A member of this family is the local hero of the very ancient legend of the fish and the ring.* The
story is said to be as old as the time of King Solomon, but it found in 1559 a " local habitation" on Tyne
Bridge, and " a name" in " Alderman Anderson." Authorities are not agreed upon the Christian name of
the alderman whose ring the fish swallowed. Bourne states that his name was Francis, and, as stated
above, one Francis Anderson was Sheriff in 1560.
St. Nicholas' Register contains numerous entries recording the interment of the Andersons in their
spacious burying place. The name of Bertram is of frequent occurrence.
Among the tombstones there are, in addition to those engraved on Plate 18, the following : —
" BARTRAM ANDERSON, Marchant Aduenturer, depted the 24 June, 1605, and ANNE, his wife.
She depted the 24 of July, 1593, who had 2 sonnes & one doughter, Henry, Willyam, & Alice. Henry
depted the 28 of May, 1605. Willm depted the 24 of February, 1637.

And also BARBARY ANDERSON, wife was to WILLIAM ANDERSON, Marchant Aduenturer,
depted Apriil the 13, 1635. Also Peter, Sonne to the Afor Said William, Depted this life the 8 of
May, 1642."'

" ABRAHAM ANDERSON, Merchant, 1708."

" MARY ANDERSON, Wife of GEORGE ANDERSON, Esq'"^. Died August 4th, 1804, Aged 84 years."
* " We have a story goes in this to^v^l of Newcastle, said to be of great antiquity concerning one of our Aldermen, whose ring dropt oiF
his finger into the Tyne as he was looking over the Bridge. A maid bought a fish the day after, and opening the gutts of it, there found her
master's ring which the fish had swallowed, and sundry families pretend to this day to show us this ring, out of an emulation of autiquity-
None will be able to produce the true ring which we lost in Adam and which Christ espouses us -with, but they who bear the mark of the
Trinity upon them in Election, Redemption, and Sanctification." — Life of Ambrose Barnes.

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PLATE XIX.
THE PEARETH M 0 NUME N T S. — No. III.
TABLET in memory of William Peareth, father and grandfather respectively of the Peareths
commemorated in Plates 10 and 11, and Sheriff for Newcastle in 1742. He succeeded his father
Henry Peareth as Clerk of the Town Chamber in 1725. At the base of the tablet are the
Arms : Quarterly 1st and 4th gules, a chevron argent, between three pears or for Peareth. 2nd and
Srd or, a chevron engrailed gules, between three griffons' heads erased sable for Jackson. On an
escutcheon of pretence azure, a chevron between three griffons' heads erased argent, on a chief or, a lion
passant gules between two torteauxes for Jennens. INSCRIPTION.
" To the Memory of
WILLIAM PEARETH, Esq^
of Usworth House,
In the County of Durham.
A Man of Abilities and Worth,
whose Amiable Qualities endeared
Him to his Family and Friends.
He served this Corporation with great
Assiduity and Integrity as Clerk of the
Town's Chamber, and Alderman,* near Fifty
Years, Always Declining the office of Mayor.
He married in 1731 Ann, youngest Daughter
of Richard Jennens, Esq"^ of Warwickshire,
By whom he had issue Fifteen Children.
Of these two Sons survived Him, William and
Richard Thomas, and Six Daughters,
Susanna, married to Henry Wight, Esq',
of Northamptonshire, Elizabeth, Ann, Mary,
Henrietta, and Barbara. He died
May the 20th, 1775, Aged 72 Years.
His Widow, in testimony of her
Affection and Gratitude,
* In a scurrilous publication entitled "The Will of a Certain Northern Vicar,'' which was supposed to indicate the Rev. John Ellison,
Vicar of Bedlington, who died in 1773, appears the following reference to Mr. Peareth :—
" My tract on Elohim and Berith,
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Caused this monument
to be erected.
She died the 25th February, 1801,
Aged 87 years.
After a Life distinguished by a
Constant Exercise of Piety to God,
and Active Benevolence
to Mankind."

MURAL l/LO^aHMENT.— BLACKETT.
It is a noticeable fact that of the illustrious house of Blackett, several of whose members were buried
in St. Nicholas' with much pomp and ceremony, not one is honoured with a suitable monument. There
is in the floor a stone in memory of the first Sir WiHiam Blackett — Sheriff in 1660, Mayor in 1666, and
M.P. from 1673 to 1680, the year of his death— which bears the following inscription : —
" Here lyeth Interred the Body of Sr WILLIAM BLACKETT, Baronet, Alderman, and sometime
Maior of this Towne, and Burgess in Parliament for this Corporation, and Dame ELIZABETH, his Wife,
by whom he had Issue Nine Children, of which suruiued him 3 Sons and 3 Doughters, viz., Edward,
Michaell, William, Elizabeth, Isabell, and Christian ; She Depted this Life the 7th Apriil, 1674,
and he the 16th of May, 1680. Michaell his son. Sometime Alderman, Departed this Life the Six and
twentieth day of Apriil, 1683 ; Who had Issue Elizabeth only ; She Departed this Life the 12th Day of
lanuary, 1677."
and adjoining it is another stone, which records the decease of
" Elizabeth, William, Isabell, Edward, Christian, Michael, Iohn, William, and Christopher,
the children of William Blackett, Alderman, & Elizabeth, his wife. Iohn Buried ye 4th of May, 1654,
William Buried y^ 9 of August, 1654, Christopher Buried the 8th day of luly, 1678."
We know that within these walls, honoured by a public funeral which cost nearly £700, were laid the
remains of Sir William's third surviving son, Sir William Blackett, founder and head of the house of
Wallington, who was Mayor in 1683 and 1698, High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1689, and M.P. for
Newcastle from 1685 to his death twenty years later; a man so highly esteemed that "the ad-vice a
kind master gave tp his favourite apprentice, and the utmost wish that a father could have for his darling
son was that he would be through life a — William Blackett."
Hither also, from his palatial town house, " Anderson Place," was borne amidst general lamentation
the next Sir William, son of the above. Mayor in 1718, and M.P. for the town from 1710 until his decease
in 1728. And beside him, in 1759, was interred his daughter Elizabeth, wife of her cousin Sir Walter
Calverley Blackett, five times Mayor of Newcastle, and Member of Parliament for the borough between
forty and fifty years.
None of these worshipful personages have, as already stated, a more permanent memorial in St.
Nicholas' thau a tombstone, and the only souvenir of this powerful and honoured family which the church
possesses are the stone just mentioned, the building which forms the Vestry and Library, and a small
monument in the south aisle of the chancel over the vestry door commemorating, not a Blackett, but the
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Sarah Blackett, the subject of the epitaph, was the daughter and coheiress of Robert Roddam, Esq. of
Hethpool, Northumberland. She married, in 1761, John Erasmus Blackett,* a brother of the fourth
baronet of the Matfen branch, and a notable man in his day. He was Sheriff" of Newcastle in 1756,
during the third mayoralty of his relative Sir Walter, and Mayor himself in 1765, 1772, 1780, and 1790.
His last year of office was rendered memorable by the marriage of his daughter Sarah to Cuthbert,
afterwards Admiral Lord Collingwood. Living to the ripe age of fourscore and six, he died at his house in
Charlotte Square, June Ilth, 1814, and was buried beside his wife, who had predeceased him twenty-nine
years. His epitaph — name, date, and age only — was cut on the stOne which covered the remains of the
first Sir William Blackett. INSCRIPTION.
'¦ Sacred to the Memory
of SARAH BLACKETT,
Who Departed this Life July xiv,
MDCCLXXV, Aged xxxv.
This Monument is erected in testimony
Of the Tender Remembrance
Of an Affectionate Husband,
Whose grief for the loss of an Amiable Wife
Can only find Comfort
In full Assurance
Of that promised Reward
Which Virtue inherits
In the Regions of Immortality."
* Mr. J. E. Blackett is the first Mayor of Newcastle that received two baptismal names. The custom of using more than one Christian
name came into England -with the Stuarts, and became fashionable under the House of Brunswick.
Dr. Alexander Carlyle, who married Mary Roddam, writes in his Autobiography the following pleasing account of Mr. Elackett's
courtship and marriage : —
" Early in this year (1761) my wife's elder sister, Miss Roddam, paid us a visit, and remained with us till she was married. She was a
beautiful and elegant young woman, somewhat taller than her sister, and was a finer woman, but she was grave and reserved. . . . The
gentleman she was engaged to was John Erasmus Blackett, Esq., the youngest brother of Sir Edward Blackett, Bart, of Matfen, in
Northumberland— a man of large fortune, who represented the elder branch of the Blackett famUy, then in Sir Walter Blackett Calverley,
who was the nephew of the late Sir WiUiam Blackett of Newcastle. John B. Blackett was a very handsom^e young man of about thirty, who
had been bred at Liverpool with Sir  Cunhffe, and was now settled partner -with Mr. Alderman Simson, an eminent coal dealer in
Newcastle. John Blackett was called Erasmus after Erasmus Le-wis, who was secretary to Lord Oxford in Queen Anne's time, and an
intimate friend of his father's, John Blackett, Esq. of  , in Yorkshire, who never was baronet, having died before his uncle, Sir
Edward Blackett. John Erasmus was at this time a captain and paymaster in his brother's regiment of Northumberland Militia, lately
raised, and quartered at Berwick since March or April 1760. As Miss Roddam was not of age tiU March, the marriage was delayed till after
that time, when she could dispose of her moiety of the estate. ... He came at the time appointed from Berwick, attended by a brother
captain, Edward Adams Collingwood, whose mother was a grand aunt of the young ladies. They came first to my house for a day, and went
to Edinburgh, where we foUowed them two days after, where the young couple were married by Mr. Car of the English chapel, as they were
both EpiscopaUans. The day after the marriage Blackett gave us a handsome dinner at Fortune's."
Later on the same genial chronicler gives us another glimpse of the Blackett family : —
" When my vrife was perfectly recovered, I found myself under the necessity of carrying her to Newcastle to visit her sister, to whom she
was most tenderly attached. Mr. Blackett was then li-ving in Pilgrim Street— a small but very pleasant house near the gate. . . . Sir
Walter Blackett was one who lived in a fine old house directly opposite to Mr. Blackett. He was a genteel, fine looking man, turned of
forty, who had not been happy -with his lady, the daughter (natural) of Ms uncle Sir WiUiam Blackett, who had left him and her heirs of his
estate provided they intermarried. He fulfiUed the -will most cordially, for he was in love -with his cousin ; but she reluctantly, because she
did not care for him. By report she was of superior understanding to him, for he was not u man of remarkable parts, but strong in
friendship, liberality, and public spirit, and he had a great fortune, not less than £20,000, -with which he amply gratified his own disposition."

The arms below the tablet are : —
Argent on a chevron between three mullets sable, as many escallop shells of the field for Blackett.
On an escutcheon of pretence gules, on a bend argent, three cinquefoils sable for Roddam.
Crest : A falcon's head, erased proper.
The issue of John Erasmus and Sarah Blackett* were a son and two daughters. The former died
young, a year after his mother ; of the daughters, Sarah became Lady Collingwood, and Patty married
Benjamin Stead of Ryal, near Matfen. It is stated that the thoroughfare from Pilgrim Street to
Gallowgate, in Newcastle, was named Blackett Street in honour of John Erasmus, and not after Sir
Walter, or any of his eminent predecessors in the baronetcy.
In the Newcastle Directory for 1801 Mr. Blackett's name appears in a list of merchants, &c., as
"Blackett John Erasmus, fitter, Broad Chare; coals, Windsor's Pontop, Tanfield, Whitfield, and
Mariey Hill."

* The Newcastle Chronicle in July, 1775, announced tliat Mrs. Blackett was buried in St. Nicholas' on the 18th of that mouth, four days
after her death. The pall was supported by Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Siu-tees, Mrs. Mosley, Mrs. Baker, .Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Fawcett, Mrs.
Widdrington, and Mrs. Gibson. The following year, under date June 29, is announced the death of "Master Blackett, son and heir of
Erasmus Blackett, Esq., alderman of this town."

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PLATE XX.
MURAL MONUMENT.— if 0-Si.E'F.
CWLDERMAN MOSLEY, in whose memory this monument was raised, was Sheriff of Newcastle in
J^ 1758, and three times Mayor ; first, in 1767 ; secondly, from January, 1774 — when Matthew Scaife,
then Mayor, died — to the end of the municipal year ; and, thirdly, in 1781. He was also a lieutenant in
the Northumberland Militia, and an active public man. His name is perpetuated in Newcastle by the
thoroughfare which extends from St. Nicholas' Square to the Arcade —Mosley Street — commenced in 1783
as part of a scheme for filling up a filthy ravine through which the Lort Burn ran down to the Tyne.
Alderman Mosley made great exertions to effect this improvement, and " though he did not shine as a
speaker in the magisterial body, yet having an ample fortune, and no direct heirs, he advanced large sums
to defray the expenses attending these useful works."
INSCRIPTION.
" Near this Place
Lieth the Body of HANNAH, Wife of
EDWARD MOSLEY, Esq^ Alderman.
She was the Daughter of Henry Campleshon,
of the City of York, Merchant,
and Died 5th January, 1784.
Also,
In the same Vault are Deposited the remains of
the said Edward Mosley, Esq.,
Alderman of this Corporation,
Who departed this Life
The 12th February, 1798, Aged 81,
Universally Respected and Beloved."
The monument is on the wall of the north aisle in the nave, and on a stone in the fioor is an
inscription commemorating Mr. Mosley 's second wife, Elizabeth Lake,* to whom he was married in 1786,
and who died in 1816, aged 89 years.
Arms : Quarterly, 1st and 4th sable, on a chevron between three mill pecks argent as many mullets
gules for Mosley. 2nd and 2rd gules a bend vaire between two garbs or for Richards. Impaling argent

* Daughter of WUliam Lake, maltster, Newcastle, and half sister of Robert Lake, Commissary-General of North America. In a codicU
to his -will William Lake forbids his daughter Elizabeth to marry Ogle WaUis of Newcastle, wine merchant.

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a fess azure fretty or, between a lion passant in chief and three cross crosslets fitchee in base gules for
Campleshon. Crest : An eagle displayed ermine.

MURAL MONUMENT.— E/i)ZA'F.
On the north side of the great east window is a monument consisting of a female figure weeping over
an urn placed upon a pedestal bearing a coat of arms. This is the monument of Nicholas Ridley, a son of
Matthew White Ridley (see Plate 8), and brother of the first baronet of that name (see Plate 9). He
married, in 1790, Letitia, daughter of Hugh Aitkin, Esq., a Russian merchant, and resided mostly in
London. INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of NICHOLAS RIDLEY, Esq'
Of Link House, in the County of Northumberland.
A senior Bencher of the HonW^ Society of Gray's Inn,
And one of the Masters in the High Court of Chancery.
In Attention to the Duties of his Situation
Sedulous and Unremitting.
In the Practice of every social & moral Virtue
Uniform and Exemplary,
In Friendship steady & sincere.
In affection unbounded,
He died at Bath universally lamented, Jan^ 1st,
1805, Mta.t. 55.
Potest Fugacem sistere spiritum
Hen nulla Virtus."
[Alas, no virtue can stay the fugitive Spirit.]
Arms : Gules, on a chevron between three hawks argent as many pellets for Ridley. Impahng
argent a chevron azure between two cocks in chief and a square buckle in base gules for Aitkin.
Crest : A. bull passant, the tail turned over the back, gules.

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PLATE XXL
MURAL MONUMENT.— ^i^D^-iiSOiV.
§N the 6th September, 1831, died at his house — Anderson Place— George Anderson, Esq., F.S.A.,
formerly Major of the 34th Regiment of Foot, and a deputy- lieutenant and magistrate for the
county of Northumberland.
Major Anderson's father purchased of Sir Thomas Blackett, in 1783, the splendid mansion of " The
New House," long the seat of the ancient family of Anderson (see Plate 18), to whom, however, he was not
in' any known degree related. The Major re-named it Anderson Place, and divided it into " three
commodious houses." It stood on the site of the roadway of the present Grey Street, extending from
Messrs. Lambton's bank to the Central Exchange, and was surrounded by several acres of ground — more,
indeed, than is known to have belonged to any other house in the kingdom within a walled town.
The Major was a liberal benefactor to churches and other public institutions in Newcastle. In 1822
he gave to the local Museum a fine collection of insects from Demerara, and two years afterwards
presented to St. Andrew's Church a valuable painting of the Last Supper by Giordano. He also
contributed liberally to the erection of St. Thomas' Church, and by his will left the following bequests : —
£100 to repair and ornament the tower of St. Andrew's, and £400 to erect a spire a hundred feet high if
the tower would bear it ; £200 to St. John's Church to raise a spire fifty feet high ; and £500 to obtain a
large bell for striking the hours of St. Nicholas' clock. The bequests to St. Andrew's and St. John's
became void by effiuxion of time, but the bell was purchased and hoisted into its place on the 10th
December, 1833. It is called " The Major," and weighs three tons twelve hundred weight (See page 5),
Among other benevolent achievements of the Major, it is recorded that in the year 1824, with the aid of a
Newfoundland dog and his servants, he rescued the crew of the Dido, fourteen persons in all, wrecked with
forty other vessels on the rocks at Hawthorn Dene, in the county of Durham.
Major Anderson was also an author. In 1820 he published a folio volume entitled " A Tour in
Normandy in 1815 ; describing the Principal Cities, Towns and Antiquities, the Great Monasteries,
Abbeys, Cathedrals and Churches of that Province ; their Foundations, Revenues, and Present State ; also
Lists of Persons who accompanied William to the Conquest of England, from the Archives of Rouen, with
Plates, Ground Plans, &c." INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of
GEORGE ANDERSON, Esq"^ of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
And formerly Major of the 34th Regt. of Foot.
He married, June the 15th, 1801, Lucy Anne, daughter of
Stephen Croft of Stillington, in the County of York, Esq''^
And died Sept. the 6th, 1831, without issue,
Aged 71 years.
This Monument erected as a Tribute of Respect by
His surviving Widow."
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MURAL MONUMENT.— 6W/rir.
On the wall of the south aisle of the chancel, near the door leading into the Vestry, is a monument
to the memory of the Rev. John Smith, whose remains are interred in the churchyard, at the entrance to
Thomlinson's Library and the Vestry. Mr. Smith became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in
1785, and was made a member of the Senate. In 1788 he was appointed usher of Westminster School.
In 1799 he obtained the living of Silkstone, Yorkshire, and in 1804 was presented to that of St. Nicholas'.
He was a man of culture, of a liberal and humane disposition, a great benefactor to local charities, and
remarkably conciliatory towards Dissenters.* Over the Vestry fireplace hangs a full-length silhouette of
the deceased in his cap and gown, and in the upper part of his monument is a medallion portrait. To
Vicar Smith this book was originally dedicated. INSCRIPTION.
"M. S.
JOHANNIS SMITH, A.M.,
Tam ob ingenium suum
Quam propter hujusce asdis Ministerii,
Feliciter peracta
Venerandi. Qui
Exacto studiorum curriculo inter alumnos
Scheie regias Westmonastriensis
In numerum Prseceptorum adoptatus est.
Exinde
Patronis merito potitus
Venerandis ad modum sui temporis,
Archiepiscopis Eboraeensibus
Imprimis
In Vicariatum Ecclesias apud Silkstone,
In eo comitatu
Postea.

* " He was an example of Christian charity, for he not only ' did not seek his own,' but in many instances retm-ned what he received,
and gave away privately to the extent of his means, while to the irablic charities of the place he was a liberal benefactor, and promoted many
of them by the most vigilant personal attention and unceasing exertions. February the first liis remauis were interred in a vaidt in St.
Nicholas' Churchyard, near the library door, with every token of respect from great numbers of his sorrowing parishioners. The procession
was previously arranged in the vestries of the respective churches, and set out frora the vicarage about one o'clock. The beadles, -with their
staves, led the way, followed by mutes; next came the boys and girls of St. Nicholas' C'liarity Schools . . followed by the several
parochial officers, select vestrymen, &c., of the town. The clergy of the Established Church followed. The procession was closed by a number
of the private friends of the deceased, among whom were the Mayor of Newcastle, George Forster, Esq., and several of the corporate body.
From an e.arly hour in the morning till the interment, the great bells of the several churches tolled, the flag on the castle was displayed half
mast high, and the shops in the line of procession were aU closed. The concourse of spectators was immense ; and so eager were they to
-witness the interment that a great portion of the wooden paling on the south side of the churchyard [See Frontispiece] was broken down by tlie
pr essure." — Sykes' Local Recm-ds.

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In hunc scilicet apud Novum Castellum super Tinam
Advectus fuit.
Ubi prsesertim
Ita pro virili atque ex animo officiis functus est.
Ut per viginti annos
Mensis vix amplius unius excepto intervallo
Pro suis excuberit.
Ita quoque
Ut in rebus seu publicis sive privatis agendis
Omnibus amicum se prsebuerit
Usque adeo ut
Paululum eheu ante obituni
Unanimis concilium suffragiis
In magistratum hospitii Ste. Marine Magdalenae,
In hoc oppido inaugursetur.
Denique
Cujus divini magistri discipulus fuerit
Quo animo erga Deum hominemque prseditus
Testator
Illud in hac civitate
Ejus prsecipua cura et consiliis
Non ita pridem sedificatum
Mulierum puerperarum hospitium.

Natus pendente A.D. MDCCLXVIL
Mortuus A.D. MDCCCXXVI.

Hoc monumentum
Pecuniis coUatis
Tam ex serario hujusce municipii
Domusque dictse Sanctse Trinitatis,
Quam ex aliis nonnullis opibus publicis
Quibus accessit
Privata suorum munificentia,
Deo volente ponitur,
A.D. MDCCCXXX."
IJranslation.
Sacred to the Memory of John Smith, Master of Arts, venerable as well on account of his intellect as
of his ministry successfully performed in this Church. Having completed his course of studies among the
pupils of the Royal School of Westminster, he was chosen to be one of the masters. After that his merits
obtained for him preferment, after the manner of his time, frora venerable patrons. The Archbishop of
York, in the first instance, promoted him to the vicarage of Silkstone, in that county, and then, in due
course, he was brought to this of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where especially he vigorously and heartily

discharged his duty for twenty years (being absent scarcely a single month), and watched over his people.
In public and in private affairs he was the friend of all, and to such a degree that a very little (alas .')
before his death he was installed in the Mastership of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, in this town,
by the unanimous vote of the Common Council. Lastly, to show of what divine master he was a disciple,
and with what spirit towards God and man he was endowed, witness that hospital for the relief of lying-in
women lately erected in this town under his especial care and counsel. He was born during A.D. 1767 ;
died A.D. 1826. This monument, erected by donations from the Town Treasui-y and that of the Trinity
House, and from other public and private contributions, his friends placed here, God willing, for a lasting
memorial, A.D. 1830.

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PLATE XXII.
TOMBSTONES.— ^iZZ/SOA^.
fHESE ancient stones cover three families of the famous local house of Ellison of Newcastle and
Hebburn. The founder of the family was Cuthbert Ellison, and Stone No. II. records the death of
his son Cuthbert, who was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1544, and Mayor in 1549 and 1554. In his will (Vide
Surtees Society Publications, Vol. II., pp. 148 and 434) the elder Cuthbert describes himself as of " the
Begge Markett, wherein I doo now dwell," and as having lands in " Gowlar Rawe" [Love Lane and Pandon],
a house -with appurtenances "at the Wyndaies," lands in " Bambrowghe," and a "farmold" and "two
"myllnes" in Nether Heworth. The arms are gules a chevron between three eagles' heads erased or.
Crest : On a wreath an eagle's head erased, or.
INSCRIPTION No. II.
" Jhu have mercy of the sowlle of CUTHBERT ELLISON, Marchant Adventurer, sometyme mai. of
this towne, & ISABELL and ANNE, his wyves & y children."
Cuthbert, eldest son and heir ofthe second Cuthbert Ellison, was buried at St. Nicholas' in 1581, and
was succeeded by his eldest son Benjamin Ellison, whose memory is perpetuated on tombstone No. I. He
did not aspire to municipal honours, but remained a successful merchant adventurer, and married Isabel,
daughter of George Lilburne of Sunderland, by whom, as stated in the epitaph, he had ten children.
Robert Ellison, a contemporary, and perhaps a relative of the second Cuthbert, for he was a trustee to
Cuthbert's will, was Sheriff in 1553, and Mayor in 1559 and 1570.*
INSCRIPTION No. L
" The Buriall Place of BENIMEN ELLISON, Marchant Aduenturer, & ISSABELL, his Wife, by
whom he had Issue 10 Children. 5 suruiud, uiz., Iane, George, Beniamen, Alice, & Elizabeth, he
Depted this life ye 25 of lune, 1676. Alice, his daughter, Depted ye 3 of October, 1681. the aforesaid
George Depted this life ye 8 day of February, Anno Domi 1683.
* Bourne states that in the old church of All Saints', of which he was curate, there was a stone -with this inscription :—
" Here lieth Buried under this Stone
The Riglit Worshipful Mr. Robert EUison,
Merchant Adventurer of this To-wn, Twice
Right Mayor he was.
All wordly Pomp for ever thus must pass.
Elisa his Wife, his Children, & Friends him by
With all shall rise at the last cry.
One thousand six hundred seventy and seven.
The last of January, he went to Heaven."
Brand alters this date to 1577, which is undoubtedly correct, for no person named Robert Ellison was Mayor of Newcastle after 1.570. It is
noticeable that the Robert Ellison of Inscription No. 3 died in the year quoted by Bourne.

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Beniamen, His Son, Departed this life the 29 day of May, Anno Dom. 1686. She departed this life
the 25 day of February, Anno Dom. 1697."
Arms : Gules a chevron between three eagles' heads erased or for Ellison, impaling argent three water
bougets sable for Lilburne.
Robert Ellison, brother of Benjamin, whose tombstone has just been described, rose to considerable
eminence. ' When the Scots stormed and conquered Newcastle in 1644, the House of Commons deposed
Sir John Marley, the gallant Mayor, and James Cole, the Sheriff, and in place of the latter appointed
Robert Ellison. In 1647 he was elected to the Long Parliament, and sat for two years.* He was elected
again in 1660 to the Convention, or Healing Parliament, which voted the restoration of the Stuarts, and
then disappeared from public life. He married, first, Elizabeth Grey of Backworth; secondly, Agnes,
widow of James Biggs,f or Briggs, of Newcastle, who was captain of the train bands in 1665, and
Sheriff in 1659. Robert was succeeded by his second son Cuthbert (No. 4), who married a daughter of
William, and sister of Sir Ralph Carr. The tombstone bears the
INSCRIPTION No. III.
" Here Lyeth ye Body of ROBERT ELLISON, Gouernor of ye Merchants' Company, & Some Times
Sheriff of this Towne. He dyed Janu. 12th, Ano. 1677. had Issue By Elizabeth, his Wife, daughter to
Cuthbert Gray, March*: 14 Children, Whereof 8 Suruiued, viz., Cuthbert, Samuel, Joseph, Robert,
John, Nathaniel, Alice, & Mary. ELIZABETH, his Wyfe, Dyed June 30, 1665."
The arms are Ellison as before impaling barry of six argent and azure, a bend gules for Gray. And
the crests, 1. On a wreath an eagle's head erased or. 2. Out of a ducal coronet a demi swan — colours not
given. William Ellison, third son of Cuthbert (No. 4), married Cecilia Bland. He was Sheriff in 1705,
Mayor in 1710, 1722, and 1734, and in 1746 declined to be re-elected on account of his great age and
infirmities. He was buried in St. Nicholas' on the 15th July, 1747, aged 74. During the last year of his
mayoralty — 1734 — his son Robert was Sheriff, and with this joint occupancy of office the name of Ellison
ceases to appear in our Corporate history.
Robert Ellison, the Sheriff of 1734, was twice married. First, to Margaret Fenwick ; and, secondly,
to Anne Davison. He died in 1764, and was buried in St. Nicholas', where a stone covers his remains,
inscribed as follows : —
" Here lieth inter'd Mr. ROBERT ELLISON, Merch. Adventurer, who died Sep, 8th, 1764, aged 57.
Also MARGARET, his Wife, who died Aug. 3rd, 1757, aged 45. And ANNE, his widow, who died June
4th, 1765, aged 55."
An adjoining stone informs us that
"This is the Buriall Place of lOSEPH ELLISON, Marchant, and ELIZABETH, his Wife, and
Children. He departed this life the 21st day of January, Anno Dom. 1686."
Memorials of other members of this family appear in the description of Plate 27.

* "Paid Mr. Robert Ellison, by order of Common Councell, the sum of £100, in parte paymente of his sallerye the time he sate as
burgesse for this towne iu the Longe Parliament, the yeares 1647 and 1648. ' — Corpm-ation Books.
t " Sept. 30th, 1703.— The Burial place and blew stone formerly belonging to Mr. James Briggs, being within the Chancel, is now the
Bui-ial Place of Allen Bateman, Esquire, he being Brother and next a kin to Mrs. Agnes Briggs, the -wife of the aforesaid Mr. James Briggs, &.-
Mrs. Jane Matfen, executrix to the said Mr. Bateman. Test., Edward Kieton, Clerk.'' — St. Nicholas' Vestry Books.

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PLATE XXIII.
MURAL M.Ol^JJM.E'NT.— BUGGIN.
N the wall of the north aisle in the chancel is a monument, or tablet, with the following
INSCRIPTION. " Neare
This place Lyeth the
Body of Major
ROBERT BUGGIN,
Citizen and Haberdasher,
of London,
Who Dyed y= 22 of May
1688
Aged 49 years."
Arms : Sable, a cockatrice displayed argent, crested or.

MURAL MONUMENT.— 5 f^ETOiV and MATTHEWS.
Bourne calls this the " beautiful monument of Mr. Matthews." It is now placed at the spring of the
first arch forming the division between the chancel and the south aisle, facing the Dale memorial window.
It was erected by Mr. Matthews' widow, who afterwards became the wife of Mr. Wrightson, M.P. for
Newcastle (See Plate 24). Francis Burton appears in St. Nicholas' Registry of Burials in 1682 as
" swordbearer" — an office in those days of some importance.
INSCRIPTION.
" Undemeath Lye inter'd
Mr FRANCIS BURTON Merchant
Aduenturer and ANNE his Wife
Mr Burton | ^^^^ f Sept" 17 1682
His Wife i ^^ { Aug 1^* 1676
They had Issue one Son and three Daughters.
viz.
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Elizabeth \ r Jan 25*'^ 1675
Anne [ died } Apr^ d^"" 1681
Francis ^ t Dec 17*'^ 1684
Thomas Matthews, Gent, married Isabel
In Memory of Whom she erected this Monument.
They had Issue a Daughter named
Anne who ) ,. , f March 8*" 1684

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Mr. Matthews ) I April 6* 1697 "

MURAL MONUMENT.— F^-iDOiV^.
Attached to the wall in the south aisle of the nave is a defaced monument surmounted by a coat of
arms, erected in memory of a youthful scion of the ancient house of Welton, or Weldon.
This family appears in the list of famous Northumbrian houses published by Grey in the
Chorographia. Their seat was Welton Tower, near the head of Whittle Burn, now occupied by the
reservoirs of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company. Wallis writes of it, and of the family, as
follows : — " Welton Tower, a corruption of Walltown, i.e., town by the Wall. ... It was the seat of
the antient family of the Weltons ; of Simon de Welton, 10 K. Henry IV., 9 & 10 K. Henry V. and 14
K. Henry VI. ; of Thos. de Welton, 25 and 35 K. Henry VI. ; of Simon* de Welton, 5 K. Edwd. IV. ; of
Michael Welton, 19 K. Chas. I. [1643], who was then one of the Parliament Commissioners for
sequestering lands in Northumberland." • INSCRIPTION.
" Here Lyeth y^ Body of
MICH : WELDON y-* Sonn of
Mich: Weldon of Weldon
Esq"^ and Sarah his Wife
Who Departed this Life
Ap" S'^ 1680
Being 12 yeares and 9
Mo*= old."
Arms : Argent a cinquefoil gules, on a chief of the second a demi lion rampant issuant of the field.
Crest : A demi lion rampant argent.
In the Life of Ambrose Barnes, the Weldon family appear amongst those who were devoted to the
service of King and country against the Scots : — " I need not enlarge upon the heraldry of our families of
oldest standing, the Nevils, the Dacres, the Weldons, the Lumleys, the Selbies, the Delavals, the
Muschampes, the Piercies, the Harbottles, and others, who held of the King in knights' service for his
warrs against the Scots. Let the same zeal spurr us on to honourable atchievments for Christ." Michael
Weldon must have deserted the Royal cause, or he would not have been entrusted with the office of a Par
liament Commissioner " for sequestering lands in Northumberland."

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MURAL MONUMENT— CEO TF^-.
fN the north aisle of the chancel, whither it has been removed from one of the pillars, is the monument,
or rather tablet, of Patrick Crowe, with the
INSCRIPTION. " Memorise
PATRICIJ CROWE
olim de
ASHINGTON Armigeri
Cujus Corpus hand procul
Marmore isto sepultum jacet.
Obijt die Januarij
tricesimo primo
Anno Domini
MDCXCIV."
Translation.
In memory of Patrick Crowe, formerly of Ashington, Esquire, whose body lies buried not far from
this marble. He died 31 January, a.d. 1694.
Arms : Gules a chevron or, between three cocks argent.
Crest : A cock argent combed wattled and legged or.
Patrick Crowe, of Roseden and Ashington, married Anne, third daughter of Robert Mitford, of Mitford
Castle, by Philadelphia, his wife, third daughter of Humphrey Wharton, of Gillingwood, Yorkshire. Mr.
Crowe by this marriage was brother-in-law to George Tunstail, M.D., who was Town's Physician of
Newcastle from 1660 to 1664 ; to Thomas Bewicke, of Close House ; and to one of the Coulsons, of
Jesmond, His son, Mitford Crowe, entered the diplomatic service, and became Governor of Barbadoes.
The family of Crowe, or Crawe, held the manor of Ashington for many years, and some of their
descendants are, it is believed, still living, Patrick Crowe of the epitaph occupied for some time the
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MURAL TABL'ET.— WRIGHTSON.
On the south side of the chancel, near the Dale window, and not far from the elegant monument of
her first husband, Mr. Matthews, and her father and mother, Francis and Anne Burton, is a tablet in
memory of Isabel, the first wife of William Wrightson, sometime M.P, for Newcastle. (See Plate 23.)
INSCRIPTION.
"Near this Place
Lyes the Body of ISABEL the Wife of
WILLIAM WRIGHTSON Esq' one of the
Burgesses in several Parliaments
for this Town and County of
Newcastle upon Tyne
She Dyed ye 13* March
1716."
Mr. Wrightson came from Cusworth, in Yorkshire, and was elected M.P. for Newcastle in 1710.
Three candidates went to the poll— Sir William Blackett and William Carr, the retiring members, and
Mr. Wrightson. Sir William polled 1177 votes, Mr. Wrightson 886, and Mr. Carr— who had been returned
eight times in succession— only 609. Three years later. Sir William and Mr. Wrightson were returned
without opposition. On the accession of George I, in 1715, both these gentlemen were returned again ;
James Clavering, their opponent, receiving only 263 votes. In 1722 Wilham Carr headed the poll. Sir
William Blackett was second, and Mr. Wrightson at the bottom. Soon afterwards he retired to his estate
at Cusworth, where he died at the good old age of eighty-four.
Mr. Wrightson married a second time, his wife being Isabel, daughter and coheir of William Fenwick,
of Bywell. By this lady he had one surviving daughter, named after both his wives, Isabel, who, marrying
William Battie, became the grandmother of the late William Battie Wrightson, M.P. for Northallerton.
In Sprotbrough Church is a monument to Mr. Wrightson, inscribed : — " Sacred to the memory of
William Wrightson late of Cusworth Esq™ son of Robert Wrightson of the same place by Sarah his
wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont of Whitley. He married Isabel the eldest daughter and coheir
of William Fenwick of Bywell in Northumberland Esquire, by whom he had issue Isabel married to John
Battie of Wormsworth Esquire and William and Sarah who both died infants. He served in several
Parliaments for the wealthy town of Newcastle upon Tyne and afterwards for the county of Northumber
land,* in all which he behaved with unsullied reputation to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. 'The
remainder of his life was spent in an honourable retirement which yet could not be called a private station
as it was daily dedicated to the service of the Publick. He executed the office of a civil magistrate with
great integrity, assiduity, firmness and impartiality. He was a generous friend of the church and vigorous
assertor of the liberties of England, being a steady member of the former and a sincere lover of the latter.
He died at Cusworth the 4th day of December 1760 aged 84, greatly regretted by all his acquaintance."

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MURAL TABLET.— HUDLESTON.
This tablet is affixed to the wall of the south aisle, and marks the resting place of Joseph Hudleston,
a nephew of the celebrated Father Hudleston, who saved the life of King Charles II. after the battle of
Worcester, became Confessor of the Queen, and administered extreme unction to the King on his death
bed. Joseph Hudleston's great nephew, Wilfrid, married Miss Dove, of CuUercoats, and the family
inherited through this lady a considerable estate there.
INSCRIPTION. "Near this place
is Interr'd y^ Body of
lOSEPH HUDLESTON
late Citizen and Fishmonger of
London (Second Son of Andrew
HupLESTON of Hutton-john in
y"= County of Cumberland Esq)
who departed this life y^ 14th
of lune Anno Dom : 1679.
He Married Mart Daughter
of Iohn Emerson Merchant
Sometime Mayor of this Town
& by Her had Issue losEPH
(who dyed in his Infancy) & Dorothy
who survives."
John Emerson, or Emmerson, father-in-law of Joseph Hudleston, was Sheriff of Newcastle during
the second Mayoralty of Robert Bewick, and Mayor himself at the Restoration in 1660. He was
one of five Sheriffs and five Mayors of Newcastle, past or future, who in 1669 were reported to Ralph
Jenison, then Mayor, by Cuthbert Nicholson, cordwainer, "for being att meetings and convinticles."
Twenty years before John Emerson had been fined twenty nobles by the Merchant's Company for refusing
to answer a charge made by Mr., afterwards the second Sir William Blackett, that he had used uncivil
language in calling him " an interloupeing giddy headed fellow, sayinge three or four tymes he lyed in his
throate," &c. And the beadle of the Company complained of him afterwards in these words : — " I cam
and tould Master Emerson that I was sent from Master Governor to desire him to come to the courte
. . he told me I was a lying stinking base knave." Emerson was buried in St. Nicholas, where his
tombstone bore the following inscription :—
" JOHN EMERSON Esq"^ Marchant Aduenturer & Alderman, somtime Maior of this towne Died
ye 9*1' of Aug^* 1673. Also his son in Law.
Thomas Ienison Esq"^ March* Aduenturer & Alderman Sometimes Maior of this Towne Depted this life
y® 7 of Decemb"^ Anno 1676. Alice his Wife  "

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MURAL MONUMENT.— i)^y/>SfOi^.
^IR ALEXANDER DAVISON, to whose memory this monument was erected, was a merchant
^ and hoastman in Newcastle. He married Anne, daughter of Ralph Cock, merchant adventurer,
founder of a family whose intermarriages render the name famous in the municipal history of the borough.
Alexander Davison attained the dignity of Sheriff in 1611, and was elected Mayor in 1626 and 1638. He
lived in a stately mansion on the Sandhill (now Nos. 32-35) facing the Guildhall, and was a man of wealth
and infiuence. Warmly espousing the Royal cause during the Civil Wars, he was knighted by Charles I.
at York, in April, 1639, when that monarch marched through the northern counties against the
Covenanters. Thus encouraged. Sir Alexander became valiant for Crown and Church, and with Sir John
Marley, Sir Nicholas Cole, and others, persecuted Puritans and innovators without mercy. A list of
charges formulated against these knightly magistrates, in 1642, states that they compelled divers
inhabitants to " enter in bonds, with sureties in greate summes of money, to appeare and answer at the
Councell Table for going to heare sermons . . . cast some into prison for doeing the same, and have
used speeches that they would roote out all the Puritans out of the said towne" ; procured a mandate to
place " George Wisheard, a fugitive and an incendiarie, to be Lecturer in the towne, and thereby violenthe
forst him uppon them against the mindes of the parishioners" ; " caused houses to be searcht, and cubberts
and cheste to be broken open" ; called before them " sundry men and weomen, and examined them what
thought they had of the Scotts, whether they would fight against them, and whether they thought them
to bee traytors and rebells" ; " have traduced diverse of the towne to the King and the Lords as disloyall
subjects, and have countenanced and allowed Papists in the towne, and comended them as good subjects,
and better to be trusted than Puritans, whom they threatned to exterpate out of the towne" ; and, worst
of all, " compelled diverse to worke and muster upon the Soboth daies to fill upp trenches neere the towne,
. . . conceaveing that to bee the best waie to discover Puritans."
Stimulated by the energy of Sir Alexander and^^his colleagues, Newcastle held out stoutly against the
Scottish army. At the siege in 1644 the aged knight signed, as one of the aldermen, the answer of the
town to Lesley's demand of surrender, and his son Thomas was one of the hostages sent out to the Scottish
leader on a fruitless errand to arrange terms. During the storming of the town on October 19th in that
year. Sir Alexander, then verging on fourscore years, fought bravely on the walls, where he and his son
Joseph* were mortally wounded.
Extensive estates in the county of Durham — Blakiston, Thornley, and Wingate Grange — were
purchased by Sir Alexander and settled upon his surviving sons. His eldest son, Sir Thomas, married a

' Burialls. 1644 — October 25. — Capt. Joseph Davison.
,, ,, 29. — Sir Alexannder Da-vison. — St. Nicholas' Eegister."

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•daughter of Sir William Lambton, and inherited Blakiston; Ralph married Timothea Belasyse, and
received the Thornley property ;* and Samuel, who married a daughter of Bishop Cosin, obtained the
manor of Wingate Grange.-f-
The monument, which is now placed high up on the wall in the north aisle of the nave near the
north entrance, bears at the top the family
Arms : Or, a fess wavy between three cinquefoils argent, for Davison ; impaling azure, a plate between
three cocks argent for Cock.
Crest : Out of a coronet a dove rising argent, holding in its beak a wheat stalk bladed and eared
proper. INSCRIPTION.
" P. M.
ALEXANDRI DAVISON Equitis Aurati
et ANN^ filiae Radulphi Cocke ejus conjugis Charissimas
Ex qua filios quinq : Thomam, Equitem Auratum ;
Radvlphvm Davison de Thornley, Samvelem Davison de
Wingate Grange, Josephvm Centurionem cordatum (in hujus
oppidi contra ScoTOS Rebelles propugnatione strenue
ad mortem usque dimicantem heic juxtim tumulatum)
Edwardvm mercatorem caelibem defunctum ;
Filias etiam binas,
Barbarem primo Radulpho Calverley,
Deinde Thomse Riddell de Fenham in com :
Northumbriae equ : aurat :
ac Margaretam Henrico Lambton armig: enuptas suscitavit.
Qvi quidem Alexander grassante tunc conjuratione perfidissima
optim.o Regi causaeque regias semper
Fidelissimus,
gravem rej familiaris jacturam maximo animo perpessus, tandemque in hujus Novi Castri oppidi obsidione
cum Scotorum Rebellium exercitu irruenti magnanimiter confligens,
Novissimum Spiritum (octogenarius fere)
fortiter effudit

-* A paper by Mr. Longstaffe, in Vol. I. of the ArcJuxologia JEliana, furnishes some interesting jiarticulars of the marriage settlement of
Ralph Da-idson. A house in the Close, formerly the residence of Yelderd Alvey, the Royalist Vicar of Newcastle, and afterwards leased to
Sir Alexander's son-in-law, Thomas Riddell, formed a part pf the settlement, and to it were added " two little burgages on the east part of
that messuage in a street or place called the Tutehill [Tuthill Stairs] ; Dent's Close in Blindman's Chaire ; Tenter's Close, -with a house
thereupon, -without Newgate, in Sidgate ; meadow grounds in the Castle Field, purchased of Michael Weldon, whereof there are two small
l>arcells called the Newkes ; a close of meadow or pasture -without and near unto the walls of the town, containing 4 acres, piu-chased of
Leonard Carr, and sometymes the inheritance of George Spoore ; and Hart Glose, mtliin the liberties of Newcastle." In 1650 Ralph Davison
leased the house in the Close, "including an orchard, now occupied by Jane Stote, widow, and bounded by Tuthill Stayres on the west ; and
the messuage to the east of it, and the messuage east of that, and a messuage in Fenckle Streate, on the east side thereof, boundering on an
orchard in the possession of the said Jane Stote on the south," to James Briggs of Newcastle, merchant. To this deed Edward Man, the
Town Clerk (See Plate 25), was a -sritness. In 1725 the Close mansion was purchased by the Baptists of Newcastle, and was used as a place of
-worship by that community for more than seventy years. It was then pulled down, and a suitable chapel erected on the site.
t This lady had buried two husbands— Henry Hutton and Sir Thomas Burton— before she became the wife of Samuel Davison, and after
the death of Samuel she wedded Isaac Basire, iunior.

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XI 0 Die Mensis Novembri^ * Anno ab
incarnatione Domini MDCXLIIII",
hoc posuit Monumentum
Thomas primogenitus Eques Auratus."
Translation.
In memory of Alexander Davison, knight, and Ann, daughter of Ralph Cocke his dearest wife, by
whom he had five sons, Thomas Davison, knight, Ralph Davison of Thornley, Samuel Davison of Wingate
Grange, Joseph, a wise captain (in the defence of this town against the Scotch rebels he fought stoutly
even unto death, and is buried hard by), Edward, a merchant who died unmarried ; also two daughters,
Barbara, married first to Ralph Calverley and then to Thomas Riddell of Fenham, in the county of
Northumberland, knight, and Margaret, married to Henry Lambton, knight. This Alexander at the time
when that most treacherous rebellion was in progress, ever faithful to the good king and the royal cause,
suffered the loss of his property with great fortitude ; and at last during the siege of this town of Newcastle,
while fighting courageously the attacking army of the Scotch rebels (almost 80 years of age) he bravely
breathed his last. On the Ilth day of the month of November in the year from the Incarnation of Our
Lord 1644, his eldest son, Thomas Davison, knight, erected this monument.
Another branch of the Davison family began to figure in the municipal annals of Newcastle a few
years after the death of Sir Alexander. Thomas Davison, who may have been a nephew of the brave old
knight, was Mayor in 1669, and married Anne, daughter of Ralph Cock, and niece probably to the -wife
of Sir Alexander. He died in 1676 ; his wife survived till 1697, and a tombstone in the chancel formerly
commemorated both them and the Cock family as follows : —
" RALPH COCKE Alderman and sometimes Maior of this towne & . . . . His Wife by whom
he had 15 Children she Dep. the 20 of Decem 1630. He Dep the 27 of Jan? 1652. 4 Daug.f survived
him in Dorothy, Jane, Ann, Barbary the Wifes of Marke Milbank, Will. Car, Tho. Davison, Henry
Marlay Merchants.
" Thomas Davison Governor of the Marchant's Company and sometime Maior of this Towne & Ann
his wife by whom he had issue 16 Children he Dep. the 28 of Novem. 1676. She dyed . . . 1697."
The second son of Thomas Davison, named Timothy, had been Sheriff in 1666, when 25 years of age,
and was Mayor seven years after. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Blackett, and purchased
the estate at Beamish, where, like Sir Alexander at Blakiston and Thornley, he founded a family. The
fruitfulness of the marriages recorded in the epitaphs just quoted will have been remarked, and the

*- Some doubt has been expressed whether this date refers to the deatii of Sir Alexander or to the erection of the monument. The
punctuation on the marble favours either reading ; but, as the Register of Burials distinctly states that the old knight was buried on the 29th
of October, it is to be presumed that the date refers to the monument, and this reading has been adopted in the translation. Bourne saw
the difficulty, and put a fuU stop after " effudit," substituting " Undecimo," with a capital letter, for the figures " Xl°." There can be no
doubt that Sir Alexander and his son Joseph received their death wounds on the walls on the 19th or 20th October — indeed the epitaph
asserts it ; that Joseph was buried on the 24th, and that Sir Alexander either lingered a few days, or else his body was kept for family
reasons until the 29th, and then was buried.
t These are the four ladies known in local history as " Cook's canny hinnies." Ralph Cock lived in the narrow lane at the east end of
the Quay, named after him " Cock's Chare." He was a wealthy merchant, and the expectations of his daughters caused the phrase " as rich
as Cock's canny hinnies " to become proverbial. In the case of Dorothy, however, riches took wings, for in the Tour of Thomas Kirk, of
Cookridge, Yorkshire, under date the 18th May, 1677, occurs the foUo-wing passage : — "We saw St. Nicholas' Church. There are several
pretty monuments therein. We saw a grave made for a poor alderman of the to-wn, old Milbank. His poor -widow was in great distress how
to defray the funeral expenses, having but 11. in the house. Her jointure was 1,100?. i)er annum and 15,000?. in money."

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inscription which follows, from a tombstone in the nave, testifies that Timothy Davison's union was equally
prolific : —
" The Buriall Place of TIMOTHY DAVISON Alderman Sometime Maior of this Towne and
Governour of the Merchants Company and Elizabeth his Wife by whom had Issue 16 Children of which
Survived them six Sons and four Daughters. She departed this life the IO**" day of SeptemV A" 1694
And He the 20*'' day of December Anno Dom : 1696, in the 55* year of His Age.
"Here lieth Interr'd y« Body of ELIZABETH DAVISON Eldest daughter of the above said
Timothy Davison who Departed this Life August 31=*' 1739 Aged 75. And also y« Body of MARY
DAVISON Daughter of y.^'.above said Timothy Davison who departed this Life June I5*'» 1753 ; Aged 85 :
Also y^ body of TIMOTHEA DAVISON * Daughter of y^ abovesaid Timothy Davison who departed
this life June 2"'i 1757 : Aged 88."

MURAL MONUMENT.— if.Ai//2,2'OiV.
The second engraving in Plate 25 represents the monument of a young Scotch officer who died a few
weeks after the Battle of Newburn, while the Army of the Covenant, in which he held the rank of captain,
was in possession of the town. The monument is placed in the south-west corner of the nave, near the
south porch.
Arms : Gules, a chevron between three roses argent, on a chevron a rose gules for difference.
Crest : A gauntlet lying fessways on a wreath, grasping a sword entwined with a wreath.
Motto : Mihi palma cvpressvs. (My palm, the cypress.)
INSCRIPTION.
" M. S.
Egregio Adolescenti
THOMAE HAMILTONO
Animi indole, forma Corporis et robore
Prae caeteris insigni
Dni Patricii Hamiltonii A Preston
Filio dignissimo
A nobilissima familia Haddingtonia
Orivndo
Centvrioni Svb D. Alex*^™ Leslaso exercitvs
Scoticani feederis Imperatore
Excellentissimo
Dn" Alex : Hamiltonvs. Rei Tormentariae
Praefectvs
Avvncvlvs Maerens

* Timothea Da-vison was one of two sisters and a brother who founded Davison's Hospital, and, when she was buried, six maiden ladies
from the hospital supported her pall.

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Posvit
Cvm Totivs Exercitvs Planctv Maximo
Obiit
Anno Dni 1640, 29 Octob:
.(Etatis Suae
20."
Translation.
Sacred to the memory of an illustrious young man, Thomas Hamilton, distinguished above others in
mind, disposition, form and strength of body. The most worthy son of Lord Patrick Hamilton of Preston,
sprung from a most noble Haddington family ; captain under the most excellent Lord Alexander Lesley,
commander of the army of the Scottish Covenant. His uncle, Alexander Hamilton, commander of thfr
Artillery, mourning, erected this. He died amid the great lamentation of the whole army, in the year of
our Lord 1640, on the 29th of October, aged 20 years.

MURAL TABLET. -if .Aiy.
Edward Man, whose manifold virtues are recorded on this tablet in a florid epitaph and eleven
punning verses, was a prominent character in Newcastle during the Civil Wars. He was a son of Myles
Man, of Hutton-roofe, in Westmoreland, and, in 1615, was bound apprentice to Edwin Nicholson, of
Newcastle, boothman, or corn merchant, for ten years. Taking up his freedom early, he became a leading
member of the Merchants' Company, and his name is of frequent occurrence in the books of the fraternity.
It is suspected that up to 1642 he was a Royalist, although there does not appear to be any more direct
evidence of his tendencies in that direction than is afforded by the fact that he held a clerkship in his
Company, and that the Incorporated Companies of Newcastle at that critical period were intensely loyal.
The author of the lines on his memorial tablet, indeed, favors a different conclusion, for he describes
his hero, in the fifth verse, as " a man ever the same," and " immovable as the pole among the public
giddiness." In 1635, he was a witness before the High Commission Court, at Durham, against some
"popish recusants," and his evidence there goes to show that he was a strong Protestant. The trial
originated out of an alehouse conversation, respecting a sermon preached in St. Nicholas', by Dr. Cosin,
then Rector of Brancepeth. Peter Pearson and Richard Hodgson, the accused, drank their " morning
draughts at the house of widow Alice Coward," with Man, who is styled a merchant, and Thomas Hallman,
gent. All of them had been at Church and heard the sermon, and Pearson asked Man how he liked it.
Man answered that he liked it very well, and that Dr. Cosin taught very substantially, in his opinion, and
so as no sober mind could take just exception at anything he delivered. Pearson replied, " Howsoever,
my Lord of Canterbury [Laud], and he are both ours.'' Hodgson then said, "Did you observe Dr. Cosins,
his gesture in time of Divine Service ? " Man answered that he did a little. Hodgson asked, " Do you
know how they catch apes ? " Man replied, " Not well." Hodgson then said, " They first put on one part
and then another part of their habit till they had put on all, aud so they catch them." Man conceived
that the two recusants meant that the Protestants were inclining to their popish religion. Pearson denied
that he ever spoke the words, or if he did, that they had such a meaning, and Hodgson, that he ever
named or spoke of the Archbishop or Dr. Cosins. Pearson was fined, and Hodgson mulcted in costs, the
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Whatever may have been Man's position previous to the actual outbreak of civil war, there is no
doubt that in 1643 he avowed himself a Pariiament man .and lost his clerkship. After the siege he
received compensation by his election as one of the assistants of the Merchants' Company, in place of
Sir Thomas Liddell, a noted royalist. There is a letter in Richardson's Reprints, dated October 19, 1644,
signed " E. M," which, it is beheved, was written by Man, and in that document his position is pretty
clearly indicated. It is addressed to a member of the House of Commons, from " Benwell within a mile
of New Castle," and gives a short account of the siege that day, ending as follows :—
" The Storme lasted two houres or thereabouts, it was very hott and managed bravely on both parts
till the Towne was overmastered : I forbear to enl.arge, wishing God may give us thankful! hearts that our
and Gods malicious and malignant enemies are thus happily entrapped, howsoever all my goods they are
like to bee a prey to the souldiers as well as others, in common judgement there is seldome difference ;
I have not any manner of thing out of towne, yet I am happie God made me a spectator of the fall of
those wicked men who were borne to ruinate so famous a towne, the Maiors house or some other adjoyning
are burning, yet my Lord Generall hath given order for the staying off the fire if possible."
The editor of this reprint adds that " Man proved himself very useful to his company in many ways,
and was frequently in London with others of the fraternity during the dispute between the Merchants of
Newcastle and those of London as to the independence of the former. For the Hostmen, too, he effected
like services in their exertions to prevent the lading of coals by unfree men, he having been admitted to the
freedom of that fraternity in virtue of his freedom of the Merchants on 5th March, 1644, and acted as their
clerk for some time previous ; an office which he resigned, however, a month or so before his admission.
Among other traces of his public capacity we find him, 10th Sept., 1641, as a parishioner of All Saints,'
signing the order of vestry for recalhng Wm. Morton, clerk, to the exercise of his ministerial functions.
In 1641 he was one of the commissioners to perfect accounts of billets and other moneys due to Newcastle
from the Scots Army, and on 7th March, 1642, was the subject of an order of the House of Commons that
the Lord Chief Justice should grant a habeas corpora for the removal of the body of our merchant and
others from the prison of Newcastle. In 1645 he was one of the Commissioners £or Newcastle in raising
the " Association," and on 26th May, in the same year, was appointed Town Clerk by order of Lords and
Commons on the death of William Greene, D.C.L."
In the municipal accounts of the Borough, under date March, 1646, appears this quaint entry : — " Paid
Mr. E. Man his charges in goeing to Scotland for to demand debts for the Burgesses of this Towne, but gott
not one penny — £12 "; which shows that the new Town Clerk was not so successful among the Scots as he
had been a few years earlier among the merchants of London and the unfree men of the Tyne.
Man did not long enjoy the office of Town Clerk. His domestic life as well as his public career had
been full of trouble ; of eleven children born to him, ten died early, and he was carried to his tomb in
St. Nicholas' in December, 1654, while in the prime of life. His age is not stated, but supposing that
when he was apprenticed to Edwin Nicholson he was fourteen years old, his age must have been that of
the century in which he lived.
Man's tablet is plain and substantial. At the top is a shield displaying his
Arms : Sable, on a fess between three goats passant argent, as many pellets for Man ; impaling
quarterly per fess indented or, and sable, on a bend gules, a cinquefoil between two birds or.
Crest : Above a mural coronet ... a goat's head erased . . .
INSCRIPTION.
" Memoriae EDWARDI MAN, vere generosi, verissim^ christiani, cum in transmarinis mercator

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emporiis, in publico ecclesiarum senior consultissimus moderamine : in secretioribus nobilis hujus Novi
Castri concUiis fidelissime diu laborasset rpAMMATETS. Decemb. 9, anno 1654, requievit in Domino.

Sub isto jacet marmore
Vir inter viros optimus
Hand nosse fas est titulum
Cognominis, alicujus
Qui sic quadrat et convenit.

Dimetrum hoc EniTAi>iON Sacrat W. C.
Viscerum vir inopibus
Amicis amicissimus
Vir vere pater famulis

Quid sibi vult Edvardvs, hoc
Vocatus Camden referat
Nomen utcunque conspicis
Unum si viro proxima
Constituant epitheton.
Vir genii suavissimi
Vir pregnans in acumine
Cui rNHSiON ingenium
Fuit velut fons ebulliens
Quam placida dulcedine
Vir liberalis spiritus
Vir publici propositi
Cujus acta et congilia
Boni semper ambierunt
Private quid 'sublimius ?
Vir semper idem si uosti
Tempus hoc mirabile
Vir vere fuit arcticus
Ut polus sic immobilis
In publica vertigine

Desperat nostra ambitio
Amantem sic univoc^.
Vir vere gratus populo
Vir generis deliciae
Humani, non amasset hunc
Si quis, hoc esset impii
Legitimum TEKMHPION.
Ecclesiae vir senior
Et felix pars regiminis
Lugete tribunalia
Orbata viri placido
Et suavi moderamine
Huic urbi valde nobili
Nobile fuit ingenium
Si manum si vel oculum
Dixerim minus fallerem
Nam vere fuit omnia
Sed quod longfe felicius
Fuit pars aeternae foederis
Vir bonus cui religio
Suavissimum consortium
Et Christus scopus omnium.

Hunc in aeternum amplectitur
Et qui sic aegre anhelitans
Quaesivit vivus rivulos
Ccelestes, nunc immergitur
Invisceratur fontibus."

Translation.
In memory of Edward Man, truly noble, most truly Christian, having long laboured as a merchant in
foreign marts, as a prudent elder in the public government of the churches, and most faithfully as town-
clerk in the more private councils of this noble town of Newcastle, he rested in the Lord, December 9th,
1654.

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This dimetric epitaph is
Under this marble lies
A Man among men most excellent.
One could not know a title
Of any surname
Which so well squares and fits.
What this Edward means
Let Camden* be called to tell.
A name however you look at it
Unique, if things most resembling a man
Constitute an epithet.
A Man of sweetest disposition,
A Man pregnant with wit.
Whose own native intellect
Was like a fountain gushing
With such calm sweetness.
A Man of liberal spirit,
A Man of public course of life.
Whose acts and counsels
The good always courted,
What [could] a private man [do] more sublime '
A Man ever the same. If you know
This wonderful time.
He was a Man truly arctic ;
As immovable as the Pole
Amid the public giddiness.

offered as a sacred tribute by W. C.
A Man of compassion ;f to poor
Friends most friendlj-,
A Man truly a father to his domestics.
Hopeless our desire
To find one so loving.
A Man truly pleasing to the people,
A Man the darling of the human race.
If any one loved him not
That would be of an impious man
The legitimate mark.
A Man of the Church an elder
And a happy part of its government.
Wail ye tribunals
Bereft of Man's calm
And gentle direction I
To this right noble town
He was the noble intellect.
If I should say the hand or even
The eye I should not be wrong.
For truly he was all things.
But, what is far more happy.
He was a part of the eternal Covenant ;
A good Man, to whom religion
Was the sweetest of all companions.
And Christ, his aim in all things,

Embraces him for ever.
And he who so painfully panting
Sought while alive the streams
Celestial, now plunges
And buries himself in the [their] sources.
Over the vault which covered the remains of Man and his family was formerly a stone bearing the
following inscription : —
" Here lieth the body of EDWARD MAN, Merchant Adventurer and Towne-clarke. He departed
Dec. 10, 1654. He had issue by DOROTHY his wife eleven children, whereof ten are deceased. She
departed 11 July, 1667. Myles his son departed November 10, 1682, and had ten children by Elizabeth
his wife — only three survived."

* In Camden's Britannia is a list of names of the English Saxons. That of Edward occurs in it thus .-
compound and Badig in the simple names denote happiness or blessedness. Thus Edward is a happy preserver."
t Literally " of bowels."

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PLATE XXVI.
MURAL MO'NVMEl^T.— COLLINGWOOD.
§N the south wall of the chancel, near the nave, two of the CoUingwoods of Chirton are
commemorated — father and son.
The father, Edward Colhngwood, was twice Recorder of Newcastle. He was elected the first time in
1737, on the death of John Isaacson, and held the office for two years and a few months. William
Cuthbert (see Plate 28) was appointed his successor, and, on the death of the latter, in 1746, the office
was conferred upon Christopher Fawcett, son of John Fawcett, Recorder of Durham, and nephew of
Dr. Fawcett, Vicar of Newcastle and Gateshead. Mr. Fawcett brought trouble to himself and his family
by some indiscreet remarks about the Jacobite proclivities of three quondam friends, Johnson, Bishop of
Gloucester, who had been appointed preceptor to the Prince of Wales ; Andrew Stone, secretary to the
Prime Minister ; and William Murray, solicitor general. The matter was referred to the Privy Council,
and, in the end, Fawcett resigned his recordership. Mr. Collingwood, who meanwhile had been elected an
alderman, was re-appointed, and held the office from 1754 till 1769, when Fawcett, whose indiscretions
liad been forgiven, was again elevated to the bench, and remained there till he was eighty-one jears old,
a period of twenty -five years.
On a wreathed pedestal, surmounted by an urn, is the family coat of
Arms: 1st, Argent a chevron between three buck's heads erased sable for Collingwood. On an
escutcheon of pretence Quarterly 1st, gules on a bend ermine, three cinquefoils sable for Roddam. . 2nd,
sable a chevron between three escallop shells argent, supposed for Michell. 3rd, argent on a chief sable
three lion's heads erased of the field, supposed for Richardson. The 4th as the first.
Crest : A buck's head erased sable. INSCRIPTIONS.
" M. S.
EDVARDI COLLINGWOOD
De Chirton Armigeri
Northumbriae Vicecomitis
et Hujus Villae per Multos Annos
Propraetoris.
In Memoriam Etiam Conjugis Suae
MARINE ;
(Johannis Roddam de Roddam et Chirton
In Agro Northumb: Armigeri
Filliae et Cohaeredis.)

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.^tatis 81.
Decessit Ilia Die Quarto Decemb: 1766
^t: 66.
Parentibus Carissimis
Hocce Desiderii ac Pietatis
Monumentum
Animo Posuit Gratissimo
Edvardus
Filius Natu Maximus
1790."
"Memoriae Sacrvm
EDVARDI COLLINGWOOD
De Chirton et Dissington Armigeri :
Qvi,
Singvlis vbi Satisfecisset Officiis
Qvae Essent Ingenvi, Qvae Probo Decerent ;
In Pvblicis Prvdens Transigendis Mvneribus ;
Patrimonii Ornandi Ampliandi Felix ;
Moribus Comis, Simplex Animo Egregie Suis
Omnibus carvs
Vitam
Nee Inhoneste Nee Invtiliter Actam
Anno Salvtis MDCCCVI.
iEtatis LXXII,
Caelebs Explevit."
Translation.
Sacred to the memory of Edward Collingwood of Chirton Esquire, Sheriff of Northumberland and
for several years Recorder of this town. In memory also of his wife Mary, daughter and co-heiress of
John Roddam, of Roddam and Chirton, in Northumberland, Esquire. He died on the 19th of May, A.D.,
1783, aged 81. She died on the 4th of December, 1766, aged 66. This monument of regret and filial
piety was set up with grateful mind to his dearest parents by Edward, their eldest son, 1790.
Sacred to the Memory of Edward Collingwood, of Chirton and Dissington, Esquire, who, ably filling
each of the offices that belonged to a gentleman, and were becoming to an honourable man, prudent in
in the transaction of public business, fortunate in adorning and enlarging his patrimony, courteous in
manner, simple in mind, exceedingly dear to all his friends, after a life, not dishonourably or uselesslj'-
spent, died unmarried, in the year of salvation, 1806, aged 62.
Below is a second shield of arms, with four quarterings of the above, and two crests ; 1st, a buck's
head erased sable. 2nd, a stump of a tree couped, from each side a sprig with leaves, all proper.
Dr. Carlyle, whose autobiography has been quoted in preceding pages, was a relative by marriage of
Mr. Recorder CoUingwood, and he writes of him as follows : —

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" Mr. Collingwood, of Chirton, was another valuable acquaintance. He was Recorder of the town and
a lawyer of great ability. Though but the second brother, he had acquired the family estate in consequence
of the dissipation of the elder, who was representative of an ancient family, and whose son is Vice Admiral
Collingwood, the husband of Mrs. Blackett's eldest daughter. The Recorder had acquired Chirton by
marriage ; for a laird of Roddam, one of the five families in the county, who were proprietors before the
Conquest, having been an attorney in Newcastle, had purchased the estate of Chirton, which he left to his
two daughters. May and Elizabeth, one of whom married a Mr. Hilton Lawson, and the other Mr.
Collingwood, while the ancient manor of Roddam went by entail to his nephew Admiral Roddam. . . .
These families adopted our two wives as their relations, as their father was a descendant of the family of
Roddam, and their mother of that of Collingwood, of Unthank, who was related to both. At this period
[1760] there were not many conversible men in Newcastle, which made one value Mr. Collingwood the
more ; for the men in general were very ill educated, while the ladies who were bred in the south, by their
appearance and manners, seemed to be very unequally yoked. The clergy at the time were almost all
underbred, there being only one vicar in the town, and the rest only curates or lecturers."

MURAL TABLET.— INGHAM.
On the wall in the north aisle of the nave is a small tablet (represented in the centre of Plate 26),
which bears the following INSCRIPTION.
"Near this Place
are interred the Remains of
ALICE INGHAM,
Widow of William Ingham
late of Whitby in Yorkshire, Surgeon :
She died the Ilth of November 1794 aged 68 years.

This Monument
is erected
to her Memory
by her Son
William Ingham,
Surg-eon in this Town.

The lady to whose memory this tablet was erected was the mother of Mr. Ingham, surgeon* to the
Infirmary and other institutions (see Plate 31), and grandmother of the late Robert Ingham, M.P., during
several Parliaments, for the borough of South Shields.

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MURAL MONUMENT.— iSifOfTir.
St. George's Chapel contains a monument in honour of William Smoult, a native of Newcastle, and a
pupil in the Grammar School during the mastership of the Rev. Hugh Moises. Fortified with the
education which Moises imparted to his scholars, Mr. Smoult went out to India under the patronage of
Sir Robert Chambers, judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Bengal (also a native of Newcastle and a
pupil of Moises), where his abilities gained him distinction, and he was employed in some important
undertakings. He was one of the founders of the Asiatic Society, and a paper of his, entitled " Remarks
made during a voyage and journey from Bengal to Alexandria, by way of the Red Sea, the Isthmus of
Suez, the Monastery of Mount Sinai, Grand Cairo, &c," was read before the Literary Society of Newcastle,
in 1824 — twenty-eight years after his death. .INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of WILLIAM SMOULT Esq'*'
a worthy native of this Town,
who after a long Residence in Bengal,
returned with Health much impaired
in the Year 1794 ;
and died here on Ilth Day of February
in the Year of our Lord 1796,
in the 39th Year of his Age.
He was a man of strict Integrity and amiable Manners
whose Loss was much regretted by Many,
but most lamented by his afflicted Widow
who caused this Monument to be erected."

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MURAL MONUMFNT.— ^.SXi.
N the north wall of the church, in the nave, is a monument in memory of James Bell.
INSCRIPTION.
" Near this Place
Lie Interred the Remains of
JAMES BELL, Hoastman,
Who for upwards of Fifty Years
Carried on Business in Newcastle
With Respectability and Integrity.
He departed this Life on the 26th day of July, 1795
In the 85th Year of his Age.
This Tribute to his Memory
is placed
by his grateful Relation
and successor in business
John Scaife."
The name of James Bell occurs in the list of churchwardens of St. Nicholas' under date 1760, and in
the church books twenty-one years earlier is an entry of the letting of a burial place in the north aisle of
the nave to " John" Bell, Hoastman, who, it may be presumed, was father of the above. The roll of the
Hoastmen's Company does not contain the name of James Bell nor that of John Scaife. But in the
Newcastle Directory for 1801 appears the entry "Scaife James, the executors of, Tanner, Newgate Street,"
and an erratum : — " for James Scaife, Tanner, read John." Another entry reads " Scaife, the executors of,
Leather Factors and Merchants, Side."

MURAL MONUMENT.— ^iX/<S07V.
In the description of tombstones engraved on Plate 22, some account has been given of the Ellison
family. It is there pointed out that after Robert Ellison — father and son — occupied in 1734 the two
great offices of Mayor and Sheriff, the name of Ellison disappears from the record. Thenceforward we
meet with it mostly in the annals of the church.

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Similar examples abound. A prosperous merchant founds a family ; his descendants, three or four
-generations after him, quit the town and the commercial pursuits in which they acquired fortune, purchase
landed estate and send their sons into the army, the law, and the church. So with the Ellisons. While
the direct line inherited the family property at Hebburn and elsewhere, younger branches obtained
preferment round about Tyneside, and the name continually occurs in the ecclesiastical records of
Northumberland and Durham during the latter half of last century.
The monument which occupies the second place in this engraving is affixed to the wall of the south
aisle in the nave. It is surmounted by an open vase, partly draped, and bears the following (
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of
The Rev. NATHANIEL ELLISON, A.M.
Formerly Fellow of Merton College Oxford
Late Vicar of Bolam
And Lecturer of St Andrew's Newcastle.
He resigned his Soul into the Hands of his Creator
The 1=* of August 1798
In the 62"'^ Year of his Age.
His Remains lie interred near this Place.
He lived universally beloved ;
And died unfeignedly regretted."
Beneath the inscription is a shield of
Arms : Gules a chevron between three eagles' heads erased or for Ellison ; impaling azure, a bend
or, in chief a mullet of six points and in base three piles wavy of the second for Furye.
Crest : On a wreath an eagle's head erased or.
On a stone in the nave is written : —
"The Burial Place of the Rev. NATHANIEL ELLISON. Catherine Mary Clavering died
April 29, 1785, aged 16 Years. The above named Nathaniel EUison departed this life the 1^* day of
Auo-ust 1798 in the 62^"^ Year of his Age. - Charles, S'-'i son of the above N. Ellison died the 4*'' day
of Jan? 1799 aged 9 Years."
The Rev. gentleman thus commemorated was a son of the Rev. John Ellison, who died in 1773, Vicar
of Bedhngton, and of whom was written the somewhat indecent rhythmical satire, entitled "The WiU of
a certain Northern Vicar." He succeeded his father as lecturer at St. Andrew's in 1766, and two years
afterwards was appointed one of the domestic chaplains of the Eari of TankerviUe. In another two
years he obtained preferment from the Crown, and was appointed Vicar of Bolam, and in 1782 he received
from the Duke of Northumberiand the perpetual curacy of Doddington. By his marriage with a daughter
of Colonel Noel Furye, of Farnham, Berks (see Plate 31), he had a large family. The eldest son,
Nathaniel, was for many years Commissioner of the Newcastle Court of Bankruptcy, and died in 1861 ; his
second son. Peregrine George, was, tiU his death a few years ago, a weU known resident in Newcastle ; and
the fourth son, Noel Thoraas, was rector of Whalton, Northumberland, and Huntspill, in Somerset, tiU
1859, when he' died. One of his daughters, Elizabeth, married a gallant soldier, Major Werge, whose
monument is engraved on Plate 32.

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The grandfather of the Rev. Nathaniel, sixth son of Robert Ellison, the revolutionary Sheriff and
M.P., was an eminent dignitary of the Church. He became Vicar of Newcastle in 1694 ; was a D.D.,
Archdeacon of Stafford, rector of Whitburn, Durham, a prebendary of Durham and Lichfield, and chaplain
to Bishop Crewe. Dr. Ellison was a scholar as well as a divine, and besides preaching and publishing
sermons, collected an excellent library, leaving behind him, at his death in 1721,,a valuable MS. concerning
the town of Newcastle, from which Brand freely quotes in his history. He was buried under the east
window of the south aisle in St. N icholas' Church,* but there does not appear to be any memorial of him
remaining. On the tombstone of Robert Ellison (No. 3, Plate 22), is the following inscription respecting another
well known clerical member of the family : —
"The Burial Place ofthe Revd. J. ELLISON, 50 Years Curate of this Parish. He died the 19th of
Jany. 1807, Aged 76 Years. Also ANNE his Wife died the 19th of April 1803, Aged 70 years."
Besides these were the following : — Cuthbert Ellison, M.A., appointed Curate of All Saints' in 1708
by his uncle Dr. Nathaniel Ellison, and in 1722 promoted by the Bishop of Durham to the Vicarage of
Stannington, where he died in 1744, having published some sermons, and, in coarse rhyme, an account of
the village of Benwell ; Thomas Ellison, B.A., Curate of St. Andrews' in 1786 ; John Ellison, appointed
Curate of St. Nicholas' in 1791.

MURAL MOl^HMEl^iT.-LUSHINGTON.
On the death of Dr. Fawcett, in 1782, Dr. Law, son ofthe Bishop of Carlisle, who held the patronao-e,
was appointed to St. Nicholas'. But before he could be inducted he received preferment to the See of
Clonfert, in Ireland, and his brother-in-law, the Rev. J. S. Lushington, M.A., a fellow of Peter House,
Cambridge, was nominated, and for nineteen years held the living. Mr. Lushington was also a prebendary
of Carlisle, and Vicar of Latton, in Essex. By his marriage with Mary Law, daughter of the Bishop of
Carlisle, he had one son, Edmund Henry, his heir, and a daughter, Maria Catherine, who married the Rev.
Thomas Edwards, LL.D. By his second wife, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Humphrey Christian, of Docking,
Norfolk, he had four sons, WiUiam John, a Commissioner of Parliamentary Inquiry ; Stephen Rumbold,
D.C.L., M.P., Governor of Madras, &c. ; Sir James Law, G.C.B., M.P., Chairman of the East India Company ;
and Charles May, a Judge in Madras.
It was during the first year or two of Vicar Lushington's ministry that those alterations were effected
in the Church which have excited the pity or the animadversion of all succeeding generations. The author
of "An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne" writes of Mr. Lushington
that he " resided very little in Newcastle." On the 10th August. 1786, he laid the foundation stone of the
new church of All Saints', in which was placed a brass plate containing a ponderous Latin inscription
commemorating the event, and he died six years after.

* " March 29th, 1704. Let unto the Reverend Nathaniel Ellison, D.D. , Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being one half of a Porch at the
East end of the said church of St. Nicholas, the said Burial Place containing 2 yards and f long from East to West, and in breadth 3 yarda
from North to South, having Mr Matthews and Mr Burtons burial place on the North, the Church wall on the South, and the Church wall on
the East, and Mr Robert Crissop and Mr Charles Midford on the West.— Test. Edwakd Kieton, Parish Olerk."  "1758. Let to the Revd
Mr ElUson, Curate of this Church, by Revd. Mr Thomas Turner then Vicar, a Burial Place in the Chancel, bounded on the East by Thomai
Dixon, on the South by Edward Archer, on the West by Thomas Liddell, and on the North by the Forms."— S<. Nicholai' Vestry Books.

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On Mr. Lushington's monument is the following INSCRIPTION.
"Sacred to the Memory
of a sincere Christian,
a tender Husband
an affectionate Father,
and Faithful Friend,
the Rev* JAMES STEPHEN LUSHINGTON M.A.
(Son of Thomas Godfrey Lushington
of Sitting Bourn, Kent, Esq''*')
Who was nineteen Years Vicar of this Town,
and died in it on the 17th day of June 1801, Aged 68.
From a long and happy experience of his engaging manners
and universal Benevolence of Heart,
His Widow and Children, as a small but inadequate Testimony
of their pious Regard, dedicate this Inscription."
Arms : Or, on a fesse wavy, between three lions' heads erased vert, langued gules, as many ermine
spots of the first for Lushington ; impaling azure, a chevron between three covered cups or for Butler.
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PLATE XXVIII.
MURAL UONJJMEl^iT.— CUTHBERT.
fOHN CUTHBERT, who was a Sergeant at Law, of Durham, was elected Recorder of Newcastle on the
18th January, 1706. He married Dorothy, youngest daughter of John Spearman, the antiquary, of
Thornley, and held the office until his death in 1724. John Isaacson succeeded him, and died in 1737,
when Edward Collingwood was appointed to the post, and, as stated on page 84, held the office for a couple
of years and a few months. After Collingwood resigned, William, son of John Cuthbert, became Recorder,
and remained in office seven years, dving in 1746 at the age of 55.
William Cuthbert purchased, in 1743, from the Darcy family, the estate of Witton Castle, for about
£15,000. His son, John Cuthbert, who erected the monument in St. Nicholas', died in 1782 -without issue,
and the property passed to Mr. Hopper, who had married William Cuthbert's daughter, Philadelphia.
Richard Cuthbert, B.D., William's next brother, was appointed morning lecturer at St. Ann's Chapel,
Sandgate, Newcastle, in 1727; was removed to the curacy of St. John's in 1732 ; and the following year
was presented to the Vicarage of Kendal, -where he died, in 1744, aged 48 years.
INSCRIPTION.
"In the Body of This Church are Interr'd
the Remains of JOHN CUTHBERT Esq.
Sergeant at Law, and Recorder of This Town,
Who died the 5* of April 1724.
In the adjoining Vault are deposited the Remains of
his Eldest Son WILLIAM CUTHBERT Esq,
Barrister at Law, and Recorder of This Town :
which Offfce he fiU'd Seven Years, and died
the 28*'' of August, 1746, aged 55.
In the same Vault are also laid the Remains of JOHN CUTHBERT,
of Witton Castle in the County of Durham Esq
Eldest Son of the said William Cuthbert ;
who from the purest principle of filial Piety
gave orders in his Will for the erection of this
Monument :
He died at York, the 15*'' of December 17S2,
Aged 51 Years."
At tbe foot of the monument is a shield of Arms : Quarterly 1st and 4th argent on a fesse gules, three
cross crosslets fitchee of the field for Cuthbert, 2nd and 3rd vert, a chevron ermine, between three sta.os
tripping or.
Ciest : A lion's Lead erased argent, collared gules, thereon three cross crosslets fitchee of the first.

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MURAL MONUMENT.— DOCKWRAY.
On the resignation, in l724,*of Dr. Thomlinson, founder of the Ubrary that bears his name, the
Kfev. Thomas Dockwray, M.A., was appointed afternoon lecturer at St. Nicholas', and occupied the
pulpit in that capacity for twenty-eight years. He was a son of the Rev. Thomas Dockwray, Vicar
of Tynemouth, and Perpetual Curate of Wallsend, and received his early education at the Grammar
School of Newcastle. When his father resigned the living of Wallsend, he was appointed by the Dean
and Chapter of Durham to succeed him, and this preferment he retained until his death in 1760. The
lectureship of St. Nicholas' he had given up eight years previously, and that office was conferred upon his
namesake, Thomas Dockwray, son of his brother Josias, of Wolviston.
INSCRIPTION.
"Near this Place
iie interred the Remains of
THOMAS DOCKWRAY M.A.
many Years Lecturer of this Church
Who after a Life worn out
in learned and religious Employment
departed to the Mercy of God on the 15th of May 1760,
in the 71^* Year of his Age.
He had an able Head, and an upright Heart :
As a Preacher
He was instructive, nervous, eloquent :
In private Life
he was adorned with those Virtues which
distinguish
the worthy Man and the good Christian.
His Nephew Thomas Dockwray placed this
Monument
of his Gratitude to the Meniory of
The Best of Friends."
Thomas Dockwray, the nephew, was an M.A., and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he
afterwards took the degree of D.D. He was inducted into the vicarage of Stamtbrdham, in December
1761, where, as appears by a Latin inscription on the wall, he rebuilt the vicarage house. Dr. Dockwray
died in 1783, and was succeeded in the lectureship by Henry Ridley, M.A., afterwards D.D., fifth son of
Alderman Matthew Ridley, the subject 6i the monument figured on Plate 8.
The arms of Thomas Dockwray (No. 1) are on the roof of St. Nicholas', and are figured as follows : —
Sable a chevron engrailed argent, between three plates each charged with a pallet gules.

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MURAL MONUMENT.— i)ATr;SOi\r.
At the bottom of this monument is a shield of t
Arms : Azure on a bend engrailed argent, three daws proper for Dawson ; impaling gulos, a chevron
argent, between three pears or for Peareth. INSCRIPTION.
"In Saint George's Porch lye interred
The Remains of Mrs BARBARA DAWSON,
The Widow of Mr Thomas Dawson ;*
She Died in the Year MDCCXXVI
aged XXXVIII Years.
And of Mrs SUSANNA PEARETH her Sister,
Who dyed in the Year MDCCLXIX
Aged LXXI Yeares.
Both were the Daughters of
Henry Peareth Esq'' by
Elizabeth Jackson his Wife.
This Monument of Filial Duty
And Respect for one of the best of
Mothers, and of a sincere regard
for an affectionate Aunt,
Was erected by Dorothy, Daughter
of the said Barbara Dawson,
And Wife of Matthew Duane Esq
In the Year MDCCLXXVI."
The monument is in the north aisle, and commemorates two daughters of the Peareth family (see
Plate 29). On a stone in St. George's Porch is the following epitaph relating to their father and grand
mother : —
" Here lieth the Body of BARBARA ATKINSON widow of lOSEPH ATKINSON Esq' Alderman.
She was formerly wife to WM. PEARETH Marchant by whom She had Issue : 3 ChUdren viz. Henry
Iohn (who has been Already Vicar of Aldworth Alias Alder Berkss : 32 Years) And Barbara. She Died
Sepf^ 22 : 1726. Aged 82 Years. Henry died 4*^ March 1728 Aged 66 Had Issue by Elisabeth
his Wife Barbara, Susanna, Elisabeth, Henrietta, Joseph and William, and by Dorothy his
third Wife, Dorothy, Henry and John.
* The uame of Dawson occm-s frequently in the Parliament,iry and Municipal history of Newcastle during the seventeenth century.
Henry Dawson, a noted Puritan, was Acting Mayor in 1646, while the elected Mayor, John Blakiston, was attending to his Parliamentary
duties. In 1652 he was re-elected, and in July of the following year was summoned to Parliament by CromweU, as the first member for the
County Palatine of Durham. Within a month of his arrival in Loiidon he died, and was buried at St. Mai-y Abbotts, Kensington, where his
monumental inscription reads : — " Neere this piller lieth the body of Henry Dawson Esqre Alderman of Newcastle upon Tine, who was 2oe
Maior of the said town and a Member of the present Parliament who departed this life August ye 2 1653." William Dawson was Mayor in
1649. George Dawson, a Puritan, who had beeu Mayor in 1650, and deputy for Henry Dawson in 16,52 while the latter was attending to
his Parliamentary duties, became Mayor again in 16.57.

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MURAL TABLET.— STEPHENSON.
*^VEAR Alston, in Cumberland, is a small estate, called Crosslands, where, at the end of the seventeenth
Jar century, lived Henry Stephenson, the owner, and father of three interesting and promising sons.
The elder, Thomas, inherited the patrimony ; his brothers, John and William, left home to seek fortune.
WilUam established himself in the city of London, where, like Hogarth's Industrious Apprentice, he
became a merchant prince, a city magnate, Lord Mayor, and a knight. His success in life is commemo
rated on the market cross at Alston, where the traveller may read : — " This Market Cross was erected by
the Right Hon. Sir William Stephenson, Knight, born at Crosslands, in this parish, and elected Lord
Mayor of London in 1764." The other brother, John, came to Newcastle, where, in course of time, he
established himself as a wine merchant, joined his brother William in large hop speculations, made
money, entered the Town Council, was Sheriff in 1728, an Alderman in 1747, and there he stopped. In
1750 he was elected Mayor ; but that office, the object of ambition to scores of leading citizens, he declined
to fill, and paid a fine of one hundred marks — the usual penalty. Eleven years later, and three years
before his brother WiUiam occupied the high position of Lord Mayor of London, he died and was buried
in St. Nicholas', where the tablet here engraved was a few years afterwards erected to his memory.
The tablet is affixed at the spring of the first arch from the east window, and bears the
INSCRIPTION.
" Near this Place
Lie Interred the Bodies of
JOHN STEPHENSON Esq.,
One of the Aldermen of this Corporation,
Obiit 7 AprU 1761, ^t. 76.
And of ELIZABETH his Wife,
Obiit 25 Jan^ 1789 ^t. 84.
This Memorial was erected by one
Of their ChUdren who honoured and
Respected their Virtues."
Alderman Stephenson married EUzabeth, daughter of Matthew Bell, of Woolsington, and became the
of Coxlodo-e estate in the parish of Gosforth, Knaresdale near Haltwhistle, and Hunwick and
Rogerly in the County of Durham. Their issue was three sons and eight daughters.
The eldest son, Henry, married his cousin Sarah, daughter of WiUiam Stephenson, and the fortune of
the parents enabled the young couple to settle in London, with a country house in Berkshire. Henry's
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Mexborough. Her marriage portion, or a part of it, was the Coxlodge estate, which the Earl, shortly after
their union, sold to the Brandlings.
The Alderman's second son, Matthew, remained with his father in Newcastle, and was Sheriff in
1759, in which year he purchased, for £16,000, Walworth Castle, in the County of Durham.
The third son went out to India, where he realised a large fortune, and married a Miss Bazett, who,
on his death, espoused the fifth Earl of Essex.
Of the daughters, three are known to have married and settled in the district.
Margaret married, in 1718, Cuthbert Swinburne, of Longwitton, and died the year before her father.
Elizabeth was a Newcastle beauty, and being wooed and won by Aubone Surtees, banker, became
the mother of that enterprising young lady, " Bessy Surtees," whose elopement from her father's house, on
the SandhiU, to become the wife of John Scott and future Countess of Eldon, forms a piquant episode in
the record of Tyneside life and manners. It is said that Mrs. Surtees reading her daughter's secret, sent
her away to Berkshire, hoping that in the house of her uncle Henry, and the society of her fascinating
namesake and cousin, she might forget her attachment, and that John Scott found his way there,.
completed the conquest of her heart, and plotted for the acquisition of her hand.
Barbara Stephenson, the third daughter, married Ogle Wallis * or Wallace, from whose father, Ralph
WaUis, Alderman Stephenson purchased the Knaresdale property.
The arms of Ogle Wallis are on the roof of St. George's Porch : Quarterly 1st and 4th gules, a lion
rampart azure, 2nd and 3rd gules, a fesse cheque argent and azure.

MURAL M.ONJJM.EBT.— DUANE.
This forms a neat and elegant monument in the south aisle. The entablature is crowned by a well
executed female figure leaning on a funeral urn. Mr. Duane, to whose memory it was erected, was one of
the most eminent conveyancers of his time, a fellow of various learned societies, and a famous collector of
coins. He married a grand daughter of Henry Peareth, of the Usworth family, and lived to the good old
age of 78. At his chambers, in Pilgrim Street, now the Poor Law Offices, several men studied, who
afterwards became eminent, and amongst thera was Robert Lake, afterwards Commissary General of North
America. Arms : Ermine, a cat passant and in chief two crescents sable for Duane. Impaling azure, on a bend
engrailed argent, three daws proper for Dawson.
Crest : a wolf's head erased proper. INSCRIPTION.
" In St. George's Porch are Interred the
Remains of
MATTHEW DUANE of Lincoln's Inn London Esq^
Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies
Aud a Trustee of the British Museum.

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He was of Great Eminence in the Knowledge of the Law, and of the strictest Integrity and
Liberality in the practice of it ; at the same time the friend and patron of the poUte and fine Arts : And
particularly distinguished by his singular Skill Judgment and Taste in Choosing and collecting a most
complete series of Syrian, Phoenician, Grecian, Roman and other Coins, now Deposited in the Museum of
the late WilUam Hunter M.D. for the Illustration and confirmation of History.
The Virtues of his heart were equal to the endowments of his mind. Justice, Benevolence and
Charity Dictated his Sentiments in promoting the Happiness of Mankind.
He Died the Sixth of February MDCCLXXXV
Aged LXXVIII.
In Testimony of her Affection and Sincere
Esteem
His Widow erected this Monument to his
Memory.
In the Same Place are Interred the remains of DOROTHY DUANE his widow. Daughter of Mr.
Thomas Dawson by Barbara Peareth his Wife ; Who Died the Xl*^ of April MDCCXCIX Aged
LXXVII Years."

MURAL TABLET— FURYE.
On the wall of the south aisle in the chancel is a small tablet to the memory of a relative of the
Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, whose family vault was near the east end of the aisle. (See Plates 27 and 31.)
INSCRIPTION.
" Near this Place lies the Body of
MARY FURYE,
Who died March 17*" 1792.
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PLATE XXX.
MURAL MONUMENT.— 5"0i)<?^0i\r.
If SMALL monument in the north aisle of the nave, on the waU of the north entrance to the church,
commemorates John Hodgson, of Elswick House, Newcastle.
Mr. Hodgson was descended from an ancient local famUy, one of whom — William Hodshon — was
Sheriff of Newcastle in 1474. Another ancestor, Richard Hodshon, fiUed the same office in 1549, and
was Mayor in 15i55, 1566, and 1580, dying in 1585. His grandfather— John Hodgson— who purchased
the manor of Elswick from the Jennison family, and died at Elswick House, November 4th, 1749, is thus
described in a local newspaper of that date : — " He was a great benefactor to his country by promoting its
commerce, and a happy support to many families concerned in his employments, a courteous and affable
acquaintance, a kind and benevolent neighbour, a firm and hearty friend, a tender and affectionate husband,
and a most loving and indulgent father. The general respect he so justly merited, occasioned a large
number of gentlemen and others to pay the last solemn mark of it by attending his corpse to the place of
interment in the Quakers' burial ground. Pilgrim Street."
Mr. Hodgson, the subject of the monument, was born in 1774, and married, in 1803, Sarah, daughter
of Richard Huntley, Esq., of Fryerside, Durham. He took no prominent part in public life ; the only
movement with which his name is identified is the formation of the Newcastle Loyal Associated Volunteer
Infantry (1,200 men), of which corps he was the first Major. But he was the father of three sons, two of
whom have left their mark upon the politics and the literature of their native county.
The eldest, John, who (having assumed, in compliance with the testamentary injunction of Miss
Elizabeth Archer-Hinde, the additional surname of Hinde) is better known as John Hodgson Hinde, was
born in 1806, and elected M.P. for Newcastle in 1830, 1831, 1832, 1836, 1837, and 1841. He was an
emiaent antiquary, and a learned and painstaking writer on local subjects. The Archceologia .^iana
is enriched by many interesting papers from his pen ; but his best known work is an introductory volume
to the Rev. John Hodgson's elaborate History of the County of Northumberland. He projected a
Domesday Book of the Northern Counties, and a History of Newcastle, the unfinished MSS. of which are
in the library of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries. Mr. Hodgson Hinde died November 25th, 1869.
The younger son, Richard, who later in life assumed his maternal name of Huntley, was born in 1812,
sat as M.P. for Berwick 1837-47, and for Tynemouth, 1861-65, was High Sheriff of Northumberland in
1877, and for many years chairman of the North British Railway Company. He died December
22nd, 1879.
Mr. John Hodgson Hinde married Isabella, eldest daughter, and Mr. Richard Hodgson Huntley
married Catherine Moneypenny, second daughter of Anthony Compton, of Carham HaU, near Coldstream,
and both died without male issue.

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INSCRIPTION.
" In Memory of JOHN HODGSON
of Elswick in the County of Northumberland Esquire
Who Departed this Life July 12 1820 in the 46 year of his Age.
' For Honourable Age is not that which standeth in length of Time
nor that is measured by number of years.
But wisdom is the grey hair unto men,
and an unspotted Life is Old Age.'
Wisdom of Solomon chap 4*'' vers. 8*" & 9*."
Below, on a marble tablet, has been added the following : —
" SARAH HODGSON, widow of the above JOHN HODGSON died at Stelling Hall in the parish
of Bywell St. Peter, June 25, 1858 aged 76 years.
Ann Jane, 3rd daughter of John and Sarah Hodgson died March 7, 1826 in her 17"' year."

MURAL MONUMENT.— ^rir/i\^SOi\^.
From the apex of this monument, which is in the north aisle of the chancel, hangs a medallion
containing a shield of
Arms : Ermine on a fess gules, between three pheons azure, a lion passant or.
Crest : A pheon.
Below is an urn shrouded on a stand, bearing the words, " He went to meet his God," and beneath
that a tablet with the following INSCRIPTION.
"JOHN ATKINSON
of Newcastle upon Tyne Esq.,
Departed this Life March 1%^^ 1818,
Aged 67 years ;
Possessing many and great Virtues
He lived most tenderly beloved
and his death deeply Regretted
by an affectionate Wife
Who erects this Monument
As a tribute
Justly due to his Memory.

His remains are interred in AU Saints Burial Ground."

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MURAL MONUMENT.— F/iCOX.
INSCRIPTION.
" Erected to the Memory
of
Mr BARTHOLOMEW KENT WILCOX
late of this Town,
Who died 20* September 1815 at sea
on his passage to Malta, aged 27 years.
As a Son, a Brother and a Friend
he was dutiful affectionate & sincere.
The Recollection of his Virtues
although it adds to the grief
forms the best Hope and Consolation
of those who loved him."
The monument is in the north aisle of the nave, and on the fioor is a stone, inscribed to the memoiy
of the grandfather and a brother of Mr. Wilcox, as follows : —
" B. KENT. Here lies interred the Body of WALTER WILCOX who departed this Life the 4th of
August 1791 Aged 9 years. Also lies interred the Body of Mrs ANN KENT, sister of Mr Bartholomew
Kent, who died the 6* of May, 1793, Aged 69 years. Also lies here the Body of the aforesaid
BARTHOLOMEW KENT, of this Town Upholsterer, who departed this Life the 27*" January 1803
Aged 75 Years."
Bartholomew Kent, was head of the firm of B. and J. Kent, upholsterers in the Side ; a street which,
in Bourne's time, was " from the one end to the other fiU'd with shops of Merchants, Goldsmiths,
MiUiners, Upholsterers, &c."

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PLATE XXXI.
MURAL TABLET.- iiOFi).
INSCRIPTION.
"Sacred to the Memory of
WILLIAM LLOYD, Esq«
Who died the 20*" of October, 1825,
Aged 77 Years.
His afflicted Widow caused this
Tablet to be erected in Affectionate
Remembrance of his many Virtues."

MURAL TABLET.— P^^^^Tif.
In St. George's Porch, behind the Organ, is a tablet in memory of a well-known and very charitable
member of the house of Peareth, the widow of William Peareth, whose monument forms Plate 10, and
mother of the youth whose untimely fate she is represented as mourning over on Plate 11.
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of
SUSAN PEARETH,
Widow of William Peareth, Esq.,
of Usworth House
In the County of Durham,
And Daughter
of Collingwood Forster, Esquire,
of Alnwick,
in the county of Northumberland
who died the 23'-'J of December 1821
Aged 69.
" He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth
in Me shall never die. — St. John xi., 25, 26."
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labours and their works do follow them. — Rev. xiv., 13."

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MURAL TABLET.— CLAVERING.
On page 60 is mentioned the fact that St. Nicholas' contains only one monument bearing the name
of the Blacketts, and that one commemorating a lady who married into the family, and not a Blackett by
birth. The same remark applies to the still more ancient house of Clavering, which is represented by
a small mural tablet, in the south aisle of the nave, to the memory of the -widow of George Clavering.
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory
of
MARGARET
Widow of George Clavering
of Greencroft
in the County of Durham Esq.
Who departed this Life
The 19*" day of December 1821
Aged 63 Years."
The Arms of the Claverings of Greencroft are : Quarterly or and gules, a bend sable.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi lion issuant azure.
In the nave is a stone in memory of three children of James Clavering (third son of the sixth Robert
Clavering of Callaley), who was Sheriff of the town in 1599 and Mayor in 1607 and 1618, and of Dame
Jane Clavering (widow of the third baronet, and daughter of Robert Mallabar), who bequeathed sums of
money to the poor of the town. The inscription reads thus : —
" Here lie Interred the Bodies of Roger, Jane, Susanna, Thomas, and Jacob, children of JAMES
CLAVERING, Merchant Adventurer, and sometime Mayor of this Town: Roger died 8'" July, 1592;
Jane, 28*" July, 1595; Susanna, 9*" June, 1599; Thomas, 6*" June, 1602, and Jacob, 22°'^ Aug*- 1615.
Here also lieth Dame JANE CLAVERING, Relict of S'" JOHN CLAVERING, late of AxweU,
Bar*' who died 22"'* Feb^ 1735, Aged 66.
She was a Lady of Ye most Exemplary Life, of the strictest Piety, the most extensive Charity, the
greatest Affability, and the tenderest Parent."

MURAL TABLET. -INGHAM.
This tablet is on the wall of the nave, south aisle, and commemorates the father of the late Robert
Ingham, Esq., Q.C, M.P., for South Shields and Recorder of Berwick. Wm. Ingham married Jane, daughter
of Robert Walker, Esq., of Westoe, and becarae associated with the Wylam branch of the ancient family of
Blackett, by the marriage of his sister to Christopher Blackett, of Wylam, grandfather of the late J. F.
Burgoyne Blackett, M.P. for Newcastle. In 1813 a portrait of Mr. Ingham by Nicholson, was presented
to the Infirmary of Newcastle, as a testimony of respect for his services in the capacity of surgeon during
33 years. Mr. Ingham was also surgeon to the Newcastle Loyal Associated Volunteer Infantry, enroUed
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One who knew him wrote of him : — " From the precision of his discipline, the pupils of this highly
revered master have almost uniformly attained pre-eminence in their profession ; the colonial, the land
and sea service, as well as the walks of private practice, have been embellished by the disciples of his
school." INSCRIPTION. " In Memory of
WILLIAM INGHAM,
who was born at Whitby 3'* December 1753
And died 26*" November 1817, in this Town,
Where he had practised as a Surgeon
for more than Forty Years.
And of JANE INGHAM his wife
Who died 7*" March 1825
Aged 66 Years.
And of WILLIAM their Son
Who died 23'* January 1800
Aged 18 Years."
Mr. Ingham's arms on the roof of the Church are
Vert, on a fess argent, three escaUop sheUs parted per fess or and gules.
There is a smaU tablet with the foUowing inscription :— " In Memory of Eleanor the only daughter
of WiUiam and Jane Ingham who died 20 Oct. 1835 Aged 46 Years."

MURAL TABLET.— ELLISON.
A neat marble tablet in the south aisle of the nave recoirds the death of the widow of the Rev.
Nathaniel Ellison, whose monument is engraved on Plate 27.
INSCRIPTION. " Sacred
to the Memory of
JANE ELLISON,
who departed this life the 4*" day of October 1828
In the 75*" Year of her Age.
The deceased was Widow of
the Rev. Nathaniel Ellison
of this town
And Daughter of the late Lieut. Colonel Noel Furye
of Farnham in the County of Berks.
' Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own Works praise her in the gates.' "

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PLATE XXXII.
MURAL TABLET.— THORNTON.
In the south aisle pf the church, at the west end, is a tablet in memory of a young officer who died
suddenly in Newcastle. INSCRIPTION.
"Sacred to the Memory of
Lieutenant WILLIAM HAYDON THORNTON
of the Sussex Militia
Who departed this Life
the IX of March MDCCCVII
Aged XXI Years."

MURAL MONUMENT.— SiT^Ei^^T.
This monument is in St. George's Chapel. It tells its own story in pathetic language.
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to tbe Memory
of Major General JOHN BYNE SKERRET,
son of Lieut. Gen. John Skerret
of Nantwich in Cheshire,
and of Annie his Wife,
Daughter of Henry Byne Esq of Carshalton Surrey
Who died on the 10*" day of March 1813
In the 36 Year of his Age
of Wounds received at the head of his Brigade
In the Assault of Bergen op Zoom,
From the age of 15 Years
to the day of his lamented Death
his life was spent
in tlie Service of his King and Country
in every Quarter of the Globe.
During the long and Successful Struggle of
generous freedom
against tyrannical oppression

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his services in Spain were most Conspicuous
especially in the defence of Tarife
and in the Capture of Seville.
His Military Career was useful, active, brilliant;
his private life Exemplary.
Reader !
It is a Mother who survives to raise this Monument
to such a Son ; her only child.
Bereft of all Earthly Felicity she looks forward
(in humble hope)
to a reunion with the Object of her Affections
in the blessed World where separated Friends
again shall meet
and where Grief and Mourning cannot enter."
MURAL TABLET.— WERGE.
In the reign of Charles II. the Rev. Richard Werge, M.A., who, in 1648, had been made Fellow ot
Trinity College, Oxford, by the visitors, " being by them taken to be a godly brother for the cause, as,
indeed, he was " exchanged the living of Nailston, in Leicestershire, with the Rev. William Cave, M.A.,
Rector of Gateshead. In 1686, as appears by Gateshead Register, he married Dorcas Rutter, and died
the year foUowing, leaving an only son, the Rev. John Werge, M.A., Vicar of Kirknewton.
The family of Werge is of great antiquity. One of its members was Sir Clement Wearg, Knight,
Solicitor General, counsel for the Crown at the trial of Bishop Atterbury in 1722. His grandfather,
Thomas Wearg, of St. Botolph's, London, was first cousin of the rector of Gateshead, and under his will,
proved in 1684, the rector derived some pecuniary advantage.
The Rev. John, of Kirknewton, married Elizabeth Wood, of Falloden, and by her had, amongst other
issue, Richard, Vicar of Hartburn, and Thomas, who settled at Horton Castle, in the parish of Chatton,
having married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wilson, of Milfield. Thomas's elder son, John Werge, of
Horton Castle, married Margaret Younghusband, of Marden, and, dying in 1786, left five sons, of whom
the third, John, was Major in the 38th Regiment, and the subject of the epitaph.
INSCRIPTION.
"In Honour of the Memory of
Major JOHN WERGE
of the XXXVIII Reg. of Foot
Who was Killed at the Capture of
St. Sebastian in Spain
The XXXI of August MDCCCXIII
In the XLII Year of his Age.
He was buried with Military Honours
Near the Spot where he expired
Most sincerely and deservedly
Beloved and Regretted."

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Major Werge married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Vicar of Bolam, and
Lecturer of St. Andrew's, Newcastle (see Plate 27), by whom he had issue Margaret, married to WiUiam
Smith, of Gosforth, whose son is T. E. Smith, Esq., M.P. for Tynemouth ; Elizabeth, married to Ralph
Carr Ellison, Esq., of Dunston Hill ; and Jane, who married the Rev. Mr. Simpson.

MURAL TABLET.— F7i/Sf0i\^.
In the north aisle of the nave is a tablet to the memory of Mary, wife of Henry Wilson, of
Newbottle, Durham.' Their daughter, Isabella, married General, afterwards Sir WUliam Maxwell, of
Calderwood, seventh baronet of that ilk. INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of
MARY WILSON,
who died May 26, 1813.
¦ Erected as a mark of affection
by her daughter, the Wife of
Gen^- Wil"" Maxwell."

MURAL TABLET.— CHARLETON.
The north aisle of the nave, adjoining St. George's Porch, contains a tablet bearing the foUowing
INSCRIPTION. " Sacred
to the Memory of
Rear Admiral WILLIAM CHARLETON
who died
The XXVI of January MDCCCXV
Aged LV Years."
The deceased was for some years Admiral of the port of Tyne, and resided in Dockwray Square,
North Shields. He, or a namesake, must have been joint Collector of Customs at Newcastle, for, in 1782,
a patent passed the Great Seal " appointing Sir Jennison William Gordon, Bart., and William Charleton,
Esq., jointly customer of the port of Newcastle upon Tyne." He married Catherine, daughter of John
Davidson, Clerk of the Peace for the county of Northumberland, who survived him nine or ten years, and
was buried in the same vault.
In St. Nicholas' Register, under date 1746, the burial of " William Charleton, merchant," is recorded.

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®THER fiONUMENTS, IaST AND IrESENT.

HENRY, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND
" In this North Part of the Church of St Nicholas " writes Bourne, " was a Shrine of Henry Eari of
Northumberland, who in the 4th of Henry the 7th was Lieutenant of Yorkshire, and being commanded
by the King to levy those Monies which were then extorted from the Country to carry on the War of
Britany ; the Vulgar conceiving him to be the Cause of that Task, tumultously murdered him at
Cockledge near Threske, eighteen Miles north of York, upon the Day of St Vitalis the Martyr [AprU 28th,
1489] ; whereupon he was buried at Beverley, where he hath a stately Monument, but much defaced.
This Shrine is at present much more so, being no where to be met with ; but Grey teUs us that in this
Part of the Church there was such a Monument in his Time, that was made in Memory of him in his o-wn
Country ; he having a House in this Town and Parish,* and that Part of the Inscription upon it was
' Orate pro anima Henrici Percy 4 Northumbriae qui per Rebellium manus occubuit,' &c. The Milbank
Manuscript says it was in the north Corner of the Church : That it was a Monument of Wood ; on which
was painted an old Man, our Saviour on his right Hand, and the Virgin Mary on his Left. There came a
Labi! from her Mouth, but what it was this Authority had forgot ; but that from our Saviour's was
'Quseso Patri fac, quod rogat mea Mater.' [I pray thee Father do what my Mother asks.j Then
followed some Latin Verses done in the rhiming Way of the Monks, but they are so dark and obscure that
little can be made of them. The Manuscript goes on : When Mr. William Selby was buried this
Monument was removed out of that Corner, and Sir George Selby did set his magnificent tomb there.
After that it was placed against the wall, next to Sir George's Tomb, and so continued till Mr. Lane.
Hodshon got leave of Vicar Nailor to remove it and place his Father's. Where it is now I know not."

GEORGE CAR R.
Another famous monument, mutilated by the Scots-f- and sold by the churchwardens in 1783, was the
tomb of George Carr, the reputed ancestor of the Carrs of Cocken. It stood behind the altar or holy
table, facing the southernmost mullions of the east window, where, in the opinion of Brand, formerly stood
» The Earl's House was at the east end of the Close "on the side of the street next to the river, bounded on the east by Bower Chare
bet-wist Tyne Bridge and the Javil Groop."
1735, Oct. 12 , St. Nicholas'. "Paid the laborers for cleaning the Earl of Northumberland's Porch, 5s. 6d."
t " When the Soots took the To-wne they plundered the Churches, and these and many more were defaced; for they broke down the
Carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers."— Boubne's Histm-y of Newcastle.

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the altar of the second chantry of Our Lady, which George Carr founded. Upon the tomb were the
effigies of George and his lady, resting on pillows with their hands raised, and over them was an
elegant arched canopy. The inscription on the monument is recorded by Bourne as follows : —
" Orate pro Anima Georgij Car quondam Majoris istius villse qui obijt Anno Domini Millesimo
CCCC * Cujus animse Propitietur Deus."
[Pray for the soul of George Carr, formerly Mayor of this town, who died A.D. 14 — . To whose soul
may God be reconciled.]
On the canopy was an inscription, which Bourne, on the authority of a MS. in the church, makes to
read thus : —
" For George Car's SawU, his Wyffes and Chylders SawUs all, and to make a solem Dyrge Mass with
all his Bruthern in the Qwyre and Virsse to sing as aperyth in his Wryting of Rim* ."
At the feet of the effigies were a representation of Christ upon the Cross, with the name of George
Carr at its base, and an inscription, as deciphered by Bourne, " Our Lady prays him to say at the Day."
This f ootstone was preserved by Alderman Hornby when the monument was broken up, and placed, with
other fragments, in the garden of his house in Pilgrim Street. It now stands in the south aisle of the
nave. The inscription, as pointed out by Mr. Longstaffe, really is to the effect that " Our lady priest is
bound to say at the lavatory [piscina] every day " something or other " for George Car's sawU," &c.
The effigy of Lady Carr, greatly mutilated, is now in the Castle, whither it was removed during the
recent alterations.
George Carr was Mayor of Newcastle ten times, namely, in 1481, 1484, 1486, 1487, 1489, 1491,
1492, 1498, 1500, and 1502. Towards the end of his Mayoralty, namely, on the 24th of July, 1503, he
received, in state, the Princess Margaret, eldest daughter of King Henry VIL, on her way to her marriage
with James IV. of Scotland. The princess, then in her fourteenth year, was accompanied by the Earl of
Surrey and a splendid retinue of the nobility and gentry. The Somerset Herald of that day describes her
entry into Newcastle in the following quaint but picturesque language : —
" Upon the bryge cam in processyon rychely revested the college of the said towne, and with them
the Freres Carmelets and Jacobins with the croseys, the wich was gyffen to the said Qwene to kysse.
After them was the mayr of the said towne, accorapayned of the scheryffe and aldermen well
apoynted on foot. The wich receyved the said Qwene honorably, and after the receyvyng the said mayr
monted on horsebak beryng his masse before hyr. At the bryge end, upon the gatt, war many children,
revested of surpeliz, syngyng mellodiously hympnes and playyng on instrumentes of many sortes. Within
the said towne, by ordre, the bourges and habitaunts war honnestly apoynted. The streytts war hanged,
and the wyndow loupps, toppes, and schippes was so full of people gentylmen and gentylwomen in so grett
nombre that it was a playsur for to se. But they maid non sound of artyllery and ordinaunce.
The next day after, being the xxvth day of the said monneth, Saunt Jamys day, she abode all the da}"- in
the said towne and was at the church masse varey nobly accompayned. That sam day at even the erle of
Northumbrelaund made to many lords knyghts and others a goodeley baunket which lasted to raydnyght,
for cause of the games, daunces, sports, and songs, with force of ypocras, succres, and other metts of raany

* There is some uncertainty about this date. George Carr's name does not aiipear in the list of Mayors until 1481, and it is known that
he was Mayor in 1503. Is it not possible that, in cutting the inscription, one of the " C's " has beeu omitted, together -with the unit or ten
that foUowed it? George Carr served the office of Sheriff in 1429, and, supposing that he was then only just of age, he would be 74 years old
during his last Mayoralty. Might we not venture to read it " MiUesimo CCCCOV " or is it likely that the monument was erected before Sir
George's death, and the last part of the date was left blank ?

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delicyouses manors. . . . The xxvith day of the said monneth . . . the said mayr conveyd her
out of the said towne, and after tuke lyve of her."
For more than four hundred years the Carrs occupied a prominent position in the municipal
history of Newcastle. During George Carr's life— namely, in 1471— John Carr, probably a relative, was
Sheriff, and, in 1527, WiUiam Carr occupied the same position. Ralph Carr, who was Sheriff in 1532 and
Mayor two years later, left a widow who married John HUton, grantee under the Crown of the estate of
Cocken. She afterwards married WUliam Franklin, of Newcastle, and, at her death, Cocken descended
to her grandson, Ralph Carr, whose daughter, Alice, was the wife of Bertram Anderson, and whose grand
daughter, Katherine, married the Rev. W. Mompesson, and feU a victim to the plague at Eyam.
WiUiam Carr, son of Ralph the elder, who, by his marriage with Joan, daughter of John TroUop, of
Thornley, had issue Ralph, "the heir of Cocken," was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1557, Mayor in 1565, and
M.P. for the town in 1571.
John Carr, of Newcastle, merchant, brother of Ralph the heir, married Catherine ElUson, and had
issue Ralph Carr, of Newcastle (who married a daughter of Ralph Jennison), and James, Sheriff in 1579.
By his marriage with Miss Jennison Ralph had William Carr, of Coxlodge — who married Jane Cock —
and James, of Newcastle, Sheriff in 1630. William, of Coxlodge, is commemorated by a tombstone in
St. Nicholas', which bears the following inscription and coat of arms : —
" The Burial Place of WILLIAM CARR, Marchant Adventurer and JANE his Wife by whom he
had Issue xi Children. He Depted Apriil the 14, 1660. 4 Children survived him viz. Ralph William
and Iane . . . ."
Arms : Argent on a bend sable between three Cornish choughs proper, three lions' heads erased or, a
crescent for difference for Carr ; irapaling azure, a plate between three cocks argent for Cock.
Of Williara's children the younger, Jane, raarried Cuthbert Ellison, of Hebburn ; William filled the
office of Sheriff in 1665, and that of Mayor in 1670, 1689, and 1702; while Ralph rose to considerable
eminence. Ralph married, first, Jane, only daughter of Sir Francis Anderson, of Bradley, and, secondly,
IsabeUa, eldest daughter of the Hon. James Darcy and brother of Conyers, Earl of Holdernesse ; became
Mayor in 1676, 1693, and 1705 ; was elected M.P. for Newcastle in 1679, and sat in Parliament, with the
exception of three years, till 1695,* having, during the last six years of his merabership, William Carr
(query, his brother) for his colleague. Sir Ralph purchased Cocken from his kinsman, Francis Carr, in
1665, and died in 1709, leaving by his first wife an only surviving child, Jane, wife of Sir Ralph MUbanke,
Bart, and by his second wife an only son, Ralph, who married Anne, daughter of Henry, Lord Fairfax.
After the lapse of a few years, namely, in 1737, William Carr, of St. Helen's Auckland and Coxlodge,
became Mayor. He contested the borough against William Wrightson in 1722, and was placed at the
head of the poll. Five years later he was defeated, but in the following year he obtained the seat of Sir
WUliam Blackett, and at the next election his parliamentary career closed.
In the long list of Carrs who, according to the foregoing brief epitome, obtained raunicipal honours
in Newcastle, occur the naraes of Leonard Carr, Sheriff in 1635, and Cuthbert Carr, Sheriff in 1643 ; but
their relationship to either the Cocken or Newcastle branches of the family is not traceable.

* " I remember old Sir R[alph] CLarr] was once very busy to secure his own election to be parliament man for Newcastle. 'Methinks,'
sais Mr. Barnes to him, ' considering your age. Sir R., it were more fit to get your son chosen.' ' Ay, Mr. B.,' replies the other, ' so I intend
afterwards, but it's fit I be served first.' Mr. Barnes pitying the vanity of an old gentleman fond of honour so near the grave, and pleasantly
exposing his selvishness in designing to get his son preferred after him to a post they were both of them meanly furnisht for."— it/co/
Anibrose Baa-nes.

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JOHN MIDFORTH.
Against the north wall of St. George's Porch is a large stone bearing two shields of arms.
The first shield bears — Quarterly 1st argent, a fess between three moles sable, for Midforth. 2nd 
three lions heads erased  3rd  six roundles 3, 2, 1  4th as the first.
The second shield is — Quarterly 1st five lozenges conjoined in fess gules, each charged with a mullet
of the field, between three bears' heads erased sable, muzzled or for Bewicke. 2nd  a bend
between two mullets of six points  , on a chief  a lion passant gardant  3rd a fess between
three roundles  4th  a lion's gamb erased in bend 
INSCRIPTION.
" Here Ueth the bodies of JOHN MIDFORTH, Marchant Adventvrer and IANE his Wife. He
Depted the 2 of October 1623. She the 18 of November 1621."
The Registers of St. Nicholas' contain numerous entries of the baptisms, marriages, and burials of
the Mitfords, or Midforths. In the list of Mayors and Sherifls we find Roger Mitford, Sheriff, 1530;
Cuthbert, Sheriff, 1551 ; Christopher, Mayor, 1556 and 1569 ; and Henry, Sheriff, 1582, and Mayor, 1584.
The arms are those of the Mitfords of Mitford, namely — argent, a fess between three moles sable.

SIR GEORGE SELBY.
" The whirligig of time brings in his revenges." The shrine of the Earl of Northumberland was
removed to make way for Sir George Selby 's " magnificent tomb," and in less than two hundred years the
latter was sold* and broken up for building stones. The writer of a modern Milbank MS. might say of it,
as was said of its predecessor — " Where it is now I know not."
Descended from an ancient Northumberland family, the Selbys who lived during the reigns of the
Tudors and Stuarts were leading men in the counties of Northumberland and Durham and in the town of
Newcastle. They had estates at Biddleston, at Twizell, and elsewhere north of the Tyne ; at Winlaton,
on the south side of the river ; and they dwelt in some state within the borough, where they exercised the
high offices of Mayor and Sheriff, were Governors of the Merchants' Company, and were sent to represent
their fellow burgesses in Parliament.
William Selby, merchant adventurer, of Newcastle, and Sheriff in 1501, married Eleanor, daughter
of John Hebborne, by whom he had a son, George, who was appointed to the Shrievalty in 1538. George
Selby espoused Margaret Anderson, and died m 1542, in the prime of life, leaving behind him a son
* In the Newcastle Clironicle of February 9, 1782, appeared an advertisement announcing the sale of " all that tomb and vault in the
Church of St. Nicholas', Newcastle, situate at the east end of the said Church, in length 18 feet and in breadth 12 feet, as the same is
enclosed -with iron railings and known as the Selby's burial tomb or vault (reserving the right to inter the present owner therein)." Proposals
were to be sent in writing to Mr. .Jasper Gibson, Hexham, on or before the 26th of February, and the announcement ends by stating that
" Mr. Richard Fisher, clerk of the said church, wUl show the premises !" Fisher was a well-known bookseUer in Newcastle, and owner of a
circulating Ubrary originaUy founded by WiUiam Charnley, which, in extent, value, and management, is said to have been equal to any
provincial Ubrary in the kingdom.

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named, after his grandfather, William. Father and grandfather had passed away without reaching the
Mayoralty— dying, probably, before their time came. But William, who had married Elizabeth, daughter
and heiress of Gerard Fenwick, was destined to pass to the higher dignity, and to be the father of a son
who made the name of Selby iUustrious. He was Sheriff in 1564, Mayor in 1573, and, dying in January,
1613, was honoured by a pubUc funeral. A contemporary diarist wrote of it :— " A great and an admirabl
funeraU for old Mr. Selbie att Newcastle. Ther wer assembled in the church 1000 at leest in myn opinion,
for the church cold unith conteyn aU without thronge. Emongest other ghests most kindUe Sir George
Selby invited me. My Lord Bushop, notwithstandinge a great stormy dale, rode to Newcastle the 24 of
this [January, 1613-14] to the soUemnitie of the funeralls of old Mr. WiUm. Selbie."
It was shortly after this " admirabl funerall " that the tomb was erected in St. Nicholas'. George
Selby, WUliam's son, 'had risen to a high position in the favour of his sovereign, James I., as, indeM,
had other members of the Selby family. Five of them were knighted by the monarch as he made his
triumphal marches between his kingdoms of Scotland and England, now for the first time united under
one sceptre — namely, WiUiam Selby of Biddleston, George of Newcastle and his brother William of
Winlaton, John of Twizell, and WiUiam, of Ightham, in Kent.
Sir George married Mary, daughter of his relative, John Selby, of Twizell.* He entertained James I.
when he passed through Newcastle in 1617, and entertained him so well that he was known to the
end of his days as the " King's Host." He was Sheriff of Newcastle, Northumberland, and Durham, M.P.
for Newcastle, and only unseated for Northumberland because ,as Sheriff of Durham, he was thought to be
disqualified. Four times he was Mayor of the town, and throughout his career he lived sumptuously, and

* Lady Selby's father, Johu Selby, of TwizeU, Gentleman Porter of Berwick, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1582. His brother
WiUiam purchased the estate of The Mote, in the parish of Ightham, Kent, and was one of the five Selbys knighted by King James on his
accession to the English throne. Dying -without issue, Sir William bequeathed the Ightham property to his nephew William, Sir John's
eldest son, and brother of Sir George's wife, who became in tum Gentleman Porter of Berwick, and M.P. during three successive Parliaments
for the border town. He married Dorothy, only daughter and heir of Charles Bonham, of MalUng, who died in 1641, and was buried in the
family vault at Ightham Chiirch, where is a curious monument to her memory. Lady Dorothy was a famous needlewoman, and local story
has it that she died through pricking her finger whUe se-wing tapestry on a Sunday. The monument is at the east end of the chancel, and
displays a half length figure of the deceased within an oval recess, on the back of which are two tablets, containing, in imitation of tapestry,
representations of the " FaU of Man " and the "Popish Plot " — the latter an elaborate composition, in which the Pope, Guy Fawkes, and the
DevU are prominent characters. The epitaph is singular : —
"D. D. D.
To the pretious Name and Honor of
DAME DOROTHY SELBY,
ye ReUcte of Sr WILLIAM Selbt, Knt,
the only Dr & Heire of
Chakles Bonham, Esq. She was a Dorcas
Whose curious needle turn'd the abused stage
Of this lend world into the Golden Age.
Whose pen of Steele and sUken inck enroU'd
The acts of Jonah in records of gold.
Whose arte disclos'd that Plot, which, had it taken,
Rome had triumph'd, and Britain's wals had shaken.
She was
In heart a Lydia and in tongue a Hanna,
In zeale a Ruthe, in wedlock a Susanna,
Prudently simple, pro-vidently wary.
To the world a Martha aud to heaven a Mary.

Who put on 1 j„ ^j^^ y^^^ ^f 1^^^ I PUgrimage 69 ) jj^^^j^ ^5
immortaUtie \ ( Redeemer 164x, )

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exercised a princely hospitality. The " magnificent tomb " in St. Nicholas' closed upon him aU too early,
for he died at the age of 68, within three days of the monarch whom he had deUghted to honour. In his
wiU he left to the churchwardens of St. Nicholas' a house at the Stock Bridge of the annual value of a
mark, " soe that they and their successors doe p'vyde that from tyme to tyme his said tombe be well kept
and cleane in comelye manner."
The tomb bore the recumbent figures of Sir George and his lady resting upon pUlows with uplifted
hands, and on the south front of it were the effigies of his children kneeling, as in the Maddison and HaU
monuments. Upon a marble tablet in the wall was the following
INSCRIPTION.
" GEORGIUS SELBY eques auratus ab antiqua et clara Selbeiorum de Selby in comitat' Ebor'
familia oriundus quater hujus villse praetor vicecoraes comitat' palat' Dunelm serenissimi Regis Jacobi
hospitio et servitio nobilitatus. Ob lautum certh et affluentera perpetuo apparatum et liberalissimse
mensse coramunicationem merito passim celebratissimus. MARGARETiE uxoris JoANNiS Selby de
Twisell militis filise consortio apprime foelix. Ex qua suscepit quinque filios, immatura raorte sublatos, et
sex filias superstites. Quatuor ante illius obitum nuptas Margaretam primam Gulielmo Balasys de
Morton. Elizabetam secundam Joanni Delavale de Dissington equitibus auratis. Barbaram tertiam
Roberto Delavale hseredi Radulphi Delavale de Seaton equitis aurati. Isabellam quartam Patricio
Curwen de Workington armigero. Et duas innuptas Dorotheam et Mariam.
Per totum vitse cursum lautissima usus fortuna. In hoc vere beatus quod sub indubitata spe plense
peccatorum omniura remissionis et suae ad seternam vitam resurrectionis spiritum in manus Domini
commendavit, in eoque placide obdorraivit 30 Martii 1625 an. setatis 68.
Corpus sepultum jacet in crypta sub hoc tumulo charse uxoris cura extructa.
Amoris honoris & memorise ergo Mortuus vivo."
Translation.
George Selby, knight, sprung from the ancient and illustrious faraily of the Selbys of Selby, in the
county of York, four times Mayor of this town. Sheriff of the county palatine of Durham, ennobled by his
hospitality and service towards the most illustrious King James. Certainly everywhere most celebrated
for his splendid and ever abounding style of living and the dispensing of a most liberal table. Supremely
fortunate in his marriage with his wife Margaret, daughter of John Selby, of Twizell, Esq., by whom he
had five sons, who were cut off by a premature death, and six daughters, who survived hira. Four married
before his decease : Margaret, the eldest, to William Balasys, of Morton, Elizabeth, the second, to John
Delaval, of Dissington, knights ; Barbara, the third, to Robert Delaval, heir of Ralph Delaval, of Seaton,
knight ; Isabella, the fourth, to Patrick Curwen, of Workington, Esq. ; and two unmarried, Dorothy and
Mary. Having enjoyed through the whole course of his life a raost ample good fortune, in this he was truly
happy, that, in undoubted hope of the full remission of all his sins and of his resurrection to eternal life,
he commended his spirit into the hands of the Lord, and in him fell peacefully asleep, 30th March, 1625,
aged 68.
His body lies buried in a crypt under this tomb, built by the care of his dear wife.
By virtue of love, honour, and memory, though dead I live.

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Sir George Selby's father and mother do not appear to have been commemorated upon the monu
ment ; if they were, the inscription has not been preserved. But within the palisading surrounding it was
a marble tablet bearing the naraes of his grandfather and grandraother :—
" Jesu have mercy of the sowlle of GEORGE SELBE Marchant Adventurer sometime Alderman of
this town, and MARGARET his Wife and their children."
There were other Selbys at the head of affairs in Newcastle besides Sir George and his imraediate
ancestors. One, bearing his own name of George, was Sheriff in 1562. WiUiam Selby was Mayor in
1589, and either he or Sir George's father had been M.P. in 1572. He died of the plague during his
Mayoralty, as appears by an entry in the Register of St. John's :— " December 1589. Died in thys
monethe Deceraber Mr. WiUra. Selbye maior and John Gibson sheriffe 11 persons in the plage so that in
aU which hath died beffor this dale being the firste of Januarij in this towne it is counted by aU the
records in number to be in aU 1727 persons." Hugh Selby was Sheriff in 1606, when Sir George was
Chief Magistrate for the third time, but his relationship to the King's Host is not traceable. At Sir
George's death, the name of Selby drops out of the raunicipal record.

THE LORAINES.
Robert of Lorraine, a friend and companion of William the Conqueror, obtained from that monarch
grants of land in the county of Durham, and, in the fourteenth century, one of his descendants married
into the family of Strother,* and acquired the estate of Kirkharle, in Northumberland. At Kirkharle the
Loraines for many generations lived, died, and were buried. They were a bold and adventurous race, and
made their mark in the lawless times which followed their acquisition of Northumbrian property. One
of them, named Robert, who about 1523 married Margaret, daughter of Robert Bowes, distinguished
himself on the borders, and became so formidable to the robbers and marauders from that debateable
locality that a party of thera waylaid hira returning frora church, and cut his body into fragments, fulfilling
their threat to cut him into " pieces small as flesh for the pot."
The Loraines do not figure in Newcastle history until Thoraas of that ilk married Elizabeth, daughter
of Henry Maddison, and widow of William Bewicke. Thoraas settled in Newcastle, and died there of a
fever. He was buried in St. Nicholas' and a tombstone covered his remains, into which was inserted a
sheet of copper bearing a long Latin epitaph. The copper was stolen, and its place is now occupied by a
plate of brass, upon which is written the following INSCRIPTION.
"Here lyeth the body of THOMAS LORAINE of Kirkharie in the County of Northumberiand
Esq'' and Justice of the Peace there, who marry 'd ELIZABETH relict of Robert [WiUiam] Bewicke of
Close House in ye said County Esq'', Sister to Sir Ralph Maddison Knight and Alderman of y
Corporation of Newcastle, by whome he had Issue onely one Son, he lived at Christs CoUage Cambridge
about Seven Years, where he attained to great learning, even to the Hebrew tongue, and loved and
Conversed chiefiy with learned and vertuous men in and about the said Town and Durham where Bishop

* William del Strother was Mayor of Newcastle in 1352 and 1355. John del Strother was Sheriff in 1416, during the second Mayoralty
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Cozens had so particular an Esteem for him that he was godfather to his said Son. He -was a Comly
person and of a good Stature, a vertuous sober honest man. He lived in the Said town and dyed of a
Fever there, in the thirty fifth year of his age the twenty fourth of October 1649."
The " onely one Son " mentioned in the epitaph, Thomas Loraine, was created a baronet in 1664, and
marrying Grace, daughter of Sir William Fenwick, Bart., of Wallington, had issue fourteen sons and five
daughters. His grandson, Charles, in 1743, was High Sheriff of Northumberland, and Charles's son. Sir
WUliam, fiUed the same office in 1774. Two years later. Sir WiUiam's brother, James Thomas Loraine,
was Sheriff of Newcastle ; his wife, Margaret Haigh, who died shortly after her marriage, was buried
in the vault of Thomas, and on the tombstone above described is cut a record of her death as follows : —
" Here Ues the Body of MARGARET, the Wife of JAMES THOMAS LORAINE, Esq., Who died
the 31st October, 1781, aged 23 Years."
Between the years 1850 and 1852, an unusual mortality occurred amongst the holders of the Loraine
baronetcy. Five of the family inherited the honour and died — the last of them being John Lambton
Loraine, who married Catherine, daughter of the Rev. F. Ekins, rector of Morpeth, and was for some
years at the head of Newcastle Post Office. To his memory there is in St. Mary's Porch, beside the Moody
window, a handsome monumental brass, with the following
INSCRIPTION.
" In Memory of SIR JOHN LAMBTON LORAINE 10th Baronet whose body lies buried at St.
Helier's in Jersey. He was born 30 July 1784 and died 11 July 1852. Also of CAROLINE
ISABELLA his wife who died in this town 28 February 1847 aged 42 years and was buried in Jesmond
Cemetery. Also of WILLIAM CHARLES LORAINE M.A. second son of the above; born 23 March
1841 and sometime an officer in the Indian naval and civil services. He died of a severe illness 11 April
1877 on his passage to Australia, and was buried at sea off the Cape of Good Hope."
Arms : On the dexter side, a shield (bearing the baronet's red hand) quarterly 1st and 4th, argent a
pale lozengy azure, in the dexter chief point an escutcheon of the last ; 2nd and 3rd quarterly sable and
argent, a cross counter-quartered of the field. On the sinister side, quarterly 1st and 2nd same as 1st
and 2nd above ; 3rd gules, on a bend argent, three eagles displayed azure ; 4th, argent, a chevron between
three martlets sable, a mullet in the centre of the quarterings for difference. Impaling : argent, a bend
lozengy sable, between two cross-crosslets fitchee gules, for Ekins.
In May this year (1880) a very elegant monument to the memory of William Charles Loraine, whose
death is recorded in the epitaph above quoted, was placed beneath the Burton and Matthews monument,
beside the Dale window. It is an unrolled scroll of white raarble on a black slab of the same material,
and bears the following INSCRIPTION.
" In memory of WILLIAM CHARLES LORAINE, second son of Sir John Lambton Loraine,
Baronet, formerly of this parish, for some years assistant commissioner in the district of Cachar, in, India,
who died at sea on the Ilth day of April, 1877. This tablet has been erected by his friends in Cachar
as a mark of their esteem for his upright and generous character, of their gratitude for his valuable
services, rendered gratuitously, to the general community of the district, and of their sympathy with his
sorrowing relations in their deep affliction."

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Above it are the arms of the family, cut in strong relief, as foUows :— Quarterly, 1st, argent a pale
lozengy azure, in dexter chief point an escutcheon of the last ; 2nd, quarteriy sable and argent a cross
counter-quartered of the field ; 3rd, gules on a bend argent three eagles displayed azure ; 4th, argent a
chevron between three martlets sable ; a crescent for difference.
Crests : 1, A palm tree proper, therefrom pendant an escutcheon azure. 2, A laurel tree couped, two
branches sprouting out proper and fixed to the lower part thereof with a belt gules, edged and buckled or,
an escutcheon azure.
Motto, " Lauro scutoque resurgo." [I rise again with laurel and shield.]

WILLIAM SCOTT.
In 1836, Lord Eldon caused to be placed in this church a tablet in memory of his father. It is very
plain, consisting of a small slab, surmounted by a vase partially covered by drapery. The history of
William Scott, who, according to George Bowes, of Gibside, was " one of the best and honestest fitters in
Newcastle ;" his trading in tiraber and wheels ; sending his wife to Heworth during the panic of 1745 •
the births of his two eminent sons. Lords Eldon and Stowell, &c., are well known, and need not be
reprinted here. Mr. Scott had no connection with St. Nicholas' beyond that which is afforded by the
memorial tablet, for he was buried at All Saints'.
Twiss, in his Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, explains how the tablet came to be erected in this
church: — "Mr. Scott, his father, did not live to see even the future Chancellor fairly launched into business.
The year in which the son was called to the bar was that in which the father departed this life. He died
on the 6th of November, 1776, and was buried at All Saints', Newcastle. A local Act of Parliament
prohibits the erection of monuments in that edifice, and William and Henry, the elder brothers of Lord
Eldon, appear to have disliked any other situation for a memorial of their parent than the actual resting-
place of his remains ; but, after the death of both those brothers. Lord Eldon dedicated a tablet to his
memory in the mother church of St. Nicholas'," with the following unostentatious
INSCRIPTION.
" In Memory of Mr. WILLIAM SCOTT, Freeman and Hoastman of this town who was buried in
All Saints' Church November 1776. He left to his family a rich inheritance in the example of a life of
industry unremitting, of probity unsullied, and of piety most pure and sincere. This tablet is placed here
by one of his affectionate sons."
After Lord Eldon's death there was found in his handwriting the following memorandura of his
father's circumstances and merits: — "Malt; coals; ships; underwriting ships; grindstones for foreign
countries- coal barges on the Tyne, 12, 13, 14, or 16 — two men each all the year through; sole owner of
a sugar house in Newcastle ; owner of various houses and large gardens; bought two estates in the county
of Durham ; Lord Stowell never would sell thera after his father's death because they were his father's.
At his death there were few persons in Newcastle town of substance equal. He provided liberally for his
eldest son as such ; and decent fortunes for his several younger children — sons and daughters. The best
inheritance the father could leave to all his children was in remembrance of his industry unremitting ;
his probity never interrupted ; his piety most constant and pure ; his exemplary life."

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JOHN BOVER.
John Bover, R.N., Regulating Captain of the Port of Newcastle, died at his house in the Bigg Market
on the 20th May, 1782, and was buried in St. Nicholas' with military honours. Local records state that
the East York and Westmorland Militias marched from the parade to the house of the deceased, and then
lined the way to the church. In the procession were the Grenadiers, bands of music playing the Dead
March, the boatswain and crew of the deceased's barge, then the corpse, with Captain Pemble, Captain
Sinclair, and six other naval officers as paU bearers, the mourners, officers of the Militia and the 26th
Regiment, the Mayor, Sheriff, Aldermen, Recorder, and other officers of the Corporation, and at the last a
battalion of soldiers. " Thus," says the record, " did navy, military, and civil, with many thousands of
people of all ranks, with the most minute decorum, pay the last tribute to the remains of a good and
gallant officer and a worthy man." INSCRIPTION.
" Near this place lie the remains of JOHN BOVER, Esq. post captain in the Royal Navy who died
on the twentieth day of May 1782 aged sixty eight, having for several previous years filled with the
highest credit the arduous situation of regulating officer at this port. This tablet to the memory of a
beloved parent is erected pursuant to the wishes of his only surviving son the late John Bover Esq of
Stockton Lodge in the county of Chester."

THE HARVEY FAMILY.
On the south wall of the nave, east of Bewicke's Chapel, is a memorial brass inscribed ;
" In Memory of THOS HARVEY died 2 October 1806 aged 81.
And MARGARET his wife died 7 October 1773 aged 42.
Of their daughters ANN died 25 December 1787 aged 27.
ELIZABETH wife of Thomas Champneys died 18 Jan 1844 aged 56.
FRANCES wife of William Loftus died 28 May 1830 aged 71.
WINIFRED widow of James Radford died 12 May 1837 aged 76.
And ofthe said Wm Loftus died 16 Feby 1834 aged 71.
All interred near here."

FRANCIS JOHNSON.
Upon the first pillar dividing the chancel frora its south aisle and the nave, and beneath the
Dockwray Monument, is a raarble tablet in raemory of Alderman Johnson. He was Sheriff in 1774, and
Mayor in 1786 and 1794, and died at his house in Charlotte Square on the 7tli of June, 1810. It appears
that his body was interred in or near the vault of the Ellisons, for upon the ancient stone that covered
the remains of Beniamin Ellison (see Plate 22) appear the words —

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" FRANCIS JOHNSON Esq. late an Alderman of this town. Died the 7th day of June 1810 aged
62 years "
The tablet on the piUar is surmounted by a coat of arms and crest, with the motto. Nil admirari,
[Astonished at nothing], and bears the following epitaph : —
"FRANCIS JOHNSON Esq. Alderman and twice Mayor of this town. Bom June IX MDCCXLVIII,
Died June VII, MDCCCX. ANNE his wife born December XI, MDCCLXIII. Died November XXVII
MDCCCXLI. Robert second son of the above born June XXI, MDCCLXXXV. Died February XVI
MDCCCXXII. Their remains are interred in the nave of this Church "
Arms : — Gules, on a chevron argent, between three savages' heads affront^, bearded and wreathed all
proper, as many pheons ; impaling or, a chevron vair between three roses ....
Crest : — A savage's head couped at the shoulders affront^ bearded and wreathed about the temples
all proper. Alderman Johnson was the eldest surviving son of Francis Johnson, M.D., by his marriage in 1741
with Mary, only daughter of Jean Huet, of Whickham. He married June 6, 1782, Anne, only child
of Robert Cook, of Low Newton, a relative of the Cooks of Blakemoor, and had issue four sons and three
daughters. Francis, his eldest son, was born in 1784, and raarried June 6, 1820, Eleanor, eldest daughter
of Charles Bacon, of Styford. Edward, his fourth son, raarried October 29, 1828, Jane, third daughter of
George Atkinson, of Morland, Westmorland, and resides at the Deanery, Chester-le-Street.

FORSTER OF SEATON BURN.
On the west wall of the tower, near fhe northern entrance, is a monument to the memory of Joseph
Forster of Seaton Burn, a descendant of the Forsters of High Buston, near Warkworth. His father,
Francis Forster, early in the eighteenth century settled in Newcastle as a merchant, and rose to be Sheriff
in 1763, and Mayor iu 1769 and 1779. Joseph married Mary, daughter of Henry Scott, coal fitter, a
niece of Lord Eldon — and one of their daughters, Eleanor Forster, marrying the Rev. James Manisty,
became the mother of the present Sir Henry Manisty, a judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High
Court of Justice.
The family vault is in the church yard, a few paces west of the vestry door.
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the memory of JOSEPH FORSTER of Seaton Burn in the county of Northumberland
Esquire, formerly alderman of this town, who died April 7, 1821 aged 59 years. And of MARY his wife,
daughter of Henry Scott Esquire, who died April 17, 1846 aged 71 years. And also of their children—
Henry, who died June 5, 1823, aged 28 years ; Joseph Francis, who died May 17, 1828, aged 31 years ;
Ellen, who died December 12, 1841 aged 43 years."
At the top of the monument are the arms of Alderman Forster, as follows :—
Arms : Argent, a chevron vert, between three hunting horns stringed sable.
Crest : An arm in armour embowed argent, braced or, holding a broken tilting spear.

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An ancient stone in the nave covers the remains of another member of the wide spread branches of
the Forster family,* namely: —
" RALPH FORSTER, Merchant Adventurer Depted this life ye 21 of March 1649. ANN his Wife
Depted ye 18th of October 1652. Their Eldest Son Richard Forster and Mary his wife who has Issue
to him Ralph and Richard. Hee Depted ye 31 of March 1669.
M. W.
I've kept ye faith. A good fight fought have I ;
My God & Sovereign serv'd here quartered lie ;
With Dust Disbanded 'till the last Trump hence
Rally these Atombs By its Infiuence :
Then with the Loyal Bands receive I raay
A Crown of Glory for the General Pay."
Arms : Argent, a chevron vert, between three hunting horns stringed sable, a crescent for difference,
for Forster ; impaling ... a chevron between three bucks' heads erased ... a crescent for
difference. Crest : An arm embowed argent, holding in the hand a broken spear.

WILLIAM SURTEES.
Immediately behind the eastern wing of the north door, and in a poor light, is a tablet to the memory
of William Surtees, of Newcastle, which bears the following : —
INSCRIPTION.
" In memory of WILLIAM SURTEES Esq., who died 18th January 1832 in his 82nd Year, and of
his wife ELIZABETH CATHERINE daughter of the Very Rev. John Lewis M.A. Dean of Ossory, who
died 6 January 1833 aged 86 years. And of their son Edward, who died 10 June 1812, aged 27."
Arms : Ermine on a canton gules, an orle or, impaling quarterly 1st Azure, a chevron ermine,
between three garbs or, 2nd Argent, on a cross gules, five escallops or, and in dexter chief quarter a muUet
sable, 3rd Gules, a chevron between three mullets pierced or, 4th Gules, on a saltire argent, an annulet of
the field. In the description of the monument to Alderman John Stephenson (see page 95) it is stated that
Mr. Stephenson's daughter Elizabeth married Aubone Surtees of Newcastle. Aubone Surtees was a
banker. Sheriff of Newcastle in the memorable years 1744-5, and Mayor in 1761 and 1770. His father
was Edward Surtees, of Hedley- wood-head; his raother, Frances, daughter and co-heir of WiUiam Aubone,

An old motto of this family, frequently carved over the doors of their houses and upon their gravestones, was this rhyme :-
" Let us deadUe them hold
to mind their worthynes
That which our parents olde
hath left us to possess."

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Sheriff in 1679, and Mayor in 1684. By the marriage of Aubone with Miss Stephenson there were eight
children. One of the youngest was EUzabeth, who eloped with John Scott, afterwards Earl of Eldon; the
eldest was William Surtees, the subject ofthe epitaph.
Son of a banker, and the schoolfellow, brother-in-law and friend of a lawyer who rapidly rose in his
profession, William Surtees had exceptional facilities for getting on in the world. He had been the means
of reconciling his father and mother to the runaway match, and was the favorite brother and stoutest
defender of the young lady about whose imprudence busy tongues in Newcastle were wagging. In after
life Lady Eldon was accustomed to credit him with more kindness towards her at this critical period in
her fortunes than she received from any other raember of her family. And as John Scott progressed
upwards he carried his friend's family with him. Aided by the Scott influence, William Surtees' children
took a prominent place in society, and made good marriages. His eldest son Aubone was united to
Francis Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Honey wood, Bart., and was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1800, and
Mayor in 1821. William Villiers Surtees, another son, becarae Lord Eldon's private secretary, and such
was his lordship's attachment to his nephew that until the death of his protegd in 1834, he could seldom
be indued to undertake a journey without his company. John and Matthew went into the Church ; the
former became prebendary of Bristol and rector of Barham, and the latter had a prebend's stall in
Canterbury Cathedral. Charlotte, the eldest daughter, married Sir J. Csesar Hawkins, Bart., and
Deborah Maria married Dr. Philpotts, at one tirae rector of Gateshead, and afterwards Bishop of
Exeter. WiUiam Surtees was Sheriff in 1780, but did not aspire to the higher dignity. He carried on the
business of a wine merchant, and was appointed to the lucrative office of receiver of taxes in Northum
berland and Durham, in succession to his father. He purchased the estate of Pigdon, near Morpeth, from
the Milbank family, and was owner of Hedley, both of which properties descended to Aubone, his eldest
son and heir. He died at Hastings, aged 83, and his widow followed him a few months after, dying at
the house of her son, William Villiers, in Devonshire Place, London.
The mercantile occupations of the family in 1801 are thus set forth in the local directory : —
" Surtees Burdon Surtees and Brandling, bankers — Mosley St.
Surtees Brown and Head raff [timber] merchants — Pandon bank.
Surtees Wallis and Surtees wine and spirit merchants — Sandhill.
Tax office — William Surtees Esq, receiver general for the counties of Northumberland, Durham,
Newcastle, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed — Side."

ROBERT HOPPER WILLIAMSON.
On the west side of the southern entrance to the church is a marble monument erected in memory
of Robert Hopper WiUiamson, one of the Recorders of Newcastle. Mr. WiUiamson was descended from
the Hoppers of Durham county, and having married Anne, heiress of Dr. WiUiamson, of Whickham,
assumed her paternal name. In 1794, he was appointed Recorder, which important office he filled with
distinguished abiUty until the death of Mrs. Williamson, in 1829, when he tendered his resignation. Ten
years prior to that event, on the death of Sir Samuel Romilly, he was appointed to the temporal
chancellorship of the county palatine of Durham by Bishop Barrington, aud he performed the duties
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For many years Mr. Williamson practised as a chamber counsel in Newcastle, and his opinions are said to
have had all the moral force and influence of judicial decisions — an honour conceded to few jurisconsults
of his time. The energy of his mind and the strength of his faculties remained in full vigour to the last,
and he died at his house in Clavering Place, in his 81st year, universally regretted, and was buried at
Whickham. Two sons survived him, namely, the Rev. Robert Hopper Williamson, rector of Hurworth, and
John William, for several years chairman of Quarter Sessions.
The monument represents the deceased seated on a chair, and writing upon a scroll with a copy of
" Burn's Justice '' at his feet. At the top of a pedestal, on which the figure is placed, is the motto
" Justus propositi tenax." — [The just man is steady to his purpose].
INSCRIPTION.
" To the memory of ROBERT HOPPER WILLIAMSON Esquire, late Chancellor of the County
Palatine of Durham, and Recorder of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who died on the XIII day of January
MDCCCXXXV aged LXXX years. In his character as a magistrate and a judge he was patient, laborious,
discriminating, just. In his intercourse with the profession he was kind, frank, obliging, ready to unlock
the treasures of his well stored mind and generous in the bestowing thera on all who sought his aid. His
attachment to the judicial institutions of the country was warm and sincere. He appreciated their value
and knew their importance to the rights and liberties of the people. In fine during a life protracted
beyond the usual term allotted to man he occupied an elevated situation in society with raost distinguished
honour to himself and benefit to his country. This monument was erected by his professional and personal
friends MDCCCXXXVII."

SMITH, OF ST. LAWRENCE.
Towards the eastern end of the north aisle in the chancel is a tablet in memory of Thomas Smith,
who was elected Sheriff in 1797, an alderman of the borough in 180.3, and became Mayor in 1803 and
again in 1813.
Thomas Smith was the second son of Thomas Smith, of Togston, by his raarriage with Frances,
daughter of John Cook, of that place. About the year 1770 he carae to Newcastle as an apprentice to a
roper at St. Lawrence. Marrying Mary Pearson he afterwards secured the business, and lived in the old
house with the bay windows which forras a prominent feature in the river side prospect a few yards west
of the Mushroom landing place. Here were born two sons, who afterwards becarae faraous in the history
of local shipbuilding— Thomas and William Smith. Thomas served his time to the rope making business ;
WiUiara was apprenticed to Mr. Rowe, a shipbuilder at St. Peters, and they together established the firm
of T. and W. Smith, of St. Lawrence, St. Peters, and North Shields, roperaakers and shipbuilders. During
the father's last raayoralty in 1813 Thoraas Smith, jun., was Sheriff, and in 1830 William Smith, the
other son, filled the same office. Thoraas was united in marriage to Margaret Collingwood, daughter of
Percival Fenwick, of Newcastle, and died without issue. William raarried a daughter of Major Werge
(see page 105), by whom he had issue Thoraas Eustace Smith, Esq., M.P., for Tynemouth, whose eldest
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INSCRIPTION.
" In Memory of THOMAS SMITH of St. Lawrence Esq, for 30 years one ofthe Aldermen of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne and twice Mayor of that town, who died March 6*'' A.D. 1836 in the 80*'' year of his age. And
also of MARY his wife who having survived her husband a few months died on the 15*" of October in
the same year, in the 76*" year of her age. Their earthly remains are laid together in this church. This
monument is erected by their two sons gratefully mindful of departed worth and affectionately cherishing
the memory of their deceased parents."
The vault is in front of the crypt in St. George's porch, where a flat stone is inscribed as follows : —
" Sacred to the memory of THOMAS SMITH of St. Lawrence who died March 6 1836 in in his SO**-
year. Also of MARY his wife who died Oct. 15, 1836 aged 75."
Arms : Azure on a mount in base vert, a tower argent, on a chief or, three storks heads erased gules.
Crest : On a mount vert, a stork argent, beaked and legged gules, in the beak a serpent proper.

SIR ROBERT SHAFTO HAWKS.
On the first pillar within the chancel, and on the north side ofthe central aisle, is a marble monument
in memory of Sir Robert Shafto Hawks, head of the faraous engineering firm at Gateshead, long known as
Messrs. Hawks, Crawshay, and Sons. Sir Robert married Miss Akenhead, daughter of Mr. Akenhead,
stationer. Sandhill, and was knighted by the Prince Regent in 1817. He resided for some years in St.
Nicholas' parish, his mansion being the large brick house adjoining the railway arch on the east side of
Clavering Place. He was overseer of the poor for St. Nicholas in 1822, and churchwarden in 1823. Ten
years later his firm cast the big bell, " The Major," and Sir Robert superintended its elevation into the
tower. He did not live to see the crowning work of his firm — the High Level Bridge — for he died in the
year 1840 at the ripe age of 71 years. His widow survived him, and occupied the old mansion twenty-
three years longer, dying in 1863, aged 97.
The arms on the monument are gules, on a fesse . . . between three hawks close ... a
crescent . . . impaling, argent, three acorns slipped and leaved ... for Akenhead. Crest — a
hawk rising . . . INSCRIPTION.
" SIR ROBERT SHAFTO HAWKS Knt., Died 23 February 1840, aged 71 years. HANNAH
PEMBROKE, Lady Hawks, died 11 October 1863 aged 97 years.
DAVID SHAFTO HAWKS* Esq, son of Sir Robert Shafto Hawks, born February XVI MDCCXCH
died Sept. VII, MDCCOLX. WM SHAFTO HAWKS, son ofthe Rev. Wm. Hawks L.L.B., born March
XX, MDCCCXLIV, died Feb^ XIV, MDCCCLVIII. The above, with the exception of Sir Robert Shafto
Hawks, were buried in Jesmond Cemetery."

* David Shafto Hawks was a skilful musician. Under date May 13, 1798, it is recorded that "the organ at Gateshead Church was
performed by a son of R. S. Hawks, Esq., who was only seven years of age and lost his sight in early infancy."
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ARCHIBALD REED.
High up on the wall of the north aisle of the chancel, over the former site of the Corporation pew, is a
monument to the memory of Archibald Reed, woollen draper on the Sandhill, who was Sheriff of Newcastle
in 1794, and Mayor in 1800, 1806, 1819, 1826, 1830, and 1831.
The Rev. E. Hussey Adamson in his sketches of old scholars of Newcastle Grammar School states that
Archibald Reed was a younger son of Christopher Reed, of Chipchase. " He filled the office of Mayor six
times, and on more than one occasion received the thanks of the Government for his exertions, On the
conclusion of his last mayoralty a handsome tureen of the value of £100 was given to him by his friends
and well wishers, burgesses of the town, as a mark of personal regard, and a tribute to his high character
and valuable services. He was noted for his amiable disposition and liberal hospitality. Mr. Reed died
December 13, 1842, aged 76, at his residence in Leazes Terrace, and was buried at Jesmond Cemetery."
The fortunes of the family to which Mr. Reed belonged were founded towards the close of the seven
teenth and beginning of the eighteenth century by Archibald Reed, a small shopkeeper at Bellingham,
who, by industry and frugality, scraped together a considerable sum of money. His son John purchased
Chipchase Castle, the ancient seat of the Herons, lived the life of a country squire, and in 1732 was High
Sheriff for the County of Northumberland. In Bellingham Church is a monument of blue and white
marble inscribed as foUows : —
" This marble is raised to the memory of Mr. Archibald Reed of Bellingham, who died in the year
1729 aged 86 years. By John Reed his dutiful son. Too small a monument of filial Piety to so indulgent
a father. By frugal acts of Industry he rose
Preserved his Virtue and provoked no foes ;
But died lamented as he lived belov'd
For all his actions just and generous proved.
Always subservient to a poor man's suit
His gains were sweetened by a good repute.
Unenvied he his fortune fairly left.
And mourned his country of such worth bereft."
Archibald Reed, of Bellingham, left two sons, John, above-mentioned, and Ralph, who settled in
Newcastle, was Sheriff in 1710 and Mayor in 1716, and died without issue. John was succeeded by
his nephew Christopher Soulsby, who took the name of Reed, and was High Sheriff of Northumberland
in 1764. He married the eldest daughter of Francis Blake, of Twizell, and was followed in the family
estates by his son John Reed, High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1810, by whose marriage with Mary
Nevill, of Hull, came five sons and four daughters. The failure of the Northumberland bank brought
disaster to the faraily. Chipchase was sold, and Mr. John Reed accepted the office of distributor of stamps
for the county, in which he continued till his death at Felton in 1842, aged 83 years.
Archibald Reed, of Newcastle, appears, from the local journals, to have been one ofthe most popular
Mayors that ever occupied the Mansion House. Grave, dignified, hospitable, and kindhearted, he realised
the freemen's beau ideal of a Mayor, and was elected, as mentioned above, six times to the office. It
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Corporation accounts for 1830-31 and 1831-32, the Ma3'or's salary is entered as £2,100 ; whUe in the
former municipal year a sum of £1,085, and in the latter a sum of £928, were paid by the town for
Mansion House expenses; in addition to which there were payments for Mr. Mayor's gardener, newspapers,
butler's clothes, barge, &c. Some of the Mayors were not particularly liberal in their exercise of
hospitality ; but Mr. Reed spent his salary like a gentleman of the period, and gave universal satisfaction.
A meeting of the auditors at the end of the year 1830-31, passed the foUowing resolution : — " That the
cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to the Right Worshipful Archibald Reed, Esq., Mayor of this
town, for the ability and indefatigable exertion which he has manifested in the discharge of the various
and important duties of his office during the last year ; for the great attention which he has uniformly
paid to all applications that have been made to him in his official capacity ; for the generous hospitality
he has maintained, worthy and becoming the station of chief magistrate of this ancient and respectable
Corporation ; and for the proraptitude which he has on all occasions displayed in proraoting and supportiug
any measure having for its object the benefit of the Corporation or the advantage and service of the public
in general." At the end of Mr. Reed's last term of office — Michaelmas, 1832 — after a hot contest over the
Mayoralty, the salary was reduced to £1,500. It was raised the following year to £1,800, but one of the
first acts of the reformed Corporation, in 1836, was the abolition of the Mansion House, and the Mayor's
allowance now is only £300.
Mr. Reed's monument in St. Nicholas' Church consists of a gothic arch with a shield for the
inscription, surmounted by a bust of the deceased, -with the sword and mace on either side.
INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of ARCHIBALD REED, Esq., successively Sheriff, Alderman, and six times
Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who died December 13th 1842, Aged 76 Years. This Tablet, and also a
Monument in Jesmond Cemetery, were erected by the Stewards of the Incorporated Companies and
private friends of Mr. Reed as a tribute of respect for his public and private worth."
Over the vault of the deceased in Jesmond Cemetery is a lofty and massive pile with an elaborate
inscription, to the following effect : —
" ARCHIBALD REED ESQ^^
Successively Sheriff, Alderman, and six times Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, departed this life on the
13th day of December 1842. Aged 76 years.
No man ever finished his course more revered as the head of a family, beloved as a friend, or honoured
and respected as a man. His manners were kind, courteous and conciliating, his disposition, benevolent
and humane ; he courted the means of doing good to mankind ; in him the poor ever found a friend, and
all charitable institutions obtained his warmest support. As a Freeman of Newcastle he, on all occasions,
heartily espoused and maintained the Freemen's right ; and as a Magistrate he was distinguished for
vigour in the administration of the Law. The Stewards of the Incorporated Companies of the Town aided
by the contributions of the private friends of Mr. Reed in grateful remembrance of a long Ufe devoted to
the welfare of the community, dedicate this erection to his memory.
Reader : If kindness of friendship, generous hospitality, attachment to ancient institutions, and love
of country have a place in the affections of thy heart, venerate the spot where repose the remains of a
man who exhibited these virtues in the fulness of perfection."

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Both monuments were raised by a public subscription, which owed its success to the exertions of Mr.
Reed's friend, Mr. George Noble Clark, surgeon, who also wrote the inscriptions. The Jesmond Monu
ment is a handsome Gothic structure, by Dobson, partaking of the character of the monumental crosses of
the fourteenth century. It is built of polished Kenton stone, about eight feet square at the base, and in
the four sides are arched recesses, supported by columns with plain panels for lettering. The inscription
above quoted occupies the south panel.

SIR LEONARD GREENWELL.
Beneath the tower, on the western side of the entrance from St. Nicholas' Square, is the Monument
of Sir Leonard GreenweU, K.C.H., K.C.B. (See page 52).
Sir Leonard»entered the army in 1801 as an ensign in the 45th Regiment, and was on active service
throughout the Peninsular War. It is stated that he was present at aU the battles but two, and that he
received wounds in nearly every part of his body. At the siege of Badajos he particularly distinguished
himself, and had the merit of being the first officer to scale the walls and effect an entrance into the town.
Retiring on half-pay in 1827 he was, four years later, appointed Commandant at Chatham, an office which
he held till 1837. He died unmarried in London, Nov. 11, 1844, and his body was brought to Newcastle
and interred amongst his kindred in St. Nicholas'.
At the top of the monument are the arms of the deceased, and the names of most of the Peninsular
battles, followed by the subjoined INSCRIPTION.
" In a Vault near this spot are deposited the remains of Major General Sir LEONARD GREEN
WELL, K.C.B.,,K.C.H. youngest son of the late Joshua Greenwell of this town and Kibblesworth in the
county of Durham Esquire, and Mary his wife. He entered the army on the 7th day of August 1801 as
an ensign in the 45th Regt., and was present with that gallant corps, to the command of which he
eventually succeeded, at the several engagements above recorded. In acknowledgment of his services, in
the course pf which he was three times severely wounded, he received a medal and two clasps. He was
subsequently appointed aide-de-camp to their Majesties Geo. the IV. and Victoria ; successively created a
Knight Comraander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order and of the most honorable MUitary Order of
the Bath ; and further honoured by the grant of a reward out of the distinguished service fund. He died
on the Ilth day of November 1844 in the 64th year of his age."
Arms : Or, two bars azure, between three ducal coronets gules.
Crest : A mural coronet  Motto : Viresco [I become green ; or I flourish].
Sir Leonard, in recognition of his bravery at the siege of Badajos, received from the King an
augmentation to his arms, viz., a representation of Badajos with a 45th jacket floating from one of the
towers.

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JAMES ARCHBOLD,

On the west side of the northern entrance is a massive stone monument to the memory of James
Archbold, Sheriff of Newcastle in 1840 and Mayor in 1846, the greater part of whose Ufe was spent in the
service of his feUow townsmen. He was a slate merchant, and resided in Gallowgate, where he amassed a
considerable fortune. Amongst other bequests for charitable objects he demised £4,500 to found an
hospital for twelve poor widows, but the Statute of Mortmain rendered that portion of his wUl void.
In the upper part of the monument is a bust of the deceased, and below it the foUowing
INSCRIPTION.
" This memorial of esteem and affection is erected by Miss Jane Archbold" in honoured remembrance
of her brother JAMES ARCHBOLD who died January 2°'^ 1849 aged 68 years. An ardent lover of his
country, deeply attached to the place of his nativity, he received during his useful life those civic
distinctions merited by his integrity of character. Sheriff of Newcastle 1840 ; Mayor 1846, several
years alderman and magistrate, his various duties were faithfuUy discharged, deserving and obtaining the
respect and confidence of his fellow townsmen. Sincere public regret for his death testified to the
unsuUied reputation of his life."
The fifty-sixth year's report of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle contains the
following summary of Alderman Archbold's character : — " Mr. Archbold devoted the energies of a weU-
regulated mind to the advancement of fioral, horticultural, and agricultural science. And in the discharge
of the various offices — parochial, municipal, and magisterial — which he served in this important town, he
secured the plaudits of his fellow citizens, and rendered his decease a public loss."

BELL, OF FENHAM.
Col. Robert Bell, third son of the Matthew Bell who purchased Woolsington, was twice Mayor of
Newcastle, namely, in 1822 and in 1828. He succeeded Joseph Forster as an Alderman in 1821, and was
the only Alderman of the old regime that was elected to the same office in the reformed Corporation.
He died at his residence, Fenham Hall, January 10, 1851, aged 71. His widow, a daughter of Isaac
Cookson, of Whitehill, Durham, survived him eight years, and her death is commemorated by a tablet in
St. Nicholas' affixed to the pillar which divides the south entrance from the south aisle of the nave.
" In Memory of EMMA DONNA relict of CoL. ROBT. BELL of Fenham Hall Northumberland,
and youngest daughter of the late ISAAC Cookson Esq. of Whitehill. Her remains are interred in the
burial ground at Benton. Died on the 1st August 1859, aged 73 years."
In the nave is a tombstone recording the death of Mrs. Bell's great grandfather, as follows : —
" ISAAC COOKSON of this Town Merchant Obt. 23 April 1744 Aged 64. HANNAH his wife died
17 June 1760, Aged 78."

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The arms on this stone are : Per pale argent and gules, two legs couped above the knee in armour
counterchanged. Crest : A demi lion rampant, supporting a staff.
Isaac Cookson, member of an ancient Yorkshire family, settled in Newcastle as a merchant adventurer
about the year 1700. He acquired considerable property, and dying in 1744 was buried in St. Nicholas'.
His son and heir, John Cookson, purchased in the following year the estate of Whitehill, near Chester-le-
Street, and died in 1783. Isaac Cookson, eldest son of John, succeeded, and by his marriage with
Margaret, daughter of James Wilkinson, of Newcastle, had seven sons and three daughters : 1, John, his
heir ; 2, James, lieut. col. in the army, who married Marianne, daughter of David Stephenson, of
Newca.stle ; 3, Isaac, of Meldon Park ; 4, Thoraas, of the Hermitage, Durham ; 5, Christopher, Recorder of
Berwick and of Newcastle ; 6, Joseph ; 7, Septimus ; 8, Elizabeth, wife of Robert Surtees, of Redworth ;
9, Emma Donna, above-mentioned wife of Col. Bell ; 10, Caroline, who died young.

T. HUTCHINSON POWELL.
INSCRIPTION.
" To the memory of T. HUTCHINSON POWELL, ensign in the 10*" Regiment, son of Lt. Colonel
Powell, staff officer, who died on the 25*" June 1861 at the early age of 20 years. This tablet was erected
by the officers of his battalion as a proof of the regard in which he was held."

WILLIAM WOODS.
Beneath the tower of St. Nicholas, adjoining the memorial of WiUiam Surtees, is a monument to the
memory of William Woods. INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the Memory of WILLIAM WOODS Esq. who having in early youth served his country
with distinction as an officer in the Peninsular War, at its close established himself in this to-wn where he
took a place as a Merchant and Banker and by the Integrity of his purpose, the clearness of his inteUect
and the kindness of his disposition won the regard of all. At the same time, not forgetting that he had
been a soldier, amid the engrossing pursuits of business he continued to his country the benefit of his
military acquirements, by the efficient discharge of his duties of Adjutant to the N.N.Y. Cavalry for the
long space of forty-three years. He died on the twelfth day of June one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four, aged seventy-seven most deeply regretted. This tribute to his memory attests the grateful
affection of his eldest son John Anthony Woods Esquire."
Few men were better known in Newcastle during the first half of the present century than he whose
name appears upon this tablet. Commencing life as a gentleman and a soldier he became in after years
identified with the commercial history of Tyneside, and a type of the punctual, enterprising, persevering,
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Mr. Woods entered the army in 1808 as an ensign; was raised in the following year to the rank of
lieutenant, and fought in the Peninsular campaigns, in one of which— that of Albuera— he received serious
wounds, and was left for dead upon the field. On the declaration of peace he returned to England with his
regiment, and whUe stationed at Newcastle in 1813, he wooed, and eventually won, the daughter of
Anthony Hood (of the ancient firm of Anthony Hood and Co.), Sheriff in 1795, Mayor in 1797 and
1807. Leaving the army, Mr. Woods settled in the town of his adoption, and exchanging the sword for
the pen, worked his way to position and affluence.
One of his first projects was the reorganisation of the Newcastle Fire Insurance Company.
Gathering round him the friends of his father-in-law— Clayton, Cookson, Burdon, Ord, Anderson, Dunn,
and other members of weU-known local famiUes — he made the Newcastle Fire Office one of the most
successful undertakings in the North of England. Then he became secretary to the Water Company, and
chairman to the Gas Company, infusing into both concerns life, energy, and prosperity. During this time
the old firm of Anthony Hood and Co. was not neglected. He extended its operations by starting, at
Sunderland, the house of Woods and Spence, and became the senior partner in the Middle Dock Company,
at South Shields, whose business was carried on under the name of McLeod and Woods.
The introduction of steam into locomotion naturaUy attracted the active mind of such an energetic
and far-seeing pioneer of commerce. He assisted to promote the short line which ended at Rainton
Meadows, and is now a link in the main artery of raUway traffic between Newcastle and Darlington ;
became one of the first directors of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, and eventually its chairman, and
when the Carlisle line was absorbed by its gigantic neighbour — the North Eastern, Mr. Woods was
transferred to a seat in that powerful directorate which rules over our means of transit from the Tweed to
the Ouse. It is, perhaps, as a banker that Mr. Woods was most familiarly known. When the Union Bank of
Newcastle closed its doors in 1847, he created out of its ruins a private firm, which, under the name of
Woods and Co., is represented in all the principal towns around the metropolis of the Tyne. He also
estabUshed the Alnwick and County Bank at Alnwick, and took considerable interest in the promotion and
success of the Newcastle Savings Bank.
Amid these engrossing occupations Mr. Woods, in the language of his epitaph, did not forget that he
had been a soldier. He joined Lord Ravensworth's Corps of Volunteers, and when it was disbanded, in
1823, he became captain and adjutant of the Northumberland and Newcastle Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry,
a position that he occupied to the day of his death.
Mr. Woods lived to be seventy-seven years of age, and literally died in harness. He was not fond of
what is known as public life ; never aspired to municipal dignities, and although appointed a magistrate
did not qualify for the office. But, as was well said in a newspaper report of his funeral, " Newcastle has
seldom possessed a more useful or upright citizen."

WILLIAM HARVEY.
William Harvey, Bewick's favourite pupil, was a native of Newcastle, born in Bath Lane, where his
father kept the public baths, and served his time to the famous wood engraver in St. Nicholas' churchyard —
facing the sacred edifice wherein some friends have erected a monument to his memory. He left the north
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study in company with the two Landseers, Lance, the fruit painter, and others, maintaining himself by
designs for wood engraving, and working hard as an engraver. Soon afterwards abandoning the graver's
tool he limited himself to designing illustrations for books, and of these his prolific genius for thirty years'
created a remarkable number, and a wonderful variety. He died at Richmond, Surrey, in 1866, and was
buried in the cemetery there.
One of Harvey's biographers writes : — " To enumerate even the works wholly Ulustrated by himself
would occupy a considerable space. Perha.ps the book upon which his fame as a true artist will mainly
rest is ' The Thousand and One Nights,' translated by Mr. Lane. In the combination ofthe most luxuriant
fancy with the strictest accuracy of costume, the splendour and grace of oriental life were never more
happily presented than in the hundreds of designs in these three volumes. . . As a designer upon
wood Mr. Harvey has given a powerful impulse to the excellence of an art now so widely employed. He
has always known its limits and capabilities ; and in this technical superiority above other designers he has
contributed to form many of the best of existing engravers."
The monument is on the wall dividing the tower from the nave, facing the western entrance.
INSCRIPTION.
"W. H.
" In Memory of WILLIAM HARVEY an artist of great and original talent, who, like his first
instructor Thomas Bewick, enhanced the pictorial interest of works of the press by his skill as a
designer and by his development of the resources of wood engraving some of his friends affectionately
appreciating his amiable character have united to raise this monument of his worth and their regard.
He was born at Newcastle on Tyne July 13, 1796. He died at Richmond in Surrey, January 13, 1866."

THOMAS HEDLEY.
In the beginning of the present year (1880) a marble monument was placed in St. Mary's Chapel
to the memory of the late Mr. Thomas Hedley, of Jesmond Road. On each side of the tablet is a
handsomely scrolled console with festoon of sculptured flowers hanging from upper scrolls. Above is
a richly moulded and carved cornice and pediment, with a wreath of flowers surrounding a small Latin
cross, in bas relief, surrounded by a laurel wreath. INSCRIPTION.
" Sacred to the memory of THOMAS HEDLEY, lord of the manor of Newton, near Bywell-on-
Tyne, Esquire, barrister-at-law and coalowner, for raany years a coramunicant in this church, who died at
Jesmond Road, on the 5th day of August, 1877, in his 72nd year, and is interred in the family burial
place at Newburn Church. He was the second son of Wm. Hedley of Newton and Burnopside Hall,
near Lanchester, Esquire. By the provisions of his will a raunificent bequest becarae applicable towards
the endowment of a Bishopric for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This memorial is erected as a tribute of respect
and affection by his brother, William Hedley of Newton."
Mr. Hedley was a son of William Hedley, a practical mechanic, who in the year 1805, being then 26
years old, was appointed mining engineer of Wylam Colliery, the property of Mr. Christopher Blackett.
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he took out a patent for an engine to work by friction or gravity. Mr. Matthias Dunn, in his book on the
"Northern Coal Trade," asserts that Mr. Hedley "is entitled to tbe honour of being the inventor of
locomotion on the present principle," and in 1844, on the occasion of the opening of the railway from
Darlington to Newcastle, a statement by the Hon. H. T. Liddell, afterwards Lord Ravensworth, that
George Stephenson was the inventor of the engines travelling with a smooth wheel, elicited from the
subject of this monuraent a letter which asserts that "my father, the late Wm. Hedley, and not Mr.
Stephenson, was the first person who established and successfully carried out the principle that locomotion
could be effected by the adhesion or friction of the wheels of a carriage upon a railroad."
On the death of Mr. Joseph Bainbridge (see Plate 16) WUliam Hedley purcliased the manor of
Newton. His sons — Oswald, Thomas, WUliara, and George Hedley — inherited this property, and becarae
the owners of Holmside and South Moor CoUieries. Oswald Hedley, in 1858, pubUshed a book entitled
" Who Invented the Locomotive Engine ?" in which his father's claims to the invention are ably
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iOMBSTONES IN THE iHURCH.

The following are noteworthy inscriptions, past and present, upon stones in the floor of St. Nicholas'
Church additional to those included in the description of the monuments. One — that of vicar March— is
in the chancel, a few are in St. George's porch, the rest are, or ought to be, in the nave.
ALVEY.
" M. S. Janse
Yeldardi Alvey, hujus ecclesiae vicarii
Uxori lectiss. et dilectiss. decem liberorum
Utriusque sexus sequaliter fcECundse matri,
Cultu in Deum,
Obsequio in maritum,
Pietate in prolem, dilectione in proximum,
Charitate in pauperes ad exemplum celebri,
Quffi postquam 34 aetat' ann.
comple visset
pie et placide in Domino
obdormivit.
Denata est tempore antelucana magni
Paschatis festi 1643.
Maritus mserens hoc in amoris aeternum
Duraturi testamonium merito
posuit."
Translation.
Sacred to the memory of Jane, the choicest and most beloved wife of Yeldard Alvey, vicar of this
church, the equally fruitful mother of ten chUdren of either sex. For piety towards God, obedience to
her husband, affection to her offspring, love to her neighbour, charity to the poor she was of exemplary
repute ; and after completing the thirty-fourth year of her age she fell asleep in the Lord, piously and
calmly. She died at the dawn of the great feast of Easter, 1643. Her mourning husband has dutifully
set this up in testimony of a love that shall last for ever.
In 1622 Bishop Neile, of Durham, licensed Yeldard Alvey, clerk, of Trinity CoUege, Oxford, to preach
the Word of God in Newcastle. He officiated as lecturer at St. Nicholas', and on the promotion of the
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Eglingham. During the Civil W^rs he was a steady Royalist, and his name appears in the " Proceedings
of the High Commission Court at Durham " as a prosecutor of churchmen who refused to conform to
" lawful ceremonies." He lived in the early part of his ministry at the house in TuthiU Stairs, previously
mentioned, and by his wife Jane, the subject of the epitaph, became the father of a large family. When
the Scots came to Newburn in August, 1640, Vicar Alvey fled from Newcastle, riding behind a countryman
on horseback on his way to York, whence he wrote to Laud that he had been ousted of his spiritual
promotions to the yearly value of £300, and had most of his moveable goods seized upon by the "rebels."
The foUowing year he was apprehended as a delinquent by order ofthe House of Commons, and held to bail.
On the withdrawal of the Scots he returned to his cure, " dressed up in his pontificality with surplice and
service book," as Lieut.-Col. John Fenwick expressed it, "whereof the churches had been purged by the
Scots lads, and therefore now becorae innovations, and very offensive to many who could digest such things
before." He did not occupy the pulpit more than about three years, and those three years must have been
very bitter to such a high churchman and loyalist. In the midst of his troubles, in 1643, he lost his wife ;
next year the Scots were thundering at the gates again, and finaUy, in 1645, there came to Newcastle an
ordinance of Lords and Commons that " Yealderd Alvey, now vicar of that towne, who is a notorious
Delinquent, be displaced and removed from his vicaridge and cure there, and that Doctor Robert Jenison
be viccar of the said towne in his place." ExpeUed from his livings in Newcastle and Eglingham, Alvey
fell into poverty. His " Humble confession and vindication of them who suffered much and still suffer
under the Name of Malignants and Delinquents " brought no amelioration to his condition, and in March,
1648, he died, and was buried beside his wife, leaving his faraily dependent upon public charity. A
sketch of Vicar Alvey, by Mr. Longstaffe, appears in Vol. I. (8vo.) of the " Archseologia .^Uana," and the
Calendar of State Papers for 1 639-40 contains sorae of his letters, and a rather copious account of his
proceedings.

BENNETT .
A rhyming inscription in black letter commemorates John Bennett, as follows : —
" Here lieth buried under this stone
Of JOHN BENNETT bothe bodv and bones
Late of thes northe parts Master of th' Ordenance
Which deceased by Godes provydence
The eighth day of the month of July
In perfect faith e love and charity
A thousand fyve hundreth sixty eyght.
Whose soule to heav'n he trusted went streyght
Through Godes great marcy bloudshed and death
Whiche only he trusted to during his breath ;
So trust we, his wyf and children, that caused this
And Capten Carvell a frend of his."
Arms : Azure on a fesse or, between three demi lions rampant argent, a cannon dismounted sable
between two roundles per pale or and gules.
Crest : On a wrejith and tower triple towered.

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Bennett was Master of the Ordnance in the North of England during the reign of Elizabeth, and
lived at " The Nunnes," in Newcastle — a portion no doubt of one of the convents that Henry VIII. had
suppressed — having his principal places of business at the " Gun Howse " on the Sandhill, and at Berwick-
upon-Tweed. He had apparently been Master of the Ordnance during Queen Mary's reign, for in 1558
his name is quoted by Strype as " late master." Further particulars are wanting, but towards the end of
the year 1564 his name as Master of the Ordnance occurs inthe State papers in very unpleasant company.
" Hugh Partridge, gentleman," had in that year confessed tothe Earl of Bedford, governor of Ber-wick, that
he had coined Scottish money for persons in divers parts of England, and among others for John Bennett.
A protracted investigation followed. Partridge was executed in Newcastle in 1565, " for coyning fals
monnyein the, Great Innes in Pilgrame Streat ;" but through the Earl of Bedford's intercession and the
weakness of the evidence Bennett was allowed to retain his office. Within a few months afterwards other
accusations were made against the Master, and his Berwick office was taken from him. He did not long
survive his degradation.
Captain Carvell was Bennett's son-in-law and Clerk of the Stores. He retained office for several
years, and oying, in 1606, at Berwick, was buried there.

BOWES.
" Here lyeth buried the Boddie of ROBERT BOWES who departed to the mercy of God the 8 : of
December an: 1621. JOHN BOWES, Merchant Adventurer."
Arms : Ermine, three long bows in pale gules stringed sable.
Crest : Five arrows, four in saltier and one in pale or, tied in the middle with a string azure.
Probably a twig of one of the wide-spreading branches of the great family of Streatlam. Henry
Bowes, of Thornton Hall, Durbara, was Sheriff' of Newcastle in 1623, and died during his year of office,
leaving sons and daughters, of whom Francis was knighted and compounded for his estate to the
Coraraonwealth, and a daughter raarried Sir Ralph Jennison. " Mr. Bowes, Town Clerk," occurs in
June, 1661.

BRANDLING.
" JOHN BRANDLING Marchant Aduenturer and som time maior of this towne & Jane &.
Wifes &  children. 1522."

Arms : Quarterly 1st and 4th gules, a cross patonce argent, and in the dexter chief an escallop-shell,
of the second for Brandling ; 2nd and Srd  a chevron between three escallop-sheUs.
John Brandling, grandson of William Brandling, by Mary, sister and coheir of — Browne, " Captain
of Callice," and son of Robert Brandling by a daughter of William Selby, was Sheriff of Newcastle in
1505, and Mayor in 1509, 1512, 1516, and 1520. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Helye, and
their heir was Robert Brandling, the prosperous merchant, afterwards Sir Robert, and founder of the
fortunes of the Brandling family. John Brandling, whose remains are covered by this stone, is the first of
his name on the municipal roll of Newcastle.

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BUTLER.

" The Burial Place of IOHN BUTLER Marchant Aduenturer & sometime Sheriff of this towne
& his Wines ANN & ISABELL & their ChUdren. He depted y^ 12 of laii 169f ANN his wife
ye 14*" of lune 1655."
Arms : Azure a chevron between three cups covered or for Butler, impaling 1st ermine on a pale
sable, three martlets or for Nicholson ; 2nd  a chevron between three escallop shells 
John Butler, Sheriff of Newcastle in 1652, married first, Ann, daughter of Thomas Nicholson, of
Hartlepool, who brought him five chUdren ; secondly, Isabel, daughter of George Milburn, of Chirton, by
whora he had four children. The Butlers were a prominent famUy in Newcastle in the I7th century,
and had considerable landed property in the county of Durham. John Thomas Butler, of Old Acres,
married Mary, youngest daughter of James Clavering, of AxweU, and his cousin, Mary Butler, married
Ambrose Barnes.

B YRDE.
" Jhu have marcy on GEORGE BYRDE soule Marchaunt Adventurer somtyme clarcke of the towne
Chamber Also his Wyfe & ANNE theyr Doughter  15—7."
Arms:  a chevron between three birds on their nests  for Bird. Impaling quarterly 1st and
4th ermine on a canton  an orle  for Surtees; 2nd and 3rd  a lion rampant for"Grey.
This inscription borders a stone in St. George's porch on which are inscribed the names of several
merabers of the Matfen family (See " Matfen "). George may have been a relative (but his coat of arms is
different) of George Bird, Sheriff in 1484, and Mayor from 1493 to 1496, in 1506 and again in 1511, in
which latter year he died, and Christopher Brigham served out the remainder of the municipal yea,r.
Nothing seems to be known of George Bird of the tombstone, but tbe elder George was a man of some
position. He appears to have held a post under Henry, Earl of Northumberland, who on 10th April, 1482,
demised to him the "Earl's Inn " in the Close, under a yearly rent charge of 13s. 4d. The demisee is
defined as the Earl's " right wel beloved servant George Byrde." In the short reign of Richard III. he
figures as comptroller of the greater and petty customs of Newcastle. On the death of the King he was
re-appointed, and occurs as holding the office in September 17th, 1485, the year of Henry VII.'s accession.
Alan Bird — possibly father and grandfather ofthe two Georges — was Sheriff in 1449, and Mayor in 1462,
1463, and 1465.

CHAPMAN.
" HENRY CHAPMAN Marchant Adventurer Alderman & soratyraes Maior of this Towne, 1633."
Arms : Quarteriy, 1st and 4th party per chevron, argent and gules, a crescent counterchanged for
Chapman ; 2nd and 3rd  two bars and a canton 

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Henry Chapman was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1613, and Mayor in 1620 and 1627. He owned the
house in Tuthill Stairs referred to in the note on page 77, and sold it to Sir Alexander Davison. Very
likely he was born there, for in 1587 it was occupied by " Henry Chapman, Alderman " — Sheriff in 1581,
and Mayor in 1586 and 1608 — who was probably his father. The name of Chapman first appears upon
the municipal roll in 1545, when Oswald Chapman becarae Sheriff. He succeeded in due course to the
mayoralty in 1558, and then came Henry the elder, and Henry the younger — the subject of the inscription
— with Matthew, Sheriff in 1603, betw^een. Henry of the epitaph winds up the list.

CLAPHAM.
" CALVERT CLAPHAM, Esq., late of London, who died the 6th of May, 1809, aged 67 years,"
Mr. Claphara was a son of the Rev. Anthony Clapham, of Bainbridge, in the parish of Askrigg,
Yorkshire, who was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1716, becarae master of Yorebridge
Grammar School three years later, and died in 1752. Mr. Calvert Clapham was Chancellor to the Bishop
of London, and died unmarried at the date recorded on the tombstone. His name is perpetuated in
Newcastle by his nephew, Mr. Robert Calvert Clapham, one of the honorary secretaries of the Newcastle
Literary and Philosophical Society.

COOK.
" Here Lyeth Interred the Body of GEORGE COOK of Blakemoore in the Parish of Woodhorn in the
County of Northuraberland, Gentleman, who departed this Life the 20*" day of October in the Year of our
Lord 1792 in the Seventy-ninth Year of his age. May God be merciful unto his Soul, Amen."
A memorial of one of the Cooks of Blakemoor. Edward Cook of Amble purchased the estate of
Blakemoor from Sir Francis Radcliffe about the middle of the seventeenth century. He had eight sons.
Amongst five of them he divided his property at Amble, Togston, Newton-on-the-Moor, Brainsbaugh, and
Blakemoor, and provided money portions for the other three. To John, his eldest son, he left Amble and
Togston. Edward, the second son, who was a barrister in Newcastle, and Recorder of Berwick from 1711
to 1731, inherited Blakemoor, and when he died he was succeeded by his son Edward, a barrister and
antiquary, who died without issue. His brother George, who had for some years resided with him and his
sister Isabella at Blakemoor, succeeded to the property, and dying in 1792 was buried in St. Nicholas', as
stated in the epitaph.

DAGLISH.
"The Burial Place of JOHN DAGLISH, Chemist and Druggist. CATHERINE his wife died
5*" November 1820 ; aged 27 years. The above John Daglish died 30*" January 1837, aged 44 years."

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John Daglish was a son of Wm. Daglish, of Gateshead, whose mother was a descendant of Henry
Maddison, sixth of the ten sons whose effigies adorn the Maddison Monument. He married first,
Catharine, daughter of John Rawling WUson, a welhknown local antiquary, by whom he had a daughter,
Catharine, married to John FUnt, of Glasgow; secondly, Mary, daughter of Stephen Wilkinson, of
Newcastle, by whom he had issue two sons and three daughters, namely, John, of Marsden, mining
engineer and J.P. ; WUliara Stephen, soUcitor, Town Clerk of Jarrow, Clerk to the County Magistrates,
&c. ; Mary Ruth, married to the Rev. R. J. Shields; Anne, married to Jacob Burnett, J.P. (she died 1866) ;
and Jane, married to Hilton PhUipson, J.P.
Mr. Daglish was of a philanthropic and benevolent disposition, a promoter of infant and Sunday
schools, and a warm hearted friend of the young, the helpless, and the suffering. He was the author, in
1825, of " Practical Observations on Vaccine Inoculation," and in his business as a surgeon and apothecary
it is said that he gratuitously vaccinated 17,000 children.

DOUGLAS.
Within the chancel rails, prior to the alterations of 1783, was a stone in memory of Margaret, wife of
Lieut.-Col. Douglas, " Governor of Hartlepool," bearing the following inscription : —
" Here lieth the body of Mrs. MARGARET LINDSAY, late wife to Lieutenant Colonel RICHARD
DOUGLAS Esq and Governor of Hartlepool, son to Sir W"" Douglas of Cavers Knt. and Sheriff of
Tiviotdale, who departed this life the 31** of December 1645.
In life beloved, in death deplored of all
Here lyeth the world's loss, to heav'n a gayn ;
She living died to vice, and now dead shall
Her pretious name still live free of all stayne."

EDEN.
" Heare lyeth Mr ROBART EDEN and ISEBELL his Wife w : Their Sovne John Eden and his
Wives Mary and Isebell."
Arms : Azure three helmets or for Eden, irapaling argent on a bend between three Cornish choughs
sable, three lions heads erased or for Carr of Newcastle.
Robert Eden was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1587, during the mayoralty of Edward Lewin.
Another Robert Eden occupied the Shrievalty in 1694, and was Mayor in 1699. Henry Eden was Sheriff
in 1746, and Mayor in 1753, and died " at his house in Rosemary Lane " on Sunday, September 29th,
1765.

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EMERSON.

" JOHN EMERSON Esq"^ Marchant Aduenturer & Alderman somtime Maior of this towne Died ye
9*" of Aug** 1673. Also his Son in Law THOMAS IENISON Esq'' Merch* Aduenturer & Alderman
Sometimes Maior of this Towne Depted this life y^ 7 of DecemV Anno 1676. ALICE his Wife  "
Arms:  on a bend,  three roundles  for Emerson; impaling 1st gules on a band
argent, three rauUets azure for Shafto ; 2nd argent a chevron between three martlets sable for Lawson ;
Srd paly of six argent and azure on a bend sable, a sword for Sanderson.
Crest: A sinister wing  thereon a bend  charged with three roundles.
John Emerson, or Emmerson, as stated on page 75, was Sheriff in 1639, and Mayor in 1660. Thomas
Jennison was Sheriff in 1661, and Mayor in 1674. (See " Jennison.")

ERRINGTON.
" The BuriaU Place of GEORGE ERRINGTON Marchant Aduenturer & lane his Wife and their
ChUdren He depted this Life the 5 of May 1674 lane his Daughter Depted February the 20*" day
1659 Alsoe Isabell his daughter the 20*" December 1663."
Arms: Argent, two bars and in chief three escallop shells azure, a crescent for difference for
Errington ; impaling sable three chevrons interlaced in the base of the escutcheon or, on a chief of
the last, three annulets sable for Ewbank.
Crest : A unicorn's head erased.
During the siege of Newcastle, in 1644, " Captain George Errington," with two other local officers,
defended Pilgrim Street Gate, " and although attacked from without and within would not surrender
until they were encompassed and overcome by numbers."

GREY
"RALPH GREY Alderman & Sometime Maior of this Towne Died 5*" of Deceraber Anno Dom.
1676. RALPH GREY of Backworth in the County of Northumberl'' Gent. Died 19*" of Novemb'' 1699,
RICHARD GREY Merch* Died 19*" of February 1701."
" RALPH WILLIAM GREY, Esq. of Backworth, in the County of Northumberland, died Nov. 5,
A. D. 1786, in the 79th year of his age. His only Son RALPH WILLIAM GREY Esq. of the same place
died July 18, A. D. 1812 in tbe 67th year of his age."
The Greys of Backworth are said to be descended from the Greys of Horton Castle. In the early part
of the seventeenth century they were established in Newcastle and at Backworth, for Eliz-abeth, daughter
of Cuthbert Grey, of Backworth, raarried, prior to 1650, Robert Ellison, of Newcastle and Hebburn, and, as

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recorded on the epitaph. Alderman Ralph Grey filled the office of Sheriff of the town in 1667, and that of
Mayor in 1671. WiUiam Grey, supposed to be the uncle or brother of Alderman Ralph, wrote, in 1649,
his "Chorographia, or a Survey of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,"— the first published history of Newcastle— and
he is probably the " WiUiam Grey, merchant," whose name appears in St. Nicholas' Register of Burials
under date 1673. Only meagre accounts of the family appear in local history, and it is not known when
or by what means they acquired the Backworth property, which, previous to the dissolution, belonged to
the prior and canons of Tynemouth. But from the time of Cuthbert, above-mentioned, the names of Grey
aind Backworth were for many generations associated together.
Taking the Register of St. Nicholas' as our guide, we find Ralph Grey, of Backworth, buried in the
church in 1699 ; WUliam Grey, of the same place, in 1714 ; and Ralph WUUam in 1786. The latter
married Mary, daughter of WiUiam Rawstorne, of Newhall, Lancashire, and was succeeded by his only son
Ralph William, who married a daughter of Charles Brandling, M.P., of Gosforth, became High Sheriff of
Northumberiand in 1792, and was buried here in 1812. High Sheriff Grey erected the present mansion—
Backworth House— which his son Ralph WiUiam sold, with the whole estate, to the Duke of Northumber
land, for £95,000. The next entry of a Grey in the Register is that of the vendor of his ancestral estate.
He is described as " Ralph WiUiam Grey of Acton House," and it appears that he died at Doncaster, in
June, 1822, at the comparatively early age of 42 years. He and his brother, Chas. Edward, had married
sisters — daughters of the Rev. Sir S. C. Jervoise, Bart., — and after his death his widow became tbe wife of
John Abel Smith, M.P. The connection so long subsisting between the Greys and Backworth was thus
broken, and their names cease to appear in the Registers of St. Nicholas'.
Ralph William Grey, the vendor of Backworth, left an infant son, born in 1819, on whose behalf
application was made to the Court of Chancery. The estate of Chipchase was afterwards purchased for
him by his guardians, and he became the Ralph WUliam Grey, of Chipchase Castle, who, in our own time,
filled a prominent position in parliament and the civil service. He was M.P. for Tynemouth 1847-52,
Secretary to the Poor Law Board in 1851-52, M.P. for Liskeard 1854-59, and a Commissioner of Customs
from 1859 to his death in 1869.
Charles Edward Grey, brother of the vendor, was successively a Bankruptcy Commissioner, Judge of
the Supreme Court at Madras (where he was knighted). Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bengal,
Commissioner for the affairs of Lower Canada, Governor of Barbadoes, and Governor of Jamaica. He
contested Tynemouth in 1837 ; obtained the seat by petition, and held it till 1841, and died in 1865 —
four years before his nephew.

HALL.
" Heere lieth buried the Body of MICHAELL HALL Gentlemen who depted this life the 25 of luly
Ano. 1647. The Buriall Place of William MAIR Miii'^- & Phillis his Wife. She died Ian 3*- 1681. 3 of their
Children Elizabeth WilUam & Robert dying before her 3 Surviueing lane loseph & Robert. Revel 14 : 13."
Arms :  , a chevron between three demi-lions rampant  , on a chief  , three roses 
Crest : On a wreath a tower, a hand issuing from the battlements holding a sword.
The Rev. William Mair or Mayer was appointed to the afternoon lectureship in St. Nicholas, in July,
1671, in succession to the Rev. John Bewick, A.M. The salary was reduced at the same time from £150
per annum to £80, and was advanced to £90 in 1674. In August, 1676, Mr, Mair was removed from
St. Nicholas' to AU Saints', and died in 1686. s

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HARGRAVE AND PAWSON.
" NATHANIEL HARGRAVE of Newcastle Gentleman, Buried 18*" Dec'. 1702. Sarah his Wife
buried 17*" Dec. 1722. Jonathan, and James, Brothers of the above named Nathaniel Hargrave and
their Families, are also interred here. MARY, the wife of John Pawson, of Newcastle Wine Merchant
and daughter of the above Named Nathaniel Hargrave Buried 20*" Oct,. 1738. The above JOHN
PAWSON, buried 5*" Nov-^. 1747 Aged 44 Years. Sarah, their infant Daughter buried 30*" March 1736.
John, eldest son of the above named John Pawson, died 28*" Feb'^y 1802 Aged 68. SOPHIA ANN, wife
of George Pawson, of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland, Esq'., eldest son of the last named
John Pawson, died 4*" May 1813 Aged 41 Years. The above named GEORGE PAWSON, who took
the additional name of " Hargrave " by royal authority, died at Eslington in the said County of Northum
berland, in the 46*" year of his age, and was buried here the 5*" Jan'? 1818."
Jonathan Hargrave, Sheriff of Newcastle, 1699, married Florence, daughter of Thomas Gyll, of Barton,
Yorkshire. She died in 1735, and was interred here, within the communion rails. James Hargrave was
buried in the family vault in 1698.
John Pawson, whose father and grandfather had been Lord Mayors of York, settled in Newcastle as
a wine merchant at the end of the seventeenth century. He married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel
Hargrave of the epitaph, and died as above stated. His son and heir, John Pawson, of Shawdon,
married at All Saints', in 1770, Elizabeth, only child of Robert Foggin, and was succeeded in 1802 by his
eldest son George, who assumed the name and arms of Hargrave. He married first at St. Andrews, in
1805, Sophia Ann, daughter of the Rev. Henry Latten, vicar of Woodhorn, and secondly Ann James,
daughter of James Collingwood, of Morpeth, and widow of T. Currell, of Jamaica. Both wives were buried
in St. Nicholas, the forraer in 1813, the latter in 1817, and a year later his reraains were interred beside
them. The estate of Shawdon passed to his brother William, who was High Sheriff of Northumberland
in 1826, the " great election " year.

HERON.
" RALPH HERON departed this Ufe the 13*" of April 1801 aged 64 years."
This is the tombstone of a descendant of the Herons of Chipchase. Thomas Heron, of Heron's HiU,
Corbridge, by his marriage with Frances Scurfield had a son named Ralph, who was the father of Ralph of
the epitaph. The latter was a solicitor in Newcastle, often Deputy Sheriff for the County of Northumber
land, and clerk to various meetings of the magistrates. He raarried Anne, daughter of George Cuthbertson
— elected Town Clerk in 1742, and Clerk of the Peace for Northumberland in 1759 — and sister of George
Cuthbertson, junior, elected Town Clerk in 1750, who died six years later, aged 26 years. By this
marriage Ralph Heron of the tombstone had ten children. His second son, named after him, was the
unfortunate youth who was kiUed by falling from Lunardi's balloon as described on page 23 ; his sixth
son, Walter, was an attorney and Under Sheriff of Newcastle, who died in 1811 ; and his seventh son,
Charles, was kiUed on the 29th July, 1803, by the blowing up of the " Caledonia," East Indiaman.

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HODGSON

"LANCELOT HODSHON Son of Iohn Hodshon Esq. Depted this life the 14 of May 1677.
MARGARET his Wife Daughter of S' Thomas Haggerston Bart. Depted this life August y" 18 An"
Dni 1663. ADELIN his Second Wife Daughter of Iames Cholmley Esq'- Depted this life March y" 19
Ano Dni 1672."
Arms : Per chevron embattled or and azure, three martlets counterchanged, for Hodgson, impaling,
1st azure, on a bend cottised argent, three billets sable, for Haggerston ; 2nd gules, in chief two helmets
argent, and in base a garb or for Cholmley.
Crest : A martlet, in his beak a sprig.
Lancelot Hodgson was one of the Hodgsons of Hebburn, but the estate had been sold to the EUisons
about thirty years before his death. He married, first, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Haggerston and
widow of WUUam Hodgson, of Hebburn ; and secondly, Adelin, daughter of James Cholmley. His great
grandfather, Richard Hodgson, of Hebburn, married Isabel, daughter of James Lawson, of Nesham, and
was Sheriff in 1549, and Mayor in 1555, 1566, and 1580. His grandfather, Lancelot, married Mary,
daughter and co-heir of William Lee, of Brandon, and acquired the estate of that name, near Brancepeth.
His father was John Hodgson, of Jesmond, at whose interment Vicar Nailer gave permission for the
removal ofthe Percy shrine, as described on page 107. The family in its chief branch terminated in an
heiress, who married Francis Carr, of Cocken.

HORSLEY.
" Pray for. y. soule of [THOMAS] HORSLEYIE march, aventurer somtime maior of this town &
[Joan] his wife  "
Arms : Gules three horses heads couped argent, bridled, an annulet for difference.
"The Burial Place of HENRY HORSLEY of Milburne Grange Esqui & MARGARET his Wife he
Depted the 16*" of Nouem 1657 Etatis Suae 56."
Arms: Gules, three horses' heads erased argent, for Horsley, impaling  a chevron between three
cross-crosslets fitchee  within a bordure 
Crest : A horse's head erased.
Thomas Horsley was Sheriff in 1512, Mayor in 1514, 1519, 1524, 1525, and 1533. By his wiU he
devised all his lands in Newcastle, after the death of himself and Joan, his wife, for the endowment of a
free school in the town, and thus became founder of the Royal Free Gramraar School. In the last
mayoralty of Edward Mosley, the munificence of Horsley was recorded in a Latin inscription placed on the
entrance porch of the school. The date of his death is not known for certain, but no doubt exists that it
was prior to 1540.

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ILE,

" BVLMAR ILE Apothecarie And Grocer of this Towne and ANNE [Query, Agnes ? ] his Wife She
Departed to the Mercie of God the 7 December 1614."
Arms :  a fess between three escallop-shells  , a mullet difference for lie ; impaling ermine,
on a cross engrailed.  a mullet for Pollard.
Crest : On a wreath a demi-lion rampant, holding between his paws an escallop-shell.
Bulmer, or Bowlmer, He, a descendant of the Lisles of Felton and Gosforth, married first in 1612,
Agnes Cock, who died in 1614 ; and secondly, Anne, daughter of Lawrence Pollard, of Newlathes, York
shire. He died in 1644, and in his will directed that his body should be buried "in the south porch lately
builded of St. Nicholas' Church under my own blew stone which I bought from a quarry at the Heugh in
Northumberland." His widow Anne survived him twenty-five years. A detailed account of the family
of lie appears in Longstaffe's History of Darlington.

ISAACSON.
"ANTHONY ISAACSON Esq' Dyed lune 15*" 1693. Iane his S'^ Daughter died y° 21^' of May
1716. Iohn Isaacson Esq' who was the Eldest Son that Survived Him and was several Years Recorder of
this Corporation died the 3'' day of lanuary 1737. JOHN the Eldest son of John Isaacson Esq' died the
16*" of June 1752. HENRIETTA ISAACSON Widow and Relict of the last above named John Isaacson
died the 16*" day of December 1765 Aged 59."
Arms : Or on a pile between two escallop-shells in base azure, a lion rampant argent for Isaacson,
impaling argent a chevron between three martlets sable for Lawson.
Crests : 1st. A demi-lion rampant holding an escallop-shell. 2nd. Two arms counter embowed,
vested ermine supporting a sun in splendour.
Anthony Isaacson was the father of Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Ellison, D.D., Vicar of Newcastle, to
whom she was married at St. Andrew's Church in 1691. She died in March, 1712, and was buried in the
vault acquired by the Doctor eight years previously, as described on page 90.
John Isaacson was elected Recorder of Newcastle on the resignation of John Cuthbert in 1725, and
held the office tUl his death, in 1737.

JEFFERSON.
" MATTHEW lEFFERSON Alderman and Sometime Maior of this Towne, and Mary his wife by
whome he had issue nine Children whereof six Survived him, viz. Henry, Iohn, Barbara, Ann, Mary, &
Elizab : He depf^- March y'' P* 1687. And Mary his Wife Depted this life the 18*" day of March A°-
1697. Iohn Departed this life the 4*" day of March Anno Dom 170^."

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Arms : Azure a fret or, on a chief argent, three leopards' heads gules.
Crest : A talbot's head erased.
Matthew Jefferson, Sheriff in 1671, and Mayor in 1678, was a Merchant Adventurer, and in the
books of his Company, under date November 3rd, 1669, appears the foUowing entry :— " Mr. Gov'-
acquainted the Comp. that the Mayor of Durham had been with him & had complained to him of Mr.
Matt" Jefferson for seUing goods at Brancepeth to the prejudice of the Grocers' Comp. in Durham, for
which at the next Court, holden 24 Nov. 1669, he was fined £26 being for 13 weeks at 40s. per week,
according to the Acts of this Company."

JENISON.
"RODVLPHVS IENISON qvondam major hvjvs oppidi qvi tempore prasfectvraB suaae decessit 
Anno Domini 1597 hoc tvmvlo sepvltvs jacet." Translation.
Ralph Jennison, formerly Mayor of this town, who died in the time of his Mayoralty  A.D., 1597,
lies buried in this tomb.
Arms : Azure a bend or between two swans argent.
Crest : Out of a coronet, a dragon's head.
" The BuriaU place of S' RALPH IENISON of Elswick in the County of Northumberland, Knight,
Sometime Maijor of this Towne, Obijt tertio die Aprilis Anno 1701 ./Etatis susb 88.
HENRICUS lENNISON, Generosus ObUt 19"° die Augusti Anno 1703."
These inscriptions commemorate the family of Jenison, at one time prominent in Newcastle
history. Ralph, whose name heads the Ust, was a son of Robert Jenison, of Yokeflete, Yorkshire, and he and
his brother William settled in Newcastle as merchants about the middle of the sixteenth century. William
was an alderman and raarried Barbara, daughter of Ralph Carr. Ralph married Margaret, daughter of
Cuthbert Hunter, of Newcastle, relict of Andrew Bewick, and died on Whit Monday, 1597, whUe
occupying the Mayoralty. The inscription — which is but a fragment — records this fact ; and in Bourne's
time there followed a Latin verse extolling Ralph as a prudent, peaceful, pious, and large hearted man,
whose aspirations were heavenward ; adding, that beneath the same stone lay his son Robert, " doctor of
divinity and minister of the word of God." Dr. Robert Jenison was Ralph's fourth son, who, having been
suspended from the lectureship of All Saints' in 1639, for nonconformity, was appointed Vicar of
Newcastle by the House of Commons a few weeks after the siege in 1644, and died in 1652. He married
first, a daughter of Dr. Favour, of York, and secondly, Barbara, daughter of Samuel Sanderson, of
Hedley Hope, Durham, who survived him and married John Emerson, one the Mayors of Newca.stle.
(See page 75). By his first wife Dr. Jenison had Elizabeth, who married Henry Bowes, and Mary,
wife of Peter Sanderson, Sheriff in 1651. By his second wife he had Thomas Jenison, Sheriff in 1661

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and Mayor in 1674, who married Alice, daughter and co-heir of the above John Emerson (by his first
wife), and was buried in St. Nicholas' in 1 676.
The second epitaph records the death of Sir Ralph, son of WUliam Jenison, and nephew of Ralph
of the first quoted inscription. He was Sheriff in 1648 and Mayor in 1668, and married first, a sister of
Sir Francis Bowes, and secondly, Jane, daughter of Ralph Carr, and relict of Samuel Rawling, Sheriff in
1649. Sir Ralph purchased High Walworth from his relative, Robert Jenison, and acquired the Elswick
estate, which latter remained in the family until it was purchased by Mr. Hodgson in the early part of
last century. WiUiam Jenison, second son of Sir Ralph, was Town Clerk of Newcastle from 1675 to 1699,
and another of his sons, Henry, was Sheriff during the Mayoralty of his father's cousin, Thomas, in 1674.

KIRKLEY.
" MICHAELL KIRKLAIE Marchant Aduenturer depted to the Marcy of God the 31 of May 1620.
MATTHEW KIRKLAIE his son depted the 7 of J  1609. WILLIAM KIRKLAIE his son depted
the 10 of July 1623 and JANE his daughter depted the 17 March Anno 1625 and ELIZABETH his
Wife she depted  May  "
Michael Kirklaie or Kirkley, a respectable merchant in Newcastle, is supposed to have been the
father of Elizabeth Kirkley, first wife of the first Sir William Blackett. (See page 60.) The faraily of
Kirkley appear to have held substantial positions on the banks of the Tyne. Thomas Kirkley, son of
Thomas Kirkley, was apprenticed to Henry White, barber-chirurgeon, in 1663, and the names of George,
Roger, Anthony, George, Rowland, and Robert Kirkley occur in succession as shipwrights from the reign
of Charles I. to that of George I. Particulars of the funeral of Matthew Kirkley, merchant, who died in
1691, are given in one of Richardson's Reprints.

LAWSON.
"Here lieth Buried Mr HENRY LAWSON who Dj'ed in the yeare 1645. Robert His son departed
this life y= 3"^ Day of October 1664. Margaret wife to Robert Lawson Departed this Ufe y^ 27 day
of lune 1695."
Arms : Quarterly, 1st and 4th argent a chevron between three martlets sable, a crescent for differ
ence for Lawson ; 2nd and 3rd. ermine on a bend between two lions rampant azure, three mullets of six
points pierced or for Warmouth.
Crest : A demi-lion rampant ermine, armed or, holding a mullet of six points of the last.
One of a faraily whose members spread themselves through the counties of Northumberland, Durham,
Yorkshire, and Cumberland. Henry Lawson of the epitaph was the youngest son of Robert Lawson, of
Longhirst. He was a raerchant and Alderman of Newcastle, and filled the office of Sheriff in 1636. St,
Mary's Porch, in this Church, was for a time the burying place of the Lawsons of Cramlington — another
branch of this extensive family.

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LEDGARD.

" Margaretta Thorase Ledgard hvjus villse
Tvnc maioris charisima coniux 
Mortalitatem suam Iseta & triumphans
Exvit  Gloriae 
Svrsvm recepta est 13 die Junii
Anno  Dei 1648."
Translation.
Margaret the very dear wife of Thomas Ledgard, at that time Mayor of this town  -joyfully and
triumphantly put off her mortality  was received up [to heaven] on the 13th June, in the year ofthe
 of God, 1648.
Thomas Ledgard, draper, was Mayor in 1647, and his wife died, as stated in the epitaph, during his
mayoralty. George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, recording in his journal the difficulty he
experienced in expounding his views in Newcastle, states that : — " One Ledger, an alderman of the town,
was very envious against truth and friends " and adds that he went over to Gateshead, where he met with
something like a welcome. In the Corporation accounts for June, 1659, a sum of £5 is paid to Thomas
Ledgard for " making open the old way leading up by the towne wall neere the carpenter's tower from
Sandgate Yate towards the Sheeldfeild."

LIDDELL.
" THOMAS LIDDELL, Merchant Adventurer died 8 May 1577. Whose soul in God we trust went
streyght to heaven."
"Under this stone lyeth buried the bodies of MARGARETT and JANE the Wiffes of THOMAS
LIDDELL Marchant Adventurer Alderman and Sometime Maior of this to-wne. Margt. depted the xxi
of March 1585, and Jane xxi of Juli 1602 With their Children, he depted the 19 of August 1619."
Arms : Argent fretty gules, on a chief of the second, three leopards' heads or.
Crest : On a wreath a lion rampant crowned with a coronet.
Thomas Liddell, merchant adventurer, was Sheriff in 1563, and Mayor in 1572. His son Thomas was
Sheriff in 1592, and Mayor 1597 and 1609. The latter married first Margaret, daughter of Alderman
John Watson, and secondly Jane, daughter of Alderman Henry Midford. He purchased Ravenshelm
[Ravensworth] and Lamesley, and so founded the present Ravensworth family. His eldest son Thomas,
by Margaret Watson — Sheriff in 1609 (when his father was Mayor), and Mayor in 1625 and 1636 — married
Isabel, daughter of Henry Anderson, of Newcastle and Haswell, was created a baronet and attained
celebrity as one of the defenders of Newcastle against the Scots. Thomas Liddell's son Henry, by Jane
Midford, obtained from his father the estate of Farnacres, and married EUzabeth, daughter and co-heir of
Alderman William Jenison. Sir Henry, seventh in descent from Thomas of the first epitaph, was in
1747 created Baron Ravensworth ; and, in 1874, the title was raised to that of Earl of Ravensworth.

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MALLABAR.
" ROBERT MALLABAR, March* Advent' and Sometyme Sheriff of this Towne Depted this Ufe 7*"
of Novemb' 1676 and had Issve by ALICE his Wife 4 sonnes and 3 daughters Henry, Thomas, Alice
dead; Robert, George, Sarah and Iane lining. Sarah ther daughter depted Nouem the 9*" 1681."
Arms : Or on a chevron gules, between three nettle leaves proper a crescent argent for Mallabar,
impaling  three cinquefoils 
Crest : A martlet or.
This inscription is upon the stone of Roger Procter. Mallabar was Sheriff in 1672. His daughter
Jane married in 1702 Sir John Clavering, of AxweU, and was buried in this church in 1735. (See page
102.)

MARLEY.
" HENRY MARLAY Esq. and BARBARA his Wife by whom he had issue 8 chUdren 4 surviv'd her
viz Iohn, Henry, Mary, Barbara. She depted this life y^ 20*" day of November 1676. He depted the
24*" of October 1688. Iohn His Eldest Sone depted this life y« 23'* of March Anno 1689. Henry
Departed this life y^ 24*" day of October Anno Dom 1700."
Arms : Argent on a chevron between three martlets sable a mullet of six points or for Marley,
impaling azure a plate between three cocks argent for Cock.
Crest ; A dove rising.
On the 19th of May, 1654, according to the journals of the company of Merchant Adventurers, " Mr.
Henry Marley coming to Court, having been disfranchised by an Ordinance of Parliament and by the
Common Council of this town, was dismissed." But in the Corporation books under date 1660 " Henry
Marley, merchant, sometime Clerk of the Chamber " appears as having been restored to his former freedom
of the town.
It is not quite certain which of the two Henry Marleys mentioned in the epitaph was Clerk of
the Chamber. In the " Necrology," page 20 of this book, it is assumed that the son fflled that office. The
elder Henry married Barbara, daughter of Ralph Cock, and one of the " canny hinnies." His relationship
to Sir John Marley does not appear, but in Brockett's " Glossary," under the head of " Canny hinny," it is
stated that he was Sir John's son. Sir John was buried here in 1673, aged 83 years, as were also his
father Wm. Marley in 1609, and his grandfather John Marley in 1561. Their tombstones existed in
Bourne's time, but he did not preserve a copy of the inscriptions.

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MATFEN.

"MATTHEW MATFEN March* Adven*' dy'd 1^* of Octob' 1697.
MATTHEW MATFEN junior Esq' Merchant Advent' Dyed y^ 24*" luly 1705 being then Sheriff of
this Town. ANN MATFEN Dyed October y^ 23* 1717.
ROGER MATFEN Merch* Adventurer Sometime Sheriff of this town Dyed y^ 6*" of Febry 1717.
IANE MATFEN Widdow Dyed August y^ 31* 1723.
Here lieth the Body of M'= ALICE MATFEN Daughter of Matthew Matfen of Newcastle upon
Tyne Esq' deceased ; She departed this Ufe July 1st. 175 L In the 84*" Year of her Age."
This stone, in St. George's Porch, commemorates George Bird, Clerk of the Chamber (see pages
28 and 138), and several merabers of the Matfen family. Thomas Surtees, of Middleton, who died in
1629, married Jane, widow of Matthew Matfen, merchant, of Newcastle, and had issue : Isabel, wife of
Anthony Swinburne ; Mary, wife of Sir Peter Riddell, of Gateshead, Knt.; and Elizabeth, wife of Charies
Tempest. By her first marriage this lady had Robert Matfen, merchant, and two daughters— Katharine,
wife of Hugh Selby, and Margaret, wife of John Milbank.* Later on in the I7th century the Matfens
were allied to the Andersons by the marriage of Dorcas Matfen to Henry, son and successor of Sir Francis
Anderson, M.P., the chivalrous and obstinate cavalier. They first appear on the municipal roll in 1704,
when Matthew, junior, was appointed Sheriff, but there seems to have been some fatality attending the
municipal career of this faraily, for Matthew died during his shrievalty, and Roger, who occupied the same
office in 1714, departed within three years afterwards. None of them lived to reach the higher dignity,
and in the Newcastle Directory for 1801 the name of Matfen does not anywhere appear.

MITFORD.
" Here Interred lieth y^ Body of WINFRID MITFORD Late Wife of JAMES MITFORD Esq' who
departed this life June y^ 3* 1760 in y^ 65*" year of her age.
Here Likewise lieth Interred the Body of .IANE BATES Late the Wife of RALPH BATES of
Holywell : In y^ County of Northumberland Esq' Daughter of the above James and Winfred Mitford
who departed this life May the 6*" 1760 In the 22* Year of her Age.
JAMES MITFORD Esq' died June 3'* 1762 Aged 76 Years."
Arms : Argent, a fesse between three moles sable, for Mitford, irapaling  , on a chevron between
three caltraps  , as many annulets 
Crest : Two hands couped, holding a sword erect thereon a boar's head couped.
* In his -wiU, dated 16th May, 1629, Thomas Surtees bequeathed " To my sonne in law Anthony Swinburne my lease of his freehold
lands in Bls-wicke and I forgive him all monies &c ; to my sister in law Katharine Carre £5 for a token ; to my two daughters in law Katharine
Selbye & Margerye Milbanke to either a xxx s. piece for a token. Sir Peter Riddell my sone in law shall have one half my lease of BenweU
cole-myne ; & my sons in law Swinburne and Charles Tempest the other half. The rest to my three daughters, Marie wife of Sir Peter
Riddell, Isabell, wife of Anthony Swinburne, and Elizabeth wife of Charles Tempest. "
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A local branch of the great house of Mitford is here commemorated. The daughter, Jane, married in
1759 Ralph Bates, of Milbourne Hall and HolyweU, who was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1762.
She died in child-birth a year after marriage, leaving a daughter, Isabella Jane, who, in 1786, married the
Rev. Henry Ingilby. Mr. Bates afterwards married Anne Ellison, of Hebburn, and his eldest son, Ralph,
was united to bis second cousin, Sarah, 3rd daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Vicar of Bolam.

MONCASTER.
" The Burial Place of Mr. JAMES MONCASTER Merchant Who died the 8*" June 1739, Aged
57 Years. ISABLE his Wife died the 29*" Feb 1764, Aged 68. FRANCES their daughter Wife of
Charles Atkinson, Esq' Alderman of this Town, died 15*" September 1793, Aged 68. CHARLES
ATKINSON Esq' above Named died 12*" Feb^ 1797 Aged 61 Years."
James Moncaster was Sheriff in 1724, and died fifteen years afterwards without occupying the
chair of the Chief Magistrate. His daughter, Frances, raarried Charles Atkinson, who was Sheriff'
during the first Mayoralty of John Erasmus Blackett, in 1 765, and Mayor himself in 1775. Mr. Atkinson was
killed by faUing down a coal pit, near Dumfermline. The Newcastle Courant, of February 8th, 1797,
records the disaster as follows : — " On Sunday morning last, walking with his son amongst his Coal
Works, near Dumfermline, in Scotland, he went to examine the mouth of an old pit, and whilst looking down,
a piece of timber on which he stood gave way, and precipitated him to the bottom, a depth of about forty
fathoms, ten of which were supposed to be filled with water. It was several hours before his remains,
which were considerably mangled, could be recovered."
During Mr. Atkinson's Mayoralty the foundation stone of the Newcastle half of Tyne Bridge was laid
by Sir Matthew White Ridley. A medal, struck for the occasion, bore the inscription : — " This stone being
the boundary of the Corporation of Newcastle southward was laid Anno Domini 1776 in the Mayoralty
of Charles Atkinson Esq. William Cramlington Esq Sheriff." Bourne, in a note about Wallsend,
mentions the " beautiful houses and gardens " of, amongst others, " Mr. Charles Atkinson of Newcastle,"
Hoastman, and Mr. James Monkcaster of Newcastle Merchant."

NEWTON.
" This is the Burial Place of MATHEW NEWTON Marchant Aduenturer, MARGARET his Wife
and Children. He deParted this life to the Mercy of God the 28*" of Nouember Anno Domini 1668."
Arms :  two shin bones in saltire the sinister surmounted of the dexter  a crescent for
difference for Newton, impaling  a fesse dancette between three eagles displayed 
Crest : An arm embowed habited holding in the hand a shin bone.
This tombstone, which Ues in the floor of St. George's Porch, contains an inscription to the memory of
Matthew Prior, recorded hereafter.

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NICHOLSON

"Here under lyeth in  the corps of ROGER NICHOLSON Marchant Adventurer & somtyme
maior of this towne with ANNES his Wife & their Children depted the xxU of January 1591  which
is our  shaU appear then shaU We also appeare  him in glory. Christ is  "
Arms: Quarterly 1st  abend  ; 2nd ermine, on a pale sable, three martlets or; 3rd & 4th
as the first.
" The BuriaU Place of CHRISTOFER NICHOLSON Alderman of this Town, who departed this
life the  of Apriil 1657  also departed this life on y« 29*" Day of September Ano. Dom 1670
in the 68*" yeare of His Age."
Arms : Ermine on a pale sable, three martlets argent.
Crest : On a wreath a lion sejant.
Roger Nicholson, Sheriff in 1583, and Mayor in 1588, was the father of Grace, wife of James Clavering,
of Callaley, and great grandfather to Mary Butler, wife of Ambrose Barnes.
Christopher Nicholson was Sheriff in 1645-6, when Charles I. was brought to Newcastle a prisoner,
and is said to have had charge of the captive king. Ten years later he officiated at the marriage of Ambrose
Barnes to Mary Butler, above-mentioned. His wife was Jane, daughter of John Butler, and his wife's
sister is the young lady who married in his last illness the Rev. John Rawlet, lecturer at St. Nicholas',
and was left " a maid, a wife, and a widow."

OGLE.
"IOHN OGLE Esq' Mary his Wife and their Issue. Underneath lyes MARY LISLE Relict of
Robert Lisle late of Hazon Esq' deceased & Daughter to the above named Iohn Ogle And Mary.
Who dyed the 19*" of December 1728 Aged 44. He Departed this Life the 28*" of March 1740 Aged 90
years. MARY his Wife died Nov' 16. 1744 Aged 81. And left Issue only one son Sir Chaloner Ogle
K* Admiral &c."
Arms: Argent, a fesse between three crescents gules, for Ogle ; impaling  on a chevron three
cross crosslets fitchee 
A member of a Northumberland family of great antiquity is here commemorated. John Ogle was
uncle of the famous Dr. Ogle, of Kirkley, physician to the forces under the great Duke of Marlborough,
and father, as stated on the tombstone, of Sir Chaloner Ogle, admiral of the fleet. Sir Chaloner married
his cousin, Isabella, fourth child of the doctor, and died in London, in 1750.

PARTIS.
" The Burial place of THOMAS PARTIS Tobacconist & ELLINOR His Wife. He Departed this life
y« 12*" of ApriU Anno: Dom: 1669. She Depted this life y' 9*" of May 1681 hauing Issue 10 Children.
6 survived them Viz : Thomas, Francis, Matthias, Charles, Iohn, and Ioseph.

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THOMAS KILLINGWORTH PARTIS Son of Thomas Depted this life y" first of ApriU Anno :
D: 1687. THOMAS PARTIS Tobacco : Depted lanu : y" 8 : 1688.
SUSANNA daug' ot Thomas Depted Decem"' 16 : 1689.
JOHN PARTIS Merch* Depted Decem"' y" 28*" 1690.
ELIZABETH PARTIS wife of Francis Departed Feb: y= first 1691. BARBARA Daugh' of
Joseph Dept* Mar : y^ first 1695. MATTHIAS son of Francis Depted y" 21 of April 1695."
Arms: Parted per fesse  three stags' heads cabossed  for Partis ; impaling barry of eight
pieces  a lion rampant.
Crest : A stag's head cabossed.
Matthias Partis was elected Sheriff in 1688, the year of the Revolution. The Mayor was WUliam
Hutchinson, respecting whora Mr. Jaraes Clephan has contributed to the Archceologia JEliana an
interesting paper. He was a Dissenter, and brother-in-law to Ambrose Barnes. The adherents of
King James had designed the appointment of two of their own party ; " but the electors, though of the
Mayor and Aldermen's own making, refused to choose them and elected two Protestants," who continued
tiU November the fifth — the day the Prince of Orange landed — when Nicholas Ridley was appointed to
the office of Mayor, and Matthew White succeeded Mr. Partis as Sheriff. Later on,* in 1745, the year of
the Rebellion, Henry Partis was Sheriff, and, in 1752 and 1760, Mayor. In 1761, Fletcher Partis was
Sheriff. Henry Partis died in 1766, and was buried here.

PIBUS.
"  [HUMPHREY PIBUS who] departed this life  Anno Domini 1694. And
of his only daughter ELIZABETH, wife of John March Vicar of this parish. She Depted this life 
of AprU Anno Domini 1680. And of ANN daughter to the said John and Elizabeth March who
departed this life the 9 day of  Anno Domini 1681. And of GRACE second wife of the said
Humphrey Pibus. She depted this Life y" 24*" day of February Anno Domini 1 682.
JOHN MARCH, Batchelor of Arts, and late Vicar of Newcastle deptd this Ufe the second of
December in y" year of our Lord 1692."
This stone was discovered during the recent alterations, face downwards. It is now placed in the
south aisle of the chancel, and is the only inscription on the floor of that part of the building.

^ " 1724. October 21. — About eight o clock at night a dreadful fire broke out iu the house of Mr. Joseph Partis, merchant, near St.
Nicholas' Church in Newcastle, where by the explosion of a barrel of gunpowder, twelve persons were kiUed, and about one hundred more or
less wounded ; one person was blown on to the leads of St. Nicholas' Church ; aU the windows in the neighbourhood were also broken, but
the blast extinguished the fire." — Local Records.
" Whilst I am here I can't help observing that were the Houses belonging to Mr. Partis, &c., which are situated from the Porch Door of
St. Nicholas' to the said Street [The Side] taken away, the Belfry and Steeple would look much more grand and magnificent ; and whereas
this Great Ornament of the Town is now [1730] almost hid as a Traveller comes up this Street it would then be wholly expos'd, and strike the
Beholders with Awe and Wonder.'' — Bourne's History of Newcastle.
In 1799 another great fire occurred in these buUdings, and several barrels of gunpowder were, at great risk, carried for safety into the
Chtu-ch. Some years afterwards the houses were removed, and the south front of the tower exposed to the " Awe and Wonder " of the
" Beholders " as Bourne desired.

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The Rev. John March was a native of Newcastle, born about 1640, of Anabaptist parents, who died
while he was young. He was educated at Newcastle Grammar School, and afterwards went to the
University of Oxford, where he rose to be vice-principal of St. Edmund's HaU. The vicarage of Embleton
was conferred upon him in 1672, and in 1676, on the removal of Mr. Mayer to AU Saints', he was elected
to the lectureship in St. Nicholas'. Three years afterwards, on the death of Mr. Nailer, he was appointed
Vicar of Newcastle, and continued in that office tiU his death in 1692. He held strong prelatical opinions,
and was not specially tolerant of the Dissenters, amongst whom his chUdhood was passed. At the
Revolution, like many others of his cloth, he hesitated to recognise WiUiam and Mary, and there is in the
Corporation books an order of Common Council " that Mr. Maior, &c., acquaint him his salary wiU be
stopped unless he pray for King WiUiam and Queen Mary by name." But with all his High Church
notions Mr. March was a scholar, a devout and pious man, and a powerful preacher. Eleven of his
serraons were collected and published in 1693, with a preface by Dr. John Scot. The last of these was
one which Mr. March preached the Sunday morning before he died— November 27, 1692 — from the text,
" How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation," a sermon which seems at the time to have made
an impression.

PRIOR.
" In Memory of MATTHEW PRIOR, many years Assay Master of this Town, who died 15'" of June,
1800. ^t. 65 Years."
By an Act of Parliament passed in 1702 an Assay Office was established in Newcastle, which thus
became one of six or seven towns in the kingdom privileged to test and mark silver plate. The Gold
smiths' Company have charge of the business and appoint the master, and in the early part of last century
they elected Matthe-w Prior to the office. He died in 1759, and was succeeded by his son Matthew of the
epitaph. Matthew, the elder, was an ingenious mathematician, and celebrated for his construction of
musical instruments and toys. Matthew, of the epitaph, was also an able man, and after his death the
Newcastle Magazine published some anecdotes iUustrative of his shrewdness. One of them is to the effect
that while he was in office an attempt was raade to take the business of assaying from the town, and he
gave evidence before a committee of the House of Commons on the subject. Being asked if he knew
whether his scales were good ones, he professed his conviction that they were remarkably true. " What
would cast them ?" asked a member. " Why, sir," replied Prior, " they would be cast by one of the hairs
from the back of my hand !"

PROCTER.
" The buriall place of ROGER PROCTER March* Advent'. He depted this Life the 20*" of
Novemb' 1664. And had Issue by ALICE his Wife 6 sonnes & one daughter— Anthony, Roger,
George, Margaret and Ambrose dead ; William & Roger Living."
Arms :  , a chevron engraUed  , guttee  , between three crosses couped  for
Proctor, impaling  , three cinquefoils 

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RIDDELL.
" Here lieth the Bodie of BARBARA RIDDEL wife was to William Riddel Marchant Adventvrer
and sometimes Maijor of this Towne He Depted to the Mercye of God the 11*" of November Anno Domini
1627." William RiddeU, Sheriff 1575, Mayor 1582, 1590, and 1595, was a great grandson of John Riddell,
Sheriff in 1478 ; grandson of Thomas RiddeU, Mayor in 1510, 1521, and 1526, and son of Peter RiddeU,
merchant adventurer, by Dorothy, sister of Sir Robert Brandling. William married first, Ann Lawson, of
Newcastle, who bore him a son named Thomas. Thomas was Sheriff in 1601, knighted by James I. in
1603, Mayor in 1604 and 1616, and M.P. for Newcastle in 1620 and 1628, and marrying Elizabeth, daughter
of Sir John Conyers, he became father of Sir Wm. RiddeU, of Gateshead, and Sir Thos. RiddeU, of Fenham,
Governor of Tynemouth during the Civil Wars. William Rid dell's second wife was Barbara Anderson,
the subject of the epitaph, and by her he had Sir Peter Riddell, Sheriff, Knight, Mayor, and M.P., who
married a daughter of Thomas Surtees and Jane Matfen. In Bourne's time there was a slab at the east
end of the chancel inscribed " Sir Peter Riddell Knight, twice Mayor of this Town [who died] 18*" April
1641."

ROBSON.
" TIMOTHY ROBSON Alderman and 2 Times Major of this Towne & ELIZABETH his First Wife
by whom he had issue Six Children 3 Sons and 3 Daughters whereof 5 are Deceased She Departed y° 31"
Day of August Anno 1676 He Departed y" 30*"Day of Decemb' Anno Dom 1700 only one Daughter Mary
Surviving them who is Wife to Iohn Milbanke Gentleman."
Arms : Azure a chevron ermine between three boars' heads erased or.
Crest : A boar's head erased and erect or.
Timothy Robson filled the office of Sheriff in 1677, and was Mayor in 1681 and 1695. Bourne
mentions his house as one of the few noticeable dwellings in the Meal Market, but local history is other
wise silent concerning hira.

RODDAM.
" Here Ueth interred the Bodyes of ROBERT RODDAM Alderman and Sometime Maior of this
Towne and MARY his Wife She Depted this life the Second Day of September Anno 1676 He Depted
this Ufe the 20*" day of luly Anno Dom 1682 thay had Issue 13 Children Nine Suruiu'd them uiz Robert
Ionathan Iosua Ioseph and Michaell Mary Isabell Anne and Iudeth Ionathan Alderman &
Sometime Maior dyed 21^* of August 1712 left Issue by Iane his wife a Son & Daughter."

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Arms : Argent, on a bend sable, three crosses-moline or, a crescent for difference, for Roddam ;
impaling  , a chevron between three heathcocks 
Crest : A cross-moline.
"The Roddams, or Rodhams," writes Leland in his Itinerary (1540), " were men of fair landes in
Northumberlande about Tylle river, untyl one of them having to wife one of Umflaville's daughters kUled
a man of name and thereby lost the principale of eight hundred markes by yerre so that at this time
Roddam or otherwise Rodham of Northumberlande is but a man of mene landes." A branch of this wide
spreading family settled in Newcastle, and in the 17th century rose to a considerable position in the
government of the town. Robert Roddam was Mayor in 1677; and in July, 1705, when Matthew Matfen
the Sheriff died, Jonathan Roddam was appointed to complete his year of office. , A similar event
happened five years afterwards, but it was the Mayor, George Whinfield, this time who died, and Jonathan
Roddam succeeded him, occupying the unique position of being Sheriff for two months and Mayor for
three months. Robert Roddam, the Mayor of 1677, had, in 1671, filled the office of Sheriff for five months
on the death of Richard Wright.

SHADFORTH.
"This is the Buriall Place of CHRISTOPHER SHADFORTH. ANN SHADFORTH, died
Aug* 1=* 1795 in the 79*" year of her age. HENRY SHADFORTH died Aug* 18*" 1798, Aged 83.
ELIZABETH ORDE SHADFORTH, daughter of George Shadforth, November 17*" 1820 Aged 13 weeks.
THOMAS SHADFORTH died May 2°* 1827 aged 79 years. GEORGE SHADFORTH died March 16
1828 aged 76 years."
From the Newcastle Directory for 1801 we learn that this family occupied a respectable position in the
town. Thomas Shadforth was a fitter in Love Lane, for Walker and Lawson's Main coals, and George was
a sailmaker onthe Quayside. Henry Shadforth was Clerk ofthe Town's Chamber in 1781, as we read in
Mackenzie's History and in the Directory above quoted ; the same name appears as Clerk of the Chamber,
and elsewhere as Quay Master. George Shadforth, the younger, was appointed Sheriff in February, 1809 ;
Thomas Burdon, the retiring Sheriff, and Benjamin Sorsbie having each filled the office for a few months
till young Shadforth came of age, for there was great difficulty at that time in obtaining persons willing
to take the office. In 1824 George Shadforth was Sheriff for the second tirae, and in 1829 he became
Mayor.
STOTT.
" In hope of a blessed Resurrection Here resteth the Body of ROBERT WIGFALL STOTT of
Manchester, who departed this Life, Nov. 20*" 1786, in the Twentieth Year of his Age.
Full in the Bloom of Youth my Thread was spun.
Death call'd. Obedience forc'd, and I am gone,
Gone to my last long Home, to wait the Call
Of that great Day which will astonish all."

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TURNER.
" THOS TURNER A.M. Thirty two Years Vicar of this Church died the 1^ of June 1760 Aged 57."
Vicar Turner, who held the living for a longer time than any of his predecessors, was M.A. of St.
John's, Cambridge, and had been Curate of Walkern, Herts. His widow, Martha Turner, was buried
beside him in 1771, aged 74 years. He published two serraons, one preached for the Sons of the Clergy
in 1731 ; the other a public fast sermon in the year of the Rebellion, 1745.
WHINFIELD.
" GEORGE WHINFIELD Merchant Adven' Alderman & Twice Maior of this Towne Departed this
life ye 25 of lune 1710 Being the year of his Second Maioraltie. MARY his Wife departed this life ye
18*" day of November 168— By whom he had issue 2 Sons and 4 daughters viz Iohn George Ann
Dorothy Mary And Elizabeth."
In 1693, when Sir Ralph Carr was Mayor for the second time, George Whinfield was Sheriff. Three
years afterwards he ascended to the chair of the Chief Magistrate, and in 1709, while filling the office a
second time, he was taken ill and died, and was succeeded by Jonathan Roddam.
WILSON.
" Sacred to the Memory of the Rev* ROBERT WILSON. A. B. and Lecturer of St. John's in this
Town. He died November the 9*" A.D, 1811, Aged 54 Years."
The clergyman here comraeraorated was appointed lecturer of St. John's in 1796, and at his death the
right of appointing his successor was disputed between the Vicar and the parishioners ; the Vicar eventu
ally establishing his claim.
Cuthbert Wilson, M.A., occurs as curate of Gateshead and morning lecturer at St. Ann's Chapel in
1772. He died the following year, and a namesake, probably his son, appears as curate of St. Nicholas'
from 1762 to 1791, and afternoon lecturer of AU Saints' from 1783 to 1797.
WRIGHT.
" Here lieth Interred yLBody of RICHARD WRIGHT Merchant Adventurer & Sometime Sheriff of
this Towne He depted this life the 5*" Day of May Ano 1671 His Daughter Ann Departed this Life the
16 Day of December Anno Dora 1674.
The Buriall Place of Mr PAUL JACKSON, Merch* Ob* 2* Jan^ 1787. William his Son Obiit 24.
April 1798.
M'^ DOROTHY WRIGHT of Stockton upon Tees. Obiit Jan^ 19*" 1814 Aged 90."
Arms : Or on a chevron azure, between three dogs current sable, as many trefoils argent for Wright,
irapaling  , a chevron between three birds 
Crest : A stag's head erased or
Mr. Wright died during his shrievalty, and was succeeded by Robert Roddam.

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lOMBSTONES IN THE IhURCH f ARD.

A few persons deserving of notice have been at various times buried in St. Nicholas' Churchyard.
Such are Vicar Dodds, Alderman Forster, Joseph Barber, Storey of Arcot, the Rev. Robert Wasney, &c.
Their tombstone inscriptions are copied in the following pages, along with a few others remarkable for
quaintness of expression or doggrel rhyme. It is surprising to find how few of the ordinary epitaph
compositions are to be seen in this spacious burying ground. For example, there is only one stone that
contains the ubiquitous verse — " Afflictions sore long time I bore
Physicians were in vain.
Till God did please to give me ease
And free me from my pain ;"
and that is altered in the first line to " Afflictions sore with patience bore." The majority of the stones
are plain and concise, containing mostly the name and age of the deceased, with perhaps a verse of
Scripture, or a reference to one.
" In the heart of the city they lie unknown and unnoticed ;
Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them ;
Thousands of throbbing hearts, where their's are at rest and for ever ;
Thousands of aching brains, where their's no longer are busy ;
Thousands of toiling hands, where their's have ceased from their labours ;
Thousands of weary feet, where their's have completed their journey."

BARBER.
" Here lieth the body of JOSEPH BARBER late of Amen Corner, bookseUer, who died July 4'" 1781,
aged 74 years, and of ELEANOR his wife who died Dec' 25*" 1784 aged 67 years.
Beneath this stone are also interred the mortal remains of EDWARD HUMBLE who died June 11*"
1820 aged 66 years, and of MARIA his wife, daughter of the above Joseph and Eleanor Barber who
died Nov' 21^* 1825 aged 73 years, and of six of their children who died in early life; also of their grand
daughter ISABELLA JANE daughter of Freeman John Humble who died at CuUercoats Sept 15*"
1820 aged 9 years. And also of STEPHEN, son of the above Edward and Maria Humble, who died
at Scarborough on the 10*" May, 1853, aged 60 Years."
Among the literary advantages that the town of Newcastle possessed during last century must be
classed its public and private libraries. Dr. Thomlinson's collection, under the genial raanagement of the
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Rev. Nathaniel Clayton, was a well known resort of the literati of the town and neighbourhood ; and after
Mr. Clayton's death, when the library began to decay, literary attraction was divided between the
well-furnished bookshop of Joseph Barber, and that of William Charnley.
Joseph Barber was a son of John Barber, of Dunshaughlin — a village adjoining the Irish metropolis —
and, as appears by the register of Plunkett St. Presbyterian Church, Dublin, was baptized in the year 1706.
How he came to Newcastle does not appear, but in 1742 we find him in business as a printer, and in 1746
as a bookseller at the High Bridge end of the Flesh Market, lending books to his fellow townsmen, and
establishing amongst them their first circulating library. Ten years later he announces himself at Amen
Comer, in the south-west angle of St. Nicholas' Churchyard, and next door but one to Cuthbert
Collingwood, whose youthful son, the future Admiral, would, daily pass the bookshop window as he went
round by the tower of the church, and down Denton Chare, to join John Scott at the Grammar School
in the Forth. Here, according to advertisement, he had 1,257 volumes to lend, at an annual subscription
of ten shillings, and a quarterly payment of half a crown.
Mr. Barber, like many of his countrymen, was a fluent talker and an extensive reader. He knew
Greek and Latin, and could converse in the French language ; while his knowledge of the Belles Lettres —
as history, poetry, rhetoric, &c., were then politely called — was equalled by few, and excelled by none in
his neighbourhood. The lounger who strolled into his shop on market days during the closing months of
1761, watching the maids at the Pant at . the head of the Side, and listening to the new chimes in the
steeple of St. Nicholas', would probably meet Edward Montagu, frora Denton Hall ; Moises, the great
schoolmaster ; Askew, the famous doctor ; Aubone Surtees, the banker ; that wild Lothario, Sir Francis
Blake Delaval ; and perhaps Richard Dawes, the madcap Greek scholar ; and hear them discuss the new
volumes of Tristram Shandy, Dr. Johnson's Rasselas or Idler, the Moral Sentiments of Adam Smith,
Mr. Hume's History, and the varied local news of the day, from the approaching electoral contest at
Durham to the newly finished enclosure of St. Nicholas' Churchyard. And the lounger would find that
not the least amongst them, whether in variety of knowledge, soundness of judgment, or clearness of
criticism, was the stately, not to say pompous gentleman, who, in his neat periwig, bowed and talked from
behind the counter.
When Joseph Barber had acquired a competence at Amen Corner he built himself a dwelling house
on the rising ground about half a mile outside the Westgate. His boyhood had been spent at Summerhill,
close by Dunshaughlin, and in remembrance ofthose early associations he called his new house " SummerhUl"
— a name which, with the addition of " Grove," the locality bears to this day.*
Joseph Barber was three times married, and was the father of six children, some of whose descendants
are still amongst us. One of the daughters, Maria, married her father's apprentice, Edward Humble, who
in due time succeeded to the business at Amen Corner, and became the grandfather of Mr. Stephen John
Humble, of Gateshead. Joseph, the eldest son, settled in Birmingham, and from the marriage of his
daughter, Anne Matilda, with Mr. J. J. Lightfoot, comes Joseph Barber's illustrious great-grandson and
namesake — Joseph Barber Lightfoot, the present Lord Bishop of Durham.
-* "1773 — March 6. About two o'clock in the morning, a fire broke out in the dwelUng house of Mr. Barber, bookseUer, at Summer-hiU,
near Newcastle, which consumed the same ; and as there.had not been any fires in the house for sometime, it was strongly suspected to have
been set a fire by some person or pei-sons who had previously sent Mr. Barber two threatening letters, demanding him to place money upon
his garden wall. A reward of £100 and His Majesty's pardon was ofltered, but without effect." — Local Records.
Shortly after Mr. Barber's death inquiry was made for the heirs of Charles Barber, son of William Barber, saddler in the Strand,
London, who had amassed a fortune in India and died intestate. His property was valued at £200,000, and Joseph Barber's daughters and
their relatives in Ireland hoped to prove that Charles' father, William, was Joseph's elder brother, but evidence satisfactory to the Court of
Chancery was not forthcoming. Various attempts have been made tq supply the missing link, and the claim is kept open to this day, but
with the lapse of time the chances of success naturaUy diminish.

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DODD.
" The burial place of the Rev. JOHN DODD. Here rests in hope the earthly remains of the Rev.
John Dodd formerly vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne who died December 31, 1840. Also of MARIA his
daughter, who died May 21, 1832. Also of RICHARD his son who died May 15, 1836. Because He
lives they shall live also."
On the death of the Rev. John Smith, in January, 1826, the living of St. Nicholas' was offered by the
patron, the Bishop of CarUsle, to his son-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Lynn. Mr. Lynn did not accept the offer,
and the living was then conferred upon the Rev. John Dodd, vicar of Wigton, and domestic chaplain to
the Earl of Galloway, who held it for sixteen years. In St. Peter's Church, Newcastle, is a handsome
stained glass window erected in memory of Vicar Dodd, by his son the Rev. Wm. Dodd, for some time
incumbent of St. Andrew's.

FAIRBAIRN.
" The burial place of MATTHEW FAIRBAIRN of this town Agent who departed this life the 4*"
day of May 1818 in the 76 year of his ago. ANN his daughter died in infancy. GEORGE his son died
22"* day of June 1803 aged 22 years. THOMAS his son master of the ship St. Patrick died at Lima on
the 5*" Oct' 1821 in the 36 year of his age, in consequence of a severe wound received on the night of
the 24'" July preceding — during Lord Cockrane's attack upon Callas who refused him permission to
remove his ship (being a neutral) outside the Spanish Line of bombs previous to the attack, although
personally applied to, and in consequence Cap*" F. was placed between two fires.
ANN his wife died 13*" July 1822 aged 72 years."

FENWICK.
« Memento Mori. PRISCILLA FENWICK, departed this Ufe Sept' 4*" 1771 aged 37 years."
'Tis finished, its done, the spirit is fled.
The pris'ner is gone, the Christian is dead.
The Christian is living thro' Jesus his love
And gladly received a kingdom above.
O Jesus lead on thy militant care
& give us a crown of Righteousness
Wbere ; dazzled with glory they appear
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In sure and steadfast hope she dies
And claims her mansion in the skies,
A Christian here her flesh laid down
The cross exchanging for the crovrn.
Memento Mori.
Follow after she cries, as she mounts to the skies.
Follow after your friend
To the peaceful enjoyment that never shall end."

FORSTER.

" The burial Place of JOSEPH FORSTER of Seaton Burn in the County of Northumberiand Esquire
and an Alderman of this Town, who deceased on the seventh day of April MDCCCXXI in the sixtieth
year of his age."
Alderman Forster's career is epitomised in the description of his Monument on page 117.

GILPATRICK.
" Sacred to the memory of MATTHEW GILPATRICK, who departed this life January 14*" 1839,
aged 54 years ; lamented by his family and a numerous circle of friends. He held the situation of Sheriff's
Sergeant in this town twenty years with credit to himself and universal satisfaction to the Public."

KELL.
" The burial place of THOMAS KELL cordwainer. ELIZABETH his wife died the 7*" August
1794 aged 54 years. A loving wife a friend most dear
A tender partner lieth here.
In love she lived, in peace she died ;
Her life was craved but God denied,"

KENDLE.
" Sacred to the memory of JAMES and MARY KENDLE. The above JAMES KENDLE Mariner
died 1 Feby. 1837 aged 52 Years. Storm and tempest is to me no raore
I wait salvation on a happier shore."

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NEWTON.
"The burial place of SAMUEL NEWTON, glassmaker, who departed this Ufe the 19*" February
1778, aged 54 years, also 6 of his children lieth here.
if serious sence of godliness
was early in his mind imprest
which to the last he did maintain
we hope with Christ he lives again.
Likewise MARY NEWTON wife of the said Samuel Newton who departed this life the 9*" April
1795 aged 71 Years."
NICHOLSON.
" In Memory of SAMUEL WALL NICHOLSON son of S. W. Nicholson manager of the Theatre
Royal in this Town who died April 2"* 1827 aged 24 Years and one day."
SANDERSON.
" SUSANNAH the wife of John Sanderson departed this world November 13'" 1815 aged 21
Years. She was a native of Surre Libre in France.
A pale consumption gave the fatal blow :
The stroke was certain tho' the effect was slow,
Nor grieve dear friends, nor think of me no more
I am not lost but gone a while before.
Husband farewell — O spare these parting tears
We'll meet again, when Christ on earth appears ;
Then pleasing thought, we hope to have
A joyful rising from the lonesome grave."
SAUNDERS.
" Here lie interred the bodies of WILLIAM SAUNDERS Gen*:who died Sept 16*" 1749 aged
84. MATTHEW LAIDLER Gen* his son-in-law who died August 27*" 1790 aged 62. SARAH his wife
died the 12*" of June 1808 aged 74 years."
STEPHENSON.
" Near this place Ues the remains of GEORGE STEPHENSON formerly a respectable wharfinger
¦ in this town, who died May 5*" 1784 aged 64 years. Likewise MARY his wife, who died Dec' 1'*
1801 aged 76 years, whose memory will ever be revered. Also lies here the remains of John Somerville
son-in-law to the said George and Mary Stephenson who died April 26*" 1828 aged 73 years ; a
truly honest man whose delight was in truth and demonstration his greatest pleasure."

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STOREY.

" The Burial place of ROBERT STOREY, of Arcot in the County of Northumberiand, Esquire,
who deceased the Twenty first day of August MDCCCXXII in the ninetieth year of his age."
Robert Storey, here commemorated — a medical student — emigrated to India in early life, was
successful in his profession, became physician to the Nabob of Arcot, and returned home with considerable
wealth which he invested in land at Cramlington, and built Arcot Hall. Mr. Storey led a retired life and
took no part in public business.

WASNEY.
" Here rest the mortal remains of the Rev* R. WASNEY M.A. Twenty five years the faithful
dispenser of the word of God in St. Thomas's Chapel, in this town, where a monument is erected to his
memory by his fiock as a testimony of their gratitude for his faithful services. Obt. April 12*" 1836 aged
63. Erected by an affectionate friend."
Mr. Wasney was a Yorkshireman, born at Beverley, educated at Hull Grammar School, and Clare
HaU, Cambridge, where he took his B.A., and afterwards proceeded to the M.A. degree, ordained to the
curacy of Waghen, successively curate of Hotham and Beverley Minster, and in 1808 assumedthe duties
of curate of St. Thomas's Chapel, Newcastle, under Dr. Ridley. St. Thomas's Chapel stood at the north
end of the old Tyne Bridge, and here .Mr. Wasney officiated until March, 1830, when preparations were
made for pulling it down, and transferring public worship to the present St. Thomas's Church, where
he laboured until a short tirae before his death. He was an eminent preacher. An obituary notice
in the Newcastle Courant of April 16, 1836, states that " his face was not unlike that of Stephen Kemble.
His voice, slightly intonated by a provincialism, was clear, full, and sonorous ; and after being a few times
heard could strike terror or pour consolation into any heart — could warm the affections, please the fancy,
and inform the judgment. He rose and fell with his subject ; his eye flashed fire or melted into tears ; he
stood like Moses over the broken tables of the law, wept like Jeremiah over the desolations of his country,
or reasoned like Paul on righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come."

WATSON.
" Here resteth in hopes of a glorious resurrection the body of ISABELLA WATSON, -wife of
Joseph Watson free porter. To enumerate Her amiable and godlike virtues in this small space were
impossible. But she was an Israelite indeed in whom was found no guile. She departed this life V* Jan'
1792 in the 77 year of her age, also their four children viz : Jane, Joseph, Isabella & Joseph who all died
in infancy. The above JOSEPH WATSON departed this Ufe 17*" July 1795 in the 8G»" Year of his age."

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APPENDIX

THE CARR FAMILY.
The following interesting notes on the Carr family, pp. 108-9, are contributed by a correspondent :—
A comparison between the Usts of Mayors and Sheriffs in Brand's History of Newcastle and those in
the Carr MS.," which are printed in Vol. 41 of the Surtees Society, gives some noteworthy differences.
In Brand, John Carr is Sheriff in 1471, and George Carr in 1450 ; but in the Carr MS., in 1451 Robert
Baxter is Mayor, and Allen Carr Sheriff, and a deed. May 31, 1452, in All Saints' Vestry, gives these
names. And in 1472 WilUam Blaxton is Mayor, and George Carr Sheriff. Now, since George Carr was
Mayor in 1481, the date of 1472 is a far more likely one for his Shrievalty. At the same time evidence
could be furnished of the existence of both Allen Carr and of John Carr in Newcastle about these
periods. In " Materials Illustrative of the Reign of H. VIL," Vol. II., page 120., A" 2. H. VII., an inquisition
is mentioned as having been taken before a " George Carre late Maior and escheator of Richard iii., by
fact but not by right King of England." In Durham Records, Calendar of Rolls of Bishop Sherwood, 7*"
year (1492), Roll 3, m. 7, " Carr George," (John is an error in the printed text), " of Newcastle on Tyne
merchant ; Pardon for the acquisition of the manor of Medomesley by hira from Roger Hastynges Esquire,
son and heir of Edmund Hastynges, Knight, without license. License to him to hold the said manor."
(App. 1., 36*" Rep* of D. Keeper, p. 18.)
1500. 5*" Bishop Fox, m. 8. "George Carr has pardon for aU alienation or purchase of lands made
by himself or any of his ancestors, and for entry on the same without due suit of livery." (Ib., p. 28.)
1506. 21, H. VIL, m. 4. " Ralph Wicklyff Esquire has grant of the wardship and marriage of Ralph
Carre, kinsman and heir of George Carre, and in the event of his death while a minor, of successive heirs
tUl one shaU attain full age." (Ib., p. 78.) This is no doubt George Carr the Mayor ; his son George
must have been then dead. The entry in 1500 looks something like the son entering on the estate, but
he does not appear in the list of Sheriffs. Consanguineus et heres is sometiraes used for grandson.
In the Visitation of 1666 Raphe Carr of Cocken, set 32, only entered in Une his grandfather. Raphe
Carr, who married Isabell Jennison, but he raentions " George Carr, a Merch* in Newcastle, who died 1400,
as appeareth by the inscription upon his grave stone at the east end of S"* Nicholas Church, in Newcastle."
The wiUs pubUshed by the Surtees Society as that of William Carr, in 1572, and others, make out the
descent from George Carr, as well as the connection of the two pedigrees of Carr of Cocken, in Surtees'
Durham ; and in consequence the Ellisons of Hebburn, and the Carr-EUisons of Dunston HiU, descend in
the female Une from George Carr, the first Mayor (v. Burke's Landed Gentry, Carr-EUison, 1879.) In the
Carr MS. the arms of Leonard Carre, Sheriffe 1635, and Cuthbert Carre, Sheriffe in 1645 (as weU as those
of James Carr, Sherife in 1631) are given "gules on a chiveron argent three mullets sable." The same
arms are on the volume as borne by Robert Carre, of St. Helen's Auckland, 1730. The pedigree of Carre
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Cuthbert Carre. Leonard Carre does not appear there, but was no doubt of the same family. His
flourished signature may be seen in the register of All Saints', testifying to marriages which he had
solem,nized as Justice of the Peace ! These Carres descended from Cuthbert Carre, of BenweU Tower,
who married Barbara, daughter of Cuthbert Ellison. He was youngest son of John Carr, of Hetton,
Captain of Wark Castle, by his second wife Isabella, daughter of Humphrey Carr, of Newcastle. James
Carre, of Newcastle, who died 1638, was the son of Cuthbert and Barbara Ellison, and the father of
Cuthbert, who was Sheriff in 1643. The last Carre, of St. Helen's Auckland, was Francis, set 7, 1666 ;
his sister, Barbara, married Samuel Ellison (v. Hodgson's Northumberland, Part ii., volume iii., p. 346.)
Francis Carre left his estate to Robert Ellison, his nephew, who took the name and arms of Carr, and
devised it to his sister Elizabeth, who married a William Carr in 1732. He was M.P. for Newcastle in
1722, and died 1742, s.p. The coat in Barber's Print with Arms of Northumberland Gentry, 1743, as that
of " William Carre Esq' St. Hellan Aukland," must be his. It is that of the Newcastle Carrs.
Some extracts from notes of two wills, communicated by the kindness of the Rev. W. GreenweU, wiU
be interesting : —
'Humphrey Cair of Newcastle on Tyne yeoman, Nov. 28, 1559, desires to be buried in the parish
church of All Saints', by the bones of his father and mother — wife's name Margerie — brothers Robert and
William — William's children, Margerie and Christopher — his sister Allison Stampe, late wife of Robert
Starape deceased ; his sister EUinor, wife of John OUever ; Cuthbert son of John Carr deceased, by IsabeU
his daughter, to have tenements in Benwell, left him by John Carr his father ; faiUng heir to Cuthbert's
sister Margerie wife of John Wilkenson Alderman — Cuthbert Carr exec : M' Cuthbert EUeson, merch*
and alderman, Robert Carr, his brother, supervisors.
George Carre of Lesburie Gent. March 10, 1559. To be buried in St. Nicholas' Newcastle. My wife
Dorothy ; my daughter Anne ; my dau. Margaret. My nephew John Carr of the WoodhaU son of my
bfother John Carr. My dau. Anne to follow the advice of her mother Mistress Thomlinson of Newcastle.
My sister in law Mistress Mytford of Newcastle, widow. The tithe corn of Felton to Mistress Mitford
and then to Mistress Thomlinson, my dau. Margaret Greine and her four daughters — Ann Mitford the
younger a legacy. There are other references to his cousins — the Carrs of Hetton, and to other kindred.
Ogle, Muschance, Manners, Horsley.' This will cannot now be found at Durham.
We surmise from this, and from the wills of the Newcastle Carrs, that Barbara Thomlinson was a
daughter of old George Carr, and that Dorothy was her daughter, as was Anne, wife of Roger Mitford,
and that it was from this connection that George Carre wished to be buried in St. Nicholas'.
The coat of Carr as allowed (not granted), about 1552 is argent on a bend sable, 3 lyons' heads erased or
between three choughs of the second legged and beaked gules ; on the bend an annulet ; with quarterings
for Wickliff, Bowes, and Baxter, impaling TroUop Quarterly, 1^* only filled in, vert three stags tripping
argent. MS. E. 6, fo. 30, College of Arms.
In 1666 the paternal coat only of Carr of Newcastle-on-Tyne is allowed to Raphe Carr of Cocken.
There is no annulet or difference. The other coat of Carr was used but not clearly settled in Scotland or
England before 1500. George Carr may have chosen a punning coat, may have used a compounded one,
or may have disliked Scotch arms. It is not unlikely that the Carrs of Hetton and of Newcastle were of
the same stock."

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INDEX

Abbot, Mrs., 9.
Adamson, Rev. E. Hussey, 122.
Aitkin, Rev. Edward, 22.
 , Hugh, 64.
 — , Letitia, 64.
Akenhead, Mr., 121.
Akenside, Mary, 21.
Aldworth, 94.
Allgood, Rev. James, 21.
 , Lancelot, 20.
Ahiwick, 101.
Alston, 95.
Alvey, EUinor, 17.
 , Jane, 130, 131.
 , Rev. Yeldard, 17, 77, 130, 131.
Amble, 134.
Ancient Font of St. Nicholas, 27.
 Monument, 28.
 Stone Figure, 54.
Anderson, Abraham, 58.
 , Alice, 58, 109.
 , Anne, 56, 58.
 , Barbara, 58.
 , Bertram, 14, 56, 57, 58, 109.
 — , Dorcas, 145.
 , Francis, 16, 56, 57, 58.
 , Sir Francis, 57, 58, 109.
 , George, 56, 58.
 , Major George, 5, 24, 65.
 , Henry, 14, 16, 56, 57, 58, 143.

-, Rev. Henry, 18.
-, Sir Henry, 57.
-, Humphrey, 21.
-, IsabeUa, 15, 56, 143.
-, Jane, 56, 109.
-, Margaret, 110.

Anderson, Mary, 56, 58.
 , Robert, 8, 15, 17, 57.
 , Roger, 57.
 , William, 58.
Angerton, Robert, 3.
Appleby, Ambrose, 17.
Archbold, Jane, 125.
 , James, 125.
 , Major, 17.
Archer, Edward, 90.
Arcot, 24, 158.
Armstrong, Sir WUliam, 9.
Ashington, 73.
Askew, Adam, 35, 44, 164.
 , Family, 35, 51.
Atherton, Henry, 20.
Atkinson, Barbara, 94.
 , Charies, 23, 37, 146.
 , Francis, 146.
 , George, 117.
 , Jane, 117.
 , John, 99.
 , Joseph, 21, 94.
 , Robert, 15.
Aubone, Francis, 118.
 , PhUUs, 52.
 , WiUiam, 118.
Avison, Charles, 12, 39.
AxweU, 102, 144.
Aynsley, Gawen, 35.
 , Rev. John, 22.
Bacon, Charles, 116.
 , Eleanor, 116.
Backworth, 70, 136, 137.
Bainbridge, Joseph, 53, 129.

11

index.

Baker, Elizabeth, 17.
 , Sir George, 17.
 , John, 37.
 , Maria, 154.
 , Mrs., 62.
Balmbra, Robert, 6.
Bamborough, 69.
Barber, Joseph, 23.
 , Faraily, 23, 153, 154.
Barrington, Bishop of Durham, 119.
Barker, EUinor, 15.
 , Robert, 15, 29.
Barnes, Ambrose, 20, 133, 147, 148.
 , Joseph, 21.
 , Mary, 133, 147.
 , Richard, 20.
Bates, Isabella Jane, 146.
 , Ralph, 145, 146.
Bateman, Allan, 70.
Bathurst, Mr. Justice, 51.
Battie, WiUiam, 74.
Bavington, 33.
Baxter, John, 16.
 , Mr., 15.
Bazett, Miss, 96.
Beamish, 78.
Beaumont, Sarah, 74.
 , Sir Thomas, 74,
Bedford, Eari of, 132.
Belasyse, Margaret, 112.
 , Timothea, 77.
 , WiUiam, 112.
Bell, Edward, 21.
 , Elizabeth, 95.
.  , Emraa Donna, 125.
 , Jaraes, 88.
 , John, 6, 88.
 , Matthew, 95, 125.
 , Robert, 125.
 , Thomas, 6.
Bells of St. Nicholas', 5, 65, 121.
Bellingham, 122.
Bennett, John, 14, 131, 132.
Benton, 125.

Benwell, 16, 33, 90.
Berwick-on-Tweed, 98, 102, 111.
Bewicke, Andrew, 50, 141,
 , Calveriey, 21, 24, 50, 54.
 , Cuthbert, 55.
 —, Deborah, 23.
 , EUenor, 51.
 , Jane, 51, 55.
 , Rev. John, 18, 137.
 , Margaret, 25, 49, 50, 141.
 , Peter, 50.
 , Robert, 17, 20, 21, 50, 51, 75.
 , Sir Robert, 22, 51.
 , Thomas, 19, 21, 50 51, 73.
 , WiUiam, 30, 50, 113.

Bewicke's Porch (See Chapel).
Biddleston, 110, 111.
Bigge, Charles Thomas, 35, 51.
 , Thoraas, 39.
Bird, Alan, 133.
 , George, 28, 133, 145.
Bishopric of Newcastle, the proposed, 13,
Blackett, Christian, 60.
 , Christopher, 60, 102, 128.
 , Edward, 60.
 , Sir Edward, 61.
 , Elizabeth, 18, 22, 60, 78.
 , Isabell, 60.
 , John, 60, 61.
 , John Erasraus, 24, 37, 48, 61, 62, 146.
 , J. F., 102.
 , Michael, 19, 60.
 , Patty, 62.
 , Sarah, 23, 48, 61, 62.
—  , Sir Thomas, 65.

-, Walter, 39.
-, Sir Walter, 12, 35, 60.
-, William, 60.
-, Sir WilUam, 19, 20, 21, 58, 60, 61, 74, 75,
78, 109, 142.

Blake, Francis, 122.
Blagdon, 38, 40.
Blair, John, 22.
Blakiston, 76.

index.

Blakiston, John, 20, 94.
 , Sir WilUam, 18,
Blakemoor, 134.
Bland, Cecilia, 70.
Blenkinsopp-Coulson, Family, 58.
Boag, Ann, 44.
Bolam, 89, 106, 146.
Bolton, Rev. Matthew, 28.
Bonham, Charles, 111.
 , Dorothy, 111.
Bonner, Joseph, 19.
 , Thomas, 18.
 , William, 16.
Borthwick, Lord, 23.
Bover, John, 23, 116.
Bowes, Eleanor, 30.
 , EUzabeth, 141.
 , Sir Francis, 30, 132, 142.
 , George, 115.
 , Henry, 16, 141.
 , John, 132.
 , Lady, 15.
 , Robert, 113, 152.
 , Sir William, 15.

Brabant, Sir Henry, 19.
Bradley, 56.
Brainsbaugh, 134.
Brancepeth, 139.
Brandling, Anne, 33.
 , Charles, 137.
 , Elizabeth, 19.
 , Henry, 15, 33.
 , Jane, 132.
 , John, 14, 132.

 , Robert, 132, 150.
 , WiUiam, 15, 132.
Brewster, Rev. Richard, 23.
Briggs, Agnes, 70.
 , James, 70, 77.
Brockie, William, 1.
Brown, Rev. Dr., 12.
Browne, Captain of Calais, 132.
Buckham, John, 6.
Buggin, Robert, 71.

ill
Bulman, Job, 6.
Burdon, Rowland, 18.
 , Thoraas, 5, 151.
Burn, John Henry, 9.
Burnett, Anne, 135.
 , Jacob, 135.
Burnopside Hall, 128,
Burton, Anne, 71, 74.
 , Elizabeth, 7L
 , Francis, 19, 71, 74, 90, 114.
 , Isabel, 71, 74.
 , Sir Thoraas, 77.
Butler, Family, 133, 144, 147.
Byne, Annie, 104.
 , Henry, 104.
Byrde, (see Bird.)
Bywell, 74, 99, 128.
Callaley, 102, 147.
Calverley, Ralph, 77.
Campleshon, Henry, 63.
Carham HaU, 98.
Carlyle, Rev. Alexander, 36, 61.
Carr, Barbara, 141.
 , Francis, 109, 139.
 , George, 14, 107, 108, 159.
 , James, 15, 109.
 , Jane, 109, 142.
 , Leonard, 77, 109.
 , Lieut. Col., 17.
 , Ralph, 16, 109, 141, 142.
 , Sir Ralph, 70, 109, 152.
 , WiUiara, 14, 19, 70, 74, 78, 109.
 , Faraily, 108, 159.
Carr-EUison, Ralph, 106.
Carshalton, 104.
Carvell, Captain, 131.
Cave, Rev. WUliara, 105.
Charabers, John, 3.
 , Sir Robert, 44, 87.
Charapneys, Thoraas, 116.
Chapel, (or porch), Bewicke's, 8, 49, 50, 54, 116.
 , St. George's, 9, 28, 33, 34, 42, 43, 53, 94,
101,104,110,145,146.

IV

INDEX.

Chapel, St. Mary's 8, 9, 29, 44, 46, 128.
Chapman, Henry, 16, 17, 133, 134.
 , Matthew, 16, 134.
 , Oswald, 14, 134.
Charieton, WiUiam, 24, 106.
Charnley, William, 110, 154.
Chatton, 105.
Chaytor, Peter, 14.
Chester-le-Street, 117.
Chipchase, 122, 137, 138.
Chirton, 84, 85, 86, 133.
Cholmley, AdeUn, 18, 139.
 , James, 139.
Christian, Rev. Humphrey, 90.
Church of AU Saints', 12, 44, 46, 69, 90, 115, 137.
138, 141, 149, 152.
 Benwell, 12.
 Gosforth, 12.
 St. Andrew, 12, 44, 65, 89, 90, 106, 138,
140, 155.
 St. Ann, 12, 92, 152,
 ¦ St. John, 12, 35, 65, 92, 152.
 St. Peter, 12, 155.
 St. Thomas, 158.

Clapham, Calvert, 24, 134.
 , Robert Calvert, 134.
Clark, George Noble, 124.
 , Rev. John, 18.
 , WiUiam, 14.
Clavering, George, 24, 102.
.  , Jaraes, 17, 74, 102, 133, 147.
 , Sir James, 30, 31, 39.
 , Jane, 20, 21, 30, 31, 102.
 , John, 17.
 , Sir John, 102, 144.
 , Margaret, 24, 102.
 , Mary, 133.
 , Roger, 102.
 , Thomas, 102.
 , Sir Thomas, 51.
Clayton, Rev. Nathaniel, 154.
Clephan, Jaraes, 1, 148.
Cock, Anne, 76, 77, 78.
 , Agnes, 140.

Cock, Barbara, 78, 144.
 , Dorothy, 78.
 , Jane, 30, 32, 78, 109.
 , Ralph, 18, 76, 77, 78, 144.
Cock's " canny hinnies," 78.
Cocken, 107, 109, 160.
Cockledge, 107.
Colborne, Benjamin, 41.
Coldstream, 98.
Collingwood, Ann James, 138.
 , Edward, 24, 35, 39, 51, 84, 85, 92.
 , James, 138.
 , Lady, 24, 48, 61, 62, 86.
 , Lord, 44, 47, 61, 86, 154.

Colvill, Hon. Charies, 22.
Cook, Family, 117, 120, 134.
Cookson, Family, 6, 125, 126.
Cole, James, 70.
 , Nicholas, 12, 76.
Compton, Family, 98.
Corbridge, 138.
Corporation Pew, 8.
Cosin, Bishop, 77, 80, 114.
Coulson, William, 39.
Cowghrara, Rev. Bertram, 15.
Cox, John, 6.
Coxe, Rev. R. C, 6, 12.
Coxlodge, 95, 96, 109.
Coward, Alice, 80.
Cramlington, 142, 158.
 , Henry, 1.
 , WUliam, 146.
Craster, Daniel, 54.
Creagh, Margaret, 20.
 , Sir WiUiam, 20.
Crewe, Bishop, 90.
Crissop, Robert, 90.
Croft, Stephen, 65.
Crosslands, 95.
Crowe, Family, 73.
Crypt of St. Nicholas', 7.
CuUercoats, 75.
Cumberland, Duke of, 37.
Currell, Ann James, 138.

INDEX.

Currell, T., 138.
Curwen, Isabella, 112.
 , Patrick, 112.
Cusworth, 74.
Cuthbert, John, 21, 92.
 , WilUam, 22, 84, 92.
 , Family, 92.
Cuthbertson, George, 21.
DagUsh, John, 25, 134, 135.
 , Family, 135.
Dale, James, 10.
Darcy, James, 109.
Davidson, John, 106.
Davison, Sir Alexander, 17, 76, 78, 134.
 , Ann, 17, 20, 70.
 , Barbara, 77, 78.
 , Benjamin, 20.
 , Edward, 77, 78.
 , EUzabeth, 19, 78, 79.
 , Joseph, 17, 76, 78. ••
 , Margaret, 77, 78.
 , Mary, 79.
 , Ralph, 55, 77, 78.
 , Samuel, 77, 78.
 , Thomas, 19, 78.
 , Sir Thomas, 76, 78.
 , Timothea, 22, 79.
 , Timothy, 20, 78, 79.
Dawes, Rev. Richard, 44, 154.
Dawson, George, 19, 94.
 , Matthew, 21.
 , Family, 94, 97.
Delaval, Elizabeth, 18.
 , Sir Francis Blake, 154.
 , Margaret, 20.
 , WiUiam, 19.
 , Family, 112.
Dent, Thomas, 18.
Devereux, Rev. Jonathan, 18.
Dilke, Ashton Wentworth, 120.
Dissington, 85, 112.
Dixon, Thomas, 90.
Dixson, Quarter Master, 17.

Dockwray, Josias, 93.
 , Mary, 21.
 , Rev. Thomas, 22, 93.
Dodd, Rev. John, 25, 155.
 , Family, 155.
Dodds, Ralph, 9.
Dodsworth, G. W., 6.
Doddington, 89.
Dove, Miss, 75.
Douglas, John, 21.
 , Margaret Lindsay, 17, 135.
 — , Richard, 135.
 , Sir William, 135.
Drake, Rev. William, 19.
Draper, Timothy, 16.
Duane, Dorothy, 94, 97.
 , Matthew, 2,3, 94, 96, 97.
Dunston Hill, 106.
East Fairleigh, 44.
Eden, Henry, 22.
 , Robert, 20, 135.
 , Family, 135.
Edwards, Peter, 29.
 , Rev. Thomas, 90.
Eglingham, 131.
Ekins, Catherine, 114.
 , Rev. F., 114.
Eldon, Lord, 44, 96, 115, 117, 119, 154.
 , Lady, 96, 119.
EUergiU, 31.
Elliott, John, 6.
EUison, AUce, 69, 70.
 , Anne, 24, 6.9, 90, 146.
 , Benjamin, 69, 70, 116.
 , Catherine, 109.
 , Charies, 89.
 , Cuthbert, 15, 69, 70, 109.
 , Rev. Cuthbert, 22, 90.
 , Eliza, 69.
 , Elizabeth, 18, 21, 69, 70, 106.
 , Isabel, 44, 69.
 , Jane, 23, 24, 69, 103.
 , John, 70.

VI

INDEX.

EUison, Rev. John, 23, 24, 44, 69, 89, 90.
 , Joseph, 70.
 , Nathaniel, 70, 89.
 , Rev. Nathaniel, 21, 23, 89, 90, 97, 103,
106, 140, 146^.
 , Noel, Thoraas, 89.
 , Peregrine George, 89.
 , Robert, 16, 19, 21, 69, 70, 90, 136.
 , Samuel, 70.
 , Sarah, 146.
 , Rev. Thomas, 90.
 , WiUiam, 22, 89, 70.
 , Rev. WiUiam, 24.
Elstob Faraily, 19.
Elwes, Sir Henry, 23.
Emerson, Alice, 142.
¦  , Barbara, 141.
•  , John, 18, 75, 136, 141, 142.
 , Mary, 75.
Embleton, 149.
Errington, Anthony, 18.
 . George, 18, 136.
 , John, 20.
¦  , Mrs., 15.
 , Family, 136.
Fairbairn Family, 155.
Falloden, 105.
Farnaby, George, 16.
Farnacres, 143.
Farnham, 89.
Farrington, Rev. Hugh, 21.
Favour, Dr., 141.
Fawcett, Christopher, 35, 37, 84.
 , John, 84.
 , Rev. Richard, 37, 84, 90.
Felton, 44, 122.
Fenham, 77, 78, 125.
Fenwick, Edward, 17.
 , Gerard, 111.
 , Isabel, 74.
 , John, 131.
 , Margaret, 7U.
 , Margaret Collingwood, 120.

Fenwick, Nicholas, 39.
 , Percival, 120.
 , Priscilla, 155.
 , Susanna, 19.
 , William, 51, 74.
 ^ Sir WiUiam, 114.
Fife, Sir John, 53.
Fish and the Ring, 58.
Fisher, Richard, 110.
Flint, Catherine, 135.
 , John, 135.

Foggin, Robert, 138.
Font of St. Nicholas', 27.
Forster, Collingwood, 101.
 , Francis, 37, 117.
 , George, 66.
 , Henry, 24.
 , Joseph, 5, 24, 117, 125, 156.
 , Family, 117.
Fotheringall, Rev. WUliam, 22.
Franklin, WiUiam, 109.
Freeman, John, 6.
Fryerside, 98.
Furye, Jane, 103.
 , Mary, 97.
 , Noel, 89, 103.
Fusiliers' Memorial Window, 10.
Garnett, Joseph, 10, 26.
Garthwaite, Richard, 19.
Gibb, Margaret Coates, 11.
Gibson, Jasper, 110.
 , John, 9, 113.
 , Mrs., 62.
Gilpatrick, Matthew, 156.
Gordon, Sir Jennison WiUiam, 106.
Gosforth, 28, 96, 106, 140.
Graham, John, 6.
Gray, Humphrey, 15.
 , Robert, 20.
Green, Mr., 8.
Greene, William, 81.
Greencroft, 3 0-2.
Greenwell, Elizabeth, 24, 52, 124.

INDEX.

GreenweU, Joshua, 52, 124.
 , Sir Leonard, 25, 52, 124.
 , Mary, 124.
—  , WiUiam, 16, 19, 52.
 , Family, 52.
Grey, Charles Edward, 137.
 , Cuthbert, 70, 136, 137.
 , Elizabeth, 70.
— — , George, 23.
 , Ralph, 19, 20, 136.
 , Ralph WUUam, 23, 24, 35, 136, 137.
 , Rebecca, 30.
 , William, 21, 137.
 , Family, 136.
Greystock, 44.
Haggerston, Sir Thomas, 139.
HaU, Sir Alexander, 31, 32.
 , Dame, 15.
 , Jane, 16, 32.
 , Michael, 137.
 , William, 17, 30, 32.
Hallman, Thomas, 80.
Haltwhistle, 95.
Hagthropp, Rev. Robert, 15.
Hamilton, Alexander, 18, 80.
 ', Patrick, 79, 80.
 , Thomas, 17, 79.
Hartburn, 105.
Hargrave, Florentia, 21.
 , George Pawson, 24.
 , Family, 138.
Hartwell, Rev. Dr., 21.
Hartlepool, 133, 135.
Harvey, WUUam, 127.
 , Family, 116.
HasweU, 56, 143.
Hawdon, Matthias, 23.
Hawks, Sir Robert Shafto, 25, 121.
 , Family, 121.
Hawkins, Charlotte, 119.
 , George, 41.
- — — , Sir J. Csesar, 119.
 , Laura, 41.

Hayes, Sir Henry, 17.
Heaton, 38, 39, 40.
Hebborne, John, 110.
 , Major, 17.
Hebburn, 69, 89, 136.
Hedley, George, 129.
 , Oswald, 129.
 , Thomas, 13, 53, 128.
 , William, 53, 128, 129

Hedworth, Adrian, 16.
Helye, William, 132.
Henderson, Robert, 25.
 , Thomas, 17.
Heron, Gilbert, 15.
 , Ralph, 23, 24, 138.
 , FamUy, 138.
Hethpool, 36.
Heworth, 69, 11 5.
Hexham, 73.
Hilton, Agnes, 15.
 , John, 109.
Hinde, John Hodgson, 98.
Hird, Rev. Atkinson, 24.
Hodgson, Adelin, 18, 139.
 , Alan, 22.
 , Ann Jane, 99.
 , Catharine Moneypenny, 98.
 , Isabel, 139.
 , John, 98, 99, 139.
 , Rev. John, 98.
 , Lancelot, 18, 107, 139.
 , Margaret, 18, 139.
 , Mary, 139.
 , Richard, 15, 22, 80, 97, 98, 139.
 , Robert, 15.
 , Sarah, 98, 99.
 , WiUiam, 98, 139.
Holdsworth, Rev. Richard, 15.
Honeywood, Sir John, 119.
Hood, Anthony, 127.
Hornby, Alderman, 108.
Horsley, Henry, 18, 139.
 , Thomas, 14, 139.
 , Family, 139.

VlllHorton Castle, 105.
Hoyle, Richard, 25.
Huddleston, John, 22.
 , Family, 75.
Huet, Jean, 117.
Humble Faraily, 153.
Hunter, WiUiam, 97.
 , FamUy, 141.
Huntley, Catharine Moneypenny, 98.
 , Richard Hodgson, 98.
 , WiUiam, 16.
Huntspill, 89.
Hunwick, 95.
Hutchinson, William, 148.
Hutton, Henry, 77.
Ightham, 111.
lie Family, 140.
Ingham, WilUam, 24, 86, 102, 103.
 , Faraily, 86, 102.
Ingilby, Rev. Henry, 146.
Ions, Dr., 9.
 , W. J., 12.
Isaacson, Anthony, 140.
 , Elizabeth, 24, 140.
 , Rev. Henry Creagh, 23.
 , John, 21, 84, 92, 140.
Jackson, Anne, 57.
 , Dr., 131.
 , Elizabeth, 94.
 , Paul, 152.
 , WUliara, 17, 57, 152.
James, George, 6.
Jefferson, Henry, 1.
 , Family, 19, 140.
Jennens Family, 59.
Jennison, Anne, 16.
 , Barbara, 141.
 , EUzabeth, 141, 143.
 , Henry, 141.
 , Jane, 20, 142.
 , Ralph, 16, 21, 109, 132, 141.

INDEX.

 , Sir Ralph, 20, 141, 142.

Jennison, Dr. Robert, 131, 141.
 , Thomas, 19, 75, 136, 141.
 , William, 15, 17, 20, 141, 143.
Jervoise, Rev. Sir S. C, 137.
Jesmond, 54, 56.
Johnson, Edward, 21, 117.
 , Francis, 24, 116, 117
 , WiUiam, 19, 29.
 , Family, 117.
Kaye, Rev. Thomas, 15.
Kell, Thomas, 156.
Kendle, James, 156.
Kent, Bartholomew, 100.
Kibblesworth, 52.
Kirkharie, 113.
Kirkley, Michael, 16, 142.
 , Robert, 17.
 , Faraily, 142.

Kirknewton, 105.
Kirsopp, Thomas, 16.
Kirton, Edward, 70, 90.
Knaresdale, 95.
Kruppell, Sebastian, 24.
Laidler, Matthew, 157.
Lake, Robert, 63, 96.
Lamb, Robert, 15.
Lambton Family, 77.
Lanchester, 128.
Lassells, John, 15.
Latten, Rev. Henry, 138.
Law, Dr., 90.
Lawson, Ann, 150.
 , Henry, 142.
 , Hilton, 22, 39.
 , James, 139.
 , Margaret, 142.
 , Robert, 21, 142.
Ledgard, Thoraas, 143.
Lee Family, 139.
Lewin, Edward, 16, 135.
 , Robert, 14.
Lewis, Elizabeth Catharine, 118.

INDEX.

Lewis, Rev. John, 118.
Liddell, Thomas, 15, 16, 90, 143.
 , Sir Thomas, 81.
 , Family, 15, 143.
Lightfoot, Bishop, 154.
Lilburn, William, 19.
 , Family, 69.
Lisles, The, 140.
Lloyd, Sir Richard, 51.
 , WUliam, 101.
Loftus Family, 116.
Longstaffe, W. H D., 1, 27, 77, 108, 131.
Longwitton, 96.
Loraine, Elizabeth, 50, 113.
 , James Thomas, 23, 114.
 , Margaret, 23, 113.
 , Thomas, 17, 30, 50, 113, 114.
 , Family, 113.
Lowrie, Andrew, 6.
Lowthion, Rev. Samuel, 23.
Lunardi's Balloon, 23.
Lushington, Rev. J. S., 24, 90, 91.
 , Family, 90.
Lynn, Rev. Mr., 155.
Maddison, Anne, 18, 29, 31.
 , Elizabeth, 18, 29, 30, 50, 113.
 , Henry, 17, 19, 29, 30, 31, 50, 113, 135.
 , Jane, 16, 29, 30, 31.
 , Lionel, 16, 20, 29, 30, 31, 32.
 , Sir Lionel, 17, 29, 30, 31.
 , Peter, 17, 30.
 , Sir Ralph, 113.
 , FamUy, 30.
Magbray, Agnes, 15.
 , Rev. John, 15.
Mallabar, Jane, 102, 144.
 , Robert, 19, 102, 144.
 , Family, 144.
Man, Dorothy, 18, 83.
 , Edward, 18, 77, SO, 81, 82, 83.
 , Samuel, 17.
 , Family, 18.
Manna, Anne, 15.

Manisty Family, 117.
Manlove, Sarah, 21.
 , Rev. Timothy, 20.
March, EUzabeth, 19, 148.
 , Rev. John, 12, 19, 148, 149.
 , Wetwang, 23.
Marsden, 135.
Markenny, George, 17.
Marley, Barbara, 19, 144.
 , Elizabeth, 30.
 , Sir John, 18, 50, 58, 70, 76, 144.
 , Henry, 20, 78, 144.
 , WilUam, 144.
Martin, Rev. Canon, 12.
Matfen, 61, 62.
 , Jane, 28, 70, 145, 150.
 , Matthew, 20, 28, 145, 151.
 , Roger, 21, 145.
 , Family, 145, 150.
Matthews, Anne, 72.
 — , Isabel, 72, 74.
 , Thomas, 71, 74, 90.
Mauley, Peter de, 54.
Maxwell, Sir WUliam, 106.
Mayer (or Mair) Family, 137, 149.
Merlay, Robert de, 3.
Mexborough, Earl of, 96.
MUbank, Dorothy, 19, 78.
 , Jane, 109.
 , John, 145, 150.
 , Margaret, 145.
 , Mark, 19, 78.
 , Mary, 150.
 , Ralph, 20, 109.
Milburn Faraily, 133.
Mitford, Christopher, 15, 16, 110.
 , Charles, 90.
 , Henry, 15, 110.
 ^ Jane, 110, 143, 145, 146.
 , FamUy, 73, 110, 145.
Moises, Rev. Hugh, 22, 24, 44, 46, 87, 154.
 , Family, 22, 44.
Moncaster, Jaraes, 21, 14G.
Monpesson, Katherine, 109.

INDEX.

Monpesson, Rev. W., 109.
Montagu, Edward, 154.
Moody, Christopher, 29.
 , Rev. Clement, 11, 12, 26.
Morton, Felix, 16.
 , Rev. Wm., 16, 81 .
Mosley, Edward, 23, 24, 37, 63, 139.
 , EUzabeth, 24.
 , Hannah, 23, 63.
 , Mrs., 62.
Mulders, Aert, 22.
Munden, Joseph, 23.
Musgrave, William, 21.
Murray, William, 84.
Musical Festivals in St. Nicholas', 12.
Nailer, Rev. Thomas, 19, 107, 139, 149.
NaUston, 105.
Nantwich, 104.
Neile, Bishop. 131.
NeviU, Mary, 122.
Newbottle, 106.
Newton, Aynsley, 22.
 , Joseph, 19.
 , Matthew, 146.
 , Samuel, 157.
Newton-on-the-Moor, 134.
Nichol, Mrs., 11.
Nichols, Samuel, 21.
Nicholson, Ann, 133, 147.
 , Christopher, 18, 147.
 , Cuthbert, 75.
 , Edwin, 80, 81.
 , Grace, 147.
 , Roger, 15, 147.
 , Samuel Wall, 157.
 , Thomas, 133.
North Shields, 106, 120.
Northumberland, Eari of, 107, 133.
Ogle Family, 147.
Oil Paintings in St. Nicholas', 11.
Old Acres, 49, 50.
Ord, Christopher, 23.
Organ of St. Nicholas', 12.

Oxley, Rev. Amor, 18.
Pain, Thomas, 12.
Pallinsburn, 36.
Palmer, Thomas, 19.
Parke, Baron, 41.
Partis Family, 21, 22, 147, 148.
Partridge, Hugh, 132.
Pawson Family, 138.
Payne, Thomas, 22.
Peareth, William, 23, 24, 42, 59, 94, 101.
 , William Jennens, 43.
 , Family, 23, 59, 94, 101.
Pearson, J. C, 6.
 , Mary, 120.
 , Peter, 80.
 , Rev. Thomas, 15.
PeU, Rev. Wm., 20.
Pemble, Captain, 116.
Penrith, Rev. John, 21.
PhUipson, Hilton, 135.
Phillipson, Timothy, 22.
Philpotts, Bishop, 119.
 , Deborah Maria, 119.
Pibus Family, 148.
Pictures in St. Nicholas', 11.
Plate in St. Nicholas', 12.
Pollard Family, 140.
Potts, Rev. John, 21.
 , Thomas, 12.
Powell, Brothers, 11.
 , Thomas, 21.
 , T. Hutchinson, 126.
Porch (See Chapel),
 , Earl of Northumberland's, 107.
Preston, James, 6.
Prior, Matthew, 149.
Proctor, Wm., 21.
 , Family, 144, 149.
Radford, James, 116.
Raine, Nicholas, 17.
Rapha, Rev. Anthony, 22.
Ratcliffe (or RadcUffe), Sir Wm., 17.
 , Sir Francis, 134.

INDEX.

Radcliffe, Lady Mary, 35.
Ravensworth, Lord, 127, 143.
Rawe, Ralph, 16.
 , Roger, 16.
Rawlet, Ann, 20.
 , Rev. John, 12, 19, 146.
Rawling, Samuel, 18, 142.
Rawstorne, William, 137.
Reavely, Cuthbert, 23.
Redheugh, 35.
Reed, Archibald, 122.
 , Rev. John, 12.
 , Family, 122.
Reid, James, 12.
Rhodes, Agnes, 4.
 , Robert, 4, 27.
Richardson, Rev. Jeffery, 21.
Riddell, Barbara, 18, 150.
 , Catharine, 18.
 , Mary, 18, 145.
 , Sir Peter, 17, 28, 145, 150.
 , Sir Thomas, 17, 77, 78, 150.
 , William, 16, 20, 150.
 , Sir WiUiam, 18, 150.
 , Family, 150.
Ridley, Elizabeth, 22.
 , Hannah, 21.
 , Rev. Henry, 38, 93, 158.
 , Margaret, 22, 44.
 , Matthew, 23, 35, 37, 38, 40, 44, 51, 93.
 , Sir M. W., 12, 24, 39, 40, 64, 146.
 , Nicholas, 20, 22, 38, 39, 64, 148.
 , Richard, 21, 22, 23, 38, 39.
 , Family, 37, 40, 64.
Robinson, Rev. Thomas, 52.
Robson, Timothy, 20, 150.
 , WilUam, 6, 20.
 , Family, 150.
Roddam, Anne, 150.
 , Jonathan, 21, 150, 151, 152.
 , Mary, 36, 61, 84, 85, 150.
 , Robert, 19, 61, 150, 151, 152.
 , Family, 85, 150.
Rogerly, 95.
Rose, Richard, 23.

Rowell, William, 5.
Rumney, John, 19.
Rutter, Dorcas, 105.
Ryal, 62.
Sac, Sebaster le, 21.
Salkeld, Rev. Wm., 14.
Sanderson, Henry, 17.
 , Peter, 19, 141.
 , Susannah, 157.
 — , Family, 141.
Saunders, William, 157.
St. George's Porch (See Chapel),
St. Mary's Porch, (See Chapel),
St. Helen's Auckland, 109, 159.
St. Lawrence, 120.
St. Peters, 120.
Scaife, John, 88.
 , Matthew, 63.
Scott, Elizabeth, 96, 119.
 , Sir Gilbert, 3, 8.
 , Henry, 115, 117.
 , John, Lord Eldon, 44, 96, IU, 117, 119, 154.
 , Mary, 117.
 , WilUam, 115
Scurfield, Frances, 138.
Seaton Burn, 117, 156.
Selby, George, 14, 110, 113.
 , Sir George, 16, 18, 107, 110, 111, 113.
 , Hugh, 16, 113, 145.
 , Katherine, 145.
 , William, 15, 16, 107, 110, 113, 132.
 , Family, 110.
Shadforth Family, 151.
Shafto, Catherine, 19.
 , Edward, 33.
 , John, 34.
 , Rev. Leonard, 19.
 , Mark, 14, 15, 33, 34.

 , Ninian, 17, 33.
 , Robert, 16, 33, 34.
 , Robert Duncombe, 34.
 , Robert Eden Duncombe, 34.
 , Sir Robert, 20, 38, 34
 , Thomas, 20.

INDEX.

Sharrocks, Rev. J. S., 12.
Sharp, Rev. Thomas, 23.
Shield, Hugh, 12.
Shields, Rev. R. J., 135.
Shipley, James, 6.
Shippen, William, 54.
SUver Plate in St. Nicholas', 12.
Sinclair, Captain, 116.
Simpson Family, 51, 61, 106.
Skerret, John Byne, 104.
Slingsbie, Robert, 16.
Smith, Cuthbert, 5, 22.
— — , Edward, 6.
 , Frances, 120.
 , John Abel, 137.
 , Rev. John, 1, 12, 24, 66.
 , Margaret Collingwood, 120.
 , Mary, 120, 121.
 , Thomas, 24, 120, 121.
 , Thomas Eustace, 106, 120.
 , William, 106, 120.
Smoult, WiUiam, 23, 87.
Somerville, John, 157.
Sorsbie, Benjamin, 151.
 , Robert, 22.
Spearman Family, 49, 50, 92.
Spoor, George, 77.
 , Family, 10, 11.
Stamfordham, 93.
Stannington, 90.
Stead, Benjamin, 62.
Stelling Hall, 99.
Stephenson, David, 126.
 , George, 157.
 — , John, 6, 22, 95, 118.
 , J. A., 6.
 ¦  , Margaret, 17, 96.
 , Marianne, 126.
 , Family, 95, 118, 157.
Stevenson, Rev. Lancelot, 18.
Stone, Andrew, 84.
Stone Figure, 54.
Stoney, Andrew Robinson, 28.
Storey, Robert, 24, 158.
Stote, Sir Richard, 19, 54, 55.

Stote Family, 55, 77.
Stott, Robert, 15.
 , Robert WigfaU, 151.
Stowell, Lord, 44, 115.
Streatlam, 132.
Strother Family, 113.
Surtees, Aubone, 37, 96, 118, 119, 154.
 , Bessy, 96.
 , Chariotte, 119.
 , Deborah Maria, 119.
 , Edward, 118.
 y Elizabeth, 96, 118, 119, 126, 145.
 , Elizabeth Catherine, 118.
 , Frances Elizabeth, 118, 119.
 , Isabel, 145.
 , Jane, 145.
 , John, 119.
 , Matthew, 119.
 , Mary, 28, 145.
 , Mrs., 62.
 , Robert, 126.
 , Thomas, 16, 28, 145, 150.

 , William, 118, 119, 126.
 , WiUiam VUliers, 119.
Swinburne Family, 96, 145.
TaUlor, John, 17.
Taylor, Hugh, 12.
Teasdale, William, 22.
Tempest Family, 18, 30, 145.
Thirsk, 107.
Thomlinson, Dr., 93.
Thomlinson's Library, 12, 66, 153, 154.
Thompson, Edward, Account of St. Nicholas', 7.
 , Thomas, 12.
Thwaites, Lancelot, 20.
Thornley, 76, 92, 109.
Thornton, Roger, 9, 113.
 , WUUam Haydon, 104.
Togston, 120, 134.
Tonge Faraily, 21, 30, 54.
Trollop, John, 109.
Trotter, Richard, 18.
Tully, Timothy, 29.
Tunstail, George, 73.

INDEX.

XUl

Turner, Martha, 152.
 , Rev. Thomas, 22, 90, 152.
Twizell, 110, 111, 122.
Tynemouth, 48, 93, 98, 137.
Unthank, 30, 31, 86.
Usworth, 42, 43, 59, 101.
Van Mildert, Bishop, 12.
Ventress, John, on BeUs, 5.
Vicarage, the Old, 12.
Wailes, WiUiam, 9, 10, 11.
Walker, Chas., 6.
 , Jane, 102.
—  , Richard, 18.
 , Robert, 102.
WaUer, John, 6.
Wallis, Ogle, 63, 96.
 , Ralph, 96.
WaUsend, 93, 146.
Walters, Daniel, 22.
Wanless, Richard, 6.
Walworth Castle, 96.
Warkworth, 117.
Washington, W. H., 6.
Wasney, Rev. Robert, 24, 158.
Wasse, Thomas, 22.
Waters, Matthew, 35.
Watson, John, 15, 143.
 , Family, 143, 158.
Wallington, 60.
Webster, Robert, 29.
Weldon Family, 72, 77.
Welsh, Rev. John, 23.
Welstead, Rev. Leonard, 19.
Welton Tower, 72.
Wensleydale, Lord, 41.
Werge Family, 89, 105, 120.
Westgarth, Anthony, 18.
Whalton, 89.
Wharton, Humphrey, 73.
Whickham, 117, 119.
Whinfield, George, 20, 151.
 ,  , Family, 152.

White, EUzabeth, 39.
 , Henry, 142.
 , Matthew, 39, 148.
 , Robert, 17.
Whitburn, 90.
Whitehill, 125.
Whitfield, George, 15.
Whittle Burn, 72.
Whitworth, 33.
Widdrington, Catherine, 19, 34.
 , Sir Thomas, 34,
 , Mrs., 62.
WUcox Family, 100.
WUkinson, Rev. WilUam, 23.
 , Family, 126, 135.
WUUamson, R. Hopper, 5, 6, 119, 120,
 , FamUy, 119.
Willis, Rev. John, 17.
WUson, Rev. Cuthbert, 152.
 , Rev. Joseph, 23.
 , Rev. Robert, 24.
 , Rev. WiUiam, 22.
 , Family, 105, 135.
Willy, Roger, 18.
Windows in St. Nicholas', 9, 26.
Windsor, Lord, 54.
Wingate Grange, 76.
Winlaton, 110, 111.
Wishart, Geoige, 76.
Witton Castle, 92.
Wolsingham, 52.
Wood, EUzabeth, 105.
Woods, John Anthony, 126.
 , William, 126, 127.
Woolsington, 95, 125.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 4, 12.
Wright, Ann, 152.
Wright, Dorothy, 152.
 , Richard, 18, 151, 152.
Wrightson, William, 21, 71, 72, 74, 109.
 , Family, 21, 71, 74.
Young, Charles Henry, 9.
 , Thomas, 12.
Younghusband, Margaret, 105.

CORRECTIONS AND ALTERATIONS.

[In a book of this description, containing details of family history and innumerable dates, mistakes
are inevitable. The following have been detected ; but there may be others — errors of fact or inference
— and the compiler will thankfully receive, through the Publishers, authoritative corrections.]
PAGE. LINE.
9  28 from top, for an oval, read a circle.
12  20 from top, for Vicar from 1692, read Vicar from 1679 to 1692.
14  14 from top, omit Sir; insert 14B4 and 14-87.
21  13 from bottom, for /ormerZj/ Mayor, resbd formerly Sheriff.
21  15 from bottom, for Jane Maddison, read Jane Mallabar.
26  8 from bottom; note that all four of the windows in the Frontispiece are now
of stained glass. While this work was passing through the press the
fourth window — viz. : that in the south-east angle of St. Mary's
Chapel — was filled by Messrs. PoweU .Brothers, Leeds; the subject
being " The Transfiguration." The window, as appears by the inscrip
tion, is " Erected to the loving memory of George and Dorothy Laidler,
by their daughter Anne Eliza Harper."
28  7 from bottom, for as waa, read as were,
29  8 from bottom, and on pages 30 and 31 ; note that the small shields are no longer
attached to the Monument.
72  8 from bottom, for appear, read appears.
77  4 from bottom, for See Plate 25, read See page 80.
82  11 from top, for utcunque, read uteumqne.
108  18 from top, for Lady Carr, read Mrs. Carr.
108  3 from bottom, for i.^^P, read i.^ft
108  2 from bottom, omit Sir.
114  12 from top, for 1850, read 1849.
114  14 from top, for Catherine, read Ca.r oline IsabeUa.
115  5 from top, for A palm tree, read A bay tree.
115  Add to " The Loraines " — The present head of the family is Sir Lambton Loraine,
Bart., son and heir of the late Sir John Lambton Loraine, Bart.
131  last line, for and, read a.
134  14 from top, for his nephew, read his great nephew.

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