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ALNEWICK ABBEY, NORTHUMBERLAND:

Tis was, according to Tanner, an Abbey of Premonftratenfian Canons, founded anno 1147, by Euftace Fitz: : a
John, who, by his marriage with Beatrice, the daughter of Ivo de Vefcy, became Lord of the Baroniessof :
Alnwyke and Malton————. It was dedicated to the Bleffed Virgin. Dugdale ftiles it only a Priory. AS

Eustace, its founder, for the good of his foul and remiffion of his fins; alfo for the benefit of the foals of his father and* |
mother, for the foul of Ivo de Vefcy, and thofe of all his predeceffors ; and for the foul of William de Vefcy his fon, and’
all his other children, endowed it with a great parcel of his baronial lands, and gave to it the village of Huicliff, and all
the demefnes about it, on the left hand of the road from Alnwick to Rock, and the waftes belonging toit, extending from . |
Hindon to the river Alne, with the fervice of half the tenants. He moreover beftowed on it two parts of the tithes of the
lordthip of Tughall, of Alnham, of Newham, .of Heyfend, of Chatton ; and one moiety of the tithes of Weoley: | a
of Long Houghton, and of Lefbury.:; he alfo annexed to it the Priory and Church of Gufnes, now called Gyfon or -
Guyzance, near Felton, dedicated to St. Wilfrid, and founded by Richard Tyfon, to bold in pare alms, with all its -
privileges and endowments,.a moiety of the tithes, and two bovats of land at Gyfon, the church of Halge or. *
Hauegh, the lands of ‘Ridley and Morewickhough, with the liberty of ereéting 4 corn-mill on the river Coquet, and» ==
of raifing as much corn on his waftes there as they could plough, with liberty to grind it at his own mill moulter :
free. He alfo gave the Canons, for their table, the tenth part of all the venifonand pork killed in. his parks and -
foreits, and of ‘all the fith taken in His-fifheries by his order, and a falt-work at Warkworth,

_ Tue Lord William de Vefcy, his fon, gave them-the advowfons of ‘Chatton, Chillingham, and Alnham ; they: :
had alfo the advowfons and appropriations of St. Dunfian’s, in Fleet-Street, London, and of Sikenfield, in York~- , Se
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Tuer had 24 acres of Turbary, or earth for fuel, and liberty of pafturage on Edlingham Common : They had: . ce
ands at Chatton and at Falloden ; alfo four tenements and a garden in Newcaftle upon Tyne, ee = : es

Twese grants were all confirmed by Henry de Percy, fifth Lord of Alnwick; and again, by one of his defcendants.- | ~
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, Lord of the Honour of Cockermouth and Petwo:th ; Lord Percy, Lucy, Poines ~ eee
ings, Fitz.Poyne, and Brayanem ; ‘Warden-General of the Eaf and Midland Marches of England next Scotland = 2 a
and Knight.of the Moi Noble Order of the Gartes.. |

 

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