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gyve and graunte unto the faid Sir George Lancaflre, the occupation of one little Gresground of myn called Conygarth nygh adjoy nynge the faid Harmytage, only to his only use and proufit wynter and fumer durynge the said terme; The Garden and Orteyarde belongyng the faid Armytage; The Gate* and Pafture of Twelf Kye and a Bull, with their Calves fucking; AND two Horfes goyng and beyng within my faid Parke of Warkworth wynter and fomer; One Draught of Fishe every Sundaie in the yere to be drawn fornenft the faid Armytage, called the Trynete Draught; AND Twently Lods of Fyrewode to be taken of my Wodds called Shillbotell Wode, duryng the faid term. The Stipend of xx Merks by yer to be taken and perceived‡ yerly of the rent and terme of my Fiffhyng of Warkworth, by thands of the Fermour or Fermours of the fame for the tyme beynge yerly at the times ther used and and accuf

Allowe in recompenfe hereof yerly x §. Richerd Ryche.

tomed by evyn Portions. IN wytnes whereof to thes my Letters Patentes I the faid Erle have fet the Seale of myn Armes :

Yeven undre my Signet at my

Castle of Warkworth, the third Daye of December, in teh XXIII. Yer of the Reigne of our Soveregn Lorde Kyng

Henry the Eight.'

* i. e. Going from the verb, To Gae.

+ Or Fore-anenft: i. e. oppofite.

Sic MS.

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So the MS. The above Sir Richard Rych was Chancellor of the Agumentations at the Suppreffion of the Monafteries.

On the Diffolution of the Monafteries, the above Patent was produced before the Court of Augmentation in Michaelmas-Term, 20 Oct. A. 29. Hen. VIII. when the fame was allowed by the Chancellor and Councel of the faid Court, and all the profits confirmed to the incumbent Sir George Lancafter; Excepting that in compenfation for the annual Stipend of Twenty Marks, he was to receive a Stipend of Ten Marks, and to have a free Chapel called the Rood Chapel, and the Hofpital of St. Leonard, within the Barony of Wigdon, in the County of Cumberland.

After the perufal of the above PATENT it will perhaps be needless to caution the Reader against a Miftake, fome have fallen into; of confounding this Hermitage NEAR Warkworth, with a Chantry founded WITHIN the town tfelf, by Nicholas de Farnham, bishop of Durham, in the reign of Henry III. who appropriated the Church of Brankefton for the maintenance there of Two Benedictine Monks from Durham*. That fmall monaftic foundation is indeed called a CELL by bifhop Tannert: but he must be very ignoraut. who fuppofes that by the word CELL is neceffarily to be understood a Hermitage; whereas it was commonly applied to any fmall conventual establishment, which was dependant on another.

As for the Chapel belonging to this endowment of bishop Farnham, it is mentioned as in ruins in feveral old Surveys of Queen Elizabeth's time; and its fcite, not far from Warkworth

Ang. Sacr. p. 738. + Not. Mon. 396.

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Warkworth Church, is ftill remembered. But that there was never more than One Prieft maintained, at one and the fame time, within the Hermitage, is plainly proved (if any further proof be wanting) by the following Extract from a furvey of Warkworth, made in the Year 1567,* viz.

Ther is in the Parke (fc. of Warkworth) also one Howse hewyn within one Cragge, which is called the Hermitage Chapel: In the fame ther haith bene One Preaft keaped which did fuch godlye Services as at that tyme was used and celebrated, The Mantion Howfe [sc. the small building adjoining to the Cragge] ys now in decaye: The Closes that apperteined the faid Chantrie is occupied to his Lordfhip's ufe.'

* By Geo. Clarkfon, MS. penes Duc, North,

HENRY

HENRY AND EM MA.

THOU,

UPON THE MODEL OF

THE NUT-BROWN MAID.

By MATTHEW PRIOR.

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HOU, to whofe eyes I bend, at whofe command (Tho' low my voice, tho' artless be my I take the fprightly reed, and fing and play, Careless of what the cens'ring world may say; Bright Cloe! object of my conftant vow,

Wilt thou awhile unbend thy ferious brow?
Wilt thou with pleasure he ar thy lover's firains,
And with one heav'nly fimile o'erpay his pains?
No longer fhall the Nut-Brown Maid be old,
Tho' fince her youth three hundred years have roll'd;
At thy defire the fhall again be rais'd,

And her reviving charms in lafting verfe be prais'd.
No longer man of woman fhall complain,
That he may love and not be lov'd again;
That we in vain the fickle fex purfue,
Who change the conflant lover for the new.
Whatever has been writ, whatever faid
Of female paffion feign'd, or faith decay'd,
Henceforth fhall in my verfe refuted fland,
Be faid to winds, or writ upon the fand:
And while my notes to future times proclaim.
Unconquer'd love and ever-during flame,

Vol. I. 4.

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O, fairest

Mufe ;

O, faireft of the fex! be thou my
Deign on my work thy influence to diffufe:.
Let me partake the bleffings I rehearse,
And grant me Love the juft reward of verse.

As Beauty's potent queen with ev'ry grace
That once was Emma's has adorn'd thy face,
And as her fon has to my bofom dealt
That conftant flame which faithful Henry felt,
O let thy ftory with thy life agree,

Let men once more the bright example see;
What Emma was to him be thou to me:
Nor fend me by thy frown from her I love,
Diflant and fad, a banifh'd man to rove:
But, oh with pity long entreated crown.

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My pains and hopes; and when thou fay's that one
Of all mankind thou lov'st, oh! think on me alone.

WHERE beauteous Ifis and her husband Thame
With mingled waves for ever flow the fame,
In times of yore an ancient baron liv'd,

Great gifts beflow'd, and great refpects receiv'd.
When dreadful Edward with fuccessful care
Led his free Britons to the Gallic war,
This lord had headed his appointed bands,
In firm allegiance to his king's commands,
And (all due honors faithfully discharg'd)
Had brought back his paternal coat, enlarg'd'
With a new mark, the witness of his toil,
And no inglorious part of foreign fpoil.

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