stones of the arms of the lord from the house of the Carmelite Brethren of Hulne, and for setting up the same on the outer gate of the tower of the castle of Alnwick, 108.

The valuable survey made by Clarkson, which has already thrown so much light upon the early state of all those buildings belonging in his day to the Percies, continues the same assistance respecting the abbey of Hulne. It is printed in an extended form in the Appendix, and gives us a good idea of the condition of the buildings soon after the Reformation. But as references have been given on the ground-plan, as far as the conventual arrangements now existing will allow, it is unnecessary to enter into any further description.

At the dissolution, the whole revenues were valued at 1947. 78., which was a small sum for the support of the brethren and the maintenance of the buildings.

Within an easy walk by the side of the Alne we come to Alnwick Abbey.

CHAPTER XV.

ALNWICK ABBEY.

THIS ecclesiastical building, of which unhappily only a gateway now remains, was also the foundation of the De Vesci family. The Chronicle of Alnwick Abbey, which has been preserved amongst the Harleian Manuscripts, and which is printed in the Appendix to the present volume, states that Eustace Fitz-John and his wife gave to Baldwin their clerk the church of Lesbury, with the chapels of Houghton, Alnemouth, and Alnwick, with all their appendages, for its endowment. Eustace Fitz-John had already built his castle on the higher ground in the neighbourhood, and in the 1147 he proceeded to found the abbey.

year The charter of foundation is printed in the notes,* from

*Carta Fundationis Abbatiæ de Alnewicke, recitans et confirmans diploma Henrici de Percy comitis Northumbria. Henricus Percy Comes Northumbriæ, dominus honorum de Cokirmouth et Petworth; dominus de Percy, Lucy, Poynyngs, Fitz-Payn, et Bryanem; ac guardianus generalis orientalium, et mediarum marchiarum Angliæ, versus partes Scotiæ, ac inclytissimi Ordinis Garterii miles; omnibus et singulis, ad quos præsentes literæ pervenerint, salutem. Noveritis nos præfatum comitem inspexisse quandam cartam confirmationis domini Henrici Perci quinti, domini de Alnewike, factam Abbati et Conventui de Alnewike, et eorum successoribus, in hæc verba. Universis sanctæ matris ecclesiæ filiis, tam futuris, quam præsentibus præsentes literas inspecturis, Henricus dominus de Percy, quintus dominus de Alnewic, salutem in Domino. Noveritis nos inspexisse cartam Eustachii filii Johannis, fundatoris abbatiæ beatæ Mariæ de Alnewic, quam fecit abbati et conventui ejusdem loci, in hæc verba:

Carta Fundationis Abbatiæ de Alnewik.

Eustachius filius Johannis, Willielmo episcopo Dunelmensi et capitulo, et archidiacono, et omni clericatui episcopatus Dunelmi, et omnibus suis clericis et laicis, Francis et Anglicis totius terræ suæ de Northumberland, omnibusque filiis sanctæ Dei ecclesiæ, salutem. Scitote me dedisse, concessisse, et hâc meâ cartâ confirmasse, Deo et canonicis de Alnewic, qui sunt de ordine Præmonstratensis ecclesiæ, pro salute animæ meæ, et remissione peccatorum meorum; nec non pro salute animæ patris et matris meæ, et pro animâ Ivonis de Vescy, et omnium antecessorum meorum, et pro salute Willielmi de Vescy filii mei, et omnium puerorum meorum, ecclesiam de Lesbury, cum omnibus appendiciis suis, et nominatim cum capella de Howghton, et cum capella de Sancto Walerico, et omnibus decimis ad illud pertinentibus; et nominatim cum omnibus decimis de dominiis meis de Lesseburgh et Hoghton. Scilicet, de biadis, et salinis, et de molendinis meis, et capellam de Alnewic, cum omnibus ap

which it appears that the grant was made to the Premonstratensian order, then first settled in England, for the safety of Eustace Fitz-John's soul, and the remission of his sins;

also for the souls of his father and mother, Ivo de Vescy and all his ancestors, for the safety of William de Vescy, his son, and all his boys. To the advowsons already named he added the tithes of corn, saltpans, and mills at Lesbury and Houghton, the chapel of Alnwick, and tithes of all the demesnes, the entire village of Wyclif, with a part of the

men, two portions of the tithes of Tughall and Newham, the church of St. Wilfrid at Guysons, besides privileges in other places, which are set forth below.

William, his son, who assumed the name of De Vescy, confirmed his father's charters, adding to them the church of Chatton, for the benefit of his father Eustace and his mother Beatrice. To this he subsequently joined the churches of Chillingham and Alnham. When near the close of his