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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42127	Chorographia, or, A survey of Newcastle upon Tine the estate of this country under the Romans : the building of the famous wall of the Piets, by the Romans : the ancient town of Pandon : a briefe description of the town, walls, wards, churches, religious houses, streets, markets, fairs, river and commodities, with the suburbs : the ancient and present government of the town : as also, a relation of the county of Northumberland, which was the bulwark for England, against the introdes of the Scots : their many castles and towers : their ancient Cheviot-Hills, of Tinedale, and Reedsdale, with the inhabitants.	Gray, William, fl. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1975; ESTC R10141	20,120	58

Chorographia OR A SURVEY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TINE The Estate of this Country under the Romans The Building of the famous Wall of the Picts by the Romans The Ancient Town of Pandon A briefe Description of the Town Walls Wards Churches Religious Houses Streets Markets Fairs River and Commodities with the Suburbs The ancient and present Government of the Town AS ALSO A relation of the County of Northumberland which was the bulwark for England against the inrodes of the Scots Their many Castles and Towers Their ancient Families and Names Of the Tenure in Cornage Of Cheviot-Hills Of Tinedale and Reedsdale with the Inhabitants Potestas omnium ad Caesrem pertinet proprietas ad singulos NEWCASTLE PRINTED BY S. B. 1649. S. P. D. DILECTIS BURGENSIBUS ET PROBIS HOMINIBUS NOVICASTRI SUPER TINAM W. G. Fortiter Defendit Triumphans Portus Castrum Carbo Salmo Salina Molaris Murus ●o●s Templum Schola sunt Novi gloria Castri TO THE CANDID READER EVERY Country hath had his Chronologer or Writer to portrait unto their countrymen their antiquities and noble acts Greece had his Homer Rome his Virgil Our Britains had their Gildas Saxons had their Beda England had of late his learned Camden and painfull Speed to delineate and portrait unto their countrymen the antiquities and scituations of all shires in England Yet it is impossible that any one man being never so inquisitive and laborious should attain unto the perfect knowledge of all passages in all places I have adventured to write of the Antiquity of this Town and Country which by reading and experience I have gathered out of the ruine of Antiquity that those Monuments which these late warrs have obliterated and ruin'd may be left to posterity for tempus edax rerum I find a great difficulty in my undertakings because the Records of this Country are but few and confused being so often infested by the Scots and Danes who consumed and fired all before them wheresoever they came Questionlesse many brave men have lived in this Town and Country many memorable acts of Chivalry have been atchieved but they are all buried in oblivion I hope the courteous Reader will pardon the faults committed herein Nam in priscis rebus veritas non ad unguem quaerenda est Many errours many suppositions upon probabilities may be found in it Humanum est errare decipi I have begun the work I hope some of my Fellow Burgesses will finish what I have begun to the everlasting memory of this famous town Some cretiques have presumed to correct and blame me with their indigested zeale and unknown enthusiastique knowledge of Chimoera's in their giddy pericraniums for fables and errours as the Priest that found it written of St. Paul Demissus est per sportam mended his book and made it demissus est per portam because Sporta was an hard word and out of his reading But ne sutor ultra crepidam let no man professe that he knows not It s true He that writes resembleth a man acting his part upon a Theator or Stage where the spectators have their eyes sixing upon him all observing his gesture and words if he fail in either presently he is censured and condemned Lastly we live in an age that Mechanicks will presume to step into Moses chaire and become politians to contradict and controle whatsoever is acted and done according to the laws divine and humane One thing I desire of these phantastiques Carpere vel noli mea vel ede tun Vale W. G. THE CONTENTS   Fol. THE first Natives of this Island 1 Romans first in Britaine 2 The first Roman Conquest in the North ibid. The North brought into a Roman Province 4 The comming in of the Saxons 6 The first Denominations of Newcastle 7 The Walls and Gates of Newcastle and who built them 8 The Bridges of Newcastle upon Tine 12 The Churches in Newcastle 13 The Streets and Buildings of the ancient Towne of Pampden 17 The Grants and Charters to the Town 19 The highest and North Parts of the Town 22 The Sandhill 23 The middle Parts of the Town 25 Pilgrim Street 27 West-Gate Street ibid. The Government of the Town 29 The 24 Wards of the Town 31 Of the River Tine and the Commodities 32 Divine Providence over all Nations and Countries 37 The Suburbs of Newcastle 39 Of the Noble and Ancient Families of the North and their Castles 41 Chorographia OR A SURVEY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE THE FIRST NATIVES OF THIS ISLAND THE Britains were Autochthenes natives of this Island for more ancient inhabitants we finde none The People of this Nation is thought to have been descended from the neighbouring Gaules in regard of the same Religion Language and Manners Their originall from the Trojans by Brute is altogether fabulous there being no Greek or Latine Authors or any Monument in this Island which makes mention hereof Their Descent from the Gaules is more probable being the next parts of the Continent unto Britaine or their way from Asia or the East from whence all Countries was first peopled ROMANS FIRST IN BRITAINE THE Romans were first certaine and know Forreiners in this Island C. J. Caesar was the first of Romans that invaded Britaine he having subdued the Nation of the Gaules made his journey into Britaine Cassivellanus reigning King Some Victories he atchieved some Hostages he took imposed a Tribute upon the Nation and so returned into the Continent he made no Conquest of them but discovered them to Posterity A long time after the Roman Emperour Claudius sent Aulus Plantius hither accompanied by two Brethren Sabinus Vespasian who made warre against the Britains vanquished them in severall Fights took Camalodunum the chiefe seat of their Kings and their King took prisoner planted a Colony at Camalodunum now Maldon in Essex and reduced the higher or South parts of Britaine into the forme of a Roman Province THE FIRST ROMAN CONQUEST IN THE NORTH IN the Yeare of Vespasian the great and populous Nation of the Brigantes are warred upon and in part overcome These Brigantes containeth all the Country North of Humber to the river of Tine and Picts Wall called lower Britaine Julius Agricola in the Reigne of Domitian set limits here to the Romane greatnesse and extended it Northward into the Seas and Friths of Dunbriton and Edenbrough in Scotland The Emperour Adrian not long after removed the Pale more Southward and the better to keep out the Enemy drew a Trench and Wall of Turfes crosse the Land betwixt the two Seas The Roman Britains being continually molested by often incursions of the barbarous People called Caledonii or Picts who brake down the Sodd Wall harrying and spoiling this Country Which moved the Emperour Severus to build a Wall of Stone with great wisedome and industry to strengthen this Northerne Parts of Britaine against the many inrodes of the barbarous Picts At every miles end of this wall was a Tower and in the wall a Pipe of Mettall