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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

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The suburbs of Sand-Gate escaped the fury of these Warres except some neer the walls of the Town which was fired One remarkeable thing is recorded of two Carpenters hewing of a tree bloud issued out of the timber in what part of the wood they cut Below East is the Ballist Hill where women upon their heads carried Ballist which was taken forth of small ships which came empty for Coales Which place was the first Ballist shoare out of the town since which time the trade of Coales increasing there is many Ballist shoares made below the water on both sides of the River Upon the North side of the River is the Ewes Burne over which is a wood Bridge which goeth down to a place called the Glasse-Houses where plaine Glasse for windowes are made which serveth most parts of the Kingdom Below East is many shores built for casting of Ballist out of ships which brings profit to the town and the occupiers of the same OF THE NOBLE AND ANCIENT FAMILIES OF THE NORTH AND THEIR CASTLES THE North parts of England hath been in the Romans time and in after ages the Bulwarks and Fortresses of England against the inrodes of the Scots Newcastle for the East parts of this land and Carlile for the West The two great Princes of the North were the Earles of Northumberland at Alnwick and Westmerland at Raby Castle in the Bishopprick of Durham The first famous for the great overthrow he gave Malcolme King of the Scots and his Sonne Edward slain at his Castle of Alnewick The second Earle made famous for taking David King of Scots prisoner and the overthrow of his Army at Nevils-Crosse neer Durham The Lord Dacres and Lord Lumleyes were famous in their generations the first lived in Cumberland in his many Castles the other in the Bishopprick of Durham in Lumley Castle both of them having lands in Northumberland who held their land of the King in Knight service for his warres against the Scots The Bishops of Durham had their Castles in the frontiers in Norhamshire and Elandshire The Nobility and Gentry of the North are of great antiquity and can produce more ancient Families then any other part of England many of them Gentry before the Conquest the rest came in with William the Conquerour The Noblemen and Gentry of the North hath been alwayes imployed in their native countrey in the warres of the Kings of England against the Scots all of them holding their lands in Knights service to attend the warres in their own persons with horse and speare as the manner of fighting was in those dayes Some Gentlemen held their lands in Cornage by blowing a Horne to give notice that the Scots their enemies had invaded the land The Scots their neighbouring enemies hath made the inhabitants of Northumberland fierce and hardy whiles sometimes they kept themselves exercised in the warres being a most warre-like Nation and excellent good Light-Horsemen wholly addicting themselves to Mars and Armes not a Gentleman amongst them that hath not his Castle or Tower and so it was divided into a number of Baronies the Lords whereof in times past before King Edward the first's dayes went commonly under the name of Barons although some of them were of no great living It was the policy of the Kings of England to cherish and maintain Martiall Prowesse among them in the Marches of the Kingdome if it were nothing else but with an honourable bare title Some Gentlemen of the North are called to this day Barons The Ancient Families and Names of the Gentry are many which hath continued from William the Conquerour unto these late dayes The Grayes of Chillingham and Horton Barons of Warke-castle Ogles of Ogle-castle Fenwickes of Wallington Widdrington of Widdrington-castle Delavale of Seaton-Delavale Ridleyes of Williams-Weeke Muschampes of Barsmore the chiefe Baron of Northumberland in Edward the first's reigne Mitfords of Midford Fosters of Edderston Claverings of Callalie Swinburnes of Swinburne now of Capheaton Radliffes of Delston Harbottle of Harbottle-castle extinct Haggerston of Haggerton Hebburne of Heburne Blankenship of Blankenship Fetherstonhaugh of Fetherstonhaugh Herons of Chepehase Horsley of Horsley Craster of Craster Laraines of Kirkharle Collingwoods of Eslington Whitfield of Whitfield Carnaby of Halton Lisles of Felton Strudders of Kirknewton Selbyes of Twisel Eringtons of Bewfrom Weldon of Weldon Bradforth of Bradforth Rodom of Little Haughton Carres of Ford-castle Creswell of Creswell Halls of Otterburne Thirlwall of Thirlwall-castle Killingworth of Killingworth These ancient Noble Families continued many years valiant and faithfull unto the Kingdom of England and flourished all in their times untill the two powerfull Earles of the North rose in rebellion in Queen Elizabeths reigne who drew along with them many Gentry of the North who overthrew themselves and confederates and many ancient families of the North Since many ancient names have been extinct for want of Heires Male and have been devolved upon other names and families Since the union of both Kingdoms the Gentry of this Country hath given themselves to idlenesse luxury and covetousnesse living not in their own houses as their ancestours hath done profusely spending their revenues in other Countries and hath consumed of late their ancient houses The Castles in the North are many and strong Morpith-Castle so called from the death of the Picts in that place Alnewick-Castle where the Earles of Northumberland kept their Court famous for two battels fought against the Scots who received a shamefull overthrow by the valour of the Earles of Northumberland Upon Tweed and Borders are Wark-castle a Barony of the Grays Norham-castle belonging to the Bishops of Durham Barwick upon the left banck and river a strong Town of Warre opposite sometimes against the Scots the farthest bounds of the English Empire Upon Till a River falling into Tweed above Norham is Ford-castle To the West beyond the River riseth Floddon-Hill made famous by the death of James the fourth King of Scotland slain in a memorable battell by Thomas Howard Earle of Surrey Generall of the English in the reigne of Henry the Eighth Upon the East Sea is Bambrough-castle and Dunstonbrough-castle builded by the Saxons and sometimes the Royall Seats of the Kings of Northumbers Bambrough-castle afterward converted into a Priory and did homage and vassalage to their Lord Priour Many battells and skirmishes hath been in this North and alwaies hath been victorious against the Scots Besides the forenamed battels of Alnewick-castle and Floddon at Solommosse fifteen thousand Scots were put to flight eight hundred slain and one and twenty of their Nobles taken prisoners by the English There was Lord Wardens of the East West and middle Marches appointed who had power by Martiall Law to represse all enormities and outrages committed in the Borders They had their Laws called Border Laws In the North toward the Borders is many Hills one of them most eminent called Cheviot Hill upon the top of it is Snow to be seen at Midsummer and a Land mark for Sea-men that comes out of the East parts from Danzieke through the Baltick Seas and from the King of Denmarks country it being the first land that Marriners make for the Coast of England These Chiviot Hills is made famous for the hunting of the Earl of Northumberland at the hunting the Earl Duglas of Scotland who met him with his forces and engaged one the other where was great bickerings and skirmishes to the losse of many men where both Earles fought valiantly called to this day Cheviot Chase There is many Dales the chief are Tinedale and Reedsdale a country that William the Conquerour did not subdue retaining to this day the ancient Laws and Customs according to the County of Kent whereby the lands of the father is equally divided at his death amongst all his sonnes These Highlanders are famous for theeving they are all bred up and live by theft They come down from these Dales into the low Countries and carry away horses and cattell so cunningly that it will be hard for any to get them or their cattell except they be acquainted with some Master Thiefe who for some mony which they call Saufey mony may help they to their stoln goods or deceive them There is many every year brought in of them into the Goale of Newcastle and at the Assises are condemned and hanged sometimes twenty or thirty They forfeit not their lands according to the tenure in Gavelkind the Father to Bough the Sonne to the Plough The people of this Country hath had one barbarous Custome amongst them if any two be displeased they expect no law but bang it out bravely one and his kindred against the other and his they will subject themselves to no Justice but in an unhumane and barbarous manner fight and kill one another they run together clangs as they terme it or names This fighting they call their Feides or deadly Feides a word so barbarous that I cannot expresse it in any other tongue Of late since the union of both Kingdoms this heathenish bloody custom is repressed and good laws made against such barbarous and unchristian misdemeanours and fightings In this North Country groweth plenty of hadder or ling good for Cattell to feed upon and for Moor-Fowle and Bees this hearbe yeeldeth a flower in June as sweet as Hony whereof the Picts in time past did make a pleasant drink wholsome for the body of Man Upon the West parts of Northumberland the Picts Wall is out of the ruines of which is built many Towers and Houses in that part where the Picts Wall stood in some of the wast ground the Wall is to be seen of a great height and almost whole many stones have been found with Roma upon it and all the names of the Roman Emperours Consuls and Proconsuls both in Stone and in Coine of Silver and Brasse with their Emperours Image upon them So the Picts Wall goes through Northumberland into Cumberland where I end my Peregrination and Travell keeping my selfe within the limits and bounds of Northumberland FINIS * Camden

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