A T O U R
the founder o f the bridge at Newcajlle, which was called after J
family-name Pons MU, in the fame manner as Jerufalem wasH
M ia Capitolina, and the games he inftituted at Pincum, in 4/J
Miana Pincenjia. T he coins difcovered on pulling down forae of]
the piers, in 1774, confirm my opinion. Several were d ifcoverT
but only three or four refcued from the hands o f the w o r km i
A l l o f them are coins, pofterior to the time o f Adrian, probably d|
pofited there in fome later repairs. One is a beautiful
elder, after her deification. Her forehead is bound with a l
tiara-, her hair full, twifted, and dreffed a la moderns; round is H
fcribed D iv a F a u s t in a . On the reverfe is Ceres, with a tor®
in one hand, and ears o f corn in the other; the infcriptiij
A u g u s t a . S. C.
. be fpent about the river Tyne -, which is fuppofed to mean in the
Lairs of the bridge and quay on the part belonging to Durham; for
lie third belongs to the biihop, and two to the town. So that, after
L deftroyed in 1248 by a furious fire, the biihop and the town
I * d in the expence of building the ftone bridge, of which this
femity was the origin. The prelate {Walter Kirkbm) \had the
L o p to .hi.. fo.. ..""«a ” * « ¡ » ! « * » '%
■diligencies from all [«nance, to every one that would rdHl eithe
lith money or labor. The town alfo applied to other bifliops fo
Kir affiftance in promoting fo good a work ; and they, in conf-
l a e n c e granted their indulgencies: but then the clergy of the
I S were direfted by their archdeacon, to prefer the indulgencies
| f their own prelate to any other. In the end, both parties fucceed-
Kd, a nd the money raifed, was given to Laurent ms, matter of the
T h e next has the laureated head o f Antoninus Pius.' On the re-1
verfe-, Apollo, with a patera in one hand ; a pleElrum in the othel
the legend fo much defaced as to be illegible.
T h e third is o f Lucius Verus (like that o f Fauftina, after confecii
tion). On the reverfe is a magnificent funeral pile, and theworl
CoNSECRATIO, S. C.
T h e original fuperftrudkure o f this bridge was probably of wow
like that over the Danube : and continued, made with the lame material,
fo r feveral centuries. Notice is taken o f it in the reign ojj
Richard I. when Philip Poitliers, biihop of Durham, gave licence to=
the burgefies o f Gatejhead, to give wood to whomfoever they p lcM i
I The boundaries of the bridge were ftriftly preferved. Edward\U.
■bywrit, 1234, forbids the mayor and iheriffs of Newcaftle to fuff?r
■their ihips to lie on the fouthern fide. And feveral other proofs
¡may be brought of the ftria obfervance of thefe rights of the biihop.
—¿y the calamity of November 17th, i 77L this, part of the bn ge
■was greatly damaged. A n ad was therefore paffed this year, to
■enable the prefent biihop, and his fucceifors, to raife a fum o money
Ihy annuities equal to the purpofe. Crofs the water, and land in the
■.biihpprick of
the work looked more lik e rocks waihed out by the dream than like piers; thou®
he confeffes to have feen fome mafonry upon the northern fhore, confining®
brick and freeftone, joined by a mortar as hard as the Hones themfeives. - *3
K lem aris Journey through Krim-Tartary and Turkiy, 1768— 1770, «
D V R H A M.
Enter Gatejhead; a confiderable place, built on the tteep banks of
I the fouthern fide of the river, containing about five hundred an
S f s fifCy
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