of gifts on the church, and direited, in cafe he died in his, enii
prize, that his body ihould be interred there. I mtift not omit, ■
at the fame time that this place was honoured with the remain!)
St. Cuthbert, the biihoprick of Lindesfarn was removed here a
endowed with all the lands between the Tyne and the Were, the ■
fent county of Durham. If was ftyled St., Cuthbert's patrimonf
The inhabitants had great privileges, and always thought themfe§§
exempt from all military duty, except that of defending the bod®
their faint. The people of the north claimed this exemption,;«
account of their being under a continual neceffity of defendingtm
marches, and oppofing the incuriions of the Scots. The fame ex®
was pleaded by the town of Newcaftle for not fending member®!
parlement. Rymer* produces a difcharge from Henry III. to RM
biihop of Durham, Peter de Brus, and others, of having perform™
the military fervice they owed the king, for forty days, along with
his fon Edward. They, with the reft of this northern trait, aflerg
that they were Hali-werke folks, that they were enrolled for hd!|
work; that they held their lands to defend the body of the fai$|
and thofe in particular in his neighborhood, were not bound!)
march beyond the confines of their country. In fait, Chejltjltl
Street was parent of the fee of Durham ; for when the reliques wael
removed there, the fee, in 995, followed them. : Tanner fays, tm
probably a chapter of monks, or rather iecular canons, attended tra
body at this place from its firit arrival : but biihop Beke, in I2I
in honor of the faint, made the church collegiate, and e f ta b li®
here a dean, and fuitable ecclefiaitics ; and, among other pn»1
* F red era, I , 8 3 3.
id!
I N S C O T L A N D ,
gives the dean a right of fiihing on the Were, and the
Se’ of fiih*.
At a fmail diftance from the town, ftands Lumley-caftle, the
Jjtient feat of the name. It is a fquare pile, with a court in
(middle^ and a fquare tower at each corner; is modernized
to an excellent houie, and one of the feats of the Earl of Search,
It is faid to have been built in the time of Edward I.
y Sir Robert de Bitmley, and enlarged by his fon Sir Marmaduke.
jriorto that, the family refidence was at Burnley, (from whence it
i the name) a village a mile fouth of the caftle, where are
mains of a very old hall-houfe, that bo.afts a greater antiquity,
die former was not properly caftellated, till the year 1392, when
I Ralph (the firit Lord Burnley) obtained fromJRichard II.
mtiam cajlrum fuum de Bomley de novo adificandum, muro de petra
tike batellare et kernellare et cajlrum Ulud fie batellatum, et ker-
htrn tenere, &c. This Sir Ralph was a faithful adherent to
is unfortunate fovereign, and loft his life in his caufe, in the
iarreftion, in the year 1400, againft the ufurping Henry. There
* no dates, except one on a fquare tower,; I. L. 157° ’ when, I
refump, it was re-built by John Lord Burnley..
The houfe is a noble repofitory of portraits, of perfons eminent in
tlixteenth century.
(The brave, impetuous, prefuming,. Reforf, Earl of EJfex, appears
full length, dreffed in black, covered with white embroidery. A
, man tic nobleman, of parts without difcretion ; who fell a facrifice
II his own pafiions, and a vain dependence for fafety on thofe of an
# Vugdale, M o n , I I . p a rt i i . p* 5*
L u m l e y c a s t l e .
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