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■of a gentleman’s houfe on the ftation, but now fcarcely legible. ■
account of them may be feen in Mr. Horfely, p. 295. J
/nil of afhes and bones, and figuline lacrymatories, have beJ
alfo found in the park, where the ftation probably extended. J
military way may be traced from this place as far as BrmefpM
park one way, and the other by Aukland to Peirce-bridge, in]
Torkfhire.
Proceed for a little way from Aukland, on the Roman way: leaf
on the left, at a mile and a half diftance from the town, the dm J
of St. Andrews Aukland, once collegiate, and well-endowed by AntM
bifhop of Durham. At the difiolution, here were found a del
and eleven prebends *. A houfe called the deanery ftill remains,
The chief tomb in this church is that of a Pollard; a crofs-legg’dj
knight, armed in mail to his finger’s ends, with a ikirt, formJ
reaching to h i s knees ; a Ihort fword, and com
P b ir c e - b r id g e .
of ftripes,
helm.
Pafs through. St. Helens-Aukland and Weft-Aukland; and after|
ihort digreifion fall in with the old Roman road, which continues |
Parce of Prieft-bridge, where was once a chapel, founded by yJ]
Baliol, King of Scotland, and dedicated to the Virgin-f-. The gatl
way isftill ftanding, in what is called the Chapel-garth.' Till Lekm
time the bridge confifted of five arches, but he fays that of late I
was re-built with three, The Tees flows beneath in a piftu refq il
channel finely ihaded on each fide with trees. Near this bridge, i|
a field called the Tofts, had been a confiderable Roman ftatioil
Urns and coins in abundance have been diicovered there. A ftonS
Tanner, u6> t Letami., Itin. I . 1
coffin!
iffin, with a ikeleton, is mentioned by bilhop Gibfon-, but that I ap-
ehend to be of more modern date. The foundations of houfes
ive been pbferved; and Mr. Horfely imagines he could trace an
|uedu£l. He fuppofes this place to have been the mag# of the
|¡ilia. I muft obferve that the Roman road is continued in a dired:
between the roads to Barnard-Caftle and Darlington, and is con-
bedover a fmal.l brook, and through the inclofure parallel to the
j|li, when it crofies the river about two hundred and fixty paces
iof the bridge, and then falls into the turnpike-road to Cattarick-
fe. The whole breadth of the road is ftill to be traced ; and the
puts it is formed of appear to be ftrongly cemented with run lime.
Imans had here a wooden bridge : the materials, fuch as the
Mies of oaks, and feveral ftoops, were to be feen till waihed away
1 the great floods of 1771. On crofting the Tees, enter
After a ride of a few miles pafs through Aldbrough, now a little
|lage, but once a place of eminence, as its ruins, obferved by Cam-
», evince. In the time of Henry I. Stephen Earl of Albemarle and
lirnefs had a manor and caftle here ; the tythes of which he be-
'ed on the abby of Albemarle, in Normandy * ; and that abby in
reign of Richard II. granted them to the abby of Kirkftallf.
I? HI. again beftowed the place on Hubert de Burgh, Earl
ffoif. By failure of iflue, it fell to the. crown in the time
Henry IV. who gave it to his third fon, John Duke of Bedi
.
DugJale, Monaft,. I . 588. q- Idem. 589,
£. B r i fannia Magna, V I. 6a8 .
Pafs