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Underneath the fixteen smaller figures of the children of Henry and Elizabeth Maddifon, is a beautiful series of fmall fhields, pointing out their intermarriages.

In the fouth aifle, against one of the pillars, is a marble monument, with this infcription:

Memoria PATRICII CROWE,
olim de Afhlington, Armigeri,
cujus corpus haud procul
marmore clifto fepultum jacet.
Obii die Januarii 319,

Anno Domini 1694.

Englished:

To the memory of PATRICK CROWE,
of Afhlington, Efq.

whose body lies buried
not far from this marble.
He died January 31,
in the year 1694.

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The Rev. NATHANIEL ELLISON, Newcastle,
formerly fellow in Merton College, Oxford,
late Vicar of Bolam,

and lecturer of St. Andrew's, Newcastle.

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He refigned his foul into the hands of his Creator,
the ift of August, 1798,

in the 62d year of his age.

His remains lie interred in this place.
He lived univerfally beloved,

and died unfeignedly regretted.

Mr. Robinson's burial place.

Here lie buried under this ftone,
Of JOHN BENNET both body and bone,
Late of thefe north parts, master of the ordnance,
Which deceased by God's Providence,
The eighth day of the month of July,
In perfect faith, love, and charity,
A thousand five hundred fixty and eight,
Whofe foul to heaven he trufted went straight,
Through God's great mercy, bloodshed, and death,
Which only he trufted to during his breath.
So truft we his Wife and Children, who caused this,
And Captain Carvel, a friend of his.

We will not further trefpafs on the time and patience of our readers by enlarging the enumeration of these memorials, with which this noble structure (notwithstanding the vaft number fwept away by the late alteration) ftill abounds. But the mind which seriously looks forward to the termination of all things, may, in this magnificent, facred recefs, learn a leffon of fupreme wifdom. And when we tread on the tombs of magiftrates, minifters in the facred office, generals, feamen, artists, statesmen, all, all blended together in one common mafs of mortality; and when fitting over the " mighty dead," in the affembly of the living,--

"Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
"The pealing anthem fwells the note of praise."

GRAY.

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how are we ftruck with reverence in reflecting on the folemnity of our fituation !---" But a step, a short step too, between us and death!"

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I know, fays Addison, (the sweetest writer in queen Anne's reign) that contemplations of that nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations; but for my part, though I am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and folemn fcenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others confider with terror.---When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every immoderate defire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-ftone, my heart melts with compaffion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I confider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I fee kings (in Westminster abbey) lying by those who depofed them; when I confider rival wits placed fide by fide, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with forrow and aftonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of man. kind. When I read the feveral dates of the tombs, of fome that died yesterday, and fome fix hundred years ago, I confider that great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries, and make our appearance together."---Spectator, No. 26.

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CHANTRIES IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH.

It was the fashion, fays Mr. Brand, in the times of the papal fuperftition, for lords of manors, and other perfons of great wealth and importance, to build fmall chapels, or fide aifles, in their parish churches, defigned for burying-places for their families; which they frequently endowed with lands, &c. for the fupport of chantry priests, to pray daily, at altars erected therein, for the fouls of the founders, and thofe of their ancestors and pofterity.

Where these fuperftitious papifts, as Mr. B. here fomewhat unhandfomely terms a fifter church, could make fuch a grand difcovery as that of purgatory, we editors, not prefuming to clafs ourselves with fuch redoubtable doctors, dare not fay; yet we venture to affirm where they have not found it, and that is, neither in the wide field of fcripture nor of reafon. And we may fafely add, that this frightful fiction has brought more pence into St. Peter's coffers than any other fource of spiritual revenue whatever.

However, in this capacious church, there were nine, fome fay ten chantries. We will only flightly glance at them, as it is long fince they have been abolished.

J. The chantry of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Apostle. It was fituated on the north fide of the church. Its foundation is fo remote as 1149. Laurentius, prior of Durham, founded it; and, two centuries after, it was re-founded by Richard de Embleton, a magiftrate of Newcastle, who made a great figure in thofe times. He was fo liberal as to provide for three chaplains to this chantry.

This celebrated Richard de Emeldon had been above twelve times chief magiftrate in Newcastle. He obtained letters patent from king Edward the Third, to build upon a vacant piece of ground, over against the chapel of St. Thomas the martyr, that he might prefent it to three chaplains, to procure their prayers for him while he was living, and after he was dead, and alfo for the fouls of his wives and his father and mother, every day, at the altar of St. Nicholas, which was dedicated to John the Baptift and John the apoftle and evangelist.

The priests fet apart to attend this altar were, every day, to pray for his foul and thofe of his relations. And by an order from Richard, lord bishop of Durham, the chaplains for the time being, on the anniversary of his death, every year for ever, to celebrate his memory by a folemn tolling of bells, and devoutly finging by note, in the evening of the anniverfary, and folemnly to fing mafs, for the foul of Richard himself, the fouls above-mentioned, and the fouls of all the faithful departed; and after mass one of the chaplains was to diftribute among one hundred and fixty poor people the fum of fix fhillings and eight pence, and this annually for ever.

This chantry was enriched alfo by Robert Rhodes; and, after the death of that worthy character, the corporation of Newcastle gave feven pounds feven fhillings and tenpence with a house, as a maintenance for one chaplain, to pray for his foul, for whofe memory they had the highest respect, and to whom the town owed many obligations.

The other chantries, dedicated to our Lady, to St. Peter and St. Paul, to St. Margaret, to St. Loye, &c. in this church, were all founded with the fame inten

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