his salary was increased to one hundred pounds per annum, with other perquísites. Passing over the names of several others, we shall only mention the following: James Jurin, M. A. was appointed master of the grammar-school in Newcastle in 1710, where he gave lectures on experimental philosophy. During his refidence there he amassed near 10001. and obtaining a degree in phyfic, he became M. D. F. R. S. and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and prefident of the College of Physicians. After pafling through many honourable stations in the learned world, he died in Lincoln's-inn-fields in 1750, and bequeathed a large legacy to Christ's Hospital, where he had been educated by that noble charity. Sept. 26, 1715, Edmund Lodge, clerk, was appointed master, on the resignation of Dr. Jurin. Mr George Carr was under-usher to Mr Lodge. He was afterwards removed to the new epifcopal chapel in Edinburgh, where, for a feries of years, he performed all the facred duties of his station with universal approbation, and left behind him, on his death a collection of fermons which did him great honour, both as a scholar and a christian. In the fame year the Rev. Robert Tomlinson, D. D. was appointed master of this Hospital. He was alfo prebendary of St. Paul's in London, rector of Whickham, master of the chapel of St Thomas upon the Bridge-end, likewise of the hospital of St Mary Magdalene at the Barras-bridge, and the great literary benefactor of Newcastle, by the donation of his inestimable library, of which, with the copy of his will, &c. we intend to gratify our readers with a faithful account, in its proper place. Richard Richard Dawes, A. M. fucceeded Mr Lodge, on his resignation. He was a man of confiderable learning, but had wild and extravagant notions, which, with a refractory temper, occafioned the school to be almost totally deferted. In 1749, Hugh Moises, A. M. was appointed head master. That reverend and amiable character demonstrated, by a sweetness of temper (the very reverse of his predeceffor) by folid and polished learning, and by an uniform tenor of conduct, how winning these accomplishments are; for they endeared him to the warmest and most respectful esteem of his numerous pupils, to the marked approbation of the patrons in the magistracy, and to the veneration of all ranks and conditions of the inhabitants. In the year 1778, John Brand, A. B. the celebrated antiquarian, and author of the History of Newcastle, in 2 vols. 4to. was appointed first under-usher, and in 1781, usher in this grammar-school. He was succeeded, 1784, in his ushership, by Moses Manners, A. M. and foon after, Robert Wilson, A. B. was appointed under-usher. In June, 1787, Edw. Moises, A. M. was appointed head-master, on the refignation of his worthy and much-esteemed uncle. As Messrs Moises and Wilson are still officiating in their respective stations, we have only to express our warmest wishes for their success in the discharge of their duties, emulating the virtues of fome of their illustrious predeceffors, To cherish this admirable institution, Lord Crewe left a large legacy for scholars taught in Newcastle grammar-fchool, to be fent to any of the two univerfities of England. Dr, Dr. Smith bequeathed the intered of 800l. to Emanuel College, in Cambridge; half of which is for the maintenance of a scholar, either from Durham or Newcastle school. Other legacies and donations have been made for the fame purpose. We hope our candid readers will not think us tedious in our description of this ancient seminary of learning. If the eye of the naturalist is dazzled with beholding beds and plots of flowers and plants, springing, blooming, and ripening into maturity; how furpassing is the view of a well-governed nursery of young pupils, gradually acquiring and storing up in their tender minds, those principles of science and of virtue which, when properly cherished, burst forth with energy and luftre on the stage of human affairs! Or, as the poet Delightful task; to rear the tender thought, Or, with another poet, THOMSON'S SPRING. Yet, nurs'd with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard fublime. SHENSTONE. To omit the numerous and diftinguished characters who have received their first principles of erudition at this famous school, we shall only observe, that it was said, that here the great bishop Ridley, the martyr, was educated; afterwards, Akenside the poet; and, among many others, who now fill confpicuous stations stations in public life, are the present lord high chancellor, with his learned brother, Sir William Scott; fo very applicable are the three last lines of Shenstone! HOUSE OF THE CARMELITES, OR WHITE FRIARS. For security, in the earlier ages, most part of the religious houses were fituated nigh the Roman wall; and, after Newcastle was walled round, they were commonly founded adjacent to that barrier. Accordingly we find, in the topography of Newcastle, that numbers of the religious had their residences on the WALL-KNOLL; a situation eligible, as well for safety as for health, and commanding also a beautiful prospect of the circumjacent country. Here, history tells us, the Carmelites, or White Friars, first settled, upon their arrival at Monkchester, now Newcastle, They were termed Carmelites, from Mount Carmel, in Syria, where the founder of their order had his first refidence. They are faid to have first come to England A. D. 1240, and settled at Ailesford, in Kent, and there to have had their first chapter. Others hold, that they landed in Northumberland A. D. 1250; and fettled at Holme, now called Huln-Abbey, near Alnwick, which the noble family there keeps in good repair. In the neighbourhood is a hill, called Mount Carmel, which travellers assure us has a great resemblance to that in Palestine. Here a hermit had his refidence, of whom there is a statue of stone placed where his cell formerly was. The Carmelites, says Bourne, were first brought into the north of England by Ralph Freeborne, and by him fixed near Alnwick, in a place called Holm, in a wilderness, which their conductor imagined to be a place that bore a strong resemblance to Mount Carmel, in Syria. He himself was, adds the fame author, the first provincial of this order, and began his rule A. D. 1240, and ruled fourteen years. He lies buried at Alnwick. On their arrival at Wall-Knoll, they received several marks of royal bounty; but, being straitened for room in this fituation, and finding their house too small, as part of their premisses were pulled down to make a fite for the town-wall, then building, King Edward I. granted to the White Friars of Newcastle this place of the Friars of the Penance of Chrift, on condition of their granting to Walter de Carlton, the then only surviving brother of that order, a decent maintenance. Mention is made of their having received feveral donations, called pittances, in those days, from King Edward I. and King John: one day, fixteen shillings and eightpence; another pittance of nine shillings, from king Edward I. on his pafling through the town of Newcastle. These fums from royal munificence, found trifling in our ears; but the value of money was high to what it is now; and by gifts, rents of lands, houses, &c. these begging brethren wallowed in wealth, luxury, and indolence. Even here, however, where ignorance reigned, there seems to have been some men of learning. In the year 1450, Edward Dynley, as Bayle informs us, born of a good family in Newcastle upon Tyne, and a learned writer of the order, flourished in this monastery. The subjects on which he treated, are, however, at this day, accounted trifling and unimportant. Doctor Nicholas Durham, who rendered himself famous among his cotemporaries, for his zeal against the tenets of Wickliff, had also his refidence in this convent, A. D. 1360. The |