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his falary was increafed to one hundred pounds per annum, with other perquifites.

Paffing over the names of feveral others, we shall only mention the following:

James Jurin, M. A. was appointed mafter of the grammar-fchool in Newcastle in 1710, where he gave lectures on experimental philofophy. During his refidence there he amaffed near 1oool, 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 Phyficians. After paffing through many honourable ftations in the learned world, he died in Lincoln's-inn-fields in 1750, and bequeathed a large legacy to Chrift's Hofpital, where he had been educated by that noble charity.

Sept. 26, 1715, Edmund Lodge, clerk, was appointed mafter, on the refignation of Dr. Jurin.

Mr George Carr was under-ufher to Mr Lodge. He was afterwards removed to the new epifcopal chapel in Edinburgh, where, for a series of years, he performed all the facred duties of his ftation with univerfal approbation, and left behind him, on his death a collection of fermons which did him great honour, both as a scholar and a chriftian.

In the fame year the Rev. Robert Tomlinfon, D. D. was appointed mafter of this Hofpital. He was alfo prebendary of St. Paul's in London, rector of Whickham, mafter of the chapel of St Thomas upon the Bridge-end, likewife of the hofpital of St Mary Magdalene at the Barras-bridge, and the great literary benefactor of Newcastle, by the donation of his ineftimable 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 refignation. He was a man of confiderable learning, but had wild and extravagant notions, which, with a refractory temper, occafioned the fchool to be almoft totally deferted.

In 1749, Hugh Moises, A. M. was appointed head mafter. That reverend and amiable character demonftrated, by a sweetness of temper (the very reverfe of his predeceffor) by folid and polifhed 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 magiftracy, 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 Hiftory of Newcastle, in 2 vols. 4to. was appointed first under-ufher, and in 1781, ufher in this grammar-school.

He was fucceeded, 1784, in his ushership, by Mofes Manners, A. M. and foon after, Robert Wilson, A. B. was appointed under-ufher.

In June, 1787, Edw. Moifes, A. M. was appointed head-master, on the refignation of his worthy and much-efteemed uncle. As Meffis Moifes and Wilfon are still officiating in their refpective ftations, we have only to exprefs our warmeft wishes for their fuccefs in the discharge of their duties, emulating the virtues of fome of their illuftrious predeceffors.

To cherish this admirable inftitution, Lord Crewe left a large legacy for fcholars 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 defcription of this ancient feminary of learning. If the eye of the naturalift is dazzled with beholding beds and plots of flowers and plants, springing, blooming, and ripening into maturity; how furpaffing is the view of a well-governed nursery of young pupils, gradually acquiring and ftoring up in their tender minds, thofe principles of fcience and of virtue which, when properly cherished, burst forth with energy and luftre on the stage of human affairs! Or, as the poet

Delightful tafk; to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix
The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breaft?
THOMSON'S SPRING.

Or, with another poet,—

Yet, nurs'd with fkill, what dazzling fruits appear!
E'en now, fagacious forefight points to show

A little bench of heedlefs bifbops here,

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 fchool, we fhall only obferve, that it was faid, that here the great bishop Ridley, the martyr, was educated; afterwards, Akenfide the poet; and, among many others, who now fill confpicuous

ftations

stations in public life, are the present lord high chancellor, with his learned brother, Sir William Scott; fo very applicable are the three laft lines of Shenstone !

HOUSE OF THE CARMELITES, OR WHITE FRIARS.

For fecurity, in the earlier ages, moft part of the religious houfes 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 refidences on the WALL-KNOLL; a fituation eligible, as well for safety as for health, and commanding also a beautiful profpect of the circumjacent country. Here, hiftory tells us, the Carmelites, or White Friars, firft fettled, upon their arrival at Monkchefter, 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 fettled 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 affure us has a great refemblance to that in Palestine. Here a hermit had his refidence, of whom there is a ftatue of ftone placed where his cell formerly was. The Carmelites, fays 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 refemblance 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 feveral marks of royal bounty; but, being ftraitened for room in this fituation, and finding their houfe too fmall, as part of their premiffes 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 Christ, 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 fhillings and eightpence; another pittance of nine fhillings, from king Edward I. on his paffing 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, houfes, &c. thefe begging brethren wallowed in wealth, luxury, and indolence.

Even here, however, where ignorance reigned, there feems to have been fome 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 monaftery. The fubjects 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

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