and successor here omitted, because he comes in below, viz.] 'Henry Percy, the third Erle of Northumberland.'

Vid. Harl. MSS. No. 692. (26.) in the British Museum.

POSTSCRIPT.

It will perhaps gratify the curious Reader to be informed, that from a word or two formerly legible over one of the Chapel Doors, it is believed that the Text there inscribed was that Latin verse of the Psalmist,1 which is in our Translation,

MY TEARS HAVE BEEN MY MEAT DAY AND NIGHT.

It is also certain, that the memory of the first Hermit was held in such regard and veneration by the Percy Family; that they afterwards maintained a Chantry Priest, to reside in the Hermitage, and celebrate Mass in the Chapel: whose allowance, uncommonly liberal and munificent, was continued down to the Dissolution of the Monasteries; and then the whole Salary, together with the Hermitage and all its dependencies, reverted back to the Family, having never been endowed in mortmain. On this account we have no Record, which fixes the date of the Foundation, or gives any particular account of the first Hermit; but the following Instrument will show the liberal Exhibition afforded to his Successors. It is the Patent granted to the last Hermit in 1532, and is copied from an ancient MS. book of Grants, &c. of the VIth Earl of Northumberland, in Henry the VIIIths time.2

SIR GEORGE LANCASTRE PATENT OF XX MERKS BY YERE. 'Henry Erle of Northumbreland, &c. Knowe youe that I the saide Erle, in consideration of the diligent and thankful service, that my welbeloved Chaplen sir George Lancastre hath don unto me the said Erle, and also for the goode and vertus disposition that I do perceyve in him: And for that he shall have in his daily recommendation and praiers the good estate of all suche noble Blode and other Personages, as be now levynge; And the Soules of such noble Blode as be departed to the mercy of God owte of this present lyve, Whos Names are conteyned and wrettyn in a Table upon perchment signed with thande of me the said Erle, and delivered to the custodie and keapynge of the said sir George Lancaster: And further, that he shall kepe and saye his devyn service in celebratyng and doynge Mass of Regine every weke accordinge as it ys written and set furth in the saide Table: Have geven and graunted, and by these presentes do gyve and graunte unto the said sir George, myn Armytage belded in a Rock of stone within my Parke of Warkworth in the Countie of Northumbreland in the honour of the blessed Trynete, With a yerly Stipende of twenty Merks by yer, from the feest of seint Michell tharchaungell last past affore the date herof yerly duryng the naturall lyve of the said sir George: And also I the said Erle have geven and graunted, and by these Presents do gyve and graunte unto the said sir George Lancaster, the occupation of one litle Gresground of myn called Cony-garth nygh ad-.

1 Psal. xlii. 3.-2 Classed, F. I. No. 1. penes Duc. Northumb. This would be equal to £100, per annum now. See the Chronicon Pretiosum.

Allowe in recompense herof yerly xli.4

joynynge the said Harmytage, only to his owne use and proufit wynter and somer durynge the said terme; The Garden and Orteyard belongyng the said Armytage; The Gate1 and Pasture of Twelf Kye and a Bull, with their Calves suking; And two Horses goying and beyng within my said Parke of Warkworth wynter and somer; One Draught of Fisshe every Sondaie in the yere to be drawen fornenst the said Armytage, called The Trynete Draught; And Twenty Lods of Fyrewode to be taken of my Wodds called Shilbotell Wode, duryng the said term. The said Stipend of xx Merks by yer to be taken and perceyved yerly of the rent and ferme of my Fisshyng of Warkworth, by thands of the Fermour or Fermours of the same for the tyme beynge yerly at the times ther used and accustomed by evyn Portions. In wytnes wherof to thes my Lettres Patentes I the said Erle have set the Seale of myn Armes: Yeven undre my Signet at my Castell of Warkworth, the third daie of December, in the xxiiith Yer of the Reigne of our Sovereyn Lorde kyng Henry the eight.' On the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the above Patent was produced before the Court of Augmentation in Michaelmas-Term, 20 Oct. A. 29. Hen. viii. when the same was allowed by the Chancellor and Counsel of the said Court, and all the profits confirmed to the incumbent Sir George Lancaster; Excepting that in compensation for the annual Stipend of Twenty Marks, he was to receive a Stipend of Ten Marks, and to have a free Chapel called The Rood Chapel, and the Hospital of St Leonard, within the Barony of Wigdon, in the County of Cumberland.

Richerd Ryche.

After the perusal of the above Patent it will perhaps be needless to caution the Reader against a Mistake, some have fallen into; of confounding this Hermitage near Warkworth, with a Chantry founded within the town itself, by Nicholas de Farnham bishop of Durham, in the reign of Henry III. who appropriated the Church of Brankeston for the maintenance there of two Benedictine Monks from Durham.5 That small monastic foundation is indeed called a Cell by bishop Tanner: but he must be very ignorant indeed, who supposes that the word Cell is necessarily to be understood a Hermitage; whereas it was commonly applied to any small conventual establishment which was dependant on another.

As for the Chapel belonging to this endowment of bishop Farnham, it is mentioned as in ruins in several old Surveys of Queen Elizabeth's time; and its site, not far from Warkworth Church, is still remembered. But that there was never more than one Priest maintained, at one and the same time, within the Hermitage, is plainly proved (if any further proof is wanting) by the following Extract from a Survey of Warkworth, made in the Year 1567,' viz.

'Ther is in the Parke (sc. of Warkworth) also one Howse hewyn within one Cragge, which is called the Harmitage Chapel: In the same ther haith bene one Preast keaped, which did such godlye Services as that tyme was used and celebrated. The Mantion Howse [sc. the small building adjoining to the Cragg] ys nowe in decaye: the Closes that apperteined to the said Chantrie is occupied to his Lordship's use.'

1.e. Going from the Verb, to Gae.-2 Ur fore-anenst: i.e. opposite.- Sic MS.-4 So the MS. The above Sir Richard Rych was Chancellor of the Augmentations at the Suppression of the Monasteries.- Ang. Sacr. p. 733.-6 Mon. Ang. p. 396.-7 By Geo. Clarkson. penes Duc. North.

OF THE

OBSOLETE AND SCOTTISH WORDS IN

VOLUME THE THIRD.

Such words, as the reader cannot find here, he is desired to look for in the Glossaries to the other volumes.

1 Of the Scottish words Ben, and But; Ben is from the Dutch Binnen, Lat. intra, intus, which is compounded of the preposition By, or Be, the same as By in English, and of in. -2 But, or Butt, is from the Dutch Buyten, Lat extra, præter, præterquam, which is compounded of the same preposition By or Be, and of uyt, the same as out in English.

Gin, gyn, ginn, engine, contriv- Hyt, it.

1 This word is perhaps, in p. 170, corruptly given; being apparently the same with Heydeguies, or Heydeguives, which occurs in Spenser, and means a 'wild frolick dance.'-JOHNS. DICT.