to increase the stipend of the other two. The sum of £1 bs. for coats or gowns is paid to them every other Christmas; and they also receive an annual supply of 20-horse loads of coals, from the estate of Low Hullerbush. Rev. George Dugard, custos.

Dent's Charity.-John Dent the elder, of Brightwell, Berkshire, on April 29th, 1706, assigned to the trustees certain premises in Stepney, for the education of poor boys born in the town of Barnard Castle. Previous to 1749, the sum of £133, raised by the sale of those premises, had been placed at interest, and is now in the hands of Benjamin Lee, Esq., who pays £5 6s. 4d. interest. This sum is paid to the treasurer of the National School; and ten poor children, nominated by the minister and churchwardens, are taught free of charge.

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Glenton's Dole, and other Charities. John Glenton, December 3rd, 1578, charged his lands in Startforth with the payment of certain sums, amounting to 40s. per annum, for the poor of Barnard Castle. This payment was released in 1793, for twenty years' purchase. By will, in December 1668, Ambrose Brunskill, Esq., gave a house in Barnard Castle, value £5 per annum. house having become ruinous, its site in Thorngate was let for £3 10s. a year, which rent was released for £70 in 1793. Mary Finlay, of Darlington, widow, June 26th, 1688, gave a third part of Broadgates, then producing £1 88. yearly; and Thomas Barker gave £5, producing 6s. per annum. The amount of these two sums was released in 1793, for twenty years' purchase. The properties enumerated in the purchase deed were - 1. To William Benning, for £34, a rent-charge of £1 14s. out of his burgages and tenements in Bondgate. 2. To Anthony Bazin, for £11 6s. 8d., 11s. 4d. out of Westwood House, Westwood Close, and Foxholes, in Starforth. 3. To Henry Ewbank, for £13 6s. 8d., his tenements in Thorngate discharged of 18s. 4d. issuing thereout. 4. To James Lonsdale, his tenements in Thorngate, discharged of 68. Sd. thereout. 5. To Benjamin Bass, 6s. 8d. rent-charge out of his tenements in Thorngate. The whole of the above purchase money, and the proceeds from the release of Brunskill's property, amounting to £142, was laid out, with £140 raised on mortgage, in the purchase of the workhouse, on which an annual payment of £7 2s. was consequently charged. The commissioners for enquiring concerning charities, however, state that, from some unexplained cause, only £3 12s, a year had been paid, which was apparently exclusive of £3 10s. from Brunskill's property. The sum paid is given away at Christmas and Easter, with the charities of Percival and others, in sums varying from 6d. to 2s. In 1840, the workhouse was sold to Mr. Bayles, subject to the above charge of £7 2s. yearly. The remaining purchase money arising from the sale of the old workhouse, viz. £260, was applied in partly liquidating the proportion of the township of Barnard Castle towards the expense of building the Teesdale Union Workhouse.

Hutton's Charity. - Matthew Hutton, gent. by will November 19th, 1726, directed his executors to lay out £120 in the purchase of lands and tenements, the profits and rents thereof to be disposed of in buying bread, to be distribu ted every Sunday, immediately after divine service, amongst the poorer sort of housekeepers or other poor people of the town of Barnard Castle. In October of the year 1730, two closes in Startforth, called Morton Gill Leazes and the Little Moor, containing respectively ten and four acres, were purchased with this money; and an allotment was since added making 18a. 2r. 7p., including one-and-a-half acres of underwood. A small cottage has lately been built on the property; and the whole is now let at a rent of £25 per annum. In

conformity with the intentions of the donor, the value of a proportion of this money is distributed every Sunday, to thirty poor people, in bread.

Charities of Lord Vane and W. Hutchinson - William Hutchinson, Esq., on July 30th, 1718, gave £20 to the poor of Barnard Castle; and William, Lord Vane, bequeathed £50 for the same purpose. These two sums form what is called the Widows' Bread Fund. Seven twopenny loaves are provided every Sunday, and given to seven poor widows attending divine service, who are selected by the minister and churchwardens.

Charities of Percival and others. - Robert Percival, merchant, of Newcastle, a native of Barnard Castle, by will, December 9th, 1729, gave £40; Christopher Lonsdale, March 11th, 1747, £40; Peter Waistell, August 29th, 1752, £100; and dame Elizabeth, widow of Sir William Bowes, in her lifetime, £30 to the poor of the parish. The whole of these sums, with the exception of £10 of the latter, was laid out on July 15th, 1785, in the purchase of a close at Startforth, which is let at £8 a year. This sum is divided amongst the townships in proportion to the church-rates, viz., Barnard Castle, £4 9s. 6d.; Streatlam and Stainton, £1 8s. 6d.; Marwood, £1 6s. 3d.; and Westwick, 15s. 9d.

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Sanderson's Charity. William Sanderson, by will, 175-, devised his land in Barnard Castle, called the Crook, in trust for two poor men of Barnard Castle and one of Eggleston, to receive and take the profits thereof to their respective uses for their natural lives, and after their deaths, to such other poor men as should be named and appointed to succeed them. two recipients of this charity belonging to Barnard Castle, are elected by the Vicar of Gainford, the Rector of Romaldkirk, and the Rector of Middleton-inTeesdale, and the one out of the township of Eggleston is nominated by the latter vicar. Care is taken to select those who have been in better circumstances, but reduced to poverty.

Waste Lands. By the act 35 George III. it was enacted that Barnard Castle Moor, containing by estimation 6,000 acres; the Little Moor, 40 acres; and Glenton Green and the Baiting Steads, 20 acres, should be sold, and that out of the proceeds the commissioners should, in the first place, pay all the costs of surveying and selling the same, and of making a high road through the Little Moor; that the mortgage on the poor-house should be discharged, in lieu of which the overseers should pay £6 per annum to the minister, churchwardens, and vestrymen; and that the remainder of the money should be placed in the funds, and the interest, with the £6 above mentioned, distributed to such poor persons, male and female, as the lord of the manor or his agent, the minister, churchwardens, and vestrymen, and twelve other respectable inhabitants, should think fit; such poor persons not receiving alms or parish relief, and so as no one should receive more than £5 in any one year; and it was provided that the oldest poor persons resident within the said township should be preferred, if otherwise proper objects of charity.

Emmerson's Charity. - The Rev. Ezra Emmerson, by will, December 25th, 1732, gave £50 to be placed out at interest for the poor of Barnard Castle. This sum formed part of the purchase money of Northfield Farm, Startforth, bought by the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, for the augmentation of the living of Barnard Castle; and £2 10s. is paid by the incumbent on account thereof, and distributed with other charities, as above.

TOWNSHIP OF STREATLAM AND STAINTON. -John Bowes, Earl of Strathmore, by will, July 3rd, 1815, directed that £25 a-year should be charged upon his Streatlam estate, for the poor of the township. No distribution has ever been made in respect of this legacy.

EMINENT MEN.---Barnard Castle has given birth to several eminent characters, amongst whom may be named Sir John Hullock, Knt., one of the barons of the exchequer; William Hutchinson, Esq., F.A.S., an eminent solicitor, and author of the "History and Antiquities of Durham," "A View of Northumberland, with an Excursion to the Abbey of Mailross in Scotland," "The Spirit of Masonry," "The History of Cumberland," and "An Excur sion to the Lakes." He died in 1814. George Edwards, Esq., M.D, author of several works on political economy, was also a native of this place; but died in London, in 1823. Mr. G. Layton, author of "Castle Barnard, a poem," published in 1823. Mr. Kipling, a celebrated mathematician of the last century, was born here; and Mr. Ewbank, the well known writer on hydraulic engineering, is also a native of this place.

ENVIRONS.-" Few towns in England," says a recent writer, "can compete. for beauty of scenery, with Barnard Castle. The country around is richly wooded, fertile, and highly cultivated; and the banks of the winding Tees, descending in gentle slopes, or projecting in overhanging precipices, form picturesque and graceful combinations with the rocky bed over which its foaming waters force their way." The Flatts, a beautiful woodland scene, on the west of the castle, commands several delightful views of that venerable ruin, the church and the town, the village of Startforth, and the fields and pastures on the Yorkshire side of the river. The Mains is a fine level pasture close to the Tees, and at its eastern extremity is the Abbey Bridge, a beautiful structure of one bold arch, with embattled parapets, covered with ivy. It was erected at the sole expense of John S. Morritt, Esq., of Rokeby Park, in 1773. In the vicinity of the bridge, stand the ruins of Eggleston Abbey, from which the bridge derives its name. A portion of the east window still remains, and crumbling fragments of walls and arches remain to attest its former greatness.

KINIVIE is the name of a hamlet partly in this township, and partly in that of Marwood, three-and-a-half miles north from Barnard Castle. It contains a school, a public-house, and a few workshops.

POST AND MONEY ORDER OFFICE, MARKET PLACE: John Atkinson, postmaster.Letters arrive from Bowes, &c., at 9 30 a.m., and are despatched at 10 25 a.m. From the east, north, and south, by way of Darlington, at 9 55 a.m., and are despatched at 3 50 p.m., and from the west, by way of Middleton, at 3 10 p.m., despatched 10 25 a.m.

* Startforth is a small but pleasant township and village, adjoining Barnard Castle Bridge on the Yorkshire side of the Tees. The parish, which includes the township of Roldron, comprises 3,060 acres, and contained in 1851 a population of 828 souls. It is included in the Teesdale poor law union. The church is situated in the village, and the living is a vicarage. The ruins of Eggleston Abbey are in this township.

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Harrison William, Horse mkt

Simpson Elizabeth, Bank
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