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Cf)e $rtorp, at Cpemoutt),
NORTHUMBERLAND.
This monastic edifice, as its name implies, is placed near the mouth of the river
Tyne, at its junction with the sea. The position is singular and grand, and very
unlike that chosen for the generality of abbies and priories. This occupies the ex-
tremity of a bold rocky peninsula, which projects into the ocean, and is consequently
exposed to the continued surges, and occasional tempests of the sea. From this
peculiarity of position it is presumed to have been founded, in consequence of the
vow of some person at sea; or to propitiate the Deity in behalf of sailors when in
danger. It is generally admitted by our monastic antiquaries that a religious house
of wood was first constructed on this spot by Edwin, King of Northumbria, at some
period between the years 627 and 633, and that his daughter Rosella took the veil
here.* Oswald, who succeeded Eanfrid in the kingdom of Bernicia, and united that
with Deira, f is said to have built a new monastery of stone, at Tynemouth, and is
also called by some writers the original founder. Egfrid, a subsequent monarch of
Northumbria, is by others considered to be the first founder: and it is probable
that he either rebuilt part of the house, or added greatly to the endowments.
LelandJ relates that an abbot and monks were placed here previous to the eighth
century ; and that it became the place of sepulture of several of the Northumberland
princes: among whom was Oswin, who afterwards became the patron saint of the
priory. Of this sainted monarch some strange stories are related : among others,
that after his remains had been interred nearly four hundred years, and after the
monastery had been destroyed by the Danes under Hinguar and Hubba, "he
appeared to a monk, called Edmund, chaplain of the place, in his sleep, and ordered
him to acquaint Ethelwin, Bishop of Durham, where his body was, that it might be
• Leland's Collectanea, vol. iv. p. 43. Bede does not notice the circumstance of Edwin's founding any
religious house; and Strutt, in his " Chronicle of England," in naming the family of Edwin, does not specify
Rosella.
+ Turner's Hist. Ang. Sax. i. 145, 4to. from Bede's Eccl. Hist.
X Collectanea, iv. 104, from an ancient MS. entitled, "Vita D. Johannis Archiepiscopi, Ebor. Autore Fol-
chardo Durovernensi." The same writer states that the archbishop's clerk, named Herebald, was first a monk,
and afterwards abbot of Tynemouth.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
This monastic edifice, as its name implies, is placed near the mouth of the river
Tyne, at its junction with the sea. The position is singular and grand, and very
unlike that chosen for the generality of abbies and priories. This occupies the ex-
tremity of a bold rocky peninsula, which projects into the ocean, and is consequently
exposed to the continued surges, and occasional tempests of the sea. From this
peculiarity of position it is presumed to have been founded, in consequence of the
vow of some person at sea; or to propitiate the Deity in behalf of sailors when in
danger. It is generally admitted by our monastic antiquaries that a religious house
of wood was first constructed on this spot by Edwin, King of Northumbria, at some
period between the years 627 and 633, and that his daughter Rosella took the veil
here.* Oswald, who succeeded Eanfrid in the kingdom of Bernicia, and united that
with Deira, f is said to have built a new monastery of stone, at Tynemouth, and is
also called by some writers the original founder. Egfrid, a subsequent monarch of
Northumbria, is by others considered to be the first founder: and it is probable
that he either rebuilt part of the house, or added greatly to the endowments.
LelandJ relates that an abbot and monks were placed here previous to the eighth
century ; and that it became the place of sepulture of several of the Northumberland
princes: among whom was Oswin, who afterwards became the patron saint of the
priory. Of this sainted monarch some strange stories are related : among others,
that after his remains had been interred nearly four hundred years, and after the
monastery had been destroyed by the Danes under Hinguar and Hubba, "he
appeared to a monk, called Edmund, chaplain of the place, in his sleep, and ordered
him to acquaint Ethelwin, Bishop of Durham, where his body was, that it might be
• Leland's Collectanea, vol. iv. p. 43. Bede does not notice the circumstance of Edwin's founding any
religious house; and Strutt, in his " Chronicle of England," in naming the family of Edwin, does not specify
Rosella.
+ Turner's Hist. Ang. Sax. i. 145, 4to. from Bede's Eccl. Hist.
X Collectanea, iv. 104, from an ancient MS. entitled, "Vita D. Johannis Archiepiscopi, Ebor. Autore Fol-
chardo Durovernensi." The same writer states that the archbishop's clerk, named Herebald, was first a monk,
and afterwards abbot of Tynemouth.