. The history of the town of Newark upon Trent, in the county of Nottingham, comprising an account of its antiquities, edifices, public institutions, charities, charters, etc. 1784; thewidth of the abutments are still visible on thewalls of the street; the northern one, separatingthe premises of Mr. Thomas Stansall, and Ridge, was digged up by the latter in1810. 176 THE CHURCH. It has been premised, in the former part ofthis work, upon the authority of Doomsday,that at the time of the Norman spoliation, thetown of Newark contained several Churches,and some pains bestowed to stamp that
. The history of the town of Newark upon Trent, in the county of Nottingham, comprising an account of its antiquities, edifices, public institutions, charities, charters, etc. 1784; thewidth of the abutments are still visible on thewalls of the street; the northern one, separatingthe premises of Mr. Thomas Stansall, and Ridge, was digged up by the latter in1810. 176 THE CHURCH. It has been premised, in the former part ofthis work, upon the authority of Doomsday,that at the time of the Norman spoliation, thetown of Newark contained several Churches,and some pains bestowed to stamp that accountwith the seal of probability. And, as a furtherstrengthening of the position there advanced,an extract made by Thoroton from the Mo*nasticon, may not be deemed a feeble particularizing the confirmation, by Henrythe II. of some endowments bestowed on thePriory of Saint Katharine, near to the city ofLincoln it states, Amongst which were the Churches of $etec, Cotton, Attune, and jPcitJtOnr, and two Messuages and Dwell-ing houses in the Borough of $t\tottt, and theHouses, with the Land on the north east partof the Mother Church, and four Bovats of Land. X, /•/// THE CHURCH. 177 in the fields of l^tftferC, with the Dwellinghouses, and twenty acres in the Heath, and aDwelling house which the Church of 0t\Httthad before, with two Bovats of Land in thefield. And the Chapel of the Apostles, Philipand James, founded in the Castle of the saidToicn (of which more particular notice hasbeen already taken) and anciently given tothe Mother Church, with the tenth penny ofthe whole Toll of the Borough of ^ItWttsexcept the Fairs. It is evident from theseexpressions the places of worship were numer-ous, otherwise, so strong a term as MotherChurch would not have been applicable. The present edifice, as a parish Church; is,perhaps, scarcely to be equalled in the King-dom ; it is composed externally as well asinternally of the very latest species of gothicarchitecture, used in
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