. The Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, : being a brief historical & descriptive guide to the principal buildings, streets, public institutions, manufactures, curiosities, &c. within that town & its neighbourhood for twelve miles round: and including an account of the Roman wall, and a detailed history of the coal trade .. . lf a-crown. Dr. Wood has the careof it. When its foundation was digging, an old brass seal inscribed -** Vis et Deus noster*was found. Brand asks— Can ithave been the first seal of the BlackFriars ? It certainly belonged to somereligious house in Newcastle. Mr Newton gave it
. The Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, : being a brief historical & descriptive guide to the principal buildings, streets, public institutions, manufactures, curiosities, &c. within that town & its neighbourhood for twelve miles round: and including an account of the Roman wall, and a detailed history of the coal trade .. . lf a-crown. Dr. Wood has the careof it. When its foundation was digging, an old brass seal inscribed -** Vis et Deus noster*was found. Brand asks— Can ithave been the first seal of the BlackFriars ? It certainly belonged to somereligious house in Newcastle. Mr Newton gave it to Mr Wardell, then vicar of Cor-bridge. Brand, i. 421. St. Lukes Hospital, now called Belgkove,on the edge of the Town-moor, is appropriated to thesame melancholy purpose as the Lunatic St. Lukes day, 1767, it became the property ofDr. Hall; and now belongs to, and is under themanagement of Dr. Steavenson. The Public Baths were built by Dr. Hall, aneminent physician in Newcastle. They stand a littlebeyond the VVest-gate, in a grove or garden, the walksof which are tastefully fringed with curious medical skill has been employed here,in the application of the gaseous fluids; and weimagine we begin to see the comfort and elegance ofthe Roman age again revived in Britain, in the use of. 46 €HARITA£L£ INSTITimOKS. vapour, hot, and tepid baths, the swimming basins,and the cold enclosed baths at this place. At death, they were purchased by Dr. Kentish;and, on his leaving Newcastle, they became the pro-perty of Malin Sorsbie, esquire. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. Jesus Hospital, called also the Towns Hos-pital, was founded, erected, and endowed by the cor-poration, in 1681. It is three stories high, sixty yardslong, has piazzas to the under story, and a fountainbefore it. It consists of a master, and forty-one bre-thren or sisters, being freemen or widows of freemen,or unmarried sons or daughters of freemen. Itsfounders, in 1683, purchased a m
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