. 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 .. . live in, who should pray for their souls inthe chantry they had founded. His arms may be seenunder the belfries of the church of St. Nicholas, andSt. John. They were also under the belfry of the oldchurch of All Saints, and removed by Col. Villars,from within the gate at Tyn
. 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 .. . live in, who should pray for their souls inthe chantry they had founded. His arms may be seenunder the belfries of the church of St. Nicholas, andSt. John. They were also under the belfry of the oldchurch of All Saints, and removed by Col. Villars,from within the gate at Tynemouth Castle, to Dr,Ellisons house in Newcastle. We copied the an--| nexed representation of his arms froma stone, curiously carved in the Gothicstyle, and at the vicarage in the stone is a fillet with an incrip-tion in old English, of which the wordsRoberti Rodis* are plain enough; the mutilated partwas probably Orate pro arrima. Grey is mistakenin calling Robert Rhodes, prior of Rhodes, who was mayor of Newcastle, in 1428,was probably brother to this Robert. Stephen Brown, son of John Brown, grocer,of this town, was knighted and chosen lord Mayor of * See Brand, vol. i. pp. 106,184, a49> *6i, 465,*6;, 367*377; and pp. 39> I0I» l82f> ao6» 7»4«*■ tBra»d,*3*. CELEBRATED CHARACTERS. 105 London, in 1438, for the uncommon zeal and dis-enterested charity he employed in mitigating the ter-rors of a great famine and pestilence, which raged thatyear in England and France. The poor people wereforced to make themselves bread of fern roots. SirStepl-en, at his own charge, sent several ships toDantzick, to purchase rye, with which they so speedilyreturned as to depress the markets, and check theravages of famine. He was one of the first, whoshewed the way to the Baltic markets in times ofscarcity.* Sir Jo hn Marley, asgovernor of the town againstthe Scots, in 1644, obtaiued great credit. He wassheriff, in 1634, and mayor, in 1637, 1
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