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Sheet 39 Plan 15 Parish of Warkworth

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Hangmans Acre Hangman’s Acre Estate Records 44 Chains east of About an acre of grass land
Hangman’s Acre Revd. J.W. Dunn Warkworth Hermitage the Vicar of the Parish supposes
Hangman’s Acre Thomas Clutterbuck Esqr. this to have been part of the
Han salary attached to the
Office of Hang man of the
Borough in ancient times. more
recently a man chose one of the
trees on the fence of this enclosure
to hang himself upon
Site of Chantry Revd. J.W. Dunn In Warkworth The site of a chantry in connection
Chantry (Site of) Village formerly with the Church of
Chantry Thomas Clutterbuck Esqr. St Lawrence. not the slightest
(Site of) vestige of it now remains
Chantry Ferguson’s Hand Book but the Vicar told me states that one
(Site of) of its walls occupied the same site as the wall
Cell of Benedictine Monks Whites Directory enclosing running from the Tithe
Barn eastward to the main road.
Ferguson tells us that "two Priests
were mainted maintained at the
Chantry

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