Identifier: cu31924104002419 (find matches)
Title: North-country sketches, notes, essays and reviews ..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Neasham, George Bewick, John, 1760-1795 Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828 Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: Durham, Printed for the author by T. Caldcleugh
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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to the west of the City of Durham, close up to the oldabbey lands of Bearpark and Durham, the ancient domainof St. Cuthbert, and is visible for miles around. There isa noble chapel occupying the centre of the south front,which stretches east and west of it in a line close upon900 feet long. Some idea of its extent may be gatheredwhen it is stated that a string carried round the entire pileof buildings, but excluding those that cannot be reachedby cloisters within, would include an area of eight acres.The place, in folk-etymology, derives its name from YewShaw, or the wood of Yews, which, tradition says, theNormans planted to commemorate their comrades w^hofell in battle with the English. Of this wood only onetree survives, and this is gnarled and hollowed by time.At the College Jubilee, in 1858, a second tree was plantedto succeed the old one then fast decaying, and to per-petuate the tradition. Ushaw is in the Chapelry of Esh ^ *^The Chapels at Ushaw, with an Historical Introduction.
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SKETCHES. 337 and it is a curious fact that this place also derives its namefrom the tree called *^ aesc by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors.In the neighbourhood, and in fact all over Durham, theash tree is pronounced **esh, and the name is so writtenin the earliest parish register ; and there are much earlierforms in the Glossary to Boyles * Durham. Although Ushaw only began its existence at thecommencement of this century, it may lay claim toantiquity, being the lineal descendant of Crook Hall andits ancestor the great College of Douay, which wasfounded by Cardinal Allen in 1568. When the Collegewas seized by the army of the French Republic in 1793, anumber of the professors and students contrived to escapeto England and found shelter, first at the Mission Houseof Pontop Hall, and afterwards at Crook Hall, whichbecame the temporary home of the College. Mgr. Eyreand Dr. Lingard were at the head of this small community,and during the fifteen years of its existence twenty-fivepriests were ord

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