History of Newcastle and Gateshead Author:Richard Welford, Henry John Whitling Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Pray for the soul of George Carr, formerly mayor of this town, who died A.D. 1400 [Milesimo cccc]." The date 1400 has puzzled local historians and antiquari... more »es, because there is no record of a George Carr occupying the mayoralty previous to the fifteenth century, and the figures cannot well have been mistaken for 1500, seeing that George Carr was mayor in 1502-3, and welcomed the Princess Margaret to Newcastle. An easy solution of the difficulty, if not a thoroughly satisfactory one, is to suppose that the tomb was erected during Carr's lifetime, and that a blank was left for the correct date, which never was supplied. The monument stood behind the altar, facing the southernmost mullions of the great east window, and possibly within the second chantry of the Virgin, of which George Carr was the founder. Mrs. Carr's effigy from this tomb, greatly mutilated, is preserved in the museum of Jthe Newcastle Society of Antiquaries at the castle. Carr Monument iy St. Nicholas' CBVRCB, 1505. 20 and 21 Henry VII. Bishop of Durham—William Sever. Mayor and SJieriff of Newcastle till Michaelmas:— Christopher Brigham, Mayor, and John Blaxton, Sheriff. Mayor and Sheriff elected at Michaelmas :— Mayor—Christopher Brigham, re-elected. Sheriff—John Brandling. Arms : Gules, a cross crosslet and in the first quarter an escallop argent. January 4. HE brethren of the Trinity House, who, as recorded in 1492, had purchased Dalton Place, the old residence of the powerful family of Dalton, from Ralph Hebborne of Hebborne, agreed on this date to extend considerably their operations by erecting buildings suitable for divine worship, for meetings of the fraternity, and to serve as refuges for aged and infirm brethren. Dalton Place was to be repaired for ever by the common purse ...« less