Excerpt from The Priory of Hexham, Vol. 1: Its Chroniclers, Endowments, and Annals Uring the progress of the tra veller up the Tyne on his way to Carlisle, about twenty miles from Newcastle, he sees before him, on the south ern bank of the river, the little town of Hexham. The smoke and the dust, in which the emporium of north ern commerce and enterprize is enveloped, have been de. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.