MONKSEATON, a township in the parish of TYNEMOUTH,
eastern division of CASTLE ward, county of
NORTHUMBERLAND, 2 miles (N.) from North Shields,
containing 537 inhabitants, many of whom are employed
in the neighbouring collieries. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, Within the township
is a large brewery. On Monkhouse farm are the
remains of an old cross, called the Monks' stone, with
this inscription, " O horror, to kill a man for a pig's
head;" concerning which a curious tradition prevails
of a monk of Tynemouth having been scourged on the
spot by a Mr. Delaval, for having cut off a pig's head
whilst roasting in the kitchen of the latter, and, dying
within a year and a day, his brethren charged Mr.
Delaval with his murder, who, in order to obtain absolution,
assigned to the monastery the manor of Elswick
and other estates, and erected an obelisk on the spot
where he chastised the monk.