November, 1402, commanding him to make proclamation in accordance with the Statute of 12 Ric. II, against putting refuse in rivers, etc.

Letters of Henry IV to the Sheriff of Newcastle, of same date, commanding him to cause the Statute of 12 Ric. II as to illegal taking of horses and cattle, to be proclaimed and observed. pp. 87-95. Exemplification, dated 13 July, 1400, of proceedings in the suit by the king and the burgesses of Newcastle against the Prior of Tynemouth in 20 Edw. I (Rot. Parl. i, p. 26; Brand, ii, p. 557).

pp. 96-97. A copy, made in 1430, of an ancient Terrier of Fawdonlandes in Byker.

p. 98. Charter of Henry VI dated 11 July, 1444 (Charter Roll, 22 Hen. VI, no. 39; Brand, ii, p. 175, note b).

p. 99. Copy of a constat to the men of Southwold, stating that they were exempt from toll, shewed before Mr. Richard Hodshon mayor, and his brethren, on 23 May, 1567.

p. 100-107. A rental of Tyne Bridge.

pp. 109-111. A rental called Wodmanrent.

p. 112.

Clausula quod nullus implacitetur extra Burgum.' Copy

of a clause in an Edwardian charter.

pp. 113-116. A rental without title, apparently of escheated lands. p. 117. A copy of the grant of Brittlesea shewed before Mr. William Jennison mayor, and his brethren, 14 August, 1572.

(The next page is blank and unnumbered, followed by a page numbered 120.)

p. 120. Memorandum that on 9 November, 1429, between 9 and 10 a.m. John Mitford priest of the chantry of S. Katherine in the church of S. Nicholas, on the grounds of non payment of rent for a year and a half, and of waste, re-entered on a tenement next the west end of the said church, in the presence of Master William Glynn, vicar of the said church, Henry Barbour, Thomas Laange, John Howden, John Jeynour, Peter Taylour and many others, which tenement was then held by Robert Booth as successor to William Durham to whom Peter Angrym, a former priest of the chantry had demised the same to fee farm at a rent of 10s. 2d. The record was made before John Rodes, mayor and John Jay, sheriff, in full court of the town.

Enrolment of indenture acknowledged between the four benches of the town court, William Wren and Joan his wife to Thomas Yonge, 3 April, 1430.

pp. 121-125. Inspeximus by Edward III, dated 22 April, 1336, of his letters patent dated 24 March, 1332, granting to Richard de Emeldon licence to found a chantry of S. John the Baptist and S. John the Apostle and Evangelist in the church of S. Nicholas, and of ordinances of Richard, Bishop of Durham, dated 22 March, 1336, relating to the same chantry (Cal. Pat., 1334-38, p. 262).

pp. 126-128. Foundation deed of the chantry of S. Margaret in the church of S. Nicholas (Bourne, p. 60).

p. 128. Enrolment of quit claim acknowledged between the four benches of the town court. Liolf Claxton and Alienor his wife to George Bird, 18 August, 1474.

p. 129. Enrolment of indenture acknowledged.

William Boyd and

Elizabeth his wife to William Bird, 31 October, 1454.

p. 130. Enrolment of indenture acknowledged. John Carlele and Alianor his wife to William Scot, 1470.

In Bourne's History of Newcastle there are numerous extracts from, and references to, the Liber Cartarum, but these contain such strange errors that it seems probable that Bourne, working under the difficult and discouraging conditions which he describes in his Preface, did not himself see the book, and used notes made by some other person. Brand never saw the Liber Cartarum, but incorporated Bourne's notes from it in his History.

The Virgin Mary Hospital deeds Nos. 1-67 enrolled in the volume are apparently in a handwriting of late fourteenth century character. The Tyne Bridge deeds were enrolled after, but not long after, 1416.2

DEEDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.

The deeds of University College (pp. 134-168) relate to lands. and rents in Newcastle given by Mistress Alice Bellasis to the Master and Scholars of University College in the year 1447 in consideration of masses to be said by the Master and Scholars for the said Alice and for her soul after her death and for the souls of her kinsfolk.3 The Master and Scholars also in the year 1451 gave to Mistress Bellasis a yearly rent of eight marks and ten shillings for her life, charged upon their manor of Rothyng Margareta (Margaret Roding) in the County of Essex. 4

1e.g., the ascription of the charter of Earl Henry of Northumberland to King Richard I (No. 68); the ascription of the Bishop of Carlisle's letter to "the Official of Carlisle" (No. 163), and the numerous errors in the extract from the inventory of the goods of S. Mary's Hospital (No. 70).

Nos. 295, 296.

2 Deed no. 173 is dated 14 May, 1416. (11 February 1451) Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Johannes Marton magister et scolares sive senior socius et consocii Collegii seu magne Aule Universitatis Oxoniensis salutem in domino sempiternam Noveritis nos unanimi assensu et voluntate dedisse concessisse et per presens scriptum nostrum pro nobis et successoribus nostris confirmasse dilecte nobis Alicie Belasys Gentilwomman quendam annuum redditum octo marcarum et decem solidorum legalis monete Anglie percipiendum annuatim pro termino vite sue apud Halywell in comitatu Midd' de exitibus proficuis firmis et revencionibus provenientibus de manerio nostro de Rothyng Margareta in Comitatu Essex' ad festa sancti Michaelis et Pasche per equales porciones Et si contingat dictum annuum redditum vel aliquam parcellam inde ad aliquod hujusmodi festum prenominatum quo solvi debeat durante vita predicte Alicie aretro fore non solutum tunc volumus et concedimus per presentes quod bene liceat eidem Alicie pro hujusmodi redditu et qualibet parcella inde sic aretro existente tociens quociens sic aretro fore contigerit in Manerium nostrum de Rothyng Margareta cum pertinenciis intrare et districciones sufficientes ea occasione capere fugare abducere asportare et penes se retinere quousque sibi de redditu illo una cum arreragiis sique in hac parte fuerint plenarie fuerit satisfactum et persolutum Et nos vero &c (warranty) În cujus rei testimonium huic presenti scripto nostro Sigillum nostrum commune fecimus apponi Datum primo die Maii anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post conquestum vicesimo quinto (University College deeds, P2, fasc. 1, no. 2).

The deeds with the exception of Nos. 229, 280 and 291 are preserved in the Treasury of the College and are accompanied by a Roll (p. fasc. 17) on which forty-four of the deeds are enrolled, and from which the three missing deeds above mentioned have been copied. The Roll bears the following endorsement in the handwriting of the Rev. William Smith5 :

"A Roll of Copys of severall of the deeds of tenements and quit rents in Newcastle upon Tyne. Note that without regard to the transcript Dr. Todd caused them to be all copyd over again, but without any regard to their date or to the tenements to which they relate, which in a great measure renders both this copy and that of Dr. Todd useless. W. Smith, May 2, 1705."

During his residence at Oxford Mr. Smith made copies of all the muniments of the College. In a letter dated 10th May, 1709 to Ralph Thoresby he says As to the deeds charters and other papers kept in the College Treasury I have either entirely copied them at large, or made abstracts of them; not the least scrip of parchment or paper omitted.' In "The Annals of University College" (Preface pp. xvii-xxi) he describes the sad condition in which he found the muniments of the College. He lent his copies of the Newcastle deeds to the Reverend Henry Bourne when the latter was writing his History of Newcastle? but the manuscript was scarcely used by Bourne, and there appear to be but three references to it, on pages, 47, 88 and 187 of the History. The present whereabouts of this manuscript is not known; it is not among the 27 volumes of Smith's manuscripts which George Allan of Darlington gave to the London Society of Antiquaries.

The collection contains the family title deeds of the de Pampedens and their successors from the first half of the thirteenth to the middle of the fifteenth century which are here arranged in chronological order.

5 The Rev. William Smith was born about the year 1650. In 1668 he was entered at University College, Oxford, where after taking the degree of Master of Arts he obtained a fellowship. After having been more than twelve years Senior Fellow, and having more than once refused the mastership he was in the year 1704 presented by the College to the rectory of Melsonby in Yorkshire, a living of which they had purchased the advowson a short time before. He was the author of two books printed and published at Newcastle (Arch. Ael., 3 ser., iii, 62). The first of these (published in 1728) was "The Annals of University College proving William of Durham to be the true founder, and answering all their objections who ascribe it to King Alfred" of which it has been said "librum prolixum verbo haud satis appellatum lingua vernacula conscripsit ne dicam conscribbilavit et in publicum protrusit (Preface to Hearne's Vindication of the Jurors, ed. Bilson, 1731). The second, published the following year was entitled "Literæ de Re Nummaria (Gentleman's Magazine, 1853, ii, p. 163).

6

Thoresby Correspondence ii, p. 165.

'Bourne, Preface, p. vii.

DURHAM TREASURY DEEDS.

The deeds of the Dean and Chapter of Durham (pp. 169-199) relate to several properties in Newcastle. Copies or abstracts of some of them have already appeared in various publications, such as the histories of Bourne and Welford, Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis and Archæologia Eliana, but they have for the most part been hitherto dealt with in haphazard fashion. They are now calendared in topographical and chronological order. Three of them relate to land of the Hospital of S. Mary of Westgate, and have been placed in their appropriate position.8

BARONY LANDS IN NEWCASTLE.

There were considerable areas of land on the west of the ancient borough of Newcastle which were described as "in the barony of Baliol" and "in the barony of Bolbec." References to these barony lands are to be found in many printed records besides those. in this volume, the references to the Baliol lands being the more numerous.

The lands did not form separate manors or vills; if this had been the case their names would have been found in some at least of the numerous documents in which the lands are mentioned, nor are they included in any extent or inquisition relating to the baronies of which they formed part. The earliest notice which we have of the Baliol lands is a deed dating from about 1200, witnessed by (inter alios) Daniel son of Nicholas, who was then probably reeve of the town.9 The earliest reference to the Bolbec lands is contained in Robert de Heddon's charter, granted between 1178 and 1187, to which Gerard the reeve was a witness. 10 Thereafter there are deeds conveying lands or interests in lands in the baronies, executed in the Town Court in the manner usual for conveyances of land in the borough.

In 1266 a rentcharge is said to be in the Baliol barony in Newcastle,11 and a few years earlier a house is described as being in the barony of Sir John de Baliol appurtenant to the town.12 In 1308 land in the same barony was conveyed with acknowledgment by a married woman between the four benches of the Town Court in accordance with the special custom of the town. 13

The grant by Henry III to the burgesses of Newcastle, in 1252, of the right to elect their own coroner14 seems to have

12" in baronia domini Johannis de Ballof (sic) pertinentem (sic, lege pertinente) ville Novi Castri (No. 162).

13 No. 328.

14 Cal. Pat., 1247-58, p. 153.

occasioned a dispute as to whether the jurisdiction of the sheriff and coroner of the county had ceased in the barony lands. At the assizes in 1279 the jurors presented that the burgesses of Newcastle appropriated to themselves the office of coroner in the baronies of De la Val, Bolbec and Baliol, and did not permit the sheriff to perform his office in the said baronies.15 Two years before this a presentment had been made that the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle had made distress and attachments in the suburb of the town as well in baronies as serjeanties and had for twenty years or more done the same.16 No record of action taken on these presentments has been found, but they show clearly that the burgesses at that time were exercising jurisdiction in the baronies as part of the borough. The evidence at our disposal supports the view that the lands formed part of the borough as early as the twelfth century, and had most probably done so from the time when William II granted the Bywell barony to Guy de Baliol, and Henry I granted the Styford barony to Walter de Bolbec.17 Whether prior to that time the same lands were under the lordship of the owners of those two great estates18 is a matter of conjecture.

CASTLE-WARD LANDS.

Among the deeds enrolled in the Chartulary of S. Mary of Westgate are the following twelfth century grants of land in Newcastle made by tenants in chief in the county who owed knight service and service of Castle-ward at the castle :—

(i) A grant by Hugh de Ellington and Alice de Grenville his wife to the Hospital of S. Mary, of land in Westgate, reserving stabling for the grantors and their heirs. 19

(ii) A grant by Mabel de Grenville and Ralph de Caugy her son to the Hospital, of land belonging to their stable at Newcastle, in Westgate, reserving stabling for their horses when they should be in ward at the castle.20

(iii) A grant by Richard Bertram to the Knights Templars, of land in Newcastle, reserving sufficient land for

15 Northumberland Ass. R., p. 355. The situation of the Delaval barony lands here mentioned is not known, but see ibid, p. 294.

17 Book of Fees, i, p. 201.

16 Cal. Inq. Misc. i, p. 326. 18" It may be assumed as almost certain that during the time of the Anglian independence there were two great estates, as there were probably two churches, in that part of the county which constitutes the parishes of Bywell St. Peter and Bywell St. Andrew The two

great estates which were, with the exception of Stocksfield, the same in area as the two parishes, each possibly having its own church, became after William the Norman had subdued England two baronies (Canon Greenwell in N.C.H. vi, p. 14).

19 No. 45.

20 0 No. 48.