in quadam indentura' inter predictos dominum de Percy et priorem confecta. DCCCVII.2 Ceste endenture fait entre monsire HENRI DE PERCY, seignur de Alnewyk et de Werkeworth, dune part, et THOMAS DE LA MARE, priour de Tynemouth, et le covyent de meisme le lieu, dautrepart, tesmoigne qe come Rauf Gobyoun, jadis priour de Tynemouth, predecessour le dit Thomas, par sa chartre del assent del covent de mesme le lieu, graunta a Robert le fiz Roger . . . tote la moulte des ses terres et des touz ses hommes de la ville de ANBILL et de HAUKESLAWE,3 forspris la moulte du seen propre et forspris la moulte de ses demaynes, cest a savoir, de trois charues de terre en la dite ville de Anbill au molyn le dit Robert de Werkeworth, come plus playnementz piert par la chartre les ditz Rauf, jadis priour, et son covent. Rendant pur la dite suyte dan en an au dit Rauf priour et as ses successours as toucz jours quaraunt soldz a prendre du dit molyn annuelment as les festes de la Nativite seint Johan le Baptistre et seint Martyn en yver... et auxsi merresme as trois charues et trois herces oue lapparraille necessaires de verges come ils soloient avoir en le temps le seignurs Robert fiz Roger et Johan de Clavering, et sept charettez de busch pur lour fowaille a prendre de an en an du boys le dit Robert ou il prent ses necessaries de merresme et fowaille a son ops a Werkeworth, come plus playnementz piert par la chartre le dit Robert fiz Roger de ceo fait au dit Rauf jadis priour . . . le dit monsire Henri volt et graunt . . . qe le dit Thomas priour... preignent annuelment a toucz jours quaraunt soluz du molyn avandit a les termes susditz le merisme et le busch avaunditz du boys avauntditz, en manere susdite. Et que le dit Thomas prior. . . si la dite rente soit arer pussent destreindre en le dit molyn... Et le dit Thomas priour et le covent grauntent . . . la suyte avauntdite au molyn avaundit au dit monsire Henri... a touz jours, en manere come une endenture fait a Werkeworth par assent des ditz seignur et priour sur une enquest pris par les tenauntz de ambepartz de la manere de moudre et de doner la moult tesmoigne plus pleynement, issint que si la dite suyte soit sustret du molyn avaundit et les ditz quaraunt soldz soient paiez ... et le merrisme et le busch susditz soient lyverez . . en manere susdite que bien lise au dit monsire Henri . . . en totes les terres et tenementz chargez de la suyte avaundite destreindre... Et si cas aveigne que le dit priour. preignent en lour propres maynes les terres de Anbill et de Haukeslawe, que sont ore en les maynes des tenauntz ou en ascune autre manere deveignent en les maynes le dit priour ... que le dit priour. . . soient tenuz de doner ataunt de molture de meisme les terres que serrount par eux certifiez1 come les ditz tenantz donerent tant come ils tindrent les dites terres en lour maynes. Et si le dit priour . . . soient desturbez par le dit monsire Henri. . . de la dite rente par quindze jours apres ascune terme passez on le merrisme et busch avantditz, que pur le temps de la dite destourbaunce les ditz priour... pussent retrere la suyte (folio 125) avaundite et que par mesme le temps le dit monsire Henri . . . neient poair a destreindre pur la dite suyte ne la dite moult a lever Et si le dit monsire Henry . . . soient destourbez de la suyte avaundit, que le paiement de la dite rente de quaraunt soldz pur le temps de la dite desturbaunce cesse et les ditz priour... neient poair par mesme le temps pur la dite rent destreindre . . . ne le merresme ne le busch avaunditz a prendre... Donnee a Tynemouth, le Dymainge prochein apres la feste de seint Michel, lan de nostre Seignur millisme trescentisme quaraunt et septisme, et lan du regne nostre 30 Sept., 1341 seignur le roi Edward tiercz. . . vintysme primer. DCCCVIII. Inquisicio, capta apud Alnewyk coram domino Waltero de Creyk, die Martis proxima ante mediam Quadra- 17 Mar., 134 gesimam, anno... Edwardi tercii . . . xxiijo, per Robertum de Bodill, Laurencium Man, Willelmum de Weer, Willelmum Schephird, Thomam Ilef, Willelmum Mayson, Henricum filium Willelmi, Adam Yonge, Henricum Gilleson, Gilbertum Hervy, Walterum Bull, Walterum Clerk, et Walterum filium Willelmi, juratos. Qui dicunt... quod quidam GALFRIDUS SERGEANT DE ALNEMOUTH3 fuit seisitus de illa terra in ALNEMOUTH quam RICARDUS DE SOPPETH clamat esse jus suum, et occidit quemdam hominem in Alnemouth, et ea racione idem Galfridus fugit usque Sproxton in terra Scocie, per quod domina de Vescy dictam terram in manu sua seisivit, tanquam escaeta sua. Et postea quidam homo, filius sorroris ejusdem Galfridi, clamans ipsum esse proximum heredem ipsius Galfridi, prosequebatur versus dictam dominam pro dicta terra habenda, ita 5 5 Sprouston on the Tweed, near 17 Mar., 1348 quod eadem domina dedit eidem homini xls pro dicta terra, et sic illam retinuit penes se, et postea dedit dictam terram Roberto de Soppeth. DCCCIX. Inquisicio capta ibidem eodem die, per Willelmum Day, Johannem Clerk de Hoghton, Adam de Glanton, Rogerum Day, Adam Catur, Thomam Ingramson, Thomam del Both', Robertum Swypper, Thomam Walays, Henricum Punder, Radulfum Grove, Jacobum Arnald, Adam Webster, Radulfum Godladde, et Symonem Scot, juratos. Qui dicunt . . . quod erat quidam ROGERUS DE CHILTON, primus ballivus feodi domini de Vescy de Alnewyk, et fuit benivolus tenentibus de DENEWYK et multum pro eis laborabat, ita quod predicti tenentes, pro labore suo et quod esset eis favorabilis in atachiamentis et districcionibus capiendis pro debitis domini et aliis negociis tangentibus dominum, accomodaverunt eidem Rogero, ex assensu tocius ville de Denewyk, de terra eorundem mensurata infra campum de Denewyk duas placeas terre, unde una vocatur Wydhopes et alia le Mersk, pro herbagio equi sui habendo et capiendo pro voluntate sua, et ea racione ex consensu dictorum tenencium predictus Rogerus ocupavit dictam terram et inde proficuum recepit et non alio modo, et idem Rogerus toto tempore suo dictas placeas terre habuit in forma predicta, et post eum quidam filius ejus, cujus nomen ignorant, intravit predictas placeas terre cum tota terra quam idem Rogerus habuit, et dicunt quod postea Willelmus de Salesbur', avus Christiane de Barton, uxoris Willelmi de Barton, devenit ad dictam terram, quo titulo ignorant. ... DCCCX. Pateat... WILLELMUS DICTUS HANNER, filius et heres Johannis cissoris de Alnewyk quietum clamavi domino HENRICO DE PERCY, domino de Alnewyk, totum jus . . . in una acra terre, jacente super SPURHILL, in campo de Bondegate in Alnewyk.. Hiis testibus, Willelmo Dey, Roberto molendinario, Ada de Glanton, Rogero Dey, Thoma de Botha, et multis aliis. Data apud Alnewyk, in plena curia militum tenta ibidem, die Sabati proxima post festum sancti 13 June, 1349 Barnabe apostoli, anno Domini M°CCC° quadragesimo nono. 3 1 Denwick is in the parish of Alnwick. The rents of assize and farms of lands in Alnwick, Denwick, and Swinley, belonging to Henry de Percy and Isabel de Welles, widow of William de Vescy, amounted for the year, beginning at the Epiphany, 1349, to 1021. 188. 104d., and herbage and sale of wood to 21l. 78. (Inquisition post mortem, 26 Edward III., first number, 52a.) 2 In 1569, Wydropp consisted of arable and meadow land, held by William Beadnell, George Browell, and William Grey. In No. DCCCIx, Thomas del Both. Bothall, near Morpeth, is probably intended. DCCCXI. Stephanus' rex Anglorum, justiciis et baronibus et vicecomitibus et ministris et omnibus fidelibus suis, Francis et Anglis, de Northumbreland, salutem. Sciatis me reddidisse et concessisse GOSPATRICIO FRATRI DOLFINI terram Edmundi, advunculi sui, quam de rege Henrico tenebat, et terram WINNOCHI, videlicet, sex maneria, BREM DONAM, et BENELEGAM, et HIDDESLEIE, et BREMETONAM, et THITELITTONAM, et HAROP, cum omnibus hominibus et rebus que fuerunt in terra illa die qua rex Henricus dedit illa maneria Hamoni. Et terram Liolfi filii Oct redi, videlicet, tres MIDELTONAS, et RODEN,* et HORSELEIAM, et servicium Gospatrichii, et STANTONAM, et WYNDEGATAM, et WOTTONAM, et (folio 125 d.) WITTONAM, et RITTONAM, sicut rex Henricus ei illas dedit et concessit per cartas suas. Et habeat suas rectas divisas quas monstrare poterit se juste habere debere. Et ideo volo et precipio quod bene et in pace et honorifice et libere et quiete teneat predictas terras suas et omnia sua, in bosco et plano, et pratis, et pasturis, et aquis, et molendinis, et stagnis, et exclusis, in viaR et semitis, in divisis et exitibus, et in omnibus locis, cum socha et sacha, et tholl et theam et infangthef, et cum omnibus libertatibus et consuetudinibus suis, sicut melius unquam tenuit et liberius tempore regis Henrici, et super hoc omnes fugaciones que feodo suo pertinent. Testibus, R. canc' et W. Mart', et R. de Veer,' apud Eboracum. DCCCXII.9 Libertates Novi Castri super Tynam. De tallio dando et accipiendo apud Novum Castrum, tempore 1 This charter is printed in Memorials of Hexham Priory, ed. J. Raine (Surtees Soc., xliv., xlvi.), 1864, 5, i., p. xiii. Dolfin, Waldeve, and Gospatric were sons of Gospatric, who was created Earl of Northumberland in 1067, and deprived of the earldom and all his English lands in 1072. His descendants were Earls of Dunbar and March. A full account of Gospatric and of this charter will be found in History of Northumberland, vii., pp. 16-30, where an abstract of the charter is given. 2 MS.: reddisse. Now Brandon, Beanley, Hedgley, Branton, and Titlington. 4 Now Roddam, five miles from Wooler. 5 Now Long Witton and Nether Witton. 6 The MS. has the singular number here. 7 Roger le Poor, chancellor, William Martel, the King's steward, and Robert de Vere. Stephen was in the north in 1139, and at York in the summer of 1154, when the adulterine castles fell before him in his progress, "sicut cera a facie ignis." 9 This document is printed in Brand's History of Newcastle, ii., p. 130n, from the present MS. It is printed from a MS., then in the Tower, of the time of Henry II., in Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland (1844), i., p. 33n, from which the customs, but not the tolls, are copied by Stubbs in Select Charters, p. 111. The Tower MS. gives the customs before the tolls, and differs so much in the wording and order of the customs, that only the most important differences are noted here. It is printed in Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland for comparison with laws of the Four Burghs (Roxburgh, Stirling, Edinburgh, and Berwick), granted by 4 1 Henrici regis, hec fuit consuetudo. De quadriga cum bobus, iiijd. De quadriga caballaria, ij d. De trussello in sella, jd. De trusello retro sellam, ob. De tymbrio de gupillis, vel martrinis vel sablinis vel beueribus, iiij d. De dacra pellium caprinarum, jd. De tymbrio de scurellis, ob. De salcitra,3 jd. De sussino, ob. De vitulo, quad. De vacca, ob. De equo vendendo, jd. De equo transeunte, ob. De celdra bladi vel farine vel salis, jd. De dimidia celdra, ob. De lasto coreorum viijd., si vendatur per dacras de unaquaque dacra, jd. De decem porcis vel ovibus vel capris, jd. De quinque singulorum, ob. De trusello cordelato, iiijd. De trussello brocato," jd. De nave culata, iiij d., si vendat infra villam vel veniat in villam. De nave non culata, jd. De quolibet mercante pisces et super equum portante, jd. Persone ecclesiarum, barones et milites sint quieti de tolloneo sue mense, et nullus alius. De quadriga plumbi, iiijd. De milleario allecis, jd. De quolibet cum burgense eunte et redeunte cum catallis suis, iiij d. Hec consuetudo fuit tempore Randulfi episcopi et Galfridi episcopi et Willelmi episcopi De pisa" sepi vel uncti, jd. De wayda" super equum, jd. De bindo" pellium, jd. De unguinis super equum, j d. De carca de alum vel de pipere vel gingebre vel similibus, iiij d. Hec sunt leges et consuetudines quas Henricus rex concessit David I., who was contemporary with Henry I., and ruled Northumberland for the greater part of his own reign. These Scottish laws were given at Newcastle, and are very much like the customs of that borough. The liberties of Newcastle were confirmed by John when he granted a gild merchant by a charter given at Durham, 28 January, 121g. (Charter Roll 14, membrane 2.) A charter of 2 July, 18 Henry III. (1234), confirming all the liberties which Newcastle had enjoyed in the time of Henry II., with the usual saving clause for the city of London, is recited in an Inspeximus of 8 December, 1293. (Charter Roll 80, membrane 12.) The roll for 18 Henry III. is wanting. 1 Tymbrium forty furs; gupillus = fox. 2 Dacra = a pack of ten skins. 3 Salcitra; probably for culcitra, & cushion, bed, or counterpane. 4 Sussinum; probably for cussina, a cushion. 5 Celdra=chaldron; a measure of four quarters or thirty-two bushels. 6 A bale of goods stitched together with a packing-needle, as distinct from a corded bale, The MS. is torn here and a word may be lost. S Ralf Flambard, bishop of Durham from 1099 to 1128; Geoffrey Ruffus, 1129-1140; and William de S. Barbara, 1142-1152. The next bishop was Hugh Pudsey whose episcopate extended from 1153 to 1194, thus covering the whole of the reign of Henry II. This bishop framed the customs of the boroughs of Gateshead and Sunderland on those of Newcastle. On this subject, see a paper on The Trade of Newcastle previous to the Reign of Henry III., by J. Hodgson Hinde, Arch. Inst., 1858, i., p. 24. 9 Pisa wey. A wey of tallow consisted of fourteen stone. |