the name of Bradford, and died 12th August 1494 (new History of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 297).

For notice of High Stoken, see p. 3 supra, and note referring to the same on p. 104.

Fogagium means fog or aftermath. (N.)

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Oversheidiles, or Oversheildes, containing 81 a. 2 r. 15 p., was in the extreme south-west corner of Shieldykes farm on the west side of the road leading from Shieldykes to Felton. (N.)

The Earl of Northumberland was appointed Warden and Commissary General of the East and Middle Marches July 17-October 1470, and again June 24, 1471 to June 24, 1475 (N.). Hence the prisoners in Alnwick Castle. John Widdrington was specially excepted in an Indenture made between Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Earl of Northumberland in 1474 in the following clause: "And also the said Duc shal not accept nor reteigne unto his s'uice any s`unt or s`untz that was or at any time seth, hath ben with the said Erle reteigned of Fee clothing or p'mise according to th' appoyntment taken betwix the said Duc and Erle by the Kings Highness and the Lords of his Counseil at Nottynghm the xijth daie of May in the xiijth yere of the Reigne of the said sou`ain Lorde except John Wedryngton." (N.)

The mill rynd is a strong piece of iron inserted in the hole in the centre of the upper and moving millstone. The spindle (fusillus) which passes through the nether millstone being moved by the machinery, and being itself, where it enters the driver, of a square form, and fitted to a cavity of the same shape, the upper millstone, the rynd, and the driver, all move round the spindle (Halliwell).

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Henry Ellergyll, who was rector of Ingram as well as vicar of Warkworth, died circa 1495 (new History of Northumberland, vol. v. p. 184).

Howlyn, later called Howling Close, was parcel of the endowment of the chantry priests who served the chapel which stood in the north-east corner of the Inner Bailey of Alnwick Castle. On the suppression of the chantries these endowments were vested in the Crown, and Howling Close was granted in 1573 to Sir John Forster (Tate, Alnwick, vol. ii. p. 68). In 1471-1472 the three cantarists were Philip Lowes followed by Thomas Riddell, John Irton, and William de Bede or Bedale (cf. Proceedings Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, 3 ser., vol. viii. p. 52)).

The close in 1624 contained 10 a. 2 r. 28 p. lying to the east of Howling Lane, including the site of the present Borough School and the fields numbered 183, 184, 216, 217, and part of 218 on the 25-inch map of the Ordnance Survey of 1897. (N.)

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John Mathewson seems to have been an inhabitant of Fawdon, which suffered severely in the war with Scotland. (N.)

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Alan Wardall and Richard Wardale occur on p. 6 as Wardeley.

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The history of the prescriptive borough of Alnwick is worked out in Tate, History of Alnwick, vol. i. pp. 236, 309, 335, 440, 453; vol. ii. p. 230.

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"Gilbert Humfraville sometime held the tenne townes of Cookedale aforesaid (viz. Alwenton, Bytlesden, Clenhill, Chermondesden, Sharperton, Tharneham, Borowden, Nadderton, Fawdon, and Angreham) by ij knight's fees and one sparowhawk. And after it appeareth by another record that one George Talboys held the said townes of Henry Earle of Northumberland as of his Castle of Alnewicke, fealty and the rent of liij s. viij d. by yeare for castlewarde, cornage, and other services. And if default of payment of the said rent should happen the Forraign Bayliff of Alnewicke was accustomed to take distress for the same if they were found within the demeyne grounde of Harbottle called Chermondesden."-Survey 1586. (N.)

The manor of Screnwood, in the parish of Alnham, was held of the barony of Alnwick for some centuries by the Horsleys and their descendants the Riddells.

For an account of Coldmartin in the parish of Chatton, see History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, vol. xxii. p. 314.

Ewart, in the chapelry of Doddington and parish of Chatton, belonged to the Greys for many generations.

The Greys of Heton and the Greys of Horton were united by marriage, and both lines are now represented by Earl Grey.

For notice of Hetton see History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, vol. xxiii. p. 428, and for notice of Fowbery see same series, vol. xxii. p. 325.

Heslerigg and Lyham are manors in the parish of Chatton.

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A full account of the manor and township of Adderstone in Bamburghshire, with a pedigree of the family of Forster of Addersone, may be found in the new History of Northumberland, vol. i. pp. 219-233.

Before the year 1267 Robert de Hilton received from John de Vescy land in the forest of Swinleys of the yearly value of five marks (Percy Chartulary, p. 256 n.). And on the 6th September 1294 William de Vescy took a conveyance from Walter de Edlingham-who was son of Waldevc-of certain lands in Swyneleischeles. The charter is printed in the Percy Chartulary, p. 246. At least a portion of Svynley was held by William de Vescy of the Bertrams of Mitford, and the right to the tithes arising from the same was the subject of an agreement made between the Abbot and Convent of Alnwick and the Prior and Convent of Brinkburn (Brinkburn Chartulary, p. 137).

When Hall and Humberston's survey was made in 1569 the tenants of Shieldykes held in common a certain pasture called Swynlees from Harecrag, containing 54 acres (Tate, Alnwick, vol. i. p. 263).

Cawledge "park lay to the south of Alnwick and contained 1959 a. 2 r. 23 p. statute measure."-Survey 1624. (N.)

Under the form of Caulathe, Claubache, Cauleche or Cauleth, it occurs in Vescy charters of the thirteenth century (Percy Chartulary, pp. 250, 257, 261, 321). It was a park in the time of Henry Percy, third Lord of Alnwick, and in the inquisition taken in 1368, on his death, it is named as if it was the principal of his three parks at Alnwick (Tate, Alnwick, vol. i. p. 137). In 1512 it contained no fewer than 586 fallow deer, and in 1569 it was described as having a circumference of seven miles (ibid., vol. ii. p. 373). After it was

disparked and laid out into farms these farms were known, and long continued to be known, after the names of the tenants, e.g. Grumble's Park, Facey's Park, Archbold's Park, Milburns' Park (ibid., p. 374).

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The old Frith Medow and Wood contained 232 a. 0 r. 4 p. The name is still to be found in the Ordnance map applied to some buildings about 500 yards to the south of Rugley Wood and to the burn which runs past them. (N.)

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John Ilderton was deputy constable of Alnwick Castle, see p. 6 supra. He was, no doubt, a member of the very ancient family of Ilderton of Ilderton.

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The boundary of the West Park and Hulne Park together was generally that of the Hulne Park township of the Ordnance map. The division between the two may be very roughly taken to be shown by the present Wooler highway-the West Park to the south and Hulne Park to the north of that line. In the following both parks are referred to: this same contains by measure 18 feet to the perche, 3063 a. 6 r. 11 p.-Survey 1586. In 1624 they are stated to have contained 3178 a. 1 r. 22 p., statute measure." (N.)

The township of Hulne Park has an area of 3603 acres, Ordnance Survey. The West Park is mentioned in a charter dated 24th October 1325 (Percy Chartulary, p. 262); and Henry, third Lord Percy of Alnwick, who died in 1368, was at the time of his death seised of Cawledge Park, worth 6s. 8d. a year, the West Park, with 20s. a year beyond the maintenance of the wild animals; the herbage of a third park Holn with the pasturage of Heforthlawe, worth 40s. (Tate, Alnwick, vol. i. p. 137).

The Frith, 238 a. 0 r. 27 p., was at the north of the Park, part of the present White House Folly and White House farms. (N.)

Adjoining the Earl's park stood the priory of the Prior and Convent of Huln, the precincts of which may still be more or less clearly defined by the containing walls. The site of the abbey, as it is locally designated, was granted circa 1240 by William de Vescy, lord of Alnwick, to the White Friars or Carmelites, under circumstances set out with considerable detail in Tate, History of Alnwick, vol. ii. pp. 45-63. The sister house of Aylesford in Kent was founded about the same time, and the two convents were the first houses, in England, of the White Friars, who had a rule founded on that of St Basil, confirmed by Pope Honorius III. in 1224 (Gasquet, English Monastic Life, p. 240). After the suppression of the religious houses Hulne was demised by the Crown for a term of years to Sir Robert Ellerker, knight, who was residing there when he made his will in 1565. By Queen Elizabeth the place was granted to Sir John Forster, from whose heirs it was acquired by the Salkelds. They transmitted it to their descendants the Proctors of Rock, who continued to hold it until 1722. At the election of knights of the shire in 1748 Ralph Henderson of Shilbottle voted in respect of Hulne Abbey, and in 1755 sold it to Hugh, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Northumberland.

During excavations conducted in the winter of 1888-1889 to ascertain the dimensions of some of the destroyed conventual buildings a fragment of an Anglian cross was found. It is preserved in one of the museums of Alnwick Castle.

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The story of the manor and township of Great or Long Houghton is set out in considerable detail in the new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 363.

In a survey of Long Houghton made in 1567 the surveyor observes: “in the antient tyme, the said cobles goying to the sea landit them [at Meermowthe, Bowmer, and Conyngarth] payenge the price fysshe to the lord, which was the greattest and speciall cause of the decaye of the said cobles, for as often as any of the said cobles did bring in any fisshe at any of the said havens, the best fisshe that was in the said coble was takiyng for the lord, and yf there wer but one fishe it was the price-fishe taikyng from the poore men (new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 372).

At Alnmouth the price fish was called Kaen fish (ibid., p. 479). Selfode is an obscure word, meaning, apparently, a certain class of tenant. The following is from the New English Dictionary :—

Selfode, Selfoder-Obs. local. [Of obscure origin.] A class of tenant

in Northumberland and Cumberland.

"In quot. 1290-1 selfode is app. fem. and may denote the holding, not the tenant. 1271. Inquis. post mortem 55 Hen. III., N. 33 in Vinogradoff Vill. in Eng. 250, Redditarii qui vocantur Selfoders. 1290-1 in N. & Q., ser. ix., vii. 89/1 [Eglingham, Nhbd.]. De qualibet selfode iij dietas vel iij denarios exceptis selfod' propriis Joh'i de Somervile in terra sua comorantibus.1 1378. Rentale de Tynemouth in Brand Hist. Newcastle (1789) II. 594. Omnes selfodes facient quilibet tres precar' tantum."

"Denotes obsolete."

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Brome, now Broom Park, is on the south side of the parish. Sikelles was a piece of ground containing 4 a. 0 r. 11 p. adjoining to Broom Park. (N.) Bulmere, now Boulmer, is a small township of 246 acres, with a hamlet of inhabitants of very pure Anglian descent (new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 399).

In the charges for repair of buildings the word syles probably signifies the whole truss necessary for the formation of the roof (N.). In Heslop's Northumberland Words it is defined as the principal rafters of a building.

The manorial corn-mill was not within the township of Long Houghton

but in that of Lesbury, on the river Aln.

The gogen or gudgeon is the large pivot of the axis of a wheel. (N.)

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The Carrs continued as lessees and tenants in Boulmer until the year 1608 (new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 402).

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There are grounds for supposing that the hall and homestead of the Anglian thane of the district may have been at Lesbury. The church was, and still is, the mother church of a widely spread district now included as chapelries Alnmouth, Long Houghton, and Alnwick. The township of Lesbury, which represents the manor, has an area of 1646 acres, Ordnance Survey. A full account of parish church and manor may be found in the new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 413.

1 Comorantibus is probably comorantibus in MS.: contraction mark overlooked (as too often) in copying.-Ex inf. Rev. Canon Fowler.

For an explanation of the term coterelli see a curious extract from a survey of 1567 in the above series, vol. ii. p. 488. If it had been a cottage, the rent would have been about 2s. 2d. or 2s. 3d. Probably the building was a mere steading. (N.)

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Apparently Richard Taylor, the old janitor, had an allowance of £3, 0s. 8d. for life, and employed Robert Spencer, as his deputy, paying him for his services out of his (Taylor's) income. (N.)

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The township, which is more or less coextensive with the manor of Alnmouth, has an area of 296 acres. An account of this very ancient settlement with its chapel of Anglian foundation may be found in the new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 465.

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Thomas Myddelham represented a family long connected with Alnmouth. There is a pedigree of Midlam in Raine, North Durham, pp. 182–183.

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The manor of Bilton was more or less coextensive with the township, which has an area of 1382 acres, Ordnance Survey. An account of the place may be found in the new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 451.

Bilton mill was a walk mill. The rent named in the text seems to have been a full rent, for it remained at that figure for at least 150 years. tenants of Bilton ground their corn at Lesbury mill. (N.)

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The

The manor of Tuggal is more or less coextensive with the township, which has an area of 1533 acres, Ordnance Survey. The very ancient chapel, of which scarcely a stone remains, was probably built about the year 1070, on the spot where St Cuthbert's body rested, 13th December 1069, during its removal from Durham to Lindisfarne. The story is fully told, and there is a full account of the place in the new History of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 342.

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The manor of Swinhoe is more or less coextensive with the township, which has an area of 1575 acres, Ordnance Survey. Unfortunately there is no satisfactory pedigree of the family which took its name from the place; but a settlement made on the intended marriage (which did not take place) of John Swinhoe, son and heir of Henry Swinhoe of Swinhoe and Rock, with Isabel, daughter of Sir Ralph Harbottle and of Margaret Percy his wife, dated 17th July 1492, is printed in full in the new History of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 323. An account of the township may be found in the same series, vol. i. p. 334.

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The manor of Newham Comyn is more or less coextensive with the township, which has an area of 2690 acres. A full account of the place may be found in the new History of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 269.

John Fenkyll, was Bailiff and Forester of Newham in 1442. (N.)