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Originally a member of the great Vesci
barony, Amble was one of the manors with which Robert de Mowbray endowed
the priory of Tynemouth when it was refounded and affiliated to the
Benedictine abbey of St. Alban's in 1090. In the apportionment of
estates made in the time of abbot Richard de Albini (died 1119) it was
agreed that the abbot and his successors should retain Amble and Coquet
Island, with the churches of Woodhorn and Bywell, and also a pension of
30s. a year out of the church of Tynemouth, but that no further demand
should be made upon the priory.
N
Amongst the many estates mentioned in the recitals in
the charter of confirmation granted on the 28th of December, 1189, by
Richard I., before setting out for the Holy Land on the third crusade,
were Ambell and Hauekeslowe, but this charter having been lost or
mislaid, and an infraction of the rights given by it having been made
during the king's captivity in Austria, it was renewed at the Chateau
Gaillard near Les Andelys in Normandy on the 13th of November, 1198.
N
At the beginning of the thirteenth century an agreement
was made between Robert fitz Roger, lord of Warkworth (died 1214), and
Ralph de Gubion the prior (circa 1209-1223), and the convent of
Tynemouth to regulate the service due from the tenants of Amble and
Hauxley of grinding their corn at the manorial mills of Warkworth. The
produce of the demesne (which comprised three plough lands) in Amble was
to be exempt, but all the tenants were to pay multure, and on the other
hand, Robert fitz Roger bound himself and his successors to find the
convent with timber for three ploughs and three harrows, to supply seven
loads of firewood from the woods Of Warkworth, and to pay 40s. a year to
the prior.L
On the 13th of November, 1280, an enquiry was ordered concerning
the seizure at Amble of the ship of Stephen of Frisem.
N
In the taxation of Pope Nicholas in 1292,
the prior and convent held in Anebell two carucates of land worth (after
deducting an annual expenditure of 21s.) 42s., rents paid in money, 46s.
7d., a rent-charge arising in Warkworth, 40s., and a similar payment
from Hauxley of 45s. 10d. ; they also received from Amble 42 quarters of
malt or barley, worth at 2s. 6d. a quarter, £5 5s.
N Shortly afterward the abbot of St. Alban's and the
prior of Tynemouth were required to prove their rights as against the
king to sea wreck and free warren in Amble and Hauxley, and the
amercements of the tenants there ; they entered an appearance before the
king's justices at Newcastle, on the 18th of June (?) 1293.
N
In 1295 the demesne lands in Amble were found to
comprise 44½ acres in the South-flat, 30 acres in the East-flat,
15½ acres in the West-flat, 7 acres in the Crooks, 16 acres in the flats
at the Hope, 30 acres in Gonuldes Cross, and 23 acres in Dolakelawe, 2½
roods in the Syket-meadow at the North side Hope, 3 roods in the Syket-meadow
under Gonuldes Cross, 6 acres in the West-mede at Blaklawe, 1½ acres in
the East-mede, and 20 acres in the Strother.
N There were eighteen tenants who asserted that they were
freeholders (tenantes per se ut dicunt libere), and there were also
twenty-two bond tenants who amongst them held 465 acres of land. |
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ANBELLE TENANTS
CLAIMING TO BE FREEHOLDERS, 1295 :
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A. R. |
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A. R. |
| Nicholaus |
26 0 |
Adam Newbond |
5 2 |
| Henricus filius
Simonis |
29 1 |
Johannes le Lepol |
2 0 |
| Simon Trottyng |
18 1 |
Robertus filius
Hytred |
2 2 |
| Willelmus Lond |
6 0 |
Willelmus filius
Walteri |
3 2 |
| Nicholaus filius
fabri |
6 0
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Juliana Leysyns |
1 0 |
| Randulfus filius
Galfridi |
9 0 |
Adam filius Petri |
3 2 |
| Willelmus Wanpayn |
1 2 |
Alicia filia
Randolfi |
1 0 |
| Alicia Gune filia |
3 2 |
Alicia uxor Lyalf |
1 0 |
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Asplyun faber |
7 0 |
Simon
filius Walteri |
0 2 |
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quantities may be compared with the contemporary list of persons who
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AMBEL SUBSIDY ROLL,
1296. |
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£.
s. d. |
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s.
d. |
| Summa bonorum
Symonis filii Walteri |
0
14 4 |
unde
regi |
1
3¾ |
| Summa bonorum
Willelmi filii Willelln |
0
13 0 |
unde
regi |
1
2¼ |
| Summa bonorum
Roberti filii Hutredi |
0
12 0 |
unde
regi |
1
1 |
| Summa bonorum
Roberti filii Eliae |
0
13 0 |
unde
regi |
1
2¼ |
| Summa bonorum
Walteri filii Rogeri |
0
13 0 |
unde
regi |
1
2¼ |
| Summa bonorum
Ranulphi filii Henrici |
0
13 0 |
unde
regi |
1
2¼ |
| Summa bonorum
Symonis filii Ranulphi |
0
13 0 |
unde
regi |
1
2¼ |
| Summa bonorum
Ranulphi filii Galfridi |
0
12 6 |
unde
regi |
1
1¾ |
| Summa bonorum
Thomae Punder |
0
17 0 |
unde
regi |
1
7½ |
| Summa hujus villae |
6
1 8 |
unde
domino regi |
11
0¾ |
| Summa bonorum
Nicholai de Ambel |
2 17
8 |
unde
regi |
5
3 |
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In 1316 a ship laden at
Hartlepool with wheat, rye, and salt, and bound for Berwick-on-Tweed,
for the sustenance of the garrison there, having been driven ashore at
the port of Warkworth by the attack of pirates, was boarded by Richard
de Thirlewal, Robert de Arreyns, Eustace the constable of Warkworth,
John de Aketon, Hugh Galoun, John of Lescebury and others, who carried
away the cargo and arrested the ship. A commission was thereupon issued
at the suit of Richard de la More and others, the master and freighters
of the ship.
N
Eight years later a ship belonging to certain merchants
of Bruges and Ypres (John Robin being master), and freighted `cum lanis,
coriis, pellibus, lanutis,' and other goods to the value of £600,
shipped at Berwick and bound for Flanders, was cast ashore at Amble in a
storm. The master and crew escaped safe to land, whereby the said goods
and chattels could not be called a wreck according to the law and custom
of England ; yet Adam son of Nicholas of Haukeslawe, Robert de Raynham,
Roger son of Robert de Raynham, Robert brother of the same Roger,
William son of Thomas, Roger son of William son of Thomas, Robert son of
William son of Thomas, Nicholas son of Adam of Haukeslawe, Henry de
Rihill of Werkeworth, Adam ` le taillour,' William Fox, Thomas Egly,
Henry ` le peschour,' Nicholas Scot, John Cokkebayn, Alan Alegode of
Werkeworth, Richard the grieve of Togesdene, William son of Robert,
Stephen of Togesden, Adam son of Peter of Anebille, Henry son of Robert,
William son of Henry, Robert ` ponder,' Robert Batyn, John son of Simon,
John `le fevre' of Anebille, Hugh Wayt of Aclynton, William Paynesman of
Aclynton, Nicholas Mawsone of Newbiggyng, Alexander son of Elias,
Robert Shoute, John Hant, John son of John ' le clerk,' John son of
Juliana, Roger Botting, and Robert del Borne of Newbiggyng and others,
seized and robbed the ship at the vill of Anebille. The king, on the
petition of the merchants, on the 28th of March, 1324, ordered an
enquiry.
N
Two years afterwards all the ships of Warkworth capable of
carrying 40 tons and more were ordered to join the royal fleet under the
command of John de Sturmy, the king's admiral.
N
In 1328 the twenty-two bond tenants in Amble paid for `huse-male,'
7s. 4d. a year in money, and rendered in labour, eggs, and fowls, £5
12s. 9d. (of which sum there was usually expended 20s. in charges). A
pasture called Vilkemer yielded a rent of 5s. ; certain meadows were let
for 40s., `de forlandes dimisso diversis tenentibus,' 41s. 8d.; 2s. was
paid for abbotscoth ; fifteen cottagers paid 12s. 2d. ; 40s. was
received from Warkworth mill ; but the Scodewell fishing was unlet, and
the cane-fish
N and the marsh lands produced nothing.
N In the following year, however, the fishing was
let to one ' Baty,' a fisherman at Amble, for the large rent of £5 year.
N
About this period Richard de Tweng, the prior of Tynemouth
(1320-1339), granted several short leases of parcels of demesne lands.
Roger, son of William of Hauxley, obtained 4 acres near Blakelawe for
eight years, at 8d. an acre ; John, son of Thomas of Amble, 2 acres ;
William Pikenot', 4 acres ; and John Allison of Hauxley, 4 acres of land
lying near ` Gunnildes-crosse ' for similar periods and at similar
rentals.
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On the 1st of August, 1329, the last lord of Warkworth of the
family of Clavering issued an order to his receiver to pay to the prior
of Tynemouth the sum of 40s. due to him in respect of the manors of
Amble and Hauxley for a rent-charge out of the mill at Warkworth,
L and in February, 1330, the
prior, being at Amble, released a payment of a moiety of the same rent.
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On the Tuesday after Ascension day, 1336, an
inquisition was taken at Amble to ascertain whether Adam, the son of
John, the son of Simon of Amble, was or was not a nief of the prior of
Tynemouth.
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Henry Percy, the new lord of Warkworth, being desirous
to ascertain the mutual obligation of the prior and convent and himself,
caused an inquisition to be taken in 1347 in which it was found that the
tenants of Amble and Hauxley were bound to grind their corn at Warkworth
mill and pay the fourteenth measure for multure ; that the tenants of
Amble were entitled to have in their town two hand mills, and the
tenants of Hauxley one hand mill, which they might use only when the
Warkworth mill was hindered by floods or in time of necessity. The
tenants of both townships were chargeable with multure on the malt paid
as rent in kind to the convent, but in case they were so impoverished by
war or fire as to be unable to pay that rent in full, then only a
proportionate part of multure on the malt was to be exacted. The monks
of Coquet Island had their corn ground free. The finding of the jury was
embodied in an agreement made between the prior and Henry de Percy at
Tynemouth, at Michaelmas, 1317. Link
(Latin/ French)
At the end of the fifteenth century the earl of
Northumberland used to farm a portion of the corn tithes of the rectory
of Warkworth for the provision of his household. At Michaelmas, 1472,
Robert Brown and William Cowyke were each allowed 3s. 4d. for collecting
the tithe sheaves of Amble and Hauxley, and 12d. was allowed for three
tubs of beer given to the tenants there and at Hadston, ` nomine regardi
ad decimandum insimul totuut granum ibidem.' William Hordon and Richard
Brown were paid 6s. 8d. for driving the two wagons employed to carry the
said sheaves to the lord's grange, being at the rate of 8d. a day
between them.
N At Michaelmas, 1474, the keeper of the granary takes
credit for the delivery to the household of 18 quarters 1 bushel and 2
pecks of wheat at 5s. 4d. a quarter, and of 1 quarter 4 bushels at 4s. a
quarter, also of 42 quarters of oats at 2s. a quarter, parcel of the
tithes of Amble, Hauxley, and East Chevington. The barley, beans, and
peas had not yet been threshed.
N William Cowyk was paid 3s. 8d. for collecting the tithe
sheaves of Amble, John Snape 3s. 8d. for collecting those of Hauxley,
and William Cuthbert 3s. 8d. for collecting those of Hadston.
N At Michaelmas, 1486, the sum of 4s. 9d. was allowed for the
carriage of nineteen waggon loads of white straw from
Amble, Hauxley, and Hadston for thatching for the roof of the
lord's granary at Warkworth.
N
At the period of the dissolution of the monasteries
there were fourteen tenants in Amble, besides cottagers, apparently
seven in number. In the Ministers' Accounts of the year 1539, John
Widdrington, the bailiff; accounts for £15 13s. 6d., being rents
received from twenty-one copyhold tenants for their holdings, for a
pasture field called Wylde-mere-mede and for a meadow called Halle-mede,
possibly parcels of the demesne lands; for £5 6s. 2d. for the value of
24 quarters of barley paid in kind by the fourteen tenants at the rate
of 1 quarter and 6 bushels apiece ; for £1 6s. 8d. for four score of
salt fish accruing from four cobles; for 1s. for a cottage ; for 6s.
from the fines or assize of bread and ale paid according to ancient
custom ; and for 14d. for the pannage of swine ; making a total revenue
from the township of £22 14s. 6d.
N
The tenants
N of the manor were less indulgently treated under the Crown
than under their former masters. In 1580 it was reported that they were
so `exacted by the queen's officers they are ready to give up their
holdings.' The rents continued to be paid partly in money and partly in
kind. Of the latter it was the custom that the payment should be
`delayed till the auditt twelfemonth after and then of curtesie of th'
officer yt ys set at a grote a bowl under the price of the markett at
Newcastle.'
N This arrangement subsequently fell through, and the payment
of the hall corn-barley, consisting of 24 quarters, was made by the
tenants to the representative or farmer of the lord of the manor, upon
an appointed day on the site and near the remains of the old manor
house, by being poured out by the tenant upon a great sheet and then
measured up by the lord's representative. This system continued until
the beginning of this century, when it was superseded by a money
present.
N
There is not sufficient evidence to prove that the prior and convent of
Tynemouth had a cell at Amble, but they undoubtedly possessed the old
manor house which occupied a site on the brow of the bank or
terrace which overhung the river Coquet. Of this house there only
remains a fragment of masonry, dating from the fifteenth century,
showing a window of two lights.
Amongst the tenants who during the sixteenth century
held lands in Amble by copy of court roll was the family of Arnold. In a
case of disputed succession heard at York in 1611, before the Council of
the North, Robert Smith of Amble, a man of seventy-eight years of age,
deposed :
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That he did well knowe John Arnolde of Ambell, and that the
said John Arnolde died seized of a tenement in Amble, now in
the tenure or occupation of Robert Arnolde of Berlinge, or
his assigns; and he did knowe Thomas Arnolde, brother to the
said John Arnolde, and that the said Thomas had a son whose
name was Thomas, and that the said Robert Arnolde is son and
heir of the said Thomas the younger; and he dothe further
saie upon his oath that he doth well remember that the prior
of the monastery of Tynemouth was in displeasure with the
said John Arnolde; and the said John did goe to London, and
at his return went to the prior and did . . . . with him,
and the prior would not grant him a coppy of the said
tenement in Ambell, untill he was content to give so many
nobles as there were dores about his house, and there were
found xiiij dores, and John Arnolde giving satisfaction to
the prior, he had his coppie according to custom.
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EVIDENCES TO PEDIGREES OF ARNOLD AND
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At a court holden in the
manor of Amble and Hauxley on the 25th of January, 1592/3,'
Juratores dicunt quod Robertus Howey mortuus est et dicunt quod . .
. . dedit . . . . de et in tenementum in Ambell coram prox . . . .
Roberti Patersone filio Johannis Patersone et heredibus suis secund.
consuetud. et p. def. exit. ad opus Edvardi Patersone fratris ejusd.
Roberti. Salvo Jane uxor Johannis Patersone durante viduatate.'
Ex cartis Cookson of Meldon.
1597, 21st December.
Memorandum that I, Richard Spence, have delivered to William Hall
for the debt of Mr. William Crowe, merchant, due to Edward Paterson,
mason, three webbes of lead and one stithie (? anvil) of cast iron,
on condition that if the said Edward be not paid 30s. before, etc.,
he may sell the said lead and iron and pay himself. Ibid.
1606, 1st November. Will
of Robert Paterson of Amble, husbandman. To be buried within the
parish church of Warkworth. I give to my nephew Nicholas Scrogges
two oxen, to my niece Elizabeth Scrogges one boule of oates : My
wife Elizabeth Patterson and my children to be executors of this my
will. Proved 1606. Amount of inventory, £49 5s. 6d. Durham
Probate Registry.
1608, 10th May. Warrant
to enquire if Robert Arnold be the kinsman and next heir of John
Arnold, deceased, against Elizabeth Paterson, widow, who holds 40
acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, and 40 acres of pasture and 100
acres of common, with purtenences in Amble claimed by the said
Robert. Ex cartis Cookson of Meldon.
1610, 26th August. Bond
from Robert Arnold for £60 to admit Arthur Forster into a tenement
in Ambell in the possession of Elizabeth Patterson. Ibid.
1611, 8th August.
Answer of Arthur Forster to the bill of Edward Patterson. It appears
by the joint answers of Arthur Forster and Elizabeth Patterson,
widow, that the plaintiff, Edward Patterson, claimed his brother
Robert Patterson's estate on the ground that Elizabeth had had a
child during widowhood and thereby forfeited her estate, but `she
doth not acknowledge that any widowe by the custome of the said
mannor (i.e., of Amble) if she in her widowhood doe lyve unchaist
and incontynently and shall have a child unlawfully begotten, shall
loose the said premisses or shall be avoyded from the same before
her widowhead be determyned. But if the matter of incontinency and
haveing a childe which is objected in the bill of complaint against
the defendent were true, yet whether therby this defendent should
loose her widow's estate in and to the premises by any custome in
the said mannor or no yis a matter fytt to be tryed at the comon
lawe and is not fitt to be brought in question in this honourable
court, as she is informed by her counsell, being a matter soe penal
to this defendant as is pretended whereby if there be any such
custome her estate might be in jeoperdye.' Ibid.
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By order of the Court
of Exchequer ` a survey of the mannor of Ambell and Auxley'
N was made in September, 1608, by Bartholomew Haggatt and
George Warde, gentlemen, as commissioners, who found that there were
in Amble fourteen tenants who held their lands by copy of court roll
; there were also five cottage tenants. The sum of the copyhold
rents was found to be £16 0s. 5d., and the leasehold and other rents
amounted to £9 6s.10d.
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SURVEY OF
AMBLE, SEPTEMBER, 1608. |
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Copyhold Tenants. |
Former Tenants. |
Date
of Copy |
Money
Rent. |
Barley
Rent.
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Annual
Value beyond
Rent. |
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£ s. d. |
Winchester
Bushels. |
£ s. d. |
| Robert
Hudson |
Robert
Hudson, his father |
7th April,
1598 |
1 6 4 |
14 |
7 0 0 |
| Hugh Hodgson |
William
Hodgson, his father |
9th Oct.,
1594 |
0 19 4 |
14 |
6 10 0 |
| Edward
Clarke |
Edward
Clarke, his father |
24th March,
1586/7 |
0 19 7 |
14 |
6 10 0 |
| Robert
Widdrington |
John Barnell
(? Arnell) |
23rd April,
1602 |
1 1 3 |
14 |
6 13 4 |
| Robert
Smith, jun |
Robert
Smith, his father |
24th March,
1586/7 |
1 1 3 |
14 |
6 13 4 |
| Dionise
Wilson |
Roger Smith,
by surrender of Robert Smith, his son |
4th August,
1603 |
1 3 7 |
14 |
6 10 0 |
| Nicholas
Thew |
George Thew
, his father |
7th April,
1598 |
1 6 2 |
14 |
7 0 0 |
| Edward
Tayler |
Robert
Tayler, his father |
4th August,
1603 |
1 0 11 |
14 |
6 6 8 |
| John Wilson |
Robert
Wilson |
25th Oct.,
1596 |
1 5 6 |
14 |
6 13 4 |
| Henry
Johnson |
George
Hudson |
Oct., 1590 |
0 19 3 |
14 |
6 6 8 |
| Elizabeth
Patterson |
Robert
Patterson, her husband |
24th March,
1586/7
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0 19 11 |
14 |
6 6 8 |
| William
Tayler |
Robert
Tayler, his father |
24th March,
1586/7 |
1 4 1 |
14 |
6 13 4 |
| John Clarke |
William
Wright |
24th March,
1586/7 |
0 19 1 |
14 |
6 5 0 |
| John Hudson |
Roger Bayard |
7th April,
1598 |
0 17 9 |
14 |
5 13 4 |
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SURVEY OF
AMBLE, SEPTEMBER, 1608. |
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Cottage Tenants. |
Date of Copy. |
Rent. |
Value beyond Rent. |
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s. d. |
s.
d. |
Elizabeth Gibson, late
wife of Robert Gibson, deceased, one cottage during her
widow-
hood, by her late husband's copy ... ...
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9th October, 1594 |
2 0 |
6 8 |
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cottage during her widowhood by copy of Robert Gibson,
her husband's father ... |
9th October, 1594 |
1 0 |
4 0 |
Elinor Hall, late wife
of Cuthbert Hall, deceased, one cottage, by her late
husband's
copy ... |
12th April, 1597 |
2 8 |
6 8 |
Edward Thompson, late
Robert Thompson,
his father ... |
9th October, 1594 |
1 0 |
3 4 |
| Robert Bullock, late
William Browell ... |
24th March, 1586/7 |
9 9 |
20 0 |
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John Parkar of Norwiche houldeth there the scite of the
mannor of Ambell, per annum 3s. 4d. ; the scituation of
the salte-pannes ther, 4s. ; all mynes of coales ther
and in Auxley, per annum 40s.; and a conny warren upon
Ambells-heughe, per annum I10s., by letters patentes
graunted to him bearing date 30th March, 1589/90, for 21
yeeres, and afterwardes in reversion unto Roger Molsdale
and Henrie Paule dated 6th July, 1590, for 21 yeeres, £2
18s. 4d. Annual value beyond the rent, £11.
All the tenantes ther have ancientlie paide for the
assize of breade and beere 6s. per annum by custome
onley; by which they doe give licence to some one to
brew and bake within the mannor, and at present they
have licenced one Elizabeth Gibson, who paieth yerely
6s.
All the tennants ther, beinge 14 entire tenements, doe paie
yeerlie 14 bushells of barlye per everie tenement,
Winchester measure, as is before showen, besides their
money rent ; all which rent-come is
letten in lease unto Robert Woodrington and
others by letters patentes dated 7th August, 1590, for
21 yeeres rendering per annum £6 2s. 6d. Annual value
beyond the rent, £8.
William Toppinge houldeth ther a quarrie of stones within
this mannor by letters patentes granted from our late
soveraigne Queene Elizabeth, but he nether appeared nor
showed the same.
The tenants ther claime to houlde their lands of the
mannor of Tynmouth by coppie of court roll secundum
consuetudinem husband. and that after the death of
every tenante his next heire of the whole bloode is to
be admitted accordinge to the custome, paying a yeere's
rent for a fine, and two yeeres' rent for a fine upon
every surrender.
But wee cannot finde that they have any such estate of
inheritance for that wee finde divers coppies graunted
sibi et assignatis suis.
For the payment of their fines wee finde an
incertaintie and cannot reporte whether they ought to be
arbitrable or noe, for that the earle of
Northumberland's deputy captaine was always deputy
steward ther, who governed them, as they say, not
accordinge to their customes but accordinge to his owne
will. The recordes are in the earle of Northumberland
his keepinge, and will best showe the state of their
tenure and customes whereunto he refers us. Their fines,
amerciaments, and profittes of court, etc., are received
by the earle of Northumberland's officers as due to him
by his letters patents, but whether hee ought to
accounte for the same wee cannot tell, because wee never
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In the years 1615 and 1616 there
were suits in the Court of Exchequer brought by Robert Hudson and
others, tenants in the king's manor of Amble, against John Wharrier,
Thomas Davy, Robert Arnold, Hugh Elder, William Wharrier, and Thomas
Elder, tenants in the earl of Northumberland's manor of Birling,
concerning the boundary of the respective manors and townships, and
more particularly concerning the pasturage of some 16 acres of land
called the Salt-goates on the north side of the Coquet. Witnesses
deposed that the Coquet had worn away much of the ground upon the
south side of the river, and had laid it to the parcel of ground in
question lying upon the north side; that it had formerly been the
custom to ride the bounds between Amble and Birling upon St. Helen's
day.
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The manor remained in the Crown until the 25th of September,
1628, when, with Hauxley and many other estates of the dissolved
priory of Tyne-mouth, it was sold by Charles I. to Edward Ditchfield
and others as trustees of the corporation of the city of London.
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The township of Ambell, with lands in the tenure of
divers persons at the lord's will, of the yearly value
of £15 13s. 6d.; 24 quarters and 4 bushels of barley,
annually paid by fourteen tenants (that is to say, 1
quarter and 6 bushels by each tenant) valued at £6 2s.
6d. per annum; a cottage worth 12d. yearly ; all the
rents of assize of bread and ale payable by the tenants
there, amounting to 6s. yearly ; the pannage of swine
payable by fourteen tenants there, viz. by every tenant,
1d.; all that manor house or site in the street of
Ambell, then or late in the tenure of Robert Bullock,
worth 3s. 4d. per annum; the site of a salt pit or
salt-pan there, worth 4s. per annum; the coal mines
there, valued at 41s. per annum; a coney garth worth
10s. per annum; the whole being worth £25 2s. 6d. per
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The whole
was to be held of the Crown as of the manor of East Greenwich by
fealty in free socage at the reserved or fee farm rent of £25 2s.
6d. On the 8th of March, 1629, it was sold to Sir William Hewitt of
Brightwell, Suffolk, knight, and Thomas Hewitt, his son, who by
bargain and sale dated the 23rd of November, 1630, conveyed to Henry
Lawson of Newcastle, merchant, and Henry Horsley of Milburn Grange
the lands and tenements in Amble which were formerly in the
occupation of : |
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£ s. d. |
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£ s. d. |
| Robert Hudson, at the
rent of, |
1 6
4 |
John Clark,
at the rent of, |
0
19 1 |
| Hugh Hodgson
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0
19 4 |
Robert Widdrington
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1 1
3 |
| Robert Smith
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1 1
3 |
Robert Taylor
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1 0
11 |
| Roger Smith
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1 3
7 |
Robert Bullock
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0
9 9 |
| Robert Patterson
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0
19 1 |
Cuthbert Hall
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0 2
8 |
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9 4
1 |
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which tenements were at that time
severally in the tenure of Robert Hudson (son of the above-named
Robert), Robert Garrett, Thomas Smith, Dionis Wilson, George Browell,
John White, Margaret Bullock, widow, and William Hall. The
purchasers covenanted to pay £9 4s. 1d. parcel of the fee farm rent
of £15 13s. 6d. reserved to the Crown. The vendors specially
reserved to themselves the hall corn-barley payable yearly at the
feast of the Purification at the manor or hall house of Amble, and
also the coal mines with wayleave and stayleave, and the liberty of
digging pits, paying to Lawson and Horsley and their heirs `the
accustomed recompense for breaking and digging the ground in which
any pit for getting coal shall hereafter happen to be sunk or
wrought.' The rights reserved under this deed were subsequently
conveyed by Hewitt to certain persons as trustees for Sir William
Fenwick of Meldon.
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The manorial rights, the site of the manor house, and
the royalties which were acquired on the 24th of June, 1631, by Sir
William Fenwick were forfeited by him during the civil wars and
vested in the commissioners for compounding. On the 17th of June,
1652, Martin Fenwick of Kenton, after stating that he had farmed the
manor house, the salt-pans, and the colliery under the yearly rent
of £46, petitioned them for a renewal of his lease because : |
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Your peticoner hath disbursed for the wining of the
collery there, what is not as yett pfected, above one
hundred pownds more then the profitts he hath hitherto
received, which had beene utterly lost and is still in
danger, butt by your petconer's speciall industry and
excessive charges.
Thatt the said mannor howse is much
ruined and ready to fall for want of repaire, your
peticoner hitherto haveing had noe allowance for repaire
thereof, althoe he have beene farmer for many yeares by
past.
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From "A History of Northumberland",
volume V, by John Crawford Hodgson. Published 1899 |
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