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Above: Old Chevington Chapelry and its four township
divisions:
East Chevington, West Chevington, Bullocks Hall and Hadston. |
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The chapelry of Chevington,
N with an area of 5,484 acres, comprised in four townships, is
situated at the south side of Warkworth parish and abuts on the sea. It
is drained and watered by a small stream which takes its rise in the
parish of Bothal, not far from Stobswood, receives as affluents the
Brislington and Coal burns,
N and under the name of the Chevington burn, reaches the sea
at Chibburn mouth ; there is another smaller stream called the Lady
burn, which flows direct into the sea. A considerable portion of the
chapelry was in early times occupied by an outlying part of Earsdon
forest, a fragment of which remains in Chevington wood. In the early
part of this century plentiful crops of excellent wheat were produced,
but of late years much of the land has been laid down to grass. Through
the opening out of the coal-field the population has during the last
hundred years been increased tenfold.
The chapel, probably built by one of the Morwicks, lords of
the fee of West Chevington, was originally one of three dependent upon
the church of Woodhorn.
N The exact time or the circumstances under which it was
granted by the prior and convent of Tynemouth, in whose hands was the
rectory of Woodhorn, to the bishop of Carlisle as rector of the church
of Warkworth, is unknown. Up to the sixteenth century it was included
in, and its ministers answered at the court of, the rural deanery of
Morpeth, and not, as did the vicars of Warkworth, at that of Alnwick. At
the chancellor's visitation held at Morpeth in 1578, Anthony Hopper, the
curate, and John Law, the parish clerk of Chevington answered,
N and at a general chapter held in the same year and place,
the name of John Lyghton, curate of Chevington, is entered amongst those
who had satisfactorily performed his task on the study of St. Matthew's
gospel.
N The chapel at this period had no incumbent, but was served
by a `stipendarie prieste.'
N In
the ecclesiastical arrangements of Warkworth parish the inhabitants of
the chapelry were never permitted to forget that they were outsiders,
for in the appropriation of seats in the parish church made under
faculty in 1719 not one was given to any house, hamlet, or estate in
Chevington. Not unnaturally the ratepayers frequently resisted, though
they generally compromised, the demands made by the wardens for the
payment of the church rate.
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The chapel stood in a graveyard containing about half an acre of land,
close to the homestead of Bullocks-hall. Warburton, writing about 1715,
calls ` West Chevington a mean village, in which is a ruined chapel of
ease.'
N If the tradition which ascribes the final destruction of the
chapel to a fire be based on fact, it is probable that it happened about
this period, for the bell of `West Schivington Chappell' was stolen by
Ralph Blacklaw and George Wilson of Sandifordstone, tinkers, about
Michaelmas, 1717.
N The middle of the graveyard is a couple of feet above the
level (being evidently raised by débris), and the only stone which can
now be seen is a large and heavy through-stone with bevelled edges,
N from which all traces of an inscription, if any ever
existed, have disappeared.
The graveyard, which continued to be used for burials up to the
beginning of this century, was afterwards treated, somewhat irregularly,
by the vicars of Warkworth as parcel of their glebe, but it has recently
been transferred by the vicar of Warkworth to the perpetual curate of
Chevington.
In 1863 the chapelry of Chevington was severed from Warkworth
and constituted an ecclesiastical district or parish.
N A church and parsonage-house were built, and the benefice
was endowed by the Ecclesiastical commissioners, with certain
rent-charges
N accruing from the townships of West and East Chevington,
Bullocks-hall, and Hadston, parcel of the rectory of Warkworth.
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TOWNSHIP OF WEST CHEVINGTON. |
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The township of West Chevington, which occupies the south-west
angle of Warkworth parish, comprises an area of 1,859 acres. Its
population in 1891 was 587.
N A projection at the south-west of the township was formerly
moorland, and is still called Chevington Moor, and the north-west corner
is woodland. In a corner of Chevington wood, in the making of the main
line of the North Eastern Railway, there was found a stone axe. It is 8½
inches long, and the width of the cutting edge is 2¼ inches. It is very
symmetrically made and ground, with a fine polish over the whole
surface.
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From the time of, or immediately after, the Conquest, the small barony of
West Chevington was held of the king in chief by the service of one
knight's fee
N by the family the history of which has been related under
Morwick. A rent of 13s. 4d. a year was paid to the royal castle of
Bamburgh for castle ward.
N Though the lords of the fee must have possessed
a seat house for their usual or occasional residence, no traces have
been found, nor does any record show the existence of a tower or any
stronghold.
In the letter already mentioned,
N written about 1166 by Ernulph de Morwick to Henry II., the
king is informed that the barony was held as one knight's fee of ancient
feoffment, `that is to say, from the time of King Henry your
grandfather' (1100-1135), and that a certain David held one half of it
from Ernulph.
About the year 1240 William de Bamburgh held the fourth part
of the barony of West Chevington from Hugh de Morwick (the said Hugh
being the king's ward) as the fourth part of one knight's fee of ancient
feoffment.
N Thirty years later it was found by inquisition, taken on the
death of Sir Hugh de Morwick III., that he had died seised of twenty
librates of land in West Chyvington, which were worth £20 a year, and
were held by knight service and a payment of 1 mark to Bamburgh castle,
and suit at the county court.
N The youngest of Sir Hugh de
Morwick's four daughters having taken the veil and become a nun ; the
inheritance was divided amongst the other three, viz.: Sibilla, wife of
Sir Roger de Lumley ; Theophania, wife of Sir John de Bulmer ; and
Beatrix, wife of Sir John de Roseles. By an agreement made in 1277 the
one-third share of Beatrix de Roseles in West and East Chevington and
Morwick devolved upon her eldest sister Sibilla, against whose second
husband Lawrence de St. Maur and others a suit concerning tenements in
West Chevington was brought by Robert de Bamburgh in 1281-1282.
N St. Maur apparently resided at Chevington, for his name
heads the Subsidy Roll of 1296. |
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| CHEVINGTON WEST SUBSIDY ROLL,
1296. |
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£. s. d. |
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s. d. |
| Summa bonorum |
Domini Laurencii de Sammore
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8 17 2 |
unde regi |
16 1¼ |
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Isabellae
viduae |
1 2 2 |
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2 0¼ |
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Willelmi Buruman |
0 15 4 |
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1 4¾ |
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Thomae Hucong |
0 13 0 |
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1 2¼ |
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Gilberti filii Evae |
0 18 0 |
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1 7¾ |
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Thomae de Almham |
0 18 4 |
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1 8 |
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Roberti de Tudhowe |
1 4 10 |
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2 3 |
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Nicholai forestarii |
0 17 10 |
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1 7½ |
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Agnetis viduae |
1 3 2 |
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2 1¼ |
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Alexandri Sualler |
0 17 1 |
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1 6½ |
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Roberti filii Arnaldi |
0 12 6 |
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1 1¾ |
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Roberti Roke |
1 3 6 |
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2 1¾ |
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Hugonis praepositi |
1 1 6 |
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1 11½ |
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villae £20 4s. 5d. Unde
domino regi, £1 16s. 9¼d |
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Sibilla de Morwick survived her second husband
and died on the Saturday after the 26th of July, 1298. In an inquisition
taken at Morpeth on the 10th of September of the same year, it was found
that she held of the king in chief the capital messuage of West
Chevington, worth 2s. a year, and demesne lands, comprising 160 acres of
arable land in her own hand, worth 4d. an acre ; 12 acres of arable
land, let at 5s. a year ; 18 acres of arable land lying waste, worth 3d.
an acre ; 16 acres of arable land, let for 12s. 8d. ; 1 acre of arable
land, let at 6d.; 8 acres of meadow, worth 2s an acre ; and 60 acres of
wood of which the underwood could be sold for 5s. a year. She also held
in the vill of West Chevington five `bondagia,' each of which comprised
a house and 18 acres of arable land, and paid 15s. a year ; five `bondagia,'
each of which also comprised a house and 18 acres of land, but were
lying waste and paid nothing, though the land was worth 3d. an acre ;
three `cottagia,' of which the first comprised a house and 1 acre of
arable land, and paid 2s. 6d. a year ; the
second, a house and 2 acres of arable land, paying 2s. 6d. a year ; and
the third, a house and ½ acre of arable land, paying 1s. 9d. a year. She
was also seised in the same vill of 2s. a year of the service of Robert
Roke for a messuage and 15 acres of land which he held of her, and of
12d. a year of the service of Alexander Sualler for 2 acres of arable
land. All these tenements, etc., were held by Sibilla of the king in
chief by the service of two parts of one knight's fee, and by paying to
the king two parts of a mark of silver for the ward of Bamburgh castle,
and two parts of 14d. for the king's cornage, two parts of 20s. for farm
of the forest of Chivinton, and two parts of 12d. for fence month, and
doing suit at the county court with John de Bulmer and Theophania, his
wife, who was the said Sibilla's coparcener in West Chyvyngton.
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An inquisition was taken at Chevington on Thursday, the 28th of July,
1300, in which it was found that John de Buliner
N had died seised of one third of the vill of West Chevington
of the inheritance of his wife, Theophania (who survived her husband),
one of the heirs of Hugh de Morwick, held of the king in chief by the
service of a third part of a knight's fee, the third part of one suit at
the county court, and of paying 3s. 4d. yearly for the ward of Bamburgh
castle, 5s. yearly at the Exchequer of Newcastle for disafforestation of
the forest, and 3¾d. for cornage. There was no capital messuage, but of
demesne there were 80 acres of arable land, worth 4d. an acre, 5 acres
of meadow, worth 25. 8d. an acre ; a several pasture called the
North-more, lying between Bristilden and the North burn, containing 14
acres, and worth 2s a year. There were three free tenants, namely, Roger
Roke, who held 8 acres and paid 3s. 4d. a year ; Robert Roke, who held 5
acres and paid 12d. a year ; Thomas de Alneham, who held 8 acres and
paid 2d. a year. Four ` bondi,' held 18 acres apiece, and paid 15s. a
year each ; another bondagium contained 18 acres, and paid 10s. a year.
There were 9 acres of land which paid 2s 6d. a year, 14 acres of free
land which paid 12s. 4d., and two cottars, one paying 16d. and the other
12d. a year. Between Colier burn and Stobbiswodeleye there was a wood
called Stobbiswode, containing 100 acres of wood and waste, the herbage,
pannage, and underwood of which were worth 5s. a year. A moor called le
Brounside, between Stobbiswodeley and the Allerhepe, contained 10 acres
and was worth 4d. a year. Of a wood called Chiveleye, between
Bristildene and Kaldewelmore, containing 106½ acres of wood and waste,
the herbage, pannage, and underwood were worth 6s. 8d. a year.
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In the same year Robert de Mautalent
N and Christiana, his wife, brought an action against Robert
de Lumley (the son of Roger de Lumley and Sibilla de Morwick) and his
aunt, Theophania, widow of John de Bulmer, concerning common of pasture
in West Chevington.
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To this period may be assigned a deed in the possession of the Rev.
William Greenwell, by which William de Bamburge de Chivington gives to
his daughter, Cecilia, and her heirs for ever a toft and croft and 24
acres of land and meadow in the vill and fields of Chivington, which
Thurstan of Chivington once held of him. She was to pay 6d. per annum,
viz., 3d. at Pentecost and 3d. at Martinmas.
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Though Lawrence de St. Maur had been dead for fourteen
years his name was allowed to remain at the head of the Subsidy Roll of
1312, which. also mentions the name of a priest who doubtless served the
chapel at Chevington |
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| CHEVINTON WEST SUBSIDY ROLL,
1312. |
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£. s. d. |
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Laurentii de Sancto Mauro |
9 7 0 |
unde regi |
18 8½ |
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Sibillae viduae |
1 12 8 |
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3 3¼ |
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Willelmi Buryman |
0 14 0 |
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1 5 |
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Thomae Hutting |
0 12 10 |
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1 3½ |
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Gilberti filii Evae |
1 13 08 |
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3 4½ |
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Thomae de Alneham |
1 5 0 |
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2 6 |
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Nicholai forestarii |
0 11 4 |
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1 1¾ |
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Hugonis Fagge |
1 1 6 |
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2 2 |
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Hugonis clerici |
0 17 0 |
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1 8½ |
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Agnetis viduae |
1 0 0 |
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2 0 |
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Alexandri Sualler |
1 5 8 |
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2 7 |
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Roberti de Morewyke |
1 19 0 |
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1 11 |
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Roberti filii Arnaldi |
0 18 0 |
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1 9¾ |
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Hugonis capellani |
0 13 0 |
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1 3¾ |
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Vymarcae viduae |
0 14 0 |
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1 5 |
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Roberti Roke |
0 19 4 |
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1 11¼ |
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Hugonis pistoris |
1 1 6 |
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2 2 |
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| In July, 1321, Hugh le Smythessone of West Chevington
being imprisoned in the castle at Newcastle-upon-Tyne for causing the
death of Hugh le Grevessone of East Chevington, was granted letters
ordering the sheriff of Northumberland to bail him until the next
assizes.
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| CHEVINTON WEST SUBSIDY ROLL, 1336. |
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| Willelmus de Morwyk, 8s. ;
Willelmus Carpenter, 6s. 8d. ; Walterus de Percy, 4s. ;
Walterus de Mora, 1s. 4d. Summa, 20s. |
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It was found by an inquisition taken at Morpeth,
on Sunday, the 17th of July, 1344, that it would not be to the king's
loss to grant a licence to Ralph de Bulmere to infeoff John de Hastings,
parson of Morpeth, and Edmund Paynell, parson of Berghton, of eleven
tofts, 221 acres of land, and a rent of 45. 4d. in West Chyvyngton.
The said lands and rent were held of the king in chief by homage and
fealty and by the service of a fourth part of 13s. 4d. for the ward of
Bamburgh castle, and for 5s. of the disafforestment of the forest of
Chyvyngton, and were of the yearly value of £4 in silver.
N This licence was evidently obtained with the intention of
selling the estate, an intention carried into effect seven years later,
when, by an inquisition taken at Alnwick on the 8th of October, 1351, it
was found it would not be to the king's loss if licence were granted to
Sir Ralph Bulmer, knight, to enfeoff David Gray
N and Joan, his wife, with a third part of the manor of West
Chivynton ; it was then worth £4 10s. a year clear ; after paying 5s. to
the sheriff at Midsummer day among the king's farms, called `Minute
Particulars of Assarts' and 4s. 5d. to the constable of the royal castle
at Bamburgh for cornage.
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Letters patent granting a protection for one year were
granted in 1379 to John Joce of Chevyngton, who was about to accompany
Edmund, earl of March, and others to Ireland on the king's service.
N By an inquisition taken in the castle at Newcastle on
Tuesday, the 11th of August, 1383, it was found that Robert, son and
heir of Marmaduke de Lumley, deceased, died under age on the 12th of
December, 1374, and that the manor and vill of West Chevington, worth £5
a year beyond all service, were in the king's
hand by reason of the said minority, but were occupied (by what
warrant the jurors did not know) by John de Nevill.
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Sir Ralph Lumley before his death had by charters dated the
29th of June, 1384, granted his lands and tenements, the rents and
services of his free tenants and villains in the vill of West
Chevington, East Chevington, Morwick, Reaveley, Longhirst, and Old Moor,
to John Fullour, chaplain, and John Sadbergh, who remained in possession
of the lands so granted until the 1st of November, 1393, when they
conveyed them to John de Chestre, chaplain, and his brother William de
Chestre as trustees. Thomas de Lumley was the son and heir of Sir Ralph,
but died under age on the 31st of May, 1404, leaving as his heir his
brother John de Lumley,
N with whose descendants the barony of West Chevington
remained until the 30th of March, 1559, when West Chevington was sold by
John, Lord Lumley, to Sir Thomas Grey of Horton,
N whose name is entered as owner of the same in the Feodary's
Book in 1568.
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At the dissolution of the monasteries the Knights
Hospitaliers of Mount St. John in Yorkshire possessed a rent-charge of
2s. a year in Chevington.
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In Michaelmas term, 1577, a fine was levied between Ralph
Grey, esq., plaintiff (the husband of Sir Thomas Grey's eldest
daughter), and Robert Clavering, esq., and Agnes, his wife, John Heron,
esq., and Margery his wife, Roger Proctor, gentleman, and Barbara, his
wife, and Humphrey Heron, gentleman, and John Heron, his son and heir
apparent, deforciants, of the manors of Horton, Detchant, and West
Chevington, and of 60 messuages, etc., in West Chevington, East
Chevington, Morwick, and other places.
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At a muster taken on the Moot-law on the 26th of March, 1580,
West Chevington provided nine horsemen,
N and fifteen years later, at a muster taken on Clifton field
on the 24th of November, 1595, there appeared from West Chevington,
Robert Walls, William Bairde, Mark Sotherne, and six others ; all of
them being entered in the return as ` defective.'
N In 1597 ` the plump watch,' ordered in respect of the
outrages of `our home theaves,' was kept by the bailiff of Chevington `
at the Flower of Chevely.'
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In a settlement dated
the 1st of September, 1592, the manors, towns, and villages of West
Chevington, East Chevington, and Morwick were entailed by Ralph Grey
upon his issue male with remainder to his brothers Edward, Henry, Roger,
and Arthur Grey ;
N and by an appointment dated the 1st of March, 1607/8, he,
being then Sir Ralph Grey, knight, limited West Chevington, East
Chevington, Morwick, and other estates to his wife Dame Dorothy Grey for
her jointure.
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The following inventory of the goods of one of the tenants of West
Chevington, who died about this time, enumerates the farm stock and
household plenishings of the period :
1605, 2nd May. Inventory of the goods of
John Robinsone of West Chevington : 8 oxen and 4 stotes, £16
; 8 kyne and 6 calves, £10 13s 8d. ; 2 old mayres and a
younger mayre, £3 13s. 4d. ; 15 yowes and lambs and 5
younger sheapp, ,£4 16s. 8d. ; wheat and rye sowen in the
ground fyve boules, estimated to fyfteen boules, price £7
10s. ; oates sowen 9 boules, estimated to 27 boules, price
,£4 10s. ; beare and beannes sowen on boule, estimated to
thre boules, price 20s. ; wheat and rye in the barne, 5
boules, 50s. ;4 waynnes, ploughe and plow irons, 2 iron
sommes withe boutes and shakles, 6 yokes and 3 harrowes,
price 50s. ; 2 almoneryes, a cawell, and a pressore, price
20s. ; 2 caldrons, 4 potts, 4 pannes, price 46s. 8d. ; 16
peace of putter, fyve candlestickes, and two salts, price
14s. 4d.; 1 potte and a ketle, price 16s. ; 6 cheastes and
thre coffers, price 16s.; 7 tubes, 6 barrels, 2 skeales,
pannes, mealles, and dishes, price 15s. 8d. ; 2 beddes, 2
chayres, 2 formes, and a borde, price 5s. 6d. ; 2 fyer
crokes, a payre of tongs, and a paire of pott clips, price
2s.; 2 axes, one eche, 2 wambles, and one iron howe, price
3s.; 5 lynen sheates, 3 code pillowes, and 2 towels, price
22s. ; 4 coverlids, 4 plads, 3 blankets, 2 cods, 2 window
cloathes, and 2 sakes, price 28s. 6d. ; a sowe and 3 pegges,
3 gesse with goslings and a ganner, sixe hens, 4 capons, and
a coke, price 16s. 4d.; his cloake, his weareing apparell,
his hatt, his steale cape, his bowe, and his sword, price
26s. 8d.; a spayde, a shull, and other trifles, price 2s.
Summa, £66 18s.
Debts that the testatore owethe: Imprimis, to my brother, Edward
Robinson, 25s. ; to John Chator, 10s. ; to Robert Perrey,
10s. ; to John Davye, 12d. ; his funerall expenses, 21s.
10d.; Mr. Vicar's mortuary, 10s. Some, £3 16s.10d. Summa totalis debitis deductis, £63 1s. 10d.
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The forest of Chevington, which has so often been incidentally
mentioned, is represented at the present day by a wood situated in the
north-west corner of the township, comprising about 400 acres. It seems
to have been the intention of William, Lord Grey of Wark to reafforest a
portion of it, for on the 28th of April, 1629,
N he obtained a licence to make a park at West
Chevington.
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In the division of the
estates of Ford, Lord Grey, which took place in the early part of last
century, West Chevington was apportioned to Mr. Henry Grey of Howick,
whose descendant, the present Earl Grey, is the proprietor.
About the year 1693 West Chevington north side was held
by Johnson, Kirton, Clark, Henry Brown, and Valentine, as tenants to
Lord Grey, at the total rent of £250 per annum, and the south side was
held by Robert Johnson and William Clark at a rent of £75.
N The family of Brown afterwards became tenants of the greater
part of the estate and retained their tenancy until about 1763.
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The Browns were succeeded by Thomas Compton
N of Carham as tenant of West Chevington, and he was followed
successively by Joseph Fenwick of Ulgham,
N Francis Fenwick, Samuel Goodman, and others.
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TOWNSHIP OF BULLOCKS-HALL. |
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The small township of Bullocks-hall,
originally included in West Chevington, owes its existence as a separate
township to the operation of the Poor Law Act of Charles II. It
comprises one estate of 210 acres, having, in 1891, a population of 15.
N
This estate may possibly represent that which in 1344 is
described as comprising 11 tofts and 221 acres, worth £4 a year, and
which, about 1351, was sold by Ralph de Bulmer to David Gray and Joan
his wife.
N Certain lands in Chevington as well as in East Chevington in
1372 held by Roger de Widdrington,
N were in 1568 held by Sir John Widdrington,
N and were, in the year 1583, dealt with in a recovery made
between Robert Widdrington and others and Hector Widdrington.
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As early as the fourteenth century the family of Bayard, Bard, or
Baird was settled in East Chevington ; and in 1575 Christopher Bard of
West Chevington, after desiring that his body should be buried in the
parish church of Warkworth, gave the tenant right of his farmhold to the
eldest of his four daughters, and arranged that she should marry an
inmate of his house whom he calls `my sone Martin Barde,' who may have
been his nephew and ward, ` and if he will not marrye hir he shall not
tary ther but depart furthwith.' Whether this project resulted in a
marriage is not known ; but William Bard of Chevington appeared at the
muster taken on Clifton field in 1595, and Martin Bard was in 1608 one
of the appraisers of the goods of Gawen Bard.
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BAIRD (OR BARD) OF WEST CHEVINGTON |
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(a) Warkworth Register. (b) Mr. George Tate's
Title Deeds. (c) Durham Probate Registry.
(d) A Will in the Rev. John Hodgson's Collection. (e) Arch.
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| 1575, 10th July. Will of Christopher Barde of West
Chevington, yeoman. To be buried within the parish church of
Warkworth. My wyfe, Isabell Barde, and my four daughters,
Margerey Barde, Elizabeth Barde, Janet Barde, and Agnes
Barde, executors. To my sone, Martin Barde, one browne whye;
Thomas Graye's children, one two-year-ould stotte ; Nycholas
Barde, one dublet ; my brother, Robert Barde, one fille ;
Isabell Barde, one yow ; and to Catheringe Barde, one yow ;
to the chappell of West Chevington, one whye calfe ; to
Thomas Bard, yonger, one gimer, and to Marion Arnell, one
yow. With the lord's pleasure I give the tenante right of my
house and farmhould to my doughter Margerie. I will that my
wife Isabell Barde shall be the head governor of my house
during hir widowhood. If so be that my sone, Martin Barde,
will marye my daughter, Margerie Barde, my will is that he
shall remaine ther, and if he will not marrye hir he shall
not tary ther but depart furthwith. Supervisors : Mr. Henry
Wetherington, my brother Thomas Barde, John Brotherwick,
John Moller, and Christopher Burton. Proved 30th July, 1577.
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1607, 19th July. Will of Gawyne Bard of West Chevyngton. My body to
be buryed in the parish church of Warkworth payinge my
accustomed fees. I bequeath unto my wyffe and my childe
whiche shee is withe 12 oxen, 4 nagges, 2 stotts, 50 shepe,
and three waynes with ther furniture ; I bequeathe unto my
brother Thomas Barde and John Spure a coffar with £14 ; to
George Birlettsonn, Martyne Birlettsonn, and Annas
Birlettsonn, everye one of them a quye and a yowe hogge ; to
Thomas Spure, Robert Spure, Richard Spure, Anas Spure,
Katherine Spure, and Alesonn Spure, everye one of them a
quye and a yowe hogge (if quyes will not serve, to give kyne);
I bequeathe my corne and all the rest of my goods, movible
and unmovible whatsoevere, to my wife and my childe. My
brother Thomas Barde, supervisore, to see my wiffe and my
child mayntained in ther rights and all my leaguses duly
payd withe my funeral expences. Witnesses, Thomas Bard,
Roger Perry, Thomas Patterson, John Steavenson, and John
Mutlie, clarke.
1607/8, 18th January. Inventory of Gawyne Bard of West Chevington,
deceased, praised by Martyn Barde, Umphray Reey, Roger
Brotherwicke, and Robert Wanlesse. 13 oxen, £22; 4 stotes,
£4; 9 kyne and 4 calves, £12 ; 2 quyes and 2 quy stirkes, £3
; 3 nagges and a foale, £5 10s. ; 31 sheepe, £3 5s.; 4 swyne,
10s.; wannes with ploughe and plow irons and other Cher
appurtenances and harrows, £2 6s. 8d.; 2 almyres, a cawell,
and a presser, £1; 2 caldrons, 4 potts, and 4 pannes, £2 6s.
8d. ; 18 peace of putter, 5 candlesticks, and 2 salts, 14s.
4d.; 4 cheasts and 2 coffers, 12s.; tubes and berrels with
other wooden vessell, 13s. 4d.; 2 bedsteads, I chare, a
forme, and a table, 4s. ; 2 fyre crookes, a pair of tongs
and pottclip, 1 iron spitt, 2s.; I axe, I wumble and 1 ecke,
1s. 6d. ; 5 lenen sheets, 2 cod pillowes and towles, 18s.; 3
coverlids, 3 plads, 3 blankets, 2 cods, i windo clothe and 2
sacks, 24s. ; 2 gease and a ganner, 4 hens and a coke, 5s.;
his apperell, 26s.; wheat and rye sowen 6 boolls, estimated
to 18 boals, £8 15s. ; oates sowen 10 boolls, estimated to
30 bools, £5 5s.; bigge and beanes sowen 1 booll, estimated
to 3 bools, £1 ; spades and sholles, with other trifles of
household stuffe, 2s. ; the lease of his tenements, valued
£20 ; in money, £5 16s. ; Thomas Craster oweth to this
testator 11s. 4d. ; 1 oxe sould, 30s. ; ` to years surgeon,'
30s. ; 3 yows sould, 9s. Total, £103 7s. gd.
Debts : To the two children of John Robinson for their filiall
portions, viz., Alice and Jane Robinson, £30 19s. ; to
Thomas Paterson, 8s. ; to William Chamberlaine, 10s. ; to
Roger Perrey, 1s. 11d. Total, £31 18s. 11d.
A note of these things that are added and debts cancelled by
lewdness of the mennestere in the inventoryes of Gawenne
Bayrde without the knowledge of the praysers. An oxe solde,
etc., 30s. ; geven to the phesisionn, left out in the debts,
30s. ; 20s. in funyrals ; mortywarie, 10s. ; for
admenystratione tuitione and pirrytyrs' (apparitors) fees,
27s. 6d.; to John Monke for the invetaryes, 2s. ; lare
stable (sic), 3s.; Edward Robinson, 7d.; geven to the
poore at his buryall, 10s.
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married twice, for Martin Baird, who seems to have been his eldest son,
joined in a mortgage on the 10th of November, 1681, and William Baird,
another son, to whom he conveyed a certain portion of his estate in
1675, was succeeded by his sisters, who are described as his
co-heiresses,
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been of the whole blood. On the 2nd of November, 1692, Martin Baird
conveyed the equity of redemption of his lands to the mortgagee, John
Kelly of Whorlton Moor.
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(a) Duke of Northumberland's MSS. (d) The late
Mr. Wm. Woodman's MSS.
(b) Mr. George Tate's Deeds. (e) For pedigree of Longridge see
vol. iv. p. 233
(c) Long Benton Register and M.I. (f) Newcastle Chronicle,
24th Dec., 1774.
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* These ladies seem to have married respectively
Robert Gibson of Newcastle, Joseph Nixon
of Deckham hall, and Thomas Denham of Redheugh, who were trustees and
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It is stated that the family of Kelly came from
Scotland in the first half of the seventeenth century ; towards the end
of it they acquired Coquet Island and land at Annitsford, and are
frequently met with as mortgagees. Patrick Kelly, who died on the loth
of October, 1682, is described in the register of Long Benton as `
perprobus, perdives, necnon perliberalis Scotus de Annisfoord
parentabatur.'
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The first record of the designation of Bullocks-hall occurs in
Armstrong's map of Northumberland, made in 1769, and under this name the
estate was conveyed in 1805 by the trustees of the will of John Clark of
the Coal Exchange, London (who had by succession and purchase acquired
the undivided shares of his grandmother's sisters), to John Tindal of
Eshott East-house, who two years later resold to Ralph Fenwick of
Shortridge. Mr. Fenwick's representatives in 1851 sold Bullocks-hall to
Mr. G. W. Tate of Guyzance East-house, the father of the present owner,
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