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entire household except the housewife, but he and 

 his own household shall be quit. Geoffrey of 

 Hardwiclc holds 36 acres of the land of North- 

 tona juxta Herdewic [Norton by Hardwick], 

 and renders 2 marks at the bishop's pleasure. 

 The mills have 8 acres and the meadows near the 

 mill, and render 20 marks. The pinder has 

 8 acres and thraves of corn of Norton, like the 

 others, and renders 80 hens and 500 eggs. 

 Twelve cottiers hold tofts and crofts in the same 

 vill and 13 acres in the fields, and they render 

 1 6 shillings and scatter hay, which they rake and 

 help in making hayricks and in stacking corn and 

 hay. 1 The meadow of Northmeadows is in the 

 bishop's hand. The toll of beer of Norton 

 renders 5* shillings. And the whole vill renders 

 2 milch cows.* 



BUTERWYK [Butterwick] renders 32 shillings 

 and 9 pence* of cornage and i milch cow and 

 8 scot-chalders of malt and the same of meal and 

 the same of oats. And every plough (-team) of 

 the villeins ploughs and harrows 2 acres at Sedge- 

 field. And the villeins do 4 boon-days for every 

 house with i man. And they cart a tun of wine 

 and the millstone of Sedge-field. The dreng keeps 

 a dog and horse and goes on the great hunt with 

 2 hunting-dogs and 5 ropes, and does suit of 

 court and goes on errands. 



BRADFERTONA [BrafFerton] renders 24 shillings 

 and i^ pence* of cornage and I milch cow and 

 I castleman, and 5 chaldersof malt and the same 

 of meal and the same of oats. Henry* goes on 

 the great hunt with 2 hunting-dogs and 5 ropes 

 and does suit of court, but keeps neither a horse 

 nor a dog. 



BYNCESTRE [Binchester] renders 5 shillings of 

 cornage and I milch cow and I castleman and 



4 chalders of malt and the same of meal and the 

 same of oats. And every plough of its villeins 

 ploughs and harrows 2 acres at Condona [Coun- 

 don]. And every one of them does 3 boon-days 

 in the autumn for every bovate with I man, 

 and carts a tun of wine and a millstone to Auk- 

 land. The dreng keeps a horse and a dog and 

 goes on the great hunt with 2 hunting-dogs and 



5 ropes, and does suit of court and goes on errands. 



URPATH [Urpath] renders 60 shillings rent at 

 the four terms, and ploughs and harrows 8 acres 

 at Chester, and does 4? boon-days in the autumn, 

 every boon-day with 24 men and a fourth boon- 

 day with 12 men. The dreng keeps a dog and 

 a horse and goes on the great hunt with 2 hunting- 

 dogs and 1 5 ropes, and carts a tun of wine and a 

 millstone to Durham and does suit of court and 

 goes on errands and mends the half of the mill- 





1 A : 6 shillings and work each for 14 days in the 

 year and do 4 boon-days in the autumn. 



A: 3. 



* Stowe MS. reads ' marcas ' for ' vacca*.' 



* A : 32 shillings. A : 3$ pence. 



* A : Thoma*. 

 'A: 3- 



pond and mill-house of Chester with the men of 

 Chester. 



In BEDLYNGTONA [Bedlington] there are 80 

 bovates and every one is of 16 acres and renders 

 4 shillings rent and i wagonload of wood, and 

 they mow the whole meadow and lift and cart 

 the hay and make hayricks. And with the help 

 of the other vills of Bedlingtonshire they cart 

 timber and millstones, and in like manner they 

 make the mill-pond, and in like manner they 

 enclose the court and cover in the hall, and in 

 like manner they prepare the fish-pond, and in 

 like manner they carry loads as far as Newcastle 

 and as far as Fenwyc [Fenwick] and no further. 

 Robert Hugate holds in the same vill 21* acres, 

 which were waste, and renders 40 pence, and in 

 another part 6 acres and renders thence 44 pence. 

 Guy holds i toft and i croft and renders 1 2 pence. 

 Seven cottiers render 8 shillings. Peter of Est- 

 likburna [East Sleckburn] holds 6 acres there. 

 Every bovate renders I hen. 



WESTLIKBURNA [West Sleckburn] renders 

 6- marks of rent and carries the writs of the 

 lord bishop as far as the Tweed, and goes on 

 errands and does suit of court, and the vill builds 

 the mill and the mill-pond, with one man 

 from every house, and they carry loads as far as 

 Newcastle and Fenwick, when they go there for 

 themselves. And they enclose the court and 

 cover in the hall and provide the fish-pond like the 

 men of Bedlington. Turkill, who was the man 

 of the bishop, renders 12 hens for his quittance 

 to the bishop. Edwin renders 12 hens. Patrick 

 renders i pound of pepper. 



NEDIRTONA [Netherton] renders 5 marks of 

 rent and carries loads and renders other services 

 like West Sleckburn. 10 Robert son of Gospatric 



8 A : 12. A : II. 



10 The text is here relieved of a long passage inter- 

 polated in all of our MSS. Although it forms no 

 part of Bishop Pudsey's survey, it has considerable 

 historical value, and is accordingly printed here : 



' It is to be noted that the lord Walter bishop of 

 Durham granted to all the free men and their tenants 

 of Netherton, Great Sleckburn and Cambois, who 

 hold the aforesaid vills for 1 2 carucates of land with 

 appurtenances, that they and their heirs should be quit 

 of the carriage of the victuals of the bishop himself, 

 and of the steward and constable of Durham, namely, 

 from Bedlington to Fenwick and from Bedlington to 

 Gateshead ; and that they should be quit of roofing 

 the bishop's hall at Bedlington and of repairing the 

 bishop's walls about his court, and of conveying his 

 timber to his mill, and of roofing the mill, and of 

 making or mending the mill-pond, and of carrying 

 millstones. They shall be quit as well of merchet and 

 aid except when the free men of the bishoprick give 

 an aid, and of carrying the bishop's writs and of 

 making or repairing the fish-pond. And for the 

 relief from this service they shall give the bishop every 

 year half a mark for every carucate. The aforesaid 

 lord bishop granted that all the aforesaid men of the 

 aforesaid vills should grind their corn at the sixteenth 

 measure, aud that they should be free from suit of 



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