<fe ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



and a fmall urn, with afhes of burnt bones in it, were digged up 

 by the late Mr. Warburton, and fome imperfeft Roman altars ob- 

 fcrved by him about the hill. It has been fepulchral and explo- 

 ratory. 



The Lorclfhip of Elfden was in the poflefTion of Luke Clenell, of 

 Clenell, Efq; 18 K. Ed-ward I ; in which, and in his Lordfhip of 

 Clenell, he then had a grant of Free Warren (tj. In the reign i 

 of K. Edward VI, it was in the pofleffionof Sir Ralph Grey, ofChil-- 

 lingham, and of his fon, Thomas Grey, 10 (^.Elizabeth, then a mi- 

 nor (u) ; and lately of Charles Howard, Efq; of Overacres, whofe 

 fon fold it, with the patronage of the rectory of Elfden, and his 

 paternal feat and eftate of Overacres, to the prefent pollefibr, the 

 Duke of Northumberland. 



(t) Rex archiepifcopis, &c. falutem. Sciatis me conceflifle, et hac carta nofira confirm 

 maflTe, dilcdto et fideli noftro Thomts dc Clenbil, quod ipfe et haeredes fui in perpetuum habe- 

 ant liberam Warrenam in omnibus dominicis terris fuis de Clenbil et Hellefden in com. Nor- 

 tliumbr. Dum tamen terras iliac non fint infra Metas foreftae noftrse. Ita quod nullus in-- 

 trat terras illas ad fugand. in eis, vel ad aliquid capiend. quod ad Warrenam penineat fine 

 liceatia et voluntate ipfius Thames ve! haeredum fuorum fuper forisfafluram noftram decem 

 librarum. Qiiare volumus, et firmiter precipimus, pro nobis et haeiedibus noftris, quod 

 prsdiftus Thomas, et fucceflbres fui, in perpetuum habeant liberam Warrenam in omnibus 

 dominicis terris fuis prxdictis. Dum tamen illas non fint infra Metas foreftx noftra;. Jta 

 quod nullus intret terras illas ad fugand. in eis, vel ad aliquid capiend. quod ad Warrenam 

 pertineat, fine licentia et voluntate ipfius Thomte, vel haeredum fuorum, fuper forisfafturam. 

 noftram decem librarum, ficut prasdidum eft. His teftibus venerabilibus patribus J. Archie- 

 pifcopo Ebir. dnglltE Prjmat. R. Bathan. et Wcllen. J. Wynton, et Dttnelm. Epifcopis. JFilli- 

 flmo de Valence, avunculo noftro. Edmundo Comite Cornub. confanguineo noftro. Gilberta 

 de Clare, Com. Glouc. ct Hertford. Henrico de Lacy, Comite Line, f^illielmo de Bella Campo, 

 Comite Warr. Roberto de Tiltot. Reginaldo de Grey. Wdtcro de Bella Campo. Hugone de 

 lircck. et aliis. Dat. per manum noftrum apud Weftm. xi die Maii. 



Ex Rotulo Cartarum anno 18 Edvardl I. n. 79. 



(u) Set Chillingham. 



The 



