5>o ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND:. 



of which it was ftript, 2 K, Henry V, for being an afylum to out- 

 laws and robbers (z). The tenants within the manour were ex- 

 empt from the payment of ihc public fubfidies (a). Under a 

 vacancy of the See of York, a chancellor or guardian was ap- 

 pointed for the fpiritualitics of Hexham (b). Robert Hotgate, Arch- 

 bifhopof York, within a month after his translation from the See 

 of ' Landnff', 6th February, 36 K. Henry VIII, 1545, gave the ma- 

 nour of Hexbnm to the crown, in exchange for fome impropria- 

 tions and advowlbns, parcels of abbey-lands, retaining nothing 

 but the fpiritual jurifdiclion (c). It was united to the county of 

 Northumberland, 14 <^ Elizabeth (d). In. the 21 ft of her reign, if. 



of HextiMfJham.; and that al! pleas, as well of the crown, as of other pleas, be pleaded by 

 his writs and his juftices in his faid manour ; and to take and have the iflues and profits 

 arifing thereby; and to do and execute by his miniflers all things pertaining to the office of 

 fheriff and coroner j and that no bailiff of the King do enter into the faid. manour, to exer- 

 cife any office; and to have the cuftody of prilbners, and to make delivery of them at his 

 will ; anJ to have a market, gallows, chatells of fugitives and felons condemned in the faid 

 manour, without leave and confent of the King and his progenitors ; which things do per- 

 tain to the King's crown and dignity. 



The archbifhop cometh by his attorney: and faith, that he claimeth all the faid liberties 

 from antient time : and that he and all his predeceflbrs, from immemorial time, without-any 

 interruption, have ufed the faid liberties ; and this he is ready to verify. 



Madox's Baron, Angl. p. 152, 153, 154. 



Hexham hath been formerly filled a county Palatine. Ibid* 



Stat. 27, & 33 K. Henry VIII. c; 10. 824. 



(z) Stat. i. C. 5. Madox^s Baron. AngL 



(a) De liberatione tenentiumde Hextildejham fubfidiis, Pat. 33 Ed. III. par. 2. m. 19. 



(b) Pat. ii. Ric. II. par. 2. m. 9. 



(c.) Browne ff^illis's Survey of the Cathedr. Vol. i. p. ig, 44. 

 Stat. i+EK*. C. 13. 



was 



