ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 137 



The manour, caftle, and half of the village of Ay den, came 

 afterwards to the antient family of the Raymes s, of Bolham -, and 

 were in the pofleffion of William de Raymes, 43 K. Edward III (r), 

 high fherifF of Northumberland, 16 K. Richard II (s) ; alive, 3 K. 

 Henry IV (t) ; of Edivard de Raymes, 35 K. Henry VI (u) . We find 

 a medic ty of them pofTeiled by Robert de Raymes, 10 Q^ Elizabeth 

 fv}, high fheriffof Northumberland the year following fiv) ; and 

 by Henry de Raymes, in the reign of K. Charles I fx) ; the other 

 mediety of the manour and caftle of Ay den being in the poileffion 

 of the Carnabys of Halton (y). 



Ayden-CaJlle, with the manour of Ay den, was purchafcd by John 

 Douglas, Efq; and is now in the pofleffion of Sir Edward Blacket, 

 Bart. The caftle Hands on the weft fide of the den, watered by' 

 a fmall ftream, above a precipice, the eaft end of which, being 

 the fleepeft, is called Jack's Leap, from a young man's cafting 



( r) Willielmus de Raymes obiit feifitus de et in manerio de Ayden, medietate villas de Ayderi, 

 tnedietate manerii de Bolham, et una placea in Craml'mgton. Efcaet. de ann. 43 Ed. III. 



(s) Efcaet. de anno 16 Ric. II. 



(t) -. $ Hen. IV. n. 21. 



() 35 Hen. VI. 



(v) Robertus Raymes fuit feifitus de et in medietate manerii de Bolham, cum villa, et de et 

 in Short-fat, South Middleton, cum medietate de Ajden, Witton, et certis terris in Hawkwill, 

 et Stamfordham. Efcaet - de 3Bno Io Eliz - 



(w) Fuller's Worthies. 



(x) Henricut Raymes, arm. confanguin. et hxres Roberti, tenet in capite medietatem 

 hamlet, et maner. cum caftro, de Ayden, et fex mefluag. et terras ibidem. 



Ex Lib. feod. Pet, OJborne, Militis. 



(y) Vid. Halton. 



VOL. II, T 



