ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



From the antiquity, fituation, and fortifications of Neivcaftle* 

 proceed we to its charters, privileges, civil government, and 

 commerce. 



King Htnry II. granted it by charter great franchifes and liber- 

 ties fm). 



King John, his fon, in the third year of his reign, confirmed 

 them, on the payment of 100 marks, and two palfreys (n). He 

 enlarged them by charter in the fourteenth year of his reign, on 

 the annual payment of 100 /. in two equal portions, at Eafter and- 

 Michaelmas, referving to himfelf the rents, prizes, aflizes, and 

 leafes in it. In compenfation for the lofTes fuftained by the in- 

 habitants on taking down their houfes for making a fofs or 

 ditch under the caftle, next the river, he granted them an annual 

 rent of ioo/. io.r. 6 d. of Efcaet, to be paid by him and hisheirs* 

 in proportion to their feveral damages (o). He alfo granted it, 



(m) Gardiner, Ch. ii. p. 7. 



(n) Homines de novo caftello fuper Tinam [clebent] ioo Marcas et aPalefridos, pro ha-> 

 benda villa de novo caftello fuper Tinam in manu fua, per veterem firmam, fcilicet50/. & 

 io/. de cremento, & pro habenda confirmatione d libertatibus fuis quas habent per cartam 

 Henrici regis patrem ; fed poftea mandatum eft per breve regis, quod eft in forulo Maref- 

 calli, quod nee praedida firma neque crementum ab eis exigatur ; quia rex conceffit vice- 

 comiti ut refpondeat de firma ejufdein villa?, ficut confuevit antequam-crementum eflet pofi- 

 turn, per piscdictum breve. 



Mag. Rot. 3 Job. Rot. 1 8. a. Tit. Northumberland. 

 Madax's Firma Burgi, p. 54. 



(o) Prseterea conceflimus eis, et carta noftia confirmamus pro nobis et hasredibus noftris 

 centum et decem folid. &c. ad dividendum et aflignandum illis qui redditus fuos amiferunt 

 occafione foffati et novae operations faifee fubter caftrum verfus aquam, &c. 



Lib. Cart. p. r. 



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