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for its loyalty and faithful fervices, as the record exprefTes it, ex- 

 emption from the power of the fheriff and conftables in matters 

 relating to themfelves ; and that no burgefs fhould be arrefled 

 out of it for any debt, unlefs he was the capital debtor. 



Ring Henry III, by his charter made it a Mayor-Town, 1251 (p) -, 

 being governed before by four bailiffs ; and to his other royal 

 favours, added this gracious one, a grant, during pleafure, of 

 all the demefn-lands belonging to the caftle, called, The Cajllc- 

 Field fqj, containing 850 acres, for free pafture, with liberty to 

 dig coals, and ftones, and to difpofc of them for their ufe to the 

 bell advantage, upon payment of 20 s. into the Exchequer; the 

 bounds and limits of it taken upon inqueft, 31 Q_Elizabeth (rj. 

 His bounty did not flop here. He gave them a field, called, The 

 Forth, adjoining to the other, for the fame ufes, containing n 

 acres, as furveyed by order of the parliament, 1 649, and then 

 valued at 1 2 /. per annum ; for which they were to pay 40 j. into the 

 exchequer (s)i It was alfo provided by his charter, that no Jew 

 fhould refide among them. 



King Edward I. directed a writ of fummons to Neivcajlle in did 

 tenth year of his reign, 1282, to fend two members to parlia- 

 ment ; which is the earlieft upon record for Boroughs to fend any, 

 or for the Commons to lit, except that fummoned under Montfort'9 



(p) Browne Willli. (q) Bourne 



(r) Inquifitio de metis et bunderiis in terra Novi Caflri fttper fynam, vocata Caftle-field^ et 

 terra prioris de Tynemouth, 31 R. Eliz. n. 56. Tom. 4. Rot. turri Londinsnft. 



(s) Gardiner, Ch. iii. p. 9; 



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