ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 189 



By antient cuftom, the real eftates of the freemen were con- 

 fidered as chattels, and they difpofcd of them by will at their 

 difcretion as fuch, which upon an inquifition was allowed and 

 confirmed, 4 K. Edward I (vj. 



King Edward III, confirmed the franchifes of Neivcajlle, and 

 granted it the perpetuity of the moor and lands, called Caftle-moor, 

 and Caftle-felds, to hold of him and his heirs, by the payment of 

 40 s. annually into the exchequer (iv). He exempted it from the 

 jurifdiftion of the admiralty of .England t Sec. (xj--, gave leave for 



Item, fub eadem forma, mandatum eft omnibus libfcriptis, quod Tint ad regem, ed diem 

 pnediftum, cum rege his et aliis locuturi. Rhbardo de HoLbrok, &c. judicibus. 



Rym. Feed. torn. ii. p, 247. &c. 



(u) Sciatis quod dedimus et conceffimus, et hac carta noftra' confirmavimus, pro nobis 

 ethaeredibus noftris, dile&is burgenfibus, et probis homiaibus noftris, villas Navt Cujlri fuper 

 Tynam, omnes terras et tenement*, cum pertinentibus, in Pampeden, in Biker, juxta prae- 

 diftam villam Novi Ca/lri, &c. Et quod prae-Jila villa Navi Cct/lti, qt terrse et tenem. 

 praedifl. in Pdmpedcn unica villa de cet. funt, et unus Burgus, ad uniend. et concluclend. 

 diftam villam -No-vi Coftri in emendationem et augmentationem ejus villz. 



Lib. Cart. 



(v) Confuetud. fail, in N;w> Caf.ro quomlibet burgenfem tenernenta fua, in manu fuo, 

 tanquam catella fua poffe legare, &c. de inquirend. Pat. 3 R. Ed. I. m. 24. in dorfo. 



Burgenfes Novi Ca/lri fuper Tynam poffint legare terras et tenernenta fua tanquam catella 

 cui voluerint, &c. Pat. 4. R. Ed. I. m. 24. Tom. 4. Rot. Turri Londinenji, 



(w) Novo Caflro fuper Tynam licentia fodiertdi carbones et Petras extra muros civitatis in 

 loco vocato le Cqflh-field^ Pat. 24 R. Ed. III. p. 3. m. 6. et anno 31. p. i. m. 5. Dorfo : 

 Et commifT. tangentem eand. mater, m. 25. Tom. 4. Rot. Turri Land, 



(x) Villa novi caftri fuper Tynam libera fit a jurifditione, &c. conftabuli ma-ffhall. et 

 Admirall. Anglice^ et cuflod. marchio. vocat, Earle, Pat. 6. 22 R. Ed. III. n. 39. ibid. 



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