ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 313 



founder of Brinkburn-^iorj (s). He was fucceeded in his barony 

 by his eldeft fon, 



Sir Roger Bertram, who by paying fifty marks to the crown, 3 

 K. Henry II, acquired a weekly market at his villa of Mitford. He 

 was fucceeded by his fon and heir, 



Sir William Bertram, who died about the 8 K. John ; and was 

 fucceeded by his fon, 



Sir Roger Bertram, to whom K. Henry III. granted, on the pay- 

 ment of ten marks, that his annual fair at Mitford mould lafl 

 eight days inftead of four (tj. He died, 26 K, Henry III. His fon, 

 the third 



Roger Bertram, Baron of Mitford, being in the confederacy of the 

 Barons againft that King, his honour and caftle of Mitford, and 

 all his lands in this county, were feized for the king's ufe ; of 

 which an inquifltion was taken in the fame reign (u), and i K. 

 Ed-ward I (x). The caftle, and part of the caftle-demefnes, and 



two 



(s) Ex jfutographo perantiquo. 



(i) Rogerus de Bertram tenet de Dom. Rege in capite Baroniam fuam de Mitfor'Jper fervic, 

 v feod. milit. Et omnes anteceflbresfui per eund. fervic. poft conqueftum Angliis tenuerunt j 

 ac nihil eft alienatum, aut datum, unde Dom. Rex minus habeat de fervicio fuo. 



Tefta de Nevill. 



(u) Madox's Hift. of the Excheq. p. 286. 



(x) Rogerus Bertram tenet in capite de Dom. Rege villam de Mitford, cum fuis membri?, 

 viz. Newton-Underwood, Throple, Benridge, Meldon, Edington, Pigdon, Aldworth, Efp- 

 ley, Grangium de Highley et Highley, Eland cum fui; mcmbris, viz. Merdesfen, Kirkley, 



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