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The mayor and corporation have all the Seignory, Manour, Borongh- 

 Toivn, and Sake of Berwick upon Tweed, with all and fmgular their 

 rights, members, and appurtenances ; all the houfes, edifices, 

 buildings, ftables, ftore-houfes, lands, tenements, cottages, 

 wafte-grounds and foil whatsoever which belonged to the crown 

 within the Signory, Manour, or Borough ; all the crown-lands and 

 fields adjoining to the town, commonly called the Bounds and 

 Fields of Berwick; alfo all thofe crown-lands, tenements, mea- 

 dows, paftures, feedings, commons, demefnc-lands, mefiuages, 

 mills, houfes, edifices, barns, ftables, out-houfes, orchards, gar- 

 dens, waftes, heaths, furz, moors, marches, fruits, profits, wa- 

 ters, fifhings, fifhing-places, fuit, foke, rents, reverfions, and 

 fervices, as well of free and cuftomary tenements, fermes, fee- 

 fermes, annuities, knights-fees, wards, marriages, efchaets, re- 

 leafes, herriots, fines, amerciments, rights, jurifdicftions, fran- 

 chifes, privileges, and hereditaments whatfoever, of whatfoever 

 kind, nature, or degree, or by whatfoever names they be known,. 

 lying or fituated within the Signory, Manour, and Borough of Ber- 

 ivick. 



This Signory or Manour is thus abuttclled ; beginning at the port 

 or haven, and extending northwards by the more of the fea, and 

 the fea-banks, to a certain path or way, commonly called, The 

 brown rod, and by the fame brown rod weflward to the rivulet of 

 Witteter, and from the other fide of it by the fame brown rod to 

 the river Tweed, and from thence by the banks of the Tweed 

 eaftward unto the port or haven of the borough of Berwick. 



The crown hath referved to itfelf the caftle, built on the town- 

 wall ; all the edifices, and buildings belonging to it ; the water- 

 mill near the wall, commonly called, The caftle-water ; all the 

 lands, tenements, clofes, and other hereditaments, known, or 



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