ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



of Carham was allowed IT, 1. per annum, as mentioned in the Lin- 

 c<j/-taxation, 19 K. Edward I, 1291. The abbey was burnt by the 

 Scots, 24th of the fame reign, 1296. They alfo laid the villa ofPre/t- 

 fen in afhes. Other villages in the neighbourhood met with the 

 fame fate, which can fed K. Edward, who then lodged at Col dftr earn, 

 to come to 7^7r-caflle (kj. He afterwards took fevere vengeance 

 on their leader, Sir // illiam Wallafe. In 44 K. Edward III, 1370, the 

 Scots being on the point of crofling the Tweed at this village loaden 

 with ' Englijh plunder, were attacked by Sir John Lilburn, and his 

 brother. The engagement was long and obflinate. At length, 

 Sir John and his brother were defeated, and both taken prifoners. 

 Here was a fmall tower in it, which is mentioned by Lehmd, who 

 calls it " a little tower of defence againft the Scots (I)" The 

 village is fmall, but well built ; many plantations of young 

 foreft-trees about it, thriving and vigorous ; the church fmall, 

 lately repaired. 



The minifter's houfe is at the north-eafl end of the village ; 

 neat and convenient ; of ftone, and partly hewn work ; built by 

 the prefent incumbent, Mr. Richard Wallls, A. M. late fellow of 



Sciant prsefentes et futuri, quod ego Walterus Efpec dedi et conceffi canonicis dc Klrkham, 

 totum manerium de Titlington, et ecclefiam de Ililertan, cum omnibus eidcm ecclefias perti- 

 nentibus, et totam teiram Ulfkilli, clerici : Et ecclefiam de Carram fuper Twedam fluvium, 

 cum omnibus eidem ecclcfiae pertinentibus, et totam villam de Carram, cum omnibus 

 eidem villae pertinentibus, et terris et aquis, in pratis et pafcuis, pifcariis, molendinis, et in 

 divifis, et in confuetudinibus ejufdem villae : Et totam terram Ulfkilli, clerici, quam de me 

 tenebat in eadem villa, ficut alii liberi homines ejufdem vill;e per eafJem divifas. Et omnes 

 meas dominicas decimas, et nominatim decimam denariorum de cenfu terrarum mearum de 

 Northumberland. Et fi dedero alicui aliquam ex terris illis, femper decima remanebit ecclefix 

 S. Trinitatis de Kirkkam. 



Carta fecundse fundat. priorat. de Kirkbam. Ex cartulario de Rhall, in Bibliotb. 

 Cotton, fol. 136. b. citat. Monaft. Angl. vol. ii. p. 106. 



(k) Hoi. Chron. vol. ii. p. 297. 



(1) Lei. Itin. vol. vii. p. 62. 



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