Mr. J. C. Langlands 07i Old Bewick. 253 



— forvi£ xiiis. liij d. for the farms of 10 copyhold tenants — 

 also X £ — iij d. for 8 tenements at Whlpperdeyi and for xj £ for 

 13 tenants at will in Lilleborne — also for rents in Eglingham — 

 the total Slim on the whole, being lv£ — s. iijd. Of this Eobert 

 Collingwood, oi Beauicke, 6 miles from Scotland, it is said, in 1536, 

 "ho may despend v £ yearly and may serve the king under the 

 Prior of Tynemouth, by the office of Bailiffship of the same, with 

 XX horsemen : and is a true and sharpe borderer." 



The stone tower is mentioned in the return of fortresses in 

 the district of Northumberland compiled, at the command of 

 Hen. VITI. previous to the Battle of Flodden. " Holds and 

 townships to lay in garrisons — owners and inhabitants. 

 Bewick — the prior of Tynemouth — Gilbert Collingwood in- 

 habitant — 40 men — from Tevydale 8, from the Merse 11 

 miles." Thirty years afterwards, in the " Book of the State of 

 the Frontiers and Marches betvvixt England and Scotland," 

 written by Sir Robert Bowes, knight, at the request of the 

 Lord Marquis of Dorset, the warden general, we have — 



" 1550. — At Beioyke is a good tower of the Kings Majesties 

 inheyretaunce as of augmentae'ons of his Grace's Crowne, late 

 belonging to the suppressed Monastery of Tynemouth — A Part 

 thereof is newly covered with leade, and thother parte is not well 

 cov'ed, nor in good reparc'ons. And it is much requysytee that 

 the said tower, were kept in convenyant rep'"^ for it standeth in a 

 fyte place for the defence of the countrye thereabouts and is able 

 in tyme of warre to contayne 50 men in garryson." 



A small part of this pele tower was standing, in the 

 memory of some old persons living, within the last thirty 

 years. Every vestige has now disappeared, except the foun- 

 dations which are visible on the surface of the turnpike road 

 which passes over the site. 



1557. — Mary I. — The priory lands reverted to the crown. 

 From the Escheat Rolls, 10 Eliz., it appears that the queen 

 was found seized of the possessions of the priory. 



3rd May, 12 Eliz., the queen granted them to Sir Henry 

 Percy, by virtue of which grant they remained in the family 

 of Percy till 8 Car. II. (1632), when Henry, earl of North- 

 umberland, the survivor of three grantees, died. Portions of 

 the lands of the priory were from time to time granted by the 

 crown to various persons to be held at a fee farm rent. 



Inter alia ; A Water Mill at Bewick ; the Mill house and 

 curtilege, worth 33s. 4d. yearly, in fee farm to Edw. Ferrers of 

 London, Merchant, and Francis Phillips of London, Gent. 30 Sep. 



