S54 Mr. J. C. Langlands 07i Old Bewick. 



7 Jas. I. The Manor of Bewick all the fee farm rents there, 

 also, all lands and tenements Bewick Magna^ parcel of the said 

 Manor, worth £19 14s. per annum ; besides a Water Corn Mill 

 valued at 668. 8d per ann : tenements and land in New Bewick, 

 parcel of the said Manor, worth £6 13s. 4d. — per ann: 8 tene- 

 ments on Whipperden, parcel of the said Manor worth £10 Os. 4d. 

 yearly — certain lands, tenements in East Lilbourne, parcel of the 

 Baid Manor, worth £1 lOs. 2d. yearly : certain of lands tenements 

 and cottages in Eglingham, parcel of the said Manor, worth 

 £2 9s. 3d. — besides a mill there, worth £l 3s. 4d. — the new 

 rents in Bewick, amounting to 6s. 9d. yearly and all the perquys- 

 ites and profits of the Court there ; being of the total value (ex- 

 elusive of parquysites) of £36 7s. — were granted to Edw. Ramsay 

 and others 22 Jas. I June 29. 



The tithes of the rectory of Tynemouth and the tithes of 

 Wylam are the only tithes mentioned in the ^' Particulars of 

 the Sale of the Fee Farm Rents." No record has been dis- 

 covered of the disposal of the other parts of the spiritual pos- 

 sessions of the dissolved monastery, but some information is 

 afforded by the Oliverian Inquisition or Survey of Church 

 Livings taken at Morpeth on June 1st, 1652, which contains, 

 among other presentments, that the parish of Eglingham is 

 a vicarage, the late Bishop of Durham patron thereof, Mr. 

 — Ellwood minister, and the value thereof £60 per ann. ; 

 that there are four chappels, viz., Bewick, Branton, Brandon, 

 and Lillburne, and that it is fitt that Brandon and Branton 

 be united to Ingram Church, and East Lillburne and Woo- 

 perton to the church at Ilderton. The valuable tithes of the 

 church at Eglingham became, in the thirteenth century, 

 appropriate to S. Alban's ; owing to the proximity to the 

 Borders the value diminished. 



1533. — Lease granted by Robert the Abbot to Cuthbert 

 Ogle of Chopynton, gent. In 1589 the tithes of Bewick and 

 of Eglingham were leased to Sir Henry Widdrington. On 

 March 9th, 30 Hen. VIII. , they were demised to Sir Thomas 

 Hilton, knight, having been held by the monastery four hun- 

 dred and five years and very few of the original possessions 

 lost — a contrast to the history of landed estates of laymen ! 



In the rentals and rates for Northumberland in 1663 



The value of New Bewick is stated . . £110. 

 „ Old Bewick „ .. £114. 



„ East Lillbourne „ .. £100. 



At this time Mr. William Delaval of Dissington was the pro- 

 prietor. 



