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son and heir, who was one year old in 1 615.* Ephraim Armorer, 

 of Alemouth, gentleman, appears as a freeholder in the county 

 rate-book of 1628 ; but after 1646, 1 have seen no records of this 

 family in connection with Alnmouth. 



The other large freehold in 1569 was held by the heirs of 

 Richard Clerkson, consisting of one tenement and 60 acres, called 

 Chalford's lands, one croft called Baker's croft, one close called 

 Close hill, one watery bog called Howie kyll, one burgage 

 and certain lands in the vill and fields of Aylemouth at a rent of 

 25s lOd. 



The quit rents of the other burgages ranged from 3d to 2s 6d 

 yearly ; and it may interest some to give a list of the surnames of 

 the burgesses of Alnmouth in the year of grace, 1569. 



Colston 



Hepple 



Shawe 



Wilkinson 



Downey 



Spence 



Walker 



Chaux 



Walter 



Kennyte 



Gybson 



Colstayne 



Walker 



Dreydon 



Awmery 



Watson 



Slegge 



Dagleys 



Man 



Browne 



Dawnde 



Story 



Adam 



Cuthbert 



Midlam 



Boyes 



Whitley 



Alnewick 



Dawson 



Clerkson 



Blaketer 



Bramston 



Kennetty 



Finche 



Harryson 



Symson 



Walker 



Chawndlaine 



Carre 



Anderson 



Nicholson 

 Wrey 



Smart 

 G-aire 



Clerk 



Dobson 



Pringle 



[The clear rental of the manor above reprises was £8 3s ll£d 

 per annum.]f 



Before the Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland, a 

 beacon was maintained by the burgesses of Alnmouth on the 

 Watch hill or Wallop hill, at the west end of the town. Clark- 

 son, in his Survey, begun to be made in 1567, says — "The 

 service of the sayd burgesses is in the time of warres and 

 necessitye to keep, upon their own charge, one good sur watch 

 upon the Wallop hill, as well by daye as by nighte, and also to 

 have ther two beakens of wood sett upon the said hill, the same 

 to be made for fyer pannes to hang therin for warning of the 

 countrye as opportunity shall serve by land or by sea, over and 

 besides the night and neghborly watche aboute the towne."J 



Coming down to more recent times, we find from the county 

 rate book that the principal owners of property in Alnmouth in 



* Ber. Nat. Club's Proc. vol. iv., p. 23. 



t Dickson's Hist, of Alnmouth, p. 55. 



% Maclauchlan's Notes, p. 4. 



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