Notices of Ckatton, by Messrs, Procter and Hardy. 57 



heirs should have ever one market at his own manor of Chatone 

 in the county of Northumberland, weekly on Wednesday, and 

 one fair yearly, to continue for eight days, to wit, on the vigil, 

 and on the day, and on the morrow of the Exaltation of Holy 

 Cross (Sept. 14), and for five days following* . . , and so 

 he claimed the liberties contained in the aforesaid charter ; and 

 the other liberties contained in the brief, he claimed from an- 

 tiquity. And he said that he and all his ancestors from time 

 immemorial used them uninterruptedly, excepting in about two 

 hundred acres of wood and moor in Chattone, which were within the 

 forest, but afterwards by the present lord king were disafforested-, 

 and in these he claimed not chase and warren." 



In 1634 the tenants of Chatton complained in the Baron 

 Court of Alnwick of Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham taking 

 land of Chatton without right, and enclosing from Chatton 

 Common-]-. This encroachment may refer to the enclosure 

 made by the park-wall of Chillingham, which projects with 

 an elbow into Chatton Moor on the west. Robin Hood's 

 Bog, to which, when disturbed, the wild cattle habitually 

 resort, and to which tradition points as their pristine habitat, 

 is at the extreme elbow of this conjectural intake. Can Sir 

 Ralph Grey, or any of his predecessors, have enclosed what 

 was once " the Kelsowe " ? 



The Inquisition of 1368 states the value of the manor of 

 Chatton to be £35 2s. 4d. ; whereas in 1289, it was valued 

 at £68 16s. l|d., a falling off caused probably by the waste 

 of the Border wars. 



In parliament of the 6th year of Richard II. (1382), the 

 two representatives of Northumberland, Adomar de Athol 

 and Ralph de Eure, had wages at 6 s. per day, for which a 

 county cess was levied, and Chatton as its share paid, 

 ■' iiis. ivd"l 



Reveley is a prominent name among the inhabitants of 

 Chatton about 1550. In Hodgson's "Northumberland," is 

 given a list of the gentlemen, inhabitants of the East 

 Marches, in 1550, one of whom is " Thomas Reveley, 

 Baylive of Chattone." And in an order for night watches 

 against Scotch invaders in October, 1552, Thomas Reveley 



* The right of holding: market and fair at Chatton and Alnmouth was 



f anted to William de Vescy, 37 Hen. III., a.d. 1253. — Hodgson, part iii., 

 ol. ii., p 391. Mr. Tate makes the day of the fair to he on " the beheading 

 of Saint John the Baptist." It is here corrected from the original, 

 f -Tate's " History of Alnwick," i., 351. 

 X Appendix to Wallis* " Northumberland," ii., p. 3. 



