58 Notices of Ohatton, by Messrs. Procter and Hardy. 



is appointed to set the watches at Lyem bridge, the Bull- 

 ford, and the Kyrk-ford upon the Till, within the bounds of 

 Lyem and Chatton ; and the same Thomas Reveley, Baylef 

 of Chatton, was appointed a commissioner for the inclosures 

 of the East Marches, "from Glen to Bremish between Tyll 

 and Cheviott." By the same ordinances, men of Chatton, 

 with other places named, kept the nigh- watch " from Lang- 

 ley-ford to Ryden-burne"; the fords from Lyham to Chatton 

 being watched by men from Lyem, HessUrigge, Bell-ford, 

 and Howburne*. 



Chatton, with various other townships in the barony, 

 was obliged annually to send armed men to guard the town 

 of Alnwick during the fair. Chatton and Chillingham 

 provided four men, and the custom is still bindingf. 



The townships in this parish are Chatton, Coldmartin, 

 Fowberry, Hazelridge, Hetton, Hettonhouse, Horton, Lyham, 

 and Weetwood. 



The Church at Chatton was parcel of Alnwick Abbey. 

 William de Vescy, son of Eustace de Vescy the founder of 

 the abbey, by a charter between the year 1157 and 1184 

 granted the church of Chatton " to God, and the church of 

 St. Mary at Alnwick and the Canons of the Premonstra- 

 tensian order— servants of God — in that place," for the 

 salvation of himself, his father Eustace, and mother Beatrix, 

 and of all his ancestorsj. The name of Hugo, " sacerdos de 

 Chetton," witnesses the similar grant of the church of 

 Chillingham, by the same bountiful patron to. the same 

 convent; and Bernard, "parsona de Chettone," witnesses 

 another grant of this William de Vescy to the same. In a 

 farther gift, by another William de Vescy, who flourished 

 from 1215-1250, of a toft in " Villa de Chettone," containing 

 a circuit of 44 perches, each perch containing 20 feet, also to 

 this abbey, we have probably the names and number of the 

 resident clergy at Chatton, at the period of the donation. 

 They were Master Robert Bataill, then vicar, and Roger and 

 Andrew, " clericis de Chettone." The two first belonged to 

 the Church as it existed before its settlement in 1224, when 

 Lord Richard de Vesci (Canon of Beverley) was vicar. De 

 Vesci may have been succeeded by Robert Bataill, who had 

 two assistant curates. With regard to the toft, or building 



* Nicolson's " Border Laws," p. 212, &c. 



t Wallis, ii., 383 ; Tate,i., p. 441. 



% Tate's " Alnwick," ii., p. 5 j and Appendix, p. ix. (abridged). 



