Notices of Chatton, by Messrs. Procter and Hardy. 59 



site ; at the dissolution, about 1539, Alnwick Abbey held in 

 Chatton, two tenements, at a rental of 8s.* 



September 20, 1224, is the date of a " Deed of Ordination, 

 or Settlement of the Church of Chatton," by Richard de 

 Marisco, Bishop of Durham — and chancellor of England at 

 the beginning of the reign of Henry III.-f* 



u To all the faithful in Christ, 



" Richard, by the grace of God, Bishop of Durham — greeting 

 in the Lord. — ' Know ye that whereas our beloved sons in 

 Christ, the Abbot and Convent of Alnwick of the one part, and 

 Lord Richard de Vesci, Vicar of the Church of Chatton, and 

 Canon of Beverley, of the other part, have of their own accord 

 and absolutely placed under our disposal whatever right they 

 have in the said Church at Chatton, we have ordered concerning 

 the same church after this manner, that is to say, that the colla- 

 tion or donation of the Vicarage of the said Church of Chatton 

 shall remain in us and our successors for ever, which Vicarage shall 

 consist for ever of all obventions, small tithes, revenues and 

 proceeds of every kind to the said Church and its Chapels 

 belonging by whatever name they are called, except the tithes 

 of corn and the land of Doddington which belongs to the afore- 

 said Church, from which land nevertheless the Vicarage of the 

 aforesaid Church of Chatton shall have a competent Manse for 

 ever : but all the tithes of corn to the said Church of Chatton, 

 and its Chapels belonging, we have granted, and by this present 

 writing confirmed unto the Abbot and Convent of Alnwick to be 

 taken and converted to their own proper use — but the Vicar to 

 whomsoever the said Vicarage shall be collated by us and our 

 successors, shall personally reside in the same, and shall keep up 

 the ordinary burdens to the said Church of Chatton belonging, 

 and shall have the said Manse in the said village of Doddington, 

 and also the land which belongs to the Church in the village of 

 Chatton for ever. 



" And that this our said ordination may be firm and lasting, as 

 well our seal, as the seal of the Chapter of Alnwick have been 

 affixed to this writing. Before these witnesses. Symon, our 

 chamberlain ; William of Arundel ; Godfrey, Vicar of Woodhorn; 

 Michael, Vicar of Benton ; Hugh de Goherst ; Stephen de 

 Burton ; Roger de Lacy, our client, and others, Given at 

 Auclent [Auckland] by the hand of Henry our chaplain, on the 

 morrow of St. Michael, in the eighth year of our Pontificate. ' "J 



* Ibid, p. ix., xi. ; Ibid, p. 26. 



f Hodgson, iii., Vol. ii. Beg., i., Eccles. Dunelm, part 2, p. 5. 

 X Baine makes 1217 the first year of his Pontificate, which is also the date 

 specified in the " Chronicle of Melrose." 



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