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



The patronage probably remained in the hands of the 

 Bishop of Durham till the Reformation, on the eve of which 

 the Abbot and Convent of Alnwick seem to have presented 

 a vicar in 1507 ; and in 1549, Edmund Ryveley and others 

 seem to have assumed the right of presentation for the 

 Abbot and Convent of the lately dissolved Monastery of 

 Alnwick. At the next vacancy of the vicarage in 1560, 

 Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, presents the vicar, 

 and the patronage has continued in the hands of the Percy 

 family ever since. 



In the taxation of all the churches and benefices, 1254, 

 Chatton is placed in the deanery beyond the Coquet, and is- 

 valued : — 



" Chatton ex, marc. Dec. vij. 



Vic' xxxv. marc, Dec. iij."* 



In the taxation of 1292, for tenths of all ecclesiastical 

 benefices granted by Pope Nicholas IV. to Edward L, to- 

 wards the expenses of a crusade, Chatton stands thus : — 



" Chatton Rector' £100 0s. Od. 



Vicar' ejusdem £50 0s. 0d."f 



In the Procuration paid by the clergy in Northumberland 

 in 1357, the 



"Rectoria de Chatton non valet ultra. . . ,xlij7i., et eolvit xxjs. 

 Vicaria ejusdem non valet ultra xiij/i. vj.s. viiji., et sol- 

 vit vjs. viij<f."J 



In 1539, the farm of Chatton rectory amounted to £44 

 6s. 8d.§ For the disposal of the tithes of the parish at the 

 dissolution of Alnwick Abbey, see the " History of Alnwick," 

 ii., pp. 23, 28, 31, 32. 



In the Oliverian Survey of Northumberland, 1650, the 

 return is : — 



"That the Parish of Chatton is a Vicaridge, the Earle of 

 Northumberland, patron, Mr. James Henderson, minister, and 

 the yearly value is thre score pounds. "|| 



The following list of the Vicars of Chatton up to 1775, 

 with a few supplements, is taken from the Randall MS., 

 printed in the appendix to Hutchinson's " Northumberland" : 



* HodgsoD, pait ii., Vol. iii., p. 422. 



t " laxatio Ecclesiastica Anglige et Wallise auctoritate P. Nicholai IY." 

 Printed by command, &c , 1802, fol. p. 31-7. 

 X Hodgson, part ii., Vol. iii., p. 427. 

 § Tate's "Alnwick," i., p. 142. 

 (j Hodgson, V. iii., p. lxxviii. 



