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



attached. In 1873 there are 60 — most comfortable tenures 

 for the labouring poor. 



In 1663, the rental of the Earl of Northumberland's land 

 and mill in Chatton was £300 ; and the rates, £1 17s. 6d. ; 

 Lord Gray for the value of the tithes, £80 ; rated at 9s. ; the 

 Earl of Northumberland for the mill, £20 ; rated at 2s* 

 The rental of the parish for the courts and gaol in 1809 was 

 £16,202 8s. 6d. ; the annual value in 1815 for the property 

 tax was £14,910. The value in 1873 for the poor rates was 

 £15,886 3s. 6d. The poor rates in 1837 were £811. The 

 contents of the parish by the Ordnance Survey are 

 17334*786 acres ; and of the township of Chatton alone, 

 6554*268 acres. 



The two following domestic incidents are curious illustra- 

 tions of the superstition and rough ^manners of bygone 

 times : — 



Newcastle, 21 Aug., 1650. — "Jane Martin, the millar's wif of 

 Chattin (was executed) for a wich."f 



Baron Court, Alnwick, 1638. — "Chatton, Ealph Hebborne, 

 for robbing of Lyonell Tyndale's wheat, being a thafe, amerced 

 for his fault 3s. 4d., and his wife, being a scold, 3s. 4d."| 



In the churchwarden's presentments we have in Spear- 

 man's MS. for Chatton vicarage : — 



" 21 Oct., 1681. Church out of repair." 



"Present. Ralph Muschamp, &c, for not coming to church." 



"Will. Brown, Thos. Burrell, Robt. Swinburne, &c, for not 

 paying church dues." 



[An inspection, with which Mr. Middlemas has favoured 

 me, of attested copies of the Inquests of 1356 and 1368, on 

 the deaths of Lord Henry Percy II. and III., respectively, 

 enables me to bring some incidents about Chatton into the 

 regular line of history, and also helps to explain the partially 

 dilapidated condition of the township in 1368. In 1352, the 

 destruction of the manor is represented as being quite recent, 

 and in the body of the record, under Den wick, the deprecia- 

 tion of property there is attributed to the "ever troublesome 

 Scots, and enemies of our Lord the King." Lord Percy had 

 not long before cruelly burnt and spoiled Scotland, and 

 roused against himself and all his belongings a nest of 



* Kerr's " Old Book of Rates," p. 39. 

 f Richardson's " Table Book," i., p. 282. 

 X Tate's •' History of Alnwick," i., p. 351. 



