458 Lesbury Parish, by the late George Tate, F.G.S. 



There are other monumeats to Brown of Alndyke, the Garretts 

 of Wooden, to Roseden of Bilton Barns, to the Oarrs of Hipsburn, 

 and to the Marchs of Field House. 



[An instance of longevity is recorded in 1756, December 31 : 

 — "Died at Lesbury, Mary Bennet, aged 110, who (except her 

 sight, which she lost about three years before) enjo}^ed all her 

 faculties to the last."* 5 ] 



[Mr Tate notes the following remarkable names of places in 

 Lesbury township or parish : — Gozell Hill, Swelly Hill, Shell 

 Laws, Edin Hill ; Wildhope Hall, £ mile north of Bilton ; Hun- 

 gerup farm, Lesbury.] 



HAWKHILL.f 



Hawkhill township is in the north part of the parish of 

 Lesbury, and has an area of 736a. Or. 14p. ; viz., land, 

 709.565 acres, public roads, 12.965 acres, railway, 2.933 

 acres, and water 10.624 acres. 



Richard de Hauekehill held it of William de Vescy by one 

 fee of ancient feoffment, that is before 1135 jf and in 1289 

 Nicholas de Hauekille held it by one fee, and an yearly pay- 

 ment of 13s 4d, the estate being then worth £12 yearly ; he, 

 at unknown date, granted a rent out of Hawkhill to Brink- 

 burn Priory.|| John de Burghdon in 1314 held it, being 

 then worth £16 yearly by one fee and the payment yearly 

 of 13s 4d for Castle ward;§ and in 1346, Alicia Burghdon 

 held the vills Hauchill and Heworth (Ewart) of Henry de 

 Percy, by homage and fealty, by service of one fee and one 

 third, and payment for Castle Ward 17s 9|d ; they were 

 worth £20 yearly.1T From an inquisition made in 1368 we 

 find that both Hawkhill and Ewart were in possession of 

 Thomas de Gray, on the same conditions as those by which 

 they were held by Burghdon ; as early as 1345 Thomas de 

 Gray had a free warren 'in Hawkhill, and ever since 

 that time Hawkhill has belonged to the family of Grey, 

 and is now the property of Earl Grey. In the Court Leet, 



* Table Book, ii., p. 69. 

 [f This is written variously, Hawkyll, Haukille, Haukhill, Hauekille, 

 Hauchill, Haukehall, Haukle, Awkehyll, &c ] 



[t Testa de Neville — Michael Hawkille witnesses a charter of Eustace de 

 Vescy to Alnwick Abbey ; E; chard de Hawkill witnesses one of William de 

 Vescy; Nicholas de Hawkill witnesses one of William de Vescy, son of 

 Eustace ; and also of John de Vescy ] 



|| Arch. iEliana. 

 [§ See Hartshorne's Feud, and Mil. Antiq. Northd. vol. ii , App. p. exxiii.] 

 H Ibid. p. exxix. 



