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Yoik, to pay ^100 for the expences of the Queen and her 

 household, in living after us, at Warke ; that is, for the 

 expences of Her Majesty's living there, after the King had 

 left that place. — (Liberate Bolls.) 



The History of Chatton may be very shortly told. It was 

 one of the Manors attached to the great Barony of Alnwick. 



Previous to the Norman Conquest, it was possessed by the 

 powerful Northern Baronial family of Tyson. 



At the Conquest (A.D. 1066) it came by grant of King 

 William to the De Vescys. In that family it continued 243 

 years, till the reign of Edward II. 



In A. D. 1309, it was purchased by the great Yorkshire 

 Baron, Henry de Percy, in whose family it has continued ever 

 since, (saving occasional attainders), and it now belongs to 

 Algernon Percy, Duke of Northumberland, the Chief of that 

 Noble and Ancient Race. 



I must also be permitted to note that Chatton may be on an 

 equality with Chillingham, that King Edward I. was at the 

 former place on the 16th of August, 1291 ; he was then on 

 the Borders to decide upon the rights of the rival claimants 

 to the Kingdom of Scotland : 



1st of August the King was at Coldstream. 



2nd of August at Berwick. 



12th of August ditto. 



I6th of August at Chatton, from whence 



he issued the following writ. 

 Liberate Bolls Anno 19, Edward I. m. 2. 

 Rex Baronibus suis de Scaccario Salutem. Allocate Waltero de 

 Cambehou, Constabulario Castri Nostri de Bamburgh in 

 Exitibus Ballivae suoe quadriginta et sex solidos et Octo 

 denarios quos per preceptum nostrum solvit pro Robis ad 

 opus Besi ab Maylgon et Canani ab Merdath Walensium in 

 Castro predicto Existentium, et unius garcionis eis minis- 

 trantes, videlicet, pro robis Besi et Canani quadraginta solidos 

 et pro roba predicti garcionis sec solidos et octo denarios de 

 anno regni nostri decimo nono Et sex libras et sex decern 

 denarios quos similiter per preceptum nostrum posint in 

 Expensis predictorum Besi et Canani et eorum garcionis in 



