On a Spoon found at Mousin. By James Hardy. 365 



He was succeeded by another Henry. In tlie ** Rotuli Hundredorum, 3 

 Edward I. ( 1274 , a jury of inquisition found that Henry de Molesfen holds 

 the vill of Mulesfen of the lord the king in chief by free sokage, paying 

 thence 30 shillings for his farm, and 14d for cornage, and he pays to the 

 castle of Bamburgh 3 merks for multure, and shall lead by the year 1 5 trunks 

 of trees by turns, and in autumn shall make one carriage with ] 2 wains by 

 turns, being allowed one meal by the day, and shall reap with 26 men for 

 one day by turns, on the allowance of one meal for the day, and shall plough 

 with six ploughs once in the year, one meal of food being allowed for the 

 day, and the same ' ' villata, ' ' (or combination of vills) shall give pannage 

 for their hogs which shall be found above a year's age at the feast of Holy 

 Cross in autumn (Sept. 14), and for each pig ttiat feeds in the open field one 

 penny at the feast of Martinmas in winter (Nov. 11,) in the name of pannage 

 to the king's agistors of Wytingeham.* 



It had been then the practice of the little townlets and hamlets holding of 

 Bamburgh by a similar tenure, to graze their pigs at Whittingham during 

 the acorn season ? ; a blank unfortunately occurring in the document, can 

 only be conjecturally filled up. 



At the same date the jury said that the villates of Socston (Shoreston) 

 Sunderland, Beednal and Mulfen were wont to come to [the woods ?] of 

 Wyttenham with their hogs, and there to agist them (or pay a stipulated price 

 for their pasture) to the agistor of the lord the king, but now for twenty 

 years by past they had not come, to the great loss of the king, t 



The great trees of Whittingham vale probably also supplied much of the 

 materials of the truncage for fuel insisted on as the special work of the great 

 tenants of the castle-lands of Bamburgh. 



In '■ Placita de quo Warranto," 21, Edw. I. (1292), Roger de Mulfen was 

 summoned about some tenements, and he pled that they were of the inherit- 

 ance of Beatrix his wife, whose name was omitted in the brief, and the plea 

 was accepted. % 



The Mulefens disappear. In 33 Edw. I., (1304), Thomas de Camera 

 obtains an inquisition for licence of infef tment for Robert his son, of Mules- 

 fen manor holding of Bamburgh Castle, of two carucates of land at Yernum, 

 and one carucate at Ederston.§ We again hear of the property of Mulesfen in 

 the following grant, 3. Edw. Ill (132S-9 . Newland has been dissevered from 

 the manor, which still retains certain rights. The king then granted to 

 Thomas de Bamburgh for his life-time all the lands and tenements with their 

 Pertinents which belonged to John Middleton, forfeited for treason, in '4a 

 Neweland, " and Warndham, which are valued at £7'7*6 annually, by pay- 

 ment annually to the king of £6 -9 '10, and to the Prior of St. Oswald 6s 8d, 

 and to the proprietor of Mulesfen 2s, with which the said lands and tenements 

 in "]a Newland" are burdened annually to the said prior and proprietor. || 



Mulesfen had passed to the Swinhoes in the reign of Elizabeth. In 1576, 



* Eot. Hund. i. p. 95. 



t lb. p. 92. 



X Hodgson's Northd., vol. iii. pt. ii., p. 187. 



§ Inq.p. M. i.,p. 55. 



II Originalia, ii. p. 305. 



