Notice of Screnwood. By James Hardy. 553 



Scot. I. p. 28). The charter in the Patent Eolls, bears the date 

 of 9 Edward III., 1334-35. In the grant were included all the 

 lands that belonged to Sir John de Middleton (Cal. Eot. Pat., p. 

 123). This grant was renewed, 33, Edward III., 1358-9 (Ibid, 

 pp. 170, 171). 



When Henry Percy, the second baron of that name, died, 26 

 Edward III., 1353, Sir John de Strivelyn held the '* villatse" of 

 Burneton, Prestone and Scranewood, of the said Henry by 

 homage, aud by service of one knight's fee, and the third part 

 of a knight's fee, and by the service of paying annually on the 

 15th July, 13s. 4d. ob. for castle ward, and the subjects were 

 worth £20 annually ; having become depreciated one half since 

 1289. (Inq. p. M. apud Hartshorne, ii. Appendix, p. cxxvii). 

 In the Inquisition on Henry Percy, the third baron, surnamed 

 "lePier," who died on Ascension day, 1368, Sir John de 

 Stryvelyn still held Burneton, Preston, and Scranwode in de- 

 mense, by homage and fealty, and by the service of the third 

 part [so that the property had become sub-divided] of a knight's 

 fee, and suit of court at Alnwick " de tribus in tres," and by 

 the service of paying annually on the 15th July, 17s. 9d. ob. for 

 castle ward, and the annual value of the property was £20. 

 (Attested MS. copy of Inquis. 42 Edw. III). 



Before this date, Scranwood had in part at least obtained a 

 new owner or new manager. Eoger de Horsley who died 33, 

 Edward III. (1358-8) held Scranwood manor, and lands and 

 tenements at Horsley ^' (Inq. p. M. ii. p. 218). His son Thomas 

 however had not adopted a procedure quite legal to obtain the 

 succession. In the same year, an entry in the '' Originalia " 

 states, that the king for a fine of £20 has pardoned Thomas, son 

 and heir of Eoger de Horsley, deceased, his transgression of 

 occupying the manor of Scranwode and certain tenements in 

 Horsley in the county of Northumberland, held of the king and 

 his heirs, and with other capital demesnes of that fee by services, 

 &c. And that the moiety of the said manor holding of the king 

 in capite for homage and fealty, by the service of the sixth part 

 of one knight's fee, and by the service of 8 pence or one pair of 

 gilt spurs by the year, being by reason of the fiefs which per- 



* Eoger de Horsley was captain of Bamburgh Castle, 12 Edward II., 

 1337-8, — Abbrev. Rot. Orig. i. p. 241 ; and one of tbe keepers of the truce 

 between the English and the Scots in 1320. lb. p. 258. He may have 

 obtained Scranwood in reward of his services. 



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