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and in fee of my Lord of Northumberland 10 pound by the year. 

 He may serve the king with 30 horsemen, and is a true wise 

 borderer." (lb. p. 348.) In 1542, ''at Screynwood is a toure 

 and a barmekyn of the Inherytance of John Horseley, Esquire, 

 kepte in very good repaeons." (Bowes and Ellerker's Survey, 

 Hodgson, Part in. v. ii. p. 211.) 



In 1551-52, when the Border watches were instituted, ''the 

 Hogdon Law was to be watched by two men daily of the 

 inhabitants of Cramwood (Screnwood) and Elnane (Alnham) ; 

 setters and searchers of this watch, Thomas Horsley and Outhbert 

 Horsley." (Border Laws, p. 182, Appendix). Sir John Horsley 

 was one of the overseers of the watch. He had been knighted 

 for his bravery at Musselburgh fight, 1547. (Mackenzie's Hist. 

 II. p. 152.) He was captain of Bamburgh. Thomas Horsley 

 of Skyrnwood was a Commissioner for Enclosures upon the 

 Middle Marches, in 1553. (Hodgson Hinde's Hist. p. 360.) 



In the Liber Feodarii, 10 Eliz., 1568, the heir of Cathbert 

 Horsley was seized of and in the manor and ville of Screnwood 

 and of and in the moiety of the manor and ville of Horsley, 

 Brenkheugh, Thristlehaugh, Feeldheed, Lynehirste, Crawysf elde, 

 and of and in Weldon and lands in Tharneham (Farnham.) 

 (Hodgson's Hist., Part iii. v. in. Pref. p. Ixiii.) 



In 1660, Sir Thomas Horsley, Knt., was one of the Eoyalists 

 on whom Charles II. intended to confer the honour of " Knight 

 of the Eoyal Oak." The annual value of his estates was 

 reckoned at £1000. (Hodgson Hinde, p. 392.) In the Book of 

 Rates, 1663, Sir Thomas Horsley is the proprietor of Scarnwood, 

 of which the annual value was £100. His name occurs among 

 a list of the gentry of Northumberland published in Blome's 

 Britannia, 1673, of Long Horsley, Knt. (lb. p. 395.) 



John G. Eiddell, Esq. of Felton Park and Swinburn Castle is 

 the representative in the female line of the Horsleys, and holds, 

 I believe, at least the family did lately, Screnwood. 



