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chattels of Ebrard de Hakelda, a fugitive. Paid into the treasury 

 and is discharged (Hodgson, III. iii. col. 27.) 



There are only a few other notices to be gleaned from this 

 source. In 1232, 16 Henry III., William de Akild owed 1 merk 

 for disseisin (Pipe Eoll, col. 163); this is again given as a fine 

 by the Four Justices in 1233, (col. 166). In 1237 he is returned 

 as owing h merk for disseisin (col. 185). In 1249, 34 Hen. III., 

 on the death of Eobert de Muschamp, William de Akyld holds 

 one knight's fee, and does service of court, and pays cornage, 

 scutage, and the fine of the shire. In the partition of the lands of 

 Isabella de Forde, 1 April, 39 Henry III., 1254, the homage and 

 service of William de Akilde were assigned to the Earl of 

 Stratherne (Eecords of Chancery). He was one of the jury who 

 made the division. William de Accle (possibly the last of the 

 name) signs a Coldingham. charter, No. cxcix. (Eaine's Append, 

 p. 46) of Walter, son of Eobert de Leitholm, once parson of 

 Edenham, of h a carucate of land in Aldengraue, granted to the 

 monks of Durham. 



I have nowhere met with any account of the site of the chapel 

 and churchyard at Akeld, which so far as I understand was 

 situated between the present farm cottages and the public road 

 to Kirk-Newton. I recollect of a piece of waste ground there. 

 It may have been a private foundation of the De Akelds, but a 

 licence would be required for it. There is, however, one Eobert 

 who may have officiated as chaplain. On May 13, 1287, Eobert, 

 clericus de Akelde, was pledge or security in a suit at law, 

 between the master of the Domus Dei at Berwick, and Alex- 

 ander de Bollesdon, about a common pasture on Bowsden, which 

 Thomas, master of the Domus Dei, and William, the son of 

 Eufemia de Gateriswyke, claimed. To be tried hy a jury. 

 (Stevenson's Hist. Doc. i. pp. 33, 34). Possibly this is the Eobert 

 de Coupland, who in 1249 witnesses an obligation made by 

 William, the vicar of Aldcambus, to the Prior of Coldingham. 

 (Cold. Chart. No. oxen. Eaine,p.45j ; and again No.dlxxx., a con- 

 cession to Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, by the Coldingham monks of 

 Akeside burn from Swynsetford to Elmedene mouth (p. 101). 



There are a few scattered notices about the De Couplands in 

 the Pipe Eolls and elsewhere, indicating their presence in the 

 vicinity. In 1219, 3 Henry III., Walter, the son of Patrick the 

 Dreng, rendered account of ten shillings for his fine for the plea 

 of Sampson de Coupland, AYaldef de Ewurthe, and Thomas, the 



