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from the numerous deeds signed b.y bearers of their surname, 

 they had been accustomed to be close attenders on the prior's 

 courts. The first occurrence of the name in Northumberland is 

 in the Pipe Eolls, anno 1235, 19 Henry III., when among the 

 fines made by William of York and his associates, Adam 

 Prendegest is mulcted ^ mark for disseisin. Thrice he is 

 summoned 1236, 1237, being the other dates, but no payment 

 was obtainable, (cols. 176, 181, 187). He is classed near some 

 people from Wooler who were in a similar predicament. There 

 is nothing to shew why he was in Northumberland at all. In 

 Berwickshire, the Adam de Prendergest of that period, is he who 

 along with his son Henry, are obliged owing to their necessitous 

 circumstances to sell several of their natives to the Coldingham 

 monks, which would impoverish them still more. From the 

 Correspondence and Account Eolls of the Priory of Coldingham 

 it appears that in 123-5 in the time of Thomas Prior of Durham, 

 Adam de Prendregest and his heirs were the homagers of the Prior 

 of Durham for Prendregest and \ carucate of land in the vill of 

 Coldingham (p. 241). The next we have to follow up is Henry 

 do I'rendergest. In the Inq. p.m. 3 Edward III. (1328-9) Second 

 Nos. n. 1. Henry Prendregest de Scocia, miles, is represented 

 as holding in Akild 1 messuage, and 40 acres of arable land, etc., 

 paying suit of court at Wolloure. It is just possible that he was 

 not dead, because there is a direction as for an Inq. de ad quod 

 dampnum extent, etc., which seems to point out what was the 

 principal object of the inquiry. The reference, however, cannot 

 be found. This being but a small acreage for Akeld there is a 

 presumption that Henry had married one of heiresses-female, 

 and the eldest of them who had the mansion house. What confirms 

 this is that in 12 Edward II., 1318, there was issued another 

 writ of Inq. ad quod Damnum, apparently to ascertain why William 

 Hasilrig held the fourth part of Akilde manor (Inq. ad quod 

 Damnum, p. 258, No. 82). There were probably four heiressess 

 among whom the land was parcelled out, and the subdivision 

 would be entered in the records of the court of the superior lord. 

 There would thus be 160 acres of arable land to be accounted for, 

 the pasturage not being included. This is all that we know about 

 the Akeld Sir Henry, and we may now take up his Berwickshire 

 co-temporary of the same name and title, most probably himself, 

 commencing with 1296. In a Coldingham charter of that date, 

 No. cccr. of H of acre land in " le flores," i.e. Coldingham Fleurs 



