142 Sturton Grange. By J. C. Hodgson. 



when it was granted by the King to Win. Lord Eure, in con- 

 sideration " of good, true, faithful and acceptable service." The 

 Charter recites ; ' that the lands and messuages were in the 

 " occupation of Hunter, Watson, Johnson, Patterson, &c, that 

 " there was a wood called the Abbot's wood of some seven acres, 

 " and a wood called the Abbot's spring containing some six acres, 

 "both in the Parish of Stretton. The grant also includes 

 " Fishings, Commons, Courts Leet, Profits of Court, Views of 

 "Frankpledge, &c, Freewarren, Bondmen and Bondwomen, 

 " Villeins, &c. The lordship of Stretton was of the clear annual 

 "value of £28 6s. 8d. The rent reserved to the King and his 

 " successors is 32s." 



The Eure family was descended from Henry de Eure 3rd son 

 of John Fitz Robert, Lord of Warkworth, who died in 1240.* 

 Kirkley near Ponteland was its principal seat. Wm. Lord Eure 

 was Deputy Warden of the East Marches under Edward VI., f 

 and general of the Army against Scotland in the 12th year of 

 Elizabeth. The fee-farm rent reserved to the King in 1545 is 

 still paid to an Almshouse in Bristol, to which it has been 

 assigned by the Crown. 



A curious glimpse of the unsettled condition of Border Life 

 previous to the Union of the two Crowns is seen in the following 

 extract from " A Booke of the Losses in the Middle Marches of 

 " England by the Scots Thefes " presented to the Warden Court 

 held at Alnwick in 1586. + 



" ComplaynesWiddowJacsonof Sturton Grange, uppon Hewey 



" Douglas and Edward Douglas of, ,that they and 



" ther accomplices, in winter, 1584, hat stolen and receaved of 

 " hers, out of Sturton-grange, 48 shepe, done agaynst the vertue 

 " of trewe, and not redresed, prayinj;e justice herin." 



Hew Douglas hailed from Swynside, Oxnam Water, Rox- 

 burghshire. 



In the Rentals and Rates for Northumberland iu 1663, " Mr. 

 Wm. Ord of Prudho"' was the proprietor of Sturton Grange with 

 a rental of £120; of the Mill with a rental of £10. Of the 

 Grainge Walk Mill neither the proprietor nor rental is given, 

 but its County Rate was 2s. 6d., while that on the Grange 

 was 15s. 



When Walk Mill was separated from the estate and con- 



*C. J- Bates, f Hutchinson. 



% Border Club Transactions, vol. L, p. 71. 



