Sturton Grange. By J. C. Hodgson. 147 



residence of her sister's husband, the Rev. Henry Johnson, where 

 she found refuge. The poor lady ended her days in peace at 

 Eastfield in 1830, and is buried by her father's side in Wark- 

 worth Churchyard. 



In Warkworth Parish we iind the ancient mode of assessment 

 by the ' farm,' for the payment of Church rate and Clerk's wages, 

 continued to 1826. Professor Creighton holds " that the use of 

 " the word farm to signify an original unit of land tenure, is 

 " peculiar to Northumberland ;" and in his address to the 

 Archaeological Institute at Newcastle in 1884 gives the follow- 

 ing quotation : "I believe that in former times the word farm 

 " was used in many parts of this county to express an aliquot 

 " part in value of a township, being one of several portions of 

 " land of which a township consisted, each one of such portions 

 " having originally been of equal value." 



The Rev. John Hodgson in his History apprehends that " a 

 " bovate, or an oxgate of land, as well as a carucate or plough- 

 "land and a husbandland were all the same and consisted of no 

 " very definite quantity of ground, the quality as well as the 

 "quantity of which they were formed being constantly taken 



" into consideration The most modern term for them 



' ' is farm and one of each was as much as was considered 

 "sufficient for the maintenance of one family." We find from 

 the Church books that Warkworth Parish, inclusive of the 

 Chapelry of Chevington, was divided into 147 Farms. In 1794 

 the churchyard wall was rebuilt, each township building its own 

 portion at 2 yards per farm, and beginning with Morwick " at 

 " the North East corner next the tithe barn, and to go round by 

 "the sun." As Sturton Grange contained 8 farms it built 16 

 running yards of walling. An observant eye may even yet detect 

 the initial letter of each township on its portion of the wall. In 

 1826 the Parish Clerk's wages were paid by an assessment of 

 Is 6d per ' farm ;' he received for Sturton Grange from 



s. d. 

 Nicholas Appleby, Esq., 2 Farms 3 



John Jobson, Esq., 3 Farms 4 6 



Jos. Fen wick, Esq., 3 Farms 4 6 



8 Farms sl2 



In connexion with the Grange the Church Books record 

 another ancient Ecclesiastical Assessment. In 1736 the wardens 

 "received for Holy Bread money ending at South Side 13s." 



