404 Notices of Heatlcpool. By James Hardy. 



In 1292, by a plea of de Quo Warranto before H. de Cressingham and 

 other justices on an occasion already referred to, Walter de Huntercumbe 

 (son of William de Huntercumbe and Isabella) was summoned to show 

 what claim he had to warren in all his demesnes in Chevelyngham, 

 Beleford, Wesyngton, Hethrepol, and Lowyck ; also corrections of the 

 assise of beer broken in the said vills and in Hedrislaw, without licence. 

 And Walter came and showed that the present King in the 19th year of his 

 reign (1288) granted to Walter and his heirs free warren in all his demesne 

 lands in Northumberland. And the amendment of the assise of beer 

 broken (malt) he claims from antiquity : he and his ancestors had held it 

 from time immemorial. The jury held that he had used the said right of 

 warren reasonably, and had the amendment of the assise of malt by im- 

 memorial usage, and that he punished transgressors by fine and not 

 judicially. And that the said Walter has not " judicalia " etc., neither had 

 his ancestors.* 



Walter de Huntercombe died 6 Edw. II., 1312, seized of a moiety of the 

 Barony of Muschampe. His heir to this section of his property was his 

 nephew, Nicholas Newbaud, who shortly afterwards changed his name to 

 Huntercombe, and alienated by licence, 20 Edw. II., 1316, the whole of 

 that property. To Nicholas Menille he granted the Forest of Cheviot ; and 

 to John de Lillebourne, the reversion of the moiety of his manors of 

 Belford, Yesington, Lowick, and Hethpole, which Ellen, widow of Walter 

 de Huntercombe held for life in dower.f 



In 25 Edw. III., 1352, John de Coupland (the capturer of David II.,) 

 and Joane his wife, were licenced to acquire from Sir John de Lillebourne, 

 Knight, 3 Knight's fees, and among others, his manors of Woller, Hethpol, 

 and Heddon, and the moiety of the manor of Wooler.^ In 46 Edw. III., 

 1371-72, the King gave licence to Joane, widow of John de Coupland, to 

 grant, reserving the rents for her lifetime, among others the manor of 

 Wooler to Richard Arundell, son of the Earl of Arundell, remainder to Sir 

 John Arundell, Knight. By the inquisition on the death of John Arundell, 

 3 Richard II., 1379, it appears that he had granted shortly before his death 

 to his brother, the bishop of Ely and others, three Knight's fees, apparently 

 the whole of the above land that John de Coupland had acquired. The 

 moiety of the manor of Wooler, with Trollope is comprehended in this 

 arrangement, but Heathpol is not in the extract from the Tower Records, 

 nor in the Inq. post Mortem, II., p. 251. || 



The de Hetons, a Cumberland family, who succeeded the Huntercombes 

 in Chillingham, held also a portion of Hethpole. In 8 Ric. II., 1384, 

 Thomas de Heton of Chillingham held the half of Hethpole vill and 

 demesne. § 



* Ford Tithe Case, Printed, p. 224, 225. 



flnq. ad quod Damnum, 20 Edw. II., no. 21, Pat. 20, Ed. II., no. 25; 

 Ford Tithe Papers. 



% MS. Tower ; Ford Tithe Papers. 



|| Ford Tithe Papers, in MS., nos. 17, 18, 19. 



§ Inq-, p. M. II., p. 67, Hodgson III., ii., p. 255. 



