500 Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



In the garden much interest was taken in a fine specimen of 

 Yucca gloriosa, which had recently flowered in the open air, and 

 contrary to general precedent cases, had not exhausted itself, 

 but had produced new and lively shoots. 



Our host having been thanked by the President with the 

 cordial concurrence of the company, they then proceeded to view 

 the Church, and the oldest houses of the village, including the 

 two Peels, one of which is now the Craster Arms Inn ; and Dr. 

 Embleton's collections ; finally following Mr Howey-Taylor 

 through the Pasture, where his Colliery is still in operation, 

 yielding coal for local consumption, on to the " Little Bock," 

 St. Ebba's chapel on the " Snook " or "Nook," and then along 

 the coast northwards. I shall first take up the Eev. C. F. 

 Thorp's Notes on the Church. 



The date of earliest Church or Chapel in the Village of Beadnell is not 

 known, but a Church was in process of rebuilding in 1745. 



In 1792, it was again rebuilt and enlarged. Registers date from 1766. 



In 1860, windows were inserted in the north wall, and gables were added 



to the outside with a view of improving the appearance of the building. 



In 1888 the Church was re-roofed and entirely renovated inside. 



The Deed of Severance between Bamburgh and Beadnell was executed 



August 26th, 1766. 



Henry Elliott, Curate, 1766. 



Michael Maughan, Curate, 1790. 



John Ayton Wood, P. Curate, 1831. 



William Cumby, Incumbent, 1853. 



John Charles Dunn, Vicar, 1878. 



Charles Fenwick Thorp, Vicar, 1887. 

 Mr Howey-Taylor has also kindly furnished me with notes of 

 what was to be seen in the house, and afterwards of what he 

 had pointed out in the village and on the coast. I give the 

 whole as a valuable document of the dav's proceedings, and as 

 a comment on the late Mr Tate's important paper in the Club's 

 Proceedings, vol. iv., pp. 96-110, entitled "The Geology and 

 Archgeology of Beadnell, in the county of Northumberland, with 

 a description of some Annelids of the Carboniferous Formation." 



Objects of Interest in the House. 



Maps, dated 1707 and 1759 respectively, and showing the landowners at 

 those dates. 



The 1707 map which was evidently a survey taken immediately 

 after the partition of common lands among the adjoining proprietors, 

 gives as the then owners : — Forsters, Ogles, Hastings, and Taylor. 



The 1759 map shows that the Ogles' land and most of the Forsters' land 

 had become the property of Thomas Wood Esq. of Bednel (i.e. Beadnell). 



