510 Low Bust on, By J. C. Hodgson. 



their souls' salvation and to secure that of their ancestors and 

 descendants. "We see them rebelling against the exactions of 

 the miller, taking their corn elsewhere to be ground, and 

 agreeing to return to the Grange Mill to pay the same toll which 

 their fathers paid. 



About 1400, Wark, with its manors, passed from the family 

 of Eos to that of Grey of Heton, ancestors to Lord Tankerville. 

 (Hartshorne, vol. n., p. 36). 



In 1505, at an inquisition taken at Haltwhistle, the Jury say 

 that Ealph Grey was seized at his death of the manor and town 



of Wark .... Buttulisden, the Grange of Stracton and the 



aforesaid manor of Buttulisden is worth per annum, beyond 

 reprises, £10, and the aforesaid manor of Grange of Stracton is 

 worth per annum, beyond reprises, 1 marks. 1 



In 1567, Clarkson in his Survey of the Warkworth Barony, 

 affords an explanation of the township being ctit off from the river 

 Coquet, by the long narrow slip of the river bank, "from 

 Hewnden mouthe eastward is now p'cell of Warkworth Parke 

 and enclosed within the same by a certeyne composition made 

 betwixt the late nowe Earle Henry Percy, grandfather to my 

 Lord that now ys and one Thomas Watkyns." Evidently Earl 

 Henry (1489-1527) had desired to run the pale along the top 

 of the bank, so as to include both sides of the river within his 

 park : the land given in exchange is not described. 



In the Northumberland Muster Roll taken by the Constable 

 of Alnwick in 1538, 2 Nether Bouston has one man George Waube 

 "able with horse and harnes" and " thirty able men wanting 

 horse and harnes" — their names are given, and include Wm. 

 Johnson, Wm. Wylkinson, Thomas Wylkinson, etc. 



In Lord Wharton's Orders of the Marches in 1553, the Watch 

 is to be kept from Hitchcroft to Rttgley "to be watched nightly 

 with ten men of the inhabitors of Whyttell, Shelbottell, Bylton, 

 Over-Boston, Wodden, Nether-Boston-Grange, and Berling." 3 



The Wark Court Rolls record that in 1560, Robert Watson 

 "payeth 7s. free rent in Buston, and Wm. Beadnel payeth 18s. 8d., 

 and that in 1560 (or 1570) Robert Watson holds lands in Buston 

 on the ith part of a Knight's fee, and on the 200th part of the 

 same, which is 13s. Id., and yearly payeth Castle ward : " and 



1 Spearman's Notes per Mr K. Bolam. 



" Arch. ML, vol. iv., p. 163. 



3 Nicolson's Bolder Laws, p. 197. 



