512 Low Btidon. By J. C. Hodgson. 



to Henry Johnson for 31 years, at the rent of 20s. Id. In 1601 

 Luke Bedenell and Maria his wife, sell their estate to the same 

 Henry Johnson, who in 1614 obtained a confirmation from Maria 

 Bedenell, widow, and Wm. Bedenell the son and heir at law. 1 



Johnson immediately built himself a house which is yet standing 

 — of two stories — whose walls, 3 feet in thickness, still carry a 

 lettered stone— H. JOHNSON, 160. . 



In 1641, Henry Johnson purchased from Wm. Orde of 

 Prudhoe Castle, and of Sturton Grange, for five pounds, sundry 

 parcels of ground on Nether Buston — some of the small detached 

 pieces long before given to Newminster Abbey, probably that 

 given by Margery, daughter of Eobert of Butleston. 2 In 1 663 the 

 rental of Heniy Johnson's part of Nether Buston was £lo. s 

 In 1684, Henry Johnson, likely a son of the first Henry Johnson, 

 made his will, bequeathing his land to his wife Jane, 4 for her 

 life, then among his children — three daughters, of whom Mary 

 the eldest was wife to Eichard Musgrave, Vicar of Longhoughton 

 (1679-1697) ; 5 Sarah, the second daughter, married Arthur 

 Strother R of Bilton Banks ; and the third, Margaret married 

 Wm. Musgrave, 7 a physician in Newcastle. The three co-heiresses 

 and their husbands, in 1691, made an agreement to divide their 

 land in Nether Buston. (Low Buston Deeds.) In 1707, Bichar-d 

 and Mary Musgrave's son Richard of Newcastle, clerk (with 

 Susannah his wife) disposed of his portion to his uncle, Wm. 

 Musgrave, who in 1725, by will, left both portions to his son 

 William Musgrave, together with the reversion of the other third 

 which had been left him by his nephew Henry Strother of Bilton 

 Banks, subject to the lite interest of Frances, widow of Henry 

 8ti'oth< r, then wife to Edward Forster of Higham Dykes. 8 In 

 1726, William Musgrave, then of London, 9 sold for £1600 all his 



1 The Rev. John Hodgson's Collection. 



2 Jst. Buston"C)nu'ter. — Newminster Chartulary. 



:! Henry Johnson of Low Buston, buried at Warkworth, 1684. 



*Jane Johnson of Low Buston, buried at Warkworth, 1685. 



" 1609. — Maria Musgrave of Low Buston, buried at Warkworth — Register*. 



1708. Arthur Strother of Bilton Banks, buried at Lesbmy ; 1718.— 

 Henry Strotherof Bilton Banks, buried at Lesbury — Tablet Lesbury Chur. 



' Win. Musgrave, physician, buried in St. Nicholas, Newcastle, 1725. — 

 Welford. 



8 Edward Forster of Morpeth Grange House, voted for Highham Dykes, 

 1722.— Poll Bool: 



'■' In 1758, Collingwood Forster of Alnwick, administrator of Wm. Mus- 

 grave, Low Buston, deceased. Low Buston Deeds. 



