Low itusion. By J. C. Hodgson. 519 



mention of his wife, though the pedigree above quoted says his 

 second wife, Sarah Bell of Wooden, survived him. 1 Probably the 

 suns had married and either resided in the mansion or in adjoin- 

 ing houses, as iu the Burial Eegisters there are between 1676 

 and 169!), at least six Low Buston Forsters buried at Wark- 

 worth. 2 



Francis Forster, the eldest son, succeeded his father ; his 

 wife was Grace Forster of Newham (MS. pedigree) ; he was also 

 owner of a Jthpartof Hazelrigg, and to him, in 1682, his brother- 

 in-law, John Forster of London, left by will his ground at Bough- 

 lees near Hartburn. 3 Francis Forster in 1702 charged his estate 

 with £50 a year in favour of Catherine Dalston, the wife of his 

 eldest son Joseph, 4 her marriage portion being £500. (Low 

 Huston Muniments.) She was daughter of Christopher Dalston 

 of Akron Bank, Westmoreland. The estate was entailed on the 

 issue of the marriage; but excluded from the trust premises were 

 the dwelling house at Low Buston, ' late in the possession of 

 James Beach, with the parcel of grouud called Maddy Eigg and 

 the parcel called Mill-house Eigg.' In 1712 there was a charge 

 of £400 as a marriage portion for his daughter Grace, who was 

 that year married to Andrew Ker of Sandy Know in Tiviotdale 

 (sic). This was not paid off until 1759, when £200 was paid to 

 Isabella, wife of George Davison of Ewart, husbandman, and 

 £200 to the creditors of Andrew Forster Ker of Berwick, 

 merchant, the daughter and son of Andrew and Grace Ker. 



Francis Forster had already in 1699 borrowed on mortgage ; the 

 deed describes the premises as comprising the capital messuage and 



1 At the Alnwick Assizes in 1682, Mrs Margaret Bell and her son Mr 

 Samuel Bell of Wooden, were presented to be dissenters — so reputed; like- 

 wise Mrs Sarah Forster of Low Buston and Jane Johnson of the same 

 place. — Tate, vol. II., p. 160. 1682. — Sarah Forster of Low Buston buried 

 at Warkworth. — Registers. 



2 1679. — Jane, daughter of Francis Forster of Low Buston was buried in 

 Woollen, according to the statute. — Warkworth Registers. 



3 Hodgson, part n., vol. i., p. 322. 



* " Joseph Forster of Buston was only prevented from joining ' his cousin 

 of Bambrough ' (in the 1715 rebellion) by his wife's throwing the contents 

 of a silver kettle over him and scalding his legs." 



Longstaffe's Darlington, Chaytor Pedigree. 



Joseph Forster of the High Buston family is also claimed as the hero of 

 this anecdote : in 1715, he would be about 23 years of age, but probably he 

 did not marry Mary Comptou of Gainslaw until two or three years later. 



