520 Loiu Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 



burgage in Low Buston, commonly called the " Stane House " 

 and the farmholds containing by estimation 7 farms ; Hounden 

 Mill, the cottage called Atkinson's House, the close called Byars' 

 Close, the two Yard side rigs adjoining the north side of the 

 park at Warkworth, the ten rigs lying east of Hounden Crag and 

 the rake, pasture, and common of pasture, for 20 sheep and 1 

 nagg within the common of Nether Buston. 



From this description we may conclude that the smaller parcels 

 described had not been of the original purchase, but pieces 

 apparently near Hounden acquired from time to time. Also that 

 a portion — a very small portion — of the common pasture yet 

 remained undivided. This is the only definite notice which has 

 been met with, and the position of the ground referred to is un- 

 certain, but a field between the N.E. Railway and Birling 

 township is still called the 'Long Moor.' 



The mortgage was increased in 1711, when mention is made 

 of the " dwelling house and appurtenances lately erected at 

 Buston Barns." 



In 1719, Francis Forster owned in respect of his Low Buston 

 property, two large pews and portions of two others in Warkworth 

 Church. In January 1720, he made a further settlement of Low 

 Buston, in which he mentions the messuage known as the West 

 Field (a detached portion beyond' Johnson's land) the East 

 Barns, "my part of Shortridge," the Low Moor and the rift above 

 it, and Byers' Close lying on the west of Shortridge Bridge. His 

 trustees were Thomas Burrell of Broom Park, John Davison of 

 Warkworth Barns, Edward Yalentine of Wooden, and William 

 Righ of Low Buston, yeoman. His Rough-lees property had 

 evidently been by another deed settled on his second son Nicholas, 

 and probably also the land he had bought in Morwick from 

 Errington in 1690. 1 (Morwick Deeds.) 



1 1707. — Nicholas Forster of Buston mar. Frances, dau. of Ralph Brand- 

 ling of Hoppen, and in 1717 he married at Warkworth Hanna Harrison of 

 Newcastle. 



1724, June 1-i. — Will of Nicholas Forster of Ponteland appoints ' my 

 friend John Forster of London, merchant, Francis Brandling of Bilton 

 Hanks, gent., John Davison of Warkworth Barns, gent., and the Rev. Henry 

 Bryne, vicar of Ponteland, as Trustees : mentions his sons Francis and 

 Ralph, and daughter Dorothy, and wife Hannah : bequeaths freehold at 

 Ritton Whitchouse, Roughlees, Alnmouth. Morwick, and Hesleyhurst, and 

 (leases ? of) tithes at Ponteland and Embleton. 



