204 NOTES ON PAWSTON, MINDRUM, SHOTTON, ETC. 



Blacklaw with one man on the day. Paston to watch Paston 

 hill with one man on the day. Mindrum to watch Turnchester 

 with one man on the day. Downam, Monlawes and Pressen 

 to watch Tyvershevigh with one man on the day. Lyrmouthe 

 to watch Presten hill with one man on the day. Oliver Selbye, 

 baylif of Myndram, a commissioner of Inclosures on East 

 Marches (Nicolson, Border Laws, pp. 214, 217, 218, 226). 



1772. Oct. 31. From the great fall of rain the Kelso 

 coach, which should have reached Newcastle on the Saturday 

 night, did not get in till Monday morning at one o'clock. 

 One of the horses was drowned in crossing the ford at 

 Mindrura, and the passengers were with difficulty taken out 

 of the coach windows with ropes. Gillespy's collection of 

 newspaper cuttings (Richardson, Borderer's Tahle-Book, Vol. ii., 

 p. 212.) 



MiNDRUM. 



3 Henry II. 1177. Aid of the burgh and ville and 

 drenge and the dues of Northumberland, 5 marks of those 

 of Boulton, 52s. 4d. of Leurenme, and of 33s. 8d. of Minethrum ; 

 and of 69s. 8d. of Prestfen ; and of 44s. and 8d. of Killum ; 

 and of 20s. of llchtred of Paleston, and of one mark of 

 Adam of Dunham. (Hodgson, Northumberland, Part in., 

 Vol. iii., pp. 26-7.) 



Pipe Rolls. 5 Edward I. John de Lythegveenes, sheriff. 

 The same sheriff owes |- mark from John de Escot de 

 Shele for trespass (or transgression), to wit, he answers below for 

 Patrick, son of William de Felkington in Mindrum and his 

 associate because he has not. The same sheriff owes | mark 

 from Patrick, son of William de Felkington in Mindrum and 

 his associate, &c. (Pipe Rolls of Northumberland, Ed. Dickson, 

 pp. 72, 74.) 



KiLHAM. 



Bowes and Ellerker, in their great Survey of the' Borders, 

 made in 1542, complain of the want of fortresses in time of 

 war for the horses of inhabitants, or barmekyns for safegarde 



