NOTES ON PAWSTON, MINDRUM, SHOTTON, ETC. 205 



of their cattle, and recommend — " that a new tower and a 

 barmekyn be made at Kilham and that the towneshippes be 

 so assygned unto such fortresses and barmekyns as they with 

 their goods may be releved in tyme of necessyte, and to be 

 so apportioned and ruled that at least fourty persons or more be 

 assygned to every fortresse, for as we thinke the more men 



that bene together in any fortresse, so that yt 



may convenyently conteyne them with their goods, the more 

 stronger shalbe the defence thereof." (Hodgson, Norfhumher- 

 land, Part iii.. Vol. ii., p. 188.) 



Editorial Note. — It is to be regretted that the foregoing 

 Memoire pour servir, so industriously gathered by the late 

 Dr. James Hai'dy from scattered and out of the way sources, 

 was not reduced by himself into a narrative. It has been 

 thought, however, by those competent to form an opinion, that 

 the material should not be destroyed or lost sight of, especially 

 as it forms an item in the Schedule of Manuscripts arranged, 

 at the request of the Club, by Mr. J. C. Hodgson, M.A., 

 Alnwick.* The excei'pts, therefore, have been carefully collated 

 with the authorities quoted. Otherwise they remain very much 

 as Dr. Hardy left them. 



* Ber. Nat. Club, Vol. xix., I'art i., p. 81. 



