31s. 



lOd. 



2s. 



6d. 



7s. 



Od. 



5s. 



4d. 



THE MANOR OF BEAL 297 



in 1559 and annexed to the Crown.''' In a Survey made for the 

 Crown in the year 1560 by Roone and Bates, John Selby 

 and Thomas Beal, both of Beal, and Oliver Selby of Cornhill, 

 were gentlemen of the Jury impanelled for the enquiry.^ 

 It was found that in Beal there had been eight husband-lands 

 only, which had been divided into small portions.^ The names 

 of the free tenants^*^ of the manor were : — 



The heirs of Sir William Heron, knight, who 



paid a free rent of 

 Thomas Grey of Killhowe, who paid a free rent of 

 Edward Reveley ,, ,, 



Cuthbert Horsley „ ,, 



Total 46s. 8d. 

 The Surveyors reported : — 



The towneshippe of Beale lief.he on the shore of the sea directly 

 against Holy Hand, and is bounded on the south part with the 

 townes of Fenham and Phenwick, and on the west and north sydes 

 with Killowe, Haggerston and Goswick, by certaine and perfect 

 meeres, and hath in it viii husbandlands onley : howbeit they be 

 nowe deviditt into smale porcions, and their is in the same noe 

 tower, nor house of defence, but certen little howses of stone and 

 lyrae, that some of the tenannts have builded for theire owne safe- 

 gnrd.io 



In the early part of the reign of Elizabeth, there was a 

 commission issued out of the High Court of Admiralty addressed 

 to Sir John Forster, knight, Sir Thomas Dacres, knight, and 

 Valentine Browne, esq., on the complaint of Archibald Graham 

 and other Scottish merchants. A ship and valuable cargo 

 belonging to the complainants had been cast ashore at Sotter- 

 borne-mouth and broken on the rocks, whereupon "Thomas 

 Clavering of Norham and his accomplices " had seized the 

 wreck, on the plea that it was under the jurisdiction of Norham 



■^ Raine, North Durham, p. 14. It was not before 18 January, 1603-4, 

 that Toby Matthew, Bishop of Durham, by a deed, confirmed by the Dean 

 and Chapter of Durham, granted and confirmed to the King the manor 

 of Norhamshire and Islandshire. Gf. the document printed in full by 

 Raine, North Durham, p. 28. 



« Ibid., p. 15. 



"^ Ibid., -p. 22. 

 it'Ibid., p. 22. 



