298 THE MANOR OP BEAL 



Castle. The Commissioners refused to accept Clavering's explan- 

 ation and put him and * twenty others of the best of the country ' 

 in prison, subsequently clapping forty (or sixty) others into 

 confinement. Ultimately they made an assessment on the 

 neighbouring township to raise the sum of £414 13s., of which 

 sum the vill of Beale was ordered to contribute £20. ^^ 



About the year 1573, there were proceedings^^ [^ -t^g Court of 

 Exchequer respecting tithes and tenements in Beyll and other 

 places in Island-shire, parcel of the possessions of the Cell of 

 Holy Island, which, at the dissolution of religious houses, had 

 been reserved to the use of Thomas Spark, the last Prior, 

 who had been appointed a suffragan of the Bishop of Durham, 

 under the title of Bishop of Berwick, and died 22 Feb., 1571. 

 Soon after this the manor of Beal must have been granted 

 out by the Crown, for at a muster taken on the 7th, 8th, 9th 

 and 10th days of March, 15ff, of the freeholders and tenants 

 dwelling within the East Marches, only two tenants of the 

 village of Beill, belonging to " one Mr Palmarrs of Clerkenwell," 

 appeared properly equipped, the remainder professing " ugg- 

 some " fines they had lately paid to one Philip Hardeng, who 

 had recently sold the property to Palmer. ^^ 



The grant from the Crown would, of course, be subject to 

 the lights of the free tenants, if any. 



The tenants of Beal made a better show at musters of the 

 horsemen and footmen, between the ages of 15 and 60 years, 

 in the East Marches held on the 1st and 3rd of September, 

 1584, by Lord Hunsdon, Governor of Berwick, when two 

 horsemen, seven footmen, and ten spearmen presented them- 

 selves. ^^ 



BEILL MUSTER ROLL, 1584.^5 



Olyver Selbey, effective ; Richard Taylour, John Stelle, Henry 

 Stelle, Robert Taylonr, Richard Willson, Richard Cooke, John Bell, 

 Robert Wilson, John Gathowse, Edmonde Daye, Thomas Bell, non- 

 efEeetive. 



iJ Gal. Border Papers, ed. Bain, Vol. ii., pp. 819-820. 



1* Exchequer Deposition, Arch. Ml., 3 Sec, Vol. iv., p. 10. 



13 Cal. Border Papers, ed. Bain, Vol. i., p. 19. 



** Cal. Border Papers, ed. Bain. Vol. i. p. 153. 



15 Ibid. p. 159. 



