THE MANOR OF BEAL 805 



and Ware. A copy of the articles may be seen by applying to Mr. 

 Thomas Gibson, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, who will also receive 

 proposals for taking said Farm, in writing, until the first November, next ; 

 if not let by that time, it will be Let by Auction, at the Eed Lion 

 Inn, Berwiek-on-Tweed, on the sixth day of November next, between 

 the hours of 12 and 2 at noon. 



The same newspaper has the following notice 



The Estate of Beal-on-the-Hill being advertised to be let on lease, 

 and entered upon at Whitsunday next ; it is deemed proper to inform 

 the public, that by articles of agreement, dated the 20th day of Dec- 

 ember, 1780, Mr. Eiddell (who claims to be the owner of one undivided 

 moiety of the said Estate) covenanted and agreed that both he and 

 all other persons having or lawfully claiming any Estate or Interest 

 in the premises, should and would in consideration of the sum of eight 

 thousand pounds, on or before the 26th day of May then next following 

 convey to Anthony Gregson the said undivided moiety of the said 

 Estate, /ree/rom all incumbrances, save a lease thereof to, or an agree- 

 ment for the same with John Selby, Esq., for seven years, from 

 Whitsunday, 1778, and save the contingency of a failure of issue of 

 the body of Lady Eiddell, against which contingency Mr. Gregson was 

 to be indemnified by a mortgage of Ardnamurchan Estate, in Scotland, 

 and by the Joint and several bond of the said Mr. Eiddell, Sir James 

 Eiddell, and the late Mr. George James Eiddell. 



Mr. Eiddell failing to perform his said agreement, Mr, Gregson was 

 driven to the disagreeable necessity of filing a Bill in Chancery against 

 him, to compel a specific performance of it, which Bill is still depend- 

 ing. Whoever therefore may incline to treat for, or take a lease of 

 of the said premises, are desired to take notice, that in case the Lord 

 Chanceller should decree a performance of the said articles of agree- 

 ment (which must happen if Mr. Eiddell can make a good title to the 

 Estate), no lease made by Mr. Eiddell will be binding against Mr. 

 Gregson. 



. Sir James Eiddell died on the 2nd November, 1787, and 

 his widow, Dame Sarah Riddel), dying at No. 57, Great Pulteney 

 Street, in the parish of Bathwick, near Bath, on the 5th June, 

 1817, aged 86, was buried in Westminster Abbey, on the 16th 

 of the same month. 



Leaving no issue by either marriage, the succession to Lady 

 Biddell's real estate was contested by her step-grandson Sir 

 James Milles Riddell, second baronet, who seems to have relied 

 on a settlement made on his grandfather's marriage with the 



