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corn tythes of East, West and Middle Ord to follow the real estate. 



To my servant John Watson, his eldest son John and his son 



Ralph, my farm at Unthank for their lives and the life of the survivor, 



they paying £160 per annum rent. I charge my real estate with the 



following annuities. — To Mary Moffat £20, to her daughter Jane Moffat 



£50, to Elizabeth wife of Edward Sibbet £50, to my sister Grace Selby 



£60, to my sister Elizabeth Sterling £50, to my servant Margaret 



Garret £12, and to John Bryson of East Ord, yeoman, £10. Eesidue 



of personal estate to be invested in the purchase of land. 



John Selby having died unmarried, the representation with 



the accumulated savings of the family descended to his brother : — 



George Selby, the third, but only surviving son of Prideaux 



Selby of Beal ; who, in 1769, farmed and was residing at 



Hunting-hall, near Lowick. Twenty years later he purchased 



the beautiful property of Twizell, in Bamburghshire, comprising 



about 640 acres. 



On the 6th January, 1784, he married Margaret, daughter 

 of John Cook — of the Blakemoor branch of that family — who 

 had married his kinswoman Margaret, daughter of John Cook 

 of Sturton Grange Eastfield. His married life was chiefly 

 passed at Alnwick, but he was residing at Twizell when he 

 made his will on the 12th August, 1802. He died at the age 

 of 80, and was buried at Holy Island on 5th Nov., 1804. 

 By his wife (who on the 4th Jan., 1806, married her son's 

 tutor, the Rev. Matson Dodd, afterwards rector of Ingram) 

 he left issue, three sons and four daughters viz : — 



Prideaux John Selby, of Beal and Twizell, born at Alnwick 



23rd July, 1788. 

 George Selby, Captain R.N. of Belleview, Alnwick, born 

 at Alnwick 5th November, 1789, married Mary Ann, 

 daughter of the Rev. Charles Thompson, curate of 

 Howick and died at Alnwick 23rd June, 1867, s.p. 

 William Selby, killed at the battle of Salamanca in Spain, 



22nd July, 1812, aged 20. 

 Margaret, married first Thomas Bell of Alnwick, solicitor, 

 and of Shortridge, and secondly William Clark, of 

 Belford. 

 Elizabeth, married Stephen Fryer Gillum of Middleton 



near Belford. 

 Mary Ann, married William Broderick. 

 Isabella, married John Church. 



