316 THE MANOR OF BEAL 



Prideaux John Selby of Beal, son and heir of George Selby, 

 was born at Bondgate, Alnwick, 23rd July, 1788 and con- 

 sequently was only sixteen years of age at his father's death. 



Soon after he attained his majority he barred the entail. 



1810, Jan. 12th and 13th. Indentures of Lease and Eelease ; the 

 Release being made between Prideaux John Selby of Twizell (in the 

 parish of Bamburgh) who was eldest son and heir-at-law of George 

 Selby late of Twizell, and nephew of John Selby late of Beal, the 

 deceased of the first part; John Lindsay of Alnwick, gent., of the 

 second part; and John Griffith of the city of Durham, gent., of the 

 third part. Deed to dock the intail. The premises comprised an 

 undivided moiety of Beal, priory-lands in Beal, hay and petty tythes 

 in Beal, hay and other petty tithes in Unthank, petty tithes of East 

 Ord, East Ord mill with 270 acres of land, Moor farm in East Ord, 

 several other closes in East Ord, purchased of Mr. Grey Cooper and 

 Walter Kettleby, messuages and collieries in Unthank formerly belong- 

 ing to Sir Walter Blackett, a quay or coal staith adjoining the river 

 Tweed at Tweedmouth, a burgage in Tweedmouth, a burgage in Holy 

 Island, lands in the chapelry of Kyloe 



By Indentures of Lease and Release dated respecting 12th 

 and 13th December, 1810, he made a settlement before his then 

 intended marriage with Lewis Tabitha, daughter of Mr. 

 Bertram Mitford of Mitford. 



In the following year he raised a mortgage on the Beal 

 property. 



1811, May 28th and 29th. Indentures of Lease and Release the 

 latter made between the said Prideaux John Selby of Twizell House, 

 (in the parish of Bamburgh), esq., eldest son and heir-at-law of George 

 Selby late of the same place, esq., also nephew and (as eldest son of 

 the said George Selby) then heir-at-law and a devisee under the 

 last will of John Selby, late of Beal, who was eldest son and heir-at- 

 law of Prideaux Selby, theretofore of Beal, who was the eldest son 

 and heir-at-law of William, formerly of Beal, long since deceased, of the 

 one part ; and the Rev. Dickens Haslewood, of the city of Durham, 

 clerk, of the other part. 



Mortgage to Hazlewood of Beal South Side, containing: 232 acres, to 

 raise £3,000. 



THE RECTORIAL TITHES. 



In the early part of the seventeenth century the tithes 

 of Beal (in whole or in part) were acquired by Sir Robert 

 Jackson of Berwick, knight, a wealthy burgess of that place, 



