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which he represented in five successive parliaments. Dying 

 in the month of January, 1646, he gave bequests to Berwick 

 school and to numerous relatives and friends. "^^ His only 

 surviving child, Mary, married, first, Sir Pelham Carey, 

 knight, (third son of Henry, Baron Hunsdon — Queen Elizabeth's 

 maternal kinsman,) and secondly on the 8th June, 1643, 

 George Paylor of Nunmonkton, by neither of whom did she 

 leave any surviving issue.'^^ On the 15th May, 1647, George 

 Paylor, described as of the Tower of London, and Dame Mary 

 Carey his wife, conveyed the tithes of Beal (in whole or in 

 part) to Richard Forster of Ne wham-hall.^* His eldest son, 

 also named Richard Forster, of Newham hall, by deed dated 

 10th October, 1662, conveyed his tithes of Beal and some 

 property at Hethpool to his two brothers John and Edward 

 Forster, John Forster was a merchant in London, and by his 

 will, dated 28th Feb., 168^, gave his interest in the Beal tithes 

 to his brother Edward Forster, a merchant in Hamburg. By 

 family arrangements these tithes passed through his (Edward 

 Forster's) second son, John, to his (John's ) third daughter, 

 Frances, wife of Joseph Thompson of Sunderland, Co. Durham. 

 Mrs. Thompson, by will dated of January, 1771, gave them in 

 trust for her only child Jane Thompson, whom failing, to her 

 niece Juliot Laidman (daughter of her sister Mary, wife of 

 Francis Laidman of Morpeth) who eventually succeeded. In 

 February, 1796, Juliot Laidman intermarried with Francis 

 Johnson of Woodhorn and died, without issue, in the month 

 of August, 1815.^5 On the 22nd November, 1825, Charles 

 Laidman of Morpeth sold the reversion of the tithes of Beal, 

 expectant on the death of his brother-in-law Francis Johnson 

 (which happened in 1836), to Mr. Prideaux John Selby for 

 the large sum of £3,800.4Q 



^ Scott, Histori/ of Berwick p. 396. 



-" Ibid. 



^ Abstract of tithe to Beal tithes. 



<5 New History of Northumberland. "Vol. i. p. 276. 



