318 THE MANOR OF BEA.L 



THE WHOLE ESTATE. 



As has been set out, Mr. Prideaux John Selby/''' in 1821, 

 augmented his paternal property by the purchase of the Ord 

 fee, and in 1825 acquired the tithes. Being possessed of a 

 residential property at Twizell in Bamburghshire, and other 

 real estate near Tweedmouth, and having no son, he resolved 

 to offer Beal for sale by auction, on the 22nd August, 1848. 

 In the particulars and conditions of sale it was described as 

 comprising 1,393 acres, tithe free, let on lease at the rent of 

 £1,700 per annum. It was subject to the following annual 

 payments viz. : — Land Tax £25 9s. Od., quit-rent payable to 

 Lady Stanley (of Haggerston) £1 19s. 8d., fee-farm rent 

 payable to Edward Noel 13s. 8d. 



Mr. Prideaux John Selby had issue by his wife Lewis 

 Tabitha, daughter of Bertram Mitford, three daughters who 

 became his co-heiresses viz. : — Lewis Marianne, married, first, 

 1833, Charles John Bigge of Newcastle, and secondly Robert 

 Luaid, a major in the army; Frances Margaret, married 1833, 

 Edmund Antrobus, clerk in orders; and Jane, married 1839, 

 Sir Thomas Tancred, bart. 



After passing through various hands the property now 

 belongs to Mr. C. J. Ley land of Haggerston Castle. 



•»« Ibid. 



^■^ Biographical notices of Mr. Prideaux John Selby, a distinguished 

 ornithologist, who died 27th March, 1867, may be i'oand in the fifth 

 volume of the History of the Club p. 336-338, the Dictionary of National 

 Biography, the new History of Northumberland Vol. i, p. 230-231, 



